Daniel spends the film torn between Van’s reckless freedom and his own fear of disappointing his strict father. In the third act, Daniel digs up the brown box (literally, from a muddy campus field) and finds letters from alumni — including Van’s own father — admitting their freshman humiliations. The “answer” is that struggle isn’t shameful; it’s universal.
So the likely intended phrase is:
— which is still nonsense. But if I try ROT-1 forward (or recognize common typos), "danlwd" could be " daniel ", "fylm" = " film ", "bdwn" = " brown ", and "sanswr" = " answer ". danlwd fylm van wilder freshman year 2009 bdwn sanswr