Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 23, 2015 18:15:37 GMT -5
Donnie Darko has been on my list to see for a long time. Somewhere along the line I got the idea it was a horror movie, and I don't really watch horror films, so I had never really looked into it further (the rabbit-head film poster looks pretty devilish, never knew it was merely a rabbit, a central character, Frank). Then some months ago I saw that it was highly recommended as an excellent film concerning existential-spirituality (see below). I finally rented it and watched it today. I think it was 1 hr. 52 mins. I watched it and then watched another hour of extras, mostly edited scenes and viewed scenes again.
I'm going to discuss it from here on out, so "Spoiler Alert"!! (but as it turns out, not too much here in the OP).
If you haven't seen it and want to see it you may want to stop reading now. However, this is one of those films you want to see twice as the ending puts the whole film in a different frame of reference, as-in a Sixth Sense way. I will probably buy my own copy and watch it again relatively soon.
First of all, this film almost perfectly gives the view of time I shared with gopal on the first Mooji thread. This is essentially a time travel movie, although not overtly so, (at least not until near the end). Maybe about half way through the movie I started picking up on some things, figuring a few things out. And more toward the end I began to pick some things out which I could see were going to happen. As it ended I kept saying, very cool...very cool, but one thing very sad. After I watched some of the extra scenes, I went back to a crucial scene and watched most of the way to the end, and then some scenes again. I finally caught one scene I didn't originally see the significance of which made the ending partially sad, and which then made it not-sad, in fact, the opposite of sad. I watched only a little of the commentary by the writer-director, but enough to show that it is indeed a very 'spiritual' film, intentionally so. And intentionally hidden-ly spiritual. So, if you've avoided this film thinking it was a sort-of-evil-oriented supernatural thriller, it's not. It's a great spiritually oriented film, even meta-physical. I'm gonna guess people here either haven't seen it or didn't notice it was a great spiritually oriented film, as I don't recall it's having been discussed here before.
I guess that's enough for the OP. ........I didn't really give too much away......but if you want no spoilers, don't read past the OP.
Oh.........and, gopal, if you haven't seen Donnie Darko, get it, see it........
edit, Saturday morning, 1-24: As it seems nobody has seen the film, I'll probably cease posting for now. And, I encountered the recommendation while exploring David Scoma. He said: When it comes to truth realization Donnie Darko is the greatest motion picture ever made. A few other quotes from the cinema section, Frank Was Here: Donnie Darko has moved frighteningly close to the truth. ....Watching the movie doesn't necessarily mean you are ever going to figure out what's going on in the storyline, let alone the universe. That said, it still points as precisely as a movie can to what is happening within this realm and beyond.
I wanted to add this as I didn't want to detract from seeing the film by giving my view of it in the 2nd post.
I'm going to discuss it from here on out, so "Spoiler Alert"!! (but as it turns out, not too much here in the OP).
If you haven't seen it and want to see it you may want to stop reading now. However, this is one of those films you want to see twice as the ending puts the whole film in a different frame of reference, as-in a Sixth Sense way. I will probably buy my own copy and watch it again relatively soon.
First of all, this film almost perfectly gives the view of time I shared with gopal on the first Mooji thread. This is essentially a time travel movie, although not overtly so, (at least not until near the end). Maybe about half way through the movie I started picking up on some things, figuring a few things out. And more toward the end I began to pick some things out which I could see were going to happen. As it ended I kept saying, very cool...very cool, but one thing very sad. After I watched some of the extra scenes, I went back to a crucial scene and watched most of the way to the end, and then some scenes again. I finally caught one scene I didn't originally see the significance of which made the ending partially sad, and which then made it not-sad, in fact, the opposite of sad. I watched only a little of the commentary by the writer-director, but enough to show that it is indeed a very 'spiritual' film, intentionally so. And intentionally hidden-ly spiritual. So, if you've avoided this film thinking it was a sort-of-evil-oriented supernatural thriller, it's not. It's a great spiritually oriented film, even meta-physical. I'm gonna guess people here either haven't seen it or didn't notice it was a great spiritually oriented film, as I don't recall it's having been discussed here before.
I guess that's enough for the OP. ........I didn't really give too much away......but if you want no spoilers, don't read past the OP.
Oh.........and, gopal, if you haven't seen Donnie Darko, get it, see it........
edit, Saturday morning, 1-24: As it seems nobody has seen the film, I'll probably cease posting for now. And, I encountered the recommendation while exploring David Scoma. He said: When it comes to truth realization Donnie Darko is the greatest motion picture ever made. A few other quotes from the cinema section, Frank Was Here: Donnie Darko has moved frighteningly close to the truth. ....Watching the movie doesn't necessarily mean you are ever going to figure out what's going on in the storyline, let alone the universe. That said, it still points as precisely as a movie can to what is happening within this realm and beyond.
I wanted to add this as I didn't want to detract from seeing the film by giving my view of it in the 2nd post.
