Without giving to much away, this is a great film about whether time travel is possible, this is explicit in the movie, with a discussion on the book, The Philosophy of Time Travel, which is made up as part of the movie. It seems to me that this film isn't for those who are looking to figure out the question, but rather for those willing to ask the questions. One of the great lines in the middle of the film is: "There cannot be a God, if we all die alone." And the main character concludes that we do die alone, because no one else can enter into the darkest and deepest places of our minds, or imagine what we can imagine. It is interesting how it is labeled a science fiction movie, but the writer/director helps the audience understand how real each of the characters is and how like us they are. I think the fundamental question of the movie is whether human life is significant. And it makes you seriously consider "no" as an answer, although I think in the end we can still answer it in the affirmative.
Here are the lyrics to a song by Sara Groves that sound like they should be the soundtrack to the movie.
I'm trying to work things out
I'm trying to comprehend
Am I the chance result
Of some great accident
I hear a rhythm call me
The echo of a grand design
I spend each night in the backyard
Staring up at the stars in the sky
I have another meeting today
With my new counselor
My mom will cry and say
I don't know what to do with her
She's so unresponsive
I just cannot break through
She spends all night in the backyard
Staring up at the stars and the moon
They have a chart and a graph
Of my despondency
They want to chart a path
For self-recovery
And want to know what I'm thinking
What motivates my mood
To spend all night in the backyard
Staring up at the stars and the moon
Maybe this was made for me
For lying on my back in the middle of a field
Maybe that's a selfish thought
Or maybe there's a loving God
Maybe I was made this way
To think and to reason and to question and to pray
And I have never prayed a lot
But maybe there's a loving God
And that may be a foolish thought
Or maybe there is a God
And I have never prayed a lot
But maybe there's a loving God
February 03, 2005
Donnie Darko - 7
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I think this is such an amazing film! I've watched it a few times now and I still find it facinating. It really offers some insight into consiouness and unconsiouness. What do each mean and which one is more 'real'? I like how everything ties together in the end. I think that's what makes you still able to believe that life is significant. We are all connected and every movement has a ripple effect which we can't always see.
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