) The so-called surreal and sci-fi coat of the film "Donnie Darko" is stripped off. Its inner quality is related to reality, youth and growth, cruel and beautiful, short and eternal At least at the moment when the 16-year-old boy Downey (played by Jack Gyllenhaal) saw the future clearly and greeted death with a smile because of "The dreams in which I'm dying", it was so. When the song "Mad World", which is full of depressive and perplexing beauty, plays, the camera scans many familiar faces of Downey, sleeping or waking up, or crying or silent, even though the people who once hated, the opposing views, and the tangled anger are here. Time is not so important anymore. Because of this decisive "martyrdom", everything is like the past. After the baptism of death, that morning ushered in a sad harmony.
In his directorial debut, Richard Kelly used a set of cosmological theories that are not rigorous but also applicable to the needs of the film to concoct a full-blown youth desperate story. Youth is inherently depressed. When it encounters the proposition of life and death, its choice is almost zero. What's more, Kelly’s Downey is a young "weird" with a keen mind, meticulous mind, biased temperament, low-key heart, and unwilling to annihilate in clichés. And dogma, he has the strengths and weaknesses of a teenager at this age, so it is inevitable that he is rebellious, painful, thoughtful and confused. He has more troubles than his peers. He is always sober and rational, and he is two best friends. When performing a scandal interpretation of "The Smurfs," Downey made the point in a few words. In addition, he has sleepwalking and destructive tendencies, so he has to see a psychiatrist regularly, and his youth is destined to be intolerable.
The film also makes good use of songs to connect several elements of a scene, and shows its characteristics. For example, since Downey got off the car and entered the school, Tears For Fears' "Head Over Heels" agitated, in a relaxed melody. , To explain the environment of "nurturing seedlings" in a middle school. The camera scans the main characters in the school in turn, a tough but stupid classmate, a harsh and staid middle-aged female teacher Famo, a beautiful new girl, and ability Limited school leaders, talented and thoughtful English teachers, girls busy rehearsing dance... A few short shots not only explain the situation of the school, but also involve the subtle mentality between teachers and students.
In the chaotic real world, sober and smart people seem to be destined to die prematurely. The theory of the universe set in the film leaves Downey no choice on the "technical level", and the various problems faced by adolescent boys , On the psychological level, there is nowhere for Downey to escape. Stereotyped teaching, strong rules, and grades restrict the students to accept a single mindset. Teacher Farmer represents the so-called orthodoxy. In Downey’s eyes, teacher Pomeroy, the only capable teacher, was fired, and Farmer fiddled with it. "Girl Spicy Dance" is obviously more in line with popular tastes than the allegorical "Autumn Angel" supported by Pomeroy. This is the irony of reality.
In such a boring and boring study environment, most people walked by and found happiness on their own, but Downey was not a living person, so in terms of words, he provoked the mediocre Farmer, ridiculed the speakers and laughed at the venue. Blind obedience, in terms of behavior, flooding schools and burning the homes of decent people, seems very violent, but it releases the cry of a thoughtful but extreme teenager.
Downey is a person destined to die early. From the beginning of the film, such hints have been constantly given. The thunder in the morning, the neighing of birds, Downey sleeping on the road and the bicycle lying on the side, accompanied Downey on the ride. The soundtrack of the homecoming is "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS. The young boy's gloomy eyes, a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and the roar of "We can all fly" hide the haze. The night that escaped Downey and his family stayed in the hotel, the lingering parents talked about a middle school classmate named Frank who died on the way to the prom. "He was destined to die." His parents thought Downey was almost dead. Become the "destined to die" person. In fact, Downey was "destined to die" in order to end the offline universe and the precarious youth.
As the story progressed in the movie, people saw Downey at the knot of many problems. For example, the teaching materials selected by Mr. Farmer simplifies the complexity of human nature, and Downey couldn't bear to raise questions-people are not only two modes of fear and love. In fact, Downey couldn’t face his own inner fears. The baby sleep glasses designed by him and Gretchen illustrate this point. They plan to let babies sleep in the face of good and delicious food instead of the natural night. However, " Darkness is part of natural growth", which seems to imply that Downey also has a fear of growth.
During the last hypnotherapy, Downey showed his vulnerability and fear subconsciously. He was afraid of the future. He hugged the plush toy helplessly, as if he wanted to get a kind of comfort, and depended on the psychiatrist. In Man’s arms...this performance once again analyzes Downey’s heart. When the crisis of future fate is beyond the scope of a teenager, it seems that no one can help him. The doctor is aware of the danger, but is powerless. Huitian can only define his attribute as "agnostic" to him.
As agnostics, they seem to have to work harder than atheists and believers. They "think that there is no evidence of God's existence in the world, but they do not deny the possibility of God's existence", so they are exploring, cognizing, and denying Wandering again and again...Finally, the juvenile agnostic Downey chose to guard the lives of his relatives and others, and to correct all the things that happened in the offline universe. He smiled and turned over to sleep, and then the engine landed on his roof...
a directorial debut It’s gratifying to show people with such a color, no matter its temperament is weird, exaggerated, unconstrained or bizarre, whether it is about youth, growth or death, it has indeed left the “engine” of hot debate in the film industry in the year of its birth. It is said that it is nostalgic, probably because of the selected song. Some people say that it is science fiction. Maybe it is because of the so-called "Time Travel Upanishad". Some people say that it is surreal, and it seems to be the same as the dead mother in the film. The wild bunny mask and fake concepts such as "receiving body" and "death control body" are somewhat related.
The settings of the characters in the film have ulterior motives, and their realistic images and "universal mission" give the film room for intrigue. The most eye-catching among the actors is Drew Barrymore, the producer of the film. Her English teacher is full of personality and ironic about the current teaching system. At that time, the young Jack Gyllenhaal and his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal played the siblings in the film, and Jack’s gloomy eyes and the smile at the corners of his mouth in the film are like marks. Remember this unique image of a teenager. In addition, Mary MacDonald, who plays the role of mother, has shown extraordinary performance even in a few scenes.
(The original soundtrack of the film is quite audible. The "Mad world", which was dedicated to the last scene, diffuses the meaning of helplessly suppressed but finally liberated. The lyrics are as follows:
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... world
Enlarge your world
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