All language subtitles for Family Portrait (2023)eng

If the symmetry...

If the symmetry axis of a crystal.

If the symmetry axis of a crystal is not
set parallel to the polarizing field,

a small magnetic field will be produced
perpendicular to the latter.

To check whether the beta asymmetry
to be caused by...blah blah blah.

We allowed a drop of cobalt chloride
solution to dry on a thin plastic disk

and cemented the disk
to the bottom of the same housing.

In this way,

the cobalt nuclei should not be cold
sufficiently to produce an appreciable

nuclear polarization,
in which the housing will behave

as before.

Is Sleeping Beauty awake?

Yeah, I’ve been awake for a bit.

What have you been doing?

Nothing really.

How did you sleep?

I woke up in the middle of the night
and I couldn’t get back to sleep for ages.

It keeps happening.

Poor thing.

Careful! My bladder!

I read something earlier

that I want to read you.

I think you’re on my phone.

“A young girl
returning home from school at noon.

She sits down at the kitchen table
to eat the hot meal

her mother has made her for lunch.

The mother sits down across from her,

silence grows between them.

The girl is concentrating on her meal.

Suddenly she raises her head

and sees
before her a pair of terrifying eyes

emptied of anything
human, staring at her, immobile.

As if her mother has disappeared
from this world and had left in her place

the eyes of a monster who looked at her
without seeing her.

The little girl trembles
beneath this gaze and can't lower her

eyes before this vision.

This scene is

repeated numerous times
during her childhood.

She becomes an adolescent, a wife,

a mother, a professional woman.

The gaze always returns,
accompanied by the question:

Where did my mother go
when she would leave her empty gaze

fixed on me?’’

Do you need me to be

your packing supervisor?

You sure about that?

Do you remember what you said

to Will last night?

About the languages you speak?

Yeah, I think so.

Why did you respond so sarcastically?

Everyone thinks

I have a Russian accent,
even though they know I’m from Poland.

I know,

but others have a hard time telling

when you're being sarcastic or not.

I have this strange desire to tell a joke.

And even if the joke
is not understood, I just

let it linger awkwardly

in the air.

Fair enough.

Also,

people think I’m from so far East.

What do you mean?

I mean

Poland is more Central

than it is Eastern.

I mean, it's right
by Russia.

It's not though.

That's what everyone thinks.

There's Russia, Lithuania, Latvia.

Estonia

Okay

Ukraine

Belarussia.

Okay.

I just get tired of explaining that shit.

Well, they live in Texas.

I don't expect them to know
everything about my country.

You just said you were frustrated

that they don't know more about Poland.

Depends on the assumption they make.

Okay.

Signed.

That's the day before my birthday.

Mhm, it is.

She has kind of a soothing voice, actually.

“During our commune visit,
we saw a Dairy Farm,

and I was appalled to see that their milk,
their milk cows had horns.

We city mice in Rye, New York did not know

our farmers dehorned their milk cows
so they don't get hurt or hurt each other.

I was really

proud of
Nancy, for while we were viewing the cows

with the TV cameras whirring away,
we saw a number of them being mounted.

Nancy never flicked an eyelash.

That's Savoir Faire.

We finally got to
the last part of the briefing.

The cows who were producing -
the Chinese told us

their cows were such good producers that
they had to be milked three times a day.

I've never seen such full bags.

That dinner last night was so good.

Yeah, it really was.

I could eat it every day, to be honest.

I know it's the only place
I get my recipes anymore.

New York Times?

We started watching that show
you like last night.

Oh, yeah?

What did you think?

The paranormal stuff is a bit
too much for me.

I don't mind murderers,
but spirits freak me out.

I loved it.

I'm all about girlhood and satanic
possession, though, so...

I knew that you would like it.

It has been so rough.

I haven't been able to find Fluffy
for the last 20 hours.

Sally was up all night
and I didn't get any sleep.

That's stressful.

Yeah.

You girls have like a zoo.

Yeah we do. Yeah.

No lions?

We have tigers.

Bears?

So what do you think
I should do about the 16th?

I feel like she's always being this way.

And he's always backing down and revving up again.

I mean, it's so hard to catch up.

So is he still trying to be sober?

Oh, yeah.

Oh!

That is the calmest
she has been all morning.

Is she going to fall...

Did you hear a bird ran into this window
and died?

You can still see the feathers
stuck on the window.

Oh. Why has nobody cleaned that up?

Did anyone see it happen?

Dad, I think?

He said a bird just slammed right into it.

When are we gonna take the picture?

I don’t know, why don’t you go ask Mom.

I think, finer?

Finer.

So this is gonna be different
than yesterday.

I think we'll use these.

They're really fresh.

We'll also chop mint and basil.

And for the salad,
we'll use these avocados.

Do they seem ready?

They’re ready.

Do you think two sides is enough
for people?

I don’t know, maybe that’s not enough.

I think two is enough.

Two sides should be fine.

Do you want me to go ahead and zest the
lemon?

Hi, mom.

Oh, well, alrighty, morning.

And the photographer is here,
with his camera!

Morning.

Sorry, Maria. What did you say?

Should I zest the lemon?

Yes, that'd be great. One fourth cup.

We’ll do the photo in 30 minutes then?

Mmhmm.

What do you think, Katy?

And Olek, too, I want to get your thoughts!

Oh, Maria, could you get the book

from over there, please?

I'm thinking we'll have

a picture of the entire family
together on the back of the card.

Then we can figure out what funny thing
we'll do

for the middle of the card later.

Probably everyone separately,
since we may not be all together again

before Thanksgiving. Oh my gosh.

Are we here for Thanksgiving?

Oh no, sadly.

Aunt Carol and Uncle Declan are gonna
to be here, so we'll do something else.

Are we going to do
your 12 days of Christmas theme?

Mm hmm.

Then we can all come up

with different themes for the days
that we choose for our separate pictures.

So we each choose a number
and do that day...

So theres 12 days.

So you choose what kind of Christmas
theme goes with your day.

Maybe you’re doing the ninth day
of Christmas or the sixth, you can choose.

Well, what do you think, Olek?

Since you're the photographer,
do you think that's too much?

I think if the design of the card is good
then it's okay to have many pictures.

Okay.

Here, let me show you.

Oh, not that one.

That’s not our finest.

Annabelle’s hair, ugh.

Oh, 2010.

Something like this.

But maybe more like a booklet?

And the photo for today
is for the back of the card?

Well, that's what I was thinking.

Just a nice family
photo down by the river.

We just need one photo of all of us
together, smiling.

Something like...

Interception!

Boys...

2006, I believe.

Yeah.

See if you get any ideas.

Oh, I would say more
like strips than diced I think, Maria.

Oh don't be like that.

Come on

Come on...

Okay.

Okay, sounds good, Barbara.

Are you hungry?

My stomach is feeling
weird, I’ll make porridge later?

Oh, Olek,
if only you could eat a Mexican breakfast.

It's just divine.

Thanks, Maria.

Is this the Spice Girls?

She was very on top of things.

And you know this one.

Of course.

Of course.

That's your dad there in the stretcher?

Yeah, yeah.

Hey Olek,

Have you seen this photograph?

I have, actually.

Yeah?

In photography books.

It was quite surreal to learn
that my father had become the symbol

for the Pacific Theater.

You know there’s a crazy story
about this photo...

When it was sold on
a T-shirt like it was from Vietnam?

Yeah, yeah.

But it's a great story, so let me tell it.

My father fought in World
War II, as you know,

and this was taken right after he was shot

And that photo became quite famous.

But when Grace was in middle school,
her class took a field trip

to Washington, DC
and they visited the Vietnam Memorial.

After seeing that,

they went into the gift shop there and

Grace saw this picture on a T-shirt

with writing on it, saying: “Remember

all the soldiers that fought in Vietnam”

Well, Grace goes up to the lady

working there and she says, well,
that's that's my grandfather.

And that woman
there think she knows better

she says, well that can't be,
because that photograph is from Vietnam.

Well Grace says: “No,
I got that picture hanging up on my wall

back home, and that's my grandfather.”

I was so proud of her.

They did some kind of hocus
pocus technology

to put more trees in the picture
to make it look like it was from Vietnam.

Isn't that strange?

Yeah, yeah. I know about that.

That’s crazy.

You know, and the photo doesn't even look
like it was taken in the 70’s.

Yeah, but its how its presented, you know.

Makes us believe.

You can't always trust photographs.

It's like that movie They Live.

How is it like that movie, Dad?

Have y’all seen Rose's bag
with the sippy cup in it?

No. Sorry.

I think it's on the chair under the table.

He’s surrounded by all those
advertisements, but still he can see the...

how do you say it?

The subtext, like the the glasses

show the true motive
behind the billboards.

We actually watched that in my class
about aliens.

What movie?

They Live.

Oh yeah, Dad, you love that movie.

Really?

That's quite interesting.

And was there some sort of special theme
to this class, you know, about Aliens.

It was about our fascination with aliens,

and how alien stories mirror stories about exploration.

Strange encounters, encounters
with strangers.

And how does that relate to They Live?

I mean, I guess it doesn't really.

I guess it's more about consumerism?

I'm sorry.

Um, Uncle Tim’s daughter passed away.

When did you find out?

She just passed away.

She's was in the hospital.
Um, apparently she had

a virus, and she had a collapsed lung...

unable to breathe...

And gone.

So I don’t know what to do...I don’t
want to tell anybody else right now...

No one else knows?

No.

Not yet.

Maybe we tell them after?

We’ll tell them after.

Fluffy!

Where are you?!

Sally, we’ll find Fluffy.

What were y’all talking about?

Uncle Tim’s wife’s daughter died.

Tara.

Mommy, Fluffy.

Sally, I need you to calm down
about Fluffy right now.

What happened?

Mom said she just stopped breathing
and went brain dead.

Why’d she stop breathing?

I don't know.

Mom said she was sick
and went to the hospital,

and she was there for a few days
and they discharged her for a virus.

And that night at home,
she just stopped breathing.

Like pneumonia or something?

I don't know.

Her heart stopped beating?

Yeah, I think they're gonna harvest her organs.

That’s sad.

Yeah. No, that's really sad.

Yeah.

She was 21.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Can y’all watch them for a sec?

We still can’t find Fluffy.

Who were you talking about?

My step cousin.

She stopped breathing, but her heart
was still beating and she went brain dead.

I’m so sorry to hear that.

It was a virus or something
Annabelle said.

It’s so bizarre.

Are we still taking the picture?

Yeah.

Share you two.

Here, let go.

On the Fluffy hunt again.

Can you watch them for a second?

I want to find out
when we're gonna to take the picture.

Did you girls hear about the lion?

And the funny lady?

This funny lady thought she was in love with a lion.

It’s just so startling.

So sad for Betty.

Yeah, I know.

It really is.

It’s hard for me to wrap
my head around it.

She was so young.

I think she was pretty smart too.

You know, she was in college.

Where was she?

Duke.

No, I mean,
where was she when it happened?

Oh, I think she was with them

in Arizona for the holiday.

She might have gotten something
that killed her in the hospital.

Hospitals are a breeding ground
for infections and bacteria.

Dad, she went to the hospital
because she was already sick.

She could have got something
more deadly in the hospital.

I don’t think so, Dad.

I need to find Fluffy.

Did she have asthma?

Maybe it was pneumonia or something?

They didn’t say.

Maybe ‘cause
they don't know. That's what I'm saying.

Can y’all
turn this off and watch the girls?

When are we gonna take the picture?

Ask your mother.

Do you know where she is?

No.

Maria, more coffee, please.

Has anyone seen Mom?

It's already past 10.
Do you think I can make my oatmeal now?

Or are we taking the picture soon?

I don't know.

Nobody's talking about it.

And I don't know where my mom is.

Are you mad?

I'm sorry you have to take the picture.

At least you don't have to be in it
since we're not married.

I just feel like we need to leave soon.

I know.

Oh, Frank’s here!

Who’s Frank?

He takes care of the place.

You're gonna love Frank.

He loves to chat.

Hey, Katy. How y'all doing today?

Pretty good.

We're just getting ready to leave, sadly.

We found out

that there was a live webcam at,
I think MIT.

It was like an eight story building
that these folks were in.

And I guess the coffeepot for the building
was on the second floor.

And there was a little blog post
about why the webcam.

And it was because people had gotten
really, really angry

at going, you know, finding your one break
and running

like six stories down to the second floor
from the top floor,

and discovering that nobody made coffee
or that somebody

had just left a pot on empty or,
you know, any number of things.

And then burned your whole break and,
you know, no coffee.

So they set up a webcam.

And it being the 90’s

like no one cared about the security of it
or anything.

Like, we were still trying
to get our heads around the idea that

anyone else would look at it
or find it or whatever. And

it became public knowledge,

and you can search it on God AltaVista
or whatever the hell we were using then.

Yeah.

And, so, at our office for,
for no good reason,

we kept, like everybody in
the office was really up on

how much coffee they had made
on the second floor of this building.

Because we kept that fucking webcam up.

We kept that webcam up all the time and

we watched them make coffee.

Take it out?

No, no.

Don’t take the eye out.

Why are you taking the eye out?

Just keep it in.

Taking the scales off with a stick.

I just ripped the eye,
look I just ripped the eye.

That's weird.

What if someone did it to us
while we were alive?

Yeah.

These fish

had no choice.

Wow.

Sorry, fishies but you had no choice.

Yeah, it was really scary.

It happened really fast, and they didn't
know what had caused it for a while.

Geez. When was that?

Last month.

She's back in the office, but
I think she's still experiencing symptoms.

And it has been so rough

having to deal with this employee
who supposedly has been beating his wife.

My boss is even entertaining the thought

not firing him.

I mean, it's just insane.

Have y’all seen mom?

When are we going to take the picture?

That’s so scary,
I didn’t think that even actually happens.

What, wife beating?

No, Laura.

My coworker was at the hospital
and almost died recently too.

We were just talking about how fast it can go.

How?

How what?

How did they almost die?

Sepsis.

That's horrible.

What exactly is sepsis?

It's a bacterial infection in your blood.

Sailors used to die from sepsis.

They'd get this terrible
infection in their gums

from scurvy,
because they didn't have fruit to eat.

Annabelle, you could get scurvy
if you don't eat your fruit.

Dad, we are not starting this.

Vegetables also supply Vitamin C.

I still don't understand
how you don't like fruit.

You think your

coworker could have also gotten
something more deadly in the hospital?

There's a lot of bacteria in there.

It was toxic shock syndrome.

Like from a tampon.

I just thought that was a myth.

It happens, I guess. Or it can.

Do you remember my friend Carrie?

From college?

She got sepsis from meningitis
and she lost her legs.

Oh, no.

That’s not funny.

I remember that. That was awful.

Is she okay now?

Yeah.

She can walk with her prosthetics.

And she's an activist
and an advocate for making the vaccine

mandatory on college campuses.

So now it's mandatory?

For state schools in Texas, yes, it is.

Oh, yeah, Dad, Frank's here.

Oh, yeah, where?

In the kitchen with Olek.

All right.

If you see Mom, can you tell her
we need to take the picture?

I will, sweetheart.

Papa C!

We want popsicles!

All right
if I don't eat them all, I'll bring you some.

You better not.

Grace, didn’t you have meningitis?

Viral, so it doesn't

escalate as fast, it's not as dangerous
as bacterial meningitis.

I remember that, though,
that was still scary.

Yeah, that's serious.

Yeah, lost my memory for a bit.

Yeah you didn't know who you were
or who the president was.

She did still

manage to get mom out of the room though
when they were taking her clothes off

so that she wouldn't see the giant panda
bear tattoo on her butt.

You’re a freak, Grace!

Oh, yeah.

Well, that was also the same year
that I got swine flu.

Swine flu, that’s a throwback.
Such a nasty name.

You remember, you called me in the middle
of the night to come jump that guy's car.

And I showed up super sick,
and then Mom woke up and saw

I wasn't there,
and then wow, showed up in her nightgown.

She looked like a ghoul.

Yeah mom and I were just appalled
that that skinny little hipster

that you were dating
didn't know how to jump a car.

Where is Mom?

Where's Mom?

I've been looking for her everywhere,
and it's like she's disappeared.

And we need to take the picture.

No one knows, Katy.

Katy, Betty’s daughter died

and no, we don't know where Mom is, all right?

You're really being obsessive.

When are we going to take the picture?!

God...

When are we going
to take the picture?!

Oh, God.

No...

Katy, we will find her.

Dad’s supposed to take us to the airport
at 11, and it’s almost 10:30

and Olek starts to feel sick
if he doesn't get something to eat.

And so we couldn't figure out
if he was supposed to eat

before or after the picture,
and we were supposed to take the picture

30 minutes ago.

We're going to find mom.

When are we gonna take the picture?

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

What?

Really?

Grace...

She’s being ridiculous.

Oh, yeah.

See how it’s come loose?

Yeah, there’s the culprit.

Exactly.

Now, see the copper wire
that’s going around it.

It needs to be tightened down, it's backed off.

You know, it's kind of
come unthreaded in the wrong direction.

So that's
why the electricity’s going on and off.

You know,
I was going to do this myself, but

they’d be planning my funeral next week.

Oh I don’t think that, man, you’d be ok.

Just make sure

if you do do it by yourself
you always turn off that circuit breaker,

because, you know, if you don't
and you hit that positive

wire, that’ll, you know, it'll wake you up
that's for sure.

Yeah.

I'm not much for this kind of thing.

We don’t know where my mom is. I’m
going to try to find her.

You can go ahead and cook that, I guess.

I don’t know.

Is that the socket?

Oh yeah.

It got all wet back there
from the garbage.

Right there?

Yeah, it kinda shocked me.

I almost electrocuted myself.

It was hard to see back there
behind the garbage can.

Looks pretty gnarly.
Are you sure you guys are gonna fix that?

Yeah, it should be fine, don’t worry.

There’s been a lot of broken stuff here
ever since Noelle.

Things just keep popping up.

Did anything happen here?

Well we lost a few trees, sadly.

But not too bad here.

Luckily, I got a generator over my house,
so I'm all right.

That’s good.

We had to stay with Jack and Grace,
and it was pretty hectic

over there with all those kids.
Five of them.

Laura and Stuart had to sleep
in the same room with them.

But you know, they had a generator.

The rest of us didn't have any power
or water.

It sounded horrible there were kids
that drowned in their homes.

Yeah.

Everything at the bay
is still completely wiped out.

Luckily, our house was on higher ground,
so we're okay.

Didn't an alligator wash up in the bay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it ate the Smith’s dog.

It ate the Smith’s dog?

Linda Smith she was so torn up about it,
she was there watching it happen

and of course there was nothing
she could do.

I hated that dog, man.

I’m sure she’s
completely traumatized by that.

I don’t think this is going to take
too much longer, Charles.

Are you mad at me?

I just don't know
what's happening right now.

It's just a little frustrating.

Are we taking the picture or not?

I know, I’m sorry. Let me go find my mom.

I started playing Baseball.

I love, I still love it.

But your Dad,
how was that when he came back?

Yeah, he didn’t sign up for another tour.

You know, he had,
you know I don't blame him, you know.

I mean, a lot of guys went back for

multiple tours,
but I mean, my Dad saw a ton of action.

I mean, you know, Vietnam helicopter pilots,

a lot of people don't know it
but they had a four week life expectancy.

Four weeks.

You know, and Dad was there for 16 months.

He stayed longer.

And they were only required,
they were only required to fly four days

out of seven.

But Dad said nobody,
none of the pilots ever

failed to go.

Something came up.

See he flew the Huey assaults, which, I don’t
know how much you know about that war,

but those are the armored weaponized Hueys
that go in first, right?

And then the ones carrying
all the U.S. troops, they come in behind.

So it was Dad’s time to go in there and...

Like I will have a whole conversation
with myself in the mirror.

Like just, blah blah blah blah blah,
you know.

And then she looked at me like I was
insane and I was like, well do you do it?

And she was just like, um...

Oh I...

It just made me...

Yeah, yeah.

I walk around my house by

myself and I'm like, okay,

okay.

Uh huh, but then she said that
it was a sign of genius.

Random things are signs of genius.

Yeah, well,
this one clearly actually isn't.

I don't mind, like, I’ll
take it. I’d rather

someone be like, that’s
a sign of genius, than like, you're crazy.

All day, I’ll be like,
what am I going to do today?

Well, I'm going to go do this
and then I’m going go to the grocery store

and then it’s just blah,
blah, blah all day.

Do you guys think of things in your head,

or, like, do you, like,
visualize them when you think about them?

Like, I heard that visualizing images in
your head is also sign of genius.

Yeah, I mean, yeah I can do that.

I'm like,

closing my eyes right now
and I can see the river in my head, yeah.

I don’t.

I like, I can't

imagine things or visualize images.

I just think, okay,

I'm going to go swimming later
without visualizing the river or whatever.

I think that's just the difference between
being a visual and auditory learner.

Yeah. And you do dream, don't you?

Or like as you're falling asleep,
you know.

Like when I'm falling asleep, I see like
all sorts of strange images in my head.

Like, for some reason,
I always see the same green squirrel.

A squirrel.

Close your eyes. Close your eyes.

Mm hmm.

Do you see a green squirrel?

Yeah.

Okay, It's like a cartoon squirrel, sure.

Try it.

Y’all are weird.

I’m not doing that.

Why?

Aren’t we going to take the picture?

We're ready when everyone else is.

Alright.

Y’all are weird, I’m not doing that.

Why? You dream!

I dream
but it’s different than visualizing things,

it’s a different state of being, right?

Mom!

Sweetheart, you and your mother
are gonna have to

have to put your capes
and use your superpowers for this one.

Mom!

Laura!

Come on!