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Donnie Darko

March 13, 2003 - 11:09 pm 4 Comments

Will someone please sit down and explain Donnie Darko to me, preferably in words of two syllables or less?

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4 Responses to “Donnie Darko”

  1. Feith Says:
    March 14th, 2003 at 11:41 am

    I just figured I wasn’t supposed to get it. 🙂

    Feithy

  2. mary Says:
    March 20th, 2003 at 2:33 am

    the director made up an elaborate fantasy that seems to have a lot of meening…. but when he explains it, it comes across as a beautiful creation… with little aplication to life… the rules are all writen down in the book by the old woman.

    the story is about a time loop where donnie must right the universe by returning the “artifact” (the cause of the wrongness in the universe) back to a certain point. how does he do this? he is a superhero. yup, that is the simple explanation given by the director.

    the bunny, frank, is bonded to him because he dies in the end… and when people die in the loop, they are just bonded together. why does he flood the school and burn down the perv’s house? perhaps because he knows subconsciously all along that he will die and that they are things that he wants to do… without ramifications.
    that’s it, i guess…

  3. huffpuffman Says:
    June 1st, 2003 at 5:59 pm

    Everything for a reason actually. He doesn’t just burn the house down and flood the school for no reason. By flooding the school, he is able to meet Gretchen and fall in love with her to no be scared of “dying alone”. He has to burn down the guy’s house because by doing so it forces his mother to be put in the position to have to be on that airplane as it passes over the portal. That’ “God’s channel” or predestination if you will.

  4. tormented Says:
    February 25th, 2004 at 3:35 pm

    what if your all wrong.
    the debate that he has with the physics teacher about the time space theory seems to highlight that the so called predetirmined time line, the theory that all time is predetermined because a higher beeing has chosen our paths for us excludes the fact that we make our own choices
    the bunny represents the FEAR of the unknowen, and represents a timely warning to not go to this area with out equipting yourself first, as we saw at the end Frank was a boy tormented by his art