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Jaskittin
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For the first 10 minutes of this movie I was really skeptical and kind of blew it off. But after it was over, my mind was reeling. It really is a mind fuck for those intellegent enough to comprehend it. It took me 10 minutes after it was over to piece everything together.
Apr 17 2006 12:51AM
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ECfreeski3
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hahah same here. the very first scene i HATE for some reason, but after that i just love every second. and yeah you sit there for about 10 minutes just thinking afterward.
Apr 17 2006 1:19AM
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Anathema
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yeah it's the kind of movie you gotta watch over and over and over, and only then does it start to piece itself together. frank is the shit!!
Apr 17 2006 2:42AM
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Nihiriju
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yeha its really in depth.
Apr 17 2006 3:00AM
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WIfreeskier
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yes, def. see it numerous times, it's amazing
Apr 17 2006 11:15AM
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Spritz
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i love that movie. It took me forever to understand it, but if you buy the Directors cut of the video it has some extra stuff that helps explain it
Apr 17 2006 12:25PM
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Spritz
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i love that movie. It took me forever to understand it, but if you buy the Directors cut of the video it has some extra stuff that helps explain it
Apr 17 2006 12:25PM
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Mike-O
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Search a thread called "Everybody dies Alone".
Apr 17 2006 12:52PM
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enick
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such a bomb movie. i still dont get all of it
Apr 17 2006 1:03PM
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brit.
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i love that movie. i had to watch it so many times before i got it. it truly is a mind fuck.
Apr 18 2006 12:18PM
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creighton
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its such a good movie though..i might just watch it tonight
Apr 18 2006 9:18PM
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Danger.
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i LOVE the first seen...i don't know why. probably the camerawork mixed with Killing Moon.
Apr 18 2006 9:43PM
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LC.
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Fuck yeah, the first scene is awesome. The really long shot through the school is the best in the film though.
Apr 20 2006 12:39PM
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Xave
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The rabbit scared me but the movie is insane
Apr 20 2006 2:20PM
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IntoxicatedPee
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the movie was amazing and confusing but good
Apr 24 2006 4:27PM
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Xave
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Actually I've watched it twice and I still cannot understand shit. wow awesome movie
Apr 24 2006 6:26PM
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IntoxicatedPee
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i hear yah dude im still dumbfounded
Apr 24 2006 7:54PM
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mattyb.
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WOW i just watched it and it was amazing! i am still kinda thinking about it trying to get my thoughts together
Apr 25 2006 8:19PM
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willbro466
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i watched it about three years ago and dont remember it at all except for the rabbit. i need to rent it some time
Apr 26 2006 9:19PM
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-dva-
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yeah, thats definitely true. the first time i saw it was the directors cut and then the second time was the original, and i cant even imagine understanding it without seeing the added stuff. the movies website is really trippy, but helped me understand a little more too.
Apr 27 2006 9:53PM
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Kazabazua
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whats it about?
Apr 29 2006 6:43PM
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Ski_Punx
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I really like the first scene in the film shot to the song "Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen.
very cool.
May 4 2006 2:24PM
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Kazabazua
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but whats it about?
May 4 2006 6:23PM
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-dva-
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okay so this was what i got out of it. due to some crazy happening a new window has opened up in the path of time. it starts when "the artifact" (the plane engine) falls. donnie can either chose to save himself and the world will travel down this new path or the world ends or whatever (i forget exactly how it works, i havent watched to movie in awhile) or he can sacrifice himself to save everyone else involved, who would die otherwise. frank the bunny (i think) is from this other strain of time. the movie is about how donnie interacts with everyone around him, learns to stop being sad and emo, and eventually sucks it up and dies to save everyone else. as i recall you can go on wikkipedeia and get an explanation that a hell of a lot better than what i just said.
May 4 2006 7:38PM
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Grimace.
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good movie
i love every part of it
May 4 2006 9:09PM
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babysteeze84
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Awesome fucking movie.
May 5 2006 4:59AM
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SnowRiders.
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watch the extened version of it....its so much better
May 5 2006 10:45AM
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sdfjklioeur
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did anyone see the biggest fan thing in the extras, lol, wut a fag
May 8 2006 1:31AM
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Public_Maverick
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go back to china bitch
-chut up
May 8 2006 11:30AM
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mattyb.
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ughhh i hated how she said shut up

CHUT UPP
May 8 2006 5:52PM
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french_fry
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I just saw this movie, and it is going to be the next movie I watch as well...
Crazy, depressing, yet so great.
Mar 12 2007 2:41AM
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fappy
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absolutely hated it.
Mar 12 2007 2:59AM
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~Joe~
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i still dont really get it
Mar 12 2007 8:58AM
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nitsua
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i fell asleep.
Mar 12 2007 9:37AM
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hoodratz47
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really did not like this movie and it scares me how people treat this as the cinima peak of all time... kinda cool when he killed that kid with a rusty knife!
Mar 12 2007 10:19PM
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jaylib
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i watch this usually about twice a week. its my favorite movie. i know all the words. plus it really gets you thiinking
Mar 12 2007 10:51PM
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[~_~]
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haha it took me over a year to understand it:

Donnie escaped his death, or "God's path" which creates a tangent universe in which weird shit happens. He has become the Living Reciever; his job is to trigger a chain of events that lead to the artifact (jet engine) being returned back to the primary universe.

Frank and Gretchan were manipulated dead; their job was to manipulate Donnie into doing things that would make him return the jet engine.

Everyone else was a Manipulated Living, they do crazy things that normally wouldn't occur in the primary universe.

When Donnie has safely returned the artifact (engine), the tangent universe is safely guided back to the primary universe. If this task had not been completed, the two timelines would have strayed off of each other, and there would not be enough energy to support both universes, and they would collapse into a black hole in 28 days and all live and space would vanish.

Donnie does not have to die in the end. The reason is interpereted in many various ways. It was Richard Kelly's idea to make certain concepts of the movie open-ended.
(heres how I know he didnt have to die: in the first scene, donnie is riding his bike back to his house. Frank drives by in his red car! Donnie's sister is dating frank. In the begining, when she comes home late at night, you hear Frank honk his horn, and drive away. In the end, when the two universes have been linked together and she comes how late "again", Frank honks his horn, but DOES NOT drive away. He was trying to signal Donnie to get out of bed.)


Personally I think he believe he had no reason to live anymore. Gretchan was dead, and his life's mission was completed. He no longer feared death and he wanted to see what would happen. Thats just my opinion though.

In the beginning, Frank told Donnie the world would end. Since the world only exists as far as we conciously experiance it, the world ends when you die. So the underlying question is:

Did the world really end?





Donnie died, yet the "world" went on.

Definately the best movie I have ever seen, and I highly doubt I will ever see another movie was in-depth and genious as Richard Kelly's masterful creation.
Mar 13 2007 9:02PM
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East.
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You analyzed the shit out of that movie. I just thought he was on cocaine or some shit.
Mar 13 2007 11:55PM
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sack
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I love that movie; I wrote an essay on it. I interpreted it in an Aristotelian way and a Jungian way. I'm interested in psychology and my aunt is schizophrenic, so it was really intriguing for me.
Mar 14 2007 2:58AM
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Mat.
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When I watched that movie like six years ago my whole perspective on things totally changed, such an epicly dope movie. I love it.
Mar 14 2007 8:52PM
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Billups07
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i wrote an english paper on this movie for my 200 level english class last year. i had to watch it like 5 times and eventually i began to understand. it's a really deep movie though.
Mar 15 2007 3:01AM
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WIfreeskier
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very interesting, good point
Mar 15 2007 1:26PM
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sack
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he's schizophrenic which has symptoms similar to the effects of some drugs.
Mar 16 2007 2:27AM
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Abes2009
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i have yet to see this movie
Mar 17 2007 8:14PM
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sack
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see it!!
Mar 18 2007 2:11AM
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Abes2009
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im working on it!!
Mar 18 2007 10:02PM
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steezy-joe
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that movie is like 30 years old, but its rad
Mar 18 2007 10:21PM
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crooks
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in the directors one you learn that the pills are just water and dont do anything at all
Mar 19 2007 12:10AM
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sack
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yeah a placebo...
your point being...?
Mar 19 2007 6:12AM
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crooks
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oh nevermind i thought that you were saying that the pills he took made him have dreams or whatever
Mar 19 2007 3:25PM
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CerpinTaxt
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I think the reason Donnie has to die is because he needs to also get back on God's path. When Frank called him out of bed that night, he should have died. I think...

When is kelly doing another film? I'd heard rumours a while ago.
Mar 21 2007 6:51AM
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