Donnie Darko
- The Setup
Set in suburban America modern times. The protagonist, Donnie, wakes up in middle on the road doesn’t know how he got there, he has stoped talking his proscribed medication which shows he has psychological problems.
- The Inciting Incident
Protagonist starts sleep walking through his house and he hears a voice he follows that voice to a golf corse where he sees a strange character. The character tells him the world will end in 28 days 6 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. He awakes at golf course walks home to find a piece of a plane has landed in the room, which would have killed him.
- Act 1 – Turning Point
Donnie sleep walks again and strange character is seen again. He vandalises his school in his sleep as if this character possessed him to do it. There is no school the next day because of the damage done and as he is walking home from bus stop he sees the girl he likes being hassled and he rescues her. He walks her home and asks her out.
- Mid Point
He asks about time travel at school and the teacher gives him a book written by a strange old lady that lives in their town. One night at home he has a peculiar experience where he can see paths in front of people he follows his path to his parents room and he finds a gun. The experience is explained in the old lady’s book.
- Act 2
The strange character revels him self in a movie theatre, he is an unknown person to the protagonist. The character tells him to “burn it to the ground” he sets alight to a motivational speakers office.
- Act 3
His phycologist hypnotises him and he confronts the strange character that has been making his perform bad deeds.
- Resolution or Denouement
He throws a Halloween party at his house and the time of the world ending that was given to him at the start is drawing near. He takes his girlfriend and two friends to a creepy cellar and they are attacked. A car runs over his girlfriend and kills her. The driver gets out and it is the creepy character that has been possessing him. Donnie shoots him.
