viewers' answers to...               Donnie Darko is the greatest movie ever. It's about a teenage boy (who is very attractive) who is trying to "clean" the world before it ends in less than a month. It's an amazing movie...and it has PATRICK SWAYZE IN IT (but unfortunately, no, there is no lift--dirty dancing reference). --Lisa     ----------<?><?><?>----------     Matias ranks high in 'fear' perhaps because the movie frightened him but probably more so because he didn't really understand it and was fearful of looking stupid or embarrassed. --Osborne-Supersad     ----------<?><?><?>----------     the ultimate question. if you knew what would happen is there a point in changing what your future holds? could you change it. is the whole point of finding out a divine favor. is this just a part of the plain? this movie is about qustions, fate and chances. --Bryan and Carol Barbee     ----------<?><?><?>---------     it's a personal apocalypse --Jonathan Tamayo     ----------<?><?><?>----------     here are two reasons that I think Matias would run away     1. Matias liked the movie for the strangeness alone, and had no clue as to what it was about.     2. Matias felt that to explain the movie would take to long and would ruin the greatness of it, so he ran home to the get the DVD for Bobby to watch.     I like 2 myself --Ian     ----------<?><?><?>----------     a touching story of a boy and his six-foot-tall bunny... --Garbage2Vr     ----------<?><?><?>----------     'Donnie Darko' is a mind-blowing independent film from Drew Barrymore's film company, Flower Films. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie, a teenage boyw hose delusions and emotional turmoil lead him in an "Alice"-like trip down a hole, into a world that doesn't seem real. He is lead by Frank, a demented rabbit--but don't laugh, because his appearance, like that of so many things Donnie is experiencing now, is quite deceiving. The end of the world.....the ability to travel through time.....the true permanence of fate.....what fate itself holds......Donnie is right in the middle of it all and is forced to pull all of it together, at least for the sake of his sanity. This is now OFFICIALLY my new favorite movie! I urge any and every person who reads this to take a chance on this rare gem of a film! --Scrmgrl6     ----------<?><?><?>----------     a boy coming of age and dealing with scizophrenia, i dont completely know if that's what its supposed to be about but when i think about the movie my mind just travels back to that conclusion. its almost like he doesn't ever really move from the bed that night and thinks it all up, that's one way i look at it, i am probably wrong, and i have to admit that i do look at it other ways, but i just can't help thinking that it all comes back to that, it manifests itself and starts showing itself at that age , but there's so many ways at looking at this movie so i'm not really sure, but either way i loved it! --Erin     ----------<?><?><?>----------     i sum it up as a teen-angst time-travel movie with a nightmarish bunny!! think of it as 'nowhere' minus '90210' plus 'doom generation' with a hint of 'american beauty' and sprinklings of 'jacob's ladder'. i try not to say anything much past that, i want the viewer to experience it like i did, with no/little information about it. --flash_     ----------<?><?><?>----------     Matias should ask his friend to watch DD with him, one can never watch DD too many times! --ceol     ----------<?><?><?>----------     I asked a friend of mine the same question. His response was that the movie is about the choices that we make in life and how they affect the outcome of the future. I don't believe this is entirely accurate but it does seem relevant as to part of the explanation. There are too many surreal images and implications within this movie to narrow it down to a finite explanation. Perhaps that is what the movie is about when it boils down to it but it also implies that the main character is aware of his role and the outcome of his actions that others are oblivious to. By going with this method of thinking it is my opinion that it is best to keep a basic understanding of the meaning of this movie and to take from it what you can depending on how it applies to you method of thinking. Considering that if Donnie hadn't burned down the perverts house (which is exactly won't happen now that he ends up dead because he realizes that that is what should have happend in the first place) then the kiddie porn dungeon would continue to function. As would many of the situations exposed in the day to day lifes that we see in the move. In a nutshell it shows that there are many paths and many directions our lives can take and if we know it or not these actions can, and do in many cases, affect society as a whole even though we many never see how. There is no wrong answer to this question. --Charlie Gaver     ----------<?><?><?>----------     Donnie Darko its about seeing beyond what we think is reality. --CaptnCalculator     ----------<?><?><?>----------     "Donnie Darko" is about a young kid having a few issues with time slip ups, and has a rabbit friend, that looks like a llama, that helps him get back to the way "things are supposed to be". More deeply I think it just states that life isn't all smiles, and everyone can think deeply and try to figure things out. DD is about a the inner workings of one person's mind. Everyone has their own slighty fucked up world going on in their head, and this was just what one person was willing to put out there. --Christina     ----------<?><?><?>----------     i tell my friends that dd is about a troubled teenage boy tormented by a demonic bunny. if this doesnt spark there interest i add that that is simply the surface plot and it is an amazing movie that they should experience over and over and over again. --Cait     ----------<?><?><?>----------     Matias suddenly realizes that Bobby is one of the Manipulated Living, so he is getting clear of Bobby before ole' Bob pulls a "United States of Fascism" (such as beating him to death with the flag) on his ole' buddy Matias. Get it . . . G-E-T I-T ?!? --username     ----------<?><?><?>----------     sacrifice --Will Jenkins     ----------<?><?><?>----------     Donnie Darko is about time travel, but it is also about the decisions we make and the people that are affected by us weather or not we realize it. Donnie is a typical bored suburban youth who somehow gets caught up in a surreal world after he avoids being killed in a mysterious accident. On the night of the accident he is possesed by a supernatural rabbit, Frank, and he sleepwalks away from his house to a golf course and avoids being killed by a jet engine that falls into his bedroom. Donnie has alot of questions concerning what happened, and he learns from one of his teachers that the old woman who lives down the street from him (Grandma Death) had once been a teacher at his school, but hen wrote a book (The Philosophy of Time Travel) and went into seclusion for the rest of her life. Donnie realizes that his experienced with frank and the accident are outlined in Grandma Deaths book and that it is no coincidence. After donnie exposes the kiddie-porn tendencies of the school! s self help guru, Jim Cunningham, Mrs Farmer,(donnies phys ed teacher, his little sisters dance team coach, and Mr Cunninghams #1 advocate) has to stay with Mr Cunningham while Mrs Darko accompanies the dance team to Star Search. Meanwhile, Donnie and his sister have a HUGE haloween party and donnie starts to trip out to the BEST SONG EVER (the church - under the milkyway) and is suddenly drawn to Grandma Deaths Cellar Door. once inside he and his accomplices encounter vandals who just so happen to be donnies rivals from school. im a cruel twist of events, the girl donnie is in Love with gets thrown into the street and run over by a car driven by .... FRANK. 28 days are up .... dun dun dun .... you get the point. haha --Lauren     ----------<?><?><?>----------     No ones own perception of the inner meaning of dd should be ruined by another. --Russ Sherman     ----------<?><?><?>----------     running away is the only solution. --Mark           back one