Donnie Darko is one of the strangest, most confusing movies of all time. The movie is about a teenager named Donnie Darko (hence the name), a seemingly-paranoid-schizophrenic living in a small town. At the beginning of the movie, Donnie is lured out of his room and out to the yard by a demonic voice. It turns out to be a six-foot-tall bunny rabbit, who we later find out is named Frank. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in 30 days. At that moment, a jet engine falls on Donnie’s room. Throughout the movie Frank is portrayed as a mysterious ghostly being, and only Donnie can see him. He shows up at random intervals throughout the movie with cryptic messages; at one point, Donnie asks him, “Why do you wear that stupid bunny costume?” to which frank responds, “Why do you wear that stupid human costume?” He then takes off his mask, and it is a normal man with a bloody hole where his right eye should be. The rest of the movie involves a crazy health teacher, a self-help guru for teens (who turns out to have a “kiddie porn dungeon” in his house and is arrested for it, and Grandma Death, an elderly former author who does nothing but walk back and forth from her house to check the mailbox, which is always empty.(SPOILER ALERT) I won’t spoil too much, but at the end of the movie, Donnie’s girlfriend gets run over by a car. The driver turns out to be Frank, but he has no wound and his costume is for halloween; Donnie then shoots him in the eye. When Donnie goes to bed that night, a jet engine falls on his room, killing him. Grandma Death wrote about time travel, and the themes of the movie revolve heavily around alternate universes and time travel. However, it never actually says anything about them at all. I give it 5/5 stars, for totally blowing my mind.
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