Fully involving film with aspects from abstract, teen, and drama genre's.

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2004)

Donnie Darko is a film that stands in-between a few different genre's. Somewhat of an adventure film, it borders on Sci-Fi and most resembles a drama- But a hip drama. The fact is the genre is irrelevant since this movie is seamless in it's story telling. Any viewer aged 12 to 25 would most likely have their attention span levitated for the full duration of the film. While the social aspects of the film reminded me of many teen oriented films,(parties and making out therein, drinking...) the mystery and suspense was reminiscent of such films as Magnolia or Mullholland Drive. The soundtrack has inspired me to download three or four of its participants, nothing mainstream or "poppy" just catchy and enjoyable. Many of the story elements I could relate to and this made the rest of it(visions, hallucinations, vandalism and the like) much more fun. It may take viewing this film a couple times to fully understand it's meaning, so thank goodness it is entertaining and humorous even after seeing multiple times.