One of my all time favorite movies. Who's seen it and what are your theories as to the meaning of this movie.

 

I love Donnie Darko, its one of my all time favorite movies, plus I lost my virginity while it was playing in the background, so I guess it has a special meaning to me now? I really dont have a clue as to its "meaning", just that its really good and well thought out to have everything tie together like that. I know its cliche, but Id even like a Frank the Bunny tattoo.

 

haha ^ thats great

 

I think the meaning of the film is altruism. I believe this because he opts out of walking out of the house to speak with Frank and decides to stay in bed and let the turbine kill him. With him dying the new girl lives instead of being killed when they're trick or treating, the child **** fiending author never gets arrested and still can promote his anti-fear message to the world, and I think the teacher would keep her job instead of getting fired. I forget my reasoning on the teacher bit, but I remember thinking that the first time I watched it. Anyways, that's my take on it. And by the way, Gary Jules is a ripper of a musician and needs to come up with his own song and lyrics rather than covering a classic.

 

meh...i love the movie...but i didnt make much of it other than he was a psycho and frank was an image of his own imagination...a personification of his insanity...telling him all the things hes really hearing in their mind. you know the old saying? crazy people dotn know they're crazy? this explains it, hes crazy and sees something telling him to do these things...thats why he doesnt percieve the fact that its his own mind telling him to do this.

the secret window was the same basic idea. crazy man doesnt know hes crazy and sees his insanity as a person telling him to do this (or actually in the secret windows case, the person who is the embodiment of his insanity is killing these people, but its really his mind finding an explination for all these deaths)

 

Because Donnie never would have flooded the school, which is why Drew Barrymore's character got fired in the first place. She assigned the kids to read Graham Greene's "The Destructors" in which the kids destroy an old man's house by flooding it (well that's partially how they destroy it). The psycho teacher Mrs. Farmer thus made the connection that the school had been flooded because some kid read it in this book that she had assigned.



Personally, I have like 18 theories on this movie, and I'm constantly coming up with more. Some of the more radical ones include Donnie being a symbol of Jesus in that he sacrificed himself to save the world (He closed the portal by sending the jet engine through it and going back in time and not leaving his room which kills him and saves the world because if the portal was not closed, the universe would be destroyed).

Another basically revolves around the idea presented in the movie that every living creature dies alone, and the fact that Donnie ended up not dying alone because he had been loved by Gretchen.

I've got a whole bunch of other good ones that I'll share later.

 

I love that movie

wow, I never realized how much there was to that flick. I watched it once, with about 15 drunk friends, so needless to say I didnt actually hear much of what went on in the film, I'll have to rent it again and check it out.