Creepy yet Satisfying

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2018)

SPOILER ALERT
Donnie Darko is definitely not like any other movie I have seen before. It has a very creepy vibe. But it is one of those movies you have to watch more than once in order to understand it thoroughly. This movie ties in a lot of physics and a lot of time traveling. The director and the producers of this film had a very vivid imagination in order to have been able to think of such a detailed plot. I appreciate the fact that the end of the movie ties in with the beginning of the movie and it shows two different outcomes of time traveling. The beginning and the end begin with Donnie waking up in the middle of a field overlooking a mountain but clearly the ending of both those stories is dramatically different. It is intriguing and at the same time sad. The movie was a little hard to keep up with and therefore, again, it is one of those movies you just have to watch multiple times in order to understand completely. Everything in the movie has a reason as to why it is placed there. For example, I didn't think that Grandma Death was going to be a big deal in the movie but in the end she is the one that wrote the book that allowed Donnie to understand more about time traveling and it explained in detail what he has been seeing. The special effects are very good. For example, Donnie starts to notice the "spears" that show where you will head next in the near future, these were very bubbly yet fluid graphics. Another example is the Frank the rabbit, and his costume, and how his appearance is important throughout the whole movie. Overall this movie was interesting and well written but it's not one of the best movies I have seen.