Spoilers, but explanations

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2002)

This review is in response to all of the reviews that said that Donnie Darko had nothing to do with time travel, or that the time travel theory was flawed. I am sorry, but watching Back to the Future forty times does not make you a time travel expert. Yes, I know Back to the Future was mentioned in the film, but it does not use that one specific theory to explain traveling through time. If anyone has done their research, time travel has hundreds of different theories. The interpretation I received from the film was very different than others in its genre. It did not copy all of the other time travel movies that enforce the idea that when we travel into the future it's only one of many possible futures. Instead, it gives the impression that even the future is planned out, and that there is no way to escape fate. When Donnie was talking to his teacher. The science teacher said he couldn't discuss time travel anymore or he would get fired. It was due to the fact that they were discussing the possibilities to defy God, which is inappropriate in the religious school where he worked. The twenty-eight days that the movie spans are just a loop hole between when the jet engine on the airplane hits a worm hole and travels twenty-eight days into the past, where it smashes through Donnie's bedroom. The countdown wasn't counting when Donnie shoots Frank, it was the space in between when the engine enters and leaves the worm hole. That is why there was no explanation for where the jet engine came from. yet those twenty-eight days had to take place in order for time to loop and continue down the path it does in the end. Whether Frank was a messenger or a hallucination, there was no way that Frank could stop Donnie from dying in his bedroom. It was God's will. The biggest example of this is when Frank first appeared and moved Donnie out of his bedroom. Even when Frank tried to change fate it only worked out with the same consequences that it had without Frank.I hope this explains some of the misconceptions that people have been having about the movie. If not, watch the movie again, and maybe think about what you just saw. A lot of times that creates logic, which helps explain the "flaws" in the film.