I wish more movies were original, thought provoking and creative as the movie I just watched. Considering tonight is the night of the Oscars, I chose to watch Donnie Darko instead. What a mind fuck! I have watched many movies in my life. I usually can figure out what is going to happen in a movie. There are not too many movies that I immediately wanted to watch over just to figure out what I just saw. Donnie Darko is one of those.
It's not perfect by any means. There were some stereotypical characters in the movie. The rest of the movie was like an acid trip that you can't turn off or want to. I studied psychology in school and have extensive work experience with mentally ill people, including paranoid schizophrenics. I thought the Donnie's hallucinations were really articulate for someone not familiar with schizophrenia to understand.
I have sat in on interviews of some profoundly disturbed people. It's hard to translate their experience from their words. I thought the writer/director really captured this experience. It makes it even more frightening considering the number of mass shootings recently. I am not going into the debate over privacy rights of mental health patients and public safety.
"How much did they pay you for being here?"
peace
dumbdavid
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