I found this movie very interesting

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2009)

I thought this was an excellent movie. It really shows American life from an honest side while at the side time being really imaginative like a Twilight Zone episode. The character Donnie Darko is also very interesting. It is difficult for me to explain why I like this movie so much. I think it must be because of the story, and because like The Butterfly Effect it is independent cinema. For example, in these movie there are clever meta-references and intertextuality. There is something amazing about seeing people in new movies go in to see Evil Dead and Se7en like they do in Donnie Darko and The Butterfly Effect. I think, that is pretty amazing. Evil Dead is a brilliant movie, by the way. Anyway, I cannot explain why I like the Donnie Darko movie but I really do. Maybe it is because of the main character and his emotional problems, which I guess most of us can identify with, even though there is nothing wrong with us. Also it is a nice critique of the self-help genre in the movie where it turns out that the self-help guru is actually totally miserable himself. I think, that is a good point.