The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)

Ben Lee: Placid Lake

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Placid Lake : I try to find the positives in my experiences

  Young Placid : [dressed in a frilly dress for his first day of school, and about to be pushed onto the playground by his hippie mother]  Mummy, I *can't*.

  Sylvia Lake : Darling, just remember you're challenging their pre-conceived notions of sexuality.

• Bozo : [trying to bed Placid's platonic girlfriend]  You've got a plutonic thing, right?

  Placid Lake : *Plu*tonic?

  Bozo : You don't root?

  Placid Lake : No.

  Bozo : Good. But man, I just can't seem to break through.

  Placid Lake : That surprises me. You're a suave bastard.

• Placid Lake : [after winning a prize for making a feel-good sellout video about his school]  Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud.

• [last lines] 

  Placid Lake : I'm going to find the positives in my experiences.

  Gemma Taylor : What's the plan now?

  Placid Lake : I don't have one.

• Placid Lake : You hate that guy, don't you?

  Joel : If I could get away with it, I'd kill him, have his windpipe bronzed and wear it on the chain around my neck.