{"id":3669,"date":"2011-02-18T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/donnie-darko-3-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T20:30:57","slug":"donnie-darko-3-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/donnie-darko-3-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Darko (3+ stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0246578\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTU3MDgwNzA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjQxOTUyMQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg\" \/><\/a>Whoa. Add this to the queue <strong>after<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-butterfly-effect-5-stars\/\">The Butterfly Effect<\/a> (which it shares much with) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/franklyn-5-stars\/\">Franklyn<\/a>. I almost turned this off in the first half hour, but I think it was worth sticking with. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0246578\/\">Quite a cast<\/a> of supporting players.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few big things that happen in the movie that don\u2019t seem relevant to the main direction of the film. At least one of those things leaves the world worse-off if undone, although that may be part of the point \/ problem with fixing things.<\/p>\n<p>Both Darko and The Butterfly Effect surprise me in how far their protagonists are willing to go to fix things \u2013 to save their love interests, actually. It\u2019s a strange kind of unsung heroism \u2013 no one will know the sacrifice. Which makes me think of re-reading <em>A Prayer for Owen Meany<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa. Add this to the queue after The Butterfly Effect (which it shares much with) and Franklyn. I almost turned this off in the first half hour, but I think it was worth sticking with. Quite a cast of supporting players. There are a few big things that happen in the movie that don\u2019t seem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/donnie-darko-3-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donnie Darko (3+ stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}