<body><![CDATA[Listening to Echo and the Bunnymen, secretly fancying your English teacher, openly hating Patrick Swayze, pondering time travel and the deeper meaning of the Smurfs, it all sounds like a typical late 1980s male adolescence. But seeing wormholes at the end-of-term party, cheating death as a jumbo jet engine destroys your bedroom, and having a six-foot rabbit in a demonic mask as an invisible friend, it can only be Donnie Darko, played to paranoid perfection by Jake Gyllenhaal. Yes, the narcoleptic hit of 2002, already a cult classic, has been given the directorΓÇÖs cut treatment. And if it wasnΓÇÖt brilliantly baffling enough before, writer-director Richard Kelly, still only 29, pledges ΓÇ£new layers of information, ambiguity and mysteryΓÇ¥. More tantalising still for those who devise simultaneous equations to work out the filmΓÇÖs more obscure variables, he says ΓÇ£there is a solution, although it is buried deep downΓÇ¥. But donΓÇÖt expect a eureka moment. According to Kelly, ΓÇ£this story can never have complete closure because that is not the nature of the storyΓÇ¥. As Gary Jules sang on that chart-topping single from the film soundtrack, itΓÇÖs a Mad World. And this is the best dream you ever had.]]></body>
