Donnie Darko

[painball]

The website explains everything pretty well in great detail once you add all of the pieces it gives you together. Once you read the Philosophy of Time Travel or whatever it's called, you will realize the roles of some of the characters. *coughfrankcough*

I don't get the other stuff such as the dying alone thing and how the engine ended up in the tangent universe in the first place. It is obvious it didn't travel through time as in the primary universe it was supposed to fall at the same time along with the plane.

Well it's a movie so I guess it doesn't have to all add up, but it bothers the hell outta me.

[cris8762]

i had thought that the plane went through a "wormhole" and sheared off the engine that proceeded to hit the house

[painball]

I think the plane engine in the primary universe went through the wormhole at the end of Oct. (same time Donnie sends it back). So it travels back in time and lands in Donnies room in the tangent universe. Then in the tangent universe, Donnie sent the engine back to the primary at the end of Oct. and it landed in his room at the beginning of Oct in the primary universe.

So at the end I guess there would be a plane somewhere in the world without an engine, and the engine in Donnies room. Both nowhere near each other most likely.

It also drives me crazy how he could have just gotten up and continued his life normally in the primary universe without killing anyone. Nobody's life rests in his arms at the end.

Of course this doesn't all piece together perfectly as the original engine didn't get sent back, but another, which wasn't actually the missing "piece" of the primary universe.

I hate how I always need an explanation for EVERYTHING. Any movie, book, etc. that doesn't leave you with a good ending or explanation of everything just stays in my mind until I can figure it out. Call me crazy.