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.)
Donnie Darko presents a teen protagonist, Donnie, who has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Discuss the general symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and demonstrate how Donnie fits the diagnosis. Then, discuss whether or not you think it is possible that Donnie is not suffering from schizophrenia but is, instead, a ‘living receiver’ who has a special purpose, which is to save the ‘world.’