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Posted 27 October 2004 - 01:00 PM

Why is this film supposed to be amazing? Saw it last night, and it sort of failed to live up to expectations. It wasn't scary, it was slightly tragic, but I've seen more (Dancer in the Dark, for example), it was creative, but I've seen much more creative films. In many ways, the L&E submission to the Canadian Film Festival is more creative. Not going to call it better (although responses from people I've shown it to have varried from the expected "That was it?" to "2ND from LAST? FIRST!").

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What was the big deal with it?
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Posted 29 October 2004 - 04:56 AM

Yeah, I liked it, but didn't think it was brilliant. With all the hype, I walked away from it with a feeling that I missed something. Perhaps Heccubus could fill us in more. If I remember correctly, he quite liked it.
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Posted 03 November 2004 - 11:50 AM

Warning: This post contains spoilers. If you don't want to know what happens in the film, don't read past the end of this paragraph. The puppy gets eaten by the old lady. Ha, I just ruined the ending for you! (Not really.)


I liked it a bunch. You've got your dark anti-hero. Donnie Darko is suffering from paranoid schitzophrenia coupled with some sort of skewed psychism, he's a vandal and anti-social. I wouldn't mind having him as a friend at all.

Next up - social satire. Donnie's parents, instead of listening to him, send him to a psychiatrist and don't even bother to learn her name. Her cure for his condition is pill popping. The crazy right-wingers (I'm not bashing right-wingers here, they could just as easily have been crazy left-wingers) run around using dated and faulty methods in an attempt to connect with the children of the school, but it just wastes everyone's time and pushes any student who doesn't buy into their bullshit away. Donnie's one of the more sane people in the movie (the pills seem to agitate/cause his hallucinatons), but he's the one labeled crazy.

Tragedy - At the end of the movie, Donnie is so far gone that he finds oblivion a positive alternative to living. Also, he sacrifices himself to stop the events he had been a catalyst for.

This is the best I can do on short notice in Java class. We actually watched the movie this morning in English class, and I was reminded of how much I like it. Next week I'm sure to have better and more indepth analysis on why I like it so much.
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Posted 03 November 2004 - 07:29 PM

I think it falls into a cult type film..
Yes it was good.. but personaly I didn't find it amazing..
I can understand why some would though.
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