I dreamed that I was dead

Trevor 2022-04-21 09:01:04

I dreamed that I was dead (end lyrics).
Before the last ten minutes, while fast-forwarding, I thought: Where is this high IQ and high technology? This clearly tells the hard life of a literary teenager who is addicted to his own world and out of tune with the surrounding. Minutes before it was really shaken. Similar to the butterfly effect, the ending cannot be changed, only the beginning can be changed, sacrifice oneself, and stop it from the source. If you don't consider the director's comments and explanations and just watch the movie itself, what the movie shows is more like the near-death experience of the male protagonist. The memories between being hit by an airplane engine and his death, there are many disappointments in life, happiness It’s better to live than to die, so go to death calmly and smile Jiuquan. At the end, the engine hits, and there is a close-up of the portrait of Mr. Rabbit beside the bed. The male protagonist loves literature and painting and is determined to make it his career. The whole story is a fictional half-dream and half-awake created by the male protagonist's own rich imagination, which can explain this hallucination/memory/dream so real bizarre. In hallucinations/memories/dreams, the male protagonist floods the school, burns the house of the porn fanatic, the goddess becomes his girlfriend, the sister is admitted to Harvard, the sister participates in the show, and saves his girlfriend, family and the world by himself. In real life, the sisters and sisters The wish has not been fulfilled, the goddess is just a stranger, and the life of the goddess does not seem to be miserable and does not need to be saved by herself. And arguing with a teacher you don't like, getting fired from a teacher you like, seeing a psychiatrist, these should be real. True and false, the fusion of reality and illusion flashes back in the moment before death. In such films, the directors intentionally introduce ambiguity and cause controversy. For example, in "K Star Alien", the male protagonist can be understood as a mental patient or an alien.

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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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