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We're not filmmakers, you know?

We're just... We're just
a... a ragbag bunch of people

doing something that is
technologically already almost passe.

You know,
that's a great problem of movies,

is that they're always
old-fashioned.

It takes too long
to make a movie.

By the time your idea's on the
screen, it's already dead.

♪ Someone to love

♪ Someone who wants
to reach out

♪ The show will be on ♪

Okay, kiddo.

Gotta go to sleep.

What do you mean,
you gotta go to sleep?

I gotta get up real early in
the morning tomorrow morning.

You know, I have,
like, an 8:00 call.

Okay, so you look good, get up early.
We'll get up early.

I'm not gonna be able to
go to sleep if you're here.

Why not?

This is the third time
you've told me this.

I'm sorry but I just...

When are you gonna be able
to go to sleep with me here?

Don't you think
getting to know...

I just learned to sleep
by myself.

It was very hard
to learn to sleep by myself

and now I know how to do it.

And, you know,
I sleep right here.

I got this side of the bed.
It's comfortable.

Shh. I know. I know all about it.
I'm sorry.

I know that it would be nicer,

it would be better in every way

if I could feel comfortable and
I could have you sleep over,

and it would be easy for
me, but it just isn't easy.

Okay, okay, okay.
I'm sorry. I am, but...

Maybe... Maybe just, um...

You'll fall asleep with me here,
then I'll... I'll creep out.

Be nice, warm.

I'm just afraid that I won't
fall asleep in the first place.

Look, not everybody wants a
white picket fence, you know?

I just...
Everyone should, you know.

It's not very romantic.

We've all been taught in school,
and we all take our hats off

to the Founding Fathers' notion

that all men are created equal.

We now have to face the fact that
all men and women are created equal.

And, we have swallowed
that, bitter pill,

and found that it went
down perfectly easily.

I'm alone now.

I'm finally learning how to do
it and it makes me comfortable.

I've known you for almost half a year.
I like to wake up alone.

We've never stayed over
at each other's place yet.

Do you think that's okay?

But there has been
a kind of pollution,

which is a strong word,
but still it is a sort of pollution.

The idea that...
That,

we are a single

animal,

male and female.

And that the difference
is negligible.

I don't think it's... it's terrible
to want to sleep by yourself.

I feel more comfortable that way.
I'm not talking about...

I wake up alone.
I have my own cup of coffee.

It's easy for me.

I understand that.
Look, I understand that.

I'm not talking
about moving in, you know.

I was just talking
about sleeping over.

It just seems to me
a little strange

that you get up, you brush your
teeth, you get rid of me,

and you want
your own little world here.

I don't understand it so...

It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.

Come here.

I'm sorry, baby.

I'm enjoying
getting to know you.

Women are occupying an entirely
new position in society.

Occupying it
by force of a revolution,

which they may eventually lose.

But on the other hand,
they may win it.

And if they win it completely,

who is to say
that democracy will result,

and that the spouse
may not be created again,

and that we will be the spouse?

I'm gonna see you the day
after tomorrow, right?

Okay.

You scared of having to
brush your teeth again, or what?

You're not giving me a real kiss

because you've brushed
your teeth.

I swear to God,
that's what I think is happening.

No, I'm not giving you
a real kiss

because it's time
for me to go to sleep.

Well, maybe you don't
wanna go to sleep.

No, maybe I need to go to sleep.

As the world gets
more and more populated,

and there's less and less room,

and the... the apartments in which
marriages are supposed to work

get smaller and smaller,

more and more people are
gonna rush out in the street

and kill everybody
they can find.

What a great view
you got here.

Thought I'd never see LA from up
here, you know.

I'm always down there

and I never realized there was
anything to look at at all.

Yeah.

But the weather,
that's what's so terrific here,

is this great weather.

Yeah.
It's nothing new, is it?

Well, I'm going to take advantage
of it and go down and get a swim

or at least sit by the pool,
anyway.

In February?
Are you nuts?

To me it's freezing.

So what are you doing out here?

Business, as usual.

Real estate business....

Anything I should know about?

Since you've taken
so much interest

in our business up to now?

Well, you're taking care of it for me.
I know it's in good hands

and I don't have to worry
about it.

It's a very nice feeling.

So you can just loaf out here.
I'm not loafing.

I'm hardly loafing.
I'm working very hard.

You're working?
Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I know.
Art isn't work to you, right?

Film isn't work.
Creative work doesn't count.

You're like Daddy, you know.

Sure,
you... you have to get up

and go to the office
every morning at 9:00.

Then you'll understand what work is.
Yeah.

You have to be on a set 12, 14,
16 hours a day, you'll understand...

That's play.
That's play.

And trying to figure out
how everything should work.

Sure.
Yeah, sure.

Are you happy?

Just the general philosophical
question for a yes and no answer?

No, no, no. I mean,
have you found somebody you...

I haven't seen you in so long.

I never get to see you anymore

now that we live
on opposite coasts.

And, you know,
talking on the phone,

I can't get an impression
from you.

You always say you're okay.

You don't say "good," you don't
say "bad," and I can't tell.

Well, you know, I'm staying
reasonably healthy physically,

and I keep in good shape.
No, no, I don't care about that.

How are you, you know...

Are you ever gonna get married?

I tried it, at least, you know.
I mean, it didn't work...

Well, I'd like to try it,
you know.

I'd like to, even short of that,

try just having a regular consistent
relationship with one woman,

but I always get messed up.
There's something...

There's something about me that's
just, it doesn't work out.

I mean, how can it be
that it doesn't work out?

There's something in me that
spoils it from working out.

Like what?
You know, well, like, I do things

that make it not work
in the first place.

Like, I have these many relationships
with married women that...

Then when they leave,
I'm lonely.

And if I like one of them,
then it's even worse.

And, um, then if I go out with
women where they would be available,

where it would be suitable
to have a relationship,

I... I do something to mess it up.

Like I do it with two of them
at once.

And... And try to keep
the two things going.

You can't just
schedule 'em right.

So sometimes I... I have to try
to get out of seeing somebody

because I'm supposed to be
seeing somebody else.

Sometimes
I'm not seeing anybody,

and then I don't know what to
do with myself, so I'm lonely.

And then when I'm with 'em,
I'm lonely anyway.

So it's... It's...
I don't know. It's, um...

And I always tell myself,
you know,

I'm really going to try to stop
doing these things, and find...

I got a great idea.
While you're out here,

why don't we
have a party for you?

A party for the objective
of me to meet people?

I mean that's...
Yeah, I won't tell.

That would make me
very uncomfortable,

you know,
that that's the reason...

I won't tell them
that that's the reason.

We'll say
we're just having a party

and I'll introduce you
to a lot of people.

I've got a lot of terrific
women friends, you know,

and they've all gone through
the same kind of thing.

They can't seem to get relationships going.
I don't know why.

Everybody I know, you know,
is in the exact same condition,

in one way or another.

None of them
quite as weird as you.

These are all actresses,
writers, film people, artists.

Okay, you know my opinion of actresses.
I mean, you know, they... they...

I don't care about your opinion.
I don't wanna get back

to your obnoxious behavior
about my life and...

My obnoxious behavior?
Yeah, your obnoxious behavior.

I don't want you starting
criticizing my friends

before you've even met them.

I've met some of them before,
remember?

Look, I don't want
to go into this now.

This is ridiculous.
I'm trying to help you.

I'm suggesting that you can
meet a lot of terrific women.

And I would like to arrange a
party for you while you're here.

It just occurred to me
that it was a great idea.

And right away
you're already telling me

that they're obnoxious
and phony.

They don't have to be actresses.

There are all kinds of people
who are directors,

who are producers,
who work in production,

who are artists, who are painters.
Okay, if you have a party,

but don't tell them it's for
me or something like that.

Everybody I know is divorced
or hasn't gotten married yet.

None of us have settled into what
we thought grown-up life was about

when we were children.

Actually, I... I met a girl
recently, a woman, a few months ago

and I've been having a kind of
interesting relationship with her.

But, you know, it's weird.
It's just very weird now.

Relationships
are so strange.

Because nobody wants to commit
to anything,

and she's very scared
to even begin to commit

because she's just settled
into a life on her own

after a certain amount of time
of being in a relationship.

And I... I'm... You know me,
I'm always looking at what I'm doing.

I've got a camera outside of me
watching me do what I'm doing,

while I'm doing it.

There's always a... a movie
camera somewhere, and I'm...

Even in the middle
of a real emotional scene,

in a real moment in life

when I'm totally connected
and totally there,

I have a sense that,
you know,

I'm playing a little bit
for the camera.

And I'm a little aware of how... how,
"This is good, this is interesting.

"How can I use this?
What do I do with this?"

Because, for me,
it's like turning it into art.

It's... She calls it
my Trigorin complex, you know?

Trigorin?

Chekhov?

Anyway, let me tell you this.

I made a nice chunk of money
for both of us,

even though it was inadvertent.

What happened was that, um, I had some
real estate deal that didn't go through,

but the people put up land
as a security.

So do you mean
we own some land out here?

But in this meantime,
I've managed to get a deal

where it's been sold
to some other people

that are developing a shopping center.
And not only that...

Wait a minute, one minute ago,

I owned a piece of land out
here and now it's been sold?

We.
We.

We inadvertently acquired it
as a defaulted security.

And now I managed to
sell it with a good profit.

I'm gonna go over and take a look at it.
Where is it?

It's in Santa Monica.
You want to come and look at it?

By the way this piece of land
has some kind of old building.

I think it's some kind of,
I don't know,

some theater
or something like that.

Wow, look at that.

What is this to you?
It's an old theater.

Don't be stupid, Mickey.

Look at how beautiful this is.

Stupid? It's only
worth the land it's on.

I wanna go in.
I wanna look in there.

Go ahead.
Suit yourself.

Hello! Anybody here?
I know there's somebody there.

Anybody in there?

Hello!

Can you let us in
for a couple of minutes?

We just wanna look around.
I'm sorry, I can't let anybody in.

I know, I know,
I just wanna look around.

I'm sorry, I can't let anybody in.
The theater's closed.

Two minutes, I just want to look around.
It looks gorgeous.

It is. It's a beautiful theater but I'm...
I can't hear you.

It's a beautiful theater
but I'm afraid it's closed.

I can't let anybody in.
Wait a moment.

We're the owners of this place.

You're what?
We own this place.

We own this place.
Own the theater?

That's not the point.
The point is...

That is the point.
That's not the point.

That's the point.
We are the owners.

The point isn't whether
we're the owners or not.

The point is I'd like to
be able to look around.

Yeah, well...

You're not gonna
get in that way.

I don't... I don't know
what to say.

I mean, I'm not supposed
to let anybody in.

We are the owners.
Technically we're the owners.

I mean, we own
this thing, right?

Of course we own this place.

I don't know. I'm not...

Pretend your
artistic sensibilities...

I'm not supposed
to let anyone in.

I mean, you don't
have to start getting...

No, no.

Well, that's how
you get in, though.

I hope I'm doing
the right thing.

Hey, I'm very sorry.

I didn't mean to push you.
Yeah, well, you know...

I... I just would like
to look around

for a couple of minutes.
I'm sorry.

I feel terrible.
I'm not supposed to let anybody in.

No, no, that's quite all right.

We own this place here
so that's fine.

Well, tech-technically
we own it.

According to you,
we own it for 10 more days.

Ten more days?
Technically, yes.

May we go in now?
I guess so.

You wanted to see it,
go ahead and enjoy yourself.

What do you mean 10 more days?
What happens in 10 days?

The property's
all being transferred,

the theater's being razed and a
shopping center's being built here.

Wh-What? The theater's being torn down?
Yeah, yeah.

You mean, it's definite now?
Definitely set.

The demolition crew
is coming.

They're going to
level this place

in preparation for transferring
this whole block of land.

But it's unbelievable.
I had heard rumors

but I... I couldn't really believe
they'd want to tear this down.

Sure. This and all the
adjoining properties.

But this is a legendary theater.

Do you have any idea
who played here?

Marie Dressler played here,
Blanche Ring played here,

Nora Bayes played here.
Fanny Brice,

you remember her on the radio.

You know, she was Baby Snooks.

This is an historical theater.

My God.

Do you know, I have to tell you
frankly, even your being here...

When the accounting is made I'm
gonna have to pay for the share

of the time I still owned this
place, for you,

and I don't even see
your function here.

What are you doing here,
actually?

I'm taking care of the theater.

I wouldn't care if the
whole place was vandalized

because it's all about to be
torn down.

So what's the difference
what's not in here?

Mickey?

Progress, everybody's gonna have
a nice shopping center here.

- Mickey!
- Yeah?

Come look at this.

You won't believe this.

Look at this.

Yeah?

You're going to tear this down?

You're telling me,
you're gonna tear this down?

I'm not the one
who's gonna tear it down.

It's all been arranged long ago.

What interests you about it anyway?
Look at it, for Christ's sake.

Okay, so it's a nice,
archaic theater. So what?

"O for a Muse of fire

"That would ascend the
mightiest heaven of invention

"A kingdom for a stage
Princes to act

"And monarchs to behold
the swelling scene!

"Then should our warlike Harry Like
himself assume the port of Mars

"And at his heels leash'd in like
hounds should famine, sword and fire

"Crouch for employment

"Can this cockpit hold
the vasty fields of France?

"Or may we cram
within this wooden

"O the very casques that did
affright the air at Agincourt?"

We did Henry V here.

I was the Prologue.

This is a theater.

This is a theater,

which is a temple of the story.

Tell me your story.

God.
I'm so depressed!

Why? I think you gave
a great, great show.

You think I gave a great show?
Yeah.

I think I was never in my
body for a split second.

You're kidding.
I feel so...

You were fantastic.

The audience loved you and
you were great.

Your voice is incredible.
You're nuts.

I don't know,
I just feel depressed.

Why do you feel depressed?

How do you feel
about Valentine's Day?

I don't know.
I never thought about it. Why?

That's it? You never thought about it?
That's it?

What am I supposed to think?
It's Hallmark, you know?

No, no.

What "no, no"? What's...
What is this? No.

What "no"? What?

Well, it means a lot to me,
Valentine's Day,

and I was sort of hoping

that maybe Valentine's Day
meant a lot to you, too, Danny.

I can't claim that it does.
I'm sorry.

Valentine's Day
has never meant anything.

It's one of those holidays that
was invented, like Mother's Day.

It was invented to sell cards.
No, it isn't.

I've... I've had a real feeling
about Valentine's Day... Okay.

Ever since I was a child.
Okay.

You know, about how many
valentines I would get.

Is this...
Is today Valentine's Day?

No, next Sunday is Valentine's Day.
And it's...

And I... I thought
you'd maybe know, you know.

I didn't know.

How are you?
How are you doing?

All right,
under the circumstances.

What do you mean?

Well, I mean,
I'm glad to see you,

but you appear once every year,
once every six months and...

I mean, I like you.
I want to see you.

But, um, you know, at the same
time, it's very disruptive

and, you know, I... I'd like
to have a regular relationship.

And I always know
when it's my half birthday

because I got my period
for the first time

when I was
13-and-a-half years old.

No kidding.
Yeah, exactly 13-and-a-half.

It was May 18,
and I got my period on my half birthday.

And my father
took me out dancing.

Can you imagine?

He took me out dancing
all by myself,

without my mother...

To, like, a fancy nightclub,

and we went out dancing,
just him and me.

And he was the best dancer in the
whole world, but that's irrelevant.

I mean, the fact is... is that
even now I think about being

33-and-a-half or 34-and-a-half

or 35-and-a-half

'cause of that.

Best story about Daddy.

It's a nice one.

But it's complex because
at the same time I like you

and I want to see you

and I'd like to have a
regular relationship with you.

At the same time, I don't know.
And, you know.

I know. I understand.
I understand. I feel the same.

I mean, I come here. I like you.
I want to see you.

You know, I'm frank about it.

I don't commit myself to some
regular relationship with you.

On the other hand,
I do really like you,

and whenever I come here,
I look forward to seeing you

and being with you.

I used to walk with my father
in the winter.

Skiing places we went,

North Conway, you know,
up in Vermont and New Hampshire.

And he'd walk with a stick
in the... in the winter.

And that smell of wood smoke
always brings that back

with a big emotional rush.

Look at what we're doing, isn't this...

So?

So? Can we have a
good time together?

Can we feel nice
with each other?

How can people do this
again and again

and think that they're
doing it for good?

And then the people are gonna
come and get the stories

and get more
and build up over the years.

And then, slowly,
that background will be a permanent fact

in their...
In their joint relationship.

And then suddenly it's gone and
they gotta start all over again.

And then we're supposed to start
all over again and do that again.

Now it begins...

You feel like,
you start to tell a story

and you think,
"Well, I told this before.

"It wasn't you.
Who was that?

"What are you doing here?" You know.

"Yeah, you're nice.
Maybe you'd understand this.

"Maybe you'd like to hear this.

"I wanna hear
this one of yours."

All stories have to do with men and
women, don't they?

If we're gonna...
Are we gonna...

Am I staying the night?

Or most stories.

I'm talking about sleeping
over, waking up with you,

finding out what it's like
to really be together.

I don't want to have this kind
of conversation otherwise.

The condition is universal
and eternal.

Yes or no? Do you feel like having
me over as a guest overnight?

Yes or no? Tell the truth.

Quickly.
I can't.

Okay, good night.

Sorry. Thank you.

You know, the Mohammedans
cannot make a good story.

In a Mohammedan world,
all you have to do

is say, "I divorce thee, I divorce
thee, I divorce thee," three times,

and the marriage is over.

Therefore,
where is their problem?

Now, with the so-called
sexual revolution,

we all only have to say
"I divorce thee" once

and the story is over.

You know,
maybe you're right.

Maybe I need
an old-fashioned story.

A story isn't old-fashioned.

No?
You're simply looking for it.

The minute you find it,
you'll be happy.

Get up on the stage, get your lights
on, get your people in,

and let's see
some of that Danny magic.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay. We can get started now.
I'd like to tell you why you're all here.

I'm afraid, in a way, I've gotten
you here under false pretenses.

You all answered a Mailgram
which said,

"If you are alone on Valentine's
Day, come here to this address."

You didn't even know
where you were coming.

You thought you were coming
to just some party.

And, some of you,

because my name was at the
bottom and you know me,

thought, well, I was giving a
party at somebody else's place.

Well, I am. It's everybody else's place.
It's the theater.

There's gonna be food upstairs
all day long

and drinks upstairs
all day long,

but, um, there's something
else that I would like to try.

Through a weird series
of circumstances,

my brother and I
find ourselves the owner

of this gorgeous old theater,
which was built in 1911,

and which is not gonna be
with us very long.

He, unbeknownst to me,
made a deal, several months ago,

sealing the fate of this theater

and consigning it to be the groundwork
for a future shopping center.

Because of him this theater
is gonna get torn down.

Because of this man.
What do you feel about that?

No, because I have to
manage your financial...

Are you serious?

Aren't you people used
to hearing the other side

before you jump to a conclusion?

No.
I know that. I see that.

Why is it
being torn down?

A whole collection of people who
have no sense of reality, like you.

I thought this theater
should have a chance,

one last chance,
to have something exciting and vibrant

and alive and creative
happen inside of it.

And I wanna take this opportunity
to try to make that happen.

Good, we can
really get started now.

I was just trying to fill
the, time until you...

Yeah, I know.
Don't worry about it.

What is this?

You want to take a seat?

"If you are alone next Sunday,
Valentine's Day,

"come to 214 Santa Monica Blvd.
Anytime from noon onward

"and you may find
what you are looking for.

"Affectionately..."

Happy Valentine's Day, kiddo.

What are you doing?

Okay, everybody's arrived now
so we can, get started.

I've asked you here because I'd
like to explore something with you.

We are all, for one reason or
another, alone in life.

That is to say,
none of us in this room

is in a permanent relationship
with somebody else

and I want to understand why.

I want to understand why all of
us, all of us here, are alone.

Nature gives us loneliness. Right?
Right? It gives us loneliness.

Well, why?
It must be something positive.

It must be something
that nature wants us to have.

Nature gives us pain so we won't
burn ourselves in the fire. Right?

It gives us hunger
so that we'll eat.

We won't die of starvation.
Right?

Well, why does it
give us loneliness?

It gives us loneliness
so we will find each other.

It gives us loneliness
so we won't be alone.

Loneliness is something good.

Loneliness is something
which nature gives us

in order to see to it
that we are not alone finally.

It is not natural
for us to be alone.

It is natural for us
to be with somebody else.

Yet, our entire society,
our entire culture, is teaching us now

that we're supposed to be alone,
that it's good to be alone.

That you learn how to be
strong alone and healthy alone.

Well on your own.

Autonomous. Independent.

But nature doesn't want
any of that.

If it did, it would've
given us no loneliness.

He's a crazy person.
I've known him for years.

I don't know
if it's something about today.

I don't know if it's something
about the lives we... we live.

I'd like to try to figure out
why it is that we're all alone.

Um, in order to do that,
I therefore,

if you'll bear with me,
I have asked a crew

to come here with me.

Hi.

We are going to make,
something.

I don't know what we're gonna make.
We're going to try to...

Excuse me. We're going to try
to, document in some form

what it is that we're all going
through, starting, obviously, with me.

But I don't want this to be
an egocentric experience.

I mean, I know how this looks.

I didn't get you here...

I didn't get you here to
look at me talking about me.

Okay, I know all of you
fairly well.

How long
do we have to stay?

- Um, the day. I'd like you
to stay the day. - All day?

You don't have to stay all day.
I think you'll want to stay all day.

I want to talk to you
about some things

that I personally know
you want to talk about.

That you've never had... I
wanna talk about where the bar is.

The bar is upstairs
on the second floor.

Are we getting paid
for this?

No. No. There...
There's a little problem about that.

We'll talk to you later
about that.

This is a party,
for God's sake!

We're having a party, right?
Yeah!

Okay, we're gonna have a party.

It's gonna be
a little different.

Instead of a magician
pulling rabbits out of a hat,

or some kind of a funny guy in... in,
I don't know, some kind of an outfit,

or jugglers, or blues singing,
or something like that,

instead of that
we're gonna try to figure out

the answer to certain questions.
Take it.

What happened?
We finished the film. Roll out.

Okay, while they're out,
I want to...

Seriously now,
I'd like to talk to you about this.

Okay, could you go down
quietly please?

Hey, Danny.

I really...
Hey, Danny.

Look who's here.

Hi.
Come on in.

Look at all these cameras.
I'll, I'll be right back.

Where are you going?

I'll be right in here
just dolling up for somebody.

All right, see you later.
See you later.

And I really would like very
much to find out if it's possible

to come to some kind of answer
about why it is that we're alone.

He hasn't changed very much.

Did you get it?

I share with you
my vulnerabilities,

my insecurities, my self-doubts.

I want you to share them
with me and the camera.

I would like to try to find out

if there is something
to find out.

This is a little too cosmic for me.
Is this a little too cosmic?

- Are we rolling? Good.
- Yes, we are.

I want to know why you're alone.

Why are you alone?

You're a serious working
actress, respected,

good at your work, all of that.
Right, yeah. Right.

But you're not married,
you don't have a family.

I presume that you'd like to,
someday, have a family.

Yeah, and I will. Yeah.

So I don't have this sense of
panic that you seem to have...

You don't think that it's...

about this being alone business.

I think...
I think being alone is okay.

Maybe we should have
you look more into the camera.

Look right into the camera?
Yeah.

Tell me this way.

Being alone is essential to being
able to have a relationship,

and it's a good thing.
Why?

So that you're not clinging
to somebody.

So that... So that you're with somebody
because you want to be with them

not because,
you're missing something within yourself.

Do you dream
different dreams now

than you did when you were a kid

about what life's
supposed to be like?

Um, I don't dream
about the future anymore.

I used to.
I... I've stopped doing that.

And I think that's a good thing.

Okay.

Why are you alone?

I'm not always alone.

What I am
is alone in moments,

and I'm always desperately
grasping not to be alone.

- Are you alone in life?
- Yes.

Why?

I like to think that it's
because I'm in a phase.

Only a phase and,
I'm between great loves

rather than
as a permanent thing.

Is it true?
I don't know.

Do you mind if I leave?

I have some business to attend to.
Yes, you can't leave.

It's important for me...

I think this man is crazy.
I don't know this guy.

It's important for me.
I just have to sit here?

Yes, you just have to sit here.
Have a party. Meet people.

You're always complaining
you don't meet people.

I had a troubled childhood,
but that has nothing to do with this.

Judith, would you take this?

Could you look into the
camera, do you think?

I feel like I'm being x-rayed.

Why are you living alone,
do you think?

I think I like living alone
and I wanna live alone.

And I wouldn't know
how not to live alone.

But you didn't think,
when you were a kid,

that you'd feel that way
at this point in your life?

I never had any real projections
into the future as a kid.

I didn't form... I mean, I had
said, "I'll have six children."

So what happened to that? But it had
no weight to it when I thought it even.

Really?

So you don't mind
not having children?

No.

And do you think
that in the future,

at some time,
you'll be living with somebody?

It would have to be somebody
that I can't imagine.

Hi.

Hi.

You seem ironic. I know, I am.
I think I feel ironic.

You've got an attitude problem.
I don't know... Right.

I don't know what's gonna happen

so I guess I'm feeling
a little defensive.

What is this party?

Is this, like, the last rites
for this theater or something?

- Is that what they're...
- I'm afraid it might be.

Well, it's...
Well, it's a bit more than that, I think.

Carol, you got an invitation from
me, right? Yes.

Danny's looking for something.

You obviously brought a friend.
Yelena.

Hello, Yelena.
That's Danny. Yelena.

Nice to meet you.
You're the only stranger here I think.

Having a nice time
at this party?

If you can call it a party.

Really.

Do we need to get this
on film only or what?

Sam, how are you doing?

I used to be married.
And I still wear the ring.

But you're basically alone
in life, right?

Well, yes,
alone and not always alone.

Alone when I wanna be alone.

Alone in the sense that in our
childhood we thought when we grew up,

we would have husbands, wives, families.
In that sense alone.

I went through that.
I mean, I got married.

I had a child. I did all that.

And then?
I don't want to do that anymore.

That was enough for me then.

I did it. Once I did it,
I knew I never had to do it again.

Yelena, is it?

What do you want from me?
If you want from me something,

that you want it in front of the camera.
It's not what I want.

Why not in front of the camera?

This doesn't change the truth.

No, well, I don't know.
If I were an actress,

maybe I could do something
in front of the camera.

I'm trying to find a certain kind of
truth, emotionally.

My God.
You are going to dig forever

if you are going to look
for that.

Am I gonna find it?

Glimpses of it, I think.

Glimpses of it is good.

I'd like some glimpses
of the truth.

I think that's about
as much as you can get.

Are you a happy person?

Happy.
I'm not so dumb, you know?

To be happy you should
be like a village idiot,

you know, to, "ha-ha," leer
all the time.

No, I'm reasonably content,
sometimes happy,

sometimes extremely happy.

And sometimes
terribly melancholic.

Are you married,
and with children?

No, I'm not married,
never was married.

Not because I couldn't have.

I could have a few times.

I dreamed when I was a child,
I don't know about you,

that I would find somebody
and I would fall in love.

And we would get married
and have children. Did you?

I did, and then it stopped.
It didn't work out?

It didn't work out.
That's right.

What about you?
I...

I think I was always frightened
that it won't work out.

How do you come to be here?

That's a funny way of putting it.
Well, okay...

Danny.

Danny invited you?

And you?

I'm his brother.

Hi.

I don't know.
Maybe it will work today.

What do you mean it'll work?

Maybe I'll meet someone

and that will be my romance,
even for a day.

True romance,
if it lasts half an hour,

three days, it's wonderful.

I don't think
it can last forever.

Do you think you might
find somebody here?

I don't know,
I... I'm going to behave like a...

Forgive me, American women.
Yes?

But they are more aggressive
than European girls.

And I'm going to try to behave a
little bit like an American woman.

Um...

I heard so much
about you from Carol.

I seem... It seems to me,
I know you a little bit.

Quite a lot actually.
Um, I have to go, okay?

Wait a minute.
Where are you going?

I'm... I just have to leave.
I just have to leave.

I'm uncomfortable here
and I don't know, I just...

There goes a romance for you.
You see?

This is not what this is about.

Okay, I'm sorry
you have to leave.

Bye-bye.
Okay, bye.

Thanks for being here.
What is this about?

This is friendship.

You kiss too much here
in this country for nothing.

You really do.

Listen, I hope you don't
object to me asking you this,

but are you feeling
completely okay?

When I look at you,
I feel that I'm glimpsing at the truth.

Thank you. That's...
That is a real compliment.

It's really true.
That's nice.

I'm very happy to meet you.
I'm happy, too.

And we'll talk
a little bit later on

at the party without a camera.

Okay.

I was worried that m-maybe you were
feeling physically n-nauseous or sick.

That you had eaten something that didn't
agree with you. Something of that sort.

No, but thank you very much
for thinking of me.

I mean, generally you tend to
be a healthy person, right?

Physically, at least?

Yeah, right.

Well, mentally is more
complicated to... Yeah.

And you?

Well, physically
I'm a very healthy person,

and mentally,
I wouldn't venture to say.

Okay, Harry?
Right here.

Danny.

Look in the camera. Hi.

How you doing?

Having a good time?
Well, so far, yeah.

I'm trying to figure
a few things out, Harry.

What?

Like, why everybody
at this party is alone.

Well, it was, one of the
qualifications to get invited, wasn't it?

Are you an actor?

No, most decidedly not.

Why, are you an actress?

Yeah.
Yeah?

Yeah.

You mean you act in movies?
That's right.

Are you kind of a famous person?

Yeah, I am kind of famous
but not according to you.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

You know, I just don't
know much about that field.

I'm sorry.
Edith Helm, that's my name.

Hi.
Nothing? Yeah.

No.
It drives me insane.

I've found, from when
I was a little child,

if you get into
a real tiny, tiny place,

the smaller it is
the less lonely you feel.

I used to crawl
into cupboards, closets.

I had a job once,
they never could find me.

They never knew where I was 'cause I
found, like, a closet.

It was about, you know,
maybe 5 feet 11 inches tall.

I'm 5 feet 10-and-a-half.

Never looked for me there,
and I didn't feel lonely there.

Do you live
with someone now?

Yes, but I live in the library.

What are you
looking for, ma'am?

I'm looking for...

I'm looking for someone
to love me,

and I'm looking for someone to
love, and give me a lot of space.

Both at the same time?
A lot of space.

Both at the same time, yeah.

You think they are mutually
exclusive, love...

I used to. I don't anymore.

Do you miss New York?

I miss a certain thing about it,

but, I guess, what I miss about
it, is, I miss being young

the way I was when I lived
there, you know.

I was a different
kind of a guy then.

What kind of a guy?

Married.

How are the dreams
of your childhood

different from the reality
of your adult life?

It's not what you think.
It isn't?

I don't think it's who
you think it's gonna be,

or whatever your dream was of
who you thought it was gonna be.

You play so beautifully.
Thank you.

You know,
I've never heard you sing

but I certainly know your name.

And I know people tell me
that you're good, you know,

but I've never heard it.

Well, maybe
you can sometime but...

I've wanted to meet you
for a long time

because of the songs that you write
and because of the way you play.

So it's... it's very nice for me.
Thank you.

Real nice.

I hope they don't ask me
to play here.

♪ Somehow I'm sure
I've found a sure thing in you

♪ Something within
tells me we'll win

♪ Somehow my heart
has picked you out of the blue

♪ Though I am only a beginner

♪ A winner I'll be

♪ But win or lose,
whatever comes up

♪ You're thumbs-up with me

♪ One thing I'm sure I'm
sure of all my life through

♪ If love can figure out
a sure thing

♪ That sure thing is you ♪

Are you in a relationship?

I don't know.

You don't know?

What do you mean?

Um, I've started to go into it,

and I've been afraid of it,
and started to get out of it and...

I don't know. I don't know
which direction it's going.

I just know that I'm very
emotionally affected by it.

So, to that degree,
I'm in a relationship.

What are you afraid of?

The only thing I'm afraid of
is loss.

Yeah.

'Cause when you're crazy
about somebody,

it's not easy to lose him.

People aren't the only ones
who are lonely.

A theater can be lonely too,
you know.

Someone has to put on plays.
There has to be life in a theater.

Are you living alone?
No, I live with two cats.

You live with two cats?

I never thought I would've been
a person to live with two cats

but that's the way
it worked out.

I was married twice
and now I live with two cats.

And I figure if I can
get along with two cats,

maybe I can get along
with the next man in my life.

This theater has given
so much joy,

to so many people,
for so many years.

It's been here since 1911.

It's been a
home to vaudeville and to films

and to marvelous plays on tour,
it had repertory companies.

Once it was even an opera house.

Please, I don't wanna
hear any more

about theaters being torn down.

Well, but it's a reality.
I don't wanna hear about it.

I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to offend you.

I hope...
You didn't offend me.

Don't... I'm not taking this
personally from you.

It's just, I don't want to hear
about theaters being torn down.

Hi. Miss Helm?

I'm Richard Herbert.
Hi.

How do you do?

You might have seen me around
the set here at the party.

I'm working on the film.

I hate to stop this but hold
on one second. Hold on one sec.

I know it's terrible to stop this.
You can't put me on camera.

I'm behind camera
not on camera. Come on.

Just for this do me a favor.

This is a big favor
you're asking.

I appreciate as a director
to a director...

Yeah, that's what
I'm talking about.

I'm alive behind not in front.

What have you learned
from this? Anything?

I wouldn't do this film the
way you're doing this film.

I don't want help.
Thank you very much.

I'm not offering help.
It's a different style.

Anything else?

Yeah, there are
a lot of lonely people,

and thank goodness,
we all can take advantage of each other.

I'm sorry
but that's just the truth.

I guess you've heard
a lot of this before

but I grew up
watching you in film.

And I've always thought
that you were

the most sensual woman
I'd ever seen.

So it's... it's almost a part of my
emotional history. I just had to...

I... I don't know,
am I... am I fucking up here? Or...

Not at all.
Michael, is it?

It's Richard. Richard Herbert.
Richard.

No, Richard,
this is not fucking up.

So you came here
to find someone?

Well, I didn't expect
to find someone but...

When someone... When someone says...
But what you are saying is...

What you are saying
is that you...

I... I'm always looking.

I'm always looking to find... Yeah, you
look like someone who is always looking.

Do you have a problem
with getting close to people

who are in the production end
of things?

Well, the theater's
gonna be torn down.

But that has nothing
to do with me. It's...

What do you mean it has
nothing to do with you?

I mean, it just happens to be...
Don't you own this property?

Yeah, I own it now but...

Then it has everything
to do with you.

How can you permit this?

Because there's already...
How can you allow this?

This incredibly
beautiful theater.

Do you know how old
this theater is?

'Cause, you see,
I'm really an actor.

You might have seen me
in some Cassavetes movies.

Yeah?
Yeah.

I like John, Gena...

Yeah, they're great people, aren't they?
Yeah, they're great.

You know, I have nothing
to do with this.

I've explained this to you
already.

How can you have nothing to
do with it if you own it?

That makes no sense
to me at all.

I would like you
to explain it. Please.

Yeah, all right.
But this isn't a suitable time and...

When? If they're gonna tear this
down tomorrow, this is the only time.

Well, everybody is looking
to find someone to...

Have you ever been married?

Yes.

Divorced long time ago?

Recently?

Divorced, 10 years ago.
My God.

And this is so beautiful.
Look at it.

They don't build theaters like
this anymore. Look at this place.

Do you know what's gone on here?

No, I don't have any trouble
getting close, you know,

to production people.
It just depends...

You're every bit as beautiful
as I used to think. God!

When you were a baby?

It's beautiful.
Look at it.

It may be.
Look at the detail.

Look at it. Feel it.
I mean, this theater has vibrations.

I'd like to think of you
as a friend.

Get over this movie star stuff.

I think that you... you and I might
be able to develop something.

I don't know, as friends.

Consider it this way,
you didn't know that I had this place,

and you didn't know
that I lost it.

So forget, as if neither
of those happened.

So we're back where we started.

Don't give me an answer.

Just consider me a new acquaintance
and let's take it from there.

Thank you.

God.

I have...
I had a drunken weekend, last year,

just before the Cannes Film
Festival which I ended up going...

Usually, I think men get...
They... They get divorced.

In about a year or two years,
they get married immediately.

They cannot live alone
after they've been married.

It's very strange.
They all crave for freedom

and then they cannot stand it.

Helen,
I'm so glad you're here.

I, I'd always lived
with someone.

I'd, either had a college
roommate or a girlfriend.

I really don't know if I
should even bring this up

but I know that you
just broke up so...

Are you feeling all right?

Sure.

You are? Yeah, I am.
It's interesting.

I mean, I don't know
what to do with myself.

Every freedom is very tough to
bear, you know.

What's that?
What's that, do you think?

Well, I think love is sort of
like a car radio.

I mean, you're cruising through
life and you have a radio on.

And sometimes the music's
sweet, sometimes it's not.

But when you get to,
certain destinations, you cut it off.

And sometimes it's more peaceful

even to ride
without that radio on.

It's not that...
The radio doesn't steer the car.

And love doesn't steer
your life.

No, no, no. No, no.
This is seafood...

I don't want it all.

For every little
Brussels sprout,

you know, this is...
This was a person once.

This is reincarnated people into
vegetables. Okay, then leave it on.

Leave it.
I'll eat it all.

You know, with everybody here being so,
self-analytical and introspective

and, discussing all the
things about themselves,

it... it made me realize
that I have this quality,

that I have elements of my
personality where I'm shy

and those where I'm not shy.
Like, somebody who knows me

with my enthusiasm and my
comfortableness with them,

they wouldn't believe I'm shy,
but I am shy

in the sense of initially
engaging somebody

and expressing an interest
to them,

and in altogether, um, showing any
feelings towards them when I...

Wait, wait, wait.

When I don't know that
they're gonna be reciprocated.

I have a reason
why I'm telling this to you.

When you first came in... Yes.

I was, very drawn to you.

I don't know, it was a strange,
kind of mystical feeling.

About me?
About you.

And... And then
you... you disappeared

and, I didn't know
where you were.

And I... I felt a kind
of, anxiety, a panic.

And I thought, "My God, she's left.
And I'll never see her again.

"I won't know who she is."

And, I was really...
I felt terrible.

And then when you came back, I...
It was... It was wonderful

because I knew that I would
have a chance to talk to you.

I'll tell you,
the practical manifestation of it

is that I'm kind of
in a quandary

of how to deal
with these people here.

I... I'd like to meet
some of these women

but I'm shy... I'm shy in
initiating conversation with them

because I don't want them to think
I have a motive that I don't have.

And on the other hand,
I might really have that motive.

Furthermore, my problem is that

what if they don't respond
positively towards me?

Then I'll feel very foolish
and uncomfortable

about having initiated
something with them

and, that's just basically,
the situation now,

in a practical way, without going
into the theoretical basis of it.

No, don't go into the theoretical.
Okay.

All right. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you.

I feel embarrassed

because I keep going on and on

asking about Danny and then...

Well, he's an interesting man but,
I'd rather talk about you.

If I could find some way that
somebody would approach me,

then it would solve my problems.

You got... You got it.
You're a very smooth talker.

But again, that's only when I get
started, not when I initiate.

I mean,
I don't know how to initiate.

You initiate.
Look at what you did with me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't have that problem with you

because you're a male and I'm not
at all oriented in that direction.

I get it. I get it.

What you're telling me really
makes me more interested

because, you know,
there's an obstacle now.

You are interested in Danny
and I'm interested in you,

and there's a kind of drama.

I don't know,
I've always found it useful

to, play the piano or to
play an instrument, you know.

Yeah, and?
That works sometimes.

Some women go...
They just, they jump on talent.

Other women jump on power.

Is he, um, really involved
with that girl?

I think so. I think it's...
I think it's hopeless for you.

Well,
now I have my obstacle.

When I'm in here, I'm 14.

The moment somebody puts a
mirror in front of my face

then I'm, you know, grown up.

And what I'm trying to do
now is make some real adjustment

between girl and woman.

And try to understand this.

Just try to understand

how to get past being girl
and into woman.

Being able to... to get married,

have a child.

I mean, maybe if I
wasn't so busy being one,

I could...
I could, have one.

And action.

Are you lonely?

How many people do you know
who are 44 years old

and have never been married?

And not...
And they're not gay?

I bought the rap, you know.

If you grew up in the '60s,

there was sort of this
backlash to the '40s and '50s

which was that commitment is
bad, it makes you unhappy.

Marriage is a trap.

Being a wife is a dirty word.

Um, children are to be adopted
not birthed.

And... And I was good, I was bright,
energetic and so I created this life

where I didn't have to do
any of that

'cause that's what the going
theory was about how to be happy.

All the time, I really wanted
to be married and have children,

but I was afraid
to tell anybody that.

I want to be married
and I want to have a family.

So I've said it now.

So I get it now, right?

And I've never been free
in my whole life.

All I ever wanted
was to really be free.

Yeah, really?
Free to just say anything I wanted to say.

Free to just be anything that
I wanted to be and not...

And not always think about all these
other things that are out here.

And not always have this voice

that's saying to me, "No,
you shouldn't have said that,"

and then,
"You shouldn't have said this,"

and then,
"You shouldn't have said that."

Okay, roll A camera.

Helen, look in the camera.
It's me.

Hi.
Hi, you.

Which you?

♪ They say there's no use
running after something

♪ You'll never get

♪ But my heart says,
"Don't say no"

♪ Somewhere in this
lonely city

♪ Is a woman for me

♪ But will I wait
a lonely lifetime

♪ And keep on looking
for the right one?

♪ But will the right one

♪ Ever come, come by?

♪ I'm looking
for the right one

♪ When will the right one
come along?

How do you feel
about Valentine's Day?

It's another year
that I'm not married

and, I don't have a baby.

♪ I'm looking
for the right one

♪ But will the right one
ever come along?

♪ I'm looking
for the right one

♪ When will the right one
come along?

Would you like
to get married?

Yeah, I still think about it
a lot.

I... I... I think
I'm getting a little old

to get married in white, though.

You want me to stay over
with you tonight?

I wouldn't go that far.

♪ I'm looking
for the right one

♪ When will the right one

♪ Come along? ♪

I wish, um... I wish
Helen was my girlfriend.

Why?

I'd like to stand in line
at a movie with her.

I mean,
what's everyone talking about?

Everyone's talking about...

Well, what I heard today
is, like,

if... if happy marriages
don't exist anymore,

my mother and father
are pretty damn happy.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about what everyone's
been saying here today.

You think these people
are really that lonely?

Hey, have you been listening?

Look at that broad over there.
You think she's lonely?

Why are you alone?

I don't really think
there's an answer to that.

So I accept not knowing
the answer to that,

and I find that I can be happy
by not knowing,

by being in the unknown.

Even when you got everything you
thought of, you know, you can think of,

and you can imagine, you got a
baby, you got a husband and...

Yeah?

No, I mean the... the...

The tragedy is
that you take yourself

and you take all your problems

and you take
all of your frustrations

and all the things you don't
grow up about into that marriage.

I don't feel alone 'cause I feel
very connected to everybody.

And I feel...
I feel a lot of love.

I feel that
everybody loves everybody.

And I feel that you're not
alone if you have that feeling.

I just want
to get married someday

and have kids
like my mother and father did.

And all these people,
they're telling me here

that because
of this revolution crap

there's no way I'm ever
gonna have a happy marriage

or anything...

Fuck.

You feel better?
Edith.

I feel better now.

My mother,
I guess that's what it is,

she plays, like,
this slave role to my father,

but she's so happy doing it.

Those two people are so in love.

You guys just don't understand.

Because she doesn't know.
It is. It's true.

It's like...
They're like slaves, women.

And if that is anything, that means I
can't have that kind of relationship

that my mother's got right now.

Joey, what the fuck
are you talking about?

Most of the men I've known
in the past 15 years

have been absolutely essential
to who I am now.

A lot of them have really
taught me a lot about loving

and taught me a lot about,
understanding myself

and understanding
what's going on around me.

I saw two teenagers
the other day

and they were so in love with
each other and they were so sure.

You could tell by watching them

that nothing
could come between them

and that nothing in this world
could hurt them.

If I'd been with one person
through that whole time,

I don't think I would be
who I am today,

and I really like
who I am today.

I believe in soul mates
of some kind,

and I believe that you do find
people that are the right people,

and extraordinary things
happen with those right people

for certain periods of time.

I want babies now.

Nobody can do it for you.

I mean, I'd like a boyfriend,
I'd like a husband,

but I'm hungering,
my whole body is aching for children.

I'm so susceptible to wanting
somebody to do it for me,

and wanting somebody
to come along

and really help, really help me

with everything
I need to be helped with.

Someday they'll come along,
the men I love.

I really think that the times
that we spend alone

are for us to learn
how to help ourselves.

I don't know how any of
these women have not said

that they want little
chicklets following them,

and pulling at their dress and
asking them to play with them

and... and do things with them
every day.

I just don't...
I don't get that.

Nobody has said anything
about little children.

I mean, boyfriends, husbands,
love, sex, rock 'n' roll,

but where are the kids?

Well, I don't know what
you think of all this stuff

but I'll tell you, to me it's all
kind of a ridiculous nonsense.

And a pretentious nonsense.

And even a very silly,
self-indulgent, pretentious nonsense.

All the dreams I had
as a little girl

are the dreams
that I still have.

I think that I will attract something
good because I am something good.

I mean, what is all this stuff?

These people are talking
about their feelings.

They're so interested
in themselves.

They're so in love
with themselves.

The whole world centers around
their emotion, you know,

and they're engaging

in this... this sort of pseudo-group,
third-rate, group psychotherapy.

Well, what does your world
revolve around?

My world?

Yeah.

Practical reality.

At least, I'll talk about
concepts and I'll talk about ideas

and even abstractions,
that's fine,

but not where it's all centered
and focused on me and my feeling.

It's a party, and at the party people
are going around filming people.

And they... they're all so in love with
the fact that this stuff is happening.

Are you in that category
of people?

Are you one
of these self-styled artists?

Or excuse me, maybe you're a real artist.
What's the story here?

What do you think is important?

If relationships
aren't important

and feelings aren't important,

what is important?

I think relationships
are plenty important.

Don't get angry at me about it.

- So, you take over.
- Is that where the keyboard is?

Yeah. Let your fingers
do the talking.

You have to stay
on the keyboard.

That's right,
just like something else.

My mom was a piano teacher.

Was she really?

Wow.

And I don't play a note.

Is this what you write with?

Yeah.

What're you doing here?

I don't know. I just saw you
and I've always adored you.

And I'm so happy
to run into someone

that I've always adored.

Really?
Yeah.

Well,
I don't know what to say.

I'm just kind of flattered...

I don't know either.

And just kind of backed
into a very wonderful corner.

But I... I like being in this corner
and I like being next to you.

So, should we
have major sex later or what?

What do you think?

I... I'm just your
basic semi-rock star

but you're, like,
an official actress person and...

I'll see you later.

I can identify with what everybody's
saying about relationships.

I know. It's a great mirror.

I think we're all wonderful
mirrors for each other.

Nobody's right
and nobody's wrong.

I mean they're all
aspects of who we are.

I mean, that is gonna bring us
closer to each other, realizing that.

Yeah. Yeah.

We've all felt the same things at,
you know, either at different times

or have shared those feelings
at the same time.

It just makes me feel very
compassionate, I think. I don't know.

Well, it just makes me feel
a little less alone.

I found that when
I was first living alone,

it was very difficult
to go shopping

in the big markets,
like the Mayfair

or the ones that have so many
family sizes of things.

And I found it easier
if I went to the 7-11

where you just pick up like a couple
of things of toilet paper at a time.

You pick up small sizes
of things.

It's going to take
a couple of years,

maybe a year or two,
to get used to it.

But once you get used to it,
you're really gonna love it.

It's gonna be great for you.

It's really terrific.

Hi.
Hi.

What are you doing here
all alone?

I don't feel like
talking about it right now.

What do you mean you don't feel
like talking about it right now?

I need you to talk
about it right now.

You've got everybody talking
about things all the time here.

I just don't feel
like talking right now.

What do you feel
like doing right now?

You're standing alone.
I wanted you to have a good time.

I got all these people here.

You always complain
that you're lonely.

You don't know people.
You don't meet people.

There's a million people here.

Why don't you ever meet anyone?

There's a tremendous number of
girls here you could talk to.

Women all over the place. You know, I
met somebody who I really like and...

Yeah? Well, why aren't you
talking to her?

And if you have
any problems with it,

I mean,
I can really help you out.

I can teach you everything you
need to know about living alone.

I can teach you how to
play Scrabble by yourself.

No, truly, you put Edith 1 and Edith
2, right, on the page. Okay?

And then, you know, you... you keep
all the tiles turned over this way

so that you don't see
when you draw a new tile,

and you can fool yourself,
and it really does work.

Why aren't you out there
having a good time?

I'm not in the mood for it now.

What do you mean you're
not in the mood for it?

Look, I don't have time
to waste here, God damn it.

I mean, what's so great
about living with someone?

I got all kinds of people
that are...

Didn't I tell you I didn't want
to come here in the first place?

Didn't I tell you I didn't want
to come here in the first place?

I want you to be able to have a good
time, God damn it!

Then I sit here,
all kinds of nonsense.

You put me on a stage.
I just want you to have a good time.

Can you have a good time?

It's the communication
that I like,

hearing people say what they
think and feel and, um...

Right, yeah.

Revealing, you know,
what they're feeling inside... Stuff.

What all of us
are feeling inside.

Yeah.

They're all aspects
of who we are.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What do you think about
all these discussions today?

I don't know,
I'd need a room, a glass,

a cigarette
to talk about such things.

You know, from the time that
you stood on stage and said it,

I kind of try to avoid it
or push it out of my heart.

And, it frightens me.

I don't know.
It brings anxiety.

When you're really looking
for that thing to happen,

I mean, that's...
That's when you get most disappointed.

When you're not looking, that's
when, you see the vision

appear in front of your eyes.

Trying to touch all the time,

craving for touch, and never
being touched in... in that respect.

When you're taken,
that's when you see

exactly what it is you've been
looking for your whole life.

It's really basically Leave it to
Beaver, Lassie.

That's the kind of stuff that
really means something in life,

not all this other stuff.

Any thoughts on the subject?

Subject?

Being alone.

Alone?

The way I feel after a good Leave
it to Beaver, that's important.

Expecting love on both sides.

Me to others, others to me.

It never gets any better
than that in life.

But it never materialize...
Materialize

in relation
to what you dreamed about,

what you dreamt about,
and what you dream even now.

You think you're gonna be
alone for the rest of your life?

No, instinctually
I do not think so.

I certainly hope not. I mean,
I see others older as cautionary tales.

So after a while
you find solace in books,

yes, in other people,
in great movies, in art.

It is very important.

Are you lonely?

Sometimes.

I've never been alone.

I'm not lonely.

No. Are you kidding?

I'm not lonely.

You take it as a basic element
of your life, the loneliness.

Sometimes it's very painful.

Sometimes it's not too bad.

I feel like crying.
Never mind.

♪ Hasn't a ghost of a chance

♪ In this crazy romance

♪ You go to my head

♪ You go to my head

♪ Like a sip
of sparkling burgundy brew

♪ And I find
the very mention of you

♪ Like the kicker
in a julep or two ♪

Okay.

Hi, Yelena.

Hi.

You look a long way off.

Yes, I was thinking
about someone.

Someone who's not around here?

Yeah.

You want to tell me about that?

You know, I was... I was thinking

why... why do you think you have a
right to ask me all these questions

just... just because you have
this... this equipment and all that?

I... I came here thinking
it's going to be a party

and now suddenly I'm being laid
on a couch and asked all this.

And you don't like it?

Well, there are some things that
I never wanted to think about.

So...

I still want to ask you
what it is.

Um...

I... I might be able to tell you

but, as I said,
not really in front of the camera.

Could you pretend
the camera's not there?

I'm really trying to lure you.
No, I'm not.

As far as I'm concerned,
you and I are here alone.

I don't see a camera
or anybody else.

Well, you are behind the
camera, don't forget,

and I have this big iris
staring at me, you know.

Look right at it, though.
What do you see?

Can you see yourself in there?

No, and I wouldn't like
to see myself in it.

You like mirrors?

I love mirrors.

You don't?

No, not really.

Why?

You look into the mirror
and look in your own eyes,

which is a phenomenal thing,
you know,

to really look
into your own eyes.

And you start
questioning yourself.

And, all the answers
are not terribly good.

So I don't think one should look

into the mirror too much.
Just...

You know,
something like that but...

What do you think about mirrors?

I suppose I'm addicted
to mirrors in a way.

Yeah, probably 'cause
you're in that profession.

You must do what I say.

But I hope...

I doubt, but I hope that
you don't look into a mirror

for some other reason.

♪ When you're still

♪ Do you hear one small voice
Crystal clear

♪ Saying, "Listen here,
my friend, listen here"?

♪ Well, that voice is your own
and it speaks to you alone

♪ "You can count on me,"
it says

♪ So listen here

♪ This is you

♪ This is real

♪ This is truly
the way you feel

♪ You can run

♪ And you can hide

♪ But sometime,
someplace

♪ Each of us winds up
face to face

♪ With that little voice
inside

♪ So we hope and we yearn

♪ And we live
and sometimes learn

♪ From that little voice
that whispers crystal clear

♪ And we each hear the call
'cause it's calling to us all

♪ "Follow me,"
it says, "Never fear"

♪ Listen here, old friend

♪ Listen here, dummy

♪ Listen here ♪

You don't like the way
this makeup looks?

No, I like the way
the makeup looks!

It's just that you looked absolutely
beautiful when you arrived.

You know, fuck!
Really truly beautiful.

Fuck.

Fuck! Fuck Danny! Fuck him!
No. It's okay.

Fuck it!

All your fucking...
Not you.

What's the matter?
No, nothing. Nothing.

What's the matter?
Nothing. Nothing.

Come on, come on.
What's the matter?

Take it the fuck off.

Let's get Danny in here.
Wouldn't he love this?

Let's get the party.
Let's get the party in here.

Where are they?

I don't have red cheeks,
you know what I mean?

But...

Yeah, I feel great.

You know, but this is just typical
of, like, you know,

put your makeup on,
take your makeup fucking off.

Where the fuck
is the wastepaper basket?

You got here a little late.
Yeah.

Yeah,
I just kind of peripherally

happened to notice
your walking in. Aw!

You know,
I always thought

that if anybody was gonna play Greta
Garbo, it should be you.

I gather you're also in some
kind of artistic endeavor?

Yeah,
I'm in show business, too.

If that's
the appropriate word for it.

What do you do?

Um...

Well, I guess what I do is
pretty boring to you people.

I'm, in real estate
business and kind of...

I find that very exciting.

I just bought a house
in the Valley, myself.

Yeah?
Yeah.

I'm not gonna cry.

Of course you're not.
I'm not gonna cry

because I don't cry anymore.

Hiya.

Hi. How are you?

Who do I have to fuck
to get out of this movie?

What do you mean?
What are you talking about?

I'm not comfortable here.
I just want to go home.

You feeling good now?

Excellent.

This wine is great, too.

Yeah.

It improves perspective
on things.

I got the telegram

and I wanted to come down and
see just that you were okay.

And now I know you're okay
and you have your friends...

What do you mean I'm okay?
Why wouldn't I be okay?

Well, the telegram seemed
a little strange.

Even I'm starting to feel good

and it's difficult for me
to feel good.

Why?

Um, just because
I, um, sort of interfere

with the process of feeling good

and that's why
the wine actually helps me.

So now I can enjoy myself.

I know what you mean,
it removes the barriers

that you yourself put up.

That kind of thing?

Um, it doesn't remove them
but it sort of dampens them.

Dampens the
oscillations of the barriers.

Just because you don't
want me to sleep over

doesn't mean that you don't
wanna meet my friends, right?

If I hear one more thing about
sleeping over and not sleeping over...

I mean, it really isn't the issue.
All right, I'm sorry.

I never dreamed that
you felt so alone. Shh.

I mean, from everything
I've seen tonight

you seem, you know,
that you're so alone.

Do you really feel that alone?

Mickey, you know,
you asked me out earlier?

Yeah?

And I told you that I had to
work, which I do?

Yeah.

But I wanna tell you
something else

because you're
such a sincere man, I feel.

Smart and sincere,
and I like you very much.

And I'd like to get to know you.

Yeah.

But that is that I mostly
go out with younger men.

Stay a little bit.
Trust me, would you?

Please, babe? Trust me?
Come on.

"Trust me." I heard that
somewhere before.

I'd like to get to know you
and maybe bring a friend by.

- Yeah, I'm alone.
- Why?

I can't just live with somebody.

I mean, I would
have to live with somebody

who understood me and who
let me be the way that I am.

That's a rare person.
I didn't find this person yet.

Someone who sees, who sees me
and who helps me to see me.

And someone that I can help
to see who he is.

Um, is your name, is that a Slavic name?
Yes, sure.

Well, where are you from?
Yugoslavia.

That explains it.
Have you ever been there?

Yes, I have been.
I have traveled around there extensively.

It's a very beautiful place.
Alone? With your brother?

You've traveled
with your brother somewhere?

I... I have so much to... to deal with my
brother that I wouldn't do something,

frankly, voluntarily,
like travel with him.

You know, I've had
difficulties with my brother

ever since we were children.
Um...

You're much older than he is?
No, I don't think...

I'm a few years older than him,
but even when we were kids,

even when the age difference
was significant,

he always had to act like the
one who's more sophisticated,

more experienced,
more avant-garde...

Why do you say he had to act?
Maybe he was. Because...

You'll find him.
I might. I might not.

What happens if you don't?

There's still a lot
to do here, you know.

Like what?
There's a lot to do on this earth.

There's a lot of work
to do here.

So being alone is not that
important a part of it?

Sometimes it is.

Do you ever get very lonely?
Yeah.

What do you do?

Cry.

In a way, we do have
a close relationship.

Are you always so nervous...
No, no.

Or is it because
I ask you about him? No?

No, no, no.
I'm not nervous now.

What this is,
is not nervousness.

You are not nervous now?
No, I'm just...

How are you when you're nervous?

Is your twirling your hair a kind
of a nervous habit on your part?

Yes. I am a little bit nervous,
frankly, talking about your brother.

Really?
Yeah.

Yeah? Why is that?

I don't know.

Some-Something happened
to me, I think.

Something
between you and him?

I don't know between us
but from me to him.

Really?
Yeah.

This is self-indulgence,
you know,

but your country
offers that to people.

I think, when you come here

in that affluent society
and so on,

you are...
You... You get spoiled immediately.

You come from the airplane and
you immediately fall apart,

and you can do anything you
want, lie on the streets,

cry, laugh,
undress, dress...

And I think it happened to me,
too, a little bit of that disease.

That's good.
That's good.

Stop the music for one second.

I'm tired.
I would like to go home.

Is this party done?

Have you learned anything
about yourself?

About myself?
Yes.

It's not about me.
I am a camera.

No, no. You're not a camera.
You are a person,

and a very
lonely person at that.

Okay, I love this.
Tell it into the camera.

Look into the camera because
I can't cut it otherwise.

You won't?
- No.

You're refusing...

I will not be manipulated
for another minute.

What have you found out today?

That you're completely crazy.

- Mark.
- Marker.

Hearing people like you

talking about the Fates and
about, "It's the other guy,"

and, "It's everybody
else's fault," you know, and...

It just isn't what I believe,
and it just made me think, you know,

"Yeah, what am I doing?

"Why am I expecting Max to, you
know, make my every day so great?"

And stuff like that,
it's up to me to... to,

you know, fill... fill myself and give
something to him, be there for him.

And the fact is I actually
do really love him and...

This is so silly.

It's nice to see you
feel all this.

You know... You know why I'm real
happy to see you feel all this?

Why? Because the
camera's right there.

Shit.

I might have known.
That's very good.

I'm in Profundities
by Edith Helm.

Look right into the camera,
would you?

If you're looking, Max,
I really do love you.

Well, what... What...

What's the story
with Danny, anyway?

If I understood
the story with Danny,

and then I could tell you
the story with Danny,

then I would understand it
myself,

and if I understood it myself,

I would know why I was still
here instead of at home.

You think she...

No, no, no, we're not...
You know.

We just met a few months ago
and we're recently friends.

I know. I know how long you've...
How do you know?

I asked about you.
I was interested to know more about you.

What would you like to know?
Ask me directly.

I could show you
major, major happiness.

You could?
It goes way beyond this almond.

Are you susceptible
to women tears?

You think I'm kidding?
Yes, I think you're kidding.

Look, what are you doing
with Danny?

Why not you and me?

Why don't we go like a wagon
train and we'll go into the West.

I know that women are often
blackmailing men with tears...

No, no, no,
I don't believe that at all.

No, I'm susceptible to tears.

I don't think
it's just women's tears.

I'm susceptible to emotion,
to the expression of emotion.

That's why I'm doing all this.

I'm very susceptible to my own
emotions and other people's emotions.

I'm trying to understand
what people are feeling.

If we lived together,
would you sing to me all the time?

I think people's feelings
should be mutual.

That there should be
equality of feelings.

Would you?

You wrote songs about your
last girlfriend, didn't you?

Yeah, but she left.

She did?
She's gone.

You can't know what you feel until
you know what the other person feels

because it's a kind of
a constant balancing act

to make sure that you're
feeling the right thing

for the person who's feeling
the right thing for you.

But you can impose some of the
things on the other people.

Well, that's dangerous.

Well, I was trying to impose some of my
things on you and it worked a little bit.

How do you know?
Just because we're here, you mean?

No, I know.

You know?
Yeah.

You're very sure of yourself.
I'm old enough...

Yes. Yes.
You are very sure of yourself.

Yes, I think so.
Is that bothering you?

No, I love it.

It's the best thing
about anybody.

You seem to have a very
good sense of your own self.

No, but I don't know, I...

I was thinking that maybe
I'm going to scare you away.

No, no, no, no.
I'm not one of those people.

On the contrary,
I'm scared away by people

who... who don't feel
comfortable with themselves,

who are out of touch
with their own feelings

or who are scared
of their own self.

Who don't... don't know their own
value because then they're fragile,

and they use your... your strength
to hurt their fragility,

and that hurts your fragility,

and it's just a terrible mess.

I think it takes two
strong people to be equals.

You're saying how strong I am and
I'm absolutely... I'm shaking inside.

Well, I'm sure inside, if I got in
touch with it, I'm shaking, too.

I'm not yet shaking
as much as I want to be.

I want to be
a little more out of control.

But I have a feeling...
For what?

Well, I'd... I'd feel
the truth of my being more

if I were more out of control.

You know?

And that would give me a kind of...
A kind of strength

because then I could feel
really who I am.

Vulnerable, you know, open.

I really like you.

I really like you, too.

- I don't know...
- Hi, honey.

Hi. Hi.

Hi.
Hi.

How are you?
Hello.

Hi.
Hi.

How are you doing?
Good.

You two have met, of course.

♪ Someone to love

♪ Someone to cradle
in the dark of night

♪ Someone who'd know
just when to hold me tight

♪ When to let me go

♪ My own way

♪ I just want
someone to love

♪ Someone who'll take me
just the way I am

♪ Who'll want
to take a chance

♪ And won't give a damn
about falling down

♪ You know you can always

♪ Get up again

♪ Someone to love

♪ Someone who wants
to reach out for a dream

♪ Who knows happiness can be
much closer than it seems

♪ Who knows what to do

♪ With a heart that's true

♪ So will you love me?

♪ It sure would be nice
not to go it alone

♪ I know that I can make it

♪ On my own

♪ I know you can, too

♪ But is it you?

♪ Will you be

♪ Someone to love?

♪ Someone to climb on
in the heat of night

♪ Who'll turn around and love
me till the morning light

♪ Is it you?

♪ Is it you?

♪ Will you be
someone to love?

♪ Someone to love

♪ Someone to love ♪

Dim the lights, would you?
Let's save them.

I don't know where I'm going.

I don't know
where I'm supposed to go.

It's not gonna work.
It doesn't make any sense.

I don't know what to do.
I don't know.

Hi, there.

Hi.

What are you doing here?

Thanks for the invitation.

Well, I invited you but I didn't
really expect you to come.

How long have you been there?

I can't see you.

Could we improve things a little?
Sorry.

Yeah, sure. Could you bring
the lights back up, please?

Good.
Thanks.

I've been here longer
than I guess you know.

You brought
a lot of people here,

and you asked them
about themselves,

and you probably asked me
to watch your operation

because I've always been
very interested in it.

You have a different way
of making movies

than almost anybody else.

Certainly very different
than mine.

And I came here
to find out how it works.

And you just announced
that it doesn't.

I don't think it does.

I don't think
you're sure of that.

I think it's one of those moods.

I'd like to know
what were you after

when you were asking
those questions.

You have, apparently, a theme.

I... I was trying to find out
why we're all alone,

why my whole generation
is alone.

Is there something special
about your generation?

Yes.
What?

I think that my generation
is the first one

that has not managed to create
the illusion for themselves,

in their own lifetime,
that they are not alone.

I'm talking about feeling a part
of a family unit that every...

Family unit.
Yes.

Now you've got a theme.

Of course,
it's a great big huge theme

that, no movie
can possibly take care of.

This is a movie, isn't it?

I hope it can become a movie.
I'm beginning to doubt that.

Well, you come
a little closer. Let's see.

I have a terrible feeling that
because I'm speaking to you

from the back of the theater,

and because
I have a white beard,

you may expect me to give you
the truth about something.

I'm speaking from the cheap
seats, not from Mount Sinai.

I think your question
is very interesting and apt

insofar as it has to do with the
collapse of the family, the clan.

The collapse of the community,

the community sense, and then the
clan, and then the family,

has to do
with the collapse of faith.

Whether it is faith in something
you regard as supernatural,

or faith in the state
as Confucius taught it.

Or Marx.

Or as they believed in it
in the first period

of the kibbutzim
in, in Israel.

Whenever there is a faith,
it illuminates people's lives.

Don't you think
that the clan stays together?

Is it possible for people
not to feel alone

when Grandma is sent away
to a home?

And when the family unit is
only two people and a child

with a divorce
either this year or next...

Why?
Why do people divorce?

No, not why they divorce.
Why they can't sustain relationships.

Why they can't sustain
intimacy anymore.

I don't understand why.
Why...

Do you think people
ever sustained intimacy?

Well, they seemed to have.

My parents have been together for 55 years.
Everybody else...

He goes off to work
every morning at 10:00.

And what does your mother do?

She has a private life
of entertainment.

There you are.
Yeah.

She doesn't feel that she
needs to compete with the man.

Shouldn't we be able
to be equal people

and not be lonely and share
our lives with others?

Let's see.

Up to now, no.

Why not?

Well, look at the... look at the
condition that... that the women are in.

But why are they in that condition?
Why are we in that condition?

Why is everybody
in this lonely condition?

All right, that brings us to the
great revolution of our times,

which is the liberation
of women.

But by liberating women we are
freeing the last of our slaves.

And for 15,000, 20,000 years

there has never been
a civilization ever, not...

Including the great democracy
of Pericles in Athens,

there has never been
a single civilization,

which has not been maintained
by slaves.

And, you know,
it's only about 200 years,

200 years
in the thousands of years

that we've been here
on this planet,

that anybody has thought
slavery is wrong.

There was never a word
against slavery.

In the most high societies,

in the...
In the noblest civilizations,

nobody ever said,
"It's wrong to have a slave."

We have yet to see

whether a civilization
could be based on equality.

It's a brand-new idea.

Of these people you have
been asking questions to,

who were the loneliest?

I think the women were the
most conscious of what they were missing.

More conscious than the men,
but women are more conscious than men.

Because they are
missing something.

Because in the process
of taking...

Of taking those positions
in society,

which they feel
they should not be denied,

and who is to say them nay?

They have given up what
they've had all this time.

And it's bound to create
a certain sudden chill.

But you said what they've had
is slavery.

Of course. Of course they
don't miss the slavery.

But it was a... a very privileged slavery.
A slavery nonetheless.

There's a difference between the
field slave and the house slave.

Yeah, but they don't want
to be house slaves anymore.

I'm not blaming them.

So what's the future?

There are several options.

The revolution could fail,
as most revolutions do.

Well, we don't want that.
Or it can succeed, as some revolutions do.

And the winners
will be the women

and we will be enslaved.

But why does it have to be...
Or we will both be enslaved.

We will both be enslaved

by a conglomerate
kind of totalitarian world

run by computers

in which this problem
will be so peripheral

to the general state
of human misery

that this is all
a waste of time.

The future holds many options,

many of them grim,
many of them irksome.

God.

You... You're upsetting me much more.
I was depressed enough before.

I didn't come here
to make you cheerful.

I guess not.
I came here to see a show.

Help me. I need help.

So do I, Danny.

You can't possibly be saying that
this is bad, what's happened to women.

I mean, you must be happy
that what's happened to women

is that they've
freed themselves...

You know, excuse me.

- Excuse me.
- Where were you?

This is Edith.
You know each other, I think.

- I know this lady so well from the screen.
- Hello.

I've been listening to Danny
all day,

putting microphones
in front of people

and saying, "What's wrong?"
and, "What's wrong?"

And, "Why are you alone?"
And...

You asked Danny who felt
the split and separation,

the lack of family the most,
and Danny said women.

And I felt like it was a
projection on Danny's part

because I heard some women today

saying that they were
having a good time,

and that they were enjoying
their freedom,

and they were looking
for things in life.

And I guess I'm... I'm
limited intellectually

but I'm more interested
in the personal point of view.

Yes?
Welcome.

You'd be surprised how many
of us are very happy people.

There are enormous amounts
of women friends that I have

that are so happy now because
they're finding themselves.

Well, happiness
I don't know about.

I've always been
deeply suspicious of that line

the Founding Fathers wished on
us, "The pursuit of happiness."

I... I'm not very much
in favor of that.

I think we should be full of joy

whenever there's a reason
to have joy.

But I think happiness
is not our right.

It's... it's an achievement.
It's a bit of luck.

I'm happy.

I've had a kid,
and I've been divorced,

and I am alone, and I'm happy.

- Yeah.
- Yes.

As well as I'm not... not lonely and
I'm managing to do what I want to do

'cause I'm extremely happy.

Is there anybody
who's miserable up there?

You are?

Yes, I am miserable because,
women are terribly dangerous.

Women are dangerous?

Yes.

A fatal admission.

I said something, to Danny.

He asked me about...

I'm all for American women,
what they are doing and so on,

actually the... the liberation
started here and so forth.

But I wouldn't like to be
an American male.

It's not so much
a question of being equal,

but American women consider
themselves as a failure

if they did not succeed
in the man's world.

- And it's wrong.
- I have to cut in.

It isn't my struggle to be
equal in a man's career.

It's that... that
what I'm trying to do is

be less responsibility
for my mate.

You know, in that I have a
responsibility to find my own joy,

or my own life within myself.

The family has collapsed

because women are trying to do what
men have never been able to do,

which is to be both completely
fulfilled in their work

and completely fulfilled
in their hearthside.

Men have been a notable failure
at combining these things.

Why should women succeed
better than we did?

Maybe if some of us women
have made the mistake

of emulating men in our
struggle for independence,

we now want to retrieve
our power.

Men have stopped being men, too.

I miss that male energy.

Ole!

There's a tremendous
diminution in men's energy.

It's partly because men are
sympathetic to the new revolution,

and partly because
we are scared to death of it.

Yes. You're absolutely
right, girls.

Excuse me.

Excuse me, I shouldn't have
said that word, should I?

Of course.

Yes.
It's all right with me.

Isn't there a... Isn't there a...
Isn't it a no-no?

No.

Calling women girls?

This theater
is coming down tomorrow.

Are you aware of that?

That this theater
is being torn down tomorrow.

Are you talking to me?

Yes, I am.

What a shame.

What more is there to say?

There will always be a theater.

No matter how many houses
are torn down

there will always be a theater.

And it may very well be
a healthy thing

that the old-fashioned theater
is done away with.

I've tried to make the point that we
are doing away with a form of slavery.

I've tried not to step
on any toes.

It has been painful for me,
in the last few years,

to say things
like "chairperson."

Just as it's been painful for me
to lose the valuable word "gay,"

for which we have no
equivalent in our dictionary.

So I am sorry that our
language has had to change

with our revolutions,

but I am not against
these revolutions.

I've only tried to point out to
you, or rather to Danny,

that what we're faced with

is a dilemma
of a deeply sentimental man

and nothing more.

Nobody knows whether we
are going to ever have

what he thinks
is a happy marriage.

The options

rest in the womb of time.

You have to be willing
to let us see some of you.

You can't lie down, Danny.

Okay, now we have him
where we want him.

- I think...
- Ask him the same things.

We finally have Danny
where we want him.

Now you must ask.

Ask him the questions
that he asked us all day.

Come on, ask him.
Ask him, why is he alone?

Don't collaborate with them
'cause you're my friend.

- Danny!
- Ask him why he's alone.

Not only, why are you alone,

but why have you imposed
this, misery,

which has to do
with a generation of people

who walk around holding
mirrors to themselves?

Why you have imposed this
peculiar misery on your friends

in a noble institution
like the theater?

Justify yourself!

I don't have an answer yet.

Well, it's your movie.

It's my life.

From the testimony

of these lovely members
of the female sex

that have gathered about you,

it seems to me

that you're the only miserable
person in this theater.

All right!

I thought you were
offended initially,

when I didn't recognize you
as an actress.

I thought you...
You didn't like me,

but Danny told me secretly
that you actually did.

He shouldn't do that because I'm
kind of shy about it, you know,

acknowledging that
and expressing that.

Yes, but then it made me
like you better, you know.

'Cause otherwise, I'm too old to
like people who don't like me.

♪ All at once

♪ I knew

♪ That all I longed for

You sing.

♪ Long ago was...

♪ You

♪ Chills run up
and down my spine

♪ Aladdin's lamp

Mickey.

Mickey, let's dance.

♪ Just one look
and then I knew ♪

Not my key.

That's very good.

Have you ever been in love?

You do know why we're doing all
this, don't you?

Come on. This whole thing...

You don't realize what this
whole thing's been about?

This is your
Valentine's Day card.

This whole party
is your card, baby.

Happy Valentine's Day.

You mean that?

It's what it's about.

Hanania, you got that?

You got this?
Go right in tight.

On her.

What do you feel?

What do you feel?
Tell the camera.

What do you feel?

Come on.
Come on.

Keep going with me.
That was good. That was great.

What's the matter with you?
What is it?

Come on.
What's the matter?

Why don't you shoot this?

Just running out.

We finished the film.
Roll out.

Sorry.

It's a terrible time
to run out, you know.

Reload.

I told you,
you should have changed.

You told me
I should have changed?

Yes.

I told you we wouldn't make it.

What do I do now?

Let's reload.

What do I do now, Hanania?
Go again.

We go again?
She's just run out.

Call her.
It's only a movie, you know.

Helen! It's only a movie!

What do I do now?

Are we ready?

Helen!
I can't go without her.

If she's not here,
I don't know where I'm gonna go.

What do I do now?

What do I do now?

What do I do now?

You know, um,

I don't think
anybody can overhear us now,

and I want to take the
occasion to tell you something

that I'm a little nervous
about it,

but I'm gonna tell you
anyway and...

Well, I'll come right out
and say it.

You know, the thing is that
I just really like you a lot.

I just have that feeling about you
that I like you and it's very strange

because when I meet women, you
know, usually I don't like them.

And if I do like them,
I deny to myself that I like them.

And if I admit it to myself
that I like them,

I deny it to them
that I like them.

And if I admit to them
that I like them,

then I'm waiting to see
that they don't like me

and so I deny
the whole thing altogether.

My brother used to tell me,
when I was little,

that he wasn't really my brother

but that he was a Martian

who had taken over the form and
face and figure of my brother.

I'm from the equivalent of
Mars in a different galaxy.

I didn't believe him.
I told him I knew he was lying.

But he said to me,
"If you look me in the eyes,

"you'll know
that I'm telling the truth."

Look directly in my eyes.

And I remember
looking him in the eyes

and knowing the truth.

I am not your brother.

And the truth was
that he was a Martian.

I am what you people
call an alien.

He was a Martian.

Did you get enough footage?

Did you get enough footage?

Yeah, I think so.

What are you gonna do with it?

I don't know. I'll...
I'll cut it together somehow.

The fact that I kind of feel
that not only that I like you,

and admit it to myself,
and admit it to you,

and don't deny it,
and I'm able to tell it to you,

it's very strange because,
you know, um, the thing about me

is that I've never been married

and I have a great difficulty
with permanent relationships.

Mickey, this has been
the most absurd day,

of, I would say, of my life
but we know that's not true.

I have an extra toothbrush.

I'll bring it over and I'll
leave it at your house.

Just in case.

Okay?

Whatever's happened here today

makes me...

I'm gonna go back to my husband.

When you go back
to your husband,

I mean, does that mean that,
it's a strictly kind of a...

Yeah.

Okay?

Because, you know,
usually when women go back to the husband

that doesn't stop them from being
available to me under the circumstances.

I never... All right, wait.
Wait a minute.

Sometimes, you talk so much
that I just, like, pull...

Okay?

Lights.

You know, endings...

Endings are a great
American preoccupation.

And happy endings,

which is really
what you're looking for

because you're a sentimentalist,

happy endings depend on stopping
the story before it's over.

I think... I think you can
give me help if you really want to.

At least one thing I know
you can tell me,

how to make all of this work.

All comedies end in marriage

and all tragedies end in death.

And those are your choices.

Marriage or death?

And now we've added divorce.

I don't like that one.

I'd like to take marriage but I
don't know how to do that anymore.

No one seems to know
how to do that.

Put on your apron and shut up!

That's it?

"Put on your apron and shut up"?

That's the only choice?

At the moment.

"Put on your apron and shut up"?

For, what is it, 20,000 years,

all the generations
that have passed

through all the civilizations
of the world

have been totally alone.

We come into the world alone,
we die alone, we live alone.

Love and friendship is the
nearest thing that we can find

to create the illusion
that we are not totally alone.

We've always been alone.
Yeah.

Which strikes you as a particular
problem of your generation.

And I'm trying to see to what
extent that is a contemporary crisis

and not an eternal condition.

Can't I have a dramatic event?

Can't I kill myself?

Sure.

Would that work?

Well, it didn't work
in Hamlet, he gave it up.

And went on for two more acts.

He asked a few of those
questions, too, in blank verse.

It's a problem that comes
along about the third act.

Don't I need a finish?
No.

Could I kill everyone else?

By this time,
the credits are rolling down

and the audience, such as it may
be, is on its way up the aisles.

As far as this movie
is concerned,

it seems to me
you've got your ending.

Why?

Because we have come to the end.

I'm glad you came today.

So am I.

Thank you.

Stay a little longer?
We really can't go on recording this.

Why not?
It's gotten too sweet.

I'm not gonna say cut.

I'll say cut. I'm a director.

Cut!

Say it into the camera.
What?

Say it into the camera.

I did.

Could you do it again?

You want me to say cut again?

Into the camera.
And really...

He's a born director.
He wants to improvise and do it twice.

Cut!

♪ Long ago and far away

♪ I dreamed a dream one day

♪ And now

♪ That dream is here beside me

♪ Long

♪ The skies were overcast

♪ But now the clouds
have passed

♪ You're near at last

♪ Chills

♪ Run up and down my spine

♪ Aladdin's lamp is mine

♪ The dream I dreamed

♪ Was not denied me

♪ Just one look

♪ And then I knew

♪ That all I longed for

♪ Long ago, was you

♪ Just one look

♪ And then I knew

♪ That all I longed for

♪ Long ago, was you ♪