The film, Donnie Darko, shows Donnie a fifteen year old suburban teenage boy is visited by a six-foot bunny, named Frank with a disturbed face. Donnie is the only person who can see Frank. Frank first visits Donnie in his upstairs bedroom while sleeping; he coaxes Donnie to a golf course in which he reveals his fate. Frank tells Donnie the world will end on October thirty-first; meanwhile, a rogue jet-engine crashes into his home and crushes his room. The next morning Donnie and his Father drive to see his psychotherapist. They almost run into Grandma Death, an old woman who walks in the street towards her mailbox and back several times a day. Donnie gets out of the car to walk her out of the road when she says that, “all creatures die alone” (Kelly). A few days later Donnie is visited by Frank the bunny who entices him to destroy the water main at his Christian school. While school is later cancelled, Donnie meets Gretchen, a newcomer in the town of Middlesex, and later asks her out. Frank later appears and explains time traveling, and steals his father’s gun. Darko and Gretchen become closer as he learns about “The Philosophy of Time Travel” by Mr. Monnitoff, and describes to her his visions. Gretchen and Donnie view horror films while Frank reappears as she is asleep. Donnie leaves the theater to commit arson on Jim Cunningham’s home. This leads Kitty Farmer, his teacher to fight for Jim’s criminal court case. His mother and sister therefore leave for his sisters dance recital, leaving Elizabeth and Donnie alone for Halloween weekend. Halloween weekend, Elizabeth and Donnie throw a party in which Gretchen and Donnie have sex and later leave to “save the world”. The real Frank, Elizabeth’s boyfriend, runs over Gretchen and dies....
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...e jet engine back into the primary universe, resulting in death. For Freud, Donnie dreams of his death are a form of a “death drives”. Freud believes that one cannot fear death itself because it is not in our subconscious since we have never experienced it. By using Intellectualization, Donnie fails at avoiding his heroic death. Donnie in his fifteenth year dies to save his girlfriend; his death drive is overpowered by the loss of a loved one.
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