When i was in graduate school Donnie Darko was one of the few (i think 3) movies that i owned, this was before torrent was big and when pirating wasn't common practice.
I watched this movie 3-4 times each week, for years. Near ~750+ times most of which i was awake for, it became routine for me to fall asleep after studying with this movie playing. There is a lot to this movie.
Yeah. I've seen it a few times. It's got good writing, and a cool mathematics/quantum mechanics origin. They usually don't make movies with enough background story to make the superficial front end strong and thought provoking. This movie has a lot of neat ideas behind it.
The tangent universe they base the story off of is based in retrocausation aka retrocausality.
The theory is that when there's a break in time it forms an offshoot from the main timeline in the shape of a circle or ellipse that is separate from the main timeline. Like a coffee mug.
So what happens in the movie is that there's an artifact that causes this break and a new timeline is formed in the loop. And the majority of the story is in this tangent universe and when the tangent universe finally intersects back with the main timeline, it's destroyed and everything is back to normal except one thing.
The artifact is the effect that creates the cause. Instead of the natural cause and effect. It's backwards. This is a theory of quantum mechanics because cause and effect aren't defined in any way at the fundamental level.
Thanks for that. I read your post earlier and just watched it again for just the 2nd time. Great movie
Alan Watts did a great job explaining how the future affects the past, or how the effect can lead to the cause.
For example, if someone were to say "The bark of the ____" the previous part of this sentence can be altered by the future. If the next word is "tree" it's entirely different than if the next word is "dog". What comes after totally changes the meaning of what came before.
Cellar Door
Kind of like ''DEBBIE DOES DALLAS'' If I watched it once I must have watched it 1000 times the tape itself wore out long before I lost interest in the content.
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