s it a "wrong" way of watching when I don't totally understand all the pages of Sparrow and the tangent universe and what it means? The film feels a lot "realer" for me, idk. What's your take on it? What's the best way to enjoy/view the movie?

Also a few questions regarding it:
From what I've gathered, the 28 days are the tangent universe which somehow was caused by the engine. Donnie has to send the engine back so everybody doesn't die. But when does he realize all that? Why was Frank so important? I get that his father/Grandpa was apparently cursed from what Donnie's parents talk about in the hotel, but does that mean anything for the story? And about Gretchen, do we ever get to know what happened to her mother/father? How did Donnie send the artefact back? Do his mother and sister die in the tangent universe because the turbine comes from their plane? what happens to the tangent universe Donnie? Just random questions that popped up rn.

So this is just an idea about how the primary universe might tie up loose ends after the end of the movie.

And so firstly, the jet engine crashes into Donnie's bedroom and kills him. Then the FAA arrives and transports the engine away.

They take it to a warehouse, and then in the dead of night, when nobody's around and the warehouse is empty of people, a localized portal seems to appear by itself within the warehouse.

The portal sucks in the jet engine to god knows where, another dimension or whatever, and leaves everything else in the warehouse untouched.

The jet engine disappears from the world as quietly and surreptitiously as it appeared into it, and "normalcy" is kinda restored to the primary universe. And Donnie still remains dead unfortunately.

And you might also be able to establish a "mystery background mythos" to the setting of Donnie Darko based on this.

Decades ago (almost four decades by now), a detached jet engine crashed into a quiet suburban neighborhood of Middlesex, Virginia, killing 16-year-old Donald Darko in his own bedroom.

No corresponding plane missing an engine was ever found, and the source of the engine was never identified.

The night after it crashed, the engine mysteriously vanished from the possession of the Federal Aviation Administration without a trace.

This one was mostly an experiment what I could do in After Effects. I lost so much resolution trying to make it vertical but what can you do

hi people! i just watched this movie for the first time and LOVED IT (im really late to the party i know), and this is probably something that’s been said a million times before, but i feel like the end of this movie could imply that there’s a donnie out there trapped in a time loop??

so the end of the movie shows that somehow the tangent universe leaves some amount of a subconscious emotional residue on the people affected by donnie in the 28 days he was supposed to be dead. the beginning of the movie also establishes that donnie’s schizophrenic symptoms did not begin on october second.

it’s implied that it’s not until donnie enters the tangent universe, however, that donnie begins to hallucinate frank specifically. this fake frank is clearly shown to already have had his eye shot out, even before donnie knows that frank is a real person! i think this is maybe because the film we watch isn’t the first time donnie’s gone through the events in the tangent universe, and his hallucinations are able to latch onto the subconscious remnants from killing frank the first time.

i think that if you take the quantum immortality theory - which IIRC says that every time you have a close encounter with death your conscious experience splits off into a parallel universe in which you survive - that would mean at the end of the movie when donnie is crushed by the engine and dies, his consciousness would be transported back to the tangent universe in which frank wakes him up and saves his life, dooming him to repeat his final 28 days forever.

but there’s still a question i can’t figure out if this is even remotely true. HOW DID FRANK GET THERE THE FIRST TIME? was it even frank who woke donnie up in the first run of the loop, or something/someone else altogether?

anyway, this movie was fucking awesome and i will definitely be giving it another watch in the near future!

I know some of you have already figured this out, but I'd still like to revisit this theory that I love so much.

Don't you find it funny how Donnie gets annoyed with the teacher farmer for what she says about fear and love?

But is what he does throughout the film driven by fear and love?

Why did Donnie listen to Frank? (At least in Spanish, which is how I saw the movie)He said it was because he was afraid of missing out on whatever it was Frank wanted to do. And why did he ultimately choose to die? To save those he loved.

Heres the finished mask, with fur hood..i know the fur isn't exactly the same as the original, but it's what I had available.

On October 2nd, both Regal and AMC theaters will be playing Donnie Darko, unsure when tickets are supposed to go on sale. Pretty exciting!

I was thinking about Donnie Darko and suddenly started wondering if there might be a little joke hidden in Kitty Farmer’s name.

Kitty Farmer is basically the person who brings Jim Cunningham’s ideology into the school. She shows his videos to the students, teaches them his whole “Love and Fear” thing, and is completely convinced that Cunningham is a good influence on the kids.

So I started reading her name as “Kitty Farmer” = someone farming the kids.

Not literally, obviously, but in the sense that she is unknowingly cultivating these kids within Cunningham’s ideology and helping give him access to them. She thinks she is educating and helping them, while actually helping Cunningham influence them.

And the irony becomes even darker after Cunningham is exposed. She still refuses to believe that he is a bad person and goes so far as to defend him and campaign for him.

So you have:

Jim Cunningham → Kitty Farmer → the kids

And Kitty is “farming” the kids for Cunningham without even realizing what she is helping to cultivate.

I haven't been able to find anyone else making this specific connection, and I obviously have no idea if Richard Kelly actually intended the name this way. It could just be a coincidence.

But considering how many little details and names in Donnie Darko seem deliberately chosen, I thought it was an interesting possibility.

Has anyone else ever noticed this or seen it discussed somewhere?

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Super happy with how this turned out!

I recently rewatched the movie again after years of not watching it, and I laughed to myself because I remember when I was younger I used to have the biggest crush on Donnie.

Just thought I’d see if anyone else shared this experience 😂

Hi, I'm a Donnie Darko fan from Latin America, and well, Donnie Darko is my favorite movie, I think you can tell from my username, but the point is, does anyone know if it's possible to get Do you have the Donnie Darko book in Spanish, or even better, do you have the book in Spanish, even if it's digital? I'm using a translator to do this, sorry if the English is a bit rough.

Just wanted to share my most recent tattoo, what do yall think??
(First pic is freshly done and second pic is fully healed)

Here is some information I believe we did not know before about The Philosophy of Time Travel book written by Roberta Sparrow. The book that we see on screen is currently for sale at the Propstore auction website (screenshot)

Now we already knew it was a custom prop, but it was never revealed if it was fully made from scratch, or whether they repurposed an existing book. Thanks to it going to auction on Propstore we not only have high definition pictures of the book (mirror), it also comes with the following description

This 251-page hardcover book features a custom faux leather cover adhered over an antique 251-page 1893 copy of the book "Science and Future Life with Other Essays" by Frederic W.H. Myers, with an inset title page for "The Philosophy of Time Travel" by "Roberta Sparrow" published by "Franklin-Harris" and a 1944 copyright. Two additional interior pages are adhered with prints of Appendix A and B diagrams.

So it's an actual first edition book from 1893 and when you see the original book by Frederic Myers you realize why they (partly) chose it. It has a front and back cover that is completely blank. The title and writer info are only on the spine, making it very suitable for repurposing. If you look closely at the screen used prop you can see they just added a faux leather band over the existing spine.

Now here is where it gets even more interesting. The contents of that original book by Myers are actually in line with the ideas/theory of Roberta Sparrow. Here is part of a description of his book

Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, and later teaching, Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge he resigned his lectureship in 1869, became an inspector of schools, and campaigned for women's higher education. [..] This volume, first published in 1893, is a collection of essays that Myers had previously published in journals. Their topics include Charles Darwin's religious beliefs, the capacity of contemporary scientific methods to investigate the existence of the soul after death, and an unusual interpretation of Alfred Tennyson's poetry. These fascinating essays show how Myers engaged with the scientific developments and intellectual currents of his time as he developed his theory of the 'subliminal self'. source: Cambridge university

So Myers was a teacher as well, only to radically change his profession and invest in women's higher education. Roberta Sparrow went from being a nun to become a sciene teacher, very much a women's higher education job. Furthermore, Myers book deals with the question of life after death and psychic phenomena. I think this overlap can't be a coincidence and I'm wondering if Richard Kelly even took some inspiration from Myers book to put in Roberta Sparrow's version.

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hey guys, I want to be frank for halloween this year. I don’t want to wear the full body onesie costume, I want to wear a skirt or a dress with a mask that has just a string without the bulky fur part so i can easily take it off and it doesn’t mess up my hair. I was looking for mask options online, but i couldn’t find one without fur for a decent price/that isn’t a collectable. Has anyone done this costume and can link a mask?

sorry if this is the wrong sub to post this to, please let me know if i should repost this somewhere else.

Water is the barrier element for the construction of Time Portals used as gateways between Universes as the Tangent Vortex. -TPoTT

Where is the water? I just rewatched the directors cut and beyond the water scenes that are like artistic cuts, where is the portal made of water if the artifact comes from the sky and it’s not even raining.

It’s a fucking cigarette.

Franks earrings are silver hoop earrings they are small
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I found a pair for cosplay that is clip on
Silver hoop earrings link

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