Donnie Darko (character)

Donnie Darko is the title character of the Donnie Darko film, of 2001.

Character
Donnie Darko is a youngster, who has been under psychological attention. He lives with his parents and two sisters, and he also attends a private school, where he belongs to a group of friends.

On October 2, 1988, in the middle of the night Donnie finds in his mind a strange subject, Frank, who is wearing a rabbit costume and a strange mask. Donnie sleepwalks, following it and so he spends the night sleeping at a nearby golf course. On the other day, he finds that such trip had saved his life, as a falling plane-engine had just fallen, crashing over his own bedroom.

During the ensuing days, the strange man keeps guiding Donnie Darko, for doing a series of apparently unrelated things. So, Donnie floods his school, burns the house of an annoying preacher of tv, and particularly he gets infatuated with a girl, Gretchen.

Also, Donnie Darko begins seeing uncanny effects over the real things, some kind of temporal vectors, which anticipate the future actions of each person. As Donnie discovers then, the destiny of everything in this world would be following some master plan, and he would be being manipulated by some time-traveling forces.

Donnie Darko finally meets his destiny, when his girlfriend is slain by a car, who is driven by a man, whose name is Frank and who is disguised as a rabbit, just like in Donnie's nightmares. Donnie revenges her death, killing the man with a pistol.

Avoiding the police, Donnie Darko then realizes, that soon everything will be over. An unnatural cloud forms over his home, and then the engine of another plane falls over it. Then, already is the original October 2, and Donnie finds himself sleeping again on his own bed. He had traveled back in time to that moment.

However, Donnie Darko then decides to remain on the bed, for perishing this time, and so saving all the people who he loved and whose lives had been so affected by his messianic actions during the last days.