The best movie ever about divine intervention

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2002)

To tell the honest truth, the only reason why I saw this movie in the first place was because it had Noah Wyle. Though when I watched the movie the first time, I thought to myself that this had to be the strangest movie I had ever seen. It wasn't until the night after my high school graduation, that I watched it again. This time I watched it on DVD with all the deleted scenes and extras. This cleared up any questions I had about the movie. I have now seen this movie 5 times and have bought it for my collection.

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I wanted to take some time to explain what I think this movie was about. This is a movie completely about God's intervention in the lives of humans. When Donnie is saved from catastrophe at the beginning of the movie, God (symbolized by a 6 foot rabbit) intervenes and saves Donnie from certain death. The rest of the movie is to show what would have happened if Donnie really would have survived. Donnie sees that everyone that is part of his life is hurt in some way because he survived. At the conclusion of film we see Donnie actually live out the reality of that most certain death. He chose to die instead of hurting all the people he cares about. This shows the difference between free will and God's sovereignty. If you wanted to you could say that Donnie represented Christ by sacrificing himself for everyone's better good.
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There is so much to this movie, I do not recommend you to watch it by yourself. This is a movie that needs to be watched with extra eyes and ears and then discussed over a nice cup of coffee for a night cap.

Quality of movie: Excellent (Barrymore's performance is a little weak but not bad)
Language: Partially rough mainly sexual references and drug content
Sex: None
Excellent debut by Richard Kelly.