This post contains nothing but spoilers for the movie Donnie Darko.  Click “more” below to read the spoilers.  To go to the spoiler-free main review instead, click here. I use the term “literal plot” to describe the science fiction/time travel device that writer/director Richard Kelly asks us to accept.  The word “literal” is used to distinguish this … Continue reading WHY DONNIE DARKO’S LITERAL PLOT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE (AND WHY IT DOESN’T MATTER)