but with the hype for 'mad world', it seems there's a whole world of interpretations out there, and now i can kind of see there's a fair amount going on with this film. possibly it's got this following because it's kind of messed up, incoherent -- i don't know, but it didn't strike me as a brain-exploder in the way 'twelve monkeys' did.
also, i thought 'mad world' was REM. certainly a big part of this films' appeal is its genius use of music.
so -- what are the u&k issues taxing 'donnie darko' fans?
― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)
(not seen dd btw)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)
There was a lot there which I never picked up on originally, the whole comic strip super hero thing passed me by.
And I didn't even realise that Frank was his sisters boyfriend.
Good film though.
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)
what part of 'twelve monkeys' don't you understand???
erm... well, actually it is easier to understand than 'dd', because the writers/director contrived it that way, but it is quite complex? i can't remember the details, i just remember it being like whoooo!! ditto 'eXistenZ'.
oh! why wd his sister's boyf get involved, dressed as a rabbit and ANYWAY how wd HE know that a plane was going to go into a wormhole a month into the future???? i must watch with commentary (something i hardly ever do).
― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)
I was very disappointed with the commentary on the dvd I have. It's more of an actor's commentary and a making of. Very little is revealed about the plot.
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Fayyyyte/up agaynst your whii-hill
― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)
The director tells us this a couple of times in the commentary, its also evident at the halloween party when his sister asks "has anybody seen Frank?", but he went out to get beer. You can see his car drive away from their house at the very start when Donnie is cycling home.
I'm not sure it's that relevant to the whole story though.
About the commentary, I thought the director gave quite a bit away about what he wanted to achieve but you're right in that he didn't say too much about the plot detail. There is also the 2nd crap commentary by all the other actors who just end up laughing all the time and not making much sense.
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)
I love it. But I've said that on other threads, and I watched the film a gazillion times, it needs a rest in my brain now =)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)
(i like this movie a lot, but the point escaped me)
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)