Originally posted by cravNbeets:
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I've watched it about 4 times and I have a few questions if anyone would care to field them.
1. Is the jet engine that falls in Donnie's room from the plane that his mom and sister are on? If so did the mom and sister die on the "second" 10.30.88 even after Donnie sacrafices himself?
2. Does anyone have any ideas on what the fat Asian girl is supposed to symbolize? I get the idea that she is supposed to symbolize purity and innocence. Where as the two trouble making youths represent the opposite. Fear and love spectrum maybe?
3. What in the name of God is the point of Drew Berrymore's role? Aside from her helpful cellar door comment she seemed to serve no purpose and waivered in between a good and bad character.
I've got a million more ????s I really liked this flick but I would be lying my ass off if I said I totally understood it
[ 09 September 2002: Message edited by: cravNbeets ]
1: no, because the reason his mother went to star search with the dance team was because the coach stayed. the coach had to go to Patric Swazys child pornography trial. since Donnie died he couldn't burn down his house the police didn't find the kiddie porn. BUT the sister might have died because the coach could have also taken the "red eye" flight home.
2: she's a fat asian chick deal withit
3: she was the producer of the movie, she wanted a little action too.
[ 10 September 2002: Message edited by: Big boy ]
Originally posted by Big boy:
1: no, because the reason his mother went to star search with the dance team was because the coach stayed. the coach had to go to Patric Swazys child pornography trial. since Donnie died he couldn't burn down his house the police didn't find the kiddie porn. BUT the sister might have died because the coach could have also taken the "red eye" flight home.
2: she's a fat asian chick deal withit
3: she was the producer of the movie, she wanted a little action too.
[ 10 September 2002: Message edited by: Big boy ]
Obviously the mom wasn't on the plane. That was an error in my question. Thanks for entertaining my theory tho.
As for the answer to my last 2 ?'s I asked if anyone had any theories on the characters' sybolyism.
Saying "fat asian chick, deal w/ it" and "she wanted a piece too" does not really qualify as analysis.
I had some legit questions, anyone have some legit answers?
[ 11 September 2002: Message edited by: cravNbeets ]
Originally posted by cravNbeets:
Obviously the mom wasn't on the plane. That was an error in my question. Thanks for entertaining my theory tho.
The mother WAS on the plane... at least in the 'alternate future'... the wing on the plane that killed Donnie Darko was the wing that the mother and little daughter was on in the future...
there was a time rift... and depending on the author's take on time travel and "changing the past", you can argue that one never REALLY changes the past during time travel rather it creates a 'splinter' effect....
the time rift was there, regardless of what Donnie Darko did or the parents or whoever... so it COULD be said that it wouldn't matter WHO was on the plane...
OR you could say that there is a 'time loop' between two alternative realities bridging them...
OR you could say that the 'second ending' where he goes back in time and stays in bed when he KNOWS what's going to happen creates a diverging reality...
In that theory, the denizens of the 'original reality' are still living in the fact that the bunny guy is dead, the mother is dead, the little sister is dead, the girl is dead and now, Donnie Darko is missing...... and this new diverging reality veers off the path of the 'original timeline' and Donnie is dead... but everyone else is alive....
I haven't listened to the DVD section where the director explains things, so i don't know what his take is on time travel ... or even if it was time travel to begin with ...
-physix
Originally posted by Big boy:
what Donnie Darko character are you
Booger!
I'm Gretchen fuckin' Ross....
I rather be Donnie, so I could jerk off and knwo that i am touching a FLY ASS MUH FUCKA!!!
heh!
ahem!
-physix