Movie - Donnie Darko
Watched - 15-20 times (last time - 12/05)
Reviewed - 5/06
**(if you haven't seen it, stop what you are doing and go watch it before it gets spoiled for you by me or others)
What I Think Of It - This is definitely among my favorite movies of all time. I really like the music in this movie and the sort of "music videos" it has throughout. Together the songs give the film an aura and feeling that I really can relate too. I often wonder if the movie in some ways relates to me the way "Catcher in the Rye" relates to alot of other people, since when i read that book (7th grade) i didn't really like it or understand it like i was supposed to. Another reason i like it is becuase it has a lot of depth. There is a lot of symbolism if you wanna extract it as well as little parts of the movie you are only going to catch after watching it ten times. The dialogue, especially with Donnie, creates feelings of awkwardness and confusion...which i think any person honest with the world has experienced. It portrays Donnie as someone refusing to fit into society, resisting conformity but hating the solitude/confusion it brings....I am Donnie Darko. If the movie wasn't already good, there is the central plotline of Donnie being on a mission to figure out time travel before the world ends...with a 6ft. tall rabbit guiding him, or rather haunting him. DEFINETELY A MOVIE YOU DON"T WANT TO READ A SUMMARY (like the one below) BEFORE YOU SEE IT.....
Summary - When Donnie returns from a night where he was summoned to the golf course by Frank, a 6ft tall rabbitt, Donnie learns a plane engine (unaccounted for by the FAA) landed on his room. We learn later that it was at this time an alternate or tangent universe began and for everyone else almost the whole rest of the movie all it was was their "dream." Everyone in this dream though has a certain role and mission. With Frank, who is really Donnie's older sister's boyfriend in his rabbit haloween costume suit, he was their as a God type figure making sure that this dream (which was really a tangent universe) would end properly with Donnie travelling back in time and dying like he was supposed to so that the real universe and everyone in it could continue to exist. In this tangent universe Donnie finds love, exposes a local "hero's" child porn collection, among other things. Eventually, with everyone living out this "dream" in their own minds they are able to push Donnie to realize he must travel back in time and erase the bad that the tangent universe had eventually brought....his girlfreind dying and him killing Frank. At the end of the movie donnie is shown sitting in his bed laughing and shortly after, the plane engine crashes through the roof killing him. He is laughing either becuase he can't believe it worked, thought it was all a dream, or the supernatural that he had experienced has led him to beleive that he will die but that their will then be so much to look forward too.
Reviewed - 5/06
**(if you haven't seen it, stop what you are doing and go watch it before it gets spoiled for you by me or others)
What I Think Of It - This is definitely among my favorite movies of all time. I really like the music in this movie and the sort of "music videos" it has throughout. Together the songs give the film an aura and feeling that I really can relate too. I often wonder if the movie in some ways relates to me the way "Catcher in the Rye" relates to alot of other people, since when i read that book (7th grade) i didn't really like it or understand it like i was supposed to. Another reason i like it is becuase it has a lot of depth. There is a lot of symbolism if you wanna extract it as well as little parts of the movie you are only going to catch after watching it ten times. The dialogue, especially with Donnie, creates feelings of awkwardness and confusion...which i think any person honest with the world has experienced. It portrays Donnie as someone refusing to fit into society, resisting conformity but hating the solitude/confusion it brings....I am Donnie Darko. If the movie wasn't already good, there is the central plotline of Donnie being on a mission to figure out time travel before the world ends...with a 6ft. tall rabbit guiding him, or rather haunting him. DEFINETELY A MOVIE YOU DON"T WANT TO READ A SUMMARY (like the one below) BEFORE YOU SEE IT.....
Summary - When Donnie returns from a night where he was summoned to the golf course by Frank, a 6ft tall rabbitt, Donnie learns a plane engine (unaccounted for by the FAA) landed on his room. We learn later that it was at this time an alternate or tangent universe began and for everyone else almost the whole rest of the movie all it was was their "dream." Everyone in this dream though has a certain role and mission. With Frank, who is really Donnie's older sister's boyfriend in his rabbit haloween costume suit, he was their as a God type figure making sure that this dream (which was really a tangent universe) would end properly with Donnie travelling back in time and dying like he was supposed to so that the real universe and everyone in it could continue to exist. In this tangent universe Donnie finds love, exposes a local "hero's" child porn collection, among other things. Eventually, with everyone living out this "dream" in their own minds they are able to push Donnie to realize he must travel back in time and erase the bad that the tangent universe had eventually brought....his girlfreind dying and him killing Frank. At the end of the movie donnie is shown sitting in his bed laughing and shortly after, the plane engine crashes through the roof killing him. He is laughing either becuase he can't believe it worked, thought it was all a dream, or the supernatural that he had experienced has led him to beleive that he will die but that their will then be so much to look forward too.
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