Does Donnie Darko make sense without the additions in the Director's Cut? [closed]
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I had never seen Donnie Darko, and I just did. I think I have never been so confused after watching a film.
I looked up on the Internet for explanations about the movie, and I found out that in the Director's Cut everything is much clearer and self-contained in the movie, specially due to the showing of some pages of the book Sparrow wrote.
So how is it expected that the public could develop by themselves all that super complex theory about Living Receivers, Artifacts and Tangent Universes? I feel that it's not right that the original movie didn't have these crucial elements in it.
Is it possible to arrive to what appears to be the canonical explanation for the whole plot, without watching the Director's Cut? Does the original film actually make sense by itself?
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Are there different Donnie Darko versions?
Comparison between the Director's cut and the theatrical version. The Director's cut was represented by the UK-DVD from Metrodome, the theatrical version by the German Special Edition from MCOne. Richard Kelly grudgingly had to cut 20 minutes out of his festival-version of Donnie Darko for the theatrical release.La Filosofia di Donnie Darko - Spiegazione del finale
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