Beautiful Creatures

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ETHAN:
It's been the same dream

every night for months now.

[THUNDER CRASHES]

I can't ever see her face, but I know her.

Like I've known her all my life.

And it feels like something terrible

is gonna happen when I reach her.

But at the same time, I'm not scared at all.

I want her...

...no matter what happens.

But I never get to her.

And then I die.

[GUNSHOT]

[GASPS]

At first I was scared I was losing my mind.

Until I realized that would be no great loss.

I start junior year tomorrow,

so insanity's inevitable.

What's worse is waking up every night...

...wanting someone I've never met...

...loving a girl who doesn't exist.

I've been stuck my whole life in Gatlin...

...South Carolina's least-famous

middle-of-nowhere.

By the time we get a movie,

it's already on DVD.

And our theater always gets the titles wrong.

We're too far away from Charleston

to have a Starbucks. How sick is that?

We have 12 churches and one library...

...with more banned books

than books to read.

Same damn families

have lived here for generations.

They keep reenacting the Civil War

like it's gonna turn out different.

Mama used to say there's only two kinds

of people in Gatlin:

The ones too stupid to leave

and the ones too stuck to move.

Dad can't leave his room since she died.

People said it was God's will.

I think it's the only way people

ever get out of here.

I can understand why young men

signed up for the Civil War.

Anything is better than a life standing still.

But I think even the dead stay in Gatlin.

Sometimes, it sounds crazy,

but sometimes I imagine I'm one of them...

...fighting for the cause

on Honey Hill near Greenbrier.

[VOICES SHOUTING]

[GUNSHOT]

GENEVIEVE:

Ethan!

ETHAN".

I imagine all kinds of things lately.

Sometimes...

...I'm Billy Pilgrim...

...from Vonnegut's banned book

Slaughterhouse-Five.

"To be unstuck in time,

in a constant state of stage fright...

...never knowing what part of my life

I'd have to act in next."

I just love the sound of that.

Dad?

Dad?

I got breakfast.

Ugh. Is this what we're wearing

our first day of school?

I'm a junior now, Amma.

If I dress like I care, I lose credibility.

I thought you were getting a haircut.

- Who said that?

- I did.

Pay attention to the days

marked on these containers.

- Thanks, Amma.

- You decide what colleges you applying to?

All of them, as long as they're

a thousand miles away from here.

Amen to that.

- You go running last night?

- Yeah.

- Help you sleep any?

- I envy people in comas.

Your father come out at all?

No.

MRS. LINCOLN:

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.

Now, when a wicked man dies,

his expectation shall perish.

And the hope of unjust men perisheth.

Ow.

- You get away now! Go on!

- Come on, I gotta take him to school!

- We have to finish these. Do them tonight.

- Mom, you know what happens--

Wesley, where are you going

without kissing your mother?

What is wrong with you, boy, eh?

Now, you be good.

- So is she a good kisser or what?

- Shut up!

My mother has officially flown

that extra bat-sh*t mile since Dad died.

She thinks the end of the world's coming

because all these earthquakes in the news.

It's like, how does loving Jesus

make that woman so crazy?

[ETHAN CHUCKLES]

She damned Daddy to hell so many times,

I bet he drank just so he'd get there quicker.

ETHAN:
My dad is acting like old man

Ravenwood. They're all bat-sh*t.

Hey, did you hear that new girl

in our class is a Ravenwood?

I thought old man Ravenwood

lived in that house all alone.

It's his niece from out of town.

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