Boyhood Page #20

ANNIE:

Say hi to your big brother. Hey,

big brother.

MASON:

Hey, Annie. Hey, kiddo.

ANNIE:

Can you say bye-bye?

BABY:

Bye-buh!

ANNIE:

(Laughs)

We'll see you soon.

DAD:

(From phone)

Alright, alright, well, be careful

when you're driving, alright? Don't

be texting, don't be doing any of

that. Alright? Just, you're Obi

Wan. You're centered, patient, right?

You watch three cars ahead, two

behind. It takes two bad drivers to

have an accident okay?

MASON:

Okay.

DAD:

(From phone)

Right, and listen, tell your sister

to pick up her phone or call me back

or something.

Mom comes down the stairs and drops a bag at Mason's feet.

MASON:

Okay.

DAD:

Alright, buddy! You have a good

one.

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MASON:

Bye, Dad.

MOM:

(Motioning to the bag)

Hey, honey, take this to your sister.

Throw it in the truck, okay?

MASON:

Okay, I will.

MOM:

So where is Sheena staying?

MASON:

At her friend Emily's.

MOM:

Is Emily a real person?

MASON:

(Laughing)

Yeah. Yeah, she's a sophomore. She

has an apartment.

MOM:

(Holding out money)

Okay, this is in case of emergency.

Don't spend it. I want it back.

MASON:

Okay. Thanks.

MOM:

Did you do your homework?

MASON:

Most of it, but... I can finish

tomorrow night.

MOM:

Honey! Eleventh grade is really

important for college. Don't blow

it.

MASON:

I know! I know. I mean, we're going

to UT and everything.

MOM:

I know, and don't you want me to

come? Come on, Sheena, road trip

with Mom! I'll pay for gas.

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MASON:

Umm...

MOM:

I'm just kidding. I have work.

She kisses his forehead.

MOM (CONT'D)

Call me when you get there.

MASON:

I will.

MOM:

Have fun!

Mason exits.

EXT. HIGHWAY - DAY/ INT. TRUCK

"Suburban Wars" plays. Mason drives, Sheena is in the

passenger seat.

SHEENA:

... That sounds to me like just

another extreme Mason view of

everything.

MASON:

Not at all! I finally figured it

out. It's like when they realized

it was gonna be too expensive to

actually build cyborgs and robots...

I mean, the costs of that were

impossible. They decided to just

let humans turn themselves into

robots. That's what's going on right

now.

SHEENA:

Oh, right now?

MASON:

Yeah! I mean, why not? There are

billions of us just laying around,

not really doing anything. We don't

cost anything. I mean we're even

pretty good at self-maintenance and

reproducing constantly. And as it

turns out, we're already biologically

programmed for our little cyborg

upgrades.

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SHEENA:

How?

MASON:

Seriously. I read this thing other

day about how, like, when you hear

that ding on your inbox you get a,

like a dopamine rush in your brain.

It's like we're being chemically

rewarded for allowing ourselves to

be brainwashed. How evil is that?

We're f***ed.

SHEENA:

So you deleting your Facebook page

is gonna change all that? Remember

when Trevor deleted his Facebook

page last year and everyone just

hated him? You made more fun of him

than anyone.

MASON:

I still make fun of Trevor, though.

SHEENA:

But it looked like he was so

pathetically desperate for attention.

Or to be different, or something.

MASON:

That's just 'cause they did that

lame story about it in the school

paper.

SHEENA:

And then he had to make a big

announcement about it when he came

back a month later.

MASON:

That's the thing though, I'm not

doing it for attention. I just want

to try and not live my life through

a screen. I want, like, some kind

of actual interaction. A real person,

not just the profile they put up.

Sheena's looking at her phone.

SHEENA:

Oh, I'm sorry. Were you saying

something?

She laughs.

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MASON:

Yeah, okay, I know you're joking,

but, I mean, it's kinda true you

have been, you know, checking your

phone this whole time, and so what

are you really doing? You don't

care what your friends are up to on

Saturday afternoon but you're also

obviously not fully experiencing my

profound bitching so... it's like

everyone's just stuck in, like, an

in-between state. Not really

experiencing anything.

SHEENA:

It's not an experience, it's just

information. Look, for example, I

just got the address of the club

where we're meeting them later, so

we won't be wandering the streets of

Austin lost for an hour tonight.

Thank you very much, Facebook. And

I just texted my mom back.

MASON:

Oh, that's -- that's groundbreaking.

She hasn't seen you in, like, 55

minutes?

SHEENA:

Oh! Oh my god, most importantly,

Meg's family just got a miniature

pet pig.

Sheena hands him the phone.

MASON:

(looks at phone photo)

Hm!

(Laughs)

Okay, you're right. That is a -

SHEENA:

Right?

MASON:

That is a really cute, tiny pig.

Our lives can go on.

SHEENA:

I want one.

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INT. POOL HALL

Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" plays. Patrons

chatter. Mason plays pool with Samantha's BOYFRIEND.

Samantha and Sheena sit and talk.

BOYFRIEND:

Nice shot.

SAMANTHA:

Yeah, just give the lady at the front

y'all's I.D.s and, uh, she should

let you in.

SHEENA:

I see. Cool.

SAMANTHA:

Yeah.

SHEENA:

It's room 2-0-6, right?

SAMANTHA:

Mm-hm.

SHEENA:

Awesome. It's not like weird that

we're staying there?

SAMANTHA:

No, it's fine. Have fun.

(Laughs)

SHEENA (O.S.)

Thank you. So how long have you

guys been dating?

SAMANTHA:

About three months. Yeah, we met at

a party and it's been, ya know, chill.

SHEENA:

Yeah, he seems cool.

SAMANTHA:

Yeah. He is.

The guys are shooting pool.

SHEENA (O.S.)

Does he go to UT too?

SAMANTHA (O.S.)

Yeah.

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SHEENA:

Cool. What is he studying?

SAMANTHA:

He's studying history and uh, Italian,

I think?

The girls laugh.

SAMANTHA (CONT'D)

His minor, yeah.

SHEENA:

Does he wanna... does he wanna teach?

SAMANTHA:

I don't know, I think, I think he's

still figuring stuff out. Yeah,

he'll figure it out, he's smart,

he's smart. So where are you thinking

about living when you come here?

SHEENA:

Um, I'm not really sure yet. We're

gonna look at apartments tomorrow,

um, but I know my parents sorta were

expecting me to live in a dorm.

SAMANTHA:

Yeah.

SHEENA:

Yeah. But I mean, I'm paying my way

through college, so it doesn't really

matter that much.

SAMANTHA:

Yeah, you don't have to listen to

your parents after you turn eighteen.

I mean, especially if they're not

helping you financially.

They laugh.

SHEENA:

That's what I figured.

SAMANTHA:

But I mean, living in a dorm isn't

so bad.

SHEENA:

Yeah.

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SAMANTHA:

I mean especially if it's a coed

dorm. I mean, I've never been around

like, so many cute guys at once.

Like, college is really fun.

They laugh.

SHEENA:

I'm excited.

SAMANTHA:

It's great, yeah.

EXT. SIDEWALK - NIGHT

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