Donnie Darko Essay
Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. For all that, first-time viewers are going to struggle in places. Kelly is a writer and director who refuses to give us easy answers and that’s definitely true in this movie. Even with the director’s cut, the film plays like a joke but is not Donnie Darko should be any teen. That massively heightens the sense of unease but it will also drive us some mile away and make the visual setting important for us. The movie take place in different sitting so suburban in Virginia, Donnie house and backyard especially in his bathroom when he meet his friend Frank, in school, cinema, and psychotherapist Dr. Thirman house. We watched in Donnie Darko move a lot of shot, but one who is all the time present is close up shot. In the camera is always Donnie face and body which filling the frame. The eyes, mouth and part of his body are in the framing system are given to get the Donnie ability to move and act freely in his mission and the story get compiled thought. For instance, Donnie is lay in the sofa of his psychotherapist and the
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All type of shots we seen in that movie. For example, in the extreme long shot in the beginning of the movie when Donnie was slipping in the round and this great distance is a wide view of location where he belong. Throughout the plot we watched long shot when the camera focus in the full body of Donnie's teachers in the school talking. A medium long shot is provided in the dinner table when Donnie family had dinner and we know his family. Always the medium shot and the close-up shows Donnie in the classroom, in front of Grethen his girlfriend or in the Prof.Kenneth class. The full head of Donnie was focused on close-up and medium, extreme close-up shots and all the time shows his moment of reluctant hero into becoming the instrument of
All type of shots we seen in that movie. For example, in the extreme long shot in the beginning of the movie when Donnie was slipping in the round and this great distance is a wide view of location where he belong. Throughout the plot we watched long shot when the camera focus in the full body of Donnie's teachers in the school talking. A medium long shot is provided in the dinner table when Donnie family had dinner and we know his family. Always the medium shot and the close-up shows Donnie in the classroom, in front of Grethen his girlfriend or in the Prof.Kenneth class. The full head of Donnie was focused on close-up and medium, extreme close-up shots and all the time shows his moment of reluctant hero into becoming the instrument of