Most of you have this movie all wrong!

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2003)

***Warning: May Spoil if left out***
So you've watched Donnie Darko a couple times, so you have a PHD in philosophy, so you think you're smart, so what?
A lot of you got this movie all wrong -- with all this talk about "death dreams" and visions and what not...let me set the record straight.
Donnie Darko is a teen schitzo (sp) also suffering from several combined sleep disorders, mainly, sleep walking.
At the start of the movie, Donnie awakes to find himself on the golf course... looks like it was another long night of sleep walking, and bunnie chasing. Luckily for Mr. Darko, this morning, he slept on the green, rather than becoming the landing zone for a detached jet engine.
The movie goes on, Donnie was given another chance, his life was saved by the same character that later destroys it, a furry rabit named Frank. Frank would destroy Donnie's life by running over his girlfriend on halloween (hense the dude in the rabit suit) after a little gun play, Donnie goes home to bed.
Meanwhile his mother and sister are on a flight somewhere over the Continental US, when suddenly the plane hits a storm system (a big one with funnell clouds, included) the jet engine of the plane breaks off -- now heres where it gets sketchy...
in the movie's book, "The Philosophy of Time Travel" it talks about the requirements for time travel being: water, a metal vessel, and 2 connecting vortexes. Well what better than 2 connecting tornado's full of gusting wind and WATER to make up your water based vortex. So Basically the metal Vessel (the detached jet engine) flew into this double connected tornado and "re-wound" (past tense of re-wind) time. it rewound time all the way to the begining of the movie... but guess what? this time, our hero, Donnie Darko was inbed, asleep. And as the movie ends no one knows of the way things could have been.
Let me throw a couple things in, now...
To believe this theory one needs to assume that the entire "alternate universe" concept is flawed. Think of time and space as a "timeline"- time can be reversed or forwarded... but keep in mind everything that is changed has an affect on the future, not an alternate univers's future, but the ONE collectivly precieved reality that is time and space, as we know it.

Just one problem (or seven)
1 Problem: if there were only 1 timeline, one instance of time and space, then once Donnie was Killed, (by the jet engine) certain events would be different... Donnie would never set the Kiddy Porn Guy's house on fire, so he would never have gone to jail, therefore Donnie's mom would have never had to cover for the teacher who couldnt fly because she needed to attend the trail for the kiddy porn guy....and i was about to say since they would never fly, there would be no jetengine, but alas, just because Donnies mom wouldnt be on the plane, wouldn't mean that the engine wouldnt fall off...
in the end, the entire point of the movie is to try to point out to the viewer that:
1. Life is short 2. Life is controlable - but 3. Life is also uncontrolable 4. Life has an infinite number of posabilities 5. Life always has more to offer than what appears from the outside