Donnie Darko is a film directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
For anyone who hasn’t seen and hasn’t heard of this movie: I envy you, because you’re going to see something totally new and different, and that’s not something that happens every day. Donnie Darko is a film full of imagination, fantasy and interesting ideas that takes us on a roller coaster ride through a wormhole.
It stars Jake Gyllenhaal.
Donnie’s story is that of a mentally unbalanced boy who, after surviving an almost certain death, begins to see a mysterious and creepy guy disguised as a bunny. No, he’s not the jolly bunny of the batteries but, however long they last, he sets a date for the end of the story. An exact date with days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
The film is full of fantasy, imagination and creativity, a passage into the imagination through the creative mind of a brilliant but bleak teenager. In the course of the 28 days towards its end we will have the chance to accompany him on a journey into the incoherence of dreams and into the dream of being awake as in a lysergic voyage into the absurdity of a time travel that breaks down.
Donnie Darko is a great film not to be missed. A work that is already becoming a classic in the so called ‘psychological films’ genre, which loses us in the paths of the strange, the grotesque.
A path towards the nonsense of macabre poetics.
Four and a half stars.