lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2014

Donnie Darko



Hi bloggers!

Today I'm going to talk about my impression of the movie Donnie Darko. The first time I saw it -a long time ago- I didn't understand it so well because I thought it was a psicological thriller about some disturbed guy who had bizarre visions and finally comitted suicide. However, now that I had the chance to see the movie again in class, I think that I understood it better. Maybe because we saw the director's cut version and with the original english audio we were capable of understand some things that were lost in the spanish version, and also to catch the main idea.

Anyway, like I said before, I think I misunderstood the movie the first time I saw it because I thought it was psychological, but now I realized that it is very feasible that Donnie wasn't really having hallucinations but actually experimenting some kind of time traveling. In fact, Donnie seems to be living in a reality he doesn't belong, in a parallel universe, in order to fulfil a mission. You can notice it with little hints and key parts of the movie, like when Donnie's dad mentions something about the serial number of the plane that crashed into Donnie's bedroom, which is identical to an existing one and suggests to the audience that it could be the same plane that came from the future.

This hints starts to make sense when Donnie begins interesting in time travel and read the book his teacher recomend him, wich describes all the things Donnie was suffering at the time and explains the theory behind them. Besides, this book was written by Roberta Sparrow (Grandma Death), who seems to be part of the experience as well as Frank and Donnie. Finally, you can realize that Donnie was chosen for saving the world when he decided to fix up things by dying, and then starts all over again. Finally, the main prove is in the end, when some of the characters appears to remember what happened before in the alternative reality.

1 comentario:

  1. I agree with you. In the movie there are two spaces or universes: the real universe and the alternative universe. The most part of the movie is about alternative universe. I believe that the alternative universe was created by Donnie because he was afraid about his death. He didn't want to die, but He accepted his death finally.

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