To anyone who saw it when it was new, the opening scene of Donnie Darko would’ve looked familiar - from real life, maybe, but definitely from movies. ![]() A little girl bounces on a backyard trampoline while her mother, in a nearby lawn chair, reads Stephen King’s It. ![]() A smirking father uses a leaf-blower to mess up his teenage daughter’s hair. Middle-aged women power-walk past manicured lawns. As the kid rides his bike back home, a suburban idyll unfolds before him in ecstatic slow motion. The kid wakes up and smiles to himself, enjoying some private joke. ![]() He’s off in the forest, surrounded by rolling hills, in his pajamas, his bike lying next to him. As the sun rises, a dazed-looking teenage boy wakes up.
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