darko meaning?

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2005)

The porthole opens right before the moment of Donnie's death.
Frank knows this, and gives Donnie the opportunity to experience a tangential existence in which Donnie escapes death. Inevitably, Donnie realizes that a universe in which fate is denied is doomed.
When the porthole closes, on the date specified by Frank, Donnie has the choice of whether or not to live in this tangential existence. For him, the choice is either, watching everything around him crumble, or leaving before the porthole closes then dying. It's live and be alone, or die and face the unknown.
I guess the movie has no real meaning, rather, just plays with unproved scientific and philosophical ideas.
Frank possibly is God, who for unknown reasons chooses Donnie for this experience.
The film may also be suggesting things about the nature of death, and that possibly, before any of us die, we are shown a 'truth' which allows us to know that the life we have lead is both meaningful and meaningless, and that we are part of an organic process that allows to just 'be'in the moment of death.