Comments on: Standing Up for Choice

By: Arabella

Arabella — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:57:02 +0000

Interestingly, if you get a version with the commentary, and watch it, the director is pretty clear that Donnie Darko is a “superhero” and points out several parts of the movie where this is shown. I was not sure if I agreed with this or not, but he is the director….

Also Jake Gyllenhaal (sp?) sounds exceptionally immature on the commentary, which is annoying.

In Beijing any of the DVD shops opposite the North Gate of the Lido Complex have it.

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:27:50 +0000

Nice. I’m sure if I put forth the effort I could get some sweet Shanghai DVD connections, but I really don’t watch so many DVDs these days…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:31:37 +0000

John,

I think I found it in an electronics market in good ol’ Zibo, Shandong way back in early 2003. Surprisingly, the selection there was much better than in Hangzhou- one of the other foreign teachers got friendly with the guy who supplied the whole market’s DVDs, and the rest of us benefited. We always got to go to the ‘back room’ and sort through through all the fresh movies still packed in their shipping boxes from Guangdong.

Or maybe it was in Jinan around the same period- there was a place in that city where you had to crawl up into a mini-attic where the roof was seriously LOW (and if at 6 foot and a bit I had trouble, well I’m sure it would have been a contortionary delight for you!). But you could sit in there for hours on a couch and sort through box after box of just about the randomest movies you can imagine.

Moral of the story? Shandong had some sweet DVD connections.

By: John

John — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:27:35 +0000

I like the way you think.

And Donnie Darko is indeed an awesome movie, although I’ve never seen it for sale in China. (Where did you find it??)