Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Have you ever met
a fan of Donnie Darko
who could explain it?
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3 comments:

Peter said...

Whenever somebody asks me to explain that movie, I usually start off with the Donnie/Jesus parallel before I realize that I don't know what I'm talking about and subsequently start trailing off into nonsense.

January 30, 2008 at 10:19 AM
celticdruid said...

I'm a huge fan, but I'm also willing to admit that in no universe will it EVER work. It quite cleverly traps you into thinking about it in a circle of frustation for hours at a time, because you think it just HAS to make sense. but, nope. it just doesn't and it never will because the writer didn't write it that way.

January 30, 2008 at 8:14 PM
Educator said...

Yea, I actually thought the director's cut explained things better - but not to a degree that I can recall or explain again or even match to other details in the movie.

I am going to make an obscure reference here, don't think it's pretentious, but if you ever read House of Leaves, it's quite the same thing. It's a bunch of details that all reflect and fold back on themselves and refer to grand things, but there are too many wrong turns, distracter puzzles and other things going on at the same time that it never feels cohesive, complete or structured.

However, the Whalstone Letters were a birth of a puzzle that the author put in the book. They are some of the most beautifully written pieces I have ever encountered. The man, even though he failed at a cohesive novel, did have some phenomenal sections in it.

January 30, 2008 at 8:39 PM

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