Jake Gyllenhaal and the sepulchral coney [Spoilers for the uninitiated]

Rating: 4/10 (14 May 2004)

Saw "Donnie Darko" at 12:am this morning, for me quite frankly - have no idea what the big hue and cry is over with this purported cult classic... It is vaguely reminiscent of Philip K Dick, but that's about all!
It is trying real hard to simultaneously justify what is sanity, the virtue of justice vs. sacrifice and what do you do to achieve nobility - kill one or many?
Jake as Donald is suitable nevertheless, he has the right parts of victim, psycho and hero - I thought that the film should have attempted to justify his questionable sanity a lot more and only went part of the way by destroying Swayze's home to reveal his charcter's secret pervitude.
Should Donnie have lived? Thus killing his girlfriend, or in her living allowing the sublime - yet slime - Cunningham prevail? Where did dead Frank come from, what was his inspiration? How did the engine from The Future (interestingly off his Mother's return plane) get there? Did the second Oct. 2 hold Judgment for those who lived 28 days 6 hours and 42 minutes hence?? Use of "the end " held interesting connotation, Donnie was not sure nor viewer that it was for whole world, but it was narrowcasted down to Don as a singularity - does the writer see death of an individual as end of All, therefore is write potential Atheist? This is not a picture to watch while tanked up on Maui Wowie!
More importantly, why did Drew Barrymore seek to pricetag this project??
Just an interesting anachronism.... I heard in the picture the use of "Duh!" as a rhetortical response, it was set in 1988??? Duh! That phrase in that particular context was not in vogue 'til circa 1994? DuH!