Down the Bog

This evening I had a glass of white wine. It’s ages since I last indulged but it was rather pleasant and I’ll have to do it again sometime.

So feeling somewhat relaxed I sat down to watch the 2001 movie “Donnie Darko” on DVD. My daughter is a big fan of this movie and has watched it several times so I feared it might be a bit of a teen flick but I decided to give it a go anyway.

I guess my concerns over taking the movie seriously was that it featured an overgrown bunny rabbit but I don’t think I’m giving anything away by saying this was the freakiest most ugliest bunny rabbit I’ve ever seen. In fact the word “bunny” doesn’t deserve to be attached to the word “rabbit”.

The movie itself? Well, I didn’t think that I’d completely understood it so afterwards I resorted to looking it up on Wikipedia. Having read about it I realised that I more or less had understood it by watching the movie and it was just a time travel story really.

I think people understand it to be that much more but I’m not sure about that. People read much too much into movies. I saw one comment that claimed that the character of Donnie Darko actually represented Jesus. So there you go. I certainly didn’t pick up on that one but I think on balance that the movie was aimed at a younger audience.

Despite it’s apparent cult following I’m not sure I’ll be watching it for a second time. Maybe I will the next time I have a glass of wine. I’m an occasional drinker so it wouldn’t take too many glasses for me to start seeing my own, oversized rabbit!

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