From what I’ve been able to tell so far, there’s really only two ways to look at Donnie Darko. Either it’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen, or it’s the most thoroughly incomprehensible thing you’ve ever seen. It’s really your pick as to which way you look at it.

I’m Saying Incomprehensible.

I’ve sat through probably thousands of movies so far and I show no signs of stopping. I have seen good movies, great movies, bad movies, and movies that I never want to see again under pain of death. I originally thought that the most incomprehensible movies I ever saw came from the warped mind of Clive Barker, but that was until I saw Donnie Darko.

Let me try and give you a plot synopsis, just to illustrate the point.

An emotionally troubled teenager–Donnie Darko–sleepwalks. One day, he sleepwalked (sleptwalked?) out of his room at just the right time to avoid getting killed by the engine that fell off a commercial airliner and crashed into his bedroom. This has corrupted the entire space-time continuum, which was supposed to be going along sans Darko. Apparently what caused Donnie to sleepwalk and avoid a horrible crushing doom via jet engine was a guy named Frank who wears a bunny suit and has just told Donnie that the end of the world will happen in just over twenty eight and one-quarter days.

From here, it goes on into a series of events that Donnie perpetrates to cause a whole bunch of other events to happen, all leading up to twenty eight days later, where the world doesn’t really end but basically just kinda sorta repeats itself except, this time, Donnie is crushed by the jet engine.

Huh??

Yeah, that’s basically what I said, too. It’s like you need a degree in quantum mechanics to keep up with all the space-time whatsits and causality loop doodads and paradox whatevers going on in Donnie Darko, and frankly, I had a hard enough time keeping a B average in Calculus. Temporal mechanics are as far beyond me as the stock market is to a trout.

And when a movie depends so heavily on such esoterica, you know you’re going to have to really, really love the subject matter to make heads or tails out of it.

But where you won’t have to struggle all that hard to keep up is playing our array of Donnie Darko movie trivia questions.

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