Donnnie Darko... Bom Bom Bom What to Write?

In this blog we will be connecting the teenage movie Donnie Darko and the intelligence of our class book The Plague. I think that the main connection between the two is the idea of making choices. Through out the whole book the idea that Camus is trying to portray, is a persons choices shape who they are as a person. No choice is wrong or write but turns into good or bad. A person is like a blank slate, and the choices these people make are the paint added to the white canvas of who you are. This relates to Donnie Darko because of the choices he is able to make with his ability to time travel. The first choice he makes is to leave his house and follow frank into a inner psychotic break where in turn he loses every one he cares about. But then in the end of the movie he changes his choice and makes the decision to let himself die in order to save every one else. Neither of these choices were wrong or right but it lead to different out comes which lead to in turn two totally different Donnie's, one that went crazy and had every one die around him and then one that sacrificed himself for the sake of every one who died around him. This also plays into the idea that death shapes life, the reason he had to make these two choices in the first place was because of the fact that people where dying and he wanted to stop it. I do think that the ideas of Camus and the movie Donnie Darko correlate very well. So when Carter complains to you just tell him that we are learning how to connect things and that we can now do it successfully. I enjoyed the movie and it makes the essential ideas that much clearer.