The film "Donnie Darko": reviews, actors and roles, comments of viewers

The film "Donnie Darko" reviews critics have called a terrible and extremely confusing "vinaigrette" from all the cultic things of the last decade.

Forward to intellectualization!

World cinema is experiencing a visible roll in the direction of the intellectualization of film novels. Even the most unpretentious horror stories strike acute social problems and intellectuality. Here's the debut picture of Richard Kelly "Donnie Darko" reviews of experts dubbed one of the most accurate and original designs of the turn of the century. After all, the density of the semantic load for a minute of timing in it is colossal, from such an abundance the head begins to spin. The film is quite simple in content, but its essence is much more complicated, pretentious work of David Lynch "Mulholland Drive".

Plot

"Donnie Darko" - a film whose narrative unfolds in the vastness of provincial America on the eve of the 1988 election. The protagonist - sullen teenager-high school student Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) - has a pronounced antisocial behavior. From the obsession to burn the school, psychoanalysis sessions and psychotropic drugs distract him. His family is far from perfect: mother is a hysterical woman (Mary McDonnell), father is a bore (Holmes Osborne), two narrow-minded sisters, a younger brother of a botan-ochkarik. Being under the influence of pills, the guy becomes a sleepwalker. Once in his hallucinations there is a huge rabbit, who talks with the hero philosophical conversations and beckons Donny out of the house. On the same night, an airplane engine falls onto the house of the family, just like the main hero's bedroom. Salvation of his own life is not particularly happy Donnie, because the rabbit told him that in 28 days the end of the world will come. Darko expects to run time back, he has two ways. This is without spoiling the plot of the picture "Donnie Darko". The meaning of the film is carefully veiled by the creators and varies depending on the genre belonging chosen by the viewer: from science fiction, psychiatric drama to horror and mysticism.

Kunstkammer of characters

"Donnie Darko" - a film in which, in addition to the main character and a strange rabbit, presents a real curiosity of characters. It is surprising, at least, a psychologist (Patrick Swayze), who is more likely a preacher engaged in the underground spread of child pornography. The teacher of literature (Drew Barrymore) also attracts attention, who teaches her subject with not quite traditional pedagogical methods. By the way, Swayze and Barrymore are as good as ever. The actors played small roles, but demonstrated aerobatics. Paranoid magic "Donnie Darko" (the actors seemed to absorb the author's idea) has lifted their acting skills to the limit. One of the key is the character of the physics teacher (Noah Wile), which introduces the younger generation with the ability to travel in time. Touches and the school group, diligently and hilariously dancing under Duran Duran. Scared Granny Death, ex-nun, ex-teacher, and now insane elderly neighbor of the protagonist. But no character can not be outdone by the strangeness of Donnie Darko. Actors who performed the roles of the above heroes, demonstrated remarkable talent, realizing the idea of the director.

The next movie

Director Richard Kelly presented the filmmakers with a film that is not only a curiosity of characters, but also a crazy mix of story motifs, ideas and genre models. But the postmodernist will have nothing to do on the review, because the Kelly project is not a game of allusion, but a test to fit in the first job all that is troubling, which is important and expensive. All that the author managed to change his mind, review and read in his 25 years. A true connoisseur of cinema art will find in "Donnie Darko" (reviews confirm this statement) everything you want: from "Alice in Wonderland" to cult horror films. From the novel King borrowed a plane that got into the tunnel of time, from the prologue of "Magnolia" - a fantastic fall of the engine from the sky. The atmosphere of the picture and school everyday life of the protagonist will certainly remind "Virgins-suicides". The mysterious door leading to the basement, behind which, in the opinion of the protagonist, lies the clue, it looks like the creation of Tim Burton, well, the dizzying climax reminds the "Sixth Sense".

Current Trends

The director's attempt to express his position was successful. The obvious references to the works of the last few decades, like pieces of a mosaic, have perfectly formed into a single whole, and the independent project Donnie Darko has turned out. Critics' comments on parallels with other films are called not stupid borrowings, but the consequence of the fact that Kelly is in the same creative environment with the best contemporary filmmakers. Therefore, the film should not be called a continuous hodgepodge, it is, rather, an accurate reflection of the spirit of our era.

The secret of persuasiveness

The secret of persuasiveness of "Donnie Darko", the meaning of the film is in the talking name of the main character, it was not by chance that it was taken out in the title (dark - dark, dark). The whole picture is similar to the chaos that reigns in adolescent consciousness on the thinnest, almost ghostly edge with a nervous breakdown, the story contains all the answers to exciting questions. In the narrative there is absolutely everything: suffering, childish grievances, readiness for self-sacrifice and a premonition of death. The viewer during the viewing almost physically feels the pain of the main character, the inner world of which heels and cracks at the seams like the skin of an airplane entering the zone of turbulence. Another moment - and disaster can not be avoided. To prevent it can only be a very expensive price. This kind of feedback can be heard from the audience.

Better late ...

In Russia, the film came out with a decent delay. Perhaps, such a delay is only for the better, because he is definitely ahead of his time. Nobody expected in 2001 the return of fashion to the work of Duran Duran, few people were afraid of fantasies about falling planes and certainly parodies are not clear to those who forbid books. Only now comes the realization that Richard Kelly was moving in the right direction. The reviews say that the film encourages thinking, not at all merry, but rather scary, cleaner than the plot. For example, about the fact that in a situation of total misunderstanding for a teenager, the only correct way out is to let things go by themselves, to chance. Or that thinking and acting alone is the right way to outrage the morals of others and disgrace the family. Not to mention that the chosen Donny independently development of events is unfavorable, the hero actually commits suicide. Is this a worthy example in a society in which the amount of teenage suicide is growing at a terrible rate? In general, the fate of the picture is incomprehensible, the film is exactly underestimated, tried to forget rather. Promising, as it seemed, the director disappeared somewhere, there are no new projects and expensive tempting offers.

"FROM. Darko »

In 2009, a controversial film "S. Darko, which some filmmakers positioned as a sequel to Donnie. The director of the first episode, Richard Kelly flatly refused to take part in the new project. "FROM. Darko "caused a lot of criticism in his address, many fans of the first part claimed that such a masterpiece as" Donnie Darko "should not have continuations. Critics who rated the sequel noted that the replacement of the creative group - the director, the screenwriters - and the total absence of any logical connection with the original film caused a storm of outrage and a negative attitude of the viewer. No wonder the second film has an extremely low rating.