Topic: Donnie Darko - discuss it (megaspoilers naturally)

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Posted at September 24, 2007, 2:31 pm:


ok. now that i visited the website i understand all about the timetraveling and why donnie was like he was..
i donīt think it is very believable though.

anyway, what do you think is the point of the movie?

they were dumb enough to almost reveal it in the trailer(which iīm glad i watched after the movie) displaying the word "sacrifice".

cuz thatīs what i think it was about. he sacrifices himself to save gretchen.
i almost saw him like a kind of jesus, sacrificing himself so that others could be saved(frank for killing gretchen, gretchen from dying)

but then, whatīs the point of that?

but after going through the homepage it seems frank and gretchen made donnie to do this(they are the manipulated dead).

it also says that the manipulated living are offend overwhelmed by regret later and you see jim cunningham crying in the end of the movie and on the homepage there is a papernotice that says he killed himself.
did donnie now that would happen? so by traveling back in time he could let cunningham escape because he was going to get his punishment anyway?
but his movement lived on and noone got to know about his childpornography-basement then.

the physics(?)-professor also died later by driving into a tree, what was the point of that(none?). or maybe i missed somehting in the notice, donīt remember it too well. maybe sparrow was out walking again...

what is the name of the graham greene novel drew barymore reads in the english class?

ideas, theoris, thoughts, post 'em!


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Finally saw all of Donnie Darko not too long ago.

Watching DD on tv as I type.

i liked the movie, but im not sure why.

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