Watch once, watch twice then make up your mind or... watch again! (Donnie Darko (DVD))

Member Name: pcspinheiro

Product:	Donnie Darko (DVD)
Date:	12/08/09 (8 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good plot, convincing acting, unpredictable ending

Disadvantages: May annnoy some if they need to watch multiple times...

This DVD puts us before a very original cult movie starring Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a creative and imaginative 16 year old living with his middle class family in a small American town. Despite looking like a normal teenager, Donnie lives tormented by mental disturbances that only get worse when he miraculously escapes certain death on a freakish accident. From here on, and after a few contacts with Frank, a giant bunny that only he can see, he realizes that the would is about to end and that only him, and him alone, has to execute a quite particular mission.

This work, that initiated Richard Kelly as a movie director, was one of the great sensations of independent movies in 2001. Donnie Darko can present itself as quite a surprise, with its inspired and interesting screenplay, excellent soundtrack, a capable cast playing complex and interesting characters, good camera work and articulated dialogues.

Also playing in its favor is the fact that this movie is quite unpredictable and generates multiple opinions about its closure. In my own opinion, Donnie Darko represents the typical teenager struggling with his (in)adaptation to a society full of hypocrisy, prejudice and false moral, where a teacher trying to promote thought has no place to be and a person loved by society has a past shadowed by pedophilia. Darko is willing to give his life for the ones he loves, hence is smile in the end; others said its because he saved the world.

It is, in my opinion, indispensable for all that like a good intellectual movie whose ending is subject to individual interpretations based on how they experience the movie themselves. It may require two or more viewings (I watched it 3 times...) before one can make up their minds about what "really" happened, but it will definitely be worth the time.

Summary: Your in for a treat with this one, if you don't like to be told how it "really" ends