I have finally seen Donnie Darko!

At least it wasn't about Pepsi...

are you creating threads to avoid writing orgNotes?

madartista said:

he may be out of orgnotes ...

madartista said:

Byron said:

I'll give you my theory if you give me yours LOVED THIS MOVIE!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

dude, I congratulate you catching up with the last 7 years.....


great movie!

abierman said:

Better late than never you false god you!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

true, I only can't understand that you've been able to resist the buzz about this movie for so long!
Gyllenhaal plays the best social misfit ever.....it's kinda breathtaking! Also, great soundtrack.....and it is one of the few mocies that made me fall in love with Drew Barrymore.....

fuckass

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Not to go too much into detail (and trust me, I can lol)...and I'm gonna leave off the "spoilers" tag because I think Supa is the last person on earth to have seen this movie ...

Tangent universe is created when the plane engine accidentally falls thru a wormhole that was momentarily open, causing the universe to be unstable and the world to end in 28 days. God uses the dead (Frank) and the living (everyone else) to help "guide" Donnie into doing what's necessary to set the tangent universe back onto its correct path, so to speak. Donnie finally realizes that the visions he's been having are not part of his schizophrenia but are really happening, even if nobody else can see it. He does what needs to be done, sets the universe back on his primary path, restabalizes everything, and sacrifices himself in the process because 1) it was supposed to happen the first time, and 2) he no longer feels alone, now believes there is a God, and that whatever comes after death will be "so much to look forward to".

The end lol *bows*...

Byron said:

Now mind you, this was my theory after watching this just one time but this whole story is the creation of the mother in order to deal with the accidental death of her son. She had to create some purpose or she would literally lose her mind.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Oh, wow lol ...I kinda like that scenario!! I may have to watch it again from that viewpoint ...

Byron said:

The other thing that I thought was even more sinister in that the mother was really the one who was mentally ill and that she delivered the monster to her son so she didn't have to deal with it herself. Notice at the end how calm she is and stuff. I totally thought it could have been her delusions the whole time

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

really??
i never saw it in that way...

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

She was calm, definitely ...I chalked it up to her having told the psychiatrist that she wanted to try "whatever" might help, because she just wanted Donnie to "have some relief" in his life...and so when Donnie's voiceover says he can now "breathe a sigh of relief"--and then literally does breath a sigh of relief seconds before dying--that the mother somehow just "knew" Donnie finally had the relief she always wanted for him.

That, and they seemed to have re-bonded right before she flew to L.A. with the youngest daughter ("How does it feel to have a wacko for a son?"..."It feels wonderful.").

Byron said:

I have to watch this again because her calmness felt extremely dark to me

sammij said:

I read a review/analysis a long time ago where they felt the movie was really about Donnie being in love with his sister lol ...The scary part is, after reading it they did a pretty good job of connecting dots to show how that conclusion could have been reached.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

For some reason, I really dug her and the father throughout this movie. Some could say they'd 'given up' on him, but when you have a child with the so-called troubles Donnie had, it's obviously no easy task on top of the already difficult task of rearing children. I really liked their compassion and laid-back humor, shown at the Principal's office, the dinner table, etc.

I think she appeared to be RELIEVED for Donnie in a sense (not to mention there's shock to be encountered before grief after trauma/loss). She knew his life would never cease to be incredibly painful and difficult, and she could, as a mother, sense he wasn't quite "made" for this world anyway. That obviously doesn't mean the family is better off without him (the opposite, actually), but it was like one long exhale after the stress of seeing him suffer in ways no child should ever suffer. It was peace, finally. Just like the feeling after a loved one battles a terminal illness. Freedom from the pain of this place.

Byron said:

do you remember any major points from that article????

INSATIABLE said:

shit
i totally see that now, i'm just not sure if the movie is really based around the mom as supa mused before
but i'd like to watch it again to figure it all out

i'm still confused by it after the many times i've seen it
it really freaked me out last time though, i'll have to build up the will to watch it again...

sammij said:

No lol ...at the beginning, though, I was saying "Oh, please..."...by the end, I was saying "Oh, shit..." LoL...

I do remember something about Donnie's "invisible friend" being named after his sister's boyfriend...and maybe something about him killing his sister's boyfriend...and something about how his sister looked at him as he walked up the stairs with Gretchen, like her expression was kinda weird or something. But there was a lot more to it than just that...

INSATIABLE said:

Exactly...that was my take as well ...

sammij said:

Well this wasn't something I even thought of until the end. I remember watching that movie like a hawk so I could give my report to Byron But yeah, the whole movie is focused on Donnie and you see everything from his perspective but that scene at the end where the mom is smoking the cigarette and all detached and seemingly satisfied it just hit me that the whole thing might have been in her head. And I even thought that she might have killed her own son to "put him out of his misery" so to speak and that she concocted the whole plane engine crashing on the house to justify her murdering ways.

Byron said:

I've never seen it! There are a lot of films I haven't seen (hazard of growing up in a town where the nearest movie theater is 45 miles away and not having cable). Maybe I'll add it to my netflix, but I don't think I really have any desire to watch it...




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DevotedPuppy said:

Well not now that we are spoiling it for you! Watch it and report back on your theory!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

...It took you almost 5 stinkin' years to watch it!



There's also the theory that the whole shibang was all just in Donnie's head, something he dreamed/hallucinated in the seconds before his death (much like the story "Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge").

Byron said:

Kind of like your life flashing before your eyes but it's a fucked up version?

DevotedPuppy said:

Most people who see it absolutely love it. But those who don't absolutely hate it lol ...I've met very few people who have been in the middle and said "It was ok".