An outstanding and overwhelming film

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2006)

What Donnie Darko is about...is kind of complicated. It depends on what you get from the film or how much you understand it. If you have enough perception to understand that the film is NOT actually about time travel, at least that's not the basic point of the film, then you get it. (Richard Kelly, as a teenager of the 80s, wrote the scenario. So it reflects those times' popular questions about time travel. Is it possible? If it is, how?) The film is actually about fate. At least it's my comment. It's about a boy being enlightened through the constant flow of the film. At the beginning of the film, Donnie is confused. He gets psychological assistance. But aside from that, he is a normal and confused teenager. He is afraid to be alone, die alone. So he thinks the search for God is absurd. But as it goes, he gets to know about time travel, he has questions. He has been through so many devastations by the end of the film. Suddenly he's enlightened. Though he thought before that the search for god is absurd, he HAS accomplished on his way of the search for God. He himself answered his questions about God, and time, and history. So he knows that every creature in this world has its own predestined fate and it cannot be resisted. He ceases to resist his fate because he's seen the consequences of it. He's seen that if the history swerves from its predestined flow, some tangent universe arises and it's a suicidal universe which will collapse in less than a month if the living receiver(the person who is he reason of the tangent universe in this case, Donnie) does not complete his/her assignment to call it off, to sacrifice him/herself. Another comment(of which I'm not very fond) is that these are all a dream. But I think that it all would be meaningless without the reality and the sorrow it gives to you. All comes to the same, every creature in this world follows a predestined path in its life and EVERYBODY DIES ALONE...Cause he did so