Recommended Movie-Illusion of Death

Tara 2021-10-13 13:05:30

I watched Donnie Darko a long time ago, and downloaded it again today and watched it again. This first film by Richard Kelly, who just graduated from the Film Department of the University of Southern California, has something very interesting. It seems that I didn’t understand it at all when I watched it, but I still know it is a good film-but there is always I have this feeling for surprising places or films with a little philosophical significance but 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 is just a superficial explanation, and it will inevitably smell 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. The structure of the universe is a spiral that cannot find when it begins 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" "All of them are 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.

Probably 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 his thinking is a problem. It is a precursor to 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 to change the status quo due to a plane crash. He used the "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 movie 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 implies, it is a universe that is out of the mainline and an unstable universe. Such accidents rarely happen. , But once the offline universe appears, it itself 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, and iron is used to construct holy objects. The sign of the offline universe is the appearance of holy objects, and people around the holy objects 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. He needs to send the holy artifacts back to the original universe, so as to save the world. How to send it back, personally, It is considered to be the combination of the holy object and the recipient, because it is mentioned in the film that the living recipient should have taken the holy object as his own out of curiosity, and D was not combined with the holy object in the first place.

OK, I’m talking a little bit more plainly. The holy thing 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 annihilated 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 bunnyman 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 bunnyman’s image is a living body, and he plays a living The person controlling the body is the dead controlling body.

Finally, 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! With a

few questions, I didn't expect to fully understand it is such a comfortable feeling that I missed the match between China and Iran! Watching the film recorded 5 paper heads. .

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Donnie Darko quotes

  • [Pommeroy is reading to the class from the 1954 short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene]

    Karen Pommeroy: "There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the Barrow Boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery's house had been destroyed. It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his 15th year crystallized with the pain of puberty." What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage? Why did the children break into Old Misery's House? Joanie?

    Joanie James: They wanted to rob him.

    Karen Pommeroy: Joanie, if you had actually read the short story, which, at a whopping 13 pages, would have kept you up all night, you would know that the children find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it.

  • Gretchen: Um, where do I sit?

    Karen Pommeroy: Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.

    [the class gasps]

    Karen Pommeroy: Quiet! Let her choose.

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