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Originally Posted by hagatha
I was talking to him today and he sited Donny Darko as another one that really demonstrates this idea. Hmmm. If I was able to really wrap my mind around that film maybe I would agree...but I was left just scratching my head. Some works are just too esoteric for me.
Given the excellent suggestions made thus far, I think I should be teaching this class.
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The devasting part of the film was Donny losing his girlfriend. The dénouement is that Donny comes to terms with his apparent break in psychosis to learn that he was supposed to die that day the airplane engine crashed in his room. He sacrificed himself so that the world doesn't come to an end because he escaped his destiny. That is wht he was given exactly 28 days(or was it 29?) to set the event right to preserve the fabric of time and space. An implicit
deux ex machina was given in order for the ending to make a lick of sense to the entire body of the plot and film.
At least,
that's what I took from it.
EDIT: and it is 'cited'.
