The release of the film was indifferent, but it gained a good reputation among fans and was one of the most overlooked masterpieces of the year.
The film is the first feature film directed by Richard Kelly, but it was amazing. Someone compared him with Orson Wells who made "The Great Citizen". Many years later, the film still holds its place in the hearts of movie fans. The "sequel" "S Darko" (directly released on DVD) released this year will naturally be paid attention to by fans of the first episode.
Before watching this film, I always hesitate. The lingering shock and sadness brought by the first episode for the first time are still profound today. I once wanted not to watch this film, but when I heard that it was actually a "tribute", I wanted to see how the new director would continue the story.
The protagonist of the film is Donnie's younger sister Samantha. She can't get rid of the sadness of her brother's death, so she lives "wandering" with her friends. Samantha has always had "somnambulism". A car breakdown caused her and her friends to stay in the small town, and then strange things happened.
After watching the film, I feel that the director did not actually "smash the signature". The whole series worked very hard to create the atmosphere of the previous episode, and the shooting style was similar to that of the previous episode, and even the book "The Philosophy of Time Travel" ( A "work" in "Death Illusion") played to the extreme, creating two "offline universes". The "doomsday" scene (which is the catastrophe of the stone) that was not in the previous episode was also shot, plus those bunny people, Wearing "liquid" and other "classic elements", the movie is "connected" with the previous episode. In the story, it can also be seen that the director hopes to achieve a more complete and larger pattern than the previous episode. The line of the murder case can actually be played better. This is a paragraph that can be more powerful than the "pseudo-preacher" in the previous episode.
The choreographer played a lot and was a bit unable to control the story, but the most important thing was that the movie had the shape of the previous episode, but the lingering sadness could not be filmed. The first episode of "Dead" outlines the time when the directors remember the life of each character. This time, the new director did not have this intention. Donnie's actions in the previous episode were actually a "sacrifice." During the twenty-eight days that he made a decision, he tasted the pleasure of fighting against society and the system, and he also got happiness that he had never had before. He found the "door", and finally he completed the "mission" with a smile. The characters in this film did not face the confusion of values that were on the verge of falling, or the unacceptable loneliness of the world. Even though the "travel" was repeated and repeated, the meaning behind it gradually disappeared. That timeline lost focus.
If you like the previous episode, you can watch this film. It won't be unsightly, but don't expect too much.
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