Post by billygoatgruff on Aug 19, 2012 1:49:00 GMT -5
Our new tribute blog to a masterpiece and our own very loose interpretation:
"The film is of course a puzzle, like “Mulholland Drive”, with clues carefully placed. It is also a puzzle that makes perfect sense to us (spoiler alert) the story of an eccentric, loving and deeply unwell adolescent working out that he has no place in this world, but that he can leave it as a kind of hero. Think of Donnie on his bed in the film’s spell-binding final moments, aware of imminent death and laughing with glee and release while Tears For Fears’ brilliant “Mad World” is re-invented by Gary Jules as a funereal lullaby."
Full blog here poplifer.com/2012/08/17/darkly-dreaming-donnie-picture-this-17-donnie-darko/
"The film is of course a puzzle, like “Mulholland Drive”, with clues carefully placed. It is also a puzzle that makes perfect sense to us (spoiler alert) the story of an eccentric, loving and deeply unwell adolescent working out that he has no place in this world, but that he can leave it as a kind of hero. Think of Donnie on his bed in the film’s spell-binding final moments, aware of imminent death and laughing with glee and release while Tears For Fears’ brilliant “Mad World” is re-invented by Gary Jules as a funereal lullaby."
Full blog here poplifer.com/2012/08/17/darkly-dreaming-donnie-picture-this-17-donnie-darko/