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Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2005)

Donnie Darko is by far one of the greatest movies ever. It makes you think deep into what all the possibilities could be. I understand almost all of it except for one little thing. When Donnie and Gretchen are walking, and he wants to kiss her but she say no because she wants it to be beautiful, there is a fat man in a red suite just standing there. I figured that, that had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie. But then, he appeared again, at the party that Donnie and Elizabeth threw. I believe its in the first party scene when people are walking on the sidewalk up to his house. The man in the red suite is standing there smoking... I think that this has a big significance that a lot of people have brushed off.
Gretchen said that she didn't want to kiss Donnie because the man in the red suit made it not a beautiful thing. And then the night of the party he standing and thats when Frank and Gretchen die in the "Alternative" universe.
If someone could please tell me their thoughts on the m,an in the red suit that would be great because not many people mention him.