The film, Donnie Darko, shows Donnie, a fifteen-year-old suburban teenager who is visited by a six-foot rabbit, named Frank, with a disturbed face. Donnie is the only person who can see Frank. Frank visits Donnie for the first time in his room upstairs while he sleeps; he brings Donnie to a golf course in which he reveals his destiny. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end on October 31; meanwhile, a malicious jet engine crashes into his house and crushes his room. The next morning, Donnie and his father go to his psychotherapist. They almost run into Grandma Death, an old woman who walks down the street to her mailbox and back several times a day. Donnie gets out of the car to run it off the road when she says that "all creatures die alone" (Kelly). A few days later, Donnie receives a visit from Frank the Rabbit who encourages him to destroy the water main at his Christian school. While school is subsequently canceled, Donnie meets Gretchen, a newcomer to the town of Middlesex, and later asks her out. Frank later appears and explains time travel and steals his father's gun. Darko and Gretchen become closer as he learns about Mr. Monnitoff's "The Philosophy of Time Travel" and describes his visions to her. Gretchen and Donnie watch horror movies while Frank reappears while she sleeps. Donnie leaves the theater to commit arson at Jim Cunningham's house. This causes Kitty Farmer, his teacher, to fight for Jim's criminal trial. So her mother and sister leave for her sister's dance recital, leaving Elizabeth and Donnie alone for the Halloween weekend. On Halloween weekend, Elizabeth and Donnie throw a party at which Gretchen and Donnie have sex and later leave to "save the world". The real Frank, Elizabeth's boyfriend, runs over Gretchen and dies....... middle of paper ...... the jet engine returns to the primary universe, resulting in death. For Freud, Donnie's dreams about his death are a form of "death drives." Freud believes that we cannot fear death itself because it is not in our subconscious since we have never experienced it. Using intellectualization, Donnie fails to avoid his heroic death. Donnie, in his fifteenth year, dies to save his girlfriend; his death drive is dominated by the loss of a loved one. Works Cited D'Amato, Barbara. “Aggression in dreams – crossed theories: Freud, modern psychoanalysis, theory of threat simulation. » Modern Psychoanalysis 35.2 (2010): 182-204. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Internet. April 19, 2011Kelly, Richard, Dir. Donnie Darko. Real. Richard Kelly." Perf. Gyllenhaal, Jake. Newmarket Films: 2001, Film. Merill, David. "Schizophrenia." Public Medical Health (2010): n. web pag. April 25 2011.