Where the film landed for you

You read the film as an act of love

Most of your cards went toward Love.

A gold star from the Attitudinal Beliefs programme - which is the one thing the film asks you to be suspicious of. Still, you have company: Gretchen sitting down beside the strange boy, Donnie’s promise to Cherita, Thurman telling the truth, the wave at the end. The film ends on this pole after all. Just not the one Cunningham was selling.

In the film: Gretchen Ross. Rose Darko, waving back.

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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.

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