Uniquely Haunting Love Story

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2004)

Donnie Darko was a brilliant film. I thoroughly enjoyed the cinematography and tone of the movie. Mind you, the film's tone was decidedly tragic, in the Shakespearian sense of the term. Most people become hung up on the cinematic and thematic plot elements used, and miss the message of Richard Kelly, both the conceptual and cinematic artistry. His vision of the intellectual wasteland that was early 1990s suburbia was not only hauntingly tragic, but frightening in it's accurate capture of the moral decay present at that time in society. It's a dirty shame that he has not produced more cinema, or at the very least published a novel or two. Needless to say I was thoroughly amazed by his vision of the conflict between intelligence and idiocy in society.
I give it 5 falling jet engines out of 5 (or a 10/10 for IMDb's purposes)
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