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The disturbed (schizophrenic?) medicated Junior High School teenager Donnie Darko, during the 1988 Presidential Election, sleepwalks out of his Middlesex, Iowa, home one night. He is confronted by a huge rabbit-demon named Frank who warns him that the world will end "in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds." The next morning, as he heads home, he is shocked to find that a jet plane's turbine engine has crashed through his roof and bedroom. His vaguely dysfunctional family, and more totally dysfunctional school are no help to his attempts to figure out why he survived, and how to save the world. The creepy bunny becomes his guru, leading him to subversive and destructive acts that escalate from overcoming the school bully, a knee-jerk conservative Health Ed teacher, and a smarmy self-help lecturer (Patrick Swayze as the cultish head Jim Cunningham of the "Controlling Fear" seminars, which have entranced many in the town), to vandalism, career-destruction, flooding the school, and arson against a sexually perverted writer. That writer is the epitome of specialization -- Donnie Darko insists that things are not so simple -- one must recognize the entire spectrum of human emotions. The subtle plot eventually discloses that Donnie Darko did actually die in "our" universe, and he's in a strange parallel alternate reality. He is faced with an ultimate choice: save the world by sacrificing himself, or save himself in the tangent world by dooming his home universe. The ending resolves as weird a set of paradoxes as have ever been paradoctored. Donnie Darko is directed by Richard Kelly, and well-acted by Jake Gyllenhaal as the title character. Hip, clever, ironic, and unique. Cool sound track, too. Recommended. |
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Donnie Darko es una película de ciencia ficción rodada en 2001. Ambientada a finales de 1988, Donnie Darko relata la historia de un adolescente (llamado Donald, apodado Donnie) que, tras haber escapado a la muerte, tiene visiones sobre un siniestro conejo gigante llamado Frank, que predice el día en que el mundo acabará. Donnie Darko tuvo una pobre recepción en los cines, pero tras haber sido llevada a DVD y a VHS, se ha transformado en una película de culto, en buena parte gracias a los fans de Reino Unido[cita requerida]. Gracias a este éxito, en el mayo de 2004 se lanzó al mercado Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut. |
