Post by d on Jul 29, 2004 11:38:50 GMT -5
Guest-Butter said:
i just watched Donnie Darko and was blown away by ending. Most people on this sight are simplifying the ending, assuming their interpretation is a full explanation. I dont know, i like the idea that Donnie is laughing due to the twisted irony that he is saving the lives of people he cannot be with. But i'm pretty confused about everything else. Like how does Donnie go back in time? The requirements were a vessel that could travel faster than the speed of light and a wormhole, he had none of those things. And why does he kill frank? And has donnie stopped the world from ending and how?Whatever your interpretation, i'm interested in gaining a better understanding. Anyone who walks away from that film thinking they've got all the answers has missed out on a huge element of the film.
hmm well my opinion is that the movie wasnt intended to have that one true and only interpretation, i suppose it was more meant to just provoke thoughts which it does very well, however the dvd bonus, the official website and the directors cut give off some more information on it all, without getting too much into the details, its the sparrow's book giving explanations of whats going on. random corruptions of space and time are rare but can happen for no visible reason at times, thats how the jet engine went through time and into his room, a tangient universe was created due to the engine getting lost, to correct space and time the engine has to be brought back to the primary universe, the tangient universe cant exist for very long, will collapse after 28 days and its collapse builds a worm hole which COULD destroy the primary universe and all existence.
tbh i was wondering if those explanations were made up before or after finishing the movie. to me it seems like giving answers to those who ask too many questions. the movie itself leaves many things open and "the philosophy of time travel" explains but still leaves things open, like why is donnie chosen? and well hes supposed to bring the artifact back to the primary universe and hes got some extraordinary powers, well he can see those predestined paths but i didnt see him time traveling, creating portals, wormholes or anything so that makes me wonder, all he did was getting his mom on that plane i didnt see anything that could make me think he used powers or something to get the engine into the wormhole nor did i see him creating anything, it seems to be a regular flight and the jet would lose the engine anyway so all he did was getting laid and losing his girl.
anyway there's much more irony to it everywhere in the whole story, like how his life and mind pretty much boil down to that dumb love<->fear thing. when gretchen dies he loses fear cos he has experienced love and how its like to be not alone and also probably found her dying to hurt him more than what he was afraid of, maybe thought dying alone is better than living alone or something, anyway i suppose it was him to learn love and the meaning of life and stuff before he dies and that random corruption of time fuked the predestined paths abit up and donnie was to understand the concept later in his life, so that thing turns up falls on him messes up time and those paths but the main bits of the path is being followed just in a weird shortened re-routed way so donnie is to learn love, meaning of life, lose fear, bla. so when he gets back in time he gets that bit and probably just finds it ironically funny having learnt that thing about life in just 28 days, like a sprint through fate. heh yet another meaningless interpretation..
why does he kill frank? well guess cos frank rolled over his gurl! and well he just didnt look right with his right eye did he?
has donnie stopped the world from ending? hmm well thinking of the dvd, d's cut info i cant be sure. havent seen him doing anything special that could have saved the world, apart from that i as well cant be sure that the world was in danger, sparrow's book said the wormhole COULD destroy existence, i cant see any proof that it would have, and well what world was frank talking about anyway? the tangient universe/world which was gonna end in any case anyway? i just cant be sure bout all that, to me it seemed like things were just going there way, everyone and everrything was kinda boiling down to fix that mess of time and donnie in the middle learned his thingy.
tbh i didnt like the info that was given off afterwards, i dont like having to take god into account to explain a good story or to "justify" an interpretation but by the info given i somehow cant get around a god or force in one or another way, not sure but id be quite disappointed if that was the point there, to make people think and leave no option but to start to believe in something without getting further than believing, in other words if it was meant to make people have to accept the concept of god to explain the story. dunno sparrow's book seems like a darko bible to me lol, i mean explaining the movie is the book's only content so how the heck did she work that out and why does it satisfy me less than having lots of open questions and theories?