Can someone explain what Donnie Darko was about and what the deal is with the rabbit?
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Donnie Darko is a movie about sacrifice. Donnie, because of his mental illness walks out of his room the night he is supposed to die. Because of this, he disrupts the time plane and things start to fall apart. People he care about get hurt, die, etc. The Rabbit is an idealization of someone who will cause him great problems (drives over his girlfriend) after he stands in the road). He kills the rabbit (while he doesnt know this, space time does and reflects it into his mental illness). The rabbit was his sisters boyfriend at the holloween party. When donnie realized that his stepping aside from his own death is causing death and trauma in those around him he learns about time travel and shoots himself back to the point where he was to die. Feeling relief because he knows he has fixed things he  laughs and then is killed. Awesome movie. Dont watch the directors cut though, those scenes were deleted for a reason.
871055
He realized in the end that the man he killed with the gun actually saved his life in an astral projection that led back in time to several days before the day he was supposed to die, which was the night of halloween. The man who visited him was in the bunny outfit because that what he was wearing at the time of his future death. Donnie was susceptible to spiritual waves which were directed at him for the sole purpose of knowing what your next immediate destination would be, which were discovered also by another lady, and she had written a book about it. In this case, the gun that was used to kill the bunny dude (i don't remember the name) was his nnext immediate destination. His teacher couldn't understand the aspect of astral projection of the soul and therefore dismissed it as a false belief by Donnie. Deja Vu, time travel, astral projection, and time slips are involved in this film. It's really a good movie, i agree.
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Curator at the Louvre is murdered.\nHarvard Professor is called in to explain the murder, which involves strange symbols.\nCurator's granddaughter shows up, rescues professor.\nTogether they uncover clues to a huge conspiracy in which the Catholic Church has buried that Jesus and Mary Magdelene had a child and there are living descendents of Jesus.\nTurns out the curator's granddaughter is a descendent of Jesus. At the end, the professor finds the resting place of Mary Magdalene.\n\nThat's the basic plot. Go see the movie. It's good.
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Looking it up on imdb.com gives me this answer:\n\n"In a post-apocalyptic future, humankind is destroyed and the fantastic races of ancient legend emerge to repopulate the earth. In fulfillment of an ancient prophesy twin sons -- wizards -- are born to a queen of the faeries: one good, the other aggressively evil. They are destined to collide in a war that will destroy the new earth. Blackwolf, the evil son, is a deformed mutant and is cast out of the community. He seeks to rediscover the ancient technologies of warfare and destruction in order to gain his revenge and subjugate the free peoples of the earth. Avatar, the good son, is human and seeks a passive life of non-aggression in order to avoid responsibility for the bloodshed and despair prophesied. Blackwolf's disastrous attempts to assassinate his brother compell Avatar to marshal forces against Blackwolf, leading to the ultimate confrontation."\n(taken from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076929/plotsummary )\n\nBut after reading it over, I don't think I could tell you again if you asked.
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What exactly is the matrix? The protagonist, Neo (Keanu Reeves), discovers in the first film that the world he knows—normal life of the late 1990s—is actually a virtual reality program plugged into his brain. This computer program, or matrix, is the wool pulled over humanity's eyes. In reality, mankind is imprisoned by menacing machines that use humans for energy. Whoa.\n\nThen a group of freedom fighters waging war on the machines take Neo into the war-ravaged real world. Many of them believe Neo is their prophesied savior.\n\nThe Matrix stands apart from other pop culture franchises because the Wachowskis embed their films with philosophical questions and theories—and then refuse to talk publicly about what they mean. Fans then rabidly discuss what The Matrix is and means. They dissect dialogue, research character names, and analyze what even a room number (303) might mean.\n\nThese discussions continue in Internet chat rooms, in postmodern coffee shops, and in at least three books released in the last year. Taking the Red Pill and The Matrix and Philosophy are collections of essays written by professors, philosophers, and scientists who flesh out theories, metaphysics, and theologies glimpsed in the movie. The Gospel Reloaded argues that the film not only gets viewers thinking about master's-level philosophy but also offers insight into faith.\n\n"After decades of self-interested televangelists, it is no wonder that emerging generations yawn in the face of historic practices of faith and the authority of the church," write authors Chris Seay and Greg Garrett. "That is, until The Matrix. Neo is a savior worth considering, and his recontextualization of the gospel as a story of freeing the captives has won many new believers."
685954
You know, that is the most interesting take on the whole philosophical probelm of the 20th century*.\n\n My guess is that Disney was making the point that standing upright, using tools and speech were an important part of being granted human rights; Since Goofy at least managed to grasp those concepts, he had more rights than Pluto did. \n\n * This is of course the question "Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, pluto is a dog, so What's Goofy?"
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He got it! It was in the briefcase that Phillip Seymour-Hoffman was holding and they swapped it. I thought it was really clever how they retrieved it and they were quite lucky actually. I think they would have been screwed if the guard saw them! But I agree with you, they could have added a more detailed explanation of what the mission entailed and how they would go about it, but it still made for good viewing. \n\nWhat really peeved me off was that they didn't say what the rabbit's foot was!!! He asked Lawrence Fishburne and he told Ethan that he'll tell him if he promises to come back after the honeymoon...maybe they'll reveal what it is in the next film! And another thing: I thought Lawrence Fishburne turned out to be the bad guy! What happened, it was all cool in the end! Lawrence helped save Phillip Seymour- Hoffman and they were all cool in the end, it didn't make sense whatsoever!!\n\nSo, I guess there was a lot missing!
907900
take a guess. watch http://www.apocalypsecartoons.com/ .  the Father Tucker section will explain everything.
800566
How he knew about the safety deposit box is not given because it's irrelevant. The title of the movie is to throw the viewers off.  The title just means that he did the job and he hid inside and came out later.  That's why the movie is so good.  The robbers are connected probably from a while back.  That isn't important.  Some things they don't show in the movie because it's already understood or for you to think about it later like you and your roommates were doing.  Good Movie.
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It's a play on the movie released in Clinton's Term, allegedly, about Clintons use of the Military or lack there of, All put up in a movie studio. The Movie ... Wag The Dog. Dustin Hoffman was in it.\n     Check it out. \n\n     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
1066066
donnie darko is awesome. \nfrank the bunny is so cool\nstring theory is also very interesting\nand great music
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Watching the video the song has to be about the fall of communism, however you get a hint of sarcasm that perhaps the west isn't that much better at running it's countries.\n\nOK, let's try this again..other then there being a bunch of guys wearing "Devo-type" outfits, and different statues with different forms on top (a man, a star, a black Statue of Liberty) I really don't know what you're asking.
1095850
It is a story about a young boy who is sent to a concentration camp in WWII by the Nazis and how he endures and manages to live through it all. It is a story about the Holocaust. It is brief and is an excellent read. READ it.\n\nGood luck.
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Talk about dark!\n\nIt starts with a Hamlet's father's ghost claiming he was murdered and just gets darker from there.\n\nIts an exploration of madness and suicide.  Ophelia goes crazy and drowns herself.  Hamlet's "to be or not to be" is a direct contemplation of suicide.\n\nHamlet finds his old best friend's skull in the graveyard.\n\n"Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horation, a man of infintite jest and most powerful fancy" a skull\n\nMurder most foul!\n\nbetrayal, incest, murder\n\ngreat stuff! ! !
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I just saw the film.\n\nThe part about how Christianity took pagan beliefs and mixed them in is correct. The fact that Constantine changed the religion (at least to a degree) is correct.  In fact when he ruled that in order to hold government office you had to be a Christian he managed to turn a bunch of pagans into Christians (in name only) over night.  Their underlying pagan beliefs remained the same, they just changed their title.\n\nThe part about the museum having bathroom windows that can be opened is absolutely false. Nor does the museum have bar soap that you can stick a GPS tracer into, they have liquid soap in the bathrooms.\n\nThe Priory has been pretty much determined to be a fraud. (Discovery Channel ran a series of shows which demonstrated this.) Of course, the paranoid will say that the "fraud" is just a cover story and it is exactly what the Priory wants you to think so that they stay secret.  \n\nThe idea that the "royal bloodline" filters down to one and only one woman in Europe seems pretty unbelievable. The Merovingians had many kids, there would have to be several thousand Merovingians by this point in history.\n\nThe idea that Jesus and Magdelene were married, well, not much proof one way or the other. Even if they were, it is that thing about rising from the dead that still sets things apart.\n\nOne idea that I don't think most people have considered is the possibility that the entire DaVinci Code movie and book might just be designed as a meme (brain virus as it were). Designed to "inject" the concept of this bloodline into the populace. Then, when the time is ripe, "they" will unveil a person who is supposedly the descendant in question whom "they" want to setup as a One World Leader.\n\nFrankly I think there is more "fact" in "The Norman Rockwell Code".
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Tom's mom, Amanda, continuously tells Tom to "wish on a sliver slipper of a moon" which alludes to Cinderella and the fairy tale of living happily ever after. She wants the best for her kids. Tom's desire, like the trick he sees of the magician escaping the coffin without removing the nails, is to escape his family and his responsibilities without having any regrets. At the end we learn he leaves but it's not what he expected it to be, so he didn't get to the moon and he didn't get the fairy tale he was hoping for. He instead got away and is haunted by the memory of his sister and mother. \n\nThe play mirrors William's own life. He too left his sick sister whom he was very close to and felt great responsibility for--she was mentally ill--and after leaving his job working in a shoe factory and his family, his parents had a lobotomy performed on his sister that left her incapacitated for the rest of her life. This left Williams with a life of regret and guilt which is a major theme in all of his works.
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I'm not sure there is a message that can be summed up in a few words.  Donnie seems to be psychotic, but ends up saving the universe.  He is chosen by a higher power to save it and is given superhuman powers to be able to do so.  He is guided by someone whose death he causes in the tangent universe.\n\nMaybe the message is that we're all crazy, or maybe nobody is.\n\nI think it was just a really fantastic movie by really smart people who wanted to make us think.