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I find Donnie Darko to be such an incredibly weird yet amazing movie. It centers itself around a twisted timeline of a young man diagnosed as borderline schizophrenic. One night Donnie finds himself sleep walking out in the middle of the night, but fortunately while...

Donnie Darko is one of my favorite films. It is a cult film that many enjoy but few truly understand. Only after the third time I saw it did I start to understand the tangent universe theory behind the film. After reading the tangent universe theory, it is clear that...

Upon reading the explanation of Donnie Darko, I was concerned to learn that his schizophrenic power is considered a blessing necessary to save the world. Throughout the movie Donnie commits actions willed by the manipulated dead, Frank, that are seemingly...

I think the director is so creative. The movie takes place in a tangent universe that is started because an artifact comes into the world. Donnie is chosen as the living receiver and he has to get rid of the artifact (the jet engine) in order to save the primary...

Donnie Darko is an incredibly complex and amazing film. Young Jake G really does the twisted character immense justice. One of my favorite scenes in the whole movie is the juxtaposition between Donnie lighting the home on fire and the young girls dancing at the talent...

Donnie Darko is a quality movie. The idea of having a tangent universe is a hard concept to grasp but to make a whole movie would be difficult. Adding a Fourth Dimension when Frank can travel in time adds some spice to the movie. Frank being the manipulated dead...

The logic and fictional science behind Donnie Darko is a lot, to say the least. The interesting thing about this movie to me lies in the fact that the movie contains such a lofty and arcane idea in it and applies it to a movie about a seemingly normal teenage boy. The...

Donnie Darko is a very strange movie. The sound effects were very loud and piercing. Donnie makes a friend named Frank who is a very bad person dressed as a bunny. Frank makes Donnie do bad things but he gets away with it all. In one universe Donnie survives a freak...

Donnie Darko was a very in depth movie. With the ideas of time travel and a tangent universe makes it hard at first to wrap your mind around these concepts. This is the type of movie that should be watched more than once so you can understand the ideas they had. In...

Donnie Darko is a sci-fi thriller. It shows time travel and Donnie Darko being a paranoid schizophrenic. The movie shows all the things that Donnie is seeing in his dreams which are things that will happen if he doesn't die from the jet engine falling through his...

The art of anticipation is what allows The Shining to be classified as a horror film. Though laced with typical scary themes such as murder associated with the hotel, ghost twins, and special powers that foreshadow events, The Shining elevates its fear factor level by...

12 Years a Slave shines light on the horrors of slavery in a more realistic way than ever produced before. As the camera focuses for multiple seconds on the boat sailing away in the early middle of the story, the audience is forced to feel the disaster cast upon the...

Extras- essentially human set pieces, used to create a crowd or landscape Nonprofessional performers- amateurs who are chosen for their look rather than their talent Trained professionals- the bulk of professional actors whose training allows them to portray a variety...

1. Identify 4 categories of film acting and their purposes within film. ~extras- actors who are used to provide a sense of crowd in film ~non-professional- actors who are not chosen to be in the film because of their acting skills, but are chosen for their appearance....

I love this movie! It is creepy and gets into your head. Johnny is at the point where he is starting to go crazy, while his son can see the dead and all of the bad things that have happened at the hotel.

12 Years a slave was a very serious film and I thought the camera angles used were a good way of portraying the emotion and hardships of the slaves. A lot of the scenes were very still and quiet, but a lot happened within them. I recall one scene when they just showed...

The film version of 12 Years a Slave's use and manipulation of lighting, nature, and emotionally powerful acting created a very pleasing and intriguing visual representation of the novel. The lighting and nature portrayed in the movie create a fascinating sense of...

This movie was serious and moving, and showed people what african american people had to go through. I though that this movie was upsetting but it did show the hardships back then. At the end when he was reunited with his family that made the movie worth watching...