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re: donnie darko (more SPOLERS)
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:31 am
by Kansler
re Timbob and Kvagga: Yea, I don't think "Frank" time-travelled really at all, if you mean the guy who drove the car and who got shot. But I think "Frank" was more of a haunting ghost of the future for Donnie, and so the Bunnie-Man was really just a kind of "vision" of the future (a premonition?), blended in with Donnie's own desires - like the thing about burning down that guy's house, that was just Donnie's own desire, right?
So that whole time-travelling business was just something Donnie himself ended up doing, but he sort of "saw it coming" as well. I think Donnie was a psychic, in a way: a love-sick psychic?
What a fun film. You could analyse it for hours on end.
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 1:27 pm
by tcb2000
Napoleon Dynamite - great little curiosity of a film...funny and, as Ed says, very sweet. I love the way it's got a very mid-80's feel and seems to be set around that time but has anachronisms such as the Internet and the Backstreet Boys in it!
Nice to hear the Penguin Cafe Orchestra in it. And the last track before the credits : 'The Promise' by When In Rome. I thought I was the only person in the world to know and remember that song!
Rich
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:30 pm
by Kvagga
(More possibly spoiling conversation of Donnie Darko...)
Kansler and Memly: Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
I was beginning to suspect myself that there were more "supernatural" powers involved... Also, now that I think of it, my initial thought of Frank (yeah Kansler, that was the name of the guy/bunny) timetravelling couldn't have been right anyway, since he had the bullethole in his face already when he showed it to Donnie the first time, and with the rule in timetravelling being to follow one's predetermined path (I guess back or forth) I think the body of Frank would've changed physically back as well.
Also initially I thought that Frank might've had some future knowledge of the guy's (whose house he burnt down) paedofilia, thus making him do that. But it probably was, like you said, in the end either just Donnie's own desire or his possible psychic powers... Especially since I don't remember a good reason for him having flooded the school (which would suggest only inner desire).
And who knows, maybe everything was all just part of Donnie's hallucinations and we were inside his head the whole movie, without ever knowing what really happened and if there was a Frank or even a Gretchen in the first place...
Whoops, long geeky analysis, but you're right, it's damn fun to analyze it.
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:07 pm
by Timbob
hi
i had to much to drink
so i am not going to explain it now.
hehe
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:17 pm
by legspin
Watching The Sting as we speak. Marvellous film and what a soundtrack.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:08 pm
by Karnorjax
Star Wars Episode 1 last nite ....
2 tonight or tommoorw
cos Im going to a press screening on Weds morning for Episode 3
Huzzzahhhh
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:32 pm
by contactmaker
Saw Zatoichi this weekend. Great little flick.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:28 am
by Dollydagger
Star Wars Episode 1 last nite ....
2 tonight or tommoorw
cos Im going to a press screening on Weds morning for Episode 3
Matt, I thought you'd be going to that screening in Leicester square of all 6 films back-to-back!!
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 3:49 pm
by custard99
yippee star wars opens mid may here in planet hot...
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:57 pm
by little twin star
just cried when i watched 'sweet november'starring keanu reeves & charlize theron
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 10:56 pm
by legspin
Just seen The Bourne Identity. 'Twas ok I suppose.
Gonna see THHGTTG again tomorrow and I shall be taking my youngest with me
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:33 am
by Funky Dung
I saw Episode III yesterday. Mmmmm.
Funky Dung
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 2:44 am
by SkinDeep
Yesterday I watched 'Sideways' and 'Pleasantville', both wonderful movies!
I am getting really peeved that people are already seeing Star Wars III though, you dirty mongrels.... got my tix for next Thursday but it seems like an eternity...
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:12 am
by Karnorjax
DOLLY
Matt, I thought you'd be going to that screening in Leicester square of all 6 films back-to-back!!
I was still in USA at Star Wars Celebration when the tickets went on sale and sold out in 5 mins. and witht hem now £500+ on ebay I aint got the funds !
plus I have seen Episode 3 this week on weds and am going again next tues nite for another screening with about 5 people in a HUGE screen ! for free !
would have loved to have gone to the 6 in one day thing but the odds were 3,720 to 1 !!
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:02 pm
by Dollydagger
Well if you still fancy it, the XFM breakfast show are running competions to win tickets to it every day...