Beware the Rabbit

So here's another strange coincidence. I was feeling pretty confident about Monday's call back, and I decided to splurge on a couple of DVDs. I was in the mood for quirky movies, flicks that had quickly passed through (if they were shown at all) the Peninsula. My top four choices were Sexy Beast, The Princess and The Warrior, In The Mood For Love, and Donnie Darko. After traversing to Border's (Record Chick wasn't there - think I scared her away) and Tower Records, I decided on Sexy Beast and Donnie Darko.

I heard a lot about Ben Kingsley's anti-Gandhi performance as Don Logan, spaz gangster extraordinaire, and I'm a sucker for Brit crime flicks. And as for Donnie Darko, it's been a while since I've seen a genuine mind fuck of a movie that leaves you scratching your head afterwards (yeah, I have seen Memento, but that didn't have me searching for meaning afterwards whereas I dreamed about Donnie Darko and I didn't even drink). So you have a Brit heist flick that Guy Ritchie wishes he wrote and directed, and an American Beauty meets a meditation on time-travel and fate vs. free will. What can these two flicks, released on DVD the same day, have in common?

I watched Sexy Beast first. About ten minutes into Donnie Darko, it hit me what the two movies had in common: a big ass disturbing bunny.

In Sexy Beast, the big ass disturbing bunny haunts the dreams of Gal, the retired gangster. It walks slowly to Gal while he's dining and raises a gun aimed at his head before he wakes. In Donnie Darko, the big ass disturbing bunny tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, and instructs Donnie to (among other things) flood the school and burn down the house of a motivational speaker (who happens to run a kiddie porn ring).

Rather strange that I decide to buy two DVDs with plots that can't be any more different from each other, and yet share a big ass disturbing bunny. Not sure what the message is here, but if I see any bunny-related paraphenalia on Monday, I'm gonna run like hell.