Another interpretation of Frank is that he is the same bunny-man that Donnie shot, and that after his death his spirit was no longer bound by time. It's not uncommon for ghosts in movies to deliver warnings to the living - the difference with Frank is that he delivers his warning before he even dies.
Details from The Philosophy of Time Travel support this theory, referring to a particular type of spirit known as the "Manipulated Dead. By going back in time and remaining in his bedroom to die instead of escaping his fate, Donnie succeeds in closing the tangent universe and changing the future. This choice will inevitably save several lives. His mother and sister won't die, because even if they do get on the plane it will no longer crash now that the time vortex that sucked in its engine has been closed.
He prevents Gretchen from dying, since she was only hit by the car because she was with Donnie. Frank won't die, because he was killed by Donnie in reaction to Gretchen's death. Of course, there are also some less desirable consequences of Donnie sacrificing himself; since he won't be around to burn Jim Cunningham's house, Jim's child pornography collection won't be found. This has now created Manipulated Dead Frank, the person guiding him to do these things.
He must create Manipulated Dead Frank in order to be saved himself in the beginning. The manipulated have now successfully set the trap.
Donnie was saved from death and is now in a desperate situation. His girlfriend is dead and he's a killer on the run. He knows what his purpose is now and only has one way out even though it will ultimately end his own life. Sending the engine through a portal will erase the last 28 days from history and time will return to October 2nd At the end of the film we see a vortex appear over Donnie's house. It's the beginning of the TU collapse and is centred over where it began.
Donnie is aware of what he must do now so he drives up the mountain for a better vantage point. The plane with the same jet engine has been manipulated to fly overhead at this exact time. Donnie rips the engine off using telekinesis, constructs a time portal from water and guides the engine through it. We now see parts of the last 28 days rewinding as the TU starts to unravel. The TU has collapsed safely and the PU that was on pause starts back up from when it stopped. We are now back in reality on October 2nd, the last 28 days never happened.
Donnie wakes up in his bed laughing after dreaming some of the events within the TU. He then goes back to sleep seemingly content with life now. The experience has seemingly brought him closer to God and he is no longer afraid to die. The jet engine Donnie sent through the time portal now falls into his bedroom killing him. Even though the last 28 days never actually happened some of the Manipulated will be haunted in their dreams by their experiences within the TU.
There are bits of evidence to prove this. Frank touching his eye in the final montage and Gretchen waving to Donnie's mum proves that some of the characters have some knowledge of what happened within the lost world. The Living are all the people still alive in the Tangent Universe. Basically every real person we see in the film. The Living Receiver is chosen to guide the Artifact into position for its journey back to the Primary Universe. No one knows how or why a receiver will be chosen.
These include increased strength, telekinesis, mind control, and the ability to conjure fire and water. The Living Receiver is often tormented by terrifying dreams, visions and auditory hallucinations during his time within the Tangent Universe. Those surrounding the Living Receiver, known as the Manipulated, will fear him and try to destroy him. This tells us that Roberta was the Living Receiver and was put through incredible trauma because of the experience.
This experience has turned her into the paranoid old woman we see. In the film, Donnie is the Living Receiver. He is shown to have dreams right from the beginning of the film.
He progressively gains the other powers mentioned. This also shows us that the whole film is inside the Tangent Universe which is centered around Donnie as the Receiver — this is important to know.
These chapters are good enough to start with the understanding of the film. Donnie wakes up in the middle of a road. He has sleep walked there. Donnie is shown to have emotional problems and is attending therapy.
Sometime before the events of the film, there has been a rift in the spacetime continuum. That rift has resulted in the creation of a Tangent Universe. The film is following the events inside the Tangent Universe.
The family has their set of problems but are not dysfunctional. One night, Donnie sleep walks outside the house. For the first time we are introduced to Frank — a person in a bunny suit. For now just consider Frank to be a person from the future who is guiding Donnie.
Frank says that the world is going to end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 min and 12 sec. The Jet Engine appears from nowhere. It is the Artifact. Donnie is the receiver. But now to the pressing question…. The Manipulated Dead are more powerful than the Living Receiver. The Fourth Dimensional Construct is made of Water. Donnie balances disturbing hallucinations of a six-foot rabbit named Frank with typical adolescent challenges. He dabbles with drugs, drinks, rebels, and falls in love with one of his classmates, Gretchen Ross Jena Malone.
But what appears to be a story through Donnie's perspective, illustrating how mental illness warps his worldview, is actually much, much more. Hallucinations and prophetic rabbits are part of a tangent universe, a universe where doomsday is likely and time travel is real.
Using this outlandish premise, Kelly's cult classic simultaneously tackles themes of fate, religion, sacrifice, love, loss, and loneliness. The book was written in by wispy-haired, mailbox-checking Roberta Sparrow Patience Cleveland when she was a science teacher at Donnie's school, years before being known as Grandma Death. PoTT 's pages are glimpsed at in the film and its concept discussed openly, but only by reading direct excerpts do events make complete sense. Fortunately, the DVD of the director's cut, and an archived version of the official website , includes text from the book.
It provides a number of technical terms, the most important referring to the two dimensions the film is set in — the Primary Universe PU and the Tangent Universe TU. The PU is the universe we live in. In the film's timeline, this glitch occurs shortly before the jet engine crashes into the Darko household on October 2, It's when Donnie first sees Frank in his dreams.
After saving Donnie's life by guiding him away from his house, Frank makes a prophetic warning: in 28 days, six hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds, the world will end. TUs are "highly unstable," existing for only a few weeks. Eventually they collapse on themselves, "forming a black hole within the Primary Universe, capable of destroying all existence," according to the PoTT.
Fortunately, there is a way the universe can be saved. The Artifact — in this case the jet engine — is key. The TU is a like-for-like copy of the PU, identical in every way. The Artifact is an exception, materializing spontaneously after a TU is formed.
This object, made of metal, is erroneously copied twice, and is the first sign a TU has formed. It is the only difference between the two universes and disrupts natural order. For the TU to collapse safely after its day lifespan, it must be identical to the PU — so the Artifact needs to leave the TU before it collapses.
The only way to remove the Artifact from the universe is to send it through a time portal back to the PU. To save the universe, someone within the TU needs to transfer the Artifact back in time to October 2, , to the moment the TU occurred. In-world physics dictate that water and metal are required elements to make time travel possible; water is used to create a time vortex between the two universes, while the metallic jet engine acts as a transitional vessel. To clarify, there are three identical jet engines in Donnie Darko.
Jet Engine 1 belongs in the PU, still attached to its airplane. Jet Engine 2 is correctly attached to the duplicated airplane, which Donnie's mother and sister travel on later in the film. Jet Engine 3 is an anomaly — with nowhere to go in the TU, it crashes into Donnie's house the time Frank saves him. Jet Engine 2 is later torn from the airplane and sent back to the PU, killing Donnie.
But because the PU is stable, it's able to withstand the anomaly of two identical objects. It's implied PoTT 's author, Roberta Sparrow, was once an LR, explaining her overnight transformation from nun to science teacher and time travel author. Why was Donnie chosen? The PoTT states "no one knows how or why a Receiver will be chosen," but it's logical Donnie was picked by whom will be explained shortly because he was near the epicenter of the TU's formation.
This is where things get really interesting within the material outside the film. The PoTT states the LR is blessed with "Fourth Dimensional Powers," including "enhanced strength, telekinesis, mind control, and the ability to conjure fire and water. These manifest in Donnie as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
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