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[captain_slinky]

Just saw DOnnie Darko for the eighth time (it was just on Showtime), and I STILL have no idea what the hell happened.

It's like some half-finished word jumble or crossowrd puzzle that I put down a long time ago and keep finding. And I'll think "Oh, THIS time I can finish it! This time I'll know what the hell I'm doing!" But brother, there just ain't no 8-letter word for "Cellar Door"!

And each time I see it I can't fully decide if it's because there's too little information, or TOO MUCH information. But I figure it's gotta be something like that.

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[d-a-r-a.livejournal.com]

I've only seen it once, but I don't have any idea what the hell happened either. :)

[tigernach.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful and sad movie about a kid who's going crazy because he can see the future/past. he knows what he must do. his world will end, but it'll keep the rest of the world together.

and I love frank.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Right, I get THAT much of it... but what triggered it? And how does he suck the jet engine out of the future to kill himself in the past which results in none of this stuff ever happening in the first place??? And what does Granny Death have to do with all of it? Is she just a random person, or someone from Donnie's past/future/alternate existance who is aged beyond recognition? And... and... I just don't know. But I DO love the movie :)

[tigernach.livejournal.com]

granny death is part of his fate, one of the people who understand, who show him his path. she is like a tool of fate.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

So your saying that it was FAT that there would be one solid month of fucked-up timestream that could only be fixed by making it never have happened in the first place? Doesn't that make her entire life kinda redundant? No... I'm sure that there had to be some further motivation in her life that made her write that book and keep checking the mail evey day. And that's just one of the many parts of the movie I JUST CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND AAAAAAARGH!!!

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of those films that requires lots of chemical assistance.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Just rubed myself down wih Chlorine and Borax before watching it again; still makes no sense :(

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

I have watched a LOT of time travel movies and know most of the principles and ideas, time travel is one of my favorite subjects. :)

okay, here is what I think happened:

In timeline one:
Donnie was going through life as normal.
Donnie stayed in his room and got hit by the plane engine.
The plane engine was from a plane that hit a wormhole in the future and the engine went through the wormhole into the past.

In timeline two, the alternate messed up timeline:
Donnie was in his room, he started tripping out (possibly because of the wormhole) and saw someone from the future, he left his room and the plane engine hit his room but mossed him, which caused reality to diverge at that point and create a different timeline. Everything that happened during the diverged time was not supposed to happen, and when he changed the timeline he sort of created a bubble timeline which kept on going until the actual plane hit the wormhole in the future where it lost it's engine which went thru the wormhole into the past, at which point he got a chance to "make things right". He does choose to stay in his room and make things right, causing the alternate timeline bubble to basically mobius loop on itself, implode, or end, however you choose to see it. This is why the world would end in 28 days. That bubble did end.

Granny Death was someone who had something similar happen to her, if you catch the references, she wrote a book about it, and seemed to imply that others had it happen too, and I get the sense that she did not do whatever it was to make her timeline right, or else she had been sucked from the future to the past or something else odd. She also seemed to be sort of drawn to the wormhole type events, and may have even possibly been trying to figure out how to make things right after it was too late or get back to her real timeline.

It would probably make more sense if I actually went and watched it again and gave you a play by play, or if you watched it with me and I could point out things and tell you the time travel theory involved. Mainly it was wormhole theory, and alternate time lines and universe bubbles, if that helps at all.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

OH MY.

It's... it's all so CLEAR now! So our everyday NORMAL life is actually the effed-up alternate timeline of Granny Death and/or other people who have been effected by wormhole anomolies!

THANK YOU!!!

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

oh, and in case you haven't seen it, the website is very cool and messed up. :) Lots of secrets there, including the book on wormholes.
http://www.donniedarko.com/

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to try and find the time to go there, ut I never have...

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

oh again, also, according to the time travel book by sparrow, if donnie would have not let himself get killed, it would have created a black hole and killed the entire universe too...

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Waitaminit... where does THAT come from? Is that standard operating procedure for wormholes? And if so, why didn't Granny Death dissapear whn HER wormhole turned in to a black hole?