1 00:00:29,827 --> 00:00:32,455 [female narrator] Come, children, and listen, 2 00:00:32,538 --> 00:00:35,708 for the story I tell holds a lesson. 3 00:00:36,626 --> 00:00:39,337 A lesson that might one day keep you safe. 4 00:00:40,171 --> 00:00:44,008 So, gather in close and hear me well. 5 00:00:44,467 --> 00:00:49,222 It's the story of the Beautiful Child with the little pink cap. 6 00:00:52,141 --> 00:00:55,394 Her birth was a gift to her mother and father 7 00:00:55,561 --> 00:00:58,064 in a time of great suffering and famine. 8 00:00:59,106 --> 00:01:03,194 All in the village agreed she was the most beautiful child. 9 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,658 But an illness fell upon her, 10 00:01:09,408 --> 00:01:13,496 and it was predicted that her first winter would be her last. 11 00:01:15,248 --> 00:01:18,834 Her father was not one to take such tidings passively, 12 00:01:20,127 --> 00:01:26,801 and whispers told of an enchantress with the power to cure any ailment. 13 00:01:27,885 --> 00:01:32,265 All that was required was for her father to be brave 14 00:01:32,348 --> 00:01:34,725 and to trust the darkness. 15 00:01:40,398 --> 00:01:43,859 And he was, and he did. 16 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:49,740 But when that enchantress took away the illness, 17 00:01:49,907 --> 00:01:52,994 she left in its place a gift. 18 00:01:54,537 --> 00:01:59,000 It came to be that the child had been granted second sight. 19 00:01:59,583 --> 00:02:02,837 Everyone thought they wanted her to read their futures, 20 00:02:04,213 --> 00:02:08,217 but then no one wanted to hear what she saw. 21 00:02:08,968 --> 00:02:13,389 For it is only the bitter end that comes for everyone, anyway. 22 00:02:13,597 --> 00:02:16,600 And she herself made sure of that. 23 00:02:17,101 --> 00:02:19,437 - For it was soon clear... -[horse groans] 24 00:02:23,190 --> 00:02:26,777 ...that she was powerful in other ways, too. 25 00:02:30,698 --> 00:02:32,533 It seemed she would spare no one. 26 00:02:34,785 --> 00:02:36,620 Not even her own father... 27 00:02:38,873 --> 00:02:41,542 who, for her, had sacrificed so much. 28 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:46,881 [horse whinnies] 29 00:02:46,964 --> 00:02:49,383 [narrator] And so, it was ordered 30 00:02:50,009 --> 00:02:53,888 that the child be returned to the darkness that made her. 31 00:02:55,473 --> 00:02:58,976 She was hidden away, deep in the woods, 32 00:02:59,268 --> 00:03:03,439 all alone, with no one to play with. 33 00:03:04,690 --> 00:03:09,028 But still, she had her own way 34 00:03:09,945 --> 00:03:12,073 of making friends. 35 00:03:17,703 --> 00:03:22,041 So, children, please, beware of gifts. 36 00:03:23,167 --> 00:03:25,503 Beware of those that offer them. 37 00:03:26,545 --> 00:03:30,841 And beware of those who are only too happy to take them. 38 00:04:04,458 --> 00:04:06,877 [Gretel] Fairy tales have a funny way of getting into your head. 39 00:04:08,712 --> 00:04:11,257 I don't remember where I was, or when, 40 00:04:12,007 --> 00:04:15,302 that I first heard the story of the Beautiful Child in her little pink cap. 41 00:04:16,637 --> 00:04:18,305 Just feels like I've always known it. 42 00:04:19,932 --> 00:04:22,810 I wonder how someone gets their own fairy tale told about them. 43 00:04:24,061 --> 00:04:25,604 And if I'd even want that. 44 00:04:26,939 --> 00:04:28,983 You have to go through a lot of terrible trouble. 45 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,528 Then most of the time, some prince appears and wakes you up anyway. 46 00:04:34,113 --> 00:04:35,948 But I don't see any princes around here. 47 00:04:36,907 --> 00:04:38,159 There's only my little brother. 48 00:04:39,493 --> 00:04:43,330 He follows me wherever I go, and I have to share everything with him. 49 00:04:45,666 --> 00:04:46,876 But at least he's mine. 50 00:04:47,168 --> 00:04:48,752 Why are you wearing that? 51 00:04:51,088 --> 00:04:54,884 I'm gonna meet with John Stripp. And his wife, if he has one. 52 00:04:55,801 --> 00:04:57,386 Mother imagines he needs a housekeeper. 53 00:04:58,596 --> 00:05:01,682 But why are your lips so strangely colored? 54 00:05:09,607 --> 00:05:12,234 [metal clanking in distance] 55 00:05:12,318 --> 00:05:13,319 Okay. 56 00:05:14,445 --> 00:05:16,572 If I should ever see so much as a crumb of cake, 57 00:05:16,947 --> 00:05:20,576 you'll be the first to know. Okay? [snorts] 58 00:05:33,964 --> 00:05:35,966 [indistinct muffled chatter] 59 00:05:36,050 --> 00:05:37,051 [man] Do you read? 60 00:05:40,179 --> 00:05:44,308 Uh... No. Though I am able to bake and launder. 61 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,602 Your father was a farmer, yes? 62 00:05:46,977 --> 00:05:50,231 Was, yes. He's gone ahead to his reward. 63 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,692 Mother's alone now and does what she can. 64 00:05:54,527 --> 00:05:56,237 I should think she can do precious little 65 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,448 till this terrible pestilence is lifted. 66 00:06:00,115 --> 00:06:01,867 Some say the lands are cursed. 67 00:06:02,117 --> 00:06:06,705 Only with the incompetence of men, as so much of everything is. 68 00:06:07,623 --> 00:06:10,334 And really, it's the whole system that's so absurd. 69 00:06:10,417 --> 00:06:12,461 I mean, senselessly, we owe crop to some bishop, 70 00:06:12,545 --> 00:06:15,005 and we're not even permitted to feed our own... 71 00:06:17,841 --> 00:06:21,512 You will do well to limit the number of words that come out of your mouth. 72 00:06:24,723 --> 00:06:25,558 Yes, sir. 73 00:06:26,141 --> 00:06:29,812 Oh, do something nice for a poor, old man, won't you? 74 00:06:31,522 --> 00:06:34,316 Try saying "milord" instead. 75 00:06:38,028 --> 00:06:38,988 Yes... 76 00:06:40,281 --> 00:06:41,198 milord. 77 00:06:41,699 --> 00:06:43,409 That's a good girl. 78 00:06:43,951 --> 00:06:46,245 I think you'll find our guests will prefer it. 79 00:06:47,913 --> 00:06:49,498 Now, I have something to ask you. 80 00:06:51,166 --> 00:06:53,085 Have you kept your maidenhood? 81 00:06:54,670 --> 00:06:55,838 I beg your pardon? 82 00:06:55,921 --> 00:07:00,718 You may beg all you want, but my question remains. 83 00:07:01,468 --> 00:07:02,636 Are you... 84 00:07:04,722 --> 00:07:06,056 intact? 85 00:07:08,350 --> 00:07:10,144 [muffled crying of a woman] 86 00:07:10,394 --> 00:07:11,770 [thunder rumbling] 87 00:07:14,023 --> 00:07:16,191 [Gretel] What if I had reached across and slapped him? 88 00:07:17,192 --> 00:07:18,986 Would my palm have stung with pride? 89 00:07:19,987 --> 00:07:21,238 Would I have felt nothing? 90 00:07:22,865 --> 00:07:25,409 [woman] Would it have killed you to smile at the man? 91 00:07:25,826 --> 00:07:27,453 To just say "thank you"? 92 00:07:28,078 --> 00:07:29,788 [thunder rumbling] 93 00:07:29,955 --> 00:07:31,582 He didn't need a housekeeper. 94 00:07:34,752 --> 00:07:37,880 - You can't stay here, Gretel. - Why not? 95 00:07:39,715 --> 00:07:41,383 Because there isn't enough room. 96 00:07:42,843 --> 00:07:45,262 This place is too crowded with ghosts. 97 00:07:46,805 --> 00:07:51,393 Hungry ghosts, of everything now gone. 98 00:07:53,937 --> 00:07:55,564 Your father's sits right there. 99 00:07:58,150 --> 00:08:00,027 And mine will be here soon enough. 100 00:08:02,613 --> 00:08:04,073 You shouldn't talk like that. 101 00:08:04,156 --> 00:08:06,700 You'll take your brother and make haste to the convent. 102 00:08:07,201 --> 00:08:08,952 Throw yourself at the boots of the sisters, 103 00:08:09,036 --> 00:08:10,537 and pray they take you in. 104 00:08:10,954 --> 00:08:14,124 Hansel will never be offered admittance at a convent. 105 00:08:16,251 --> 00:08:18,295 And I would never ask to be admitted. 106 00:08:18,712 --> 00:08:20,506 [whispering] Then the two of you could start work 107 00:08:20,589 --> 00:08:22,966 digging your sweet, little graves. 108 00:08:30,683 --> 00:08:31,725 Gretel. 109 00:08:35,896 --> 00:08:38,107 When you and your brother take up your shovels... 110 00:08:41,110 --> 00:08:42,736 dig a hole for Mommy, too. 111 00:08:45,739 --> 00:08:46,740 [snorts] 112 00:09:05,050 --> 00:09:06,802 [screams] Be gone! 113 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,851 Or I'll hack you into tiny, little pieces. 114 00:09:19,356 --> 00:09:20,816 [Gretel] I pulled my brother from his bed, 115 00:09:20,899 --> 00:09:23,485 and together, we fled the only home we'd ever known. 116 00:09:23,986 --> 00:09:25,696 The door slammed at our backs, 117 00:09:25,779 --> 00:09:30,451 and the big, bad world opened up in front of us, like a terrible mouth. 118 00:09:34,329 --> 00:09:36,373 You ought to have gone with the man in the house. 119 00:09:36,457 --> 00:09:39,126 - Quiet about things you don't know. - Why do you always do that? 120 00:09:39,209 --> 00:09:41,670 I don't always do anything. I'm not a clock. 121 00:09:41,754 --> 00:09:44,882 You make trouble. You would've had your own room. 122 00:09:44,965 --> 00:09:47,593 You would've seen a crumb of cake sooner or later. 123 00:09:50,137 --> 00:09:53,056 Nothing is given without something else being taken away. 124 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:58,437 When can we go back to Mother? 125 00:10:03,859 --> 00:10:04,985 Remember the widow Hayes, 126 00:10:05,068 --> 00:10:07,571 who used to give Father eggs before her chickens got sick? 127 00:10:07,946 --> 00:10:09,156 She lives just up ahead. 128 00:10:10,449 --> 00:10:12,159 Perhaps she can give us a bed. 129 00:10:14,369 --> 00:10:15,788 How do your eyes see that far? 130 00:10:17,498 --> 00:10:19,833 I don't have to see things to know that they're there. 131 00:10:24,546 --> 00:10:26,298 [Hansel] Are you sure a woman lives here? 132 00:10:27,633 --> 00:10:29,551 [Gretel] I'm sure a woman used to live here. 133 00:10:33,931 --> 00:10:35,808 [Hansel] Doesn't smell like a woman lives here. 134 00:10:35,891 --> 00:10:38,936 [Gretel] Quiet. And be glad for the roof over our heads. 135 00:10:46,568 --> 00:10:48,529 Well, not exactly an iron maiden. 136 00:10:49,279 --> 00:10:50,322 Come on then. 137 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,628 Do you think Mother's all right? 138 00:11:06,964 --> 00:11:09,216 I think she's all right as long as we're all right. 139 00:11:11,134 --> 00:11:12,135 Gretel... 140 00:11:14,012 --> 00:11:15,514 will we be all right? 141 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,310 If I've got a voice in the matter. 142 00:11:37,119 --> 00:11:38,954 [screaming] 143 00:11:44,001 --> 00:11:45,586 [man growling] 144 00:11:45,669 --> 00:11:46,670 Brother! 145 00:11:49,423 --> 00:11:52,551 [Hansel] Gretel! Help! Get it off me! 146 00:11:52,926 --> 00:11:53,927 [Gretel] Hey! 147 00:11:56,513 --> 00:11:57,556 [screams] 148 00:12:01,310 --> 00:12:02,603 [growls] 149 00:12:03,353 --> 00:12:04,730 But not really. 150 00:12:05,731 --> 00:12:07,190 [screams] 151 00:12:07,274 --> 00:12:08,275 [gasps] 152 00:12:28,337 --> 00:12:30,631 [man] You've been turned out of your home, I'll wager. 153 00:12:30,797 --> 00:12:34,343 Set out to fend for yourselves with only your clothes and your hides, 154 00:12:34,426 --> 00:12:35,886 which aren't much. 155 00:12:35,969 --> 00:12:37,179 [Hansel] I have an axe. 156 00:12:38,263 --> 00:12:39,264 Oh? 157 00:12:40,474 --> 00:12:43,101 I must say, it hides very well in your shadow, young man. 158 00:12:44,978 --> 00:12:48,607 - I mean, I have an axe at home. - Be quiet. 159 00:12:48,732 --> 00:12:52,277 [man] I'll be happy to direct you to foresters. Good people. 160 00:12:52,444 --> 00:12:55,405 Plentiful coin. Food, if you can earn it. 161 00:12:56,490 --> 00:12:58,367 They will hand you a new axe, 162 00:12:58,617 --> 00:13:00,702 and show you how to make it work like one. 163 00:13:01,703 --> 00:13:06,208 You, girl, will learn the ways of the herbs and the earth. 164 00:13:06,625 --> 00:13:09,795 Lest the men of the world find a more obvious use for you. 165 00:13:15,425 --> 00:13:18,387 Pray, sir, what might we offer you in return for the meal? 166 00:13:19,554 --> 00:13:21,431 I mean, you would've eaten it if not for us. 167 00:13:22,182 --> 00:13:23,850 I don't have a taste for rabbit. 168 00:13:24,059 --> 00:13:25,560 What do you want from us then? 169 00:13:25,936 --> 00:13:28,021 You have nothing I need or want. 170 00:13:29,398 --> 00:13:33,902 "For kindness is its own reward. But cruelty is a self-inflicted wound. 171 00:13:34,194 --> 00:13:36,363 The wicked earn a living by deception, 172 00:13:36,446 --> 00:13:40,200 but the one who plants righteousness gathers a true harvest. 173 00:13:40,283 --> 00:13:43,370 Indeed, those who do what is right will live a good life. 174 00:13:43,829 --> 00:13:46,665 Those who pursue evil will die." 175 00:13:48,417 --> 00:13:52,045 - But everyone dies. - Indeed. But not right now. 176 00:13:54,923 --> 00:13:57,968 Take your fill, and perhaps you'll allow me to draw you each a bath. 177 00:13:58,468 --> 00:14:00,178 The boy here is so filthy, 178 00:14:00,303 --> 00:14:02,472 he could pass for compost if it not for the whites in his eyes. 179 00:14:02,556 --> 00:14:03,682 [chuckles] 180 00:14:16,737 --> 00:14:19,698 [Gretel] Is it safe to trust someone who appears exactly when you need them? 181 00:14:21,199 --> 00:14:23,660 Or does it feel too much like they've been lying in wait, 182 00:14:23,744 --> 00:14:25,245 coiled like a serpent? 183 00:14:31,376 --> 00:14:33,545 [man] Keep west for two full days and nights. 184 00:14:34,337 --> 00:14:38,800 Keep to the path I've drawn for you and you'll find what you're looking for. 185 00:14:39,217 --> 00:14:41,845 Stray from it and you can expect to meet wolves. 186 00:14:41,928 --> 00:14:44,389 And if you do, don't stop to talk to them. 187 00:14:45,223 --> 00:14:48,560 They're very charming and handsome, but make terrible conversation. 188 00:15:14,586 --> 00:15:16,922 [Hansel] Why couldn't we stay where we were with the huntsman? 189 00:15:18,090 --> 00:15:19,049 [Gretel] If he'd wanted children, 190 00:15:19,132 --> 00:15:21,051 I suspect he would've made some of his own. 191 00:15:22,344 --> 00:15:25,388 "Made" them? Out of what? 192 00:15:25,472 --> 00:15:27,599 Must I explain all of everything? 193 00:15:28,934 --> 00:15:30,977 But Mother didn't make us. 194 00:15:31,353 --> 00:15:34,022 We was brought in through her window by birds. 195 00:15:34,898 --> 00:15:38,026 You're right, Hansel. What a fool I've been all this time. 196 00:15:39,861 --> 00:15:40,862 All finished? 197 00:15:41,238 --> 00:15:43,740 Yes, and I'm still hungry. 198 00:15:44,074 --> 00:15:46,243 Only the natural result of eating so much. 199 00:15:47,953 --> 00:15:48,787 Oh. 200 00:15:51,331 --> 00:15:53,291 Do you remember Father very much? 201 00:15:55,043 --> 00:15:56,545 No, not very much. 202 00:15:58,922 --> 00:16:00,465 Tell me the fairy tale again. 203 00:16:01,466 --> 00:16:03,760 The one about the Beautiful Child with the little pink-- 204 00:16:03,844 --> 00:16:05,303 Not right now. 205 00:16:06,888 --> 00:16:09,474 It's too scary, and you'll start seeing things that aren't there. 206 00:16:15,021 --> 00:16:16,690 Some things that probably are. 207 00:16:17,816 --> 00:16:22,112 It isn't scary for me. And it helps me go to bed. 208 00:16:35,333 --> 00:16:38,378 Gretel, I'm scared. 209 00:16:52,726 --> 00:16:54,686 There's nothing and nobody out there. 210 00:17:08,116 --> 00:17:09,117 [child whispers] Gretel. 211 00:17:09,618 --> 00:17:10,827 [crow screeching] 212 00:17:26,051 --> 00:17:28,511 [Gretel] I always try to tell my mother that I can see things, 213 00:17:29,221 --> 00:17:31,223 like I was dreaming when I was awake. 214 00:17:32,766 --> 00:17:35,185 But she always told me to keep it to myself, 215 00:17:36,186 --> 00:17:37,854 -and that little girls should never-- -[striking wood in distance] 216 00:17:47,113 --> 00:17:48,281 What in hell are you doing? 217 00:17:48,531 --> 00:17:51,284 Practicing for when we meet the foresters. 218 00:17:51,701 --> 00:17:53,119 And you said "hell." 219 00:17:55,622 --> 00:17:56,623 Hey! 220 00:17:57,082 --> 00:17:59,876 All this practice is making an unnecessary racket. 221 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,134 I'm sorry. I'm hungry. 222 00:18:09,427 --> 00:18:11,054 I'm hungrier than you are. 223 00:18:13,223 --> 00:18:15,684 - Because you're a pig. - You're a bigger pig. 224 00:18:15,976 --> 00:18:18,395 [chuckles] You're right. I am. 225 00:18:27,279 --> 00:18:28,196 [snorting] 226 00:18:42,127 --> 00:18:43,878 [Hansel] When do we eat again? 227 00:18:47,632 --> 00:18:49,009 [echoing] Gretel? 228 00:18:52,762 --> 00:18:55,181 Gretel, I'm starving. 229 00:19:12,032 --> 00:19:13,616 [in normal voice] Looks like a mushroom. 230 00:19:14,868 --> 00:19:17,370 [Gretel] Yes. But they're as different from one another as people are. 231 00:19:20,915 --> 00:19:23,835 - This one might be unfriendly. - How to tell? 232 00:19:24,502 --> 00:19:25,920 Suppose we might ask them. 233 00:19:27,630 --> 00:19:31,426 Well, anyhow, here we all are and pleased to make your acquaintance. 234 00:19:32,177 --> 00:19:34,512 We've been without food for too long now. 235 00:19:34,763 --> 00:19:37,849 And to be completely frankly honest and open about it, 236 00:19:37,932 --> 00:19:43,980 we were thinking, very seriously, of supping, well, on you. 237 00:19:44,731 --> 00:19:47,692 So tell me, if you will, strange little things, 238 00:19:48,234 --> 00:19:49,986 are you kind or no? 239 00:19:55,950 --> 00:19:57,410 What did it say? 240 00:19:58,495 --> 00:20:02,082 Strange as it might be, I think she said, "Eat me." 241 00:20:22,894 --> 00:20:25,271 [laughing] 242 00:20:25,438 --> 00:20:27,607 [voices distorting] 243 00:20:31,277 --> 00:20:33,488 [distorted laughter repeating] 244 00:20:45,875 --> 00:20:47,627 [sounds distorting] 245 00:21:16,322 --> 00:21:17,615 [child whispers] Follow me. 246 00:21:22,036 --> 00:21:22,912 [horse whinnies] 247 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,707 [child whispering] Come and find me. 248 00:21:29,919 --> 00:21:31,880 Follow me, sister. 249 00:22:07,749 --> 00:22:11,294 Gretel, is that there? 250 00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:16,257 [Gretel] If it isn't, neither are we. 251 00:22:19,802 --> 00:22:21,137 Do you smell that? 252 00:22:28,353 --> 00:22:30,813 Gretel, it smells of cake. 253 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:38,154 - Hey. - Let go of me! 254 00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:43,409 Gretel, it smells of cake, and I'm unable to resist. 255 00:22:48,331 --> 00:22:50,750 Gretel, I need food. 256 00:22:54,712 --> 00:22:57,465 -[Gretel] Stay where I can see you. - They have a slide. 257 00:22:57,924 --> 00:22:59,634 [Gretel] Yet I don't see any children. 258 00:23:01,094 --> 00:23:03,179 It also smells of bacon, you know. 259 00:23:08,851 --> 00:23:11,229 Look in through the window or something. 260 00:23:33,459 --> 00:23:36,087 Well? What is there? 261 00:23:38,172 --> 00:23:39,382 Only heaven. 262 00:23:42,927 --> 00:23:43,928 What? 263 00:23:51,894 --> 00:23:54,314 [Hansel] Gretel, look and see. 264 00:24:33,728 --> 00:24:34,854 [wood creaking] 265 00:24:46,866 --> 00:24:47,867 Hansel. 266 00:24:54,666 --> 00:24:55,750 Brother! 267 00:25:27,448 --> 00:25:30,952 You must be the sister I've heard so much about. 268 00:25:33,079 --> 00:25:34,539 Careful with that, dear. 269 00:25:35,748 --> 00:25:38,710 I'd hate for you to start something you can't stop. 270 00:25:47,218 --> 00:25:49,303 We never intended to steal from you, missus. 271 00:25:49,387 --> 00:25:51,639 "Missus"? Think I'm married? 272 00:25:51,723 --> 00:25:54,142 See you a ball and chain at my heel? 273 00:25:54,851 --> 00:25:58,312 But tell me how you came to be in my woods, 274 00:25:59,814 --> 00:26:03,526 and so charmingly unchaperoned. 275 00:26:04,193 --> 00:26:05,820 Our mother has come upon hardship. 276 00:26:06,487 --> 00:26:09,240 Usually the first thing a mother comes upon. 277 00:26:09,615 --> 00:26:12,493 - My sister won't go to the convent. - Be quiet. 278 00:26:12,577 --> 00:26:14,871 I very much doubt that a convent is the place 279 00:26:14,954 --> 00:26:18,374 for a girl with action in her bones, 280 00:26:18,875 --> 00:26:22,170 even if there's hardly any meat on those action bones. 281 00:26:23,463 --> 00:26:25,047 Aren't you expecting guests? 282 00:26:25,131 --> 00:26:27,967 Guests? I'd rather have roaches. 283 00:26:35,099 --> 00:26:38,144 Just checking, to be sure you're not crawling with louses 284 00:26:38,352 --> 00:26:40,855 before you put your heads on any pillows of mine. 285 00:26:41,105 --> 00:26:41,939 Ouch. 286 00:26:54,285 --> 00:26:55,495 You're clean enough. 287 00:26:57,163 --> 00:27:00,374 Now, eat. And rest. 288 00:27:00,750 --> 00:27:02,877 Beds have already been made up for you. 289 00:27:03,586 --> 00:27:04,587 Thank you. 290 00:27:06,047 --> 00:27:10,134 But really, we'll stop briefly but we must be on our way. 291 00:27:11,093 --> 00:27:14,597 Milk, good for bones. 292 00:27:18,351 --> 00:27:19,977 [liquid pouring] 293 00:27:33,616 --> 00:27:38,287 [woman] A hair here, a hair there. 294 00:27:47,964 --> 00:27:49,841 [purring] 295 00:27:54,595 --> 00:27:58,933 My eyes are too big for my stomach, obviously. 296 00:27:59,851 --> 00:28:03,479 And your mouth is too big for your mouth, obviously. 297 00:28:04,647 --> 00:28:06,274 [stomach grumbling] 298 00:28:25,501 --> 00:28:27,837 [distorted voice whispering] 299 00:28:48,983 --> 00:28:50,693 [indistinct whispering] 300 00:28:59,660 --> 00:29:02,997 [striking wood in distance] 301 00:29:08,628 --> 00:29:11,213 [child whispering] My mother, she killed me. 302 00:29:12,965 --> 00:29:15,635 My mother, she ate me. 303 00:29:17,678 --> 00:29:20,056 What a pretty bird am I. 304 00:29:21,223 --> 00:29:23,643 What a pretty bird am I. 305 00:29:25,227 --> 00:29:27,396 What a pretty bird am I. 306 00:29:28,481 --> 00:29:29,899 [screams] No! 307 00:29:47,583 --> 00:29:48,793 [woman] Your breakfast. 308 00:29:51,671 --> 00:29:53,923 No morning beasts for you, my pretty? 309 00:29:54,548 --> 00:29:55,883 No, thank you, ma'am. 310 00:29:55,967 --> 00:29:58,636 She can keep all the world's vegetables, 311 00:29:58,719 --> 00:30:01,847 while I eat only meat and grow strong like an ox. 312 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,809 She'll grow strong enough. 313 00:30:05,309 --> 00:30:09,146 Just as the ox, with his vegetable-made bones, 314 00:30:09,230 --> 00:30:13,317 pulls the cart, and the fat man who sits atop it. 315 00:30:17,738 --> 00:30:18,739 [glass breaking] 316 00:30:20,741 --> 00:30:24,245 Well, another one bites the dust. 317 00:30:24,495 --> 00:30:25,621 May I not help you with that? 318 00:30:26,789 --> 00:30:28,040 What's this, dear? 319 00:30:28,124 --> 00:30:30,543 Only to say surely in exchange for your generosity, 320 00:30:30,626 --> 00:30:34,088 I might offer to be the one out of the two of us to get down on the ground. 321 00:30:34,505 --> 00:30:37,258 Now, that's a new idea. 322 00:30:37,550 --> 00:30:40,469 I can bake and launder, turn down beds, 323 00:30:41,137 --> 00:30:45,599 or tend to any, uh... animals that might need tending. 324 00:30:45,975 --> 00:30:47,226 And I can chop wood. 325 00:30:47,351 --> 00:30:49,311 - He can learn. - Well, I could. 326 00:30:49,770 --> 00:30:52,773 Typically I'm not in the habit of employing children, 327 00:30:52,857 --> 00:30:56,277 but in this case it does seem a fair trade. 328 00:30:56,527 --> 00:30:59,822 Only until we set off again to find a thing more permanent. 329 00:31:00,489 --> 00:31:03,159 We'll be working with the foresters soon. 330 00:31:03,242 --> 00:31:07,997 Well, it's beginning to appear the foresters will have to wait a while. 331 00:31:11,584 --> 00:31:12,960 Finders keepers. 332 00:31:21,093 --> 00:31:23,095 The sliding door to your right. 333 00:31:34,690 --> 00:31:37,068 Lyes and vinegars on that shelf. 334 00:31:37,777 --> 00:31:40,237 Soap from animal fat, just there. 335 00:31:46,494 --> 00:31:50,998 And the blade high like this, then lay it down easy. 336 00:31:54,168 --> 00:31:55,544 Very good. 337 00:31:56,378 --> 00:31:57,671 Once you've gotten the hang of it, 338 00:31:57,755 --> 00:32:00,382 you can move on to the others in the shed. 339 00:32:17,483 --> 00:32:20,694 My, my. Aren't you handsome? 340 00:33:05,656 --> 00:33:06,574 [sneezes] 341 00:33:06,824 --> 00:33:08,617 [woman] Nothing to sneeze at. 342 00:33:10,661 --> 00:33:14,331 Even with the heat of your blushing, you have the onset of a chill. 343 00:33:14,748 --> 00:33:16,917 Here, let me show you something. 344 00:33:17,918 --> 00:33:20,546 Licorice root, garlic, calendula, 345 00:33:20,629 --> 00:33:26,927 Usnea lichen, yarrow flower, milkvetch, and finally, cat's claw. 346 00:33:35,352 --> 00:33:36,395 Here. 347 00:33:38,022 --> 00:33:40,191 - What? - You drink it. 348 00:33:40,733 --> 00:33:43,569 - Oh, I don't-- - Tomorrow you will be a new girl. 349 00:33:44,236 --> 00:33:46,655 If not tomorrow, then soon enough. 350 00:33:47,823 --> 00:33:50,242 In any case, you will have taken a first step. 351 00:34:00,461 --> 00:34:02,630 The foul smell is only an ugly gatekeeper 352 00:34:02,713 --> 00:34:04,798 in front of the palace of wonders. 353 00:34:05,090 --> 00:34:09,136 Stop with him at the gates, or see what goes on inside. 354 00:34:55,975 --> 00:34:58,018 [straining] 355 00:35:00,437 --> 00:35:02,231 You're coming with me. 356 00:35:08,821 --> 00:35:10,114 Idiot trees. 357 00:35:16,287 --> 00:35:17,496 [woman] You'll get the hang of it. 358 00:35:19,540 --> 00:35:23,502 Always remember, the king is afraid, and he should be. 359 00:35:24,253 --> 00:35:26,463 Because the queen can do whatever she wants. 360 00:35:27,923 --> 00:35:31,176 Gretel, it's naked. 361 00:35:34,430 --> 00:35:35,556 Your go. 362 00:35:39,435 --> 00:35:41,520 - There's a storm coming. -[Hansel] There isn't. 363 00:35:41,770 --> 00:35:43,981 - Be quiet. -[Hansel] I was out all day. 364 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,901 I know what rain clouds look like, and there was none. 365 00:35:48,193 --> 00:35:51,613 In any case, I brought your axe in for you just to be safe. 366 00:35:56,952 --> 00:35:57,995 How'd you know? 367 00:35:58,579 --> 00:36:01,665 Because women often know things they're not supposed to. 368 00:36:02,666 --> 00:36:03,500 Don't we, Gretel? 369 00:36:04,543 --> 00:36:09,340 -[Hansel] Gretel's not a woman. - Oh, no? And if not, what? 370 00:36:11,383 --> 00:36:14,303 Is she a snake? A frog? 371 00:36:15,137 --> 00:36:16,305 A pig? 372 00:36:16,889 --> 00:36:18,891 [snorting] 373 00:36:22,353 --> 00:36:24,313 [thunder rumbling] 374 00:36:25,564 --> 00:36:28,400 [rain pattering] 375 00:36:42,206 --> 00:36:43,832 [rumbling continues] 376 00:37:12,236 --> 00:37:13,946 [child laughing] 377 00:37:31,922 --> 00:37:33,215 [child whispering] Don't look at us. 378 00:37:39,805 --> 00:37:41,181 Don't look at us here. 379 00:37:44,268 --> 00:37:46,186 Down in our hole in the ground. 380 00:37:49,189 --> 00:37:50,899 We've gotten old down here. 381 00:37:53,861 --> 00:37:54,862 Don't look at us. 382 00:37:56,530 --> 00:38:00,284 Don't look at us here. 383 00:38:00,367 --> 00:38:02,494 Down in our hole in the ground. 384 00:38:06,623 --> 00:38:08,083 We've gotten old down here. 385 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:20,804 Don't look at us. 386 00:38:24,057 --> 00:38:25,225 Don't look at us. 387 00:38:28,103 --> 00:38:29,188 Don't look at us. 388 00:38:30,898 --> 00:38:32,065 [screams] 389 00:39:10,020 --> 00:39:12,189 [baby crying in distance] 390 00:39:34,586 --> 00:39:36,088 [Gretel] Were the dreams I was having 391 00:39:36,171 --> 00:39:39,091 only the result of too much rich food before bed? 392 00:39:44,388 --> 00:39:47,474 Or were they a message? A warning? 393 00:39:50,727 --> 00:39:53,397 And was I now missing a chance to listen to myself? 394 00:40:31,727 --> 00:40:32,769 [cat yowls] 395 00:40:38,859 --> 00:40:39,860 Hey. 396 00:40:41,903 --> 00:40:44,448 We'd be wise to leave before outstaying our welcome. 397 00:40:44,823 --> 00:40:47,159 What? Leave? 398 00:40:47,242 --> 00:40:48,201 Yes. 399 00:40:48,660 --> 00:40:51,204 And continue on to the foresters, like we said we would. 400 00:40:51,997 --> 00:40:56,627 We've found work to be done here. And you probably noticed the food. 401 00:40:57,044 --> 00:41:00,839 - There's something wrong here. - But it's so pleasant. 402 00:41:01,173 --> 00:41:03,717 But tell me what hides behind that pleasantness. 403 00:41:04,843 --> 00:41:07,262 There are things here, bad things. 404 00:41:08,347 --> 00:41:10,724 - What bad things? - The abundance, for one. 405 00:41:11,016 --> 00:41:13,977 - What's that mean? - It means "too much." 406 00:41:15,270 --> 00:41:19,066 There's too much, and it isn't right. Where are the animals? 407 00:41:20,025 --> 00:41:21,443 From where does she draw milk? 408 00:41:21,526 --> 00:41:24,279 From where does she conjure up her endless parade of cakes? 409 00:41:24,946 --> 00:41:27,699 There are souls trapped in this house, or under it. 410 00:41:27,783 --> 00:41:30,327 But why do you always see a problem? 411 00:41:30,535 --> 00:41:34,289 Something behind or under? Something hidden? 412 00:41:34,581 --> 00:41:36,458 Because the big, bad world is what it is. 413 00:41:36,708 --> 00:41:40,295 We're safe now from the world. Isn't that what you want? 414 00:41:47,552 --> 00:41:50,305 Perhaps tomorrow you can send me for supplies. 415 00:41:50,764 --> 00:41:52,683 Mother says I have an eye for good produce. 416 00:41:53,141 --> 00:41:54,685 [woman] That won't be necessary. 417 00:42:02,025 --> 00:42:04,444 Plums only keep for three days out of season. 418 00:42:05,696 --> 00:42:08,240 And that ham is unsalted. It must be going bad. 419 00:42:09,241 --> 00:42:10,534 And yet, it isn't. 420 00:42:12,494 --> 00:42:14,830 [flies buzzing] 421 00:42:28,385 --> 00:42:29,469 [thuds] 422 00:42:30,470 --> 00:42:31,304 Yes! 423 00:42:51,408 --> 00:42:54,870 [children's voices whispering indistinctly] 424 00:43:06,465 --> 00:43:08,258 [child whispering] Hansel, Gretel. 425 00:43:25,442 --> 00:43:26,318 [gasps] 426 00:43:27,778 --> 00:43:31,239 Come across an old one, have you? One that's had too much to drink. 427 00:43:37,162 --> 00:43:40,957 You'll find another in the cupboard in the hall. Towards the back. 428 00:44:40,642 --> 00:44:43,520 When you've found it, let me show you something. 429 00:45:15,510 --> 00:45:19,514 [woman] The thought in your head is "Go look in the shed. " 430 00:45:19,598 --> 00:45:25,103 You'll find saws to be sharpened for the bones of the dead. 431 00:45:25,353 --> 00:45:29,524 The thought in your head is "Go look in the shed." 432 00:45:29,608 --> 00:45:34,821 You'll find saws to be sharpened for the bones of the dead. 433 00:45:35,614 --> 00:45:39,951 What eats with its teeth, but never feels fed? 434 00:45:47,417 --> 00:45:48,919 Are you having dreams? 435 00:45:50,295 --> 00:45:54,382 On some nights. On some nights, I don't sleep at all. 436 00:45:55,008 --> 00:45:57,761 Awake, listening to the woods? 437 00:46:00,430 --> 00:46:01,306 Good. 438 00:46:02,641 --> 00:46:05,393 The air is swirling with abundance. 439 00:46:06,102 --> 00:46:09,564 One need only reach out and pluck it. 440 00:46:10,899 --> 00:46:14,736 This is your power, to see what is hidden and to take it. 441 00:46:17,238 --> 00:46:21,201 A small mind believes only what it can see. 442 00:46:22,577 --> 00:46:26,873 Carves out a little square, waits to be taken, 443 00:46:28,041 --> 00:46:30,752 never wondering what governs its fate. 444 00:46:32,754 --> 00:46:37,217 But we know that we are our fate's own masters, don't we? 445 00:46:39,052 --> 00:46:41,596 Those like me and those like you, 446 00:46:42,263 --> 00:46:45,850 we commune with the Great Provider. 447 00:46:47,769 --> 00:46:53,274 She gives us the seeds of abundance, and we grow them in our garden. 448 00:46:55,944 --> 00:47:00,949 We harvest it, and with it, we impart justice. 449 00:47:02,033 --> 00:47:04,494 You say "we," but I've not agreed to anything. 450 00:47:04,911 --> 00:47:08,123 It's not for you to agree or disagree, my pretty. 451 00:47:08,707 --> 00:47:10,333 It's already inside of you. 452 00:47:11,918 --> 00:47:14,671 You can either stay asleep to it... 453 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,258 or let it wake up. 454 00:47:27,475 --> 00:47:28,601 [wood thuds] 455 00:47:29,436 --> 00:47:32,313 Now, the salve. 456 00:47:58,757 --> 00:48:00,091 I see it likes you. 457 00:48:06,181 --> 00:48:07,140 [chuckles] 458 00:48:12,562 --> 00:48:15,523 - Now, tell it what to do. -"Tell it"? 459 00:48:15,607 --> 00:48:18,068 You've talked to things before. I know you have. 460 00:48:21,821 --> 00:48:23,073 What can it do? 461 00:48:23,907 --> 00:48:26,910 It can do more than just lie there like spilled milk. 462 00:48:36,586 --> 00:48:37,629 [woman gasps] 463 00:48:38,505 --> 00:48:40,548 You decided to wake it up, after all. 464 00:48:41,758 --> 00:48:45,136 - But how did it-- - Think less, my pretty, and know more. 465 00:48:46,971 --> 00:48:49,933 Go ahead. It awaits its master. 466 00:49:31,015 --> 00:49:32,433 [metal creaking] 467 00:49:38,773 --> 00:49:41,317 [woman in distorted voice] The bones of the dead. 468 00:49:42,443 --> 00:49:45,613 The bones of the dead. 469 00:49:53,246 --> 00:49:56,624 The bones of the dead. 470 00:50:23,818 --> 00:50:25,778 [leaves rustling] 471 00:51:05,026 --> 00:51:06,653 [creaking] 472 00:51:12,158 --> 00:51:13,952 [creaking continues] 473 00:51:49,195 --> 00:51:50,905 [woman] Have another bite, won't you? 474 00:51:50,989 --> 00:51:52,824 -[flies buzzing] - I don't want another bite. 475 00:51:52,991 --> 00:51:55,827 Even if it bit me, I wouldn't bite it back. 476 00:51:56,077 --> 00:51:58,663 [woman] But it's your favorite, my little champion. 477 00:51:59,205 --> 00:52:00,540 I even stuffed the crust. 478 00:52:01,249 --> 00:52:05,003 And it'll be here again tomorrow, as sure as the sun, 479 00:52:05,086 --> 00:52:06,921 and with even less explanation. 480 00:52:07,005 --> 00:52:08,715 Quiet. You're being rude. 481 00:52:09,882 --> 00:52:11,592 Now bite your tongue and eat your food. 482 00:52:18,808 --> 00:52:20,643 [Hansel] What do you do with her all day? 483 00:52:22,186 --> 00:52:23,313 She teaches me. 484 00:52:24,439 --> 00:52:27,233 Things that could save my life, that could make my life-- 485 00:52:27,442 --> 00:52:28,860 She's not our mother, you know. 486 00:52:30,236 --> 00:52:31,946 It's true. She isn't. 487 00:52:34,365 --> 00:52:35,700 She has much to give. 488 00:52:36,659 --> 00:52:38,786 You wouldn't understand. There are many gifts here. 489 00:52:39,245 --> 00:52:42,040 You always say there aren't any gifts in this world. 490 00:52:42,123 --> 00:52:45,335 That nothing is given without something taken away. 491 00:52:45,626 --> 00:52:49,213 So, tell me this. What is she taking? 492 00:52:51,716 --> 00:52:55,219 I'm scared now, and I want to go home. 493 00:52:56,304 --> 00:52:58,014 I wanna see Mother. 494 00:52:58,389 --> 00:53:00,308 We both know there's nothing there. 495 00:53:00,892 --> 00:53:05,521 But gifts? Are you forgetting? Forgetting to be afraid of gifts? 496 00:53:07,106 --> 00:53:07,940 I'm not. 497 00:53:08,274 --> 00:53:11,736 What about the story? "Once upon a time, a girl was born." 498 00:53:11,986 --> 00:53:13,196 It's not like that. 499 00:53:13,488 --> 00:53:16,157 But "all in the village agreed that she was the most beautiful child." 500 00:53:16,574 --> 00:53:18,743 You'd do well to shut your mouth. 501 00:53:18,951 --> 00:53:21,162 "It came to be that she was touched with the gift of--" 502 00:53:24,374 --> 00:53:28,669 Fall quiet, boy. For I shall write my own story. 503 00:53:30,963 --> 00:53:31,798 Gretel. 504 00:53:32,423 --> 00:53:35,426 You wanna leave? Let me show you how. 505 00:53:45,645 --> 00:53:47,814 Gretel! Don't leave me! 506 00:53:49,315 --> 00:53:50,316 Gretel! 507 00:54:06,582 --> 00:54:08,126 [child whispering] Follow me. 508 00:54:24,142 --> 00:54:25,810 [purring] 509 00:54:25,893 --> 00:54:27,562 [Gretel] Surely that had only been a nightmare. 510 00:54:28,104 --> 00:54:30,148 The desire to be rid of him was very real. 511 00:54:30,481 --> 00:54:34,068 But to send him off alone into the night, that could never be true. 512 00:54:35,111 --> 00:54:36,112 [whispers] Hansel? 513 00:55:35,338 --> 00:55:36,756 He's out sulking, 514 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,010 blaming the strength of the trees for his own weakness. 515 00:55:42,094 --> 00:55:43,137 He's a little boy. 516 00:55:45,139 --> 00:55:48,226 Even the littlest pebble makes it difficult to travel 517 00:55:48,309 --> 00:55:50,728 once it gets its way into your boot. 518 00:55:52,271 --> 00:55:54,106 You've taken him on as a burden. 519 00:55:56,317 --> 00:55:58,194 But last night you shrugged it off. 520 00:55:58,736 --> 00:56:00,530 - Did I? - Didn't you? 521 00:56:02,949 --> 00:56:04,450 You're not his mother. 522 00:56:05,326 --> 00:56:06,661 And still, you don't remember 523 00:56:06,744 --> 00:56:10,331 the last time you couldn't be sure of where your little boy could be. 524 00:56:12,375 --> 00:56:15,086 - He shouldn't be off on his own. - Maybe not. 525 00:56:18,381 --> 00:56:19,966 But you definitely should be. 526 00:56:32,019 --> 00:56:33,312 I ought to go to bed, 527 00:56:34,897 --> 00:56:37,066 to be up with the sun to search for my brother. 528 00:56:37,233 --> 00:56:38,693 An excellent plan. 529 00:56:44,031 --> 00:56:46,117 But I do fear a restless night ahead. 530 00:56:48,244 --> 00:56:50,496 Might you prepare for me something to help me sleep? 531 00:56:50,580 --> 00:56:54,083 I'll fix you a sleeper. She always does the trick. 532 00:56:54,375 --> 00:56:55,960 You'll sleep like a baby. 533 00:56:57,545 --> 00:57:00,840 If the baby has just got into her mother's sleepers. 534 00:57:04,594 --> 00:57:05,595 Yes. 535 00:57:06,846 --> 00:57:07,847 Thank you. 536 00:57:23,112 --> 00:57:25,406 [woman] Careful with a sleeping draft. 537 00:57:25,948 --> 00:57:30,661 A leaf or a twig this way or that, you get a very different mixture. 538 00:57:32,371 --> 00:57:34,373 A soup of nightmares. 539 00:57:45,635 --> 00:57:46,886 Well, good night then. 540 00:57:53,934 --> 00:57:55,686 [retching] 541 00:58:30,638 --> 00:58:33,557 [children's voices whispering distantly] 542 00:59:42,084 --> 00:59:43,002 Hey. 543 00:59:44,837 --> 00:59:45,713 [snorts] 544 00:59:49,633 --> 00:59:52,595 Come on now. This is no place for you. 545 00:59:54,054 --> 00:59:55,639 Come now and look at me. 546 00:59:57,933 --> 00:59:59,393 [liquid pouring] 547 01:01:54,425 --> 01:01:56,302 [squelching] 548 01:02:35,466 --> 01:02:38,510 [Gretel] It didn't matter anymore if I dreamt it or really lived it. 549 01:02:39,553 --> 01:02:41,347 The horror of what I had seen under the house 550 01:02:41,430 --> 01:02:43,349 was proof of what I already knew. 551 01:02:43,849 --> 01:02:46,352 All I could do now was keep calm and play dumb, 552 01:02:47,019 --> 01:02:49,063 if only for long enough to outsmart her. 553 01:02:49,313 --> 01:02:50,856 [woman] Disturbing night, was it not? 554 01:02:53,275 --> 01:02:56,987 Did you feel the wind coming down from the hills 555 01:02:57,071 --> 01:03:00,074 rattling all the windows facing east? 556 01:03:00,699 --> 01:03:02,159 I suppose I didn't. 557 01:03:04,411 --> 01:03:07,164 Desired result of my sleeping draft, I'm sure. 558 01:03:09,625 --> 01:03:11,835 You saw there's fresh milk? 559 01:03:14,380 --> 01:03:15,589 I saw. 560 01:03:16,966 --> 01:03:17,967 Yum. 561 01:03:22,304 --> 01:03:24,431 Any sign of our little runaway? 562 01:03:25,182 --> 01:03:26,350 No, none. 563 01:03:28,435 --> 01:03:30,521 Well, I'll keep a nose and an ear out. 564 01:03:31,522 --> 01:03:32,731 Are you going somewhere? 565 01:03:33,983 --> 01:03:35,985 It's not regular that nature calls out to me, 566 01:03:36,068 --> 01:03:38,278 but when she does, I try to answer. 567 01:03:40,906 --> 01:03:42,324 Mind the kettle, would you? 568 01:03:45,619 --> 01:03:48,914 Fix me a cup of tea for when I'm back. That'll be nice. 569 01:03:49,164 --> 01:03:53,544 And leave the food out. Maybe I'll want to bite something later. 570 01:04:27,536 --> 01:04:31,582 [retching] 571 01:04:50,559 --> 01:04:54,813 [voices whispering] Bless the day if you dare to desire to be born again. 572 01:04:55,814 --> 01:04:57,566 [chair sliding] 573 01:05:20,422 --> 01:05:21,673 [woman] I've been thinking. 574 01:05:22,216 --> 01:05:25,260 Maybe it's for the best that Hansel isn't with us. 575 01:05:26,678 --> 01:05:27,638 Isn't? 576 01:05:27,805 --> 01:05:32,017 He'll soon come to fear you, as all men should if they're smart. 577 01:05:32,851 --> 01:05:36,939 And fear so easily turns to hatred. 578 01:05:37,856 --> 01:05:43,112 Better that he remember you as you were, rather than as you're meant to be. 579 01:05:55,165 --> 01:05:58,836 With all that you're showing me, will I one day be very powerful? 580 01:06:01,255 --> 01:06:02,381 You will be. 581 01:06:03,048 --> 01:06:06,426 Will I have mastery and dominion over everything? 582 01:06:06,635 --> 01:06:07,970 [woman] Nearly everything. 583 01:06:08,554 --> 01:06:12,516 We must accept our weaknesses. 584 01:06:13,767 --> 01:06:16,562 Have you one? A vulnerability? 585 01:06:17,521 --> 01:06:20,440 [woman] Only that which has taken a part of me. 586 01:06:23,235 --> 01:06:25,946 Only that which has taken a part of you. 587 01:06:28,031 --> 01:06:30,450 And to you it will be a poison. 588 01:06:31,493 --> 01:06:36,790 And so you must consume it, lest it consume you first. 589 01:06:37,666 --> 01:06:39,001 Consume poison? 590 01:06:39,585 --> 01:06:43,005 [woman] How else will one develop an immunity? 591 01:06:44,173 --> 01:06:46,341 But the thing about poison 592 01:06:47,176 --> 01:06:49,803 is that out of everything in the big, bad world, 593 01:06:49,887 --> 01:06:52,014 nothing tastes as sweet. 594 01:07:49,947 --> 01:07:51,573 What did you do with my brother? 595 01:07:52,282 --> 01:07:54,451 I am only moving him out of your way. 596 01:07:55,702 --> 01:07:57,329 He's all I have in this world. 597 01:07:57,663 --> 01:08:01,291 Say that again and I will turn your tongue into a flower, 598 01:08:02,459 --> 01:08:06,505 to remind you how pretty and dumb 599 01:08:06,922 --> 01:08:09,925 and temporary you've chosen to be. 600 01:08:12,552 --> 01:08:15,931 Or you may follow the path that I've lit for you. 601 01:08:17,724 --> 01:08:21,311 Do whatever you want with me, but only if you free him. 602 01:08:23,438 --> 01:08:24,940 I could never do that. 603 01:08:26,066 --> 01:08:27,276 [Gretel] But why not? 604 01:08:28,652 --> 01:08:31,697 Because that little boy is your poison. 605 01:08:33,824 --> 01:08:38,245 All that is left is to make him delicious. 606 01:08:40,747 --> 01:08:41,748 You can't. 607 01:08:42,499 --> 01:08:46,253 My dear, I can't remember a time... 608 01:08:48,755 --> 01:08:51,341 when there was anything else I cared to do. 609 01:08:53,468 --> 01:08:54,720 I envy... 610 01:08:56,763 --> 01:09:00,851 you standing at the threshold of your own experience, 611 01:09:02,311 --> 01:09:04,021 with everything ahead of you. 612 01:09:11,903 --> 01:09:13,322 To be young again. 613 01:09:39,598 --> 01:09:40,932 A nice balance. 614 01:09:42,309 --> 01:09:44,227 I admire the application. 615 01:09:44,603 --> 01:09:46,772 But more than anything it leaves me curious 616 01:09:46,855 --> 01:09:51,485 as to why you would try to put me to sleep when there is so much to be done. 617 01:09:52,027 --> 01:09:53,862 I won't do what you want me to do. 618 01:09:55,447 --> 01:09:56,782 I'm nothing like you. 619 01:09:57,074 --> 01:10:02,245 We are made from the same matter, the same filth. 620 01:10:07,292 --> 01:10:11,213 Otherwise, how would you know my story without me having to tell it to you? 621 01:10:13,590 --> 01:10:14,674 Your story? 622 01:10:15,592 --> 01:10:20,013 We were given the same gift, the same magic... 623 01:10:21,932 --> 01:10:23,642 just as she was... 624 01:10:27,354 --> 01:10:29,398 with her little pink cap. 625 01:10:31,274 --> 01:10:32,109 How do you know my-- 626 01:10:40,367 --> 01:10:41,368 [snaps fingers] 627 01:10:42,744 --> 01:10:45,038 [woman] I know that's your favorite story, 628 01:10:45,122 --> 01:10:47,457 but you have been telling it wrong. 629 01:10:50,001 --> 01:10:51,128 It's true, 630 01:10:51,211 --> 01:10:56,174 she was a most beautiful child, and everyone could see that. 631 01:10:56,842 --> 01:10:58,552 But on the inside, 632 01:10:59,344 --> 01:11:04,933 she was rotten to her core and as sweet as vinegar. 633 01:11:05,976 --> 01:11:10,063 Even I hated her, and I was her mother. 634 01:11:12,941 --> 01:11:16,820 [metal clanging] 635 01:11:16,903 --> 01:11:19,197 [woman] Because from me, she took everything. 636 01:11:23,827 --> 01:11:29,749 And would have destroyed me, too, if I didn't get rid of her first. 637 01:11:30,876 --> 01:11:34,463 So I gave her back to the darkness that had made her, 638 01:11:34,754 --> 01:11:37,299 and thought that would be the end of it. 639 01:11:38,008 --> 01:11:39,426 But I was wrong. 640 01:11:40,177 --> 01:11:42,095 She stayed with me. 641 01:11:42,554 --> 01:11:48,435 In my thoughts, in my dreams, attached to me like my shadow, 642 01:11:48,894 --> 01:11:54,232 promising me a taste of the powers that she had. 643 01:11:54,774 --> 01:11:58,528 All that was required was for me to be brave, 644 01:11:58,778 --> 01:12:01,323 and to trust the darkness. 645 01:12:01,948 --> 01:12:04,618 And I was, and I did. 646 01:12:05,327 --> 01:12:10,999 And like she had done, I rid myself of all other attachments. 647 01:12:11,208 --> 01:12:12,876 I cleared my plate. 648 01:12:13,460 --> 01:12:16,171 I ate my children. 649 01:12:17,088 --> 01:12:21,176 So hungry was I to realize my own powers, 650 01:12:21,718 --> 01:12:24,054 I hardly even chewed. 651 01:12:24,721 --> 01:12:28,141 I assumed a disguise of old age 652 01:12:28,225 --> 01:12:32,479 to make myself seem kind and weak. 653 01:12:33,605 --> 01:12:35,815 I built for us a house, 654 01:12:36,691 --> 01:12:41,446 one with a proper kitchen and a dining room. 655 01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,199 [gasps, pants] 656 01:12:45,992 --> 01:12:50,330 [woman] I could name them all if ever I had to. 657 01:12:52,749 --> 01:12:55,877 There was a Thomas and an Isabella, 658 01:12:56,503 --> 01:13:00,340 a darling William, and a precious Elizabeth, 659 01:13:01,007 --> 01:13:06,388 a Harry and a Sarah, a Paul, a Kate. 660 01:13:09,099 --> 01:13:13,270 And now, just for you, a Hansel. 661 01:13:15,397 --> 01:13:20,026 Only rid yourself of him and embrace your powers. 662 01:13:22,821 --> 01:13:25,365 Such a sweet boy. 663 01:13:25,615 --> 01:13:29,911 Sweet and plump and fair. 664 01:13:30,078 --> 01:13:31,079 Where is he? 665 01:13:32,789 --> 01:13:34,082 Where is my brother? 666 01:13:49,264 --> 01:13:51,516 [woman] So stay a while, won't you? 667 01:13:52,100 --> 01:13:55,103 Who knows? You might even enjoy it. 668 01:13:58,231 --> 01:14:00,817 I only hope you're hungry. 669 01:14:16,833 --> 01:14:20,337 Bedtime for you, little darling. 670 01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:24,341 Go and kiss your sister good night. 671 01:14:46,112 --> 01:14:48,615 Brother, hear me. 672 01:14:49,658 --> 01:14:52,035 I know you're in there. I'm going to get you out. 673 01:14:52,369 --> 01:14:55,747 Even though you are blinded, you'll see my face again. 674 01:14:56,206 --> 01:14:58,041 That is my forever promise to you. 675 01:15:08,134 --> 01:15:08,968 [snorts] 676 01:15:09,552 --> 01:15:10,887 [woman] That's enough. 677 01:15:11,596 --> 01:15:13,640 Now up to bed. 678 01:15:34,202 --> 01:15:35,704 There's a good boy. 679 01:16:25,754 --> 01:16:26,755 What a world. 680 01:16:28,757 --> 01:16:31,968 [grunting] 681 01:16:34,012 --> 01:16:35,388 Hansel, hold! 682 01:16:35,472 --> 01:16:38,391 [screaming] 683 01:16:41,770 --> 01:16:43,897 [screaming intensifies] 684 01:16:50,487 --> 01:16:51,571 Hansel! 685 01:17:16,554 --> 01:17:17,806 [metal clinks] 686 01:17:35,865 --> 01:17:37,075 [purring] 687 01:17:49,337 --> 01:17:51,256 -[Hansel] Gretel. - Quiet now. 688 01:17:52,674 --> 01:17:53,842 You're all right. 689 01:17:55,009 --> 01:17:58,137 And you will be, just as long as I got a voice in it. 690 01:17:59,013 --> 01:18:00,849 But what about her? 691 01:18:01,349 --> 01:18:02,934 She doesn't live here anymore. 692 01:18:05,562 --> 01:18:07,856 Gretel, you're scared. 693 01:18:09,607 --> 01:18:10,733 What of? 694 01:18:12,652 --> 01:18:13,945 Of the world? 695 01:18:16,281 --> 01:18:17,282 No. 696 01:18:19,242 --> 01:18:20,577 Only of myself. 697 01:18:27,917 --> 01:18:29,586 You will always have a part of me, brother. 698 01:18:31,963 --> 01:18:33,756 A part of myself that you have not taken, 699 01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:35,717 but that I have given to you gladly. 700 01:18:39,012 --> 01:18:40,555 It will go with you when you leave. 701 01:18:43,766 --> 01:18:47,270 When I leave? Without you? 702 01:18:48,980 --> 01:18:49,814 Yes. 703 01:18:51,608 --> 01:18:54,360 The single story that we shared now splits in two, 704 01:18:55,653 --> 01:18:57,280 and we take forking paths. 705 01:18:58,740 --> 01:19:01,159 Yours will lead you to what you need to find. 706 01:19:03,328 --> 01:19:04,787 Mine will carry me up. 707 01:19:14,380 --> 01:19:16,257 I told him to take good care of you. 708 01:19:17,842 --> 01:19:19,594 He'll see to it that you arrive safely. 709 01:19:22,639 --> 01:19:26,267 Gretel, you'll see my face again. 710 01:19:33,566 --> 01:19:36,861 But anyway, where is he taking me? 711 01:19:46,454 --> 01:19:48,164 [Gretel] Letting him go wasn't hard to do. 712 01:19:49,666 --> 01:19:52,919 If he's going to find his way, I can't very well be standing in it, 713 01:19:53,962 --> 01:19:55,797 just as he shouldn't stand in mine. 714 01:19:57,632 --> 01:20:00,051 I could see she was right about that at least. 715 01:20:10,186 --> 01:20:11,854 Let him find his own story... 716 01:20:14,399 --> 01:20:16,067 and his own courage to live it... 717 01:20:23,324 --> 01:20:25,326 just as I now go on to live mine. 718 01:20:26,869 --> 01:20:28,621 I have my own power to nurture. 719 01:20:29,872 --> 01:20:32,959 I'll help it to grow, and trust that I'll know what to do with it. 720 01:20:33,751 --> 01:20:35,420 I know that the choice is mine. 721 01:20:36,004 --> 01:20:39,340 I could feed it darkness, or give it plenty of light. 722 01:21:07,285 --> 01:21:10,955 I looked, and I saw and I understood. 723 01:21:14,292 --> 01:21:16,878 The captor now gone and her fires all put out... 724 01:21:19,422 --> 01:21:20,715 they were free to go... 725 01:21:24,969 --> 01:21:26,220 and be at peace. 726 01:21:32,268 --> 01:21:33,603 And I was free. 727 01:21:35,980 --> 01:21:37,398 To go and never look back, 728 01:21:38,024 --> 01:21:41,819 or stay to build something new on top of everything that had been destroyed. 729 01:21:42,528 --> 01:21:44,489 I knew my path would reveal itself, 730 01:21:45,156 --> 01:21:49,535 and that all was required for me was to be brave and to trust myself. 731 01:22:04,759 --> 01:22:06,052 And I am brave. 732 01:22:07,345 --> 01:22:09,055 And I will trust myself.