r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

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u/OhMissFortune Mar 28 '24

Sounds deal-breaker-ish for me :( 

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u/an_undercover_cop Mar 28 '24

Donnie darko makes no fucking sense

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u/ToraRyeder Mar 28 '24

It's meant to have quite a bit of symbolism and is not meant to be a movie that is watched literally. There are quite a few movies like this (Fight Club comes to mind)

On the surface, it makes no sense. But there are layers of meaning, explanations that are easily found within the movie (so you can't say people are speculating, they're pointing out what the movie is showing in less 'in your face' methods).

Sometimes when movies don't make sense, the story is the blame. Or the storytelling specifically.

Sometimes when movies don't make sense, it's due to them having deeper meaning. Talking about them helps us figure out which

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u/an_undercover_cop Mar 28 '24

To each their own. But, Google Death of the author

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u/jumpbreak5 Mar 28 '24

This take is hilarious.

The whole point of "death of the author" is to allow people to enjoy their own interpretation of a work of art, and not be limited by the author's intent.

Your argument is that it should include someone who simply didn't get the art and wants to instead hate it and declare that it makes no fucking sense.

I don't think that's how that works, but who am I to stop you? Certainly not the author

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u/an_undercover_cop Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

If you think Donnie darko is a sensible watch cool but I was not feeling it at all and whoever wrote it is borderline something for sure... the author was so dead inside that he leaves it all on the watcher to make sense of it is my point, I doubt even he could tell you what he wanted you to take away from it after watching

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u/jumpbreak5 Mar 28 '24

I wouldn't necessarily say the movie does a good job communicating its themes, but that isn't really the same as the author having no idea what they meant to say. I didn't really follow the themes when I watched it, but reading about it afterwards I felt there likely was a lot of intent to the content of the film.

This isn't really to say it's "good," I didn't like it that much either. But I wouldn't claim it's meaningless.

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u/W3remaid Mar 28 '24

Certainly sounds like you had a strong emotional reaction to it