Sunday, November 2, 2014

Donnie Darko

One of my favorite movies of all times is Donnie Darko. This movie, set in 1988, is a psychological thriller of 2001, starring by Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Jena Malone. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a boy with supposed "daylight hallucinations", who is awakened in the middle of the night, and led outside, by a man wearing a giant rabbit costume, known as Frank, who tells him that the world is going to end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. In the morning, Donnie finds out that a jet engine crashed into his bedroom and no one, not even the investigators, know where it came from. After all this, a series of mysterious events occur in Donnie’s community, leading him to save the world, and to a tragic ending. Donnie Darko received mixed to positive reviews from the critics and became a major cult following film.


This film means a lot to me because I feel so related to it in the sense that I would like to be Donnie Darko. He’s this really weird kid that nobody understands with a normal life, and suddenly his life becomes interesting. I would like that to happen to me. Besides, this movie portrays a religious-scientific conflict, like for example: Tangent Universe (The parallel Universe that most of the film is set in) and the indirect question of  “Is there a divine entity that makes the mysterious events happen?”. This movie could be so hard to comprehend that wed sites explaining the plot and the ending have been created, and I would be lying to you if I tell you that I understand the whole film. I like this movie because is a challenge to me and because is so symbolic. I just love the darkness and the mystery that entails. Every time I watch Donnie Darko, it feels like taking a time machine, going back to eleventh grade and seeing myself writing in every paper sheet and desk “28:06:42:12 That is when the world will end.” 

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