1 00:00:02,541 --> 00:00:04,875 I've not seen you for two weeks. 2 00:00:05,083 --> 00:00:06,916 Business is business. 3 00:00:12,750 --> 00:00:13,750 Antoine? 4 00:00:14,041 --> 00:00:17,958 Here, dear Minister. Help me repopulate France. 5 00:00:19,375 --> 00:00:20,750 Open up. 6 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:25,125 Come in. 7 00:00:30,750 --> 00:00:35,000 There's a smell of sex in here as sour as an opposition speech. 8 00:00:36,291 --> 00:00:39,458 I make love from the front, from behind but always on the left. 9 00:00:39,625 --> 00:00:41,041 I have a revolutionary sperm. 10 00:00:41,208 --> 00:00:44,041 You speak like you ejaculate, wrongly and indiscriminately. 11 00:00:44,208 --> 00:00:46,958 Read this and get dressed. 12 00:00:51,083 --> 00:00:53,500 Summons. 13 00:00:53,708 --> 00:00:57,041 "Obtained cocaine through his duties as doctor 14 00:00:57,208 --> 00:01:01,625 and sold it to notorious addicts." 15 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:03,500 Damn. 16 00:01:04,583 --> 00:01:05,791 We're in trouble. 17 00:01:06,083 --> 00:01:07,458 You're in trouble. 18 00:01:07,916 --> 00:01:10,416 No. If I am then you are too. 19 00:01:10,583 --> 00:01:13,017 I hope you can do something for us. 20 00:01:13,041 --> 00:01:14,166 Yes. 21 00:01:14,583 --> 00:01:18,375 Ship you far away. Unless you prefer prison. 22 00:01:19,708 --> 00:01:23,458 I don't think a minister would allow his friend to go to jail. 23 00:01:23,750 --> 00:01:27,416 Think about it. I'm the millstone attached to your leg. 24 00:01:27,625 --> 00:01:30,583 If the millstone falls, the minister tumbles. 25 00:01:31,125 --> 00:01:35,125 Remember, these addicts are your friends too. 26 00:01:36,666 --> 00:01:38,208 Get rid of these girls. 27 00:01:38,416 --> 00:01:41,458 These are all my friends, my language tutors. 28 00:01:55,833 --> 00:01:57,708 China, all right? 29 00:01:58,916 --> 00:02:00,958 What the fuck can I do in China? 30 00:02:01,458 --> 00:02:05,291 Indulge your favorite passions, like stealing works of art. 31 00:02:05,708 --> 00:02:07,791 You can complete your collections. 32 00:02:08,375 --> 00:02:11,916 What you can't steal, you'll have enough money to buy. 33 00:02:12,541 --> 00:02:16,250 You'll be a doctor again and promoted as specialist: 34 00:02:16,666 --> 00:02:18,083 Tropical diseases. 35 00:02:18,791 --> 00:02:21,125 You know I can't practice anymore. 36 00:02:21,333 --> 00:02:23,041 I'll get you reinstated. 37 00:02:24,958 --> 00:02:28,291 - How are Chinese brothels? - You'll soon find out. 38 00:02:28,708 --> 00:02:29,916 You'll be busy. 39 00:02:31,750 --> 00:02:33,916 You'll replace a certain Rouvel. 40 00:02:34,208 --> 00:02:36,208 He disappeared a few months ago. 41 00:02:36,833 --> 00:02:38,416 What happened to him? 42 00:02:38,750 --> 00:02:39,916 I don't know. 43 00:02:40,333 --> 00:02:42,458 If you find him, let Paris know. 44 00:02:42,833 --> 00:02:46,083 But try not to disappear yourself. 45 00:02:46,708 --> 00:02:48,875 That would be good for you, though. 46 00:04:17,708 --> 00:04:19,833 One moment please. 47 00:04:21,791 --> 00:04:24,833 I've received some alarming news. 48 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,875 - We know, it always is. - This time it's serious. 49 00:04:28,041 --> 00:04:30,125 Europeans have been attacked. 50 00:04:32,958 --> 00:04:34,583 Anyway... 51 00:04:34,875 --> 00:04:37,375 I will continue our trip as planned, 52 00:04:38,166 --> 00:04:42,458 but those who don't have a compelling reason to go to Canton, 53 00:04:42,625 --> 00:04:44,875 should, for their own safety, 54 00:04:45,041 --> 00:04:48,125 stop at Colombo, where we'll be in three days. 55 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:50,208 That would be best, I think. 56 00:05:06,291 --> 00:05:08,458 You have very bad luck. 57 00:05:10,416 --> 00:05:11,750 I'm out. 58 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:14,125 I'm out. 59 00:05:14,541 --> 00:05:17,125 Mr. Durieux is too good a player for us. 60 00:05:18,458 --> 00:05:20,291 I never rely on luck. 61 00:05:20,750 --> 00:05:23,125 You're a scientist even when gambling. 62 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:24,875 You leave nothing to chance. 63 00:05:25,125 --> 00:05:26,500 Twenty to see you. 64 00:05:41,166 --> 00:05:44,083 In economic and nature mechanisms, 65 00:05:44,750 --> 00:05:47,958 there's neither chance nor innocence. 66 00:05:48,541 --> 00:05:50,583 Can I see you in private? 67 00:05:54,666 --> 00:05:56,208 Has it been a long time? 68 00:05:56,875 --> 00:05:58,583 From Marseille. 69 00:05:58,958 --> 00:06:00,000 Since we left. 70 00:06:00,166 --> 00:06:03,291 Brothels in Marseille are awful, no hygiene. 71 00:06:03,541 --> 00:06:05,791 I only go to the best places. 72 00:06:06,166 --> 00:06:08,666 You'll need to be treated with blue methylene. 73 00:06:08,833 --> 00:06:10,000 Blue what? 74 00:06:10,333 --> 00:06:11,875 It suits your complexion. 75 00:06:13,333 --> 00:06:16,708 I won't offer you one, it might overheat you. 76 00:06:17,458 --> 00:06:21,000 So, no more alcohol... and no more women of course. 77 00:06:21,333 --> 00:06:24,708 In short, you'll have to live as a Christian for a while. 78 00:06:24,875 --> 00:06:26,291 That'll be a new experience. 79 00:06:32,750 --> 00:06:34,000 You're going on? 80 00:06:34,166 --> 00:06:36,291 I always go on. 81 00:06:36,541 --> 00:06:37,708 Good luck then. 82 00:09:01,041 --> 00:09:02,125 Good evening. 83 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:06,500 You don't know M. Durieux, Clara Greenhill, Annie Tsing. 84 00:09:07,875 --> 00:09:10,125 Do you have good news from your father? 85 00:09:10,333 --> 00:09:12,000 Yes thanks. 86 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,250 I did well to have stayed on this ship. 87 00:09:16,041 --> 00:09:18,541 M. Durieux seems fascinated by your chignon. 88 00:09:19,041 --> 00:09:21,333 I've not worn one for 50 years. 89 00:09:21,875 --> 00:09:23,583 He must confuse me with his mother. 90 00:09:23,958 --> 00:09:27,083 Allow me to honor your beauty with an incestuous gaze. 91 00:09:27,416 --> 00:09:28,541 Can I serve you? 92 00:09:29,875 --> 00:09:30,916 Please do. 93 00:09:31,666 --> 00:09:33,750 Does this little boy have permission to drink wine? 94 00:09:34,916 --> 00:09:38,184 Beware, miss. This boy is very advanced for his age. 95 00:09:38,208 --> 00:09:39,226 No. 96 00:09:39,250 --> 00:09:41,333 Commander, have you heard from Canton? 97 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,250 A few dozen dead yesterday. 98 00:09:43,625 --> 00:09:45,083 It's taking its course. 99 00:09:45,250 --> 00:09:48,375 How many corpses do you need in China to make an event? 100 00:09:48,625 --> 00:09:50,000 One is enough for me. 101 00:09:51,125 --> 00:09:53,875 For example, the one I found this morning in the passageway. 102 00:09:54,791 --> 00:09:58,041 Burst of the spleen, perforation of the peritoneum. 103 00:09:58,458 --> 00:10:01,208 It would take a real halberd and a horse running at full speed 104 00:10:01,541 --> 00:10:02,958 to do all that at once. 105 00:10:03,375 --> 00:10:05,083 About that halberd, 106 00:10:05,416 --> 00:10:07,500 since now we're alone. 107 00:10:07,958 --> 00:10:09,208 I found this... 108 00:10:10,750 --> 00:10:12,583 This could have done the trick very well. 109 00:10:13,041 --> 00:10:15,375 Commander, this is not an item to show ladies. 110 00:10:15,791 --> 00:10:17,166 Isn't it yours? 111 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:19,791 I only sell guns. 112 00:10:20,375 --> 00:10:22,000 I meant, a personal item. 113 00:10:22,791 --> 00:10:25,083 Yes. The spleen, the peritoneum. 114 00:10:26,291 --> 00:10:28,125 This could be our halberd. 115 00:10:28,875 --> 00:10:31,375 You just need a galloping horse. 116 00:10:31,791 --> 00:10:33,166 Best stop looking. 117 00:10:33,333 --> 00:10:36,708 Let's say that our sailors are settling their disputes. 118 00:10:36,958 --> 00:10:41,333 Commander, murder is the very basis of our society. 119 00:10:41,791 --> 00:10:44,333 No more murder, no more governments. 120 00:10:44,750 --> 00:10:47,750 Murder is their only purpose. 121 00:10:57,500 --> 00:10:59,375 Forgive me if I shocked you. 122 00:11:00,458 --> 00:11:02,833 Why would I be shocked? It's a beautiful thing. 123 00:11:03,208 --> 00:11:05,250 Blood is made for the steel of a blade, 124 00:11:05,416 --> 00:11:08,458 as this ruby is made for the gold of its mount. 125 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:18,875 - May I keep it? - Please do. 126 00:11:19,333 --> 00:11:22,125 You must always give something before taking anything. 127 00:11:24,958 --> 00:11:26,083 Excuse me. 128 00:11:48,583 --> 00:11:51,458 Good Lord! Blood is going to flow over there. 129 00:12:00,541 --> 00:12:02,333 You shouldn't have come in. 130 00:13:53,958 --> 00:13:56,291 No, I don't want that. I beg you. 131 00:13:57,791 --> 00:13:59,375 What's the matter? 132 00:14:00,083 --> 00:14:01,875 What's happening? 133 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:10,375 Is anyone there? Your friend? 134 00:14:25,208 --> 00:14:27,333 Open! 135 00:14:36,125 --> 00:14:37,625 Clara answer me. 136 00:14:37,875 --> 00:14:41,291 Clara do you have a key? A key? 137 00:14:41,750 --> 00:14:44,291 Are you making all this noise M. Durieux? 138 00:14:44,458 --> 00:14:46,875 - What did you do? - You know very well. 139 00:14:47,375 --> 00:14:51,833 He was so sick the last few days, someone had to end his suffering. 140 00:14:52,125 --> 00:14:53,125 Whose? 141 00:14:54,958 --> 00:14:55,958 Tell him. 142 00:14:56,125 --> 00:14:58,541 You can't understand M. Durieux. 143 00:14:59,333 --> 00:15:01,750 - How did you do it? - You know. 144 00:15:02,750 --> 00:15:05,375 - Did it take a long time? - All evening, my love. 145 00:15:06,333 --> 00:15:09,416 We were all very busy last night. 146 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,250 Better leave her now. 147 00:15:42,083 --> 00:15:43,916 This trip was boring, wasn't it? 148 00:15:44,166 --> 00:15:47,000 I don't often have the chance to be so pleasantly bored. 149 00:15:47,541 --> 00:15:48,583 See you soon. 150 00:16:02,166 --> 00:16:03,916 Mr. Greenhill. 151 00:16:21,333 --> 00:16:23,333 Doctor Durieux? 152 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,833 - Are you really Dr Antoine Durieux? - Yes. 153 00:16:27,041 --> 00:16:29,500 I'm Mr. Schwartz, delighted to meet you. 154 00:16:29,666 --> 00:16:32,125 - Dr Schwartz. - Yes, doctor Schwartz. 155 00:16:32,291 --> 00:16:34,916 Let's walk together. 156 00:16:59,958 --> 00:17:02,041 So you use that as an ambulance? 157 00:17:04,833 --> 00:17:06,916 The problem isn't transporting the patients, 158 00:17:07,458 --> 00:17:09,500 but rather their treatment. 159 00:17:23,750 --> 00:17:26,000 You inject them all with that? 160 00:17:26,458 --> 00:17:28,458 No, we can't afford it. 161 00:17:28,750 --> 00:17:31,708 It's distilled water. It won't hurt them. 162 00:17:32,250 --> 00:17:37,708 - You don't have any drugs? - Yes. We receive some every month 163 00:17:38,375 --> 00:17:40,500 from Europe, but it's no use. 164 00:17:41,041 --> 00:17:44,125 - Everything's held at customs. - At customs? 165 00:17:46,250 --> 00:17:50,666 We have to pay huge taxes, but we have no money. 166 00:17:50,916 --> 00:17:53,500 Taxes on drugs? These Chinese are incredible. 167 00:17:54,375 --> 00:17:55,541 The Chinese? 168 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:57,791 Yes. 169 00:17:59,541 --> 00:18:02,583 It's a European who heads the customs here. 170 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:05,250 His name is Greenhill. 171 00:18:07,750 --> 00:18:11,333 He distributes some of the drugs to his private army. 172 00:18:13,666 --> 00:18:15,291 He's still with us. 173 00:18:15,833 --> 00:18:19,875 - He's been surviving for a month. - Stop the distilled water tomorrow. 174 00:18:20,458 --> 00:18:22,625 They are used to their injections. 175 00:18:23,541 --> 00:18:25,083 They'll worry if we stop. 176 00:18:25,375 --> 00:18:28,000 Those dirty needles will infect them even more. 177 00:18:33,875 --> 00:18:37,500 What's this Greenhill like? 178 00:18:38,125 --> 00:18:40,166 Both dreadful and fascinating. 179 00:18:40,708 --> 00:18:43,916 He's of English origin, but he lived in France. 180 00:18:46,083 --> 00:18:48,375 He speaks the language perfectly, 181 00:18:48,750 --> 00:18:51,666 but no-one can discuss with him in any language. 182 00:18:52,958 --> 00:18:57,208 I don't know what language I'll use, but believe me he'll hear it. 183 00:18:57,583 --> 00:19:02,916 You have to be introduced. One doesn't meet him just like that. 184 00:19:03,166 --> 00:19:04,250 We'll see. 185 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:38,791 Rouvel... 186 00:20:48,375 --> 00:20:52,291 This is all I have concerning your predecessor. 187 00:20:52,958 --> 00:20:54,458 His notes, his work. 188 00:20:55,750 --> 00:20:56,750 Take them. 189 00:20:57,375 --> 00:20:59,750 If they might be of interest. 190 00:21:06,083 --> 00:21:12,708 Thank you, but I'm more interested in the way he disappeared. 191 00:21:14,541 --> 00:21:17,500 In that case, I advise you to be very careful. 192 00:21:19,125 --> 00:21:24,916 People in China disappear easily, but never by chance. 193 00:21:25,875 --> 00:21:29,500 They're sometimes found with their head on one side, 194 00:21:30,708 --> 00:21:32,208 their body on the other. 195 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:35,375 Or at the bottom of a well during the dry season. 196 00:21:37,916 --> 00:21:40,000 Remember this M. Durieux. 197 00:21:40,625 --> 00:21:48,041 In Europe, curiosity is a weakness, in China, it's a great danger. 198 00:22:17,458 --> 00:22:18,833 I would like... 199 00:22:19,083 --> 00:22:21,750 No, not whiskey. 200 00:22:26,041 --> 00:22:27,041 Wait... 201 00:22:56,416 --> 00:22:59,333 The gentleman wants to sell precious objects? 202 00:22:59,708 --> 00:23:02,583 - No, to buy them. - Very well sir. 203 00:23:46,750 --> 00:23:48,666 Now, ladies and gentlemen, 204 00:23:48,916 --> 00:23:51,541 you will witness the famous Stroking Torture. 205 00:23:51,750 --> 00:23:54,958 We're going to make a man orgasm to death. 206 00:23:55,291 --> 00:23:58,291 The last time, he'll ejaculate his blood. 207 00:23:58,541 --> 00:24:01,500 Watch the spectacle of pleasure and death. 208 00:25:08,708 --> 00:25:11,083 Mr. Wen is waiting, please follow me. 209 00:25:33,291 --> 00:25:38,333 Mr. Durieux, I'm flattered that you honor my modest establishment 210 00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:39,708 with your presence. 211 00:25:47,333 --> 00:25:51,208 Perhaps our show surprised you? 212 00:25:51,416 --> 00:25:54,083 Yes, it even disoriented me. 213 00:25:54,541 --> 00:25:57,583 Your city is a permanent surprise for a European. 214 00:25:58,166 --> 00:25:59,583 I understand. 215 00:26:00,041 --> 00:26:01,250 No thanks. 216 00:26:01,583 --> 00:26:05,500 I'm interested in more authentic aspects of your civilisation. 217 00:26:06,291 --> 00:26:10,916 Most Europeans have forgotten that the British forced opium on us, 218 00:26:11,250 --> 00:26:14,375 which they were making in India just 100 years ago. 219 00:26:14,708 --> 00:26:18,625 Yes, but you gave us gunpowder, so we're even. 220 00:26:18,791 --> 00:26:22,125 For a porcelain from the Song Dynasty, 221 00:26:22,291 --> 00:26:25,416 cultural exchanges could continue between us. 222 00:26:25,708 --> 00:26:27,833 I'm very embarrassed sir. 223 00:26:28,125 --> 00:26:30,291 Sometimes I find beautiful pieces. 224 00:26:30,583 --> 00:26:32,625 I could sell you some, 225 00:26:32,958 --> 00:26:36,333 but I need Mr. Greenhill's permission. 226 00:26:38,250 --> 00:26:42,500 For several years, he has provided valuable assistance 227 00:26:42,666 --> 00:26:46,625 for the modernisation of our customs administration. 228 00:26:47,125 --> 00:26:50,375 - He's an important man here. - Yes I know. 229 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:54,166 Mr. Greenhill is a collector like you. 230 00:26:55,083 --> 00:26:59,125 He's very keen on me keeping things of great value for him. 231 00:26:59,291 --> 00:27:00,291 I see. 232 00:27:00,541 --> 00:27:06,291 You could probably come to terms with him, if you met him. 233 00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:09,250 Mr. Greenhill is interested in all who, 234 00:27:09,416 --> 00:27:13,000 like him, appreciate our country's art. 235 00:27:13,875 --> 00:27:17,333 I'm sure, Mr. Wen, you could help me meet Mr. Greenhill. 236 00:27:17,750 --> 00:27:21,500 "We turn around to look back, and we think, 237 00:27:22,166 --> 00:27:27,250 "It's me who lived and not a factitious being created by my pride 238 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:29,041 "and my boredom. 239 00:27:29,250 --> 00:27:33,625 "Listen to your heart, when it puts itself in all the loves of your life." 240 00:27:33,791 --> 00:27:36,041 - Who's that? - An actor. 241 00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:40,041 He was a member of a French theater company, 242 00:27:40,708 --> 00:27:43,666 who came here many years ago. 243 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:51,833 - Oh, opium. - No, a woman. 244 00:27:52,375 --> 00:27:54,458 Miss Clara Greenhill. 245 00:28:15,791 --> 00:28:18,250 - Mr. Durieux, a message for you. - Thank you. 246 00:28:21,250 --> 00:28:23,500 "You're expected this evening at Mr. Greenhill's. 247 00:28:23,708 --> 00:28:25,916 "I'll be there. The French Consul." 248 00:28:26,083 --> 00:28:28,750 Anyway, they'll need our factories. 249 00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:32,416 Yes. Those who have nothing to lose can go. 250 00:28:32,666 --> 00:28:34,375 I have all my fortune here. 251 00:28:34,666 --> 00:28:36,500 You rely on the Communists. 252 00:28:37,291 --> 00:28:39,458 Do you see what's going on here? 253 00:28:40,333 --> 00:28:43,500 In Russia the Communists do not compromise. 254 00:28:44,541 --> 00:28:45,708 Dear friend. 255 00:28:46,416 --> 00:28:51,416 This is Antoine Durieux, the new chief doctor of our hospital. 256 00:29:00,416 --> 00:29:01,958 I beg you, dear fellow, 257 00:29:02,125 --> 00:29:04,750 don't talk about these drug issues tonight. 258 00:29:05,250 --> 00:29:07,125 Greenhill has some concerns. 259 00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:09,041 Be diplomatic. 260 00:29:09,375 --> 00:29:11,125 Don't be like that poor Rouvel. 261 00:29:17,833 --> 00:29:20,500 Doctor Durieux, I'm delighted. 262 00:29:22,041 --> 00:29:24,375 I was told you wanted to talk to me. 263 00:29:24,666 --> 00:29:28,125 - Nothing urgent. - Yes you are right. 264 00:29:28,458 --> 00:29:32,708 Here in Canton for a few weeks now, nothing is urgent. 265 00:29:33,625 --> 00:29:38,291 However, let's see the wonders our friend De Berg brings us. 266 00:29:40,125 --> 00:29:43,125 Weapons. You like them? 267 00:29:43,416 --> 00:29:45,291 Yes, in a way. 268 00:29:45,625 --> 00:29:49,000 For some days, we've had curious wounds in our hospital. 269 00:29:49,333 --> 00:29:51,500 As if the victim had exploded inside. 270 00:29:51,833 --> 00:29:54,458 We do what we can to save them, with distilled water. 271 00:29:54,791 --> 00:29:56,791 You have a good sense of humor. 272 00:29:57,166 --> 00:30:00,458 A quality your predecessor completely lacked. 273 00:30:12,416 --> 00:30:13,541 Careful... 274 00:30:14,333 --> 00:30:16,625 - Doctor, you like beautiful things? - Yes. 275 00:30:16,791 --> 00:30:18,500 Then come with me. 276 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,875 - Choose the victim? - I leave the doctor that pleasure. 277 00:30:40,958 --> 00:30:43,791 I'm not sure I would enjoy it. 278 00:30:44,291 --> 00:30:47,541 I'm sure... you'll get used to it here. 279 00:30:48,750 --> 00:30:50,916 I'm delighted to have fled France. 280 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:55,416 Since we became a republic, France has been a lost country. 281 00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:59,625 I can no longer hunt game at my place. 282 00:31:00,708 --> 00:31:05,083 Yet the poachers kill them and the courts are fine with that. 283 00:31:06,333 --> 00:31:08,708 For hunting there is only Vietnam. 284 00:31:09,666 --> 00:31:13,333 What an admirable country, with game in abundance. 285 00:31:13,958 --> 00:31:15,708 Especially the peacock. 286 00:31:16,958 --> 00:31:18,875 Where there is deer, 287 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:25,250 there is tiger and where there is tiger there is peacock. 288 00:31:25,875 --> 00:31:27,958 Does the peacock eat tiger? 289 00:31:28,375 --> 00:31:30,541 No. That's not quite accurate. 290 00:31:32,125 --> 00:31:35,375 When the tiger is sated with deer, it falls asleep, 291 00:31:35,541 --> 00:31:39,083 then it wakes up, relieves itself and leaves. 292 00:31:42,333 --> 00:31:44,041 What does the peacock do? 293 00:31:45,833 --> 00:31:51,250 It waits patiently for this departure in the neighbouring trees. 294 00:31:52,333 --> 00:31:57,416 And then it goes down and eats the tiger's excrement. 295 00:31:59,958 --> 00:32:04,083 This is the exact moment to shoot: Bang! 296 00:32:07,375 --> 00:32:11,541 Never will a gunshot give me such intense emotion. 297 00:32:14,125 --> 00:32:18,500 What you have in your aviaries and your gardens as peacocks 298 00:32:18,666 --> 00:32:20,916 are just common turkeys. 299 00:32:21,250 --> 00:32:23,500 I've no idea how many chickens a day I shot. 300 00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:37,958 This is amazing, isn't it? 301 00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:40,208 With these dum dum balls, 302 00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:43,083 your general will become a great strategist. 303 00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:45,916 This brute can't even kill. 304 00:32:46,333 --> 00:32:49,083 He wastes death, he simply wastes it. 305 00:32:49,458 --> 00:32:52,958 But isn't it the most precious thing we have, death? 306 00:32:53,708 --> 00:32:57,166 He has a grave dug, puts the prisoners on the edge, 307 00:32:57,625 --> 00:33:00,166 a machine gun in front of them, and that's it. 308 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,083 You know better ways? 309 00:33:02,541 --> 00:33:04,458 More beautiful ones anyway. 310 00:33:04,875 --> 00:33:07,958 Let our strategist have fun with his new toy. 311 00:33:11,333 --> 00:33:19,166 All your fellows will be immediately executed or deported to camps. 312 00:33:20,666 --> 00:33:22,875 You really see everything in black. 313 00:33:24,666 --> 00:33:27,666 If you had seen what happened in Russia, 314 00:33:28,958 --> 00:33:33,458 you would be even more pessimistic than I am. 315 00:33:36,041 --> 00:33:37,625 What can we do? 316 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:41,875 To double our security, 317 00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:46,333 you know how much that would cost in terms of men and material? 318 00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:47,500 Let's see. 319 00:33:50,541 --> 00:33:54,208 It would be wiser to wait for an inevitable clash 320 00:33:54,458 --> 00:33:56,750 between nationalists and communists. 321 00:33:57,708 --> 00:34:02,625 Believe me, all of these alliances are only momentary. 322 00:34:05,916 --> 00:34:10,291 Nationalists will sooner or later appeal to the warlords 323 00:34:11,958 --> 00:34:16,125 and then we'll deal with them with confidence. 324 00:34:17,541 --> 00:34:20,458 - It seems very simple to me. - Very simple? 325 00:34:22,583 --> 00:34:24,500 You're an idealist my dear. 326 00:34:24,916 --> 00:34:27,125 If Moscow supports the Chinese Communists, 327 00:34:27,333 --> 00:34:30,458 they can find a majority here and take power. 328 00:34:30,666 --> 00:34:33,250 Then we'll all be swept away. 329 00:34:34,250 --> 00:34:36,583 Do you know the history of the Titanic? 330 00:34:37,291 --> 00:34:39,500 It's a ship. A liner. 331 00:34:40,041 --> 00:34:42,291 The biggest ever built. 332 00:34:43,166 --> 00:34:45,291 You launch it, stuffed with passengers. 333 00:34:45,625 --> 00:34:49,583 Somewhere, in the middle of the sea, at night, 334 00:34:50,041 --> 00:34:55,791 the liner, by chance, hits an iceberg and sinks, 335 00:34:56,291 --> 00:34:58,958 slowly because it's a big ship. 336 00:34:59,958 --> 00:35:02,458 It takes hours for death to enter the holds, 337 00:35:02,708 --> 00:35:05,125 the corridors, in the cabins. 338 00:35:06,166 --> 00:35:10,291 Passengers gather in the large premier lounge, 339 00:35:10,750 --> 00:35:12,708 around the Commander. 340 00:35:13,125 --> 00:35:15,208 Everyone knows they are doomed. 341 00:35:16,583 --> 00:35:19,708 The orchestra starts playing and we sing, 342 00:35:20,458 --> 00:35:28,458 "Closer to you my God closer to you..." 343 00:35:30,916 --> 00:35:33,083 You're very nostalgic this evening. 344 00:35:44,333 --> 00:35:46,625 We'll not wait for the General. 345 00:35:47,375 --> 00:35:51,000 The great strategist must be pondering a new battle plan. 346 00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:53,250 In vino veritas. 347 00:35:53,750 --> 00:35:56,208 The General? I saw him in the garden. 348 00:35:56,416 --> 00:35:57,416 He's dead. 349 00:35:57,625 --> 00:35:59,583 - Dead drunk? - No... 350 00:36:02,125 --> 00:36:03,208 Dead. 351 00:36:27,458 --> 00:36:29,166 Are you not going? 352 00:36:30,541 --> 00:36:32,333 The dead bore me. 353 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,125 Come. 354 00:37:15,791 --> 00:37:16,833 Whore. 355 00:38:05,083 --> 00:38:09,875 You'll tell the newspapers, that the General had a heart attack. 356 00:38:10,125 --> 00:38:11,458 Of course, sir. 357 00:38:13,041 --> 00:38:19,458 Captain, it's obvious that this event didn't occur at home. 358 00:38:19,958 --> 00:38:21,208 Of course. 359 00:38:22,916 --> 00:38:25,375 Bring me those who were on duty tonight. 360 00:38:25,583 --> 00:38:26,916 At once, sir. 361 00:40:43,791 --> 00:40:45,833 Mr. Greenhill, these are the ones on duty. 362 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000 Antoine. 363 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:58,958 It's not worth it anymore, my friend. He's dead. 364 00:42:05,333 --> 00:42:07,500 If only we had anaesthetics. 365 00:42:09,875 --> 00:42:13,458 - What are you doing? - You can see that I'm going. 366 00:42:15,791 --> 00:42:19,083 Without drugs, without anaesthesia, we torture these people. 367 00:42:20,125 --> 00:42:22,125 Instead of letting them die quietly. 368 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:25,000 By the way, 369 00:42:25,333 --> 00:42:28,791 have you talked to Mr. Greenhill about the drug problem? 370 00:42:28,958 --> 00:42:29,958 No. 371 00:42:30,583 --> 00:42:33,083 It would have been useless. 372 00:44:12,666 --> 00:44:15,625 The grandparents of this child were massacred. 373 00:44:20,541 --> 00:44:23,416 Then she was raped five times. 374 00:44:25,958 --> 00:44:26,958 No. 375 00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:28,750 Not with us, my friend. 376 00:44:30,291 --> 00:44:34,291 The grandparents were useless. The girl is not bad. 377 00:44:34,750 --> 00:44:35,750 Yes. 378 00:44:38,291 --> 00:44:40,166 I think she has qualities. 379 00:44:41,625 --> 00:44:44,416 The poor girl has not found the right home. 380 00:44:45,958 --> 00:44:48,708 It would have been better had she been raped 6 times. 381 00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:55,291 I've an appointment with Miss Clara Greenhill. 382 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,916 Antoine, you're late. 383 00:45:47,416 --> 00:45:49,041 - Really? - Yes. 384 00:45:49,250 --> 00:45:51,791 We were expecting you, Annie and me. 385 00:45:53,875 --> 00:45:57,458 - Do you know what it is? - Probably anything but an egg. 386 00:45:57,750 --> 00:45:58,958 Yes and no. 387 00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:00,750 Give it to me. 388 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:06,916 Half filled with mercury, this duck egg has a pretty name in Chinese. 389 00:46:07,625 --> 00:46:11,041 The young girls slide it inside them and go on a swing. 390 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:15,125 During the hours they spend sitting and waiting, 391 00:46:15,291 --> 00:46:19,250 the voluptuous coming and going of the object readies them for their lover. 392 00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:43,000 Annie is expecting a lover? 393 00:46:43,833 --> 00:46:45,541 You, if you want. 394 00:46:50,166 --> 00:46:56,500 Annie has the sweetest mouth, loins and belly imaginable. 395 00:48:13,916 --> 00:48:15,750 - Here. - No, stop. 396 00:48:20,958 --> 00:48:22,875 You're horrible, Clara. 397 00:48:26,333 --> 00:48:27,958 No, dear Antoine. 398 00:48:28,125 --> 00:48:31,166 For one more coin, he would do more if he could. 399 00:48:34,375 --> 00:48:36,958 This kid is not worth the money you give him. 400 00:48:37,125 --> 00:48:40,208 He's worth what you are worth. No more no less. 401 00:48:40,750 --> 00:48:43,708 He doesn't have to beg, he earns his money. 402 00:48:44,083 --> 00:48:47,750 You never miss a chance to bring out the good side of things. 403 00:48:47,958 --> 00:48:51,291 You have the answer to everything, but I don't like your answers, Clara. 404 00:49:02,708 --> 00:49:06,000 You are immoral with your scruples, my dear Antoine. 405 00:49:06,750 --> 00:49:10,250 We have to explain everything to you Europeans and make it logical. 406 00:49:12,041 --> 00:49:15,041 I only want to understand you Clara, if I could. 407 00:49:16,916 --> 00:49:18,958 You can because you love me. 408 00:50:17,958 --> 00:50:19,291 Help me choose. 409 00:50:20,458 --> 00:50:23,416 You took them. You know better than me. 410 00:50:23,791 --> 00:50:25,208 You're the European. 411 00:50:25,375 --> 00:50:27,708 You can tell me what touches you the most. 412 00:50:28,541 --> 00:50:31,208 I don't know and we have to get it right. 413 00:50:32,125 --> 00:50:35,208 This photo will be published in the best magazines 414 00:50:35,375 --> 00:50:38,500 in Brussels, Paris and London. 415 00:50:40,916 --> 00:50:42,916 It'll be a big collection. 416 00:50:43,333 --> 00:50:46,166 But what does it do for you? 417 00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:48,750 Me? 418 00:50:49,708 --> 00:50:51,083 It's not about me. 419 00:50:51,250 --> 00:50:54,625 It's about the people who pay to read these magazines. 420 00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:10,166 I'm sure Greenhill. 421 00:52:10,333 --> 00:52:14,916 I know Trowner is leaving, he's afraid for his life. 422 00:52:16,208 --> 00:52:20,500 De Berg, I guess, de Berg takes back his weapons. 423 00:52:20,833 --> 00:52:23,291 No more money, no more miraculous bullet. 424 00:52:23,958 --> 00:52:26,750 Take your junk with you my dear. 425 00:52:28,458 --> 00:52:31,375 And now the Consul Muglioni, 426 00:52:37,125 --> 00:52:40,375 In fact I have bad news for you, Greenhill. 427 00:52:41,958 --> 00:52:44,708 I met my British counterpart this morning. 428 00:52:46,333 --> 00:52:50,625 He's letting you go. I tell you this as a friend. 429 00:52:50,875 --> 00:52:53,833 - Yes of course. - We don't have the choice. 430 00:52:54,708 --> 00:52:56,625 They are the strongest now. 431 00:52:56,958 --> 00:52:59,208 You know that as well as we do. 432 00:53:01,750 --> 00:53:04,041 And is that a reason not to fight? 433 00:53:31,833 --> 00:53:33,333 Why did you do that? 434 00:53:39,458 --> 00:53:40,916 Why did I do it? 435 00:53:44,666 --> 00:53:48,583 Your only chance is to leave the town as soon as possible. 436 00:53:49,750 --> 00:53:52,250 We can no longer protect you. 437 00:53:53,208 --> 00:53:54,583 What, protect me? 438 00:53:55,083 --> 00:53:56,083 You? 439 00:53:57,833 --> 00:53:59,791 That's funny. 440 00:54:00,958 --> 00:54:05,250 Until now, I protected you with my troops that I paid, 441 00:54:06,250 --> 00:54:07,416 that I was bleeding. 442 00:54:07,583 --> 00:54:09,875 But now you have no more troops. 443 00:54:10,208 --> 00:54:13,208 Three-quarters of them have joined the nationalists. 444 00:54:14,375 --> 00:54:17,708 With my weapons which you haven't paid for. 445 00:54:18,125 --> 00:54:21,541 And the stock of drugs that you held at customs for them. 446 00:54:22,416 --> 00:54:24,166 They left you nothing. 447 00:54:26,458 --> 00:54:31,500 You really don't understand what's happening in this country. 448 00:54:31,833 --> 00:54:34,666 You confuse everything; Nationalists, Communists. 449 00:54:36,375 --> 00:54:39,541 You should know that the Orient is impossible. 450 00:54:40,541 --> 00:54:42,416 Their view is totally different. 451 00:54:43,708 --> 00:54:44,875 Here, read. 452 00:54:45,083 --> 00:54:47,166 The last statement of Tchang Kai Tcheck. 453 00:54:48,250 --> 00:54:50,583 March 17, 1926, not long ago. 454 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,375 Only a week ago. 455 00:54:54,666 --> 00:54:58,750 "I think I have the right to claim credit 456 00:54:58,916 --> 00:55:02,291 "for bringing the communists within the Kuomintang 457 00:55:02,458 --> 00:55:08,458 "but I also clearly indicated that I won't accept 458 00:55:08,625 --> 00:55:10,125 "communist oppression 459 00:55:10,291 --> 00:55:14,166 "and will oppose their influence when they become too powerful." 460 00:55:14,333 --> 00:55:15,416 Is that clear? 461 00:55:17,416 --> 00:55:19,291 That's why I won't leave. 462 00:55:24,166 --> 00:55:28,541 Besides, I just chose a new wife. 463 00:55:32,958 --> 00:55:37,750 I will marry her in a few weeks according to Chinese customs. 464 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,166 Gentlemen, I have nothing more to do with you. 465 00:56:14,875 --> 00:56:17,541 I never really understand you. 466 00:56:36,250 --> 00:56:41,416 They should have stayed till the end. They think they can live elsewhere. 467 00:56:50,125 --> 00:56:53,666 I don't know why you miss them, they are sinister. 468 00:56:53,916 --> 00:56:55,708 They want to, let them go. 469 00:56:56,708 --> 00:57:00,833 Our universe is falling apart and you still find a way to joke. 470 00:57:01,375 --> 00:57:03,916 It all had to disappear one day. 471 00:57:05,541 --> 00:57:09,583 Do you think it'll be better without us? 472 00:57:09,958 --> 00:57:12,666 I think we have to give them that chance, Mr. Greenhill. 473 00:57:15,333 --> 00:57:18,875 China has only existed for the enjoyment of a few. 474 00:57:21,458 --> 00:57:26,916 We restored the finest and oldest aspects of this country. 475 00:57:27,125 --> 00:57:30,500 Yes, for you, but it's over now. 476 00:57:39,291 --> 00:57:42,250 What are you doing here? Homesick? 477 00:57:43,500 --> 00:57:45,833 Yes, sometimes it gets to me. 478 00:57:47,958 --> 00:57:50,166 Look, Clara, I made a big decision. 479 00:57:51,375 --> 00:57:53,583 I want you to come to Europe with me. 480 00:57:57,125 --> 00:58:00,916 It's not worth it, Antoine. I won't leave. 481 00:58:01,333 --> 00:58:02,500 Why? 482 00:58:03,916 --> 00:58:06,250 This is the only place I can live. 483 00:58:08,541 --> 00:58:13,666 - I thought you couldn't go back. - The Minister will fix all that for me. 484 00:58:14,958 --> 00:58:18,041 Don't be stupid Antoine, I'm staying here. 485 00:58:19,583 --> 00:58:21,375 So you and me don't matter? 486 00:58:21,958 --> 00:58:24,916 Of course, it does. 487 01:02:24,458 --> 01:02:25,458 Take me. 488 01:03:45,625 --> 01:03:47,250 Let's go home, Antoine. 489 01:03:47,708 --> 01:03:50,125 Go home now? You have to explain. 490 01:03:51,125 --> 01:03:52,791 Explain what? 491 01:03:53,375 --> 01:03:54,666 That, over there. 492 01:04:01,791 --> 01:04:04,750 You haven't seen anyone. Absolutely nothing. 493 01:04:06,791 --> 01:04:08,125 You were warned. 494 01:04:20,916 --> 01:04:22,791 She took him to the garden. 495 01:04:23,625 --> 01:04:25,750 I'm sure he knows now. 496 01:05:48,791 --> 01:05:50,166 Tell me. 497 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,208 You're really serious about marrying this little girl? 498 01:05:54,750 --> 01:05:56,666 Very serious. 499 01:05:58,083 --> 01:06:00,875 It's an obsession with this family. 500 01:06:01,541 --> 01:06:05,083 First an Englishwoman, she did well to leave. 501 01:06:05,375 --> 01:06:07,250 And now a Chinese. 502 01:06:07,708 --> 01:06:09,291 What a Chinese. 503 01:06:09,875 --> 01:06:11,500 A 12-year-old child. 504 01:06:12,458 --> 01:06:13,791 Are you mad or what? 505 01:06:14,250 --> 01:06:16,041 Everyone's laughing at us. 506 01:06:16,791 --> 01:06:20,791 Who's everyone? Those rats fleeing the ship? 507 01:06:22,833 --> 01:06:27,000 Since everything must end, let's end it in style. 508 01:06:27,541 --> 01:06:29,666 Do you call it ending in style? 509 01:06:30,583 --> 01:06:32,416 You know we say things, 510 01:06:32,750 --> 01:06:35,166 that you and your daughter indulge in this garden... 511 01:06:35,416 --> 01:06:38,875 - That's not true. - Yes? Really? 512 01:06:40,958 --> 01:06:43,208 Nothing from her surprises me. 513 01:06:43,875 --> 01:06:46,625 They call her the Spirit of the Burial Pits. 514 01:06:49,416 --> 01:06:51,625 I'd like to understand why. 515 01:06:53,750 --> 01:06:57,083 It's your work. We only finish what you started. 516 01:06:58,083 --> 01:06:59,791 You are monsters. 517 01:07:00,416 --> 01:07:01,708 No, mother. 518 01:07:03,791 --> 01:07:05,291 We're your children. 519 01:07:24,583 --> 01:07:25,583 Antoine. 520 01:07:27,333 --> 01:07:28,416 Antoine. 521 01:07:59,916 --> 01:08:00,916 Antoine? 522 01:08:01,125 --> 01:08:03,833 - Clara. - Tchang? 523 01:08:04,583 --> 01:08:07,708 Yes. I've been released. 524 01:08:11,083 --> 01:08:13,708 So you don't want anything from me? 525 01:08:15,750 --> 01:08:18,666 And you took all these risks for it. 526 01:08:19,208 --> 01:08:21,750 I was afraid you'd forgotten me, Clara. 527 01:08:21,916 --> 01:08:26,333 I'll never forget the poet who described me so well in the past. 528 01:08:28,500 --> 01:08:33,083 "My friend's body is like that of a sow. 529 01:08:33,666 --> 01:08:38,041 "Her chest and stomach smell rotten, and yet I love her." 530 01:08:38,458 --> 01:08:40,250 I must tell you something. 531 01:08:40,500 --> 01:08:43,625 I admire the poet, but the revolutionary bores me. 532 01:08:43,916 --> 01:08:46,000 We'll take the city in a few days. 533 01:08:48,333 --> 01:08:49,541 That's good news. 534 01:08:51,666 --> 01:08:56,083 Save yourself and leave. You know there won't be trials. 535 01:09:08,916 --> 01:09:11,875 You're wrong Clara, I can't love you anymore. 536 01:09:12,041 --> 01:09:13,166 I'm sorry. 537 01:09:14,083 --> 01:09:17,666 I forgot that desire is a sin for you idealists. 538 01:09:20,125 --> 01:09:21,833 Goodbye Clara. 539 01:09:23,875 --> 01:09:25,166 Such a waste. 540 01:11:18,416 --> 01:11:19,625 No, it's Antoine. 541 01:11:19,791 --> 01:11:22,166 Leave him alone, he's not dangerous. 542 01:11:29,916 --> 01:11:33,458 - What's going on in that garden? - You shouldn't have gone back. 543 01:11:33,750 --> 01:11:34,833 Get my robe. 544 01:11:37,833 --> 01:11:39,750 Will you answer me? Yes or no? 545 01:11:43,416 --> 01:11:45,250 Will you tell me? Shit! 546 01:11:57,666 --> 01:11:58,958 Stop! 547 01:12:09,708 --> 01:12:12,958 You really want to know? I don't think so. 548 01:12:13,208 --> 01:12:15,416 You already know what goes on in the garden. 549 01:12:15,666 --> 01:12:16,875 We kill there. 550 01:12:18,500 --> 01:12:19,541 You know it. 551 01:12:21,208 --> 01:12:23,083 They kill for pleasure. 552 01:12:42,291 --> 01:12:46,000 And you, you ran over there to make sure, 553 01:12:46,333 --> 01:12:49,041 You saw and you understood. 554 01:12:50,541 --> 01:12:53,666 You came back to beat me and made love to me. 555 01:12:56,708 --> 01:12:59,541 Because you liked it, it turned you on. 556 01:13:01,375 --> 01:13:04,000 Do you see Antoine? We're the same. 557 01:13:04,166 --> 01:13:05,583 That's why I love you. 558 01:13:28,541 --> 01:13:30,291 Who are those people who are locked up? 559 01:13:31,458 --> 01:13:33,166 All kinds of people. 560 01:13:33,750 --> 01:13:38,291 Thieves, murderers, political prisoners, incestuous lovers, 561 01:13:39,083 --> 01:13:40,416 convicts. 562 01:13:42,333 --> 01:13:44,000 Are you reassured? 563 01:13:45,791 --> 01:13:47,250 It's monstrous. 564 01:13:48,833 --> 01:13:50,583 I wish I didn't know. 565 01:14:29,250 --> 01:14:31,125 You have to take her home. 566 01:14:45,625 --> 01:14:49,541 The star of this drama, Greenhill, amazes me more and more. 567 01:14:54,250 --> 01:14:56,541 Only one thing saddens him deeply. 568 01:14:56,791 --> 01:14:59,625 He knows the revolutionaries will shoot him without joy. 569 01:14:59,791 --> 01:15:02,916 He won't even be the symbol of dying China. 570 01:15:36,583 --> 01:15:40,333 Here is the Taipong, not really an instrument of torture, 571 01:15:40,541 --> 01:15:43,625 but of justice according to the ancient rules of China. 572 01:15:44,625 --> 01:15:47,791 This woman claims she was raped by this man. 573 01:15:48,375 --> 01:15:50,000 The man claims the opposite. 574 01:15:50,333 --> 01:15:53,375 Thanks to this we'll know which is telling the truth. 575 01:15:54,458 --> 01:15:55,791 The other will die. 576 01:16:06,291 --> 01:16:09,041 I don't understand. Isn't it just an ordinary dildo? 577 01:16:15,166 --> 01:16:19,791 It's a formidable weapon, because this ordinary dildo, as you say, 578 01:16:20,333 --> 01:16:23,083 hides two poisoned darts. 579 01:16:24,375 --> 01:16:26,583 - Under the steel? - Yes. 580 01:16:27,375 --> 01:16:30,625 This wax melts on contact with pleasure. 581 01:16:31,625 --> 01:16:34,333 If it's the man who comes first, 582 01:16:34,708 --> 01:16:38,416 the dart inside is released and pierces his penis. 583 01:16:38,625 --> 01:16:40,250 The poison does the rest. 584 01:16:40,958 --> 01:16:44,416 If the women's pleasure moistens the Taipong, 585 01:16:44,791 --> 01:16:47,875 the other dart, which is outside 586 01:16:48,041 --> 01:16:50,583 rises up and pierces her stomach. 587 01:16:50,750 --> 01:16:52,041 That's horrible. 588 01:16:52,708 --> 01:16:57,000 If the man really raped the woman, it must horrify her. 589 01:16:57,375 --> 01:16:59,500 She'll remain cold under his embrace. 590 01:16:59,958 --> 01:17:03,208 He'll feel the pleasure and he'll die. 591 01:17:06,583 --> 01:17:13,416 But if she lied, or if he manages to excite her, she will die. 592 01:18:01,041 --> 01:18:04,375 - So the man is now free? - Perhaps. 593 01:18:58,041 --> 01:18:59,500 Stop. 594 01:19:05,791 --> 01:19:09,583 What a waste Miss Greenhill, I must finish it all in one day. 595 01:19:09,958 --> 01:19:12,333 You should tell your father I can't. 596 01:19:13,291 --> 01:19:15,500 I don't know how to spoil the job. 597 01:19:15,708 --> 01:19:17,500 Sun is a real philosopher. 598 01:19:18,041 --> 01:19:20,125 He knows Confucius better than anyone. 599 01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:23,041 He studied in Europe at the best universities. 600 01:19:23,416 --> 01:19:26,000 In Oxford, Jena and the Sorbonne. 601 01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:29,666 He's a true fount of science and wisdom. 602 01:19:30,041 --> 01:19:31,333 Right, Sun? 603 01:19:31,583 --> 01:19:33,208 You should have come earlier. 604 01:19:33,416 --> 01:19:36,125 You'd have seen extraordinary work. 605 01:19:36,833 --> 01:19:41,291 They bring me a deformed fat man, of a repulsive ugliness. 606 01:19:41,791 --> 01:19:43,958 I reconstruct him in a few hours. 607 01:19:44,250 --> 01:19:50,958 I trimmed, cut, removed, added muscle, skin and even bone structure. 608 01:19:51,375 --> 01:19:53,291 - I fixed it all. - Who was it? 609 01:19:53,458 --> 01:19:56,875 Just a miserable coolie from the port. 610 01:19:57,083 --> 01:20:00,708 Of course, he didn't deserve the honor of such a fine job. 611 01:20:01,291 --> 01:20:05,125 Today, the humblest cobbler can claim 612 01:20:05,291 --> 01:20:08,541 to fill these honorable and difficult places. 613 01:20:09,166 --> 01:20:11,416 No more hierarchy, no more tradition. 614 01:20:11,625 --> 01:20:14,541 We live in a time of disorganisation. 615 01:20:15,041 --> 01:20:17,791 Something is rotten in China. 616 01:20:18,416 --> 01:20:21,666 Tonight when I finish my work for Mr. Greenhill, 617 01:20:23,125 --> 01:20:26,125 I'll try the ultimate experience on myself. 618 01:20:26,875 --> 01:20:32,125 I hope that before I die, I'll finally discover the truth, the limit. 619 01:20:32,375 --> 01:20:34,166 That's what's important. 620 01:20:34,500 --> 01:20:37,791 The line between pleasure and pain. 621 01:20:38,708 --> 01:20:41,958 The line between the human and the inhuman. 622 01:23:10,041 --> 01:23:14,000 The meat has to be rotten for the rot to spread to their bodies. 623 01:24:05,875 --> 01:24:08,416 We kill them tomorrow night. 624 01:24:08,750 --> 01:24:11,083 We probably won't have time to see them flourish. 625 01:24:12,041 --> 01:24:15,375 - Flourish? - You'll understand later. 626 01:24:16,333 --> 01:24:18,208 What does it have to do with these men? 627 01:24:18,958 --> 01:24:20,208 The connection? 628 01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,208 That of the rose with the manure. 629 01:24:24,208 --> 01:24:25,791 We are gardeners. 630 01:24:29,833 --> 01:24:36,166 Look, see this monster? It'll make the most beautiful flower, 631 01:24:36,333 --> 01:24:39,333 the most extraordinary that the earth will ever give. 632 01:24:39,625 --> 01:24:43,875 A flower endowed with sensitivity, intelligence. 633 01:24:44,291 --> 01:24:48,833 - A flower capable of pleasure. - Yes, I saw that the other day. 634 01:24:49,458 --> 01:24:52,458 - It was abominable. - You can't have seen it. 635 01:24:52,625 --> 01:24:55,250 We grew it in a greenhouse you have never entered. 636 01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:02,583 Behind you in the cage, don't you recognise anyone? 637 01:25:05,208 --> 01:25:06,750 Make an effort doctor. 638 01:25:07,250 --> 01:25:10,500 - You want to know everything. - No. 639 01:25:11,166 --> 01:25:13,375 I can assure you that you're not far off. 640 01:25:13,625 --> 01:25:14,958 You are burning. 641 01:25:18,416 --> 01:25:23,291 This man loved my daughter very much, but not our flowers. 642 01:25:25,208 --> 01:25:27,791 He made up his mind to destroy our plantations. 643 01:25:29,541 --> 01:25:31,083 We put him there. 644 01:25:34,416 --> 01:25:40,041 Clara couldn't accept that we made this transformation. 645 01:25:41,208 --> 01:25:45,541 - Rouvel? - In a way, yes, that's him. 646 01:25:47,791 --> 01:25:50,291 Now closer to a plant than to a man. 647 01:25:52,875 --> 01:25:54,041 Rouvel. 648 01:25:56,625 --> 01:25:58,416 He doesn't even know his name. 649 01:26:01,666 --> 01:26:02,708 Tell me... 650 01:26:05,041 --> 01:26:08,708 You find this deeply disagreeable? 651 01:26:09,750 --> 01:26:14,541 Yes, I hope I'll wake up in a few hours 652 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,541 and forget you and this nightmare. 653 01:26:20,875 --> 01:26:22,541 You're right. 654 01:26:23,666 --> 01:26:27,208 In a few hours everything will be over. 655 01:26:29,583 --> 01:26:32,083 Go and console Clara. 656 01:26:33,541 --> 01:26:35,250 She can't live without you anymore. 657 01:28:57,625 --> 01:28:58,791 You must hear it, 658 01:28:58,958 --> 01:29:02,041 so you can suffer too, and then feel pleasure. 659 01:29:28,041 --> 01:29:30,291 - Why are you afraid? - Listen, Clara 660 01:29:30,458 --> 01:29:33,041 even though it's in my nature, human nature, 661 01:29:33,208 --> 01:29:35,625 I won't admit it, you understand? 662 01:29:36,375 --> 01:29:38,125 Antoine, I'll never have the time, 663 01:29:38,458 --> 01:29:41,041 time to show you the real face of pleasure. 664 01:29:41,708 --> 01:29:42,916 Maybe I'm too stupid, 665 01:29:43,083 --> 01:29:46,666 but the true face of pleasure is love, not death. 666 01:30:10,541 --> 01:30:12,083 Where are they? 667 01:30:13,750 --> 01:30:15,458 They've opened the prison doors. 668 01:30:17,875 --> 01:30:20,791 - You must go. - Never. 669 01:30:24,208 --> 01:30:25,916 Clara! Clara! 670 01:30:45,833 --> 01:30:49,041 Here are the priests of the new cult, my friends. 671 01:30:51,625 --> 01:30:54,250 They'll begin their ceremonies by finishing ours. 672 01:30:57,333 --> 01:31:01,375 Their emblem is the color of blood, our favorite color. 673 01:31:07,291 --> 01:31:10,958 They think they kill us, but they only replace us. 674 01:31:14,375 --> 01:31:18,083 They think they act in the name of justice and the happiness of men, 675 01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:24,750 but they have to kill us first. 676 01:31:27,125 --> 01:31:31,375 They'll have to keep killing us for generations. 677 01:31:34,458 --> 01:31:38,000 They became criminals like us by seizing power. 678 01:31:44,708 --> 01:31:49,125 That... they will never get over. 679 01:32:18,250 --> 01:32:20,791 "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, 680 01:32:20,958 --> 01:32:24,000 "to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, 681 01:32:24,166 --> 01:32:26,750 "I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood." 682 01:32:26,916 --> 01:32:28,041 Octave Mirbeau