Donnie Darko 4K 2001 DC

Donnie Darko, a very strange and ambiguous film that has a powerful fanbase and cult status. Suffice it to say that even in Runet there is a fan site that contains all versions and interpretations of what this movie is about and what genre it belongs to. There are three basic concepts: fantastic, socio-psychological and mystical. None of the concepts (and the explanations arising from them) is exhaustive and flawless, leaves questions, therefore, disputes are inevitable. This ambiguity, in turn, also has a corresponding explanation, the film is specially built in such a way that everyone can see in it what he wants to see, and to which the viewer has an inner attitude. I was originally in the mood to watch the film as a fantasy, and I did not have any internal dissonance when watching. But someone interprets the film as a cinematic metaphor of the main character's schizophrenic personality disorder, someone perceives it as a social drama about the inertia and contradictions of society in which a difficult and extraordinarily thinking teenager has to exist, and someone generally sees the film as religious mysticism or superhero movie. Note, I watched the director's cut, which is 20 minutes longer than the run time. It provides additional clues that tip the scales in favor of the opinion that Donnie Darko is first and foremost film fiction, and then everything else. However, they did not stop arguing because of this. Particularly curious: the film features a fictional book, The Philosophy of Time Travel, written by one of the characters. However, this book is also available on the original English-language site of the film, and a copy is in the Library of Congress.