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NO POINT?
Make them scratch their heads or drop their jaws ... More commonly known as the WTF principle, it consists on concluding the film with more questions than answers, for that, either you shock the viewers, like in Night of the Living Dead (1968), or you puzzle them like in Donnie Darko (2001). Either ways, viewers will say "WTF has just happened?". Naturally, you can play it like Lynch in Eraserhead (1977) and base the whole movie on the WTF principle, riskier move but with better results in case of success.
Make them scratch their heads or drop their jaws ... More commonly known as the WTF principle, it consists on concluding the film with more questions than answers, for that, either you shock the viewers, like in Night of the Living Dead (1968), or you puzzle them like in Donnie Darko (2001). Either ways, viewers will say "WTF has just happened?". Naturally, you can play it like Lynch in Eraserhead (1977) and base the whole movie on the WTF principle, riskier move but with better results in case of success.
PeopleJames Duval, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone
TitlesDonnie Darko