Directed by Richard Kelly.
Donnie Darko is a bizarre and confusing story about a troubled teen played by Jake Gyelenhaal, who is warned by a larger and rather disturbing bunny rabbit named Frank that the world is going to end in precisely 28days, six hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. At the end of the film, Donnie realizes that he must sacrifice himself to save the world from the impending apocalypse. But he is that what really happens. There's more than one possible reading, one way to interpret the events of the film is through time-travel and alternate universe. In the movie Donnie asks his science teacher about time-travel and he gives Donnie a book entitled The Philosophy of Time-Travel written by Roberta Sparrow, also known as grandma death. In the director's cut, Sparrow's book explains the time can become unstable resulting in an alternate Tangent Universe parallel to the Primary Universe. This Tangent Universe can only last for a few weeks before collapsing in on itself. Forming a black hole that is capable of destroying all existence.
In the film, The Tangent Universe is created at midnight on October 2nd 1998, right before Donnie meets Frank. This means, every events afterwards takes place withing the Tangent Universe except the final scene.
It is never explained why this Tangent Universe is created, but Frank tells Donnie the exact time both The Tangent and Primary Universe will lend. Coincidentally this date is the birthday of Graham Greene, the author of this short story that is read in the movie.
The book says that the person known as a receiver, must return an artifact in this case, the jet engine back to the Primary Universe, via wormhole where the Tangent Universe will collapse and destroy everything.
In the film, The Tangent Universe is created at midnight on October 2nd 1998, right before Donnie meets Frank. This means, every events afterwards takes place withing the Tangent Universe except the final scene.
It is never explained why this Tangent Universe is created, but Frank tells Donnie the exact time both The Tangent and Primary Universe will lend. Coincidentally this date is the birthday of Graham Greene, the author of this short story that is read in the movie.
The book says that the person known as a receiver, must return an artifact in this case, the jet engine back to the Primary Universe, via wormhole where the Tangent Universe will collapse and destroy everything.
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