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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