Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2007)

Well, well, well, where do i start with the best movie ever made? i think three words would describe it perfect, man's greatest creation. Donnie Darko is my number one movie, and i'm not the only one, it is ranked just above the one - hundred mark on IMDb's top 250 movies and is in the 50 movies you have to see before you die. What do i like about it so much? I'll tell you. First of all, Donnie. Donnie Darko. Just his name sounds like a superhero. His eeriness, his distance from his family, the one who really stands out in a crowd. He says what everyone else isn't willing to. He speaks the bitter truth, and sometimes, the future. Along with his humor and logical explanations, which is demonstrated in the Smurfs conversation he has with his friends, explaining, Smurfs could not have reproductive organism. Next, my favorite character, Frank the Anthropomorphic Bunny. What isn't there to love about this demonic creature. His face looks as if it was forged out of the pure stench of death. His eyes, those giant, glass eyes, and the ears, twisting hi above his face, and finally, his teeth, crooked and bucked as a man's when he rots his teeth out. but apart from his dark look, Frank has the most significant role, next to Donnie, throughout the movie. He first appears on October 2nd at Donnie's bedside. He later proceeds to tell him that the world will end in exactly 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds, which he speaks in his ever hellish tone. He guides Donnie throughout the movie, trying to help him save the world before the tangent universe destroys its self. He helps Donnie, he comforts him, he teaches him and even frightens him. I love Frank. Later, we find out that Frank is a Manipulated living, those who got the director's cut will now what i mean and we later meet living Frank as Donnie's older sister's boyfriend and he writes "Frank was her, went out to get BEER" on the fridge in the exact same handwriting Donnie writes "They mad me do it" on the school grounds. Next, is the camera angles, the lighting and the use of the deus ex machina eye, which shows us something in it each time that represents one of Donnies objectives, e.g, we see a flooded city which is reminiscent of Donnie flooding the school. Lastly, i love the way there are so many different interpretations and there are so many things unexplained, leaving you to make your own mind up. This movie truly is the greatest film ever made and probably will keep that title for a long, long time. It was so advanced for its time, and still is, and its no wonder it was a flop in the states, typical of our modern life; everything needs to be explained perfect. I hope the reader loves this movie as much as i do, but i think its pretty hard to beat my admiration for the movie.