Post by Fruitacious B on May 25, 2004 14:23:09 GMT -5
Here we go. This is just what I've gathered from the movie. Everyone's got their views, and I understand most, but this was my first impression. I haven't read absolutely everyone's, so if this has already been said then I'm sorry.
The duration of the movie is much like a dream from the point that Frank wakes up Donnie and 'saves' him from dying. I believe that Frank was being more metaphorical when he told Donnie, "wake up". I think that by waking up he meant that Donnie needed let go of his fear of being alone.
I think of most of the movie as a 'what if' circumstance. What if Donnie wouldn't have died when the engine crashed through his room? He wouldn't have died alone would be what Donnie though. It'd would still leave him a chance to not be alone. However, by the end of the movie, he sees that if he were to have lived through the engine crash that his mother, his sister, gretchen, the 'real' Frank, his dad, and numerous others would also die alone.
Then comes the realization that even if he would've died, that everyone still would die alone. This ultimate realization that everyone truly does die alone, whether he's there to see it or not, leads Donnie to then actually wake up. After waking up, he's in his bed, on the night of the explosion, and he knows he's going to die. He smiles because he knows that it wouldn't matter if he died right then, or later on in life, that he'd still die alone.
A bit of a longshot now, but I think it may be possible that most of the movie is his 'life flashing before his eyes'. Just not his past experiences in life flashing, his life as it could've been if he wouldn't have died.
In short it was his future life flashing before his eyes.
I take the movie to be an artistic portrayal of the futility of life, romance, love, time, and religion (I'll touch on religion later).
I'm weird, oh well.
The duration of the movie is much like a dream from the point that Frank wakes up Donnie and 'saves' him from dying. I believe that Frank was being more metaphorical when he told Donnie, "wake up". I think that by waking up he meant that Donnie needed let go of his fear of being alone.
I think of most of the movie as a 'what if' circumstance. What if Donnie wouldn't have died when the engine crashed through his room? He wouldn't have died alone would be what Donnie though. It'd would still leave him a chance to not be alone. However, by the end of the movie, he sees that if he were to have lived through the engine crash that his mother, his sister, gretchen, the 'real' Frank, his dad, and numerous others would also die alone.
Then comes the realization that even if he would've died, that everyone still would die alone. This ultimate realization that everyone truly does die alone, whether he's there to see it or not, leads Donnie to then actually wake up. After waking up, he's in his bed, on the night of the explosion, and he knows he's going to die. He smiles because he knows that it wouldn't matter if he died right then, or later on in life, that he'd still die alone.
A bit of a longshot now, but I think it may be possible that most of the movie is his 'life flashing before his eyes'. Just not his past experiences in life flashing, his life as it could've been if he wouldn't have died.
In short it was his future life flashing before his eyes.
I take the movie to be an artistic portrayal of the futility of life, romance, love, time, and religion (I'll touch on religion later).
I'm weird, oh well.
