Adolescence is tough enough without discovering you are—probably?—predestined to act as the time-traveling hand of God. Whether Donnie is a mentally-ill schizo-depressive who mythopoetically justifies his own nullification as a righteous sacrifice to save the lives of those he loves or One genuinely blessed with rare supernatural insight into usually cryptic truths of our universe, Richard Kelly's deployment of the divinely mystical "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Steve Baker and Carmen Daye into a movie already stacked with instantly recognizable pop hits (not to mention its own excellent original score) complicates the soundscape noticeably and in so doing provides one of the movie's greatest emotional moments. Equally at home behind a Halloween ghost story or in an Easter mass, the track is a chillingly appropriate soundtrack for Donnie's attendance to the local cinema's Evil Dead / Last Temptation of Christ double-feature, yet the remarkable cue was never...
- 10/31/2010
- MUBI
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