Donnie Dark movie:
Write a three page essay that responds to the prompt. Your essay should reference specific aspects – dialogue, setting — of the film to support your analysis. You may include scene summaries and/or landscape descriptions, quoted dialogue, or paraphrased dialogue, and quoted or summarized material from scholarly sources. You should include at least three carefully considered references to the film as in-text citations, properly cited in-text and in a works cited page. Your essay should also include citations from two scholarly choices of your selection. (The works cited page should also include a citation for the film/dvd.)
Consider the adults in Donnie Darko. How would you characterize them? Are they aware of what is truly happening around them or are they naiive and shallow? For this prompt, be sure to use specific examples. For example, the adults are seemingly unaware or unconcerned about the nature of Sparkle Motion’s dances and the young ages of the dancers. Also, Mrs. Farmer and Rose Darko would provide a good comparison of characters and support a discussion about adult society. (For this prompt, you might want to explore the stereotypes associated with predominantly white suburban America in the early 1980s.)