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* Honestly, I saw that as the actual plot. Makes more sense than any other thing about the movie.
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** Honestly, I saw that as the actual plot. Makes more sense than any other thing about the movie.
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Similar to Frank touching his eye, and Gretchen and Donnie's mom waving in the primary universe, Donnie was laughing because of the imprint left from what he did in the tangent universe.
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Similar to Frank touching his eye, and Gretchen and Donnie's mom waving in the primary universe, Donnie was laughing because of the imprint left from what he did in the tangent universe.universe.
[[WMG: Donnie survived in the first place without Frank's help.]]
Everyone seems to assume that Frank is the one who saved Donnie from a plane crash that Donnie caused in the alternate timeline that wouldn't have even existed if Frank hadn't saved him. But what if Frank never actually saved him? What if the plane was always going to crash no matter who was on it, the wormhole to the past always existed no matter what Donnie (or Frank) did, and Donnie only survived because he was just plain sleepwalking that night? The paradox always existed, creating a repeating loop of time in the tangent, and eventually Donnie finds a way to start manipulating the wormhole in an effort to reach the past and save the universe. However, to keep his past self from recognizing him, he takes the form of Frank, the person he killed, to give his past self the illusion that some otherworldly creature was guiding him. Each time he guides him, though, something else goes wrong, like when his mother and sister are on the plane that crashes. (For all we know, Kitty Farmer would have kept the girls behind at least another night, meaning they wouldn't have died in the original timeline.) The "paths" that his past self sees are Donnie conditioning him to believe they're paths that *must* be followed in order to lead him where he needs to go. He influences Gretchen to flirt with his past self so he'll fall in love with her and then leads them to a place where she'll be killed so his past self will be willing to sacrifice himself.
[[WMG: Donnie survived in the first place without Frank's help.]]
Everyone seems to assume that Frank is the one who saved Donnie from a plane crash that Donnie caused in the alternate timeline that wouldn't have even existed if Frank hadn't saved him. But what if Frank never actually saved him? What if the plane was always going to crash no matter who was on it, the wormhole to the past always existed no matter what Donnie (or Frank) did, and Donnie only survived because he was just plain sleepwalking that night? The paradox always existed, creating a repeating loop of time in the tangent, and eventually Donnie finds a way to start manipulating the wormhole in an effort to reach the past and save the universe. However, to keep his past self from recognizing him, he takes the form of Frank, the person he killed, to give his past self the illusion that some otherworldly creature was guiding him. Each time he guides him, though, something else goes wrong, like when his mother and sister are on the plane that crashes. (For all we know, Kitty Farmer would have kept the girls behind at least another night, meaning they wouldn't have died in the original timeline.) The "paths" that his past self sees are Donnie conditioning him to believe they're paths that *must* be followed in order to lead him where he needs to go. He influences Gretchen to flirt with his past self so he'll fall in love with her and then leads them to a place where she'll be killed so his past self will be willing to sacrifice himself.
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[[WMG: Frank (the one shown through most of the movie, not the one at the very beginning, and at/after the party, and at the very end) was a re-invention of [[WatershipDown the Black Rabbit of Inlé]].]]
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[[WMG: Frank (the one shown through most of the movie, not the one at the very beginning, and at/after the party, and at the very end) was a re-invention of [[WatershipDown [[Literature/WatershipDown the Black Rabbit of Inlé]].]]
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* In a deleted scene, Donnie's class even discussed [[WatershipDown Watership Down]]. Frank also kinda looks like the Grim Reaper, with that skull mask of his.
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* In a deleted scene, Donnie's class even discussed [[WatershipDown Watership Down]].''Literature/WatershipDown''. Frank also kinda looks like the Grim Reaper, with that skull mask of his.
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It's obvious. There is more than one allusion to theology and the search for God in the movie. Also, both the story and the main character of the movie have some parallels to Martin Scorsese's movie TheLastTemptationOfChrist and how it characterizes Jesus; and this movie is one of the movies shown in the cinema where Donnie and Gretchen watch ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''.
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It's obvious. There is more than one allusion to theology and the search for God in the movie. Also, both the story and the main character of the movie have some parallels to Martin Scorsese's movie TheLastTemptationOfChrist Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist and how it characterizes Jesus; and this movie is one of the movies shown in the cinema where Donnie and Gretchen watch ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''.
