At the end of the day, it's a juvenile film made by college-aged kids who wanted to cram as much cool stuff in it as possible. It also heavily romanticizes the idea of suicide and presents it as a great tragedy yet as a necessity for some people, which is really quite moronic
No it very fricking clearly does. Donnie's death is depicted as a great tragedy since he's a smart kid who definitely could have had a bright future ahead of him, yet he HAS to kill himself because it's the will of the universe.
It's the exact same line of thought that so many young people today struggle with. "I am actually really smart and witty yet my death is necessary so that other people can live better lives, but also they'll miss me", without realizing just how vain and selfish this reasoning is.
The meta-narrative of the film clearly idealizes taking one's own life for the "greater good", which can be a lot of different things for different people.
It's a very simple movie about how a teenager survives in a situation in which he should die and the reality around him begins to collapse because of this but it was filmed awfully. Also the film's style as a parody of a family show from the 80s doesn't work.
an unstable tangent universe was created due to a curruption (duplicate jet engine)
the tangent universe sets up the events so donnie kills frank which allows frank to travel to the original universe and save donniefrom the jet engine
he has to send the jet engine back to the original universe using the wormhole that forms in the original place the engine spawns
To be completely honest I wasnt 100% sure but i kinda enjoyed it better when the assumption was "oh this is his imagination in the last few moments of his death", but reading that apparently there's an entire website for the director to share his schizo lore on the film kinda lessened my view on it, as it makes it a little over the top. The fact is it's another one of those films where the people that like it don't care for the themes, message, or overall plot but instead identify with certain feelings expressed by it. It's effectively the same as people that listen to sad music, the point is it's expressing something for you
messiah archetype, martyrdom to save the universe
donnie is the epitome of a messiah, namely schizo, high T so jerk off a lot, against authority, he called the patrick swayze pedo character the antichrist, it's good vs evil etc.
it's basic spiritual/metaphysical movie albeit the director changed many common terms into their own term, for example synchronicity is called ensurance trap, same thing in tenet it's called 'whatever happened's happened' etc.
"go with the flow" is the term to describe state of presence, or being in the present moment, or be centered in the heart, another is "in the zone" or "flow state"
it's called a flow because there's a flow of events (dao de ching) in this universe that's decided by the heart chakra/chest
the heart is part of the trinity of mind/heart/spirit or mind/body/spirit, another manifestation of this trinity in nature is the state of solid / liquid / gas of water
so our body leg / torso / head is the same manifestion as solid / liquid / gas that arises from the natural mind / body / spirit trinity sacred geometry of the universe
point is heart = liquid = water
donnie is a heart based / love based hero just like jesus the messiah, him flooding the school is probably to emphasise this
donnie follows his heart to save the universe
it's called the 'path' in the philosophy of time travel book
the path / the way, the dao from the dao de ching
same as the 'path' from SNK, it's all repetition of spiritual teaching from 2,500 years ago
watched it again a few weeks ago. Great.
Picked up on more of the films more subtle themes now being a 30 year old watching it.
Bitter sweet film, wish there were more like it.
Watched Butterfly Effect right after it, while not as good, still had a blast reliving that. With the proper ending too where he kills himself in the womb.
It's pretentious, but actually entertaining unlike Magnolia which is entirely pretentious and insufferable. There is at least some kino and substance to DD. Drew Barrymore is a moron and only gets gigs cause she was a passed around as a cum bucket for spielberg and co.
Me either. Overrated garbage.
you all just a bunch of brainlets
Pretentious trash only poobrains think is le deep
It's a movie about a depressed kid who commits suicide... using a jet engine
Used to like it when I was a teenager thinking it was 2deep4you, but I re-watched it recently and it's just a pile of dogshit really
>Used to like it when I was a teenager thinking it was 2deep4you
That just means that you were cringey, not that the movie is bad
It’s about reflecting
>he didn't read the Philosophy of Time Travel
At the end of the day, it's a juvenile film made by college-aged kids who wanted to cram as much cool stuff in it as possible. It also heavily romanticizes the idea of suicide and presents it as a great tragedy yet as a necessity for some people, which is really quite moronic
>It also heavily romanticizes the idea of suicide and presents it as a great tragedy yet as a necessity for some people
based
it doesn't romanticize it you fricking moron.
No it very fricking clearly does. Donnie's death is depicted as a great tragedy since he's a smart kid who definitely could have had a bright future ahead of him, yet he HAS to kill himself because it's the will of the universe.
It's the exact same line of thought that so many young people today struggle with. "I am actually really smart and witty yet my death is necessary so that other people can live better lives, but also they'll miss me", without realizing just how vain and selfish this reasoning is.
The meta-narrative of the film clearly idealizes taking one's own life for the "greater good", which can be a lot of different things for different people.
some people should kill themselves, though
I'm not disputing that, but doing it to prove a point is asinine
It's not complicated or anything, it's just really boring
It's a very simple movie about how a teenager survives in a situation in which he should die and the reality around him begins to collapse because of this but it was filmed awfully. Also the film's style as a parody of a family show from the 80s doesn't work.
its about time travel, the guy is a hero and closed the time loop before the world ended, meaning the movie doesnt exist/never will exist
It's about mk ultra and project monarch.
Goodnight anon
Real talk. Killing moon or Never tear us apart?
As in the opening? Never Tear Us Apart is the GOATed opening
Killing Moon. The director's cut was shit all round but man starting like that was sacrilege.
an unstable tangent universe was created due to a curruption (duplicate jet engine)
the tangent universe sets up the events so donnie kills frank which allows frank to travel to the original universe and save donniefrom the jet engine
he has to send the jet engine back to the original universe using the wormhole that forms in the original place the engine spawns
To be completely honest I wasnt 100% sure but i kinda enjoyed it better when the assumption was "oh this is his imagination in the last few moments of his death", but reading that apparently there's an entire website for the director to share his schizo lore on the film kinda lessened my view on it, as it makes it a little over the top. The fact is it's another one of those films where the people that like it don't care for the themes, message, or overall plot but instead identify with certain feelings expressed by it. It's effectively the same as people that listen to sad music, the point is it's expressing something for you
The director's cut explains it but is a much worse film
I like DD but I don't understand how you frick up editing that badly
messiah archetype, martyrdom to save the universe
donnie is the epitome of a messiah, namely schizo, high T so jerk off a lot, against authority, he called the patrick swayze pedo character the antichrist, it's good vs evil etc.
it's basic spiritual/metaphysical movie albeit the director changed many common terms into their own term, for example synchronicity is called ensurance trap, same thing in tenet it's called 'whatever happened's happened' etc.
"go with the flow" is the term to describe state of presence, or being in the present moment, or be centered in the heart, another is "in the zone" or "flow state"
it's called a flow because there's a flow of events (dao de ching) in this universe that's decided by the heart chakra/chest
the heart is part of the trinity of mind/heart/spirit or mind/body/spirit, another manifestation of this trinity in nature is the state of solid / liquid / gas of water
so our body leg / torso / head is the same manifestion as solid / liquid / gas that arises from the natural mind / body / spirit trinity sacred geometry of the universe
point is heart = liquid = water
donnie is a heart based / love based hero just like jesus the messiah, him flooding the school is probably to emphasise this
donnie follows his heart to save the universe
it's called the 'path' in the philosophy of time travel book
the path / the way, the dao from the dao de ching
same as the 'path' from SNK, it's all repetition of spiritual teaching from 2,500 years ago
Movie probably has the best middle of nowhere town comfy atmosphere in history.
watched it again a few weeks ago. Great.
Picked up on more of the films more subtle themes now being a 30 year old watching it.
Bitter sweet film, wish there were more like it.
Watched Butterfly Effect right after it, while not as good, still had a blast reliving that. With the proper ending too where he kills himself in the womb.
It's pretentious, but actually entertaining unlike Magnolia which is entirely pretentious and insufferable. There is at least some kino and substance to DD. Drew Barrymore is a moron and only gets gigs cause she was a passed around as a cum bucket for spielberg and co.