Donny Darko - Stephen Mason

          This movie was totally crazy. I don’t know if I completely understand what was going on in the movie but I think that I can at least try and come up with some sort of synopsis. So the main character in the movie is Donnie Darko, who is a teenage kid living in a small town, who has the ability to see a figure in a rather creepy bunny costume that calls himself Frank. While most people believe that the visions that he sees are some kind of psychosis, he tries to change the world around him in order to heed the apocalyptic warning the bunny gives him. Throughout the course of the movie many people’s lives end up being destroyed, and many people end up dieing. In the very end of the movie though, the movie plays in reverse back to the beginning where Donnie ends up being killed by the jet engine falling into his room that he avoided in the very beginning of the movie.

           I believe that Donnie Darko in this movie saw the horrible things that occurred because of his actions after he avoided the jet engine falling through his room. After seeing these events, I think that he chose to go back to the time when the engine fell into his room so that he could die, and in effect end up saving the people that were hurt when he had avoided the engine. In this way he was a sacrifice in order to secular the lives of the other people in the town, and sacrificed his own existence in order to prolong theirs. At the point in the end when the vortex is over top of the town signaling the apocalypses that the bunny had foreseen, he saw that the only way to save the world was to sacrifice himself by reverting back to when he should have died from the jet engine.