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I'm surprised there is this much debate after the Director's Cut was released with the writer/director comments.

I think that with Darko as the "Living Receiver," he had to die.

Secondly, I believe the main debate should be who pulling the strings. Was it "God" in some traditional sense of an almighty being or "The God in the Machine" as some sort of technology (future, etc.)? The numbers that he sees with his eyes closed and the Deus Ex Machina" suggest that it could have been technologically based. A secondary debate "could" be, did Darko have any free will or was he basically screwed from the moment the wormhole opened? I believe he was always screwed because Frank was the one who got him out of bed and kept him from being killed. He did this because the god had a plan for Darko. God needed Darko to live for 28 days in the Tangent Universe. If I'm wrong, then how would Frank have ever been there to get Darko out of bed?

I also think that the bottom line is that this is a movie, written by one person. It's a product of his imagination and should be viewed as nothing more than that. It's a great movie, but calm the hell down, because it's just a work of fiction.