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thank you very much

it's a sign everybody please oh yeah

oh my god

oh oh

ah

Haha

ah ah

are you

oh

late spring

year of our Lord 1912

this is only the second one

of its kind

I have catalogued

you know 7 years on this island

on this island

I

I know

what is this wild boar very good to eat

maybe there are more around

we don't need more

try to kill only what you can eat

yeah

stop stop

stop

stop

go help your mother I don't see anything

go help your mother

here

here

please where please where please

ha ha

help help help

help

help

I did see it

it was smoke

I don't understand

I don't

don't eat with your fingers David

it's very good then

about hot

what about the bird

um turtle

it's too long a word for him he's not ready for that

I know a word

train

what's a train

well it can go real fast fast as a deer

and you go inside it and takes you anywhere you want

and it carries lots of people lots of people

well your people and your people and I'm people

and the world's full of people

in the

stop it David

don't want to hear that right now

David

so

if it's so painful to you

why do you keep it around why don't you get rid of it

can't help being with me I am

I don't have your strength need patience

not as strong as you think I am

do you remember that big grandfather around that street

right outside the nursery

it was dying for so many years

and we wouldn't let the gardener take it down

fine it looked in the winter

with the snow all over its branches

did any of that ever really happen

the difference between us

is that you've come to accept it

sometimes I actually get the feeling

you almost enjoy it here

you've got to admit

it's an ideal setting for men in my field

what wouldn't some of my distinguished colleagues

at the Academy give for a chance to live like Darwin

no speeches no papers

no directors no fees

no boards to satisfy the exquisite luxury

of making mistakes without giving a damn

here I am always right

they came to the island in a storm

by the Grace of god

the 3 of them remained aboard ship and survived

while the others abandoned ship and perished

bit by bit they made a life for themselves

you raised their child

they nurtured each other in sickness and despair

and they lived

for 7 long years they lived

and were forgotten and died

you're not dead yet

it's hopeless never hopeless

how far is any place

thousand miles maybe

they'll never find us there's always a chance

they'll never find us

you'll be alright

what about him

no no no

say yeah

save it

oh David oh oh

David you must never ever do that again

David I saw him I saw him

he was standing right there

David listen to me

you are not to come out here alone at night

how many times have I told you not to do that

do you understand me

you are not to leave the house

and come out here alone at night

never Mayda

it's all over

no it's not over

it's not over

don't you understand

it'll never be over

no get us out of here

get us out of here

get me out of here

please

please

please

please

please

8 o'clock very good David that's right

the big hands on the 10 the little hands on the 2

so it's 10 minutes past 2

no darling 10 minutes before 2

1212 more 12 more right or 12 midnight

I can tell time

time is a dimension invented by man

for use in a civilized society

has no meaning here

for us the important points of time are day and night

can we do some more mother no that's fine for today

you're hurting him you know

how am I hurting

by inviting him into a world he will never see

by giving him dreams he will never fulfill

appetites he'll ever satisfy

what do you want me to do

shall I bring him up as an animal

should we all become beasts

because we're forced to live among them

should accept reality as it is

and always will be

strange

I was the one who had given up hope

now it's you

last night if we hadn't gotten there when we did

he would have been torn to pieces

in the jungle

sometimes you can live or die in a matter of seconds

you know what I thought of out there

I thought of David and older David

alone and helpless at the mercy of nature he

he would neither understand or be able to cope with it

and he will be alone one day when you and I are dead

he will have to manage on his own

he's got to be taught

not words and letters

in the way of a world he will never know

but the ways of the jungle

the ways of the beast

that he must master and know if it's going to survive

that's what I thought about out there

I'm going to see to it

he develops feet that make no sound

eyes that can see in the dark

ears that can hear that leopard feeding in its lair

won't need these anymore

now on the jungle will be a school

jungle will be his life

among all this beauty there is never ending menace

nothing is safe

death is everywhere

the strong

survive

the weak

die

that's the first ball of the jungle David

watch

we don't interfere

what's he gonna do with it

you'll eat him whole

and then sleep in the sun

that's when we take it

it's a little frog that's right

and if we opened it up

we'd probably find something inside too

they all eat each other

that's the life chain of nature

the snake ate the Heron

heronate the fish

the fish ate the frog

strong eat the weak in order to survive

and every Saturday night

there was a dance at somebody's house

it was music

charades and lots of wonderful things to eat cakes

ices

and punch my father used to make punch

in a huge crystal bowl

oh my the dancers at our house were the best

all the girls and boys wanted to be invited to the

oh My

how we danced and danced

under the chandeliers

the boy so handsome

girls so beautiful

music

mother

are all girls beautiful

David I need your help

what are you doing we're going to catch a panther

you ready David he doesn't want to come

I can't say as I blame him

it'll be docs

it's the best time to hunt a Panther

you'll be away all night

just keep the light going you'll be alright

David

oh

I I

you must not move

cough

nothing but the mosquitoes

endure them

Haha

it's it's dying

yes she is

oh oh

oh look

can I take them home

they're wild creatures there

they may seem harmless enough now

but when they grow up they become your enemies

they try to kill you

what do we do just leave them here

kill them kill them

you kill them

cold cold in the cold

1 2

girl

I'm rolling in the morning

lonely with my home only a running here in the woods

rub the wood ash in deeply and slowly

I killed it I killed 3 of them

they were babies

well when they grew up they could have killed me

they might never have crossed your path

better get some sleep David

it's unbelievably cruel

life is cruel

whole point

and Bashout couldn't go to the house

and our son and our son's

and the Lord commanded Noah to build an Ark

and of every living creature all flesh

thou shalt bring 2 of the sword into the Ark

that they may live

with of the male sex and the female

fouls according to their kind

and of beasts and their kind

and of everything that creeps on the earth

according to its kind

2 of every sword shall go into the Ark of thee

that they may live

thou shalt take into the Ark food that may be eaten

and it shall be food for thee and them the animals

from the smallest insect to the largest animal

the most beautiful act in the world of living creatures

but what are they doing to each other

they're making little ones

is that how you and mother made me

that's how all animals make babies

but but they were animals yes

why don't you and mother make some more

mother can't have anymore

it's for him

it's for his life

try to understand

I am trying to understand but I'm afraid

follow

me

ah so cute

come on

ah

mother look what I found

I know David

well don't you want it anymore no dear

those things are no good to me

here here help me with these

mother

I saw you and father in bed last night

oh

you were doing what the animals do

when they make babies

it's not very nice to look

why not

just isn't you must never do that again

father says you can't have any more babies

then why do you do it

because we're in love

when 2 people are married

they do everything for each other

what you saw is very beautiful

well if it's beautiful then why can't I look

mother yes can we get married when I grow up

David you are such a funny child

fuck you

music

he's growing

soon he'll be able to go into the jungle alone

soon he'll be nothing more than a savage

ah

ah ah

ah

oh

come here

salt

have work to do

among the Borongo tribe of South Africa

a boy speaks to his mother only with embarrassment

she'd venture into her hut

and greets her

in a trembling voice

in Melanesia the reserve between a son and his mother

increases as the boy achieves adolescence

should his mother bring him food

she does not hand it to him

it puts it down for him to take

I have work to do

beautiful skin

you put up a good fight

you could have killed me

but I killed him

you Learned well son

I Learned what you taught me

god forgive me

I can't bear is looking at me

the little gifts

his pathetic little attentions

in heaven's name

we've got a lusting mail

with no outlet

what he needs

ah

ah

Hmm

oh

people in cities

dances music parties

punching a huge crystal bowl

dancing round and round the chandelier

you were good at telling stories

thought one day you'd say it all you never believed it

but you made me believe it

why

you should have never told me

it was wrong to tell me

oh

Hmm

oh my

Jin

Renoir

1892

music

yeah

he's watching

he can't be

I bolted the door

he's listening

oh

you and I mustn't be together anymore

because of David

because of David

and what we're doing to him

all right

I'll sleep in the lab from now on

made up

wait

it's too punishing

it's the only way we can live

it's insane

we're all insane

David wait a moment please

David

music

maybe

yeah

don't come any farther

mother please no

I'll show you

it's not for you

mother

John

John

John

dad

yes

John

oh hey

John

John father

mother

what is it what do you want I've got to talk to you

tomorrow no

I want to talk to you now

I have to talk to you

can I talk to your mother

what is it

I've been reading this book

you said it was the book of truth

it

says here

and Adam knew Eve his wife

and she conceived

and bear came and said

I have gotten a man from the Lord

Cain her son

the first 3 people in the world

and here it says

and Cain knew his wife

and she conceived and bear Enoch

mother

who is Cain's wife

there weren't any other women

go away David

was it Eve

was it his mother

who was Cain's wife

who

was Cain's

wife

Adam was dead wasn't it

help

help

he's in there somewhere

watching us

we survive

is there any chance for us at all

of course

if there were a chance

here to build this draft long ago

with luck current will carry us into the shipping lanes

time to relieve

Morning Tide is best

oh my

he did it

nice

oh no

Ahh

part 2

and

alright

bye

you want it up up

but I'm the father of god

oh my god

no

oh

ah

please kill me

there's no need nature will do it

life chain of the jungle

that's right

strong eat the weak in order to survive

huh

oh no

ah ah ah

oh

oh no

Haha

oh

Hmm

music