My fursona should be Frank, Donnie Darko (at Vic theatre)

Weeeeeelll sheeeit, it's October my second most favourite time of the year.

And the Vic theatre has decided to screen one of the greatest Halloween (or Easter) films of all time, Donnie Darko. Which extra awesome cause they're licensed.

In a sea of superhero slop, remake after remake, and sequel after sequel Donnie Darko has stood the test of time as a Kino example of both style, and substance, the film flopped on initial release, but found it's audience later via an ancient technology archeologists refer to as DVD.

It's a weird story featuring a massive creepy rabbit, teen angst, left feild discussions on smurf sex, wrapped in a tale with theological similarities to the biblical take of Jesus, and tied with a wormhole themed bow.

There's something that's both very pure, and strange about the film, it plays with aspects of the Horror genre without ever actually becoming a horror film. It's creepy, with a sense of dread that envelopes the entire atmosphere of the film, but with an undercurrent of dark humor, and sentimentally that makes it also sickly sweet, like a John Hughes film on acid.

The movie theatre scene conversation featuring Frank, and Donnie is going to forever be seared into my brain head as iconic.

"Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?"
"Why are you wearing that stupid person suit?"

Ah such cool writing, to that point why does everything need to be the same? I think there has been a renaissance recently of small weird interesting films that have been released, which put another way means that there has been more weird interesting ideas available for the mainstream public to engage with.

This is positive, but I'd still like to see a triple A budget go to something that isn't a superhero film. When the big thing in the Zeitgeist is discussion of the new Deadpool film because it's an R-rated superhero film, the culture might be in trouble, these films are basically the cultural equivalent of junk food, which is fine... But also kinda empty.

A24 has been doing cool stuff, and I think there is a growing demand for unique stories to be told, as such Donnie Darko stands as a testament that you can tell a really great story that will resonate with people using minimal special effects, as long as you have a good script, actors, direction, and a creepy bunny.

Anyway do not BYOB, you can buy booze, snacks in the theatre, but come with a good attitude, creepy bunny man costume optional.