What's it all about...whatever you want it to be!

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 2004)

***Possible spoilers ahead***
Well Donnie darko...the most sucessful independent movie ever (at the time this was written) and so it should be.
You sit down to watch this movie and expect what you always get which is a film with a point that is explained to you (the audience) through the story and you (still the audience) get to the end and say "Ahhhh I see what they are trying to say with this film" and you either like it or you don't.
Well boys and girls this film will leave you (thrice the audience) going, "what the hell was that about?" and then you will watch it again and still the message of the movie will not be apparent. You will go to your friends and discuss the movie and then you will find each of you will have a different messagew this movie gave them, each of you will have found a different meaning to the film and each of you will have got something different from it.
This is because the writer has clearly put the point of the movie to one side and simply told a story, the basis of all film is the audience take a journey and experience things through the characters and then are educated and/or entertained. Most movies these days are trying to bombard us with super objective (that's the message of the movie) and sometimes movies suffer for this. This film doesn't, you watch it and then you get whatever you want or need to get from it.