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When “Donnie Darko” first went into wide release, a tragic coincidence gave the film an enormous and unanticipated thematic significance. Writer/director Richard Kelly could never have predicted that his tale of a young man facing a deadly plane crash and an imminent apocalypse would hit screens a scant few weeks after the Twin Towers fell...
...drugs and money at the horrific desert site of a drug deal gone bad. He chooses to take the money and must evade the pursuit of a terrifying man guided only by a twisted moral code. TROUBLING PARALLELBut two days after being cast, tragedy struck.Brolin was in a motorcycle crash that, in addition to shattering his collar bone, helped him connect with the role on a personal level. “The thing about the motorcycle accident is that I didn’t see it coming, and I always thought that I saw it coming. It?...
...which category is often oversimplified into a single Robert Frost-style fork in the road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely to the far-less-traveled path of public service and take on constant financial worry along with a set of seemingly intractable problems to solve. Depending on which camp a senior aligns herself with, either those...
...escorted tour throughout an office building. Or, at least I think it’s an office building—it could just as likely be a mental ward. Either way, he encounters a room filled with animals, a movie theater showing a screening of an erratic car crash, and a discotheque. To top it all off, the video ends with Whiteman following a flock of flying birds and aiming a bow and arrow toward a road congested by traffic. Social critique? Maybe. Whiteman might be asking some interesting questions, but it’s impossible to find any answers...
...when we didn’t have pestering things like midterms, problem sets, or eRecruiting to worry about? OK, maybe most Harvard students spent most of their teenage years saving Darfur and curing AIDS. But whether you got all of those beautiful awakenings in high school or during a crash-course on one hazy night on your first weekend at Harvard, they were undoubtedly great times. Watching Sophia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” is like living through those firsts all over again, except in castles with champagne pyramids, satin shoes, and a country under...