Donnie Darko - English assignment by Emma Bak Sauer Donnie Darko is a film by Richard Kelly from 2001‚ with Jake Gyllenhaal in the main lead. The film is supposed to look like it’s from 1988. The film is about a schizophrenic teen that lives in the American suburb of Middlesex. When an unidentified giant plane engine crashes into his room‚ a chain of mysterious events is triggered. Donnie is plagued by visions of an evil-looking rabbit named Frank. Who makes Donnie commit acts of violence‚ and
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Bradley Ramon In the film‚ Donnie Darko‚ the theory and application of time travel is demonstrated for public viewers. In the film main character‚ Donnie Darko‚ is portrayed as a troubled teenager who has no real social connections to other people. During the movie a parallel universe is created in the original universe‚ however when the parallel universe is created there is a malfunction and Donnie was chosen to correct the imperfection‚ and was also granted supernatural powers. Along with
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Donnie Darko‚ starring Jake Gyllenhaal‚ Jena Malone and Patrick Swayze is an edgy‚complex‚ psychological thriller about a suburban American teen dealing with the pressures of modern life and psychosis inducing anti-depressants. As well as being a masterpiece of modern cinema‚ Donnie Darko is also an excellent example of modern tragedy‚ as defined by Northrop Frye’s Modal theory. Firstly‚ the movie takes place in the month of October‚ a subtle (though not necessarily intentional) link to the Modal
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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
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In the movie Donnie Darko‚ there are clear references to psychology. The main character‚ Donnie Darko is a schizophrenic teen that has potent hallucinations. In the movie Donnie has a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Thurman‚ who psychoanalyzes him and provides him with therapy and medication. The entire movie essentially revolves around Donnie Darko’s psychological disorder‚ schizophrenia. It is his hallucinations of a man in a rabbit costume that keep the movie going. In one point in the movie‚ Dr. Thurman uses
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In Richard Kelly’s controversial cult classic‚ Donnie Darko‚ the characters are isolated‚ confused and many are unable to cope with reality. The film presents a potentially disturbing portrait of human existence in terms of a dual reality. The interpersonal relationships displayed in the film are complex and present a disconcerting view on such relations between people. The characters in the film all share this inner confusion and inability to cope‚ and yet‚ on the outside‚ they are all different
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Donnie Darko: A Review What comes to mind when you think of a modern adolescent coming of age movie? Is it alienation‚ rebellion‚ probably first love? In Donnie Darko (2001)‚ writer/director Richard Kelly employs all of these familiar themes; then he adds humor‚ witty satire‚ time travel‚ apocalyptic prophecy‚ and a bi-pedal‚ six foot tall nightmare of a rabbit‚ who instructs the young and confused Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) through haunting visions and an eerie voice that runs through Donnie‘s
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Donnie Darko: Fear and Love Donnie Darko is a movie with deeper‚ greater meaning than the material that is presented. Throughout the movie‚ there are many reoccurring themes and ideas. These ideas resurface to remind the viewers of the messages that are weaved within the script. These ideas that constantly resurface quietly and secretly help to shape the character’s within the movie. Without these existing ideas‚ the personalities of most the characters would completely change. Without these themes
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Film Textual Analysis The target audience for the film Donnie Darko would be the male gender from the ages of 16 – 24 and in the socio-economic grading boundary A – C1‚ this would be due to the fact that it requires a lot of thought to comprehend the complex narrative and structure and people in the higher grading may have a better education‚ therefore they may have a better understanding of the complexity of the plot‚ similarly‚ the fact that they have targeted a younger audience as they would
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provocative and unorthodox nature. The tragedy features a man on a quest to prevent the events of his prophesized life from coming to fruition. The key components of fate‚ destiny and time can be paralleled to the cult classic film Donnie Darko. In the movie‚ Donnie suffers from predictions of the future in his own variation of time travel‚ as a repercussion he has been “chosen” to rectify the past in order to preserve what is to come. Between the two pieces of text‚ destiny and fate greatly
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