I decided to watch Donnie Darko because many people's have it on thier favorites list. Well uh, Donnie Darko sucks. The elements of the plot are nearly irrelevant, and the movie dosen't make sense. In one stupified moment after another, I tried to appreciate the significance of what I saw, and I was willing to go a long way to rationalize it, but the movie was just too absurd. New characters just kept popping up and saying wierd shit, like a rainbow colored clown in a corvette that ran someone over, which then made Darko pull a gun out of his inventory and shoot a man wearing a grotesque rabbit suit, who then gets injured in the past. WTF can anyone explain? Oh, but theres much more. A jet engine fell on his house and destroyed it. Wormholes emerge from people's chest that only Darko can see. He burns a schoolroom down, revealing a child pornography ring. Take this line from the movie:
Robber: Did you call the cops? Did you?
Donnie Darko: Dues Ex Machina!
Robber: I'm outta here.
This genre is supposed to be a cult classic "psychological thriller" but its really just spoon-fed bullshit. While lacking any sort of coherence, I mildly enjoyed watching Darko clown his classmates, cheap-shot a bunch of people, and wreck his high school. A great reminder of the sappy bullshit that kids in suburbia have to put up with.
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Rabbit guy looks like something from Silent Hill, badass.
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