The IgnorantThis scene takes place in the lobby of an urban condominium building.
Evan is enlightened to the meaning of passion. Steve is enlightened to the meaning of escape.
Evan: So what? You’re not going to ask me how I am?
Steve: {After a slight pause} Um, are you alright, dude?
Evan: I’m
spectacular. Does my face
glow?
Steve: {After another pause, clearly confused} Are you sure that the stuff you got Sunday was
straight?
Evan: What? The
reefer?
Steve: Yeah, man…
Evan: That’s not what this is about!
Shit!
Steve: {
Incensed} Fine man! {A bit cooler} Why should your
face be “
glowing”?
Evan: This is
Biblical.
Steve: {Rolling his eyes} Yeah, sweet… Well, what the fuck is it?
Evan: You’ve never read
Exodus?
Steve: No. Dude, enough.
I don’t even believe in God; what’s this shit about? I need to get to the shop.
Evan:
Moses was glowing with
Fateful Mortality when he descended
Mount Sinai with the
Imperative Tablets.
Steve: Yeah, you’re fucking high. At ten in the morning, dude? – you have
a problem. Call me tonight when I’m off, we’ll hook something up for Friday. Unless you’re seeing Martha..? Whatever.
Evan: I met fucking
Jesus, Steve, and
Jesus is Buddha, too!
God is real! Earth is for us to embrace and pacify ourselves by… The wind is
grace!
Steve: Bye, dude. If you forget to call, I’ll hit you up in the morning.
Steve hastens off.
I ran this with a stopwatch in my head, and it was 57.5 seconds long. It can be rendered in a minute!