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I highly recommend this movie.

This video first came to my attention when someone on NPR provided an analysis of the movie comparing it to the Reagan Presidency. That alone should show that there are multiple possible interpretations for this movie. Of course, the 900 plus reviews on Amazon might be another clue as well.

As you watch the movie, several possibilities come to mind. Donnie Darko is insane. Donnie Darko is going to somehow save the world. Donnie Darko's friends are pulling the most elaborate practical joke on him and this is facilitated by the psychotropic drugs that are proscribed for him. In the end, all of these are wrong.

"Donnie Darko" is about self-determination. On one hand, it offers hope that we do have control over our destinies and we are not just machines that God has set in motion to follow His plan. One the other hand, it offers the idea that by choosing his own immolation, Donnie will have made the world a better place.

Of course, Donnie did this because he believes it will save the life of his girlfriend. In the end, even that is unknowable. Does she simply die at the hands of her estranged father vice being run over? Do enough of the memories from the alternate future remain to discredit the child molester/motivational speaker that Donnie unmasks? In the end, this movie is disturbing in that it not only has characters that are extremely likable yet bizarrely antisocial but its lack of answers on really any issues other than the possibility of time travel and free choice.

Many of the reviewers have painted this as an anti-"It's a Wonderful Life". Frank the giant rabbit is organizing and directing Donnie's life. Frank Capra the director and Frank the giant rabbit. Yet, in "It's a Wonderful Life" it was possible to know the result of one's choices. In "Donnie Darko", one does not even know if choice is a possibility until the very end. The final results of those choices remain unfathomable.

This is an excellent story and needs to be watched at least twice to get all the subtle points. For example, who is the overweight Asian girl and why does she have a crush on Donnie? While the main story comes together at the end with a revealing series of scenes, it is far better than a "gimmick" movie that is of no interest once the viewer learns the "real" secret.


killer bunnyhop!
this is...awsome!ok so 's'not what i expected,it goes like this a troubled teen can't escape the memory of a bizzare acctident so he leaves the work to a 6-foot tall talking bunny to help him commit brutal crimes & kill.afterwards its hard on his friends too.

Horrible
Just another boring movie that goth kids will pull-one off to. The pinnacle of pseudo intellectualism and kids who beg their parents to take them to Hot Topic, then pretend like they don't know them.

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