Donnie Darko's Most Confusing Moments Explained



When compared to time travel and the concept of free will, the giant, humanoid rabbit in Donnie Darko is one of the film’s more straightforward plot points.

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The Philosophy of Time Travel | 0:00
The origin of Frank | 1:36
A form of creation | 2:35
Fear and love | 3:50
Dying alone | 4:51
A vector in spacetime | 6:04
Deus ex cellar door | 7:03
Sparkle Motion on Star Search | 8:00
Donnie’s letter to Roberta Sparrow | 8:52
Donnie on the hillside | 10:06
Trouble sleeping and the wave | 10:54

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26 thoughts on “Donnie Darko's Most Confusing Moments Explained”

  1. Another thing people overlook is that the film takes place over Halloween which is Scorpio season, Scorpio is all about bringing darkness to light in a Jungian sort of way. This explains why the characters wake up from their nightmares at the end of the film in which their shadow side is dealt with by their subconscious. The suggestion is that these dreams are actually real events taking place in a parallel universe.

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  2. I've got franks mask tattooed on my arm and it still looks fucking awesome, still have the occasional person pointing to it and asking "Is that Donnie Darko?" though

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  3. My #1 favourite movie of all time. Beautiful, dark, and more than slightly unsettling. If you can still find a copy of the book Richard Kelly put out explaining The Tangent Universe, it really helps to understand the film. One of the greatest sci-fi/horror films ever made.

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  4. Tinges of 'The Terminator', 12 Monkeys, and Groundhog Day. And if Frank is an OG '80s goth furry, I'm cool with that.
    4:18 One could say that she had a love of money or a fear of not having enough resources, but Donnie's response is perfect. }:-D
    8:09 Since this is 1988, they should be showing Evil Dead 2 (which came out in 1987).

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  5. Im so confused. On one side there is the bland 90's techno music and a narrator talking like a WWE-commentator campaigning for american freedom. On the other side, this is very well written for a video of this length, and some of Donnie Darko's deeper themes are actually explored in an interesting way. This is cultural HDR.

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  6. The most confusing thing about the movie is how anyone allowed Richard Kelly’s Directors cut to be released as it takes a great mystery of a movie and turns it into a stinking pile of πŸ’©

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  7. Could someone answer this for me? If the tangent universe was created because the duplicate jet engine was accidentally created via a glitch in the 4th dimension, why does it fix everything to transport the jet engine to the primary universe? That airplane is probably flying somewhere or parked at some airport on October 2, so wouldn't pulling in a jet engine from October 31st result in the same problem of there being a duplicate engine? Only now it's in the primary universe instead of the tangent universe. Why does this fix the paradox?

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