thinking about how Donnie Darko subverts the MPDG trope bc Gretchen is basically one but she doesn't save Donnie and in fact goes about her life barely knowing he existed
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The whole charm of this movie is that it's Kelly getting us inside the head of the "crazy" character in a movie and making him the main character without actually not making him crazy
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I do consider that a big accomplishment, that he legitimately is still crazy, the dream logic of how his world works never quite connects up with the audience's understanding, and yet we still like him MANIAC was like that too
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