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[threeplusfire]

So, Donnie Darko. I was warned a mere couple of hours before the show that it was creepy. I am sorely perturbed that no one told me how fucking scary and strange that movie is. One might think the bunny would tip you off, but gods above. It was a very strange and intense theater experience, and perhaps moreso as this was a director's cut. It made me very nervous.

Is it love? Is it fear? Is it self sacrifice? Is it the absolute frailty of our lives? Is it just that we are all alone when we die? I can't sleep for thinking.

To try and take the edge off, I watched O Brother Where Art Thou?. That happens to be another movie I had never seen. Shockingly funny, and I think the parallels to Homer were well played.

Comments

[razorart.livejournal.com]

DD is one of my favorite movies of all time. I don't think there is adequate preparation for it b/c not everyone is as effected by it, you know? Some people are extremely dismissive about it, in fact.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It is a really good film I think. It's well crafted, and there's a lot to be said for making something that no one sees in exactly the same way as the person next to them.

I'm still boggled by it this morning.