28 days. 6 hours. 42 minutes. 12 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Any aficionados of Donnie Darko<\/em> will know that this is the amount of time until the end of the world, as stated to Jake Gyllenhaal\u2019s title character by demonic bunny Frank. Any particularly nerdy aficionados of Donnie Darko<\/em> will know the above figures off by heart as they were compelled to memorise them after getting them slightly wrong during a geek quiz. I wouldn\u2019t know the poor soul who endured such a mortally embarrassing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard Kelly\u2019s moody film can be neatly categorised as a horror, but it\u2019s so much more. It\u2019s a coming-of-age movie, it\u2019s an existential treatise on the nature of time, and heck, it\u2019s a comedy. If you didn\u2019t laugh at a certain scene involving a card and an uptight teacher\u2019s respective backside, then you are, to quote Buzz Lightyear, a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re still reading this, then great. One of the main factors that contributes to Donnie Darko<\/em>\u2019s brilliance is its eclectic soundtrack. Besides catchy tunes like Echo and the Bunnymen\u2019s \u2018The Killing Moon\u2019 and Tears For Fears\u2019 \u2018Head Over Heels\u2019, which plays as Donnie and his friends depart from the bus in stylish slow motion, the original score by Michael Andrews (a composer with the additional attributes of arranger and multi-instrumentalist) conveys the film\u2019s supernatural intricacies and oddities in all their glory. The opening of our hero lying alone on a road at the top a mountain beside his bicycle wouldn\u2019t be the same without the compelling piano of \u2018Carpathian Ridge\u2019, the first song that Kelly composed for the film. In a 15th<\/sup> anniversary piece for Vice, Andrews describes his overall work as \u2018structurally…like an opera or musical\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My musical highlight, however, is, like the opening track, a lot more simplistic. Andrew\u2019s \u2018Artifact & Living\u2019, a simple yet beautiful piano tcomposition, plays as a confused Donnie arrives home after an episode of sleepwalking, discovering the bizarre plane engine that has crashed into his house from seemingly nowhere. With no spoken dialogue, the tune acts a perfect expression of the mysterious and elemental, without any need for expository dialogue. Kelly could\u2019ve had Gyllenhaal say something as perfunctory as \u2018What is that?\u2019, but even these three words would\u2019ve ruined the beauty of the music. The plane engine and its origin are made all the more inscrutable by its primary onlooker saying nothing at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 28 days. 6 hours. 42 minutes. 12 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}