Donnie Darko is one of my own all-time favorites. I've yet to expirience a viewing of it where I have not been left thinking about it for days on end. It is deffinately a film of a rare species, in which you're literally left thinking in a rather deep manner for days. The best part about this film, I think, is that the ending is far from straight forward. Richard Kelly allows you to form your own theories and opinions of the course of events.
By the way, I reccomend watching the deleted scenes (assuming you watched the superior Theatrical release). The make you look at the film in a different light, although I am glad they were cut from the film. For some reason, I disliked the directors cut--which included the deleted scenes--in comparison to the original release.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
