Donnie Darko

Okay so I thought Donnie Darko was a horror movie. It was not but i LOVED that it was not. This was not what I was expecting at all. I decided to watch the directors cut given that it is the definitive version of the film. Im glad I did. I had to sit with this for a bit after it ended because I was surprised and understood what happened yet confused at the same time. The way none of that was supposed to happen and the fact the plane is from the alternate reality and was supposed to kill Donnie yet it didn’t but that causes the end of the world so Frank leads him to go back to the normal reality in which Donnie dies is FUCKING AMAZING. At the end of the directors cut, in the book within the film, the final chapter is dreams where the manipulative (anyone but Donnie) can remember what happened in that alternate reality but see it as a dream or something a little more. Donnies Mom definitely remembers given that ending. Poor Donnie though. I feel bad for him.