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illusion of death Donnie Darko
, Richard Kelly's debut work by Richard Kelly, who just graduated from the Film Department of the University of Southern California, has an unusually interesting place. Good film-I have this feeling for any film that is surprising or has a little philosophical significance but is not easy to understand.
Let's talk about the overall feeling about it first. The illusion of death is a Chinese translation. Personally, I think it's just a superficial explanation, which inevitably smells of commercial operation. The film is like a universe spiral from beginning to end, making people feel the chaos of time. This is also the director's explanation for the film, that the structure of the universe is a spiral that can't find when it starts and ends. Is it an illusion that Donnie sees? This is not important, just as your focus in the butterfly effect is not on why he can rewrite history. In order to save his family and his girlfriend, when the last time came, that is, when the universe came to a similar "starting point", he made a new choice, sacrificing himself to protect in his sleep others.
The film is poetic, although it has such a shocking Chinese translation, listen to his final ending song "MAD WORLD" Children are waiting for the day they feel good, Happy birthday, Happy birthday... The last chapter of the film "Meng" "Everyone in them is thinking about the wrong things they have done, crying in pain in this green and quiet town, no one knew me, no one knew me, with a fantasy color like creation.
The plot goes like this: D (Donnie Darko) often sleepwalks, and when he woke up, he found himself lying in a different place. He was guided out of the room by a voice, and accidentally escaped an airplane engine that fell from a plane crash, this rabbit. He was told that the world's limit was 28 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes, and 12 seconds later. D often sees a bunny man named FRANK. He thinks this is IMAGINERY, and it is also a sign of schizophrenia. He was directed by the bunny man to flood the school and burn the hypocrite’s house on fire, and when he tried to explain In all the phenomena he encountered, his girlfriend was hit and killed by a car. 28 days later, his mother and sister caused D's impulse to change the status quo due to a plane crash. He used "death illusion" to see through time travel. , Chose self-sacrifice to save the people around him, so time and history re-developed along a new path.
It’s the same thing if you just read these things. The director wants to create an illusion through these events. The English teacher played by Drew Barrymore asked D in a class, what is the main idea of the article, D said: " Destruction is a form of creation, they want to change the old world" I think this is what the film wants to say.
The film is built on such a "fact" established by the screenwriter:
our universe is normally the original universe, and the morbid state is the offline universe. As the name suggests, it is a universe that is out of the main line, an unstable universe. Such accidents rarely happen. , But once the offline universe appears, it is extremely unstable and can only last for a few weeks (the movie is 28 days). If the offline universe collapses, a black hole will be formed in the original universe, which will destroy all existence (the last D of the movie) The storm illusion seen is the process of black hole formation, which is what the Bunnyman calls the end of the world.
Water and iron are the key factors for time travel. Water is used to construct the gate of time and space, iron is used to construct holy objects, and the offline universe appears. The sign of is the appearance of the holy object, and the people around the holy object are in the epicenter of the dangerous space-time vortex. In order to make up for this terrible consequence, God chose a "living recipient". We can think of it as THE ONE. The sacred object is sent back to the original universe so that the world can be saved. How to send it back? I personally think it is a combination of the sacred object and the recipient, because it is mentioned in the film that the living recipient should have received the sacred object out of curiosity. For oneself, and D was not combined with the holy thing in the first place.
OK, I’m talking a little bit more plainly. The sacred object is the airplane engine, and the living receiver is Donnie Darko. The engine should have killed D to achieve fusion, but because of D’s death illusion, he saw the Bunnyman and avoided it. His own death, but he only had 28 days to make his own choice.
There is a factor in the living recipient's own body called the "living body". It is a force in the brain that drives you to a certain place and prevents you from being obliterated in the offline universe. I understand it as the sixth sense of human subconsciousness, simple In other words, he seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, and ordinary people tend to think that he is mentally ill. The living controller in the film is the Bunnyman, who D imagined it, and at the same time, it saved D from death in the first place.
D. The people around him are called the controlled body.
Those who are bound to die are called the death control body. He will set up traps to ensure that the living recipient sends the holy objects back to the original universe. The death control body in the film is The person who wanted to play the bunny man at the Halloween party was killed because he killed D’s girlfriend, and at the same time prompted D to make a decision to save his girlfriend, so the bunny man’s image is a living body, and he plays a living The person with the control body is the dead control body.
Finally, and the last chapter of the movie "Dream": When the offline universe is saved, all the accused wake up, they are still entangled in nightmares, and will be deeply annoyed by their bad behavior in "Dream". Hallucinations? Hallucinations! Some questions...
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Important clues to the movie [Time Travel Upanishad](The Philosophy Of Time Travel)
[Time Traveling Upanishad](The Philosophy Of Time Travel )
Preface
This book is a simple guide to the impermanence of the sky; I hope it is purely fictitious; otherwise I have to pray for you; if the things predicted in the book happen in my lifetime, please Wanwu find me before it is too late. —— Roberta-Ann Spyro in October 1944
Chapter One Tangent Universe The
Primary Universe is full of crisis. Wars, plagues, famines, natural disasters. Everyone can't escape death.
The fourth dimension of time is relatively stable, but not impenetrable. Accidents that cause the texture to collapse rarely occur.
Once the offline universe appears, it will be extremely unstable and can only last for a few weeks.
If the offline universe collapses, its remains in the original universe—the black hole—will destroy all existence.
Chapter 2 Artifact and Living
When the offline universe appears, people near the space-time vortex will be at the epicenter of this dangerous new world.
The first sign of the offline universe is the appearance of the "sacred object".
When the "sacred object" appears, the "living body" will take it back out of curiosity. "Holy objects" are usually iron tools, such as arrowheads from ancient Maya civilization, or iron swords from medieval Europe.
The "sacred objects" sent back to the original universe are often regarded as religious totems because their appearance on the earth completely violates the logic of cause and effect.
Chapter 3 Water and Iron
Water and iron are the key elements of time travel.
In the offline universe, water is the barrier element used to construct the gate of time and space.
Iron is the transmission element that constructs the relic container.
Chapter 4 Dreams
When the "manipulated" (Manipulated) wakes up from the offline universe, they will still be entangled by the nightmare, but most of them will not remember the previous experience. Those who retain a little memory will be the ones who were in the dream. I am deeply sorry for the bad behavior; the
"sacred object" itself is the only physical evidence of its existence, and everything else has been wiped out in the offline universe.
According to ancient mythology, a Mayan warrior was shot by an arrow and fell off a cliff, but there was no army or enemy nearby.
A medieval knight was mysteriously pierced by an unforged sword.
The Lord said that everything has a reason.
Chapter 5 Living Receiver (Living Receiver) The
living receiver is the selected guide, responsible for placing the holy relic in the position of returning to the original universe.
No one knows how or why he was selected.
He will be given the power of the fourth dimension. 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.
Chapter 6 Manipulated Dead Manipulated Dead
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 Construct.
The fourth-dimensional channel is composed of water.
The death controller controls the living recipient accordingly.
He will set up an "Ensurance Trap" to ensure that the living recipient can safely send the holy objects back to the universe.
If the trap operates successfully, the living recipient will have no choice but to use his four-dimensional divine power to send the holy objects back to the universe in time before the black hole collapses.
Chapter 7: Manipulated Living: Manipulated Living
is usually friends/neighbors around the recipient of the living body.
Unfortunately, due to the task of returning holy relics, they will often show irrational violent tendencies.
Under this condition, they will spare no effort to avoid their annihilation in the offline universe.
Simply put, the storyline of this film is like this:
We live in a crisis-ridden primordial universe. Due to some unknowable reasons, the original universe will occasionally deviate from the normal time orbit and head towards the destined off-line universe-the offline universe. The first signal that appeared in the offline universe was the arrival of the "sacred object". In order to avoid the destruction of the entire world, a certain "living recipient" selected by the "Hand of God" must send the "sacred object" back to the universe before the end of the offline universe arrives. The "accused" around him will do everything in their power to induce him to complete this day-to-day mission-"sacred mediation". After that, the offline universe will close on time, and the original universe will return to the starting point of the "forked road" and continue to move in the original direction. And all "accused subjects" including "living recipients" will no longer be remembered. Only a few fragments remained in my heart, as if I had just felt a big dream.
The story of the film (except the last paragraph) takes place in the offline universe, and all events follow the fateful trajectory to the only ending: Donnie sacrifices herself to save the original universe. The "sacred object" is a jet engine, the "living recipient" is the protagonist Donnie Darko, and the "contained body" is all the other characters (the town residents of Middlesex, where the instant air vortex is generated. Frank and the heroine Gretchen are both "death control" However, only Frank used a different-dimensional channel to communicate with Donnie; their only role in the offline world is to set up a "guidance trap" to ensure that Donnie reaches the end of his destiny within an acceptable psychological range).
The limit of the offline universe is: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. When that moment comes, it is the end of the world when the black hole swallows everything.
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Finally, I would like to compliment little J's acting skills...This is Jake's famous work...Compared to the later movies, it feels more youthful...
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