Imaginary Heroes

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imaginary heroes

Matt Travis was a great swimmer

Step up

Take your masks

But it wasn't just that he was a great swimmer

it was simply that he was a greater swimmer

than anyone i ever knew was good--whatever they were good at

Go! Go! Go!

Matt Travis was a legend:10,15,20

and he hated the attention

Hey!Come on

let's go

But the only thing he hated more than the attention...

was swimming

Matt Travis hated to swim more than anyone i knew hated to do--whatever they hated to do.

And when someone hates

something that much...

it doesn't matter

how good they are at it.

But you can't expect the other people to understand that

Tim, can you go and wake up your brother ?

Please.

Matt,Matt

Where are the bedroom keys?

Under the bathroom sink.

What?

Behind you. What in the world

have you tracked through my--?

Oh, Christ!

This is where

we live, Mom.

she thinks she can sit on her porch

and smoke cigarettes on this day?

she is blowing the smoking in my face

you've been in dramatic

it's a free country.

And that's the problem,

Timmy.

She doesn't talk about me when you go over there, does she?

Do you really think I'd let her?

You wouldn't tell me

anyway, would you?

No.

He would been have a

She bought a new grill.

She doesn't even has a husband and she buys a new grill.

Are you expecting her to come over?

Of course not

He's 17, Hal.

He's graduating this year.

Lightning doesn't strike twice.

Don't worry, honey

He is just an old bitter ass hole.

Which one?

Take your pick.

What was it like?

"It"?

I stepped into the blood

and...

"it" was like a crater.

like a giant....

canyon.

it open ringt in the middle

and just...

it will take you to pray

praying?

praying to God

Now that the most important moments in their lives are lost and we can never retrieve them because they have been

and once they're gone

how much longer we're going to be able to remember them

That's why Joe thinks we need a digital camara

I know exactly what you mean

I am so hungry

Did you see the spread?

-Yeah

-Yeah I am doing the,so there is nothing,you know

I brought the

Excuse me.

I'm here to pay

my respects, Sandy.

I'm so sorry.

Tim,your mother said you used to play the piano like Beethoven

We have piano

you can come over any time as the day

that even to talk

Would you like that?

Later.

hey

You got a new

em...yeah

Er..this is Jenny.

Hi

Jenny this is Tim.

He is..er..was Matt Travis's brother

Really?

Oh, you don't

want anything like him.

I'm really sorry.

That kind of thing

can f*** you up for life.

Yeah ,of course

Forget about it.

No.

in the bathroom

at school tomorrow.

What? Really?

You're very late for dinner.

And you're too old

to be up this late.

Was he really

that unhappy, Tim?

em...he broke a lot of dishes

stopped to wash his clothes about three weeks ago

spent a lot of time at shower

He was

He was crying.

he cut himself

it

Come on.

when was your last time you went to a doctor?

When they tied

my tubes.

I have been the only monther and son at the town who can say to each other and not laugh

I don't want to have that

conversation ever again.

What?Don't worry. I did

not read your diary.

So are you gonna go to the jazzy band and practise tomorrow?

No. Uh...

I quit.

Sorry.

.

Sorry, Tim

Sorry, Tim.

Sorry.

Sorry, man.

Sorry.

I to ask

but did anyone find three minutes to do their reading?

now,of course you....

you gotta be kidding

hey,hey

you,you can't leave campus

what's your name?

Tell me your name!

People are so stupid and I can't bear living around anymore

and they only get worse

and you just have to find the one quality that makes them,bearable

like me

I'm your mother,so...

you have to like me

ok

What about Dad's?

well

you used to make me feel like I was the...

only person

I proud to grow

Kyle said that fire your school

with a

No

It is an M18

The truth is you won't understand how good for you I am until I am died

I never really love my parents 'till they died

I....

I certainly

never told them.

you love me

I didn't say it back.

Well

Do you love her?

I don't know.

Then you don't,

Timmy.

Timmy,I...er...I've got

a surprise for you.

Exactly.

I don't speak Spanish.

.

Somebody give me

a back rub

Do you wanna talk about it?

Can we...can we talk about something else?

Sure.

What happened to your back?

I trapped

It's nothing.

ddd

Of course.

What do you say we finally

made a night to remember?

I love you

Do you love me?

Of course.

Is there any more chicken?

That's all

I made.

That's why we should do this,Ben

creeping me out

I won't be making all these extra food for every meal

It's wastful

It doesn't bring him back

We'll do it because I say so

We'll do it because he will be alive at this table and because he is my son

and because he was the onl

y thing in this family.

you'll made the food

and you'll shut the f*** up.

He's losing his mind

Penny,things fall apart,

and we put them

back together.

Don't feel you'll have to come home early for this party tonight

Okay? One of us

should have some fun.

and you

don't be such a stranger

You don't have to wait for a holiday to come home,

you know.

All right. See you and

come visit me, huh?

Told the girls all about your magic fingers

Abracadabra.

OK:

Have fun tonight

Don't do anything I will

Your ride is here

Do you need any money?

No, thanks.

I'll leave you a

20 on the table.

What?

You're not gonna do someting..

bad..to yourself

are you?

Are you?

My life is really,really,really hard

Probablly,I am17,doubt,presures...

I have real problems to deal with

Wouldn't you say so,Tim?

No,not really,what are you talking about?

Aren't you sad?

Why would I be sad?

Aren't you sad

that your brother died?

Well,I am

I am sad

Those are amazing,feel like...artists

Some of them are like vivid amazing artists

They plug his brother's head and you couldn't even see any hole

at all

Hi.

How are you?

I'm fine

Jesus Christ,

stop it.

sorry

you know I just....

one more again

Oh!

Fine,I'm perfectly fine

Dame I left my camera in the kitchen

Do you want me to do it again?

'Cos I can do it again

Go to get your camera

Still fine.

Party hard!

Everything is back to normal

I need papers.

Er....rolling papers to make a...

...joint.

Cut one of these in half.

Knock at the tobacco

Fill it,close it with oneside little in the other

Lick it, light i

t, smoke it.

Thank you.

Uh-uh.

It's on me.

Thanks.

Wow

What?!

Do you live in calm?

Yeah

Goes around and comes around

What do you think about euthanasia?

I don't know I supported,I guess

Play something.

you think it is ok to kill someone's

to stop it

You think it is OK to have that kind of

control over someone's life?

I'm gonna die anyway

Play something,I have never even heard you play

Yeah,but everyone dies anyway

I mean, all children

eventually die, Stephanie.

All babies die.

What're you talking about?

Nothing

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