[1] Just one of those things; most people's brains don't do linear to cubic conversions at all well.
]]>The metaphysical dimension has permanently intruded on what used to be called everyday reality. Maybe it always has. Their are no space aliens bc "They" R us and by us I mean posthumanity of which I seem not to be a member.
Supposed fantasy and SF movies like certain SF novels are the zeitgeist hinting at how reality works behind the veil. Tomorrowland by Disney is one. It shows a dimension existing next to this one. In the beginning this quantum wormhole dimension of 1963 is a teeming Gernsback Continuum. At the end it was empty except for a ruler, Gov. Nix, his crew and an AI called the Monitor. Implications for the future? Many. Of course the US space probe arrived at Pluto the same time the movie was released and we got pics of the real Nix, god of shadow and moon of Pluto.
Trump's election has logical reasons and also that we are living in extreme times - extreme weather, extreme height in both sexes, extreme displacement, extreme politics and thinking. (Hey, especially this comment)
Other movies: They Live, Truman Show, Jacob's Ladder, and the more recent, Fantastic Beasts, Dr Strange, John Wick 2, GB'ers 2016. They don't speak in any kind of deep code that only I understand. They all but come right out and tell you. And the wall of separation between the 2 worlds must not be breeched. Like in Fantastic Beasts, what used to be called the everyday world must have no direct or remembered contact with the one next door.
]]>"Great wits are to Madness close allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide"
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But I do agree that something has gorn worng with "reality"
]]>Don't forget Donnie Darko, and all its variations.
]]>Religious claptrap.
If you are going to have parallel worlds, it's much more likely that it/they will be like (the later versions of ) H B Piper's ones, with corrupt politicians & kludges & mistakes, & no "gods" at all.
]]>There is nothing about "religion" or "gods" nor about "parallel worlds" in the movie. I can't even see where you got any of that. If you look at the wiki page it has a basic description of the film.
This is basically the standard "time reset" story. No "parallel worlds" simply the classic resetting the worldline. You can find this same concept woven through SF and Fantasy. It's a standard trope, used in a huge number of stories. Here are some examples you may have seen.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H.G. Wells, story and movie
The Brass Bottle (1964 film)
Doctor Strange - comics and current movie
Each story resets time, undoes events, and returns the worldline to an earlier point. In many stories this is treated as a palimpsest and some characters are aware of the changes. It's that memory of the changed events that has made Donnie Darko into a cult classic.
There are two versions of the movie, so far: the "original" and the "director's cut". The director's cut was trying to make the movie clearer to writer/director, Richard Kelly, and the audience. Each time the writer/director is at conventions and tries to explain what the movie is about he gets farther from the source of the concept.
If you watch his other movies, Southland Tales and The Box you will see him wrestling with the same concepts as Donnie Darko.
Basically, it's like a Zen kaon, the more he tries to explain the movie the farther away from the actual events he gets.
"Cellar door"
]]>That's what made it a cult classic. It's that dichotomy that confuses the writer/director, Richard Kelly, and causes him to rehash the story over and over when he is at conventions, and when he made his other movies.
The reality is, Donnie was probably stuck in a time loop, reliving the same event, which is why he has the blackouts and hallucinations, and what only appears as prescient knowledge. That time loop is what fed the vortex that threw the engine back in time to crash into his bedroom.
Watch the "original" and watch the "director's cut". Watch the special features and listen to the commentary to see what I mean.
This is similar to Groundhog's Day. Until the character achieved a level of understanding, he could not move to the next day. And consider this, he may not be free of his time loops. For all we know, he then relives that new day over and over, until the next new day.
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