Donnie Darko - SPOILERS

[delalluvia]

Maybe because Frank was ultimately a sympathetic character.  When he took off the bunny head, he was just a kid his sister knew.  Remember - he was at the Halloween party.  Donnie's sister says at one point "Has anyone seen Frank?" (which is so funny on a couple of levels) and someone else says, "I think he went on a beer run" or something like that.

And Frank really did design and wear that bunny suit for Halloween.  I think it's more that Frank came through the portal wearing it than that the bunny was some other creature entirely.

I read a really cool sexual intepretation of DD once.


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Frank was the guy Donnie's sister was dating and probably having sex with as well.  His is the car that passes Donnie the morning he's biking home.  When she comes in from her date at the beginning of the movie, you hear the car honking - that's why she's smiling.  The article talks about the sexual tension between brother and sister.  Brother still struggling to express his sexuality while his sister is well into it;  drawing the brother's attention, so much so, his strange apparition, the guy who saves his life, Donnie's 'god' figure is the guy who's fucking his sister.

[brokebackjack]

I read a really cool sexual intepretation of DD once.


POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!  POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!  POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!  POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!













Frank was the guy Donnie's sister was dating and probably having sex with as well.  His is the car that passes Donnie the morning he's biking home.  When she comes in from her date at the beginning of the movie, you hear the car honking - that's why she's smiling.  The article talks about the sexual tension between brother and sister.  Brother still struggling to express his sexuality while his sister is well into it;  drawing the brother's attention, so much so, his strange apparition, the guy who saves his life, Donnie's 'god' figure is the guy who's fucking his sister.

I've only seen it 3 times so have to look again...but i remember the shrinks office where Donnie is saying that sex with anyone in his family is gross,and no way, all while under hypnosis. that makes me hesitate to agree with the theory. But is is fascinating!

[delalluvia]

I've only seen it 3 times so have to look again...but i remember the shrinks office where Donnie is saying that sex with anyone in his family is gross,and no way, all while under hypnosis.

Aha, but that means he'd been thinking about it. 

that makes me hesitate to agree with the theory. But is is fascinating!

Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with it either, but it was fascinating to read.  Wish I could remember where I saw the article.  Maybe I'll go try to find it.

[brokebackjack]

No she phrased the question in a way which made him think she was ASKING if he had the hots for somebody in the family

lol

[delalluvia]

Found it!

You have to read through a lot to get to the sister and sex part and it has spoilers, so for someone who hasn't seen it - you've been warned.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041102/EDITOR/41022001

[ednbarby]

Cool.  I always figured his sister was dating Frank, too - from the honking and her asking at the party "Has anyone seen Frank?" (why would she want to know otherwise?).  I never made that interpretation that that's why he was the one who came through the portal, but it's kind of an interesting one, and one I don't think is beneath/above the writer/director to be making.

[brokebackjack]

I'm going to watch it again, today, it's a good Easter movie.

LOL

[Ellemeno]

Cool.  I always figured his sister was dating Frank, too - from the honking and her asking at the party "Has anyone seen Frank?" (why would she want to know otherwise?).  I never made that interpretation that that's why he was the one who came through the portal, but it's kind of an interesting one, and one I don't think is beneath/above the writer/director to be making.

I completely missed all that, til I heard the director explain it in the commentary.

[brokebackjack]

How did frank find the portal?

[delalluvia]

I'm going to watch it again, today, it's a good Easter movie.

Heh, DD is one of my Halloween movies.  I watch DD and Sleepy Hollow every Halloween.