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Gretchen Ross: Donnie Darko? What the hell kind of name is that? It’s like some sort of superhero or something.
Donnie Darko: What makes you think I’m not?
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Donnie’s class is watching TV with Kitty Farmer
TV Narrator: It is time to breathe.
Woman and son on TV: Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
Linda on TV: Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
Jim Cunningham on TV: So now let us begin Life Line exercise number one. Please press “stop” now.
Kitty Farmer: As you can see, the Life Line is divided into two polar extremes. Fear and love. Fear is in the negative energy spectrum. And love is in the positive energy spectrum.
Sean Smith: No duh….
Kitty Farmer: Excuse me? “No duh…” is a product of fear. Now, on each card is a character dilemma which applies to the Life Line.
Kitty Farmer: Please… take this…
Kitty tries to hand a card to Seth Devlin who refuses to take it
Kitty Farmer: … Thank you. Please read each character dilemma aloud, and place an “X” on the Life Line in the appropriate place. Cherita?
Cherita gets up, stands by the blackboard, and reads from the card
Cherita Chen: 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 her class Juanita decides that she will cheat on the math test.
Cherita marks an X next to Fear
Kitty Farmer: Good, good. Very good. Mr. Darko.
Donnie gets up, stands by the blackboard, and reads from the card
Donnie 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. I-I’m sorry Mrs. Farmer. I don’t get this.
Kitty Farmer: Just place an X on the Life Line in the appropriate place.
Donnie Darko: No, I mean I know what to do, I just don’t get this. You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
Kitty Farmer: The Life Line is divided that way.
Donnie Darko: Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.
Kitty Farmer: Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.
Donnie Darko: Okay. But you’re not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account. Like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can’t just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else.
Kitty Farmer: If you don’t complete the assignment you’ll get a zero for the day.
Donnie Darko: …
PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
Principal: 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 Ms. Farmer?
Kitty Farmer: I’ll tell you what he said. He asked me to forcibly insert the Life Line exercise card into my anus!
Eddie Darko:
Donnie Darko: What makes you think I’m not?
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Donnie’s class is watching TV with Kitty Farmer
TV Narrator: It is time to breathe.
Woman and son on TV: Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
Linda on TV: Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
Jim Cunningham on TV: So now let us begin Life Line exercise number one. Please press “stop” now.
Kitty Farmer: As you can see, the Life Line is divided into two polar extremes. Fear and love. Fear is in the negative energy spectrum. And love is in the positive energy spectrum.
Sean Smith: No duh….
Kitty Farmer: Excuse me? “No duh…” is a product of fear. Now, on each card is a character dilemma which applies to the Life Line.
Kitty Farmer: Please… take this…
Kitty tries to hand a card to Seth Devlin who refuses to take it
Kitty Farmer: … Thank you. Please read each character dilemma aloud, and place an “X” on the Life Line in the appropriate place. Cherita?
Cherita gets up, stands by the blackboard, and reads from the card
Cherita Chen: 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 her class Juanita decides that she will cheat on the math test.
Cherita marks an X next to Fear
Kitty Farmer: Good, good. Very good. Mr. Darko.
Donnie gets up, stands by the blackboard, and reads from the card
Donnie 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. I-I’m sorry Mrs. Farmer. I don’t get this.
Kitty Farmer: Just place an X on the Life Line in the appropriate place.
Donnie Darko: No, I mean I know what to do, I just don’t get this. You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
Kitty Farmer: The Life Line is divided that way.
Donnie Darko: Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.
Kitty Farmer: Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.
Donnie Darko: Okay. But you’re not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account. Like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can’t just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else.
Kitty Farmer: If you don’t complete the assignment you’ll get a zero for the day.
Donnie Darko: …
PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
Principal: 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 Ms. Farmer?
Kitty Farmer: I’ll tell you what he said. He asked me to forcibly insert the Life Line exercise card into my anus!
Eddie Darko: