Comments on: Donnie Darko – The Scale of Fear and Love

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:49:45 +0000

The whole Fear and Love concept goes along with the whole idea of false prophets such as Jim Cunningham, and religion dividing life into simple answers such as Fear or Love, God or Satan (Donnie being agnostic not being a coincidence) in which the individual cannot find truth. Such as the scene in his confrontation with his P.E. teacher and Cunningham, Donnie proclaims how the world isn’t as simple as the answers they attempt to provide because unlike your analysis, life is complex and there are numerous other factors that need to be taken into consideration. Donnie, receiving the knowledge of the worlds’ imminent collapse commits these crimes in order to fight back towards the corrupt establishments of society in which he previously could not without fear of social persecution (He lost his drivers’ license privileges and in in therapy due to his previous mishaps). His crimes’ were NOT a byproduct of fear, and the fact that you found it necessary to lump your analysis into the two categories shows that you are a prime example of an individual that follows “prescribed nonsense” blindly. This is an unacceptable analysis of such a movie concerning fate, god, society’s corruption, humanity’s Promethean qualities, and the Scientology that is apparent in every scene, back to back. Every scene in this movie has meaning, and your inability to find it is disturbing.

By: RYGUY

RYGUY — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:21:48 +0000

Are you 10?

By: Josh Lipovetsky

Josh Lipovetsky — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:27:37 +0000

1. Forrest Gump is deep because it has many life messages, such as perseverance, honesty, integrity, and compassion. It has various themes throughout (running, ping pong, brace, etc.).

2. Donnie Darko isn’t the most optimistic movie out there. That’s what I meant by the term ‘neagative’. Frank is a dark and scary character too!

3. Actually, there might be more to be learned from ‘negative’ art. It all depends on the way you think, and analyze things. Left brain, right brain, etc. Everyone has their preferred genres.

Thank you for the comment, Enfer!
Josh Lipovetsky.

By: Enfer

Enfer — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:46:24 +0000

1. How is Forrest Gump deep?
2. How is Donnie Darko negative?
3. How is there less to be learned from ‘negative’ art?

By: Josh Lipovetsky

Josh Lipovetsky — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:55:15 +0000

Sorry about that. Yes, it is pretty short. I didn’t get much from this movie, so I don’t want to add unwanted and meanless text to the analysis. Some of the more deep movies like Forrest Gump, K-Pax, Bucket List, Reign Over Me, etc.. have more content to analyze. As you can see, I also enjoy positive/motivational movies more, and am able to interpret more information. For negative movies like this one, The Condemned, Persepolis, and Pans Labyrinth, you will notice the short length of the analysis. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and I will try to improve the length/content of my film analysis in the future. I just saw “Igor” today, and it had a lot of content that I can write about. Thanks again, Josh.

By: Ryan J.

Ryan J. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:35:54 +0000

Okay. This has GOT to be the SHORTEST movie analysis EVER! C’mon, man… I’m beginning to wonder if you have even SEEN the movie… |-(