Director's commentary is useful people...

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2002)

Please dont read if you haven't seen the movie yet
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I am not a person that can watch and fully comprehend all movies in one watching. I've seen "Donnie Darko" 3 times now, twice normal, once w/ directors commentary. Hell, the first time through, I had no idea that Frank, the giant bunny rabbit, was Donnie's sister's boyfriend (although I did notice the car in a couple of scenes). There are a couple of misconceptions in other peoples comments that dearly need to be cleared up:
1) The movie *is* about time travel and *is* a work of science fiction. Rather poorly explained, it may seem, but the makers of the film had these intentions as shown by the choice of some of the deleted scenes which they felt made the points over obvious.
2) Donnie *was not* sick!!! At least, in so far, as he was not having the daylight hallucinations. His medicine was placebo, water pills. He was slightly disturbed, and he did burn down the abandoned house he mentioned to Gretchen, but he was far from crazy.