Thursday, 14 January 2010

Donnie Darko Opening Sequence Analysis


The opening stops at 2:20 minutes in.
Donnie Darko incorporates many conventions of a thriller for example: Main protagonist has a major flaw which is his psychosis and the fact that he sleep walks, the lighting is dark to correspond with the style of the film, the location is familiar to him but at the same time is unfamiliar about how he got there, the non-diegetic eerie music sets the scene, the initial mystery of the film is that you do not know how he ended up asleep on the road in his pajamas in the first place.

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