Donnie Darko EXPLAINED

A video essay (with spoilers) about the dark deeper meaning of 'Donnie Darko' (2001), directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Seth Rogen and more. In this video I get into its deeper themes and symbolism. I look at Roberta Sparrow's book 'The Philosophy of Time Travel' and tangent universes, predestination, eschatology and Donnie as a Christ figure.

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REFERENCES
'Donnie Darko' (2001)
'Deus Ex Machina: The Philosophy of Donnie Darko' (2016)
'Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut' (2004)
Kelly, R. (2003). The Donnie Darko Book. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

MUSIC
'Superhero Intro' by ArctSound
'Elegy' by Asher Fulero
'Final Girl' by Jeremy Blake
'Aletheia (Unforgetting)' by Devon Church
'Somewhere Fuse' by French Fuse
'The Collect for Purity' by Thomas Thorogood

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:26 Richard Kelly, Meticulous and Instinctive
01:50 Worldviews
05:22 The Official Interpretation
08:43 How Much Do They Know?
09:41 Collapse of the Tangent Universe
12:23 Maybe There's More Going On
13:10 Predestination
19:01 Eschatology
21:34 Heroism
24:15 Outro

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