Life in a Day (1999 TV Movie)

Chandra West: Jasmine

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• Jasmine : How long does a rabbit live?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Um, well that depends. If you take care of them they can live six, maybe seven years.

  Jasmine : But does the rabbit know that? He grows and eats and sleeps. He doesn't know his life is short, he just lives it. Every second means so much.

• Jasmine : Don't trees have leaves?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Trees? Ah yeah, yeah. Well part of the year, and in the spring they grow back and then they grow all summer.

  Jasmine : And in the fall they die?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Yeah, but then they grow in the spring. It's like a cycle kind of thing.

  Jasmine : I hope I get to see it, spring... summer.

• Jasmine : [looking at a rabbit in a cage]  Why do they have to be in cages?

  Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi : Well, uh because otherwise they'll just jump out and run away, honey, it's... for their own safety.

  Jasmine : Like me? Is this... my cage?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : No no no no, no no. Uh, not at all.

  Jasmine : Then why can't I go outside? I won't run away.

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Well, we'll go out together, I promise. But, right now we gotta keep working.

  Jasmine : Peter, a minute for you is like a day for me.

• Jasmine : [watching two people on TV kissing]  What are they doing?

  Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi : Oh. That's called kissing.

  Jasmine : Why do they do that?

  Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi : Well umm... when two people, uh, like a boyfriend and a girlfriend uh care about e- well, love each other, they need to show each other how they feel.

• Jasmine : Does Peter have a girlfriend?

  Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi : No.

  Jasmine : He's handsome, he's brilliant.

  Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi : Well, he's not what you'd call romantic, you know? He doesn't get out very much. He's been working and learning here since he was a little kid. That doesn't leave a lot of room for fun and games, right?

• Jasmine : [approaching a man playing pool]  Can I play?

  [after effortlessly pocketing the balls and winning, smiling] 

  Jasmine : It's all a matter of physics.

• Jasmine : [responding to Peter's & Charlie's frustration about AccelRate]  Why not ask Mark? Why won't he help us?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Umm... Jasmine? Mark's dead.

  Jasmine : [visibly confused]  I don't understand.

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : He... killed himself. Took his own life.

  Jasmine : [pause]  How could he do that?

  Charlotte 'Charlie' Tanzi : 'Cause he was afraid. He just couldn't face what happened to your mother.

  Jasmine : [in shock]  He may have taken my life too...

• Jasmine : How could Mark throw away his life like that?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Sometimes you need something to live for.

  Jasmine : Peter, I don't want to wait. If there's a chance we can have a life, I want it now.

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : What if it doesn't work?

  Jasmine : Then it really doesn't matter, does it?

  [Peter nods in agreement] 

• Jasmine : You're old.

  Skate Vendor : It's not the years, honey. It's what you do with them that counts.

• Jasmine : Did you like hockey?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Yeah. Well, I mean, I never actually played 'cause uh, once they found out I was all smart and everything, my whole life was uh, school and... never really got to do anything else.

  Jasmine : What about all those posters on your wall? Venice, Paris, London?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : I know I know. Those are places that I'm gonna visit... someday.

  Jasmine : Can we see them together?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that.

  Jasmine : You have to mean it Peter.

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : [watching Jasmine skate ahead]  I do.

• Dr. Peter Hamilton : [at a conservatory]  I used to come here and uh, study and... pretend I was in the Amazon.

  [chuckles] 

  Jasmine : Is this what summer's like?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Yeah. Well sort of. It's, it's uh... you know it's, it's sunny out and uh, everything's green, and it's warm and, people go on vacations and have fun.

  Jasmine : Do you ever do that?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : No, I don't. But, I'm going to. I'm gonna do it.

• Jasmine : Did you find Mark?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Umm... uh no, I didn't, umm... but I, I, I think it's alright. We... we still have some time.

  Jasmine : [worried]  Do we? Something's happening to the sky.

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : What?

  Jasmine : Look.

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Oh, no no no, it's just getting dark out.

  Jasmine : Night. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night.

• Jasmine : [after Peter stops her kissing]  Didn't I do it right?

  Dr. Peter Hamilton : Yeah, yeah. Um, I... I'm s-... I jus-, I don't think we should do this.

  Jasmine : But, isn't that what people do when they care for each other? When they love each other?

  [Peter nods and hugs Jasmine]