Donnie darko?

Question

its so good but expian the ending i think i get it just want 2 clarify

Answer 1

he loves gretchen so much that he stays in bed to die so that he wont go down the path that leads to her death.

Answer 2

Time Travel Is Real.

Answer 3

Arriving home with Gretchen's body, Donnie spots a portal opening in the sky and drives to a hillside. Donnie's mother and sister experience turbulence on their return flight home; one of the airplane's jet engines detaches and falls. The engine travels through the time portal to 28 days earlier and crashes into Donnie's bedroom, completing the predestination paradox. This time, Donnie chooses to stay in bed (likeliest to save the girlfriend he will never meet). The ending is open to interpretation.

The story ends on the morning after the jet engine accident. Donnie is dead, and the people his actions affected are stunned. The Motivational Speaker sits in his house crying, Frank, while designing a ghastly rabbit costume, subconsciously touches his right eye. Gretchen is alive and rides by Donnie's house on her bicycle. Never having met Donnie, she talks with a neighborhood child about the sad accident. She waves somberly to Donnie's mother, and they seem to share a vague sense of mutual recognition.

Answer 4

When he didn't see Frank, and stayed in his bed, he got crushed and killed by the jet engine. That way, none of it happened- including his girl friend's death, Swayze's secret child p**n stash being discovered etc

He broke the 'plan' by seeing Frank and following him.

Also, the engine jet came out of the air from the black hole created in the space/time contiunuum caused by Donnie seeing Frank and messing up the system. The engine came from the plane his mum and sister were on at the end (time wise end)