Does anyone have a clue what Donnie Darko was about?

Answer 1

Donnie Darko is a very complex movie that runs on many different levels. First off the movie is filmed in a dysphoric sense, being that all the scenes and times throughout the movie are seperated and not in order. So you have to mentally put the movie together from different parts as you go, you should definetely watch the movie again after seeing the end of it and see if the beginning makes a little more sense then because it falls in a weird place throughout the movie. The movie is about a couple different things, Donnie possibly battling with a heavy case of schizophrenia, the possibility of time travel as you see at the end of the movie (on another note this aspect isn't heavily layed upon in this movie), and reactions between the different charecters the whole movie seems to rely upon cause and effect, as you can see how the situations are changed by his involvement in them, at the same time the movie is also about how he slowly realizes he has no control over what happens around him (possibly why he laughs near the end when he realizes he is going to get crushed by the plane). There are many different ways that you can look at this movie, it is brilliant and blunt on so many levels.

Answer 2

Donnie Darko is a 2001 feature film, the first by writer and director Richard Kelly. Set in 1988, the movie is a psychological thriller/science fiction film about the bright but troubled boy Donnie Darko, who, after narrowly escaping death has repeating visions of an eerie, 6-foot tall anthropomorphic rabbit named Frank who tells him that the world will be ending in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.

It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Donnie Darko's themes include time travel, existentialism, nihilism, love, and personal sacrifice. The movie's plot suggests various paradoxes that are never fully explained and multiple interpretations of the film's storyline exist. There are some parallels with The Last Temptation of Christ.

The film did not perform well in theaters initially but has since become a very popular cult hit with its release on home video. In the United Kingdom, it sold moderately well on DVD before being reissued in a budget edition (with no director's commentary or other extras), where it reached #1 in the DVD sales chart.

Answer 3

Ultimately, it's about string theory/time travel, and making conscious decisions that affect the world in predictable ways to bring about an outcome that has to happen for the world to be in rightful order. When I first watched it, all I knew was that the main character was schizophrenic with a hallucination of a large rabbit. Turns out that the rabbit is more a guide toward what was meant to be on the journey through time than a hallucination. I had no idea there would be so much science in it, but I was pleasantly surprised. I love Donnie Darko.

But Frank still scares the everloving he11 out of me.

Answer 4

I have only seen a little of the film, but I got the impression it was like Kafka's Metamorphisis, where the character discovers the depressing truth that the world is a better place without him in it.

Answer 5

its about divine intervention, watch the bonus features it really help, each person gets something different out of it, i get something new out of it each time i watch it, its my favorate movie. Also it's about a Kid's struggle with the decision he gets to make whether or not life would be better with or without him from a certain point, thats why he's obsessed with time travel. He gets to see how people will be hurt if he exists, hence he decision to die at the end of the movie.

Answer 6

Clueless

Answer 7

Time travel, and the conscious restructuring of reality through death.

Answer 8

No Sorry!

Answer 9

a big rabbit...