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Donnie Darko last month reflects the life of a teenager, set in 1988. Know all their problems, arising from schizophrenia, which makes the film acquires surrealist elements.

Since this is a psychological thriller, it is difficult to interpret, but we can make comparisons with the schedule following the Oedipus myth.

One October night, Donnie is awakened and guided by a rabbit named Frank, to a golf course. It announces the date on which the world will end. Remarkably, that night, at home, there was an accident: the engine has been dropped from an airplane in your room. When you wake up again, confused, find that date written on his arm. Thus, a prophecy is symbolized. Here we can establish a first parallel with the life of Oedipus, upon which rests the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother.

days later, Frank called again Donnie night. The next morning, we discovered that there was a strange incident: someone has burst pipes of the institute, has stuck a hatchet on a bronze sculpture and signed on the ground with a " me do it " . This happy to Donnie, since it suspended classes and spend the morning talking to a new classmate, Gretchen. It will be one of the first facts to show that prophecy is being fulfilled.

In another meeting, Frank tells him that both can do what they want, but at risk and suggests the idea that he is a product of time travel.

Donnie, like Oedipus, begins to worry and research, with the help of Gretchen. Consultation with one of his teachers about time travel. On this topic goes on to state that human beings follow a predetermined path (thanks to it could move forward or backward in time). This idea also arises in the Oedipus myth, as the Theban can not escape his fate, but leave what she considers her home, unaware of who comes to their place of origin.

One afternoon, go to the movies, Frank comes back and shows you a portal to travel through time, giving orders on what to do next ( "burn " ), completing the prophecy. As a curiosity, in this scene Frank shows his true face and see that one eye is bleeding, which reminds us of the blindness of the seer Tiresias.

Another significant fact is the fire at Jim Cunningham's house (a writer trying to be promoted in the institute, which specializes in self-help lectures.) In addition, police discovered child pornography on his home, which is stopped. Donnie, led by Frank, is acting involuntarily (we can remember someone hypnotized), according to what he suggests.

His mother discovers his paranoia through his drawings and schedule. With friendly attitude and at the same time, anxious, makes him promise to continue citing their psychologist. Not act in this way the Theban people, but cruelly, to discover that their new king Oedipus was suspected to be something that was hidden.

On his next visit to the psychologist confirms what we suspected, Donnie is the author of flooding in high school and the fire at the house of writer pedophile. Frank appears and predicts Donnie kill someone. These responses were ascertained by self hypnosis technique, which shows that what Donnie moves to act is his subconscious.

The latter fact unusual in Middlesex (where he lives Donnie American population), occurs when he decides to hold a house party in honor of Halloween and the acceptance of her older sister in college, taking advantage of his parents were out with her little sister in a dance contest with the school team. Donnie feels the urge, at the request of Frank, to contact an old woman, who had also written a book about time travel (which the events described were similar to the experiences of Donnie). However, when it comes to home, with Gretchen and two friends, two friends from college trying to search it. All flee to hear a car, except Donnie and Gretchen who had been attacked and were on the floor. The car runs over to Gretchen and Frank comes out. Frank was a friend who had gone Donnie to buy beer. We discover your rabbit mask and his eyes are fine, until Donnie shoots him.

Finally, a break with the Oedipal scheme followed so far: Donnie is the one who decides. Decides to 26 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds after the rabbit awoke for the first time. Choose your own destruction against the terrible events happen the night before. Using the engine of the plane in which their parents return home as a means, go back in time, until the night he fell on his engine room. This time, he is inside. No misfortune will happen to their loved ones.

Although we know that Donnie is the author of all abnormal events he has lived the last few weeks, the true prophecy culminated not there. What Donnie did not know is that he himself would be the victim of Frank. He is the author of his own death. Something I only know at the time it takes to decide. Fully evidenced the classic Oedipus: Oedipus did not know that he was also the cause of his misfortune, he believed he fled from his parents but really adopted, without a suspicion that the traveler was killed in a crossroads for insulting his father would and the queen, which would then marry his mother. In both cases remains the ignorance of his guilt.

Written and directed by: Richard Kelly .
Country: USA .
Year: 2001.
Duration: 122 min . Interpretation
: Jake Gyllenhaal (Donald 'Donnie' Darko), Jena Malone (Gretchen Ross), Mary McDonnell (Mrs. Rose Darko), Drew Barrymore (Ms. Karyn Pomeroy), Patrick Swayze (Jim Cunningham) , Holmes Osborne (Sr. Edward Darko), Katharine Ross (Dra. Lillian Thurman), Noah Wyle (Professor Kenneth Monnitoff), Beth Grant (Kitty Farmer Srta.) Maggie Gyllenhaal (Elizabeth Darko), Daveigh Chase (Samantha Darko), James Duval (Jack).
Producción: Sean Mc Kittrick, Nancy Juvonen y Adam Fields.
Musica : Michael Andrews.
Fotografía: Steven Poster.
Montaj : Sam Bauer Eric Strand y.
Diseño de producción : Alexander Hammond. Costume
: April Ferry.
USA release: October 26, 2001.
Spain release : July 5, 2002.