Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" when 25-year-old Richard Kelly film "Donnie Darko" when 25-year-old is also
a director's debut will be made into this, people simply jealous. Richard Kelly said that he conceived the script when he just graduated from the film department of the University of Southern California. For the next year and a half, I kept hitting walls, either because the script did not pass, or no one believed a college student who had never made a film. Until one day the script fell into the hands of Drew Ballymore. At the film screening of "Girls in the Thunderbolt", Kelly asked Ballymore if he would like to play a role. Ballymore said, okay, as long as you let me be the producer. So, in the summer of 2000, the film was shot. The budget is 4.5 million. It premiered at the Christmas Film Festival in 2001 and became a hot topic at the time. However, the screening was postponed due to the 9/11 incident and was limited to 58 theaters nationwide. Soon after 20th Century Fox released a DVD. At present, I got a high score of 8.3 on IMDB. Unfortunately, only less than 10,000 people voted, ranking 91st
. The translation of "Death Illusion" is misleading. It seems that everything can be realized with the final "sudden realization" (such as dreams and near-death experiences). Ah what) flickered past, and it dropped to the level of "Vanilla Sky". Many people compare it with "Mulholland Road", it is more complicated, but "Muholland Road" is too mysterious. Although a great admirer of Richard Kelly, David Lynch, and said that by contrast, his "Donnie Darko," just like "Bambi" like
this film moved me the most is its poetic (though these days To say "poetic" seems very fucking). "Poetic" means that it is very lyrical, which is a bit of light on the basis of tragedy. A high school student, 16 years old, was involved in another world, like "Alice in Wonderland", experiencing the meaning of existence and the warmth of love in a heartbreaking "Mad World". In the end, everything went back to the past, as if nothing happened. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the world is as usual.
When I watched it, I remembered another movie, "Phantom World". The protagonist is eccentric and has no friends. In the eyes of parents and teachers, they are all "problematic teenagers", but suddenly a person appears and falls in love with him/her. The same goes for "American Beauty". In a middle-class town, boys always keep silent, take DV shots, and spy on binoculars at night. One day he said to the girl, "Let you see the most beautiful thing I have ever photographed." When the TV turned on, it turned out to be a plastic bag floating in the wind. In "Death Illusion," Gretchen asked Donnie, "Why are you always weird." Donnie said, "Oh, I'm sorry." Gretchen said, "This is a compliment to you." So the two people are together. For this destined encounter, Jiang Binliu in "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" said: They must meet. If they can't meet in Kunming, they will meet in Shanghai. They can't meet in Shanghai, and they will meet overseas. It would be incredible if they couldn't meet. It seemed that the world was prepared for their encounter. Unfortunately, Gretchen died in that doomed world. In order to keep her alive in another world full of possibilities, Donnie had to die too.
The so-called "time does not pass, the circle is not round", at which second the world went wrong, no one knows, but in the second second, a girl still remembers the occurrence of a love in a trance.
There is an old man in "Phantom World" who sits in the same chair on the street every day, from morning to night, day after day. One day the girl said to him: What are you waiting for? . The old man said I was waiting for the bus. The girl said that the shuttle bus had been changed a long time ago. However, at the end of the story, a shuttle bus actually appeared and stopped beside the old man. The old man got into the car in silence and left the town. There is an old lady in "Death Illusion", 101 years old, with disheveled silver hair. She was a nun and later abandoned God and wrote a book of "Time Travel Upanishad". The old lady walked across the road every day and opened the iron box of the mailbox to check the letter. But the iron box is always empty. Until one day, Donnie wrote him a letter, saying, "I hope that when the end of the world comes, I can breathe out, because there are so many things unfolding in front of me."
Time is not important, waiting is important. . Just believe, a miracle will happen. It seems that only the elderly understand this truth
In the film, there is a female teacher who teaches literature, played by Drew Ballymore (her Flower Production is the main producer of the film), and teaches students a novel "The Destructors" by Graham Greene in class. It is about a group of mischievous children destroying an old man’s house. The teacher asked Donnie what does this story mean? Donnie said: "Maybe they wanted to see what happend if they tear the world apart, to make things change." It should look like this. I want to destroy everything, to change the world
film house there is a sanctimonious "spiritual pastor" Jim. He is like Tom Cruise in "Magnolia", constantly bouncing on TV and on the podium, preaching for his whole set of eloquent value system, and a large number of followers regard him as the spirit of purifying the soul. leader. These believers are like the old mothers who fell in love with TV in "Requiem of Dreams". They are irreparable, have no support, are absolutely pious, and believe in religious madness until a child pornography factory is burned out. As Yang Dechang said, in this era, no one knows what he wants, you have to tell him what he wants. In the 1980s, the United States revisited the so-called "family value" because of the collapse of faith. Actually put today, which are the same as
why the story into the 1980s, the director said that first, because he would just puberty (88 years, when 13 years old), the second is about the nostalgia of the 1980s work too little. In the 1970s, I didn’t remember anything. In the 1990s, there was an explosion of information. In 2000, people believed that the world was fake, waiting for the hacker to destroy the virtual empire in the second episode. Only Spielberg/Zammicis and James Cameron in the 1980s had the greatest influence on him. So I chose a lot of songs from the 80s, such as Tears for Fears, and they were all very cheap, because the band had long been disbanded, and each other scolded each other.
The Chinese audience may listen to the nostalgic songs of the 1980s just like the French listen to the "Train Running towards Shaoshan" in "Platform", knowing what the "function" is, but they certainly can't afford homesickness. But it’s really nice, especially the sad "Mad World" at the end, as if it really made the audience and all the living in the film cry for the lost love and confess our sins.
In addition to music, there are quotes about movies. We have all seen the American blockbusters of the 1980s. The first is "Back to the Future 2" by Zammicis, which borrows a little bit of the concept of "parallel universe"; the second is Spielberg's "ET Alien", which is the part of the monthly bicycle; the third is James · Cameron's "Abyss" borrowed a little bit of "water snake" special effects modeling. The most classic is: Donnie and Gretchen go to the night movie, Sam Remy's "People Play Ghosts". There were only the two of them in the cinema at Notre Dame, and Gretchen fell asleep on the back of his chair. Dawn fell on the screen and the sun rose. A sad aria sounded, the sun turned into a clock, the picture was distorted, and the light was so bright that it opened a door to time and space. This scene stunned me. I only felt that what I saw was a Greek tragedy performed for the universe ( There is a "Book of Death" in the "Evil Dead" series, which records the magic of summoning demons, which is similar to this film.)...Next, Donnie walked out of the movie theater, and the neon sign at the door was actually " The Last Temptation of Christ. Everyone knows that in "Christ", when Jesus was nailed to the cross by the Romans, he had hallucinations and was saved in the hallucinations, married and had children, until he was old. When he was about to die, Judas came and accused him of betrayal. At this time, he repented and found himself still on the cross. It can be seen that the two pieces are not only similar in structure, but Donnie is simply the reborn Jesus in the 1980s. In addition, Frank, this "imaginary friend" is obviously inspired by "The Shining" (the director himself claims that his favorite horror film is "The Shining", and his favorite movie is "2001 A Space Odyssey"). Many people say that Frank is designed as a "bunny man" as a tribute to "Harvey". But the director himself hadn’t watched "Harvey" at that time. His reason was: he knew that Frank was going to be dressed up at the Halloween carnival at last, and that the bunny was gentle and kind by nature, and it showed a sense of evil when he put it on people. Irony.
Another feature of this film is that to thoroughly understand the plot, you must go to its official website to find clues. Of course, this truth will not affect the grasp of the overall atmosphere and themes, but only by viewing the entire official website can you truly understand all causes and effects. This strategy is a bit like the "Blair the Witch" of the year, but it has not only stopped at the stage of propaganda and momentum.
Not only is the content of the "Death Illusion" website as important as the film itself, but its style is also as attractive as the film. The first time I knew about this film was because its official website was rated as the best movie website in 2001. The website has three levels, which is equivalent to a simple puzzle game. One of the most important clues hidden among them is the book written by "Death Mother": "Time Travel Upanishad". In fact, it is turning a few pages of content, and the answer is all about the story of
a simple translation is as follows:
"Time Travel Upanishads" "THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME TRAVEL"
Preface
book A Simple Guide for the day when the impermanence; I hope it is purely fiction; otherwise I had to pray for you; should the prophesied things happen in my lifetime, please find me Wan works before it is too late
October 1944 Roberta Ann Sparrow
first chapter off the universe ( Tangent Universe
(Primary Universe) is full of crisis. Wars, plagues, famines, natural disasters. Everyone could not escape the death of
the fourth dimension of time is relatively stable, but not impenetrable. It texture collapse accidents are rare
and occur once off the universe, which itself will be extremely unstable and only last a few weeks
if the offline universe collapses, it remains in the primary universe - black holes destroy everything that exists
on Chapter two holy (Artifact) and in vivo (living)
epicenter off the universe appears when people nearby space-time vortex will be in this dangerous new world
first sign off place in the universe is a "sacred" of
When the "sacred object" appears, the "living body" will take it back out of curiosity. "Sacred" is usually iron, such as arrowheads from the ancient Mayan civilization, iron swords or medieval Europe
was sent back to the primary universe of "sacred" Religion is often seen as a totem, because they appeared on Earth is completely contrary to the logic of cause and effect
Chapter iron water and
water, and iron is a key element of time travel
in the universe off, water is used to space-time barrier element is constructed in the door
iron transfer element is configured sacred vessel
chapter dream
when the "charged body" ((Manipulated) offline universe wake up from, they will still be a nightmare wound
but most will not remember the previous experience of
those who retained their slight memory will be deeply regret the bad behavior dream;
"sacred" itself is the only physical evidence of its existence, everything else had been wiped out in the offline universe
, according to ancient mythology, is a Mayan warrior arrowheads shot and fallen off a cliff, but it was not near the army, the enemy is not
a medieval knight is not yet forged a two-edged the mysterious sword pierced
the Lord said, everything is reason
Chapter living recipients (living Receiver)
living donor recipients are selected wizards responsible for the holy place return to the primary position the universe
no one knows how he is or why the select
he will be given the fourth dimension of the divine. powerful force, cognitive, mind control, call the magic of water and fire
he will be a nightmare struggle, visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations
those around him, as "the accused body ", will fear him, he tried to destroy
Chapter Six dead body control (Manipulated dead)
The death controller is more powerful than the living receiver. If a person dies in off the universe, he will contact the channel through the fourth dimension (Fourth Dimensional Construct) and in vivo the recipient
fourth channel element consists of water
dead biological control member is controlled based receiver
he will set the "Boot Trap" ( Ensurance trap) to ensure that the living donor recipients holy security returned to the original hair universe
, such as the successful operation of the trap, living recipients will have no choice but to use his divine power four dimensional black hole before the collapse of the sacred send timely reduction of hair universe
Chapter VII of the living body control (Manipulated living)
live body control is usually around the living recipients friend / neighbor
Unfortunately, for the mission to demand the return of sacred objects, they often exhibit irrational violent tendencies
in this under the conditions, they will do anything in their own annihilation against the offline universe
simply put, the film's storyline is this:
we live in perilous in the primary universe. Due to some unknowable reasons, the original universe will occasionally deviate from the normal time orbit and head towards the off-line universe, which is doomed to destruction. 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. There are only a few fragments left in my heart, as if I have 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, that is, black holes devouring apocalyptic
final recommendations D business out of a re-edition D9, to say the least, at least make the director's commentary track and delete sections 20 pieces made out. There are many interesting clues in the deleted plot. For example, the medicine prescribed by the psychologist to Donnie is actually a "placebo" (there is no actual effect, but it serves as a psychological suggestion); Frank is actually Donnie's boyfriend, etc.
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