Donnie Darko
«I want to be a writer, or maybe a painter, I don't know, or maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.»
What:
Donnie Darko
Who:
Richard Kelly (D&S)
With:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal.
When:
2001
Where:
USA
How:
Characters, Cinematography, Colour, Language (English), Live Action, Medium, Professional (Healt), Script, Slow, Soundtrack
Why:
Is the alienation in Donnie caused by his paranoid schizophrenia or by emptiness and moralism of the society?
Is the school system able to deal with students with different types of problems?
Is it able to address their concerns appropriately?
How does a teenager deal with deep loneliness?
What is the sense of life? Which answers will he find in his research of this sense?
Do you believe in time travel? Do you know the theories by Stephen Hawking about it?
Extra:
It's available also a director's cut version, 20 minutes longer, with more explanations about the time travel.