Of rabbits and men

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2003)

SPOILERS AHEAD This movie is quite unique for the current US film industry. There is some elegiac mood in every shot,and music score is wonderfully appropriate. I liked the "hungry hungry hippos" sequence.And one in the cinema theater too. "Stupid man's suit" would become one of the most memorable lines in the cinema history. There is a lot of both tragic and comic moments in it,and the style remains of Paul Thomas Anderson a lot. On the DVD one of the actors comments that Donnie sacrificed himself for those dearest to him, and I personally like that kind of interpretation. It also brings additional meaning to the sequence with Last Temptation of Christ. I think it's good that movie is opened to interpretation. Plot was based on the idea of possibility of tangent universe to occur, but the fact that it wasn't explained properly is rather annoying.But that's about all complaints. Overall great movie, which leaves stunned, pacified and disturbed at the same time. Jake Gyllenhaal is absolutely great, and his character of "rebellious sleepwalker" and eternal stranger adds heavily to the movie appealing. And, of course, rabbit. 9 out of 10 with no doubt.