Donnie Darko
From Barbelith
As an appetizer, you may enjoy the Salon "Cliff Notes" (http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2004/07/23/darko/index_np.html), published as a warm up for the 2004 release of the Director's Cut. You might also find items of interest at the very pretty Cellar Door site (http://ruinedeye.com/cd/).
These are the main topics covered by the Barbelith Annotations Squad:
- Cinema References in Donnie Darko
- (There are *lots* of other movies referred to in Donnie Darko.)
- Eighties Pop Culture in Donnie Darko
- (Donnie Darko as a trove of 80s pop ephemera.)
- MC Escher in Donnie Darko
- (The paradoxical artist is a recurrent source of imagery.)
- Graham Greene in Donnie Darko
- (The fellow who wrote "The Destructors," and a whole bunch of other stuff.)
- Hypnotism and NeuroLinguisticProgramming in Donnie Darko
- (Some viewers believe Donnie Darko gets an extra kick from trance induction techniques.)
- Schizophrenia in Donnie Darko
- (Could the events of the film simply be symptoms of mental illness?)
- Time Travel in Donnie Darko
- (This is one of the major themes... and it's pretty confusing.)
- Franks Trail of Easter Eggs
- (Here a rabbit, there a rabbit....)
- Other Easter Eggs
- (Just how many inside jokes and paranoid cross-references can one director make?)
- Chut Up!
- (Spontaneous, random admiration for the true soul of the film.)
The Slush Pile for new, unsorted submissions is under the "discussion" tag.
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