Original subtitles

(soft music)

- [Victor] Did anyone make it

to the funeral?

- It was a cremation,

but by the time you tracked me down,

it was too late.

- None of us went at all?

Who else is coming to that?

- [Lilly] Everyone.

- All of us under the same roof,

how long has it been?

20 years?

- I have a copy of the will here.

I was made executor,

and when the flat is sold,

the money will be divvied up

between everyone.

Could you finish clearing in here?

- I hoped after all this time,

she'd have stopped blaming me

for what happened between you.

(soft music)

(upbeat music)

(bell ringing)

- What did you expect?

If they hurt when you first bought them.

- Yeah, but I thought they'd stretch,

didn't I?

- Isn't that Mark?

- Oh, God!

- Just ignore him.

- I owe him more than that.

- Vic, integrated circuits.

Supersedes the old transistor system.

Like to have a look?

Totally revolutionized

micro-electronics.

- Oi!

- What's their bloody problem?

- Pay them no attention.

- Hey, jungle boy!

- Don't make a fuss, all right?

- Get back on your banana boat, wog.

- Oh, no, no, no.

I'll do more than make a bloody fuss.

- Look, Alan,

leave it.

Just let it go.

- All right.

How do you put up with that?

- Practice.

(soft music)

- [Edward] I ordered for you.

Hope you don't mind?

- Not as much as I used to.

Why the three-line whip, Pa?

- Your mother and I were down at

the cottage in Dorset this weekend.

Mrs. Roscoe, remember her?

She cleans for us now.

She found a

stash, that the right word?

A stash of pills

under your mattress.

Now please,

please don't insult my intelligence

by claiming they're aspirin.

They're what, what are they?

LSD, amphetamines, what?

- The former, if memory serves.

- Needless to say your mother is

as disappointed in you as I am.

- Nothing new there then.

- For God's sake, Jack!

Has it come to this?

You can't face up to reality without

some mind-altering chemical?

- It's about finding a higher reality.

Anything but this one, frankly.

- You know there's

talk of Heath going for a reshuffle.

I've a shot at shadow education this time.

We could be running

the country in a year,

but if that woman had gone to

the police, Jack,

it would be goodbye to all that,

and the rest.

- Her Christmas hamper for her loyalty

should do the trick.

- I suppose I have nobody

to blame but myself.

I've indulged you too much.

Everything you've ever wanted

you had handed to you on a plate.

- Like you always say, Dad.

There's no problem can't be solved

without chucking money at it, eh?

- Well, that's easily solved.

Next summer, after your finals,

that's it, that is it.

No more bail-outs for your overdraft.

No more subsidizing you

while you spin your wheels

doing some pointless

post-graduate course.

I'm cutting my losses.

- Sounds like a plan.

- Tell me, Jack, what is it you see

when you look at me?

- When I look at you,

all I see is the arrogance,

the self-interest of privilege.

You spout on about individualism,

but it's just a front to grab what

you can from those who have nothing.

Your conservatism,

everything you stand for

is based on a negative idea

of human nature.

That unless the base instincts

of the great unwashed are controlled

by your bankrupt value system,

they'll run riot and self-destruct.

- I see.

- Well, you did ask.

("Gimme Some Lovin" by The Spencer Davis Group)

Fuck!

- When you hear this sound,

let's all change.

You're all getting too precious.

Art belongs to everyone.

Ownership diminishes its power,

and its purpose.

All change.

* And I'm so glad we made it

* So glad we made it

* You got to gimme some lovin'

- Our problems at the root.

That doesn't mean, of course,

that the pound here in Britain,

in your pocket, or purse,

or in your bank has been devalued.

What it does mean is that we shall

now be able to sell more goods abroad

on a competitive basis.

- You see I like the bit, right?

Where he goes what we got here

is a failure to communicate.

Bonnie and Clyde's the best one, it said:

"Some day, they'll go down together."

"They'll bury them side by side.

"To a few it'll be grief.

- "To the law a relief,

"and it's death to Bonnie and Clyde."

- How about this one?

There's white time in jail, boy,

and there's colored time in jail.

The worst kind of time you can do

is colored time.

Think racism and segregation.

- To Kill a Mockingbird?

- To Sir with Love?

- Heat of the Night.

- Heat of the Night?

- Did you leave anything for us?

- [Alan] Cool Hand Luke, brilliant,

cracking film, wasn't it?

- [Alan] He's got a hard-on for Paul Newman.

- Paul?

- That would explain the homosexual

overtones you were telling me about.

- No, undertones, Vic,

I said undertones, didn't I?

'Cause they're always taking their

shirts off in front of each other

like a bunch of bloody poofs.

Look, you're the shrink, Orla, right?

You've got to tell these lot

that it's about the subtext.

- [Male] Or, it takes one to know one.

- [Alan] So speaks the biggest poofter

in North London.

- It was faggots

you ordered, wasn't it, Sir?

- [Alan] Aye, bloody faggots.

(soft music)

- He's not gonna thank you for

keeping it a secret all this while.

None of them will.

- You think if we keep having this

conversation it'll come out

the way you want it to?

On the subject of secrets, anyway,

glasshouses and stones come to mind.

- Keeping secrets from

family is different.

It's about protecting them.

- Displaying her tits to a bunch of

strangers is God's work, so it is.

Her Mam would be proud.

- Getting the last word in

doesn't make you in the right, Jay.

- Ditto.

- [Jay] Good night.

- Yeah, night-night.

Hey, Jay,

"What we got here,

"is a failure to communicate."

Ah, it's a brilliant film, isn't it?

- [Edward] Ah, been a while

since we did this, eh?

A proper family Sunday lunch.

- [Edward] There, nice end bit

for my favorite girl.

- So when did it actually

go on the market?

The house?

- A couple of weeks back.

- Why, I mean, why now?

- In a marriage

when you start working off

each other's weaknesses

rather than your strengths,

it's time to reassess,

to re-evaluate what it is you...

- We're getting divorced.

- [Edward] All that's changed is

we won't be living under

the same roof, that's all,

and next summer

you're graduated.

You'll be up and running, independent,

that's what we must focus on now.

- Where will you live?

- I'm getting a flat

in London near work.

- Alone?

- Of course alone,

that's not what's happening here.

No, Mum and I came to this decision

together, didn't we?

And we're not rushing at it

like gangbusters.

There is a new divorce law on the way.

We'll wait for that.

No one proving fault or playing dirty.

No private detectives

jumping out of wardrobes.

We just live apart for

a couple of years.

(ringing)

I'll go, have to find my way

around the kitchen sooner or later.

- It's an adventure, a new chapter.

I'll find a garden flat somewhere.

I have to find a job

of some kind, of course.

The cake shop in

the High Street has got...

The state of them.

I got this on the old Aga.

It was here when we moved in, remember?

Of course you don't,

you were only a baby.

This is that chip pan fire,

when I nearly set

the whole house alight.

- Battle scars.

(soft music)

(ringing)

- No!

Let it ring.

* We skipped the light fandango

- I thought you and Mark were history.

- He won't take no for an answer.

Apparently, I'm...

* I was feeling kinda seasick

- What was it?

Incapable of emotion,

of empathy, of caring one jot

for another human.

* The room was humming harder

- Maybe he's right.

I've never even come close to

being in love whatever that means.

- Ranks as a triumph of intellect

over sentiment in my book.

* When we called out for another drink

- Maybe it's genetics.

I mean, some people have blue eyes,

or brown hair, don't they?

Who's to say it's not

the same with feelings?

Some of us are just...

- Less endowed in

the emotional department.

Kind of like the times

I've had that thrown at me.

- You've more passion than anyone

I've ever met, Jack.

- Maybe rage is just a diversion.

- [Lilly] From what?

- The F word.

Futility.

That, whatever we do,

nothing will change.

We're just an irrelevant blip

in the status quo.

- You're a bloody inspiration.

Do you know that, Jack?

* She said there is no reason

* And the truth is plain to see

- Let's go to bed.

Charlotte?

- She's at her folks' tonight.

Anyway, we have a pact.

Like Sartre and de Beauvoir.

We're cool about contingent relationships.

- Contingent?

- Ancillary relationships.

We're all different with different

people, aren't we?

It's a way of

finding a new variation of ourselves,

realizing our potential.

- How come she never

said anything to me?

- Maybe you never asked.

- Last night was a one-off, Jack.

You, me, this,

it never happened, okay?

- [Jack] Is this about Charlotte still?

- Everything Mark said

about me last night

we just proved him right.

- [Jack] Join our sit-in of shame!

Show your abhorrence for American

aggression in Vietnam!

Show your solidarity with

the victims of their racist imperialism!

- I'll just take one of these.

- Last week American B-52s

bombed more civilian villages

in North Vietnam.

We must act to stop this horror!

- Our troops aren't out there,

what's it to us?

- You know why Wilson

has not deployed them?

Because the rank and file

in the party won't have it

which doesn't mean he's not

provided them covert support,

with weapons, with intelligence!

Your apathy is the gateway

to the oppression of others!

Show you care.

Make a stand for once.

Guys, I know it's raining, please.

Hi, let me show you

what this is all about.

- Isn't the point of a protest to

affect the outcome of something?

Change government policy?

- It's also about having a voice,

getting them to hear it.

- All the way to Washington?

- And it's about caring enough about

an issue to do something about it.

- Or is it about taste?

Whether you prefer your hero

in a suit and Rolex watch, like LBJ,

or in combat fatigues

wielding a machine gun,

and if he died in a rat-infested

jungle, so much the better.

Where is Comrade Jack anyway?

- LSE, Vietnam Solidarity meeting.

- Doesn't it ever get to you

the way he goes with other girls?

- What we share isn't about some

outdated bourgeois concept

of romantic love.

- Monogamy is indeed a cruel rule.

- It's about personal choice,

personal freedom.

- Is that why you don't go with

other people, too?

It's not my business.

- Finally, we agree on something.

And it's always me

he comes back to, isn't it?

(soft music)

- Some kind of fire safe,

but can't find the key for it.

- What do you suppose is in it?

- Deeds to the flat?

What we keep in ours at home.

- [Charlotte] No, the solicitor's got those.

- [Lilly] Must be here somewhere.

- [Victor] None of these is any good.

- I've already checked in there.

- I'll keep an eye out for it.

- How unforgiving you've become.

When did that happen?

I mean, technically speaking,

I was the wronged party.

Why shoot the messenger?

This was in that cottage

we used to rent.

We did that trek up Snowdon.

I virtually had to carry you

down the damn mountain.

- Yeah, and you kept saying, all the time,

"This is why the brothers

"don't do the rural shit."

- I didn't really speak like that, did I?

- No, not really.

No, no, you keep it.

I've got more at home.

All right.

Victor?

It's me I can't forgive.

- [Male] Victor!

Victor!

Hey, Victor!

- Hey, man!

Something for the weekend, Sir?

Put you in the party mood, my treat.

- Don't worry, the acid in one tab

barely amounts to a grain of sand.

- Trust him, he's a doctor.

- Not yet he's not.

- Come on, live dangerously.

It's New Years Eve, tongue out.

- Get off.

- [Jay] Don't swallow.

- [Jack] Just let it melt.

Enjoy the trip!

- Five, four,

three, two, one,

Happy New Year!

("S.F. Sorrow Is Born" by The Pretty Things)

* For ten weeks now number three stood empty

* Nobody thought there would be

* Family laughter behind the windows

* Or a Christmas tree

* Then a couple from up north

* Sorrow and his wife arrived

- Hi, how are you?

* Before the sun had left the streets

* They were living inside

- Lilly, you have no idea how long

I've wanted to do that.

* Then before too long

* The street it rang with the sound

* From number three there came a cry

* S.F. Sorrow is born

* S.F. Sorrow, S.F. Sorrow

* S.F. Sorrow

- I booked a cab,

about 20 minutes they said.

I'll give you a ring

in a couple of days,

once you've settled in.

- My name is Pugh,

21 Rosemount Road.

My husband just booked a taxi for me.

I need to cancel it.

Thank you.

(melancholy music)

- [Male] The Offensive started

during the Tet new year holiday.

North Vietnamese Army troops

and Vietcong troops

unleashed a co-ordinated

and ferocious attack,

on the US base at Khe Sanh,

with many U.S. casualties.

They also stormed the coast.

- [Charlotte] Of course it degrades you.

It degrades all women.

- [Orla] It's you who is always saying

we shouldn't be ashamed of our bodies.

- That doesn't include being paid

to strip off in front of

a load of ogling men.

- They don't ogle,

and there are girls

in the class as well.

- They're just colluding

in your sexual objectification, too.

- For Christ's sake, keep it down.

There's more going on in the world

than your petty concerns.

- There are male models.

I don't see you complaining about them.

Besides, life modelling is about

the anatomy, about how the body.

Like at medical school,

with you and your cadavers, Jay.

That's about learning how

the body works, what's the difference?

- They're dead, aren't they?

- [Male] Well, in simple terms

the new Immigration Act

distinguishes Commonwealth citizens

who have a substantial

connection with Britain.

In other words, only those with

a substantial connection

will be allowed to enter Britain.

- [Jack] Are you hearing this, Victor?

- Mm-hmm.

- You know how they define

substantial connection?

Anyone who has a parent,

or grandparent born in Britain.

- And those that are

connected with the Commonwealth.

What is your point, Jack?

- But the majority of them have

a grandparent born here,

that's my point.

- In other words, they're white.

- See, he gets it.

It's about racism, no more no less.

- It's always about

the huddled masses, hey, Jack?

It's a pity you don't give

the same respect to those close to you.

(ringing)

Excuse me.

Hello?

Charlotte, it's your father.

- Hello, Dad.

Oh, my God.

When?

How?

Yes.

Yes, I'll stay by the phone.

- [Alan] Charlotte, are you all right?

- No.

(sobbing)

- Apparently, I didn't show

sufficient remorse

when they took me to the hospital,

so they sectioned me

in some protocol they have.

- It's only a house, Mum.

Doesn't your life

amount to more than that?

Or was it to make Daddy come back?

We don't need men to make us happy.

Those days are over.

- Hey?

It's just cigarettes he's after.

I share a room with a young girl.

Years she's been here.

Schizophrenia, they say.

She was asking if I had a family,

so I told her about

you and your brothers.

She said

if my life were a cake,

just one slice

would keep her going for all of hers.

I was weak and selfish.

It won't happen again.

- Battle scars.

(melancholy music)

- Can I get some red wine,

just something cheap for cooking?

- Orla!

Hey.

This is Stanley, right?

- Stephen.

- Stanley's from Ireland, too.

From the Southern part, eh?

- The best part, some would say.

We've been having a...

- [Stephen] Medicinal.

- That's the one, a medicinal drink.

We started at the Fig and...

- [Stephen] The Pig and Fiddle.

- Then we came here,

and now Stanley's invited me back

to his place for another.

You can come too!

She can come too, can't she?

- Let's get you home.

- [Stephen] Three is company in my book.

Come on, one drink, where's the harm?

- Say goodbye to Stanley, Lilly.

- Bye, Stanley

- Do you feel sick?

- Dizzy.

- What's going on, Lilly?

- Well, technically,

it's supposed to be gin.

Gin and a hot bath they say, don't they?

I only had enough for two doubles,

and someone had used all

the hot water in the flat.

When the doctor told me it was positive,

and I said how I didn't want it,

he said, "You've no choice, my dear."

Because the law's not yet.

What's the word?

There was a word he...

What's the word he...

A statute.

It won't come be legal for months.

It's too little, too late.

- What does Mark say?

- He doesn't know,

and I don't want him knowing, Orla!

No one must know.

I got myself into it.

I'll get myself out of it.

- Someone back home

I was at school with,

her mother used to help out girls

who were in trouble.

She had these home remedies.

I can call, ask.

- What would the Pope say?

- Before she was 30,

my mam had seven kids.

Much good the Pope did her.

- Say it'll be all right, Orla.

I can't have it.

I just can't.

- We'll make it all right.

We'll make it all right.

* Come gather around people

* Wherever you roam

* And admit that the waters

* Around you have grown

* And accept it that soon

* You'll be drenched to the bone

* If your time to you is worth saving

* Then you better start swimming

* Or you'll sink like a stone

* For the times they are a-changing

* Come writers and critics

* Who prophesize with your pen

* And keep your eyes wide

* The chance won't come again

* And don't speak too soon

* For the wheel's still in spin

* And there's no telling who that it's naming

* For the loser now will be later to win

* For the times they are a-changing

- In 15 or 20 years' time

the black man will have

the whip hand over the white man.

It is like watching a nation

bitterly engaged in heaping up

its own funeral pyre.

* Don't stand in the doorway

* Don't block up the hall

* For he that gets hurt

* Will be he who has stalled

* There's the battle outside raging

- Dear God, no!

* It'll soon shake your windows

* And rattle your walls

* For the times they are a-changing

- We'll find another way.

(knocking)

- [Lilly] Who did Jay say she was again?

- A midwife at the hospital

where he was an intern.

Her husband did a runner,

so she does it to make ends meet.

- On the table, dear.

How far gone are you?

- 10 weeks.

- [Midwife] She can bite down on that

when the pain comes.

Still as you can.

(screaming)

Still as you can.

(dramatic music)

- [Orla] I hate to leave you like this.

- [Lilly] I'm fine.

- If the others ask, it's a stomach bug.

Sleep.

- Yeah.

Orla.

Thank you.

- Don't!

- Is this about your friend

you told me about needing the abortion?

Or is it a fictional friend?

- If I had a man, don't you think

you might know about it?

- Well, what then?

- At Christmas when I was back home,

I saw pictures of myself

before I came here.

Back when I thought

a few Hail Mary's

would put the world to rights.

I looked the same as I do now.

Yet nothing is the same.

(soft music)

- [Male] An estimated 9,000

anti-war protestors

have congregated in Trafalgar Square,

with more joining them every minute.

They have converged here from

every corner of the country

to demonstrate their opposition

to the war in Vietnam.

- I wouldn't have thought

this would have been your thing, Victor.

I thought you might have been

a stop-out like Alan.

- Well, I didn't want to miss

the day that he brings down capitalism.

- Okay, so here's the deal.

The police will try to provoke us,

try to break us up.

We just have to hold the line.

After the speeches,

we'll head over to Grosvenor Square.

The plan is to storm the Embassy.

- They'll have armed guards there.

- They're not gonna shoot

unarmed protesters, are they?

- Well, they're not going to

stand by and do nothing.

It's American soil, their laws apply.

- They can't stop all of us.

Not if we can stick together.

This where it starts, Charlie.

The past three years,

all of it, everything,

everything has been about this.

It's all led to this day.

With a little help from a friend.

- [Protestors] Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Born to struggle, born to win!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Born to struggle, born to win!

- Can you feel it, the power?

(chanting)

- Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

(chanting)

- Jack?

Jack!

- [Jack] Hang on!

- Jack!

- [Orla] Lilly!

- [Male] Clear off the area!

- [Male] Facing them was made up of two

lines of policeman with arms linked.

Behind them some 20 mounted police,

and below the embassy steps,

coach-loads of more policeman.

Stones flew and according to one

eyewitness large steel ball bearings,

smoke bombs, flower bombs,

red paint and fireworks followed.

There were injuries to policemen.

- [Male] Some demonstrators came away

with blood streaming from their faces.

(dramatic music)

- Jack!

Jack!

Jack!

Jack!

Jack!

(screaming)

(dramatic music)

- She's pretty much out of it

with the sedation.

Shall I fetch you a tea or something?

- [Charlotte] What did they do to you?

- It wasn't right.

I could feel it kicking.

She said she'd got rid of it,

she'd got it all out.

But it was a baby.

It was a baby.

I'm so sorry.

It was me as much as Jack.

I should have said no.

I'm so sorry!

It was just the one time.

I swear.

It was just once.

Say you'll forgive me.

Charlie, please!

Please don't hate me.

- It's all right.

It's okay.

(soft music)

- Looks like I was here

just in the nick of time,

if you'll pardon the pun.

They were all set to charge him

with obstruction,

and threatening behaviour.

I hope you've bloody well learnt

your lesson from all this, Jack.

I shan't always be around to be able

to bail you and your chums out.

Good grief!

You have been in the wars.

Maybe we should get you to casualty.

Have a doctor take a look at you.

- No, thank you.

- Dad's car is outside.

He'll take us back to the flat,

and we'll sort you out there.

- I'll make my own way.

- Come on, you're in

no fit state to make...

- [Edward] So much for

manners maketh the man.

Suppose it must be a cultural thing.

(soft music)

- Can you feel the power?

Can you?

(soft music)

- Is this about me or him?

I will not be

a consolation prize, Charlie.

When you're ready for something more,

you know where I am.

(dramatic music)