To understand the logical structure of the story of this movie, it is indispensable to interpret the "Time Travel Upanishad". The rationality of the entire event is based on this book. The first thing to understand is that the content of this book is edited by the director. It is not the truth for our real life, but for what happens in the movie, it is the rule and the truth. Secondly, we need to understand certain popular science knowledge, such as scientific terms such as "four dimensions", "time and space", "universe" and "wormhole". Although the books in movies are only used in movies, the knowledge in our real life is completely usable. For a better understanding of movies.
Let me first talk about the scientific knowledge in reality in order to better understand the Upanishads of Time Travel in the movie. List a few scientific knowledge that I think are more important, because these points are likely to be obstacles to everyone's understanding or places that need to be understood and emphasized. The other simple and easy-to-understand ones will not be repeated:
1. Four-dimensional space-time is three-dimensional space plus one-dimensional time. What Einstein said was adding a time axis to a three-dimensional space. (From Einstein’s general theory of relativity, we can understand and extend many references to movies. For example, the composition of a world must meet two conditions: space and time. If either of these two does not exist, then this The world is meaningless, which means that the world does not exist.)
2. Flection timespace: Einstein’s general theory of relativity believes that space and time will be bent due to the existence of matter, but the gravitational field is actually It is a curved time and space. (The original universe mentioned in the book is the time and space of the earth where human beings live. Since the time and space where the earth is has the three elements of time, space and matter, it is a curved time and space.)
3. Wormhole, also known as love The Instein-Rosen Bridge is a narrow tunnel connecting two different time and space that may exist in the universe. Through the wormhole, you can do instant space transfer or time travel.
After analyzing these basic knowledge in real life, let's take a look at the Upanishad Book of Time Travel. According to the Upanishad Book of Time and Space Travel, it can be seen that the development of things in the original universe is full of unknowableness; the creation of the offline universe is due to the penetration of the fourth dimension of the original universe (please note here) , The fourth dimension is time); since the original universe and the offline universe share the same time axis, once the offline universe is generated, all operations of the original universe will stop; the holy thing is an unreasonable existence in the original universe Things, usually iron-attribute things, the appearance of holy objects is the first sign of offline universe; all operations in offline universe are carried out in an organized and regular manner (from the expression of the film, it can be brief Call it: the operation of the offline universe is controlled by gods according to the law. As for the nature of the gods, we will discuss below), but the offline universe itself is extremely unstable and can only last for a few weeks; once the offline universe collapses, the resulting black holes will be Destroy everything that exists.
Analyze from the film: At the beginning of the film, people and the things that operate are in the original universe. Everything is unknowable. There are disasters, crises, survival and death, but it should be noted that it has a causal logical relationship and exists. Everything is reasonable (imagine the earth in real life to understand). Until the engine that crashed into D’s house that night appeared, because the engine was for no reason (the FAA could not find it, it is not part of any known flying object), so it can be known that the engine is a sacred object (or It is said that there are holy objects hidden in the engine, and the engine is a container for holy objects~[because when the engine was filmed in the film, a close-up was given to the thing in the center of the engine that I don’t know what it is, plus the book said "iron is a structure The transfer element of the sacred object", so it is very likely that that is the so-called sacred object. The engine is only a container, but the unreasonable engine proves the existence of the sacred object. This is beyond doubt]. But for the sake of expressing, I will treat the engine as the holy object.物). The appearance of sacred objects means that the offline universe has been produced, so it can be determined that the next series of events are all in the offline universe. But it should be noted that the operation of things in the original universe stopped, possibly at the moment when the engine appeared, and the operation of things continued in the offline universe after the original thing. Because it is known from the content of the book that things do not stop when they stop in the original universe. Time has been penetrated and deviated from the original orbit, so things proceed in the offline universe. That is to say, the engine is the same engine. It happened in the original universe. The original universe was still, and it continued to fall in the offline universe. Donnie was summoned by the bunny Frank and escaped, and the engine smashed into Donnie's room. Since the following are all in the offline universe, a series of strange things can be understood and smoothed. It can also be summarized that the machine of God manipulates all of these to guide D to return the holy thing to the original universe. After understanding such a general structure, let's discuss it in detail:
PART1. Sub-discussion:
[The original universe is consistent with the earth environment in our real life, so it is full of unknowability. Tangent Universe (Tangent Universe) Everything is arranged by God and operates according to certain rules. ] This is a very important comparative conclusion, which is not clear in the books, and it is hidden from the perspective of the film as a whole. Let me first talk about the rationality of the fateful arrangement of this offline universe: from the various descriptions in The Upanishads of Time and Space Travel, we can find that the offline universe regulates the operation of things according to the rules of this book, and what happens in the offline universe in the film is in accordance with our normal It is very strange to think about it. For example, Donnie’s family’s tolerance for D, D’s support for D, Frank’s help from the bunny, Gretchen Rose’s unprovoked praise of D’s weirdness when D said he wanted her to be a girlfriend A promise... these are all difficult to explain from the perspective of the earth world (PART3 will elaborate on the arranged system), and Donnie's own powerful ability is finally used to send back the engine, these signs All show that everything in the offline universe is governed and arranged, and the purpose of this arrangement is to allow the living receiver to return the holy objects. A closer look at the "dream" chapter in the book shows that what happens in the offline universe is like a dream. You can’t prove its authenticity, but it arranges for all of this to happen in the dream. At the end, the sentence “The Lord says Everything has a reason" is also obvious (God is indeed mentioned in the movie. In the movie version, the dead control body Frank said when he first appeared to Donnie, "I've been watching you... God loves his children. God loves you. "It's more obvious that all of this is planned. The DVD editing version removed the latter part of God. It is said that the director was to avoid religious colors. From this, it is speculated that the director originally said explicitly to make everyone. A better understanding of the destiny in the dark, but later cut it out probably to allow everyone to figure out that destiny, and at the same time it is more inclined to science. Of course, if you feel that this is not accurate, you can think of it as "God." It is a hypothetical existence, which embodies a virtual set of systems). In other words, if all of this is arranged by God, then all of this is very fluent and explainable; on the contrary, if it is not arranged, there is no such thing. A hidden definition, then everything abnormal in the movie is meaningless. Let’s look at the original universe: Since the movie itself is not a pure science fiction film or a psychological film or sth, it cannot be viewed with a single logic of thinking ( Pure sci-fi movies just follow what sci-fi says they do. There is no need for scrutiny. Pure psychological movies try to figure out the role from the perspective of psychological analysis), so we might as well regard the life of the original universe as the concept of our real life. That is to say, when the characters and events in the film are in the original universe, we use the same set of our earthly people to understand, so the original universe is full of unknowability; and when things in the film are in the offline universe, Just follow the "Time and Space Travel Upanishad Book" to understand (this book reflects a lot of arrangements), so that it will not feel so confusing. After the division is clear, the death of the hero Donnie can be better analyzed (see below ).
The operation of things in the original universe ceased, and the operation of things continued in the offline universe. How to understand this: According to the
Upanishads, when the offline universe appears, people near the space-time vortex will be at the epicenter of this dangerous new world. The people near the space-time vortex are the people in Middlesex town where Donnie is. When the offline universe appears, they will continue to operate in the offline universe from the point of operation in the original universe. The difference is that the operation of the original universe is unknowable. The operations in the offline universe are all arranged by God. The main purpose of God arranging the operation of things is to allow the living recipient Donnie to return the holy relics to the original universe. Therefore, God does not need to manipulate everything to change all situations. God only needs to ensure that everything does not interfere with the achievement of the goal. Arrange some things, that is, change individual characters in individual situations. The so-called regular arrangement and operation can be understood as God cannot violate this law and cannot violate the ultimate goal, and God can only arrange according to the law. Therefore, things can continue to occur in the offline universe at the original breakpoint in the original universe.
How should the gods in the offline universe understand? ——I think there is not much religious color, and it can even be said that the director deliberately avoided the religious meaning (the director deleted the religious hints when editing the DVD version), but it was just right to induce the audience to be religious. Understanding (what you think about it, it depends on each person, you will find a point of relief, and release your inner feelings emotionally). I think from the overall grasp of the film, the gods in the offline universe are scientific (just like the book is the truth in the offline universe in the movie). My understanding is: Suppose a group of creatures live in a three-dimensional space-time, and humans exist as creatures in a four-dimensional space-time. Assuming that people can see the operation of the three-dimensional space-time creatures, then as long as people do a little bit about it and its environment, it can be It influences its actions and even its entire life to a considerable extent. Specifically, flat people in three-dimensional space-time have only XY space dimensions, while humans have XYZ space dimensions. People can manipulate them at the four corners that flat people can’t see. For example, people can draw a circle in the position of flat people. Circle it, then he will be trapped. For the flat people, the people in the four-dimensional space-time are the gods they think. (This hypothetical theory should have appeared in physics textbooks and the like). Therefore, relative to the people of four-dimensional space-time, the species of high-dimensional space-time is the so-called god of mankind, and he can easily control human beings just like humans left and right flat people. This kind of scientific explanation is just as plausible if it goes out of the movie and is paid to reality. Can't help but admire the director's brilliance! It really comes from life and is higher than life.
In the offline universe, who are the key figures arranged by God that correspond to the books? ——
1. The living recipient is the selected guide who is responsible for placing the holy objects in a position to return to the original universe. The book says that the living recipient was selected for no reason, so there is no need to explain. According to the movie, it is obvious that the living recipient is Donnie. Another point is that because the living recipient has superpowers and strong ideas, D is the most capable and self-aware person in the entire offline universe, so he can only be guided without being manipulated.
2. The living body is usually the friends/neighbors around the living recipient. The most typical in the living control body should be the promiscuity.
3. The dead control experience sets up guiding traps to trigger the living recipients to safely send the holy objects back to the universe. The death controller is more powerful than the living receiver. If a person dies in the offline universe, he will contact the living recipient through the fourth-dimensional channel. The dead controller arranged in the film is obviously Frank the bunny, and most of the will of God is guided by him. And at the end, you will find that Gretchen Ross is also the dead control body. The two most important death controllers have something in common: they assisted Donnie all the way to complete the will of God, and later died in the offline universe, while in the original universe, the two had nothing to do with Donnie (or even don't know). In addition, what is more vague is whether the Donnie family is a dead controller. I think it can be regarded as a dead controller, because Donnie’s mother and the others took the plane back from the game and happened to be offline when the universe was unstable. The abnormal celestial phenomenon caused the plane to crash. In almost all cases, they are dead, so they can be regarded as dead controllers, and their conflicts with Donnie in the offline universe are much less than in the original universe. They even support D. These are all in line with dead controllers helping the living body to receive The nature of the person. And one thing to add is that many people are confused about when the death controller will die. My understanding is that the death controller is determined to die from the beginning. As for when they are scheduled to die, it doesn’t matter, sure. With this, I won’t be confused about verifying what is said to be dead at the beginning and die again at the end.
4. Living bodies are people who have fallen into this vortex epicenter and have not been manipulated by strong arrangements, but it does not mean that they have not been arranged. They are just arranged to develop on their own in accordance with the logic of the original universe without interfering with the purpose of return. It will still be specially arranged. The book says that "living bodies will take back the holy objects out of curiosity", which reflects this. For example, the space agency FAA took back the engine, that is, the holy objects. I believe that in the later part of Donnie’s return to the engine, it was arranged that Donnie could get the engine (this part of the return part was not photographed. It is an excellent design which shows that this part is also easy to arrange, so there is no need for more. Shoot, and save costs). And for example, an Asian girl, as a living body, she was not arranged to do anything, she followed her own consciousness, and she never disturbed the action of returning the engine.
After God guides Donnie through various arrangements to return the holy artifacts to the original universe, will it be possible to ensure that the world will be saved? --uncertain. God can only arrange what happens in the offline universe, and cannot ensure that the original universe full of unknowns will be saved. But precisely because of the unknowability of the original universe, there is a probability that it will be saved. Therefore, once the offline universe appears, the machine of God will arrange the holy relics to return to the original universe. In other words, after God guides D to return the engine to the original universe, if the engine exists reasonably (for example, there was a plane crash and the engine fell to the location of Donnie's room), then things will be in the original universe Continue to operate, the time axis will be pulled back to determine the orbit, and the offline universe will no longer exist; and if the engine is returned and it is unreasonable, then things will continue to operate in the offline universe from the moment the engine drops. , Which is the so-called loop.
Is the operation of the matter circulating? ——Judging from all the signs in the film, the period from the engine crashing in Donnie's room to the last Donnie sending the engine back to the original universe is indeed a loop. The cycle occurs because after the engine is sent back to the original universe, the engine is still unreasonable due to the existence of "unreasonable" probability, so the engine drop event continues to occur in the offline universe, and the control body is dead in the offline universe. Frank is arranged by God to guide Donnie out of the room to avoid Donnie being killed, and then a series of events will happen (the content may be different, but the purpose is the same), until the engine is sent back to the original universe.
Speaking of the next loop in detail-I think the content of the loop will not be exactly the same (that is to say, the things and the items that happened during the first offline and the second offline are not exactly the same, but they are mostly the same), And the performance of repeated shooting of things like loops is obvious, but it is not enough taste and not enough to reflect the director's skill, so the director uses a certain skill to express. The director filmed the narrative in a simple chronological order. The content is very coherent. It seems to be a series of one-off events from October 2 to 28 (that is, there is no loop), but in fact, if you look closely, you will find that the director used details. Close-ups and conversations with ambush pens to express the nature of the cycle. The whole can be understood as: He intercepted all the loops and assembled them into a coherent event (condensation is the essence), and the same and coherent events in the loop will be misplaced. Let me give an example in real life to illustrate. For example, if a general director makes a movie, the entire script is arranged, but it is impossible to make the entire movie coherently at one time. Some scenes need to be changed, and you have to shoot again. There may be several negatives in a segment, which will be edited in the later stage~ The perfect segment will be formed by complementing the shortcomings of these several negatives, but if the editing is improper-such as the first time The posters in the house I took were posted right up for the second time, but I did not pay attention to this detail when editing. They were edited into the same continuous clip~that is, they were misplaced~the so-called piercing shots. Looking back at this movie again, God arranged the things in the offline universe (just like the script is arranged), God can only guide D to complete the mission (just like the director can only guide the actor to play that role and not replace the actor It’s the same), so the content of each loop will not be exactly the same (like shooting a lot of negatives), but it will complete a final goal (like shooting multiple times and finally becoming a movie), and in this film Dislocation of the picture (which is equivalent to the dislocation of the lens in the film) ~ has become a powerful expression of the cycle.
Here are some details indicating the cycle in the film (the event numbers indicated below are marked according to the sequence of filming, that is, the sequence of development of the event. It is my personal order, so I don’t care how I divided it, just need to know what I said. The event is roughly where it is in the development sequence. The number of events is mainly to clearly distinguish the context of several events):
1. In Incident 16, Frank in the rabbit costume reappears through the water element. Donnie pokes Frank's right eye with a knife through the water element.
Event 23, D and GR were watching a movie in the cinema. Frank appeared after GR fell asleep, D told Frank to take off his rabbit costume, F took off his rabbit face, and D saw F’s right eye hurt (presumably Frank’s right eye is separated by Donnie. The barrier stabbed F with a knife at that time, but at that time F was wearing a mask so he couldn't see it.), D asked him what was going on, F did not answer, but D then showed an evil smile (indicating that D is aware of it). It was caused by the last time he poked F), D asked why F was called Frank, and F said it was because his father was called Frank. His father's father was also called Frank. Asked when this matter can be completed (meaning when the mission can be completed. It can be seen that D has gone through many times, obviously there is a cycle), F said "I think you should know". Finally, F hints that D will burn down Jim Cunningham's house.
Incident 34, screen display time: After midnight on October 30, 1988 (six hours left): Frank drove to rescue D, and ran over GR in order to avoid the dead mother-in-law. After getting off the car, Frank~ his right eye was not injured. of.
2. Event 23, D takes GR to the movie, and the close-ups in the cinema are: AERO; HALLOWEEN; FRIGHTMARE; DOUBLE FEATURE. And the close-ups from the cinema are: AERO; THE EVIL DEAD; THE LAST TEMPTATION; OF CHRIST. (The reason why the director gave the close-up is because he wanted to use the piercing shot to show that there is a loop in this section, and the director edited each time "the arrangement of the gods").
3. In Incident 05, D smashed the school water pipe and hacked the axe on the head of the school dog. The time displayed at that time was "October 6, 1988". The school issued a notice of soliciting fund-raising funds to revise the avatar.
Event 24, when D set fire to Jim’s house, it was the climax of Sister D’s singing and dancing with her classmates. The Asian girl was before Sister D’s performance. The camera showed an Asian girl sitting under the school statue. At this time, the bronze statue is not a dog or a gorilla (if it is not a cycle, the maximum period for repairing a bronze statue is only 24-6=18 days, and it is absolutely impossible for a bronze statue to collect funds and build copper in less than 18 days. A series of things like this. PS. What happened after the fire incident was "October 24, 1988").
The offline universe appeared because the time axis was penetrated and deviated from the original orbit. The creation of the holy object only means that the offline universe has been produced, so how can the holy object disappear to save the world? ——I think this is a problem of understanding the concept. The content in the book given by the film is set by the director himself, not the truth that exists in reality, but we need to deliberate on this book when we watch the movie. My understanding is: The timeline has penetrated. This is a fact in the film. The appearance of the holy relic has informed Donnie and the audience that the offline universe has been created, and the timeline has deviated from its orbit, but the timeline is not impossible to return to its original orbit. The return of the time axis to its original orbit depends on the restart of time and space. In other words, just look at the fourth dimension of time ~ time belongs to the original orbit after penetrating first; and looking at the original universe time and space alone, time and space are traversed by Donnie, because he was in the offline universe when he was in the original universe. Is static (or the popular point is waiting for him), and after he travels through the wormhole to the original universe, the static point of the original universe begins to operate. If everything is normal (it is still impossible to return to the original Intellectuality, there is a normal or abnormal probability), then things are always going on in the original universe. If it is normal, there will be no sacred objects to inform everyone that this world is not normal. Therefore, as long as the sacred object is sent back to the original universe before the offline universe collapses, that is, it travels back to the original point and restarts, it is possible to prevent the offline universe from collapsing. Because the original universe and the offline universe share the same time axis. Once the holy objects are sent back to the original universe and are reasonable, then everything is normal, and things continue to operate in the original universe, then the offline universe will naturally be It doesn't exist anymore, so it will not continue to operate unstable and collapse, and the offline universe will not form a black hole that will destroy everything if it does not collapse. If there is something like "The holy thing is hidden in the engine~ Even if the engine returns to the original universe where the breakpoint is just reasonable, it does not mean that the holy thing is reasonable. The holy thing is still there~" Use the events given in the movie to prove the fact that the original universe was indeed saved: D did not arrange for Frank to be rescued by D in the end, which means that he has returned to the original universe. F was arranged to save D in the offline universe. Naturally, the universe will not be arranged to save D; and if the holy objects still exist unreasonably, it means that the time axis is deviated, and everyone is still in the offline universe, because they have indeed returned to the original universe, so the holy objects have indeed disappeared From the perspective of the operation of the earth (also because D did a time and space shuttle), it can be said that the holy thing has never appeared and everything continues to operate as usual.
What does the final ending mean? Does the leading actor have to die? Is his death necessarily related to saving the world? ——It is explained above that the loop occurs because of the existence of the "unreasonable" probability of the engine. The reason for the end of the loop is explained here is the existence of a "reasonable" probability of the engine. The engine was sent back to the original universe to experience N unreasonable times, and the last time it was "reasonable", so the ending was the last time it was "reasonable", and things continued to operate in the original universe. The death of the hero is not inevitable, he can save the world without dying. His death can be explained as follows: Maybe when he returned the engine for the first time, he thought about avoiding the fallen engine after returning to the original universe, but he ignored the "unreasonable" probability (this is The manifestation of the "unknowledge" of the original universe), after sending it back to the engine, he found that things in the offline universe had started again, and the cycle was repeated. It is not that he does not know the "unknowledge" of the original universe, but the various experiences he has experienced in the offline universe made him know that "everything is arranged" in the offline universe. He has experienced too many things in the offline universe, repeated and felt This kind of life is meaningless (so Donnie's mocking smile appears many times in the film). In the process of allowing God to arrange to accept his mission, he gradually ignored the "unknowledge" of the original universe, that is, he did not know "reasonable". When did "and "unreasonable" happen, and he formed the arranged inertia in the offline universe so that he didn't want to think about what he could only work hard to accomplish his mission. However, when the engine was returned for the last time, the engine "reasonably" existed (this well reflects the "unknowledge" of the original universe), so ~ things still operate in the original universe. There is no controller Frank, and he has not been arranged to save him from this kind of thing, so if he doesn't leave, he will be smashed to death. And it is this smashed ending that makes the film's viewing and reasoning more perfect.
PART2. Here are some examples of events that reflect the contents of the Upanishads of Time and Space Travel:
Chapter 2 "Water and Iron"
Water and iron are the key elements of time and space travel.
In the offline universe, water is the barrier element used to construct the gate of time and space.
Specific performance:
1. Donnie turned around and saw Frank after taking medication in the mirror in the toilet, but found that they were blocked by water. D could not touch Frank. D asked how F did it. F used this to propose the meaning of time travel and tell D He can do it too.
2. Iron is the attribute of the engine.
Chapter 6 Living Receiver (Living Receiver)
He will be endowed with the fourth-dimensional power. Powerful power, mind movement, mind control, summoning the magic of water and fire.
He will be entangled by nightmares, visions, and auditory hallucinations.
Those around him, called the "accused", will fear him and try to destroy him.
Specific performance:
(Donnie was chosen as the living recipient, and he was endowed with the fourth-dimensional power.)
1. D told Gretchen Ross that he had burned down an empty house.
2. The money-burning link in English class implies that D will burn Jim's house later (indicating the manipulation of the fire element).
3. Frank hinted to D and guided D to destroy the school's water pipe (reflecting the manipulation of the water element). D wore an evil smile. The screen showed the time "October 6, 1988 (24Days remain)", and the iron axe Cut it on the head of a bronze dog, a school symbol, and engraved the phrase "they made me do it" on the ground (these all show the supernatural power).
4. Frank appeared in the movie theater and guided D to burn down Jim's house (reflecting the manipulation of the fire element).
5. Donnie Darko at Jim Cunningham’s inspirational speech, D’s screen flashed quickly, D said to his girlfriend GR, "We are traveling in time" (D is exploring the ability to use time travel), and then D publicly humiliated Jim in the questioning session. Cunningham (this also shows that Jim hates him and is a little afraid of him).
6. The sounds and images that appeared when Donnie tried to travel through time and space can be understood as the hallucinations mentioned in the book.
Chapter 9 "Ensurance Trap" The
death control experience sets up guide traps to ensure that the living recipients can safely send the holy objects back to the universe.
If the trap operates successfully, the living recipients will have no choice but to collapse in the black hole. Previously, he used his four-dimensional divine power to send the holy objects to the universe in time. The
specific performance: the
dead control body set a trap to let D accept his mission as a living receiver. The most prominent is the English teacher’s "Cellar Door (" The cellar door is the most beautiful English word in the world" (this link is particularly interesting, CellarDoor is indeed particularly ironic~ It is a perfect match with D’s evil smile. The English teacher taught them the "Saboteur" article, and it didn’t take long for the school to be The destruction was caused by D, but the English teacher was complained and fired. Before leaving, she told D "Cellar Door is the most beautiful English word in the world." God told D through the experience of the English teacher that he must accept this. Fate arrangement, and then D also went to the death mother’s house and opened the cellar door that said Cellar Door).
Chapter 12 dreams
when the " contained body" (living control body death control body) wakes up from the offline universe (that is, back In the original universe), they will still be entangled by nightmares, but most of them will not remember the previous experience (experience in the offline universe), and those who retain a little memory will deeply regret their bad behavior in the dream. .
specific performance:
1. Keep memory - engage in underground erotic in the atlas in the offline universe Jim, at the end of the movie - back to the primary universe ~ Jim K of this bed and sleep, Jim is awake, not After a while, he cried deeply. Later, when a camera was pulled, K was sleeping alone in the bed and found that Jim was not beside him. (Many people speculate that Jim felt sinful and committed suicide, which is a good explanation.)
2. I can't remember what I experienced before-the engine was towed away by the big car. GR just passed by on a bicycle. GR asked the kid on the side of the road what happened. The little boy said that there was a serious accident. My neighbor died and was caught by the airplane engine. Smashed to death. GR continued to ask "What is his name" and said that he did not know him. The child said "Donnie Darko" and he felt sad about this. GR saw that D's family on the roadside was very sad, and GR waved to D's mother.
PART3. How did God arrange the operation of these characters to guide and induce Donnie Darko to recognize her own destiny and complete the mission:
Gretchen Ross: As the death control body, she guides D and affirms D’s ability in D’s life (I didn’t meet How long did he quickly become D’s girlfriend ~ the weirdness of D), when D has the idea of resisting the will of God, he opposes D in time (this is especially obvious in the "Watship Plateau" class, as a girlfriend~ this opposition It must be quite effective). All of her ~ are in line with her characteristics as a death control body. Her own death is also fully in line with the fate of being a death control body.
School gangsters: They continue to harass and humiliate GR, so that D can be a hero to save the United States and develop relationships. They went to steal and led to the deaths of Frank and Gretchen Ross. Their performance against D in this way is also in line with their characteristics as living controllers.
Psychiatrist: 1. She first prescribes sleeping pills that have no effect to D, so that D thinks that she is still in the original state of the universe (with mental or emotional problems), and also makes D think that Frank was caused by the hallucinations during his sleepwalking. As a result, the character quickly accepted Frank and told D at the end that those medicines were only made of water so that D could fully understand his situation. 2. She hypnotizes D by communicating with D, guides D to believe when D is in doubt, comforts when D is afraid, and guides D to accept her mission as a living receiver (the words she said to D are basically It's not like treating a person with psychological problems but more obviously guiding and suggesting D). 3. At the end, she explained to D about atheism and agnosticism, and also said that if the sky is open, it's just a matter of D and F that has nothing to do with anyone, so that D can boldly complete him duty of.
English teacher Karen Pomeroy:
1. She asked “why did the children break into old M's house” when she was teaching Graham Green’s "The Destroyer". The little girl said it was to steal money, and she then triggered her to say: “Those The child found the money in the house but burned it.” Then, she asked D who had experience of destruction to answer (she was outspoken about D’s destructiveness), D replied: “They flooded the house and destroyed the house. Fragments, they’re right~ Destruction is a form of creation. They burn money is just a kind of irony. They want to know what happens when the world is destroyed, and they want to change the world.” In this way, D’s destruction was triggered. Desire, and D’s subsequent destruction of the school also confirmed the fact that he was guided (first suggested by her thoughts, and then directly guided by Frank). It was also that she asked the new transfer student Gretchen Ross to choose his own position and vacate the position next to D to GR, so that D had the opportunity to further develop with GR, prompting Gretchen Ross to direct D as the dead controller.
2. Then she taught Richard Adams's "Watership Plateau", also to give D psychological hints, let D further understand his mission. After reading this book or this book on Baidu, you will find that the fate of the rabbit in it corresponds to the fate of the entire human world and D is the realistic version of Hazel Hazel~ Lead the rabbits to escape the crisis. The rabbit hazel in the book is an alien among the rabbit group. It has a foreboding of the crisis, but the rabbits don't believe it-this is very in line with the characteristics of D. Teacher Karen finally said that "the machine of God saved the rabbit", implying fatalism, allowing D to accept his own destiny and accomplish his mission boldly. Third, after she was fired, she gave the instruction of "CellarDoor" to let D enter the trap, leading to the death of GR and Frank (the fate of the dead controller).
Teacher Kitty Farmer: 1. She taught the superficial lifeline in class and was opposed by D. Her complaint asked the principal to ask D’s parents. The reason was that D told her to insert the lifeline card into the anus. D’s father obviously wanted to laugh but held back. This incident led to a bad relationship between her and D’s parents, and D’s parents were more inclined to D~D’s father and even later talked to D to encourage D. 2. She has a very poor relationship with English teacher Karen. She used "Saboteur" to slander Karen at the parent meeting, causing Karen to be dismissed, and indirectly triggering Karen to give Donnie Darko "CellarDoor" trap instructions. 3. She entrusted Donnie's mother to take the children to Los Angeles to participate in the game in order to help Jim, so that Donnie had the opportunity to give her sister a party without parents. Frank appeared at the party, and D went to the "CellarDoor" room of the dead mother-in-law. In case of thieves, F came to rescue but GR was crushed to death.
Physics teacher Kenneth Monnitoff: 1. D consulted him about time travel, led to Roberta Sparrow's "Time Travel Upanishad", told D about the deeds of the dead mother, he also led D to understand the various time travel. 2. In his invention and design class, GR was humiliated and humiliated, and D comforted GR~ The relationship between the two quickly heated up.
Death mother-in-law Roberta Sparrow: 1. It was she who wrote the detailed textbook that let D know all this-"The Philosophy of Time Travel". She has a lot of antiques, which is invaluable. It makes the gangsters come to steal the antiques. D and GR and two friends come to look for her, but they encounter the gangsters who are stealing in the house, which leads to the death of GR and Frank (the fate of the dead control body). . 2. Roberta Sparrow was arranged to keep waiting for letters, so that she always appeared in the middle of the road in a reasonable way. D's father almost hit her and triggered her to have the opportunity to speak to D. Frank drove to avoid her and run over to death. Gretchen Ross (the fate of the death control body) also caused D to shoot and kill Frank (the fate of the death control body) afterwards. 3. She spoke to Donnie in her ear twice: the first time she said "everything will die alone", causing D to think about his own destiny; the second time she directly urged D to remind him that time is running out.
Jim Cunningham: His home was burned and the police found the erotic pictures and arrested him, which in turn led to Kitty, who redressed his grievances, entrusting Donnie's mother to take the children to Los Angeles.
Donnie's father: 1. He almost ran into the dead mother-in-law when he drove D to see the psychologist, and then the dead mother-in-law had the opportunity to say something suggestive to D~ "Everything will die alone". 2. He guides Donnie to recognize that he is not a lunatic, and encourages D to believe what he knows. The paragraph he said "most of them are fools, they are conspiring just a fool. They are afraid of people like you because they know that they are not as smart as you", obviously encouraging D to act according to what he knows. .
Donnie mother: 1. Kitty asked to take the children to the game, so I left D and sister at home. 2. In room D, answer D’s question "How does it feel to have a weird son?" Say "very wonderful". This is comforting D and affirming D.
Sister Donnie: Admission to Harvard University prompted D to propose a party to celebrate.
In summary, it can be seen that in the entire offline universe, many people and things affecting Donnie are arranged, and D is guided to accomplish God's will. All this also echoes the "Lord says that everything has a reason" mentioned in the chapter "Dream" in "Time Travel Upanishads".
PART4. Detailed analysis & interesting extension:
a paragraph at the beginning of the film (PS. The event is described by myself according to the film, the parentheses are my personal comments):
Open the refrigerator door, the close-up tells everyone that "where is Donnie?" is written on the door. At dinner, because of the presidential election, everyone had a dispute with Sister D at the table. Sister D obviously had a boyfriend but said that she would marry after the age of 30. The president at the time was very serious about family exploitation, but Sister D said she wanted to vote for the president. It can be seen that her sister was evading family pressure, and D mocked her for wanting her son. In the nursery, D’s sister innocently asked when she could have a child. D said that she was in eighth grade (it is speculated that D’s sister might have been pregnant when she was in 8th grade). Because D’s sister was teased by D, D’s The counterattack revealed that D stopped taking pills, D was emotionally scolded her fuck-ass, and then D’s mother asked how Sister D knew, and D’s said it was not a big deal. He had a certain mental problem and was concealed from his sisters and sisters for treatment. Recalling the situation in which D woke up on the side of the road on the mountain and biked back with sleepy eyes, we can infer that his illness should be somnambulism. And communication and other diseases~cuase his sharp relationship with family members indicates emotional problems) Before going to bed, mother D entered room D. D thought it was her mother who had leaked her privacy and was extremely unfriendly to her mother. The mother asked him whether he used toilet paper. Surrounding Johnson’s house (this is said to be an important clue to remind the loop, but I think it was caused by D when he was sleepwalking, or by other kids. The reason for this arrangement is that the director gave everyone a thought. I I think the above-mentioned large-scale conflict scene is just to highlight that D in the original universe does have mental problems and is very unfriendly to get along with his family. What happened later in the offline universe shows that everything is for nothing. D, while preparing, feel that the family relationship is obviously harmonious and harmonious. Many parents are on the side of the child when the school invites parents, and the psychiatrist prescribes D the medicine is only water and said that he has no problems.) , D had an argument with his mother. After the mother left, D took the pill (the medicine here is the real medicine was taken in the original universe. The explanation is to remind everyone and remind the male protagonist that what happened next is not D's sleepwalking fantasy but real. And as for Why did D choose to take the medicine now after stopping the medicine? I think it was because he was humiliated and irritated by Sister D and D’s mother. He didn’t like to be disliked this way, so think about it, at least not. Will use toilet paper to surround other people's houses) and fall asleep in his room. Even when the school invited the parents, the parents were on the side of the child, and the psychologist gave D the medicine was told that it was only water and said that he had no problems. ), D had an argument with his mother. After the mother left, D took the pill (the medicine here is the real medicine was taken in the original universe. The explanation is to remind everyone and remind the male protagonist that what happened next is not D's sleepwalking fantasy but real. And as for Why did D choose to take the medicine now after stopping the medicine? I think it was because he was humiliated and irritated by Sister D and D’s mother. He didn’t like to be disliked this way, so think about it, at least not. Will use toilet paper to surround other people's houses) and fall asleep in his room. Even when the school invited the parents, the parents were on the side of the child, and the psychologist gave D the medicine was told that it was only water and said that he had no problems. ), D had an argument with his mother. After the mother left, D took the pill (the medicine here is the real medicine was taken in the original universe. The explanation is to remind everyone and remind the male protagonist that what happened next is not D's sleepwalking fantasy but real. And as for Why did D choose to take the medicine now after stopping the medicine? I think it was because he was humiliated and irritated by Sister D and D’s mother. He didn’t like to be disliked this way, so think about it, at least not. Will use toilet paper to surround other people's houses) and fall asleep in his room.
Look at the end of the movie again:
D comes home, the TV at home shows the snowflake dots (the snowflake dots indicate that they are still in the offline universe), D kisses his sleeping sister and takes the car keys. D feels sick when he picks up the car and looks up. Abnormal sky phenomenon (D's stomach discomfort and sky abnormality are both because the end of the day is approaching and the offline universe is becoming more and more unstable, so D's superpowers also began to fluctuate, causing his stomach to be a little uncomfortable), D took his girlfriend's corpse and drove away. Then the police car rushed to the door of D's house (seeing the police looking for D, I would think of the four illegal things that D had done: 1. smashed the school water pipe. 2. set the erotic house on fire. 3. D shot Frank and GR was run over by Frank. Dead, no one to clean up this mess. 4.D took the engine. Because Bad Thing 1 is already in trouble, so it is most likely 2 or 3. 4 is untenable because of the operation of things in the offline universe They were all arranged to cooperate with D to send the engine back, and the engine was taken back by the FAA and signed a non-disclosure agreement. If the engine is missing, it should be the FAA looking for D instead of police). Close-up of pupils, strange sound. D was sitting in the woods and said "I am going home" and smiled (silly, sneer). He watched the sky change abnormally. At this time, the plane that D's mother and sister D were riding on was also unstable. The perspective is Something fell in the sky (it should be the plane where Mother D and the others fell). D looked at his girlfriend GR in the car and smiled (comforting). Then there are close-ups of the pupils, a bunch of flashbacks. (It can be inferred from multiple links in the film: when the pupils are close-up & the screen flashes back, they are traveling through time and space. So after this, they return to the original universe:). The engine fell in Room D, D’s home shook, and D was smashed to death. In addition to FAA, D’s family also has police. There are sad parents of D, many ghost rabbit drawing papers, Frank, Jim and K Ben sleeping together in good condition. As a result, Jim is awake and crying deeply and doesn’t recognize D’s GR.
The big controversy and doubt here is the Police that appeared in D's house. This super-coherent narrative shooting technique does bring some obstacles to the audience's understanding. What happened in the offline universe seems to continue to the original universe~ Is there wood? ————In fact, there is no continuation. The police appearing in the offline universe is likely to go to D’s house for the illegal 2&3 done by D, because police is a living body and is not controlled by God (or God arranged for D to avoid police’s arrest first. It doesn't matter whether police comes or not to arrest him). After returning to the original universe, police appeared at D's house because D was killed. The police must come to investigate. The engine also appeared for a reason, so the FAA doesn't need to keep it secret. (That is to say, the first part of the engine in the original universe dropped at the beginning of the film, and only FAA did not have police. It was because D was not dead at that time, and there was no need for the police to deal with it. Besides, the FAA needed to keep it secret.)
Understanding of the dead mother and this book:
Actually , Because both the dead mother and the book are things in the offline universe, which can be simply understood as God’s arrangement. But obviously such a simple understanding loses a lot of reasoning and enriches the fun of the role. Here I will talk about my interesting understanding speculation (can be used as an extension, or can be ignored, and does not affect the general grasp of the plot):
The scenes of the dead mother-in-law in the film are all from the side, and there are not many frontal shots. From the physics teacher, you can know that the dead mother-in-law used to be a nun, but one day she suddenly changed herself. She wrote the book "The Profound Meaning of Time Travel" and then taught in this school until she retired. From this, I speculate that the dead mother-in-law had witnessed or even experienced this kind of time travel earlier, so after that, she recorded all these phenomena in a book, and found that her talent can teach students knowledge, so she left the church. Go to school to teach until retirement. On this basis, it is even more certain that the timeline has deviated from the track (that is, not only Donnie rescued this time) and returned to the track (death mother-in-law must be involved). In this way, it can be understood why the book written by the dead mother in the original universe is so authoritative (authority refers to its authenticity and practicality) and not paid attention to, but it can explain all the phenomena in the offline universe ( That is, Donnie said that the phenomenon described in this book is exactly the same as what he experienced).
Views on Asian girls (still interesting speculation, enriching roles): The
above said that the death mother-in-law may have witnessed the shuttle of time and space. This can also be mapped to Asian girls. From the tracking and eavesdropping of Donnie by Asian girls in various places in the film, it can be inferred that Asian girls should know about the time and space shuttle. The last time she eavesdropped, Donnie opened the door and told her that everything was going to be better, and she was obviously scared, so she hurriedly ran away. The top of the book she dropped on the ground was written with a big Donnie's full name painting on the top. There are Houbian and Little Strawberry, which shows that she likes Donnie (also because she likes it, so she followed and eavesdropped on Donnie. This mutual echo makes the understanding smoother).
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