Lightwizard wrote:If "Donnie Darko" didn't intrigue and entertain you and you just don't like movies that are wide open to interpretation then don't rent "Mullholland Drive" 'cause it might drive you into desperation. Here's Ebert's take on the Director's Cut of "Darko:"
DONNIE DARKO REVIEW
"Darko" has become a cult classic for the very fact that everyone has their own answers to the questions about the apocalypse, time travel and
the origins of teenage angst. I need to see the director's cut as I have only seen the original and for a time travel yarn it was better than average but not great. Note that Ebert went from **1/2 to *** for the director's cut.
Aaarrrgh - I just love it because - (though I am sure it is not "meant" to be this) - it is such a good evocation of a teenager dealing with psychosis - including the sometimes dark humour of that - and the sense of a frightening reality that nobody else "gets" - and the way the kid tries, and doesn't try, to be "normal" - I mean, he goes to school and does all that.
It is so wonderfully acted and realised, too.
