"[ Thunderclap]" "[ Whirring]" "♪♪ [ Rock]" "♪ Under blue moon I sawyou ♪" "♪ So soonyou'll take me♪" "♪ Up inyourarms too late to begyou ♪" "♪ Orcancel it though I know it must be♪" "♪ The killing time♪" "♪ Unwillingly mine♪" "♪ Fate♪" "♪ Up againstyourwill♪" "♪ Through the thick and thin ♪" "♪ He will wait until♪" "♪ You giveyourselfto him ♪ [ Whirring ]" "♪ In starlit nights I sawyou ♪" "♪ So cruellyyou kissed me♪" "♪ Yourlips a magic world♪" "♪ Yoursky all hung withjewels♪" "♪ The killing moon ♪" "♪ Will come too soon ♪" "♪ Fate♪" "♪ Up againstyourwill♪" "♪ Through the thick and thin ♪♪" "I'm voting for Dukakis." "Hmm." "Well, maybe when you have children ofyour own... who need braces and you can't afford them... because halfofyour husband's paycheck... goes to the federal government, you'll regret that." "My husband's paycheck?" "[ Chuckles ]" "Anyway, I'm not gonna squeeze one out till I'm, like, 30." "Will you still be working at the Yarn Barn?" "Because I hear that's a great place to raise children." "That's really funny." "No, I think ayear ofpartying is enough." "She'll be going to Harvard next fall." "Mom, I haven't even gotten in yet." "Doyou honestly think Michael Dukakis will provide... for this country till you're ready to squeeze one out?" "Yeah, I do." "Hmm." " When can I squeeze one out?" " Not until 8th grade." " Excuse me?" " Donnie, you're such a dick." "Whoa, Elizabeth!" "A little hostile there." "Maybe you should be the one in therapy." "Then Mom and Dad can pay someone $200 an hour... to listen to all your thoughts so we don't have to." "Okay." "You want to tell Mom and Dad... whyyou stopped taking your medication?" " You're such a fuck-ass!" " What?" " Please." " Did you just call me a "fuck-ass"?" "Elizabeth, that's enough." "You can go suck a fuck." "Please, tell me, Elizabeth, how does one suck a fuck?" " You want me to tell you?" " Please, tell me." " We will not have this at the dinner table." " [ Mouths Words ]" "Stop." "Fuck." " What's a fuck-ass?" " [ Chuckles ]" "[ Knocking]" "I'm reading." "Get out of my room." "Where do you go at night?" "Would you just get out of my room?" "Did you toilet paper theJohnsons' house?" " ls that what you came in here to ask me?" " No." "I stopped rolling houses in the sixth grade, Mom." "What happened to my son?" "I don't recognize this person today." "Then why don't you start taking the goddamn pills?" "[ Door Closes] Bitch." "Our son just called me a bitch." "[ Sighs ] You're not a bitch." "You're bitchin', but you're not a bitch." "[ Sighs ]" "[ Gulps ]" "[ Sighs ]" "I want to be a president ofthe United States... who makes sure that we never again do business... with a drug-running Panamanian dictator." "Dukakis!" "That we neveragain funnel aid to the Contras─" "Son ofa bitch." "Panama is a friendly country." "I went down and talked to the president of Panama..." "Tell him, George!" "about cleaning up their money laundering." "[ Chiming ] Mr. Noriega was there, but there was no evidence at that time." "[ Ticking ] When the evidence was there, we indicted him." "[ Man's Voice ] Wake up." "[ Man's Voice] I've been watchingyou." "[ Man's Voice ] Come closer." "[Jingling ]" "Closer." "Twenty-eight days, six hours," "42 minutes, 1 2 seconds." "That is when the world will end." "Why?" "[ Static, Buzzing ]" "[ Car Engine Rumbling] [ Car Door Closes]" "[ Car Departing]" "[ Sighs ]" "[ Car Horn Honking] [ Chuckles ]" "[ Loud Crashing]" "[ Clattering]" " [ CarAlarms Blaring] - [ Elizabeth Panting ]" "[ Dog Barking]" "Son?" "Son?" "Donnie Darko?" "Donnie Darko." "What the heck's going on here?" "Who is it?" "It's Eddie Darko's kid." "I'm sorryabout this,Jim." "He's a neighborhood kid." "Guess he was "sleepgolfing"?" "[ Laughing ]" "Watch out for that drool spot." "[Jim ] Areyou all right, son?" "So, uh, let's stay offthe links at night, okay?" "I'm— I'm sorry, Dr. Fisher." "It won't happen again." "[ Dr. Fisher ] I hate kids." "[Jim ] Let's golf." "Mm-hmm." "[ Police Radio, Indistinct]" "No one's allowed through here." "This is my house." "I said no one'─ This is my house!" "He's okay." "[ Woman ] Donnie, we know you're okay." "This isJohn McNeil for Channel 6 news." "We havejust arrived on the scene─" "Wait a minute." "Here'─ Here's your brother." "Oh!" "It fell in your room." "Watch yourselfdown there!" "Mrs. Darko, I'm Bob Garland." "I'm with the F.A.A." "The what?" "I'm with the F.A.A." "We'd like to speak to you and your husband privately." "In private?" "Please." "All right." "Come here, Sam." "See that little brown thing over there?" "Yeah." "[ Thuds ]" "And... here." "You got it." "All right." "We have arranged foryou to stay at a hotel." "Get some sleep, and we will take care ofthings here." "Great." "Thankyou." "[ Eddie ] Kids, come on, we're going to a hotel." "They don't know where it came from." "[ Man On TV] Local and national transportation authorities... have begun a nationwide search for the missing plane..." "Frankie Feedler." "despite the fact that no airline will claim ownership─" "You remember, from high school." "The F.A.A. remained tight-lipped on the details..." "Mm-hmm." "ofthe current situation, given the lack ofinformation." "He died." "The engine, which appears to have detached from a 747─" "On his way to the prom." "Yeah." "Remember?" "Mm-hmm." "They said he was doomed." "Hmm." "All airline manufacturers have now been contacted..." "Jesus." "as the engine continues to be─ They could've said the same thing about Donnie." "As securitygrows even tighter..." "Mmm." "on this bizarre situation." "So far, F.A.A. official─ lf it fell from a plane, then what happened to the plane?" "They don't know, Samantha." "...the missing plane had been flying well below what is called the civilian hard deck." "[ Woman ] Mrs. Farmer will bring you home after practice." "Donnie─ Bye, Mom." "Bye, honey." "Donnie, good luck." "Oh, my God!" "Okay, tell me everything." "I'm not allowed to talk about it." "Oh, my God." "Hi, Cherita." ""Chut" up!" "Darko cheats death, huh?" "You're like a celebrity, man." "I've been, like, calling you, like, a jillion times." "Where you been?" "We stayed at a hotel." "Hey, my dad said he sawyou at the golfcourse." "You sleepwalking again there, buddy?" "I don't want to talk about it." "[ Boy] And now that you're famous, you gotta have a smoke." "What happens ifyou tell Mom and Dad about this, Sam?" "You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal." "Goddamn right, I will." "So groaty." "Hey, Cherita, you want a cigarette?" " "Chut" up!" " Shut up!" "Go back to China, bitch!" "Just leave her alone." "That's some good shit, huh?" "[ Donnie] It's a fucking cigarette." "[ Bell Tolling]" "♪♪ [ Pop]" "♪ I wanted to be withyou alone♪" "♪And talk about the weather♪" "♪ But traditions I can trace♪" "♪Against the child inyour face♪" "♪ Won't escape myattention ♪" "♪ You keepyourdistance with a system oftouch ♪" "♪And gentle persuasion ♪" "♪ With one foot in the past nowjust how long will it last♪" "♪ No, no, no Haveyou no ambition ♪" "♪ You keepyourdistance with a system oftouch ♪" "♪And gentle persuasion ♪" "♪ I'm lost in admiration Could I needyou 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 ♪" "♪ Na, na-na, na, na ♪" "♪ Na, na-na, na, na ♪ [ N o Aud i b le D ia log ue ]" "♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na ♪" "♪ Na, na-na, na, na ♪" "♪ In my mind's eye ♪" "♪ One little boy One little man ♪" "♪ Funny how ♪" "♪ Time flies ♪♪" ""Th e re wo u l d be hea d l i nes i n the pa pers." "" Even the grown-u p ga n gs wh o ra n th e betti n g at the a l l-i n wrestl i n g..." ""a nd th e Ba rrow boys wou ld hea r with respect..." ""of how O ld M isery's house had been destroyed ." "" lt was as thou gh th is pla n h ad been ..." ""with h i m a l l h is I ife, pond ered th rou gh th e sea sons," ""now in his 1 5th year crystallized... with the pain of puberty."" "What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage?" "Why did the children break into Old Misery's house?" " Joanie?" " They wanted to rob him." "Joanie, ifyou had actually read the short story, which, at a whopping 1 3 pages would have kept you up all night, you would know that the children..." "You suck." "find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it." "Donnie Darko, perhaps with your recent brush with mass destruction, you can give us your opinion." "Well, they say it right when they flood the house, and they tear it to shreds that, like, uh, destruction is a form of creation." "So the fact that they burn the money is ironic." "Theyjust want to see what happens when they tear the world apart." "They want to change things." "[ Door Opens ]" " May we help you?" " Yeah, I just registered, and they put me in the wrong English class." "You look like you belong here." "Um, where do I sit?" "Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest." "[ Murmuring ] Quiet!" "Let her choose." "Joanie, get up." "Well, the construction guys say it will take... about a week to fix the roof." "Damned airline better not fuck us on the shingle match." "They still don't know?" " Know what?" " Where it came from." "Oh." "No." "Apparently they can't tell us what happened yet." "Something about a— a matching serial number that got burned." "I had to sign a form saying I wouldn't talk to anyone about it." "[ Laughs ]" "So, we're not supposed to tell anyone what nobody knows?" "Yeah." "[ Chuckles ] But, you tell—" " What's your doctor's name?" " Dr. Thurman, Dad." "Yes." "You tell Dr. Thurman whatever you want." " Dad?" " What?" " Dad!" " [ Tires Squeal ]" "No mail today." "Maybe tomorrow." "[ Whispering ]" "Well?" "What did she say to you?" " l made a new friend." " Real or imaginary?" " Imaginary." " Would you like to talk about this friend?" "Frank." "Frank." " What did Frank 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." "[ Horse Whinnies ]" "And 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 1 0-year-old to wet the bed." " [ Giggles ]" "We tried everything." "Shh!" "Quiet." "But the solution was there all the time." "I'm not afraid anymore!" "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." "Hello, my name is Jim Cunningham." "And welcome to "Controlling Fear."" "[ Man's Voice ] Wake up, Donnie." "[ Thunderclap ]" "[ Breathing Heavily]" "[ Water Dripping ]" "[ Water Splashing ]" ""And the prince was led into a world... of strange and beautiful magic." Wow." "[ Girls Talking ] I can't believe this!" "My mom said that school is closed today because it's flooded." "No way." "Yeah." "Holy shit!" "That's the best news I've ever heard!" "My God, is this ever going to stop?" "Eventually, yes, it will." "But right now I got 1 2 classrooms full ofwater... 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?" "Beth's mom said the boys' locker room... was flooded and they found feces everywhere." "What are feces?" "Baby mice." "Aww." "Hey." "Has anyone ever told you that you're sexy?" "I like your boobs." "[ Laughing ]" " Hey." " Hey." "School was canceled." "Do you want to walk me home?" "Sure." "Don't look so freaked." "I'm not." "You should check your backpack." "Those guys like to steal shit." "Yeah." "So, why did you move here?" "My parents got a divorce." "My mom had to get a restraining order against my stepdad." "He has emotional problems." "Oh, I have those too." "What kind of emotional problems does your dad have?" "He stabbed my mom four times in the chest." "Oh." "Did he go to jail?" "No, he fled." "They still can't find him." "But my mom and I had to change our names." "And I thought "Gretchen Ross" was really cool." "Yeah. I was in jail once." "I mean— I accidentally burned down this house." "It was abandoned, but still— I got held back in school and I can't drive until I'm 2 1 ." "You know?" "But I'm over all of that." "I'm painting and stuff." "Writing. I want to be a writer." "Or 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 some sort of superhero or something." "What makes you think I'm not?" "Look, I should go." "For physics, "Montinoff" is having me write this essay." ""Greatest Invention Ever To Benefit Mankind."" "It's Monnitoff." "But that's easy." "Antiseptics." "The whole sanitation thing." "Joseph Lister, 1 895." "Before antiseptics, there was no sanitation, especially in medicine." "You mean, soap?" "Well, I'm really glad school was flooded today." "Why is that?" "Because you and I never would have had this conversation." "You're weird." "Sorry." "No, that was a compliment actually." "Well, look─" "You want to go with me?" "Where do you want to go?" "I mean, like, "go" with me." "It's what we call it here." ""Going together." Sure." "Okay." "Hey, where are you going?" "I'm going home." "So stupid!" ""Where are you going?" [ Sighs ]" "I'd like to try something new this time." "Have you ever been hypnotized?" "No." "And when I clap my hands twice, you will wake up." "Do you understand?" "Yes." "So, tell me aboutyour 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 askedyou about school, Donnie." "I think about fucking a lot during school." "What else do you think about during school?" "Married With Children." "Do you think about your family?" "I just turn down the volume... and think about fucking Christina Applegate." "I askedyou about your family, Donnie." "No." "I don't think about fucking my family." "That's gross." "I'd like to hear about your friend Frank." "[ Principal ] Sam Bylan?" "[ Clears Throat ]" "[ Writing On Blackboard ]" "Donald Darko." "[ Principal ] Daye Dennis." "[ Toilet Flushing ]" "Hey, you fuck!" "Did you tell them that I flooded the school?" "I didn't say shit." "That's not what I heard." "They think I did it." "Yeah, well, ifyou're innocent... then you have nothing to worry about, right?" "Fuck you!" "You know what I think?" "[ Knife Clicks ] I think you did it." "[ Coughing ]" "[ Gunshot ]" "Beer and pussy." "That's all I need." "We gotta find ourselves a Smurfette." " Smurfette?" " Mm-hmm." "Not some, like, tight-ass Middlesex chick, you know?" "Like, this cute little blonde that will get down and dirty with the guys." "Like Smurfette does." "Smurfette doesn't fuck." "[ Cocks Rifle, Fires ]" "That's bullshit." "Smurfette fucks all the other Smurfs." "Why do you think Papa Smurf made her?" "Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny." "No, no, no, not "Vanity." l heard he was a homosexual." "Okay, well, you know what?" "Then she fucks them while Vanity watches." "Okay?" "What about Papa Smurf?" " He must get in on the action." " Yeah, what he does, he films the gang-bang." "Later on, he beats off to the tape." "First of all," "Papa Smurfdidn't create Smurfette." "Gargamel did." "She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy... with the intention of destroying the Smurf village." "But the overwhelming goodness... ofthe Smurfway oflife transformed her." "And as for the whole gang-bang scenario─" "[ Laughs ] lt just couldn't happen." "Smurfs are asexual." "They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants." "That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf." "What's the point of living... ifyou don't have a dick?" "[ Sighs ] Damn it, Donnie." "Why do you gotta get so smart on us?" " [ Car Horn Honking ]" " Grandma Death." "[ Mrs. Farmer] Excuse me!" "Excuse me!" "Please stay off the road, Miss Sparrow." "Ifthis happens again, I am going to call Social Services." "God, I hate that Mrs. Farmer." "Watch your step." "That's it." "She's such a fucking bitch." "There you are." "That's a girl." "[ Donnie ] Yeah." "How old is Grandma Death?" "1 0 1 ." "Huh." "She does the same thing every day." "Just walks back and forth... and back and forth to the mailbox." "Nothing ever in there." "Oh, wait, wait, wait." "She goes─ She's going back to the box." "Oh!" "We may still have mail." "Mail, mail, mail." "Here it is." "And?" "This could be it." "Oh!" "No dice, Grandma." "No, sorry." "Sorry." "No." "Someone ought to write that bitch." "[ Whirring ] [ Man On TV] Authorities continued... their search today for a suspect in the Middlesex Ridge School vandalism." "The private school has asked for public donations... to help restore its beloved mascot, known only as "The Mongrel."" "In other news─" "In cooperation with the county police... we have begun an active investigation... into the cause ofthe flooding." "And our suspects include several ofour own students─" "I want to know why this filth... is being taught to our children." "[ Panting ]" "Kitty, I would appreciate─ lfyou 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." "[ Thumping ]" "How can you do that?" " [ Thumping ] - [ Gasps ]" "And how do they do this?" "They flood the house... by breaking through a water main." "[ Frank ] 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 P.T.A. doesn't ban books." " The P.T.A. is here to acknowledge... that pornography is being taught in our curriculum!" " lt's meant to be ironic." " Excuse me." "You need to go back to grad school." "Why did you make me flood the school?" "They are in great danger." "Kitty, do you even know who Graham Greene is?" "[ Scoffs ] I think we have all seen Bonanza." "[ Scattered Applause ] Well, um—" "Good work, Kitty." "While we are on other topics─" "Where did you come from?" "Do you believe in time travel?" "[ Samantha ] Who are you talking to?" "I was just taking my pills, Sam." "[ Gasps ] lt is time to breathe." "Thank you, J im Cunningham!" "[ Woman ] Thankyou,Jim Cunningham." "So now let us begin lifeline exercise number one." "Please press "stop" now." "[ Sighs ]" "As you can see, the lifeline is divided into two polar extremes." "Fear and love." "Fear is in the negative energy spectrum." "And 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 has known about the test for several weeks..." ""but has not studied." ""ln order to keep from failing her class," "Juanita decides that she will cheat on the math test."" "Good, good." "Very good." "Mr. Darko." ""Ling Ling finds a wallet on the ground filled with money." ""She takes the wallet to the address on the driver's license... but keeps the money inside the wallet."" "[ Scoffs ] I'm— I'm sorry, Mrs. Farmer." "I don't get this." "Just place an "X" on the lifeline in the appropriate place." "No." "I know what to do." "Ijust─ I don't get this." "You can't lump things into two categories." "Things aren't that simple." "The lifeline is divided that way." "Well, life isn't that simple." "I mean, who cares ifLing Ling... returns the wallet and keeps the money?" "It has nothing to do with either fear or love." "Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions." "Okay." "But you're not listening to me." "There are other things that need to be taken into account here, like the whole spectrum of human emotion." "You can't just lump everything into these two categories... and then just deny everything else." "Ifyou don't complete the assignment, you'll get a zero for the day." "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 Mrs. Farmer?" "I'll tellyou what he said!" "He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus!" "[ Snickers, Coughs ]" "[ Woman ] These are modern times." "My political attitudes are forthright." "[ Chuckles ] And ifthere's a vice-presidential candidate... worthy ofmy vote, it has to be Dan Quayle." "Yeah." "[ Mrs. Farmer] Nobody cares about responsibility, morality, family values." "Mm-hmm." "[ Sighs ] Kitty─" " Excuse us, please." " Hmph." "They've suspended him from after-school activities... for the next six months." "[ Sighs ]" "Ever since this jet engine fiasco, I honestly don't know what's gotten into him." "Rose, I'll tell you this because our daughters... have been on the dance team together for two years... and I respect you as a woman." "After witnessing your son's behavior this afternoon, I have significant doubts about your—" "Our paths through life must be righteous." "I urge you to go home and look in the mirror... and pray that your son doesn't succumb to the path of fear." "[ Elizabeth ] Wait." "Do you remember... that weird gym teacher Mrs. Farmer?" "Yeah." "Okay, 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 in my room." "[ Frank ] I can showyou the way." "[ Bells Tolling ]" "Yeah." "Dr. Monnitoff?" "Donnie." "Um, I know this is gonna sound kind ofweird, but, uh, do you know anything about, um, time travel?" "[ Dr. Monnitoff] Ah, 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 shortcut... forjumping between two distant regions of space-time." "So in order to travel back in time, you have to have... a big spaceship or something that can travel faster than the speed of light?" "Theoretically." "And be able to find one of these wormholes?" "The basic principles of time travel are there." "You've got your vessel and your portal... and your vessel could be just about anything... most likely a spacecraft." "Like a Delorean?" "Metal craft of any kind." "You know, I love that movie, the way they shot it." "It's so, um, like, futuristic, you know?" "Listen, um, don't tell anybody that I gave you this." "The woman who wrote this used to teach here." "She was a nun many years before that, but, uh, then overnight, she just─" "She became this entirely different person." "She up and left the Church." "She wrote this book." "She started teaching science, right here at Middlesex." "The Philosophy oftime Travel." "Roberta Sparrow?" "That's right." "[ Chuckles ] Come on." "Roberta Sparrow?" "Roberta Sparrow." ""Grandma Death."" "It's called The Philosophy oftime Travel." "What does philosophy have to do with time travel?" "Let me see." "Guess who wrote it." "Who?" "Roberta Sparrow?" "Huh." "She wrote a book." ""Grandma Death" wrote a book." "That's a terrible nickname." "We almost hit her with the car the other day." "She lives up there in that piece ofcrap house." "And you know she's loaded." "She'─" "Yeah, you're right." "She used to be known for her gem collection." "Kids... used to go up there all the time and try to steal stufffrom her." "She became a total recluse." "Huh. I didn't even know she was alive... till we damn near knocked her down the other day." "[ Donnie ] She wasjust standing there... in the middle ofthe road, frozen." "So I got out ofthe car... and I walked over to see ifshe was okay." "And she leaned over and whispered in my ear." " What did she say?" " l think Frank wants me to go talk to her, because the last time I saw him... he asked me if I knew about time travel." "She wrote a book about it, so that can't be a coincidence, right?" "Donnie, what did Roberta Sparrow 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?" "Oh, I don't know." "I mean, I'd like to believe I'm not, but I just─ I've just never seen any proof, so I— I just don't debate it anymore, you know?" "It's like I could spend my whole life... debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons." "And in the end, I still wouldn't have any proof." "So I just─ I just don't debate it anymore." "[ Laughs ] lt's absurd." "The search for God is absurd?" " lt is if everyone dies alone." " Does that scare you?" "I don't want to be alone." "♪♪ [ Classical ]" "And so his tapes have made me realize... that for the last 39 years, I have been a prisoner of my own fear." "Fear?" "[ Sighs ] Rose, you have got to meet this J im Cunningham." "I can't believe he's single." "[ Announcer #1 ] And it has been a disappointing night... indeed for these Super Bowl champions." "[Announcer #2 ] You're right, Dan." "CoachJoe Gibbs is on the sidelines, water dripping off his glasses, but he's gotta be thinking," ""What happened?" "What went wrong tonight?"" "And here's the kick─ [ Groaning ]" "It's no good." "You—" "Shit." "We need a quarterback." "And a miracle." "[ Boy] We need to go for a safety." "Well, Mark Rypien certainly has some big shoes to fill." "He sure does." "So what the future holds for this Super Bowl M.V.P., we'rejust gonna have to wait and see." "[ Sighs ] You guys want anything?" "No." "Darrell Green once again with a display ofamazing speed." "I'm gonna get a beer." "♪♪ [ Woman Singing In Foreign Language ]" "[Announcer #1 ] Here we are again." "Fourth down now." "There's the kick." "Deep into the end zone." "It's gonna be brought out to the 20-yard line." "It'll be first down and 1 0." "[ Man ] Good evening, ladies and ghouls." "Join us at the Middlesex Pavilion Mall... for the Middlesex Halloween Haunt." "[ Laughing ]" "[ Chuckles ]" "[Airplane Engine Roars ]" "[ Gretchen ] And what ifyou could go back in time... and take all those hours ofpain and darkness... and replace them with something better?" "Like images or what?" "Yeah, like a Hawaiian sunset or the Grand Canyon?" "Just things that remind you of how beautiful the world—" "We've been going together for, like, two weeks." "Yeah?" "Well, I, uh— I— Uh—" "You wanna kiss me?" "I— I'm sorry." "Look, Donnie, wait." "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 right now there's some fat guy over there staring at us." "Thankyou for seeing us at such late notice." "We've both felt that it was time... for us to come in and discus─" "What I think is going on with your son?" "Yes." "Um— Well, he's, um—" "You know about his past, and he was suspended from school for insulting his gym teacher." "I'm not really sure that's a good example." "I think he had just cause to insult her." "Rose, let me just lay out what I believe is happening here." "[ Dr. Thurman ] Donnie's aggressive behavior, his increased detachment from reality... seem to stem from his inability to cope... with the forces in the world he perceives to be threatening." "Has he ever told you about his friend 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." "[ Thumping ]" "This is a common occurrence... among paranoid schizophrenics." "What can we do?" "I would like to, um, do more hypnotherapy... and increase his medication." "[ Thumping ]" "[ Rose ] Whatever will help him, really, because that's why we're here." "We just would like him to experience some... relief." "So ifyou think that more medication will do that, then I think we should give it a try." "Donnie Darko." "[ Sighs ] I know." "[ Both Laughing ]" "[Applause ]" " Good morning, you Mongrels!" " [ All ] Good morning." "is that all the gusto you can muster?" "I said, "Good morning!"" "[ All ] Good morning!" "Now that's a tiny, tiny bit better." "But I can still sense some students out there... who are actually afraid to say, "Good morning!"" "Good morning!" "That's what I like to hear." "Because entirely too many young men and women today... are completely paralyzed by their fears." "They surrender their bodies to the temptation... and destruction of drugs, alcohol and premarital sex." "Now, I'm gonna tellyou a little story today." "It's a heartbreakingly sad story... about a young man... whose life was completely destroyed... by these instruments of fear." "A young man... searching for love in all the wrong places." "His name was Frank." "[ Microphone Feedback ]" "Hi." "My stepsister, like─" " I sometimes worry that she eats too much." " Shut up, Kim!" "Sweetheart─ Sweetheart, please." "How can I decide what I want to be when I grow up?" "Oh, that's a hard one." "What do I do to learn how to fight?" ""What do I do to learn how to fight?"" "Son, violence is a product of fear." "Learn to truly love yourself." " Okay." " Get yourself up here." " Okay." " All right." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Um, how much are they paying you to be here?" "[ Students Murmuring ]" "Uh, excuse me?" " What isyour name, son?" " Gerald." "Well, Gerald, I think you're afraid." "Are you telling us this stuff so we can buy your book?" "Because I gotta tell you, ifyou are, that was some of the worst advice I ever heard." "[Jim ] Do you see how sad this is?" "You want your sister to lose weight?" "Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey." "You know what?" "No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up." "It takes a little while to find that out." "Right,Jim?" "And you." "Yeah, you." "Sick of some jerk shoving your head down the toilet?" "Well, you know what?" "Maybe you should lift some weights or take a karate lesson." "And the next time he tries to do it, you kick him in the balls." " [ Gasping, Murmuring ] - [Jim Chuckles ]" " Son— Do you see this?" " Right?" " This is an anger prisoner." "A textbook example." " Anger prisoner." "Do you see the fear, people?" "This boy is scared to death of the truth." "Son, it breaks my heart to say this, but I believe you are a very troubled and confused young man." "I believe you are searching for the answers in all the wrong places." "You're right, actually." "I am pretty─ I'm pretty troubled... and I'm pretty confused, but I—" "And I'm afraid." "Really, really afraid." "Really afraid." "But I-I thinkyou're the fucking Antichrist." "[ Gasping, Murmuring ]" "[ Man ] Who do you thinkyou are?" "[ Cheering, Whistling ]" "It's amazing, you know?" "The man thinks he's telling the truth, and everything he says is just a fucking lie." "Everything he says!" "Everyone thinks he's so rad." "He's such a fucking chud." "Everything he doe─ Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Sit down." "Calm down." "You ever hear of Grandma Death?" "Who?" "The Philosophy oftime Travel." "What is this?" "She wrote it." "I'm— I've been seeing stuff." "Like, a lot ofreally messed up stuff." "And there are chapters in that book that describe the stuff I've been seeing, and it can't just be a coincidence." "[ Dr. Monnitoff] Well, each vessel travels along a vector... through space-time along its center ofgravity." "Like a spear." "I beg your pardon?" "Like a spear that comes out ofyour chest." "Um, sure." "Yeah." "And in order for the vessel to travel through time, it's got to find a portal, or in this case a wormhole─" "Well, could these portals, um—" "Could these portals just appear, uh, anywhere, anytime?" "I think that's highly unlikely." "No, I think what you're talking about is, um, an act of God." "If God controls time, then all time is pre-decided." "I'm not following you." "Every living thing follows along a set path." "And ifyou could see your path or channel, then you could see into the future, right?" "Like, uh— lt's a form of time travel." "Well, you're-you're contradicting yourself, Donnie." "If we were able to see our destinies manifest themselves visually, then we would be given a choice to betray our chosen destinies." "And the mere fact that this choice exists... would make all preformed destiny, uh, come to an end." "Not ifyou travel within God's channel." "Um, I'm not going to be able to continue this conversation." "Why?" "I could lose myjob." "Okay." "[ Chuckles ]" "[ Frank's Voice ] Nowyou know where he lives." "[ Dr. Thurman ] And they grow out of our chest─ Solar plexus?" "Just like she described in the book." "The way they moved and they smelled— lt's like─ like they're workers... assigned to each one of us." "Theyjust─ They're like liquid." "You know, I-I followed it... into my parents' bedroom." "What didyou find?" "Nothing." "So we call them l.M.G.'s." "Infant memory generators." "Yeah, so the idea is that you buy these glasses for your infant, and they wear them at night when they sleep." "[ Gretchen ] But inside the glasses are these slide photographs, and each photograph is ofsomething peaceful or beautiful." "Whatever the parents want to put inside." "And what effect do you think that this would have on an infant?" "Well, the thing is, nobody remembers their infancy." "Anyone who says they do is lying." "So we think this will help develop memory earlier in life." "Yeah." "Did you stop and think that maybe infants need darkness?" "That maybe darkness is part of their natural development?" "[ Gretchen ] No." "Mm-mmm." " [ Snapping Fingers ]" " Yeah." "What ifthe parents, like, put in pictures ofSatan?" "Or, like, dead people?" "Crap like that." "is that what you'd show your kids?" "Uh, well, I mean, didn't your dad, like, stab your mom?" "♪♪ [ Mimicking Theme from Psycho ]" "Get out." "[ School Bell Ringing ]" "Gretchen!" "I'm sorry." "Gretchen." "Gretchen." "I'm sorry about those guys." "They're─" "Two for Evil Dead, please." "That'll be two dollars." "♪♪ [ Suspenseful ]" "[ Pounding ]" "[ Pounding Intensifies ]" "[ Pounding Continues ]" "Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?" "[ Whispering ] Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" "Take it off." "What happened to your eye?" "[ Whispers ] I'm so sorry." "Why do they call you Frank?" "It is the name of my father... and his father before me." "Frank?" "When's this gonna stop?" "You should already know that." "[ Chuckles ] I want you to watch the movie screen." "There's something I want to showyou." "Have you ever seen a portal?" "[ Bell Chiming ]" "Burn it to the ground." "♪♪ [ Harp ]" "[ Girl Chuckles ]" "Okay, now, girls, I want you to concentrate." "Failure is not an option." "And, Bethany, ifyou feel the need to vomit up there, just swallow it." "Okay, Mom." "Hey, you guys, good luck out there." "[ Whistles ]" "[ Boy] Get offthe stage, Cherita!" "♪♪ [ Ends ]" "[ Cheering ] [ Whistles ]" "[ Boy] You suck!" "Now, that was really something." "Thank you, Cherita Chen, with "Autumn Angel."" "And now, the moment we've all been waiting for is here." "It is my very distinct pleasure to introduce to you..." "Emily Bates, Suzy Bailey," "Samantha Darko, Beth Farmer andJoanieJames." " They are Sparkle Motion." " [Applause ]" "♪ No, no Notorious, notorious ♪" "♪ No, no Notorious ♪" "♪ I can't read about it ♪" "♪ Burns the skin from your eyes ♪" "♪ I'll do fine without it ♪" "♪ Here's one you don't compromise ♪" "♪ Lies come hard to disguise ♪" "♪ Led me to fight it out not wild about it ♪" "♪ Layyour seedyjudgments ♪" "♪ Who says they're part ofour lives ♪" "♪ You own the money you control the witness ♪" "♪ I hearyou're lonely Don't monkey with my business ♪" "♪ You pay the profits tojustifyyour reasons ♪" "♪ I heardyour promise but I don't believe it ♪" "♪ That's why I'll do it again ♪" "♪ No, no Notorious ♪" "♪♪ [ Continues:" "Faint ]" "[ Cheering:" "Faint ]" "[ Girl ] All right, Sparkle Motion!" "[ No Audible Dialogue ]" "[ Person Screaming On Film ]" "♪♪ [ Ragtime ]" "How long was I asleep for?" "The whole movie." "[ Police Radio Chatter]" "Cap, looks like we got another room back here." "[ Female Newscaster On TV] The blaze was extinguished sometime after 8:00 last night." "Now, firefighters discovered what has been referred to... as a "kiddie porn dungeon."" "Cunningham, who has become a recent celebrity... for his books and motivational tapes, was arrested early this morning..." "Oh, my God!" "while golfing at the Sarasota Heights Country Club." "Arson has not been ruled out as part ofthe cause ofthe fire." "[ Elizabeth ] Oh, my God." "A group of Cunning Vision employee─" "Dad played golf with that guy." "[ Newscaster Continues ] ...vehemently denied the alleged link... to a child pornography publishing circuit." "In a vicious statement Connie attacked the Middlesex fire department officials, claiming a vast conspiracy." "[ Principal ] I'm sorry, Karen, but we don't think the methods you've undertaken here are appropriate." "With all due respect, sir, what exactly about my methods do you find inappropriate?" "I don't have time to get into a debate about this, Karen." "I believe I've made myselfclear." "You call this clarity?" "I don't think that you have a clue what it's like to communicate with these kids." "And we are losing them to apathy, to this proscribed nonsense." "They are slipping away." "I am sorry that you have failed." "Now ifyou'll excuse me, I have another appointment." "You can finish out the week." "Fuck!" "Good afternoon." "It gives me great pleasure to announce... that the Middlesex Ridge school dance team... has been invited to perform... on Ed McMahon's Star Search '88... in Los Angeles, California." "[ No Audible Dialogue ]" "[ Doorbell Rings ]" "No, it was ridiculous." "I'll call you back." "Rose." "Kitty." "I'm sure that you're aware of the horrible allegations against J im Cunningham." "I know." "I saw it on TV." "Something about a "kiddie porn dungeon."" "Please, please!" "Don't use those words!" "It's obviously some kind of conspiracy to destroy an innocent man." "And I have taken it upon myselfto spearhead... theJim Cunningham defense campaign." "Rose, I have to appear at his arraignment tomorrow morning." "And as you know, the girls are scheduled to leave for Los Angeles in the morning." "Now, as their coach, I was the obvious choice... to chaperone them on their trip, but─ But now, you can't go." "Yes." "Hmm." "Now, believe me, of all the other mothers," "I would never dream ofaskingyou." "But none ofthe other mothers are available to go." "I don't know, Kitty." "It's a bad weekend." "Eddie's in New York." "Rose!" "I don't know ifyou realize... what an opportunity this is for our daughters!" "This has been a dream of Samantha's and all of ours for a long time." "I made her lead dancer!" "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion." "[ Sighs ]" "Elizabeth will be in charge." "She'll drive you to therapy." "And ifyou need anything, you promise me... that you will call Dr. Thurman?" "[ Softly ] Okay." "How's it feel to have a wacko for a son?" "It feels wonderful." "So what do I tell the other kids when they ask about you?" "Tell them that everything is gonna be just fine." "[ Chuckles ]" "What's "cellar door"?" "[ Sighs ]" "This famous linguist once said that... of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words... in all of history, that "cellar door" is the most beautiful." ""Cellar door"?" "I promise that one day, everything's gonna be better for you." ""Chut" up!" "[ Dr. Thurman ] I want to talk aboutyour past today." "[ Donnie ] No." "[ Dr. Thurman ] I want to talk about..." "you andyour parents." "[ Donnie ] They didn't buy me what I wanted for Christmas." "What did you want for Christmas that year?" "Hungry, Hungry Hippos." "How did you feel, being denied these Hungry, Hungry Hippos?" "Regret." "What else makes you feel regret?" "That I did it again." "You did it again?" "I flooded my school, and I burned down that pervert's house." "[ Laughing ] I only have a few days left before they catch me." "Did Frank tell you to do these things?" "I have to obey him." "He saved my life." "I have to obey him, or I'll be left all alone." "And then—" "And then I won't be able to figure out what this is all about." "I won't be able to know his master plan." "Do you mean God's master plan?" "Do you now believe in God?" "I have the power to build a time machine." "How is that possible?" "How is time travel possible?" "Donnie?" "Time's up, Frank said." "When is this going to happen?" "S-S-Soon." "[ Sobbing ]" "Soon." "What is going to happen?" "Frank is gonna kill." "Who is he going to kill?" "Who is he going to kill, Donnie?" "I can see him right now!" "The sky is gonna open up." "If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule." "There would only be you and your memorie─ the choices you've made... and the people you've touched." "Ifthis world were to end, there would only be you and him... and no one else." "[ Sobbing ]" "Hey." "[ Elizabeth ] I got in." "[ Chuckles ] I'm going to Harvard." "Hey, we should totally throw a party." "I mean, Mom and Dad are gone, and, like, it's Halloween Carnival." "We could totally get away with it." "Okay." "But it has to be small, all right?" "What'd you guys got?" "[ Man Shouts ] Happy Halloween!" "[ Shouting, Laughter]" "♪♪ [ Loud Rock ]" "[ Boy] Beelzebub." "Whoo!" "Right?" "[ Doorbell Rings ]" "We got eggs, water balloons and a dozen rolls of toilet paper." "I stole four beers from my dad." "Well, we got a keg." "Keg beer is for pussies." "[ Phone Ringing ]" "[ Beeps ]" "Rose, this is Lilian Thurman." "It is extremely important that you call me... as soon as you get this message." "Thank you." "Hey." "You okay?" "Yeah, my mom's gone." "You wanna come in?" "Yeah." "♪♪ [ Continues ] Hey!" "I don't know." "She─" "She didn't leave a note, and the house was all messed up." "But you're okay?" "Did you call the cops?" "Yeah." "They said I should leave the house... and that I should go to a safe place." "I'm just so scared." "I keep thinking... something awful is happening, and— lt's my fucking stepdad, I— I know it." "I guess some people are just born with tragedy in their blood." "Hey, have you guys seen Frank?" "No. I think they said they were going on a beer run." "Shit." "[Answering Machine Beeps ]" "[ Rose On Answering Machine ] Ifyou're there, please pick up." "Oh, well." "Good news." "The girls, they got three and a halfstars, and they get to come back for the quarterfinals." "Samantha was amazing." "Anyway, um, we're gonna take the red-eye back tonight, and we ought to arrive─" "Mom, the plane's about to leave." "Yeah." "Okay." "We'll take the red-eye back tonight." "We should arrive around 8:30 in the morning." "Um, I hope everything'─ I hope everything's all right." "I love you." "Bye." "♪ I got no time for private consultation ♪" "♪ Under the Milky Way tonight ♪" "♪ Wish I knew whatyou were looking for♪" "♪ Might have known whatyou would find ♪" "[ Chiming, Distorted ]" "♪ And it's something quite peculiar♪" "♪ Something shimmering and white ♪" "♪ It leads you here despite your destination ♪" "♪ Under the Milky Way tonight ♪" "♪ Wish I knew whatyou were looking for♪" "♪ Might have known whatyou would find ♪" "♪ Wish I knew whatyou were looking for♪" "♪ Might have known whatyou would find ♪" "♪♪ [ Continues ]" "[ Karen's voice ] Cellar door." "[ Gretchen's voice ] Donnie." "Come with me." "Where are we going?" "Donnie." "Look, we gotta go." "Where?" "We have to see Grandma Death." "Why?" "is this about the book?" "No, it's Frank." "Donnie─ Time is running out!" "We gotta go." "What─" "[ Donnie Whispers ] Roberta Sparrow." "Grandma Death." "Donnie, nobody's here." "Let's just forget about it." "Huh." ""Cellar door."" "What?" "♪♪ [ Low Note:" "Sustained ]" "[ Gasps ] Oh, my God!" "Donnie!" "Donnie!" "Donnie!" "[ Screams ]" "Why the fuck are you here?" "Hey!" "Oh, my God!" "You're dead!" "What do we do?" " Oh, shit!" " Leave him alone!" "Don't fucking move!" "Don't fucking move!" "Oh, fuck!" "[ Grunting ]" " There's a car." " [ Coughing ]" "Get the hell out of here!" "Now!" "Come on!" "Seth, there's a car coming!" "Let's go!" "I have a bigger knife now." "[ Laughing ] God!" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "They called the cops!" " [ Coughing ]" " Did you call the fucking cops?" " Deus ex machina." " What did you just say?" " What the fuck did you just say?" " Our savior." "Donnie!" "[ Engine Sputters ]" "[ Donnie ] Gretchen?" "Gretchen." "Gretchen." "[ Crying ]" "Wake up, Gretchen." "Frank─" " Wake up." " What'dyou do?" "Gretchen, wake up." "Wake up." "Wake up." "Gretchen." "Gretchen." "What the fuck didyou do, man?" "You killed her, Frank!" "is she dead?" "What were you guys doing in the middle of the road, huh?" "What are you thinking?" "[ Gun Cocks ]" "[ Body Thuds ]" "Go home!" "Go home and tell your parents everything's gonna be okay." "Go!" "[ ChimesJingling ]" "[ Engine Starts ]" "[ Tires Screeching ]" "[ Frank ] 28 days," " six hours, - six hours," "42 minutes, 42 minutes, 1 2 seconds." "1 2 seconds." "I'm going home." "[ Chuckles ]" "[ Chuckling ]" "[ Donnie ] So in order to travel back in time, you have to have... a big spaceship or something that can travel faster than the speed oflight?" "[ Dr. Monnitoff] Theoretically." "And be able to find one ofthese wormholes?" "The basic principles oftime travel are there." "You've gotyour vessel andyour portal... andyour vessel could be just about anything, most likely a spacecraft." "Metal craft ofany kind." "[ Loud Bang ]" "[ Screaming ]" "[ Gretchen's Voice ] And what ifyou could go back in time... and take all those hours ofpain and darkness... and replace them with something better?" "[ Donnie's Voice ] "Dear Roberta Sparrow," ""I've reached the end ofyour book," ""and there's so many things I need to askyou." ""Sometimes I'm afraid ofwhatyou might tell me." ""Sometimes I'm afraid thatyou'll tell me that..." ""this is not a work offiction." ""I can only hope that the answers..." ""will come to me in my sleep." ""I hope that when the world comes to an end," ""I can breathe a sigh ofrelief, because there will be so much to look forward to."" "[ Laughing ]" "[ Exhales ]" "[ Sighs ] [ Horn Honking ]" "[ Panting ]" "[ Elizabeth Panting ]" "[ Gasps ]" "[ Panting ]" "♪♪ [ Piano ]" "♪ All around me are familiar faces ♪" "♪ Worn out places ♪" "♪ Worn out faces ♪" "♪ Bright and early for their daily races ♪" "♪ Going nowhere ♪ [ Sobbing ]" "♪ Going nowhere ♪" "♪ Their tears are filling up their glasses ♪" "♪ No expression ♪" "♪ Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow♪" "♪ No tomorrow♪" "♪ And I find it kind offunny♪" "♪ I find it kind ofsad ♪" "♪ The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had ♪" "♪ I find it hard to tellyou ♪" "♪ I find it hard to take ♪" "♪ When people run in circles it's a very, very♪" "♪ Mad world ♪" "♪ Children waiting for the day they feel good ♪" "♪ Happy birthday♪" "♪ Made to feel the way that every child should ♪" "♪ Sit and listen ♪" "♪ Went to school and I was very nervous ♪" "♪ No one knew me ♪" "♪ Hello, teacher Tell me what's my lesson ♪" "♪ Look right through me ♪" "♪ And I find it kind offunny♪" "♪ I find it kind ofsad ♪" "♪ The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had ♪" "♪ I find it hard to tellyou ♪" "♪ I find it hard to take ♪" "♪ When people run in circles it's a very, very♪" "♪ Mad world ♪" "♪ Enlarging your world ♪" "♪ Mad world ♪♪" "Hey." "What's going on?" "Horrible accident." "My neighbor, he got killed." "What happened?" "Got smushed by a jet engine." "What was his name?" "Donnie." "Donnie Darko." "Hmm." "I feel bad for his family." "Yeah." "[ Boy] Didyou know him?" "No." "[ Police Radio Chatter]" "♪♪ [ woman Singing Opera ]" "♪♪ [ Ends ]"