Donnie Darko

  This week I unfortunately got sick and couldn't bring myself to read anything, but I did get a chance to watch Donnie Darko.  After watching the film, I definitely think that it falls into the "weird" category.
  First off, the "scary" character in the film is a bunny.  This is pretty "weird", considering that a bunny is not conventionally scary, and I'm sure that there are very few people that are afraid of them.  However, this bunny was terrifying to me.  Something that I really liked in the movie was when Donnie went to a psychotherapist, he said that Donnie was simply having hallucinations.  This caused me as a viewer to constantly be wondering whether or not Frank (the bunny) was a hallucination or real. 
  I think something that really makes the story "weird" is that it's so original.  It isn't something that reminds me of anything else. 

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