Bukowski said, What matters most is how well you walk through the fire, and what we didn’t realize is that it’s all fire, all the time, and how we walk through it is how we live, how we keep living…
The through-line of Donnie Darko represented in these clips is why it has remained one of my favorite movies. Donnie discovers that his life contains multiple plots and that each one embodies pain, absurdity, and meaning in equal measure.