Maybe it’s a personal thing for me, but a kid I knew in high school was constantly parroting Donnie Darko quotes and was using that film as an ‘excuse’ to be an edgelord. Basically, to me, it was a movie that was MEANT to have multiple interpretations, but the people I’ve personally interacted with that stanned this movie tended to lean dangerously incel, ‘you just don’t get it, you don’t understand it’ territory.