Source Code, a recent film that deals with themes of time travel and tangent paths, is also an excellent work of science fiction starring Jake Gyllenhaal. "One wonders if Source Code is not a slicker, establishment-made bookend to Darko’s rough and tumble up-and-comer" (Halfyard). Both films have Gyllenhaal's character travel back in time along tangent paths in order to change an outcome. In Donnie Darko, his purpose is fixing a rift in the universe and putting everything back the way that it should have been. In Source Code, Gyllenhaal's character is searching for a bomb on a train in order to capture the terrorist and prevent subsequent, catastrophic attacks. Both films are melancholy, require close (and even repeated) viewing, involve tragic romances, and posit Gyllenhaal as an unorthodox but deeply sympathetic hero.
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