Donnie Darko

And our suspects include several of our own students... 505 00:42:02,214 --> 00:42:04,299 MRS. FARMER: I want to know why this filth... 506 00:42:04,424 --> 00:42:07,968 is being taught to our children. 507 00:42:08,053 --> 00:42:11,306 [PANTING] 508 00:42:16,102 --> 00:42:19,646 PRINCIPAL: Kitty, I would appreciate... 509 00:42:19,731 --> 00:42:21,314 If you would wait... 510 00:42:21,399 --> 00:42:23,735 Dr. Cole, not only am I a teacher... 511 00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:27,364 but I am also a parent of a Middlesex child. 512 00:42:27,489 --> 00:42:29,991 Therefore I am the only person here... 513 00:42:30,116 --> 00:42:33,119 who transcends the parent-teacher bridge. 514 00:42:36,164 --> 00:42:38,832 FRANK: Don't worry. 515 00:42:38,917 --> 00:42:41,461 You got away with it. 516 00:42:41,586 --> 00:42:45,048 I have in my hand Graham Greene's "The Destructors." 517 00:42:45,173 --> 00:42:50,051 This short story is part of my daughter's English assignment. 518 00:42:50,136 --> 00:42:53,473 In this story, several children... 519 00:42:53,598 --> 00:42:56,601 destroy an elderly man's house from inside out. 520 00:42:59,521 --> 00:43:02,190 [THUMPS] 521 00:43:09,823 --> 00:43:12,617 How can you do that? 522 00:43:12,742 --> 00:43:14,202 [THUMPS] 523 00:43:19,124 --> 00:43:20,333 And how do they do this? 524 00:43:20,458 --> 00:43:22,669 They flood the house... 525 00:43:22,794 --> 00:43:26,631 by breaking through a water main. 526 00:43:26,756 --> 00:43:30,260 FRANK: I can do anything I want. 527 00:43:32,053 --> 00:43:34,139 And so can you. 528 00:43:34,264 --> 00:43:37,057 [APPLAUSE] 529 00:43:37,142 --> 00:43:40,477 And I think that this garbage should be removed. 530 00:43:40,562 --> 00:43:42,395 Excuse me. 531 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,316 What is the real issue here? The P.T.A. doesn't ban books. 532 00:43:45,442 --> 00:43:48,153 The P.T.A. is here to acknowledge... 533 00:43:48,278 --> 00:43:51,571 that pornography is being taught in our curriculum! 534 00:43:51,656 --> 00:43:53,450 It's meant to be ironic. 535 00:43:53,575 --> 00:43:57,328 Excuse me. You need to go back to grad school. 536 00:43:57,454 --> 00:43:59,581 Why did you make me flood the school? 537 00:44:05,253 --> 00:44:07,172 They are in great danger. 538 00:44:07,297 --> 00:44:10,590 Kitty do you even know who Graham Greene is? 539 00:44:10,675 --> 00:44:14,387 [SCOFFS] I think we have all seen "Bonanza." 540 00:44:16,848 --> 00:44:18,683 Well, um... 541 00:44:18,808 --> 00:44:21,267 - Thank you. - While we are on other topics... 542 00:44:21,352 --> 00:44:23,229 Where did you come from? 543 00:44:25,023 --> 00:44:27,692 Do you believe in time travel? 544 00:44:29,486 --> 00:44:32,739 SAMANTHA: Who are you talking to? 545 00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:39,537 I was just taking my pills, Sam. 546 00:44:49,047 --> 00:44:52,882 "A storm is coming, Frank says. 547 00:44:52,967 --> 00:44:56,596 "A storm that will swallow the children. 548 00:44:56,721 --> 00:44:59,265 "And I will deliver them from the kingdom of Bane. 549 00:44:59,390 --> 00:45:03,603 "I'll deliver the children back to their doorsteps. 550 00:45:03,728 --> 00:45:06,189 "I'll send the monsters back to the underground. 551 00:45:06,314 --> 00:45:09,567 "I'll send them back to a place where no one else can see them... 552 00:45:09,692 --> 00:45:13,653 "except for me... 553 00:45:13,738 --> 00:45:16,741 "'cause I am Donnie Darko." 554 00:45:25,541 --> 00:45:28,127 Who's Frank? 555 00:45:34,259 --> 00:45:36,175 A 6-foot tall bunny rabbit. 556 00:45:36,260 --> 00:45:38,930 [LAUGHING] 557 00:45:39,055 --> 00:45:41,099 GIRL: Yeah, right. 558 00:45:42,892 --> 00:45:44,684 In these modern times... 559 00:45:44,769 --> 00:45:47,520 our attitudinal beliefs are so delicate... 560 00:45:47,605 --> 00:45:49,522 so fragile. 561 00:45:49,607 --> 00:45:52,066 I have had a cunning vision. 562 00:45:52,151 --> 00:45:54,487 This vision has released me. 563 00:45:54,612 --> 00:45:57,405 It's important that our lifeline be rejuvenated... 564 00:45:57,490 --> 00:45:59,407 so that we can breathe again. 565 00:45:59,492 --> 00:46:02,245 It's time to breathe. 566 00:46:03,788 --> 00:46:06,080 It is time to breathe. 567 00:46:06,165 --> 00:46:08,875 Thank you, Jim Cunningham! 568 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,296 LINDA: Thank you, Jim Cunningham. 569 00:46:13,381 --> 00:46:16,215 So now let us begin lifeline exercise number one. 570 00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:18,302 Please press "stop" now. 571 00:46:24,267 --> 00:46:27,478 MRS. FARMER: As you can see... 572 00:46:27,603 --> 00:46:31,482 the lifeline is divided into two polar extremes. 573 00:46:31,607 --> 00:46:34,110 Fear and love. 574 00:46:34,235 --> 00:46:38,823 Fear is in the negative energy spectrum. 575 00:46:38,948 --> 00:46:41,117 And love is in the positive energy spectrum. 576 00:46:41,242 --> 00:46:43,202 No duh. 577 00:46:43,327 --> 00:46:48,082 Excuse me? "No duh" is a product of fear. 578 00:46:49,333 --> 00:46:54,547 Now, on each card is a character dilem...