Donnie Darko was a very interesting movie. It contained many dark and creepy elements within the movie making. It talked a lot about living in fear and deciding to choose love. This was an interesting thing push for because throughout the movie, most of the people who said they were living in love, were found out to be living in fear.
The teacher and dance coach was a huge advocate for choosing love of fear. She pushes all her students to choose love of fear. At one point in the movie Donnie stands up to her and explains that it is impossible to narrow down life into two categories and that there is more to life than love and fear. As Donnie explains this to her, I found it interesting that the teacher who did not bother with fear, showed nonverbal cues of fear. She also shows signs of fear when she ask Donnie's mother to go to the dance competition with the girls. She shows fear when she says that she is scared about the trial and when she says that the girls need someone to go with them to the competition.
There were a few symbols throughout the movie. The eye and the ear muffs were two big symbols. In this movie it seemed that the eye was the key to understanding. It seemed as if they eye gave away what the future would hold. In the movie, when Donnie is talking to Frank, his right eye has a bullet in it. This was foreshadowing of how Donnie would eventually kill Frank. They eye also gave Donnie the vision to go burn down a house. The ear muffs seem to be a way to block out words that put down or cause pain. The chinese girl wears ear muffs and is able to "ignore" the people who make fun of her. Donnie's sister is told to "put on ear muffs" when Donnie and his oldest sister start cussing at each other. It's like the ear muffs are way to protect the innocent.
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