This object, made of metal, is erroneously copied twice, and is the first sign a TU has formed. It is the only difference between the two universes and disrupts natural order.
For the TU to collapse safely after its day lifespan, it must be identical to the PU — so the Artifact needs to leave the TU before it collapses. The only way to remove the Artifact from the universe is to send it through a time portal back to the PU. To save the universe, someone within the TU needs to transfer the Artifact back in time to October 2, , to the moment the TU occurred. In-world physics dictate that water and metal are required elements to make time travel possible; water is used to create a time vortex between the two universes, while the metallic jet engine acts as a transitional vessel.
To clarify, there are three identical jet engines in Donnie Darko. Jet Engine 1 belongs in the PU, still attached to its airplane.
Jet Engine 2 is correctly attached to the duplicated airplane, which Donnie's mother and sister travel on later in the film. Jet Engine 3 is an anomaly — with nowhere to go in the TU, it crashes into Donnie's house the time Frank saves him.
Jet Engine 2 is later torn from the airplane and sent back to the PU, killing Donnie. But because the PU is stable, it's able to withstand the anomaly of two identical objects.
It's implied PoTT 's author, Roberta Sparrow, was once an LR, explaining her overnight transformation from nun to science teacher and time travel author. Why was Donnie chosen? The PoTT states "no one knows how or why a Receiver will be chosen," but it's logical Donnie was picked by whom will be explained shortly because he was near the epicenter of the TU's formation. This is where things get really interesting within the material outside the film.
The PoTT states the LR is blessed with "Fourth Dimensional Powers," including "enhanced strength, telekinesis, mind control, and the ability to conjure fire and water. These manifest in Donnie as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. It's not only the LR who is affected. Those close to Donnie subconsciously guide him on his mission, often acting erratically.
The majority of characters are in this category. They have an important job but know little of it. The frequently used metaphor of chess is apt to explain their purpose; imagine a game where every move was choreographed perfectly, so checkmate occurs only after a very specific combination of moves. The MLs subconsciously help Donnie navigate the board, nudging him toward checkmate using the exact combination.
Checkmate in this instance is Donnie killing Frank James Duval by shooting him through the eye. When Frank is killed, he becomes an MD. This is crucial. Without Frank as an MD, Donnie would have no warning, and no indication of his role in saving the universe. Anyone killed in the TU becomes an MD. Their in-universe death makes them more powerful than a typical ML.
Presumably this is because their spirits move beyond the material world to a metaphysical dimension, while they remain alive in the suspended PU. They're capable of time travel and, unlike the living, have conscious knowledge of the threat of universal annihilation. Thurman gives Donnie placebo pills. She unconsciously enables Donnie to communicate with Frank. Gretchen's role as an MD is less obvious. There are two moments where she appears to deliberately influence events.
She wakes as soon as he returns. It's a little too convenient. This is a way to give the LR "no choice" but to follow through with returning the Artifact. In this instance Donnie does so to save the lives of the woman he fell in love with and the man he killed.
Frank's influence is obvious. He commands Donnie to flood the school and burn down Jim Cunningham's house, evidencing the LR's ability to "conjure fire and water. The school's closure leads to Donnie walking home with Gretchen. The fire exposes Jim as a pedophile, so Kitty Palmer skips the dance contest to defend him.
Rose Darko attends in her place while Eddie is away on business, so Donnie and Elizabeth throw the Halloween party. Kenneth Monnitoff helps Donnie discover his purpose and understand what he sees is real, and not a sign of madness. Monnitoff discusses wormholes, portals, and the feasibility of time travel before handing Donnie a copy of PoTT. Fellow teacher Karen Pomeroy plays Cupid between Gretchen and Donnie, giving Gretchen the bizarre instruction to "sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.
Donnie remembers this conversation when he leaves the Halloween party to visit Roberta Sparrow. What follows is a mash-up between a time-travel mind-twister, a commentary on American suburbia, and a high-school set coming-of-age-story, complete with plenty of Biblical allusions. So, what happens at the end of Donnie Darko?
Like teenagers, they throw a party. Instead, they find two bullies, who attack them. Donnie shoots Frank in the face with a gun his time-worm had led him to, giving him a wound that matches the one Frank has when he reveals himself to Donnie. So what the hell does any of this mean? Only Richard Kelly could tell you that for sure, but there are some definite clues within the film regarding how it should be read.
The first is in its general relationship to puberty. Gretchen, then, offers a promise of hope and light in a world that otherwise looks hopeless and dark — so hopeless and dark, in fact, that it will shortly end.
One morning, Donnie wakes up on a golf course after a night of sleepwalking to discover a jet engine crashed through his bedroom. Had he not sleepwalked, he would have been killed. Bizarrely, the authorities are unable to figure out where the jet engine came from; there are no planes missing, and no other debris from the crash.
Over the next 28 days Donnie is manipulated by Frank to commit crimes, some of which lead to the absolute destruction of those close to him.
His reign of terror includes burning down the pedophilic motivational speaker Jim Cunningham's home, leading to Jim's arrest, and a confrontation with his high school bullies that results in Donnie's would-be girlfriend Gretchen's death when she is hit by a car.
The driver of the car? A man named Frank, wearing a rabbit mask. Completely beside himself, Donnie shoots Frank in the face and Donnie realizes that an injury prophesied by Frank in Donnie's nightmares is the same one that Donnie gave him. As Donnie realizes his nightmares have been predicting the future, Frank's prophecy of the impending end of the world comes true and a vortex rips in the sky.
Just as the plane begins to crash and its jet engine is sucked into the vortex, the movie goes back to where it began — but this time events play out differently. Instead of waking up on the golf course after a night of sleepwalking, Donnie awakens in his bed and is crushed by the falling jet engine that has travelled back in time from the plane crash hence the FAA being unable to find the rest of the plane.
Is this a super-generalized look at the film? Would this become a convoluted mess if I tried to dive any deeper? Also yes. Frank the Rabbit is warning Donnie about the existence of a tangent universe that he is able to see in his sleepwalking.
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