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Where the film landed for you

You read the film as afraid

Most of your cards went toward Fear.

Cunningham would say you need his tapes. The film would say you were watching closely: the flood, the book ban, the arrest and the whisper in Donnie’s ear all run on fear, and the line’s own inventor turns out to have lived at this end of it. The exercise was designed to make this look like the wrong answer. It isn’t - it is just an answer.

In the film: Kitty Farmer, if she were honest with the card. Roberta Sparrow, who only ever says one thing.

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Your cards against the page’s reading

The seven cards, as the Fear–Love line places them. Take the cards to see your own placements drawn beneath.

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  1. 1 Ling Ling finds a wallet Page: Not that simple
  2. 2 Donnie floods the school Page: toward Fear
  3. 3 "I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!" Page: Fear
  4. 4 "I think you’re the fucking Antichrist." Page: toward Love
  5. 5 "They’re placebos." Page: toward Love
  6. 6 "One day everything’s going to be better for you." Page: toward Love
  7. 7 Donnie stays in bed Page: Not that simple

The comparison names moments from the ending.