5. Donnie Darko
"This is exactly what my high school was like and the source of my awakening in college," your friend said with great depth and insight as you watched Donnie Darko for the second time that day. "Where middle school was completely brutal, high school was all fake and just coming apart at the seams. All of it. The figures we watch and follow, our institutions, our family rules and structure. It's all such bullsh*t. The song at the end really says it all, man. What a movie." And if there's anything stronger than your friend's firm acceptance of nihilism, it's his firm love of the possibilities presented by breaking the mold and dissenting. Especially when it comes to late high school and early college. From beginning to end of Donnie Darko, your friend was absolutely entranced. "There, look! The dysfunctional family. The close-minded teachers, the awesome girlfriend. That's what made high school so awesome. Social change and upheavals, that's what it's all about. And Donnie's fate at the end"which you hadn't gotten to yet"just shows how sad, impossible, and futile it all is."