I find it kinda funny.
I find it kinda sad.
I find it kinda moving.
I find it kinda weird.
I find it kinda dull and pretentious when it goes for social commentary.
I find it kinda laughable that it is actually seriously analyzed by the cult surrounding it.
Grade: B
2/12/16:
Here’s why Donnie Darko’s “explanation” sucks:
It takes a great idea, great emotion; gut-wrenching perhaps for some…and throws it away on some nonsense time-sh1t cr@p.
How about the simple (and believable, and metaphysical, and EMOTIONAL) explanation of Darko’s visions as this: In the moment right before the “end” (in the beginning) he is asleep. In that moment, right before the event, he experiences a dream that lasts a moment but seems to last a month, everything finally coalescing – just as soon, time-wise, as it started – right before he wakes up and realizes it was a dream. And in that moment, EVERYTHING happens and comes together, and EVERYONE is faintly touched by the sheer power of the dream and emotion within, so powerful that it intrudes slightly into reality in a way people can’t quite explain. And they never will…THAT, is tragically beautiful.
If you’re going for emotion and mystical and metaphysical and…pick 20 more adjectives that apply…and this movie ABSOLUTELY is…it makes a HELL of a lot more sense to make the MEANING, the EXPLANATION be of the same nature as the actual movie. Or, to quote a wise man on the “explanation”: “What a load of cr@p!”
Thank God for subjectivity.
Nevertheless, because of the emotional (and despite the sh1t plot) potential, I feel I should add this:
Quote on ‘Donnie Darko’: (This applies to ‘Lo’. It could certainly apply to this as well.)
“it could take you to a deeply emotional place lying dormant in your soul.”
Grade: B+