heard about it from some people, Hopper mentioned it to me and I’ve been seeing it in the video store but never really had an extreme urge to watch it. It was over this weekend while I was searching for Huston’s film adaptation of The Dead (which I could not find anywhere) that, while in the D’s, I spied Darko. “I’ll give it a whirl,” I thought to myself. It is an impressive piece of film making given its rather small independent status and budget and it really is a showcase for what young aspiring directors can do with the new digital technology and home computer based editing systems. Where the film lacks is that it is trying to go way to many places at once. It seems that Kelly, like most new directors given an all-star cast and a widely original story, get so over excited with the job at hand that the movie twists and turns a million times, tries to go a million places. What were left with is too few answers and an audience that, for some parts at least, has been struggling to hang on as if were Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. I do give Kelly a little more credit after I made myself watch the deleted and extended scenes ( I don’t usually do the deleted scenes thing, the didn’t make the final cut of the movie therefore how important can they be?) but you could see that with the incorporation of the few short scenes deleted the story really elevates itself to a whole other level. Due to time constraints they had to be cut, but when I watched the deleted scenes with director’s commentary on, you could tell he was really bummed that some of these scenes ended up being cut. That is the challenging of directing and editing, you shoot a lot of good stuff then you must decide what to keep and the film would have been much enhanced if he could have put one or two of those deleted scenes in place of other more convoluted scenes in the movie. Writing this review I face the exact same challenges as Kelly, I after taking some notes from the movie, realize that there is so much going on, so many things I can write about, but like Kelly I must make a decision to what I will keep and what I will keep out. I will now go play video games for several hours.

Donnie Darko is a film meant to border on the surreal. The haunting image of that six foot tall demonic bunny standing on Donnie’s front lawn is a picture I won’t soon forget and one that will probably haunt my dreams for a few more weeks. Throughout the film the audience, as well as Donnie, stand on the edge of unknowing, it’s almost as if we know nothing but in the sa

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