Donnie Darko Explained

Now that Donnie Darko is being re-released to theatres (it was ignored by many when it came out in the fall of 2001), Salon has a explanation of what the hell is going on (warning: you'll need to sit through some Salon ads to get a day pass). I found it informative although I didn't remember the film that well - fortunately, there is an extensive summarization of the film at the start of the article. I more or less understood the overall idea of the film but the article goes into much more details about why X happened. The article was not as satisfying as Salon's explanation of Mulholland Drive but that is most likely because that film is so much more impenetrable.