Director / Writer:
Richard Kelly
Cast:
Jake Gyllenhaal (The gay cowboy that gave Heath Ledger AIDS and killed him)
Maggie Gyllenhall (The hot sister. The. Hot. Sister.)
Patrick Swayze (Back from bothering Whoopi Goldberg from the dead and reincarnated as a kiddie fiddler)
Some other people
Story:
Time travel without a DeLorean. Donnie knows the secrets of time travel but everyone thinks he’s crazy so he gets sent to therapy where he masturbates in the office. We find out why Harvey was invisible all those years ago. Mother nature sat on his face and hatched out an ugmeister.
Veriew:
A Jumbo jet engines falling through the sky and distracting me from Donnie’s hot sister while Donnie is in therapy for burning things that the weird ugly rabbit told him to do and he does all of them because he thinks he can travel through time and just when he thinks he has it sussed Patrick Swayze turns out to be a kiddie fiddler but it’s ok really because Donnie’s sister is still hot and then Donnie’s bit of fluff gets run over by the weird ugly rabbit who turns out to be a dude in a rabbit suit that he was seeing from the future, so maybe he can travel through time, so he gets on a plane to try and prove it but the engine from the wing falls off and crashes into his house below killing him because he was in bed at the same time as being on the plane.
Verdict:
Donnie has a hot sister. Everything else is just filler as far as I can tell. I’ve watched it twice and still don’t understand it, but critics seem to love it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is attractive, but not hot. I was more interested in Donnie’s girlfriend (who’s name has escaped me).
Either way, genius film. Shame about the directors’ follow up, Southland Tales… which is a disaster.
Also, you forgot the random fat man in a boiler suit who likes holding torches.
Maggie is hot. I have various scrap books to prove it, but that’s a whole other post.
It is a good film I just wish I understood it. I did forget the fat man, but there was so much randomness I couldn’t list it all.
Oh, and the girlfriend of Doonie was Gretchen played by Jena Malone. She was in “Into the Wild” too.
Darko was one of those films that I waited years to finally watch. Everyone kept pushing me to see it and I just wasn’t that bothered.
When I finally did watch it however, I was blown away. I can’t begin to properly explain the film, but I do know I loved it.
Am i the only one who thinks parts of this ripped off the film ‘Harvey’?