Donnie Darko--Makes Me A Little Bit Incomprehensible

Cleve 2022-07-18 23:05:46

It's really a bitter and incomprehensible work. It's like you're reading a big book. This should be a work with the utmost care of the author, but it's just a little too deep, and we can't understand it. Of course, there are sometimes exceptions. It cannot be ruled out that some people are pretending, and this film should not be one of them.

It is said that if you want to understand this film, you must first read and understand a book called "Time Travel Upanishads". Because the concepts in the movie are "offline universe", "primitive universe", "sacred objects and living bodies", "the analysis of "subject", "recipient of living body", "dream", "dead control body" and "living control body" are all in the book, and they all sound difficult to understand. Are all the comrades with high scores reading books? Or are they all geniuses? The world is really messed up...

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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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