Once you make Frank's acquaintance, you think that you see him everywhere from patterns of wallpaper to the shadows in the autumn trees. This is a film of real class, quality and intelligence. One break in your concentration can prove devastating to your understanding of Donnie Darko which spends not nearly enough time explaining itself.
Don't get me wrong, it's nice not to have a movie patronising its audience but you honestly need to focus on everything on screen. Of course, watching it again always helps The only things I can really criticise are some slightly dodgy CG effects not surprising given the film's microscopic budget and the ending which felt a tad unsatisfactory to me.
The film has a suitably apocalyptic feel to it, especially during the Mad World sequence when the pieces of the puzzle start falling into place. Make no mistake, this is a film for people who want to think. If you go into this expecting some sort of troubled-teen-slasher movie then a you weren't paying attention to the trailer above and b this isn't your sort of film anyway.
Donnie Darko is a deliberately dark and powerful picture that plays with your mind and threatens to throw you off-course at any moment. Stick with it and you'll be rewarded. As well as appearing in the film, Barrymore's production company helped to produce the movie. Forget about all of those crass teen comedies, this is how a teen movie should feel like. Wonderfully performed, brilliantly written, utterly bewildering and shot with a real flair, Donnie Darko is a film where everyone is on top form.
Don't worry if you don't get it first time around - like a good book, the film deserves multiple revisits and chances are, you'll spot something new each time or at the very least look at things in a new way. Thoroughly recommended. Great For: confusing people, sparking debate, intelligent viewers bored of the norm. Time travel is a staple of science fiction and has been since the days of H.
But few cover the topic in quite the same way as this film does. Other films look at the subject somewhat differently. This was likely inspired by the book Watership Down by English author Richard Adams, where bunnies talk and act like humans.
You can explain that Frank ended up in the bunny costume somewhat randomly; Frank was likely being taught Watership Down in high school and somehow gripped onto the character as he moved through universes. Frank is not the bad guy. He helps Donnie. What is the role of numerology in the film? That… is when the world… will end. On Stack Exchange, one user explains how the writer creatively employs numbers to create glitches in the Matrix -like effect throughout the film:.
The movie takes place in Frank tells Donnie the world will end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.
If you add these numbers, the sum is He is later seen holding a stuffed toy dog in her office. The meaning of all these numbers creates a creepy occult undercurrent if you have enough time to pay attention to such things.
The meaning of the number eight 8 in Donnie Darko does not seem to extend beyond simply being an interesting Easter egg in the movie. Theories of time travel are abundant in the film, which is what makes it so confusing and hard to understand. This is the book that Dr. There is an interesting tension between science and religion, or between logic and mystery, in Donnie Darko. The tension is most clearly articulated in the biography of Roberta Sparrow aka Grandma Death.
The allegory is clear. Roberta Sparrow represents both the occult and the scientific, both revelation and reason.
The evidence for the necessity of both science and religion is reinforced by the actions of science teacher Kenneth Monnitoff. Monnitoff has to stop the conversation with Donnie. An agnostic is someone who believes that there can be no proof of the existence of God…but does not deny the possibility that God exists.
Richard Kelly also establishes Donnie Darko as a Christ figure or even as a kind of antichrist against suburban notions of Christian sin. Donnie, like Jesus Christ, must sacrifice his own life to save the world.
Additionally, it is explicitly signaled that we should draw such parallels when Donnie is in the theater watching a double feature of The Evil Dead and The Last Temptation of Christ Predestination or predetermination is an important concept in Donnie Darko. In this part of the article, the analysis will get theoretical and extrapolative, as the question of is there free will? The idea is that whatever Donnie is doing is out of his control.
These future apparitions come as water tentacles or gelatinous blobs. What are we to make of this? There is an otherworldly scene portrayed for only a few seconds in the film of metal and water. There is a delay in their transmission, which is what allows Donnie to see the selected pathways. The Donnie Darko soundtrack is about as legendary as the movie itself, mainly because of the closing track discussed later , but also because the menacing but romantic score seems to linger and meshes so well with the picture.
California-based composer Michael Andrews made the score, and because of the limited budget played mostly all the instruments himself. All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow.
The Tears for Fears version is catchy and almost uplifting despite the sad lyrics , while the Gary Jules rendition in Donnie Darko is a morbid ballet. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. You can argue that Donnie's sacrifice is to save others and redeem his past behavior, but it's unclear if it was ever a choice.
We never get clinical details info on Donnie's emotional instability -- he may be delusionally schizophrenic, a defiant kid mistreated by The System, or both -- but the film is clearly on his side, as a smart and unappreciated boy.
More than it is on the side of the people he scorns and hurts, like an upbeat gym teacher or a gung-ho motivational speaker. Donnie possibly in a trance state commits vandalism and sabotage and even murder, though he sacrifices himself in the end.
Donnie's parents, despite all the family and social dysfunction, have a solid and loving relationship. A character fatally shot in the eye appearing in bloody, ghostly form. Another character fatally run over by an automobile. Fistfights between teens, knife pulled on the hero. Donnie and his new girlfriend have sex, though nothing is shown. Discussion of sex and non-clinical child pornography.
A nude woman in a painting briefly glimpsed. Frequent swearing includes "f--k," "s--t," "bitch," "d--k," "goddamn," and hell. A young girl says "f--k-ass. There is an obscene teen discussion of the sex life of Smurfs Donnie turns out to be a huge fan.
Teens and adults smoke cigarettes. Donnie is supposed to take prescription pills for his emotional problems.
Parents need to know that Donnie Darko is a dark thriller with a cultlike following. The movie has frequent swearing from teens, adults, and even a young child, and includes "f--k," "s--t," "bitch," and more.
There is also frequent sex talk that is supposed to represent the generally anti-establishment viewpoint of the hero here: an angry, possibly mentally ill teen. Classroom vandalism apparently committed by the hero under some sort of spell and profane disrespect of teachers and authority-figure adults is part of the plot, and not exactly frowned upon. There is teen sex non-explicit , references to pornography, and violence, although there is very little blood.
There is also a violent death at the end. Add your rating See all 15 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 60 kid reviews. In a cozy affluent suburb in October, , DONNIE DARKO Jake Gyllenhaal , a rebellious teen, smart but diagnosed with mental illness and sort of a misfit at school, is lured from his bedroom by a phantom wearing a grotesque, metal-masked rabbit costume. The rabbit, "Frank," tells him exactly when the world will end -- in 28 days.
Meanwhile a shattering series of events disrupt Donnie's already-unsteady world, including young love with a new girl at school. A plane engine falls out of nowhere onto his house, a sympathetic English teacher Drew Barrymore is punished for her choice of literature in the class, a youth-mentoring positive-thinking guru Patrick Swayze brainwashes the community, visions of wormlike appendages emerge from people's chests, and a neighborhood crazy lady turns out to be an ex-nun scientist who researched time-travel and metaphysical cause-effect paradoxes.
Got all that? More menacing visits from "Frank" the rabbit lead to a Halloween night revelation, and Donnie realizing his pivotal role in this weird, interconnected web of destiny. This movie was embraced as a genuinely oddball "cult" item almost instantly upon its unsuccessful theatrical release. Like most cult movies, Donnie Darko works well on numerous levels -- as a brainy piece of science-fiction, an ominous psychological thriller, a satire on suburban values, or a tragic drama of a doomed young rebel.
Though Donnie -- sometimes in a trance-state, sometimes consciously -- commits vandalism and lashes out, he's smart enough to sense the eerie time-warp pattern behind all the odd goings-on. And he's heroic enough to make a Christ-like sacrifice at the end, for the good of everyone else, when the "end of the world" comes. Though it's possible he never had a choice -- just the insight.
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