Essays on Donnie Darko

Complicating Narrative Time In Donnie Darko: Film Analysis

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...
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Donnie Darko: Annotated Bibliography

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...

Cinematic Techniques In Donnie Darko: Film Analysis

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...
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Film Techniques And Key Symbols In Donnie Darko

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...
984 Words 2 Pages
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