1 00:00:02,543 --> 00:00:04,877 I've not seen you for two weeks. 2 00:00:05,085 --> 00:00:06,918 Business is business. 3 00:00:12,752 --> 00:00:13,752 Antoine? 4 00:00:14,043 --> 00:00:17,960 Here, deer Minister. Help me repopulate France. 5 00:00:19,377 --> 00:00:20,752 Open up. 6 00:00:24,127 --> 00:00:25,127 Come in. 7 00:00:30,752 --> 00:00:35,002 There's a smell of sex in here as sour as an opposition speech. 8 00:00:36,293 --> 00:00:39,460 I make love from the front, from behind but always on the left. 9 00:00:39,627 --> 00:00:41,043 I have a revolutionary sperm. 10 00:00:41,210 --> 00:00:44,043 You speak like you ejaculate, wrongly and indiscriminately. 11 00:00:44,210 --> 00:00:46,960 Read this and get dressed. 12 00:00:51,085 --> 00:00:53,502 Summons. 13 00:00:53,710 --> 00:00:57,043 "Obtained cocaine through his duties as doctor 14 00:00:57,210 --> 00:01:01,627 and sold it to notorious addicts." 15 00:01:02,502 --> 00:01:03,502 Damn. 16 00:01:04,585 --> 00:01:05,793 We're in trouble. 17 00:01:06,085 --> 00:01:07,460 You're in trouble. 18 00:01:07,918 --> 00:01:10,418 No. If I am then you are too. 19 00:01:10,585 --> 00:01:13,019 I hope you can do something for us. 20 00:01:13,043 --> 00:01:14,168 Yes. 21 00:01:14,585 --> 00:01:18,377 Ship you far away. Unless you prefer prison. 22 00:01:19,710 --> 00:01:23,460 I don't think a minister would allow his friend to go to jail. 23 00:01:23,752 --> 00:01:27,418 Think about it. I'm the millstone attached to your leg. 24 00:01:27,627 --> 00:01:30,585 If the millstone falls, the minister tumbles. 25 00:01:31,127 --> 00:01:35,127 Remember, these addicts are your friends too. 26 00:01:36,668 --> 00:01:38,210 Get rid of these girls 27 00:01:38,418 --> 00:01:41,460 These are all my friends, my language tutors 28 00:01:55,835 --> 00:01:57,710 China, all right? 29 00:01:58,918 --> 00:02:00,960 What the fuck can I do in China? 30 00:02:01,460 --> 00:02:05,293 Indulge your favorite passions, like stealing works of art 31 00:02:05,710 --> 00:02:07,793 You can complete your collections 32 00:02:08,377 --> 00:02:11,918 What you can't steal, you'll have enough money to buy. 33 00:02:12,543 --> 00:02:16,252 You'll be a doctor again and promoted as specialist: 34 00:02:16,668 --> 00:02:18,085 tropical diseases. 35 00:02:18,793 --> 00:02:21,127 You know I can't practice anymore. 36 00:02:21,335 --> 00:02:23,043 I'll get you reinstated. 37 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,293 - How are Chinese brothels? - You'll soon find out. 38 00:02:28,710 --> 00:02:29,918 You'll be busy. 39 00:02:31,752 --> 00:02:33,918 You'll replace a certain Rouvel. 40 00:02:34,210 --> 00:02:36,210 He disappeared a few months ago. 41 00:02:36,835 --> 00:02:38,418 What happened to him? 42 00:02:38,752 --> 00:02:39,918 I don't know. 43 00:02:40,335 --> 00:02:42,460 If you find him, let Paris know. 44 00:02:42,835 --> 00:02:46,085 But try not to disappear yourself. 45 00:02:46,710 --> 00:02:48,877 That would be good for you, though. 46 00:04:17,710 --> 00:04:19,835 One moment please. 47 00:04:21,793 --> 00:04:24,835 I've received some alarming news. 48 00:04:25,002 --> 00:04:27,877 - We know, it always is. - This time it's serious. 49 00:04:28,043 --> 00:04:30,127 Europeans have been attacked. 50 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,585 Anyway... 51 00:04:34,877 --> 00:04:37,377 I will continue our trip as planned, 52 00:04:38,168 --> 00:04:42,460 but those who don't have a compelling reason to go to Canton, 53 00:04:42,627 --> 00:04:44,877 should, for their own safety, 54 00:04:45,043 --> 00:04:48,127 stop at Colombo, where we'll be in three days. 55 00:04:48,377 --> 00:04:50,210 That would be best, I think. 56 00:05:06,293 --> 00:05:08,460 You have very bad luck. 57 00:05:10,418 --> 00:05:11,752 I'm out. 58 00:05:12,877 --> 00:05:14,127 I'm out. 59 00:05:14,543 --> 00:05:17,127 Mr. Durieux is too good a player for us. 60 00:05:18,460 --> 00:05:20,293 I never rely on luck. 61 00:05:20,752 --> 00:05:23,127 You're a scientist even when gambling 62 00:05:23,502 --> 00:05:24,877 You leave nothing to chance. 63 00:05:25,127 --> 00:05:26,502 Twenty to see you. 64 00:05:41,168 --> 00:05:44,085 In economic and nature mechanisms, 65 00:05:44,752 --> 00:05:47,960 there's neither chance nor innocence. 66 00:05:48,543 --> 00:05:50,585 Can I see you in private? 67 00:05:54,668 --> 00:05:56,210 Has it been a long time? 68 00:05:56,877 --> 00:05:58,585 From Marseille. 69 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,002 Since we left. 70 00:06:00,168 --> 00:06:03,293 Brothels in Marseille are awful, no hygiene. 71 00:06:03,543 --> 00:06:05,793 I only go to the best places. 72 00:06:06,168 --> 00:06:08,668 You'll need to be treated with blue methylene. 73 00:06:08,835 --> 00:06:10,002 Blue what? 74 00:06:10,335 --> 00:06:11,877 It suits your complexion. 75 00:06:13,335 --> 00:06:16,710 I won't offer you one, it might overheat you. 76 00:06:17,460 --> 00:06:21,002 So, no more alcohol... and no more women of course. 77 00:06:21,335 --> 00:06:24,710 In short, you'll have to live as a Christian for a while. 78 00:06:24,877 --> 00:06:26,293 That'll be a new experience. 79 00:06:32,752 --> 00:06:34,002 You're going on? 80 00:06:34,168 --> 00:06:36,293 I always go on. 81 00:06:36,543 --> 00:06:37,710 Good luck then. 82 00:09:01,043 --> 00:09:02,127 Good evening. 83 00:09:02,502 --> 00:09:06,502 You don't know M. Durieux, Clara Greenhill, Annie Tsing. 84 00:09:07,877 --> 00:09:10,127 Do you have good news from your father? 85 00:09:10,335 --> 00:09:12,002 Yes thanks. 86 00:09:12,502 --> 00:09:15,252 I did well to have stayed on this ship. 87 00:09:16,043 --> 00:09:18,543 M. Durieux seems fascinated by your chignon. 88 00:09:19,043 --> 00:09:21,335 I've not worn one for 50 years. 89 00:09:21,877 --> 00:09:23,585 He must confuse me with his mother. 90 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,085 Allow me to honor your beauty with an incestuous gaze. 91 00:09:27,418 --> 00:09:28,543 Can I serve you? 92 00:09:29,877 --> 00:09:30,918 Please do. 93 00:09:31,668 --> 00:09:33,752 Does this little boy have permission to drink wine? 94 00:09:34,918 --> 00:09:38,186 Beware, miss. This boy is very advanced for his age. 95 00:09:38,210 --> 00:09:39,228 No. 96 00:09:39,252 --> 00:09:41,335 Commander, have you heard from Canton? 97 00:09:41,502 --> 00:09:43,252 A few dozen dead yesterday. 98 00:09:43,627 --> 00:09:45,085 It's taking its course. 99 00:09:45,252 --> 00:09:48,377 How many corpses do you need in China to make an event? 100 00:09:48,627 --> 00:09:50,002 One is enough for me. 101 00:09:51,127 --> 00:09:53,877 For example, the one I found this morning in the passageway. 102 00:09:54,793 --> 00:09:58,043 Burst of the spleen, perforation of the peritoneum. 103 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:01,210 It would take a real halberd and a horse running at full speed 104 00:10:01,543 --> 00:10:02,960 to do all that at once. 105 00:10:03,377 --> 00:10:05,085 About that halberd, 106 00:10:05,418 --> 00:10:07,502 since now we're alone. 107 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,210 I found this... 108 00:10:10,752 --> 00:10:12,585 This could have done the trick very well. 109 00:10:13,043 --> 00:10:15,377 Commander, this is not an item to show ladies. 110 00:10:15,793 --> 00:10:17,168 Isn't it yours? 111 00:10:18,502 --> 00:10:19,793 I only sell guns. 112 00:10:20,377 --> 00:10:22,002 I meant, a personal item. 113 00:10:22,793 --> 00:10:25,085 Yes. The spleen, the peritoneum. 114 00:10:26,293 --> 00:10:28,127 This could be our halberd. 115 00:10:28,877 --> 00:10:31,377 You just need a galloping horse. 116 00:10:31,793 --> 00:10:33,168 Best stop looking. 117 00:10:33,335 --> 00:10:36,710 Let's say that our sailors are settling their disputes. 118 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,335 Commander, murder is the very basis of our society. 119 00:10:41,793 --> 00:10:44,335 No more murder, no more governments. 120 00:10:44,752 --> 00:10:47,752 Murder is their only purpose. 121 00:10:57,502 --> 00:10:59,377 Forgive me if I shocked you. 122 00:11:00,460 --> 00:11:02,835 Why would I be shocked? It's a beautiful thing. 123 00:11:03,210 --> 00:11:05,252 Blood is made for the steel of a blade, 124 00:11:05,418 --> 00:11:08,460 as this ruby is made for the gold of its mount. 125 00:11:16,502 --> 00:11:18,877 - May I keep it? - Please do. 126 00:11:19,335 --> 00:11:22,127 You must always give something before taking anything. 127 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,085 Excuse me. 128 00:11:48,585 --> 00:11:51,460 Good Lord! Blood is going to flow over there. 129 00:12:00,543 --> 00:12:02,335 You shouldn't have come in. 130 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,293 No, I don't want that. I beg you. 131 00:13:57,793 --> 00:13:59,377 What's the matter? 132 00:14:00,085 --> 00:14:01,877 What's happening? 133 00:14:08,502 --> 00:14:10,377 Is anyone there? Your friend? 134 00:14:25,210 --> 00:14:27,335 Open! 135 00:14:36,127 --> 00:14:37,627 Clara answer me. 136 00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:41,293 Clara do you have a key? A key? 137 00:14:41,752 --> 00:14:44,293 Are you making all this noise M. Durieux? 138 00:14:44,460 --> 00:14:46,877 - What did you do? - You know very well. 139 00:14:47,377 --> 00:14:51,835 He was so sick the last few days, someone had to end his suffering. 140 00:14:52,127 --> 00:14:53,127 Whose? 141 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:55,960 Tell him. 142 00:14:56,127 --> 00:14:58,543 You can't understand M. Durieux. 143 00:14:59,335 --> 00:15:01,752 - How did you do it? - You know. 144 00:15:02,752 --> 00:15:05,377 - Did it take a long time? - All evening, my love. 145 00:15:06,335 --> 00:15:09,418 We were all very busy last night. 146 00:15:11,002 --> 00:15:13,252 Better leave her now. 147 00:15:42,085 --> 00:15:43,918 This trip was boring, wasn't it? 148 00:15:44,168 --> 00:15:47,002 I don't often have the chance to be so pleasantly bored. 149 00:15:47,543 --> 00:15:48,585 See you soon. 150 00:16:02,168 --> 00:16:03,918 Mr. Greenhill. 151 00:16:21,335 --> 00:16:23,335 Doctor Durieux? 152 00:16:25,002 --> 00:16:26,835 - Are you really Dr Antoine Durieux? - Yes. 153 00:16:27,043 --> 00:16:29,502 I'm Mr. Schwartz, delighted to meet you. 154 00:16:29,668 --> 00:16:32,127 - Dr Schwartz. - Yes, doctor Schwartz. 155 00:16:32,293 --> 00:16:34,918 Let's walk together. 156 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:02,043 So you use that as an ambulance? 157 00:17:04,835 --> 00:17:06,918 The problem isn't transporting the patients, 158 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:09,502 but rather their treatment. 159 00:17:23,752 --> 00:17:26,002 You inject them all with that? 160 00:17:26,460 --> 00:17:28,460 No, we can't afford it. 161 00:17:28,752 --> 00:17:31,710 It's distilled water. It won't hurt them. 162 00:17:32,252 --> 00:17:37,710 - You don't have any drugs? - Yes. We receive some every month 163 00:17:38,377 --> 00:17:40,502 from Europe, but it's no use. 164 00:17:41,043 --> 00:17:44,127 - Everything's held at customs. - At customs? 165 00:17:46,252 --> 00:17:50,668 We have to pay huge taxes, but we have no money. 166 00:17:50,918 --> 00:17:53,502 Taxes on drugs? These Chinese are incredible. 167 00:17:54,377 --> 00:17:55,543 The Chinese? 168 00:17:56,502 --> 00:17:57,793 Yes. 169 00:17:59,543 --> 00:18:02,585 It's a European who heads the customs here. 170 00:18:03,543 --> 00:18:05,252 His name is Greenhill. 171 00:18:07,752 --> 00:18:11,335 He distributes some of the drugs to his private army. 172 00:18:13,668 --> 00:18:15,293 He's still with us. 173 00:18:15,835 --> 00:18:19,877 - He's been surviving for a month. - Stop the distilled water tomorrow. 174 00:18:20,460 --> 00:18:22,627 They are used to their injections. 175 00:18:23,543 --> 00:18:25,085 They'll worry if we stop. 176 00:18:25,377 --> 00:18:28,002 Those dirty needles will infect them even more. 177 00:18:33,877 --> 00:18:37,502 What's this Greenhill like? 178 00:18:38,127 --> 00:18:40,168 Both dreadful and fascinating. 179 00:18:40,710 --> 00:18:43,918 He's of English origin, but he lived in France. 180 00:18:46,085 --> 00:18:48,377 He speaks the language perfectly, 181 00:18:48,752 --> 00:18:51,668 but no-one can discuss with him in any language. 182 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:57,210 I don't know what language I'll use, but believe me he'll hear it. 183 00:18:57,585 --> 00:19:02,918 You have to be introduced. One doesn't meet him just like that. 184 00:19:03,168 --> 00:19:04,252 We'll see. 185 00:20:36,877 --> 00:20:38,793 Rouvel... 186 00:20:48,377 --> 00:20:52,293 This is all I have concerning your predecessor. 187 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,460 His notes, his work. 188 00:20:55,752 --> 00:20:56,752 Take them. 189 00:20:57,377 --> 00:20:59,752 If they might be of interest. 190 00:21:06,085 --> 00:21:12,710 Thank you, but I'm more interested in the way he disappeared. 191 00:21:14,543 --> 00:21:17,502 In that case, I advise you to be very careful. 192 00:21:19,127 --> 00:21:24,918 People in China disappear easily, but never by chance. 193 00:21:25,877 --> 00:21:29,502 They're sometimes found with their head on one side, 194 00:21:30,710 --> 00:21:32,210 their body on the other 195 00:21:32,502 --> 00:21:35,377 Or at the bottom of a well during the dry season. 196 00:21:37,918 --> 00:21:40,002 Remember this M. Durieux. 197 00:21:40,627 --> 00:21:48,043 In Europe, curiosity is a weakness, in China, it's a great danger. 198 00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:18,835 I would like... 199 00:22:19,085 --> 00:22:21,752 No, not whiskey. 200 00:22:26,043 --> 00:22:27,043 Wait... 201 00:22:56,418 --> 00:22:59,335 The gentleman wants to sell precious objects? 202 00:22:59,710 --> 00:23:02,585 - No, to buy them - Very well sir. 203 00:23:46,752 --> 00:23:48,668 Now, ladies and gentlemen, 204 00:23:48,918 --> 00:23:51,543 you will witness the famous Stroking Torture. 205 00:23:51,752 --> 00:23:54,960 We're going to make a man orgasm to death. 206 00:23:55,293 --> 00:23:58,293 The last time, he'll ejaculate his blood. 207 00:23:58,543 --> 00:24:01,502 Watch the spectacle of pleasure and death. 208 00:25:08,710 --> 00:25:11,085 Mr. Wen is waiting, please follow me 209 00:25:33,293 --> 00:25:38,335 Mr. Durieux, I'm flattered that you honor my modest establishment 210 00:25:38,502 --> 00:25:39,710 with your presence. 211 00:25:47,335 --> 00:25:51,210 Perhaps our show surprised you? 212 00:25:51,418 --> 00:25:54,085 Yes, it even disoriented me. 213 00:25:54,543 --> 00:25:57,585 Your city is a permanent surprise for a European. 214 00:25:58,168 --> 00:25:59,585 I understand. 215 00:26:00,043 --> 00:26:01,252 No thanks. 216 00:26:01,585 --> 00:26:05,502 I'm interested in more authentic aspects of your civilisation. 217 00:26:06,293 --> 00:26:10,918 Most Europeans have forgotten that the British forced opium on us, 218 00:26:11,252 --> 00:26:14,377 which they were making in India just 100 years ago. 219 00:26:14,710 --> 00:26:18,627 Yes, but you gave us gunpowder, so we're even. 220 00:26:18,793 --> 00:26:22,127 For a porcelain from the Song Dynasty, 221 00:26:22,293 --> 00:26:25,418 cultural exchanges could continue between us. 222 00:26:25,710 --> 00:26:27,835 I'm very embarrassed sir. 223 00:26:28,127 --> 00:26:30,293 Sometimes I find beautiful pieces. 224 00:26:30,585 --> 00:26:32,627 I could sell you some, 225 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,335 but I need Mr. Greenhill's permission. 226 00:26:38,252 --> 00:26:42,502 For several years, he has provided valuable assistance 227 00:26:42,668 --> 00:26:46,627 for the modernisation of our customs administration. 228 00:26:47,127 --> 00:26:50,377 - He's an important man here. - Yes I know. 229 00:26:50,877 --> 00:26:54,168 Mr. Greenhill is a collector like you. 230 00:26:55,085 --> 00:26:59,127 He's very keen on me keeping things of great value for him. 231 00:26:59,293 --> 00:27:00,293 I see. 232 00:27:00,543 --> 00:27:06,293 You could probably come to terms with him, if you met him. 233 00:27:06,585 --> 00:27:09,252 Mr. Greenhill is interested in all who, 234 00:27:09,418 --> 00:27:13,002 like him, appreciate our country's art 235 00:27:13,877 --> 00:27:17,335 I'm sure, Mr. Wen, you could help me meet Mr. Greenhill. 236 00:27:17,752 --> 00:27:21,502 "We turn around to look beck, end we think," 237 00:27:22,168 --> 00:27:27,252 "It's me who lived and not a factitious being created by my pride" 238 00:27:27,502 --> 00:27:29,043 "and my boredom." 239 00:27:29,252 --> 00:27:33,627 "Listen to your heart, when it puts itself in all the loves of your life." 240 00:27:33,793 --> 00:27:36,043 - Who's that? - An actor. 241 00:27:36,252 --> 00:27:40,043 He was a member of a French theater company, 242 00:27:40,710 --> 00:27:43,668 who came here many years ago. 243 00:27:47,502 --> 00:27:51,835 - Oh, opium. - No, a woman. 244 00:27:52,377 --> 00:27:54,460 Miss Clara Greenhill. 245 00:28:15,793 --> 00:28:18,252 - Mr. Durieux, a message for you. - Thank you. 246 00:28:21,252 --> 00:28:23,502 "You're expected this evening at Mr. Greenhill's." 247 00:28:23,710 --> 00:28:25,918 "I'll be there. The French Consul." 248 00:28:26,085 --> 00:28:28,752 Anyway, they'll need our factories. 249 00:28:29,043 --> 00:28:32,418 Yes. Those who have nothing to lose can go. 250 00:28:32,668 --> 00:28:34,377 I have all my fortune here. 251 00:28:34,668 --> 00:28:36,502 You rely on the Communists. 252 00:28:37,293 --> 00:28:39,460 Do you see what's going on here? 253 00:28:40,335 --> 00:28:43,502 In Russia the Communists do not compromise 254 00:28:44,543 --> 00:28:45,710 Dear friend. 255 00:28:46,418 --> 00:28:51,418 This is Antoine Durieux, the new chief doctor of our hospital. 256 00:29:00,418 --> 00:29:01,960 I beg you, dear fellow, 257 00:29:02,127 --> 00:29:04,752 don't talk about these drug issues tonight. 258 00:29:05,252 --> 00:29:07,127 Greenhill has some concerns. 259 00:29:07,752 --> 00:29:09,043 Be diplomatic. 260 00:29:09,377 --> 00:29:11,127 Don't be like that poor Rouvel. 261 00:29:17,835 --> 00:29:20,502 Doctor Durieux, I'm delighted. 262 00:29:22,043 --> 00:29:24,377 I was told you wanted to talk to me. 263 00:29:24,668 --> 00:29:28,127 - Nothing urgent. - Yes you are right. 264 00:29:28,460 --> 00:29:32,710 Here in Canton for a few weeks now, nothing is urgent. 265 00:29:33,627 --> 00:29:38,293 However, let's see the wonders our friend De Berg brings us. 266 00:29:40,127 --> 00:29:43,127 Weapons. You like them? 267 00:29:43,418 --> 00:29:45,293 Yes, in a way. 268 00:29:45,627 --> 00:29:49,002 For some days, we've had curious wounds in our hospital. 269 00:29:49,335 --> 00:29:51,502 As if the victim had exploded inside. 270 00:29:51,835 --> 00:29:54,460 We do what we can to save them, with distilled water. 271 00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:56,793 You have a good sense of humor. 272 00:29:57,168 --> 00:30:00,460 A quality your predecessor completely lacked. 273 00:30:12,418 --> 00:30:13,543 Careful... 274 00:30:14,335 --> 00:30:16,627 - Doctor, you like beautiful things? - Yes. 275 00:30:16,793 --> 00:30:18,502 Then come with me. 276 00:30:36,002 --> 00:30:39,877 - Choose the victim? - I leave the doctor that pleasure. 277 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,793 I'm not sure I would enjoy it. 278 00:30:44,293 --> 00:30:47,543 I'm sure... you'll get used to it here. 279 00:30:48,752 --> 00:30:50,918 I'm delighted to have fled France. 280 00:30:51,502 --> 00:30:55,418 Since we became a republic, France has been a lost country. 281 00:30:56,752 --> 00:30:59,627 I can no longer hunt game at my place 282 00:31:00,710 --> 00:31:05,085 Yet the poachers kill them and the courts are fine with that 283 00:31:06,335 --> 00:31:08,710 For hunting there is only Vietnam. 284 00:31:09,668 --> 00:31:13,335 What an admirable country, with game in abundance. 285 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,710 Especially the peacock. 286 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,877 Where there is deer, 287 00:31:19,502 --> 00:31:25,252 there is tiger and where there is tiger there is peacock. 288 00:31:25,877 --> 00:31:27,960 Does the peacock eat tiger? 289 00:31:28,377 --> 00:31:30,543 No. That's not quite accurate. 290 00:31:32,127 --> 00:31:35,377 When the tiger is sated with deer, it falls asleep, 291 00:31:35,543 --> 00:31:39,085 then it wakes up, relieves itself and leaves. 292 00:31:42,335 --> 00:31:44,043 What does the peacock do? 293 00:31:45,835 --> 00:31:51,252 It waits patiently for this departure in the neighbouring trees 294 00:31:52,335 --> 00:31:57,418 And then it goes down and eats the tiger's excrement. 295 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,085 This is the exact moment to shoot: Bang! 296 00:32:07,377 --> 00:32:11,543 Never will a gunshot give me such intense emotion. 297 00:32:14,127 --> 00:32:18,502 What you have in your aviaries and your gardens as peacocks 298 00:32:18,668 --> 00:32:20,918 are just common turkeys. 299 00:32:21,252 --> 00:32:23,502 I've no idea how many chickens a day I shot. 300 00:32:36,043 --> 00:32:37,960 This is amazing, isn't it? 301 00:32:38,627 --> 00:32:40,210 With these dum dum balls, 302 00:32:40,377 --> 00:32:43,085 your general will become a great strategist. 303 00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:45,918 This brute can't even kill. 304 00:32:46,335 --> 00:32:49,085 He wastes death, he simply wastes it. 305 00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:52,960 But isn't it the most precious thing we have, death? 306 00:32:53,710 --> 00:32:57,168 He has a grave dug, puts the prisoners on the edge, 307 00:32:57,627 --> 00:33:00,168 a machine gun in front of them, and that's it 308 00:33:00,502 --> 00:33:02,085 You know better ways? 309 00:33:02,543 --> 00:33:04,460 More beautiful ones anyway. 310 00:33:04,877 --> 00:33:07,960 Let our strategist have fun with his new toy. 311 00:33:11,335 --> 00:33:19,168 All your fellows will be immediately executed or deported to camps. 312 00:33:20,668 --> 00:33:22,877 You really see everything in black. 313 00:33:24,668 --> 00:33:27,668 If you had seen what happened in Russia, 314 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,460 you would be even more pessimistic than I am. 315 00:33:36,043 --> 00:33:37,627 What can we do? 316 00:33:39,877 --> 00:33:41,877 To double our security, 317 00:33:42,252 --> 00:33:46,335 you know how much that would cost in terms of men and material? 318 00:33:46,502 --> 00:33:47,502 Let's see. 319 00:33:50,543 --> 00:33:54,210 It would be wiser to wait for an inevitable clash 320 00:33:54,460 --> 00:33:56,752 between nationalists and communists. 321 00:33:57,710 --> 00:34:02,627 Believe me, all of these alliances are only momentary. 322 00:34:05,918 --> 00:34:10,293 Nationalists will sooner or later appeal to the warlords 323 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:16,127 and then we'll deal with them with confidence. 324 00:34:17,543 --> 00:34:20,460 - It seems very simple to me. - Very simple? 325 00:34:22,585 --> 00:34:24,502 You're an idealist my dear. 326 00:34:24,918 --> 00:34:27,127 If Moscow supports the Chinese Communists, 327 00:34:27,335 --> 00:34:30,460 they can find a majority here and take power. 328 00:34:30,668 --> 00:34:33,252 Then we'll all be swept away. 329 00:34:34,252 --> 00:34:36,585 Do you know the history of the Titanic? 330 00:34:37,293 --> 00:34:39,502 It's a ship. A liner. 331 00:34:40,043 --> 00:34:42,293 The biggest ever built. 332 00:34:43,168 --> 00:34:45,293 You launch it, stuffed with passengers. 333 00:34:45,627 --> 00:34:49,585 Somewhere, in the middle of the sea, at night, 334 00:34:50,043 --> 00:34:55,793 the liner, by chance, hits an iceberg and sinks, 335 00:34:56,293 --> 00:34:58,960 slowly because it's a big ship. 336 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,460 It takes hours for death to enter the holds, 337 00:35:02,710 --> 00:35:05,127 the corridors, in the cabins. 338 00:35:06,168 --> 00:35:10,293 Passengers gather in the large premier lounge, 339 00:35:10,752 --> 00:35:12,710 around the Commander. 340 00:35:13,127 --> 00:35:15,210 Everyone knows they are doomed. 341 00:35:16,585 --> 00:35:19,710 The orchestra starts playing and we sing, 342 00:35:20,460 --> 00:35:28,460 "Closer to you my God closer to you..." 343 00:35:30,918 --> 00:35:33,085 You're very nostalgic this evening. 344 00:35:44,335 --> 00:35:46,627 We'll not wait for the General. 345 00:35:47,377 --> 00:35:51,002 The great strategist must be pondering a new battle plan. 346 00:35:51,252 --> 00:35:53,252 In vino veritas. 347 00:35:53,752 --> 00:35:56,210 The General? I saw him in the garden. 348 00:35:56,418 --> 00:35:57,418 He's dead. 349 00:35:57,627 --> 00:35:59,585 - Dead drunk? - No... 350 00:36:02,127 --> 00:36:03,210 Dead. 351 00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:29,168 Are you not going? 352 00:36:30,543 --> 00:36:32,335 The dead bore me. 353 00:36:40,002 --> 00:36:41,127 Come. 354 00:37:15,793 --> 00:37:16,835 Whore. 355 00:38:05,085 --> 00:38:09,877 You'll tell the newspapers, that the General had a heart attack. 356 00:38:10,127 --> 00:38:11,460 Of course, sir. 357 00:38:13,043 --> 00:38:19,460 Captain, it's obvious that this event didn't occur at home. 358 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,210 Of course. 359 00:38:22,918 --> 00:38:25,377 Bring me those who were on duty tonight. 360 00:38:25,585 --> 00:38:26,918 At once, sir. 361 00:40:43,793 --> 00:40:45,835 Mr. Greenhill, these ere the ones on duty. 362 00:40:46,002 --> 00:40:47,002 Antoine. 363 00:41:55,502 --> 00:41:58,960 It's not worth it anymore, my friend. He's dead. 364 00:42:05,335 --> 00:42:07,502 If only we had anaesthetics. 365 00:42:09,877 --> 00:42:13,460 - What are you doing? - You can see that I'm going. 366 00:42:15,793 --> 00:42:19,085 Without drugs, without anaesthesia, we torture these people. 367 00:42:20,127 --> 00:42:22,127 Instead of letting them die quietly. 368 00:42:23,877 --> 00:42:25,002 By the way, 369 00:42:25,335 --> 00:42:28,793 have you talked to Mr. Greenhill about the drug problem? 370 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:29,960 No. 371 00:42:30,585 --> 00:42:33,085 It would have been useless. 372 00:44:12,668 --> 00:44:15,627 The grandparents of this child were massacred. 373 00:44:20,543 --> 00:44:23,418 Then she was raped five times. 374 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,960 No. 375 00:44:27,335 --> 00:44:28,752 Not with us, my friend. 376 00:44:30,293 --> 00:44:34,293 The grandparents were useless. The girl is not bad. 377 00:44:34,752 --> 00:44:35,752 Yes. 378 00:44:38,293 --> 00:44:40,168 I think she has qualities. 379 00:44:41,627 --> 00:44:44,418 The poor girl has not found the right home. 380 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,710 It would have been better had she been raped 6 times. 381 00:44:52,835 --> 00:44:55,293 I've an appointment with Miss Clara Greenhill. 382 00:45:41,002 --> 00:45:43,918 Antoine, you're late. 383 00:45:47,418 --> 00:45:49,043 - Really? - Yes 384 00:45:49,252 --> 00:45:51,793 We were expecting you, Annie and me. 385 00:45:53,877 --> 00:45:57,460 - Do you know what it is? - Probably anything but an egg. 386 00:45:57,752 --> 00:45:58,960 Yes and no. 387 00:45:59,752 --> 00:46:00,752 Give it to me. 388 00:46:01,502 --> 00:46:06,918 Half filled with mercury, this duck egg has a pretty name in Chinese. 389 00:46:07,627 --> 00:46:11,043 The young girls slide it inside them and go on a swing. 390 00:46:12,502 --> 00:46:15,127 During the hours they spend sitting and waiting, 391 00:46:15,293 --> 00:46:19,252 the voluptuous coming and going of the object readies them for their lover 392 00:46:41,168 --> 00:46:43,002 Annie is expecting a lover? 393 00:46:43,835 --> 00:46:45,543 You, if you want. 394 00:46:50,168 --> 00:46:56,502 Annie has the sweetest mouth, loins and belly imaginable. 395 00:48:13,918 --> 00:48:15,752 - Here. - No, stop. 396 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,877 You're horrible, Clara. 397 00:48:26,335 --> 00:48:27,960 No, dear Antoine. 398 00:48:28,127 --> 00:48:31,168 For one more coin, he would do more if he could. 399 00:48:34,377 --> 00:48:36,960 This kid is not worth the money you give him. 400 00:48:37,127 --> 00:48:40,210 He's worth what you are worth. No more no less. 401 00:48:40,752 --> 00:48:43,710 He doesn't have to beg, he earns his money. 402 00:48:44,085 --> 00:48:47,752 You never miss a chance to bring out the good side of things. 403 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,293 You have the answer to everything, but I don't like your answers, Clara. 404 00:49:02,710 --> 00:49:06,002 You are immoral with your scruples, my dear Antoine. 405 00:49:06,752 --> 00:49:10,252 We have to explain everything to you Europeans and make it logical. 406 00:49:12,043 --> 00:49:15,043 I only want to understand you Clara, if I could. 407 00:49:16,918 --> 00:49:18,960 You can because you love me. 408 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,293 Help me choose. 409 00:50:20,460 --> 00:50:23,418 You took them. You know better than me 410 00:50:23,793 --> 00:50:25,210 You're the European. 411 00:50:25,377 --> 00:50:27,710 You can tell me what touches you the most. 412 00:50:28,543 --> 00:50:31,210 I don't know and we have to get it right. 413 00:50:32,127 --> 00:50:35,210 This photo will be published in the best magazines 414 00:50:35,377 --> 00:50:38,502 in Brussels, Paris and London. 415 00:50:40,918 --> 00:50:42,918 It'll be a big collection. 416 00:50:43,335 --> 00:50:46,168 But what does it do for you? 417 00:50:47,752 --> 00:50:48,752 Me? 418 00:50:49,710 --> 00:50:51,085 It's not about me 419 00:50:51,252 --> 00:50:54,627 It's about the people who pay to read these magazines. 420 00:52:09,127 --> 00:52:10,168 I'm sure Greenhill. 421 00:52:10,335 --> 00:52:14,918 I know Trowner is leaving, he's afraid for his life. 422 00:52:16,210 --> 00:52:20,502 De Berg, I guess, de Berg takes back his weapons. 423 00:52:20,835 --> 00:52:23,293 No more money, no more miraculous bullet. 424 00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,752 Take your junk with you my dear. 425 00:52:28,460 --> 00:52:31,377 And now the Consul Muglioni, 426 00:52:37,127 --> 00:52:40,377 In fact I have bad news for you, Greenhill. 427 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,710 I met my British counterpart this morning. 428 00:52:46,335 --> 00:52:50,627 He's letting you go. I tell you this as a friend. 429 00:52:50,877 --> 00:52:53,835 - Yes of course. - We don't have the choice. 430 00:52:54,710 --> 00:52:56,627 They are the strongest now. 431 00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,210 You know that as well as we do. 432 00:53:01,752 --> 00:53:04,043 And is that a reason not to fight? 433 00:53:31,835 --> 00:53:33,335 Why did you do that? 434 00:53:39,460 --> 00:53:40,918 Why did I do it? 435 00:53:44,668 --> 00:53:48,585 Your only chance is to leave the town as soon as possible. 436 00:53:49,752 --> 00:53:52,252 We can no longer protect you. 437 00:53:53,210 --> 00:53:54,585 What, protect me? 438 00:53:55,085 --> 00:53:56,085 You? 439 00:53:57,835 --> 00:53:59,793 That's funny. 440 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:05,252 Until now, I protected you with my troops that I paid, 441 00:54:06,252 --> 00:54:07,418 that I was bleeding. 442 00:54:07,585 --> 00:54:09,877 But now you have no more troops. 443 00:54:10,210 --> 00:54:13,210 Three-quarters of them have joined the nationalists. 444 00:54:14,377 --> 00:54:17,710 With my weapons which you haven't paid for. 445 00:54:18,127 --> 00:54:21,543 And the stock of drugs that you held at customs for them. 446 00:54:22,418 --> 00:54:24,168 They left you nothing. 447 00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:31,502 You really don't understand what's happening in this country. 448 00:54:31,835 --> 00:54:34,668 You confuse everything; Nationalists, Communists. 449 00:54:36,377 --> 00:54:39,543 You should know that the Orient is impossible. 450 00:54:40,543 --> 00:54:42,418 Their view is totally different. 451 00:54:43,710 --> 00:54:44,877 Here, read. 452 00:54:45,085 --> 00:54:47,168 The last statement of Tchang Kai Tcheck 453 00:54:48,252 --> 00:54:50,585 March 17, 1926, not long ago. 454 00:54:52,002 --> 00:54:53,377 Only a week ago. 455 00:54:54,668 --> 00:54:58,752 "I think I have the right to claim credit" 456 00:54:58,918 --> 00:55:02,293 "for bringing the communists within the Kuomintang" 457 00:55:02,460 --> 00:55:08,460 "but I also clearly indicated that I won't accept" 458 00:55:08,627 --> 00:55:10,127 "communist oppression" 459 00:55:10,293 --> 00:55:14,168 "and will oppose their influence when they become too powerful." 460 00:55:14,335 --> 00:55:15,418 Is that clear? 461 00:55:17,418 --> 00:55:19,293 That's why I won't leave. 462 00:55:24,168 --> 00:55:28,543 Besides, I just chose a new wife. 463 00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:37,752 I will marry her in a few weeks according to Chinese customs. 464 00:55:40,002 --> 00:55:44,168 Gentlemen, I have nothing more to do with you. 465 00:56:14,877 --> 00:56:17,543 I never really understand you. 466 00:56:36,252 --> 00:56:41,418 They should have stayed till the end. They think they can live elsewhere. 467 00:56:50,127 --> 00:56:53,668 I don't know why you miss them, they are sinister. 468 00:56:53,918 --> 00:56:55,710 They want to, let them go. 469 00:56:56,710 --> 00:57:00,835 Our universe is falling apart and you still find a way to joke. 470 00:57:01,377 --> 00:57:03,918 It all had to disappear one day. 471 00:57:05,543 --> 00:57:09,585 Do you think it'll be better without us? 472 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,668 I think we have to give them that chance, Mr. Greenhill. 473 00:57:15,335 --> 00:57:18,877 China has only existed for the enjoyment of a few. 474 00:57:21,460 --> 00:57:26,918 We restored the finest and oldest aspects of this country. 475 00:57:27,127 --> 00:57:30,502 Yes, for you, but it's over now. 476 00:57:39,293 --> 00:57:42,252 What are you doing here? Homesick? 477 00:57:43,502 --> 00:57:45,835 Yes, sometimes it gets to me. 478 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,168 Look, Clara, I made a big decision. 479 00:57:51,377 --> 00:57:53,585 I want you to come to Europe with me. 480 00:57:57,127 --> 00:58:00,918 It's not worth it, Antoine. I won't leave. 481 00:58:01,335 --> 00:58:02,502 Why? 482 00:58:03,918 --> 00:58:06,252 This is the only place I can live. 483 00:58:08,543 --> 00:58:13,668 - I thought you couldn't go back. - The Minister will fix all that for me 484 00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,043 Don't be stupid Antoine, I'm staying here. 485 00:58:19,585 --> 00:58:21,377 So you and me don't matter? 486 00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,918 Of course, it does. 487 01:02:24,460 --> 01:02:25,460 Take me. 488 01:03:45,627 --> 01:03:47,252 Let's go home, Antoine. 489 01:03:47,710 --> 01:03:50,127 Go home now? You have to explain. 490 01:03:51,127 --> 01:03:52,793 Explain what? 491 01:03:53,377 --> 01:03:54,668 That, over there. 492 01:04:01,793 --> 01:04:04,752 You haven't seen anyone. Absolutely nothing. 493 01:04:06,793 --> 01:04:08,127 You were warned. 494 01:04:20,918 --> 01:04:22,793 She took him to the garden. 495 01:04:23,627 --> 01:04:25,752 I'm sure he knows now. 496 01:05:48,793 --> 01:05:50,168 Tell me. 497 01:05:51,002 --> 01:05:54,210 You're really serious about marrying this little girl? 498 01:05:54,752 --> 01:05:56,668 Very serious. 499 01:05:58,085 --> 01:06:00,877 It's an obsession with this family. 500 01:06:01,543 --> 01:06:05,085 First an Englishwoman, she did well to leave. 501 01:06:05,377 --> 01:06:07,252 And now a Chinese. 502 01:06:07,710 --> 01:06:09,293 What a Chinese. 503 01:06:09,877 --> 01:06:11,502 A 12-year-old child. 504 01:06:12,460 --> 01:06:13,793 Are you mad or what? 505 01:06:14,252 --> 01:06:16,043 Everyone's laughing at us 506 01:06:16,793 --> 01:06:20,793 Who's everyone? Those rats fleeing the ship? 507 01:06:22,835 --> 01:06:27,002 Since everything must end, let's end it in style. 508 01:06:27,543 --> 01:06:29,668 Do you call it ending in style? 509 01:06:30,585 --> 01:06:32,418 You know we say things, 510 01:06:32,752 --> 01:06:35,168 that you and your daughter indulge in this garden... 511 01:06:35,418 --> 01:06:38,877 - That's not true. - Yes? Really? 512 01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,210 Nothing from her surprises me. 513 01:06:43,877 --> 01:06:46,627 They call her the Spirit of the Burial Pits. 514 01:06:49,418 --> 01:06:51,627 I'd like to understand why. 515 01:06:53,752 --> 01:06:57,085 It's your work. We only finish what you started. 516 01:06:58,085 --> 01:06:59,793 You are monsters. 517 01:07:00,418 --> 01:07:01,710 No, mother. 518 01:07:03,793 --> 01:07:05,293 We're your children. 519 01:07:24,585 --> 01:07:25,585 Antoine. 520 01:07:27,335 --> 01:07:28,418 Antoine. 521 01:07:59,918 --> 01:08:00,918 Antoine? 522 01:08:01,127 --> 01:08:03,835 - Clara. - Tchang? 523 01:08:04,585 --> 01:08:07,710 Yes. I've been released. 524 01:08:11,085 --> 01:08:13,710 So you don't want anything from me? 525 01:08:15,752 --> 01:08:18,668 And you took all these risks for it. 526 01:08:19,210 --> 01:08:21,752 I was afraid you'd forgotten me, Clara. 527 01:08:21,918 --> 01:08:26,335 I'll never forget the poet who described me so well in the past. 528 01:08:28,502 --> 01:08:33,085 "My friend's body is like that of a sow." 529 01:08:33,668 --> 01:08:38,043 "Her chest and stomach smell rotten, and yet I love her." 530 01:08:38,460 --> 01:08:40,252 I must tell you something. 531 01:08:40,502 --> 01:08:43,627 I admire the poet, but the revolutionary bores me. 532 01:08:43,918 --> 01:08:46,002 We'll take the city in a few days. 533 01:08:48,335 --> 01:08:49,543 That's good news. 534 01:08:51,668 --> 01:08:56,085 Save yourself and leave. You know there won't be trials. 535 01:09:08,918 --> 01:09:11,877 You're wrong Clara, I can't love you anymore. 536 01:09:12,043 --> 01:09:13,168 I'm sorry. 537 01:09:14,085 --> 01:09:17,668 I forgot that desire is a sin for you idealists. 538 01:09:20,127 --> 01:09:21,835 Goodbye Clara. 539 01:09:23,877 --> 01:09:25,168 Such a waste. 540 01:11:18,418 --> 01:11:19,627 No, it's Antoine. 541 01:11:19,793 --> 01:11:22,168 Leave him alone, he's not dangerous. 542 01:11:29,918 --> 01:11:33,460 - What's going on in that garden? - You shouldn't have gone back. 543 01:11:33,752 --> 01:11:34,835 Get my robe. 544 01:11:37,835 --> 01:11:39,752 Will you answer me? Yes or no? 545 01:11:43,418 --> 01:11:45,252 Will you tell me? Shit! 546 01:11:57,668 --> 01:11:58,960 Stop! 547 01:12:09,710 --> 01:12:12,960 You really want to know? I don't think so. 548 01:12:13,210 --> 01:12:15,418 You already know what goes on in the garden. 549 01:12:15,668 --> 01:12:16,877 We kill there. 550 01:12:18,502 --> 01:12:19,543 You know it 551 01:12:21,210 --> 01:12:23,085 They kill for pleasure. 552 01:12:42,293 --> 01:12:46,002 And you, you ran over there to make sure, 553 01:12:46,335 --> 01:12:49,043 You saw and you understood. 554 01:12:50,543 --> 01:12:53,668 You came back to beat me and made love to me 555 01:12:56,710 --> 01:12:59,543 Because you liked it, it turned you on. 556 01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:04,002 Do you see Antoine? We're the same. 557 01:13:04,168 --> 01:13:05,585 That's why I love you. 558 01:13:28,543 --> 01:13:30,293 Who are those people who are locked up? 559 01:13:31,460 --> 01:13:33,168 All kinds of people. 560 01:13:33,752 --> 01:13:38,293 Thieves, murderers, political prisoners, incestuous lovers, 561 01:13:39,085 --> 01:13:40,418 convicts. 562 01:13:42,335 --> 01:13:44,002 Are you reassured? 563 01:13:45,793 --> 01:13:47,252 It's monstrous. 564 01:13:48,835 --> 01:13:50,585 I wish I didn't know. 565 01:14:29,252 --> 01:14:31,127 You have to take her home. 566 01:14:45,627 --> 01:14:49,543 The star of this drama, Greenhill, amazes me more and more. 567 01:14:54,252 --> 01:14:56,543 Only one thing saddens him deeply. 568 01:14:56,793 --> 01:14:59,627 He knows the revolutionaries will shoot him without joy. 569 01:14:59,793 --> 01:15:02,918 He won't even be the symbol of dying China. 570 01:15:36,585 --> 01:15:40,335 Here is the Taipong, not really an instrument of torture, 571 01:15:40,543 --> 01:15:43,627 but of justice according to the ancient rules of China. 572 01:15:44,627 --> 01:15:47,793 This woman claims she was raped by this man. 573 01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:50,002 The man claims the opposite. 574 01:15:50,335 --> 01:15:53,377 Thanks to this we'll know which is telling the truth. 575 01:15:54,460 --> 01:15:55,793 The other will die. 576 01:16:06,293 --> 01:16:09,043 I don't understand. Isn't it just an ordinary dildo? 577 01:16:15,168 --> 01:16:19,793 It's a formidable weapon, because this ordinary dildo, as you say, 578 01:16:20,335 --> 01:16:23,085 hides two poisoned darts. 579 01:16:24,377 --> 01:16:26,585 - Under the steel? - Yes. 580 01:16:27,377 --> 01:16:30,627 This wax melts on contact with pleasure. 581 01:16:31,627 --> 01:16:34,335 If it's the man who comes first, 582 01:16:34,710 --> 01:16:38,418 the dart inside is released and pierces his penis. 583 01:16:38,627 --> 01:16:40,252 The poison does the rest. 584 01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,418 If the women's pleasure moistens the Taipong, 585 01:16:44,793 --> 01:16:47,877 the other dart, which is outside 586 01:16:48,043 --> 01:16:50,585 rises up and pierces her stomach. 587 01:16:50,752 --> 01:16:52,043 That's horrible. 588 01:16:52,710 --> 01:16:57,002 If the man really raped the woman, it must horrify her. 589 01:16:57,377 --> 01:16:59,502 She'll remain cold under his embrace. 590 01:16:59,960 --> 01:17:03,210 He'll feel the pleasure and he'll die. 591 01:17:06,585 --> 01:17:13,418 But if she lied, or if he manages to excite her, she will die. 592 01:18:01,043 --> 01:18:04,377 - So the man is now free? - Perhaps. 593 01:18:58,043 --> 01:18:59,502 Stop. 594 01:19:05,793 --> 01:19:09,585 What a waste Miss Greenhill, I must finish it all in one day. 595 01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:12,335 You should tell your father I can't. 596 01:19:13,293 --> 01:19:15,502 I don't know how to spoil the job. 597 01:19:15,710 --> 01:19:17,502 Sun is a real philosopher. 598 01:19:18,043 --> 01:19:20,127 He knows Confucius better than anyone. 599 01:19:20,502 --> 01:19:23,043 He studied in Europe at the best universities. 600 01:19:23,418 --> 01:19:26,002 In Oxford, Jena and the Sorbonne. 601 01:19:27,002 --> 01:19:29,668 He's a true fount of science and wisdom. 602 01:19:30,043 --> 01:19:31,335 Right, Sun? 603 01:19:31,585 --> 01:19:33,210 You should have come earlier. 604 01:19:33,418 --> 01:19:36,127 You'd have seen extraordinary work. 605 01:19:36,835 --> 01:19:41,293 They bring me a deformed fat man, of a repulsive ugliness. 606 01:19:41,793 --> 01:19:43,960 I reconstruct him in a few hours. 607 01:19:44,252 --> 01:19:50,960 I trimmed, cut, removed, added muscle, skin and even bone structure. 608 01:19:51,377 --> 01:19:53,293 - I fixed it all. - Who was it? 609 01:19:53,460 --> 01:19:56,877 Just a miserable coolie from the port 610 01:19:57,085 --> 01:20:00,710 Of course, he didn't deserve the honor of such a fine job. 611 01:20:01,293 --> 01:20:05,127 Today, the humblest cobbler can claim 612 01:20:05,293 --> 01:20:08,543 to fill these honorable and difficult places. 613 01:20:09,168 --> 01:20:11,418 No more hierarchy, no more tradition. 614 01:20:11,627 --> 01:20:14,543 We live in a time of disorganisation. 615 01:20:15,043 --> 01:20:17,793 Something is rotten in China. 616 01:20:18,418 --> 01:20:21,668 Tonight when I finish my work for Mr. Greenhill, 617 01:20:23,127 --> 01:20:26,127 I'll try the ultimate experience on myself. 618 01:20:26,877 --> 01:20:32,127 I hope that before I die, I'll finally discover the truth, the limit. 619 01:20:32,377 --> 01:20:34,168 That's what's important. 620 01:20:34,502 --> 01:20:37,793 The line between pleasure and pain. 621 01:20:38,710 --> 01:20:41,960 The line between the human and the inhuman. 622 01:23:10,043 --> 01:23:14,002 The meat has to be rotten for the rot to spread to their bodies. 623 01:24:05,877 --> 01:24:08,418 We kill them tomorrow night. 624 01:24:08,752 --> 01:24:11,085 We probably won't have time to see them flourish. 625 01:24:12,043 --> 01:24:15,377 - Flourish? - You'll understand later. 626 01:24:16,335 --> 01:24:18,210 What does it have to do with these men? 627 01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:20,210 The connection? 628 01:24:21,002 --> 01:24:23,210 That of the rose with the manure. 629 01:24:24,210 --> 01:24:25,793 We are gardeners. 630 01:24:29,835 --> 01:24:36,168 Look, see this monster? It'll make the most beautiful flower, 631 01:24:36,335 --> 01:24:39,335 the most extraordinary that the earth will ever give. 632 01:24:39,627 --> 01:24:43,877 A flower endowed with sensitivity, intelligence. 633 01:24:44,293 --> 01:24:48,835 - A flower capable of pleasure. - Yes, I saw that the other day. 634 01:24:49,460 --> 01:24:52,460 - It was abominable. - You can't have seen it. 635 01:24:52,627 --> 01:24:55,252 We grew it in a greenhouse you have never entered. 636 01:24:57,002 --> 01:25:02,585 Behind you in the cage, don't you recognise anyone? 637 01:25:05,210 --> 01:25:06,752 Make an effort doctor. 638 01:25:07,252 --> 01:25:10,502 - You want to know everything. - No. 639 01:25:11,168 --> 01:25:13,377 I can assure you that you're not far off. 640 01:25:13,627 --> 01:25:14,960 You are burning. 641 01:25:18,418 --> 01:25:23,293 This man loved my daughter very much, but not our flowers. 642 01:25:25,210 --> 01:25:27,793 He made up his mind to destroy our plantations. 643 01:25:29,543 --> 01:25:31,085 We put him there. 644 01:25:34,418 --> 01:25:40,043 Clara couldn't accept that we made this transformation. 645 01:25:41,210 --> 01:25:45,543 - Rouvel? - In a way, yes, that's him. 646 01:25:47,793 --> 01:25:50,293 Now closer to a plant than to a man. 647 01:25:52,877 --> 01:25:54,043 Rouvel. 648 01:25:56,627 --> 01:25:58,418 He doesn't even know his name. 649 01:26:01,668 --> 01:26:02,710 Tell me... 650 01:26:05,043 --> 01:26:08,710 You find this deeply disagreeable? 651 01:26:09,752 --> 01:26:14,543 Yes, I hope I'll wake up in a few hours 652 01:26:15,002 --> 01:26:19,543 and forget you and this nightmare. 653 01:26:20,877 --> 01:26:22,543 You're right. 654 01:26:23,668 --> 01:26:27,210 In a few hours everything will be over. 655 01:26:29,585 --> 01:26:32,085 Go and console Clara. 656 01:26:33,543 --> 01:26:35,252 She can't live without you anymore. 657 01:28:57,627 --> 01:28:58,793 You must hear it, 658 01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:02,043 so you can suffer too, and then feel pleasure. 659 01:29:28,043 --> 01:29:30,293 - Why are you afraid? - Listen, Clara 660 01:29:30,460 --> 01:29:33,043 even though it's in my nature, human nature, 661 01:29:33,210 --> 01:29:35,627 I won't admit it, you understand? 662 01:29:36,377 --> 01:29:38,127 Antoine, I'll never have the time, 663 01:29:38,460 --> 01:29:41,043 time to show you the real face of pleasure. 664 01:29:41,710 --> 01:29:42,918 Maybe I'm too stupid, 665 01:29:43,085 --> 01:29:46,668 but the true face of pleasure is love, not death. 666 01:30:10,543 --> 01:30:12,085 Where are they? 667 01:30:13,752 --> 01:30:15,460 They've opened the prison doors. 668 01:30:17,877 --> 01:30:20,793 - You must go. - Never. 669 01:30:24,210 --> 01:30:25,918 Clara! Clara! 670 01:30:45,835 --> 01:30:49,043 Here are the priests of the new cult, my friends. 671 01:30:51,627 --> 01:30:54,252 They'll begin their ceremonies by finishing ours. 672 01:30:57,335 --> 01:31:01,377 Their emblem is the color of blood, our favorite color. 673 01:31:07,293 --> 01:31:10,960 They think they kill us, but they only replace us. 674 01:31:14,377 --> 01:31:18,085 They think they act in the name of justice and the happiness of men, 675 01:31:22,002 --> 01:31:24,752 but they have to kill us first. 676 01:31:27,127 --> 01:31:31,377 They'll have to keep killing us for generations. 677 01:31:34,460 --> 01:31:38,002 They became criminals like us by seizing power. 678 01:31:44,710 --> 01:31:49,127 That... they will never get over. 679 01:32:18,252 --> 01:32:20,793 "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges," 680 01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:24,002 "to those people who educate, instruct end govern men," 681 01:32:24,168 --> 01:32:26,752 "I dedicate these pages of Murder end Blood." 682 01:32:26,918 --> 01:32:28,043 Octave Mirbeeu