Donnie Darko PLOT explaination

without seeing the movie, i can go ahead here and say farshot.

the way that book is put together it makes it look like everyone who would write a book or make a movie or knows anything about history KNOWS those facts to be exact.

 
its a really really good movie, but why didnt u just copy paste than from the 900 sites explaining that in almost the exact same words...instead of retyping that, if u did retype it at all....but alot of the things uve said, even with reading the philosophy of time travel, are impossible to find without looking up, like yea u can understand some of it by just watching the movie, but all the stuff u labeled isnt something someone can just watch and figure out from themselves, even if u did read the made for movie "book" of the philosohpy of time travel, its highly unlikely u came up with this all of this yourself....and if somewhere in this thread u said u read into then discard my post, i didnt feel like reading this entire thread
 
no, I read the book in the movie, "The Philosophy of Time Trave1" which explained it all to me.

and I picked up the directors cut today. Its sooo much sicker.
 
i kindof think the movie was like symbolizing how we have to work together and stuff like to survive in the end and stuff also if you watch closely the bunnys left ear changes color slightly in the 3rd scene, the change in cilor represents how he need to change our views on like black people and stuff
 
didn't he go back to the regular universe to keep his girl alive and shit, and like what abou when he stuck his head in the tube thing right before they go to granny deaths house at the end?? movies dope, still blurry though, i get it for the most part
 
The FAA guy/ guy in orange suit really bugged me because those are the only scenes I saw him in and I couldn't figure it out but the whole watching over he and gretchen thing makes total sence. I always wanted to know why they zoom in on the painting of the woman in the psychs office, is she supposed to represent anything?
 
They knew themselves from their tangent universe experience. Even tho they never met in the "real" world planned by god, they had souvenirs from their "Dream" (living in the tangent universe.

 
Unfortunately, its not that good. The first few times i watched the film, i loved it, i thought it was fantastic. A similar thing happenned when I watched the Butterfly Effect.

But I watched the movie with the directors commentary...donnie darko is a superhero, thats pretty much all there is to it(there are other things obviously, but thats the main plot point). It seems really cheap, but when i look back on it, all other philosophical explanations seemed forced and incongruent to particular scenes. Oh well, its still a very well done movie.
 
haa my friend read a book of that sort. it was one on mind control. who knows what the authors were snorting when they wrote those.

i just watched it and its sooooooo gooooodddd. i need to buy the directors cut from what i hear. sounds really good.
 
wow thank god. I spent an entire weekend a while back trying to figure this out and couldn't really get anywhere. Now that I kinda get the movie I think I need to watch it again.
 
its so open-ended, which makes it so good.

I'll admit that when I wrote this thread, I had some stuff wrong, but I got it right now, because it has been like a year and I still watch this movie over and over.
 
isn't frank the one who gets donnie out of bed to leave the house and deviate from god's plan? furthermore, we know that Donnie has already read The Philosophy of Time Travel and it seems that he knows what must be done. I base this assertion off of Donnie's words to the clown after Frank dies, "Go home and tell everyone everything's going to be ok." (or soemthing to that effect). This makes me think that Donnie was eventually going to restore balance in the world/universe anyways.

I don't get the connotation of rabbits in this movie. How are people like rabbits? In that we are timid? Caged? love carrots?
 
Think of it this way:

Donnie questions the purpose of human mortality. He says that the death of an animal isnt tragic at all. He says that if all we do is fuck then we're happy, so why feel sorrow? But then Gretchan says that the rabbits are human; they are us. Based on this connection, the movie implies that the death of a human isnt that tragic, because after all we are only mammals.

Frank was a rabbit to exaggerate this point as well.

or at least thats my take on it

like I said, Donnie Darko is meant to be interperated in multiple ways. It was one of Richard Kelly's techniques to make the movie "click" in people's mind...he wanted them to discuss it with other people just like we are doing right now.

and his plan worked. If you cant call a movie that has sparked this much conversation succesful then I dont know what is.
 
1st off , it shows that he is, in fact, human.

2nd, it foreshadows Donnie shooting him (the bloody wound)
 
my friend made me watch this. i thought it was the most pointless movie ever. i did watch it at 3 in the morning but still, my friend just thought it was awesome because of the bunny and i think he has a crush on jake gyllenhal
 
watch it again attentively and you will find that it is possibly the most thought-out movie ever made.
 
Doesn't Schizophrenia come into it as well, delusions of grandeur, hallucinations? I always interpretted the tangent universe to represent how schizophrenics aren't in synch with our reality, and how frightening it must be to be alone in your own reality.
 
When Donnie is in the Therapist's office, why does the camera zoom in on the glass window shaped like a guy's face?
 
yeah thats one of the reasons why I thought it was so cool. Like it shows how scary it must be to be alone. And throughout the movie, at first you can't tell if he's crazy or if something is actually going to happen...
 
just saw the movie bump

So when Donnie sees the tendril like thngs coming out of people, those are the worm holes right? but it also occured to me that they are a phsical manifestation of fate, for example Donnie's leads him to the gun in his parents room and in the end he ends up killing himself, what do you think
 
i know what you mean like pretty much everyone i know is like yeah donnie darko is such an independent movie and they try to act intellectual by explaining its meaning and i kinda just laugh to myself haha
 
i don't think they are worm holes, but you're onto something when you

say they are physical manifestations of fate. whenever donnie is seeing

them, they always seem like they are leading the people they are coming

from.

donnie's led him to the gun because he needed the gun to kill

frank. it was his fate to kill frank, there were clues leading to that

throughout the whole movie.

did donnie know when he was going back in time that he would go back to the night the jet engine fell in his room?

 
I saw this movie for the first time the other week, and I'll be honest, I didn't understand it at all, but I'm okay with that. For now I'm just going to let it fornicate in my mind, then I'll get around to reading this thread.
 
they are just the "path" every individual has got to follow. A physical manifestation of the future, destiny.
 
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