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When I first saw the movie it confused me like hell. I usually like movies with twisted story lines like saw or sixth sense because I analyse the story line so much and figure out all these alternative endings. but donnie darko confused the shit out of me. i felt stupid watching the movie. i'm guessing most people had that reaction. the movie's something that needs multiple viewings. it's an acquired taste. I watched it twice over and read all these blogs and stories about it, trying to understand. now I've always thought of myself as well versed in literature and theoretical physics and that I have a brain capable of understanding the complex nature of the human body (I'm a medical student) but the truth about donnie darko is that it does have many interpretations. And you can read as many of them as you want but only the interpretation you come up with will suffice for you. I've learnt a great deal about the various ideas people have about the story. but my personality is that of someone who believe's in the inherent nature of humans to follow hope and good will overcoming bad destiny. i have my own interpretation of dd, and it's a mix of many other people's. there are parts of it that still confuse me and there are parts of it I will be revising and wanting to look at from a different angle until the day I die. But I see donnie as a hero. I like the interpretation of the space-time dilemma that created the time-loop as a means to cut off the time loop created. it kinda reminds me of the time travellers wife. the story will always continue in time, repeating itself over. there will be many donnie darkos in many tangent universes. but his existence in that loop brought him happiness even thought it brought others pain. i'm a weird sort of atheist. i'm the type that ignores the idea that god might exist by telling myself that i'll never know. hence making myself a religious atheist (i can see the paradox). but if we want to be purely logical here, space-time does not have to be a manipulation of god's. the death of donnie darko could be the catalyst of the time loop continum. before the accident and the tangent universe donnie is a normal kid, albeit his mad tendencies. he isn't a super hero but he has free will and knowledge of space and time that he may manipulate. but his death happens so suddenly that his mind redeems the right to hallucinate a tangent universe in which he can become a super hero and justify his inevitable death. to him, this is the creation of his perfect world. this is why he dies laughing because he believes his schitzophrenia to be his understanding that his life existed as the memories he created in his tangent universe, even if they didn't exist in real time. it's ironic. that he's a hero but no one will ever know. because if they know, he is not a hero. his destiny is to die alone. he is a living creature because he has the free will to chose not to die but he does. his dying justifies him knowing about his death. when you understand how time flows in this loop and how easy it would have been for donnie to give up those memories and continuing living without having died you can begin to truly appreciate his sacrifice.