(THUNDER RUMBLES, ANIMALS CHIRP AND SQUAWK)
(MUSIC: "NEVER TEAR US APART" BY INXS)
# Don't ask me
# What you know is true
# Don't have to tell you
# I love your precious heart
# I
# I was standing
# You were there
# Two worlds collided
# And they could never tear us apart
# We could live
# For a thousand years
# But if I hurt you
# I'd make wine from your tears
# I told you
# That we could fly
# 'Cause we all have wings
# But some of us don't know why
# I
# I was standing
# You were there
# Two worlds collided
# And they could never
# Ever tear us apart #
I'm voting for Dukakis.
Hm...
Well...
Maybe when you have children who need braces
and half of your husband's pay cheque goes to the government, you'll regret that.
My husband's pay cheque?
I'm not squeezing one out till I'm 30.
Will you still be at the Yarn Barn? That's a great place to raise children.
- That's really funny. - I think a year of partying's enough.
- She's going to Harvard next fall. - I haven't gotten in yet.
You think Dukakis will provide for America till you squeeze one out?
Yeah, I do.
- When can I squeeze one out? - Eighth grade.
Excuse me.
Donnie, you're such a dick.
Whoa, Elizabeth! A little hostile there.
Maybe Y0U should be in therapy,
then Mom and Dad can pay someone to listen to Y0UR thoughts so we don't have to.
0K. Tell us why you stopped taking your medication.
- You're such a fuck-ass! - (ELIZABETH LAUGHS)
- Please. - Did you just call me a fuck-ass?
- (M0M) That's enough. - Go suck a fuck!
- How does one suck a fuck? - Shall I tell you?
- Please. - Not at the dinner table.
- Stop. - Fuck...
- What's a fuck-ass? - (LAUGHS)
I took a year off to be with you.
- What? - How did you know?
- I didn't know it was a big deal. - It is a big deal.
(P0P MUSIC PLAYING)
(KN0CK)
I'm reading. Get out.
Where do you go at night?
- Just get out. - Did you toilet-paper the Johnsons' house?
- Is that why you're here? - No.
- I stopped rolling houses in the sixth grade. - Where's my son? I don't recognise you.
Then you take the goddamn pills.
Bitch.
0ur son just called me a bitch.
You're not a bitch.
You're bitchin', but you're not a bitch.
I want to be a president who makes sure
that we never again do business with a drug-running Panamanian dictator
or funnel aid to the Contras through drug dealers.
Values begin at the top.
Dukakis... Son of a bitch.
Those are the values I want to bring to the presidency and to the White House.
- Panama is a friendly country. - Tell him, George.
I talked to the president of Panama about their money laundering.
Mr Noriega was there, but there was no evidence.
When the evidence was there, we indicted him.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(ECHOING GHOSTLY VOICE) Wake up.
I've been watching you.
(TV: "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER")
Come closer.
Closer.
28 days...
six hours...
42 minutes...
12 seconds.
That is when the world will end.
Why?
(INTERFERENCE)
(L0CK CLICKS)
(CHUCKLES)
(CRASHING)
(ALARMS, D0GS BARKING)
Son? Donnie Darko?
Donnie Darko? What the heck's going on here?
- Who is it? - It's Eddie Darko's kid.
He's just a neighbourhood kid.
Guess he was sleep-golfing?
Watch out for that drool spot!
(JIM) Are you all right, son?
So let's stay off the links at night, 0K?
(D0NNIE) I'm sorry, Dr Fisher. It... It won't happen again.
- (FISHER SIGHS) Kids... - Let's golf.
(INDISTINCT V0ICES 0N P0LICE RADl0)
- No one's allowed. - This is my house.
- I said... - This is my house!
Wait a minute.
- Here's your brother. - It fell in your room.
Ms Darko? I'm Bob Garland. I'm with the FAA.
- The what? - I'm with the FAA. May we speak privately?
- In private? - Please.
- And here... - 0K.
All right, we have arranged a hotel. Get some sleep and we'll take care of this.
- Great. - Thank you.
Kids, come on. We're going to a hotel.
They don't know where it came from.
- (TV) Where's Pop? - He's still at work.
If it fell from the plane... what happened to the plane?
They don't know, Samantha.
Can't we make money from this? Can't we sue the airline?
Shut up, Sam.
Why do I have to sleep with Donnie? He stinks.
When you fall asleep tonight,
- I'm gonna fart in your face. - I'm telling Mom!
Samantha, don't go over there.
Frankie Feedler.
You remember. From high school.
Hm... Mm-hm.
He died. Remember?
Mm-hm.
0n his way to the prom.
They said he was doomed.
Jesus.
They could be saying the same thing about Donnie.
0ur Donnie.
- But he dodged it. - Hm...
He dodged his photograph.
Hm...
Hm.
Somebody was watching over him.
(M0M) Mrs Farmer will bring you home after practice. Bye, honey.
Donnie... good luck.
- 0h, my God! Tell me everything. - I'm not allowed to talk about it.
- 0h, my God! - Hi, Cherita.
- Shut up! - Darko cheats death! Huh?
You're a celebrity! I called you a jillion times. Where you been?
- At a hotel. - Dad saw you at the golf course.
- You sleepwalking again, buddy? - I don't want to talk about it.
Now that you're famous, have a smoke.
What happens if you tell Mom and Dad, Sam?
- You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal. - Goddamn right, I will.
- So grody. - Hey, Cherita, you want a cigarette?
- Shut up! - "Shut up!"
Go back to China, bitch!
Just leave her alone.
- That's some good shit, huh? - It's a fucking cigarette.
(MUSIC: "HEAD 0VER HEELS" BY TEARS F0R FEARS)
# I wanted to be with you alone
# And talk about the weather
# But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
# Won't escape my attention
# You keep your distance with a system of touch
# And gentle persuasion
# With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
# No, no, no, have you no ambition?
# You keep your distance with a system of touch
# And gentle persuasion
# I'm lost in admiration, could I need you this much?
# Oh, you're wasting my time
# You're just just just wasting time
# Something happens and I'm head over heels
# I never find out till I'm head over heels
# Something happens and I'm head over heels
# Ah, don't take my heart, don't break my heart
# Don't, don't, don't throw it away
# In my mind's eye
# One little boy, one little man
# Funny how
# Time flies #
"There would be headlines in the papers.
"The grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the wrestling and the barrow-boys
"would hear with respect of how 0ld Misery's house had been destroyed.
"It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons,
"now, in his 15th year, crystallised with the pain of puberty."
What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage?
Why did the children break into 0ld Misery's house?
- Joanie? - They wanted to rob him.
If you had actually read the short story, which was a whopping 13 pages,
you'd know that the children find a great deal of money in the mattress, but burn it.
Donnie Darko, perhaps with your recent brush with mass destruction,
you can give us your opinion.
They say it when they flood the house, when they tear it to shreds,
that destruction is a form of creation, so burning the money is ironic.
They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart.
They want to change things.
(D00R 0PENS)
- May we help you? - Yeah, I just registered.
- They put me in the wrong class. - You look like you belong here.
Um... Where do I sit?
Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.
- (MUTTERING) - Quiet!
Let her choose.
Joanie, get up.
(MUSIC 0N RADl0)
What people don't understand is that Dukakis does not have the financial infrastructure...
(MUSIC RESUMES)
Well, the construction guys say it will take about a week to fix the roof.
Airline better not fuck us on the shingle match.
- They still don't know? - Know what?
- Where it came from? - 0h, no. They can't tell us.
Something about a matching serial number that got burned.
I had to sign a form saying I wouldn't talk to anyone about it.
So we can't tell anyone what nobody knows?
Yeah. But you tell... What's your doctor's name?
- Dr Thurman, Dad. - Yes. Tell Dr Thurman whatever you want.
- Dad. - What?
- Dad! - 0h...!
What's that woman doing in the middle of the damn road?!
No mail today. Maybe tomorrow.
(INDISTINCT)
What did she say to you?
- I made a new friend. - Real or imaginary?
- Imaginary. - Would you like to talk about this friend?
- Frank. - Frank.
- What did he say? - He said to follow him.
- Follow him? Where? - Into the future.
And then what happens?
And then he said... then he said that the world was coming to an end.
Do you think the world is coming to an end?
No.
That's stupid.
(WOMAN ON TV) For my entire life, I was a victim of my own fear.
Love.
(WOMAN) I was feeding fear with food.
Fear.
Finally, I looked in the mirror.
Not just in the mirror. I looked THROUGH the mirror.
In that image, I saw my ego reflection.
For two years, I thought it was normal for a 10-year-old to wet the bed...
Shh! Quiet!
But the solution was there all the time.
I'm not afraid any more!
All over America, people have come together to join hands.
People who believe that human life is absolutely too important,
too valuable and too precious to be controlled by fear.
(FRANK) Pay close attention. You could miss something.
Hello. My name is Jim Cunningham. And welcome to "Controlling Fear".
(WH00SHING)
"...and the prince was led into a world of strange and beautiful magic."
Wow.
"The Last Unicorn" by Samantha Darko.
- Give it back! - "There was once a unicorn named Ariel..."
- You wrinkled it. - It's not wrinkled, Sam.
It's 7.45. The bus should've been here 20 minutes ago.
Maybe Martha finally went nuts and hijacked it.
There's this rule - at 7.45, we get to go home.
There's no rule.
Cherita, you should... go home.
Yeah, if you're here when the bus comes, we'll get in trouble.
- Shut up! - "Shut up!"
Hey, Porky Pig... I hope you get molested.
Hey! Hey! I can't believe this!
School's closed today because it's flooded.
- No way! - Yeah.
Holy shit! That's the best news ever!
My God, is this ever going to stop?
Eventually, yes. But right now, I got 12 classrooms full of water.
All coming from a busted water main.
- What else? - What else?
Principal Cole, I'll show you what else.
That's unbelievable. That's solid bronze, isn't it?
- Yep. - How did this happen?
I heard a cat burglar trashed everything and the Mongrel got his head cut off.
- Hah! - True!
Beth's mom said the boys' locker room flooded and they found faeces everywhere.
- What are faeces? - Baby mice.
Hey.
Has anyone ever told you that you're sexy?
I like your boobs.
Hey.
School's cancelled.
Do you want to walk me home?
Sure.
- Don't look so freaked. - I'm not.
Check your backpack. Those guys steal shit.
Fuck 'em!
- So, why'd you move here? - My parents got a divorce.
My mom got a restraining order against my stepdad. He has emotional problems.
I have those, too. What kind does he have?
He stabbed my mom four times in the chest.
0h. Did he go to jail?
No, he fled. They still can't find him.
Mom and I had to change our names. I thought Gretchen Ross was pretty cool.
I was in jail once. I mean... I burned down this house.
It was abandoned, but I got held back in school and I can't drive till I'm 21.
But I'm over all of that.
I'm... painting and stuff.
Writing. I want to be a writer. Maybe a painter. Maybe both...
I'll write a book and draw the pictures.
Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.
Donnie Darko-what the hell kind of name is that? It's like a superhero or something.
What makes you think I'm not?
I should go. For physics, Montinoff is having me write this essay -
the greatest invention ever to benefit mankind.
It's Monnitoff. But that's easy. Antiseptics.
Like, the whole sanitation thing. Joseph Lister, 1895.
Before antiseptics, there was no sanitation, especially in medicine.
You mean soap?
Well, I'm really glad school was flooded today.
Why is that?
We'd never have had this conversation.
You're weird.
Sorry.
No, that was a compliment.
Well, look, uh...
You want to go with me?
- Where do you want to go? - No, I mean, like, "go" with me.
- You know, like "going together". - Sure.
0K. Where are you going?
I'm going home.
(MUTTERS) Stupid... "Where are you going?"
I'd like to try something new.
Have you ever been hypnotised?
No.
When I clap twice, you will wake up. Do you understand?
- Yes. - So, tell me about your week.
I met a girl.
What is her name?
Gretchen.
We're going together now.
Do you still think about girls a lot?
Yeah.
- How are things going at school? - I think about girls a lot.
I asked you about school, Donnie.
I think about fucking a lot during school.
- What else do you think about during school? - "Married With Children".
- You think about your family? - I just turn down the volume
and think about fucking Christina Applegate.
I asked you about your family.
No.
I don't think about fucking my family. That's gross.
I'd like to hear about your friend Frank.
(PRINCIPAL) Sam Bylan.
Cherita Chen.
Donald Darko.
Daye Dennis.
Hey, you fuck!
Did you say I flooded the school?
- I didn't say shit. - Yeah, well, they think I did it.
If you're innocent, then you have nothing to worry about, right?
Fuck you! You know what I think?
I think you did it.
Beer and pussy-that's all I need.
- We gotta find ourselves a Smurfette. - Smurfette?
Mm-hm. Not some tight-ass Middlesex chick.
Like, this cute little blonde that'll get down with the guys like Smurfette does.
Smurfette doesn't fuck.
That's bullshit. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her?
Because the other Smurfs were getting too horny.
- Not Vanity. I heard he was a homosexual. - Then she fucks them while Vanity watches.
What about Papa Smurf? He must get some action?
What he does, he films the gang-bang. Later on, he beats off to the tape.
First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did.
She was sent as Gargamel's evil spy to destroy the Smurf village,
but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurfs transformed her.
And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen!
Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little pants.
That's what's so illogical about being a Smurf.
What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?
Donnie, why you gotta get smart on us?
- (H0RN H0NKS) - Grandma Death.
(MISS FARMER) Excuse me! Excuse me!
Please stay off the road, Miss Sparrow, or I will call Social Services.
I hate that Miss Farmer. She's such a fucking bitch!
Yeah.
- How old is Grandma Death? - (D0NNIE) 101.
She does the same thing every day.
Just walks back and forth and back and forth to the mailbox.
Nothing ever in there.
0h, wait, wait, wait...
She's going back to the box. We may still have mail.
- Mail, mail, mail. - Here it is.
This could be it. 0h...?
- 0h, no dice, Grandma. Sorry. - Someone ought to write that bitch.
(TV) Authorities continued their search
for a suspect in the Middlesex Ridge School vandalism.
The private school has asked for donations to restore its beloved mascot,
known only as the Mongrel...
It's very helpful. There's a good turnout tonight.
What are you trying to accomplish here?
There was urine and faeces flooded in my office.
Whatever fits.
"Whatever fits"?
In cooperation with the county police,
we have begun an active investigation into the cause of the flooding.
And our suspects include several of our own students...
I want to know why this filth is being taught to our children.
Kitty, I would appreciate if you would wait...
Dr Cole, not only am I a teacher, but I am also a parent of a Middlesex child.
Therefore I am the only person here who transcends the parent-teacher bridge.
(FRANK) Don't worry. You got away with it.
I have in my hand Graham Greene's "The Destructors".
This short story is part of my daughter's English assignment.
In this story, several children destroy an elderly man's house from inside out.
(EERIE HUMMING)
How can you do that?
And how do they do this? They flood the house by breaking through a water main.
I can do anything I want.
And so can you.
(APPLAUSE)
And I think that this garbage should be removed!
Excuse me. What is the real issue here? The PTA doesn't ban books.
The PTA must acknowledge that pornography is being taught in our curriculum!
- It's meant to be ironic. - Excuse me. Go back to grad school.
Why did you make me flood the school?
They are in great danger.
Do you even know who Graham Greene is?
I think we have all seen "Bonanza".
Well, um... while we are on other topics...
Where do you come from?
Do you believe in time travel?
(SAMANTHA) Who are you talking to?
I was just taking my pills, Sam.
A storm is coming, Frank says.
A storm that will swallow the children,
And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain.
I'll deliver them back to their doorsteps, send the monsters back to the underground.
I'll send them back to a place where no one else can see them.
Except for me.
Because I am Donnie Darko.
Who is Frank?
- A six-foot-tall bunny rabbit. - (GIGGLING)
In these modern times, our attitude and beliefs are so delicate, so fragile.
I have had a Cunning Vision. This vision has released me.
It's important that our lifeline be rejuvenated, so that we can breathe again.
It's time to breathe.
It is time to breathe.
Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
So now let us begin Lifeline Exercise Number One. Please press stop now.
As you can see, the lifeline is divided into two polar extremes.
Fear and love.
Fear is in the negative energy spectrum.
- Love is in the positive energy spectrum. - No, duh (!)
Excuse me? "No, duh" is a product of fear.
Now, on each card is a character dilemma which applies to the lifeline.
Please... Take this. Thank you.
Please read each character dilemma aloud
and place an "X" on the lifeline in the appropriate place.
Cherita?
"Juanita has an important math test today.
"She's known about the test for several weeks, but has not studied.
"In order to keep from failing, Juanita decides to cheat on the math test."
Good. Good. Very good.
Mr Darko.
"Ling Ling finds a wallet filled with money.
"She takes it to the address on the driver's licence but keeps the money."
I'm sorry, Miss Farmer. I don't get this.
Just place an "X" in the appropriate place.
I know what to do, but you can't lump things into two categories.
The lifeline is divided that way.
Well, life isn't that simple. I mean...
Who cares if Ling Ling keeps the money? It has nothing to do with fear or love.
- They are the deepest human emotions. - 0K. But you're not listening to me.
There are other things to take into account, the whole spectrum of human emotion.
You can't just lump everything into two categories and deny everything else!
If you don't complete the assignment, you'll get a zero.
Donald, let me preface this by saying
that your Iowa Test scores are... intimidating.
So...
Let's go over this again. What exactly did you say to Miss Farmer?
I'll tell you. He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus!
(STIFLES LAUGHTER WITH C0UGH)
Nobody cares about responsibility, morality, family values...
Kitty... Excuse us, please.
They've suspended him from after-school activities for six months.
Since this jet engine fiasco, I don't know what's gotten into...
I'll say this because our daughters are on the dance team together and I respect you,
but after witnessing your son's behaviour, I have significant doubts about your...
0ur paths through life must be righteous. Go home and look in the mirror
and pray that your son doesn't succumb to the path of fear.
Do you remember that weird gym teacher, Mrs Farmer?
Yeah. 0K, well, my brother told her to shove a book up her ass today.
And then my parents just bought him all this new shit.
Yeah, I know. I wish a jet engine would fall on my room.
- Dr Monnitoff. - Donnie.
Um...
I know this is gonna sound kind of weird, but do you know anything about... time travel?
(M0NNIT0FF) A wormhole with an Einstein-Rosen bridge,
which is theoretically a wormhole in space controlled by man.
So, according to Hawking, a wormhole may be able to provide a short cut
for jumping between two distant regions of space-time.
So to travel back in time, you have to have a spaceship faster than the speed of light.
- Theoretically. - And be able to find a wormhole.
The basic principles of time travel are there.
Your vessel and portal. Your vessel can be anything.
- Like a DeLorean? - Metal craft of any kind.
You know, I love that movie. It's so... like, futuristic, you know?
Listen, um... don't tell anybody that I gave you this.
Woman who wrote this used to teach here. She was a nun long before that.
Then overnight she became this entirely different person.
She up and left the church, wrote this book...
She started teaching science, right here at Middlesex.
"The Philosophy 0f Time Travel".
Roberta Sparrow?
That's right.
Roberta Sparrow?
Roberta Sparrow.
Grandma Death.
It's called "The Philosophy 0f Time Travel".
- What does philosophy have to do with it? - Guess who wrote it.
Who?
Roberta Sparrow. Huh! She wrote a book.
- Grandma Death wrote a book. - That's a terrible nickname.
We almost ran her down the other day.
She lives in that piece of crap house, and you know she's loaded.
- You're right. - She was known for her gem collection.
Kids used to go up there all the time and try to steal stuff from her.
She became a total recluse.
Huh! I didn't know she was alive till we damn near knocked her down.
(DONNIE) She was just standing in the road, frozen.
I walked over to see if she was OK.
And she whispered in my ear.
- What did she say? - I think Frank wants me to talk to her.
He asked if I knew about time travel.
She wrote a book about it, so that can't be a coincidence, right?
What did she say to you?
She said that every living creature on earth dies alone.
How did that make you feel?
It reminded me of my dog Callie.
She died when I was eight and she crawled underneath the... the porch.
To die.
To be alone.
Do you feel alone right now?
I don't know...
I'd like to believe I'm not, but I just...
I've just never seen any proof, so I just don't debate it any more.
I could spend my whole life debating it over and over and still wouldn't have proof,
so I just don't debate it any more.
It's absurd.
The search for God is absurd?
It is if everyone dies alone.
Does that scare you?
I don't want to be alone.
(CLASSICAL MUSIC)
And his tapes have made me realise
that for the last 39 years, I have been a prisoner of my own fear.
Fear.
You have got to meet this Jim Cunningham.
I can't believe he's single.
(COMMENTATOR) It has been a disappointing night for these Super Bowl champions.
(2ND COMMENTATOR) You're right, Dan. Coach Joe Gibbs is on the sidelines.
He's gotta be thinking, "What happened? What went wrong tonight?"
- (DAN) And here's the kick. - 0h!
It's no good...
- Shit, we need a quarterback. - We need a miracle.
- We need to go for a safety. - What the future holds for this MVP,
we'll have to wait and see.
You guys want anything?
(TV) This week on "Who's The Boss?" Samantha borrows Tony's van
and gets caught without a licence.
(DAN) Better make sure we don't miss that one.
Here we are again. Fourth down now...
(DIST0RTED TV V0ICES)
(W0MAN SINGING "AVE MARIA")
(JET ENGINES R0AR BY)
- (BELL RINGS) - (TEACHER) Tomorrow, we meet our partners
for the Young Inventors' Fair.
What if you could go back in time and take those hours of pain
and replace them with something better?
- Like images? - Yeah, a Hawaiian sunset
or the Grand Canyon.
- Things that remind you how beautiful... - We've been going together for two weeks.
Yeah?
Well, I er... I...
You want to kiss me?
- I'm sorry, I... - Look, Donnie, wait. I just...
- Well, I like you a lot. - I just want it to be at a time when... it...
- When what? - When it reminds me just...
When it reminds you how beautiful the world can be?
Yeah.
And there's some fat guy staring at us.
I don't think telling any woman to forcibly insert an object up her anus
is something that should go without consequence.
I think we should buy him a moped.
I think we should get a divorce.
- You won't tell Mom, will you? - Why would I?
- You tell Mom everything. - No, I don't.
- Let me see it. - No, it's not finished. It's...
0K. It's cool.
That's scary.
You think?
Thank you for seeing us at such late notice.
- We both felt we should come and discuss... - What I think is going on with your son.
Yes.
Um... Well, he's er...
You know about his past, and he was suspended from school
for insulting his gym teacher.
I'm not sure that's a good example. I think he had just cause.
Rose, let me lay out what I believe is happening here.
Donnie's aggressive behaviour... his increased detachment from reality,
seem to stem from his inability to cope with the forces in the world
that he perceives to be threatening.
Has he ever told you about Frank?
Frank?
Yes, the giant bunny rabbit.
The what?
I don't recall him ever having mentioned a rabbit.
Donnie is experiencing what is commonly called a daylight hallucination.
This is a common occurrence among paranoid schizophrenics.
- What can we do? - I would like to do more hypnotherapy...
...and increase his medication.
Whatever will help him, really, is... That's why we're here.
We just would like him to experience some relief.
So if you think that more medication will do that,
then I think we should give it a try.