Post by loonylevicorpus on May 30, 2010 23:52:06 GMT -5
I am entirely new to Donnie Darko, having watched it earlier today. I was so fascinated and confused by it that I've been reading all kinds of things online to help me understand, and I fell upon this site.
First of all, I want to let you know something TOTALLY freaky. A friend of mine was the one who introduced this to me, and I watched it at her house after sleeping over. After reading about the movie I realized that 12:00 is the time of the beginning and ending of the TU. The freaky thing is that when we went to watch DD today, my friend remarked, "Thats funny, we were down here watching Princess Bride last night at 12:00, and now we're down here at 12:00 to watch another movie!"
AHHHHHH!!!! Now I'm not saying that I think I've entered my own TU or something. But isn't that an INCONCEIVABLE (Princess Bride, haha) irony? It gave me a chill when I made the realization.
Also, after watching Donnie Darko I can't get over the feeling that my own perception of reality has been entirely eschewed. Its like my mind isn't properly interpreting what my eyes send it, and everything is just transparent. I've had the fear of death ever since I was little, because you are dead so much longer than you are alive that it makes it seem that nothing is real, that I could just reach out and knock everything over, rip it like a soggy tissue. And watching DD made that fear more real than ever before. Another topic that is often discussed here is the understanding that Donnie is given, and I feel that watching the movie has given me the feeling of an understanding that I can't define...
Whew.
First of all, I want to let you know something TOTALLY freaky. A friend of mine was the one who introduced this to me, and I watched it at her house after sleeping over. After reading about the movie I realized that 12:00 is the time of the beginning and ending of the TU. The freaky thing is that when we went to watch DD today, my friend remarked, "Thats funny, we were down here watching Princess Bride last night at 12:00, and now we're down here at 12:00 to watch another movie!"
AHHHHHH!!!! Now I'm not saying that I think I've entered my own TU or something. But isn't that an INCONCEIVABLE (Princess Bride, haha) irony? It gave me a chill when I made the realization.
Also, after watching Donnie Darko I can't get over the feeling that my own perception of reality has been entirely eschewed. Its like my mind isn't properly interpreting what my eyes send it, and everything is just transparent. I've had the fear of death ever since I was little, because you are dead so much longer than you are alive that it makes it seem that nothing is real, that I could just reach out and knock everything over, rip it like a soggy tissue. And watching DD made that fear more real than ever before. Another topic that is often discussed here is the understanding that Donnie is given, and I feel that watching the movie has given me the feeling of an understanding that I can't define...
Whew.