Donnie Darko

"Donnie Darko" is about a troubled teenager named Donnie Darko, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. He has been in trouble with the law and is seeing a psychiatrist. One day while sleeping he hears voices and goes outside to investigate when he comes across a 6 foot bunny named Frank who tells him the world will end in 28 days. While out talking to Frank an airplane engine falls onto his room and destroys his room. Because Donnie was not in his room he did not die. So now in a sense he owes his life to Frank the bunny so now whenever Frank asks him to do something for him he does.

The Darkos seem like a normal looking family on the outside, but they are far from it. Donnie seems to have mental problems and is seeing a psychiatrist, the parents do not know how to handle Donnie, the oldest daughter parties a lot but is pretty normal, and the youngest daughter is too pure and innocent. As I said, Donnie is quite out there; in the beginning of the movie he wakes up in the middle of the road sleeping. What is he doing you ask it will be answered in the movie later on. He goes home and acts like nothing, same with his parents. He attends school and what is very creative is how the scene is shot. The director uses slow motion to show the effect of time on everyone and time plays a huge role in the movie.

I know what you are thinking: Donnie must be a crazy movie but it is not that simple. When this movie ends you will definitely have questions that will not be answered. One of the biggest questions is who is Frank the bunny. Is he here to help or hurt Donnie? Is he a time traveler from another universe?

Frank starts to visit Donnie more frequently and tells Donnie to do things that are illegal but open a new world and exposes things that help and destroy people. What is very interesting whenever Frank visits there is some sort clear force field between them that they can not cross, a boundary of some sorts. It makes you wonder is Frank, is he from another universe traveling through time and trying to help Donnie or is he destroying the world himself. There are also a lot of time travel questions, when Donnie is watching t.v. there seems to be a life force that is coming out of his chest directing him to places. This is not only weird but makes you think again is this real or not.

This movie is definitely a movie for someone who wants to think and wonder about time travel and if there is another universe. As I said, most questions will be answered, everything will tie together very nicely but some questions will not be answered because I think the director wants people to talk about the film and create more hubbub about the movie. It is a very creative and good movie. I would give it a 8/10 and I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone.