Current mood:

contemplative

That time of the year again:
Tonight Donnie Darko was on tv. Again. I guess that it must be becoming sort of a tradition for them. A tradition I like, I might add.

It's odd, as the last time, the movie seems to precede a time of changes in my life. And also, again this time I watched it from beginning to end. It's interesting, I've seen it more than four times, I've got it in DVD but the movie still catches my attention like the first time.

I love the story, the acting (the Gyllenhall brothers are great, and so is Mary McDonnell), but what always hooks me it's the film's mood. That undefinable atmosphere of dread, melancholy and otherworldlyness that permeates everything, and that it's magnificiently created by the soundtrack.

The world definitely needs more movies like this one.

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Which reminds me that I've got to go to the cinema to see Jaume Balaguero's REC, and possibly Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The first one even being a zombie flick seems promising, the second one seems a little bit scary (well to be more accurate its depiction of Spain seems a bit scary), but I'm still interested anyway. I'll share my thoughts if I finally manage to see them :-).