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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Look_a_Unicorn" data-source="post: 2048253" data-attributes="member: 11886">I loved this movie from the first time I saw it. It didn't hand everything to you on a plate, and it allowed for a number of different interpretations of why certain things happened- my friends and I had many interesting discussions about our personal points of view and why we held them- we even investigated some philosophy on predestination-  all because of one movie.That's right- a movie that made us think rather than shut our brains down for a couple of hours to look at the pretty lights!So I've seen it several times, and I had developed my own set of internally consistent logic about how everything held together (with a few areas I knew I didn't have enough info to ever really understand).Then the Director's Cut came out- it's hard to say if it's "better". It definitely explains more of what was happening and eliminates a lot of the different ideas various people thought to be true- it's a much more linear movie as more is sequentially explained at a slower pace, it's definitely a less abstract movie as there are far more "human" scenes- between Donnie and his family mostly, but there are others.The "water and metal" were mentioned because they are the components needed to create a wormhole as per a book (well it's only about 50 pages or so) that a lot of the wormhole theory in donnie darko refers to. I've emailed my brother asking for the name of the book- I'll post it when he gets back to me.The Director's Cut also added a massive "Divine Agent" angle to Donnie's actions.Basically I'm glad I saw the original version first- there's a lot more to think about and discuss. But then I really enjoyed having some of those questions answered/explained in the Director's.What did I think of the film(s)? Loved them both <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I also have a few female friends of mine who think it's too freaky- it makes them think TOO much. *shrug*</blockquote>

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