best ever?

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2003)

o.k. so I know I took my time getting here, especially as I teach Media Studies, but Donnie Darko is the best. Yes, the best film I have ever seen.

Why, well just all the things which have been done before such as the parody of suburbia, the parody of teen movies, the viscious satire on organised evangelical religion, ditto the PTA, ditto American middle class values etc. etc. etc. But Donnie does it better.
And then the homages to other films - still haven't sussed out all the references but I love the intertextuality.
And then the things that are new and that improbably I think the philosophy works (on a purely logical level)
And the performances - so many fantastic cameos, Drew Barrymore is sensational.
And the music, and the cinematography.
It is simply brilliant, I can't wait to watch it again, and again and again.
love and light Spud