Knowledge Brings Fear: Movie logic

November 03, 2003

Movie logic

I watched the movie Donnie Darko the other day. This is one of these movies that keep you thinking for a while because of their multiple levels of logic. If you havent seen the movie, please dont read ahead as the following contains some spoilers.

Most of the mysteries of the movie become clear after reading the excerpt from the fictous book The Philosophy of Time Travel that plays a major role in the movie. But one thing is still completely unclear to me: if the role of the Manipulating Dead is to make the Living Receiver close the vortex to the tangent universe by returning the artifact, why has Frank made Donnie wake up and leave the house in the first place? And if the goal was the return of the jet engine to the tangent universe, why does he need to die under it as it has obviously not been "returned"?

If you havent seen the movie the paragraph above may sound like I show serious signs of begining mental problems, but thats the usual effect of submerging into artificial constructs of logic. ;-)

Anyway, the movie is worth watching, even if you (like me) do not like horror movies. It has been marketed in a completely stupid and inappropriate way, so ignore all the marketing gibberish.

Posted by frank at November 3, 2003 09:48 PM | TrackBack

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