Donnie Darko: What's It Really About?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2023
- Friends, it’s that time of year. The weather is getting colder, the nights are getting spookier, and my watchlist is getting weirder. Among the classics for Halloween movie nights is Richard Kelly’s directorial debut that both shocked attendees of Sundance in 2001, as well as risen to the ranks of the coveted title “Cult Classic” in the more than 20 years since it was made. It’s a movie that resonates with teenagers on a level that few movies have in the past couple of decades and on its own it stands as a crowd-pleasing adventure that is sure to intrigue you as much as it confuses you. I’m talking, of course, about the time traveling, water bending, and deliciously disturbing story of Donnie Darko.
Ah, Donnie Darko. When I was 13 or 14, my English teacher on this movie on for our class on the last day of school, and I don’t remember why he did that, but I do remember that this movie REALLY made an impression on me. I borrowed the movie from a friend that night and watched it again. Most of my intrigue came from the incredibly complex plot mixed with the feeling of a John Hughes movie gone emo. It was exactly what 14-year-old me was into.
And in the years since, I’ve seen this movie at least once a year and many times more than that- and every time I’ve tried to describe this movie to someone who hasn’t seen it, I’ve found myself romanticizing the movies tone and angsty mood over the deeper themes and overall plot- and that’s because, as we all know, this is one of those movies that you kind of just have to see.
So, today’s episode is going to be a dark trip down memory lane as we re-awaken my inner-teenager and figure out once and for all- What's Donnie Darko Really About?
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The moment where Gretchen waves to Donnie's mother, and they both recognise each other without really knowing why, has stayed with me after all of these years. Such a beautifully haunting film.
Agreed 🎉😊
Excellent scene.
That scene kills me everytime. I know it's the music and the scen together that make it haunting and beautiful, kicks me right in the feels and I end up bawling for 45 mins after
They remembered each other from the dream
just watched this movie for the first time, just now. it is intriguing, but a tad bit overrated, in my book. Not really a "Cult Classic". 7 of 10. I really liked the atmosphere, but the story was all over the place..
When they play 'Mad World' at the end as everybody is getting up, they're all waking up from a dream that was the previous 28 Days. Which is why Jim is crying because he's been exposed, Mrs. Farmer is holding her mouth in horror over everything she has said, and Frank is on the ground holding his eye because he just got shot.
That was the only part of this move that went over my head lol. I understood everything else very well but when they all started waking up I was confused lol. Makes so much sense I can’t be believe I missed that
Also the plane; that’s why through the movie they couldn’t identify where the engine came from. It just seemed to fall out of nowhere, until the end when everybody wakes up and the timeline they were all in originally resumes.
I thought you just spoiled the end of American Beauty lol
it is all symbolic.... imagine none of it happened.... we, really don't know... and not knowing what could have been, is the theme. Like those movies that people wake up in and it's all a dream... only this time the main character did die, (rather than "sleepwalk" to save his own life) and we are all looking back at what could have been. But we'll never really know how people could have made an impact on the world, if they aren't given a chance. @@Dylan-lw6iv Sleep is analogous to the story. Like a dream. We are given the what ifs... then we find out that we could dream about the whole thing, and we would still be guessing.
The "airplane" is symbolic for speech or even the story being told. This guy died. The whole thing is a "what if" episode. The point was we don't know what, if our kids aren't given the chance. @@galenmarek8287 the whole thing was Drew Barrymore's apology for being a part of Firestarter. Which is basically the antithesis to Donnie Darko. In Firestarter the child gets power and in the end the world burns.
I’m always saw the film as Donnie exhausting all possibilities, utilizing his genius-level intellect to systematically eliminate all outcomes until he arrives at the solution to the equation- he needs to be removed from the problem in order to solve it and save everyone. That’s why he is smiling at the end, he solved an impossible riddle.
Love this!
Damn, that is by far the best explanation I have ever heard.
@@NASkeywestits wrong. Check out “hammered out” Donnie darko explanation. It includes interviews from the creator and what they were trying to do.
@@lord_haven1114 the movie is definitely open to audiences interpretation. The director said in an interview it can be interpreted many ways by the audience.
I think this explanation makes more sense than anything I’ve heard. Better plot line than what the director meant it to mean! IMO
It's like the Butterfly Effect, that's the way I saw it.
This movie stays with you for days and leaves you in need to search for every possible review and every possible theory there is
lmao I thought it was just me
I have a good friend who can't stand it. Says it makes no sense so what makes it great? I say it's the fact that you aren't sure what to make of it for awhile that makes it fantastic.
@@jgreen406you just answered my question lol thank you 🐰🐰
So true
The movie is shit
The theme that chimed with me was the line 'the pain of puberty'. The moment as a teenager when you realise the adults around you are just making it up and don't have real answers.
And also it's about committing to sparkle motion.
Always commit to Sparkle Motion
I don't doubt your commitment for one second.
SPARKLE MOTION!
Huh???? You lost me.
@@SansoHumar I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!
Working on it was fun. We had no idea wtf we were working on. We thought it would suck but we were all blown away by the final film. Several of my shots were in this video and they still look good.
What did you do?
@@Emulous79 It's been so long I hardly remember everything unless I watched it again, but I remember doing the storm exterior above the house. I did all the particles and the comping of the trees and cloud vacuum thing. That took a while to get right. The leaves and stuff had to look like they were getting sucked into the cloud and the trees had to shake like crazy. We also did the precognition tubes. A couple of my shots were in this video. We did a lot of good work at Amalgamated Pixels but they're out of business now.
@@nuketube5211 That's a shame. Some great work.
Did you all have the impression that Richard was a genius guiding this or did it just seem like chaos?
@@rkallaWhy not both?
My best friend who passed away at 28 in 2012 showed me this movie when were about 18 and 19 years
Old
We both had hard lives growing up
Being poor and homeless orphans but was so damn smart he could always see the messages in movies and would explain everything to me so I could have a better understanding before and during the movies and this is one film he always mentions how good it was
We finally got to watch it and it’s been one of my favorite movies and memories with I have with mark
He had a big heart and that’s ultimately was ended his life😔
But in a way I feel like because he passed away my life has continuously gotten better every year and I think I’ve avoided death on several occasions because he is watching over me
As long as you remember him he hasn't gone anywhere.
Say hello to Sparky from me 👍
I just watched Donnie for the first time as my Halloween marathon closer and it generated the exact state of mind I had while watching my high school talent show, knowing that this designed life was absurd and I will never see these people who were collectively my whole world again after a few unspecial months. Time ticked down and the world ended. My class rock band played Sweet Child O’ Mine really well and my AP Psych I teacher played us a Greatful Dead tune on his guitar with a capo. I tried not to cry over things these strangers did in proximity to me for their good. I love them.
That was deep. Marry me
Wow...I could not have said it better.
I love this. In a less poignant way, I have often looked back on life as a TV show or a film franchise. Everyone we meet is a character in the story that is our life and these characters (and the events they trigger, for better or for worse) are ultimately in service of the story. Nothing happens without reason, even if that reason isn't to our liking or our brains can't handle the greater universal implications.
Oh wow. This made me think about life differently (and more sadly). It’s such a funny thing. You’ve got me missing high school 😂
From the first time I saw it, this movie became one of my all time favourite films, maybe even my absolute favourite. It works on so many levels, and each time I watch it I understand or discover something else. For me it is the gift that keeps on giving. It is as touching as it is mysterious as it is disturbing. I do love, for example, how it shows that we are all interconnected as human beings, one way or another, whether we like it or not. I have watched it many times, at various stages in my life, and each time it speaks to me. Personally, I find that it is like a cinematic version of a well-executed impressionistic or abstract painting... anyone can feel a connection with it on some level. I would consider it a masterclass in film making where few can watch it without having a visceral, human reaction to it. Oh, and please, don't get me started on the soundtrack... since my very first viewing of this film, I only have to hear the melancholic piano intro to the 'Mad World' cover by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules and waves of emotion pass over me. A very beautiful, if disturbing film.
man i have alot of crazy synchronicities in my life.. all i can think after watching this movie is "Demons are real" And reality is indeed stranger than fiction
I first saw this late at night when I was suffering from insomnia. After watching it I thought I'd never sleep again. Also, your English teacher was awesome.
I watch it last day and it blew my mind! I know its a cult classic but for me its super underrated. In my country im sure few people knows about it. And then last night i watch it with high expectations and no clue whatsoever for the plot. My only knowledge it is like final destination with bunny suit but its not! The film is ahead of its time for 2001. The story, cast, acting, humour, and every little clue is very satisfying in the end and i was jaw drop a couple of minutes in the end. 10000/10
I was 18 when this movie came out and over the years of re-watching it the depth that this movie has you start discovering more things you didn't really realize when you watched it at earlier times. This is a great movie that is very unique and captivating once you understand what's going on .
I actually think the theatrical cut is superior to the director's cut. The music alone makes it so.
Absolutely.
Yes, right at the start, Killing moon by echo and the Bunnymen play, and there's a slight foreshadowing. As the line "the killing time, unwillingly mine..." plays, you see an orange camaro drive by Donnie. I didn't catch this until the 2nd time I watched the film, that the camaro shows up later towards the end of the movie as Frank's car. The song goes SO well with the movie, unlike the Director's cut which has never tear us apart by INXS.
The music was a massive part of the movie for me, so I probably won’t go looking for the director’s cut if that has changed.
@@TSINIproductions Good call. The "director's cut" provides some additional information about the time travel theories of the movie, but I don't think they add much of anything to the story really. And the opening segment, with The Killing Moon, in the theatrical cut is massively superior to the opening of the director's cut.
I recommend watching the theatrical version first and then the directors cut. The music in the theatrical version adds so much and influences the mood and your feelings but the directors cut does give more clues and details about what is actually going on. It's harder to tie everything together in the theatrical version, it's a great movie nonetheless but very difficult to completely understand.
i was a teenager when i saw this... i vividly remember siting in bed ... after the movie finished the credits rolled ... went to static... then my VCR started rewinding the tape ( from BLOCKBUSTER of course :) and i sat there for 2 hours... i cried i laughed and then felt sad .... felt a moment of clarity . and my life HAS never been the same., im a 40 year old man with family kids beautiful wife dream house cars etc..... AND all because i learned that day .... WE ARE MASTERS of our OWn universe we are creator of reality ( maybe our own ) but none the less . this is a GOAT movie. and i can NOT wait to watch it with my kids ! oh and LOVE THIS channel.
One of my favorite movies ever, sometimes i feel like the days are counting down like in the movie, but in real life
That's because they are. For all of us.
It's sad that in growing up to be honest. Now that I'm almost done with highschool I wonder if the film will still hit the same
That feeling you feel. It is real for all of us. What will your legacy be?
When it's explained that Frank is Elizabeth's Boyfriend
who is Elisabeth?
and why were the bullys after Donnie?
The part that always sticks with me is that this came out not long after the Teen Comedy boom of the late 90s - where pretty much every movie was "It's fun to be a teenager and find yourself and get the girl and have hahah funny adventures." Things like 'She's All That' or '10 Things I Hate About You' or 'American Pie." All of them were breezy, often about the supposed outsider coming out of their shell and turning out to be hot / popular / quirky and cool.
Donnie Darko flips that on its head - Donnie is never really treated as "cool" nor is his relationship with Gretchen really the answer. High school is oppressive, with teachers who genuinely care for their students getting threatened for speaking about subjects the conservative PTA members might think are dangerous to children, all the while supporting actual harmful actors like, say, a motivational speaker who is a legitimate pedophile.
This is also why its no surprise the movie is set in the 80s, when this subversion of appearance (everything is bright and glorious and shiny, but inside there is a lot of darkness and suffering) hits the hardest, and a lot of the music used (80s alternative, often seen as dark wave) would have been outside the "norm."
and hey - even the main song - "Mad Word" originally by Tears for Fears, is built to be paradoxical. It's an upbeat, chipper song about, well, how chaotic living is.
Love this
Now fast forward to today where these progressive teachers are teaching 5 year olds how to jam carrots up your best friends corn hole. That message aged well, eh?
I find most if not all coming of age movies to be creepy. The unknown, embarassment. Usually threats of violence. This film doesn't shy away from that.
Great analysis. The one thing i would add is that the music score is one of the greatest examples ever of matching music to action tone ever in cinema. A true master class.
One thing you wont find anyone else saying that Ive posed every which way I can, and narrowly missed the chance twice to ask Richard Kelly about: the mystery of a plane part falling from a sky that was never identified and haunted local papers of New England is clearly the source of this movie. This movie is about building people into an unexplained phenomenon that is still eluding pop culture.
There was a real life incident of a plane part falling from the sky, that was never identified?? Tell me more!!
It's not Lady Death, it's Grandma Death. Donnie's mom: "That's a TERRIBLE nickname."
Otherwise, great coverage of an amazing movie. There were two things I wondered about after watching this movie. Is Gretchen doomed to disappear or die like her mom did during those 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds? Without Donnie around, she would have stayed with her mom during her disappearance/death, when the ex found her. Also, Jim Cunningham would never get caught, because he wouldn't be around to set Cunningham's house on fire. It makes me wonder what the point was of exposing him in the tangent universe. I LOVE this movie. It made me realize that you could create your own universe and make up your own rules. That there are no limitations, when it comes to writing and making movies.
😂😂 "You know she's loaded - and she lives up there in that piece of crap house..."
@@MagesseT1I loved that line
If you read the excerpts from "The philosophy of time travel" it can't be Donnie not dying that creates the tangent universe because the tangent universe is announced by the artifact.
And if its the artifact that kills him, the tangent universe exists before he dies.
Also, it's evident that Roberta Sparrow is a former "living receiver" and she didn't die so the death of the receiver isn't a prerequisite to fix the tangent universe.
Donnie dies at the end of the movie because he's content not as a necessary sacrifice. According to TPoTT, all that is required to save the primary universe is to remove the artifact from the tangent universe so it can collapse safely and not take the primary universe with it.
I literally watched your video about Southland Tales 2 days ago. I LOVED Donnie Darko as a teenager, I haven't seen it as an adult but I think it deserves a revisit sometime
this is still a timeless classic
Great video! I never understood this movie growing up. I see a lot of similarities between this and the Netflix series Dark. If you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth the watch!
This is one of my desert island movies. Every time I see it I notice something new.
The universe that Donnie is in has this weird alien vibe to it. One of the biggest indicators I noticed upon about the 40th viewing of this movie was the self help guru essentially using his own material to run the school. That and the peculiar scenes where people have this knowing look when they say Donnie’s name.
I love the idea that people sat round a table and gave their time and money to allow it to happen. It's a life-changer.
"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion!!!"
I watch this movie very young and i barely understand the minor plot, but to me, the main plot was what you value more? Your life or the life of the people you love! You can save yourself and being alone and crazy (that Donnie is becoming) or Give that inner spark to the world, for people who you care more than you, even if this mean dying... Its the ultimamte act of unselfishness... Perhaps real love.
That also ties into everything Donnie’s teacher was saying about fear and love that he hated so much. In the end in his final moments he chose love instead of fear and died with a smile on his face
He might have mentioned that in this video already I haven’t watched it yet just reading comments lol
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
It’s a reverse “Christmas Carol”. Usually movies take a character that says “what would happen if I never existed” and some entity guides them through a world with out them to show how bad it would be. This is the opposite “what if I really am better off dead” i feel like that’s why he laughs at the end. The whole movie he was going down franks rabbit hole simultaneously digging his own grave. He had spirit guides and it even set on a dark holiday instead of Christmas the exact opposite of Halloween. One of my favorite movies I always get a new take on it
The feeling is called 'A sense of foreboding'. Stephen Rea's speech in V for Vendetta alone makes that film great already.
But I think sadly Donnie Darko is mainly loved for self-important teens identifying with the idea that they could die and everyone would be sad. That usual "you'll be sorry when I'm gone!" attitude that their disappearing is somehow profound and meaningful. Even dying in their bed amounting to somehow the whole world being saved, in stark reversal to the It's a Wonderful World shpiel, mixed wih Catcher in the Rye. My point is, these are pretty well-trodden ideas. Donnie Darko does good work distilling it, but there's no shortage of alternatives.
Unbreakable
cather in the rye
wodnerful world
steins;gate
Re:Zero
V for Vendetta
Donnie Darko
バイロケーション
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math music video
Everything everywhere all at once
heck, even Tolkien's books were partly based on Irish and Finnish mythology, about a kind of a ghost, that appears BEFORE you do in some places like a reverse Deja Vu.
I've always thought of this movie as combining two Jimmy Stewart movies: "Harvey" and "It's a Wonderful World". Basically an inverse IaWW, where the MC is shown a glimpse how awful everyone is off if he lived, and with some rabbit that only he can see while everyone thinks he's disturbed
It's a wonderful life. But, I can see the similarities between all those movies. This is a "dark" reflection, if you will
I like this take
Ooh, this is intresting
Awesome observation. How did I not notice this, especially with the rabbit
It's a Wonderful Life...
I this we are so mesmerized by this movie is the fact that is so aware of its ideas but never actually tells you what they are. You are left to your own interpretation and your first time watching it is so amazing. Also characters are so well written. It seems to me that everyone in this is made to look archetipal in a very intentional way. It all ads to the feeling that there is so much more than what you can actually see.
This is one of those “timeless” films that can be rewatched in perpetuity and interpreted differently every time you see it. It CAN mean whatever you need it to at any given moment and I think that is what gives it the mystique it possesses. I remember watching it for the first time during my freshman semester at USF. I ditched my classes to spend an afternoon getting stoned and doing nothing. My girlfriend at the time came by with Donnie Darko and ever since I have tried to watch it at least once a year, only failing a handful of times over the past 20+ years. This is the type of film that film is meant to be! It’s not a low IQ grossly over budget CGI fest that was conceived, produced and marketed directly at slackjawed mouth breathers. It’s a low budget (at least by modern standards) “bare bones” delivery of a story that leaves enough ambiguity to entice the audience into deeper thought and it succeeded, at least it did if that was indeed the intention. There are so many other themes interwoven throughout the film that you’d likely need an entire series of feature length video essays to cover them all and even then, I can’t imagine you’d touch on all of them. Inevitably, hope, resignation, determination, love, sadness, loneliness, loss and on and on and on. That all ties into my opening sentence btw, depending on how YOU feel when you watch and what is weighing on you at that moment, you’ll obviously gravitate towards particular sequences in the film and interpret them in the context of your own experiences. Almost everyone has lost someone, had intimate feelings for another, experienced a myriad of difficulties, struggled to understand where they “fit” and/or, regardless of how fleetingly or frivolously, considered what the lives of those who populate our existence would be like without us in them. The film ends on redemption, which I believe is quite fitting, because we all have the capacity for redemption (and no, I don’t mean redemption in some warped religious sense or some grand fashion or whatever). I am merely saying, in the simplest sense, redemption in the form of acceptance. Realizing that there are many things in this universe we have no control over, accepting that concept and oneself is the truest form of redemption I can think of and I think that’s what the film points to as well. I apologize for the long ass comment, I just love this movie and I got carried away.
Absolutely love this movie! And love him or hate him - Jake G. Was perfect for this role.
Really, one of the best "cult films" of all time.
Good stuff, I was kinda hoping that you'd also talk about the infamously weird sequel, the 2009 *"S.Darko"* (that centers around Donnie's younger sister, )... when I bought the DVD of Donnie Darko (some French edition) the sequel was included as a bonus.
It kinda sucked, and Daveigh Chase is the only actress from the original to come back for part 2;
But strangely I've never seen anyone review it on youtube. It's kind of a weirdly obscure sequel to have for such a popular movie.
I never really thought about it back in the day but it's actually a deep mystical film. Not just some random weird for weirdness sake claptrap. Destiny is real and such a mysterious force, but, paradoxically, we can still change certain things in apparently fixed Fates. Good video.
Destiny has many paths. Our choices determine which one we follow.
Such an incredible movie! I plan to watch it tonight since both the theatrical and director's cut are still free on TH-cam
Well done video. I LOVED this movie as a teenager and 20 years later it is still awesome. Thanks for your breakdown of it
This is probably the film that resonates with me the most
How coincidental tho that you upload this after I just rewatched it lmao
In less than twenty minutes I was shown four mind-numbing ads.
I first saw this in High School back in 2004ish. It was the only movie i ever saw at school that actually left me in awe, and contemplating the meaning long after i viewed it. I eventually did a project on what i thought it meant. Def one of my all time favs. Great video.
This movie was so good it made me watch the sequel…
One of the best movies ever made
I wasn’t smart enough to crack the mysterious website for this movie, but I’m happy to see that I understood the movie itself.
It’s never going to be understood the way it was intended to be comprehended without watching the director’s cut. Without that, trying to understand the movie is an exercise in futility, but it’s fun to see people try.
I remember my brother coming home with this and Napoleon dynamite, both classics and dd will always be my fav movie
I've probably watched D.D. over 100 times.. and still counting.🤘
It's such a great movie that some of us have even sat through watching "S. Darko" 🤣
I like your interpretation of what the movie is about. It's my favorite so far.
Great movie! Loved this video. Keep up the good work!
One of my favorites of all time. Hist watched it the other day in my spooky house while it was raining outside.❤
I first started watching this, thinking, "Finally! Maybe someone can unravel this insane movie. And its lesser known sequel S. Darko..." boy, was I stupid.
Still... good job, Jo! Thumbs-up!
I fucking cannot get enough of this film
This was my coming of age movie... i was 14 when i watched for the first time and wow. I was blown away. I had never seen a movie actually capture the weird shit that happens in our lives that we dont tell anyone else. The stuff we see and dont say because we dont want to be labeled as crazy 😂
This and Jacob's Ladder!
The perfect age for
R/Im14andthisiddeep lol
But I love the movie too
You sound crazy
Awesome video and outro song 👌 i always felt drawn to this movie n when i watched it i watched it twice like u 😂
I really loved all the scenes with the Dad, and including the Deleted Scenes from the Theatrical cut, really great advice for the teen becoming an adult.
I think I was about 18 years old when I first saw this movie 20 years ago and all I can think was..."wtf did I just watch?" I didn't hate it but I didn't necessarily like it nor did I really understand what was going on. Probably didn't help that I was smoking a lot of pot back then but fast forward a few years later I'm a young adult and watch the director's cut of the film and really paid attention to what was going on. I enjoy a surrealistic weird movie and this is definitely at the top of that list. For anyone looking for a straightforward story you're going to hate it but anyone who's into the strange and unbelievable this is going to be a great movie to introduce them to.
I love this film. First time I saw it I was living in LA (where it was filmed) and recognized the street I walked to get to the grocery store. Trippy.
Nobody walks in LA
I still sometimes wonder how Richard never became a director in the category of Chris Nolan.
Fave movie. One thing that I always wondered was whether Swayze's Cunningham was actually a paedophile in the main universe or if it was just part of the tangent universe's manipulation as it was integral to the events at the end.
The predetermination suggests that every character in the tangent universe is little more than a puppet forced into acting in specific ways as every single interaction Donnie has with them leads him along a breadcrumb trail to the resolution.
With Cunningham his plotline results in the insurance to make sure Donnie makes the right decision. His downfall leads to the parents being away, letting Donnie have the halloween party where Gretchen gives him the ultimate motivation to save her & leads both of them to the finale whilst also placing his mother & younger sister on the plane.
This was great! Thanks again yt for randomly takin me to this place at 3:30am 😆
Why Donnie... he exposed the kiddie pervert in the time he was given... and so many other themes of justice or realisation, growth, love and connections.
Profound movie. I 've loved and watched it many times in many ways I have enjoyed it.
As a story.
A mystery.
A piece of art.
Ive commented before unpausing the video ahead.
Cant wait to see how you break it down as Ive watched your other content on it too, back when.
Perfect Halloween run up movie as it takes place at Halloween 🎃 👌 ❤
I was 30 when this film came out…. And I found it amazing.
Donnie's premonition causes the problem it warns about. If Donnie wasn't sleepwalking to have the dream warning about the end of the world he would have been in place and there wouldn't have been any issue.
Yeah, that's the one thing i'm still the most confused about. Why did Frank save Donnie, to begin with?
@@brandonpage7087 I was just thinking about that now and it’s kind of trippy that maybe it’s the fact that he already had an issue with sleepwalking and it ties back to the point where you see the streams coming out of his family’s chest and how it leads them on a predetermined path. maybe it’s not so much Frank leading him out of the house, but it’s Donnie himself doing something that wasn’t supposed to happen, causing Frank’s bunny forms existens. now Bunnymen Frank had to point out what will happen with the jet engine once they’re outside so he can sit him on a path to correct the issue.
I watched it during school study halls today, such a good movie
Wow, I’ve watched this so many times and never understood it or made any connections between the different elements. THANK YOU
The wedsite for the movie was also really good. It was a puzzle you had to solve to get more story. Worth showing in a video if its even possible to find it anywhere.
Did I win something?
I had to go pretty far into the comments to find someone talking about the website and that really surprises me!
It was the first thing I did after watching the movie and it really added to the experience.
❤ The website was awesome! You could go in a few years later and check to see what "day number" it was in the Tangential Universe" last I saw it was day "13,843" or something like...
Besides being amazingly directed and cast, the soundtrack is utter perfection.
My boyfriend and I have been watching mostly time travel movies recently. This movie was one of them. One of us brought up that in some time travel movies a character needs to die to make things right or break the loop. I said that Donnie Darko is one of those movies. And he said that it wasn't. I think I should send him this video but he probably doesn't remember that conversation.
❤ I've watched this movie over 300 times, between the theatrical release, the Director's Cut, and Samantha Darko, and still havent figured it all out, although I have...😂
It's one of the most amazing movies about life, death, love, hate, accidents and "on purposes". Of course I was in my late 30's when I watched it the first time, I still put it on once or twice a year to see if my future self has made "perfect sense" out of the movie yet...
Have fun!
Makes me want to watch it again , maybe again later .
I love this movie, I find something new every single time I watch it. It always makes me think x
Great video.
Thinking about the From the Future idea... That would make the chat with his cool Guy teacher Noah Wylie (?) when the teacher couldn't say anything else, that always annoyed me, but if the teacher was unknowingly following the directive of the Future to influence but never coerce... Neat idea.
I NEED MORE SOUTHLAND TALES!!! There was something so crazy, yet prescient about that film.
Superb video Kier, happy Halloween 🎃👻🦇
One of my top 20 favourite movies of all time 😊❤😊❤
I’ve probably seen this film 300 times. I never get tired of it
Just so you are aware - I have never watched this movie but due to your Vid I just bought a copy of this DVD - if, only, to watch the Directors explanation after I watch the movie.
One thing missed is how its his end, not the worlds end.
I only needed to see this movie one time to know it was one of my all time favorites. I was left speechless
I’ve watched the movie many many times and love it every time. This is the first discussion about it since right after watching it the first time that I learned something about it. I guess I knew all this but it didn’t “click”. Everything that Frank (and Donnie’s “spear”) told Donnie to do was to line things up so things happen as they needed to in order to close the tangent universe. If he didn’t flood the school, he wouldn’t have gotten together with Gretchen so he wouldn’t have wanted to kill Frank, which means Frank couldn’t be the manipulated dead to guide Donnie. If he wouldn’t have burnt Cunningham’s house down, Mrs Farmer wouldn’t have asked Donnie’s mother to fly with the dance team etc etc etc. Thanks for the education on a movie I didn’t think I could learn any more about!
Donnie Darko is one of my all time favorite movies!!
I'm 55, and i just watched it for the first time. And I'll watch it again eventually. Need to let the first view
"Soak in" for a bit. But..pretty much, I've never seen anything like it. I'll be looking up this Writer/Director. Extremely curious about his career, after this being his Directorial Debut. Extremely curious indeed.. nice job Jo. I want you to hit me,as hard as you can 😉
I had full chills when frank showed up after he ran over gretchen. It felt like a paradoxial mindxck. As if everything collapsed and donnie truly was alone at that point.
I never stop thinking about this movie. It keeps bringing up new storylines and dots to connect. I adore this movie. It also was my gateway movie into david lynch.
It brings up the question "at what point did the tangent universe start?"
Great vid guys.
Best film of all time
My brother got me to watch this when it came out. I was 20 and he simply told me "The movie is about you. Literally you in high school."
Hell, I even looked like Jake Gyllenhaal from the movie. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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@Joblo Im beginning to Doubt your commitment to sparkle motion...
i watched this movie for the first time like 2 days ago and i want to rewatch it again now knowing what happens at the end just to be able to experience it again
That's funny I had a young female English teacher recommend this movie to some of us movie nerds in her class lol
One of Jake Gyllenhaal's best films, it is overshadowed by "Nightcrawler". How he did not get best actor proves the accolades are contrived
"Source Code" was great! The end...
I remember when I was in HS (I’m 26 rn), my friend and I were looking for a movie to watch for movie night. We came across this movie, and we decided not to watch it because there was a stigma around it that it was so messed up/scary… I watched it for the first time last year and oh my, it is one of my favorite movies. I loved it so much more because I understood the message, and it’s such a beautiful story imo
He was supposed to die and instead survived and created a riff-hmmmmm, where else have we seen that
This movie is what set me off autopilot in middle school, and taught me into caring about knowledge, which is why i ended up getting a DD tattoo. All this time i always thought it was movie sorta explaining what deja vu could be. Mainly the ending made me think this, when everyone sorta knows something happened, seemed similar to them all having deja vu. That was just my take on it back in the day. Such a good film, i use to own S.Darko, idk what happened to the movie.
Awesome 😎 thanks brother!!🙏
My favorite hands down. Its free on TH-cam Movies and there is a director cut on YT also.
The mother and father were so amazing too
Damn the combo 1-2 at the end of the sappy "all the pain and darkness as a teenager made you who you are" then
"What's a fuckass"
Took me from sad reminiscence to a chortle.
This is probably the only movie that still phucks me up in so many ways! Because I still can’t Figure out what this movie is about.
Such great movie. I cant believe Swazy took on that role and played it so well.
This movie has always stayed with me. I love this movie, have no idea why, I just do