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This film is based on a script by Carl T. Dreyer
and Preben Thomsen
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after Euripides' drama MEDEA.
Carl T. Dreyer never realized his script.
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This is not an attemt to make a "Dreyer film",
but with due reverence for the material -
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- a personal interpretation
and homage to the master.
Lars von Trier
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Medea!
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What seeks Aigeus
in these inhospitable wastes?
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I am bound for the oracle.
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But tell me about you and Jason!
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Promise me that I may always
seek refuge in your country!
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You know you may.
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How serious you look!
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You know you may, Medea!
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Jason built his vessel Argo
and sailed to Colchis
to fetch the Golden Fleece
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which he won with the help
of Medea the beautiful and wise
who gave him her love.
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Her love has now turned to hatred
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Jason betrays Medea
and the two sons
she has borne him
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Together they fled from Colchis
and after a perilous journey
landed in Corinth as outlaws
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Medea left her distant country
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Jason left her here.
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The king!
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Long have we waited.
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I am coming.
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We will go on ahead.
Come when you are ready.
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Our city has prospered.
Our ships have brought us riches -
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from distant ports.
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We have won respect and admiration.
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The gods have shown us favour -
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- and you have shown us the way.
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I thank you for agreeing
to transfer the burdens of state -
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- to this young man.
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It would be wise now
to give him even more authority.
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Even more responsibility.
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I am convinced he will meet
the demands placed upon him.
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I believe the gods have
annointed him and sent him to us.
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To perform great deeds.
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Jason!
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What have you to say?
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Thank you, Creon, and allo f you
for the trust you show in me.
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It is not good
for one man to rule alone.
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Neither it is good
when the masses assume power.
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The state is a ship.
Creon her captain, -
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- you, her trusty crew.
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I shall do my utmost
to be a good helmsman.
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I know my responsibility to you
and every citizen, rich or poor.
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I will teach your people
to live in peace -
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- even if the price
is death with dignity.
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To prove my faith in Jason
I shall bind his fate to mine -
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- and to our country, by giving
him my daughter in marriage.
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Jason and Glauce shall be
your future king and queen.
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Tonight the wedding contract
shall be sealed.
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Hear me, Medea!
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King Creon has summoned
the elders to his palace.
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They speak of Jason
and Creon's daughter.
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Answer me, Medea -
or laugh! Jason is worth no more.
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You had many words for the elders,
and yet now none for me!
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- Glauce ...
- It is only my name.
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Your name means "nymph".
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What is your promise
to this nymph?
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To treat her as a woman.
The woman I love.
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Your queen?
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Glauce!
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How soft your lips!
How warm your mouth!
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My beloved!
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What of Medea?
She is still here...
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Does it matter?
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Medea and Glauce
cannot both remain here.
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Are you afraid of her?
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No, I fear not Medea,
though they say she's dangerous.
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Then let her be.
You are the one I love.
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Give me proof that Glauce
is the one you love.
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No, Jason. Not until my father
exiles Medea tomorrow.
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I too shall see her tomorrow.
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Tonight
you must sleep in there.
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Would I were dead!
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Death would bring peace.
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My life is as empty
as this bed -
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- that we used to share when I was
still of use to him. He was my all.
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Why must women bear so much?
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Wordlessly submissive
in body and deed?
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What rights have women?
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A man may seek new friends.
She has nobody but him.
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He claims she enjoys security
while he lives on the battlefield.
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- You'd rather be a man?
- Yes ...
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I'd rather bleed behind a shield
than bearing a man's children.
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You are a stranger here,
like me, but you have me.
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I no longer have
the man I helped.
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I was but his prey.
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I long to return
to my native land!
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I long for my mother,
my sisters, everyone.
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I long for revenge.
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Creon is on his way.
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Medea...
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... You must leave the country.
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I banish you
and your children.
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I shall not return to the palace
until the city gates close behind you.
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Are you afraid of me,
King Creon?
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Yes.
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Why?
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You are wise.
You know the evil arts.
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You can harm people.
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Whom?
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My daughter.
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Me.
Jason.
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I will have to take
the necessary steps.
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I am too weak to oppose you,
and neither have you wronged me.
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Whom to give your daughter to
is your decision.
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Let me remain here!
I shall cause no trouble -
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- if you let me
remain in my house.
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No, Medea.
You must leave at once.
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Why?
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My daughter takes precedence
over you.
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And my children?
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You love yours -
and I, mine.
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There is no greater sorrow
than love.
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Leave of your own accord, or my
men will send you across the border.
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All I ask is one single day,
King Creon.
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For the sake of my children.
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I grant you that one day.
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But if you are still here tomorrow,
your life is forfeit.
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You have your day.
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Use it!
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Yes, use it...
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And hope for good fortune.
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Good fortune!
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Yes!
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Shall I let him in?
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I married her for your sake.
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For my sake?
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To secure your future.
And the children's.
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Your pride is
your misfortune, Medea.
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And your pride, Jason ...
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... is your good fortune.
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My weakness and blindness led me
to encourage your vanity.
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You want it to look
as if I have left you.
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You are betraying
your own children!
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I have thought about it.
But it is too late.
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Have you really thought
about your children?
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Women are not the only ones
to think about their children.
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If only man could have children
without the agency of women!
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You do not deny yourself,
King Jason ...
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You have forgotten much
that I remember.
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You yearn for
your young wife's embrace.
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Enjoy your good fortune! I wish you
a marriage you will remember!
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Tell Medea we are passing by.
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Tell her we sail tomorrow!
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What did you ask the oracle?
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A demon made us childless.
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- What was the oracle's reply?
- Who understands such words?
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- Perhaps I'd understand.
- That's why I rode by today.
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The vagueness of the oracle
requires the wisdom of Medea.
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What was the oracle's reply?
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"Keep the wine in the bag
until you get home".
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We're coming!
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The boys were chased
out of town.
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What's the matter, Medea?
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My children and I
are being sent into exile.
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Why?
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Jason has cast me off.
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For another woman?
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He has married
Creon's daughter.
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He has broken his oath to you?
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His only ambition was to be
the king's son-in-law.
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Can Jason really be so hungry
for power and yet so cowardly?
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Yes
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I know a cure
for childlessness.
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If I may sail with you tomorrow,
I promise you children.
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My house is always open to you.
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You have my word.
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We sail at high water.
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No man will accept childlessness.
Clauce will bear no children.
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- What are you going to do?
- Fetch Jason! No, wait ...
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- What is your plan?
- I trust you; you are a woman.
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- Make no more enemies!
- I will have no more enemies.
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Don't torture yourself!
Think of your future!
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I know my future.
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Think of your children!
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They are the ones
I am thinking of.
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What do you want?
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Forgive my words
spoken in bitterness.
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I see now that it was I
who was hard and relentless.
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So you have seen sense ...
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Yes. I have changed my mind.
Why not be friends?
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Did we not live together
in love and understanding?
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By marrying Glauce you gain
sufficient power and wealth -
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- to secure the future
of our children and I.
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- It is only wisdom.
- So is your change of heart.
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How stupid of me not to have
helped you realize your plan!
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But we women can be stupid,
sometimes.
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Do you remember, Jason?
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That question
is always on your lips.
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Now for the last time.
Do you remember, Jason?
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Whore!
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I know you, Jason!
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You have sold yourself to her.
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Your body was enough for her!
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When I see myself,
I understand you, Jason.
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I will leave.
But what of our sons?
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Can't they stay with you?
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Can't you persuade Creon?
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I will try.
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But I don't think
it will work.
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Let them stay with you!
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It will be easier for me
if I know you have them.
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- I will try, but ...
- Get Glauce to ask her father.
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Yes, I can persuade her.
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It will work
if you do as I say.
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Do what?
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Let our sons
bear this gift to her.
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Go with them.
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Yes, I will.
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What is the gift?
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Your bridal crown, Medea!
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- Mother,
she kissed us!
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- Me, too.
- Please let's stay!
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We'll stay with you, Mother.
Won't we?
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With your father.
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- And the gift?
- She liked it.
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Good.
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What are you going to do, Medea?
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I am thinking of
the children ... and myself.
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How?
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I had hoped they would sprinkle
dust on me when I was dead.
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Then take them with you.
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By their death
I can strike their father.
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Where is Medea?
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- Not here.
- And the boys?
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Not here.
She took them.
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Glauce has been poisined.
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The king went to help her,
and he, too, was scratched.
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Medea killed them.
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Mummy ...
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Mummy, why are we here?
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Quiet, now ...
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Jason ...
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Jason!
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Jason, where are you?
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Will you not follow
your queen to the grave?
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Help us!
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I know what is to happen.
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Where is she?
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01:00:14,570 --> 01:00:17,890
What are you
hanging on the tree?
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Something I love.
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Mummy ...
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Help me, Mother.
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A human life
is a journey into the darkness/
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where only a god
can find the way
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for what no man dares believe,
God can bring about.
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