We live at a time, when the animated medium has gained completely new connotations than it ever had before. Today, when someone says "cartoon" or "animated movie", our mental pictures go way beyond classic Disney movies or Hanna-Barbera series. That is because at some time at the break of the millennia, works such as South Park and The Simpsons began to redefine the medium in the public consciousness. Nowadays, the genre has become a frontier for the impossible stories and fantastic ideas that could not make it onto the screens as live-action projects. In a way, that was the purpose of animation from its conception, but as the time went, on, the ideas and stories got crazier and wilder. Creators were also not afraid to explore themes and topics that until then were only portrayed in more serious forms of visual storytelling. Soon, critiques, parodies and fantastic caricatures of our world began to find their rightful place among the many frames of animated media....

Every creature on this Earth dies alone. Loneliness, that is the concept that resonates throughout the story of a schizophrenic teenage boy bearing the name Donald Darko. Known as Donnie to his friends and family, he goes about his strange endeavors every day with a strong feeling of uncertainty and misdirection. These endeavors include many interesting activities, such as drinking with his friends, pissing off his sister or sleepwalking. One day, plagued by his visions, Donnie stumbles sleepwalking out of his house to find a man dressed in a creepy rabbit costume. The man only tells Donnie one thing, a mysterious series of numbers, which, as he immediately finds out, foretells the exact time our world comes to an end, that also happens to fall on the Halloween ' s evening. That morning he wakes up on a lawn with marker writings on his hand and a jet engine falling from the skies crashing through his bedroom. Thanks to his latest night adventure, he has survived and ...