Live Blogging Donnie Darko

So, I’ve never seen Donnie Darko, and I thought it might be cool to take some notes so all of you can enjoy my thoughts. Here we go…

btw, I’m also watching Jaeda, and Jess will be home soon, so I may have to pause a bit.

Looking over this, now that I’m done, I am realizing how detailed and bizarre my notes must seem to everyone outside my brain. Sorry about that. I made comments just for the hell of it and I also made note of things I felt could be symbolic. I put the symbols in all caps. Oh, and obviously, if you haven’t seen the movie, you probably shouldn’t read this. Or perhaps, read this as you watch the movie.

-wakes up on a mountain top. ENLIGHTENMENT?
-8th grade. ha.
-lovely home life
-mirror
-eyeball
-is that rabbit costume? wtf?
-28:06:42:12
-early morning golfers are d-bags
-guys in hazmat suits.
-jet engine? SPIRAL SHAPE on turbine?
-”is there any way we can make money from this? can we get on television if we sue the airline?”
-Frankie Feedler: name is similar to Donnie Darko; died on the way to prom; people said he was doomed.
-”but he dodged it” “somebody was watching over him”
-douchey friends
-whoa, camera angle. sideways shot of the bus
-awesome music for the hallway scene
-”attitudinal beliefs”
-i heart jena malone
-is he sniffing coke in the hallway? holy shit.
-awesome dog sculpture; dog-head, man body: anubis? anubis=god of the afterlife?
-little girls doing a choreographed dance. ha.
-Graham Greene. haven’t heard of him.
-”destruction is a form of creation” “they just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. they want to change things”. WOW.
-DESTRUCTION/CREATION. TEAR APART/CHANGE. significant?
-awesome seating chart philosophy from Drew Barrymore
-GLASSES…?
-more POLITICS. why?
-”not supposed to tell anyone what nobody knows”

break for jessica getting home…and i’m back. and since jessica needs the tv, i’m two-fisting macbooks so i can do this.

-R Sparrow
-”no mail today”
-imaginary friend Frank.
-Swayze. Badass
-”Love”. “Fear”. hahaha
-”I looked in the mirror. Not just inthe mirror. I looked through the mirror. In that image, I saw my ego reflection”
-MIRRORS again. Lewis Carroll allusion?
-EYEBALL again
-that is one creepy-ass bunny
-axe? DESTRUCTION?
-24 days remaining.
-12 classrooms full of water
-hahahahaha. axe to the head for mongrel anubis
-”they made me do it”
-feces=baby mice. awesome.
-is that seth rogan? big difference from the judd apatow movies
-emotional problems “oh i have those too…” ha.
-change things
-superhero name “what makes you think i’m not?”
-antiseptics=greatest invention ever. hmm.
-hypnosis with the shrink. what is the significance of these visits?
-fucking and “Married with Children”? wow.
-WATER running in the bathroom. FLOODING. water images?
-sexual lives of smurfs? awesome.
-”what’s the point of living if you don’t have a dick?”
-”whatever fits”. haha. go, drew barrymore.
-”transcends the parent-teacher bridge”. interesting language
-whoa. MIRROR stuff going on.
-why is this scene with frank happening simultaneously with the PTA meeting
-Graham Greene=Bonanza? wtf? ohh, Lorne Greene. thank you, wikipedia.
-”kingdom of Bane”
-”who’s Frank?” “a six-foot tall bunny rabbit.”
-”attitudinal beliefs”. awesome
-did swayze just smack some kid on the ass? yes, swayze smacks the little kid on the ass. go swayze.
-fear vs. love. deepest human emotions?
-deny everything else. hmm, where have i experienced that before…
-i love the look on jake gyllenhall’s face in the principal’s office.
-”our paths through life must be righteous…go home and look in the MIRROR and pray that your son doesn’t succumb to the path of fear.”
-20 days remain. significance of NUMBERS?
-cherita taking her EARMUFFS off? why?
-science-y shit. wormholes. stephen hawking
-back to the future shoutout. sweet.
-book by roberta sparrow; used to be a nun; changed her life completely overnight and taught science; SCIENCE vs GOD
-roberta sparrow=grandma death
-significance of the nickname?
-trampoline?
-more shrink
-”every living creature on earth dies alone”
-dog Callie; die = be alone?
-don’t debate it anymore
-search for God? absurd if everyone dies alone? wow. heavy shit.
-football scene. trippy, trippy, trippy.
-gun?
-12 days remain
-blood on neck?
-”water and metal are the key elements of Time Travel”
-holy creepy fat guy in orange sweatsuit.
-get a moped. get a divorce. then smile at each other.
-carve the bunny into a pumpkin. is frank his own creation?
-DAYLIGHT HALLUCINATION/EYE/STABBING/OCEAN WAVES?
-stabbing connected with girlfriend’s stepdad?
-what is the ocean doing with those other events?
-”is that all the gusto you can muster?”
-drugs, alcohol, and premarital sex.
-FRANK
-in the mirror vs. through the mirror MORE MIRRORS
-”anger prisoner”
-visit to grandma death’s house
-grandma the uber-creepy
-artifacts: metal objects from tangent universe
-is the jet engine an artifact?
-destiny vs. choice
-God’s channel?
-I haven’t heard of Richard Adams either. I need to read more.
-fourth dimensional powers- strength, telekenesis, mindcontrol, and the ability to conjure fire and water. donnie burned down the house when he was younger, and flooded the school.
-workers? hmm.
-IMGs (not symbolic, i just think it’s funny)
-that doctor from ER fits well as a teacher
-kiss. beautiful world?
-”why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”
-bloody eye. EYES
-eyeball. MORE EYES
-”burn it to the ground” FIRE
-evil dead/last temptation of christ? what a combo
-SWANS?
-sparkle motion. awesome. i want to learn this dance.
-hahahaha. swayze’s character has a full length portrait of himself.
-burning deerhead/cheering crowd. connection?
-cherita sitting underneath the mongrel anubis again
-kiddie porn dungeon.
-six days remain. 24, 20, 12, and now 6. significance?
-awesome music, again.
-drew barrymore is getting moderately creepy. but she is still awesome
-RABBITS: cute and horny
-missed the point
-miracle of storytelling, the deus ex machina THATS WHAT SAVED THE RABBITS *RABBITS*
-RABBITS=HUMANITY??
-”how does it feel to have a wacko for a son?” “it feels wonderful”
-foreshadowing in the goodbye?
-”cellar door”
-cherita has a crush on donnie?
-donnie wearing the earmuffs. EARMUFFS?
-shrink
-obey him because he saved my life?
-frank/clouds/eyes. what do the clouds mean?
-”no law, no rule, just you and you memories. the choices you’ve made and the people you’ve touched. if this world were to end there would only be you and him and no one else”
-medications were just placebos
-atheist/agnostic
-more “good-bye”.
-one day left. the lyrics from the music say, “won’t you stay with me one more day”
-creepy fat guy in the orange sweats again
-badass outfit, darko
-”keg beer is for pussies”
-more TRAMPOLINE
-”some people are just born with tragedy in their blood”. awesome
-Frank? beer run?
-6 hrs remain
-spinning camera
-eyeball, rabbits, politics, clouds/sky
-cellar door
-oh, shit.
-FRANK
-EYE
-leave the porsche, take the taurus wagon
-EYEBALL
-takes her body up to the mountaintop; MOUNTAIN=ENLIGHTENMENT?
-EYES
-backwards montage? important events
-SLEEP. i should have kept better track of the mentions of sleep
-EYEBALL w/ a skull
-engine incident, this time with donnie in bed
-what is that drawing of? flowers, the word “pudding”, the symbol for infinity… wtf?
-WATER symbol. WATER/METAL connection from before.
-interesting song for the people awake in bed montage
-weird reactions from the family when they are taking out his body. mom smoking a cigarette?

wow.