"As adult figures who can communicate and make reports when we have suspicions, we really need to make sure we’re taking that stance and protecting children."
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In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Four years earlier, he had watched his debut feature, a bizarre blend of ’80s needle drops, teen angst, and high-concept science fiction called
, first bomb at the box office, and then miraculously
un-bomb, gaining a second life through midnight screenings and DVDs. The film’s latent success had raised the profile of its lead, Jake Gyllenhaal, and turned its writer-director into something of a minor prophet. Hollywood had been wrong about
Donnie Darko, and Richard Kelly had been right. What else could he possibly be right about?