1 00:00:09,509 --> 00:00:11,511 And my publisher, he won't return my calls, 2 00:00:11,578 --> 00:00:14,414 so, (snickers) I had to check in with you. 3 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:16,716 Well, is it doing all right? 4 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:20,086 Over there, is it selling at all? 5 00:00:21,087 --> 00:00:23,356 No, it's not, Lenny. 6 00:00:24,657 --> 00:00:28,128 I'm sure that's why they're not returning your calls. 7 00:00:28,194 --> 00:00:30,964 I had talked to Mike at the agency 8 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:34,434 and he said that McClelland and Stewart 9 00:00:34,501 --> 00:00:37,937 they will not publish your book in the US. 10 00:00:38,004 --> 00:00:39,172 It's their loss. 11 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:41,007 They don't even have the balls down there 12 00:00:41,074 --> 00:00:43,176 to publish a provocative novel. 13 00:00:43,243 --> 00:00:44,778 Yeah, you have to be very charitable with these people, 14 00:00:44,844 --> 00:00:47,147 and they haven't read anything. 15 00:00:47,213 --> 00:00:49,249 They wouldn't know Joyce if he crawled up 16 00:00:49,315 --> 00:00:51,885 inside of their ass and laid an egg, you know? 17 00:00:51,951 --> 00:00:55,021 Fuck 'em, right? 18 00:00:55,088 --> 00:00:56,423 So, it's really not selling at all? 19 00:00:56,489 --> 00:00:57,524 Really, it's not... 20 00:00:58,491 --> 00:01:02,162 I thought maybe in some kind of a fringe 21 00:01:02,228 --> 00:01:06,466 PhD section of Montreal, at least, it would... 22 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:12,072 I mean, I really rely on this book and... 23 00:01:13,106 --> 00:01:15,775 Hey, Lenny, Lenny, come on, listen to me. 24 00:01:15,842 --> 00:01:18,344 Might be a slow burner, you know? 25 00:01:18,411 --> 00:01:19,345 It'll pick up. 26 00:01:19,412 --> 00:01:23,316 So, you don't feel I'm a bad writer, right? 27 00:01:23,383 --> 00:01:25,385 No, I'm telling you the truth. 28 00:01:25,452 --> 00:01:26,486 I believe in you. 29 00:01:27,554 --> 00:01:28,521 I believe in us. 30 00:01:31,391 --> 00:01:34,227 It's just hard, you know, this game is very... 31 00:01:35,128 --> 00:01:36,329 It's, it's... 32 00:01:36,396 --> 00:01:37,797 Lenny... - It's brutal. 33 00:01:37,864 --> 00:01:39,232 You know? It's brutal. 34 00:01:39,299 --> 00:01:42,869 Lenny, just stay sane and continue writing, all right? 35 00:03:20,633 --> 00:03:21,935 Good morning. - Good morning. 36 00:03:25,104 --> 00:03:28,541 They're putting up phone wires. 37 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:32,145 Maybe if my book sells any copies, 38 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:35,615 we could afford to have our own. 39 00:03:35,682 --> 00:03:38,017 Our own phone! 40 00:03:38,084 --> 00:03:39,219 That would be cool. 41 00:03:39,285 --> 00:03:40,353 Very grown up. 42 00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:42,655 Yeah. 43 00:03:42,722 --> 00:03:44,190 Play something. 44 00:03:44,257 --> 00:03:45,725 For my audience of two? 45 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:48,161 Mm-hmm. Your biggest fans. 46 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:50,296 My only fans. 47 00:03:59,839 --> 00:04:03,009 ♪ I'm a bird ♪ 48 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:06,613 ♪ On the wire ♪ 49 00:04:06,679 --> 00:04:11,818 ♪ The men were working on telephone wires ♪ 50 00:04:12,619 --> 00:04:14,053 Telephone lines. 51 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,957 ♪ And now you're tired of this song ♪ 52 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:23,930 We want more. 53 00:04:23,997 --> 00:04:25,231 More songs. 54 00:04:25,298 --> 00:04:28,134 Really, that's all I have. 55 00:04:28,201 --> 00:04:30,436 Well, it was beautiful. 56 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:33,473 I should really get to work. 57 00:04:33,539 --> 00:04:35,908 Oh, why don't you write in here and we can go out? 58 00:04:37,143 --> 00:04:39,479 It's much easier for me to write outside. 59 00:04:42,348 --> 00:04:45,918 Just remember to drink water. 60 00:04:45,985 --> 00:04:47,120 Lots of water. - Okay, Marianne. 61 00:04:47,186 --> 00:04:48,388 And put a hat on, please, 62 00:04:48,454 --> 00:04:50,823 because you were out there 12 hours yesterday. 63 00:04:56,162 --> 00:04:57,263 - Hello. - Hello. 64 00:04:57,330 --> 00:04:58,531 You out shopping? 65 00:04:58,598 --> 00:05:00,733 Yeah, I just picked up some groceries. 66 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,269 I'm just about to walk to Kamini if you wanna join me. 67 00:05:03,336 --> 00:05:05,738 We can maybe go for a swim or something after. 68 00:05:05,805 --> 00:05:06,739 Yeah, sure. 69 00:05:06,806 --> 00:05:07,674 Yeah. 70 00:05:07,740 --> 00:05:09,575 What are you going to Kamini for? 71 00:05:09,642 --> 00:05:13,846 I'm going to go and see a man about a cargo boat. 72 00:05:14,847 --> 00:05:15,715 We're leaving. 73 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:18,117 What? What? 74 00:05:18,184 --> 00:05:19,285 When? Why? 75 00:05:20,887 --> 00:05:23,423 You know, because we're slowly dying here. 76 00:05:23,489 --> 00:05:25,058 Because we both know how easily 77 00:05:25,124 --> 00:05:26,426 we can wound and hurt each other 78 00:05:26,492 --> 00:05:29,796 and I guess we always try to avoid that. 79 00:05:30,596 --> 00:05:31,898 George is leaving in a month, 80 00:05:31,964 --> 00:05:36,302 and when he's found a place to stay, we'll join him. 81 00:05:37,403 --> 00:05:39,205 When I first got here, 82 00:05:39,272 --> 00:05:41,174 I mean, it was like the first time in my life 83 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,043 that I didn't feel like an outsider. 84 00:05:44,110 --> 00:05:46,813 I'd managed to build a life 85 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:49,449 and find the time to care for my family and write. 86 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:52,885 And we were pretty much the first foreigners on the island. 87 00:05:53,820 --> 00:05:56,189 Fifteen years later, they're everywhere. 88 00:05:56,255 --> 00:05:58,091 I'm starting to feel like an exile myself. 89 00:05:58,157 --> 00:06:00,326 And all these new ones, none of them, 90 00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:02,061 they don't want us here. 91 00:06:02,128 --> 00:06:03,463 No, you don't mean that. 92 00:06:03,529 --> 00:06:06,132 You and George, you are this island. 93 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:07,867 You hold the whole community together. 94 00:06:07,934 --> 00:06:10,636 Oh, God, we barely hold ourselves together, dear. 95 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:18,578 I grew up like this. 96 00:06:18,644 --> 00:06:21,013 We lived kind of remotely and we were pretty poor, 97 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,815 but we had the beach, 98 00:06:22,882 --> 00:06:27,019 and it was this kind of combined nursery and playground. 99 00:06:27,086 --> 00:06:30,456 Did you always know that you wanted to write? 100 00:06:30,523 --> 00:06:32,392 My mother wrote poetry. 101 00:06:33,459 --> 00:06:35,828 She used to tear it up and throw it in the fire. 102 00:06:36,696 --> 00:06:38,664 But I guess I get my particular, 103 00:06:40,933 --> 00:06:42,435 meaning from her. 104 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:44,570 What did you wanna do? 105 00:06:45,438 --> 00:06:47,140 Actress. 106 00:06:47,206 --> 00:06:48,107 I can see that. 107 00:06:49,442 --> 00:06:50,943 It's too late now, though. 108 00:06:51,611 --> 00:06:53,446 No, nothing's too late. 109 00:06:53,513 --> 00:06:54,614 You should do it. 110 00:06:57,884 --> 00:06:58,684 How is Leonard? 111 00:06:58,751 --> 00:07:00,920 I haven't seen him for a long time. 112 00:07:00,987 --> 00:07:03,556 Well, he's writing most of the time, so. 113 00:07:06,292 --> 00:07:07,093 Cunt, fuck. 114 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,494 There's nothing there. 115 00:07:08,561 --> 00:07:09,562 There's nothing there. 116 00:07:09,629 --> 00:07:11,864 I was lost on the road to Larissa, 117 00:07:11,931 --> 00:07:14,300 the straight road between the cedars. 118 00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:16,302 You thought I was a man of roads 119 00:07:16,369 --> 00:07:18,538 and you loved me for being such a man 120 00:07:18,604 --> 00:07:20,273 But I was not such a man 121 00:07:20,339 --> 00:07:22,508 I was not such a man, I was lost. 122 00:07:22,575 --> 00:07:24,777 I was lost on the road to Larissa. 123 00:07:24,844 --> 00:07:26,746 I was lost on the road to Larissa. 124 00:07:26,813 --> 00:07:27,547 I was lost 125 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:29,215 I was not such a man 126 00:07:29,282 --> 00:07:31,150 I've never been a man 127 00:07:31,217 --> 00:07:33,686 Cunt, cunt, fuck, fuck. 128 00:07:33,753 --> 00:07:34,654 I feel like I shouldn't be saying this, 129 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:39,225 but I think he's obsessed. 130 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:40,927 He doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep. 131 00:07:40,993 --> 00:07:43,563 I try but, you know, I can't get through to him. 132 00:07:43,629 --> 00:07:45,064 And he works early in the morning, 133 00:07:45,131 --> 00:07:48,568 and then he just comes home late at night, and he's just... 134 00:07:48,634 --> 00:07:49,902 Yeah. I don't know. 135 00:07:49,969 --> 00:07:52,171 Well, how long has that been going on? 136 00:07:53,372 --> 00:07:54,740 A month? 137 00:07:54,807 --> 00:07:56,909 Longer, a little longer, maybe. Yeah. 138 00:07:58,845 --> 00:08:00,546 How's your son? Where is he? 139 00:08:00,613 --> 00:08:02,348 He's with our neighbour. 140 00:08:02,415 --> 00:08:04,116 She looks after him one day a week, 141 00:08:04,183 --> 00:08:07,587 which is my day off. 142 00:08:07,653 --> 00:08:09,589 Oh, yes. It's one day off. 143 00:08:11,557 --> 00:08:12,625 It's okay. 144 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:15,928 Careful not to lose your identity, Marianne. 145 00:08:18,397 --> 00:08:19,198 What do you mean? 146 00:08:19,265 --> 00:08:20,166 I'm... 147 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:22,768 I'm me. 148 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:25,071 I'm just saying, don't buy into what society feeds you, 149 00:08:25,137 --> 00:08:26,138 which is to... 150 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:30,877 You know, that a woman's job is in the home. 151 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:32,345 I don't know, I've spent my life, you know, 152 00:08:32,411 --> 00:08:35,348 bound by my three little children and George 153 00:08:35,414 --> 00:08:39,185 just working, working, writing, writing, writing non-stop. 154 00:08:39,252 --> 00:08:44,657 And, you know, I find time to do a minute of writing 155 00:08:45,324 --> 00:08:46,592 or something creative here. 156 00:08:46,659 --> 00:08:48,828 And amongst the breakfast and lunch and dinner 157 00:08:48,895 --> 00:08:52,164 and cooking and laundry and cleaning, and I just, 158 00:08:53,566 --> 00:08:56,135 I just think it's death to any woman 159 00:08:56,202 --> 00:09:01,073 with ambition or talent. 160 00:09:04,143 --> 00:09:05,611 Well, what do you think you would have done 161 00:09:05,678 --> 00:09:08,247 or would it have been very different 162 00:09:08,314 --> 00:09:10,850 if you didn't have children? 163 00:09:12,051 --> 00:09:14,554 Yes. 164 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:16,622 I love them, but 165 00:09:17,924 --> 00:09:19,125 I don't know. 166 00:09:19,191 --> 00:09:20,560 I think most women are lying when they say they enjoy it. 167 00:09:20,626 --> 00:09:22,028 I think they just, 168 00:09:22,094 --> 00:09:24,964 they just say that because that's what's expected of them. 169 00:09:25,932 --> 00:09:27,733 And I'm a better writer than George. 170 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,703 But I've managed to create nothing. 171 00:09:31,871 --> 00:09:36,876 I mean, maybe the idea of this Australian female novelist, 172 00:09:37,710 --> 00:09:39,445 the idea of Charmian Clift, 173 00:09:39,512 --> 00:09:42,915 but really it's just a bloody joke. 174 00:09:45,184 --> 00:09:50,556 And so, now that you're going back to Australia, 175 00:09:51,457 --> 00:09:52,925 what do you wanna do, what? 176 00:09:53,893 --> 00:09:56,095 I think I'd like to try writing 177 00:09:57,597 --> 00:10:01,000 for television and film. 178 00:10:03,502 --> 00:10:04,837 What do you want to do? 179 00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:08,341 Just recently, this, 180 00:10:08,407 --> 00:10:11,077 there's a clothing brand in Athens 181 00:10:11,143 --> 00:10:15,247 and they asked me if I wanted to model for them. 182 00:10:15,314 --> 00:10:17,883 So they're gonna do the photo shoot here on the island 183 00:10:17,950 --> 00:10:22,021 and I'm gonna be a model. 184 00:10:22,088 --> 00:10:23,089 Well, that's exciting. 185 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:24,457 Mm. 186 00:10:28,761 --> 00:10:30,696 ♪ Four o'clock in the afternoon ♪ 187 00:10:30,763 --> 00:10:35,968 ♪ And I didn't feel like very much ♪ 188 00:10:36,702 --> 00:10:37,870 ♪ I said to myself ♪ 189 00:10:37,937 --> 00:10:39,672 ♪ Where are you, golden boy ♪ 190 00:10:39,739 --> 00:10:44,877 ♪ Where is your famous golden touch ♪ 191 00:10:45,511 --> 00:10:46,712 ♪ I thought you knew ♪ 192 00:10:46,779 --> 00:10:51,884 ♪ Where all of the elephants lie down ♪ 193 00:10:53,219 --> 00:10:55,554 ♪ I thought you were the crown prince ♪ 194 00:10:55,621 --> 00:11:00,826 ♪ Of all the wheels in Ivory Town ♪ 195 00:11:01,794 --> 00:11:04,063 ♪ Just take a look at your body now ♪ 196 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:07,066 Just going to check if Leonard is coming 197 00:11:07,133 --> 00:11:09,035 so his soup doesn't get cold, right... 198 00:11:09,268 --> 00:11:10,136 Leonard. 199 00:11:10,202 --> 00:11:11,604 ♪ And a voice in the mirror cries ♪ 200 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:16,876 ♪ Hey, prince, you need a shade ♪ 201 00:11:17,543 --> 00:11:18,711 ♪ And if you can manage ♪ 202 00:11:18,778 --> 00:11:23,482 ♪ To get your trembling fingers to behave ♪ 203 00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:25,885 ♪ Why not unwrapping ♪ 204 00:11:25,951 --> 00:11:30,823 ♪ A stainless still razor blade ♪ 205 00:11:30,890 --> 00:11:34,326 ♪ That's right, it's come to this ♪ 206 00:11:34,393 --> 00:11:35,394 Hi. - Hi. 207 00:11:35,461 --> 00:11:40,666 ♪ Yeah, it's come to this ♪ 208 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:45,938 ♪ And wasn't it a long way down ♪ 209 00:11:46,806 --> 00:11:51,143 ♪ It's just the dress rehearsal rag ♪ 210 00:11:53,179 --> 00:11:58,284 ♪ It's just a dress rehearsal rag ♪ 211 00:11:59,852 --> 00:12:03,956 ♪ It's the dress rehearsal rag ♪ 212 00:12:06,892 --> 00:12:09,295 Why do you hate my blood? 213 00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:12,732 Why? 214 00:12:14,834 --> 00:12:17,069 Why do you hate my blood 215 00:12:19,638 --> 00:12:20,706 You fuck. 216 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:24,977 Leonard? 217 00:12:26,178 --> 00:12:27,179 Anyone home? 218 00:12:38,624 --> 00:12:41,393 How's it going? You all right? 219 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:44,196 It's looking a lot of writing there you're doing. 220 00:12:46,632 --> 00:12:48,801 I've been working on this scene, 221 00:12:48,868 --> 00:12:52,004 and I realised punctuation's some kind of prison. 222 00:12:53,372 --> 00:12:55,040 So, I'm going and going. 223 00:12:55,107 --> 00:12:55,975 I hear you. 224 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:58,010 I hear you. 225 00:12:58,077 --> 00:12:58,978 What? 226 00:13:01,814 --> 00:13:03,682 That's bullshit. 227 00:13:03,749 --> 00:13:04,884 That's bullshit! 228 00:13:06,986 --> 00:13:08,654 You think I wanna do that? 229 00:13:08,721 --> 00:13:10,422 You think I wanna eat your friend? 230 00:13:10,489 --> 00:13:11,390 Fuck you. 231 00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:13,058 Fuck you, you fucking bitch! 232 00:13:13,125 --> 00:13:13,993 Fuck you! 233 00:13:15,394 --> 00:13:16,428 Which one's- 234 00:13:16,495 --> 00:13:18,097 I thought we had an understanding, you fucker! 235 00:13:18,164 --> 00:13:19,565 You fucker! 236 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:20,833 Which one's the problem? 237 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:24,136 They're all the fucking problem. 238 00:13:25,204 --> 00:13:26,172 Here we go. 239 00:13:26,238 --> 00:13:27,673 Let's get rid of the daisies. - These fuckers! 240 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:28,674 Yes. 241 00:13:28,741 --> 00:13:30,509 Let me. - These fuckers! 242 00:13:30,576 --> 00:13:31,911 Let me take charge. 243 00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:35,214 Fucking got 'em! 244 00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:36,582 Fuckers! 245 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:37,516 Fuckers! 246 00:13:38,851 --> 00:13:40,152 So you've given up on the 247 00:13:40,219 --> 00:13:42,955 three-page-a-day then routine, eh? 248 00:13:43,022 --> 00:13:44,123 I haven't given up, 249 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:45,424 I do more than three pages a day. 250 00:13:45,491 --> 00:13:46,425 Yeah? - Yeah, yeah. 251 00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:47,426 What are you on? - 17. 252 00:13:47,493 --> 00:13:48,828 17? - Yeah, 17. 253 00:13:48,894 --> 00:13:50,396 That's a lot of material. 254 00:13:50,462 --> 00:13:51,330 Yeah. 255 00:13:52,298 --> 00:13:53,165 In a day. 256 00:13:54,433 --> 00:13:55,935 You using anything for that? 257 00:13:57,336 --> 00:14:00,639 If you must know, the flowers still feed me little lines 258 00:14:00,706 --> 00:14:02,474 but we all benefit from the earth. 259 00:14:02,541 --> 00:14:06,478 I mean, besides the flowers, are you using anything? 260 00:14:10,149 --> 00:14:12,418 Why would you ask me that? 261 00:14:12,484 --> 00:14:14,587 'Cause I'm your friend. 262 00:14:15,554 --> 00:14:18,123 I mean, I couldn't do a page count like that. 263 00:14:19,658 --> 00:14:22,228 Well, you know I'm Captain Mandrax. 264 00:14:23,863 --> 00:14:26,098 So, like Mandrax, I always have. 265 00:14:26,165 --> 00:14:28,801 Why don't you come inside with me for a bit, eh? 266 00:14:30,202 --> 00:14:31,470 The energy will come back, Leonard. 267 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:32,605 You're on a roll, mate. 268 00:14:32,671 --> 00:14:33,606 Mm. 269 00:14:33,672 --> 00:14:34,807 Come on. 270 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:36,075 It's too hot for me. 271 00:14:37,576 --> 00:14:38,444 Come on, mate. 272 00:14:39,745 --> 00:14:40,813 Let's go. 273 00:14:45,851 --> 00:14:50,256 You know, what I'm trying to say to you, Leonard, 274 00:14:53,158 --> 00:14:57,196 is don't kill yourself, mate, because it's just a book. 275 00:14:59,698 --> 00:15:01,734 Yeah, I know. 276 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:02,868 Thank you. 277 00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:06,805 I'm officially no longer promising, 278 00:15:06,872 --> 00:15:08,474 and I do promise a lot. 279 00:15:09,909 --> 00:15:11,410 So, you know, I don't know. 280 00:15:12,044 --> 00:15:13,479 You're talking to a man 281 00:15:16,882 --> 00:15:18,717 who's been writing books he doesn't care about 282 00:15:18,784 --> 00:15:21,186 for the last 20 bloody years. 283 00:15:23,222 --> 00:15:26,358 And would you do it differently, really, 284 00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:28,627 if you'd do it again? 285 00:15:30,062 --> 00:15:31,263 Oh, I don't know. 286 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:34,166 I got to be a writer. 287 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,236 I've been pretty lucky with the family, 288 00:15:37,303 --> 00:15:39,872 there's Charm and the kids, despite everything. 289 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:43,642 The war saw me travelling. 290 00:15:44,810 --> 00:15:47,913 I was in 64 countries as a newspaper man. 291 00:15:49,915 --> 00:15:52,384 Went to China, Gobi Desert. 292 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,788 Worked in the States, England. 293 00:15:55,854 --> 00:15:57,089 Ended up here. 294 00:15:59,258 --> 00:16:01,393 Nah, I don't think I'd change much. 295 00:16:06,832 --> 00:16:09,268 You know, when we came here, me and Charm, 296 00:16:11,770 --> 00:16:12,972 we had a dream 297 00:16:13,038 --> 00:16:16,075 and Yeah, for a while, things were pretty good. 298 00:16:17,443 --> 00:16:22,681 But now, I'm married to a full-blown alcoholic 299 00:16:23,782 --> 00:16:25,284 and I'm sure she'd say the same of me. 300 00:16:29,788 --> 00:16:33,058 I'm gonna try to write that book. 301 00:16:33,125 --> 00:16:35,427 Bestseller. Important one. 302 00:16:35,494 --> 00:16:36,662 Give it one last crack 303 00:16:39,498 --> 00:16:40,165 and finish it here. 304 00:16:40,232 --> 00:16:42,034 Go home and polish it. 305 00:16:45,237 --> 00:16:47,639 What's it, what's it about? 306 00:16:48,974 --> 00:16:51,643 Sort of a personal examination. 307 00:16:52,778 --> 00:16:54,013 Starting with my childhood, 308 00:16:54,079 --> 00:16:56,615 I'm gonna place myself in the narrative, you know, 309 00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:58,417 see where it leads. 310 00:16:59,451 --> 00:17:02,621 All those faceless young men coming home 311 00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:04,123 from the First World War, 312 00:17:05,157 --> 00:17:07,226 trying to make sense of it as a kid. 313 00:17:09,261 --> 00:17:10,596 That's what it's about. 314 00:17:11,497 --> 00:17:12,398 Yours? 315 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:17,536 Mine is really a sexual exploration. 316 00:17:20,439 --> 00:17:23,008 It's a love triangle where there's no love. 317 00:17:24,176 --> 00:17:27,846 You know, I'm hoping that the reader falls into the pages. 318 00:17:27,913 --> 00:17:32,084 So, it's really a relationship of four. 319 00:17:33,352 --> 00:17:37,122 There's lots of sex, there's lots of thoughts about God. 320 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:39,925 It's my examination of myself. 321 00:17:39,992 --> 00:17:45,364 So, you're going the Crest commercial route then, are you? 322 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:56,041 Fuck! 323 00:17:58,477 --> 00:18:01,580 It's okay. Just give us a moment. 324 00:18:01,647 --> 00:18:03,015 Yeah, yeah. 325 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:04,249 Fuck. 326 00:18:07,186 --> 00:18:08,554 Now, this is important. 327 00:18:10,956 --> 00:18:14,493 As writers, it's our duty to the reader 328 00:18:15,794 --> 00:18:16,862 to give them a happy ending 329 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:19,064 because life doesn't bloody have one. 330 00:18:19,965 --> 00:18:24,770 It's fucking sickness, regret, decay, 331 00:18:25,637 --> 00:18:28,474 a few pleasant memories if you're lucky. 332 00:18:28,540 --> 00:18:29,408 And that's it. 333 00:18:30,576 --> 00:18:33,178 So, it's up to us to give the reader 334 00:18:33,245 --> 00:18:34,880 a happy ending once in a while. 335 00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:36,949 Can you do that for me? 336 00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:39,017 I'll have to have an ending first. 337 00:18:39,084 --> 00:18:43,755 Well, yes, but do it for me, Leonard, please. 338 00:18:47,025 --> 00:18:48,994 Come here. 339 00:18:49,061 --> 00:18:50,696 I just wish you wouldn't leave. 340 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:51,630 Come here. 341 00:18:57,603 --> 00:18:58,537 I'll tell you what. 342 00:19:00,606 --> 00:19:02,641 I'll stick around for another month 343 00:19:03,775 --> 00:19:07,446 if you promise to try not to kill yourself, all right? 344 00:19:11,383 --> 00:19:14,086 Because it's only a bloody book. 345 00:19:15,354 --> 00:19:18,524 Do you understand me? 346 00:19:23,695 --> 00:19:24,863 All right. 347 00:19:26,365 --> 00:19:29,301 Now you drink some water and you get some shade. 348 00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:33,572 Thanks for the water. 349 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:42,381 ♪ I stepped into an avalanche ♪ 350 00:19:43,048 --> 00:19:47,653 ♪ It covered up my soul ♪ 351 00:19:48,654 --> 00:19:52,758 ♪ When I am not this hunchback that you see ♪ 352 00:19:53,892 --> 00:19:58,263 ♪ I sleep beneath the golden hill ♪ 353 00:19:58,997 --> 00:20:02,801 ♪ You who wish to conquer pain ♪ 354 00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:04,436 ♪ You must learn ♪ 355 00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:08,207 ♪ Learn to serve me well ♪ 356 00:20:19,418 --> 00:20:24,656 ♪ You strike my side by accident ♪ 357 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:27,125 ♪ As you go down ♪ 358 00:20:27,192 --> 00:20:28,327 Leonardo. 359 00:20:32,764 --> 00:20:33,765 Yes? 360 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:37,302 You know where to send? 361 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:40,839 My friend, are you? 362 00:21:38,196 --> 00:21:39,398 See his eyes. 363 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:41,967 Yellow and bloodshot. 364 00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:44,636 Symptoms of kidney failure. 365 00:21:45,837 --> 00:21:47,639 Move him, he'll die. 366 00:21:49,041 --> 00:21:53,779 I'll try to restore all the electrolytes he has lost. 367 00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:56,448 I've given him water salt. 368 00:21:57,482 --> 00:21:58,950 So he's going to be okay? 369 00:21:59,851 --> 00:22:00,852 Don't know. 370 00:22:14,299 --> 00:22:16,201 Nothing left to do 371 00:22:16,268 --> 00:22:18,737 when you know that you've been taken. 372 00:22:18,804 --> 00:22:21,907 Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb. 373 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:26,011 Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting 374 00:22:27,312 --> 00:22:29,314 and waiting for the miracle to come. 375 00:22:30,382 --> 00:22:31,917 I dreamed about you, baby. 376 00:22:33,085 --> 00:22:34,853 It was just the other night. 377 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,358 Most of you was naked, ah, but some of you was light. 378 00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:42,394 And the sands of time were falling 379 00:22:42,461 --> 00:22:44,996 from your fingers and your thumb, 380 00:22:46,098 --> 00:22:47,933 and you were waiting for the miracle. 381 00:22:49,801 --> 00:22:52,070 You were waiting for the miracle to come. 382 00:22:59,778 --> 00:23:01,346 There's some feeling I'm chasing, 383 00:23:01,413 --> 00:23:02,848 I'm not sure what it is, 384 00:23:02,914 --> 00:23:06,718 but I've tried recreating it hundreds of thousands of times. 385 00:23:09,087 --> 00:23:11,890 I figured one more journey around these painted walls 386 00:23:11,957 --> 00:23:14,359 and I'll get there. 387 00:23:25,170 --> 00:23:26,037 When will you know? 388 00:23:26,104 --> 00:23:27,606 I mean, "The Favourite Game" 389 00:23:27,672 --> 00:23:30,242 is that you would get the numbers soon, right? 390 00:23:33,111 --> 00:23:37,115 I mean, come on, you can't lose with those reviews. 391 00:23:41,186 --> 00:23:42,053 Leonard? 392 00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:10,348 Hi! 393 00:24:10,415 --> 00:24:11,983 You look beautiful. 394 00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:16,455 You don't look so beautiful at the moment, but hi. 395 00:24:20,325 --> 00:24:21,960 Leonard. 396 00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:22,894 Hi. 397 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:25,664 Welcome back to the living. 398 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:28,733 I am Doctor Papas. 399 00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:30,836 How do you feel? 400 00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:32,838 Oh, terrific. 401 00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:35,474 I've been worse. 402 00:24:36,241 --> 00:24:37,309 I doubt that. 403 00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:44,883 Welcome back. 404 00:24:48,787 --> 00:24:51,256 Your friend is gonna be okay. 405 00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:52,691 Yeah? 406 00:24:52,757 --> 00:24:57,896 Just keep him off drugs and out of the sun. 407 00:24:58,530 --> 00:25:01,833 Or maybe just buy him a hat. 408 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:03,335 Yeah. 409 00:25:03,401 --> 00:25:05,370 I think the latter would be easiest. 410 00:25:05,437 --> 00:25:06,638 Cheers to him. 411 00:25:06,872 --> 00:25:08,573 Thank you. 412 00:25:15,113 --> 00:25:16,648 Where's Micro? 413 00:25:18,016 --> 00:25:20,352 He's at the neighbours. 414 00:25:20,418 --> 00:25:24,122 They said that he could stay there until, 415 00:25:25,924 --> 00:25:26,992 until we knew. 416 00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:32,664 Until we knew what? 417 00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:37,536 Until we knew if you would get better. 418 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:42,908 It was that bad, huh? 419 00:25:46,311 --> 00:25:50,215 Doctor said 50-50. 420 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:56,087 I wanted him to say I had 4% chance of living, 421 00:25:57,923 --> 00:25:58,890 but I rose up. 422 00:26:01,459 --> 00:26:03,228 Well, maybe we should, you know, 423 00:26:05,030 --> 00:26:08,400 talk about the things that come before death. 424 00:26:08,466 --> 00:26:12,103 Because at least I'm happy you're not dead. 425 00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:15,273 So, what do you wanna do? 426 00:26:15,340 --> 00:26:16,541 What's on your bucket list? 427 00:26:16,608 --> 00:26:18,877 You have a life. 428 00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:20,211 What's, you know? 429 00:26:21,212 --> 00:26:24,549 I'd like to write something that sells copies. 430 00:26:25,917 --> 00:26:27,218 That's it. 431 00:26:30,689 --> 00:26:32,223 What about you? 432 00:26:33,158 --> 00:26:38,263 I wanna stay here and have a family with you, 433 00:26:39,631 --> 00:26:41,633 and see them grow up on the island. 434 00:26:57,482 --> 00:26:59,584 Will you speak in my funeral? 435 00:27:01,653 --> 00:27:02,954 I mean it. 436 00:27:04,322 --> 00:27:09,127 I think we've established I'm not going to outlive you. 437 00:27:09,828 --> 00:27:11,329 It's not going to happen. 438 00:27:12,497 --> 00:27:13,698 You never know. 439 00:27:14,399 --> 00:27:15,834 Oh, I know. 440 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:16,901 Mm-hmm. 441 00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:18,970 You should get some more rest. 442 00:27:21,406 --> 00:27:22,741 Leonard, be careful. 443 00:27:22,807 --> 00:27:25,343 I will go and get Junior and we can just- 444 00:27:25,410 --> 00:27:27,112 I'm really okay. 445 00:27:27,178 --> 00:27:28,113 I'm really okay. 446 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:37,355 Don't get out of bed. 447 00:27:37,422 --> 00:27:38,289 Stay there. 448 00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:04,449 You know, I wrote a poem about you 449 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,518 before I even met you. 450 00:28:06,584 --> 00:28:08,386 Before anything here. 451 00:28:11,122 --> 00:28:12,791 Well, do I get to 452 00:28:14,259 --> 00:28:15,260 hear the poem? 453 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,135 Whenever I happen to see her 454 00:28:25,804 --> 00:28:27,305 I forget for a while 455 00:28:30,075 --> 00:28:34,212 that I feel ugly in my own eyes for not winning her. 456 00:28:37,248 --> 00:28:39,017 I wanted you to choose me 457 00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:43,855 over all the other men that you know 458 00:28:45,890 --> 00:28:49,127 because I feel destroyed in their company. 459 00:28:52,530 --> 00:28:54,999 I have often prayed for you like this. 460 00:28:57,168 --> 00:28:58,069 Let me have her. 461 00:29:04,109 --> 00:29:05,977 Well, you have me. 462 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:06,911 Do I? 463 00:29:11,349 --> 00:29:12,217 I love you. 464 00:29:14,219 --> 00:29:15,653 - Really? - Mm-hmm. 465 00:29:27,232 --> 00:29:28,733 Young love. 466 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,135 Hello, George. 467 00:29:30,201 --> 00:29:31,803 Now that's something to write about. 468 00:29:33,171 --> 00:29:35,173 You don't know what you're talking about. 469 00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:41,446 I really, really, really wish you wouldn't do this. 470 00:29:42,413 --> 00:29:43,581 I'm afraid we have to, love. 471 00:29:43,648 --> 00:29:48,019 We've kind of reached the point where we need to go back, 472 00:29:49,220 --> 00:29:51,422 sort of become the people we used to be. 473 00:29:54,092 --> 00:29:59,264 Oh, yeah, we're having a bit of a farewell drinks party. 474 00:30:00,365 --> 00:30:01,933 Well, not really a party, probably more like a wake 475 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,837 but Saturday at Douskos, if you're around. 476 00:30:05,904 --> 00:30:08,006 It'd be nice to see you there. 477 00:30:08,072 --> 00:30:09,240 We will try to be there 478 00:30:09,307 --> 00:30:12,777 but Leonard really needs to rest, so we'll see. 479 00:30:12,844 --> 00:30:15,113 All right. Rest up, mate. 480 00:30:16,447 --> 00:30:17,849 You look great, man. 481 00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:21,753 You're a liar, but a charming one, Leonard. 482 00:30:29,093 --> 00:30:30,228 Wait. 483 00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:36,100 Coming. 484 00:30:37,969 --> 00:30:40,471 Leonard, telephone. 485 00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:42,006 Okay. 486 00:30:42,073 --> 00:30:43,241 It's. 487 00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:44,108 All right. 488 00:30:44,175 --> 00:30:45,043 There. 489 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:54,352 Hello? - Hey, Lenny? 490 00:30:54,419 --> 00:30:55,119 Hey, it's me. 491 00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:56,654 Oh, hi, Irving. How you doing? 492 00:30:56,721 --> 00:30:57,989 I read your book. 493 00:30:58,456 --> 00:31:01,492 Oh, man, just throw it out, you know, set it on fire. 494 00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:02,493 It was really- 495 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,761 No, no, no, Lenny, 496 00:31:03,828 --> 00:31:06,497 it's the best writing you've done so far. 497 00:31:06,564 --> 00:31:09,334 I never told you because I always thought your suites 498 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,136 were better than your prose, but this is... 499 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:13,805 It's fucking authentic. 500 00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:15,807 It's so real. It's like life. 501 00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:17,375 Really, really good. 502 00:31:17,442 --> 00:31:18,042 Really? 503 00:31:18,109 --> 00:31:19,143 Yeah, yeah. 504 00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:22,547 It's not just entirely indulgent? 505 00:31:23,448 --> 00:31:24,782 Well, if it's indulgent, 506 00:31:24,849 --> 00:31:27,385 it's the most indulgent piece of crap I ever read 507 00:31:27,452 --> 00:31:29,954 but I do love it. 508 00:31:30,021 --> 00:31:32,490 You know, Louise loved it, Morton loved it. 509 00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:35,793 And my wife, she's fucking into your book, man. 510 00:31:35,860 --> 00:31:39,297 She had her first orgasm on page six. 511 00:31:39,364 --> 00:31:41,399 Oh, she's never had any good taste, so. 512 00:31:41,466 --> 00:31:43,935 Because you never had sex with me, Lenny. 513 00:31:44,002 --> 00:31:46,938 You didn't have sex with Mr. Zeus, did you? 514 00:31:48,006 --> 00:31:50,675 Hey, we need you to come back to Montreal 515 00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,110 as soon as you can. 516 00:31:53,878 --> 00:31:58,283 Irving, you're really the only opinion ever 517 00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:00,251 that I've ever cared about. 518 00:32:00,318 --> 00:32:02,153 Ah, you're just flattering me now. 519 00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:03,621 I wouldn't have told you all this 520 00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:06,024 if I didn't believe in you. 521 00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:07,258 And I'm an honest guy. 522 00:32:07,325 --> 00:32:10,461 I shoot straight from my hairy balls. 523 00:32:10,528 --> 00:32:12,964 I've written poetry that will stand time, 524 00:32:13,031 --> 00:32:15,867 it will survive together with the best of Shakespeare, 525 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,201 Keats, and Wordsworth. 526 00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:19,137 But honestly, I have never written 527 00:32:19,203 --> 00:32:21,139 anything like this, Lenny. 528 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:22,974 I wish I had. 529 00:32:24,175 --> 00:32:25,443 I can't tell you how happy this makes me. 530 00:32:25,510 --> 00:32:28,146 Congratulations. - Really, I'm just- 531 00:32:29,247 --> 00:32:33,151 But you need to come back here and we have to promote it. 532 00:32:33,217 --> 00:32:34,052 Yeah. 533 00:32:34,118 --> 00:32:35,653 As soon as you can. 534 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,521 All right. So long. 535 00:32:36,587 --> 00:32:37,422 All right. 536 00:32:37,488 --> 00:32:38,523 I'll see you very soon. 537 00:32:38,589 --> 00:32:41,159 Well, I'll be waiting with a few beers. 538 00:32:43,194 --> 00:32:44,062 Okay. 539 00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:46,798 It was a very nice phone call. 540 00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:47,832 Yeah? - Yeah, it was from 541 00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:49,100 Mr. Irving Layton. 542 00:32:49,167 --> 00:32:51,069 He quite enjoyed my manuscript. 543 00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:52,170 He did? - Yeah. 544 00:32:52,236 --> 00:32:53,805 That's incredible! - Leonard! 545 00:32:53,871 --> 00:32:54,973 Well, he doesn't like anything. 546 00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:56,140 Of course he liked it. 547 00:32:56,207 --> 00:32:57,909 I told you. I told you he would like. 548 00:32:57,976 --> 00:32:58,943 Well, let's celebrate. 549 00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:00,244 I'll get some drinks. 550 00:33:01,012 --> 00:33:02,513 I'm so proud of you. 551 00:33:04,148 --> 00:33:05,783 I guess some people enjoyed it, you know? 552 00:33:05,850 --> 00:33:07,952 No. 553 00:33:08,019 --> 00:33:09,087 Well, I think he said now 554 00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:11,756 that I should return to Montreal, 555 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:13,691 and we can try and sell it. 556 00:33:15,093 --> 00:33:16,427 He thinks it's a commercial work. 557 00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:19,330 I'm not sure I agree, but he seems to have faith in it. 558 00:33:19,397 --> 00:33:21,666 And Dudek as well and Aviva liked it, too. 559 00:33:23,101 --> 00:33:24,635 Aviva's a tough judge as well. 560 00:33:24,702 --> 00:33:30,108 She is, but when would you wanna go to Montreal? 561 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:35,079 Well, I don't know, you know, as soon as possible. 562 00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:38,616 What do you mean? 563 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:41,786 The doctor, I mean, you need, your body needs rest. 564 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:42,720 You can't just... 565 00:33:43,721 --> 00:33:45,523 You think that you're gonna go on a plane now 566 00:33:45,590 --> 00:33:47,892 in the condition you're in, and go do some big show. 567 00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:49,360 I mean. 568 00:33:49,427 --> 00:33:52,497 You know, I don't really, I don't enjoy being yelled at 569 00:33:52,563 --> 00:33:54,165 after I've gotten the first good news 570 00:33:54,232 --> 00:33:56,667 I've gotten in quite a long time. 571 00:33:56,734 --> 00:33:57,635 I'm not yelling at you, I'm just- 572 00:33:57,702 --> 00:33:58,936 Oh yes, you are. 573 00:33:59,003 --> 00:34:00,972 You're raising your voice on me for no reason. 574 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:02,874 You nearly died. 575 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:04,008 Well, if the book doesn't sell, 576 00:34:04,075 --> 00:34:05,743 then I nearly died for nothing. 577 00:34:06,811 --> 00:34:07,945 We're not coming with you, 578 00:34:08,012 --> 00:34:09,047 so if you wanna kill yourself, go ahead. 579 00:34:09,113 --> 00:34:10,181 Oh, terrific. 580 00:34:11,916 --> 00:34:13,117 Congratulations. 581 00:34:17,155 --> 00:34:18,689 What's wrong? 582 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:20,958 George? 583 00:34:21,025 --> 00:34:22,360 Yep? 584 00:34:22,427 --> 00:34:23,895 I think we should do the rest of the packing tomorrow 585 00:34:23,961 --> 00:34:27,365 because we're supposed to be at Douskos in half an hour. 586 00:34:27,432 --> 00:34:29,067 What? - Are you dressed? 587 00:34:29,133 --> 00:34:30,401 What? 588 00:34:30,468 --> 00:34:32,770 I think we should leave that 589 00:34:32,837 --> 00:34:34,205 and do the rest of it tomorrow 590 00:34:34,272 --> 00:34:37,809 because we're supposed to be at Douskos in half an hour. 591 00:34:37,875 --> 00:34:38,743 Sorry? 592 00:34:39,877 --> 00:34:40,778 Yeah. 593 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,116 Ugh, well, how about a little coffee first, Charm? 594 00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:47,652 You might want a coffee first before we go? 595 00:34:49,954 --> 00:34:51,522 Oh, for God's sake, George. 596 00:34:52,690 --> 00:34:53,758 Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you're the one 597 00:34:53,825 --> 00:34:55,193 who needs another drink? 598 00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:03,568 You look beautiful. 599 00:35:05,903 --> 00:35:07,705 I think we look beautiful together. 600 00:35:10,708 --> 00:35:11,843 When are you leaving? 601 00:35:13,511 --> 00:35:14,378 Um. 602 00:35:19,150 --> 00:35:20,218 Maybe on Monday. 603 00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:24,055 Was that a straight question? 604 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:26,257 You're interested in my travel plans? 605 00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:30,695 You know, if you'd like to come with me, 606 00:35:30,761 --> 00:35:32,430 that's absolutely up to you. 607 00:35:32,497 --> 00:35:35,399 You know that I cannot come back with you there 608 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:38,402 because I am not one of you. 609 00:35:38,469 --> 00:35:40,705 Well, I don't know what that means. 610 00:35:40,771 --> 00:35:43,107 I have to sell the book because we don't have any money. 611 00:35:43,174 --> 00:35:45,143 Oh, okay, so you think that this is about money? 612 00:35:45,209 --> 00:35:46,811 Of course it's about money. 613 00:35:48,179 --> 00:35:50,815 It's all about money, this is what I do. 614 00:35:51,782 --> 00:35:52,650 I'm a writer. 615 00:35:52,717 --> 00:35:53,985 That's how I'm supposed to make money. 616 00:35:54,051 --> 00:35:55,686 What I do is who I am. 617 00:35:56,754 --> 00:35:58,489 Oh. 618 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,693 What? What are these theatrics? 619 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,062 These sounds you're making towards me, what? 620 00:36:05,129 --> 00:36:06,297 You know, it's just funny, 621 00:36:06,364 --> 00:36:07,365 it's just that Axel used to say the exact same- 622 00:36:07,431 --> 00:36:09,934 Well, I'm not fucking Axel! 623 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:11,068 I'm not Axel. 624 00:36:11,135 --> 00:36:12,236 I'm not- - Right now you are. 625 00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:14,071 What, do I have to get a contract? 626 00:36:14,138 --> 00:36:16,707 Got to show you my fucking birth certificate? 627 00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:19,343 I'm not Axel. 628 00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:20,178 There's a key difference. 629 00:36:20,244 --> 00:36:21,913 I am here. 630 00:36:21,979 --> 00:36:23,381 Your son calls me dad. 631 00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:24,549 Don't drag my son into this. 632 00:36:24,615 --> 00:36:25,683 Please don't drag my son into this. 633 00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:27,218 He is already in it! 634 00:36:28,419 --> 00:36:30,388 If we don't get money, then he has no food, 635 00:36:30,454 --> 00:36:31,355 we have no electricity. 636 00:36:31,422 --> 00:36:32,523 We'll have to sell everything. 637 00:36:32,590 --> 00:36:34,592 We'll have to sell the house. 638 00:36:34,659 --> 00:36:37,028 Why don't you try living in the real world, 639 00:36:37,094 --> 00:36:38,696 not this fantasy fucking, 640 00:36:38,763 --> 00:36:40,598 you're like a tourist in your own life. 641 00:36:40,665 --> 00:36:42,033 Oh, okay, okay! 642 00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:43,434 So you'd rather be a tourist in Montreal, 643 00:36:43,501 --> 00:36:45,469 where all the girls, they just drool themselves, 644 00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:48,039 "Oh, Leonard, the God, the genius, the writer, the poet!" 645 00:36:48,105 --> 00:36:49,307 I don't fucking even know, okay? 646 00:36:49,373 --> 00:36:51,375 I have nothing to do there. 647 00:36:51,442 --> 00:36:52,710 Don't denigrate what I do 648 00:36:52,777 --> 00:36:55,580 because you've never done anything with your life. 649 00:36:57,315 --> 00:36:59,483 Yeah. 650 00:37:01,319 --> 00:37:02,620 I made a child. 651 00:37:03,788 --> 00:37:05,556 Actually, I made two, but luckily for you and your mom 652 00:37:05,623 --> 00:37:07,959 one of them died, so there's that, you know? 653 00:37:09,126 --> 00:37:11,762 Okay, splendid. 654 00:37:11,829 --> 00:37:13,531 Splendid, ugh. 655 00:37:13,598 --> 00:37:15,633 Well, I'm going to Douskos, so. 656 00:37:16,434 --> 00:37:17,768 Yeah. 657 00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:20,571 If you'd like to come, you know, be my fucking guest. 658 00:37:25,042 --> 00:37:26,377 Cheers. 659 00:37:26,944 --> 00:37:28,279 Cheers. 660 00:37:33,784 --> 00:37:36,520 I'm not her favourite person right now. 661 00:37:36,587 --> 00:37:38,522 She should have learned by now. 662 00:37:41,292 --> 00:37:43,261 Will you keep an eye on her when I'm gone? 663 00:37:44,228 --> 00:37:45,963 Stop by the house and, you know, check in, 664 00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:47,665 make sure she's, I don't know, 665 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:50,768 not smashing the furniture. 666 00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:52,570 Yeah. - All right. 667 00:37:52,637 --> 00:37:53,638 Of course. 668 00:37:55,306 --> 00:37:56,941 You think I'm doing the right thing, right? 669 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:02,546 Yeah. 670 00:38:04,348 --> 00:38:05,549 It's work. 671 00:38:18,329 --> 00:38:19,563 Cheers. 672 00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:34,679 Can I sit beside you? 673 00:38:34,745 --> 00:38:35,413 Yeah, please. 674 00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:37,281 Okay. 675 00:38:38,249 --> 00:38:40,418 We did have some good times, too. 676 00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:42,019 Yeah, it's really- - They were all good times. 677 00:38:42,086 --> 00:38:42,920 - Really good. - All good times. 678 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:44,155 Yeah. 679 00:38:44,221 --> 00:38:47,291 I was always just a bit too old for you. 680 00:38:47,358 --> 00:38:49,026 I always thought you were too young for me. 681 00:38:49,093 --> 00:38:52,897 Wow. 682 00:39:09,547 --> 00:39:12,883 You've always been so kind. 683 00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:20,057 And everybody else here just hates me. 684 00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:21,759 And I, 685 00:39:23,794 --> 00:39:28,432 I helped every one of them when they got here. 686 00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:48,085 Crying at a party? 687 00:39:48,152 --> 00:39:49,453 - No. - Yeah, you are. 688 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,956 Leonard. - No, no, no. 689 00:39:52,022 --> 00:39:53,057 Oh. 690 00:39:53,124 --> 00:39:54,592 Now you'll really be crying. 691 00:39:54,658 --> 00:39:56,360 You do me, you do me one last favour, 692 00:39:56,427 --> 00:39:58,062 you sing me a song. 693 00:39:58,129 --> 00:39:59,764 - I'm not dying, dear. - Please. 694 00:40:00,698 --> 00:40:02,466 Just going away for a little while. 695 00:40:02,533 --> 00:40:03,601 Just one song. 696 00:40:06,337 --> 00:40:07,538 What's the matter? 697 00:40:08,439 --> 00:40:09,840 I don't know, 698 00:40:11,709 --> 00:40:12,977 I just don't want things to change 699 00:40:13,043 --> 00:40:14,512 and I just want them to... 700 00:40:15,646 --> 00:40:18,816 I just want everything to be the way it was, you know? 701 00:40:18,883 --> 00:40:19,784 Never is. 702 00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:22,453 That's life, it's change. 703 00:40:23,687 --> 00:40:25,389 That's why it's precious 704 00:40:25,456 --> 00:40:29,059 because it has a finite ending, you know? 705 00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:33,097 You just gotta pick your battles. 706 00:40:34,665 --> 00:40:35,933 You can't bloody win. 707 00:40:37,301 --> 00:40:38,369 - I wish- - But, you know, 708 00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:39,870 you just gotta give it a good go. 709 00:40:40,738 --> 00:40:41,906 Mm-hmm. 710 00:40:45,476 --> 00:40:47,311 Don't cry, darling. 711 00:40:47,378 --> 00:40:49,013 You're gonna be all right. 712 00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:50,181 Mm-hmm. 713 00:40:50,247 --> 00:40:51,348 You think so? 714 00:40:51,415 --> 00:40:52,950 Yes, I know so. 715 00:40:54,585 --> 00:40:55,519 Look at me and old Charm. 716 00:40:55,586 --> 00:40:57,455 If we can make it, you can. 717 00:40:58,689 --> 00:41:00,825 You keep an eye on him while I'm gone. 718 00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:07,031 ♪ Like a bird ♪ 719 00:41:07,097 --> 00:41:10,668 ♪ On the wire ♪ 720 00:41:10,734 --> 00:41:15,940 ♪ Like a drunk in a midnight choir ♪ 721 00:41:17,608 --> 00:41:22,813 ♪ I have tried in my way ♪ 722 00:41:24,949 --> 00:41:29,954 ♪ To be free ♪ 723 00:41:31,522 --> 00:41:36,760 ♪ Like a worm on a hook ♪ 724 00:41:40,564 --> 00:41:45,769 ♪ Like a knight in some old-fashioned book ♪ 725 00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:50,774 ♪ I have saved all my ribbons ♪ 726 00:41:53,043 --> 00:41:55,246 ♪ For thee ♪ 727 00:41:57,448 --> 00:41:59,517 You all right, love? 728 00:42:00,584 --> 00:42:03,687 ♪ And if I ♪ 729 00:42:03,754 --> 00:42:08,959 ♪ If I had been unkind ♪ 730 00:42:13,430 --> 00:42:18,168 ♪ I hope that you can just let it go by ♪ 731 00:42:26,443 --> 00:42:29,513 ♪ And if I ♪ 732 00:42:29,580 --> 00:42:33,517 ♪ If I have been untrue ♪ 733 00:42:39,857 --> 00:42:45,095 ♪ Know it was never to you ♪ 734 00:42:47,464 --> 00:42:52,636 ♪ Like a baby stillborn ♪ 735 00:42:55,773 --> 00:43:00,978 ♪ Like a beast with its horn ♪ 736 00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:03,280 ♪ I have torn ♪ 737 00:43:03,347 --> 00:43:05,516 Come on, everyone. 738 00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:08,319 ♪ All my lovers ♪ 739 00:43:11,088 --> 00:43:11,989 Okay. 740 00:43:13,023 --> 00:43:13,691 Goodbye, then. 741 00:43:13,757 --> 00:43:17,528 ♪ Who reached out for me ♪ 742 00:43:19,496 --> 00:43:20,564 Bye. 743 00:43:20,631 --> 00:43:25,869 ♪ But I swear by this song ♪ 744 00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:33,811 ♪ And all that I've done wrong ♪ 745 00:43:33,877 --> 00:43:39,083 ♪ I will try to make it up ♪ 746 00:43:40,384 --> 00:43:41,719 ♪ To thee ♪ 747 00:43:47,157 --> 00:43:52,329 ♪ I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch ♪ 748 00:43:59,803 --> 00:44:05,009 ♪ He said to me, you must not ask for so much ♪ 749 00:44:12,716 --> 00:44:17,821 ♪ A pretty woman leaning on her darkened door ♪ 750 00:44:25,462 --> 00:44:28,632 ♪ She cried to me ♪ 751 00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:32,136 ♪ Hey, why not ask for more ♪