Was the movie Donny Darko an exploration of the parameters of reality juxtaposed against the banality and?

Question

hypocrisy of modern society? Or was it just a load of crap?

Answer 1

Man, you ask the most kickass questions.

It was an attempt at drawing the parallels between Einstein's theory of relativity, Hawking's take on the event horizon, and teenage angst.

See, distances and timescales can change depending on an observer's reference frame, an object's location in space-time is precisely defined. What Donnie Darko is saying, however, is that locality in this classical sense is a myth.

This is more than just a mind-bending curiosity. It tells us something new about the fundamental workings of the universe. Strange as it may sound, the fate of an elephant in a black hole has deep implications for a "theory of everything" called quantum gravity, which strives to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, the twin pillars of modern physics.

"Hawking radiation" comes from quantum phenomena taking place just outside the event horizon, the gravitational point of no return. But, if a black hole eventually disappears, what happens to all the stuff inside? It can either leak back into the universe along with the radiation, which would seem to require travelling faster than light to escape the black hole's gravitational death grip, or it can simply blink out of existence.

Trouble is, the laws of physics don't allow either possibility. We've been forced into a profound paradox that comes from the fact that every conceivable outcome we can imagine from black hole evaporation contradicts some important aspect of physics.

Set against the obvious schizophrenia and teenage sexual frustration displayed by Donnie (SMURFS), it begs the question, is reality really just a mental disorder individual to us all?

Dude I have no clue what the hell I just said.

Answer 2

I thought it was a great film about a kid in the time when I was a kid... it was transplanting... it was odd... it was familiar. The former part of your question.

Answer 3

I thought it was just a stupid movie about a kid who claimed to see a gigantic rabbit.