Donnie Darko Explained

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2009)

I've decided to write this review because of the so many people who miss the ridiculously obvious meaning to this movie and then go on and on about what it means. It is a simple "Finding God before you die" story. Early in the movie, Donnie Darko is killed by the engine falling through his roof, but instead you see him being rescued by becoming Schizophrenic - symbolizing that he's out of touch with reality and living in another world. This is where the tangent universe begins. From there we see him go on a soul searching process that ends with him seeing the face of Jesus in the clouds just before the tangent universe collapses and he is killed by the engine that killed him earlier. That's it, that's the movie.