Silver Linings Playbook Page #2
What are you doing, dad? You know what?
Excelsior.
Excelsior. What does that mean?
It means you know what I'm gonna
do, I'm gonna take all this
negativity and use it as fuel and
I'm gonna find a silver lining,
that's what I'm gonna do.
And that's no bullshit.
That's no bullshit. That takes
work and that's the truth.
What the f***?!
Stupid f***ing book!
I just can't believe Nikki's
teaching that book to the kids.
I mean the whole time. Let me
just break it down for you
the whole time you're rooting for
this Hemingway guy to survive the war
and to be with the woman that
he loves, Catherine barkley...
It's four o'clock in
the morning, pat.
And he does. He does. He
survives the war, after getting
blown up he survives it, and
he escapes to Switzerland with
Catherine. But now Catherine's pregnant.
Isn't that wonderful?
She's pregnant. And they escape
up into the mountains and they're
gonna be happy, and they're gonna
be drinking wine and they dance...
They both like to dance with each
other, there's scenes of them
dancing, which was boring, but I
liked it, because they were happy.
You think he ends it there? No!
She dies, dad! I mean,
the world's hard
enough as it is, guys. It's
f***ing hard enough as it is.
Can't somebody say, "hey,
let's be positive?
Let's have a good
ending to the story?.
Pat, you owe
us an apology.
Mom, for what, I
can't apologize.
I'm not gonna
apologize for this.
You know what I will do? I
Ernest Hemingway, because
that's who's to blame here.
Yeah, have Ernest Hemingway call
us and apologize to us, too.
Why didn't you run with me?
Huh!!
I was reading.
Please. Do us a favor,
don't read for a while.
What are you wearing a garbage bag for?
I'm gonna go run now.
Wait, wait, wait. You
have to fix this window.
I'll fix it when I get back.
Fix it now.
Get in the car, pat. You
have to go to therapy.
I don't wanna
go to therapy.
You have to go. It's part of the deal.
You can't live with us and not go.
Is that song
really playing?
We have music sometimes.
That song is killing me. Could
you please turn it off?
I can't.
What do you mean,
you can't?
I don't have the controls.
I'm sorry, I-
did doctor timbers
put you up to this?
Is, is the speaker here?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Okay... I'm sorry.
I'll fix all this, okay?
That was a messed up thing you
did, doctor patel. Alright!
That's a messed up thing.
I'm sorry, but that's...
You can call me
cliff, please.
Yeah, well, cliff, that's not the way
you're supposed to meet people, okay?
in your, I don't know
your little book you
write stuff down in.
I'm sorry about that song. I just wanted
to see if it was still a trigger for you.
Bravo. It's a trigger. I'm
not gonna take any meds,
I should just tell
you that right now.
No, you have to
take medicine.
No, I'm not gonna take any medicine.
It makes me foggy-
no, you will have
to take medication.
I don't want any
meds, doctor.
Look, I am not the explosion guy, okay?
My father is the explosion guy.
I'm not that guy.
He got kicked out of that
stadium he beat up so many
people at eagles games,
he's on the exclusion list.
I had one incident. One
incident can change a lifetime.
But I'm ready. I'm ready to take
responsibility for my side of the street.
She just needs to take
responsibility for hers.
What's hers?
What's hers? Are you joking?
Let's go back to the incident.
I come home from
work after I..
Fight with Nancy, the
high school ...Principal.
I come home and what's playing
but the song from my wedding.
The song that you so charmingly
played out here today for us.
That's playing and I don't think
anything of it. Which is odd,
'cause I should have.
I come home, what do I see? I walk
in the door and I see underwear and
pieces of clothing and a guy's
pants with his belt in it,
and I walk up the
stairs, and all...
Ll of a sudden I see the DVD
player, and on the d-...
VD player is the cd and it's
playing our wedding song,
and then I look down
and I see my wife's...
Panties on the
ground and then-
I look up and I see her
naked in the shower...
And I think, "oh, that's kinda
sweet, she's in the shower.
What a perfect thing. I'm gonna find
her and maybe I'll go in there.
We never-...F***
in the shower anymore.
Maybe today we will.
"I...
Pull the curtain back and
there's the f***ing history...
Teacher with tenure.
And you know what he says to me?
That's what he says to me.
So yeah, I snapped. I
almost beat him to death.
But now I get f***ing
chastised for it? I'm
parallel to my father?
I don't think so.
All right. Can you talk about something
that you did, before or after?
I left work early... which I never
do, by the way, but I got in a.
incident, I called the cops and
I told them that my wife and the
history guy were plotting against
me by embezzling money from
the local high school, which
wasn't true... it was a delusion. And
we later found out from the hospital
that's because I'm, uh...
Undiagnosed bipolar.
Yeah. With mood swings and weird
thinking brought on by severe
stress, which rarely
happens, thank God.
And then the shower incident
happened and that's when everything
snapped, so I then realized that,
oh, wow, I've been dealing with
this my whole life. And without any
supervision I've been doing it all
on my own with no help and basically I've
been white-knuckling it this whole time.
That had to be hard.
Yeah. It's a lot to deal
with, especially when
you don't know what the
hell is happening,
which I do now. Sort of.
Pat, you have to take
your medication.
I can't, mom. I can't.
I will call them.
They'll come for you.
Why would you do that?
You wouldn't do that.
Why would you call them?
What's up?
I don't, I don't feel good
when I'm on them, mom.
I don't feel good.
I'm so much clearer without them.
Mom, they make me bloated.
I don't like the way
it makes me look.
Why don't you just
take your medication?
You've gotta take
your medication.
Come on, I'm doing it with my physicality.
I've been workin' out,
that's what I'm doin'.
Why is he wearing
a garbage bag?
Why are you wearing
a garbage bag?
To sweat.
Sit down. We're seven minutes in, no score.
Come on, help turn the juju around.
I don't believe
in juju, dad.
Come on, mister excelsior.
You wanna be positive?
Be positive. Sit down.
All right, all right.
Come on.
For a second. I'll watch
the beginning of the game.
He says you're good...
Luck, honey.
What's that in your hand?
It's a... see?
Handkerchief? Yeah.
That's ocd. That's crazy.
What ocd? I want my son to watch
the game with me, so sue me.
Just sit down, come on. I want
you to watch the game with me.
I'm not superstitious. That's
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