September 11, 2001, Life of Pi comes out, then a few weeks later, Donnie Darko releases in theaters, a box office failure due its timing and central plane crash imagery. In these two narratives, a young man struggles to survive within a harsh world, while grappling with an animalistic nature. Grant Dever joins host Timothy Wilcox to recover this cultural moment which is about to be subsumed within a new paradigm.