twist the time frame

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2004)

hmm..i'd say that naming the film 'donnie darko' THE ONE is a bit of exaggeration, nevertheless, it is a very good film which gives you food-for-thought.
the thing i was most pondering about after having watched the film was how time seems reversible if you consider the way in which the events put into its frame make a kind of a circle. idea neither new nor revelatory, but still the picture 'donnie darko'presents us with is worth noticing. if we tend to treat time as yet another dimension which we still need to learn how to move in, we're not surprised anymore with what happens to donnie. after all, his going over and over again through these few (yet crucial) episodes of his life enables him to gain awareness (you may change your destiny if you do believe in it, but you should be prepared for changing accidentally the fate of many more people - in a way you can't predict or control) and, finally, to make his story/destiny fulfilled.
donnie, rejecting the chance to survive, sacrifices his own life to let the girl live (his world would end the moment she would die - by what he did the end of his world didn't have to include the end of her life). anyway, 'every creature in this world dies alone', as we hear in the film.
to put it in a nutshell - 'donnie darko'is a film definitely worth seeing