Just wonderful

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2013)

This truly is a movie that folks will either adore or detest, without a lot in-between.
Donnie Darko, first and foremost, refuses to neatly fit into any particular category. It doesn't try to convey any real message, doesn't have a central theme, and doesn't try to push any agenda, or 'achieve' anything.
Donnie Darko merely shares with its viewers the world-view and emotions of a very aware, sensitive, intelligent and fundamentally good-natured teenager trying to understand and get to grips with the sights and sounds of the world around him. And for someone like that the jury is out of which is more insane, 7-foot rabbits or God-fearing republicans.
And like the world-view and emotions of sensitive, intelligent and good-natured teenagers the world over the movie is complex, unsettling, troubled, intense, lonely, morose, romantic, enchanting, dramatic, self-absorbed, self-conscious, self-righteous, insecure, perplexed, curious and incoherent. That is the whole point.
If you were an off-beat teenager like Donnie Darko, and also felt 'weird' because you weren't exactly like the other kids, this movie will hit a nerve. And you will love it.