Post by PyramidHead on Mar 11, 2005 22:28:09 GMT -5
New member here. I did the search as best as I could on the topics I'm gonna post about, and I think at least some of my questions are relevant:
1. Let's do some math here. If Donnie shot Frank in the face at a little after midnight on the 30th of October, and the next scene is shortly before the plane arrives over the Carpathian Ridge (Rosie estimates an 8:30 arrival time, so let's say 8 AM), then what the hell is Donnie doing for 8 hours? And why do the police take so long to respond to the fact that a witness (Frank's friend in the clown suit) saw Donnie shoot a man? You'd think the kid would've ran home, called the authorities, told Elizabeth (his freaking girlfriend and Donnie's sister), and the police would've arrested Donnie in like ten minutes. To this day, I still wonder what went on in those eight hours.
2. The whole movie is about Donnie returning the jet engine to the Primary Universe, right? Well, if that's true, why does he use the engine from his mother's plane, and not the one that fell on his roof in the first place? I know, they're the same engine, but you gotta figure, the FAA must've cross-referenced that engine with every other existing plane, and eventually found the match, burnt serial number or not. Don't you think they would've told whatever airline the duplicate engine belonged to that they should keep the plane grounded until the investigation is complete? It seems unreasonable to me that the FAA would find a jet engine that fell from nowhere, determine that it matches an existing one from Hawaii or something (according to the film's website) and allow that other plane to fly undeterred, right over the spot where the engine originally fell. In other words, Donnie isn't returning the burnt-up, hosed-down engine from the beginning of the movie to the PU, but rather its doppleganger, which is on the plane carrying his mother. So technically, the artifact never leaves the FAA warehouse, or wherever it's being stored...so that's a little strange.
3. The whole idea that the engine has to be "returned back" to the Primary Universe (the director's and Sparrow's own words) implies that it came from there in the first place. But the scenario involving Donnie's mother riding the plane back from Los Angeles only happens in the Tangent Universe. Thus, the Primary Universe originally had no severed engine, so it baffles me as to where or when it was supposed to come from, assuming the director's intended explanation is valid.
I have other points, but they aren't about the ending, so I'll scurry off somewhere else. Thanks for reading!
Ryan
1. Let's do some math here. If Donnie shot Frank in the face at a little after midnight on the 30th of October, and the next scene is shortly before the plane arrives over the Carpathian Ridge (Rosie estimates an 8:30 arrival time, so let's say 8 AM), then what the hell is Donnie doing for 8 hours? And why do the police take so long to respond to the fact that a witness (Frank's friend in the clown suit) saw Donnie shoot a man? You'd think the kid would've ran home, called the authorities, told Elizabeth (his freaking girlfriend and Donnie's sister), and the police would've arrested Donnie in like ten minutes. To this day, I still wonder what went on in those eight hours.
2. The whole movie is about Donnie returning the jet engine to the Primary Universe, right? Well, if that's true, why does he use the engine from his mother's plane, and not the one that fell on his roof in the first place? I know, they're the same engine, but you gotta figure, the FAA must've cross-referenced that engine with every other existing plane, and eventually found the match, burnt serial number or not. Don't you think they would've told whatever airline the duplicate engine belonged to that they should keep the plane grounded until the investigation is complete? It seems unreasonable to me that the FAA would find a jet engine that fell from nowhere, determine that it matches an existing one from Hawaii or something (according to the film's website) and allow that other plane to fly undeterred, right over the spot where the engine originally fell. In other words, Donnie isn't returning the burnt-up, hosed-down engine from the beginning of the movie to the PU, but rather its doppleganger, which is on the plane carrying his mother. So technically, the artifact never leaves the FAA warehouse, or wherever it's being stored...so that's a little strange.
3. The whole idea that the engine has to be "returned back" to the Primary Universe (the director's and Sparrow's own words) implies that it came from there in the first place. But the scenario involving Donnie's mother riding the plane back from Los Angeles only happens in the Tangent Universe. Thus, the Primary Universe originally had no severed engine, so it baffles me as to where or when it was supposed to come from, assuming the director's intended explanation is valid.
I have other points, but they aren't about the ending, so I'll scurry off somewhere else. Thanks for reading!
Ryan