Movie: Donnie Darko

Interpretation:
all around me are familiar faces... I have heard all these interpretations many times before, yet... I feel that none of them quite encapsulates the message.

We see a few things, old lady death (OLD), his girlfriend, frank, his family and the motivational speaker (MS).

Obviously the film isn't about sacrifice, as, with Donnie dead, the porno dungeon is never found and countless more children would be raped or assaulted due to this. This is an important part of the film, or else it would not have been such a sizable chunk.

OLD was always waiting for something, which only arrived after Donnie died. his GF never knew him, and his entire family was devastated tremendously.

Think about this now, do the benefits (the saving of two lives and delivery of some item) justify all of this misery (the sexual assaults and devastation)?

That is, would you rather have one person die, or several people be raped by a "trusted" individual? Especially when the individual is so famous, so widespread, as Swazye was...

I don't recall what my view on the film was... it became muddled amongst the other interpretations here, but still... I know that it was different...

Rating: 2.7 with 9 votes.