i liked it, but didnt really get ut...if someone could help and give me a website ir something to help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks to everyone who can help me :)
2006-07-23 12:08:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Donnie Darko is a guy who has schizophrenia. He hears voices and sees visions--and the voices tell him what to do, such as vandalize school property. He lives with a somewhat average American family, although their values are different from the norm. They don't get all gung-ho about all the BS that people get gung-ho about, and they can see beyond the world of social hierarchies and stuff.
What happens is that while Donnie's mother and sister are flying back from the Sparkle Motion competition, the jet they're in loses an engine, which falls through the sky and into Donnie's bedroom, killing him.
The movie takes place in a space of make-believe, in which the engine misses Donnie and he lives. In that make-believe space, he gets to fall in love, and he finds out who he is.
One way to understand it is that what happens between the time the engine is first shown crashing and the time the engine is last shown crashing is a pre-death experience. It is different than Donnie's life flashing before his eyes; it is more like he is given a chance to live out something new before he has to die.
Donnie, despite severe mental illness, is a talented person--intelligent, prescient, sensitive. He doesn't really belong in the world, in many ways, and this is why his girlfriend at one point says his name sounds like a superhero's name--and he asks what makes her think he isn't a superhero. This is pointing to the "meta" nature of the film--that it is a self-conscious movie, sort of about make-believe (superhero), and sort of not (because it takes place in a real place, a real suburb, and so forth).
Ultimately, it is a portrait of a young man who finds it very difficult to live in the world on account of his mental illness and the special abilities it affords him.
So, anyway, why he dies in the end is that he makes a choice to undo somebody else's inevitable death. When that kid in the car gets shot or whatever (I forget), Donnie decides in a way to "trade" his life for that kid's life...and so, in that, he has performed a heroic act. Not superheroic, since he does die, but simply and ordinarily heroic.
2006-07-23 12:18:25 · answer #1 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Donnie Darko is one of my fav movies ever, so...It's the kind of movie that if you watch from the middle or something, you might get confused. The movie's premise is the ability to travel in time & the "duty" that Donnie feels to travel.
Everything is based on his ability to see the magic bunny & to decipher the bunny's hidden meanings. I think the whole cast did a wonderful acting job; Drew, Noah, Jake, Maggie, Jena, etc.
2006-07-23 12:54:43 · answer #2 · answered by anglo_audiophile 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really liked that movie, too. It creeped me out, and I thought it was really weird, but when the end came, the huge rabbit made sense. Maybe he was on drugs bc reality was really distorted for him.
2006-07-23 12:16:33 · answer #3 · answered by ak47_girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has to use his powers to make the engine fall into his bedroom. If he doesn't then he would cause a whole time paradox. Which is bad.
2006-07-23 12:17:41 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. A, Luc, you 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What in the world! I never heard of that movie. Are you sure its a movie?
2006-07-23 12:12:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-23 13:48:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Weird" is my middle name, but that film left me cold too.
2006-07-23 12:16:57 · answer #7 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-23 12:11:07 · answer #8 · answered by missybarnes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-23 12:25:14 · answer #9 · answered by nassooom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋