r/donniedarko

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Me and my roommate were rewatching Donnie Darko and noticed a confusing moment that we noticed others hadn’t touched on. During the final segment that revealed the Manipulated, we see each of the Manipulated wake up(like Sparrow’s book says) EXCEPT Drew Barrymore’s character who seems to be sleeping almost unbothered by the events of the story unlike the other Manipulated who awoke in fear/stress including her lover/coworker who also checks on her. Is he checking that she felt the same feeling as well? We feel that this character perhaps has a far more significant role as a manipulated living or maybe is more powerful or has more control than the other manipulated livings, which is why she stays asleep almost like she is content with what happened or like she already knew it was going to happen. Is there more depth to this character that needs to be explored? Is there more significance to her staying asleep or was it nothing? Does her involvement as executive producer imply anything?

I’ve always wondered who else knew about Jim’s operations. In the canonical Donnie Darko universe, I think that’s where the storyline should explore from. It is sort of odd because it mirrors the Jeffrey Epstein thing quite a bit: centering on the single individual and the story sort of dying from there.

Thoughts and other theories are welcome; Hope this generates some discussion. This is one of my top 5 all time favorite movies for now.

First of all , I finished this movie like 30.mintues ago , and I have to say one thing, phenomenal.

And the other is why I am creating this post ,

To me Donnie was a perfect representation of psychosis, because nobody ever understands hallucinations, or psychic mind . I have gone through almost the same events that Donnie has gone through except I am now stable and wasn't killed by some time travel stuff because my story wasn't about time travel it was about something else. The part where it becomes too hard to call everything a mere "coincidence" is so real , I must say when I was manic I was also going through severe psychosis and everything just made sense a lot and most of the stuff didn't feel like a "coincidence" , there was logical explanation to EVERYTHING that happened to me. And it was and still is so hard to deny that everything was because of me being manic and hallucinations. I like to think that nobody truly understands why we see images that have no link to reality but somehow they make sense and a lot of sense sometimes and also , I won't be discussing anything about my person life here for various reasons