DONNIE DARKO: Is It Deep or Dumb? - Wisecrack Edition 

I always interpreted it as far less grand; "the end of the world" was just the end of Donnie's world, not everyone's. The rabbit saves him in order for him to live out the things he wants to do: understand the future, rebel in school, expose bad people, fall in love, etc. Once he's lived it all out and realized the impacts of being alive: mother and sister dying, gf dying, killing someone, he opts into dying himself but he's happy because he knows that everyone else is going to be okay.

One thing I noticed was that, as dismissive as Donnie is about the idea that fear and love are at the center of human emotion, fear and love are the key motivators in his journey. Donnie at first doesn't want to save the world because he is afraid of dying alone. And so, the tangent universe creates the perfect opportunity for him to fall in love. He's told to do things but is never told why, but here's why he did them. The tangent universe made him flood the school so that he could walk Jena Malone home and form a relationship and fall in love with her. He was then made to burn down the pedos house so his mom could be away from the house so he could throw the party, which lay the foundations for what would amount to Jena Malone's death. It's his love of her and realizing that he can save her that overpowers his fear of dying alone and encourages him to save the universe. The movie isn't about how he'll save the universe, but why he should

Donnie wasn’t laughing because he traveled, he was laughing because he finally understood it all and sometimes the only reaction to such things is to laugh. His laughing is him accepting that he is to die and how futile it was to be afraid of dying alone because now he understands you never really die alone. His laugh is at fate, he was laughing at it as he accepted it. He literally accepted death with a smile

"I'm afraid I can't continue this conversation" "Why not?" "I could lose my job" Gotta love that US education system.

I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion Wisecrack

Can we all agree on Jake's great acting?

That moment where Gretchen and donnies mother share a moment of deja vu, made me realize what deja vu really is.

"Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?" "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" "Frank. When's this gonna stop?" "You should already know that. " Just a couple of my faves. This movie is epic 😊🥰

One thing to note too that you're sort of picking up on but just wanted to add on to... Donnie Darko came out after the wave of teen-focused movies of the late 90s / early 2000s (She's All That, Can't Hardly Wait, 10 Things I Hate About You) and it completely flipped the whole thing over. Instead of high school being where you found your romance and identity, most of the students are confused, bullied, and feel outcast. The teachers aren't wise sages that know exactly how to interact with the kids in funny ways; they're frustrated, authoritarian, or constrained and rejected by the system. And in the end, Donnie's romantic interest isn't some wallflower waiting to bloom into the Prom Queen - it's a scared girl that also comes from a dysfunctional family and ends up dead. Even the protagonist isn't some quirky, perky, misunderstood kid who ends up being accepted by his peers, he's schizophrenic and possibly suffering from a massive breakdown. In case "Mad World" and the use of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" didn't translate it well enough.. Donnie Darko is the reminder that High School is Hell and then some.

Donnie darko is amazing You can't just group everything into two categories

I think it is a brilliant film drawing on a multitude of topics and is not meant to be deeply scientific. It is art. Created for the atmosphere. The feeling of being lost of things being overwhelmingly complex, not knowing what is the point in everything. Feeling like all the people around you are holding on to shallow, one-dimensional ideas of what is right or wrong or good and the wish to rebel, not really knowing how to make things better. It is art and it does a fantastic job of using all the assets of a movie to connect to a feeling that most people will recognise and understand on a very deep level.

Sure this will get buried, but I think the combination of theoretical physics and the mystical is intentional; in addition to side-stepping giving definitive answers that haven’t been scientifically established, it allows enough room for the viewer to fill in their own blanks, while establishing enough structure to foster our imaginations.

Donnie Darko is a reverse "It's A Wonderful Life”

I think Donnie sat on his bed and saw the future through the wormhole that was about to drop a jet engine on him and after considering that future he decided to stay and sacrifice himself for the benefit of everyone else

Well...what this movie meant to me was the idea that no matter how small or nonessential your existence is, it matters that you're alive. You would be miss. Your family, friends, peers, would feel the emptiness of the tiny, tiny spaces in their lives that you once filled.

“explain donnie darko” scientists: ummmm..... film critics: i dont know... bioshock infinite fans: hold my beer

I always read the movie as Donnie being stuck in an infinite loop. Him surviving the jet engine crash caused a paradox in which he was supposed to die, so he was stuck forever reliving those days. I think he’s aware of what’s happening and is struggling to find meaning in his existence and the movie itself is just a depiction of the final loop in which he finally found a reason for him to finally die like he should have. It’s like he knows he’s the one forcing these people to relive this days and everyone is like slightly subconsciously aware of it, as if the universe is trying to push him to fix itself. It’s more of like him knowing he has to die but not wanting to die without a purpose.

This movie is like a good poem. You can find yourself in it's meaning, and therefore you can shape the meaning by your own standards. It is beautiful :)

I remember seeing this for the first time when I won a ticket to a pre-release screening. Having heard nothing about the film, I went in with absolutely no expectations, and I loved it. As a teenage schoolboy at the time, I found the setting relatable, and I thought the soundtrack was fantastic. Most of all, though, it appealed because it was unlike any other film I had seen. It wasn't your typical Hollywood bullshit, with some hyper-masculine hero that always gets the girl. It was obscure and confusing, and to me, that made it honest.

Donnie Darko works as a film and that's all that is important, really. If you are looking for deeper explanations then that's on you and the director has put a shitload of information in a form of "viral" marketing, in the website, where we can learn about Roberta Sparrow and the other characters and understands the functions of his fictional universe. Here's how Donnie Darko works in the universe established by the director: Fourth dimensional anomalies are extremely rare. Something, or things, are performing an experiment and something they do backfires and causes a mistake, which results in an anomaly, an object ends up travelling through time from a rupture, the object is the plane turbine that would kill Donnie. Whether these superior things are aliens, god, gods, extradimensional beings or whatever is never explained, we only know their means of working through the book of Roberta Sparrow, where she describes how They fix things in case of such anomalous event. First and foremost, when the object travels through the rupture the beings pause that universe and create a secondary temporary universe called the "Tangent Universe" Everything we see in the movie from the point where Frank tells Donnie to wake up to the point he's back in his bed laughing and about to die is set in this Tangent Universe while the original universe is frozen in time. The solution to the rupture They created is that They need to send the object back again, but instead of going through a rupture it needs to go through a wormhole, as it is "an accepted path" by nature, and not an anomaly. If the object isn't sent back in 28 days, which is when the airplane will fall, then the original universe is going to destroy itself. Now, They know They have to send the object (which in Roberta Sparrow's book is called "The Artifact", which is usually the thing that caused the first error and it's usually made of metal), but They can't do it directly because They can't interact with our 3rd dimensional objects. So, the solution They work, and Roberta Sparrow has described in her book, is the following: - Make a Tangent Universe; -Select a living individual that was closely related to the event to become the Living Receiver. This person is chosen by Them as being Donnie, because he was the closest to the Turbine's anomaly location; -The Living Receiver will often have nightmares and visions of things and the process will cause great mental instability for him. He will also have superpowers that he isn't aware of while in the Tangent Universe, like super strength (which is how he gets a fire axe stuck in a solid bronze statue at school) and he also has control over some matter like water and metals, as these are necessary to create the wormhole (these aspects are hinted and mocked when Gretchen asks "Donnie Darko, is that like a superhero name?" and Donnie unkowingly replies "What makes you think that I'm not?", because in the end it is a superhero story about saving the universe with superpowers); -Everyone else in the Tangent Universe are called Manipulated Livings. They don't know but they will guide Donnie's actions to the point of sending the Artifact turbine through a wormhole by pretty much everything they say to him. The teacher talks about Cellar Door, which will make Donnie and his friends enter the cellar door at the last night, which will make them see the two bullies robbing the place and in the end will cause Gretchen's death. The books they talk about will shape Donnie's mind and the male teacher will tell him about the theory of time travel. The only Manipulated Living aware of it's job of guiding Donnie is Grandma Death, who somehow knows she'll eventually be selected as a manipulated living and knows she needs to go to check her mailbox to guide the Living Receiver, but she has no idea when this is going to happen so she goes insane by doing it all the time to make sure the Universe doesn't end. Eventually her going to the mailbox makes Frank almost hit her and dodge, but killing Gretchen in the process, which was as intended; -One person that will die during the events of the fixing will be selected to become the Manipulated Dead. The Manipulated Dead is much more special than the Manipulated Living, as he can travel through universes and he can guide Donnie directly. The selected person is Donnie's sister's boyfriend Frank. Frank tells Donnie to flood the school, which cancels class and makes Donnie meet Gretchen and walk her home. Frank tells Donnie to burn Jim Cunninghan's house so his pedo stash is found, which will put him in jail and will make Donnie's religious teacher have to stay in town to support him, so she can't fly with Sparkle Motion (Donnie's little sister's dancing group) to a talent show, which will make Donnie's mom take her place and take the kids, which will leave Donnie and his Sister free at home, so she can throw a party, so Donnie and Gretchen can have sex and strengthen their bond and so his sister's boyfriend Frank go get beers and on the way to their house dodge Grandma Death and kill Gretchen. Some people also think Gretchen is a more subtle Manipulated Dead, as she also will die in the events and is the main instigation to Donnie besides Frank; -By having the Manipulated Living and Dead guide everything Donnie ends up meeting Gretchen, falling in love, learning about Roberta Sparrow's book and slightly learning about his place in all this, learning about theory of time travel, learning philosophical thoughts such as the thought of the inevitability of dying alone, having Gretchen die and then, so he can save her, tore the engine from the plane and use the metal and water to make a Wormhole, send the engine through it and fix the universe; -Once he does that the Tangent Universe ends, everything goes back to the Original Universe, where things were paused. Donnie is on his bed and is laughing, perhaps because he knows what he has accomplished. He knows he'll fall asleep because that night his mom made him feel guilty for not taking his insomnia medicine, so this night he took them. He knows this time Frank is not going to wake him up to save his life. But he still does it anyway. Perhaps out of fear that if he leaves the bed and survives he might end up hurting Gretchen somehow. Perhaps he thinks this is "God's intended path" that They set for him. Whatever the reason is he decides to sleep and dies; -Everyone else will still get feelings about things that happened in the Tangent Universe and things that they have done in ti and will forever remember, thus making sure their lives will forever be affected by Donnie's actions. The end. That's the actual explanation for Donnie Darko from the Director's perspective. Take it for what it is, some people hate it because it's much more sci-fi and far fetched than they'd like a little suburban noir movie to be, while others can appreciate it for that. There is no schizophrenia, even though Donnie is a mentally unstable teenager all of the events seen in the movie did in fact happen.

'Destruction is a form of creation'. This Graham Greene quote, and indeed the whole message of The Destructors is the point of the film. The whole plot is pointless, and that's the point; it's all destroyed in the end. The entire movie we've watched no longer exists after Donnie is killed by the jet engine. But the movie we've watched was still enthralling and beautiful, despite not being the typical hero's journey - despite it being destroyed, rather than created. Humans naturally attribute meaning to everything, which is why Donnie Darko is so prodigious - we so desperately struggle to apply meaning to the meaningless that we find meaning where there is none (irony).

I feel like - for a movie which makes a point of the lead character either taking or neglecting to take high doses of medication, and includes therapy sessions as a key plot arch - you're trying to analyse the wrong element of the movie. What does the film say about a lead character going through a manic episode, coping with schizophrenia, or just generally interacting with the world through the lens of psychosis? That pretty heavily effects the philosophy of the movie. How much of it is entirely real? How much of it is partially coloured by the lead characters psychosis? We definitely see the film through his eyes. I think this becomes an even clearer tangent in the director's cut.

Step by step guide to understanding Donnie Darko: Step 1: Consume psychedelic mushrooms Step 2: Yup

I’m in LOVE with this movie. For the past 5 years, I’ve watching this movie everyday on my birthday as a tradition. Idk what it is, but this movie never fails to leave me feel kinda fulfilled ❤️

All around me are familiar faces

I don't know if it was deep or dumb, but it was a great film. In addition to the very theme of it, the dialogue was great.

This is one of my all-time favorite films. I see it as a time-travel film, more an end of Donnie's world rather than the end of all things. I love the fact that no matter how many times I watch it, I see something new. Great acting, great story that makes you scratch your head.

he used the tornado at the end to time travel back AND summon the engine. Sparrow's book described that rapid velocity was needed to create a wormhole, thus the tornado worked. A tornado was also perfect because water was a necessary element

Jared 2024 Channel your middle-class edge lord angst.

I'm voting for Dukakis.

Great video. The ending of the movie is especially important because everyone still remembers the events of the tangent universe. By reversing time, Donnie made them aware of what was wrong in their lives, and gave them a second chance to change.

Love this video, loved the movie. Donnie Darko is at it's core, both a great science fiction story and period critique on American upper-middle class suburban values. Duality is a key theme that plays throughout the entire film. The main story and subplot are both parallel and intertwine to the point where it is difficult to tell which is the actually main story and which the subplot. Like Schrödinger's cat, it appears different to each viewer, which is the beauty of the film. The main character, Donnie is both, a terribly confused schizophrenic teenager with delusions of grandeur, and an accidental time traveler who can observe and interact with parallel universes. The other characters in the film view his differently as well. Some see him as brilliant but deeply troubled, others treat him as an undisciplined smart aleck in need of control. Science fiction is undercut with fantastical mysticism as Donnie seeks make sense of what he sees, and to find truth from those who surround him in a polarized suburbia. Whether it a movie about an mentally ill teenager with a god complex, or a mystical time travel paradox story, depends on the viewer.

When I saw this movie when it came out in theater, I thought it was about Donnie being in a sort of limbo when he was killed and then he accepted his death.

Can you do a Mr nobody video

It would have been great if you mentioned the Manipulated Dead and Manipulated Living, they push Donnie to his 'destiny'. He is terrified of sacrificing himself and dying alone, so the world is then 'manipulated' so that he falls in love with Gretchen. Thus is able to overcome fear due to his love, he would sacrifice himself to create a world where Gretchen is alive. This is also referenced in a strange way by "Cellar Door " being the most beautiful word, it's the last place he sees Gretchen alive, and it's the moment that will push him to overcome fears of dying alone, and do a sacrificial act of 'love' that you could see as the most 'beautiful' thing.

One night in my early 20's during that fake insomnia phase some go through. I wanted to sleep and decided to put on Donnie Darko cus yeah I'm bored and this slow paced movie should put me to sleep. I jumped out of bed pissed as the credits rolled....I had watched the entire thing straight through...thanks for reminded me of that night.

The first time I saw it the ending fuuuucked me up.

fools! There are only two universes our universe and cowboy universe.

This is my favorite movie of all time.

My favourite movie is Donnie Darko. My favourite game is NieR:Automata. Only now do I see the obvious connection of loops, purpose and creation through destruction...

When I watched this (the theatrical release) as a teenager I interpreted the moral question of the film being "what would you do if given an impossible choice," hindging on the phrase "you can see the future and make choices if you follow God's channel." What the film came to mean for me is that the first night Donnie wakes up from the dream he has a prophetic vision of the future as it will play out "Gretchen dies, Frank dies, and Donnie's mom and sister die." The impossible choice comes at the end of the film when Donnie realizes that these are the events that will play out, unless he chooses to let himself die in bed the night of the vision. If he follows Frank and the vision of God's channel he knows the future but cant change it and lives but loses many loved ones, if he accepts the option of never waking up from the dream to follow Frank he dies, but his death is a sacrifice which saves those he loves. Donnies choice of sacrifice is complemented with Gretchen's words "What if you could go back in time, and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?" I never knew how deep the philosophy and science behind the film as revealed in this video, however I always thought of it more as an emotional drama than a think piece, and Donnie being offered the choice to change the future and save lives by sacrificing himself resonates with some deep ideals.

20 years? Damn! I feel old.....older.

Donnie Darko is like "The Catcher in the Rye" of movies, in that it just hits different when you consume it as a kid/teen.

I like this movie because it gives a profound explanation for the cause of dreams and deja vu. The whole movie is like a collective dream, where each character had a small perspective in it and each woke up from the dream/nightmare at the end with something to take away from it. It's like our brains construct entire alternate universes where which we all experience a tiny slice, and deja vu is our awake states momentarily collapsing in on itself because our brain already experienced this possibility sometime before.

I always thought it was a movie of someone's life passing before their eyes and choosing death in the end...

Is it possible to be deeply dumb or dumbly deep?

Really interesting commentary on this movie,it's my favorite movie of all time I've been trying to get my mind around the themes of flim for a quite while and it's been really difficult to unpack. Great work at digging into this cult classic Jared and the wisecrack team! Keep 'em coming!

Donnie Darko is probably the most unique and beautiful film I have ever seen. Parts of it leave me teary eyed. The music and journey are so dark and beautiful. Donnie Darko is definitely one of my top 3 (if not number 1) favorite films ever made.

12:21 "if you're thinking we're reaching here, physicist Kurt Gurdel PROVED that HYPOTHETICALLY..." that statement is ridiculously worded.

You: possibly deep stuff. Me: He never left the house in the first place, he died at the start of the film and everything else was a form of "your life flashing before your eyes." Subconsciously, his mind new he was dead and how long it would opperate for and constructed everything to pad out the running time, as it were.

Donnie Darko is a triumph of telling the Heroes Journey....Donnie's inner struggle with apathy, despair, spite, angst, and fear of death into a story of hope, inspiration, selflessness, and a willingness to die to save others. Its a very tragic and bitter tale in and of itself but its a very heartfelt message to live for the ones around you and not just for yourself. What most see as a depressing movie i see as a selfless hero rising to the challenge to die to save the ones he used to hate. It goes from a Heroes Journey to a Heroes Sacrifice....and nobody will ever know of his suffering or pain to get to that point of laying in that bed waiting for death.

I love when Donny asks frank; Why are you always wearing that stupid bunny suit? and he says: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit? this movie lets you think about life and death, that we are just traveling in vessels true time. and about the choices you make and consequences.

*Okay but the director's cut doesn't include the song, The Killing Moon, in the intro for some reason despite it being the best song in the movie.*

If you like Donnie Darko check out a movie called "John Dies at the End"

I was 16 in '88, so it was very authentic to the time, and people seem nostalgic for tge 80s even if they didnt live through them. My experienxe was something between Donnie Darko and Repo Man. Another great movie with a time machine and awesome soundtrack.

Idk you mentioned what I took from it but only lighty talked about it. You stated that it has all the pieces to make it philosophical but doesn't decide to make the connections. it's meant to be almost like a picture taken in the dark. There may be some outlines and shadows but it's really up to you to state what you see in the image.

I think y’all should call this segment “Depth Perception”

It is just a beautiful, poetic film. The beauty lies in the complexity, realism, and metaphor of the story's universe.

I think the whole thing is about a person coming to terms with the fact that he is going to have to die to save everyone, and not knowing what is going to happen after death, but knowing that death is coming is a very scary thing. Donnie knows he has to die and starts to understand early in the movie but the whole thing is him coming to terms with that world ending count is really the world ending for him.

I honestly thought that it was a lot simpler than that. I believed that sure a lot of weird crap happened but I think that it was actually him going through purgatory and he accepts his death when he travels back in time and is killed.

It's both. But it's acceptible because the movie feels like an art student project. The same movie with a Michael Bay budget would come off as way worse.

Such a great movie and a really interesting approach to interpret the plot! Please keep making videos like this.

Usually I don't comment but that part about particle superposition bummed me out a little bit. I think you guys should be more explicit of what means to observe a particle, explaining that this means to measure the particle and that implies interfering physically on it. I'm saying this because there was an infamous film called "what the bleep we know" which explained the superposition collapse with an eye looking into the particle and THAT being the factor that changed the experiment result, which kinda gave the ideia that what changed the behavior was a sentient being looking into the electron, not the interaction of the measuring equipment. Anyway, love you guys, just becareful as quantum physics is already easily food for mysticism.

"Parallel universes aren't going to collapse into each other" *Doctor Doom:* Hold my beer, FOOL!

I like the fact that I don’t understand it at all! That’s what makes it fascinating! No matter how many times I watch Danny Darko I still love it when I still find things in it that make me laugh and sometimes make me cry! So thank you that was a really riveting explanation of absolutely nothing! So yeah I’m subscribing to your channel right now!

Dude, you pull off narration better than other stuff I've seen lately! Of course, everyone has got to try their hand - if you want to have a RU-vid Channel that people will follow, but, it is interesting over who pulls it off, and who doesn't. It isn't often just excellent script-writing - which many good channels survive by - it's something more intangible than 'Ego,' or, wanting more to present an idea correctly, rather than working too hard on the presence of your photogenic impression! People are judging your nature - more than visual stunts - that, in and of themselves, often come off inauthentic. It's a fine line you have crossed, successfully - being you are pushing 3 million subscribers. Congrats on the journey - it's a longer haul than anyone can imagine when they first pop their head out of the rabbit-hole!

I thought it was deep, until I listened to the director's commentary. When you hear what he intended this movie to communicate, you'll like the movie less. For instance, did you realize he gets superpowers from water? I didn't either.

It would be great to see a philosophy of "Sorry to Bother you" just watched the movie and there is so much meaning in it i dont even know where to start its crazy weird but i love it

This movie was one of the key factors of me wanting to be a movie critic, and seeing EVERY single movie on release for almost 10 years straight. FYI have not become a movie critic, but learned A LOT about movies. Including sound mixture, editing, cuts, lighting, directing etc. And this movie.... always hit me as an juxtaposition of everything. I loved it. It was a huge testament to self-sacrifice and selfishness. The director and actor in the director's commentary literally said they don't know what they made. But all the technical elements of this movie, sincerely, were prefect.

props to you for rocking the weird theater kid haircut late into you 30's

I like this movie more when it isn’t being explained 😂

The movie that started my DVD/Blu-ray collection

When things observed though they do, indeed, collapse into something definite. When we define things in our mind literally, change the way it will play out. What we notice tends to change how things play out. Its so impossible to explain but what we pay attention, determines our journey on earth.

First time post, long time fan of wisecrack. Donnie Darko has been my favorite film since I had viewed it in its original years. Over the years I have analyzed one of the most important plot element (aside from escapism) is Donnie Darko as the unexpected “hero”. The reference to the hero’s journey is made on Donnie’s whole experience through the film. Examples like; -Leaving home to unexpected call to adventure. (Sleep walking) -The travel to a “new” or “other” realm/world -Lessons from the master(s); ie, Frank, his teachers, Roberta Sparrow. - The “return” journey, that is literally aforementioned in the end. .. and not to mention the ultimate hero reference he gets from Gretchen in the tangible universe. On top of the philosophy, science theories, and suburbia escapism; it all revolves around “our hero” Donnie Darko.

The movie was about self-sacrifice.

This has been one of my favorite movies (Emphatic note: Not the Director's Cut) since high school. It's definitively both dumb and deep. It's also open-ended enough to let the audience have a say in the ultimate meaning. There's also just enough memorable scenes, charismatic (and creepy) performances, and great music to watch it even if you think it's dumb.

Donnie Darko is the first movie that I ever picked apart and REALLY tried to figure out back when I saw it for the first time when I was like 15. It also caused me to appreciate independent cinema. I love everything about it. The dark/creepy vibe, the music, great performances, and, of course, Patrick Swayze. When I watch it now, I still get the same feelings that I did when I first saw it. It might not make a whole lot of sense, but it's got a special place in my heart and is definitely one of my all-time favourite movies.

One thing that's so great about the film is that as confusing and hard to discern as it is, it is never boring and maintains the appearance of being extremely deep whether it is or not. The acting, music, mythos, and cultural commentary all culminate into a unique experience that sticks with the viewers.

Philosophers using quantum to explain stuff often goes awry. This is no exception.

The reason I love the film is because I find Donnie to be highly relatable, he doesn’t just sit back and let the world dictate itself to him, he challenges the preconceived notions of society and grows through it.

When i was younger i used to feel something akin to the worm things that pop out of donnie and his dad leading them to the direction they were going. Idk it was weird they used to fluctuate and stuff, they would be attached to everyone aroumd me, and i lay/sit there just watching it. Not saying it means anything but when i 1st watch this movie i got a big hit of nostalgia of those moments.

I love how these guys explain time travel for endgame in this video.

I thought the point of donnie darko is choice. At every turn he is given an option. Choice is what collpses the world line into something he can observe, and change. The ending is his acceptance of his own death, choosing to die so others can live. It works into the conservative criticism, the christ allegories, and the pseudo-understanding of quantum mechanics the movie shows.

I always thought the whole thing was from Donnie's perspective as a schizophrenic.

Wow, this movie has had a profound impact on my both from the perspective of film as well as physics. There were so many things to connect to particularly since I was a college student when it came out and was dealing with challenging my world view in a profound way. This video just threw me down the rabbit hole further particularly with regards to its commentary on the middle class. Damn, you have just given me a whole new deep reason to love this movie as well as a richer understanding of my own existence; THANK YOU! Keep up the awesome work, cheers!

wow, i've never paid attention to that part of the movie, i was too busy trying to understand how all the time travel jizz works

The way I always understood it us the engine that fell through the roof was from the plane his mother and sister were on that went down. Throughout the movie they make several references to how no one knows where the engine came from that's why the officials started an investigation , the only times it's mentioned is in the background like on the TV or conversations background characters have. Donnie never talks about it outright. When the time hole opens under the plane the engine falls through, suggesting to me that it is the engine. I didn't think Donnie travelled through time but instead saw a glimpse of the universe and timeline that it came from. Then again I've not seen the directors cut😁

I especially enjoyed how they represent the focus of will power in this movie. A silverish splash of water, free floating like a cloud emanating from his chest.

Great camera work and soundtrack helped too

I'd love to see earthling cinema for Donnie Darko 👀

I watch this movie on acid and it made complete sense

You made me like this movie more. I never paid attention to the sci-fi aspects of it TOO much... I think it was just a means to an end. Like you said, it's all about the FANTASTIC characters.

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

Helga: 28 days...6 hours...42 minutes...And 12 seconds before you *DIIIIEEEEE!*

I always thought one of the main themes was the interaction between love and fear. Cunningham tries to make them seem entirely separate. However, Donnie’s girlfriend seems to most strongly love him when she’s afraid, e.g. having sex with him when her mum goes missing. For Donnie, the two emotions are interwoven.

I question your commitment to Sparkle Motion. kidding,great content.

Some things I think were missed: 1. His girlfriend mentions if he thinks a hes a superhero. He jokes and says you think I'm not? a. Fire power burns pedo house. b. Super strentgth takes an axe to a statue. c. Water power floods the school. d. Time travel.

Just explain everything in terms of Mario Kart and I’ll be able to understand it. Great vid.

Jokes on you, I have *lower* class edgelord angst

Didn’t watch the video but immediately thought of the fear/love scene upon reading the thumbnail. Sparklemotion. Forever. 🤘