okay, last night i saw donnie darko, and OMG what a movie!! totally wicked, a genre on it's own!! but the movie is also quite complicated! the ending is quite hard to figure out so i have a couple of questions:

spoilers:!

- does the world end???
- how does donnie know that the plain is about the crash
- how does frank communicate with donnie (he's a time traveller but also a school kid?)

please fire your question away, we can figure them out.. i hope!!

damn ik just love those mindgame movies!!

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There's a lot more to the story that the actual movie doesn't emphasize that much on. Check out this website: http://www.ruinedeye.com/cd/time1.htm. That site contains actual pages from the "Philosophy of Timetravel", the book that Ms. Sparrow wrote. It's very helpful in understanding the movie.

the book claims Donnie is a timetraveler... my question: the motor that lands on the house is from the plane his mother & sister fly in, while they r at home, both times... explain that

& the movie rox, really, i just sat & stared like 5 mins after the movie ended

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Yea, that's one I'm going to have to rent again...
I just saw it for the first time a couple of months ago.
I think I was just stunned after I saw lol...
(plus I need a refresher; can't remember the whole movie...)

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so you finally watched it. I think its a love story. If he was in the house and the plane landed while he was in bed he be dead. Obviously the movie took another turn as if he was not in his bed at the time. Thats how his relationship started but at the end the girl dies anyway. I understood the air bubble was a way to see what people were going to do. It was not really time travel because the bubble only led people into the future. The bubble travled with time also.

best quote of movie"how does one go about sucking a fuck"

dumbiest part of movie"girl getting ran over becuase the guy in the car did not see her"

Best part..Making fun of the fear guy in front of school in the auditorium. also..fear guy getting caught after his house burnt down because of Donnie with the child porn ring.

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i thought this was a great movie, besides it being confusing as hell to me.

i got all of what you guys said. it all makes sense. but there is more to it. my major question is this: if donnie knew that his g/f was going to die, why the hell did he go back to that old ladies house. thats the one part i don't get. why LET your g/f die, so you have to go back to the past and kill yourself?

i dunno, i think there is a lot more to it than we all see. two of my friends who are kinda fucked up people, both explained it like this: "you have to be fucked up to appricate it to its fullest ability." which i think is true. one of them is a manic-depresant and the other one is just weird. lol.

my fav part of the movie:
"my dad has psychological problems"
"oh me too, what kind?"

HAHAHAHHA. donnie you rule!

and i thought it was really beautiful how donnie killed himself to save the life of other people, that was cool.

i saw the movie again last night again, what a movie but i understand a lot more now..

spoiler

the bunny frank lets donnie do things that will lead to other events (like burn the house > mother will go away. or flood the school > fall in love)..

but what i don't understand, why does donnie post the letter to grandma death, how comes that frank is a time travelar when he's killed by donnie?... at the ending time is turned back but how (the plain isn't going at the speed of light right, and donnie ain't on the plain right?)

anyone..

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Originally posted by TimeportE i saw the movie again last night again, what a movie but i understand a lot more now.. spoiler the bunny frank lets donnie do things that will lead to other events (like burn the house > mother will go away. or flood the school > fall in love).. but what i don't understand, why does donnie post the letter to grandma death, how comes that frank is a time travelar when he's killed by donnie?... at the ending time is turned back but how (the plain isn't going at the speed of light right, and donnie ain't on the plain right?) anyone..

no donnie isn't on the plane. he's back home. but the engine falls off and then falls into one of these "wormholes" which travels through time and then hits the house when donnie is sleeping. frank isn't a time traveler (i think). i think he's just part of donnie's imagination. how the guy has that costume though, i don't understand.

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Originally posted by PatMcGroin no donnie isn't on the plane. he's back home. but the engine falls off and then falls into one of these "wormholes" which travels through time and then hits the house when donnie is sleeping.

but how does donnie get back in time when he isn't going though the wormhole??

i also don't get the frank part.. but didn't the travelar say that frank was the name of his father and his father before him, or doesn;t that have to do with it! ?

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Originally posted by TimeportE but how does donnie get back in time when he isn't going though the wormhole?? i also don't get the frank part.. but didn't the travelar say that frank was the name of his father and his father before him, or doesn;t that have to do with it! ?

donnie knew he'd be sleeping, so he sorta sent the engine to kill himself to prevent others from being hurt. he took his life to save the life of others.

i dunno about frank. lol

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Originally posted by PatMcGroin donnie knew he'd be sleeping, so he sorta sent the engine to kill himself to prevent others from being hurt. he took his life to save the life of others. i dunno about frank. lol

i get that .. but at the end he started laughing, because he's amazed that he did it! so how did he travel back in time, without beeing on the vecile himself..

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Originally posted by TimeportE i get that .. but at the end he started laughing, because he's amazed that he did it! so how did he travel back in time, without beeing on the vecile himself..

he's not a timetravler himself. he sent the engine back in time to kill himself.