Terrific movie, a surprise.

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2004)

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE PLOT: Donnie Darko is a boy with mental problems who lives in the small town of Middlesex. He starts to see a giant black rabbit and from that day his life, and the ones of people around him are changed. The all story seems to be connected in its deployment with time traveling.
When I went to theater to watch this movie I expected a tale about a super-hero (because of the stupid Italian trailer, in which there are no rabbits, can you believe it??). However I was expecting something like this, a movie without a concrete plot and some special effects. What i actually got was instead an amazing tale about a boy affected by strange (dreadful in my opinion) visions of a giant rabbit and strange worms coming out of people. The movie gains a complete and effective meaning only at the very end -but i suggest that you search on the Internet for more info, because some very interesting aspects of the plot are not explained at all in the movie - and during the whole film you get a sense of drama , awe and complicity. The ending is a surprise, too, and concludes in a magnificent way what can be defined as one of the best movies I have ever seen. Absolutely unmissable. 10+/10