Donnie Darko
Summary
Donnie Darkoquotes are a big intellect that the picture remain such a darling cult classic and still delivers an emotional punch for viewer to this day . Released in 2001,Donnie Darkois a sci - fi thriller about a mellow schoolhouse educatee named Donnie Darko ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) who is a somnambulist . This save his life one night when he sleepwalks far from his home on the night that a part of an aeroplane fall from the sky and doss into his home . It is then that he meets a mysterious person in a jumbo rabbit costume name Frank who tells him the world will finish in 28 days , 6 hours , 42 minutes , and 12 second base .
The movie is only partly about the threatening warning about the end of the world . A debut masterpiece for director Richard Kelly , the movie is about the human experience and how hoi polloi interact with each other , a causal agent and effect where every determination can destroy or intoxicate someone . Donnie is connect in this taradiddle by his eclectic family , a new girl in town named Gretchen , a caring teacher , a self - avail guru with a dark secret , and that man in a giant hare costume . Along the way , they all deliver quotes that are laughable , ironic , and often profound .
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20“I Can Do Anything I Want. And So Can You.”
Frank
When Donnie Darko first meets Frank the Rabbit , he is mostly amused that he is talking to a human race in a ridiculous rabbit costume . This leads to Donnie realizing that this unusual gentleman’s gentleman can do thing that are outside the kingdom of realness . When he asks how Frank does what he does , the result is simple but also reveals the truth about Donnie . Frank can do anything he wants , although he can only be seen by and talk to Donnie . However , the second part is the key bit of the quote , as he enjoin Donnie can also do anything he wants to do . The interrogative sentence now is whetherDonnie Darko will save the worldor endeavor to save himself .
19“You Are A Fear Prisoner. Yes, You Are A Product Of Fear.”
The entire theme of Donnie Darko is this one in high spirits school student figuring out his place in the human race . He is very smart but does n’t really give care enough to try . He is outspoken to a break , and while he is mostly always veracious when he speaks up , he has never learned to ban himself out of respect for others . With all that aver , Donnie does this because he is scared . He is frightened of grow up and scared of possibly never have a chance to produce up . He acts out and prepare himself an Ishmael , but he does all this with a good sense of fear of life itself . This quote symbolize everything haywire with Donnie , and he do it it .
18“Some People Are Just Born With Tragedy In Their Blood.”
Gretchen Ross
While Donnie Darko seems to want to walk alone , other than his prize friends , he ends up connecting with the novel girl in Ithiel Town , Gretchen . The two sports meeting when their English teacher asks Gretchen to baby-sit next to the cutest son in the class , and she chooses Donnie . Over the course of the movie , the two grow penny-pinching , and she realizes there is darkness come after Donnie everywhere that he fail . Like most people inDonnie Darko , Gretchen is wiser than her eld , as shown when she surrender this quote to Donnie . It is a path to let him know she understands , while also ensuring him that it is n’t his fault .
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17"I Made A New Friend Today."
Donnie Darko prides himself as a loner , and he has no problem wearing that badge on his sleeve for anyone to see . He has some friends from years past , but Donnie often talks down to them and never seems to allow himself to fit in with anyone . This plays out when he meets Frank the Rabbit , who fall in Donnie a role in living when he reveals the earth is coming to an end . While Donnie is see his therapist , she ask him how he has been doing , and he tell apart her he made a unexampled friend . deplorably , she asks if his new friend is " actual or fanciful , " render that even his therapist sees little hope in Donnie in the literal earth .
16"The Search For God Is Absurd?"
Dr. Lilian Thurman
When it amount to Donnie Darko ’s healer , Dr. Lilian Thurman , it often seems that she is the same as most other adult in the movie . No one seems to understand kids , and even Donnie ’s English teacher Karen state that no one realize how to peach to or help the kids in society . Dr. Thurman listens to Donnie tell the story about meet Roberta Sparrow , and he total that he does n’t debate being alone and says it is absurd to think otherwise . She ask if the hunt for God is absurd , and Donnie bluntly answers it is if everyone dies alone . Donnie , deep down , does n’t want to be alone .
15"Donnie Darko? What The Hell Kind Of Name Is That? It’s Like Some Sort Of Superhero Or Something."
Donnie Darkois not like a traditional superhero motion-picture show , yet it does contain sure elements of it . There is the surface - level similarity of the protagonist ’s name having alliteration like Peter Parker or Bruce Banner . More significantly , Donnie Darkobecomes the story of a stripling who save his universe and the people he loves . Most of the characters suppose Donnie is weird at best and highly brainsick at worst , but none of them translate Donnie ’s greater aim , and even he does n’t understand it until the ending of the movie . Director Richard Kelly has even share in an interview withFandomhow the motion picture spoke to the regard - fulfillment of superhero stories .
14"You Can’t Lump Things Into Two Categories. Things Aren’t That Simple."
Donnie Darkotackles the full spectrum of human emotion in all its beaut and nuisance , as Donnie is torment when his gym teacher pressure him and his equal to engross in an exercise where they explicate whether a scenario is the product of fear or love . Donnie is right to flout at this thought , as life can not be boil down to everything being rooted in fear or love . There is always more emotion in romp and always more to the story . This is reliable of Patrick Swayze ’s character Jim Cunningham who is harboring a dark and disturbing enigma about himself , despite being a seemingly witching and vestal motivational speaker who touts the idea of conquering fear through sexual love .
13"Aren’t We Forgetting About The Miracle Of Storytelling? The Deus Ex Machina, The God Machine? That’s What Saved The Rabbits."
Karen Pomeroy
After readingWatership Downand watching an quicken picture version of it in his English class , Donnie scoffs at the idea that he should care about the rabbits . Karen Pomeroy reminds Donnie of the miracle of storytelling . Her line is an important reminder of how the in force fictional stories are have in mind to connect to and teach their audience . Her line about deus ex machina foreshadows the importance of it later on in Donnie ’s journeying . It is also ironical that this entire part of the patch was important when it came to Richard Kelly make the picture . In some behind - the - scenesDonnie Darkofacts , Frank the Rabbit himself was inspired byWatership Down .
12"I Promise That One Day Everything Is Going To Be Better For You."
Before being well - known for her operation inOrange Is The New Black , Jolene Purdy played Cherita Chen inDonnie Darko . Cherita is bullied throughout the film and despite having special silver screen sentence , Purdy helps the audience commiserate profoundly with her character . At one point , Donnie promises that everything will be better for her one day . This kind of line would feel vacuous in most movies but it in reality terminate up being quite important . Not only does the line show Donnie being more compassionate and sensitive than his peer , but he be up to his hope as he at long last deliver Cherita and everyone else .
11"I Don’t Think That You Have A Clue What It’s Like To Communicate With These Kids."
Many of the adult inDonnie Darkostruggle to link with the nipper and young adults in the story . One of these characters was played byDrew Barrymore , who actually help get the flick made . Karen Pomeroy is one of the few grownup capable to in effect communicate and link with Donnie . Despite the gift that she has , Karen is fired from her occupation for political reasons , which is a commentary on the absurdity of bureaucracy and how the domain of breeding often does a disservice to the baby they are supposed to be serve well . She finished by saying ,
" We are losing them to apathy … to this prescribed hokum . They are slipping away . "
