Donnie Darko

Welcome to the most confusing blog post I'll ever make.

I'd like to talk a bit about the indie film Donnie Darko. It follows our main character Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) over the course of 28 days where he is riddled with doomsday-related visions.  Let me tell you, it is a rollercoaster.

One of my favorite genres of film to watch is psychological thrillers.  I absolutely love the concept of confusing the hell out of people and making them feel like they are short-of-breath at the same time, and I love feeling that way myself.

Let's discuss the famous rabbit.  This rabbit's name is Frank, and from my analysis is just something that Donnie made up in his head.  I'd like to believe that Frank represents the future, and is a sign that Donnie needs to make some changes in his everyday life, but that might just be too insightful.

Unfortunately, Donnie's psychiatrist chalks the daytime visions that Donnie has as hallucinations caused by paranoid schizophrenia.  Over the course of the film, although Donnie gets up at night with fever dreams and does insane things like flooding his high school, he is forming relationships with people while he is awake that count as a sort of B plot to the film.

We see at the beginning of the film that a plane crashes into Donnie's house, crushing him, so this shouldn't be a spoiler.  At the end of the film the scene repeats, and characters feel as if they are experiencing deja vu, although nothing over the course of the 28 days where Donnie was knowledgeable about doomsday ever happened.

I have to say, I'm genuinely upset that the B plot of the relationship sustained between Donnie's love interest Gretchen never actually happened.  There's something about seeing such a troubled soul have their walls torn down by someone, making them so vulnerable, that's just so endearing to me.

Obviously I just gave you a crash course on the whole film with my views, so odds are none of that made any sense.  After viewing this movie four times over the last three days, I'm still confused about the entire concept.

Or possibly, I understand it perfectly.