Simply beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2005)

When I first watched Donnie Darko in December of 2004. I've heard a lot about the movie but I never really knew what was so great about it. I really don't know if this is a movie that you can take several different ways or not. But this is the way that I saw it: A jet engine crashes through Donnie Darko's bedroom. Some odd force, also known as Frank, had taken him out of his room so that he could survive. He meets this girl named Gretchen. She lets him not be alone. Toward the end of the movie, Gretchen gets killed and Donnie meets the real Frank. He kills Frank for killing Gretchen. There's this on going theme of time travel and everything. Well once he starts to see the world ending, his parents flight takes another turn, and travels back into the past where Donnie actually gets killed by the engine. Gretchen pulls up on her bike as they're taking Donnie out of the hose. She asks a neighbour kid about him...she didn't get the chance to know him because of the engine. in the movie she tells him something about going back and replacing all of the dark times in your life with something like a Hawaiian sunset. So in saying this, she was his sunset...beautiful and right. I really like this movie. I can't believe that I actually sat through a movie by myself. And it didn't seem that long either. I must say, this is a great movie through and through.