Reed
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Post by Reed on Oct 16, 2004 3:43:18 GMT -5
I'm wondering how many timelines there actually are represented in this movie.
First off, you have the oriniginal flow of time. That's one. Then they alternative timeline, for 28 days. That's two. Then, you have the altered timeline, with Donnie flat as a pancake. That's three. Three's a good number, especially when you think "trinity", and the obvious religious overtones in this movie.
But are there more? One very minor point that strikes me as somehow significant is when Donnie's sleepwalking to meet frank for the first time, he somehow knows to grab the pen off the refrigerator (which he later uses to write the time until the world ends on his arm). So how did he know he was going to need a pen? What would've happened if he didn't take one with him?
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Post by rightfielder21 on Oct 16, 2004 6:23:24 GMT -5
Well some of us believe, there is the Primary Universe... The Tangent Universe, although it is 28 days, in compasion to the PU is a matter of seconds...
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Post by Reed on Oct 16, 2004 15:31:48 GMT -5
Well some of us believe, there is the Primary Universe... The Tangent Universe, although it is 28 days, in compasion to the PU is a matter of seconds... Well, once te tangent had closed, it doesn't even exist anymore. But that's not my question. My question is, in a nutshell, is was there more than one tangent loop? |
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Post by ProvidencePortal on Oct 16, 2004 15:45:41 GMT -5
My question is, in a nutshell, is was there more than one tangent loop? I think RF's right in suggesting what we've concluded here: there aren't any separate-but-parallel timelines; we as the audience experience one continuous timeline from the TU to the PU and Donnie's death. |
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Post by gretchen on Oct 16, 2004 16:35:40 GMT -5
the pu exists individually. on it's own. by itself. one timeline.
the tu branches off from the pu. it begins when it has branched off, goes about it's own extremely advanced timeline, and then closes. ends. it no longer exists. it's timeline only spans a matter of nanoseconds in the pu.
Prov says: we as the audience experience one continuous timeline from the TU to the PU and Donnie's death.
and i agree.
no loops.
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Post by tacodog89 on Oct 19, 2004 11:35:10 GMT -5
How do we know that when the TU starts up that the PU also continues? I'm thinking that the PU stops advancing till the business in the TU is cleared up. And whatever results in the TU allows the PU to either continue or not exsist anymore. Anyways, thats my take on the matter.
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Post by ProvidencePortal on Oct 19, 2004 15:36:36 GMT -5
Definitely a possibility. We have all agreed that whether the activities in the TU occur instantaneously (no time elapsing in the PU) or so fast as to appear instantaneous (barely any time at all passes), it's all the same: it appears to be one continuous timeline in the PU.
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Post by gretchen on Oct 19, 2004 19:29:00 GMT -5
basically taco, it's like this.
the PU doesn't just STOP. time isn't like that. it DOES continue. but the fact is that the TU runs 28 days FASTER than the PU. meaning that the 28 days that passes in the TU is intantaneous, or nearly instantaneous in the PU as prov has said.
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Post by tacodog89 on Oct 20, 2004 19:04:46 GMT -5
gotcha
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Post by gretchen on Oct 20, 2004 21:03:04 GMT -5
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