{"id":156,"date":"2005-12-09T03:14:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2006-06-11T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T02:41:10","slug":"donnie-darko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/09\/donnie-darko\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Darko"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just watched Donnie Darko<\/a> today. It’s quite an intriguing movie. Though it left a lot of questions unanswered, but deadlock says the Director’s Cut explains a lot more, so I guess I’ll be rewatching it. Actually, after discussing with deadlock, most of my questions got answered. In fact, it turns out I watched the Director’s Cut. Haha. You can watch the trailer here<\/a>. There’s also the Director’s Cut trailer<\/a>. IMDB users rated this movie an 8.3<\/a>. You can get the DVD<\/a> at Amazon.com or the Director’s Cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Spoilers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The movie starts off with a plane crash and a sequence of events where Donnie Darko, the super hero of this movie, meets his imaginary friend Frank, a giant evil looking bunny, who saves his life. They only found the jet engine, but no actual plane crash and the jet engine landed smack into Donnie’s bedroom. However, Donnie is a sick boy with mental problems and he was sleep walking thanks to his imaginary friend. The story continues with an fantastic ending.<\/p>\n

MAJOR SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several of the questions I had included what would happen after Donnie Darko’s death. Would the timeline be the same? Or would it be completely different? I’d imagine that the plane crash would still have to occur since if the plane crash doesn’t occur, no jet engine would travel back in time, and no dead Donnie Darko. However, because of Donnie Darko’s death, he would not have a chance to burn down that Fear guy’s house. That will lead to the gym teacher not asking Donnie’s mom to take the dance team to compete, since the reason why the gym teacher couldn’t go was because that the she was a big fan of the Fear guy and wanted to be at his hearing or trial to support him. With Donnie’s mom not taking the dance team to the competition in LA, neither her daughter or she would be on the earlier flight home which became the plane crash.<\/p>\n

One does wonder if the Fear guy operating the underground kiddie porn network would ever be revealed.<\/p>\n

Another question I was wondering was what did happen to the mother of Donnie’s girlfriend. If you remember, she came looking for Donnie at the Halloween party saying her mom disappeared and the house was a ruin. One could only assume that the stepfather found them. Yes, the stepfather that stabbed the mom’s chest 4 times.<\/p>\n

Another question was regarding Grandma Death. What was she waiting for? Was she really senile? Did she know that Donnie was going to give her a letter? Will she not wait anymore now that Donnie’s dead?<\/p>\n

Also, the legend regarding Grandma Death hoarding a lot of money and gems, and the fact that the 2 punks actually tried to rob her on Halloween, leads me to actually think who she really is. They never elaborated much about her past besides that she used to be a nun, wrote a book called the Philosophy of Time Travel<\/em> and became a teacher at Middlesex school.<\/p>\n

“Cellar Door” was noted as the most beautiful phrase\/words by the English teacher (played by Drew Barrymore). I actually think that it’s quite beautiful, but I wonder if any linguist ever really said that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Welp, that being said, if you’ve never seen this movie, go watch it! It’s rated in the top 100 movies of all time!<\/p>\n

One special note that the movie mentioned that I never knew was that Smurfette was actually a spy sent by Gargamel to infiltrate the smurf camp. According to Wikipedia<\/a>: Smurfette<\/strong>, a female Smurf with more delicate features than the male Smurfs, was chemically created by the sorcerer Gargamel as obnoxious and with stiff, black hair. She was transformed through a spell cast by Papa Smurf, wearing a white dress, white high heels and having long wavy blonde hair (surgery in the comics).<\/em> It’s a fact that I never knew. There’s jokes about how she’s the only female smurf and would mate with all the other smurfs to have babies, but apparently smurfs can’t reproduce. Baby Smurf (male-gendered) joined the village later, brought in by a stork, which increased the number of smurfs to 101. (The number eventually went higher as more Smurfs appeared.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just watched Donnie Darko today. It’s quite an intriguing movie. Though it left a lot of questions unanswered, but deadlock says the Director’s Cut explains a lot more, so I guess I’ll be rewatching it. Actually, after discussing with deadlock, most of my questions got answered. In fact, it turns out I watched the Director’s … <\/p>\n

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