Donnie Darko tells us a story of a teenager named Donnie and revolves around the unusual events that occur in his life after meeting a man in scary rabbit costume one night.

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2016)

Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a 2001 American psychological horror-science-fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. Set during the presidential elections of 1988, this movie tells us the story of Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) , a "disturbed" teenager who sleepwalks out of house and meets a figure in a scary rabbit costume named Frank, who tells him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. Donnie returns home to find a jet engine crashed into his bedroom , an engine that cant be traced to any crash or an airline.But the mysterious events don't stop here. Donnie starts to become more detached from the reality and starts meeting Frank more often who often talks to him and orders him to do weird things.
Jake Gyllenhaal does a fabulous job in making Donie a menacingly mischievous teenager with a very curious but deranged personality to go hand in hand with the very dark and disturbing atmosphere of the movie with many things spiraling out of control. Jena Malone(Gretchen- Donnie's Girlfriend) , Maggie Gyllenhaal(Elizabeth-Donnie's Sister) and others added to the story in their respective ways.
Donnie Darko is "not" your everyday entertainment. It requires the audience to think hard on what they are seeing. It is like a puzzle becoming more and more confusing as you watch while you try to make sense out of it. Why? Because the film has been carefully made so that there are multiple explanations to what happens and none of them are explicit when you first watch it.
I enjoyed the movie very much even after watching it several times as you experience something different every time you watch it.