Donnie Darko, Animated Clocks

“What the beginning, end or warp of time represents and means, is beyond me. In dreams, we go to a place, which runs on a different time clock. In this dreamland, time is not linear. The past, present and future are all one.”- Interpretation of "The persistence of the memory" Dalí's painting by Cathy Lo. Source: interpretation.scene360.com"Richard Kelly decides to go for the surrealist, so hippy-hop onto the train folks. This one’s bound for Dahli-wood.

There are no melting clocks in Donnie Darko, but this movie’s got plenty of weirdness in its own right. To say nothing of the movie’s constant references to metaphysics, time travel and what Joss Whedon calls “The Sky Bully.” Source: chosis.coldfusionvideo.com
"Near the end of the movie, when the clock strikes midnight, the movie claims October 30 1988 (SIX HOURS REMAIN)

Which, seems wrong. I would argue 7 hours until the end of the world, but that “Six Hours Remain” may be until the start of the end or something. See at the beginning of the movie Frank the bunny calls Donnie out of his room, the clocks read midnight and the date given is, October 2 1988.

Frank has donnie walk to the golf course and then tells him that he has 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds left (28:06:42:12), assuming about 18 minutes to walk to the course, this places the end of the world around 7am.So the ambiguity is that at midnight on October 30th the movie says 6 hours left when Frank and the sequence of events indicate 7 hours are left and the website says fuckall. (”I will not be afraid!”) Why does all this matter? I wanted to create a clock that gave the countdown to October 30th on the hour of the Collapse of the “tangent universe”. But since I’ve been trying to figure all this out I’m now up way later then I wanted to be and I’m probably not going to make this stupid clock tonight. I’ve found only one other site confused about this, and they didn’t care. I guess they weren’t trying to make a clock". -Francis
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Darko 28 Days Wall Clock
28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds. That... is when the world... will end.
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