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<blockquote data-quote="KChagga" data-source="post: 832378" data-attributes="member: 3679"><p>----<===SPOILER WARNING===>----</p><p></p><p>I wasn't ever really wowed by this movie. One of my friends couldn't shut up about this movie for weeks, so I finally watched it. It was good, but I didn't think there was anything particularly mind blowing in this movie.</p><p>For help in explaining the movie get the DVD hope your player has a zoom function and then read the time travel book excerpts they added into the DVD. It cleans up parts and also confuses others, no big surprise there since that is the essence of the whole movie.</p><p>My interpretation of the movie is as follows:</p><p>Cause and effect got switched.</p><p>rather than the normal C>E we have an instance of E<C</p><p>The plane engine fell on Donnie. That was an effect with no cause. This is contrary to how our universe works, so without a cause this would have been the end of the universe. Rather than have the universe be destroyed an alternate timeline is formed. In this timeline Donnie lives and sets up the things that have to happen for the jet engine to fall on his house. Essentially Donnie creates the Cause for the Effect of the engine falling. Note that in the movie when the engine goes through the time portal thingie, we go back through the alternate timeline in fast rewind till we get back to where the movie began. Then the engine falls on Donnie. We now have the Cause for the Effect and the universe does not have to be destroyed. The major part of this movie only exists to form the cause for the engine. </p><p>Read the stuff on the DVD or alternately you can find it on the web somewhere. Then think about my explanation. It works even explaining away Frank and a few other things.</p><p>Anyways thats my take on this movie.</p><p>It's worth a watch, but I don't know why people get bent out of shape thinking about this movie. It just isn't that good of an idea. Given the same idea I would have went about making this movie totally differently, but oh well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KChagga, post: 832378, member: 3679"] ----<===SPOILER WARNING===>---- I wasn't ever really wowed by this movie. One of my friends couldn't shut up about this movie for weeks, so I finally watched it. It was good, but I didn't think there was anything particularly mind blowing in this movie. For help in explaining the movie get the DVD hope your player has a zoom function and then read the time travel book excerpts they added into the DVD. It cleans up parts and also confuses others, no big surprise there since that is the essence of the whole movie. My interpretation of the movie is as follows: Cause and effect got switched. rather than the normal C>E we have an instance of E<C The plane engine fell on Donnie. That was an effect with no cause. This is contrary to how our universe works, so without a cause this would have been the end of the universe. Rather than have the universe be destroyed an alternate timeline is formed. In this timeline Donnie lives and sets up the things that have to happen for the jet engine to fall on his house. Essentially Donnie creates the Cause for the Effect of the engine falling. Note that in the movie when the engine goes through the time portal thingie, we go back through the alternate timeline in fast rewind till we get back to where the movie began. Then the engine falls on Donnie. We now have the Cause for the Effect and the universe does not have to be destroyed. The major part of this movie only exists to form the cause for the engine. Read the stuff on the DVD or alternately you can find it on the web somewhere. Then think about my explanation. It works even explaining away Frank and a few other things. Anyways thats my take on this movie. It's worth a watch, but I don't know why people get bent out of shape thinking about this movie. It just isn't that good of an idea. Given the same idea I would have went about making this movie totally differently, but oh well. [/QUOTE]
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