百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析：[6]Donnie Darko 死亡幻觉

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·达尔克(杰克·吉伦哈尔饰)是一个有精神问题的青年，住在弗吉尼亚州的米德尔塞克斯。1988年10月2日夜晚，他被一个人叫醒，被带到外边，这个人穿着巨大的兔子服装，介绍自己叫“弗兰克”，还告诉唐尼，世界将在28天6小时42分12秒后毁灭。天亮时，唐尼在一个高尔夫球场醒来，回家后，他发现一架喷气式飞机引擎撞进了他的卧室。他的姐姐伊丽莎白(玛吉·吉伦哈尔饰)告诉他，联邦航空局调查了此事，也不知道这架飞机从哪里来。

唐尼告诉他的精神治疗医师瑟曼博士(凯瑟琳·罗斯饰)，他总是遇到弗兰克。在弗兰克的影响下，他毁坏了学校的主给水管路，淹了学校。另外，他开始和新来的学生格雷琴·罗斯(吉娜·马隆饰)约会。格雷琴为了躲避继父的暴力和妈妈一起以新的身份搬到这个城镇。保守的体育老师凯蒂·法默(贝思·格兰特饰)责备说，学校发洪水是受英语老师卡伦·波默罗伊(德鲁·巴里摩尔饰)所分发的小故事《毁坏者》的影响，并开始讲授从动机演讲者吉姆·卡宁汉姆(帕特里克·斯威兹饰)那里得来的姿态课程。唐尼反对上这些课程，这导致唐尼的妈妈罗斯(玛丽·麦克唐纳饰)与凯蒂之间发生摩擦。

唐尼向自然科学老师莫尼托夫博士(诺亚·怀尔饰)询问弗兰克提出的时间旅行的问题，老师给了他《时间旅行哲学》这本书。该书是前任自然科学老师罗伯塔·斯帕罗(佩欣丝·克利夫兰饰)所写，她现在已是一个老态龙钟的妇人。

瑟曼博士告诉唐尼的父母，唐尼与现实世界相脱离，他看到的弗兰克是幻觉，是妄想型精神分裂的症状。在吉姆·卡宁汉姆当众发表演讲时唐尼将其打断并当着全体学生的面侮辱他，然后在弗兰克的指示下，唐尼烧毁了卡宁汉姆的房子。警察在房子的残留物中发现一个儿童色情交易的证据，从而逮捕了卡宁汉姆。唐尼在瑟曼博士的催眠治疗中，向他承认了自己的这一罪行，并说弗兰克即将杀死某人。

罗斯同意代替凯蒂陪同她女儿萨曼塔(达韦·蔡斯饰)参加洛杉矶的舞蹈演出，这样，凯蒂就能参加卡宁汉姆的辩护。她的丈夫埃迪(霍尔姆斯·奥斯本饰)在纽约忙生意，她的大点的孩子独自一人在家。

唐尼和伊丽莎白借万圣节前夕的聚会庆祝她进入哈弗大学。格雷琴来了，发狂地说她的妈妈失踪了。唐尼意识到离弗兰克预言的世界末日只剩几小时了，他带着格雷琴和两个朋友去罗伯塔·斯帕罗的房子找她。他们受到两个正要抢劫斯帕罗家的学校恶霸(亚历克斯·格林沃尔德和赛思·罗根饰)的攻击。他们打斗到了大街上，迎面来了辆汽车，避开了斯帕罗，但却撞上了格雷琴，使她当场死亡。司机是伊丽莎白的男朋友弗兰克(詹姆斯·杜瓦尔饰)，穿着和唐尼看到的弗兰克一样的兔子服装。唐尼用父亲的枪向他射击。

唐尼的房顶有一团漩涡形状的乌云，他开车到山上，看到一架飞机正从房子上降落，里面是罗斯和那个舞蹈剧团。那架飞机剧烈扭转，其中一个引擎脱离，并落到了那团漩涡里。先前28天中发生的事情倒序回放一遍，直到唐尼10月2日的早上发现自己躺在床上。那个飞机引擎撞进了唐尼的房间，杀死了他。28天里，和唐尼有联系的其他人醒了，有些人看起来心神不宁。格雷琴骑车路过唐尼的房子，一个邻居男孩儿(苏格提·莱文沃思饰)告诉她唐尼死了，但她却说自己不认识唐尼。

monstrous['mɔnstrəs]adj. 巨大的;怪异的;荒谬的;畸形的

motivational[ˌməuti'vei∫ənəl]adj. 动机的;激发性的;有关动机的

senile['si:nail]adj. 高龄的;老衰的;高龄所致的

paranoid['pærənɔid]adj. 类似妄想狂的;属于偏执狂的

chaperone['∫æpərəʊn]vi. 当女伴;当行为监护人

prophesy['prɔfisai]vt. 预言;预告

troupe[tru:p]n. 剧团;一班;一团

recapitulate[ˌri:kæpitjuleit]vi. 概括;重述要点;摘要

重点掌握

■ Dr. Thurman tells Donnie's parents that he is detached from reality...

在英语中，detach from是“使从……分离(或分开、脱离、拆开)”的意思，比如：He detached the hood from the jacket. 他从夹克衫上卸下风帽。be detached from是“把……从……上卸下;脱离……”的意思，比如我们说“与现实隔绝”，可以用be detached from reality;我们说“超脱尘世”，可以用be detached from this world。

Jake Gyllenhaal Interviewed by David Michael

Donnie Darko is considered a cult film in the US, but were you disappointed in terms of your career that it didn't do better at the American box office?

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers. Whether it means they hated it so much they'll never forget it, or if it means they loved it so much that they won't. I'm less interested also in how it affects a career. The advice I've been given by a lot of people is: don't jump in too fast, do the things that you care about, and see what happens then.

As well as appearing in the film, Drew Barrymore is credited as a producer. How hands-on was she as a producer?

Drew's name and who she is really had a big influence on getting the movie made. After that, I think she had a lot of faith in Richard Kelly directing and really let him do what he needed to do. So in terms of being a producer, her team [Flower Films]was definitely producing the film and they were there all the time, but creatively it's Richard's movie.

Did you immerse yourself in 80s culture for the film?

In terms of style and all that, I went down to the library and looked at all these magazines and read articles about the time. There's not that much you can do with something that is so near. There are words that were different, like people used to use “rad” a lot more!

《死亡幻觉》在美国被看作受崇拜的电影，但就你的事业而言，在美国并没有取得更好的票房，你感到失望吗?

事实上，大部分赚了很多钱的电影没人记得。我对拍了电影却没人记得没有兴趣。不管那意味着他们太不喜欢，所以永远不会忘记它;还是那意味着他们太喜欢，因而永远不会忘记它。它会如何影响我自己的职业生涯，我都不会感兴趣。很多人给我的建议是：不要跳得太快，做你真正在乎的事情，看看会发生什么。

正如在这部电影中出现的一样，德鲁·巴里摩尔是个制片人。做为制片人，她是如何亲身实践的?

德鲁的名字和她是谁，真的对电影影响很大。其次，我觉得她对理查德·凯利的导演有很大的信心，能够让他去做他需要做的事情。所以，作为一个制片人，她的团队(Flower Films电影制作公司)绝对是全力以赴的专业电影制作团队，但理查德的电影是有创造力的。

为了这部电影，你自己沉浸在80年代的文化中了吗?

为了电影风格和这一切，我去了图书馆，看了关于那个时代的所有杂志和文章。和现在如此接近的年代，你没有更多事情可以做。有很多不同的词语，比如：人们习惯更多地使用“rad”!

在电影《死亡幻觉》的开头，就有飞机引擎砸入房间的镜头，这如何在舞台上表现?同名话剧的导演马库斯·斯特恩和他的舞台设计马特·迈克阿登想出了一个主意：用一个玩具房屋来表示主人公达尔克的家，用一架玩具飞机代表坠落的飞机。

为了在没有电影语言的情况下满足视听的需要，话剧还在视听上做了很大的夸张处理。比如片中那个靠忽悠“让世界充满爱”发财的演讲者在剧中身穿更夸张、低俗的黄色锦缎西服，极富舞台效果。

同样，在这个用舞台语言表现电影的世界，剧中安排了几段有趣的舞蹈，比如剧中人物胖女孩的舞蹈，就用肢体动作解释了达尔克所处的社会环境、他的生活、他所在小镇的状况等等。而后面有一段成人演员模仿少女跳的拉拉队舞，故意表现出成人模仿孩子的拙劣感，既滑稽又有一种末世气氛。