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[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
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CAIRO SWEET: Fuck.
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[LILTING MUSIC PLAYING]
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[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
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[BIRDS CHIRPING]
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What is an adult?
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Becomin' one
didn't suddenly transform me
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into anything outstanding
or significant.
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I am 18 and
entirely unremarkable.
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[DOOR CLOSES]
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Languishing in the wilds
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of nowhere, Tennessee.
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In this tomb of a house
left to me
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by my brilliant
and selfish parents.
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They're not dead...
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though they pretend I am.
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They're permanently abroad.
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Literature is my solace
in the solitude.
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And writing is my only means
of escape.
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Because, you see...
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I've never left the edges
of this town.
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It's positively gothic,
really.
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Lonely girl longs to escape
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the interminable boredom
of her small village.
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Lonely girl longs
to be meaningful.
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Lonely girl longs to be loved.
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Books make longing
seem romantic, but it's awful.
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It's greedy.
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And I wear longing
like a fucking veil.
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[CAPTIVATING INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING]
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But today?
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Today comes with
something new.
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Something surprising.
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Today I meet a writer,
like me.
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A teacher.
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One who somehow
found inspiration
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in a place like this.
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If you can believe it.
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[SIGHS]
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CAIRO: Well...
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I suppose even graveyards
grow flowers.
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[CAPTIVATING INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC CONTINUES]
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[WHISTLING]
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Good morning.
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[SMACKS LIPS] Morning.
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You know, class doesn't start
for another hour.
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I know. I don't like crowds.
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Uh-uh...
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- Do you live far?
- Close enough to walk.
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- Oh, where's that?
- Lovell Hill?
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You live in Lovell Hill?
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- You know it?
- I just didn't think it was
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occupied by anything
except ghosts.
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- Who says it is?
- [CHUCKLES]
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JONATHAN MILLER: You, you
really live in Lovell Hill?
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Wow.
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It's enormous.
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My parents are lawyers.
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- Hmm, what kind?
- The expensive kind.
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And you wanna be a lawyer?
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About as much as I wanna be
a high school student.
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What's your name?
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Cairo Sweet.
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- I'm Mr. Miller.
- I know.
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My friend Winnie
recommended your class.
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Uh-huh. [INHALES SHARPLY]
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Uh...
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Now I'm assuming that you got
one of these before...
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the holidays.
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Got a chance to look it over?
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I read it.
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I, I,
I know it looks like a lot,
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but I promise you
we'll get through it
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as quickly as we can.
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I read the whole list.
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Wait, you read these?
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Well, like,
there's 12 books on that list.
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I party hard.
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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
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- Winnie.
- WINNIE BLACK: Mm. Hmm, hmm.
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JONATHAN: One semester
wasn't enough for you?
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Did you miss me?
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I did not.
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Well, that's too bad.
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You're overdressed as usual,
I see.
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Your underwear,
as usual, I see.
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WINNIE: How boring.
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Censorship is dead.
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It can't exist
with the Internet.
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JONATHAN: And yet it does.
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Do you know why?
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- [INHALES DEEPLY]
- WINNIE: Yeah.
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- Do you?
- [JONATHAN GRUNTS]
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CAIRO: Ignorance is a product
of laziness.
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- Not limitation.
- [WINNIE'S STOMACH GROWLS]
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Oh. [BLOWS RASPBERRY]
Excuse me,
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but what's that you say?
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[CHUCKLES] You want
a chicken biscuit
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and a Coke?
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Mm. Well, you heard the boss.
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It's chickybikky Coke-y time,
let's go.
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You want anything, Mr. Miller?
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No, thank you, Cairo.
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Sweet of you to ask.
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[WINNIE CHUCKLES]
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WINNIE: I see
what you did there.
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"Cairo, sweet of you to ask."
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Not.
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Good one.
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Like we've never heard
that before.
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[DOOR CLOSES]
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[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
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JONATHAN: Jesus.
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My God.
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[DOOR CLOSES DISTANTLY]
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What you reading?
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- Uh, nothing.
- Doesn't look like nothin'.
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It's a student's.
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Oh, yeah? What's her name?
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How do you know it's a girl?
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Oh, boys are too lazy
to read porn.
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How do you know it's porn?
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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[READING] "Marcelle wants me
to fuck her.
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"She leaps off the couch
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-"and pushes herself..."
- Boris.
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"...between the girl and me.
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"It's all
so fantastically horrible
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-"that I can't move."
- Give me that.
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-"Marcelle stretches..."
- Okay.
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-"...her tiny split fig."
- That's quite enough...
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- All right.
- ...of your elocution...
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- And test tomorrow, kids.
- I think. [SIGHS]
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Well, "Split fig"
is fucking poetry.
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- This coffee for me?
- Biscuit, too.
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One of yours?
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[SNIFFS] Oh, yeah,
that's one of yours.
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One of mine. Exactly.
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- Christ!
- [LAUGHS]
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I don't know what
you're doing,
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- but it's some...
- Oh, you know. Come on, now.
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I'm trying to just entice you.
What the...
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- Man, that's good.
-"Oh, I read The Paris Review.
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-"I'm so smart."
- Can you not?
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"Everybody,
I'm in high school.
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-"But I read The Paris Review.
- Boris. Boris. Come on.
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"I'm better than most people."
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- Stop, please.
- Is this her diary?
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Oh, what do we have here?
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[CHUCKLING] Well, well, well.
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"Apostrophes
and Ampersands..."
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six abysmally
romantic short stories
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by Jonathan Albert Miller.
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- She has my book?
- BORIS FILLMORE: Mm-hmm.
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It would appear so.
It would also appear
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she's the only one
who checked it out.
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Yeah, well, don't you have
a class to teach?
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Well, you know,
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I can't start my day
without seeing you.
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No, you really can't.
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Hey, how'd you score
the big room anyway?
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[GRUNTS] They cut
the theater program.
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But they kept you?
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Along with
the other props, yeah.
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[BORIS CHUCKLING]
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- Damn.
- Mm-hmm.
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[INSECTS TRILLING]
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[PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING]
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[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
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- Hello, wife.
- Hello, husband.
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[BEATRICE JUNE HARKER SIGHS]
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Beatrice.
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- What?
- Look at me.
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[INHALES SHARPLY]
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BEATRICE JUNE HARKER: Huh.
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Red-Letter Day.
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What, your school
finally get computers?
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Better.
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Indoor bathrooms?
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A writer.
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One who reads Finnegans Wake
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of her own volition.
Can you believe that?
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Well, I'm forever stunned
that the children
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in that backwater shanty
can read at all.
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[CHUCKLES]
And, uh, guess what else?
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- Naked Lunch.
- Mm-mm.
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[SMACKS LIPS]
Apostrophes and Ampersands.
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[CHUCKLING] She...
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She checked it out
of the library.
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They carry your book
at the library?
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- [CLICKS TONGUE] Aw. Fuck.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
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- A Confederacy of Dunces.
- Mm-hmm.
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Well, deep breaths.
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- Happy place.
- [SIGHS]
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My happy place
has all their heads
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impaled on Montblanc pens.
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Share your riches.
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- [JONATHAN INHALES SHARPLY]
- [CELL PHONE STILL VIBRATING]
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Hello, Amy.
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What? Are you fucking joking?
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I've been back and forth
all day
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with the Nashville office
who can't seem to articulate
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what it is they want
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and somehow think
they can articulate
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to me,
which is pretty ambitious
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considering how they think
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"articulate"
is a Danish cheese.
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So, I'm about to start
fucking scooping out
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my teeth with a baby spoon.
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JONATHAN: Mm.
BEATRICE: They can go
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fuck themselves if they think
I'm gonna change the ending.
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Okay, have a nice day,
bye-bye.
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[JONATHAN WHISTLES SOFTLY]
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[THERE'S A BLESSING BY JOHNNY
COPELAND PLAYS OVER SPEAKERS]
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[BEATRICE CHUCKLES]
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- [SIGHS WEARILY]
- Here now.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
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[SIGHING] Oh, that's so good.
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Hey, you ever read, uh,
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Under the Roofs of Paris,
Henry Miller?
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Honey,
my first copy got so sticky,
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- I had to throw it away.
- [JONATHAN CHUCKLES]
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That beginning bit
with the prostitute...
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- Mm. Mm-hmm.
- ...and the cum money?
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That is choice.
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[RECITING] "I take the first
bill I find in my pocket
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-"and wipe my cock on it."
- [CHUCKLES]
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[SIGHS] "And place it crumpled
on her bare belly
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"weighted with a coin."
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- I love when you do magic.
- Mm.
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You care to reenact?
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I can papier-mache you...
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with cum and money.
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- [GLASS THUDS SOFTLY]
- Oh, so you're expecting
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- a heavy load, then, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
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A full body of work.
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Come here.
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[THERE'S A BLESSING CONTINUES
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
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Dance with me.
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[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
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You're so beautiful.
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Shut up.
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[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
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Oh, for fuck's sake.
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- Okay.
- [SIGHS IN EXASPERATION]
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Will you take care
of those dishes?
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JONATHAN: Uh-huh.
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I'll give you a handy later.
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It's Pushkin, Amy.
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Not Pollyfuckinanna.
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[BOTH LAUGHING]
255
00:12:13,471 --> 00:12:14,951
BORIS: What
a terrible weekend.
256
00:12:15,647 --> 00:12:17,127
- Mm.
- Come on,
257
00:12:17,214 --> 00:12:19,347
why you always gotta
hold my coffee hostage?
258
00:12:19,434 --> 00:12:20,783
'Cause you're a puritan.
259
00:12:20,870 --> 00:12:22,045
I feel like it's my duty
260
00:12:22,132 --> 00:12:23,743
to punish the goodness
out of you.
261
00:12:23,830 --> 00:12:25,135
God, you're a sadist.
262
00:12:25,222 --> 00:12:26,571
I'm a public school teacher.
263
00:12:26,658 --> 00:12:28,095
- Amen to that. [CHUCKLES]
- Cheers.
264
00:12:30,662 --> 00:12:31,707
Ooh, mama.
265
00:12:33,187 --> 00:12:34,188
[BORIS SIGHS]
266
00:12:35,842 --> 00:12:37,669
You think there's ghosts
up in there?
267
00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:39,846
- [EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [CROWS CAWING DISTANTLY]
268
00:12:39,933 --> 00:12:41,586
JONATHAN:
Why don't you go see?
269
00:12:41,673 --> 00:12:43,893
Mm-mm.
I don't go in the kudzu.
270
00:12:43,980 --> 00:12:45,982
That feeds on
the souls of the dead.
271
00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:47,288
That's why it grows so fast.
272
00:12:49,594 --> 00:12:51,640
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
273
00:13:15,751 --> 00:13:16,883
Good morning.
274
00:13:16,970 --> 00:13:18,145
You always walk through
the woods alone?
275
00:13:18,232 --> 00:13:19,320
That's a peculiar question
276
00:13:19,407 --> 00:13:21,539
to ask a young lady,
Coach Fillmore.
277
00:13:21,626 --> 00:13:23,106
What, what are you,
uh, listening to?
278
00:13:23,193 --> 00:13:24,978
- Celine Dion.
- Really?
279
00:13:25,065 --> 00:13:26,457
- [BORIS LAUGHING]
- Really.
280
00:13:26,544 --> 00:13:27,894
But why?
281
00:13:27,981 --> 00:13:29,330
- I'm sorry. [LAUGHING]
- Because she's great.
282
00:13:29,417 --> 00:13:30,635
- BORIS: Oh. Hmm.
- Ignore him. Ignore him.
283
00:13:30,722 --> 00:13:32,724
- He wept aloud openly...
- Hmm.
284
00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:34,378
...at the Titanic
theme song...
285
00:13:34,465 --> 00:13:35,553
- BORIS: Hmm.
- ...at my bachelor party.
286
00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,338
- Remember that?
- I was drunk.
287
00:13:37,425 --> 00:13:38,513
You were disconsolate.
288
00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:39,862
BORIS:
You are a fucking traitor.
289
00:13:39,949 --> 00:13:40,994
And you're a fucking
hypocrite. [CHUCKLES]
290
00:13:41,081 --> 00:13:42,212
BORIS: Mm. Mm, mm, mm.
291
00:13:42,299 --> 00:13:43,648
Oh, I'm sorry.
292
00:13:43,735 --> 00:13:44,998
Uh, want a biscuit?
293
00:13:45,085 --> 00:13:46,521
- Yeah, sure.
- There you go.
294
00:13:51,134 --> 00:13:52,266
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
295
00:13:53,876 --> 00:13:54,964
CAIRO: It's good.
BORIS: Yeah?
296
00:13:55,051 --> 00:13:56,096
- Do you make these?
- BORIS: Yeah.
297
00:13:56,183 --> 00:13:57,619
But you know,
don't tell nobody.
298
00:13:57,706 --> 00:13:59,447
- Why not? I don't.
- Oh, you know.
299
00:13:59,534 --> 00:14:00,927
- You'll figure it out.
- I won't.
300
00:14:01,014 --> 00:14:02,363
JONATHAN: You can't have
the baseball team knowing
301
00:14:02,450 --> 00:14:04,234
that he bakes biscuits
and cries to Celine Dion.
302
00:14:04,321 --> 00:14:07,107
On that... [GROANS]
Take my leave.
303
00:14:07,194 --> 00:14:09,370
I shall bid you goodbye.
304
00:14:09,457 --> 00:14:10,588
- Okay.
- Uh, you, bad bye.
305
00:14:10,675 --> 00:14:11,807
- Well, goodbye.
- JONATHAN: A bad bye?
306
00:14:11,894 --> 00:14:13,026
- BORIS: Mm-hmm.
- But I love you though.
307
00:14:13,113 --> 00:14:14,114
BORIS: No, you don't.
308
00:14:16,638 --> 00:14:18,640
Don't you get scared walking
through those woods?
309
00:14:23,036 --> 00:14:24,602
I'm the scariest thing
in there.
310
00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:27,388
[CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY]
311
00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,566
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
312
00:14:32,262 --> 00:14:34,177
[HUMMING]
313
00:14:40,357 --> 00:14:41,837
Oldest trick in the book,
Winnie.
314
00:14:42,794 --> 00:14:44,144
Ain't you gonna say somethin'?
315
00:14:45,406 --> 00:14:46,798
I dressed up just for you.
316
00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:48,322
[CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
317
00:14:48,409 --> 00:14:49,932
What you want? [GRUNTS]
318
00:14:50,019 --> 00:14:51,020
I wanna get into
319
00:14:51,107 --> 00:14:53,109
- your physics class.
- Why?
320
00:14:53,196 --> 00:14:54,197
You'd be really behind.
321
00:14:54,284 --> 00:14:55,633
WINNIE: Don't you tutor?
322
00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,157
You don't need lessons.
323
00:14:58,245 --> 00:14:59,420
Then what do I need?
324
00:15:00,725 --> 00:15:02,162
BORIS: Um...
325
00:15:03,163 --> 00:15:05,426
[MISCHIEVOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
326
00:15:05,513 --> 00:15:06,818
See what I can do.
327
00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:08,211
WINNIE: 'Preciate ya!
328
00:15:08,298 --> 00:15:09,430
BORIS: Hope so.
329
00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,259
CAIRO: You are insane.
330
00:15:14,217 --> 00:15:15,262
[WINNIE INHALES SHARPLY]
331
00:15:15,784 --> 00:15:17,786
Here.
332
00:15:17,873 --> 00:15:20,049
I think
I'm seducing Coach Fillmore.
333
00:15:21,398 --> 00:15:23,183
But you're a lesbian.
334
00:15:23,270 --> 00:15:25,315
I'm an equal opportunist.
335
00:15:25,402 --> 00:15:26,969
CAIRO: Mm.
336
00:15:27,056 --> 00:15:28,579
Are you jealous?
337
00:15:28,666 --> 00:15:30,407
Well, if I say, "yes,"
will you lay off him?
338
00:15:30,494 --> 00:15:32,670
If I say, "yes,"
will you lay on me?
339
00:15:34,150 --> 00:15:35,456
Okay, chickybikky?
340
00:15:36,674 --> 00:15:38,328
Okay.
341
00:15:38,415 --> 00:15:40,591
[STRANGE DESIRE
BY ISLA JUNE PLAYING]
342
00:15:47,642 --> 00:15:48,904
So, you're a smoker now?
343
00:15:49,905 --> 00:15:51,776
I'm smoking now.
344
00:15:51,863 --> 00:15:54,214
No plans for it
to define me yet.
345
00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:55,693
Where are your parents
this time?
346
00:15:56,433 --> 00:15:57,478
Mumbai.
347
00:15:58,653 --> 00:15:59,697
WINNIE: For how long?
348
00:16:00,089 --> 00:16:01,569
Who knows?
349
00:16:01,656 --> 00:16:03,223
Let me dress you up.
350
00:16:03,310 --> 00:16:04,920
Winnie, you know I don't give
a fuck about being hot.
351
00:16:05,007 --> 00:16:06,269
I give a fuck
about being smart.
352
00:16:06,835 --> 00:16:08,271
You can be both.
353
00:16:10,404 --> 00:16:11,622
What are you doin'?
354
00:16:13,276 --> 00:16:14,799
I'm willing my cursor
to blink itself
355
00:16:14,886 --> 00:16:16,105
into my Yale essay.
356
00:16:16,714 --> 00:16:17,802
You dry?
357
00:16:19,108 --> 00:16:20,370
Unqualified.
358
00:16:20,457 --> 00:16:22,894
What's the subject?
359
00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:24,722
"What has been your greatest
achievement to date?"
360
00:16:26,376 --> 00:16:27,856
All right, what the fuck
am I supposed to say?
361
00:16:27,943 --> 00:16:29,727
Surviving the crippling ennui
362
00:16:29,814 --> 00:16:30,859
of growing up
in bumfuck nowhere?
363
00:16:30,946 --> 00:16:31,991
I'm sorry.
364
00:16:32,078 --> 00:16:33,514
I just...
I couldn't hear you over
365
00:16:33,601 --> 00:16:35,603
the high whine
of your shining trust fund.
366
00:16:35,690 --> 00:16:36,865
My greatest achievement
cannot be that
367
00:16:36,952 --> 00:16:38,127
I've had no achievement.
368
00:16:38,214 --> 00:16:40,390
Well, you are gonna
be valedictorian.
369
00:16:40,477 --> 00:16:41,478
CAIRO: Boring.
370
00:16:41,565 --> 00:16:43,959
- You have a 4.6 GPA.
- Boring.
371
00:16:44,046 --> 00:16:45,265
And you've successfully...
372
00:16:45,352 --> 00:16:46,353
- What?
- Well...
373
00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,008
You've successfully, um...
374
00:16:49,791 --> 00:16:50,966
Well...
375
00:16:51,445 --> 00:16:52,881
Shit.
376
00:16:52,968 --> 00:16:54,970
I guess you're just another
run-of-the-mill,
377
00:16:55,057 --> 00:16:56,493
generationally wealthy gal
378
00:16:56,580 --> 00:16:58,582
livin' in
a haunted ancestral mansion.
379
00:16:58,669 --> 00:16:59,714
Fuck.
380
00:17:00,541 --> 00:17:02,456
WINNIE: So...
381
00:17:02,543 --> 00:17:05,502
- [CAIRO SIGHS]
- Experience something.
382
00:17:05,589 --> 00:17:06,721
Like what?
383
00:17:06,808 --> 00:17:08,070
Something worth writing about.
384
00:17:10,377 --> 00:17:13,119
You could write a treatise
on teacher-student affairs.
385
00:17:13,206 --> 00:17:14,598
[CHUCKLES]
386
00:17:14,685 --> 00:17:16,339
How exactly would that
be an achievement, Winnie?
387
00:17:16,426 --> 00:17:17,558
Easy.
388
00:17:17,645 --> 00:17:19,516
It becomes a conversation
389
00:17:19,603 --> 00:17:21,649
about achieving emancipation
390
00:17:21,736 --> 00:17:25,348
from your inherited beliefs
about sex and age.
391
00:17:25,435 --> 00:17:27,133
You're not seriously
gonna fuck Fillmore, are you?
392
00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:29,309
[SMACKS LIPS]
Haven't decided yet.
393
00:17:30,092 --> 00:17:31,093
What's it to you?
394
00:17:31,180 --> 00:17:32,268
Like, he's, like,
395
00:17:32,355 --> 00:17:34,575
- twenty years older than you.
- So?
396
00:17:34,662 --> 00:17:36,403
Older men have been
harvesting virginity
397
00:17:36,490 --> 00:17:37,969
since the dawn of time.
398
00:17:42,017 --> 00:17:43,540
So, it doesn't mean
anything to you?
399
00:17:43,627 --> 00:17:45,238
What?
400
00:17:45,325 --> 00:17:46,804
Your virginity.
401
00:17:46,891 --> 00:17:48,371
Does it mean something to you?
402
00:17:51,157 --> 00:17:52,158
I haven't decided yet.
403
00:17:53,855 --> 00:17:54,899
Come to Winnie.
404
00:18:02,690 --> 00:18:04,431
We're, like,
405
00:18:04,518 --> 00:18:07,564
the fucking
American wet dream.
406
00:18:07,651 --> 00:18:10,698
Young girls with
ambivalent sexuality.
407
00:18:10,785 --> 00:18:14,310
Pheromones steaming off
our bodies.
408
00:18:14,397 --> 00:18:16,704
I don't wanna drop it
for some rando jock-twat
409
00:18:16,791 --> 00:18:18,445
whose sexual standards
are mandated
410
00:18:18,532 --> 00:18:20,708
by the shit porn he downloads.
411
00:18:20,795 --> 00:18:21,883
That's deli meat.
412
00:18:22,666 --> 00:18:25,887
I want a dry-aged
413
00:18:25,974 --> 00:18:28,498
slab of perfectly marbled
hot man meat
414
00:18:28,585 --> 00:18:30,109
to take me to pleasure town.
415
00:18:30,979 --> 00:18:32,198
[INHALES DEEPLY]
416
00:18:32,285 --> 00:18:33,286
Like...
417
00:18:33,982 --> 00:18:35,026
Wagyu beef.
418
00:18:36,550 --> 00:18:37,594
[SIGHS]
419
00:18:38,682 --> 00:18:39,901
Hungee.
420
00:18:39,988 --> 00:18:41,381
You think
that's Boris Fillmore?
421
00:18:42,773 --> 00:18:43,818
Why not?
422
00:18:45,559 --> 00:18:46,690
He's fine.
423
00:18:47,648 --> 00:18:49,998
He's like,
really fucking smart.
424
00:18:50,085 --> 00:18:51,391
And he's kind.
425
00:18:51,478 --> 00:18:53,697
Which means, as my first time,
426
00:18:54,829 --> 00:18:56,526
he'd take his time
427
00:18:56,613 --> 00:18:58,746
to get me all good and juiced.
428
00:18:58,833 --> 00:19:00,617
And then
he'd give me aftercare.
429
00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:05,231
You know,
the first time you have sex,
430
00:19:05,318 --> 00:19:06,710
it's not supposed to hurt.
431
00:19:07,494 --> 00:19:08,538
Right?
432
00:19:09,974 --> 00:19:12,325
Like,
if you're properly aroused.
433
00:19:13,978 --> 00:19:15,676
You likely won't even bleed.
434
00:19:17,504 --> 00:19:18,940
Didn't know that.
435
00:19:19,027 --> 00:19:20,811
That's because a woman's pain
436
00:19:20,898 --> 00:19:22,900
is valued more
than her pleasure.
437
00:19:22,987 --> 00:19:24,902
But that's a conversation
for another day.
438
00:19:24,989 --> 00:19:26,034
My point...
439
00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:30,647
is that Boris has just got it
going on.
440
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:33,650
I know what I'm looking for.
441
00:19:36,262 --> 00:19:39,003
And I think Mr. Miller knows
what he's looking for.
442
00:19:39,090 --> 00:19:40,135
What do you mean?
443
00:19:41,223 --> 00:19:42,659
I've never seen him look
at a student
444
00:19:42,746 --> 00:19:43,921
the way he looks at you.
445
00:19:44,966 --> 00:19:47,098
He sees you
446
00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:48,839
even though
you hide in plain sight.
447
00:19:48,926 --> 00:19:50,667
- Shut up. [GIGGLING]
- What?
448
00:19:50,754 --> 00:19:51,929
- Stop!
- No.
449
00:19:52,016 --> 00:19:54,280
Come on.
Like you don't notice, Cairo.
450
00:19:54,367 --> 00:19:56,020
It's like he's been living
in gray scale
451
00:19:56,107 --> 00:19:58,893
and you're the first thing
he's ever seen in color.
452
00:19:58,980 --> 00:20:01,200
No, you're being... Shut up.
453
00:20:06,988 --> 00:20:08,163
I'd fuck you.
454
00:20:09,077 --> 00:20:10,209
I know.
455
00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:13,212
[AMUSING MUSIC PLAYING]
456
00:20:13,821 --> 00:20:15,083
[CAIRO GIGGLES]
457
00:20:15,170 --> 00:20:17,172
[WHAT FICTION IS FOR
BY DYAN PLAYING]
458
00:20:19,479 --> 00:20:20,828
CAIRO: [READING]
"I was nothing
459
00:20:20,915 --> 00:20:22,308
"but a bleached bone monument
beneath her.
460
00:20:24,571 --> 00:20:26,747
"Human ruins
of a madman's love."
461
00:20:29,402 --> 00:20:30,925
"A madman's love."
462
00:20:33,797 --> 00:20:35,930
God, I'd give anything
to feel that.
463
00:20:38,672 --> 00:20:42,415
What muse could inspire
this deranged yearning?
464
00:20:44,199 --> 00:20:46,201
[WHAT FICTION IS FOR
CONTINUES]
465
00:20:50,510 --> 00:20:51,685
To inspire.
466
00:20:52,860 --> 00:20:54,427
To be so inspired.
467
00:20:58,561 --> 00:21:00,346
Could we be that
to each other?
468
00:21:03,914 --> 00:21:05,568
What was I saying?
469
00:21:07,309 --> 00:21:09,180
Feels like I'm not right.
470
00:21:10,791 --> 00:21:11,966
Feels good.
471
00:21:13,141 --> 00:21:14,490
It feels pink.
472
00:21:14,577 --> 00:21:15,926
JONATHAN: Never forget.
473
00:21:16,013 --> 00:21:18,625
There's a reason this guy
was called romantic.
474
00:21:18,712 --> 00:21:21,062
It's very big, it's very bold.
475
00:21:21,149 --> 00:21:23,891
To us,
it might seem a little...
476
00:21:23,978 --> 00:21:25,284
much.
477
00:21:27,068 --> 00:21:29,113
If we don't stick
to the brief,
478
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,028
it gets a little bit woolly.
479
00:21:32,595 --> 00:21:34,510
Uh, can you see me
after school, please?
480
00:21:36,556 --> 00:21:38,601
Some of you, as you can see
could have done...
481
00:21:38,688 --> 00:21:40,081
CAIRO: It's like a sugar cube
under the tongue.
482
00:21:40,168 --> 00:21:41,169
...a little better.
483
00:21:41,256 --> 00:21:43,780
But worth persevering.
484
00:21:43,867 --> 00:21:45,478
Colby, what?
485
00:21:45,565 --> 00:21:47,262
CAIRO: I want your attention.
486
00:21:47,349 --> 00:21:49,351
[SOMETHING'S WRONG BABY BY
LITTLE MELVIN UNDERWOOD PLAYS]
487
00:21:50,439 --> 00:21:52,267
Uh, how's Bea?
488
00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:54,617
She's, uh, she's Bea.
489
00:21:54,704 --> 00:21:55,923
BORIS: Yeah.
How's the book coming?
490
00:21:56,010 --> 00:21:57,533
It's not.
491
00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,100
You mean you're not.
492
00:21:59,187 --> 00:22:00,971
No, she's, uh, she's occupied.
493
00:22:01,058 --> 00:22:02,146
All right,
what time is dinner?
494
00:22:02,233 --> 00:22:03,365
JONATHAN: Seven o'clock.
495
00:22:03,452 --> 00:22:04,758
And please take a shower.
496
00:22:04,845 --> 00:22:06,237
Are you worried?
497
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:09,284
Your old lady's gonna get hot
for all this?
498
00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:10,764
Top three worst nightmares.
499
00:22:10,851 --> 00:22:13,462
Yeah. Because you know
how nasty she is.
500
00:22:13,549 --> 00:22:15,464
No, because I wanna keep you
for myself.
501
00:22:15,551 --> 00:22:17,597
Aw, cutie.
502
00:22:18,859 --> 00:22:19,947
- Hey.
- What?
503
00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:21,296
You remember the Roger Rabbit?
504
00:22:21,383 --> 00:22:22,428
Check it out now.
505
00:22:31,698 --> 00:22:33,700
- It's close, right?
- To?
506
00:22:33,787 --> 00:22:35,005
Kids ain't got nothing on me.
507
00:22:35,092 --> 00:22:36,180
- JONATHAN: All right, man.
- Bye, Professor.
508
00:22:36,267 --> 00:22:37,573
- Love you.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
509
00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:39,662
[SOMETHING'S WRONG BABY
CONTINUES PLAYING]
510
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:51,805
[CLAPS]
511
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,284
Ooh!
512
00:22:54,198 --> 00:22:55,765
F... Hi. Uh...
513
00:22:55,852 --> 00:22:57,201
[GIGGLING]
514
00:22:57,288 --> 00:23:00,770
JONATHAN: Hello... Well,
that was embarrassing.
515
00:23:00,857 --> 00:23:02,903
- I won't tell.
- That's generous, thank you.
516
00:23:02,990 --> 00:23:05,601
Uh, hope I'm not keeping you
from anything.
517
00:23:05,688 --> 00:23:08,038
I'm waiting for Winnie.
518
00:23:08,125 --> 00:23:10,127
It's like you're always
waiting for Winnie.
519
00:23:10,214 --> 00:23:12,129
That sounds like
a Gin Blossoms album.
520
00:23:13,087 --> 00:23:14,610
Waiting for Winnie.
521
00:23:14,697 --> 00:23:17,439
Gin Blossoms? How old are you?
522
00:23:17,526 --> 00:23:19,528
Well, if you can't tell,
then I won't.
523
00:23:20,486 --> 00:23:22,009
What's Winnie doing?
524
00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:23,314
She's applying to Vandy.
525
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:24,968
You would be pleased to know.
526
00:23:25,055 --> 00:23:26,666
And are you?
527
00:23:26,753 --> 00:23:29,320
Tennessee is a fucking
tar pit. No offense.
528
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:32,236
I think you'll appreciate it
when you're older.
529
00:23:32,323 --> 00:23:33,368
Maybe.
530
00:23:34,369 --> 00:23:35,414
From afar.
531
00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:37,285
As it burns.
532
00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,027
- Like Nero.
- [JONATHAN CHUCKLES]
533
00:23:42,682 --> 00:23:43,813
Well, that's...
534
00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,163
So, uh,
how far are we talkin'?
535
00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:47,469
Yale far.
536
00:23:47,556 --> 00:23:49,079
Yale far? My God!
537
00:23:49,166 --> 00:23:51,081
What, so you can eat
pot brownies
538
00:23:51,168 --> 00:23:52,866
and read Joan Didion or what?
539
00:23:52,953 --> 00:23:54,607
Because I hear
the literacy rate is high.
540
00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:00,177
You ever been to
541
00:24:00,264 --> 00:24:01,831
the Scroll Sessions
at Sally Bunny's?
542
00:24:01,918 --> 00:24:03,485
No. What's that?
543
00:24:03,572 --> 00:24:06,270
Poetry salon
every third Saturday.
544
00:24:06,357 --> 00:24:07,489
Victorian Village.
545
00:24:07,576 --> 00:24:09,273
- What is that?
- What's...
546
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:11,014
What's that? It's blank.
547
00:24:11,101 --> 00:24:12,494
Ca... How can you disdain
548
00:24:12,581 --> 00:24:14,670
of what Tennessee has to offer
549
00:24:14,757 --> 00:24:18,631
without conducting a thorough,
uh, cultural investigation?
550
00:24:18,718 --> 00:24:20,284
Educated judgment.
551
00:24:20,371 --> 00:24:23,462
[CHUCKLES] Well, I've heard
things there that haunt me.
552
00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:25,464
Because they're bad?
553
00:24:25,551 --> 00:24:26,682
[LAUGHS]
554
00:24:26,769 --> 00:24:28,771
Sometimes, yeah.
Sometimes they're bad.
555
00:24:28,858 --> 00:24:30,730
Most of the time, it's,
it's kind of beautiful.
556
00:24:31,774 --> 00:24:32,862
Yeah.
557
00:24:32,949 --> 00:24:35,517
Maybe you should go
this weekend.
558
00:24:35,604 --> 00:24:36,866
I think you might
be surprised.
559
00:24:36,953 --> 00:24:38,433
[CHUCKLES]
560
00:24:40,043 --> 00:24:41,392
You wanted to see me?
561
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,046
JONATHAN: This week's story,
562
00:24:43,133 --> 00:24:47,790
uh, you wrote about
a reluctant spider.
563
00:24:47,877 --> 00:24:48,922
I enjoyed this one.
564
00:24:50,706 --> 00:24:54,275
[RECITING] "Survival
and desire amalgamated
565
00:24:54,362 --> 00:24:56,669
"and turned
an aphotic eye inward.
566
00:24:58,453 --> 00:25:01,935
"I saw my expectations
dismantled and dismembered
567
00:25:04,154 --> 00:25:07,462
"by the harsh and starving
dogs of reality.
568
00:25:07,549 --> 00:25:10,030
"Truths that sit in
the vacuity of space
569
00:25:10,117 --> 00:25:11,684
"like a hypergiant star
570
00:25:12,249 --> 00:25:13,512
"burning to ash.
571
00:25:15,078 --> 00:25:19,082
"All elements too weak
to withstand the awesome heat.
572
00:25:19,169 --> 00:25:21,520
"We are what we are.
573
00:25:21,607 --> 00:25:24,740
[CHUCKLES]
"And all creatures must eat."
574
00:25:25,524 --> 00:25:26,655
[CHUCKLES]
575
00:25:28,178 --> 00:25:31,355
- Um...
- Damn. That, I mean...
576
00:25:31,442 --> 00:25:32,966
I was not expecting that.
577
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,098
Um...
578
00:25:37,013 --> 00:25:38,101
She's not reluctant.
579
00:25:39,450 --> 00:25:40,451
She's resigned.
580
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:41,714
- To her death?
- No.
581
00:25:41,801 --> 00:25:42,889
To the order of things.
582
00:25:44,064 --> 00:25:46,022
She eats and waits
to be eaten.
583
00:25:46,109 --> 00:25:48,329
- Phew. It's dark.
- It's nature.
584
00:25:48,416 --> 00:25:49,635
That's true.
585
00:25:53,334 --> 00:25:54,857
You memorized it.
586
00:25:55,292 --> 00:25:56,293
Uh...
587
00:25:56,380 --> 00:25:58,513
Well, I'm eidetic.
588
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,341
It's a,
it's a cool party trick.
589
00:26:03,649 --> 00:26:04,650
You are...
590
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,655
You're exceptionally talented.
591
00:26:09,742 --> 00:26:11,787
- Do I get an A?
- Well, how about a jumpstart
592
00:26:11,874 --> 00:26:13,310
on the midterm?
593
00:26:13,397 --> 00:26:15,225
Are you offering me
special treatment, Mr. Miller?
594
00:26:16,357 --> 00:26:17,924
I want you to write
a short story
595
00:26:18,011 --> 00:26:19,926
in the style
of your favorite author.
596
00:26:21,362 --> 00:26:22,885
I think it could be
the highlight
597
00:26:22,972 --> 00:26:24,583
of your portfolio submission
598
00:26:24,670 --> 00:26:26,062
- to Vanderbilt.
- Yale.
599
00:26:26,149 --> 00:26:27,673
- [WHISPERING] Vanderbilt.
- Yale.
600
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,065
[IN NORMAL VOICE] Come on.
I've got to have some hope.
601
00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:31,981
I think
that's a terrific assignment.
602
00:26:32,068 --> 00:26:33,069
Thought you would.
603
00:26:33,679 --> 00:26:34,723
Good.
604
00:26:36,856 --> 00:26:37,944
I read your book.
605
00:26:38,031 --> 00:26:40,555
- Oh, God. Well, uh...
- [CHUCKLES]
606
00:26:41,774 --> 00:26:42,775
[EXHALES]
607
00:26:44,733 --> 00:26:46,648
Reviewers,
of which there were three,
608
00:26:47,257 --> 00:26:48,998
found it, uh,
609
00:26:49,085 --> 00:26:52,393
"overreaching
without ambition," to quote.
610
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,612
I would call it...
611
00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,223
grand and tragic.
612
00:26:57,659 --> 00:26:58,965
Okay. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
613
00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:01,750
Romantic horror.
614
00:27:05,058 --> 00:27:06,059
That's, uh...
615
00:27:07,582 --> 00:27:09,453
CAIRO: [RECITING]
"She was an electric white
616
00:27:10,237 --> 00:27:11,934
"noon-shadow moon
617
00:27:13,196 --> 00:27:15,503
"casting cold light like water
618
00:27:15,590 --> 00:27:17,200
"over the flat earth
of my face.
619
00:27:18,724 --> 00:27:20,290
"'Don't look into the sun,'
they said.
620
00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:22,118
"But the moon,
621
00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:24,425
"the moon...
622
00:27:25,992 --> 00:27:27,254
"I stared until I was nothing
623
00:27:27,341 --> 00:27:29,386
"but a bleached bone monument
beneath her.
624
00:27:30,997 --> 00:27:34,000
"Human ruins
of a madman's love."
625
00:27:34,087 --> 00:27:36,089
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
626
00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:40,746
Well, you memorized that, right?
627
00:27:40,833 --> 00:27:42,835
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
628
00:27:47,491 --> 00:27:48,841
[SUCKS TEETH]
629
00:27:48,928 --> 00:27:50,886
That was too much.
That was weird. [CHUCKLES]
630
00:27:50,973 --> 00:27:52,105
No, it wasn't.
It's not. It's not.
631
00:27:52,192 --> 00:27:54,760
That was really weird.
I'm sorry.
632
00:27:54,847 --> 00:27:56,370
That was the first thing
I'd ever written...
633
00:27:59,068 --> 00:28:00,417
which felt tangible.
634
00:28:00,504 --> 00:28:02,768
Like I'd touched somethin'.
635
00:28:06,946 --> 00:28:08,295
You know,
I haven't written anything
636
00:28:08,382 --> 00:28:10,601
- in a very long time.
- Why not?
637
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:11,690
I don't know.
638
00:28:12,603 --> 00:28:13,648
Do I know?
639
00:28:15,128 --> 00:28:16,346
Mm?
640
00:28:16,433 --> 00:28:18,697
[MUTTERING] Uh...
641
00:28:18,784 --> 00:28:20,307
I guess I got married.
642
00:28:21,308 --> 00:28:22,701
Started teaching.
643
00:28:26,095 --> 00:28:27,836
I don't have anything else
to say.
644
00:28:29,533 --> 00:28:31,013
You're uninspired.
645
00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:33,363
- You judging me?
- I am challenging you.
646
00:28:33,450 --> 00:28:34,887
That's my job.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
647
00:28:38,804 --> 00:28:39,848
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
648
00:28:41,023 --> 00:28:42,721
[DOOR CLOSES]
649
00:28:42,808 --> 00:28:44,810
- JONATHAN: Hi, Winnie.
- Oh, no.
650
00:28:45,636 --> 00:28:46,681
[SIGHS]
651
00:28:49,597 --> 00:28:51,164
- Hungee.
- CAIRO: I think she's hungry.
652
00:28:51,251 --> 00:28:52,426
She just doesn't use
real words
653
00:28:52,513 --> 00:28:53,906
because she's a child.
654
00:28:53,993 --> 00:28:55,516
[TO LOVE A MAN BY
KELLYEANN KEOUGH PLAYING]
655
00:28:55,603 --> 00:28:56,822
[BORIS CHUCKLES]
656
00:28:56,909 --> 00:28:59,259
No, it's fine.
Your hair looks great.
657
00:28:59,346 --> 00:29:00,782
- I knew it.
- Please don't start.
658
00:29:00,869 --> 00:29:02,262
- BEATRICE: Don't.
- Your hair looks good.
659
00:29:02,349 --> 00:29:03,263
- BEATRICE: I will not go...
- I'm more concerned...
660
00:29:03,350 --> 00:29:04,873
...gently into the good night.
661
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,048
- No, I know. You look fine.
- BEATRICE: Like you have.
662
00:29:06,135 --> 00:29:07,354
I'm just more concerned
about the fact
663
00:29:07,441 --> 00:29:08,181
that you got two damn phones
on the table
664
00:29:08,268 --> 00:29:09,312
like you're a rapper.
665
00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:10,836
This one
is my professional phone.
666
00:29:10,923 --> 00:29:12,402
- BORIS: And the other one...
- [JONATHAN CHUCKLING]
667
00:29:12,489 --> 00:29:13,839
- JONATHAN: The other one...
- ...is for selling drugs.
668
00:29:13,926 --> 00:29:15,144
- The other one is personal.
- BORIS: Oh, yeah?
669
00:29:15,231 --> 00:29:16,145
That's why you're not gonna
get that number.
670
00:29:16,232 --> 00:29:17,756
[ALL LAUGHING]
671
00:29:17,843 --> 00:29:19,845
How y'all doin'?
That burger treatin' you well?
672
00:29:19,932 --> 00:29:21,760
Sorry,
it's a two-man show tonight.
673
00:29:21,847 --> 00:29:24,284
- [WINNIE SIGHS]
- I'm getting angry now.
674
00:29:24,371 --> 00:29:26,025
BORIS: Well...
WINNIE: [SIGHS] Well, hi.
675
00:29:26,112 --> 00:29:27,983
I don't see any Michelin stars
here, honey.
676
00:29:28,070 --> 00:29:29,724
So, what is the holdup?
677
00:29:29,811 --> 00:29:31,160
- WINNIE: A fuck-up...
- Bea. Come on.
678
00:29:31,247 --> 00:29:32,814
...in the kitchen
that was entirely preventable.
679
00:29:33,989 --> 00:29:35,948
Can I get you anything
while you wait?
680
00:29:36,035 --> 00:29:38,167
- On me.
- Another Maker's.
681
00:29:38,254 --> 00:29:39,821
Okay, you got it.
682
00:29:39,908 --> 00:29:41,867
- Coach?
- BORIS: Blue Moon.
683
00:29:41,954 --> 00:29:43,520
Workin' late on
a school night, ain't you?
684
00:29:43,607 --> 00:29:45,609
Drinkin' late on
a school night, ain't you?
685
00:29:45,696 --> 00:29:47,829
Oh, you think sassing me
is gonna get you a better tip?
686
00:29:47,916 --> 00:29:49,309
WINNIE: Gets me
a better grade.
687
00:29:49,396 --> 00:29:51,398
Doesn't it?
688
00:29:51,485 --> 00:29:53,356
- That might be true, yeah.
- Anything for you, Mr. Miller?
689
00:29:53,443 --> 00:29:54,836
[LAUGHS] I'm good, Winnie.
690
00:29:54,923 --> 00:29:55,968
Designated driver.
691
00:29:56,055 --> 00:29:57,491
- Oh.
- BORIS: Oh, really?
692
00:29:57,578 --> 00:29:58,753
- Unless you wanna do it.
- First I'm hearing of this.
693
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,843
You know, why can't you just
be a nice,
694
00:30:01,930 --> 00:30:04,454
boring teacher
like Mr. Miller?
695
00:30:04,541 --> 00:30:06,021
- [ALL LAUGHING]
- Boring?
696
00:30:06,108 --> 00:30:07,066
BORIS: What? And let
my students make their grades
697
00:30:07,153 --> 00:30:08,458
with scholastic merit?
698
00:30:08,545 --> 00:30:09,590
Do you really think
I'm boring?
699
00:30:09,677 --> 00:30:11,113
In a good way.
700
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,420
Like a nice pastoral.
701
00:30:13,507 --> 00:30:15,291
I'll get those drinks for you.
702
00:30:15,378 --> 00:30:16,902
Yeah. "Pastoral."
703
00:30:16,989 --> 00:30:18,338
She just called you a field.
704
00:30:18,425 --> 00:30:19,600
JONATHAN: At best.
705
00:30:19,687 --> 00:30:21,428
- She's cute.
- Yeah, and a 4.4 student.
706
00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:22,690
And she can paint.
707
00:30:22,777 --> 00:30:24,300
She's in my morning class.
708
00:30:24,387 --> 00:30:26,825
Oh, is this the last scion
of James Joyce?
709
00:30:26,912 --> 00:30:28,522
[CHUCKLING] That's Cairo.
710
00:30:28,609 --> 00:30:29,871
- Cairo?
- BORIS: Yeah.
711
00:30:29,958 --> 00:30:31,220
Did he tell you that
Cairo read his book?
712
00:30:31,307 --> 00:30:33,092
He sure did.
713
00:30:33,179 --> 00:30:36,051
- Is she pretty?
- JONATHAN: Is she pretty?
714
00:30:36,138 --> 00:30:37,836
Um, I don't know.
She's talented.
715
00:30:37,923 --> 00:30:39,359
Damn. Even worse.
716
00:30:39,446 --> 00:30:41,230
Our friend Jon here
is prepping her to be
717
00:30:41,317 --> 00:30:43,972
his transcendence into
the annals of academic glory.
718
00:30:44,059 --> 00:30:46,496
And so what if I am?
It's exhilarating.
719
00:30:46,583 --> 00:30:48,237
And it's rare as well
720
00:30:48,324 --> 00:30:49,630
- to be so engaged and so...
- Hmm. I bet is is. Yes.
721
00:30:49,717 --> 00:30:51,414
- So worshipped.
- So worthy.
722
00:30:51,501 --> 00:30:53,242
- Wanna be like me.
- She, in earnest
723
00:30:53,329 --> 00:30:55,897
uses words
like "vituperation."
724
00:30:55,984 --> 00:30:57,072
Please.
725
00:30:57,159 --> 00:30:58,769
Vocabulary doesn't make
you a writer
726
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:01,381
any more than math
makes you a rocket scientist.
727
00:31:01,468 --> 00:31:03,687
Bea, she's extraordinary.
728
00:31:03,774 --> 00:31:05,515
- Okay?
- But enjoy it while you can.
729
00:31:05,602 --> 00:31:07,300
You know, pickings are slim
in the boonies.
730
00:31:07,387 --> 00:31:09,128
Rural education
not as romantic
731
00:31:09,215 --> 00:31:10,433
as you thought it'd be, huh?
732
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:11,870
No, I thought it was going
to be fucking
733
00:31:11,957 --> 00:31:13,567
- Friday Night Lights, okay?
- [BOTH LAUGHING]
734
00:31:13,654 --> 00:31:15,003
- That's on you, man.
- Just cool stories
735
00:31:15,090 --> 00:31:16,526
and, like, sexy guitar riffs.
736
00:31:16,613 --> 00:31:19,268
Meanwhile, the professor
disapproves of my cynicism.
737
00:31:19,355 --> 00:31:20,835
- Oh, he's judging you.
- Yes, he is. I feel it.
738
00:31:20,922 --> 00:31:22,141
- No, I'm not.
- BORIS: Yes, you are.
739
00:31:22,228 --> 00:31:23,533
BEATRICE: Are too.
740
00:31:23,620 --> 00:31:25,144
[RECITING] "The teacher
who attempts to teach
741
00:31:25,231 --> 00:31:26,710
"without inspiring the pupil
742
00:31:26,797 --> 00:31:29,888
"with a desire to learn
is hammering on cold iron."
743
00:31:29,975 --> 00:31:31,498
- Horace Mann.
- Ten points to Slytherin.
744
00:31:31,585 --> 00:31:32,586
That's so rich.
745
00:31:32,673 --> 00:31:34,283
I wanted to be a teacher.
746
00:31:34,370 --> 00:31:35,371
You fell back on it.
747
00:31:35,458 --> 00:31:37,156
And by the way,
I love teaching.
748
00:31:37,243 --> 00:31:39,114
You're better suited for it,
I think, anyway.
749
00:31:39,201 --> 00:31:40,942
- Hey, than what?
- Writing.
750
00:31:41,029 --> 00:31:42,944
- BORIS: Goddamn, Beatrice.
- What does that mean?
751
00:31:43,031 --> 00:31:44,467
BEATRICE: You don't have kids.
752
00:31:44,554 --> 00:31:45,294
BORIS: You don't have kids.
BEATRICE: You don't have
753
00:31:45,381 --> 00:31:46,774
brain damage, right?
754
00:31:46,861 --> 00:31:48,819
So, um, you stopped writing
755
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,821
I imagine,
because it wasn't for you.
756
00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:52,693
Otherwise,
you'd still be doing it.
757
00:31:53,607 --> 00:31:54,651
I'm a writer.
758
00:31:54,738 --> 00:31:56,131
You haven't put pen to page
759
00:31:56,218 --> 00:31:57,916
since your stories got panned.
760
00:31:58,699 --> 00:31:59,700
You're not a writer.
761
00:31:59,787 --> 00:32:00,831
JONATHAN: Hmm.
762
00:32:01,571 --> 00:32:03,617
Well, okay.
763
00:32:03,704 --> 00:32:05,227
Didn't realize you
saw me this way, but okay.
764
00:32:05,314 --> 00:32:06,750
BEATRICE: It's not that
you can't write, Jon.
765
00:32:06,837 --> 00:32:07,926
It's that you don't.
766
00:32:08,665 --> 00:32:11,103
You chose to be a teacher.
767
00:32:11,190 --> 00:32:13,018
Why would I see you
as anything else?
768
00:32:15,324 --> 00:32:16,760
'Cause you married a writer.
769
00:32:16,847 --> 00:32:18,066
BEATRICE: I did.
770
00:32:18,414 --> 00:32:19,589
Didn't I?
771
00:32:19,676 --> 00:32:21,722
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
772
00:32:22,636 --> 00:32:24,638
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
773
00:32:25,552 --> 00:32:27,946
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
774
00:32:32,298 --> 00:32:33,734
CAIRO: Why am I here?
775
00:32:36,215 --> 00:32:38,347
It's not for the poetry,
I'll tell you that.
776
00:32:38,434 --> 00:32:39,479
[DOOR OPENS]
777
00:32:39,566 --> 00:32:41,568
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
778
00:32:43,048 --> 00:32:44,571
It's for the thrill
of something
779
00:32:44,658 --> 00:32:46,921
that I've managed to go
my whole life without knowing.
780
00:32:50,533 --> 00:32:53,145
An ache of anticipation
that you'll be here.
781
00:32:57,845 --> 00:32:59,803
And it will mean something
that you are.
782
00:33:03,546 --> 00:33:04,634
Be here.
783
00:33:04,721 --> 00:33:06,288
Be here. Be here.
784
00:33:09,944 --> 00:33:11,337
[RECITING] "Stay, illusion.
785
00:33:11,424 --> 00:33:13,861
"If thou hast any sound,
speak to me."
786
00:33:13,948 --> 00:33:16,037
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
787
00:33:16,124 --> 00:33:18,170
- Hi.
- Hi.
788
00:33:18,257 --> 00:33:19,780
JONATHAN: Can I sit?
CAIRO: Of course.
789
00:33:19,867 --> 00:33:21,521
[PLAYING PIANO]
790
00:33:23,523 --> 00:33:25,177
What's that you got there?
791
00:33:25,264 --> 00:33:28,136
It's, um,
sacramental grape juice.
792
00:33:28,223 --> 00:33:29,877
Said the barrister's daughter.
793
00:33:30,965 --> 00:33:31,922
CAIRO: Do you know
all these people?
794
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:33,315
JONATHAN: Uh, most of them.
795
00:33:33,402 --> 00:33:35,274
We've been doing this
for a couple years now.
796
00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:37,798
- Like group therapy?
- [CHUCKLES]
797
00:33:38,668 --> 00:33:40,714
Yeah, exactly that. [CHUCKLES]
798
00:33:41,976 --> 00:33:43,760
CAIRO: Who's that fellow?
JONATHAN: That's Elliot.
799
00:33:43,847 --> 00:33:45,719
Three-time Ostrander winner.
800
00:33:45,806 --> 00:33:47,547
He just finished
playing Edmund in Lear.
801
00:33:47,634 --> 00:33:49,288
It's sure to get him
his fourth.
802
00:33:49,375 --> 00:33:50,680
CAIRO: Hmm.
803
00:33:50,767 --> 00:33:53,205
[RECITING] "It is my intention
to escape you
804
00:33:54,858 --> 00:33:56,469
"and leave you far behind...
805
00:33:56,556 --> 00:33:57,992
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
806
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:00,299
"...bereft of me and aching.
807
00:34:01,561 --> 00:34:03,650
"Puzzled by the pain
in your rib.
808
00:34:05,565 --> 00:34:06,870
"Not quite heartache.
809
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:09,351
"Not quite homesick.
810
00:34:10,222 --> 00:34:11,962
"Me-shaped and filled
811
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:14,008
"with the remnants of stars.
812
00:34:15,488 --> 00:34:18,621
"You choke up the void
with verdurous blooms,
813
00:34:18,708 --> 00:34:20,971
"and the wrap of my veins
around you.
814
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,234
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES]
815
00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:24,975
"The hideous pulse,
816
00:34:25,802 --> 00:34:27,239
"the shouting blood,
817
00:34:28,631 --> 00:34:30,938
"the ventricle kudzu
smothering you
818
00:34:31,025 --> 00:34:32,113
"with wanting
819
00:34:33,201 --> 00:34:36,291
"is turned hideously soft
in reminiscence.
820
00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,296
"And yet
some part of me stays.
821
00:34:42,123 --> 00:34:43,211
"Some bit,
822
00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:45,213
"some parcel,
823
00:34:46,562 --> 00:34:48,738
"some ash left behind.
824
00:34:50,914 --> 00:34:53,787
"And with it,
you will recreate me.
825
00:34:53,874 --> 00:34:57,660
"A moving effigy,
a patch-work person."
826
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:03,275
"But they are not me.
827
00:35:04,450 --> 00:35:07,496
"And the space I left
grows misshapen."
828
00:35:11,587 --> 00:35:14,024
"I will never fit there
again."
829
00:35:15,504 --> 00:35:17,593
[ALL APPLAUDING]
830
00:35:19,029 --> 00:35:20,553
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
831
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:21,989
[CAIRO GIGGLES]
832
00:35:23,556 --> 00:35:24,600
What?
833
00:35:26,036 --> 00:35:27,560
I can see.
834
00:35:28,561 --> 00:35:29,649
It was really something.
835
00:35:30,432 --> 00:35:32,434
Hot dog.
836
00:35:32,521 --> 00:35:34,393
You thought it was gonna
be trash, didn't you?
837
00:35:35,307 --> 00:35:36,482
Yes, I did.
838
00:35:37,396 --> 00:35:38,571
Have more faith.
839
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,058
CAIRO: What is the word?
840
00:35:49,799 --> 00:35:52,193
It's not falling.
That's too stale.
841
00:35:53,412 --> 00:35:54,761
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
842
00:35:54,848 --> 00:35:56,545
It's more deliberate
than that.
843
00:35:58,373 --> 00:36:01,463
It's recognition
of what we really are.
844
00:36:04,597 --> 00:36:05,815
Ghosts.
845
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:09,819
You do see me.
846
00:36:11,952 --> 00:36:13,606
And I see you.
847
00:36:22,528 --> 00:36:25,661
Goddamn, Tennessee,
why are you so fuckin' hot?
848
00:36:25,748 --> 00:36:27,663
- Go inside.
- And miss Godot?
849
00:36:27,750 --> 00:36:29,143
Gifts for the wallflowers.
850
00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:30,884
JONATHAN: Oh. Okay.
BORIS: Mm. Hmm.
851
00:36:30,971 --> 00:36:32,364
CAIRO: Thank you.
BORIS: What's this?
852
00:36:33,626 --> 00:36:35,105
- CAIRO: Coffee.
- No, no.
853
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:37,543
What's this? What is...
What's with the, uh, new look?
854
00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:40,285
Thank you for this. It's,
uh... It's very generous.
855
00:36:40,372 --> 00:36:42,200
No one should have to suffer
cafeteria coffee.
856
00:36:42,287 --> 00:36:43,940
[BORIS IN SOUTHERN ACCENT]
You want a biscuit, biscuit?
857
00:36:44,027 --> 00:36:45,681
- What flavor?
- Split fig.
858
00:36:45,768 --> 00:36:47,857
Mm. [COUGHS]
859
00:36:47,944 --> 00:36:49,207
[CHOKES] Excuse me.
860
00:36:49,294 --> 00:36:50,773
- BORIS: It's good.
- Come on, man.
861
00:36:50,860 --> 00:36:52,210
BORIS: You got
a little split fig in you?
862
00:36:52,297 --> 00:36:54,603
- Not right now. Really?
- Caught in your throat?
863
00:36:54,690 --> 00:36:56,431
- You know what you should do?
- BORIS: What should I do?
864
00:36:56,518 --> 00:36:57,867
You should make a logo
and sell these
865
00:36:57,954 --> 00:36:59,521
- to raise money for the team.
- [BORIS LAUGHS]
866
00:36:59,608 --> 00:37:01,393
Don't laugh.
867
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:02,481
You'd buy some, wouldn't you,
Mr. Miller?
868
00:37:02,568 --> 00:37:03,786
- Oh, yeah.
- He doesn't count.
869
00:37:03,873 --> 00:37:05,484
I can't resist a cute boy
with a biscuit.
870
00:37:05,571 --> 00:37:07,529
Right?
Winnie could design the logo.
871
00:37:07,616 --> 00:37:08,661
- BORIS: Yeah?
- Yeah.
872
00:37:08,748 --> 00:37:09,749
She's really good
at that stuff.
873
00:37:10,663 --> 00:37:11,664
- BORIS: Really?
- Coach.
874
00:37:12,665 --> 00:37:14,536
Call yourself
the Biscuit Batters.
875
00:37:14,623 --> 00:37:16,016
Winnie and I could help you
get it off the ground.
876
00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:17,626
What's in it for you?
877
00:37:17,713 --> 00:37:19,541
- What's in it for me?
- BORIS: Mm-hmm.
878
00:37:19,628 --> 00:37:22,370
Oh, well, I mean,
it's pleasure, you know?
879
00:37:22,457 --> 00:37:24,154
Connection. 5%.
880
00:37:26,374 --> 00:37:28,811
- I'm the Biscuit Batter.
- No. Once more with pride.
881
00:37:28,898 --> 00:37:31,901
- I'm the Biscuit Batter!
- Oh. Oh, okay. Okay.
882
00:37:31,988 --> 00:37:33,251
[SHOUTING] I'm the...
883
00:37:33,338 --> 00:37:34,643
[IN NORMAL VOICE]
I'm gonna work on that.
884
00:37:34,730 --> 00:37:36,210
Um, but I'm leaving
before I fucking burn up.
885
00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:38,343
- Y'all coming inside?
- You go ahead.
886
00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:40,040
All right, suit yourself.
887
00:37:40,127 --> 00:37:42,085
I'll suit myself. See you now.
888
00:37:42,172 --> 00:37:43,348
BORIS: Mm.
889
00:37:51,051 --> 00:37:52,052
Hi.
890
00:37:52,139 --> 00:37:53,445
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
891
00:37:53,532 --> 00:37:54,620
Hi.
892
00:37:58,363 --> 00:37:59,364
You're sweet.
893
00:38:01,322 --> 00:38:02,497
When it suits.
894
00:38:06,414 --> 00:38:07,415
JONATHAN: Please.
895
00:38:09,025 --> 00:38:10,070
CAIRO: Thank you.
JONATHAN: Mm.
896
00:38:12,899 --> 00:38:14,683
[KEYPAD CLACKING]
897
00:38:17,817 --> 00:38:19,253
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
898
00:38:20,472 --> 00:38:21,603
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
899
00:38:27,653 --> 00:38:28,697
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
900
00:38:30,917 --> 00:38:32,440
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
901
00:38:32,527 --> 00:38:34,312
What did he say
about the outfit?
902
00:38:34,399 --> 00:38:36,096
He didn't have
to say anything.
903
00:38:36,836 --> 00:38:38,968
Oh. [GIGGLES]
904
00:38:39,055 --> 00:38:40,318
You ready? Can we go?
905
00:38:40,405 --> 00:38:42,145
No. I need to stop
by his class.
906
00:38:42,798 --> 00:38:44,757
Can I watch?
907
00:38:44,844 --> 00:38:46,106
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Oh, hi.
908
00:38:46,193 --> 00:38:47,237
CAIRO: Hey.
909
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:48,326
How are you, kid?
910
00:38:51,198 --> 00:38:52,330
Are you in a hurry?
911
00:38:52,417 --> 00:38:53,983
Well, I'm just goin' on
a little, uh,
912
00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:57,073
weekend vacation with my wife.
913
00:38:59,728 --> 00:39:01,382
What do writers
do on vacation?
914
00:39:01,469 --> 00:39:02,514
Uh, excuse me.
915
00:39:02,601 --> 00:39:05,560
Um, well,
they pretend to write
916
00:39:05,647 --> 00:39:07,083
someplace else, I guess.
[CHUCKLES]
917
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,609
CAIRO: Uh, can we talk about
the midterm?
918
00:39:10,696 --> 00:39:12,088
Uh, sure, what's on your mind?
919
00:39:12,175 --> 00:39:13,916
I want your approval
on my author before I start.
920
00:39:14,003 --> 00:39:15,396
Okay. Who is it?
921
00:39:15,483 --> 00:39:17,050
Henry Miller.
922
00:39:17,137 --> 00:39:19,661
Provocative and,
uh... [CHUCKLES]
923
00:39:19,748 --> 00:39:22,272
...his structure is very
challenging to emulate.
924
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,797
It's not just structural,
though, it's everythin'.
925
00:39:24,884 --> 00:39:26,146
You know, his decadence,
926
00:39:26,233 --> 00:39:28,931
his total disregard
for literary etiquette,
927
00:39:29,018 --> 00:39:30,977
his, um,
destruction of convention.
928
00:39:31,064 --> 00:39:33,109
It's...
It's all the good stuff.
929
00:39:33,196 --> 00:39:34,589
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
930
00:39:36,678 --> 00:39:38,898
- Do you not think I can do it?
- Look,
931
00:39:38,985 --> 00:39:41,727
Miller is public enemy
number one
932
00:39:41,814 --> 00:39:42,945
with the censors.
933
00:39:43,032 --> 00:39:44,773
I'm not even approved
to teach him.
934
00:39:46,514 --> 00:39:47,515
So?
935
00:39:49,648 --> 00:39:52,346
So, it would be like
a controversial choice.
936
00:39:55,828 --> 00:39:57,960
If it's not controversial,
it's not interestin'.
937
00:39:59,658 --> 00:40:00,963
Okay. [CHUCKLES]
938
00:40:01,616 --> 00:40:02,617
Okay, yes?
939
00:40:03,270 --> 00:40:04,663
Okay, I trust you.
940
00:40:05,664 --> 00:40:07,274
Write what you know,
little ghost.
941
00:40:09,145 --> 00:40:11,234
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
942
00:40:12,758 --> 00:40:14,237
Damn, I gotta go. Uh...
943
00:40:15,195 --> 00:40:16,892
Do me a favor.
944
00:40:16,979 --> 00:40:19,155
Have some fun this weekend,
will you?
945
00:40:19,721 --> 00:40:20,766
Take a recess.
946
00:40:22,028 --> 00:40:23,508
Yeah, I'll rest if you write.
947
00:40:23,595 --> 00:40:25,553
Uh, listen,
I'll see you Monday, okay?
948
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:26,641
Bye, Winnie.
949
00:40:27,512 --> 00:40:28,556
[DOOR OPENS]
950
00:40:29,949 --> 00:40:31,080
- Don't do that.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
951
00:40:32,647 --> 00:40:33,735
Don't look at me like that.
952
00:40:37,173 --> 00:40:38,610
Hmm... [CHUCKLING KNOWINGLY]
953
00:40:39,959 --> 00:40:41,090
[SEDUCTIVE] "Oh..."
954
00:40:41,177 --> 00:40:43,005
CAIRO: No, I never did that.
955
00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:44,703
- [MOANING]
- Stop.
956
00:40:45,704 --> 00:40:46,705
[WINNIE CONTINUES MOANING]
957
00:40:46,792 --> 00:40:48,358
Wait, Winnie, don't...
958
00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:50,796
[IMITATING CAIRO SEDUCTIVELY]
"Oh, Mr. Miller,
959
00:40:50,883 --> 00:40:55,235
"I just love the decadence,
and the words
960
00:40:55,322 --> 00:40:58,064
"and breakin' all the rules!"
961
00:40:58,151 --> 00:40:59,457
Okay, enough, enough.
962
00:40:59,544 --> 00:41:01,067
- You need to get off his desk.
- [WINNIE MOANS]
963
00:41:01,154 --> 00:41:02,677
I did not say it like that.
964
00:41:02,764 --> 00:41:04,244
Oh, but you meant it
like that.
965
00:41:04,331 --> 00:41:06,115
- No, I didn't.
- You're seducin' him,
966
00:41:06,202 --> 00:41:08,291
you floozy. [GIGGLING]
967
00:41:08,378 --> 00:41:10,163
- We make a good double team.
- [BORIS BLOWS WHISTLE]
968
00:41:10,729 --> 00:41:12,252
Hi. [CHUCKLING]
969
00:41:12,339 --> 00:41:13,862
Am I interruptin'?
970
00:41:13,949 --> 00:41:15,908
- We were just leavin'.
- BORIS: Where's Jon?
971
00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:17,605
Uh, where's Mr. Miller?
972
00:41:17,692 --> 00:41:18,780
He left.
973
00:41:18,867 --> 00:41:21,348
Shoot.
Oh, while I have you. Cairo.
974
00:41:21,435 --> 00:41:23,089
I think your idea
is fresh to death.
975
00:41:23,176 --> 00:41:24,307
And, uh, Winnie...
976
00:41:24,394 --> 00:41:26,266
- I'd like your help too.
- With what?
977
00:41:26,353 --> 00:41:27,528
Well, can you keep the secret?
978
00:41:27,615 --> 00:41:28,616
Sure can.
979
00:41:28,703 --> 00:41:29,748
I bake biscuits.
980
00:41:29,835 --> 00:41:31,053
He's gonna have
the baseball team
981
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:32,402
sell them to raise money.
982
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,448
But Fillmore wants you
to design the logo.
983
00:41:34,535 --> 00:41:36,102
I think that's really cool.
984
00:41:36,189 --> 00:41:38,408
- Really?
- I'd love to help.
985
00:41:38,496 --> 00:41:39,758
BORIS: Cool. All right.
[TAPS TABLE]
986
00:41:39,845 --> 00:41:41,107
I'll call you guys out
on your lunch period.
987
00:41:41,194 --> 00:41:42,151
We can go over the specs.
988
00:41:42,238 --> 00:41:44,023
Hey, um...
989
00:41:44,980 --> 00:41:46,416
I think it'd be easier
990
00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:48,549
if you just gave me
your phone.
991
00:41:48,636 --> 00:41:51,117
I could text you the specs.
992
00:41:51,204 --> 00:41:52,553
It'd be faster that way.
993
00:41:53,554 --> 00:41:54,903
Okay.
994
00:41:55,338 --> 00:41:56,383
Great.
995
00:41:58,603 --> 00:41:59,734
Hey, can you call me?
996
00:42:00,779 --> 00:42:02,694
WINNIE: Mm. Mm-hmm.
997
00:42:02,781 --> 00:42:05,044
And now
you'll have Cairo's number.
998
00:42:05,566 --> 00:42:06,567
Oh, good.
999
00:42:08,134 --> 00:42:09,527
WINNIE: There is no reception
in here.
1000
00:42:09,614 --> 00:42:10,702
CAIRO: Shit.
WINNIE: Cairo, it's probably
1001
00:42:10,789 --> 00:42:12,442
just at the bottom
of your bag.
1002
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,270
No, I just had it
a minute ago.
1003
00:42:14,357 --> 00:42:15,924
Well, it's Friday,
1004
00:42:16,882 --> 00:42:18,274
and we're still here.
1005
00:42:18,361 --> 00:42:19,798
So let's a-fucking go.
1006
00:42:23,845 --> 00:42:25,151
Oh, uh, Winnie?
1007
00:42:25,804 --> 00:42:27,022
Uh, Boris?
1008
00:42:28,371 --> 00:42:31,287
- [CHUCKLES] My phone.
- My phone.
1009
00:42:31,374 --> 00:42:33,420
- Your phone.
- Your phone?
1010
00:42:33,507 --> 00:42:36,728
[CHUCKLING] Your phone!
1011
00:42:36,815 --> 00:42:39,644
- Right. [SNORTS] Sorry. Okay.
- Oh, okay. Okay.
1012
00:42:39,731 --> 00:42:41,646
- Well, that was my...
- Ah.
1013
00:42:41,733 --> 00:42:43,212
♪ Danger, danger ♪
1014
00:42:43,299 --> 00:42:45,737
♪ High voltage ♪
1015
00:42:45,824 --> 00:42:48,000
Baby, I'm gonna need
a few more minutes, all right?
1016
00:42:48,087 --> 00:42:50,916
Okay. Well, we were supposed
to leave 40 minutes ago.
1017
00:42:51,003 --> 00:42:52,787
I know.
1018
00:42:52,874 --> 00:42:55,181
- If Amy did her fucking job...
- [CELL PHONE RINGING]
1019
00:42:55,268 --> 00:42:56,574
...we could've left yesterday.
1020
00:43:03,363 --> 00:43:04,669
It's just not enough, Amy.
1021
00:43:04,756 --> 00:43:05,757
What the f...?
1022
00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:09,543
Yes, I'll hold.
1023
00:43:09,630 --> 00:43:11,371
- Hello?
- CAIRO: Hi.
1024
00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:12,502
You have my phone.
1025
00:43:13,765 --> 00:43:15,288
JONATHAN: And whose phone
do I have?
1026
00:43:15,375 --> 00:43:16,419
Cairo Sweet's.
1027
00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:18,596
Cairo. It's, uh...
1028
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:21,511
It's Jon... It's Mr. Miller.
1029
00:43:24,950 --> 00:43:26,560
- Sticky fingers, Miller.
- Uh...
1030
00:43:27,126 --> 00:43:28,431
Uh, how are you?
1031
00:43:28,518 --> 00:43:29,911
I'm tethered to a landline.
1032
00:43:29,998 --> 00:43:31,913
- Are you already gone?
- Uh, well, should be.
1033
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,654
BEATRICE: I don't give
a flying backwards fuck, Amy.
1034
00:43:33,741 --> 00:43:34,786
Just give 'em the first draft.
1035
00:43:34,873 --> 00:43:36,570
- Hang on.
- They'll think it's new.
1036
00:43:36,657 --> 00:43:38,137
Honey. Honey,
I've, I've gotta drop
1037
00:43:38,224 --> 00:43:39,399
somethin' off
at a student's house.
1038
00:43:39,486 --> 00:43:40,922
BEATRICE:
All right, take care of it.
1039
00:43:41,009 --> 00:43:42,141
Oh, get me some tampons
while you're out, all right?
1040
00:43:42,228 --> 00:43:43,403
- Yeah.
- Organic ones,
1041
00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:44,491
- if you can find 'em.
- Mm-hmm.
1042
00:43:44,578 --> 00:43:46,275
Not you obviously, Amy. Fuck.
1043
00:43:46,362 --> 00:43:47,407
Get me a better deal,
1044
00:43:47,494 --> 00:43:48,843
and then
you can plug my pussy.
1045
00:43:48,930 --> 00:43:51,237
JONATHAN: You big time,
"road head" owe me.
1046
00:43:53,805 --> 00:43:55,067
Are you still there?
1047
00:43:55,154 --> 00:43:56,242
I'm still here.
1048
00:43:58,331 --> 00:43:59,767
You at Lovell Hill right now?
1049
00:43:59,854 --> 00:44:01,203
- CAIRO: Yes.
- Okay.
1050
00:44:01,290 --> 00:44:03,118
Well, I'll drop it off
before we leave,
1051
00:44:03,205 --> 00:44:04,511
if that's okay.
1052
00:44:07,296 --> 00:44:08,428
CAIRO: Do you need
the address?
1053
00:44:09,342 --> 00:44:11,474
I know exactly where you are.
1054
00:44:11,561 --> 00:44:13,433
Good. All right,
well, drive safe.
1055
00:44:14,216 --> 00:44:15,261
It's gonna rain.
1056
00:44:18,743 --> 00:44:20,266
CAIRO: How does love come?
1057
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,269
In the movies, it's,
1058
00:44:23,356 --> 00:44:26,446
it's like a curtain crashing
to the stage.
1059
00:44:26,533 --> 00:44:29,449
But in life,
whatever of it is real,
1060
00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,060
it is a quiet thing.
1061
00:44:33,453 --> 00:44:34,584
Unrelenting.
1062
00:44:36,543 --> 00:44:38,023
Inevitable.
1063
00:44:38,110 --> 00:44:40,329
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1064
00:44:40,416 --> 00:44:42,027
It is a summoning.
1065
00:44:42,114 --> 00:44:43,855
[LOVER YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVER
BY JEFFREY BUCKLEY PLAYING]
1066
00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:53,995
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1067
00:44:54,082 --> 00:44:58,391
♪ Looking out the door
I see the rain ♪
1068
00:44:58,478 --> 00:45:01,916
♪ Fall upon
the funeral mourners ♪
1069
00:45:06,921 --> 00:45:11,360
♪ Too young to hold on ♪
1070
00:45:11,447 --> 00:45:16,931
♪ And too old
to just break free and run ♪
1071
00:45:18,541 --> 00:45:23,764
♪ Sometimes a man
gets carried away ♪
1072
00:45:23,851 --> 00:45:28,638
♪ When he feels like
should be having his fun ♪
1073
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:34,209
♪ Much too blind to see
the damage he's done ♪
1074
00:45:35,950 --> 00:45:40,476
♪ Sometimes a man must awake
to find that ♪
1075
00:45:40,563 --> 00:45:45,743
♪ Really he has no one ♪
1076
00:45:49,398 --> 00:45:51,009
Come here.
1077
00:45:52,184 --> 00:45:53,272
No.
1078
00:45:54,969 --> 00:45:56,362
You come here.
1079
00:45:56,449 --> 00:46:00,148
♪ Will I ever see
your sweet return? ♪
1080
00:46:00,235 --> 00:46:03,151
♪ Oh, will I ever learn? ♪
1081
00:46:03,238 --> 00:46:07,373
♪ Oh-oh, lover ♪
1082
00:46:07,460 --> 00:46:11,159
♪ You should've come over ♪
1083
00:46:13,466 --> 00:46:17,513
♪ 'Cause it's not too late ♪
1084
00:46:22,954 --> 00:46:24,303
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
1085
00:46:26,174 --> 00:46:27,785
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING ON TV]
1086
00:46:29,612 --> 00:46:31,353
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]
1087
00:46:36,445 --> 00:46:38,273
CAIRO: How can a kiss make
every cliche
1088
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,232
suddenly consequential?
1089
00:46:40,319 --> 00:46:44,018
Quite unlike any person
I've tutored before. I wonder.
1090
00:46:45,846 --> 00:46:48,544
WOMAN: [ON TV] Here we are.
Oh, excellent.
1091
00:46:48,631 --> 00:46:50,111
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
1092
00:47:00,948 --> 00:47:02,080
CAIRO: I didn't know
it was possible
1093
00:47:02,167 --> 00:47:03,385
to feel this brave.
1094
00:47:04,909 --> 00:47:06,911
[WATER FLOWING]
1095
00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:14,614
- [LAPTOP CHIMES]
- Or that I'd ever want to.
1096
00:47:17,138 --> 00:47:18,836
BEATRICE: What are you doin'?
1097
00:47:18,923 --> 00:47:20,925
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
1098
00:47:21,012 --> 00:47:22,013
I'm working. [CHUCKLES]
1099
00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:23,666
- Baby?
- Uh-huh?
1100
00:47:23,753 --> 00:47:25,712
I know this was supposed
to be our weekend together
1101
00:47:25,799 --> 00:47:27,061
and I'm sorry that my team
1102
00:47:27,148 --> 00:47:28,584
is the fucking
tasteless worst.
1103
00:47:28,671 --> 00:47:30,586
But I can't work like this.
1104
00:47:30,673 --> 00:47:32,501
[INHALES SHARPLY] Seriously?
1105
00:47:32,588 --> 00:47:33,676
CAIRO: A kiss.
1106
00:47:39,204 --> 00:47:40,161
I'll be outside.
1107
00:47:40,248 --> 00:47:41,293
CAIRO: A muse.
1108
00:47:44,992 --> 00:47:46,124
It is a question.
1109
00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:49,257
It is an unlocked door.
1110
00:47:50,998 --> 00:47:53,348
It is elation.
1111
00:47:54,741 --> 00:47:55,916
An anguish.
1112
00:47:56,003 --> 00:47:57,744
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
1113
00:47:57,831 --> 00:47:59,485
It is the inch and the mile.
1114
00:47:59,572 --> 00:48:01,574
[PRINTER WHIRRING]
1115
00:48:01,661 --> 00:48:03,706
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
1116
00:48:08,537 --> 00:48:10,365
"Don't look into the sun,"
they say.
1117
00:48:13,542 --> 00:48:14,674
The fuck do they know?
1118
00:48:20,158 --> 00:48:22,073
"Mr. Murphy drove with
the resignation
1119
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,031
"of the already dead.
1120
00:48:24,118 --> 00:48:25,685
"He imagined he felt the way
Dylan Thomas
1121
00:48:25,772 --> 00:48:27,208
"did headin' into
the White Horse
1122
00:48:27,295 --> 00:48:28,775
"to take the drink
that would kill him.
1123
00:48:30,211 --> 00:48:31,778
"He knew what they were
1124
00:48:31,865 --> 00:48:33,127
"and what they were not."
1125
00:48:33,214 --> 00:48:35,216
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1126
00:48:36,565 --> 00:48:38,567
[ETHEREAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
1127
00:48:50,405 --> 00:48:52,407
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
1128
00:49:03,375 --> 00:49:05,377
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
1129
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,381
"Hello," she said.
1130
00:49:09,468 --> 00:49:10,599
JONATHAN: I'm here.
1131
00:49:10,686 --> 00:49:12,210
CAIRO: "Alice thought
immediately
1132
00:49:12,297 --> 00:49:13,820
"of a slaughtering lamb
as she couldn't be certain
1133
00:49:13,907 --> 00:49:15,648
"which of them was meant
for sacrifice.
1134
00:49:19,478 --> 00:49:20,479
"He was outside.
1135
00:49:21,741 --> 00:49:22,785
"He was inside."
1136
00:49:24,048 --> 00:49:26,311
JONATHAN: It excites you,
doesn't it?
1137
00:49:26,398 --> 00:49:28,661
The surreptitiousness
of it all.
1138
00:49:28,748 --> 00:49:30,793
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
1139
00:49:34,449 --> 00:49:37,061
[PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING]
1140
00:49:37,148 --> 00:49:38,845
CAIRO: "Mr. Murphy
smiled wide.
1141
00:49:38,932 --> 00:49:41,282
"The lines around his mouth
deepening into parentheses
1142
00:49:41,369 --> 00:49:43,632
"that framed his perfect lips
into a punchline.
1143
00:49:46,374 --> 00:49:47,593
"Smoke drifted from her mouth
1144
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,377
"with practiced,
cinematic effort."
1145
00:49:52,598 --> 00:49:54,339
Is it more romantic for you
that way?
1146
00:49:59,953 --> 00:50:01,389
This is no romance.
1147
00:50:03,783 --> 00:50:05,828
I'm sorry to disappoint you.
1148
00:50:07,743 --> 00:50:09,789
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
1149
00:50:11,747 --> 00:50:13,793
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
1150
00:50:15,969 --> 00:50:18,450
CAIRO: "Alice opened her mouth
to say something,
1151
00:50:18,537 --> 00:50:19,929
"but the words fell away.
1152
00:50:20,974 --> 00:50:22,584
"Mr. Murphy loomed over her,
1153
00:50:22,671 --> 00:50:24,934
"his Cadillac eyes hungry
and bored."
1154
00:50:25,805 --> 00:50:27,285
I want you to read to me.
1155
00:50:27,372 --> 00:50:29,026
CAIRO: "Alice watched
in slow motion
1156
00:50:29,113 --> 00:50:31,158
"as Mr. Murphy's tongue
undulated when he spoke."
1157
00:50:31,245 --> 00:50:34,814
Read it to me the way
you read it to yourself.
1158
00:50:34,901 --> 00:50:37,208
CAIRO: "Pink tide against
the bone shore of his teeth."
1159
00:50:38,122 --> 00:50:39,166
Yeah.
1160
00:50:39,253 --> 00:50:40,602
CAIRO:
"Alice took the tattered
1161
00:50:40,689 --> 00:50:42,430
"Henry Miller paperback
off the bedside table,
1162
00:50:44,824 --> 00:50:46,869
"and spread it open
on the comforter of her bed.
1163
00:50:49,133 --> 00:50:51,657
""Page 13,"
he said, behind her,
1164
00:50:51,744 --> 00:50:54,138
"one hand slid up the front
of her cotton dress.
1165
00:50:56,575 --> 00:50:59,230
"The other pointed to
a sentence on the page."
1166
00:50:59,317 --> 00:51:00,535
JONATHAN: Begin... [EXHALES]
1167
00:51:00,883 --> 00:51:01,884
here.
1168
00:51:01,971 --> 00:51:04,017
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
1169
00:51:07,412 --> 00:51:08,413
[PANT UNZIPS]
1170
00:51:13,940 --> 00:51:15,463
JONATHAN: "He was
against her then,
1171
00:51:15,550 --> 00:51:17,987
"and Alice felt a push
of muscular wetness
1172
00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:19,772
-"between her legs."
- CAIRO: "Mr. Murphy placed
1173
00:51:19,859 --> 00:51:21,730
"his slender hand over hers
1174
00:51:21,817 --> 00:51:24,037
"and guided her to the mound
at her center
1175
00:51:24,124 --> 00:51:25,908
"pressin' her fingers
into the dark fold there."
1176
00:51:25,995 --> 00:51:27,954
JONATHAN: "Just behind the
damp fabric of her panties..."
1177
00:51:28,041 --> 00:51:29,608
CAIRO: "Feelin' her feel
herself."
1178
00:51:29,695 --> 00:51:31,044
"... he found his way
around the elastic at her leg,
1179
00:51:31,131 --> 00:51:32,785
"and slid two deft fingers
1180
00:51:32,872 --> 00:51:35,135
"into the warm darkness
of her virgin cunt."
1181
00:51:35,222 --> 00:51:36,745
CAIRO: "She felt him shift."
1182
00:51:36,832 --> 00:51:38,051
JONATHAN: "He peeled the wet
cotton down her legs
1183
00:51:38,138 --> 00:51:39,183
"and pressed into her
from behind."
1184
00:51:39,270 --> 00:51:40,923
CAIRO:
"The width of his face..."
1185
00:51:41,010 --> 00:51:42,490
JONATHAN: "The thousand years
of violence and conquering
1186
00:51:42,577 --> 00:51:44,623
"boiled within him as he held
the mouth of her pubis
1187
00:51:44,710 --> 00:51:45,928
-"like a hooked fish."
- CAIRO: "Searching for
1188
00:51:46,015 --> 00:51:47,452
"the answer to a question
he'd doubted."
1189
00:51:47,539 --> 00:51:48,931
JONATHAN: "But there it was."
CAIRO: "The answer
1190
00:51:49,018 --> 00:51:50,629
-"and the question."
- JONATHAN: "The cicatrix
1191
00:51:50,716 --> 00:51:52,239
-"that will never heal."
- CAIRO: "The serpent's apple."
1192
00:51:52,326 --> 00:51:53,893
JONATHAN: "Her cul was slick
against his fingers."
1193
00:51:53,980 --> 00:51:55,155
CAIRO: "Just as he imagined
it was when she was alone."
1194
00:51:55,242 --> 00:51:56,417
JONATHAN: "Maybe in
her bedroom..."
1195
00:51:56,504 --> 00:51:57,853
CAIRO: "Her own fingers
knuckle deep."
1196
00:51:57,940 --> 00:51:58,724
JONATHAN: "Trying to rub out
that itch."
1197
00:51:58,811 --> 00:52:00,029
BOTH: "The ache inside.
1198
00:52:00,117 --> 00:52:01,205
"He saw himself
burying his cock in her
1199
00:52:01,292 --> 00:52:02,902
"brutally fucking away
the exigency
1200
00:52:02,989 --> 00:52:04,121
"that swirled her clit
1201
00:52:04,208 --> 00:52:06,035
"and choked her
better judgments."
1202
00:52:06,123 --> 00:52:07,907
CAIRO: "He would fill her up
with cum."
1203
00:52:07,994 --> 00:52:09,256
[GRUNTS]
1204
00:52:10,344 --> 00:52:12,346
[PANTING]
1205
00:52:15,436 --> 00:52:17,438
[INSECTS TRILLING]
1206
00:52:21,050 --> 00:52:23,096
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
1207
00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:56,173
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
1208
00:52:58,436 --> 00:52:59,437
Good morning.
1209
00:53:06,139 --> 00:53:07,184
Are you okay?
1210
00:53:10,796 --> 00:53:11,840
What's wrong?
1211
00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:17,803
Your story.
1212
00:53:18,325 --> 00:53:19,892
Oh. [CHUCKLES]
1213
00:53:20,849 --> 00:53:21,850
You didn't like it?
1214
00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:26,507
You have to choose
another author.
1215
00:53:28,988 --> 00:53:30,032
Why?
1216
00:53:31,338 --> 00:53:32,557
This is inappropriate.
1217
00:53:33,819 --> 00:53:35,560
CAIRO: "Inappropriate."
1218
00:53:35,647 --> 00:53:36,648
What does that mean?
1219
00:53:38,084 --> 00:53:39,564
Why did you write this?
1220
00:53:39,651 --> 00:53:40,913
- You asked me to.
- Uh-huh.
1221
00:53:42,088 --> 00:53:43,916
Okay.
1222
00:53:44,003 --> 00:53:45,483
Why did you choose
that material?
1223
00:53:45,570 --> 00:53:47,354
You said,
"Write what you know."
1224
00:53:47,441 --> 00:53:49,226
And this is what you know?
1225
00:53:49,704 --> 00:53:50,749
This is...
1226
00:53:52,577 --> 00:53:53,621
us.
1227
00:53:54,274 --> 00:53:55,319
No.
1228
00:53:55,406 --> 00:53:57,059
This is... This is you.
1229
00:53:57,146 --> 00:53:58,713
I don't...
1230
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,324
I don't understand this.
1231
00:54:00,411 --> 00:54:02,021
- Are you being serious?
- [SCOFFS]
1232
00:54:02,761 --> 00:54:04,415
Okay. It's...
1233
00:54:04,502 --> 00:54:07,113
It's about two like people
abnegating social convention.
1234
00:54:09,158 --> 00:54:10,421
You know, it's commentary
1235
00:54:10,508 --> 00:54:11,944
on the sexual anesthetization
of a culture
1236
00:54:12,031 --> 00:54:14,294
that's super saturated
with pornography.
1237
00:54:14,381 --> 00:54:17,254
It's about the inefficacy
of romantic dogmas
1238
00:54:17,341 --> 00:54:19,125
on young people's
expectations.
1239
00:54:20,431 --> 00:54:22,476
It's about
inexorable attraction.
1240
00:54:24,522 --> 00:54:26,175
It's layered.
1241
00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:28,003
- This is pornography.
- Yes.
1242
00:54:28,090 --> 00:54:30,528
So put it in your diary,
not on my fuckin' desk.
1243
00:54:31,703 --> 00:54:33,705
Write a new story
with a new author.
1244
00:54:34,619 --> 00:54:38,971
I'm not gonna indulge this.
1245
00:54:39,058 --> 00:54:40,755
Are you talking about
the story or us?
1246
00:54:41,278 --> 00:54:42,279
Both.
1247
00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:47,893
You already have.
You inspired it.
1248
00:54:50,199 --> 00:54:51,288
I can't accept it.
1249
00:54:53,377 --> 00:54:54,769
But you can't or you won't?
1250
00:54:56,597 --> 00:54:58,382
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
1251
00:54:58,469 --> 00:55:00,253
Because it sounds like
you're scared...
1252
00:55:00,340 --> 00:55:01,385
- Hey. Hey.
- ...and it looks like
1253
00:55:01,472 --> 00:55:02,647
you're measurin'.
1254
00:55:05,302 --> 00:55:06,346
Stop talking to me
like a stranger,
1255
00:55:06,433 --> 00:55:08,043
- and say what you mean.
- Rewrite it.
1256
00:55:08,130 --> 00:55:09,131
Why?
1257
00:55:09,218 --> 00:55:11,656
- You know why.
- Tell me.
1258
00:55:11,743 --> 00:55:13,266
- Say it.
- If you don't rewrite this,
1259
00:55:13,353 --> 00:55:14,528
I'll have to fail you
for the midterm.
1260
00:55:14,615 --> 00:55:15,921
- Tell me why.
- I don't have to tell you
1261
00:55:16,008 --> 00:55:17,052
a goddamn thing.
1262
00:55:21,970 --> 00:55:23,450
It made you feel something
that scared you.
1263
00:55:23,537 --> 00:55:25,409
- Don't put words in my mouth.
- Then say them yourself.
1264
00:55:26,453 --> 00:55:27,889
Tell me what it made you feel.
1265
00:55:29,282 --> 00:55:30,805
Incredibly foolish
1266
00:55:30,892 --> 00:55:33,721
for havin' trusted
this material to a child.
1267
00:55:36,942 --> 00:55:38,073
What was I before you read it?
1268
00:55:40,380 --> 00:55:41,381
[JONATHAN SIGHS]
1269
00:55:48,519 --> 00:55:49,911
A student.
1270
00:55:49,998 --> 00:55:51,043
[CAIRO SNIFFLES]
1271
00:55:52,523 --> 00:55:53,567
You built the world.
1272
00:55:55,656 --> 00:55:58,311
You built the fantasy,
not on the page,
1273
00:55:58,398 --> 00:55:59,791
but in real life.
1274
00:56:02,054 --> 00:56:04,056
You can't blur the lines
1275
00:56:04,143 --> 00:56:05,274
and then expect me to see
a boundary
1276
00:56:05,362 --> 00:56:06,363
when I suddenly cross it.
1277
00:56:06,450 --> 00:56:08,452
[PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES]
1278
00:56:10,715 --> 00:56:12,325
Let me be very, very clear...
1279
00:56:13,326 --> 00:56:14,327
[DOOR OPENS]
1280
00:56:14,414 --> 00:56:15,415
...with you.
1281
00:56:16,547 --> 00:56:18,418
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
1282
00:56:18,505 --> 00:56:19,506
You're my student.
1283
00:56:20,768 --> 00:56:21,943
And I'm your teacher.
1284
00:56:24,032 --> 00:56:25,077
That's all.
1285
00:56:27,122 --> 00:56:29,211
Any misconception of that
is something,
1286
00:56:29,298 --> 00:56:31,431
regrettably, that you have
to shoulder...
1287
00:56:32,867 --> 00:56:33,912
alone.
1288
00:56:34,782 --> 00:56:36,784
[PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES]
1289
00:57:07,902 --> 00:57:09,426
"Write what you know"
is what you said.
1290
00:57:11,471 --> 00:57:13,255
Yeah, I know what I said.
1291
00:57:13,342 --> 00:57:14,996
You don't know anything
you say.
1292
00:57:21,699 --> 00:57:23,440
- This is good.
- Mm-hmm.
1293
00:57:25,006 --> 00:57:26,007
And you know it is.
1294
00:57:30,055 --> 00:57:31,752
So, let's examine
the real issue.
1295
00:57:35,060 --> 00:57:36,191
It's not my writing.
1296
00:57:38,933 --> 00:57:40,326
- It's yours.
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
1297
00:57:43,024 --> 00:57:44,069
Good try.
1298
00:57:45,679 --> 00:57:47,725
You thought you were
gonna be hot shit, didn't you?
1299
00:57:47,812 --> 00:57:49,074
What?
1300
00:57:49,161 --> 00:57:51,163
You thought that
you were gonna be somebody.
1301
00:57:52,860 --> 00:57:53,905
Right?
1302
00:57:58,300 --> 00:58:00,085
"Overreaching
without ambition."
1303
00:58:06,004 --> 00:58:07,266
Do you know what that means?
1304
00:58:11,879 --> 00:58:13,925
It means you weren't brave
enough to be better.
1305
00:58:17,494 --> 00:58:19,017
Means
you're deliberately impotent.
1306
00:58:22,629 --> 00:58:25,632
It means that you,
Jonathan Miller...
1307
00:58:28,026 --> 00:58:29,331
are mediocre.
1308
00:58:34,511 --> 00:58:35,555
You wanna fail me?
1309
00:58:37,949 --> 00:58:39,167
I fucking dare you.
1310
00:58:42,388 --> 00:58:43,998
But you better make it mean
somethin' to you.
1311
00:58:46,435 --> 00:58:47,698
And you better know
what it means.
1312
00:58:50,091 --> 00:58:52,180
Because the cost is very high,
Mr. Miller.
1313
00:58:54,618 --> 00:58:57,534
And if you're not very,
very careful
1314
00:58:59,448 --> 00:59:03,191
this banality, this falsity
that you wallow in,
1315
00:59:05,759 --> 00:59:07,761
it will devour you
until you are as small
1316
00:59:07,848 --> 00:59:08,936
as you pretend to be.
1317
00:59:13,158 --> 00:59:14,289
And you will disappear.
1318
00:59:18,772 --> 00:59:20,295
And no one will pay
any more thought to you
1319
00:59:20,382 --> 00:59:22,036
than they do an unread
cookie fortune.
1320
00:59:33,004 --> 00:59:35,049
How disappointin' you must be
1321
00:59:35,136 --> 00:59:36,703
to those who had believed
you'd be more.
1322
00:59:45,277 --> 00:59:46,452
No wonder you're here.
1323
00:59:58,159 --> 00:59:59,378
[DOOR OPENS]
1324
01:00:00,292 --> 01:00:03,382
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
1325
01:00:03,469 --> 01:00:05,602
CAIRO: Heartbreak is
a slow-motion car crash
1326
01:00:05,689 --> 01:00:07,429
set to Mozart.
1327
01:00:07,516 --> 01:00:10,171
You know the one. The Requiem.
1328
01:00:10,258 --> 01:00:11,520
[DOOR SLAMS]
1329
01:00:15,481 --> 01:00:17,309
It tastes like graveyard dirt.
1330
01:00:22,531 --> 01:00:24,490
It smells
like burnin' flowers.
1331
01:00:29,843 --> 01:00:31,366
It feels like violence.
1332
01:00:54,433 --> 01:00:56,478
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
1333
01:01:05,357 --> 01:01:07,228
BEATRICE:
How you doin', Professor?
1334
01:01:07,315 --> 01:01:09,317
[SIGHS] Had a bad day.
1335
01:01:10,188 --> 01:01:11,450
[CRYING]
1336
01:01:12,103 --> 01:01:13,147
[SNIFFLES]
1337
01:01:21,460 --> 01:01:23,854
- Oh, you want a drink?
- Thank you.
1338
01:01:24,985 --> 01:01:25,986
[SNIFFLES]
1339
01:01:29,642 --> 01:01:31,862
WINNIE: What?
So, he was offended?
1340
01:01:33,211 --> 01:01:34,255
He was affected.
1341
01:01:34,647 --> 01:01:35,692
[SNIFFLES]
1342
01:01:36,562 --> 01:01:37,694
Are you still into him?
1343
01:01:43,917 --> 01:01:44,962
He's a pretender.
1344
01:01:49,314 --> 01:01:50,358
You know, at least what
1345
01:01:50,445 --> 01:01:51,577
you see with Boris
is what you get.
1346
01:01:51,664 --> 01:01:54,058
You know,
Jonathan Miller is like...
1347
01:01:56,713 --> 01:01:59,063
He's like
fuckin' imitation crab
1348
01:01:59,150 --> 01:02:00,455
and gas station sushi.
1349
01:02:04,155 --> 01:02:05,417
Aren't you in love with him?
1350
01:02:09,116 --> 01:02:10,117
JONATHAN: Mm.
1351
01:02:13,033 --> 01:02:14,513
[BEATRICE CHUCKLES]
1352
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:15,732
BEATRICE: What happened?
1353
01:02:16,820 --> 01:02:17,821
[JONATHAN SNIFFLES]
1354
01:02:20,519 --> 01:02:21,694
[EXHALES]
1355
01:02:21,781 --> 01:02:23,522
I had
a very unpleasant conversation
1356
01:02:23,609 --> 01:02:25,219
with a student about
the midterm assignment.
1357
01:02:26,307 --> 01:02:27,395
Was it with her?
1358
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:29,484
Your acolyte?
1359
01:02:33,445 --> 01:02:34,751
She drafted something
1360
01:02:34,838 --> 01:02:38,189
to make Henry Miller
look like Dr. Seuss.
1361
01:02:38,276 --> 01:02:40,408
Well, you let a teenager
run with Miller,
1362
01:02:40,495 --> 01:02:42,106
and you're surprised
it's vulgar?
1363
01:02:42,193 --> 01:02:44,804
She was supposed to use
his literary structure,
1364
01:02:44,891 --> 01:02:46,284
not his subject matter.
1365
01:02:46,371 --> 01:02:47,415
Oh.
1366
01:02:48,155 --> 01:02:50,505
What's the subject matter?
1367
01:02:50,592 --> 01:02:52,116
An English teacher
and a student
1368
01:02:52,203 --> 01:02:56,033
who have an illicit affair
complete with "pre-cum"
1369
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,425
- and "cherry popping."
- Oh.
1370
01:02:57,512 --> 01:02:59,253
- Those words exactly.
- [BEATRICE GASPS]
1371
01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:00,820
Show me right now.
1372
01:03:01,952 --> 01:03:03,301
Don't...
1373
01:03:03,388 --> 01:03:06,783
Come on.
Tell me what shocked you.
1374
01:03:10,351 --> 01:03:11,570
You fuck Fillmore yet?
1375
01:03:13,615 --> 01:03:14,791
[CHUCKLES]
1376
01:03:14,878 --> 01:03:16,357
You know when
I'm in my luteal phase,
1377
01:03:16,444 --> 01:03:17,881
I tell you everything.
1378
01:03:25,192 --> 01:03:26,324
BEATRICE: "For Jonathan.
1379
01:03:26,411 --> 01:03:28,152
"Love, Cairo."
1380
01:03:30,371 --> 01:03:33,679
Baby, it's a love letter.
1381
01:03:33,766 --> 01:03:35,594
She's got it bad.
1382
01:03:35,681 --> 01:03:37,422
Tell me how she describes you.
1383
01:03:37,509 --> 01:03:39,076
- You can read it right there.
- No.
1384
01:03:39,163 --> 01:03:41,165
You tell me.
1385
01:03:41,252 --> 01:03:44,646
Because I know that
you remember it word for word.
1386
01:03:46,170 --> 01:03:47,693
And I want you
to do the thing.
1387
01:03:47,780 --> 01:03:48,825
No. No.
1388
01:03:51,392 --> 01:03:52,393
[WHISPERING] Tell me.
1389
01:03:56,528 --> 01:03:58,182
[EXHALES] Uh...
1390
01:03:58,269 --> 01:03:59,836
-"Mr. Murphy...
- Oh.
1391
01:04:01,533 --> 01:04:04,579
"...clever
and carelessly attractive...
1392
01:04:06,494 --> 01:04:10,803
"kept his thoughts to himself,
and his eyes at half-mast."
1393
01:04:10,890 --> 01:04:11,891
Distract me.
1394
01:04:13,023 --> 01:04:15,503
What would the lady have?
1395
01:04:15,590 --> 01:04:17,766
JONATHAN: "One might assume
his drowsy appearance
1396
01:04:18,898 --> 01:04:20,639
"to be symptom of some
1397
01:04:22,423 --> 01:04:24,686
"vague institutional ennui."
1398
01:04:24,773 --> 01:04:26,210
Text Boris.
1399
01:04:26,297 --> 01:04:29,343
JONATHAN:
"But Alice saw it mostly
1400
01:04:29,430 --> 01:04:33,173
"to hide the shock
of indecency he felt
1401
01:04:33,260 --> 01:04:35,349
"when he lay his eyes
on the young,
1402
01:04:35,436 --> 01:04:38,396
"unripened bodies
of his female pupils.
1403
01:04:38,483 --> 01:04:40,267
"And none were exempt from his
1404
01:04:41,616 --> 01:04:43,836
"salacious reveries.
1405
01:04:43,923 --> 01:04:47,884
"All cunts were created equal
1406
01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:51,104
"and magnificent in his mind."
1407
01:04:54,325 --> 01:04:55,369
Are they?
1408
01:04:57,806 --> 01:04:59,896
- Are all cunts equal?
- [GRUNTS SOFTLY]
1409
01:05:00,809 --> 01:05:03,029
- Or are some cunts...
- [GRUNTS]
1410
01:05:05,771 --> 01:05:07,642
remarkable?
1411
01:05:07,729 --> 01:05:10,210
Come on, you're, you're,
you're drunk.
1412
01:05:10,297 --> 01:05:12,038
- I'm indecent.
- [MOANING]
1413
01:05:14,649 --> 01:05:16,521
[JONATHAN BREATHING HEAVILY]
1414
01:05:18,610 --> 01:05:19,698
- [CELL PHONE BEEPS]
- Yeah, tell him
1415
01:05:19,785 --> 01:05:20,829
you're drunk textin' him.
1416
01:05:22,048 --> 01:05:23,528
That way,
he'll imagine you drunk,
1417
01:05:23,615 --> 01:05:25,182
and what
you might be doin' drunkenly.
1418
01:05:25,834 --> 01:05:26,879
Serious?
1419
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:29,055
Ask him what he's up to.
1420
01:05:30,709 --> 01:05:31,840
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
1421
01:05:34,931 --> 01:05:36,671
- Oh, we've got company.
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
1422
01:05:36,758 --> 01:05:38,456
- They what?
- Hey, seriously.
1423
01:05:38,543 --> 01:05:40,284
Stop leaving
this door unlocked.
1424
01:05:41,328 --> 01:05:43,156
For your own safety, okay?
1425
01:05:43,243 --> 01:05:44,505
- Mm-hmm.
- Hello.
1426
01:05:44,592 --> 01:05:45,593
[JONATHAN GROANS SOFTLY]
1427
01:05:48,292 --> 01:05:49,946
BORIS: Get a room!
1428
01:05:50,033 --> 01:05:51,382
BEATRICE: What up, player?
1429
01:05:51,469 --> 01:05:53,297
- BORIS: Slang? Get out.
- Fuck.
1430
01:05:53,384 --> 01:05:54,994
Do you think he likes me?
1431
01:05:56,865 --> 01:05:59,216
Well, do you wanna be liked,
or do you wanna be fucked?
1432
01:06:03,220 --> 01:06:05,265
'Cause those are very
different things
1433
01:06:05,352 --> 01:06:06,440
for girls who look like you.
1434
01:06:08,225 --> 01:06:09,704
I want both.
1435
01:06:11,532 --> 01:06:13,708
[KEYPAD CLACKING]
1436
01:06:18,583 --> 01:06:20,541
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
1437
01:06:20,628 --> 01:06:21,978
You should tell him
you're with me.
1438
01:06:24,502 --> 01:06:26,939
And that we're doing
what all girls do
1439
01:06:27,026 --> 01:06:28,071
when they're alone at night.
1440
01:06:28,158 --> 01:06:29,420
[KEYPAD CLACKING]
1441
01:06:29,507 --> 01:06:30,812
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- Who is she?
1442
01:06:30,899 --> 01:06:31,988
Not telling.
1443
01:06:32,684 --> 01:06:34,338
[BOTH LAUGHING]
1444
01:06:34,425 --> 01:06:36,296
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
1445
01:06:36,383 --> 01:06:41,388
"We are measuring
the depths of our sexuality
1446
01:06:41,475 --> 01:06:44,478
"within the safe confines
of our friendship."
1447
01:06:45,740 --> 01:06:47,394
[LAUGHING]
Why are you so mean?
1448
01:06:47,481 --> 01:06:48,656
- Goddamn.
- Can I help it
1449
01:06:48,743 --> 01:06:50,093
if every girl
you've ever dated
1450
01:06:50,180 --> 01:06:51,964
owned a pair
of five-inch Lucite heels
1451
01:06:52,051 --> 01:06:53,270
and was named after
a character
1452
01:06:53,357 --> 01:06:54,706
in The Baby-Sitters Club?
1453
01:06:54,793 --> 01:06:56,012
- No, I can't.
- No. You can't.
1454
01:06:56,099 --> 01:06:57,970
But you know what?
Your life, your choice.
1455
01:06:58,057 --> 01:06:59,493
- Yeah, you bein' a snob.
- [CHUCKLING]
1456
01:06:59,580 --> 01:07:01,539
You and I know
Kristy was great.
1457
01:07:01,626 --> 01:07:03,280
He hasn't said anything?
1458
01:07:03,367 --> 01:07:04,368
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
1459
01:07:08,763 --> 01:07:11,244
Oh, well, he said,
"Go to bed."
1460
01:07:11,331 --> 01:07:12,550
So...[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
1461
01:07:14,813 --> 01:07:16,815
[EXHILARATING MUSIC PLAYING]
1462
01:07:20,427 --> 01:07:21,428
Take off your shirt.
1463
01:07:25,563 --> 01:07:26,955
What?
1464
01:07:27,043 --> 01:07:29,132
- Why?
- We are gonna make out.
1465
01:07:30,176 --> 01:07:31,525
For him, not for you.
1466
01:07:34,833 --> 01:07:36,617
Well, it can be
a little for me.
1467
01:07:47,063 --> 01:07:48,064
How is this?
1468
01:07:50,979 --> 01:07:52,068
Yeah, good.
1469
01:07:56,898 --> 01:07:57,943
Your turn.
1470
01:08:02,252 --> 01:08:04,254
[EXHILARATING MUSIC CONTINUES]
1471
01:08:08,519 --> 01:08:09,520
Here ya go.
1472
01:08:14,307 --> 01:08:16,614
Be a little closer
when I take this photo.
1473
01:08:17,963 --> 01:08:19,921
Not like that. What, are you
a fucking Dutch clock?
1474
01:08:20,008 --> 01:08:21,053
I meant like this.
1475
01:08:23,186 --> 01:08:24,187
Close.
1476
01:08:37,722 --> 01:08:38,723
Ready?
1477
01:08:38,810 --> 01:08:41,204
[MUSIC FADES OUT]
1478
01:08:41,291 --> 01:08:43,293
[MARIANA TRENCH BY DWARA
AND KHOTTON PALM PLAYING]
1479
01:08:52,998 --> 01:08:54,042
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
1480
01:09:06,490 --> 01:09:08,144
[BOTH PANTING]
1481
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:11,234
[WINNIE WINCES]
1482
01:09:11,321 --> 01:09:12,539
♪ Whisper sweet nothings ♪
1483
01:09:12,626 --> 01:09:13,410
♪ Tell me everything
that's wrong ♪
1484
01:09:13,497 --> 01:09:15,368
Send it.
1485
01:09:15,455 --> 01:09:18,371
♪ While I lead you to your end
Listen to the sweetest song ♪
1486
01:09:18,458 --> 01:09:22,810
♪ Listen to the sweetest song
To the sweetest song, hey ♪
1487
01:09:22,897 --> 01:09:24,856
[MARIANA TRENCH
CONTINUES PLAYING]
1488
01:09:24,943 --> 01:09:25,987
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
1489
01:09:30,731 --> 01:09:32,820
Are you gonna text Mr. Miller?
1490
01:09:32,907 --> 01:09:34,257
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
1491
01:09:34,344 --> 01:09:35,823
CAIRO: "All warfare is based
on deception."
1492
01:09:36,346 --> 01:09:37,825
Hello?
1493
01:09:37,912 --> 01:09:40,437
"Move your enemy,
but don't be moved by him."
1494
01:09:40,524 --> 01:09:41,916
[MARIANA TRENCH
CONTINUES PLAYING]
1495
01:09:42,003 --> 01:09:47,748
♪ Lead you in
Pull you down ♪
1496
01:09:47,835 --> 01:09:53,754
♪ All your weight
Lifted off ♪
1497
01:09:53,841 --> 01:10:00,065
♪ Lead you in
Pull you down ♪
1498
01:10:00,152 --> 01:10:05,201
♪ All your weight
Lifted off ♪
1499
01:10:05,288 --> 01:10:06,854
[MUSIC STOPS]
1500
01:10:06,941 --> 01:10:09,117
BEATRICE: You've been summoned
to the principal's office.
1501
01:10:11,816 --> 01:10:13,296
Mm-mm.
1502
01:10:14,471 --> 01:10:15,472
[CLICKS TONGUE]
1503
01:10:18,170 --> 01:10:19,650
BORIS: You got a title yet?
1504
01:10:19,737 --> 01:10:21,739
BEATRICE: Lesser Expectations
of a Greater Love.
1505
01:10:21,826 --> 01:10:22,870
[DOOR CLOSES]
1506
01:10:27,571 --> 01:10:28,789
- BORIS: I mean, I don't know.
- [BEATRICE LAUGHS]
1507
01:10:28,876 --> 01:10:31,096
- [BORIS SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
- Hi, Joyce.
1508
01:10:31,183 --> 01:10:32,489
- [LAUGHING] Another beer?
- Mm.
1509
01:10:32,576 --> 01:10:34,186
No, I should go.
1510
01:10:34,273 --> 01:10:35,231
- I should get outta here.
- Oh, come on.
1511
01:10:35,318 --> 01:10:36,667
- Don't be boring.
- No. No.
1512
01:10:36,754 --> 01:10:40,192
I got 45 pop quizzes
on thermodynamics
1513
01:10:40,845 --> 01:10:42,107
to fail.
1514
01:10:42,194 --> 01:10:43,935
And we haven't even gotten
to fractals yet.
1515
01:10:44,022 --> 01:10:45,502
Goddamn hopeless youth
of America.
1516
01:10:45,589 --> 01:10:47,155
Well, you're the one
who wanted
1517
01:10:47,243 --> 01:10:48,679
to make a difference, remember?
1518
01:10:48,766 --> 01:10:50,550
[CHUCKLES] Hey, fools rush in.
1519
01:10:50,637 --> 01:10:52,422
- Where's Jonathan?
- Tithing.
1520
01:10:52,509 --> 01:10:53,771
All right, well, look,
tell him I had to run.
1521
01:10:53,858 --> 01:10:55,076
Bye, kiddo.
1522
01:10:55,163 --> 01:10:56,208
BEATRICE: Bye.
1523
01:10:58,036 --> 01:10:59,080
[DOOR CLOSES]
1524
01:11:02,736 --> 01:11:03,781
Joyce got the story.
1525
01:11:06,349 --> 01:11:07,654
What?
1526
01:11:07,741 --> 01:11:11,310
Well, it had a "For Jonathan.
Love, Cairo..."
1527
01:11:12,746 --> 01:11:15,227
[GRUNTS] ...written at
the top, so, you know...
1528
01:11:15,314 --> 01:11:17,316
there's no mistakin'.
1529
01:11:17,403 --> 01:11:19,100
And she'd like to speak
to me formally
1530
01:11:19,187 --> 01:11:21,407
about the necessary paperwork.
1531
01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:24,280
[CHUCKLES] Paperwork for what?
1532
01:11:25,585 --> 01:11:26,978
An incident report.
1533
01:11:27,065 --> 01:11:28,109
Uh...
1534
01:11:29,110 --> 01:11:30,242
I think she did it.
1535
01:11:31,678 --> 01:11:33,419
Who did what, huh?
1536
01:11:34,594 --> 01:11:36,640
Cairo. Cairo turned it in.
1537
01:11:39,512 --> 01:11:42,298
It's a short story, Jonathan.
1538
01:11:43,473 --> 01:11:46,867
It's not
The Communist Manifesto.
1539
01:11:46,954 --> 01:11:48,216
Mm-hmm. I know.
1540
01:11:52,525 --> 01:11:54,005
But, yeah, but,
it's the, uh...
1541
01:11:55,093 --> 01:11:56,399
it's the implication.
1542
01:11:56,486 --> 01:11:59,532
Why if she can convince them
1543
01:11:59,619 --> 01:12:01,882
that somethin' happened
between us, then, uh...
1544
01:12:01,969 --> 01:12:03,580
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
1545
01:12:03,667 --> 01:12:05,321
Well, I could lose my job.
1546
01:12:09,716 --> 01:12:11,457
That's not all you could lose.
1547
01:12:22,425 --> 01:12:25,950
Did somethin' happen
between you?
1548
01:12:28,169 --> 01:12:29,301
Nothin' I invited.
1549
01:12:30,737 --> 01:12:32,609
[BEATRICE SIGHS]
1550
01:12:32,696 --> 01:12:35,002
Teenage girls are dangerous,
Jonathan.
1551
01:12:36,221 --> 01:12:38,266
They're full
of emotional violence
1552
01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:40,747
- and vituperation.
- Mm-hmm.
1553
01:12:43,271 --> 01:12:44,969
I hope you know
what you're doin'.
1554
01:12:46,187 --> 01:12:48,233
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
1555
01:12:52,933 --> 01:12:54,979
[BELL RINGS]
1556
01:13:09,776 --> 01:13:11,778
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
1557
01:13:18,872 --> 01:13:20,787
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
1558
01:13:33,496 --> 01:13:34,758
Have you seen Cairo?
1559
01:13:37,064 --> 01:13:39,110
- I haven't.
- I haven't seen her.
1560
01:13:39,197 --> 01:13:40,503
And I just thought...
1561
01:13:42,635 --> 01:13:44,681
- maybe you had.
- I haven't. No.
1562
01:13:49,642 --> 01:13:51,731
- You don't text?
- She tell you we do?
1563
01:13:52,602 --> 01:13:54,691
Well, you know...
1564
01:13:56,736 --> 01:14:00,566
Cairo says everything...
1565
01:14:04,091 --> 01:14:05,136
And nothing.
1566
01:14:11,838 --> 01:14:14,188
I don't understand
what's happening.
1567
01:14:18,584 --> 01:14:19,629
Don't you, Winnie?
1568
01:14:22,632 --> 01:14:24,634
[GENTLE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
1569
01:14:44,001 --> 01:14:46,830
How did it start?
In your own words.
1570
01:14:46,917 --> 01:14:48,701
We recognized each other.
1571
01:14:48,788 --> 01:14:51,312
She's exceptionally talented.
1572
01:14:51,399 --> 01:14:54,620
Uh, she's singular in that
at this school.
1573
01:14:54,707 --> 01:14:56,404
Did you exhibit favoritism?
1574
01:14:56,492 --> 01:14:58,624
- Give special mentorship?
- Of course.
1575
01:14:58,711 --> 01:14:59,799
He was excited to give me
1576
01:14:59,886 --> 01:15:01,540
the midterm assignment
in advance.
1577
01:15:01,627 --> 01:15:03,629
JOYCE: And the midterm is what
percentage of the final grade?
1578
01:15:03,716 --> 01:15:04,891
It's 25%.
1579
01:15:04,978 --> 01:15:07,154
Enough to destroy my GPA.
1580
01:15:07,241 --> 01:15:08,504
JOYCE: You do know
that Henry Miller
1581
01:15:08,591 --> 01:15:09,635
is not an approved author
1582
01:15:09,722 --> 01:15:10,941
for public school study,
right?
1583
01:15:11,028 --> 01:15:13,247
She's better than
the curriculum, Joyce.
1584
01:15:13,334 --> 01:15:14,466
You know that.
1585
01:15:14,553 --> 01:15:16,250
I wanted to help her
stand out.
1586
01:15:16,337 --> 01:15:18,644
I think he was impressed
I knew who he was.
1587
01:15:20,472 --> 01:15:22,169
Have you read his work?
1588
01:15:22,256 --> 01:15:23,693
How often have you
been together
1589
01:15:23,780 --> 01:15:25,782
beyond the classroom?
1590
01:15:25,869 --> 01:15:27,392
We would see each other
before school,
1591
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:31,091
uh, in class, of course,
and sometimes after.
1592
01:15:32,353 --> 01:15:33,703
And what would you do?
1593
01:15:33,790 --> 01:15:35,313
We would talk about literature
1594
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:37,576
and things that
we cared about.
1595
01:15:39,230 --> 01:15:40,840
Sometimes we'd share
a cigarette.
1596
01:15:40,927 --> 01:15:44,670
We happened to be smoking
in the same place one time.
1597
01:15:44,757 --> 01:15:45,758
And that, well, that...
1598
01:15:45,845 --> 01:15:47,368
That's how it started,
I guess.
1599
01:15:47,455 --> 01:15:48,848
Not...
1600
01:15:48,935 --> 01:15:51,721
I mean, that is how
we started smokin' together.
1601
01:15:51,808 --> 01:15:53,287
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
1602
01:15:53,374 --> 01:15:55,376
Do you see each other
socially?
1603
01:15:55,463 --> 01:15:56,900
Absolutely not.
1604
01:15:56,987 --> 01:15:59,337
We went to
a poetry reading together.
1605
01:15:59,424 --> 01:16:01,034
JOYCE: Would you consider
yourself friends?
1606
01:16:01,121 --> 01:16:02,253
Without question.
1607
01:16:02,732 --> 01:16:05,430
We are as close,
1608
01:16:05,517 --> 01:16:09,390
uh, as is appropriate
for a student and a teacher.
1609
01:16:09,477 --> 01:16:10,827
Have you ever been
alone together
1610
01:16:10,914 --> 01:16:12,176
outside of school?
1611
01:16:12,263 --> 01:16:13,830
Only a couple of times.
1612
01:16:13,917 --> 01:16:15,919
Y... Yes, sort of.
1613
01:16:16,006 --> 01:16:19,792
Uh, I mistakenly left
with her phone
1614
01:16:19,879 --> 01:16:22,795
from the classroom,
and I returned it to her, uh,
1615
01:16:22,882 --> 01:16:27,147
before my wife and I
went on a business trip
1616
01:16:27,234 --> 01:16:28,279
to Nashville.
1617
01:16:28,366 --> 01:16:29,802
We didn't actually go,
1618
01:16:29,889 --> 01:16:33,153
but, you know,
we were going to go.
1619
01:16:34,894 --> 01:16:36,069
He came to my house.
1620
01:16:37,114 --> 01:16:38,115
Were you alone?
1621
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:42,641
Yes.
1622
01:16:43,642 --> 01:16:45,078
My parents were out of town.
1623
01:16:45,165 --> 01:16:46,558
What happened?
1624
01:16:48,691 --> 01:16:49,866
Why?
She say somethin' happened?
1625
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:55,611
Nothin' that didn't seem okay
at the time.
1626
01:16:57,569 --> 01:16:58,744
I returned her phone.
1627
01:16:58,831 --> 01:17:00,311
JOYCE:
Did you go inside the house?
1628
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,143
I didn't touch her, okay?
Um...
1629
01:17:07,274 --> 01:17:08,667
When she sent the story,
1630
01:17:08,754 --> 01:17:10,756
I told her it was not
appropriate for school.
1631
01:17:14,325 --> 01:17:15,456
[SIGHS]
1632
01:17:17,154 --> 01:17:18,198
[GULPS]
1633
01:17:19,983 --> 01:17:21,854
I'm gettin' the impression
there's nothin' I can say,
1634
01:17:22,812 --> 01:17:23,813
uh,
1635
01:17:24,596 --> 01:17:26,554
to defend my position here.
1636
01:17:28,861 --> 01:17:30,123
JOYCE: 'Cause there isn't.
1637
01:17:34,171 --> 01:17:36,173
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
1638
01:17:40,394 --> 01:17:41,439
BORIS: Jonathan...
1639
01:17:43,441 --> 01:17:44,703
are you in love with her?
1640
01:17:48,707 --> 01:17:50,404
Fuck Almighty. Are you?
1641
01:17:50,491 --> 01:17:52,537
It's not about my feelings.
1642
01:17:55,061 --> 01:17:56,672
It's what she implies.
1643
01:17:56,759 --> 01:17:58,412
And you know I could get
crucified for this...
1644
01:17:58,499 --> 01:18:00,676
- BORIS: Oh, fuck me.
- ...while you're sittin' there
1645
01:18:00,763 --> 01:18:02,199
swiping through pictures
1646
01:18:02,286 --> 01:18:03,635
- of naked students.
- Oh, he's so smart, everybody.
1647
01:18:03,722 --> 01:18:04,810
That's why I deleted it.
1648
01:18:04,897 --> 01:18:05,898
You deleted it.
1649
01:18:05,985 --> 01:18:07,465
- Oh, good.
- No. No.
1650
01:18:07,552 --> 01:18:09,162
[SARCASTICALLY] Well, as soon
as you delete somethin',
1651
01:18:09,249 --> 01:18:11,338
of course, it means
it's really deleted, right?
1652
01:18:11,425 --> 01:18:12,949
- Come on. Jesus.
- Oh, I'm shakin'
1653
01:18:13,036 --> 01:18:14,298
in my fuckin' boots.
1654
01:18:14,385 --> 01:18:15,603
You know the difference
between you and me?
1655
01:18:16,779 --> 01:18:19,303
You cannot identify the line.
1656
01:18:20,521 --> 01:18:21,653
So, you cross it.
1657
01:18:22,219 --> 01:18:23,568
Right.
1658
01:18:23,655 --> 01:18:25,222
That's why
you're sittin' here scared,
1659
01:18:26,397 --> 01:18:28,007
defensive.
1660
01:18:28,094 --> 01:18:30,183
You are the adult.
Show some responsibility.
1661
01:18:30,270 --> 01:18:31,271
You can't be serious.
1662
01:18:31,358 --> 01:18:33,143
- Like you?
- Yes.
1663
01:18:33,230 --> 01:18:34,927
I know where the line is,
Jonathan.
1664
01:18:35,014 --> 01:18:36,581
- Mm.
- I don't cross it.
1665
01:18:36,668 --> 01:18:38,539
You see, knowin' the line
is knowin' the risk.
1666
01:18:40,585 --> 01:18:43,414
You tryin' to make me
your collateral damage.
1667
01:18:43,501 --> 01:18:44,807
You don't know... Oh, man,
1668
01:18:44,894 --> 01:18:46,504
you think
you're my collateral damage?
1669
01:18:46,591 --> 01:18:48,593
[SCOFFS]
1670
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:51,596
- All right, man. Just go, man.
- All right. No, no.
1671
01:18:51,683 --> 01:18:53,816
- Yeah, all right. I will.
- All right, yeah.
1672
01:18:53,903 --> 01:18:55,556
- Cool, bro. Mm-hmm.
- Thanks for your help.
1673
01:18:56,166 --> 01:18:57,167
Appreciate that.
1674
01:18:57,254 --> 01:18:59,256
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
1675
01:19:11,659 --> 01:19:12,791
JONATHAN: I've been suspended.
1676
01:19:17,796 --> 01:19:18,928
Did you fuck her?
1677
01:19:19,015 --> 01:19:20,886
No.
1678
01:19:20,973 --> 01:19:22,758
- [SNORTS]
- Then what happened?
1679
01:19:24,194 --> 01:19:26,065
She impressed me.
I gave her preference.
1680
01:19:27,414 --> 01:19:29,242
She handed in the story,
1681
01:19:29,329 --> 01:19:31,244
which I obviously
could not accept.
1682
01:19:31,331 --> 01:19:33,246
Her feelings got hurt,
and she lashed out.
1683
01:19:33,333 --> 01:19:35,118
- That's how I understand it.
- Hm.
1684
01:19:35,205 --> 01:19:36,467
So you flirted with her,
1685
01:19:36,554 --> 01:19:37,729
- and then, you rejected her.
- JONATHAN: No,
1686
01:19:37,816 --> 01:19:38,774
- it wasn't flirting.
- What was it then?
1687
01:19:38,861 --> 01:19:40,210
- It was affection!
- [CHUCKLES]
1688
01:19:41,646 --> 01:19:44,388
Well, are you
attracted to her?
1689
01:19:47,217 --> 01:19:48,218
[JONATHAN EXHALES SHARPLY]
1690
01:19:48,958 --> 01:19:49,959
I'll tell you.
1691
01:19:51,395 --> 01:19:54,833
This is about a girl
who flattered you,
1692
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:56,530
who read your little book,
1693
01:19:56,617 --> 01:19:58,881
and your inevitable surrender
to adulation.
1694
01:19:58,968 --> 01:20:01,579
You fucking fell for it.
1695
01:20:01,666 --> 01:20:03,929
Finally. Finally!
1696
01:20:04,016 --> 01:20:07,106
Someone gave your reductive
short stories a second glance.
1697
01:20:07,193 --> 01:20:08,978
And you can't help
but get hard for it
1698
01:20:09,065 --> 01:20:10,414
because, what, now suddenly
1699
01:20:10,501 --> 01:20:12,024
you feel worth somethin',
is that it?
1700
01:20:12,111 --> 01:20:13,156
Yes!
1701
01:20:13,243 --> 01:20:16,333
She made me feel
worth something.
1702
01:20:16,420 --> 01:20:17,508
What does that tell you?
1703
01:20:19,423 --> 01:20:23,383
Was it her sycophancy
that got you hard?
1704
01:20:23,470 --> 01:20:25,777
Or was it the smell
of teen spirit?
1705
01:20:25,864 --> 01:20:27,561
- Fuck you.
- Oh, be my guest.
1706
01:20:27,648 --> 01:20:29,825
Stop. [PANTS]
1707
01:20:29,912 --> 01:20:31,609
- Did you?
- No, I didn't fuck her.
1708
01:20:31,696 --> 01:20:32,828
Why do you look so guilty?
1709
01:20:32,915 --> 01:20:34,003
I haven't done anything wrong.
1710
01:20:34,090 --> 01:20:37,180
- Oh, didn't you?
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
1711
01:20:41,314 --> 01:20:43,490
God, I'm in hell. [CHUCKLES]
1712
01:20:43,577 --> 01:20:46,058
Well, make yourself at home.
1713
01:20:46,145 --> 01:20:47,799
Why are you so punishing?
1714
01:20:47,886 --> 01:20:49,583
You wanted her.
1715
01:20:49,670 --> 01:20:51,542
I can read it all
in your face.
1716
01:20:51,629 --> 01:20:52,891
How can you see anything
in this state,
1717
01:20:52,978 --> 01:20:54,501
you fuckin' alcoholic?
1718
01:20:56,373 --> 01:20:58,766
It's the only thing
that makes you bearable, baby.
1719
01:21:00,507 --> 01:21:01,682
You are a cunt.
1720
01:21:01,769 --> 01:21:03,249
And you're a liar.
1721
01:21:03,815 --> 01:21:05,121
Liar!
1722
01:21:06,774 --> 01:21:09,386
You're the banner boy
for mediocrity,
1723
01:21:09,473 --> 01:21:11,867
waving your flag
of spotless virtue
1724
01:21:11,954 --> 01:21:15,087
like some middling
American hero.
1725
01:21:15,174 --> 01:21:17,220
But, Jon, baby...
1726
01:21:18,525 --> 01:21:20,440
you're the villain.
1727
01:21:25,228 --> 01:21:27,447
But you can't even see that,
can you?
1728
01:21:42,549 --> 01:21:43,986
Don't you worry for me at all?
1729
01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:47,554
What would I possibly
worry about
1730
01:21:47,641 --> 01:21:49,034
other than dying of boredom
1731
01:21:49,121 --> 01:21:51,428
having to listen to
your inventions of conflict?
1732
01:21:54,213 --> 01:21:55,214
You...
1733
01:21:56,172 --> 01:21:57,173
are...
1734
01:21:58,783 --> 01:21:59,827
vile.
1735
01:22:01,917 --> 01:22:03,919
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
1736
01:22:06,356 --> 01:22:08,053
Why don't you write about it?
1737
01:22:35,341 --> 01:22:36,516
Spit it out, Winnie.
1738
01:22:38,083 --> 01:22:39,258
What are you doing?
1739
01:22:41,130 --> 01:22:42,740
I'm completing
my admissions essay.
1740
01:22:44,916 --> 01:22:46,439
Is that all?
1741
01:22:46,526 --> 01:22:47,832
Well, I'm smokin' a cigarette,
1742
01:22:49,312 --> 01:22:51,357
if you wish to be
very literal.
1743
01:22:51,444 --> 01:22:53,490
What are you doin'
to Mr. Miller?
1744
01:23:04,022 --> 01:23:06,590
I'm testifyin' against him
in front of the school board.
1745
01:23:06,677 --> 01:23:08,766
- Why?
- He underestimated me.
1746
01:23:09,767 --> 01:23:11,160
I overestimated him.
1747
01:23:12,161 --> 01:23:13,423
Are you okay?
1748
01:23:13,510 --> 01:23:14,641
I'm inspired.
1749
01:23:16,817 --> 01:23:18,515
- That's not funny.
- It is.
1750
01:23:19,342 --> 01:23:20,778
A little.
1751
01:23:20,865 --> 01:23:23,563
- Please don't do this.
- Why?
1752
01:23:25,739 --> 01:23:27,480
You're gonna ruin his life.
1753
01:23:28,177 --> 01:23:29,221
And for what?
1754
01:23:33,312 --> 01:23:35,053
To avenge your rejection?
1755
01:23:37,708 --> 01:23:38,970
To punish him?
1756
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,409
Because
he didn't wanna fuck you?
1757
01:23:43,496 --> 01:23:45,368
He wanted to fuck me, Winnie.
1758
01:23:45,455 --> 01:23:47,109
[SCOFFS] Yes.
1759
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:52,114
But he didn't leave his wife
for you.
1760
01:23:56,074 --> 01:23:57,467
I'll testify against you.
1761
01:23:57,554 --> 01:23:58,598
No, you won't.
1762
01:24:00,339 --> 01:24:01,949
Excuse me?
1763
01:24:02,037 --> 01:24:04,300
I'll show them the evidence
I have against you and Boris.
1764
01:24:05,953 --> 01:24:07,912
And not only will your
credibility be shot to shit,
1765
01:24:07,999 --> 01:24:09,392
but you'll incriminate him
as well.
1766
01:24:11,916 --> 01:24:14,571
Two teachers
can lose their jobs.
1767
01:24:15,789 --> 01:24:16,834
[BREATH TREMBLING]
1768
01:24:18,401 --> 01:24:20,098
Oh, hey,
maybe we can double team.
1769
01:24:21,099 --> 01:24:22,753
You played me.
1770
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:24,189
You knew what we were doing.
1771
01:24:24,929 --> 01:24:26,148
This is not what I meant.
1772
01:24:26,235 --> 01:24:27,279
Isn't it, though?
1773
01:24:33,024 --> 01:24:35,592
Didn't I play it out
exactly like you imagined?
1774
01:24:35,679 --> 01:24:38,073
This isn't a fucking game,
Cairo.
1775
01:24:39,857 --> 01:24:40,901
You're right.
1776
01:24:44,949 --> 01:24:47,517
This is, to date,
1777
01:24:50,215 --> 01:24:51,564
my greatest achievement.
1778
01:24:53,044 --> 01:24:55,090
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
1779
01:25:07,972 --> 01:25:09,016
[READING] "In the end,
1780
01:25:11,106 --> 01:25:13,673
"ultimately, I understood
1781
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:16,894
"our mutual naivete,
my trust, his arrogance...
1782
01:25:20,027 --> 01:25:22,117
"Exposed us to
the caprices of society
1783
01:25:22,204 --> 01:25:23,335
"and rendered us defeated,
1784
01:25:25,250 --> 01:25:27,122
"suddenly alone
in separate camps.
1785
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:37,915
"What will become of us?
1786
01:25:40,047 --> 01:25:42,572
"Will he measure himself
an unwitting participant?
1787
01:25:47,011 --> 01:25:49,231
"Falsely banished
and beggared?
1788
01:25:53,844 --> 01:25:54,975
"No job,
1789
01:25:56,847 --> 01:25:57,891
"no wife,
1790
01:25:59,110 --> 01:26:00,155
"no forgiveness,
1791
01:26:02,113 --> 01:26:05,856
"or will he be brave enough
to accept his complicity
1792
01:26:07,205 --> 01:26:08,902
"in a way that is meaningful?
1793
01:26:10,469 --> 01:26:11,905
"In a way that changes him,
1794
01:26:12,732 --> 01:26:14,647
"as it has changed me?
1795
01:26:15,648 --> 01:26:17,650
[SOLEMN MUSIC CONTINUES]
1796
01:26:20,305 --> 01:26:21,350
"The answer evades me.
1797
01:26:24,091 --> 01:26:26,659
"I wanted to experience
somethin' I didn't understand.
1798
01:26:29,009 --> 01:26:30,097
"I reached for it
1799
01:26:31,577 --> 01:26:32,752
"and was made a fool
1800
01:26:33,971 --> 01:26:36,191
"by my own childish notions
of love.
1801
01:26:39,019 --> 01:26:40,456
"But where was my error?
1802
01:26:42,501 --> 01:26:46,244
"Was it in the reaching
or the wanting?
1803
01:26:47,941 --> 01:26:50,074
"Is this what it is to be
an adult?
1804
01:26:51,641 --> 01:26:54,209
"The same exquisite longing
of adolescence,
1805
01:26:56,298 --> 01:26:58,648
"but with a burden
of constant accountability?
1806
01:27:02,652 --> 01:27:04,915
"No excuse is to be made
for your choices
1807
01:27:08,440 --> 01:27:09,789
"for they are yours alone.
1808
01:27:21,323 --> 01:27:22,498
"I cannot say whether or not
1809
01:27:22,585 --> 01:27:24,151
"I'm grateful
for the experience,
1810
01:27:26,284 --> 01:27:27,285
"for the knowledge.
1811
01:27:30,854 --> 01:27:32,551
[SNIFFLES]
"The felicity of youth
1812
01:27:32,638 --> 01:27:34,510
"has been ripped from me
like skin.
1813
01:27:37,469 --> 01:27:39,341
[TEARFULLY]
"And exposed as I am,
1814
01:27:44,215 --> 01:27:45,912
"sore and open as I am.
1815
01:27:47,958 --> 01:27:50,830
[SOBBING SOFTLY]
1816
01:27:50,917 --> 01:27:53,137
"I can feel it shape me
into somethin' new.
1817
01:27:55,966 --> 01:27:57,054
"Hero.
1818
01:27:58,490 --> 01:27:59,491
"Villain.
1819
01:28:01,058 --> 01:28:02,233
- [MOUTHING] Hi.
-"Writer.
1820
01:28:04,801 --> 01:28:07,586
"Grown... from the human ruins
1821
01:28:09,066 --> 01:28:10,589
"of a madman's love."
1822
01:28:17,683 --> 01:28:19,685
[AT SEVENTEEN
BY JANIS IAN PLAYING]
1823
01:28:24,995 --> 01:28:29,129
♪ I learned the truth
at seventeen ♪
1824
01:28:29,216 --> 01:28:33,569
♪ That love was meant
for beauty queens ♪
1825
01:28:33,656 --> 01:28:38,008
♪ And high school girls
with clear-skinned smiles ♪
1826
01:28:38,095 --> 01:28:41,228
♪ Who married young
and then retired ♪
1827
01:28:44,710 --> 01:28:48,801
♪ The valentines
I never knew ♪
1828
01:28:48,888 --> 01:28:53,371
♪ The Friday night charades
of youth ♪
1829
01:28:53,458 --> 01:28:57,506
♪ Were spent on one
more beautiful ♪
1830
01:28:57,593 --> 01:29:01,510
♪ At seventeen
I learned the truth ♪
1831
01:29:04,382 --> 01:29:09,344
♪ And those of us
with ravaged faces ♪
1832
01:29:09,431 --> 01:29:12,738
♪ Lacking in
the social graces ♪
1833
01:29:12,825 --> 01:29:16,351
♪ Desperately remained
at home ♪
1834
01:29:16,438 --> 01:29:20,180
♪ Inventing lovers
on the phone ♪
1835
01:29:20,267 --> 01:29:24,794
♪ Who called to say,
"Come dance with me" ♪
1836
01:29:24,881 --> 01:29:28,928
♪ And murmured
vague obscenities ♪
1837
01:29:29,015 --> 01:29:33,629
♪ It isn't all it seems
At seventeen ♪
1838
01:29:35,718 --> 01:29:40,244
♪ A brown eyed girl
in hand-me-downs ♪
1839
01:29:40,331 --> 01:29:44,379
♪ Whose name
I never could pronounce ♪
1840
01:29:44,466 --> 01:29:48,208
♪ Said, "Pity, please,
the ones who serve ♪
1841
01:29:48,295 --> 01:29:51,298
♪ "They only get
what they deserve" ♪
1842
01:29:54,693 --> 01:29:59,002
♪ And the rich-relationed
hometown queen ♪
1843
01:29:59,089 --> 01:30:02,222
♪ Marries into
what she needs ♪
1844
01:30:02,309 --> 01:30:06,357
♪ With a guarantee
of company ♪
1845
01:30:06,444 --> 01:30:10,317
♪ And haven for the elderly ♪
1846
01:30:13,886 --> 01:30:18,325
♪ Remember those
who win the game ♪
1847
01:30:18,413 --> 01:30:21,720
♪ Lose the love
they sought to gain ♪
1848
01:30:21,807 --> 01:30:25,594
♪ In debentures of quality ♪
1849
01:30:25,681 --> 01:30:29,336
♪ And dubious integrity ♪
1850
01:30:29,424 --> 01:30:33,166
♪ Their small-town eyes
will gape at you ♪
1851
01:30:33,253 --> 01:30:38,084
♪ In dull surprise
when payment due ♪
1852
01:30:38,171 --> 01:30:42,524
♪ Exceeds accounts received
At seventeen ♪
1853
01:31:37,274 --> 01:31:41,321
♪ To those of us
who knew the pain ♪
1854
01:31:41,408 --> 01:31:46,065
♪ Of valentines
that never came ♪
1855
01:31:46,152 --> 01:31:50,113
♪ And those whose names
were never called ♪
1856
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,682
♪ When choosing sides
for basketball ♪
1857
01:31:56,511 --> 01:32:01,298
♪ It was long ago
and far away ♪
1858
01:32:01,385 --> 01:32:05,432
♪ The world was younger
than today ♪
1859
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:09,045
♪ When dreams
were all they gave for free ♪
1860
01:32:09,132 --> 01:32:15,399
♪ To ugly duckling girls
like me ♪
1861
01:32:15,486 --> 01:32:19,925
♪ We all play the game,
and when we dare ♪
1862
01:32:20,012 --> 01:32:23,799
♪ To cheat ourselves
at solitaire ♪
1863
01:32:23,886 --> 01:32:27,542
♪ Inventing lovers
on the phone ♪
1864
01:32:27,629 --> 01:32:31,154
♪ Repenting other lives
unknown ♪
1865
01:32:31,241 --> 01:32:35,158
♪ They call and say,
"Come dance with me" ♪
1866
01:32:35,245 --> 01:32:39,641
♪ And murmur
vague obscenities ♪
1867
01:32:39,728 --> 01:32:43,949
♪ At ugly girls like me
At seventeen ♪