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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: republic on January 18, 2007, 04:47:58 PM
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I just watched the movie Donnie Darko. While I can say that I really enjoyed it...even 24 hours later...I still don't understand what I just watched. :huh
Anyone else seen it?
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Yes.
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I enjoyed it. It's time travel, supposed to be confusing. ;)
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Yup. It's a time travel / disruption of space-time continuum story based loosely on Back to The Future space / time rules. Not a bad flick.
Back to The Future meets Final Destination...
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Not as much time travel but what goes through your mind right before you die. Time travel doesn't encapsulate the dead guy in the rabbit suit. The kid was dreaming a version of life after the engine hit... right before he died.
At least, that's my take on it. The ending song kinda eludes to that too.
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Originally posted by Mini D
Not as much time travel but what goes through your mind right before you die. Time travel doesn't encapsulate the dead guy in the rabbit suit. The kid was dreaming a version of life after the engine hit... right before he died.
At least, that's my take on it. The ending song kinda eludes to that too.
I think your forgetting the jet engine that fell through the roof.
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Originally posted by Mini D
Not as much time travel but what goes through your mind right before you die. Time travel doesn't encapsulate the dead guy in the rabbit suit. The kid was dreaming a version of life after the engine hit... right before he died.
At least, that's my take on it. The ending song kinda eludes to that too.
That's a really interesting take on the movie, hmm... *still trying to figure it out*
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Originally posted by lukster
I think your forgetting the jet engine that fell through the roof.
No, I'm not.
The gist is that he dreams everything right before the engine hits. The whole movie is what goes through his mind right before he dies.
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I think the writer and/or director intended it to be less than clear as to what was going on. My take is that the plane his family was on lost an engine which fell through a time portal landing on his house which would have killed him 28 days earlier than when the plane actually lost it's engine.
However, since the engine fell into the past he had a sense of his life over the upcoming 28 days that was yet to occur. This was the source of his dreams/visions. The visions are the reason he wasn't in the house when the engine fell. Because his girlfriend is later killed he decides he should have died when the engine hit his house and is somehow transported back in time where he faces his fate.
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Originally posted by Mini D
No, I'm not.
The gist is that he dreams everything right before the engine hits. The whole movie is what goes through his mind right before he dies.
What about the mystery of where the engine came from and his family on the plane that later loses this engine? Are you saying that is all part of his dream?
I guess you could consider remembering a future that was prevented because an engine fell through time a dream.
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Originally posted by lukster
I think the writer and/or director intended it to be less than clear as to what was going on. My take is that the plane his family was on lost an engine which fell through a time portal landing on his house which would have killed him 28 days earlier than when the plane actually lost it's engine.
However, since the engine fell into the past he had a sense of his life over the upcoming 28 days that was yet to occur. This was the source of his dreams/visions. The visions are the reason he wasn't in the house when the engine fell. Because his girlfriend is later killed he decides he should have died when the engine hit his house and is somehow transported back in time where he faces his fate.
That as my take on it except that I think his not being in his bed is what sparked the whole disruption, maybe...
The film leaves a lot to interpretation.
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i must see this film! :D
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This movie is a direct rip off from the short story / film called "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge." For those of you who don't know it, I'll give a short summary.
The story starts off with soldiers from the civil war escorting a spy to a bridge to be hanged. They tie him up and drop him. But the rope snaps. He falls into the water, unties his hands and escapes while the soldiers are shooting at him. You then see his life trials and tribulations. Working, becoming successful, marrying a beautiful woman, having kids, growing old... Then you see him hanging from the rope at the bridge. The rope never broke, he just imagined it just before he died.
That's not to say the movie is bad. It's a very well done story with a great Sci-Fi twist to the original.
What about the mystery of where the engine came from and his family on the plane that later loses this engine? Are you saying that is all part of his dream?
All that happens between the daughter getting home from being out partying to just before Donnie is in his bed laughing is just an imagined story. They never tell you what happened to the rest of the plane because it doesn't come up in the story. It could have crashed a county over, but the topic was never broached in the real world (as opposed to imagined). That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I think your forgetting the jet engine that fell through the roof.
The engine fell through the roof right above a window that had the head facing out. If it was coming, and donnie was laying there, he would have been able to see it coming.
Thus, he sees his imminent death, quickly imagines a really rediculous story and then laughs about how rediculous it was just before being destroyed by the jet engine.
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Not to get off on a tangent or to hijack this thread but what were the beings at the end of AI? Evolved robots from earth or aliens?
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These are all some awesome interpretations! Keep em coming!
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Originally posted by republic
These are all some awesome interpretations! Keep em coming!
BTW, the director will tell you the movie was about time travel, alternate universes, broken portals... Don't believe him. Do you honestly think that he would tell you that he stole the idea from another movie?
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A much more direct copy of "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" was "Jacob's Ladder".