Donnie Darko Discrimination
Area of Study: “The Outsider”
Do you constantly feel discriminated against?. Do you ever feel more interesting than others?. Do YOU feel like an Outsider?. The first thing that came to my head when I heard the term “The Outsider” was a foreigner, someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group. However, after studying “The Outsider” as the topic of our Area of Study, I realised that an outsider can be many things and has positive and negative attributes. I think that an outsider is somebody that tends to be or feel different to everyone and most things around them, although they may have no relations or similarities to anybody else and may feel vulnerable, they could also feel stress less and be open to new experiences.
The film Donnie Darko was the core text of our area of study along with two other support texts. The plot centers around the title character, Donnie Darko, an adolescent boy whose average suburban life is countered by his affliction with some type of serious mental disorder, where he has predictive visions and is challenged to do something about them. Toward …show more content…
Donnie has a mental illness that makes him different to others, he soon finds some version of love and acceptance, the new girl at school who relates to his feelings of being an outsider. Many things become important in the film such as the repetition of the eye, this shows us Donnie’s world and his experiences, also towards the end of the film it rewinds through the motif of the eye and all the dazed characters whose lives Donnie had affected wake up. Donnie Darko promotes the old idea that not only parents don’t understand what goes on, but also that one could possibly understand your inner turmoil, and for that reason your inconceivable and self-destructive actions are really the only possible course of action and in this case its
Do you constantly feel discriminated against?. Do you ever feel more interesting than others?. Do YOU feel like an Outsider?. The first thing that came to my head when I heard the term “The Outsider” was a foreigner, someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group. However, after studying “The Outsider” as the topic of our Area of Study, I realised that an outsider can be many things and has positive and negative attributes. I think that an outsider is somebody that tends to be or feel different to everyone and most things around them, although they may have no relations or similarities to anybody else and may feel vulnerable, they could also feel stress less and be open to new experiences.
The film Donnie Darko was the core text of our area of study along with two other support texts. The plot centers around the title character, Donnie Darko, an adolescent boy whose average suburban life is countered by his affliction with some type of serious mental disorder, where he has predictive visions and is challenged to do something about them. Toward …show more content…
Donnie has a mental illness that makes him different to others, he soon finds some version of love and acceptance, the new girl at school who relates to his feelings of being an outsider. Many things become important in the film such as the repetition of the eye, this shows us Donnie’s world and his experiences, also towards the end of the film it rewinds through the motif of the eye and all the dazed characters whose lives Donnie had affected wake up. Donnie Darko promotes the old idea that not only parents don’t understand what goes on, but also that one could possibly understand your inner turmoil, and for that reason your inconceivable and self-destructive actions are really the only possible course of action and in this case its