Donnie Darko is a cult classic, and if you try to tell us Frank didn't give you nightmares, then we know you're a liar. Released in 2001, it was a cult hit mostly because no one knew what the heck it was actually supposed to be about. It's one of those movies that sticks with you, leaving you puzzling over what you just watched, and honestly? There needs to be more movies like that.

Because the internet is a thing, that means that over the years since Donnie Darko's release, there's been a huge number of fan theories about what's going on. Was he dead the whole time? What was a hallucination? Was part of this out of a separate universe? All great ideas, but there's one theory that suggests the message of the entire movie was actually a condemnation of drunk driving.

The theory started on Reddit, when a user argued that the movie's message about drunk driving is pretty clear, if you listen to it. The Halloween carnival is even sponsored by MADD — Mothers Against Drunk Driving — and then, of course, there's the reveal of Frank and the death of Gretchen, after she's hit by a car driven by someone who, it's safe to say, was driving drunk. There's undertones of abuse, too, as we know Gretchen and her mother just escaped an abusive step-dad/husband.

If you think it's far-fetched, writer/director Richard Kelly was asked about the theory around the film's 15th anniversary, and he didn't disagree. He said, "I'm very against drunk driving, and if people want to take that away from it, I hope people call an Uber." That's not a "no," and we can get on board with that.

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