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Damn, damn, damn. Damn.
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Surely the facts are not in dispute?
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This man, a harmless enough
old creature by all accounts...
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was running away from an army patrol...
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he's sick, terrified.
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You're hurt...
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Please.
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- And you killed him, did you not?
- He was mortally wounded when I found him.
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And you Kevin Woodford took it upon
yourself to put him out of his pain.
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He said he was dying,
he begged me to finish him off.
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A sick old man, frightened
doubted himself out of his wits.
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No doctor present? No medical orderlies?
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We hope not many such fall into your hand.
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It wasn't just his bullet
wounds from the patrol.
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- Really?
- His illness...
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he had...
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he was turning into an animal.
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Are you being metaphorical Woodford?
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Or are you suggesting some
kind of actual metamorphosis?
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- A werewolf.
- A werewolf perhaps?
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- Well, well, well.
- Changing, it seemed to me.
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- Into some kind of animal.
- How extraordinary.
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Well, that obviously justified
you finishing him off, didn't it?
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I'm not saying that.
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We shall not try to penetrate the odd
recesses of your imagination Woodford.
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We shall ask you exactly what you
are trying to saying about his death.
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Did you feel you personally have the right
to arbitrate on a matter of life and death?
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Please.
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Please...
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I was confused.
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As indeed I'm sure we all
are in this court today.
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- But it wasn't murder.
- But you did shoot him?
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Yes.
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And you seriously plea that
this was an act of mercy?
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Yes.
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Well as in the eyes of
the law it was plain homicide.
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I was confused.
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As indeed I'm sure we all
are in this court today.
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- But it wasn't murder.
- But you did shoot him?
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Yes.
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And you seriously plea that
this was an act of mercy?
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Well as in the eyes
of the law is plain homicide.
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I think maybe people should
be allowed to die the way they choose.
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Ah, I see.
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An expose of some higher moral law
to which you have privileged access.
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- I wouldn't say that exactly.
- No, some moral argument.
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Which exonerates you
from the charge of murder.
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- I'd say that, yes, I would.
- I see.
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So you feel that your action...
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lies outside the inadequate
and pathetic assumption of this court...
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that willful slaughter is murder?
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Why you so contemptuous?
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The idiosyncratic notions of moral law
which exist within the indicted's head...
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are not our concern, however
innocent he is within his own eyes...
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he is guilty before the laws of the state.
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We are here to decide not
whether his action was justifiable...
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nor even comprehensible.
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Only if it is criminal.
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We have the medical evidence
here of Dr. Mark Eddington.
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We have the indicted's own word.
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And we have the unequivocal
nature of the law of the state.
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I'm assure the
ladies and gentlemen of the jury...
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I'm sure that your conclusions must be...
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inevitable.
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Oh Sonia.
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Why you marry that petrified
lawyer, the son of mine?
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I tried to warn you.
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It'll have to be rewritten
in so little time and...
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Oh shit, it's Mark Eddington.
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Damn it, I'll make you a
friend of Claude's, eh?
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- I haven't seen you for ages.
- What did you make of that then?
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Well, you've seen Claude prosecuting before.
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- He was hateful today, I'm furious.
- I wouldn't say that.
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Fury in Claude isn't like most
people, comes out ice-cold, logical.
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The jury was obviously
sympathetic to that boy.
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And it's not Claude's way to
let that confuse the issue.
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What a strange young man.
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- Funny sort of crank to find in the army.
- Crank? I thought what he did was brave.
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- Well I...
- Mark.
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You're going to have
lunch with Claude and me.
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Come on, join us at
Luigi's in about half an hour.
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Oh yes, yes fine, I'd love to.
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But dear I'd, I'd...
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Sonia, wait a minute.
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But what are you in my
scheme of things Eddington?
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The Jolly old, bloody old, doctor character?
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God forbid...
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Here he is again.
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Never liked you Eddington, never
understood what Claude saw in you.
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I'm getting rid of you at once.
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Sonia, here no.
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What she? Of course, she's intrigued.
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She wants to meet that Kevin Woodford.
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I get it, he wants to cut me up.
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Shall we let him try?
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Wait a minute though,
right hospital, wrong pathologist.
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Wasn't Eddington going to
lunch with Sonia and Claude?
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Oh, get out of my mind.
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I regret nothing, damn and blast you.
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My love and respect for the
human body, the hard muscle, fine skin.
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At Cap Ferrat, those days
salty and strong out of the sea.
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Not a vain man, well...
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Ugly, Molly used to say, green...
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but handsome in your
own fashion Clive Langham.
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I loved the sun, loved the
cold wine, Christ, I can taste it now.
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God, what a tailor's dummy he is.
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Your mother, Molly where are you?
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She always had the wine chilled
to exactly the right temperature.
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And prawns red in their shells.
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Yes, I see her laughing
there on the terrace in the sun.
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- We...
- Can't you take a hint?
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Didn't I say bugger off.
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You think this horrifies me?
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All the pain before I care about.
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Well, there's the morphine I suppose...
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Verdict, not guilty.
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There wasn't a jury in there.
Was a twelve man law reform commission.
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I wonder why Sonia asked me to lunch.
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Well, why shouldn't she?
She's always seeking allies these days.
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What's the matter with you?
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We've know each other for thirty years
and trusted each other for nearly ten.
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It was a command really.
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- Are you and she in some sort of crisis?
- Oh, for Christ's sake Mark, really.
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She always thinks I'm prosecuting
her when she sees me in court.
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Do you resent the boy getting off free?
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Have no things about him whatsoever.
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- What about losing the case?
- Oh, I think my reputation will stand up.
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Where the hell is she?
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Look, I'm going to have a
pee and then I'm going to order.
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Oh, I got another of those
telegrams this morning from my father.
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He's still dying, of course. I've never
known anyone take quite so long about it.
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And do it in such good health.
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Claude, I thought you might
like to meet Kevin Woodford.
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I have met him.
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To apologize for your
aggressiveness in court I thought.
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I was just going for a pee.
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- Why you whether bring you here?
- I don't mind where I go.
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I never mind where I am.
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Oh dear. I think he's
fey, it's always tiresome.
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You are fey aren't you?
Oh, I know that you have inner peace.
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That usually implies no powers
of rational thinking, whatsoever.
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I don't feel like lunch today...
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suddenly.
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Oh hell, these places are almost
becoming de rigueur as fear symbols.
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Jolly well, bloody old de rigueur, eh?
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Well, if one is had a fatuous life,
one might as well have fatuous nightmares.
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But I am frightened.
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You will not get me, you fucking bastards.
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That's right children, go in, go in.
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Why not in Claude's house?
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Let battle commence.
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Yes, in here.
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Bang on Clive Langham,
get it down, no. No, stop.
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It could seem vulgar and must not.
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Now, that's fascinating, eh?
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Yes, I approve of that.
Do get on with it children.
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My god, he doesn't look
as if it's urgent though.
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Not angry when rejected but wistful.
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Good, good.
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But what about the tyrannical
lawyer himself? Where would he be?
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Ok, so in his office then.
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And furthermore father...
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since there's no point in
telephoning you, far less in visiting you.
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Which would only be exposing ourselves
to our now familiar mutual recriminations.
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Damn it all father, you're a rich man.
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But if you must do your dying
with such a disgusting lack of dignity.
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Why don't you do it in a
nursing home? Or some such place.
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Where they can stand in
amazed, well paid tolerance.,
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While you shout and drink and
protest your way to death's dark door.
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The silence when you reach the other...
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side will be our only
reassurance that you actually gone.
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And I could add, .I could add.
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When you find yourself potentially alone.
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You sod, you odious, sanctimonious...
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stiff necked little crumb,
I'm not having this, by god.
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Watch it Langham, the blood pressure.
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I mean to say, if I don't know
how to die at least I knew how to live.
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But what about that mistress of yours my son?
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What did I do with her?
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- Don't tell me I mislaid her.
- ♪ I diddle I-de, a drunken life for me. ♪
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Damned it I'm giving you
to the dreaded Claude.
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Oh, I could do with you myself.
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If I could just get off this bed,
out of this coffin of a room.
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Yes, you'll do for the moment,
you can be Claude's mistress.
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Quick, quick, quick, first
name into the mind, Helen Wiener.
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Yeah, intellectual journalist.
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Goes to conferences on every
bloody thing, that's you Helen Wiener.
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Just another wee drinkie whilst
they get you onto Terra firma.
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Did you know?
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Did you know, those astronauts
who have been to the moon.
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It's had a peculiar effect on some of them.
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Lurching about on a lump of
frozen rock, hanging in space.
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Claude is due back.
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I think of God's eyes
watching them, a pair of huge...
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brilliant eyes somewhere
out there beyond the sun...
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brighter then the sun.
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Kevin, I'm not overawed by the universe.
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It's a very peaceful
place you have here, you and...
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Claude should like it
quite a lot I should imagine.
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And you also imagine that
we should get out before he arrives?
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I've never done this before.
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I always thought if I did it would be
somewhere else and in the sweat of guilt.
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- On his account.
- I'm quite easy in most situations.
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You see there's every indication
that some of the astronauts...
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have been profoundly
disturbed by going out there.
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- Kevin.
- Yes?
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Why are you so bloody
obsessed by the fucking astronauts?
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- Why you go on about the astronauts?
- Well I think it all has its poetic side.
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Clomping about under the stars and so on.
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Sod the moon, no poetry there anymore.
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Another of those
stabbing pains right up the arse.
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Then another stinger
coming right down the spine.
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Meet the one from the backside.
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Out there, in the icy universe...
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nothing.
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Physiological disaster...
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there'll be some reddish brown
stains on the underpants yesterday.
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No more doctors.
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You know, I suppose he
meet his mistress in a motel.
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No...
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Hear Claude, hear.
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You can't, not now, mustn't go home.
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Inconvenient.
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Or is it...
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Now...
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Am I springing Claude on them?
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Will give me no end of fun.
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With me it was almost the other way round,
husbands catching me with their wives.
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Bang, thump, wallop, down you go Langham.
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Always the bungler.
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Never caught anyone with my wife.
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I don't actually smell sex.
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Hasn't there been any?
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You should meet my brother.
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He'd take it just like you,
he's a famous footballer.
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The telephone, why not?
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What would you say was interesting
about him? I mean, what exactly is the...
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point about him, his attraction?
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Any clues about yourself Woodford? Any ideas?
240
00:23:51,922 --> 00:23:55,477
If your wife is attracted to me,
I think that's your problem not mine.
241
00:23:56,963 --> 00:23:59,729
I don't think I've ever been
a problem, have I Claude?
242
00:24:00,317 --> 00:24:03,817
Problems have a way of acquiring
status in a relationship, you see.
243
00:24:10,492 --> 00:24:11,310
Hello?
244
00:24:14,149 --> 00:24:15,152
Helen.
245
00:24:16,565 --> 00:24:17,468
Where?
246
00:24:19,321 --> 00:24:21,881
No, I'm having a drink
in the bedroom with my wife...
247
00:24:22,495 --> 00:24:24,783
and the young man she seems keen on.
248
00:24:26,413 --> 00:24:28,607
Now? Yes.
249
00:24:30,606 --> 00:24:31,617
Right away.
250
00:24:33,754 --> 00:24:34,681
Who's Helen?
251
00:24:38,717 --> 00:24:40,755
I despise you Woodford.
252
00:24:42,584 --> 00:24:46,032
- I'm sorry about that.
- He's frightfully unattractive.
253
00:24:46,815 --> 00:24:49,143
It doesn't matter whether
you're good enough for my wife...
254
00:24:50,449 --> 00:24:52,339
are you good enough for me?
255
00:24:53,675 --> 00:24:56,614
- I really don't think so.
- Who is Helen?
256
00:25:01,929 --> 00:25:05,064
- I don't remember.
- I don't remember, eh?
257
00:25:09,779 --> 00:25:12,179
I think he'd better
get off and meet old Helen.
258
00:26:13,085 --> 00:26:14,614
Oh, there goes another thing.
259
00:26:23,404 --> 00:26:26,134
Slip the suppository into position.
260
00:26:29,948 --> 00:26:32,834
No such luck for me, a sudden coronary.
261
00:26:33,239 --> 00:26:38,803
No, has to be slow, squalid and messy things.
262
00:26:40,306 --> 00:26:42,774
Live by the guts and die by the guts.
263
00:26:49,214 --> 00:26:53,781
Now, let science soothe the troubled rectum.
264
00:26:55,248 --> 00:26:57,051
And back to business.
265
00:27:13,782 --> 00:27:19,539
Who does not know the mixture of fear and
excitement going to meet an old flame.
266
00:27:19,659 --> 00:27:21,959
Carrying one's thundering prick.
267
00:27:23,448 --> 00:27:28,960
Already composing the get out clauses, just
in case she's cooked up an actual demand...
268
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:35,320
or the erstwhile reliable member
should fail in it's exquisite duties.
269
00:27:36,064 --> 00:27:40,858
And what's more if the new encounter
should turn out disastrous from the word go.
270
00:27:41,615 --> 00:27:46,381
Will one be able to get rid of her
with a dash of style? A little panache?
271
00:29:59,536 --> 00:30:05,256
Not you Woodford, damn and bugger
you, Christ he's intractable this one.
272
00:30:05,845 --> 00:30:09,078
I'll never get the hang of him. Out. Out.
273
00:30:43,670 --> 00:30:45,347
She looks like his mother.
274
00:30:46,883 --> 00:30:51,885
Clearly the boy must've an
unconscious mind, just like everybody else.
275
00:30:53,545 --> 00:30:55,125
Oh, Molly.
276
00:31:07,001 --> 00:31:10,266
- You look well.
- I'm dying.
277
00:31:17,593 --> 00:31:22,857
Have you ever heard of
an allegedly famous footballer...
278
00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:25,416
called Woodford?
279
00:31:30,340 --> 00:31:31,268
How's your wife?
280
00:31:31,437 --> 00:31:33,593
I'm thinking of killing
this footballer's brother.
281
00:31:35,917 --> 00:31:40,074
It's one of those rare, slow, deadly
diseases you can have without knowing.
282
00:31:41,141 --> 00:31:44,968
Then suddenly accelerates and
nothing can stop it or reverse it.
283
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:52,596
Suddenly you are not just
aging, you are irrevocably dying.
284
00:31:57,116 --> 00:32:00,107
- How's your father?
- He's still dying.
285
00:32:06,023 --> 00:32:07,565
Well, he's an old man.
286
00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:13,285
There's no necessary connection between one's
age and the length of time taken to die.
287
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:17,679
I am told I have about six months.
288
00:32:19,216 --> 00:32:21,762
- Maybe a year.
- We must make the most of it.
289
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,400
What a bastard, great, smashing.
290
00:32:28,229 --> 00:32:29,901
Of course it's been said about my work...
291
00:32:30,008 --> 00:32:33,937
that the search for style is
often resulted in a want of feeling.
292
00:32:36,411 --> 00:32:38,751
My goodness, does he find this erotic?
293
00:32:40,094 --> 00:32:43,676
However I'd put it another
way I'd say that style is feeling.
294
00:32:44,035 --> 00:32:46,778
Its most elegant and economic expression.
295
00:32:48,737 --> 00:32:51,480
Ten out of ten Clive Langham.
296
00:33:00,394 --> 00:33:04,492
Christ, it's the bloody footballer,
the dreaded younger Woodford.
297
00:33:07,561 --> 00:33:11,692
He can't just, just trundle in here
and take a shower, can he?
298
00:33:12,263 --> 00:33:16,394
So what to do? I suppose we could
start up again in another hotel.
299
00:33:18,108 --> 00:33:19,433
We could live together.
300
00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:24,393
And leave Sonia? To watch me die?
301
00:33:24,785 --> 00:33:29,096
Shouldn't everyone live as if they're about
to die, not next week nor next month but now?
302
00:33:29,814 --> 00:33:32,100
Anyway, it's impossible.
303
00:33:33,423 --> 00:33:36,150
So how do you and Sonia live?
304
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,880
In a state of unacknowledged mutual
exhaustion behind which we scream...
305
00:33:43,432 --> 00:33:44,476
silently.
306
00:33:45,489 --> 00:33:46,991
Sounds binding.
307
00:33:47,530 --> 00:33:52,020
I learn self control as a reaction
against my father, it started as a habit...
308
00:33:53,117 --> 00:33:54,603
then became a trap.
309
00:33:55,828 --> 00:33:59,436
We squirmed. How you get out?
310
00:34:01,460 --> 00:34:04,186
- Maybe you really scream.
- No, never have.
311
00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:08,252
No, you have to have a
big passion, a compelling reason.
312
00:34:08,856 --> 00:34:12,578
I've had neither of
those, neither, I think, has she.
313
00:34:17,019 --> 00:34:21,607
How glad I am, I chose to live alone.
314
00:34:24,595 --> 00:34:28,090
- Right from the beginning.
- Are you?
315
00:34:37,105 --> 00:34:40,775
- I feel nothing at all.
- He can say that again.
316
00:34:42,799 --> 00:34:44,432
Damn.
317
00:34:45,411 --> 00:34:47,762
He'll be bloody well blind anyway.
318
00:34:49,248 --> 00:34:50,684
Poor Claude.
319
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:57,557
What a thin owlish little sod you
were at school, prig from the word go.
320
00:35:00,692 --> 00:35:03,860
Ought we not always to
live as if one is going to die.
321
00:35:05,313 --> 00:35:06,684
Eyes like marbles.
322
00:35:08,317 --> 00:35:11,125
Why haven't you got the Nobel Prize daddy?
323
00:35:11,647 --> 00:35:15,026
Our English master says you aren't
nearly as good as Graham Greene.
324
00:35:16,136 --> 00:35:17,867
Beset the bugger, say I.
325
00:35:18,341 --> 00:35:20,365
Some of us, fuck face...
326
00:35:20,888 --> 00:35:24,610
wonder why Graham Greene
hasn't got the Nobel Prize either.
327
00:35:28,658 --> 00:35:30,524
He once offered to
teach me how to masturbate.
328
00:35:31,221 --> 00:35:34,487
- Your father?
- I was deeply shocked.
329
00:35:35,172 --> 00:35:39,825
He'll have to go into a nursing home of
course. Eight housekeepers in five months.
330
00:35:40,641 --> 00:35:43,906
Nobody tries still, he tries to screw them.
331
00:35:44,462 --> 00:35:48,105
You are not going to put that
extraordinary old man in a nursing home.
332
00:35:48,135 --> 00:35:50,747
That purely incontinent, aging infant.
333
00:35:51,629 --> 00:35:56,250
You just resent his independence,
just as you'd resent mine, if I had any.
334
00:35:57,556 --> 00:36:00,873
You're not a husband or
a son, you're a goddamn jailer.
335
00:36:00,903 --> 00:36:02,111
How's Kevin?
336
00:36:02,928 --> 00:36:06,734
And being a goddamn jailer is the
nearest thing you've got to an instinct.
337
00:36:06,764 --> 00:36:08,405
You must want him very much.
338
00:36:09,001 --> 00:36:10,946
Well, I don't want you very much.
339
00:36:11,205 --> 00:36:14,389
- Not anymore...
- You must be forcefully attracted to him.
340
00:36:14,928 --> 00:36:16,054
I want.
341
00:36:16,969 --> 00:36:17,771
I want.
342
00:36:17,801 --> 00:36:21,428
I suppose you fancy he's got the
poetic spirit or something like that.
343
00:36:21,458 --> 00:36:24,462
I want, I would like...
344
00:36:26,910 --> 00:36:27,588
I...
345
00:36:28,363 --> 00:36:29,196
I...
346
00:36:30,077 --> 00:36:33,065
I. First person singular.
347
00:36:35,922 --> 00:36:39,158
Do I have to oppose you to
reassure myself that I exist?
348
00:36:40,656 --> 00:36:43,905
Let's just say there's something
in Kevin that intrigues me.
349
00:36:44,329 --> 00:36:45,293
In him?
350
00:36:46,043 --> 00:36:49,553
You mean inside him? A kind of visionary?
351
00:36:50,925 --> 00:36:53,635
Funny pictures, in his head?
352
00:36:56,591 --> 00:36:59,056
- Chubby little people with wings?
- Get out.
353
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,109
Get out. Get out.
354
00:37:07,611 --> 00:37:11,497
Now look I do insist, we
must do something about father.
355
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,354
When will you pull yourself
together? You're always sniveling.
356
00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:24,672
Shall we never be free of you?
357
00:37:28,134 --> 00:37:32,395
Well, yes father I,
I admire your books very much.
358
00:37:33,130 --> 00:37:35,399
I think you're a very fine writer indeed.
359
00:37:36,706 --> 00:37:40,790
And I hope that you die with every
nerve end in your body shrieking.
360
00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:43,792
When will you pull yourself
together? You're always sniveling.
361
00:37:44,706 --> 00:37:46,567
Shall we never be free of you?
362
00:37:50,207 --> 00:37:51,562
Yes, father I...
363
00:37:52,950 --> 00:37:56,656
- Well, yes I do.
- He's improving, improving.
364
00:37:57,378 --> 00:37:58,684
So now...
365
00:37:59,876 --> 00:38:02,929
how about a half of cold champagne.
366
00:38:05,232 --> 00:38:06,799
Petite truffles.
367
00:38:16,468 --> 00:38:19,734
Damn footballer, must've got
lost in that hotel somewhere.
368
00:38:47,986 --> 00:38:49,488
Molly...
369
00:38:51,562 --> 00:38:54,354
if you're out there in the
cosmic dark somewhere...
370
00:38:56,918 --> 00:38:58,534
don't wait for me.
371
00:39:01,636 --> 00:39:03,073
I'm not coming.
372
00:39:12,461 --> 00:39:14,420
There we go.
373
00:39:15,233 --> 00:39:17,051
The tremors, the warnings.
374
00:39:18,109 --> 00:39:23,187
Once death seemed like a gentlest
earthquake of the system, but now...
375
00:39:24,052 --> 00:39:27,203
gathering force, the years.
376
00:39:28,412 --> 00:39:33,604
What I really mean to say Molly
is of course, I'd prefer not to come.
377
00:39:53,797 --> 00:39:55,951
I think we'll try this one again.
378
00:39:59,430 --> 00:40:00,626
How's Helen?
379
00:40:03,283 --> 00:40:06,760
He killed her. Father killed her really.
380
00:40:08,311 --> 00:40:11,805
Those holidays of ours
at Cap Ferrat, he tortured her.
381
00:40:13,569 --> 00:40:15,611
He was always randy when he had a hangover.
382
00:40:26,907 --> 00:40:30,303
There's a chap in football
gear jogging along the street.
383
00:40:31,430 --> 00:40:35,462
I haven't been, no,
I wouldn't say bored with you.
384
00:40:36,033 --> 00:40:37,861
Self eliminating, yes.
385
00:40:39,184 --> 00:40:43,649
- Clever of you to catch me at seventeen.
- Well I've been dreaming you'd wake up.
386
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:47,299
- You became my authority.
- There's a deep sadness.
387
00:40:47,634 --> 00:40:49,569
You remain my only authority.
388
00:40:49,748 --> 00:40:52,266
As if dreaming is my
only real level of existence.
389
00:40:52,442 --> 00:40:54,173
And so I passed from...
390
00:40:54,777 --> 00:40:59,250
childhood, more or less to wife hood?
391
00:41:01,145 --> 00:41:07,055
Without the tiresome intervention of a
developing personality in between.
392
00:41:09,145 --> 00:41:13,014
I'm not a person, I'm a fucking construction.
393
00:41:14,337 --> 00:41:15,760
Yours.
394
00:41:17,504 --> 00:41:18,402
Was.
395
00:41:23,790 --> 00:41:28,933
After certain dreams nothing
in waking life can have such intensity.
396
00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:35,572
Even if it's a common fiction...
397
00:41:37,422 --> 00:41:38,777
it's still poignant.
398
00:41:42,777 --> 00:41:45,389
One thinks, ho-hum.
399
00:42:25,311 --> 00:42:27,339
You might as well drink my drink too.
400
00:42:46,266 --> 00:42:50,111
Not Molly, you can't have my wife.
401
00:42:51,711 --> 00:42:53,654
Do I resemble your mother?
402
00:42:56,282 --> 00:42:57,458
There's something.
403
00:43:07,384 --> 00:43:08,423
Mugged.
404
00:43:10,812 --> 00:43:11,874
Yes mugged.
405
00:43:14,816 --> 00:43:17,113
This city is definitely falling to pieces.
406
00:43:19,011 --> 00:43:20,892
All hell out there sometimes.
407
00:43:23,786 --> 00:43:26,423
My last conscious words were...
408
00:43:28,823 --> 00:43:32,870
on the question of
subatomic particles gentlemen.
409
00:43:33,953 --> 00:43:38,424
One gets confused by
what is infinitely small.
410
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,517
And what is infinitely large.
411
00:43:45,090 --> 00:43:46,473
The mind buckles.
412
00:43:48,844 --> 00:43:50,118
The head aches.
413
00:43:52,959 --> 00:43:57,873
Much more violently than
the impact of your fists gentlemen.
414
00:43:59,685 --> 00:44:02,950
- So this is how it was?
- This is how it was.
415
00:44:04,175 --> 00:44:07,212
Nothing can compare
with the memories of childhood.
416
00:44:08,551 --> 00:44:10,204
And yours and mine of each others.
417
00:44:11,451 --> 00:44:14,314
I think I began to love you because
I knew straight away you wouldn't...
418
00:44:14,771 --> 00:44:18,053
invade me, colonize me.
419
00:44:18,712 --> 00:44:21,874
Not some kind of moral
achievement on your part, it's just that I...
420
00:44:21,994 --> 00:44:25,356
suppose you simply exhausted
your prejudices on your wife.
421
00:44:25,578 --> 00:44:26,677
How penetrating.
422
00:44:29,006 --> 00:44:32,888
Truly, I wouldn't have lived
as I have if I'd met you first.
423
00:44:33,839 --> 00:44:37,252
I now look back on all
those years with bitter skepticism.
424
00:44:38,394 --> 00:44:39,961
I'm ready to defect.
425
00:44:41,545 --> 00:44:42,314
It's a little late.
426
00:44:42,541 --> 00:44:44,517
Aren't you rather letting
yourself down by saying that?
427
00:44:45,268 --> 00:44:49,088
I thought you were bored and disgusted by
the idea of living with someone continuously.
428
00:44:56,386 --> 00:44:58,492
How you and father would've fought.
429
00:45:13,515 --> 00:45:17,398
There's a terrific fire across
the city, the sky is red for miles.
430
00:45:18,443 --> 00:45:19,903
Are you still here?
431
00:45:21,608 --> 00:45:23,617
What your opinions on adultery?
432
00:45:24,532 --> 00:45:26,524
You care about the nature of things?
433
00:45:27,491 --> 00:45:31,389
Have you got a
philosophical bent? Do you worry?
434
00:45:35,735 --> 00:45:39,390
- What you think of my wife's body?
- It isn't the point.
435
00:45:40,156 --> 00:45:41,466
I beg your pardon?
436
00:45:42,148 --> 00:45:46,490
Let me put it this way, it isn't the point.
437
00:45:47,510 --> 00:45:49,302
Did you hear that old boy?
438
00:45:49,821 --> 00:45:53,037
She has a concise way of putting things.
Well, what you make of it?
439
00:45:54,196 --> 00:45:56,645
What do you make of love?
440
00:45:58,308 --> 00:45:59,989
How'd you like to run away with her?
441
00:46:00,531 --> 00:46:02,392
There's no need to run anywhere.
442
00:46:03,365 --> 00:46:08,580
I've already left you, so why run?
We can manage perfectly well just as we are.
443
00:46:09,461 --> 00:46:15,085
See if you can cope, I'd be fascinated, you
will continue to exert self control I'm sure.
444
00:46:15,845 --> 00:46:18,718
The chap is an enigma, he really is.
445
00:46:23,257 --> 00:46:26,604
She is an enterprising fuck
though, isn't she?
446
00:46:27,208 --> 00:46:28,944
I'm always content where I am.
447
00:46:29,447 --> 00:46:34,457
My husband you see Kevin,
Claude, is committed to self control.
448
00:46:35,323 --> 00:46:37,943
He exaggerates of course, it's a performance.
449
00:46:38,063 --> 00:46:41,462
If you knew him you'd realize
he has no emotions to control.
450
00:46:42,334 --> 00:46:45,820
My wife has turned your head. Oh yes she had.
451
00:46:47,355 --> 00:46:49,139
I can tell the signs.
452
00:46:51,387 --> 00:46:53,454
Woodford, don't go to sleep.
453
00:46:54,685 --> 00:46:58,146
- I know you have inner peace.
- And you have inner stagnation.
454
00:46:59,143 --> 00:47:03,616
Childhood is shattering, I can see
that you must've got off to a bad start.
455
00:47:04,939 --> 00:47:08,677
But you've got more than your
fair share of inner peace old boy.
456
00:47:09,739 --> 00:47:11,529
You'll have to be put down.
457
00:47:14,539 --> 00:47:18,016
Like a mad dog as they say.
458
00:47:25,135 --> 00:47:28,760
Sonia, put him down at once.
459
00:47:41,572 --> 00:47:43,694
- Where's the lady?
- Going for a swim.
460
00:47:44,087 --> 00:47:46,323
- Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
- I get around.
461
00:47:46,894 --> 00:47:49,126
Aren't you the famous footballer?
462
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,482
Or is it cricket?
463
00:47:53,066 --> 00:47:56,240
Steady, I believe I'm the affronted party.
464
00:47:56,270 --> 00:47:58,974
After all it is your brother
who's screwing my wife, isn't it?
465
00:47:59,094 --> 00:48:01,531
He's not screwing anybody, isn't Kevin.
466
00:48:02,686 --> 00:48:06,083
You spend very much time
jogging about town dressed like that?
467
00:48:07,093 --> 00:48:12,777
- Oh, training are we? Big match coming on.
- I'm very famous indeed, see.
468
00:48:13,455 --> 00:48:16,725
And an equally serious occupation
of mine is taking care of our Kevin.
469
00:48:16,924 --> 00:48:19,977
- He needs it, he needs it.
- Our childhood Mr. Langham.
470
00:48:20,642 --> 00:48:22,672
We was brought up like pigs.
471
00:48:24,354 --> 00:48:25,823
My goodness.
472
00:48:26,362 --> 00:48:28,893
You do seem to be
a very serious sort of chap.
473
00:48:29,072 --> 00:48:32,014
It's a fine game
football, beautiful to watch.
474
00:48:33,514 --> 00:48:34,507
Well, you know.
475
00:48:35,430 --> 00:48:38,036
I mean as a general
activity it seems meaningless...
476
00:48:38,066 --> 00:48:41,987
but the form, pattern, is elegant.
477
00:48:43,889 --> 00:48:45,574
If it is football.
478
00:48:45,694 --> 00:48:48,910
Choreographically there's
plenty of poetry there, plenty, plenty.
479
00:48:50,021 --> 00:48:52,326
Oh, when one gets hold of the ball and...
480
00:48:53,856 --> 00:48:55,343
tickles it along.
481
00:49:01,084 --> 00:49:03,316
Can I do anything for you famous footballer?
482
00:49:11,833 --> 00:49:14,045
Ah, this'll never do.
483
00:49:14,967 --> 00:49:16,784
Won't do at all.
484
00:49:18,559 --> 00:49:22,346
Can't have people thumping
our poor old bloody Claude.
485
00:49:32,241 --> 00:49:33,162
Can we?
486
00:49:36,405 --> 00:49:41,809
Oh, for Christ's sake, the pains are
banging in my neck like sodding tom-toms.
487
00:49:43,393 --> 00:49:45,156
Oh, is it the arteries?
488
00:49:46,805 --> 00:49:48,144
Or the jugular.
489
00:49:50,072 --> 00:49:51,528
Going to burst?
490
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:58,935
Then spew out, living, red juice.
491
00:50:18,536 --> 00:50:21,562
Helen? Molly?
492
00:50:22,966 --> 00:50:28,354
The pains are catching up with me,
In the end I shall call for morphine.
493
00:50:28,679 --> 00:50:31,684
No hero, not heroic, never was.
494
00:50:33,732 --> 00:50:36,293
Do you see Molly? They're
taking some of them away.
495
00:50:37,981 --> 00:50:40,043
But not you my love.
496
00:50:45,045 --> 00:50:47,650
No...
497
00:50:59,220 --> 00:51:02,163
What a punctual fellow you are, come on.
498
00:51:23,836 --> 00:51:24,848
Miss Boon.
499
00:51:30,350 --> 00:51:33,093
Ah Miss Boon,
how erotic you look this morning.
500
00:51:33,615 --> 00:51:35,475
This is my friend Woodford.
501
00:51:36,374 --> 00:51:38,095
He used to be in the army.
502
00:51:38,986 --> 00:51:42,676
But now he's nothing more,
nor less, than a failed astronaut.
503
00:51:49,190 --> 00:51:51,509
That's his, his brother Dave.
504
00:51:52,733 --> 00:51:54,529
The famous footballer.
505
00:51:56,831 --> 00:52:01,191
What can I do for you
Mr. Langham and or Mr. Woodford?
506
00:52:01,599 --> 00:52:03,999
Well you see, frankly.
507
00:52:04,468 --> 00:52:07,226
My wife is thinking
of taking him away with her.
508
00:52:07,733 --> 00:52:10,175
He has to be taken otherwise he'd never go.
509
00:52:11,602 --> 00:52:14,981
He's never had the urge for Bangkok...
510
00:52:15,324 --> 00:52:18,018
Venice, Tokyo.
511
00:52:18,635 --> 00:52:22,394
Any of those places you and I would side for.
512
00:52:24,272 --> 00:52:26,623
Woodford, sit down and explain your problem.
513
00:52:31,619 --> 00:52:32,631
Well...
514
00:52:33,819 --> 00:52:39,684
it all started after his
wife had asked me out to lunch.
515
00:52:40,566 --> 00:52:42,444
I'd just been acquitted of murder.
516
00:52:43,014 --> 00:52:48,892
What's more I think that he and Sonia
should've a quiet, beautiful place...
517
00:52:49,692 --> 00:52:51,748
where they can fuck, night and day.
518
00:52:52,843 --> 00:52:56,498
- A sort of backdrop of a place.
- I don't even know his wife, not really.
519
00:52:56,528 --> 00:53:00,957
Nonetheless, bundle him
out of the country we must.
520
00:53:02,672 --> 00:53:03,945
Before I shoot him.
521
00:53:08,076 --> 00:53:09,882
You approve of violence Miss Boon?
522
00:53:11,129 --> 00:53:13,513
- Certainly not.
- Neither do I.
523
00:53:14,019 --> 00:53:18,329
It reeks of spontaneity.
Come, come, young Buddha.
524
00:53:30,002 --> 00:53:32,271
Right, now...
525
00:53:33,936 --> 00:53:34,753
Yes.
526
00:53:35,210 --> 00:53:38,052
Where was I? In the travel agent.
527
00:53:42,279 --> 00:53:47,079
In case there's a myocardial
infarction but patient.
528
00:53:47,324 --> 00:53:48,581
No.
529
00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:53,774
Jesus, that was a spear of fire.
530
00:53:55,535 --> 00:53:56,645
So.
531
00:53:58,751 --> 00:54:00,545
Dress the creature, will you?
532
00:54:00,996 --> 00:54:05,012
- What was that Mr. Langham?
- Dress the creature, don't bugger about.
533
00:54:05,665 --> 00:54:07,620
He can't walk with my wife dressed like that.
534
00:54:07,913 --> 00:54:09,020
Yes Mr.Langham.
535
00:54:09,050 --> 00:54:13,356
Dress not the humble exterior clay
Mr. Jennings, but the man within.
536
00:54:15,161 --> 00:54:16,189
Oh come, come, come.
537
00:54:16,306 --> 00:54:17,805
I have to leave for my gun maker by noon.
538
00:54:18,112 --> 00:54:21,096
Your father rang yesterday,
ordered a dozen shirts.
539
00:54:21,204 --> 00:54:22,040
Shirts?
540
00:54:22,742 --> 00:54:24,221
He should be ordering shrouds.
541
00:54:39,534 --> 00:54:41,649
Yes, yes into bed.
542
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:43,956
Ah, there that's better.
543
00:54:46,755 --> 00:54:48,268
A little whiskey this time?
544
00:54:49,046 --> 00:54:49,957
Why not?
545
00:54:54,658 --> 00:54:59,139
Where do they say the
thrombosis, the symptoms?
546
00:55:00,198 --> 00:55:04,965
Now, there's a symptom
my, my such a type is this?
547
00:55:05,275 --> 00:55:11,250
Now just look at that Clive Langham,
that isn't quite something of a heart, eh?
548
00:55:14,173 --> 00:55:17,329
Marvelous to behold, stiff as a...
549
00:55:18,107 --> 00:55:19,871
Watch out, watch out.
550
00:55:20,361 --> 00:55:23,920
You look very cool this morning, very lovely.
551
00:55:30,761 --> 00:55:32,295
Those gloves.
552
00:55:33,112 --> 00:55:36,131
Molly was always fond of
wearing gloves like those.
553
00:55:36,311 --> 00:55:38,711
In the summer, at the races.
554
00:55:38,741 --> 00:55:39,919
- Who?
- What?
555
00:55:40,344 --> 00:55:43,642
- Molly?
- I don't know anyone called Molly.
556
00:55:44,229 --> 00:55:47,070
- But you just said...
- I can't remember what I just said.
557
00:55:47,495 --> 00:55:49,111
How curious.
558
00:55:49,993 --> 00:55:54,271
You see, Molly was Claude's
mother, she committed suicide.
559
00:55:54,631 --> 00:55:58,810
Because well, as it turned out
she was already dying and in great pain.
560
00:56:00,149 --> 00:56:04,687
Claude, of course, considers her death
as crucial evidence against his father.
561
00:56:07,250 --> 00:56:09,177
How strange.
562
00:56:10,532 --> 00:56:12,524
- So is this.
- What?
563
00:56:13,014 --> 00:56:14,565
I've got an erection.
564
00:56:15,756 --> 00:56:19,315
Oh, so you have. Is it urgent?
565
00:56:20,197 --> 00:56:23,152
- It isn't mine.
- Then who's is it Woodford?
566
00:56:24,392 --> 00:56:27,380
I mean if it's going to break up my marriage
we have the right to know the culprit.
567
00:56:29,062 --> 00:56:32,441
You can't just bring your
erection into my marriage Woodford...
568
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:34,793
and then disown it.
569
00:56:36,735 --> 00:56:38,743
Your own flesh and blood.
570
00:56:39,413 --> 00:56:42,278
Do you think he resembles the elder Langham?
571
00:56:43,528 --> 00:56:47,956
He was prone to random
erections, that's one thing I do know.
572
00:56:52,442 --> 00:56:55,005
I'm quite prepared to be
civilized about the whole business.
573
00:56:55,724 --> 00:56:59,446
I though to it might help keep my
own pecker up, as you might say.
574
00:56:59,757 --> 00:57:03,201
- If I invited my mistress.
- Oh, that ridiculous word.
575
00:57:03,397 --> 00:57:06,352
Our dear Molly, of the
long white summer gloves.
576
00:57:06,382 --> 00:57:09,813
You met her, she must've
had about thirty pairs.
577
00:57:10,467 --> 00:57:14,875
I would say that anyone that'd take you on
in that role must be nothing short of heroic.
578
00:57:15,969 --> 00:57:19,446
Could she be conducting some
obscure form of research I wonder?
579
00:57:19,626 --> 00:57:22,924
Dear Helen, what a crusader
for women's rights she was.
580
00:57:26,777 --> 00:57:28,297
In her time.
581
00:57:29,455 --> 00:57:32,981
And how nice to be able to relax
when one's intellectual convictions...
582
00:57:33,011 --> 00:57:36,148
now and then, with the man
who finds them so unconvincing.
583
00:57:40,169 --> 00:57:43,439
You know Woodford,
I even detest the way you eat.
584
00:57:45,177 --> 00:57:49,863
- Do you like the way he masticates?
- I'm more interested in how he fornicates.
585
00:57:50,613 --> 00:57:53,046
I'm more interested in how he fornicates.
586
00:58:03,348 --> 00:58:07,413
Splendid word, fornicate.
587
00:58:09,389 --> 00:58:10,695
Yes.
588
00:58:13,699 --> 00:58:15,216
Twilight.
589
00:58:17,209 --> 00:58:18,525
Dawn.
590
00:58:21,875 --> 00:58:24,324
How darkness creeps into the blood.
591
00:58:26,543 --> 00:58:28,127
Darkness...
592
00:58:29,515 --> 00:58:33,618
the chill obsidian fingers.
593
00:58:39,181 --> 00:58:41,513
A little more venom children.
594
00:58:42,217 --> 00:58:44,176
A little more violence.
595
00:58:46,886 --> 00:58:48,603
Not hard to come by.
596
00:58:55,114 --> 00:58:58,608
Violence, is quite unnecessary.
597
00:58:59,947 --> 00:59:03,284
Rows, scenes, exhibitions.
598
00:59:03,637 --> 00:59:07,980
I myself posses nothing with such
tenacity, that I cannot bear its loss.
599
00:59:08,356 --> 00:59:09,869
On the other hand.
600
00:59:10,511 --> 00:59:15,506
I cannot lose with such
equanimity that I will not have my say.
601
00:59:17,090 --> 00:59:19,584
Do you think we should
look upon this occasion...
602
00:59:21,241 --> 00:59:25,241
as a very civilized board meeting?
603
00:59:26,106 --> 00:59:30,416
You obviously have no intention
of hearing the truth from anyone.
604
00:59:40,098 --> 00:59:44,457
- You're the lady who's dying?
- Isn't the boy refreshingly direct.
605
00:59:47,527 --> 00:59:51,070
I gather that his mind is in
outer space for most of the time.
606
00:59:51,100 --> 00:59:55,592
So when it returns to us it has all the
uneasy candor of a cosmic scale of values.
607
00:59:58,792 --> 01:00:02,058
Yes, I'm the lady who's dying.
608
01:00:10,809 --> 01:00:13,713
I feel closer to someone who's dying.
609
01:00:14,891 --> 01:00:19,969
I once killed a man who was
already dying, he asked me to.
610
01:00:20,752 --> 01:00:23,512
I think it was a peaceful
experience for both of us.
611
01:00:23,740 --> 01:00:26,270
I don't think we
have to go into all that again.
612
01:00:26,957 --> 01:00:30,140
- Do we?
- He wouldn't dare, would he?
613
01:00:32,231 --> 01:00:37,962
Oh Claude, some people might
say you're your own worst enemy...
614
01:00:38,321 --> 01:00:43,268
- but I'd say you're your only best friend.
- I went on trial for murder.
615
01:00:44,753 --> 01:00:48,688
I think in some other period of history
I might've done quite well as a saint.
616
01:00:49,618 --> 01:00:53,259
- One of those that got burnt at the stake.
- Woodford.
617
01:00:57,096 --> 01:00:59,528
What do you think about Bangkok?
618
01:01:00,573 --> 01:01:03,506
Palm trees, beaches, that kind of thing.
619
01:01:05,226 --> 01:01:07,173
Maybe I should just take
you out and thrash you.
620
01:01:07,544 --> 01:01:11,658
You'll have noticed, as I did
early on in our marriage.
621
01:01:12,426 --> 01:01:18,156
- Claude is a very frightened man.
- He's frightened of himself, that's all.
622
01:01:19,039 --> 01:01:22,026
It's a great deal, it haunts him.
623
01:01:23,169 --> 01:01:25,345
He's tragically incomplete.
624
01:01:26,745 --> 01:01:28,549
He admits no rage.
625
01:01:29,569 --> 01:01:31,272
How do you find him?
626
01:01:32,312 --> 01:01:37,733
Much the same as you do Sonia,
but in my case, right from the beginning,
627
01:01:38,206 --> 01:01:39,692
I've used him.
628
01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:44,116
Quite tenderly though.
629
01:01:45,227 --> 01:01:50,141
- I shall put him in my next novel.
- Before you die?
630
01:01:54,190 --> 01:01:59,332
Garrote him with words.
Its an amusing little bourgeois.
631
01:02:06,580 --> 01:02:08,108
Another bomb.
632
01:02:11,396 --> 01:02:12,686
They're closing in.
633
01:02:13,306 --> 01:02:17,077
I suppose in the last resort we
could always blame the bourgeoisie.
634
01:02:17,355 --> 01:02:20,963
Don't you blame the bourgeoisie
Woodford? Are you political at all?
635
01:02:20,993 --> 01:02:22,726
You know the jargon old boy?
636
01:02:22,889 --> 01:02:27,325
My father was a great
revolutionary, in his time, inside his head.
637
01:02:27,718 --> 01:02:29,726
What is a bourgeois Woodford?
638
01:02:30,167 --> 01:02:33,154
What if not someone
who simply has lost faith...
639
01:02:33,184 --> 01:02:37,187
in the capacity of human
nature for radical transformation.
640
01:02:42,069 --> 01:02:45,252
Do we have the slightest
shred of evidence to the contrary?
641
01:02:46,802 --> 01:02:49,937
Do we have the slightest
shred of evidence to the contrary?
642
01:02:54,819 --> 01:02:57,018
That's not amusing at all.
643
01:03:07,651 --> 01:03:11,996
Kidney walloping, his
balls the size of three.
644
01:03:15,731 --> 01:03:19,194
Revolutionary, inside my head.
645
01:03:19,666 --> 01:03:22,087
Well, where else damn buggers.
646
01:03:24,596 --> 01:03:26,271
Evolution.
647
01:03:32,612 --> 01:03:34,462
Ah, Molly.
648
01:03:36,629 --> 01:03:40,188
Your breasts, a biological triumph.
649
01:03:42,098 --> 01:03:43,829
Ditto the thighs.
650
01:03:45,331 --> 01:03:49,397
And the little tuft of hair so snug between.
651
01:03:52,221 --> 01:03:53,446
Bless you.
652
01:03:56,385 --> 01:03:57,882
Very amusing.
653
01:04:00,337 --> 01:04:05,284
Listen, if Claude every
blamed me for your death...
654
01:04:06,884 --> 01:04:10,084
he will grimly blame me for my own too.
655
01:04:14,410 --> 01:04:16,631
Well, it's typical of the way in which...
656
01:04:17,447 --> 01:04:21,480
parents and their children
approach the problem of justice.
657
01:04:25,056 --> 01:04:28,811
- Does all this embarrass you Miss Lister?
- Yes sir.
658
01:04:28,841 --> 01:04:32,648
- Hard words for a dying man.
- Since you mention it Mr. Langham.
659
01:04:32,678 --> 01:04:34,231
But he's not dying.
660
01:04:35,259 --> 01:04:38,476
He's having what you might
call a long drawn out tantrum.
661
01:04:39,259 --> 01:04:41,969
In addition to which
he has the bloody effrontery...
662
01:04:41,999 --> 01:04:46,856
to draw attention to himself by withdrawing
to that enormous, royalist, expensive house.
663
01:04:51,398 --> 01:04:53,504
And what is it to you after all Miss Lister?
664
01:04:54,826 --> 01:05:00,165
- Why are you crying?
- I thought him a very impressive man.
665
01:05:04,459 --> 01:05:06,320
He hadn't more than one.
666
01:05:07,088 --> 01:05:11,626
- Why shouldn't I get fucked by a genius.
- Why shouldn't I be fucked by a genius.
667
01:05:38,470 --> 01:05:40,154
I remember Molly...
668
01:05:40,821 --> 01:05:46,388
when Claude was about fifteen he said
something I've always remembered.
669
01:05:47,562 --> 01:05:49,031
At dinner it was.
670
01:05:50,632 --> 01:05:52,648
I was half drunk as usual.
671
01:05:53,750 --> 01:05:57,227
And you were dark with misery, as usual.
672
01:05:59,970 --> 01:06:02,191
Very grave and thoughtful he was.
673
01:06:03,039 --> 01:06:06,305
Rather pompous, as usual.
674
01:06:08,378 --> 01:06:11,791
Don't you think father he said,
that one of the tasks of growing up...
675
01:06:12,754 --> 01:06:15,056
is to discover moral language.
676
01:06:16,755 --> 01:06:22,095
Something as absolute in
its way as a logical proposition?
677
01:06:30,321 --> 01:06:33,113
- I thought you might come to see me.
- I was drawn to you.
678
01:06:33,505 --> 01:06:36,248
- Morbidly?
- You reassure me.
679
01:06:37,488 --> 01:06:39,529
Somehow you seem quiet.
680
01:06:39,872 --> 01:06:43,940
One thing I can say about my
personal experience of dying...
681
01:06:43,970 --> 01:06:47,235
somehow removes the problem
of willing things, how's the wine?
682
01:06:49,978 --> 01:06:52,851
- Nutty.
- Claude always drinks white wine.
683
01:06:54,027 --> 01:06:58,745
Anyone who cares for Claude should
always make sure to have white wine.
684
01:06:59,937 --> 01:07:02,647
When you love someone
your sensitive to their tastes.
685
01:07:02,925 --> 01:07:06,500
It's rarely mutual and
that's because one is rarely loved.
686
01:07:13,244 --> 01:07:16,591
Between the terrorist bombs
and the demolition of all those...
687
01:07:16,621 --> 01:07:20,068
lovely old buildings
there soon won't be much left.
688
01:07:23,142 --> 01:07:24,856
Let me just tell you what
was like all those years.
689
01:07:24,886 --> 01:07:25,600
I wish you wouldn't.
690
01:07:25,630 --> 01:07:28,826
Your father behaved
as if I simply did not exist.
691
01:07:28,856 --> 01:07:30,230
- My father...
- When you went away to...
692
01:07:30,260 --> 01:07:31,376
school I was desolate.
693
01:07:31,837 --> 01:07:36,586
One of his more childishly insulting
games was to pretend that I wasn't there.
694
01:07:36,814 --> 01:07:37,959
That he didn't know me.
695
01:07:38,335 --> 01:07:41,084
He was giving some lectures
once in Vienna and he didn't...
696
01:07:41,114 --> 01:07:44,219
introduce me to a single person in ten days.
697
01:07:44,528 --> 01:07:47,028
There was this big public
reception on the last evening...
698
01:07:47,058 --> 01:07:49,244
and someone says,
why don't you introduce your friend.
699
01:07:49,343 --> 01:07:53,139
He just turned and stared at me in silence
and I was trembling in embarrassment.
700
01:07:53,169 --> 01:07:56,374
He said, I haven't the faintest
idea who she is, he said to me.
701
01:07:56,474 --> 01:07:59,483
I haven't the faintest idea who she is.
702
01:08:01,865 --> 01:08:03,420
I think you noticed everything.
703
01:08:04,908 --> 01:08:10,755
No wonder you became a remote little boy
and grew into a cold, hard young man.
704
01:08:11,326 --> 01:08:15,754
I began to loathe
you as much as I feared him.
705
01:08:16,244 --> 01:08:20,272
Will you kindly get out of my mind Molly.
706
01:08:21,652 --> 01:08:27,550
Will you please stop
interfering with my last feeble efforts.
707
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:31,938
Suicide.
708
01:08:32,305 --> 01:08:36,350
Surely, in your case an act
of vengeance on the living.
709
01:08:38,060 --> 01:08:39,851
Oh, cross out.
710
01:08:40,767 --> 01:08:45,534
And transpose the long
suffering Woodford to...
711
01:08:47,306 --> 01:08:48,816
to...
712
01:08:50,143 --> 01:08:53,577
Ah Wooders, chased me down then, have you?
713
01:08:53,999 --> 01:08:56,345
I don't know how I got here.
714
01:08:56,570 --> 01:09:00,774
When in doubt attempt a little style,
surprise them, keep them off balance.
715
01:09:01,224 --> 01:09:04,469
Establish your unpredictability.
716
01:09:05,693 --> 01:09:07,672
I needn't tell you that, need I?
717
01:09:09,346 --> 01:09:10,959
If you didn't love my mother...
718
01:09:12,122 --> 01:09:13,836
at least you needn't to destroyed her.
719
01:09:14,101 --> 01:09:15,673
- What's that?
- I mean...
720
01:09:16,203 --> 01:09:20,510
Did you create hell all these years
just to have something to write about.
721
01:09:26,795 --> 01:09:32,224
Oh, Wooders, Wooders, do try again.
722
01:09:39,653 --> 01:09:43,725
I really saw Claude that day in
court when he was prosecuting you.
723
01:09:43,755 --> 01:09:48,694
I hated him, it tipped
some delicate balance in my mind.
724
01:09:49,020 --> 01:09:53,938
I know that marrying him was
my own choice but at seventeen...
725
01:09:54,526 --> 01:09:58,705
That man, he saw me as I saw myself...
726
01:09:59,145 --> 01:10:02,574
which was as a reflection
of how others saw me.
727
01:10:04,517 --> 01:10:08,060
- I've never even been unfaithful to him.
- Including now.
728
01:10:09,138 --> 01:10:10,526
I wish you could convince him.
729
01:10:10,556 --> 01:10:15,015
My life and Claude's is
been highly organized.
730
01:10:15,045 --> 01:10:17,156
- I can see that.
- To achieve...
731
01:10:17,186 --> 01:10:18,070
Yes.
732
01:10:18,771 --> 01:10:22,428
- The minimum possible friction.
- How ambitious.
733
01:10:24,515 --> 01:10:28,319
- How you regard suicide?
- Terminal.
734
01:10:40,948 --> 01:10:45,144
They just thought me we might blow
each other's brains out, if we had a gun.
735
01:10:48,213 --> 01:10:52,442
I thought we would
make love, if we had the desire.
736
01:11:03,025 --> 01:11:07,743
I just thought, lying
alone in bed last night that...
737
01:11:08,645 --> 01:11:13,756
a middle aged women's fantasies are not
humiliating and I will not reject them.
738
01:11:21,723 --> 01:11:24,776
I would just like the idea of
my freedom to be more than a...
739
01:11:24,806 --> 01:11:27,796
patronizing smear on Claude's face.
740
01:11:29,544 --> 01:11:34,245
Finally one loses
control of everything, body...
741
01:11:34,604 --> 01:11:36,270
memory.
742
01:11:37,234 --> 01:11:41,266
They keep me here in
this frightening place, waiting.
743
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,188
Watching the tragic fate of theirs.
744
01:11:46,989 --> 01:11:48,960
Have they got you Molly?
745
01:11:50,564 --> 01:11:54,285
Fragments of the remote past, become vivid.
746
01:11:55,201 --> 01:11:58,189
I do remember...
747
01:11:58,878 --> 01:12:03,891
a green branch waving
against the blue sky, over my head.
748
01:12:05,359 --> 01:12:07,084
Rustling leaves.
749
01:13:29,108 --> 01:13:30,137
Claude.
750
01:13:31,116 --> 01:13:33,484
I thought you might like
to meet Kevin Woodford.
751
01:13:35,524 --> 01:13:37,034
How do you do?
752
01:13:39,752 --> 01:13:40,977
Not very well.
753
01:13:43,507 --> 01:13:47,899
I think something must've gone
wrong at some early stage.
754
01:13:49,548 --> 01:13:51,164
It could be childhood.
755
01:13:52,634 --> 01:13:56,030
But then I don't suppose we could
spend the rest of our lives...
756
01:13:56,846 --> 01:13:59,164
attributing it to that.
757
01:14:03,245 --> 01:14:05,086
What I'm searching for...
758
01:14:07,229 --> 01:14:08,561
Mr. Langham?
759
01:14:10,217 --> 01:14:11,833
Is a moral language.
760
01:14:42,412 --> 01:14:45,987
If I don't leave you,
I'll probably make you suffer for it.
761
01:14:47,293 --> 01:14:48,638
You understand?
762
01:14:51,456 --> 01:14:54,820
I blame you for nothing,
I don't even blame myself.
763
01:14:57,807 --> 01:15:02,096
So what then is this huge, huge
sense of spiritual emptiness.
764
01:15:02,379 --> 01:15:03,702
Commonplace.
765
01:15:05,203 --> 01:15:09,220
- Yours is the misery of triviality.
- And yours?
766
01:15:10,183 --> 01:15:11,701
I don't suffer.
767
01:15:12,241 --> 01:15:14,967
Who could possibly ever forgive you for that?
768
01:15:50,538 --> 01:15:52,530
I thought you might come to see me.
769
01:15:58,767 --> 01:16:02,734
I wanted you to know that I don't
intend to change my life in any way.
770
01:16:04,677 --> 01:16:08,644
- I propose, as it were, to let you down.
- I simply wonder.
771
01:16:10,703 --> 01:16:15,405
Whether my arrival might provoke
some sort of crisis in your life.
772
01:16:15,634 --> 01:16:18,965
- Do you think a crisis would be good for me?
- Your father thought so.
773
01:16:22,377 --> 01:16:23,859
I cabled him.
774
01:16:26,263 --> 01:16:27,814
This is his reply.
775
01:16:31,748 --> 01:16:34,572
Death no problem. Stop.
776
01:16:36,139 --> 01:16:38,552
My son, an emotional cripple.
777
01:16:39,715 --> 01:16:40,779
Stop.
778
01:16:41,739 --> 01:16:46,800
By all means descend
on him if it will amuse you.
779
01:16:48,711 --> 01:16:49,605
Stop.
780
01:16:50,148 --> 01:16:53,071
Set and game to father.
781
01:16:54,056 --> 01:16:55,078
Set...
782
01:16:56,859 --> 01:16:58,151
and game...
783
01:17:00,292 --> 01:17:01,561
to father.
784
01:17:20,932 --> 01:17:21,993
Woodys.
785
01:17:23,201 --> 01:17:24,867
Wooders.
786
01:17:56,891 --> 01:17:58,459
Woodford.
787
01:18:03,798 --> 01:18:08,124
- You don't look quite yourself.
- Not at all the same person.
788
01:18:09,398 --> 01:18:11,520
I got to put you out of your misery.
789
01:18:13,757 --> 01:18:17,676
- Or should I say my misery?
- Get on with it then.
790
01:18:17,888 --> 01:18:21,322
How you must've driven my mother.
791
01:18:23,897 --> 01:18:26,901
Did it amuse you to pretend that
you didn't recognize her in public?
792
01:18:28,794 --> 01:18:30,302
I'm her witness.
793
01:18:32,338 --> 01:18:34,649
And I propose to kill you.
794
01:18:35,244 --> 01:18:38,199
- Such hatred.
- Not hatred.
795
01:18:40,436 --> 01:18:44,517
- Justice.
- In my own curious fashion.
796
01:18:47,032 --> 01:18:50,575
I think, I've always loved you.
797
01:21:15,633 --> 01:21:17,027
Children not here yet?
798
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:21,282
They rang on their way down, about half
an hour ago sir. They won't be long.
799
01:21:24,051 --> 01:21:27,992
- Yes, did you find me out here this morning?
- No sir, on the bathroom floor.
800
01:21:28,319 --> 01:21:29,241
Pissed?
801
01:21:29,478 --> 01:21:32,926
I took the liberty of bathing and
dressing you sir, then bring you down here.
802
01:21:32,956 --> 01:21:35,864
- I thought perhaps the sun...
- Another bloody awful night.
803
01:21:35,894 --> 01:21:38,475
Kept on waking up and
trying to jot a few things down.
804
01:21:38,665 --> 01:21:41,892
Then needless to say,
more boozes and more nightmares.
805
01:21:42,083 --> 01:21:43,410
I'm sorry Mr. Langham.
806
01:21:43,530 --> 01:21:45,987
Karen I want everything to be
especially wonderful today.
807
01:21:46,017 --> 01:21:47,700
We don't often get the
chance to see them, do we?
808
01:21:47,820 --> 01:21:50,336
It shall be the very
best week in due Mr. Langham.
809
01:21:51,011 --> 01:21:52,794
Your old age is got to be so bloody awful.
810
01:21:52,824 --> 01:21:56,159
I think we have the right to indulge them
in a few compensatory foibles, don't you eh?
811
01:21:56,279 --> 01:22:00,154
- I think I hear Mr. Claude's car now sir.
- Alright then, raise me up a bit, will you?
812
01:22:03,997 --> 01:22:05,668
- Here we are sir.
- Thank you.
813
01:22:49,604 --> 01:22:51,706
Sonia, Claude.
814
01:22:52,151 --> 01:22:55,155
Children, come quickly, take a paw each.
815
01:22:56,461 --> 01:22:58,192
Happy birthday Clive.
816
01:23:00,331 --> 01:23:01,751
Happy birthday father.
817
01:23:02,322 --> 01:23:06,420
Come my dears, sit down. Lots of
boozes on the way, damn good lunch too.
818
01:23:07,286 --> 01:23:10,208
- What's the talk, eh?
- Don't you want to see your presents?
819
01:23:10,238 --> 01:23:14,633
My dear girl at my age one either lives
just long enough to make presents useless...
820
01:23:14,845 --> 01:23:17,033
or not long enough to
make the question relevant.
821
01:23:17,278 --> 01:23:20,102
Where are they? Where are they?
822
01:23:20,608 --> 01:23:25,245
Nils, Nils, Nils. Wine, wine, wine.
823
01:23:26,519 --> 01:23:28,559
If you please.
824
01:23:28,999 --> 01:23:30,403
And what the fuck is this?
825
01:23:30,893 --> 01:23:35,237
Well this is my contribution, it belonged
to Ernest Hemingway or so they told me.
826
01:23:36,020 --> 01:23:38,313
I bet they bloody well did.
827
01:23:38,343 --> 01:23:41,000
What a brilliant
inspiration, thank you Sonia.
828
01:23:41,705 --> 01:23:45,705
Of course you know he wasn't anything like
such a damned innovator as they all make out.
829
01:23:45,917 --> 01:23:48,227
What's this? What's this?
830
01:23:57,493 --> 01:24:00,889
Oh, not old bum Peter's latest dribble.
831
01:24:00,919 --> 01:24:04,921
Ah, Claude dear boy, always so
maladroit when it comes to presents.
832
01:24:04,951 --> 01:24:09,836
The Scales of Time,
that sounds provocatively obscure.
833
01:24:10,212 --> 01:24:14,914
I might just ask old bum face you know, if
I can use it as the title for my new novel.
834
01:24:15,584 --> 01:24:19,029
Very flattered he'd be.
Delighted my dear Langham.
835
01:24:19,585 --> 01:24:21,331
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...
836
01:24:21,361 --> 01:24:24,466
Just can't wait to see his
sycophantic expression.
837
01:24:25,478 --> 01:24:26,474
Father.
838
01:24:26,931 --> 01:24:29,919
Is that Kevin? Is that my favorite bastard?
839
01:24:30,996 --> 01:24:33,053
Don't you think
have only one bastard after...
840
01:24:33,083 --> 01:24:36,530
60 years of action is
almost tantamount to self denial?
841
01:24:36,873 --> 01:24:40,073
- And all the way from bloody old Geneva.
- The only one you admitted to.
842
01:24:40,103 --> 01:24:44,089
That's right, I signed a piece
of paper, like a dog license.
843
01:24:46,930 --> 01:24:48,465
Happy birthday.
844
01:24:51,072 --> 01:24:53,134
- Hello Claude, have we just made it.
- Good
845
01:24:53,164 --> 01:24:54,179
Sonia.
846
01:24:54,832 --> 01:24:55,812
- How are things?
- Good.
847
01:24:56,152 --> 01:24:58,424
- I thought you were in Geneva?
- Well, I was in Geneva.
848
01:24:58,454 --> 01:25:01,055
Come to have the
last glimpse before I pop off, eh?
849
01:25:01,967 --> 01:25:04,367
Oh, now that is functional.
850
01:25:04,743 --> 01:25:07,310
Especially as I'm half
sodding blind these days.
851
01:25:08,171 --> 01:25:11,567
- I thought you'd like the workmanship.
- Those Victorians.
852
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:16,262
I once knew a Victorian.
853
01:25:18,098 --> 01:25:22,016
- How are the physical sciences?
- Astrophysics, father.
854
01:25:22,261 --> 01:25:24,220
Same damn thing, bound to turn out that way.
855
01:25:24,906 --> 01:25:27,420
I once knew a woman with
tits like a spiraled nebula.
856
01:25:31,371 --> 01:25:33,298
Karen tells me you haven't been well.
857
01:25:34,522 --> 01:25:36,530
How are the dreaded law courts, my son?
858
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:39,175
I do wish you'd let us know
when you're not feeling well Clive.
859
01:25:39,205 --> 01:25:41,264
Oh, you know how it is.
860
01:25:42,065 --> 01:25:45,478
The heart pumps as if it was trying to push
a tonne of shit through a concrete wall.
861
01:25:46,098 --> 01:25:50,440
The lungs don't so much breath as
squeak ineffectually for mercy.
862
01:25:51,355 --> 01:25:54,048
One continues to smoke and drink too much.
863
01:25:55,827 --> 01:25:58,619
If only they let me get my
hands on a pretty little nurse.
864
01:25:58,848 --> 01:26:00,644
They always sends me hags, you know.
865
01:26:01,068 --> 01:26:03,370
But a nice new belle
girl and I might even manage...
866
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:06,031
to go out of this world
screwing too much as well.
867
01:26:08,415 --> 01:26:10,178
How's the new book coming along father?
868
01:26:12,186 --> 01:26:14,144
Who are you disemboweling this time?
869
01:26:16,383 --> 01:26:18,979
Seventy eight fucking years old today.
870
01:26:21,428 --> 01:26:23,501
Molly would've been seventy one.
871
01:26:26,064 --> 01:26:27,860
I know you adored her.
872
01:26:29,672 --> 01:26:34,685
But for me you had nothing more
profound, damn it, than disapproval.
873
01:26:35,762 --> 01:26:37,395
It's your birthday father.
874
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:44,480
You know it seems only
yesterday you and I were having...
875
01:26:44,510 --> 01:26:47,712
solemn conversations
about your becoming an astronaut.
876
01:26:49,366 --> 01:26:51,619
It must be fifteen years ago.
877
01:26:52,778 --> 01:26:56,566
And when was that first
Russian thing? Sput-something.
878
01:26:56,778 --> 01:27:02,117
Nik, Sputnik, whirling some
poor damn dog around the planet.
879
01:27:04,746 --> 01:27:07,048
I used to think I was a Bolshevik, you know.
880
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:09,938
Centuries ago.
881
01:27:10,541 --> 01:27:14,084
It wasn't revolution which
frightened him, it was the revolutionaries.
882
01:27:15,227 --> 01:27:16,419
Quite...
883
01:27:17,807 --> 01:27:19,582
But...
884
01:27:24,125 --> 01:27:26,040
Ok then chaps.
885
01:27:27,456 --> 01:27:32,648
More, more, more of that
exquisite chilled, that lovely wine please.
886
01:27:54,558 --> 01:27:57,741
Claude easily shies away
from you, he always has.
887
01:27:59,096 --> 01:28:02,558
He might never admit it,
but he's always disproved of me.
888
01:28:03,358 --> 01:28:05,072
You know the trouble
with Claude is that he's...
889
01:28:05,102 --> 01:28:08,566
lead such an impeccable
life, not one detectable vice.
890
01:28:08,596 --> 01:28:10,411
I'm his detectable vice.
891
01:28:11,407 --> 01:28:13,317
Never could get my teeth into him.
892
01:28:15,129 --> 01:28:19,684
- And then my wife committed suicide.
- Oh, no must you, especially today.
893
01:28:19,714 --> 01:28:23,684
- Hasn't he ever had a mistress?
- Neither of us has had anyone.
894
01:28:24,582 --> 01:28:26,606
Haven't you ever got bored with it all?
895
01:28:26,966 --> 01:28:29,872
Wanted to take off for Bangkok with
some well hung hippie or something.
896
01:28:29,902 --> 01:28:33,888
No, for the hundredth time,
we've been very happy.
897
01:28:34,884 --> 01:28:37,186
He and I could never get things cleared up.
898
01:28:38,769 --> 01:28:40,027
His mother?
899
01:28:41,022 --> 01:28:43,781
- I never knew.
- You will nag at it.
900
01:28:45,937 --> 01:28:51,211
You baffle me Sonia,
you've always been opaque to me.
901
01:28:52,370 --> 01:28:54,590
But then, I've always liked enigmatic women.
902
01:28:56,369 --> 01:28:59,651
- Ah, he's watching us.
- Well, why shouldn't he?
903
01:29:00,141 --> 01:29:04,777
I've always been able to sense him
watching me, even when he was a boy.
904
01:29:06,818 --> 01:29:11,259
- God, I felt ill last night.
- You look well today.
905
01:29:11,602 --> 01:29:14,933
Don't deceive yourself, death creeps on.
906
01:29:16,435 --> 01:29:17,724
You're afraid?
907
01:29:19,373 --> 01:29:20,941
I disapprove of death.
908
01:29:22,427 --> 01:29:25,986
You begin to sniff the
temptation of believing in something.
909
01:29:29,839 --> 01:29:32,108
Will it be harder to die without god?
910
01:29:33,708 --> 01:29:35,602
Your turn will come.
911
01:29:37,251 --> 01:29:39,242
Do you intend to die with god?
912
01:29:43,438 --> 01:29:44,744
I don't think about it.
913
01:30:06,213 --> 01:30:08,907
For god's sake drink something, will you?
914
01:30:12,482 --> 01:30:14,588
First dead man of the day.
915
01:30:15,372 --> 01:30:17,429
Who's going to be the second I wonder.
916
01:30:30,098 --> 01:30:35,029
What about the law then?
What is law? Whose fucking law?
917
01:30:35,747 --> 01:30:39,792
But your, managing to look
pretty sleek on it young Langers.
918
01:30:40,335 --> 01:30:44,564
- Remember those summers in Cap Ferrat?
- I'm not senile yet, you know.
919
01:30:44,824 --> 01:30:46,604
- When mother used to put out..
- Who?
920
01:30:47,763 --> 01:30:50,195
When mother used to put out the
chilled wine and the prawns.
921
01:30:50,783 --> 01:30:54,898
- When we were swimming.
- Mildly pissed by lunchtime.
922
01:30:55,731 --> 01:30:57,706
The longest time we were
ever together you know.
923
01:30:58,213 --> 01:31:01,690
Parents ought to have the discretion
not to impose on their children.
924
01:31:02,327 --> 01:31:03,797
Beyond a certain point.
925
01:31:04,123 --> 01:31:07,046
Oh, I didn't give a damn about you
wandering around the world all that time.
926
01:31:07,291 --> 01:31:11,160
Your boozing and your
women, those absurd scandals.
927
01:31:11,474 --> 01:31:14,376
No I realized that the search for a moral...
928
01:31:14,406 --> 01:31:17,070
language had to
yield to the incomprehensible.
929
01:31:17,854 --> 01:31:20,091
Matter of fact, I always thought you
were a rather conventional old shit.
930
01:31:20,121 --> 01:31:24,042
So I was, so I was, sharp
little bugger you must've been.
931
01:31:24,271 --> 01:31:27,079
You know the point about being
conventionally unconventional...
932
01:31:27,813 --> 01:31:32,336
is that it provides a mask behind which
one's true squalor can rest in peace.
933
01:31:32,366 --> 01:31:33,952
Well, relative peace.
934
01:31:34,997 --> 01:31:38,621
People still get hurt
though, women, family friends.
935
01:31:38,882 --> 01:31:41,774
Cats, dogs, mice, pigeons...
936
01:31:42,980 --> 01:31:45,894
For your mother to die was one thing.
937
01:31:46,328 --> 01:31:50,132
For her to cut her wrists all by herself in
the middle of the night was quite another.
938
01:31:50,818 --> 01:31:53,039
Rather excessive, don't you think?
939
01:31:55,128 --> 01:31:56,793
When it was terminal cancer?
940
01:31:59,013 --> 01:32:02,283
Seemed to me logical
at the time, I didn't blame you.
941
01:32:04,531 --> 01:32:06,131
I've never been hurt by you.
942
01:32:07,094 --> 01:32:11,289
I suppose that means that
you think that I think you were.
943
01:32:12,563 --> 01:32:13,640
Sometimes.
944
01:32:14,310 --> 01:32:18,228
Your beginning to sound
like someone performing the last rites.
945
01:32:20,056 --> 01:32:22,963
Claude, lunch is ready.
946
01:32:30,163 --> 01:32:33,706
- He said you and I are a bit unreal.
- Yes, I know he thinks that.
947
01:32:34,898 --> 01:32:35,943
Are we?
948
01:32:40,858 --> 01:32:45,087
- That's for my benefit.
- I think it's for theirs.
949
01:33:32,943 --> 01:33:38,853
Karen, Nils. Splendid. Excellent.
950
01:33:42,548 --> 01:33:46,837
Don't give a damn if the stomach
is fucked then fuck it some more.
951
01:33:49,043 --> 01:33:51,933
Your father sir, he never treat service.
952
01:33:52,375 --> 01:33:56,846
- Ever I saw a bloody old bourgeois.
- Your father is not an immoral man.
953
01:33:57,043 --> 01:33:58,758
- What?
- He is simply a...
954
01:33:59,786 --> 01:34:02,072
One many have disapproved of.
955
01:35:38,568 --> 01:35:40,062
A bourgeois...
956
01:35:41,866 --> 01:35:45,849
is merely a man who refuses to
accept the ideological muse.
957
01:35:51,237 --> 01:35:54,649
You know children this
effing pain I get up the ass.
958
01:35:58,387 --> 01:36:00,216
No father, no.
959
01:36:00,951 --> 01:36:02,959
The bourgeois is
only the man who understands...
960
01:36:02,989 --> 01:36:06,730
the ideological
muse as the death of his values.
961
01:36:09,441 --> 01:36:10,898
I suppose I'm one of them.
962
01:36:12,155 --> 01:36:15,176
I don't know if my values
are correct or incorrect.
963
01:36:16,498 --> 01:36:19,666
They're just the moral
structures by which I can live.
964
01:36:19,696 --> 01:36:23,975
The only question is young
Langers, what are they?
965
01:36:24,367 --> 01:36:28,693
Honesty. Scrupulousness. Discrimination.
966
01:36:29,754 --> 01:36:32,987
Protectiveness. Tenderness.
967
01:36:34,129 --> 01:36:37,721
Aversion to violence
and the conscious practice of terror.
968
01:36:39,692 --> 01:36:41,978
Hardly the monopoly of the bourgeoisie.
969
01:36:42,223 --> 01:36:46,468
What's more he's confusing
private virtue with public justice.
970
01:36:48,868 --> 01:36:52,231
Is he naive or just a hypocrite?
971
01:37:09,700 --> 01:37:12,215
To my father on his seventy eighth birthday.
972
01:37:18,239 --> 01:37:19,643
Live long father.
973
01:37:28,218 --> 01:37:30,324
I love you all very much.
974
01:37:32,088 --> 01:37:34,733
I shall continue to refuse to die.
975
01:37:36,578 --> 01:37:38,521
Besides I have a book to finish.
976
01:37:43,141 --> 01:37:47,386
To all of you my dears, to your future.
977
01:37:50,533 --> 01:37:52,459
Nothing is written.
978
01:37:55,292 --> 01:37:59,317
We all believe that, don't we?
979
01:38:21,808 --> 01:38:26,934
One last thing, after this
strange and marvelous afternoon.
980
01:38:27,962 --> 01:38:31,179
Sonia, Claude, Kevin...
981
01:38:33,122 --> 01:38:36,485
Just leave, now please.
982
01:38:38,543 --> 01:38:41,645
With neither kiss, nor touch.
983
01:38:44,274 --> 01:38:45,694
With my blessing.
984
01:40:00,807 --> 01:40:06,456
I think there's time for just one more.
80567
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