Donnie Darko (english version)

Tearing the world apart

Elizabeth entered house, leaninng back against doors, closing her eyes. Eddie was asleep in the living room. TV stopped working. Outside could be heard a thunderous crash. Plaster rained from the ceiling and books flew off the bookshelf as the entire wallmount collapses to the floor. It woke up Eddie. Elizabeth fell back in horror as plaster rained down from around the chandelier. 

***MORNING***

Donnie was curled up, asleep on the green. A golf ball landed on the green and rolled within inches of his head. A golf cart filled with four older men arriveed. Dr. Fisher got out first.  

"Donnie Darko?" - Dr. Fisher called out for him. - "Son? What's going on here?"

Jim Cunningham  got out ofthe cart and walked over. - "Who is it?"

"Eddie Darko's kid."

Donnie got up and brushed himself off. He looked at his arm and there was  something written in black magic marker: 28:06:42:12. Donnie stareed at the numbers on his arm, confused. 

"Sorry about this, Jim, just a... akid from the neighbourhood." -  Dr. Fisher then turned to Donnie. - "So let's stay off the greens at night,OK?"

"Sorry, Dr. Fisher. It won't happenagain." - Donnie said to him. 

Donnie walked down the street towards his house. There was two police cars parked infront of his house. There were dozens of neighbours in the street surrounding abarricade. Donnie moved through the crowd where a police officer was standing.

"Hey, I live here!" - Donnie looked at house. 

"Are you... Donnie Darko?" - police officer was confused.

"Yeah!" 

The officer let him through. There was a large caterpillar crane lifting something from inside the house. There were firemen roaming around. Two police officers were speaking with Eddie and Rose. Donnie looked over at the house. A crane lifted a gigantic jet engine over from the house towards a large flatbed truck. Firemen kicked pieces of woodand shingle from the roof. He turned and saw his entire family standing there. 

Eddie was holding Samantha who looked at Donnie. - "It fell on your room."

Two men in suits approached from a black sedan. A police officer directed them to Rose. One of the men removeed a badge from his pocket and held it up for Rose to see.  

"Mrs. Darko, my name is Bob Garland and this is David Coleman. We're with the FAA. If you don't mind, we'd like to speak with you and your husband privately."

Elizabeth looked over at Donnie with a grin. - "They don't know where it came from." - she whispered.

Donnie looked over in awe as the mammoth engine was now strapped to the flatbed truck. A man in a silver firesuit sprayed the engine down with water. 

Eddie signed some documents in front of Garland at atable that has been set up.

"We've arranged for you to stay at a hotel, get some sleep. We'll take care of things here."- Garland said.

Eddie picked Samantha up into his arms. He then turned towards Donnie who seems lost i na trance.  

"Come on, Donnie... we're going to a hotel." - he said.

***HOTEL***

Donnie lied in bed, watching television. Elizabeth was spread out on the other bed. Samantha sat on the edge of Elizabeth's bed, holding a stuffed unicorn.

"If it fell from a plane, then what happened to the plane?" - Samantha questioned.

"They don't know, Samantha." - Elisabeh answered to her.

"Is there any way that we can make money from this? Couldn't we get ontelevision if we sue the airline?"

In the other room, Rose and Eddie were laying awake in the dark. 

"So let me get this straight. No airline will claim ownership of theengine. So we have to wait for the FAA to decide who fixes my roof. Fuck that. We're taking the money out of savings." - Rose said. 

"You are entering a new dimension of sight and sound..."

Rose started to laugh. 

***NEXT DAY***

Rose dropped Donnie and Samantha off at the corner. There were Joanie James and Cherita Chen already waiting at the bus stop. 

"Hi, Cherita." - Samantha greeted her. 

"Chut up." 

Also there were Donnie's two best friends, Sean Smith  and Ronald Fisher. Ronald raised his hands when he saw Donnie. - "DARKO CHEATS DEATH! Man... you're famous! I called you, like, a million times last night!"

"We went to a hotel."

"My dad said he found you on the golf course. Are you sleepwalking again?" - Ronald asked. 

"I don't wanna talk about it." 

"Now that you're famous, you gotta have a smoke." - Sean handed Donnie a Marlboro Red and he takes it, looking over at Samantha and Joanie.

"What happens if you tell Mom and Dad about this, Samantha?"

"You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal."

 "Hey, Cherita... want a cigarette?"- Sean asked.

"Chut up."

"Chut up!" - Ronald mimicked her.

"Go back to China, bitch!" - Sean shouted at her.

"Leave her alone, man." - Donnie interrupted.

***ENGLISH CLASS***

"There would be headlines in thepapers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the barrow-boys would hear with respect how Old Misery'shouse had been destroyed. It was as though his plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his fifteenth year crystallised with the pain of puberty." -  Ms. Pomeroy has been reading from "The Destructors" by Graham Greene.

Donnie sat in the front.

"What is Graham Greene trying to communicate in this passage? Why do the children break into Old Misery's house?"

Joanie James raised her hand. 

"Joanie."

"They wanted to rob him." 

"Joanie, if you had actually read the short story... which, at a whopping thirteen pages must have kept you up all night, you would know that the children find a great deal of money hidden in a mattress. But they burn it... Donnie Darko, perhaps, given your recent brush with mass destruction, you can give us your opinion?" 

"Well... they say it right when they are ripping the place to shreds. When they flood the house. That like... destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is... ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart...They want to change things."