Post by weightofechoes on Oct 12, 2004 14:30:03 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new to this board. Was just browsing through it and some people seem to think Donnie doesn't time travel at the end of the film. I disagree.
This only occured to me after watching the film again just now but perhaps he uses the car. When he's talking to the teacher about time travel, Donnie asks him about how to travel back in time. The teacher replies you need a "metal craft of any kind"; then Donnie asks "Like a Delorean?", referring to the time machine in Back to the Future. Strange thing to ask if he wasn't thinking about maybe trying something similar himself. Presumably by this point he's starting to work out what he has to do.
I'm not sure exactly how he uses the car, or whether he takes Gretchen with him, but he definitely travels back in time. You see the film winding backwards as this is happening - and Richard Kelly says this is because Donnie's travelling back in time on the Director's Cut DVD commentary. Also, we know from The Philosophy of Time Travel book that Donnie's task is to guide "the artifact" (the jet engine) back into the primary universe. One way to do this would be by being where he would have been when the artifcat fell through the wormhole, once he's travelled back in time to the point just before the tangent universe has split off, i.e. just before the jet engine falls on his room. Back in the tangent universe he had to make sure the engine falls into the portal (presumably he uses his telekinetic powers for this). Then he goes back in time to meet it at the "other end", so to speak, although quite why he needs to be there I'm not sure - wasn't guiding it into the wormhole enough?
Some kind of sense has to be made of the fact that he's up the hill at the end; my suggestion is so that he can enter the wormhole just before the enginge does. Hence also why he gets back into bed just in time for the engine to land on him.
What do you think?
Understanding this film is serious business, man/
This only occured to me after watching the film again just now but perhaps he uses the car. When he's talking to the teacher about time travel, Donnie asks him about how to travel back in time. The teacher replies you need a "metal craft of any kind"; then Donnie asks "Like a Delorean?", referring to the time machine in Back to the Future. Strange thing to ask if he wasn't thinking about maybe trying something similar himself. Presumably by this point he's starting to work out what he has to do.
I'm not sure exactly how he uses the car, or whether he takes Gretchen with him, but he definitely travels back in time. You see the film winding backwards as this is happening - and Richard Kelly says this is because Donnie's travelling back in time on the Director's Cut DVD commentary. Also, we know from The Philosophy of Time Travel book that Donnie's task is to guide "the artifact" (the jet engine) back into the primary universe. One way to do this would be by being where he would have been when the artifcat fell through the wormhole, once he's travelled back in time to the point just before the tangent universe has split off, i.e. just before the jet engine falls on his room. Back in the tangent universe he had to make sure the engine falls into the portal (presumably he uses his telekinetic powers for this). Then he goes back in time to meet it at the "other end", so to speak, although quite why he needs to be there I'm not sure - wasn't guiding it into the wormhole enough?
Some kind of sense has to be made of the fact that he's up the hill at the end; my suggestion is so that he can enter the wormhole just before the enginge does. Hence also why he gets back into bed just in time for the engine to land on him.
What do you think?
Understanding this film is serious business, man/