A few explanations of the biggest controversy in "Death Illusion"!

Vincenzo 2022-04-22 07:01:02

I don't know how many times I've watched it, but I've rewatched it again recently, and I just love this show! A lot of people don't understand and don't want to work hard to understand, do their homework, and give one or two stars casually. I really think you can watch those brain-saving popcorn movies, and those who are willing to use their brains can listen to me nagging a few words. .

1. Regarding the relationship between the offline universe and the real universe: The film said that the offline universe will appear when the time and space are unstable, and the real universe should be suspended at this time, and everyone temporarily falls into the offline universe. In order to protect themselves, the protagonist is urged to return the holy relic (airplane engine), after the mission is successful, the offline universe disappears, everyone returns to the real world, the dead can also be resurrected, everything starts over again, most of the memory disappears, leaving only a very small part, just like we wake up and only remember Part of the meaning of the content of the dream. And Duck has all the memories, why the second point.

2. Does the male protagonist choose to die by himself: Yes! Because he has experienced all this, he has seen through life and death, and he doesn't want to grow old alone, so he chooses death, and the smile on the bed at the end is the proof, so does he have the memory of the offline world when he returns the sacred object back to reality? Of course there is! Not only is the dying grandma a living example, she is also a superhero back then. After saving the world, she not only lived well, but also wrote a book of salvation for her successor as a guide. So the conclusion is that the savior can choose not only to live, but also to live with memory. Maybe our male protagonist thinks it is more meaningful to be a lone hero who saves everyone after dying!

3. About fatalism and agnosticism: The male protagonist thinks that every step is his own active choice, but in fact, he is trapped by a rabbit. This is his fate that cannot be escaped. The fate is in the hands of God. Maybe the director is a pious Christ. Apprentice!

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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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