Essays on Donnie Darko
The approach I am going to discuss in this essay is ‘complicating narrative time’. In Storytelling in the New Hollywood, Kristin Thompson argues that Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day (1993) is ‘’almost completely classical’’ (1999, 131). This is an odd statement to make about a film that breaks several rules associated with ‘classical’ narrative time. This...
Annotated Bibliography Donnie Darko: The Directors Cut is a 2004 extended version of the movie Donnie Darko written and directed by Richard Kelly. This movie is not only dark but confusing and delusional as it revolves around a teenage boy who is a paranoid schizophrenic. The continuous distortion of reality through audiovisual styles and the...
I rewatched the movie to find the POV shot, but I couldn’t find it. There is one scene that got close and made me think that it could be it, which was when Donnie sees Frank in the bunny costume for the first time. It’s so creepy, and the reason we think it could be...
Richard Kelly’s, 2001, debut film Donnie Darko embodies a myriad of cinematic techniques such as camera movement, non-diegetic sound (music) and mise en scene within the introductory scene which works hand in hand to convey vital information that places the cornerstone for the whole of the film. Kelly’s exemplary craftsmanship of this selection of film...
How the movie is structured overall? Donnie Darko encompasses more than one genre elements such as sci-fi, thriller, drama/fantasy, however, consider it falling under the psychological thriller genre to grasp the attention of the audience to this adventurous plot which in fact takes place in the tangent universe rather than the primary universe. The film...