MIND & BODY Pt 21: Donnie Darko (2001)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
“Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”
This week Mike is joined by Alex Ayling to discuss the 2001 mind-bending cult teen classic, DONNIE DARKO…
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Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The 1988. |
| 0:25.0 | A teenage boy called Donnie Darko is woken up by a mysterious voice. |
| 0:30.0 | Wake up. |
| 0:31.0 | He walks outside his house and meets a large talking bunny rabbit called Frank. |
| 0:37.0 | Frank tells him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. |
| 0:46.4 | As they're having that conversation, |
| 0:48.2 | a jet engine inexplicably falls from the sky |
| 0:51.5 | and smashes its way into Donnie's empty bedroom. |
| 0:57.0 | What's really going on here is Donnie Darko hallucinating, showing signs of |
| 1:09.1 | paranoid schizophrenia or might Frank actually be real in which case is the world really |
| 1:17.4 | about to end. 6 hours. |
| 1:23.0 | and you are. |
| 1:24.0 | You know? |
| 1:25.0 | You know of the |
| 1:26.0 | and you have |
| 1:28.0 | of the and you have |
| 1:35.2 | join me as we continue our journey through the mind and body and we discuss Richard Kelly's modern cult classic Donnie Darko. |
| 1:45.0 | Did you just call me a fuck ass? Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:48.0 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:50.0 | If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. |
| 1:53.2 | In this podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking |
| 1:58.4 | at particular sub-jomras one series at a time. |
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