About Donnie Darko

Juana 2022-03-15 09:01:01

I watched this film for two years-from 10 o'clock in the evening on the last day of January 2005 to 12 o'clock in the morning on the first day of 2006. It made me feel cold and confused. I lay in bed that night thinking about this movie for a long time, but it took a long time before I fell asleep. This is probably what fascinates me the most: it is not the kind of film that is finished after watching it. It will stay very old in your mind and make you memorable. This may be because the scene is more complicated and weird. The movie involves a lot of physical and psychological related content, which makes people have to check a lot of information. And the film has too much blank space for people to discuss. On the forum set up by imdb for the film, people will ask a lot of questions from time to time. For different audiences, their understanding of movies may also be different. To a large extent, it does not have a standard answer. I now wonder if I am also a bit stuck in it. After watching the movie, I checked a lot of information to find answers. Its official website is worth a look, and you may find some answers in it. ( Http://www.donniedarko.com/ )
Another reason to like Donnie Darko is because of its poetry. This makes it completely different from those silly psychological suspense films, science fiction thrillers and so on. Both the scene and the music are handled very beautifully, even a little bit sentimental. A little bit like youth slowly passing away, seemingly simple but complicated, and there is too much helplessness in the hustle and bustle.

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Donnie Darko quotes

  • [Pommeroy is reading to the class from the 1954 short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene]

    Karen Pommeroy: "There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the Barrow Boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery's house had been destroyed. It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his 15th year crystallized with the pain of puberty." What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage? Why did the children break into Old Misery's House? Joanie?

    Joanie James: They wanted to rob him.

    Karen Pommeroy: Joanie, if you had actually read the short story, which, at a whopping 13 pages, would have kept you up all night, you would know that the children find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it.

  • Gretchen: Um, where do I sit?

    Karen Pommeroy: Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.

    [the class gasps]

    Karen Pommeroy: Quiet! Let her choose.

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