Pat the Bunny

Some days you just have to go back to the well, to fill up again

Donnie Darko is my well. Jake had done a great performance before in October Sky,- but Darko - well Darko was different, Darko was something that doesn't happen very often. It showed Jake taking a part and making his, completely his. No one can imagine anyone but Jake as Donnie, Donnie is Jake, no one else will ever be thought of Donnie Darko. Jake's gone on to do that with Jack Twist, but Donnie was the first.

So when the circus and din grow too loud, it's back to the well for me.

And it's bunnies today -

Of course Frank is a bunny and in the director's cut there is a mention of Watership Down, which the story of bunnies but have you ever notice that there are more bunnies in the movie? What do bunnies represent? When Donny is sleeping on the couch there is a picture of young Elizabeth (Maggie) holding a bunny. And in the last scene you see Donnie and Elizabeth she is sleeping in a chair, you see a stuffed bunny to the right. Is it innocence? Why does he see symbol of innocence in almost frightening way?

Elizabeth is sleeping Frank, who Donnie see represented as a man bunny, what does that mean?

Rabbits are seen as symbols of fertility and rebirth. They are also symbols of playful sexuality, which also relates to the human perception of innocence. Is this Donnie's way of rationalizing the sexuality of his sister and his own feelings of sex, desires and the struggles of growing up?

One of the most poignant scenes is Donnie in the theater with Gretchen, where he sees Frank.



Donnie: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Is Donnie questioning himself - his "innocence", or that he's trying to be a man and he's not a man yet?


Watership Down is a heroic fantasy. The story begins with Fiver, a young runt rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction. How he and his brother Hazel journey to find a safe place. Fiver's visions promise a safe place in which to settle, and the group finds Watership Down, an ideal location to set up their new warren. They are soon reunited with Holly and Bluebell, also from the Sandleford Warren, who reveal that Fiver's vision was true and the entire warren was destroyed by humans. Watership Down is peaceful but the future is uncertain. Is Donnie Fiver?

Are the branches of the tree where Donnie goes the source of Franks ears in Donnie's vision of him?



Remember OMG Cooking Klatch tomorrow.

OMG Movie Club - Starting Friday at 5:00pm EST and all day Saturday - this month's movie is Shelter