oliwier :
my personal interpretation of the movie:
Donnie finds himself in a world he relives over and over again. The turning point is the jet engine that crashes into his room—this is when he chooses to follow Frank, setting off a chain of altered events. While some of these changes have positive effects, they also introduce significant suffering into the world around him. Donnie cannot fully control or escape this cycle; by the end, he only remembers fragments of what he has experienced.
Frank, wearing a bunny costume, appears to guide Donnie from the very beginning. Because it is Frank’s death that restarts the loop, pushing Donnie back to the moment of the jet engine crash. This suggests a world in which a person is forced to repeat the same life and choices endlessly, trapped in a deterministic cycle.
However, in the film, Donnie ultimately makes a choice with consequences on a meta-level: he stays in bed and accepts his death. In doing so, he prevents the alternate timeline from unfolding at all. His maniacal laughter at the end suggests a kind of acceptance—of fate, of inevitability—and through his self-sacrifice, he spares others from the suffering caused by the events of the loop. The loop isn’t necessarily broken, but Donnie chooses to exit it, allowing the world to continue undisturbed.
2025-07-13 07:58:27