[note: the write-up below only takes the theatrical cut of Donnie Darko into consideration. I have not seen the director’s cut nor read Kelley’s The Donnie Darko Book] When Kojima Hideo released Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in 2004 (the eight installment in the popular video game franchise), the stakes were higher than attaining victory or suffering defeat. After all, as a prequel to all previous entries, set thirty years before the original Metal Gear, premature death meant tampering with the flow of fate. If you waited long enough before triggering a soft reset to restart the action, the ‘Game Over’-screen would morph into a ‘Time Paradox’-message to confront you with the impossible turn of events you had created. Having no knowledge of the...

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