Hallucination or Reality?

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2005)

Donny Darko is a very original and disturbing film about a teenaged boy who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, which causes hallucinations and delusions. On the day that an jet engine from an unidentified plane crashes into his bedroom, Donny's life is saved by a vision of Frank, a gigantic horror-bunny who leads Donny out of the house and gives him a count down to the end of the world - less than a month away.
As Donny's visions of Frank become more frequent, Frank leads him to commit more dangerous and more destructive acts. At the same time, Donny discovers that the 'crazy' old woman down the road once wrote a book about time-travel, and he begins to believe he can see people's path through time as well as wormholes. But is Donny really hallucinating, or does he simply see a reality to which the rest of us are blind?