Rebellious Dwayne

This film had this magical effect on me.
It changed my point of view in a devastating period of my life when I was totally depressed and confused, the time when I wanted to quit everything in life…family, friends, college, blogging …everything.

This is the master scene in the film…the wake up call that shook my head.
At this moment I decided to continue my miserable life…to have a new start…and a new philosophy.
I wish I had had a chance to see Little Miss Sunshine before I chose the wrong path of the life I am stuck in right now.

Dwayne and Frank are chatting at the end of an old wooden bridge and looking at the open sea.
The atmosphere is foggy and the current is very strong.
The sea breeze is flicking Frank's hair. The wind is sculpting Dwayne's thin body shape with his black and white Nietzsche t-shirt.
Dwayne:
Sometimes I just wish
I could go to sleep till I was 18...
and skip all this crap... high school
and everything... just skip it.

Frank:
You know Marcel Proust?

Dwayne:
He's the guy you teach.

Frank:
Yeah.

French writer.
Total loser.

Never had a real job.

Unrequited love affairs. Gay.

Spent 20 years writing a book
almost no one reads.

But he's also probably
the greatest writer since Shakespeare.

Anyway, he, uh...
he gets down to the end of his life...

and he looks back and decides
that all those years he suffered...

Those were the best years of his life,
'cause they made him who he was.

All the years he was happy??? You know,
total waste. Didn't learn a thing.

So, if you sleep until you're 18...

ah, think of the suffering
you're gonna miss.

I mean, high school? High school...
Those are your prime suffering years.

You don't get better suffering
than that.

Dwayne turns his back to the sea, changing his forward-leaning posture to an upright standing position and says:
You know what?

Fuck beauty contests.

Life is one fucking
beauty contest after another.

You know, school,
then college, then work?

Fuck that.

And fuck the Air Force Academy.

If I wanna fly,
I'll find a way to fly.

You do what you love,
and fuck the rest.

The sea birds sounds are floating on rolling waves.
Frank says:
I'm glad you're talkin' again, Dwayne.

You're not nearly as stupid as you look.

Wanna go back?

Dwayne smiles:
Not really.

Dwayne looks back to the infinite sea and says:
Yeah, we should go back.

I am sure everyone will like this film.
This little indie won 2007 Oscar for original screenplay…no doubt this is the real comedy…and not Saad's next summer blockbuster KarKar.

Life is like a yellow van with a broken clutch and a faulty horn that will not stop honking ;-)