1 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:23,642 I paint what I see. 2 00:00:25,108 --> 00:00:26,940 I paint how I feel. 3 00:00:28,111 --> 00:00:33,277 I'm a man who paints. Nothing more, nothing less. 4 00:00:38,205 --> 00:00:41,619 Every picture I paint always begins the same way. 5 00:00:43,126 --> 00:00:45,618 It begins in the same colour. 6 00:00:46,672 --> 00:00:50,586 Underneath every picture is the colour white. 7 00:00:52,594 --> 00:00:53,880 Flake white. 8 00:01:20,622 --> 00:01:21,863 Hmmm. 9 00:01:33,635 --> 00:01:35,718 Yeah. Huh. 10 00:01:40,892 --> 00:01:42,133 Hmm. 11 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:49,060 No. 12 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:59,652 Ah, caught you! I got, no, no. I saw you, I saw you. 13 00:02:00,495 --> 00:02:04,284 No, no, not today, no sweeties today. 14 00:02:04,541 --> 00:02:06,874 No, I've given them to all the good children... 15 00:02:07,127 --> 00:02:09,870 ...no, no, no, not today, no, no. 16 00:02:10,797 --> 00:02:13,835 Tomorrow if you're lucky. If you're not naughty. 17 00:02:14,092 --> 00:02:15,092 I need it today! 18 00:02:15,177 --> 00:02:17,840 Wash your face and I'll give you some tomorrow. 19 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:22,640 Two minutes. 20 00:02:23,477 --> 00:02:24,684 Oh, oh, hello. 21 00:02:25,437 --> 00:02:28,771 Oh, oh, very well, um, very well, yes, that's... 22 00:02:28,774 --> 00:02:31,608 Tell him I'll call around this time tomorrow. 23 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:33,396 Thank you, thank you. 24 00:02:39,076 --> 00:02:40,908 Sorry. 25 00:03:16,405 --> 00:03:19,068 There's that woman again. 26 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:24,570 Very refined. Hair and clothes immaculate. 27 00:03:26,123 --> 00:03:30,037 I approve. Middle class. 28 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:36,585 I dreamt of becoming a concert pianist. 29 00:03:36,842 --> 00:03:39,676 I practised and practised every day. 30 00:03:39,928 --> 00:03:41,794 When we lived in Victoria Park. 31 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:45,097 Ah, a different world. 32 00:03:49,730 --> 00:03:51,471 Is that you, Laurie? 33 00:03:51,732 --> 00:03:55,316 Yes, mother, it's me. Who else would it be? 34 00:03:55,569 --> 00:03:59,108 I've no idea. You could've been a burglar! 35 00:04:00,031 --> 00:04:02,569 Burglars don't have their own front door key. 36 00:04:02,826 --> 00:04:05,864 Anything's possible, living in Pendlebury. 37 00:04:06,121 --> 00:04:08,534 People get up to all sorts of malpractices 38 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:10,873 as soon as your back is turned. 39 00:04:11,376 --> 00:04:12,742 What are you doing? 40 00:04:15,172 --> 00:04:17,755 I'm hanging up me raincoat, mother. 41 00:04:18,383 --> 00:04:19,544 Don't let it drip. 42 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:22,219 No, mother. 43 00:04:22,429 --> 00:04:25,797 Wipe your feet. Shake that umbrella. 44 00:04:27,350 --> 00:04:29,342 Do you hear me, Laurie? 45 00:04:30,771 --> 00:04:32,433 Yes, I hear you, mother. 46 00:04:32,689 --> 00:04:34,555 Then why don't you answer me? 47 00:04:34,983 --> 00:04:36,349 Don't be so belligerent. 48 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:40,103 You're such a vexation. 49 00:05:09,684 --> 00:05:10,970 Enter. 50 00:05:15,482 --> 00:05:16,518 Good evening, mother. 51 00:05:16,775 --> 00:05:18,607 Good evening, Laurie. 52 00:05:29,246 --> 00:05:30,487 Right-oh. 53 00:05:53,478 --> 00:05:56,095 Did you remember to bolt the front door? 54 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:58,689 - Always do. - Ah, good. 55 00:05:58,942 --> 00:06:00,103 You can't be too careful. 56 00:06:02,237 --> 00:06:03,237 No, mother. 57 00:06:05,615 --> 00:06:08,028 There was a woman last week 58 00:06:09,077 --> 00:06:11,911 left her front door on the latch 59 00:06:12,956 --> 00:06:19,374 and in less than an hour she had no carpets. 60 00:06:21,381 --> 00:06:24,374 The culprits had rolled away the lot, 61 00:06:25,886 --> 00:06:28,674 including a rag rug. Oh, the pilferers. 62 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:30,262 Who told you that story? 63 00:06:30,515 --> 00:06:33,053 The Anglican Times, they don't lie. 64 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:38,434 That's the kind of people we have living around here - 65 00:06:38,690 --> 00:06:40,773 our neighbours, the... 66 00:06:41,568 --> 00:06:43,605 the working class. 67 00:06:44,821 --> 00:06:48,110 Where have you been? You're very late. 68 00:06:48,366 --> 00:06:51,950 You know where I've been, mother; spent the day working. 69 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:53,489 Where were you today? 70 00:06:54,539 --> 00:06:55,575 Old Trafford. 71 00:06:55,832 --> 00:06:58,666 I hope you've remembered to wash your hands. 72 00:07:00,128 --> 00:07:01,664 My hands are clean, mother. 73 00:07:01,922 --> 00:07:06,838 Oh, I'll be the judge of that. Let me see. 74 00:07:15,268 --> 00:07:16,509 Satisfied? 75 00:07:16,937 --> 00:07:18,644 I suppose they'll do. 76 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:28,404 Ah, now then. 77 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:32,074 Oh... 78 00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:45,546 How was your day, mother? 79 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:49,000 Oh, same as usual. 80 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:52,469 I just lie here, waiting for the inevitable. 81 00:07:52,722 --> 00:07:54,213 No, don't say that. 82 00:07:54,808 --> 00:07:58,472 Why not? It's true. There's no use deluding ourselves. 83 00:07:58,728 --> 00:08:01,812 We both know where my life is heading. 84 00:08:02,065 --> 00:08:04,432 No. You got years left in you. 85 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:06,730 How do you know? 86 00:08:06,736 --> 00:08:08,352 I can tell. 87 00:08:10,073 --> 00:08:11,280 Hope so. 88 00:08:12,951 --> 00:08:15,739 - Oh, oh, sorry, yeah. - Under there. 89 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:19,906 All right, all done. 90 00:08:21,376 --> 00:08:22,912 Right, thank you. 91 00:08:32,512 --> 00:08:36,426 - But you haven't sugared! - Oh, sorry about that. 92 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:42,933 Did you not find any distractions on your wireless today? 93 00:08:44,232 --> 00:08:45,973 - No. - The afternoon concert? 94 00:08:47,152 --> 00:08:48,438 No, I did not. 95 00:08:52,699 --> 00:08:56,613 Today's been one of my bad days. The pains... 96 00:08:58,329 --> 00:09:01,367 I, I thought my bed was turning into a coffin. 97 00:09:01,624 --> 00:09:03,741 You mustn't give up, mother. 98 00:09:04,002 --> 00:09:05,209 Why not? 99 00:09:05,462 --> 00:09:10,298 What kind of woman dreams of living in a two-up, two-down terrace 100 00:09:10,550 --> 00:09:12,587 in Pendlebury? 101 00:09:13,344 --> 00:09:16,132 - There, your tea. - Thank you. 102 00:09:18,099 --> 00:09:20,807 You'll feel better tomorrow. Won't you, ay? 103 00:09:21,061 --> 00:09:24,099 And mind, Dr Mills makes his visit, doesn't he? 104 00:09:24,856 --> 00:09:26,017 Oh, yes. 105 00:09:31,321 --> 00:09:34,485 Dr Mills makes one of his weekly sorties 106 00:09:34,741 --> 00:09:38,234 and I'm grateful for every one of his tonics. 107 00:09:38,495 --> 00:09:42,205 Yes, mother. Dr Mills keeps you cheerful, doesn't he? 108 00:09:42,457 --> 00:09:43,948 No, I'm never cheerful. 109 00:09:44,209 --> 00:09:48,874 I haven't felt cheerful since 1868, the year of my confirmation. 110 00:09:49,464 --> 00:09:51,046 That was a long time ago, mother. 111 00:09:51,299 --> 00:09:52,790 A lifetime. 112 00:09:53,468 --> 00:09:55,676 We're living in 1934. 113 00:09:55,929 --> 00:09:57,420 I'm aware of that. 114 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:05,473 I blame your father for everything. 115 00:10:07,148 --> 00:10:09,856 Such a downfall. 116 00:10:24,499 --> 00:10:26,286 Hello? It's the rent man. 117 00:10:29,963 --> 00:10:31,374 It's me. 118 00:10:34,134 --> 00:10:36,751 I had great hopes for you and your father. 119 00:10:36,761 --> 00:10:40,300 I thought you'd both be successful men of business. 120 00:10:40,557 --> 00:10:42,844 Men of speculation. 121 00:10:43,101 --> 00:10:46,014 But he wasn't capable and neither were you. 122 00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:49,054 Hopeless. 123 00:11:18,303 --> 00:11:20,420 I'm coming! 124 00:11:22,265 --> 00:11:24,473 What's for dinner? Laurie! 125 00:11:25,143 --> 00:11:28,386 - Sausages. - Pork or the beef? 126 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:32,689 - Pork. - Properly grilled, I hope. 127 00:11:33,276 --> 00:11:37,270 Singed. I can't digest anything greasy. 128 00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:39,192 I'm aware of that, mother. 129 00:12:03,514 --> 00:12:04,721 London. 130 00:13:05,660 --> 00:13:07,947 How many sausages do you want, mother? 131 00:13:08,204 --> 00:13:12,244 I can't digest a thing. Not this evening. 132 00:13:12,667 --> 00:13:16,001 - One or two? - Three. 133 00:13:16,254 --> 00:13:17,790 Righto. 134 00:13:19,007 --> 00:13:23,547 And a round of bread and butter. To ease my digestion. 135 00:13:24,512 --> 00:13:26,504 Bread will lay a lining. 136 00:13:26,764 --> 00:13:29,097 Righto. 137 00:13:32,186 --> 00:13:33,472 Where did you purchase them? 138 00:13:33,730 --> 00:13:36,313 - What? - The sausages. 139 00:13:38,735 --> 00:13:40,442 - A butcher's. - Which butchers? 140 00:13:40,695 --> 00:13:43,153 McCreadie's or Harrison's? 141 00:13:43,406 --> 00:13:46,865 - McCreadie's. - Aah. 142 00:13:50,455 --> 00:13:52,617 You can't go wrong with Arthur McCreadie. 143 00:13:53,291 --> 00:13:55,954 He's been slaughtering things for years. 144 00:13:58,046 --> 00:14:02,086 Mm, did you purchase them from Arthur McCreadie or the boy? 145 00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:04,425 Um, the boy. 146 00:14:04,927 --> 00:14:08,762 Ohh, he sees you coming, that boy. 147 00:14:09,015 --> 00:14:10,881 - He does not. - Yes, he does. 148 00:14:17,231 --> 00:14:19,018 He'll sell you any old sausage. 149 00:14:20,568 --> 00:14:21,979 He's canny. 150 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:26,773 He was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. 151 00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:28,695 Whereas you were born... 152 00:14:28,951 --> 00:14:31,409 - What? - ...unworldly. 153 00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:40,670 Unworldly... There's no harm done in being unworldly, is there? 154 00:14:42,340 --> 00:14:46,710 Time after time, I'm amused by life. 155 00:14:47,929 --> 00:14:50,012 And saddened by it. 156 00:14:55,478 --> 00:14:57,219 Oh, oh! 157 00:15:10,201 --> 00:15:13,365 - Still raining. - Still raining? 158 00:15:15,873 --> 00:15:17,409 Pitter patter. 159 00:15:18,209 --> 00:15:20,667 - Pitter patter. - Pitter patter. 160 00:15:22,338 --> 00:15:26,503 - God's tears. - God's tears. 161 00:15:35,810 --> 00:15:40,396 I long for you to be happy, mother. One day. 162 00:15:42,733 --> 00:15:45,897 - Do you? - Yes. 163 00:15:47,488 --> 00:15:50,105 Let's not be sentimental, Laurie. 164 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:00,999 There's that woman again. 165 00:16:01,252 --> 00:16:03,665 - Which woman? - Our new neighbour. 166 00:16:06,174 --> 00:16:08,587 Oh, really? Oh. 167 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,471 Such a social life, hasn't she? Can you see what she's wearing? 168 00:16:14,724 --> 00:16:17,558 Uh, clothes. 169 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:20,974 - Oh, don't be so stupid. - I was joking, mother. 170 00:16:21,230 --> 00:16:22,937 Who's laughing? 171 00:16:25,443 --> 00:16:29,312 She's always immaculately dressed, isn't she? 172 00:16:29,572 --> 00:16:31,814 A woman of quality. 173 00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:38,240 I approve. 174 00:16:40,791 --> 00:16:43,499 Come on, come on to mummy! 175 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,166 My baby, come on. 176 00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:50,757 I wonder why she's living 'round here. 177 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:56,005 My thoughts precisely. She's certainly a cut above the rest. 178 00:16:57,099 --> 00:16:58,886 Perhaps she's fallen on hard times. 179 00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:02,056 Not with a fur-trimmed collar. 180 00:17:02,522 --> 00:17:05,890 And a husband who wears expensively cut suits. 181 00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:10,026 What haven't you noticed his debonair trilby? 182 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:14,398 - No I haven't. - You should be more observant. 183 00:17:14,659 --> 00:17:18,118 A man needs to show an interest in business people. 184 00:17:18,829 --> 00:17:22,869 If he is to get on in life. I'm always telling you that. 185 00:17:25,503 --> 00:17:26,789 Good boy. 186 00:17:43,896 --> 00:17:48,106 You need to cultivate important people, Laurie, to better yourself. 187 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,359 But you never listened, 188 00:17:49,527 --> 00:17:55,819 you preferred to sit upstairs in the attic, attending to your hobby. 189 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:57,657 It's not a hobby, mother. 190 00:17:57,910 --> 00:18:00,994 - Isn't it? - No, it's not. 191 00:18:01,247 --> 00:18:02,909 What do you call it? 192 00:18:03,958 --> 00:18:06,245 And where has it got you, this hobby? 193 00:18:08,045 --> 00:18:11,880 Nowhere. We can't afford it. 194 00:18:12,133 --> 00:18:16,673 You sitting up there, night after night, burning the gas. 195 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:18,511 Think of the unpaid bills. 196 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:20,630 I'm paying them back, mother. 197 00:18:21,225 --> 00:18:24,593 Father's debts. You're not to worry. 198 00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:28,347 How are you going to pay them back on the wages of a junior clerk? 199 00:18:30,693 --> 00:18:35,654 You're a middle-aged man. Not a word of promotion in 25 years. 200 00:18:38,034 --> 00:18:40,947 I shall do it, mother. I promise. 201 00:18:41,203 --> 00:18:45,868 I'm determined to pay father's creditors back. Bit by bit. 202 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:51,082 Ah, ever hopeful. 203 00:18:53,382 --> 00:18:55,624 Hope gets a lot of people through life, mother. 204 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,472 Ever hopeful. 205 00:19:13,611 --> 00:19:20,029 Most people in Pendlebury are bone idle, that's their trouble. 206 00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:25,989 People can't help being poor. No shame having nothing, is there? 207 00:19:26,248 --> 00:19:30,618 Of course there's shame. We are middle-class, Laurie. 208 00:19:31,379 --> 00:19:33,416 We lived above our means, mother. 209 00:19:35,216 --> 00:19:40,052 Father knew it. He tried to keep you happy. 210 00:19:40,304 --> 00:19:47,143 Happy? The day we married it rained. Misfortune poured upon me ever since. 211 00:19:47,895 --> 00:19:49,887 He made me into the family joke. 212 00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,894 For years and years he borrowed money off my relations, 213 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:54,607 I knew nothing about it. 214 00:20:00,241 --> 00:20:06,579 I served your aunties and uncles French pastries from Greenhalgh's, 215 00:20:06,831 --> 00:20:09,744 while all the time we were penniless. 216 00:20:10,751 --> 00:20:16,042 They must've thought my Nottingham lace doilies ridiculous. 217 00:20:19,468 --> 00:20:22,006 - May I offer anybody else more tea? - Ah, yes. 218 00:20:33,149 --> 00:20:36,358 You never liked any one of my paintings, mother? 219 00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:42,230 No. 220 00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:45,450 I'm not the only one, am I? 221 00:20:51,792 --> 00:20:54,455 Have you read the evening newspaper? 222 00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:57,628 The evening paper, mother? 223 00:20:57,882 --> 00:21:02,968 Yes, you usually bring an evening newspaper home, don't you? 224 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:10,220 - Well, this evening... I forgot. - Oh, oh you forgot. 225 00:21:13,564 --> 00:21:19,105 Oh, well then. Shall I read it to you? 226 00:21:19,361 --> 00:21:21,321 I don't need you to read me the newspaper, mother. 227 00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:26,446 Why not? You need to be enlightened. 228 00:21:28,579 --> 00:21:30,241 'An ugly painting. 229 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,874 The painting by Mr L.S. Lowry - Coming From The Mill - 230 00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:38,166 is confusing and appears to have been painted by a child. 231 00:21:38,422 --> 00:21:42,132 The figures if we may call them figures are nothing but smudges. 232 00:21:42,384 --> 00:21:46,924 Ridiculous marionettes suspended in a squalid industrial scene. 233 00:21:47,181 --> 00:21:51,676 If this is Mr Lowry's vision of the Lancashire landscape and its people, 234 00:21:51,936 --> 00:21:53,677 I feel very sorry for him. 235 00:21:53,938 --> 00:22:00,230 It is a most unsatisfactory picture and an insult to the people of Lancashire.' 236 00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:23,631 Mr Denby is not impressed, Laurie! 237 00:22:24,385 --> 00:22:26,502 What does he know? 238 00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:28,253 What does he know? 239 00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:32,349 He knows more than you know. He knows everything! He's an art critic! 240 00:22:32,601 --> 00:22:36,220 I'm not interested in what Mr Denby knows, mother. 241 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,143 He doesn't know me and I don't know him. 242 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,770 He knows something about your picture! 'Coming From The Mill'. 243 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:47,488 He doesn't approve! He decrees it an insult! 244 00:22:47,741 --> 00:22:49,698 Why do you do it, Laurie? 245 00:22:49,952 --> 00:22:52,160 Painting these squalid industrial scenes, 246 00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:55,121 that nobody wants to buy! 247 00:22:56,208 --> 00:22:57,665 Paint what I see, mother. 248 00:22:58,335 --> 00:23:00,201 Nothing more, nothing less. 249 00:23:02,423 --> 00:23:03,709 Paint how I feel. 250 00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:07,835 How you feel? What about how I feel? 251 00:23:08,721 --> 00:23:11,179 I don't want to feel like everybody's laughing at me. 252 00:23:12,182 --> 00:23:13,889 Nobody's laughing at you, mother. 253 00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:17,477 Laughing at my paintings is a laugh at me. 254 00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:21,940 Yes! Every painting looks as if it was painted by a child. 255 00:23:22,192 --> 00:23:25,560 Yes, but a child didn't paint it, mother, I did. 256 00:23:25,821 --> 00:23:29,064 Yes, precisely. 257 00:23:29,325 --> 00:23:31,908 Oh, give it up. Laurie. 258 00:23:34,288 --> 00:23:35,904 For my sake. 259 00:23:38,792 --> 00:23:40,374 Try and find another hobby. 260 00:23:43,339 --> 00:23:47,549 It's not a hobby! Mother. I went to art school. 261 00:23:47,801 --> 00:23:50,714 Night school. For 15 years. 262 00:23:51,305 --> 00:23:53,513 And where's it got you? Nowhere. 263 00:23:53,766 --> 00:23:57,680 I know everything about artistic attributes, Laurie, 264 00:23:57,937 --> 00:24:01,897 and you don't have any. You're not an artist and you never will be. 265 00:24:10,366 --> 00:24:11,902 Then what am I, mother? 266 00:24:15,746 --> 00:24:19,990 Ever since you were born, I've asked myself the same question. 267 00:24:20,668 --> 00:24:22,705 What is Laurie's purpose? 268 00:24:22,962 --> 00:24:24,419 Why was he born? 269 00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:26,871 And I don't know! 270 00:24:28,092 --> 00:24:31,426 I've got no idea what or who you are! 271 00:24:44,692 --> 00:24:46,649 I'm a man who paints. 272 00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:50,733 Nothing more, nothing less. 273 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:54,190 I paint to fill in the time. 274 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:56,488 I paint for something to do. 275 00:24:58,163 --> 00:25:00,120 I'm not fit for anything else. 276 00:25:03,836 --> 00:25:08,251 Night after night I sit up here. In the attic. 277 00:25:09,925 --> 00:25:12,008 Nothing in the house stirs. 278 00:25:13,679 --> 00:25:15,591 The smell of the turpentine. 279 00:25:16,390 --> 00:25:18,757 The hiss of the gas jet. 280 00:25:34,616 --> 00:25:40,032 Outside, one solitary star watches over me. 281 00:25:45,044 --> 00:25:47,286 This is my world. 282 00:25:49,465 --> 00:25:50,831 I'm safe here. 283 00:25:53,135 --> 00:25:54,251 Alone. 284 00:26:05,773 --> 00:26:09,016 I paint and I paint. 285 00:26:09,276 --> 00:26:14,567 A smudge here with my finger. A stroke of the brush there. 286 00:27:13,674 --> 00:27:16,462 I see light and atmosphere. 287 00:27:17,094 --> 00:27:18,835 In the bleakest of places. 288 00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:22,718 A railway arch, a stone viaduct. 289 00:27:24,309 --> 00:27:25,971 I see beauty in everything. 290 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:30,396 A man just has to open his eyes and look. 291 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:33,225 Observe everything. 292 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:35,484 - Hello! - Hello! 293 00:27:36,113 --> 00:27:37,479 Life! 294 00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:40,610 What does that make me? 295 00:27:43,245 --> 00:27:44,907 Am I an artist? 296 00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:50,245 What would you call yourself, Laurie? 297 00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,377 Hello! It's the rent collector. 298 00:28:05,142 --> 00:28:07,008 Rent man's here! 299 00:28:08,061 --> 00:28:09,723 It's me! 300 00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:16,564 Mr L.S. Lowry. 301 00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:32,746 Oh, this is a lovely desert, Laurie. 302 00:28:33,462 --> 00:28:35,829 You've really excelled yourself this evening. 303 00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:38,923 A real treat for my digestion. 304 00:28:39,176 --> 00:28:40,456 Glad you're enjoying it, mother. 305 00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:42,384 - Thank you. - I did. 306 00:28:43,931 --> 00:28:46,173 Can't go wrong with prunes and custard. 307 00:28:55,609 --> 00:28:56,941 What time it is? 308 00:28:58,195 --> 00:29:00,528 - Eight o'clock. - How do you know? 309 00:29:01,490 --> 00:29:05,905 Because the clock in the hall just chimed. 310 00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:34,304 Why can't you set my clocks properly, Laurie? 311 00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:36,146 I don't know where I am. 312 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,019 There's a knack to telling the time in this house, mother. 313 00:29:40,988 --> 00:29:42,695 The method. 314 00:29:48,537 --> 00:29:50,870 There's a method in your madness, I'll give you that. 315 00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:55,453 - I muddle through. - Yes, you're a muddle all right. 316 00:29:55,711 --> 00:29:58,419 You're a one-off, I'll give you that. 317 00:29:58,672 --> 00:30:01,085 Well we can't all be the same article, can we mother? 318 00:30:01,341 --> 00:30:02,548 Oh, no, that's true. 319 00:30:12,811 --> 00:30:15,519 You were late again, home, this evening. 320 00:30:16,231 --> 00:30:17,392 Laurie, weren't you? 321 00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:21,647 - Was I? - Yes, at least 10 minutes late. 322 00:30:24,573 --> 00:30:27,111 I was beginning to get worried, what were you doing? 323 00:30:28,327 --> 00:30:29,613 I um... 324 00:30:34,791 --> 00:30:36,077 Nothing. 325 00:32:00,293 --> 00:32:02,159 Right. 326 00:32:15,767 --> 00:32:17,099 Well? 327 00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:23,897 I've got some news to tell you, mother. 328 00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:27,815 News? What kind of news? 329 00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:34,693 - I've received a letter. - A summons? Father's debts? 330 00:32:34,703 --> 00:32:36,911 No, no, no, no... 331 00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:43,038 I received this letter the other day... and it's um, 332 00:32:44,254 --> 00:32:45,461 it's from London. 333 00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:48,296 - London? - Yes. 334 00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:52,589 London? Who do you know from London? 335 00:32:52,846 --> 00:32:54,803 A Mr Bernstein, mother. 336 00:32:56,892 --> 00:32:59,635 Mr Bernstein is a gallery owner. 337 00:33:01,938 --> 00:33:03,179 And uh.. 338 00:33:03,690 --> 00:33:07,149 He wants to see some of my, my paintings and if he likes them, 339 00:33:07,694 --> 00:33:10,528 there's a, there's the possibility of me having an exhibition. 340 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:12,946 Isn't, isn't that marvellous? At last, 341 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,193 somebody's seen something in, in me paintings. 342 00:33:17,871 --> 00:33:19,453 London! 343 00:33:19,706 --> 00:33:23,825 Aye, aye, London. What do you say? 344 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,710 You can't believe everything that's written in a letter. 345 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,299 Laurie. Especially not a letter from London. 346 00:33:32,552 --> 00:33:35,420 Pretentious people make all sorts of promises 347 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,467 and they've no intention of keeping them. 348 00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:42,094 Uh, Mr Bernstein sounded very genuine 349 00:33:42,354 --> 00:33:43,794 when I spoke to him on the telephone. 350 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:47,265 Telephone? You telephoned Mr Bernstein? 351 00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:51,065 Eventually got through to him this, this evening. 352 00:33:51,321 --> 00:33:53,187 So that's why I was, you know... 353 00:33:54,908 --> 00:33:56,024 What did he say? 354 00:33:57,452 --> 00:34:00,911 - Praised me. - He praised you? 355 00:34:01,665 --> 00:34:03,577 I've no reason to doubt him, mother. 356 00:34:05,418 --> 00:34:07,956 Oh, well that depends, doesn't it? 357 00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:11,923 - On what? - On whether he can be trusted. 358 00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:15,464 Still, it's a nice letter as letters go. 359 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,256 Put it up on the mantelpiece. 360 00:34:17,514 --> 00:34:19,380 Save it for a rainy day. 361 00:34:20,809 --> 00:34:23,392 Well everyone needs a little encouragement 362 00:34:23,645 --> 00:34:26,137 now and then I suppose. 363 00:34:38,034 --> 00:34:40,526 'Dear Mr Lowry, Dear Mr..' 364 00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:50,790 'Dear Mr Lowry, there is a simplicity to your work. 365 00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:57,586 Nothing is artificially created through... 366 00:34:57,846 --> 00:35:01,260 ...through likeness or representation. 367 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:08,563 All is conveyed through sheer expression of feeling.' 368 00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:11,895 Feelings. 369 00:35:18,658 --> 00:35:20,524 I've cold feet. 370 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:09,749 - I said, put your teeth back in. - But my teeth hurt. 371 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:13,244 Well I don't care, I'm not kissing you with no teeth in. 372 00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:14,712 It's unhygienic. 373 00:36:23,056 --> 00:36:25,173 What are you staring at, Laurie? 374 00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:30,519 Flames from the fire. 375 00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:34,395 Fluttering. Like moths' wings. 376 00:36:37,779 --> 00:36:40,487 The things you see. 377 00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:47,495 Where you get it from, I don't know. Not from me, that's for sure. 378 00:36:50,667 --> 00:36:52,374 Imagination. 379 00:36:57,841 --> 00:36:59,707 You'll never leave me, will you Laurie? 380 00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:07,048 - No, mother. - Promise? 381 00:37:24,576 --> 00:37:27,193 I promise. 382 00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:30,074 Ah, oh that's good. 383 00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:37,503 That's right. After all, what woman would have you? 384 00:37:40,049 --> 00:37:45,295 You and me, forever and ever. 385 00:37:47,766 --> 00:37:49,428 Lying here. 386 00:37:50,226 --> 00:37:51,558 Safe. 387 00:37:55,482 --> 00:37:57,769 Floating away. 388 00:37:59,486 --> 00:38:00,602 Like a boat. 389 00:38:04,032 --> 00:38:05,273 Yes. 390 00:38:06,242 --> 00:38:11,362 Like a boat on the sea. Floating away. 391 00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,040 Safe. 392 00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:23,750 Oh, those mongrels. 393 00:38:24,469 --> 00:38:27,507 Always spoil everything, don't they? 394 00:38:58,211 --> 00:39:00,498 Brush my hair, will you? 395 00:39:20,149 --> 00:39:21,765 Tell me about your day. 396 00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:24,730 What would you like to know, mother? 397 00:39:24,988 --> 00:39:27,526 Oh, everything. Your day is my day. 398 00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:32,906 I see no one, only the maid. 399 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,912 How's that feel? 400 00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:38,491 Lovely. 401 00:39:46,301 --> 00:39:48,793 Oh, you brush beautifully. 402 00:39:51,848 --> 00:39:57,139 Well, today mother, I saw a man... 403 00:39:57,729 --> 00:39:58,845 Rent man! 404 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,144 - Oh, oh, it's you, Mr Lowry. - Seem to have caught you there. 405 00:40:03,484 --> 00:40:05,271 Vera, Mr Lowry's here! 406 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:07,144 A man? 407 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:09,988 - Yes. - What kind of a man? 408 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:12,824 I saw a man having a bath. 409 00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:14,077 - A bath? - Yes. 410 00:40:14,329 --> 00:40:16,946 - What's it like down there? - Bloody dark. 411 00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:19,873 Vera! Mr Lowry's here! 412 00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:23,210 He was a coal miner at Agecroft Colliery. 413 00:40:23,463 --> 00:40:26,797 His wife wouldn't let him in the house unclean. 414 00:40:27,050 --> 00:40:28,916 Five shilling, miss. 415 00:40:29,177 --> 00:40:31,965 Mr Lowry, we're a bob short this week. 416 00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:35,430 Oh, are you? Oh, right. Well, that's twice isn't it this year. 417 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:37,763 I'm sorry. Couldn't get the hours, could you Stanley? 418 00:40:37,894 --> 00:40:40,181 - Can't get blood out of stone. - What are you doing? 419 00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:41,895 Where's me bloody towel? 420 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,851 How disgusting. 421 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,693 Oh, the sights you see in Salford. 422 00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:50,279 There's mother having her tea inside. 423 00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:53,528 Come back here when I'm talking to you, where you going? 424 00:40:54,077 --> 00:40:55,864 What's the world coming to? 425 00:40:57,956 --> 00:41:01,540 The type of heathens you have to visit beggars belief. 426 00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:05,620 - I don't mind. - You should mind. 427 00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:11,884 Ah, it's, it's informative seeing how others live, mother. It's lives. 428 00:41:11,886 --> 00:41:14,003 - Sordid life. - No, it's real life. 429 00:41:14,263 --> 00:41:16,300 It's all part of the picture, mother. 430 00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:19,679 People are like monkeys, most of them. 431 00:41:23,523 --> 00:41:25,185 Guess what else I saw today? 432 00:41:27,652 --> 00:41:28,813 I don't want to guess. 433 00:41:29,070 --> 00:41:31,107 - Let me tell you. - No. 434 00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:32,364 Today... 435 00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:34,860 I saw a woman... 436 00:41:35,702 --> 00:41:37,659 - A woman? - Yes. 437 00:41:38,121 --> 00:41:39,487 What kind of woman? 438 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:43,241 A woman... taking a ride on a bus. 439 00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:45,538 So what's so unusual about that? 440 00:41:48,381 --> 00:41:49,622 She had a beard. 441 00:41:53,011 --> 00:41:55,298 You saw a woman with a beard? 442 00:41:55,722 --> 00:41:56,722 Yes! 443 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:58,640 Whiskers. 444 00:41:58,725 --> 00:41:59,966 Whiskers? 445 00:42:01,561 --> 00:42:05,271 Whi...? What was she wearing whiskers for? 446 00:42:06,441 --> 00:42:09,434 No idea. Didn't ask her. 447 00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:10,980 Why not? 448 00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:13,520 It's not polite, mother. 449 00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:16,649 - But, was it detachable? - Detachable? 450 00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:21,700 Yes! Detachable, elasticated. Was she going to a fancy dress do? 451 00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:22,992 No. 452 00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:25,832 Then what was she wearing a beard in public for? 453 00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:30,545 Well she was growing it. 454 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:32,922 Is that legal? 455 00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:35,379 Presume so. 456 00:42:36,846 --> 00:42:38,257 Was it real? 457 00:42:39,307 --> 00:42:40,468 Yes. 458 00:42:41,768 --> 00:42:44,101 - Her beard was real. - And it was clean? 459 00:42:44,353 --> 00:42:46,595 It was combed to perfection. 460 00:42:51,694 --> 00:42:53,401 She had a dignity. 461 00:42:55,698 --> 00:42:56,905 A nobleness. 462 00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:01,659 An acceptance of who she was. 463 00:43:07,627 --> 00:43:09,038 I found her rather... 464 00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:15,133 ...beautiful. 465 00:43:21,933 --> 00:43:23,549 How disgusting. 466 00:43:27,230 --> 00:43:28,230 You amaze me. 467 00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:31,105 The things you say, the things you see... 468 00:43:31,359 --> 00:43:34,193 no wonder you've never had a girlfriend. 469 00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,005 That's got nothing to do with anything. 470 00:43:36,114 --> 00:43:37,114 Yes it has. 471 00:43:38,241 --> 00:43:40,984 You find things beautiful nobody else does. 472 00:43:41,244 --> 00:43:46,706 I did a sketch of her on the back of an envelope, would you like to see it? 473 00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:48,286 There. 474 00:43:55,550 --> 00:43:58,384 No. I do not. 475 00:43:59,512 --> 00:44:02,596 I've no interest in life's deformities. 476 00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:08,886 Mother. Thought might like to paint her one day. 477 00:44:10,106 --> 00:44:12,314 Capture her likeness for others to see. 478 00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:24,652 The woman belongs in a circus freak show, not in a picture frame. 479 00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:26,653 How embarrassing. 480 00:44:27,582 --> 00:44:31,542 Why can't you paint something picturesque? 481 00:44:31,794 --> 00:44:33,626 You know, something tasteful? 482 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,714 What exactly do you suggest that I paint, mother? 483 00:44:36,966 --> 00:44:41,006 Bowl of fruit would be a great improvement. 484 00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:43,799 People like to see nice things. 485 00:44:44,473 --> 00:44:46,465 Flowers appeal to everyone. 486 00:44:46,726 --> 00:44:47,726 Still life. 487 00:44:47,852 --> 00:44:51,311 Apples, oranges, bunch of grapes... 488 00:44:51,564 --> 00:44:52,930 A few pears. 489 00:44:53,191 --> 00:44:55,558 Bananas. Piled high. 490 00:44:55,818 --> 00:44:57,559 Oh no, don't be ridiculous. 491 00:44:58,362 --> 00:45:00,069 My paintings are... 492 00:45:00,323 --> 00:45:04,818 They're not just pictures of factories, mills, and streets, mother. 493 00:45:06,913 --> 00:45:10,953 Every window, every brick, every stroke of colour, it's... 494 00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:14,326 It's made up of me. 495 00:45:22,470 --> 00:45:24,132 I have to do it, mother. 496 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:30,472 I'm compelled to put down everything. 497 00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:33,391 You should visit Dr Mills. 498 00:45:35,066 --> 00:45:36,648 You're not right in the head. 499 00:45:37,443 --> 00:45:38,854 Control yourself. 500 00:45:39,362 --> 00:45:40,478 When... 501 00:45:41,113 --> 00:45:42,354 See when I'm... 502 00:45:43,449 --> 00:45:46,613 When I'm walking through Salford streets, 503 00:45:46,869 --> 00:45:50,658 collecting the rounds, people's rent, 504 00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:56,286 I feel that I need to capture a way of life, mother. 505 00:45:57,171 --> 00:45:59,879 You see... our world. 506 00:46:01,592 --> 00:46:02,833 The truth. 507 00:46:04,929 --> 00:46:06,420 How dare you? 508 00:46:07,556 --> 00:46:09,969 The truth has nothing to do with living in Pendlebury. 509 00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:17,515 Our world is elsewhere, back in the house we had to leave in Victoria Park. 510 00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:21,852 We came here... your father couldn't afford... 511 00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:25,610 ...for us to live anywhere else. He failed us. 512 00:46:26,158 --> 00:46:29,868 Laurie, he failed me. 513 00:46:33,499 --> 00:46:35,161 It was years ago, mother. 514 00:46:43,384 --> 00:46:46,252 I belonged in Victoria Park. 515 00:46:46,512 --> 00:46:49,095 A place with starched white collars. 516 00:46:49,557 --> 00:46:52,516 And the scent of lavender soap on people's skin. 517 00:46:52,768 --> 00:46:54,304 It's a different world. 518 00:47:04,989 --> 00:47:07,026 I cannot abide ugliness. 519 00:47:07,283 --> 00:47:09,650 I haven't the constitution for it. 520 00:47:09,910 --> 00:47:12,823 I've never stepped near the mill in my life. 521 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,242 The very idea is abhorrent. 522 00:47:16,709 --> 00:47:19,229 There's a mill across the street, mother. And around the corner. 523 00:47:22,506 --> 00:47:24,668 We... hear the sound of it. 524 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,592 People labour there every day. 525 00:47:28,929 --> 00:47:32,388 The life of it, we hear it thumping, thumping away. 526 00:47:37,355 --> 00:47:38,812 We're part of it, mother. 527 00:47:41,692 --> 00:47:42,933 It's humanity. 528 00:47:46,322 --> 00:47:47,483 Survival. 529 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,447 It's the battle for life. 530 00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:03,462 Where is the beauty? 531 00:48:10,388 --> 00:48:11,720 There. 532 00:48:21,941 --> 00:48:24,308 Like rats, they are. 533 00:48:37,081 --> 00:48:43,294 Ivory black, vermillion, Prussian blue, yellow ochre. 534 00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:47,797 Crowds can be the loneliest of places. 535 00:48:49,135 --> 00:48:54,472 They haunt me... the lonely souls. 536 00:48:59,186 --> 00:49:00,927 Ghosts... 537 00:49:17,413 --> 00:49:18,870 Is that you, Laurie? 538 00:49:19,748 --> 00:49:21,114 Yes, mother. 539 00:49:21,375 --> 00:49:22,582 Who else would it be? 540 00:49:22,835 --> 00:49:26,499 I've no idea, you could've been anyone. 541 00:49:40,311 --> 00:49:41,311 Come in. 542 00:49:43,397 --> 00:49:45,059 Good evening... 543 00:49:49,612 --> 00:49:52,980 Ooh, right, yeah... 544 00:49:54,283 --> 00:49:57,196 Lovely. What's a... 545 00:50:00,539 --> 00:50:02,451 Tell me, why the... 546 00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:05,826 Today I had a visitor. 547 00:50:06,212 --> 00:50:07,623 - A visitor? - Mm-hm. 548 00:50:10,883 --> 00:50:12,215 We don't have visitors. 549 00:50:13,093 --> 00:50:15,210 - I do. - No, you don't. 550 00:50:16,055 --> 00:50:17,449 You made sure the world paid for 10 years. 551 00:50:17,473 --> 00:50:20,393 The only visitors you get are Dr Mills and the girl who does your dusting. 552 00:50:21,101 --> 00:50:22,381 Sneaks in the evening newspaper. 553 00:50:22,436 --> 00:50:25,679 Well... today I had a visitor. 554 00:50:26,315 --> 00:50:28,523 Visitor... who? 555 00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:31,939 - Can't you guess? - No. 556 00:50:32,196 --> 00:50:33,357 - Yes you can. - No, I can't. 557 00:50:33,614 --> 00:50:36,231 - Yes, you can. - No, I can't. Was it a bailiff? 558 00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:40,577 Oh, no. You always bring in such horrible things. 559 00:50:41,121 --> 00:50:43,408 No... today... 560 00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:46,574 I had a lady caller. 561 00:50:50,256 --> 00:50:51,256 Who? 562 00:50:52,341 --> 00:50:54,924 Our new neighbour from next door. 563 00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,255 Mrs Stanhope. 564 00:50:59,265 --> 00:51:02,224 - Mrs Stanhope? - Mrs Stanhope. 565 00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:04,721 She wanted to see me. 566 00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:07,763 She's making collection for St. Boniface's Church. 567 00:51:08,023 --> 00:51:09,264 The restoration fund. 568 00:51:09,525 --> 00:51:12,893 So I said, of course, she could come in. Let her in. 569 00:51:13,153 --> 00:51:17,067 You? You let a stranger in the house? You? 570 00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,407 Mrs Stanhope's not a stranger. 571 00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:20,910 Laurie! 572 00:51:21,245 --> 00:51:23,828 Doreen's my new found friend! 573 00:51:24,582 --> 00:51:25,789 Doreen? 574 00:51:26,375 --> 00:51:27,375 Yes. 575 00:51:28,168 --> 00:51:29,534 We've a lot in common. 576 00:51:31,630 --> 00:51:35,089 Doreen's husband is making her life a misery. 577 00:51:35,342 --> 00:51:36,444 Do you think I'm made of money? 578 00:51:36,468 --> 00:51:38,113 Well that's what you kept saying when you were courting me. 579 00:51:38,137 --> 00:51:40,254 He's a Labour Party Councillor. 580 00:51:40,514 --> 00:51:41,634 I can't win with you, can I? 581 00:51:41,890 --> 00:51:44,303 So she's forced to live in Pendlebury. 582 00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:45,226 In the filth. 583 00:51:45,227 --> 00:51:46,227 You keep your act. 584 00:51:46,353 --> 00:51:47,810 She's not pleased. 585 00:51:48,063 --> 00:51:50,225 And you can live alone horrible house in Pendlebury. 586 00:51:50,482 --> 00:51:53,225 She shops in Marshall and Snelgrove's. 587 00:51:54,361 --> 00:51:55,522 Oh. 588 00:52:11,503 --> 00:52:12,503 She stay for long? 589 00:52:13,547 --> 00:52:16,085 Oh, long enough to have a polite conversation 590 00:52:16,342 --> 00:52:19,335 and to form an acquaintance and Laurie... 591 00:52:19,345 --> 00:52:20,381 that's not all. 592 00:52:20,638 --> 00:52:22,800 She admired one of your paintings. 593 00:52:26,310 --> 00:52:27,310 Which, which one? 594 00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:31,809 'Sailing Boats', 1930. 595 00:52:34,693 --> 00:52:37,481 Mrs Stanhope knows about paintings, she goes to art shows. 596 00:52:37,738 --> 00:52:42,608 Course she'd never heard about you, but she admired your painting. 597 00:52:43,702 --> 00:52:45,534 She never... 598 00:52:45,788 --> 00:52:47,950 "It's a perfectly delightful picture." 599 00:52:48,582 --> 00:52:51,825 "It's a perfectly delightful picture." 600 00:52:55,964 --> 00:52:59,708 - That's wonderful, isn't it? - Yes! 601 00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:04,509 I'm amazed. Actually, I'm... 602 00:53:05,474 --> 00:53:07,261 Well, flabbergasted, actually. 603 00:53:09,353 --> 00:53:14,690 So was I. Oh, Laurie. Fetch it up here so I can see it for myself. 604 00:53:14,942 --> 00:53:20,904 I want to savour Mrs Stanhope's "perfectly delightful picture." 605 00:53:21,824 --> 00:53:23,486 - You do? - I do! 606 00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:26,029 Go on, now, hurry up! 607 00:53:52,354 --> 00:53:54,220 Be careful now! 608 00:53:55,816 --> 00:53:57,728 Oh, such excitement. 609 00:53:58,694 --> 00:54:00,902 Be careful of my china ornaments. 610 00:54:01,363 --> 00:54:02,979 My little Pug dog. 611 00:54:03,824 --> 00:54:06,612 It's an antique, I think. 612 00:54:07,411 --> 00:54:08,743 Here it is, mother. 613 00:54:11,039 --> 00:54:12,325 The painting. 614 00:54:24,011 --> 00:54:25,593 Oh, yes. 615 00:54:29,808 --> 00:54:33,301 Oh, yes, I see what Mrs Stanhope sees. 616 00:54:35,063 --> 00:54:39,979 - You like it, mother? - I do. Its merits are obvious. 617 00:54:41,236 --> 00:54:42,693 I painted it for you. 618 00:54:43,530 --> 00:54:45,817 - You did? - I did, yes, yeah. 619 00:54:47,534 --> 00:54:51,244 - Well, I don't recall when. - It was for your birthday. 620 00:54:51,497 --> 00:54:52,497 You not remember? 621 00:54:52,748 --> 00:54:57,118 I painted it from memory. It's a gift of the past. 622 00:54:58,253 --> 00:55:05,253 - 'Sailing Boats.' - A gift... of the past. 623 00:55:09,556 --> 00:55:11,388 Now this is what I call a proper painting. 624 00:55:11,642 --> 00:55:13,975 Why can't you paint like this anymore? 625 00:55:14,603 --> 00:55:18,062 Oh, the sea... the sky... 626 00:55:19,149 --> 00:55:20,685 Well, you said you didn't like it. 627 00:55:22,528 --> 00:55:24,986 - I didn't. - Yes, you did. 628 00:55:26,615 --> 00:55:30,450 When I first gave it to you... you turned your head away, 629 00:55:30,702 --> 00:55:31,909 and closed your eyes. 630 00:55:34,665 --> 00:55:37,533 Well that must've been one of my hazy head days. 631 00:55:37,793 --> 00:55:42,834 No, no I like this painting. Very much. 632 00:56:13,328 --> 00:56:15,911 We danced at the seaside together. 633 00:56:16,123 --> 00:56:20,163 Yes. Lytham St. Annes, the promenade. 634 00:56:21,086 --> 00:56:24,579 - I was seven years old. - Yes, you were. 635 00:56:25,883 --> 00:56:27,124 Whitson. 636 00:56:41,148 --> 00:56:43,014 How beautiful you were. 637 00:56:43,984 --> 00:56:45,475 And how blessed was I. 638 00:56:50,616 --> 00:56:53,905 Life held so much promise in the beginning... 639 00:56:55,662 --> 00:56:56,778 The whiteness... 640 00:57:06,298 --> 00:57:10,759 - 'Sailing Boats'. - 'Sailing Boats'. 641 00:57:17,351 --> 00:57:21,891 - You truly like the painting, mother? - Oh yes, I do. 642 00:57:22,481 --> 00:57:25,224 "A perfectly delightful picture." 643 00:57:26,944 --> 00:57:30,779 Would you like me to, to hang it on your bedroom wall? 644 00:57:32,157 --> 00:57:33,398 In here? 645 00:57:34,576 --> 00:57:36,863 Yes, so you can see it every day. 646 00:57:37,621 --> 00:57:39,738 What would be the point of that? 647 00:57:41,708 --> 00:57:43,950 - I thought you liked it. - Oh, I do like it. 648 00:57:44,461 --> 00:57:48,956 - I shall pay the two shillings entry fee. - For what? 649 00:57:49,466 --> 00:57:53,676 For the Manchester Academy Summer Show. 650 00:57:53,929 --> 00:57:59,345 Mrs Stanhope says amateur artists can enter. 651 00:58:02,020 --> 00:58:05,138 I want you to enter 'Sailing Boats'. 652 00:58:09,069 --> 00:58:15,532 And when that Mr Denby sees it he'll write a review worthy of your talents. 653 00:58:15,784 --> 00:58:18,151 And everybody in Manchester will read it, 654 00:58:18,412 --> 00:58:21,075 and you'll make your mother so proud. 655 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,161 Won't you? 656 00:58:28,130 --> 00:58:30,497 Hmm? What do you say? 657 00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:37,345 - I don't know, mother. Um... - What do you mean you don't know? 658 00:58:38,765 --> 00:58:41,553 The... Well, I painted it for you. 659 00:58:41,810 --> 00:58:43,096 Well, of course, you did. 660 00:58:43,353 --> 00:58:46,937 But I want everyone to admire it. 661 00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:49,607 You'll do this for me... 662 00:58:51,278 --> 00:58:52,439 won't you? 663 00:58:54,197 --> 00:58:56,610 It'll make me so happy. 664 00:58:58,744 --> 00:59:00,326 - Happy? - Yes. 665 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:07,075 Well, I'll enter the painting for you, mother. 666 00:59:08,587 --> 00:59:09,703 Course I will. 667 00:59:10,505 --> 00:59:11,871 - Ooh! - Of course. 668 00:59:12,132 --> 00:59:15,967 Oh, how wonderful! Ooh, ooh. 669 00:59:20,807 --> 00:59:24,016 Childhood games. Childhood friends. 670 00:59:24,269 --> 00:59:25,385 Something I've never known. 671 00:59:25,645 --> 00:59:28,388 Who's that? Who's here? 672 00:59:28,648 --> 00:59:30,856 Playing. 673 00:59:39,367 --> 00:59:43,532 There's nobody there! Well, well, well, well. 674 00:59:44,122 --> 00:59:45,863 That's very strange. 675 00:59:48,919 --> 00:59:51,457 That's very strange. 676 00:59:51,922 --> 00:59:53,083 Oh, well. 677 00:59:53,673 --> 00:59:57,212 I, I think I've, I think I've gotta sneeze. 678 00:59:57,761 --> 01:00:00,424 Oh! Oh! 679 01:00:03,934 --> 01:00:09,350 Oh, where's my money gone? Oh, I hope nobody's picked it up. 680 01:00:10,690 --> 01:00:12,773 It was always mother and me. 681 01:00:13,568 --> 01:00:16,060 Wrapped up, locked away. 682 01:00:16,738 --> 01:00:19,230 Hidden behind her lace curtains. 683 01:00:19,825 --> 01:00:22,909 Tick-tock, tick-tock. 684 01:00:24,579 --> 01:00:28,198 You must always be vigilant where other children are concerned. 685 01:00:28,458 --> 01:00:30,290 Lice and nits. 686 01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:44,881 I don't understand. 687 01:00:45,142 --> 01:00:47,304 The art critic, Mr Denby, 688 01:00:47,561 --> 01:00:52,101 has made no mention of your painting, in the Summer Show. 689 01:00:53,692 --> 01:00:54,692 Hasn't he? 690 01:00:54,776 --> 01:00:59,692 No. Doreen Stanhope told all her cultured friends... 691 01:01:02,617 --> 01:01:05,405 We don't need an art critic to tell us what we like, do we, mother? 692 01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:09,827 Yes, of course, we do. People need to be advised, it's mandatory. 693 01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:14,327 Painting's there, it exists. It will always exist. 694 01:01:15,255 --> 01:01:18,498 People can see it for what it is. Or not. 695 01:01:19,593 --> 01:01:25,180 I've a good mind to write to the editor of the newspaper and complain. 696 01:01:28,351 --> 01:01:30,764 The man claims to be an expert, an expert on what? 697 01:01:31,021 --> 01:01:33,138 He obviously knows nothing about art. 698 01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:34,815 Quite. 699 01:01:34,858 --> 01:01:38,977 Thank goodness you didn't agree to the London exhibition, how embarrassing. 700 01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:47,402 Drink your tea, mother, it's... going cold. 701 01:01:47,662 --> 01:01:51,497 I paid two shillings for the privilege of entering your painting 702 01:01:51,750 --> 01:01:54,743 into the Summer Show. 703 01:01:55,003 --> 01:01:58,667 Why can't people see what we can see? 704 01:01:58,924 --> 01:02:01,792 "A perfectly delightful picture." 705 01:02:05,430 --> 01:02:07,296 What are you doing this afternoon? 706 01:02:07,557 --> 01:02:10,641 Oh, the usual. 707 01:02:13,980 --> 01:02:16,518 Might make a start on your windows. 708 01:02:37,671 --> 01:02:41,164 You're working too hard, dear. 709 01:02:41,424 --> 01:02:43,131 Nice to get out a bit. 710 01:02:43,802 --> 01:02:46,966 It isn't healthy staying in with me all the time. 711 01:02:47,722 --> 01:02:52,057 You've never said that before, mother. Why's that? 712 01:02:52,060 --> 01:02:57,146 This afternoon, Doreen Stanhope is calling to see me. 713 01:02:57,816 --> 01:03:02,652 We're going to share a vanilla slice from Greenhalgh's. 714 01:03:07,617 --> 01:03:09,358 So, why the long face? 715 01:03:11,830 --> 01:03:13,162 Haven't got a long face, mother. 716 01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:15,532 Well that's debatable. 717 01:03:15,875 --> 01:03:19,494 Why don't you make a few sandwiches and walk into Farnworth? 718 01:03:19,754 --> 01:03:20,915 That would be nice. 719 01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:23,164 I don't want to go for a walk into Farnworth. 720 01:03:23,425 --> 01:03:25,132 Well you can't stop here. 721 01:03:29,681 --> 01:03:30,681 Laurie! 722 01:03:30,932 --> 01:03:35,768 I'm intending to have a tête à tête with Doreen, I'm entitled to a bit of privacy. 723 01:03:36,396 --> 01:03:39,855 Well, sorry you find me an embarrassment, mother. 724 01:03:40,108 --> 01:03:42,600 No, I just want you to get out more. 725 01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:46,070 That's all. I insist. 726 01:03:46,323 --> 01:03:49,907 Very well. If you want me out of the way... 727 01:03:50,368 --> 01:03:52,451 I shall get off into Bolton. 728 01:03:52,704 --> 01:03:56,823 No, I just want you to be able to get out a little. 729 01:03:57,667 --> 01:04:00,125 Anyway, what's the big attraction of Bolton? 730 01:04:01,504 --> 01:04:07,341 A chimney. Yes, it's the tallest in Lancashire. 731 01:04:12,432 --> 01:04:14,344 You certainly know how to live a life. 732 01:04:16,019 --> 01:04:18,056 I might make some sketches on the way. 733 01:04:18,813 --> 01:04:21,521 - Don't be late. - I won't be late, mother. 734 01:04:22,067 --> 01:04:24,104 You enjoy your vanilla slice. 735 01:04:24,361 --> 01:04:26,227 Oh, I intend to. 736 01:04:27,447 --> 01:04:28,447 Good. 737 01:04:36,998 --> 01:04:38,489 Jealousy. 738 01:04:59,437 --> 01:05:01,520 For years, I've come up here. 739 01:05:02,649 --> 01:05:05,687 For years, I've walked across this moor. 740 01:05:06,653 --> 01:05:10,021 Alone. I don't need anyone. 741 01:05:27,006 --> 01:05:28,963 You can see everything from up here. 742 01:05:29,968 --> 01:05:32,802 Like a bird, I observe it. 743 01:05:34,264 --> 01:05:36,347 Majesty of everything. 744 01:05:37,350 --> 01:05:42,516 The landscape, the towns, smoke-belching, steam and fire. 745 01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:46,307 The power of industry, 746 01:05:46,901 --> 01:05:48,767 like a furnace... 747 01:05:49,237 --> 01:05:50,478 ...burning. 748 01:05:52,949 --> 01:05:54,815 'Dear Mr Lowry, 749 01:05:56,286 --> 01:05:58,949 There's a simplicity to your work. 750 01:06:00,081 --> 01:06:05,372 Nothing is artificially created through likeness or representation. 751 01:06:07,172 --> 01:06:12,292 All is conveyed by sheer expression of feelings.' 752 01:06:16,347 --> 01:06:22,514 There's a mystery in everything... a poetry. 753 01:06:24,898 --> 01:06:29,142 People think they can do what they want. They can't, you know. 754 01:06:30,695 --> 01:06:32,527 Nobody is free. 755 01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:36,991 We're all captured. In a picture. 756 01:06:37,869 --> 01:06:42,489 And everybody is a stranger to everyone else. 757 01:06:47,921 --> 01:06:50,834 Hello, mother! It's me! 758 01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:02,261 Mother? 759 01:07:23,373 --> 01:07:24,864 Did you have a good afternoon? 760 01:07:27,001 --> 01:07:31,416 Did you talk about, um, interesting things? 761 01:07:33,758 --> 01:07:34,794 Did um... 762 01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:39,302 How long did Mrs Stanhope stay? 763 01:07:40,056 --> 01:07:41,763 It was a fleeting visit. 764 01:07:45,061 --> 01:07:48,520 Well I see you haven't eaten your vanilla slices. 765 01:07:49,148 --> 01:07:53,609 Mrs Stanhope wasn't in the mood and neither was I. 766 01:07:57,031 --> 01:08:00,024 Shall I take it... take it away, put it in the larder? 767 01:08:00,285 --> 01:08:03,653 You can drop it down one of your chimneys for all I care. 768 01:08:12,171 --> 01:08:15,630 What is it, mother? What's the matter? 769 01:08:15,883 --> 01:08:17,795 You know what's the matter. 770 01:08:18,886 --> 01:08:20,002 Do I? 771 01:08:20,888 --> 01:08:22,129 Yes you do! 772 01:08:22,390 --> 01:08:25,428 - Um, no I don't. - Oh, you don't? 773 01:08:26,936 --> 01:08:29,974 Then read this and all will be revealed. 774 01:08:39,824 --> 01:08:42,157 It's a cheque, mother, for 20 pounds! 775 01:08:42,410 --> 01:08:43,526 20 pounds! 776 01:08:44,871 --> 01:08:46,682 All right, smash up the house. You're round the twist you! 777 01:08:46,706 --> 01:08:47,706 You're like your mother. 778 01:08:47,749 --> 01:08:49,706 How dare you talk about my mother? 779 01:08:49,959 --> 01:08:51,119 I haven't finished with that! 780 01:08:51,169 --> 01:08:52,980 Finished with that! Well, I'm finished with you! 781 01:08:53,004 --> 01:08:57,339 Get out of my house. You ruined it. You ruined it - me whole life. 782 01:08:58,635 --> 01:09:02,094 Mr Stanhope wants to buy a painting. 783 01:09:02,597 --> 01:09:03,597 Does he? 784 01:09:03,765 --> 01:09:07,805 He, he wants to buy a painting. Uh, Cyril! 785 01:09:08,061 --> 01:09:11,805 Oh, Cyril wants to buy one of your paintings. 786 01:09:12,065 --> 01:09:13,772 - Yes. - And which painting is that? 787 01:09:14,025 --> 01:09:16,608 The painting hanging in the Summer Show. 788 01:09:16,861 --> 01:09:18,352 And what's it called? 789 01:09:19,489 --> 01:09:22,607 - 'Coming From The Mill.' - I can't hear you. 790 01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:25,617 'Coming From The Mill.' 791 01:09:25,870 --> 01:09:31,082 And how did it get to hang in the Summer Exhibition? 792 01:09:31,334 --> 01:09:33,621 - I entered it. - Did you? 793 01:09:33,878 --> 01:09:35,995 I entered both paintings, mother. 794 01:09:38,591 --> 01:09:42,801 'Coming From The Mill' and 'Sailing Boats'. 795 01:09:43,429 --> 01:09:45,637 And you didn't tell me? 796 01:09:46,474 --> 01:09:49,182 You didn't keep me informed. 797 01:09:49,435 --> 01:09:52,178 I didn't want to upset you, mother... you know it's... 798 01:09:52,772 --> 01:09:54,354 I thought it were best you didn't know. 799 01:09:54,607 --> 01:09:57,941 Well I know now, don't I? And so does Mrs Stanhope. 800 01:09:58,194 --> 01:10:01,483 Mrs Stanhope's not pleased, no she's not pleased at all. 801 01:10:01,739 --> 01:10:05,198 She thinks 'Coming From The Mill' is a sordid, ugly picture. 802 01:10:05,451 --> 01:10:07,909 And so do I! 803 01:10:08,287 --> 01:10:12,622 She's bettered herself, she doesn't want to look at a lot of mill workers 804 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:14,491 hanging on a parlour wall, 805 01:10:15,002 --> 01:10:19,793 she doesn't want to be reminded that she was born in Cotton Bottom Lane. 806 01:10:21,467 --> 01:10:23,083 She's furious! 807 01:10:23,928 --> 01:10:30,801 She's made me promise not to let you sell that painting and I agreed. 808 01:10:37,984 --> 01:10:41,022 You are willful. And selfish. 809 01:10:42,572 --> 01:10:45,064 From your conception, you robbed me of my life. 810 01:10:45,324 --> 01:10:48,908 I've sacrificed everything for you, what have you done for me? 811 01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:53,823 - Paint, mother. - Industrial scenes nobody wants. 812 01:10:54,584 --> 01:10:56,075 Well, Mr Stanhope does. 813 01:10:56,335 --> 01:10:59,578 Mr Stanhope. What does he know about art? 814 01:10:59,839 --> 01:11:00,955 He's a Socialist. 815 01:11:02,091 --> 01:11:05,175 He's made a career out of grime and filth. 816 01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:08,087 It's Mrs Stanhope I care about. 817 01:11:08,598 --> 01:11:14,765 And her friends, her cultured friends. And I want to belong. 818 01:11:16,314 --> 01:11:19,148 Are you not pleased, a little? 819 01:11:20,610 --> 01:11:26,857 Just a little... that somebody wants to buy... a painting... mother? 820 01:11:27,742 --> 01:11:29,699 That somebody can see something... 821 01:11:29,952 --> 01:11:31,864 Nobody can see anything! 822 01:11:33,623 --> 01:11:36,161 Well, Mr Bernstein can see something, in London. 823 01:11:36,417 --> 01:11:39,251 He said so in his letter, here. 824 01:11:39,504 --> 01:11:40,504 Well let me see. 825 01:11:40,630 --> 01:11:42,542 - Give it to me. - Oh... right. 826 01:11:58,523 --> 01:12:01,687 No, no, no, no, no! 827 01:12:14,455 --> 01:12:16,037 Thank goodness that's over. 828 01:12:16,290 --> 01:12:17,326 It's not over, mother. 829 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,492 Till I send Mr Bernstein some more of my paintings. 830 01:12:21,045 --> 01:12:23,082 Mr Bernstein has yet to decide. 831 01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:26,173 Well you send him some paintings, see what it gets you. 832 01:12:41,566 --> 01:12:44,149 So this is where life has brought me. 833 01:12:48,114 --> 01:12:50,572 You... Me... 834 01:12:52,785 --> 01:12:54,651 The rent collector... 835 01:12:55,872 --> 01:12:57,033 The invalid... 836 01:12:57,540 --> 01:12:58,951 I do my best, mother. 837 01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:01,450 - Really? - That's right. 838 01:13:06,299 --> 01:13:10,464 Why is it, when I look at you... I... 839 01:13:13,848 --> 01:13:16,306 I always want to close my eyes. 840 01:13:17,602 --> 01:13:19,844 I never wanted a child, never. 841 01:13:20,104 --> 01:13:24,223 Never wanted... never wanted a child, I never wanted a child... 842 01:13:24,483 --> 01:13:26,691 This is me, mother. 843 01:13:28,779 --> 01:13:34,320 The man standing before you is me! 844 01:13:35,786 --> 01:13:38,199 Nothing more, nothing less. 845 01:13:38,456 --> 01:13:40,038 What is that? 846 01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:43,162 A man, mother. 847 01:13:44,587 --> 01:13:46,874 A man that paints. 848 01:13:54,180 --> 01:14:01,180 Have you never... have you never really liked any one of my paintings, mother? 849 01:14:12,531 --> 01:14:16,901 No! No! That's the simple truth. 850 01:14:31,133 --> 01:14:32,340 Laurie! 851 01:14:32,927 --> 01:14:34,418 What are you doing? 852 01:14:43,020 --> 01:14:45,478 Laurie, I've fallen out of bed! 853 01:14:49,777 --> 01:14:51,268 Laurie! 854 01:15:20,349 --> 01:15:21,806 You come and pick me up! 855 01:15:28,649 --> 01:15:30,686 Laurie! What are you doing? 856 01:15:34,447 --> 01:15:35,779 Laurie! 857 01:15:46,625 --> 01:15:48,161 Laurie! 858 01:16:02,808 --> 01:16:04,891 I'm going to burn them, mother. 859 01:16:06,437 --> 01:16:08,349 I'm going to burn every painting! 860 01:16:08,606 --> 01:16:10,689 I wish you had years ago. 861 01:16:15,321 --> 01:16:17,483 - Is that what you want? - Go on, do it! 862 01:16:18,866 --> 01:16:21,700 - Would that make you happy? - Do it! 863 01:16:22,620 --> 01:16:26,739 - Now! - Every painting I did was for you! 864 01:16:29,627 --> 01:16:33,416 Gonna do it, mother, for you. 865 01:16:35,883 --> 01:16:38,751 Every painting I did was for her. 866 01:16:41,263 --> 01:16:44,677 Every painting, every painting I did... 867 01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:47,641 ...for her! 868 01:16:49,605 --> 01:16:52,313 Everything I do is for her. 869 01:16:53,567 --> 01:16:57,106 Everything I do... is for her. 870 01:17:03,410 --> 01:17:09,702 Everything I do is for her, for love... 871 01:17:20,386 --> 01:17:22,628 Nobody comes to see me now. 872 01:17:24,223 --> 01:17:25,634 No lady caller. 873 01:17:26,559 --> 01:17:28,141 No Mrs Stanhope. 874 01:17:29,812 --> 01:17:31,053 Doreen. 875 01:18:27,536 --> 01:18:30,620 Mrs Stanhope said we'd go somewhere cultured. 876 01:18:32,875 --> 01:18:36,664 Enlighten ourselves with like-minded people. 877 01:18:38,297 --> 01:18:40,334 A different world. 878 01:19:00,361 --> 01:19:02,273 Pitter patter. 879 01:19:05,407 --> 01:19:06,818 Pitter patter. 880 01:19:57,584 --> 01:19:59,200 This is a lovely bowl of soup. 881 01:20:00,629 --> 01:20:02,746 Not too hot, not too cold. 882 01:20:04,591 --> 01:20:05,957 Just right. 883 01:20:07,344 --> 01:20:09,586 I hope you'll clear out the back yard. 884 01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:13,173 The neighbours don't want an unsightly mess. 885 01:20:21,525 --> 01:20:23,687 You're very quiet today! 886 01:20:28,032 --> 01:20:29,398 Are you sickening for something? 887 01:20:34,288 --> 01:20:35,529 Did you burn them? 888 01:20:41,837 --> 01:20:43,829 - Burn what, mother? - Burn the paintings? 889 01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:52,258 No, mother, no. I thought it best not to. 890 01:20:54,933 --> 01:20:57,391 I didn't want to ruin Mrs Stanhope's washing. 891 01:20:57,644 --> 01:21:02,764 Oh! That's very wise. I'm very glad to hear it. 892 01:21:07,821 --> 01:21:12,737 We should never upset our neighbours. We might need them one day. 893 01:21:17,873 --> 01:21:22,618 I'll put the paintings where they belong, back in the attic there, later. 894 01:21:25,255 --> 01:21:26,416 Hide them away. 895 01:21:28,717 --> 01:21:31,425 What do you intend for my painting? 896 01:21:35,432 --> 01:21:37,674 - Your painting? - 'Sailing Boats.' 897 01:21:42,189 --> 01:21:46,149 Well, I'll get it back from the exhibition I suppose, I'll just... 898 01:21:47,152 --> 01:21:49,940 Well, I'll hang it back in the hall, I suppose. 899 01:21:51,407 --> 01:21:53,194 Will you hang it in here? 900 01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:56,242 On my bedroom wall. 901 01:21:59,289 --> 01:22:03,408 I might as well look at it while I lie here, don't you think? 902 01:22:12,636 --> 01:22:14,969 Here mother, here's your painting. 903 01:22:16,098 --> 01:22:17,714 My painting. 904 01:22:19,226 --> 01:22:20,842 A gift of the past. 905 01:22:22,604 --> 01:22:24,937 We danced at the seaside together. 906 01:22:27,192 --> 01:22:28,433 On the promenade. 907 01:22:30,446 --> 01:22:32,563 - Lytham St. Annes. - Yes. 908 01:22:41,331 --> 01:22:46,292 Everything, everything is... captured. 909 01:22:48,464 --> 01:22:53,209 How beautiful you were, and how blessed was I. 910 01:22:56,930 --> 01:23:00,389 Life at the beginning held so much promise. 911 01:23:02,436 --> 01:23:03,643 A whiteness. 912 01:23:10,110 --> 01:23:11,396 Mother and son. 913 01:23:23,332 --> 01:23:24,914 One day they'll knock this house down 914 01:23:25,167 --> 01:23:27,784 and no one will know we ever lived here. 915 01:23:29,171 --> 01:23:31,584 Our whole existence will have been for nothing. 916 01:23:33,133 --> 01:23:34,965 - Look, can you see it, mother? - Mm-hmm. 917 01:23:35,219 --> 01:23:40,556 There. Everything is captured in the painting. 918 01:23:41,808 --> 01:23:42,844 Forever. 919 01:23:44,937 --> 01:23:46,018 Isn't it? 920 01:23:51,818 --> 01:23:53,150 'Sailing Boats.' 921 01:23:56,114 --> 01:23:57,855 'Sailing Boats'. 922 01:26:12,376 --> 01:26:18,168 I'm a man who paints. Nothing more, nothing less.