:49:14
You make it sound sinister. That's
what good schools are for, to shape you...
:49:19
...not brainwash you
in some evil, Orwellian way, or...
:49:22
...squash you
into something you're not, but....
:49:26
I know my mother
teaches metaphysical poetry at Vassar.
:49:29
I really believe she tries--
:49:30
My father went through the system and
it told him what he was supposed to want.
:49:35
He achieved everything, and...
:49:37
...then in his 40s, he flipped.
:49:38
What did he really want?
:49:42
Sunny days.
:49:44
Now Dad is in the Maryland Home
for the Befuddled.
:49:49
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
:49:52
So, you're never going back to school?
:49:55
What are you planning to do with your life,
Igby? Just kill time until--
:49:58
My nervous breakdown comes along?
:50:06
Is your father dead?
:50:08
No, why?
:50:10
'Cause when I talked about mine, you didn't
feel obligated to compare and contrast.
:50:15
He's a theologian.
:50:18
A Jewish theologian
and a metaphysical poetess.
:50:22
Doesn't explain you.
:50:23
What would?
:50:25
Cross-dressing psychoanalysts?
:50:27
Heroin junkies?
:50:29
- I don't know.
- Thanks.
:50:32
My parents...
:50:34
...were two...
:50:36
...very idealistic, incredibly bright...
:50:39
...narcissists.
:50:41
I was like their vanity project.
:50:43
- Oh, my God.
- What?
:50:45
You torture me.
:50:48
I was adopted, okay?
:50:49
That would explain everything.
:50:52
'Cause, I mean,
how many Vassar professors...
:50:54
...and intellectual theologians
beget nymphomaniacal...
:50:59
...pseudo-bohemian J.A.P.s?