Mad World

Krystel 2022-04-19 09:01:04

"Donnie Darko", what kind of film is this? It is lonely and sad, it is nonsense and hopeless; what kind of state is it when everyone is drunk and I wake up alone? Painful isolation, doubts and fears filled the surroundings, the whole system was absurd, but huge and solid, suppressing and distorting nature.

And yet Donnie Darko struggles to be truthful, as if the axe pounded firmly into the head of the school relic, and as if the flames were engulfed in a veil of vile lies; Karen, the only hopeful teacher in this education system Tell her students that sometimes, to destroy means to create.

It is not an exaggeration to say that such a film can cleanse the soul; if it is increasingly becoming a spinning top in this absurd system, if it feels overwhelmed by the impetuous reality of materiality and vulgarity, go see this If you don't have the ability to destroy, save or create, you can at least choose not to care, because those seemingly sacred systems are just a mad world, in compliance Moment is not necessarily a blessing.

The atmosphere of the whole film is very well controlled, Michael Andrews's soundtrack rendering is a big part, "Mad World" is a very beautiful song; and also, why is "Cellar Door" the most beautiful English word?

Note: This is the first direct feeling. After repeated exploration and aftertaste, I feel that the understanding is very simple; perhaps the most important thing is to recall a kind of imprint, about the old days, about youth, about loneliness, about anger, about rebellion, about time and aging , Growing up in the same era and region, the group of people with the same imprint can resonate most naturally, and cultural impregnation is not a problem that can be solved by a film.

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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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