03-14-2005, 01:37 PM
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stc is the greatest
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Originally Posted by Deepai
Not to be an asshole, but since you caught it all the first time, I'd like to hear exactly what the movie is about?
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to avoid spoiling it for the others, just drag your mouse over the area below and reveal my SEKRET MESEGE:
basically, as far as i saw it, this movie was about one's true destiny and the illusion of choice among the myriad of little maxims, subplots, and morals. the "end of the world" as it pertained to donnie was merely him realizing that if his path were to have deviated from him dying the night the jet engine came falling through the sky, many people would have been affected - he would have found true love, etc. etc. when he and the teacher are discussing the actual visual representations of "destiny" - those watery tube things, the question is posed that if one could see their own future, they could potentially change it. however, donnie admittedly followed the path up to his parents' bedroom after seeing it happen, then later in the movie at the halloween party, suggesting to me that knowing the future does not change it, part of "God's design" or groove or whatever the fuck donnie referred to it as. after living his life past his predestined point and watching those he loved and those around him fall - some victims to death - he understands the finality of what grandma death was trying to say: in the end, everyone does die alone, but it's because they have to face death alone. it shouldn't be feared because it is inevitable.
that said, the movie itself was a little too predictable, but i'm usually pretty good at that kind of stuff. within the first quarter of the movie, i realized where the final date would end up, and i put frank as someone donnie would inevitably meet in a halloween costume. when his mother was forced to go to LA on the plane to star search, it hit me then that the mysterious engine probably came from that plane, as these time travel plots always contain some sort of paradoxial bullshit.
again - the movie has its deep moments, yes, and i could argue the movie, but it didn't really break new ground or anything as far as im concerned.
my moral: watch 12 monkeys or memento that shit is hype |
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