This afternoon, we saw Donnie Darko at the East Town Cinema with the Settles. I'd wanted to see it for a long time, had tried to browse the website, but didn't realize it was out on DVD before I saw the director's cut advertised; it was worth the wait to see it on the big screen. The theater was empty except for three other people (something that's happened only twice before to me.

I loved it. The atmosphere of not knowing everything that was going on, but knowing there was some way to understand it made the mysteries come alive, and the portrayal of life in the 80's was similar to Freaks and Geeks in their focus on average people and not the popular crowd. For Laura, there were too many references to the large six-foot scary bunny for the movie to be enjoyable, and we saw bunnies everywhere for the rest of the evening, but we could agree that the soundtrack was very well integrated. We headed over to dinner at Carlos O'Kellys, a great Mexican (not Irish) food spot, for some fajitas and burritos and movie conversation.