Daydream Nation Page #7

Synopsis: Big city girl Caroline is new to a small town, she disregards her high school classmates, and then just for kicks starts a sexual relationship with her teacher, Mr. A. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer roaming the town, an industrial fire burning on the outskirts, and Thurston is mourning the loss of his best friend. As Thurston falls in love with Caroline, realities quickly catch up to all characters, and they are all going to have to mature or face the consequences.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Michael Goldbach
Production: Anchor Bay
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2010
98 min
Website
371 Views


- Fine.

- We miss the old you, man.

I miss the old Craig.

Do you miss the old Craig?

- Ah, yes, there he is.

- He's back. Old Craig is back, man...

- What did you say to him?

What did you say to him?!

- Caroline...

... we are meant to be together.

- Oh, my God.

You are f***ing crazy.

- Well, you know what I find infuriating,

is that you of all people

are bowing to social pressure now!

- Social pressure?

Are you kidding me?!

You think I'm someone I'm not.

I... am... going.

- If you leave, I'll kill him!

I mean, I don't mean that.

I just... but...

But I might kill myself!

I... I don't know, I just, I'm...

I'm really, really confused

right now, Caroline!

- I'm gonna pretend you never said that.

- This is Thurston, so leave a message.

- Thurston, I'm so sorry

about what happened.

If you are at the party,

just stay at the party.

I'm on my way right now.

I... I screwed up.

I know I screwed up.

I just, I... Please, please,

please don't do anything stupid.

I love y...

F***.

- Hey, Thurston!

- What?

- Hey!

Hey.

- Hey, what's up?

- Hey, do you wanna...

do you wanna see rest of my house?

- Is it okay if I smoke in here?

- Yeah. Do you... do you wanna...

So do you wanna see

the rest of my house?

- Uh, yeah, sure.

- Okay.

- Oh.

- Uh...

Um, so this is the--

- Did you do all the decorations?

- This is my bathroom,

and then this is my dad's office.

And this is some other stuff and...

... this is my bedroom.

- Whoa.

You sure... really like unicorns, huh?

- Yes, I love unicorns.

- Cool.

- Thurston, I think you're so hot.

- Wait, uh... This is, uh...

This feels very wrong.

- Totally. Let me get the lights.

- Ugh!

Oh, Barry, you're a p*ssy.

You're a p*ssy, Barry.

Come on, come on, come on, come on!

Oh...

sh*t!

Ah... Ah...

- Lily, come watch TV with me.

Come watch the tube.

- This is wrong. This is wrong.

This is wrong!

This is wrong!

This is all so wrong!

You try to be good, but you can't!

Because it's all wrong! It's all wrong!

It's all so f***ing wrong!

- Hey!

Yeah!

Whoo!!!

- Hello?

- Ca-Caroline? It's me.

I've shot myself.

Bullet skimmed my leg.

I think it's pretty bad.

- Barry, I can't even hear you.

You're cracking up.

- Yeah, I know I'm cracking up!

I just shot myself, for chrissake!

- Sorry, can't hear you.

- What? No, no, no,

Caroline, no...

Caroline?

- Lily, where are you?

Don't do this to me.

- This is f***ing beautiful.

- Okay, wait. Wait.

We should... we should stop.

- Why?

- Uh... because, uh...

I dunno.

- It... it wasn't my fault.

- I know. I know.

The... the road's bad.

It's hard to see.

- It... it wasn't my fault.

I was raised... to hate...

- Wait. Wait.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I, uh... I really have to go.

- They caught him!

They caught the killer!

- Barry!

They finally caught him.

- Oh. Caught who?

- The killer.

- Oh.

How?

- They think he, like, crashed his car.

What happened to you?

- Oh, nothing.

Nothing.

Do you wanna come in

and have some dinner?

I have... I have so much to share.

- Barry, I...

I think you should let me

take you to the hospital.

- Okay.

Um... but will you after?

- You're in shock.

- Just say

you'll have dinner with me after.

- Of course.

That would be a dream.

- Okay.

- You ready?

- Yeah.

- Does it hurt?

- Oh... yeah, it hurts.

Ah...

- What happened?

- Oh, I shot myself.

- You found them like this?

There you stood

on the edge of your feather

Expecting to fly

When the serial killer died that night,

everyone in the hospital cheered

and there was even talk of a parade,

though it never happened.

From then on,

the whole town considered me a hero,

but all I had really done

was crash my car into the right person.

By the summer

It was healing

We had said goodbye

That was the year

that everything happened.

I'm not saying if it was good or bad.

All the years we'd spent with feeling

Ended with a cry

I mean,

you can never really tell

what's good until later anyway,

until you look back

and think about things

and they have time to grow in your mind.

Babe

Ended with a cry

I tried so hard to stand

But sometimes

you make a choice in that moment,

and you know in your heart

it's going to change everything.

So hard to laugh

As I stumbled

And reached for the love

I had found

Knowin'

It was gone

If I never lived without you

Now you know I'd die

- Hi.

- If I never said

I loved you

You need to know he's out of my life.

And I'm sorry...

I screwed everything up.

- Are you kidding me?

You saved me.

People will tell you nothing matters,

the whole world's

about to end soon anyway.

But those people are looking at life

the wrong way.

I mean...

things don't need to last forever

to be perfect.

Live through this

And you won't look back

Live through this

And you won't look back

There's one thing I want to say

So I'll be brave

You know what I wanted

I gave what I gave

I'm not sorry I met you

I'm not sorry

There's nothing to save

Live through this

And you won't look back

Live through this

And you won't look back

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