So close to getting the whole picture yet so far away

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2002)

A great film. After seeing it for the first time I spent about 3 hours surfing the reviews and the fun sites. I had not visited the official site before seeing the movie, so that was where I first went. It answered most of my questions but created more. I suggest to anyone that might suffer from Darkitis to do the same.
I particularly enjoyed the films reference to ancient Greek Drama, which is the mother of all spectacles. In the scene where Donnie is being held down at knife-point, he uttered the phrase "deux ex machina". I think such a twisting plot could only be resolved artificially.
I hope there will be more work of that level from Richard Kelly once he goes into bigger budgets. He could even do a sequel on one of the so many subplots that are in this movie. Maybe he tried to include too many stuff in it though, thus, causing confusion rather than interest to the viewer.
Regards