Donnie Darko: A Psychological Analysis Of The Movie

The analysis of the movie Donnie Darko will link relation of the film to personalities disorders of a few characters. Donnie Darko is the protagonist of the film. He is an adolescent who is dealing with some emotional issues. These emotional issues cause a psychosis which cause our main character; Donnie, sever hallucinations which make him disassociate with reality. Our film opens with Donnie waking up on a road. After traveling back home to an average family we find out that Donnie is not taking his medication and is perhaps sleep walking. As Donnie lies in his bed sleeping he is roused by a voice. Donnie starts to leave the house as the voice continues to do a creepy monologue. Donnie walks to a golf course in the middle of the night to meet up with a human sized disturbing looking bunny. The bunny tells him when the world is going to end. Back at home, a jet engine crashes down into Donnie’s house destroying his room. Donnie survives what would be a fatal incident due to the bunny hallucination called Frank. Frank makes Donnie commit a series of crimes in order to align Donnie’s path to allow him to save their timeline. This includes Flooding the school, defacing the mascot, burning down a motivational speaker’s house, and
Specifically what’s in the book “Philosophies of Time Travel” written by the character Roberta Sparrow “Grandma Death”. The majority of the film takes place in the Tangent Universe. According to the book time is relatively stable but sometimes corruption occurs in the fourth dimension causing a TU (Tangent Universe/alternative timeline). The TU lasts a couple of weeks before collapsing in on itself. On occasion the collapse can also destroy the Primary Universe in which we live in. In order to stop the destruction of the primary universe, a Living Receiver is chosen to find the artifact that created the TU and guide it out of the