[00:01.70]for at least a couple ofyears, if not forever,
[00:04.28]which meant no first-string quarterback
[00:05.99]in the fall.
[00:07.41]It was like the end of my life.
[00:09.33]When I got back to school, everybody was so supportive,
[00:12.21]and they all wanted to sign my cast and everything,
[00:15.09]but I still couldn’t shake the feeling
[00:17.30]that now my life had no purpose.
[00:19.42]What did God want from me?
[00:21.34]Why did I exist?
[00:23.72]Sometimes you can search everywhere for answers.
[00:26.60]Then one day, destiny just walks up
[00:29.02]and taps you on the shoulder.
[00:30.94]I know because it happened to me.
[00:35.57]Paul, can I speak to you for a minute?
[00:38.28]Mr. McAllister changed my life.
[00:40.70]And no matter what they say he did or did not do,
[00:43.91]I believe he is a good man.
[00:46.28]Paul, I know you’ve been pretty down
[00:49.66]since your accident.
[00:51.25]Yeah. I wanted to play football again so bad
[00:54.63]I could taste it,
[00:55.75]and maybe go on to the playoffs and...
[00:57.80]I know.
[00:58.76]I understand disappointment.
[01:00.05]I really do.
[01:01.01]Yeah.
[01:01.97]Now, I personally think
[01:03.09]you have a very bright future ahead of you.
[01:05.01]And I’m not talking about
[01:06.39]the fleeting glory of sports.
[01:08.39]What do you mean?
[01:09.81]Let me give you a clue.
[01:11.35]You’re a natural-born leader.
[01:13.10]You’re one ofthe most popular students at Carver.
[01:15.98]You’re honest, you’re straight forward,
[01:17.40]and you don’t crack under pressure,
[01:19.07]as we all saw in an amazing fourth quarter
[01:21.03]against West side.
[01:22.61]All the kids look up to you.
[01:24.61]Now, what does that spell?
[01:31.83]Student...
[01:33.25]council...
[01:34.71]president.
[01:36.38]Who, me?
[01:38.05]Oh, no. I...
[01:39.71]I don’t know anything about that stuff, Mr. M.
[01:43.09]I mean, besides, that’s Tracy Flick’s thing.
[01:45.26]She’s always working so hard.
[01:46.68]Yeah. She’s a real go-getter, all right.
[01:48.68]And she’s super nice.
[01:50.56]Yeah, yeah,
[01:51.98]but one person assured of victory
[01:53.89]kind of undermines the whole idea
[01:55.81]of democracy, don’t you think?
[01:57.15]But, Mr. M...
[01:58.15]I mean, that’d be more like a dictatorship
[02:00.07]like we studied.
[02:01.49]But, Mr. M, there’s...
[02:02.44]Paul, what’s your favorite fruit?
[02:04.49]Pears.
[02:06.95]Pears. Good. OK.
[02:08.70]Let’s say...
[02:09.66]Oh, no, wait.
[02:11.70]Apples.
[02:13.12]Apples.
[02:14.46]Fine.
[02:15.46]Let’s say all you ever knew were apples.
[02:18.79]Apples, apples, more apples.
[02:21.67]You might think apples were pretty good,
[02:23.59]even if you got a rotten one once in a while.
[02:26.47]But then one day...
[02:27.89]there’s an orange.
[02:29.35]And now you can make a decision.
[02:31.26]Do you want an apple
[02:32.68]or do you want an orange?
[02:34.60]That’s democracy.
[02:36.35]I also like bananas.
[02:39.40]Exactly. Good.
[02:41.27]So what do you say?
[02:42.78]Maybe it’s time to give a little something back.
[02:45.61]How’s that?
[02:47.11]I think that’s...
[02:48.53]No. Just a little higher. A little higher.
[02:50.37]Is this OK?
[02:51.58]Eric, you can’t put tape on the outside of the poster.
[02:54.75]It goes on the back ofthe poster.
[02:56.67]You better just take the whole thing down
[02:58.58]and redo it.
[03:04.34]Aaah-a-a-aaaah
[03:14.89]Who put you up to this?
[03:16.23]Oh, hi, Tracy.
[03:17.64]Who put you up to this?
[03:18.77]What do you mean?
[03:19.98]You just woke up this morning
[03:21.15]and suddenly decided to run for president?
[03:23.40]No. Um, no, I just thought that, uh...
[03:26.90]Thought what?
[03:28.07]Well, I was talking to Mr. McAllister about my leg
[03:31.24]and how I still want to do something for the school and...
[03:33.62]So Mr. McAllister asked you to run.
[03:35.58]Well, um, I talked to him and everything,
[03:38.46]but he just said that he thought
[03:39.88]it would be a good idea
[03:41.29]and how there’s all different kinds of fruits and, uh...
[03:43.59]It’s nothing against you, Tracy.
[03:45.80]I mean, you’re the best.
[03:47.55]Uh, I just thought, uh...
[03:49.47]OK.
[03:50.43]You’re on, Mr. Popular.
[03:54.18]You might think it upset me that Paul Metzler
[03:56.10]had decided to run against me,
[03:57.52]but nothing could be further from the truth.
[03:59.94]He was no competition for me.
[04:01.36]It was like apples and oranges.
[04:04.32]I had to work a little harder, that’s all.
[04:06.19]You see, I believe in the voters.
[04:08.11]They understand that elections
[04:09.32]aren’t just popularity contests.
[04:12.16]They know this country was built
[04:13.87]by people just like me who work very hard
[04:16.75]and don’t have everything handed to them
[04:18.66]on a silver spoon.
[04:21.50]Not like some rich kids who everybody likes
[04:23.92]because their fathers own Metzler Cement
[04:25.84]and give them trucks on their 16th birthday
[04:27.76]and throw them big parties all the time.
[04:29.80]No. They don’t ever have to work for anything.
[04:31.97]They think they can just, all of a sudden,
[04:33.55]one day out ofthe blue waltz right in
[04:35.47]with no qualifications whatsoever
[04:36.89]and try to take away
[04:38.35]what other people have worked for
[04:39.77]very, very hard their entire lives!
[04:42.65]No!
[04:43.61]Didn’t bother me at all!
[04:46.98]Paul.
[04:48.40]Paul power.
[04:51.74]Paul...
[04:52.70]Paul for president.
[04:54.62]Paul for president.
[04:56.03]Promise.
[04:57.49]Progress.
[04:59.41]Peanut.
[05:19.52]There’s a place I know
[05:24.35]Whereyou can look down
[05:30.03]The air makes you feel light
[05:35.87]The air makes you feel right
[05:37.78]What?
[05:38.74]I told you. I can’t.
[05:41.12]It just doesn’t feel right anymore.
[05:45.46]But I love you.
[05:49.46]I said no.
[05:51.72]Hey, Tammy, guess what happened today.
[05:54.51]Don’t you fucking knock?
[05:56.43]Yeah. Oh, hi, Lisa.
[05:58.56]Get out, Paul!
[05:59.77]Listen. So Mr. McAllister,
[06:01.06]he calls me in, and he tells me...
[06:02.27]I gotta go.
[06:05.85]You dumb shit!
[06:06.81]What’d I do?
[06:08.40]It’s not like I’m a lesbian or anything.
[06:11.28]I’m attracted to the person.
[06:12.74]It’s just that all the people I’ve ever been attracted to
[06:15.61]happen to be girls.
[06:18.49]Lisa, wait!
[06:22.83]Stop!
[06:27.63]What?
[06:28.59]Where you going?
[06:30.00]I’m not like you, OK?
[06:32.42]What do you mean?
[06:34.26]I’m not a dyke.
[06:35.76]And we’re not in love.
[06:37.68]We were just...
[06:39.60]experimenting.
[06:53.44]How can something that seemed so true
[06:56.82]turn out to be such a lie?
[07:04.96]Lisa and I were destined to be together.
[07:07.83]Of all the people in the planet who had ever lived,
[07:10.25]somehow we’d found each other.
[07:12.17]It was like a miracle.
[07:16.97]We had so much fun together,
[07:18.89]like the time we ate a bunch of asparagus
[07:20.80]to see how long it takes before your pee smells funny.
[07:24.56]It was very scientific.
[07:26.10]For me, it was 11 minutes.
[07:27.69]For her, it was 17.
[07:30.90]Every day I found a new way to tell Lisa
[07:33.61]how much I loved her.
[07:36.19]"If you died right now,
[07:37.70]I would throw myself under one of my dad’s cement trucks
[07:40.57]and get poured into your tomb."
[07:45.75]But it just seemed like the closer we got,
[07:48.12]the more she pulled away.
[07:50.00]Are you crazy?
[07:51.71]What?
[07:52.67]These are private. These are for us.
[07:53.88]So?
[07:54.88]But other people can see them, too.
[07:56.67]I don’t care.
[07:58.05]Well, I do.
[08:02.55]What did I do to make her change?
[08:06.85]What’s wrong with me?
[08:11.19]Sometimes when I’m sad,
[08:13.11]I sit and watch the power station.
[08:15.98]They say if you lie between 2 of the main wires,
[08:19.32]your body just evaporates.
[08:21.24]You become a gas.
[08:23.16]I wonder what that would feel like.
[08:32.79]I don’t know why,
[08:34.71]but Lisa decided she wanted to hurt me.
[08:37.59]And she knew exactly what to do.
[08:42.51]I sure was surprised the day Lisa Flanagan
[08:44.76]asked me for a ride home and ended up blowing me.
[08:49.10]I’ve wanted this for so long.
[08:52.65]I mean, life is so weird.
[08:55.02]First, Lisa has a big fight with my sister,
[08:57.73]and the next thing you know, she’s my girlfriend.
[09:01.41]Since Lisa knew all about public relations and stuff,
[09:03.99]she offered to help me with my campaign.
[09:06.41]We made a great team.
[09:08.29]It seemed so natural, the two of us together.
[09:11.16]It was like a miracle.
[09:15.38]My leg wasn’t bugging me too much
[09:17.88]and the weather was so nice.
[09:19.34]And every day after school
[09:20.76]Lisa and I would go to her house to fuck and have a hot tub.
[09:43.24]If that’s the way they wanted it,
[09:45.16]then that’s the way it was gonna be.
[09:46.99]But I wasn’t going down without a fight.
[09:55.75]Tammy?
[09:58.63]Tammy, what are you doing?
[10:00.92]You’re the advisor. You should stop her. |