You can't just forget a film like Donnie Darko and that's a compliment

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2007)

Donnie Darko is one of those films that you can't easily forget; i saw it last week and i'm still thinking in the story and truly is one of the best films that i have seen in this year. I know that this film was release in 2001 and that i saw it 6 years later but here in Mexico it wasn't release in the theaters and like in the rest of the world this film gain popularity in the DVD format and right now is a true cult film.
It's hard to write a resume of the plot but i must say that is film is just unique because is not just a sci-fi story, is also a critic to the establish society and a view to the teenage life.
Let's forget for a moment the time travel part and focus into the points of view of Donnie Darko. He is very clever, shy and very different from the rest of his school partners. Whe he start having this strange views of the rabbit (i really love those scenes) he start doing things that he always want to do but (like most of the persons) he was afraid. I mean, he wants to "change things" and in resume, he was against the establish society. Like in the school when he was against the idea of his teacher that in life there were just two things: love and fear, Donnie says that life wasn't that easy and simple but the teacher was afraid to go out the "normal" points of view of the school.
So i really love a lot of things like that one in the entire film apart from the time travel story which also, i think is great. Like the talk between Donnie and the "f****** Antichrist", is really good and an example of the people which Donnie was against.
About the sci-fi story: the time travel story is not easy to forget and is not easy to resume.
I have only watch his film one time and other time very quickly so maybe i'm not correct but that's the magic of this film, is a very interesting story that makes you think.
SPOILER ALERT!!!! (just for the people who already watch the film)
For me is was like everything really happened, no matter if Donnie could travel back in time. I mean when Donnie dies, everybody wakes up from like a dream but they are thinking in what they lived with Donnie: Frank touches his eye and the "Antichrist" is crying for example. And also in the final scene there is a recognition between Gretchen (Donnie's girl) and Donnie's mother, so is like a story that ends on October 28 when the plain travel back on time to October 2 and in the case of the film we see that Donnie stays in his bed. Other thing is the character of Roberta Sparrow (Grandma Death) that is always checking the mail box because i think she knows that in some part of the story she will receive a letter that i think before she have already seen.
Well is a very interesting story that you can comment with your friends and that makes you see this film more than 1 time.
SPOILER ENDS!!!!!
About the cast: is just great with a young Jake Gyllenhaall making his best performance (along with his character in "Zodiac") and with Drew Barrymore in a little role, i think she read the script and love it and said like "i give you the money but you give a role". And the rest of the cast is excellent.
The visual part of the film is nothing but a piece of art and the music is more than excellent, with the beautiful "Mad World" and also with "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division.
As a conclusion: Donnie Darko is just a work of art and now is a must see; and for me is one of my favourites films of this decade. 10 out of 10
DVD: is just great because that is the unique format that this film was release in Mexico. I have the "regular" edition with only 1 disc but is great with a lot of bonus material so i really like it.