百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析：[6]Donnie Darko 死亡幻覺

On October 2, 1988, Donnie Darko(Jake Gyllenhaal), a troubled teenager living in Middlesex, Virginia, is awakened and led outside by a figure in a monstrous rabbit costume, who introduces himself as “Frank” and tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. At dawn, Donnie awakens on a golf course and returns home to find a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. His older sister, Elizabeth(Maggie Gyllenhaal), informs him the FAA investigators don't know where it came from.

Donnie tells his psychotherapist Dr. Thurman(Katharine Ross)about Ns continuing visits from Frank. Acting under Frank's influence, he floods his school by damaging a water main. He also begins dating new student Gretchen Ross(Jena Malone), who has moved to town with her mother under a new identity to escape her violent stepfather. Conservative gym teacher Kitty Farmer(Beth Grant)blames the flooding on the influence of the short story “The Destructors”, assigned by English teacher Karen Pomeroy(Drew Barrymore), and begins teaching attitude lessons taken from motivational speaker Jim Cunningham(Patrick Swayze). Donnie rebels against these lessons, leading to friction between Kitty and Donnie's mother Rose(Mary McDonnell).

Donnie asks his science teacher Dr. Monnitoff(Noah Wyle)about time travel after Frank brings up the topic, and is given the book The Philosophy of Time Travel, written by Roberta Sparrow(Patience Cleveland), a former science teacher at the school who is now a seemingly senile old woman.

Dr. Thurman tells Donnie's parents that he is detached from reality, and that his visions of Frank are hallucinations, symptomatic of paranoid schizophrenia. Donnie disrupts a speech being given by Jim Cunningham by insulting him in front of the student body, then burns down Cunningham's house on instructions from Frank. When police find evidence of a child pornography operation in the house's remains, Cunnimgham is arrested. During a hypnotherapy session, Donnie confesses his crimes to Dr. Thurman and says that Frank will soon kill someone.

Rose agrees to replace Kitty as chaperone for her daughter Samantha's(Daveigh Chase)dance troupe in Los Angeles, so Kitty can testify in Cunningham's defense; with her husband Eddie(Holmes Osborne)in New York on business, her older children are home alone.

Donnie and Elizabeth take the opportunity to throw a Halloween party to celebrate her acceptance to Harvard University. Gretchen arrives, distraught that her mother has disappeared. Realizing that only hours remain before Frank's prophesied end of the world, Donnie takes Gretchen and two friends to seek Roberta Sparrow at her house. They are attacked by two school bullies(Alex Greenwald and Seth Rogen)who are attempting to rob Sparrow's house, and the fight spills into the street. An oncoming car swerves to avoid Sparrow but runs over Gretchen, killing her. The driver is Elizabeth's boyfriend Frank(James Duval), wearing the same rabbit costume as the Frank of Donnie's visions. Donnie shoots him with his father's gun.

As a vortex forms in dark clouds above his house, Donnie drives into the hills and watches as an airplane descends above. The plane, carrying Rose and the dance troupe, is wrenched violently as one of its engines detaches and falls into the vortex. Events of the previous 28 days recapitulate in reverse order and action, until Donnie finds himself in bed on the morning of October 2, The jet engine crashes through his room, killing him. Others with whom Donnie had interacted in the 28 days awaken, some looking disturbed. Gretchen rides by Donnie's house and learns of his death from a neighbourhood boy(Scotty Leavenworth), but says she did not know him.

唐尼·達爾克(杰克·吉倫哈爾飾)是一個有精神問題的青年，住在弗吉尼亞州的米德爾塞克斯。1988年10月2日夜晚，他被一個人叫醒，被帶到外邊，這個人穿著巨大的兔子服裝，介紹自己叫“弗蘭克”，還告訴唐尼，世界將在28天6小時42分12秒后毀滅。天亮時，唐尼在一個高爾夫球場醒來，回家后，他發(fā)現(xiàn)一架噴氣式飛機引擎撞進了他的臥室。他的姐姐伊麗莎白(瑪吉·吉倫哈爾飾)告訴他，聯(lián)邦航空局調(diào)查了此事，也不知道這架飛機從哪里來。

唐尼告訴他的精神治療醫(yī)師瑟曼博士(凱瑟琳·羅斯飾)，他總是遇到弗蘭克。在弗蘭克的影響下，他毀壞了學(xué)校的主給水管路，淹了學(xué)校。另外，他開始和新來的學(xué)生格雷琴·羅斯(吉娜·馬隆飾)約會。格雷琴為了躲避繼父的暴力和媽媽一起以新的身份搬到這個城鎮(zhèn)。保守的體育老師凱蒂·法默(貝思·格蘭特飾)責備說，學(xué)校發(fā)洪水是受英語老師卡倫·波默羅伊(德魯·巴里摩爾飾)所分發(fā)的小故事《毀壞者》的影響，并開始講授從動機演講者吉姆·卡寧漢姆(帕特里克·斯威茲飾)那里得來的姿態(tài)課程。唐尼反對上這些課程，這導(dǎo)致唐尼的媽媽羅斯(瑪麗·麥克唐納飾)與凱蒂之間發(fā)生摩擦。

唐尼向自然科學(xué)老師莫尼托夫博士(諾亞·懷爾飾)詢問弗蘭克提出的時間旅行的問題，老師給了他《時間旅行哲學(xué)》這本書。該書是前任自然科學(xué)老師羅伯塔·斯帕羅(佩欣絲·克利夫蘭飾)所寫，她現(xiàn)在已是一個老態(tài)龍鐘的婦人。

瑟曼博士告訴唐尼的父母，唐尼與現(xiàn)實世界相脫離，他看到的弗蘭克是幻覺，是妄想型精神分裂的癥狀。在吉姆·卡寧漢姆當眾發(fā)表演講時唐尼將其打斷并當著全體學(xué)生的面侮辱他，然后在弗蘭克的指示下，唐尼燒毀了卡寧漢姆的房子。警察在房子的殘留物中發(fā)現(xiàn)一個兒童色情交易的證據(jù)，從而逮捕了卡寧漢姆。唐尼在瑟曼博士的催眠治療中，向他承認了自己的這一罪行，并說弗蘭克即將殺死某人。

羅斯同意代替凱蒂陪同她女兒薩曼塔(達韋·蔡斯飾)參加洛杉磯的舞蹈演出，這樣，凱蒂就能參加卡寧漢姆的辯護。她的丈夫埃迪(霍爾姆斯·奧斯本飾)在紐約忙生意，她的大點的孩子獨自一人在家。

唐尼和伊麗莎白借萬圣節(jié)前夕的聚會慶祝她進入哈弗大學(xué)。格雷琴來了，發(fā)狂地說她的媽媽失蹤了。唐尼意識到離弗蘭克預(yù)言的世界末日只剩幾小時了，他帶著格雷琴和兩個朋友去羅伯塔·斯帕羅的房子找她。他們受到兩個正要搶劫斯帕羅家的學(xué)校惡霸(亞歷克斯·格林沃爾德和賽思·羅根飾)的攻擊。他們打斗到了大街上，迎面來了輛汽車，避開了斯帕羅，但卻撞上了格雷琴，使她當場死亡。司機是伊麗莎白的男朋友弗蘭克(詹姆斯·杜瓦爾飾)，穿著和唐尼看到的弗蘭克一樣的兔子服裝。唐尼用父親的槍向他射擊。

唐尼的房頂有一團漩渦形狀的烏云，他開車到山上，看到一架飛機正從房子上降落，里面是羅斯和那個舞蹈劇團。那架飛機劇烈扭轉(zhuǎn)，其中一個引擎脫離，并落到了那團漩渦里。先前28天中發(fā)生的事情倒序回放一遍，直到唐尼10月2日的早上發(fā)現(xiàn)自己躺在床上。那個飛機引擎撞進了唐尼的房間，殺死了他。28天里，和唐尼有聯(lián)系的其他人醒了，有些人看起來心神不寧。格雷琴騎車路過唐尼的房子，一個鄰居男孩兒(蘇格提·萊文沃思飾)告訴她唐尼死了，但她卻說自己不認識唐尼。