Movie Review: Donnie Darko (2001)
This movie is not for the ones who watch just for entertainment. It is a story of a troubled teen who suffers from hallucinations and gets a warning about the world’s end from his imaginary friend. The teen is played by Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko who seems likeable but appears creepy as the story progresses. He is going through treatment by a psychiatrist who uses hypnosis to discover the nocturnal friend who visits Donnie at night and leads him to sleepwalk. Donnie turns out to be lucky as during one of his sleepwalking sessions a 747 jet engine crashes in his room.
The crash leaves everyone in a mystery as there are no reported aircraft failures. As Donnie comes to know about the world’s end he gets interested in wormholes and time travels and discovers the book “The Philosophy of Time Travel” written by a neighbour, Robert Sparrow who is known as Grandma Death. Donnie starts seeing timelines in front of his family (transparent liquid arrows that lead them into the future).
The movie is a piece of art and nowhere seems like the first work of the Director. It will leave into thinking what you just saw and it is a little difficult to understand it in the first go. The entire journey of the movie is intriguing and nowhere you would lose interest. After a lot of perfect sci-fi mysteries from Nolan, this may seem a bit out-dated but it is definitely worth a watch.
