Sunday, May 6, 2007

The manipulated

All the people Donnie meets after the jet engine smashes his room are manipulated people, who shall bring him towards his destiny. These people are family, friends and teachers. Their behaviour, what they say and what they do are irregular.

Their appearance in the tangent universe is sub-conscious and they have no idea of what they are doing there. When living in the tangent universe, they are like robots; their emotional life is more or less hibernating. When they face reality-in the primary universe, memoirs from the tangent universe will sometimes haunt them in their dreams. They will feel regret or shame for what they have done-if they remember it, or else, they will not understand what they have been a part of. The last scene of Donnie Darko shows the manipulated when thinking about what have happened. Most of them are afraid, scared or confused. They remember..

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