Will Be A Classic

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2002)

This might be the best movie I've ever seen and I've seen the best. Every film I've seen since Donnie Darko has seemed small and insignificant. Next to the questions about existence raised in this picture, paired with the astonishing directness and clarity with which they are raised, a film like Fight Club or American Beauty just seems to be beating around the bush. If you watched it and don't get it, don't sweat it. Put the film out of your mind for a year, then go back and watch it again. If you still don't love it then, come back to it in five years. This is THE film of my generation thus far. The first motion picture of significance to come from a young director since Aronofsky's Pi. I love being entertained just as much as the next guy, but there's nothing I love more than having the existentialist side of my brain courted with such passion and creativity. Listen to the cast and crew commentary on the DVD...much different from the usual "I'm about to fall asleep" commentary we get on many DVDs.
Just trust a fellow film enthusiast on this one. If you don't love it now, give this movie time. In our self-help, apathetic, Oprah-worshipping day and age, Donnie Darko is going to become more and more relevant. Personally (excuse all the hyperbole) this movie is going to loom large over my entire writing career. The bar has been set.