Watch Donnie Darko

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2018)

Donnie Darko is a fascinating look into how someone with mental health issues would live. This movie follows Donnie a teenaged boy with visual hallucinations. He sees a man wearing a disturbing rabbit costume, Frank, and believes this creature is from the future. The main points of the movie are as follows a turbine engine falls into Donnie's room while he is out, he hallucinates Frank, whom convinces Donnie to burn down the home of someone Donnie does not like, Donnie's girlfriend gets killed by an accident and Donnie goes back in time to save her. Unfortunately, he goes to the day the turbine engine falls into his room and Donnie dies. The final scene is his family outside his house crying but his mother is away from everyone and she looks like she is thinking. I believe that the movie actually begins with Donnie dying in a freak accident, unconnected to the rest of the movie, and the entirety of the film was a hallucination Donnie's mother is living in to cope with what is happening. It is pointed out repeatedly that people think Donnie is mentally ill and many mental illnesses are genetic. Thus, it is possible that Donnie inherited his illness from his mother. Frank acts as his illness and forces him to flood the school and burns down the man's house. These are typical things that hallucinations ask from their victims, most hallucinations are not pleasant for the person suffering from this psychosis. Also, when his mother speaks about seeing her son in pain she seems to feel for him more so than the rest of the family as if she has experienced it herself. Donnie's mother goes to live out her hallucination where Donnie did not die in a freak accident, rather he was a hero who sacrificed to save someone he loved. I am not sure if I am right but that is what is so great about this movie. I highly suggest watching this movie because everyone may see it a little bit differently. The story is left open so that the viewer can draw their own conclusions.