Yeah, whats up with that bunny suit?
Donnie meets the real Frank — not his Manipulated Dead specter — for the first time on Halloween eve, with Frank in costume. But it’s also an allusion to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” — just as the White Rabbit leads Alice down the hole into her great adventure, so does Frank lead Donnie into his own. Rabbit imagery abounds in “Donnie Darko,” from a VW Rabbit driving down the streets of Middlesex to stuffed bunnies to a photograph of toddler Maggie Gyllenhaal next to a kid in a rabbit suit to (in the director’s cut) an extended subplot revolving around Richard Adams’ rabbits-in-peril novel “Watership Down.” OK, I still don’t get it. How exactly does Donnie deliver the jet engine back through time? I get that there’s a time portal or whatever above his house, and the jet engine falls through it, but it seems like it just falls off his mom’s plane for no reason. I couldn’t figure this out at all, but, thank God, Kelly explains it on the DVD commentary. In addition to his super st
