Can any one explain the movie Donnie Darko please
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LickingSquirt
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I thought more of it as a paradox.
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It's one of those films where you need to watch it a few times to understand it. Plus everyone has their own interpretations, and I don't want to confuse you further by saying my own opinions. Having said that, type in Donnie Darko into google and it will come up with hits where numerous people have explained it.
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i wacthed it 2yrs ago and im still wandering (what the)
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No no one can Explain that movie it simply has to be watched
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Donnie Darko narrowly escapes death because he is led out of his house by Frank. Random stuff occurs, and he and his girlfriend are outside Grandma Death's house when the girlfriend gets run over. He has learned about time travel and he discovers how to return to the past. He returns and allows himself to die in the initial plane crash, because by dying, he has spared his theoretical girlfriend's life, although in the new future he has created, she will never have met him.
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It's about how beautiful the mind is when the mind is not classicly "sane" :)
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listen to the last song in the movie. "I find it kind of funny, I find it kid of sad, that the dreams where i am dying, are the best i've ever had." the whole movie is a dream except for the first scene when at home, and the last scene when he is killed. Everything else are a series of great dreams he has the night of the accident, and a lot of things didn't add up in the end, and there were a lot of weird parts, just like in the dreams we have.
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I've only seen the newer, director's cut, and I've heard that it differed from the original.
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If you go to imdb.com you can find out a whole lot about the fundamentals of this movie. There are FAQ that give lots of deep detail. I've seen the movie about 12 times and it always trips me out. Check it out. It'll make more sense if you do!!! There's also a page called donniedarkofilm.com that's strangely cool too but the imdb website will answer alot of your questions.
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I honestly think the movie is way more impressive and enjoyable when you are left to your own conclusions about it. It can be interpreted in many ways and on many levels. I have thought of it as a study of the sort of "Cassandra Complex" of teenage life, an exploration on sanity vs madness, and so forth. <sigh>... However, there is indeed a "logical" explanation for the film, based on the book that Grandma Death wrote. If you have the DVD, you can read the entire book (it's only a few pages long) and it will pretty much explain the entire time-travel aspect of the movie and how Donnie is intrumental in saving the universe from being annihilated. I actually liked the movie less after reading this stuff, so be warned. It breaks the movie down into very carefully-defined science-fiction, which kind of killed the magic and mystery for me.
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I liked the movie an awful lot but I have no idea what it was about. +5
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In Roberta Sparrow's (aka Grandma Death's) book there were the instructions for time travel. Donnie used the instructions in her book to set in motion a series of circumstances that caused him to sacrifice his own life for that of his girlfriend, sister, and mother. Frank was his conscience. His conscience manifested itself as Frank, because Frank was the man that took his girlfriend's life, and that event, was what caused him to make the decision of sacrifice in the first place. I just saw this movie last night. +5
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