The whole vision of suburban America, with just a hint of the uncanny hanging over it, is terribly Spielbergian, but the song makes it something else. To anyone who saw it when it was new, the opening scene of Donnie Darko would’ve looked familiar - from real life, maybe, but definitely from movies. A little girl bounces on a backyard trampoline while her mother, in a nearby lawn chair, reads Stephen King’s It.
A smirking father uses a leaf-blower to mess up his teenage daughter’s hair. Middle-aged women power-walk past manicured lawns. As the kid rides his bike back home, a suburban idyll unfolds before him in ecstatic slow motion. The kid wakes up and smiles to himself, enjoying some private joke.
He’s off in the forest, surrounded by rolling hills, in his pajamas, his bike lying next to him. As the sun rises, a dazed-looking teenage boy wakes up.
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