wat is donny darko about?

Question

i dont actually get wat the rabbit does? is the film the past or the future or a dream?

Answer 1

like most people are saying,watch it a few times but dont ever think you'll get it ,once you think you have you'll think of something else,i think the rabbit leads him to the point where it kills the girl and he relises how to solve the time travel thing and uses it to save the girl by somehow bringing the jet engine back to kill him in his bed which also saves his mum and sister and none of the airline people know where the fallen engine from the sky came from as none of their planes lost one,confused,you should be,i'll watch it today and no doubt this will all sound like crap when i read it back.

Answer 2

It is a "what would you do if you knew you were going to die"
The rabbit is a metaphor for the main characters death and also brief rebirth.
The most beautiful moment is at the end when Jake Gyllanhal wakes up and you can see he finally remembers that he managed to do it all.... beat the system (school)... beat the bully (the child molester) and got the girl!
Keep trying it is worth watching at least 3 times

Answer 3

donny darko is a sci fi movie dealing with time and how someone can really screw with it.
the rabbit is there to keep darko from doing something stupid. darko doesnt understand the rabbit until the end too.
its in real time but he goes back in time to fix his mistake.
its mainly to mess with the watchers mind.
watch butterfly effect if you liked that one. kinda the same thing but better and easier to understand

Answer 4

astounding reason? Frank is bada$$, LOL. i think of Donnie Darko appeals to this manner of super sort of folk through fact besides the certainty that many would possibly no longer go through with schizophrenia, an astounding sort of folk felt alienated for the duration of their teenage years, kinda like an 'us vs them' style element. The storyline is slightly confusing, yet that provides to its charm. The soundtrack is tremendously wonderful, too. i will declare that S. Darko sucks..it sucks undesirable, too. My handle it somewhat is how if one element is replaced, the complete chain of activities can variety.

Answer 5

I agree with canaries...you have to watch it several times over to start to get an understanding of it and really appreciate it....I think it's a GREAT movie that's really open to interpretation...I've seen it about 6 times and I still haven't really gotten it figured out, but it gets better each time...that's part of the fun of it...I think the Ters for Fears song at the end really sums it up...listen carefully to the words...I think it's all a dream

Answer 6

It's a bit style over substance to be honest, like an overlong and overblown pop video. I've seen it twice and it confuses the hell out of me. No doubts it's director would say it was a metaphysical coda on lost and troubled teenage isolation or something like that. I, on the other hand might say it's like a bad episode of the Twilight Zone.

Answer 7

its about time travel and how to do it, the rabbit is there to stop him making a mistake which would leave his beloved dead and its wonderfully weird, you will have to watch it 2-3 times to catch on, v good once you have the jist, i like the fact that after he changes time the main people remember it all!

Answer 8

I hated that film, i think i watched about the first ten minutes and fell right to sleep. Good Luck though!

Answer 9

Am I really alive, or am I just dreaming this, or maybe I'm already dead and this is just my imagination, how do I know if what I'm doing, seeing, feeling is real?

Answer 10

I interpreted it as coincidence and fate.

Interesting film, but you may have to watch it more than once to understand it.