Painful "The Profound Truth of Time Travel"

Viva 2022-04-19 09:01:04

There is no shortage of struggles against today's outmoded institutions and traditions in the film.
But the book "The Profound Truth of Time Travel" is really painful to read.
It's like a fairy tale written by Andersen on toilet paper in the bathroom.

The whole story of the film is based on this book, what "sacred objects", "living bodies", "dead bodies" and "controlled".
Exaggerate the role of human beings to the extent that time and space can be reversed.
The people around him are all around the protagonist to complete a dream of salvation.
This book is the central idea of ​​fatalism. It is the rebirth of Christ, the reprint of the Bible.
The director went to great lengths to complicate the structure of the movie, just to make the audience watch the movie more than once.
And in the process of repeating, accept the nonsense of this 1944 Roberta Ann Sparrow book.

It is puzzling that the film has no shortage of criticism of traditional dogma, but uses a pseudo-logic as a clue to the story.
I really doubt whether the director has a hypocritical understanding of the theme of the film.

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Extended Reading

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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