Donnie Darko

WHAT THE FUCK THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL. I don’t know what about this movie made me like it so much but this is probably one of my favorite ones i’ve ever seen. This movie was freaky when it wanted to be freaky and it was funny when it wanted to be funny. It was the perfect combination of camp and creep and it created an oddly fun world that I was really excited to be in. The juxtaposition of all the stupid trivial shit that cluttered this movie interspersed with the genuinely unsettling things Donnie was experiencing throughout this film fostered a really strange connection between Donnie and the audience. I felt like I really cared about and understood him. Like this was a special secret between just the two of us, which was very strangely thrilling. Throughout the entire course of this film I was completely immersed in and excited about what would happen next. This movie was not at all what I expected which is what I think made it so special. It was like a small shiny thing I found in the woods.  There was maybe one or two parts of the movie that I wish would’ve hit a little more so that I could’ve fully experienced the emotions that this movie was calling for at it’s climax, but other than that this was super cool.