The circle on the left is the original universe, and the circle on the right is the offline universe. When the original universe represented by the left circle reached the coincidence point of the two circles, due to the occurrence of space-time disorder, it entered the offline universe represented by the right circle, and went from the original universe to the offline universe as if drawing an infinity symbol. The coincidence point was the moment the aircraft engine fell off on October 2nd.
I experienced what happened in the film from October 2 to October 30 in the offline universe. In my opinion, the offline universe is the circle on the right, which is constantly circulating. It can be said that the coincidence point represents the beginning of October 2nd and the end of October 30th, that is, it is an endless loop. The falling engine is both the beginning and the end, in short, the connection between the 2nd and the 30th of each cycle.
The most important thing about this film is the overlap point. This coincidence point is not only the coincidence point of the offline universe cycle, but also the coincidence point of the offline universe and the original universe. It can be regarded as a proposition: if A holds, then B; if A does not hold, then C.
A. Most people think there are two opinions, one is whether Donnie in the film was killed, and the other is whether the aircraft engine was sent back to the original universe, that is, to find the reason for the fall. My opinion is that the "sacred object" described by the aircraft engine in the Upanishads of Time Travel. ---- "When the offline universe appears, people near the space-time vortex will be in the epicenter of this dangerous new world. The first sign of the offline universe is the emergence of "sacred objects"." ---- "Holy objects" are just A sign of the appearance of the offline universe. This sentence is the key. Therefore, I think that the appearance of the aircraft engine in the film is just something that represents the existence of the offline universe, which was produced when the Donnie’s mother and sister plane crashed on the 30th in the offline universe. But it has no source in the original universe, and it appears suddenly. This inference can also be derived from the book. ----The "sacred object" itself is the only physical evidence of its existence. 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 nearby. , No enemies. A medieval knight was mysteriously pierced by an unforged sword.” ---- From this, it can be concluded that no matter how the aircraft engine is handled, it only represents a sign that it has fallen in the offline universe. The reason for this, and in the original universe is just something similar to a catastrophe. We can rule out one.
But if A is whether Donnie was killed, then the reason is really ridiculous. Donnie may be the protagonist of a natural tragedy, or this is what the film is about to describe, a story about a person who was going to die really must muster up the courage to accept his dying fate and then die.
Well, A is that Donnie was smashed to death. Back to the coincidence point, if A is true, then the original universe will follow its original trajectory, that is, B. If A does not hold, then switch to the offline universe, namely C. C started operating from October 2nd to October 30th. As mentioned earlier, October 30th is October 2nd, which is a connected place for offline circulation. That is, the engine of the plane that my mother and sister took off on October 30, fell on October 2, and hit the house. This is the loop connection point that the aircraft engine can find. But how does real life loop? This presents another problem.
As far as I understand, the offline universe has circulated many times, otherwise Frank and Donnie will not appear because they are both "dead controllers". ---- "dead body control more powerful than the living body of the recipient. If a person dies in the offline universe, he will be in contact with the living body of the recipient through the fourth dimension channel (Fourth Dimensional Construct)."
Before the movie is how the cycle and Did not explain clearly. We can see that if Donnie did not make changes, then the engine on the 30th would still hit Donnie's room on the 2nd, and Donnie would not be hit, and then the cycle of the offline universe would still restart on the 28th. This period of time is vague and can only be approximated.
In this film, Donnie decides to sacrifice herself because of being affected by love or something. After he carried his girlfriend's body up the mountain, the engine fell. Then time rewinds, the messy segment of the fireworks is supposed to say that time rewinds, rewinding to the transition point where the original universe and the offline universe overlap, which is also the point where the offline universe circulates itself. What was smashed was still the aircraft engine on the 30th in the offline universe. It’s unclear whether the 30th was the 30th in the previous cycle or the 30th in the cycle that was just returned, but in reality it has returned to the original universe. Donnie was killed by the engine in the original universe, so the original universe continued to run. So it can be seen that this coincidence point is very important, it includes two spaces. The operation of the original universe and the engines flying from the offline universe.
Therefore, based on my understanding above, several problems can be solved:
1. Donnie’s mother and sister died in an air disaster, why is the ending still there?
Because, it was the mother and sister in the offline universe that died, and in the original universe, it was only on October 2nd that Donnie was killed by the engine that fell from the plane crash in which his mother and sister died in the offline universe. There was no impact at all. Mother and sister in the original universe.
2. It says in the book, "The living recipient is the selected guide, responsible for placing the holy object in a position to return to the original universe." What is going on?
My understanding is that there is no reset. In the film, the male protagonist is responsible for death, and then allows the offline universe to return to the original universe through the connection point, which is to turn the engine that originally performed the offline universe cycle into the engine that killed Donnie in the original universe. This is the function of reset. As mentioned above, make a proposition. If A is not established (Donnie is not dead), then the engine is still the engine in the offline universe, if A is established (Donnie is dead), then the engine will return to the original The engine in the universe.
Many other questions should be answered by this kind of understanding...I watched this film 11 years after it was released, and then wrote this film review.. Not many people can see it... ....TAT
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