Explain it to me......


a friend and i are having an argument

1/21/2009 4:46:45 PM

It's a decent movie by a terrible director.

1/21/2009 4:51:21 PM

http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=donnie+darko

1/21/2009 4:51:29 PM

Quote :

"[edit] Director's interpretation Writer/director Richard Kelly does not deny the validity of personal interpretations, but has expressed his own theories through the extra commentary on the two DVDs, his own (fictional) book The Philosophy of Time Travel, and in various other interviews. According to Kelly and his Philosophy of Time Travel, at midnight on October 2 a Tangent Universe branches off the Primary Universe around the time when Donnie is called out of his bedroom by Frank, immediately before the appearance of the Artifact, the faulty jet engine. The inherently unstable Tangent Universe will collapse in just over 28 days and take the Primary Universe with it if not corrected. Closing the Tangent Universe is the duty of the Living Receiver, Donnie, who wields certain supernatural powers to help him in the task. Those who die within the Tangent Universe (and would not have died otherwise) are the Manipulated Dead (Frank, Gretchen). Frank, at least, is also given certain powers in that he is able to subtly understand what is happening and have the ability to contact and influence the Living Receiver via the Fourth Dimensional Construct (water). All others within the orbit of the Living Receiver are the Manipulated Living (e.g. Ms. Pomeroy, Dr. Monnitoff), subconsciously drawn to push him towards his destiny to close the Tangent Universe and, according to the Philosophy of Time Travel, die by the Artifact. Frank appears in the story in two guises (indeed, three guises if we assume that he 'never' dies on account of the restoration of the Primary Universe through the negation of the Tangent Universe). First of all, there is the Manipulated Dead Frank who appears to Donnie as a premonition from the future of the Tangent Universe in the disturbing rabbit suit. Dead Frank is aware of Donnie's fate and destiny, and impels him to realize it so that the Primary Universe can be restored at the point where/when the Tangent Universe branched off from it. Secondly, Frank appears alive as Donnie's sister's boyfriend, whose fate unfolds within the Tangent Universe by means of Donnie's successes in realizing his mission. This living boyfriend is fatally (in both senses) shot by Donnie towards the end of the film, a killing which was foreseen by Donnie (albeit through a glass darkly). "

1/21/2009 4:54:55 PM

i feel like i understood it alright....what are yall arguing about?

1/21/2009 4:58:06 PM

Here's the movie if you take out everything irrelevent and unimportant:

A plane engine falls on Donnie's head and he's dead. Patrick Swayze gets away with child pornography, and then he is punished with cancer.

The End.

1/21/2009 4:59:48 PM

you jew asshole haha just kidding ben

1/21/2009 6:03:19 PM

man swayze didn't get cancer in his movie, donnie darko set fire to his house, and then his porno was discovered or something

1/21/2009 6:24:44 PM

its a decent/good movie that is WAYYYYY overhyped

1/21/2009 6:29:12 PM

a kid is haunted by the life that would happen if he lives instead of dies. Then he gets a chance to live it all over again and decides to die to save others.

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 6:35 PM. Reason : I LOVE this movie even tho it s overhyped. ]

1/21/2009 6:34:28 PM

for some reason its a very rewatchable movie. i mean i dont watch it on a regular basis, but im never really bored on the few occasions i still pop it in

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2009 6:36:12 PM

^^^I was hating on the people like the ones who said Heath Ledger died for playing a homo.

1/21/2009 6:38:11 PM