Donnie Darko Sequel

[Vatican Assassin]

does anyone want to tell me exactly what the fuck happened in the first donnie darko

because i'm still not exactly sure

and yeah, wolverine was extra bad. i figured it would be extra bad. i paid 10 dollars to see it anyway. so did you, BITCHES.

Ok here it is bro, my interprtation is that Donnie Darko is a story about selflessness. Obviously Donnie has some special powers, though they are from his subconscience because he only does them while sleep walking, i.e. burning down child-pornographers houses, putting axes into marble statues, etc. Each time he uses them they are related to the love/hate dichotomy displayed in the film, specifically in his school videos which attempt to boil life down to hate and love which is obviously a useless endeavor. Unfortunately, Donnie grows up in an age of "Sparkle Motion" in which kids are confusing sex, lust, and material selfishness for meaningful loving relationships, so he lashes out at people and calls them the fucking anti-christ. His way out of the situation, and also a way of reconciling his fucked up society (which believe it or not Tone is talking about in his current threads) is to use time travel.

Now this is part science fiction and part theology, and the specifics of how he does it is sort of not important. He knows that he needs a vessel, and he needs to not go against God's plan, which is why he has to follow the bubble the comes out of him, if he went another way, well, he'd probably cease to exist or something who knows. But he has a choice. He can go on living the way he is, which would mean his girlfriend would be dead, though he would be alive, and the actions that he commited during the film would still go into effect, such as the porn star being in jail and everyone ralizing that he is a snake oils salesman and you can't get life's answers from Pat Swazey. So he sacrifices himself, and those changes, for his girl by taking his wagon on a time-travel jump back to his room right before the plane's engine hits his room. If this confuses you it should, it is one of those time travel paradoxes because the plane that hit him was carrying his mother and sister in the first time period but obviosuly not the second. So only part of the plane got caught in the worm hole which he created (illustrated by the sudden twister at the end).

So he sacrifices himself to save those he loves. And the best part is that the boy who's name reflects his mood, dark, is laughing in with what seems to me like one who has finally experienced true love, even though he knows his death is emminent. You might notice the picture by m.c. escher of "the eye" on his wall in his room as he is laughing. It is a picture of an eye with a skull in it, reminding us to face our own mortality in order to truly appreciate life. Donnia faces it and wins. Pat Swazey and all the other phonies may go on with Donnie's absence, but it is they who live in fear, not those they try to convince that fear is real like Donnie. If you got any other questions I fucking love this movie and will talk all day, cheers!

One more note: the film is obviously trying to tell us that suffering is an important part of life. Donnie creates the IMG imaging device for kids to wear for his class project. The device is designed to eliminate suffering by substituting all the darkness of being a child with perfect sunrises and the like. That spotless mind movie with Jim Carrey covers this, though its a crappy movie imo. Nevertheless, Donnie needs darkness in order to grow, if everything was bright and cheery (which life isnt so it would have to be either him living a lie or on some sort of anti depressant so he could attempt to ignore how shitty everyone treats each other, shown by how everyone treats the fat asian girl) Donnie would never realize what is really important and he would never act in order to save it. He would just go watch Hannah Montana, become a cynical fuck and probably end up hating everyone who didn't vote for Ducocus (too lazy to look up how to spell that douche bag's name).

[paradise!]

The original Darko didn't even get popular until a few years later. I agree with Cops, I will watch it because I respect the original.