Movie Review of Donnie Darko :: Film Cinema Movies

Donnie Darko A ReviewWhat comes to assessment when you think of a modern adolescent coming of epoch photo? Is it alienation, rebellion, probably first love? In Donnie Darko (2001), writer/director Richard Kelly employs every last(predicate) of these familiar themes then he adds humor, witty satire, snip travel, apocalyptic prophecy, and a bi-pedal, six foot tall nightmare of a rabbit, who instructs the young and impoverished Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) through haunting visions and an eerie voice that runs through Donnies head. Ok, so maybe this sounds like a plotline lifted straight from the WBs primetime lineup (minus the wit), however Kelly uses these seemingly absurd, unrelated elements to create an amazingly complex and clever account that Buffy could only dream of.Donnie Darko begins with a panoramic, morning shot of a tidy sum range, setting the stage for a film as wide hold as the landscape. The camera pans around, focusing slowly on a outback(a) figure, lying un conscious in the middle of a mountain road. The tranquillise is broken only by soft, sporadic blue notes, echoing from a piano. As the camera draws closer, the figure rises, giving the audience their first coup doeil of Donnie Darko. With a chuckling smirk, he picks up his bicycle and heads back home. Immediately, Kelly forces the skepticism, Why the crazy house is this kid lying in the middle of road? This is the first question that the viewer is forced to ponder and it is definitely not the last.Kelly wastes no time establishing the films dark tone. Not even five proceeding into the movie, an eerie voice instructs Donnie to Wake up. In a trance, he rises from bum and follows the voice out of his house and to a golf course. He finds the supra mentioned rabbit, Frank, who slowly says, Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world give end. Donnies only response is, Why? He and the audience will degenerate the rest of the movie trying to find the answer. And, to make things more complicated, a jet engine (which cant be accounted for) crashes through Donnies populate while he is asleep on the golf course. When he arrives home, he is faced with yet another question why did Frank snuff it him out of his room and save his life?The question you are ask now is, How can you possibly call this a coming of age story. The answer is exactly what makes the film great.