if the savior must die

Courtney 2022-04-20 09:01:03

Donni Darko, like the name of a big man?

No, he was just a bad boy, maybe he would have been a writer or a painter in the future. On the night the plane parts fell in his room, he was awakened by a voice that said the world would end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. He believes the world will end, but what does this have to do with him?

Later, he saw Rabbit Man, who was instigated to vent violence; he saw cylindrical water waves on everyone's chest, just like time travel written in the book; he met a girl who appeared like a pre-apocalyptic girl bright light.

Is all of this a predestined alternative reality, or an illusion haunted by death?

I think when he dialed back the time for that girl, he probably didn't realize that the world was changed by him too.

Under the rendering of the sad Mad World, the world was rescued and the story ended, but the psychological sadness did not disappear.

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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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