1 00:00:00,583 --> 00:00:09,592 (Male Announcer reads text on screen) 2 00:00:09,718 --> 00:00:15,098 (Musical jingle) 3 00:00:21,187 --> 00:00:24,606 (gentle acoustic music) 4 00:00:25,734 --> 00:00:27,736 - And my publisher, he won't return my calls, 5 00:00:27,861 --> 00:00:30,571 so, (snickers) I had to check in with you. 6 00:00:31,405 --> 00:00:32,948 Well, is it doing all right? 7 00:00:34,366 --> 00:00:36,161 Over there, is it selling at all? 8 00:00:37,328 --> 00:00:39,496 - No, it's not, Lenny. 9 00:00:40,914 --> 00:00:44,293 I'm sure that's why they're not returning your calls. 10 00:00:44,418 --> 00:00:47,044 I had talked to Mike at the agency 11 00:00:47,045 --> 00:00:50,633 and he said that McClelland & Stewart 12 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:54,137 they will not publish your book in the US. 13 00:00:54,262 --> 00:00:55,304 It's their loss. 14 00:00:55,429 --> 00:00:57,097 They don't even have the balls down there 15 00:00:57,222 --> 00:00:59,225 to publish a provocative novel. 16 00:00:59,350 --> 00:01:00,892 - Yeah, you have to be very charitable with these people, 17 00:01:00,893 --> 00:01:03,271 and they haven't read anything. 18 00:01:03,396 --> 00:01:05,396 They wouldn't know Joyce if he crawled up 19 00:01:05,397 --> 00:01:08,024 inside of their ass and laid an egg, you know? 20 00:01:08,025 --> 00:01:11,069 - Fuck 'em, right? (chuckles) 21 00:01:11,195 --> 00:01:12,405 - So, it's really not selling at all? 22 00:01:12,530 --> 00:01:13,697 Really, it's not... 23 00:01:14,740 --> 00:01:18,242 I thought maybe in some kind of a fringe 24 00:01:18,243 --> 00:01:22,623 PhD section of Montreal, at least, it would... 25 00:01:24,292 --> 00:01:28,129 I mean, I really rely on this book and... 26 00:01:29,254 --> 00:01:31,840 - Hey, Lenny, Lenny, come on, listen to me. 27 00:01:31,965 --> 00:01:34,343 Might be a slow burner, you know? 28 00:01:34,468 --> 00:01:35,512 It'll pick up. 29 00:01:35,637 --> 00:01:39,556 - So, you don't feel I'm a bad writer, right? 30 00:01:39,557 --> 00:01:41,390 - No, I'm telling you the truth. 31 00:01:41,391 --> 00:01:42,644 I believe in you. 32 00:01:43,644 --> 00:01:44,686 I believe in us. 33 00:01:47,564 --> 00:01:50,317 - It's just hard, you know, this game is very... 34 00:01:51,402 --> 00:01:52,568 It's, it's... 35 00:01:52,569 --> 00:01:53,946 - Lenny... - It's brutal. 36 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,281 You know? It's brutal. 37 00:01:55,406 --> 00:01:58,951 - Lenny, just stay sane and continue writing, all right? 38 00:01:59,076 --> 00:02:02,204 (phone line beeping) 39 00:02:03,873 --> 00:02:07,043 (phone line buzzing) 40 00:02:10,587 --> 00:02:13,091 (tense music) 41 00:02:18,513 --> 00:02:20,930 (tense music continues) 42 00:02:20,931 --> 00:02:24,769 (sentimental guitar music) 43 00:02:29,022 --> 00:02:33,527 (sentimental guitar music continues) 44 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:40,409 (sentimental music) 45 00:02:44,913 --> 00:02:48,877 (sentimental music continues) 46 00:02:53,046 --> 00:02:57,050 (sentimental music continues) 47 00:03:01,139 --> 00:03:04,893 (sentimental music continues) 48 00:03:09,104 --> 00:03:13,067 (sentimental music continues) 49 00:03:17,405 --> 00:03:19,991 (bell chiming) 50 00:03:21,533 --> 00:03:24,954 (relaxing guitar music) 51 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:32,044 (relaxing guitar music continues) 52 00:03:32,169 --> 00:03:33,295 (speaking in foreign language) 53 00:03:33,420 --> 00:03:36,799 (relaxing guitar music) 54 00:03:36,925 --> 00:03:38,050 - Good morning. - Good morning. 55 00:03:38,175 --> 00:03:39,008 (relaxing guitar music) 56 00:03:39,009 --> 00:03:41,137 (speaking in foreign language) 57 00:03:41,262 --> 00:03:44,681 - They're putting up phone wires. 58 00:03:46,308 --> 00:03:48,228 - Maybe if my book sells any copies, 59 00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:51,647 we could afford to have our own. 60 00:03:51,772 --> 00:03:54,191 - Our own phone! 61 00:03:54,192 --> 00:03:55,443 That would be cool. 62 00:03:55,568 --> 00:03:56,567 - Very grown up. 63 00:03:56,568 --> 00:03:58,694 - [Marianne] (chuckles) Yeah. 64 00:03:58,695 --> 00:04:00,323 - Play something. 65 00:04:00,448 --> 00:04:01,949 - For my audience of two? 66 00:04:02,074 --> 00:04:04,201 - [Marianne] Mm-hmm. Your biggest fans. 67 00:04:05,453 --> 00:04:06,371 - My only fans. 68 00:04:08,247 --> 00:04:11,960 (sentimental guitar music) 69 00:04:15,963 --> 00:04:19,175 ♪ I'm a bird ♪ 70 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:22,762 ♪ On the wire ♪ 71 00:04:22,887 --> 00:04:28,016 ♪ The men were working on telephone wires ♪ 72 00:04:29,017 --> 00:04:30,103 (speaking in foreign language) 73 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:34,189 ♪ And now you're tired of this song ♪ 74 00:04:36,608 --> 00:04:40,111 - (cheering and clapping) We want more. 75 00:04:40,112 --> 00:04:41,405 More songs. 76 00:04:41,406 --> 00:04:44,283 - Really, that's all I have. 77 00:04:44,408 --> 00:04:46,536 - Well, it was beautiful. 78 00:04:48,245 --> 00:04:49,538 - I should really get to work. 79 00:04:49,663 --> 00:04:52,083 - Oh, why don't you write in here and we can go out? 80 00:04:53,166 --> 00:04:55,586 - It's much easier for me to write outside. 81 00:04:56,379 --> 00:04:58,462 (birds twittering) 82 00:04:58,463 --> 00:05:01,968 - Just remember to drink water. 83 00:05:02,093 --> 00:05:03,136 Lots of water. - Okay, Marianne. 84 00:05:03,261 --> 00:05:04,469 - [Marianne] And put a hat on, please, 85 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:07,014 because you were out there 12 hours yesterday. 86 00:05:10,767 --> 00:05:12,268 (chuckles) 87 00:05:12,269 --> 00:05:13,477 - Hello. - Hello. 88 00:05:13,478 --> 00:05:14,689 - You out shopping? 89 00:05:14,814 --> 00:05:16,815 - Yeah, I just picked up some groceries. 90 00:05:16,940 --> 00:05:19,318 - I'm just about to walk to Kamini if you wanna join me. 91 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:21,821 We can maybe go for a swim or something after. 92 00:05:21,946 --> 00:05:22,821 - Yeah, sure. 93 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:23,906 - Yeah. 94 00:05:24,031 --> 00:05:25,699 - What are you going to Kamini for? 95 00:05:25,824 --> 00:05:30,038 - I'm going to go and see a man about a cargo boat. 96 00:05:30,997 --> 00:05:31,872 We're leaving. 97 00:05:33,540 --> 00:05:34,333 - What? What? 98 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:35,293 When? Why? 99 00:05:37,170 --> 00:05:39,547 - You know, because we're slowly dying here. 100 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:41,172 Because we both know how easily 101 00:05:41,173 --> 00:05:42,550 we can wound and hurt each other 102 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:45,970 and I guess we always try to avoid that. 103 00:05:46,803 --> 00:05:48,096 George is leaving in a month, 104 00:05:48,221 --> 00:05:52,310 and when he's found a place to stay, we'll join him. 105 00:05:53,644 --> 00:05:55,187 When I first got here, 106 00:05:55,312 --> 00:05:57,273 I mean, it was like the first time in my life 107 00:05:57,398 --> 00:06:00,150 that I didn't feel like an outsider. 108 00:06:00,151 --> 00:06:03,027 I'd managed to build a life 109 00:06:03,028 --> 00:06:05,447 and find the time to care for my family and write. 110 00:06:05,572 --> 00:06:09,076 And we were pretty much the first foreigners on the island. 111 00:06:10,077 --> 00:06:12,245 Fifteen years later, they're everywhere. 112 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:14,164 I'm starting to feel like an exile myself. 113 00:06:14,165 --> 00:06:16,540 And all these new ones, none of them, 114 00:06:16,541 --> 00:06:18,167 they don't want us here. 115 00:06:18,168 --> 00:06:19,629 - No, you don't mean that. 116 00:06:19,754 --> 00:06:22,213 You and George, you are this island. 117 00:06:22,214 --> 00:06:24,050 You hold the whole community together. 118 00:06:24,175 --> 00:06:26,761 - Oh, God, we barely hold ourselves together, dear. 119 00:06:28,262 --> 00:06:31,014 (waves lapping) 120 00:06:33,350 --> 00:06:34,725 I grew up like this. 121 00:06:34,726 --> 00:06:37,105 We lived kind of remotely and we were pretty poor, 122 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:38,980 but we had the beach, 123 00:06:39,107 --> 00:06:42,901 and it was this kind of combined nursery and playground. 124 00:06:43,026 --> 00:06:46,322 - Did you always know that you wanted to write? 125 00:06:46,447 --> 00:06:48,115 - My mother wrote poetry. 126 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:51,661 She used to tear it up and throw it in the fire. 127 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:54,454 But I guess I get my particular, 128 00:06:56,749 --> 00:06:58,166 meaning from her. 129 00:06:59,168 --> 00:07:00,336 What did you wanna do? 130 00:07:01,336 --> 00:07:02,963 - Actress. (snickers) 131 00:07:03,088 --> 00:07:04,005 - I can see that. 132 00:07:05,298 --> 00:07:06,800 - It's too late now, though. 133 00:07:07,552 --> 00:07:09,345 - No, nothing's too late. 134 00:07:09,470 --> 00:07:10,387 You should do it. 135 00:07:11,973 --> 00:07:13,556 (waves lapping) 136 00:07:13,557 --> 00:07:14,558 How is Leonard? 137 00:07:14,559 --> 00:07:16,893 I haven't seen him for a long time. 138 00:07:16,894 --> 00:07:19,312 - Well, he's writing most of the time, so. 139 00:07:22,149 --> 00:07:22,817 - [Leonard] Cunt, fuck. 140 00:07:22,942 --> 00:07:24,317 There's nothing there. 141 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:25,360 There's nothing there. 142 00:07:25,485 --> 00:07:27,778 I was lost on the road to Larissa, 143 00:07:27,779 --> 00:07:30,114 the straight road between the cedars. 144 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:32,075 You thought I was a man of roads 145 00:07:32,076 --> 00:07:34,453 and you loved me for being such a man 146 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:35,997 But I was not such a man 147 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:38,331 I was not such a man, I was lost. 148 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,668 I was lost on the road to Larissa. 149 00:07:40,793 --> 00:07:42,461 I was lost on the road to Larissa. 150 00:07:42,586 --> 00:07:43,462 I was lost 151 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:45,005 I was not such a man 152 00:07:45,130 --> 00:07:46,882 I've never been a man 153 00:07:47,007 --> 00:07:49,509 Cunt, cunt, fuck, fuck. 154 00:07:49,634 --> 00:07:50,552 - I feel like I shouldn't be saying this, 155 00:07:50,677 --> 00:07:54,931 but I think he's obsessed. 156 00:07:54,932 --> 00:07:56,808 He doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep. 157 00:07:56,809 --> 00:07:59,394 I try but, you know, I can't get through to him. 158 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:00,896 And he works early in the morning, 159 00:08:01,021 --> 00:08:04,482 and then he just comes home late at night, and he's just... 160 00:08:04,483 --> 00:08:05,735 Yeah. I don't know. 161 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:08,069 - Well, how long has that been going on? 162 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:10,614 - A month? 163 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:12,742 Longer, a little longer, maybe. Yeah. 164 00:08:14,785 --> 00:08:16,411 - How's your son? Where is he? 165 00:08:16,536 --> 00:08:18,121 - He's with our neighbour. 166 00:08:18,122 --> 00:08:19,831 She looks after him one day a week, 167 00:08:19,956 --> 00:08:23,460 which is my day off. (chuckles) 168 00:08:23,461 --> 00:08:25,295 - Oh, yes. It's one day off. 169 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:28,382 - It's okay. 170 00:08:29,425 --> 00:08:31,761 - Careful not to lose your identity, Marianne. 171 00:08:34,263 --> 00:08:35,056 - What do you mean? 172 00:08:35,181 --> 00:08:36,057 I'm... 173 00:08:37,265 --> 00:08:38,518 I'm me. 174 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:40,852 - I'm just saying, don't buy into what society feeds you, 175 00:08:40,977 --> 00:08:41,979 which is to... 176 00:08:43,855 --> 00:08:46,734 You know, that a woman's job is in the home. 177 00:08:46,859 --> 00:08:48,068 I don't know, I've spent my life, you know, 178 00:08:48,193 --> 00:08:51,239 bound by my three little children and George 179 00:08:51,364 --> 00:08:55,076 just working, working, writing, writing, writing non-stop. 180 00:08:55,201 --> 00:09:00,413 And, you know, I find time to do a minute of writing 181 00:09:01,123 --> 00:09:02,331 or something creative here. 182 00:09:02,332 --> 00:09:04,585 And amongst the breakfast and lunch and dinner 183 00:09:04,710 --> 00:09:08,004 and cooking and laundry and cleaning, and I just, 184 00:09:09,423 --> 00:09:11,884 I just think it's death to any woman 185 00:09:12,009 --> 00:09:16,931 with ambition or talent. 186 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:21,393 - Well, what do you think you would have done 187 00:09:21,394 --> 00:09:24,019 or would it have been very different 188 00:09:24,020 --> 00:09:26,649 if you didn't have children? 189 00:09:28,609 --> 00:09:31,278 - Yes. (snickers) 190 00:09:31,403 --> 00:09:33,154 I love them, but 191 00:09:34,532 --> 00:09:35,740 I don't know. 192 00:09:35,865 --> 00:09:37,242 I think most women are lying when they say they enjoy it. 193 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:38,619 I think they just, 194 00:09:38,744 --> 00:09:41,621 they just say that because that's what's expected of them. 195 00:09:42,498 --> 00:09:44,374 And I'm a better writer than George. 196 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:47,211 But I've managed to create nothing. 197 00:09:48,461 --> 00:09:53,634 I mean, maybe the idea of this Australian female novelist, 198 00:09:54,467 --> 00:09:56,051 the idea of Charmian Clift, 199 00:09:56,052 --> 00:09:59,557 but really it's just a bloody joke. 200 00:10:01,892 --> 00:10:07,063 - And so, now that you're going back to Australia, 201 00:10:08,149 --> 00:10:09,567 what do you wanna do, what? 202 00:10:10,650 --> 00:10:12,736 - I think I'd like to try writing 203 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:17,658 for television and film. 204 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:21,412 What do you want to do? 205 00:10:23,371 --> 00:10:24,913 - Just recently, this, 206 00:10:24,914 --> 00:10:27,792 there's a clothing brand in Athens 207 00:10:27,793 --> 00:10:31,921 and they asked me if I wanted to model for them. 208 00:10:31,922 --> 00:10:34,590 So they're gonna do the photo shoot here on the island 209 00:10:34,591 --> 00:10:38,511 and I'm gonna be a model. (chuckles) 210 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:39,721 - Well, that's exciting. 211 00:10:39,846 --> 00:10:41,138 - Mm. 212 00:10:41,139 --> 00:10:43,642 (utensils clinking) 213 00:10:43,643 --> 00:10:45,352 (uptempo guitar music) 214 00:10:45,477 --> 00:10:47,312 ♪ Four o'clock in the afternoon ♪ 215 00:10:47,437 --> 00:10:52,610 ♪ And I didn't feel like very much ♪ 216 00:10:53,443 --> 00:10:54,528 ♪ I said to myself ♪ 217 00:10:54,653 --> 00:10:56,321 ♪ Where are you, golden boy ♪ 218 00:10:56,322 --> 00:11:01,451 ♪ Where is your famous golden touch ♪ 219 00:11:02,202 --> 00:11:03,286 ♪ I thought you knew ♪ 220 00:11:03,287 --> 00:11:08,458 ♪ Where all of the elephants lie down ♪ 221 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:12,170 ♪ I thought you were the crown prince ♪ 222 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:17,426 ♪ Of all the wheels in Ivory Town ♪ 223 00:11:18,469 --> 00:11:20,678 ♪ Just take a look at your body now ♪ 224 00:11:20,804 --> 00:11:24,933 (speaking in foreign language) 225 00:11:25,934 --> 00:11:26,851 - Leonard. 226 00:11:26,976 --> 00:11:28,187 ♪ And a voice in the mirror cries ♪ 227 00:11:28,312 --> 00:11:33,484 ♪ Hey, prince, you need a shade ♪ 228 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:35,317 ♪ And if you can manage ♪ 229 00:11:35,318 --> 00:11:40,115 ♪ To get your trembling fingers to behave ♪ 230 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,533 ♪ Why not unwrapping ♪ 231 00:11:42,534 --> 00:11:47,497 ♪ A stainless still razor blade ♪ 232 00:11:47,498 --> 00:11:50,834 ♪ That's right, it's come to this ♪ 233 00:11:50,835 --> 00:11:52,000 - Hi. - Hi. 234 00:11:52,001 --> 00:11:57,173 ♪ Yeah, it's come to this ♪ 235 00:11:58,091 --> 00:12:02,513 ♪ And wasn't it a long way down ♪ 236 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:07,809 ♪ It's just the dress rehearsal rag ♪ 237 00:12:09,937 --> 00:12:14,984 ♪ It's just a dress rehearsal rag ♪ 238 00:12:16,568 --> 00:12:20,530 ♪ It's the dress rehearsal rag ♪ 239 00:12:23,616 --> 00:12:26,035 - Why do you hate my blood? 240 00:12:28,121 --> 00:12:28,998 Why? 241 00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:33,376 Why do you hate my blood 242 00:12:36,129 --> 00:12:36,964 You fuck. 243 00:12:40,384 --> 00:12:41,302 - Leonard? 244 00:12:42,510 --> 00:12:43,553 Anyone home? 245 00:12:46,139 --> 00:12:49,350 (footsteps thumping) 246 00:12:54,981 --> 00:12:57,817 How's it going? You all right? 247 00:12:57,942 --> 00:13:00,571 It's looking a lot of writing there you're doing. 248 00:13:02,990 --> 00:13:05,115 - I've been working on this scene, 249 00:13:05,116 --> 00:13:08,328 and I realised punctuation's some kind of prison. 250 00:13:09,705 --> 00:13:11,288 So, I'm going and going. 251 00:13:11,289 --> 00:13:12,249 I hear you. 252 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:14,249 I hear you. 253 00:13:14,250 --> 00:13:15,251 What? 254 00:13:17,922 --> 00:13:19,715 That's bullshit. 255 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:20,758 That's bullshit! 256 00:13:23,009 --> 00:13:24,552 You think I wanna do that? 257 00:13:24,677 --> 00:13:26,428 You think I wanna eat your friend? 258 00:13:26,429 --> 00:13:27,305 Fuck you. 259 00:13:27,306 --> 00:13:28,973 Fuck you, you fucking bitch! 260 00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:29,933 Fuck you! 261 00:13:31,351 --> 00:13:32,477 - Which one's- 262 00:13:32,602 --> 00:13:33,979 - I thought we had an understanding, you fucker! 263 00:13:34,104 --> 00:13:35,523 You fucker! 264 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:36,773 - Which one's the problem? 265 00:13:36,774 --> 00:13:40,110 - They're all the fucking problem. (screams) 266 00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:42,152 - Here we go. 267 00:13:42,153 --> 00:13:43,739 Let's get rid of the daisies. - These fuckers! 268 00:13:43,864 --> 00:13:44,614 - Yes. 269 00:13:44,615 --> 00:13:46,490 Let me. - These fuckers! 270 00:13:46,491 --> 00:13:47,950 - Let me take charge. 271 00:13:47,951 --> 00:13:51,162 (thumping) Fucking got 'em! 272 00:13:51,163 --> 00:13:52,622 - Fuckers! 273 00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:53,581 Fuckers! 274 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:56,210 - So you've given up on the 275 00:13:56,335 --> 00:13:59,004 three-page-a-day then routine, eh? 276 00:13:59,129 --> 00:14:00,128 - I haven't given up, 277 00:14:00,129 --> 00:14:01,297 I do more than three pages a day. 278 00:14:01,298 --> 00:14:02,340 - Yeah? - Yeah, yeah. 279 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:03,341 - What are you on? - 17. 280 00:14:03,466 --> 00:14:04,843 - 17? - Yeah, 17. 281 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:06,301 - That's a lot of material. 282 00:14:06,302 --> 00:14:07,303 - [Leonard] Yeah. 283 00:14:08,264 --> 00:14:09,139 - In a day. 284 00:14:10,390 --> 00:14:11,808 You using anything for that? 285 00:14:13,351 --> 00:14:16,521 - If you must know, the flowers still feed me little lines 286 00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:18,523 but we all benefit from the earth. 287 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:22,485 - I mean, besides the flowers, are you using anything? 288 00:14:24,153 --> 00:14:26,154 (footsteps thumping) 289 00:14:26,155 --> 00:14:28,283 - Why would you ask me that? 290 00:14:28,408 --> 00:14:30,660 - 'Cause I'm your friend. 291 00:14:31,662 --> 00:14:34,081 I mean, I couldn't do a page count like that. 292 00:14:35,582 --> 00:14:38,168 - Well, you know I'm Captain Mandrax. 293 00:14:39,836 --> 00:14:42,047 So, like Mandrax, I always have. 294 00:14:42,172 --> 00:14:44,674 - Why don't you come inside with me for a bit, eh? 295 00:14:46,259 --> 00:14:47,385 The energy will come back, Leonard. 296 00:14:47,510 --> 00:14:48,636 You're on a roll, mate. 297 00:14:48,761 --> 00:14:49,554 - Mm. 298 00:14:49,679 --> 00:14:50,846 - Come on. 299 00:14:50,847 --> 00:14:52,015 It's too hot for me. 300 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:54,475 Come on, mate. 301 00:14:55,811 --> 00:14:56,687 Let's go. 302 00:14:59,188 --> 00:15:01,609 (glass clinking) 303 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:06,196 You know, what I'm trying to say to you, Leonard, 304 00:15:09,115 --> 00:15:13,162 is don't kill yourself, mate, because it's just a book. 305 00:15:15,623 --> 00:15:17,750 - Yeah, I know. (snickers) 306 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:18,708 Thank you. 307 00:15:19,835 --> 00:15:22,796 (chuckles) I'm officially no longer promising, 308 00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:24,505 and I do promise a lot. 309 00:15:25,966 --> 00:15:27,384 So, you know, I don't know. 310 00:15:28,134 --> 00:15:29,510 - You're talking to a man 311 00:15:32,806 --> 00:15:34,600 who's been writing books he doesn't care about 312 00:15:34,725 --> 00:15:37,144 for the last 20 bloody years. 313 00:15:39,270 --> 00:15:42,357 - And would you do it differently, really, 314 00:15:43,567 --> 00:15:44,692 if you'd do it again? 315 00:15:46,153 --> 00:15:47,236 - Oh, I don't know. 316 00:15:48,780 --> 00:15:50,073 I got to be a writer. 317 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,242 I've been pretty lucky with the family, 318 00:15:53,243 --> 00:15:55,787 there's Charm and the kids, despite everything. 319 00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:59,707 (breathes deeply) The war saw me travelling. 320 00:16:00,668 --> 00:16:03,754 I was in 64 countries as a newspaper man. 321 00:16:05,505 --> 00:16:07,924 Went to China, Gobi Desert. 322 00:16:09,551 --> 00:16:11,386 Worked in the States, England. 323 00:16:11,511 --> 00:16:12,596 Ended up here. 324 00:16:14,847 --> 00:16:16,933 Nah, I don't think I'd change much. 325 00:16:17,850 --> 00:16:22,230 (cigarette crackling softly) 326 00:16:22,355 --> 00:16:24,774 You know, when we came here, me and Charm, 327 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:28,485 we had a dream 328 00:16:28,486 --> 00:16:31,615 and Yeah, for a while, things were pretty good. 329 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:38,288 But now, I'm married to a full-blown alcoholic 330 00:16:39,288 --> 00:16:40,791 and I'm sure she'd say the same of me. 331 00:16:45,336 --> 00:16:48,630 I'm gonna try to write that book. 332 00:16:48,631 --> 00:16:50,884 Bestseller. Important one. 333 00:16:51,009 --> 00:16:52,302 Give it one last crack 334 00:16:54,971 --> 00:16:55,846 and finish it here. 335 00:16:55,847 --> 00:16:57,474 Go home and polish it. 336 00:17:00,894 --> 00:17:03,272 - What's it, what's it about? 337 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:07,276 - Sort of a personal examination. 338 00:17:08,277 --> 00:17:09,527 Starting with my childhood, 339 00:17:09,528 --> 00:17:12,154 I'm gonna place myself in the narrative, you know, 340 00:17:12,155 --> 00:17:13,990 see where it leads. 341 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:18,119 All those faceless young men coming home 342 00:17:18,244 --> 00:17:19,621 from the First World War, 343 00:17:20,748 --> 00:17:22,750 trying to make sense of it as a kid. 344 00:17:24,917 --> 00:17:26,170 That's what it's about. 345 00:17:27,086 --> 00:17:27,962 Yours? 346 00:17:30,548 --> 00:17:33,134 - Mine is really a sexual exploration. 347 00:17:36,096 --> 00:17:38,432 It's a love triangle where there's no love. 348 00:17:39,682 --> 00:17:43,269 You know, I'm hoping that the reader falls into the pages. 349 00:17:43,394 --> 00:17:47,523 So, it's really a relationship of four. 350 00:17:48,858 --> 00:17:52,737 There's lots of sex, there's lots of thoughts about God. 351 00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:55,574 It's my examination of myself. 352 00:17:55,699 --> 00:18:00,871 - So, you're going the Crest commercial route then, are you? 353 00:18:02,330 --> 00:18:03,915 (Leonard chuckles) 354 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,502 (coughs uncontrollably) 355 00:18:10,631 --> 00:18:11,507 Fuck! 356 00:18:14,134 --> 00:18:17,096 It's okay. Just give us a moment. 357 00:18:17,221 --> 00:18:18,680 - Yeah, yeah. 358 00:18:18,806 --> 00:18:19,722 - Fuck. 359 00:18:22,809 --> 00:18:24,144 Now, this is important. 360 00:18:26,438 --> 00:18:30,067 As writers, it's our duty to the reader 361 00:18:31,317 --> 00:18:32,361 to give them a happy ending 362 00:18:32,486 --> 00:18:34,529 because life doesn't bloody have one. 363 00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:40,410 It's fucking sickness, regret, decay, 364 00:18:41,327 --> 00:18:43,955 a few pleasant memories if you're lucky. 365 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:44,914 And that's it. 366 00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:48,793 So, it's up to us to give the reader 367 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:50,378 a happy ending once in a while. 368 00:18:50,503 --> 00:18:52,462 Can you do that for me? 369 00:18:52,463 --> 00:18:54,464 - I'll have to have an ending first. 370 00:18:54,465 --> 00:18:59,387 - Well, yes, but do it for me, Leonard, please. 371 00:19:02,598 --> 00:19:04,600 (sniffs) Come here. 372 00:19:04,601 --> 00:19:06,185 - I just wish you wouldn't leave. 373 00:19:06,310 --> 00:19:07,229 - Come here. 374 00:19:13,109 --> 00:19:14,111 I'll tell you what. 375 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,240 I'll stick around for another month 376 00:19:19,365 --> 00:19:22,952 if you promise to try not to kill yourself, all right? 377 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:29,542 Because it's only a bloody book. 378 00:19:31,002 --> 00:19:34,088 Do you understand me? (lip smacks) 379 00:19:39,635 --> 00:19:40,470 All right. 380 00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:45,224 Now you drink some water and you get some shade. 381 00:19:45,349 --> 00:19:47,685 (tense dramatic music) 382 00:19:47,810 --> 00:19:49,395 Thanks for the water. 383 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,025 (tense dramatic music) 384 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:58,321 ♪ I stepped into an avalanche ♪ 385 00:19:59,071 --> 00:20:03,660 ♪ It covered up my soul ♪ 386 00:20:04,744 --> 00:20:08,789 ♪ When I am not this hunchback that you see ♪ 387 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:14,171 ♪ I sleep beneath the golden hill ♪ 388 00:20:14,962 --> 00:20:18,717 ♪ You who wish to conquer pain ♪ 389 00:20:18,842 --> 00:20:20,508 ♪ You must learn ♪ 390 00:20:20,509 --> 00:20:24,096 ♪ Learn to serve me well ♪ 391 00:20:24,972 --> 00:20:28,143 (tense guitar music) 392 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:35,357 (tense guitar music continues) 393 00:20:35,358 --> 00:20:40,655 ♪ You strike my side by accident ♪ 394 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,115 ♪ As you go down ♪ 395 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:44,201 - Leonardo. 396 00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:48,747 (book thuds) 397 00:20:48,872 --> 00:20:50,749 (speaking in foreign language) 398 00:20:50,874 --> 00:20:53,250 You know where to send? 399 00:20:53,376 --> 00:20:56,755 My friend, are you? (clapping) 400 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,049 (melancholic music) 401 00:21:02,426 --> 00:21:05,681 (water splashing) 402 00:21:05,806 --> 00:21:08,683 (water burbling) 403 00:21:11,728 --> 00:21:13,729 (melancholic music) 404 00:21:13,730 --> 00:21:16,065 (exhales sharply) 405 00:21:16,066 --> 00:21:18,859 (thuds faintly) 406 00:21:20,820 --> 00:21:24,031 (melancholic music) 407 00:21:29,037 --> 00:21:32,874 (melancholic music continues) 408 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,923 (melancholic music continues) 409 00:21:44,928 --> 00:21:48,932 (melancholic music continues) 410 00:21:54,186 --> 00:21:55,271 - See his eyes. 411 00:21:56,731 --> 00:21:58,025 Yellow and bloodshot. 412 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:00,609 Symptoms of kidney failure. 413 00:22:01,778 --> 00:22:03,446 Move him, he'll die. 414 00:22:05,156 --> 00:22:09,617 I'll try to restore all the electrolytes he has lost. 415 00:22:09,618 --> 00:22:12,372 I've given him water salt. 416 00:22:13,539 --> 00:22:14,958 - So he's going to be okay? 417 00:22:15,834 --> 00:22:16,876 - Don't know. 418 00:22:17,961 --> 00:22:20,588 (sombre music) 419 00:22:24,718 --> 00:22:27,554 (waves lapping) 420 00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,141 - [Leonard] Nothing left to do 421 00:22:32,142 --> 00:22:34,728 when you know that you've been taken. 422 00:22:34,853 --> 00:22:37,939 Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb. 423 00:22:39,231 --> 00:22:42,068 Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting 424 00:22:43,278 --> 00:22:45,154 and waiting for the miracle to come. 425 00:22:46,405 --> 00:22:47,949 I dreamed about you, baby. 426 00:22:49,076 --> 00:22:50,825 It was just the other night. 427 00:22:50,826 --> 00:22:55,248 Most of you was naked, ah, but some of you was light. 428 00:22:56,583 --> 00:22:58,334 And the sands of time were falling 429 00:22:58,335 --> 00:23:01,003 from your fingers and your thumb, 430 00:23:01,962 --> 00:23:03,964 and you were waiting for the miracle. 431 00:23:05,884 --> 00:23:08,135 You were waiting for the miracle to come. 432 00:23:08,929 --> 00:23:11,640 (sombre music) 433 00:23:15,894 --> 00:23:17,393 There's some feeling I'm chasing, 434 00:23:17,394 --> 00:23:18,814 I'm not sure what it is, 435 00:23:18,939 --> 00:23:22,692 but I've tried recreating it hundreds of thousands of times. 436 00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:27,739 I figured one more journey around these painted walls 437 00:23:27,864 --> 00:23:30,409 and I'll get there. 438 00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:33,119 (sombre music) 439 00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:41,085 (sombre music fades) 440 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:41,919 - When will you know? 441 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,586 I mean, "The Favourite Game" 442 00:23:43,587 --> 00:23:46,258 is that you would get the numbers soon, right? 443 00:23:46,383 --> 00:23:49,094 (sombre music) 444 00:23:49,219 --> 00:23:53,097 I mean, come on, you can't lose with those reviews. 445 00:23:53,222 --> 00:23:55,976 (sombre music) 446 00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:58,060 Leonard? 447 00:23:59,354 --> 00:24:02,398 (birds twittering) 448 00:24:06,653 --> 00:24:07,695 (glass clinking) 449 00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:10,740 (birds twittering) 450 00:24:17,830 --> 00:24:20,584 (lips smacking) 451 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,338 Hi! 452 00:24:26,463 --> 00:24:28,008 - You look beautiful. 453 00:24:29,175 --> 00:24:32,345 - You don't look so beautiful at the moment, but hi. 454 00:24:36,391 --> 00:24:37,893 - Leonard. 455 00:24:38,018 --> 00:24:38,894 Hi. 456 00:24:39,685 --> 00:24:41,605 Welcome back to the living. 457 00:24:43,355 --> 00:24:44,691 I am Doctor Papas. 458 00:24:45,942 --> 00:24:46,776 How do you feel? 459 00:24:47,861 --> 00:24:48,903 - Oh, terrific. 460 00:24:49,028 --> 00:24:50,321 (Doctor Papas and Marianne chuckles) 461 00:24:50,446 --> 00:24:51,364 I've been worse. 462 00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:53,324 - I doubt that. 463 00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:56,536 (Marianne giggling) 464 00:24:58,704 --> 00:24:59,787 (lips smacking) 465 00:24:59,788 --> 00:25:00,874 - Welcome back. 466 00:25:02,541 --> 00:25:04,668 (lips smacking) 467 00:25:04,669 --> 00:25:07,255 - [Doctor Papas] Your friend is gonna be okay. 468 00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:08,631 - [Goran] Yeah? 469 00:25:08,632 --> 00:25:13,803 - Just keep him off drugs and out of the sun. (snickers) 470 00:25:14,554 --> 00:25:17,681 Or maybe just buy him a hat. 471 00:25:17,682 --> 00:25:19,267 - (chuckles) Yeah. 472 00:25:19,392 --> 00:25:21,518 I think the latter would be easiest. 473 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:22,854 (speaking in foreign language) 474 00:25:22,979 --> 00:25:24,480 (glasses clinks) - Thank you. 475 00:25:31,070 --> 00:25:32,571 - Where's Micro? 476 00:25:33,906 --> 00:25:36,242 - He's at the neighbours. 477 00:25:36,367 --> 00:25:40,163 They said that he could stay there until, 478 00:25:41,873 --> 00:25:42,999 until we knew. 479 00:25:46,627 --> 00:25:48,630 - Until we knew what? 480 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:53,425 - Until we knew if you would get better. 481 00:25:57,596 --> 00:25:58,847 - It was that bad, huh? 482 00:26:02,309 --> 00:26:06,272 - Doctor said 50-50. 483 00:26:08,357 --> 00:26:12,112 - I wanted him to say I had 4% chance of living, 484 00:26:13,863 --> 00:26:14,864 but I rose up. 485 00:26:17,450 --> 00:26:19,286 - Well, maybe we should, you know, 486 00:26:21,037 --> 00:26:24,290 talk about the things that come before death. 487 00:26:24,415 --> 00:26:28,002 Because at least I'm happy you're not dead. 488 00:26:28,127 --> 00:26:31,212 So, what do you wanna do? 489 00:26:31,213 --> 00:26:32,589 What's on your bucket list? 490 00:26:32,715 --> 00:26:34,717 You have a life. 491 00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:36,219 What's, you know? 492 00:26:37,304 --> 00:26:40,390 - I'd like to write something that sells copies. 493 00:26:41,849 --> 00:26:42,683 That's it. 494 00:26:46,813 --> 00:26:48,272 - What about you? 495 00:26:49,231 --> 00:26:54,320 - I wanna stay here and have a family with you, 496 00:26:55,654 --> 00:26:57,531 and see them grow up on the island. 497 00:26:59,491 --> 00:27:02,202 (bird chirping) 498 00:27:06,165 --> 00:27:09,169 (sheets rustling) 499 00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:15,633 Will you speak in my funeral? 500 00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:17,634 (Leonard chuckles) 501 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:18,845 I mean it. 502 00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:20,304 (Leonard laughs) 503 00:27:20,305 --> 00:27:25,101 - I think we've established I'm not going to outlive you. 504 00:27:25,934 --> 00:27:27,394 It's not going to happen. 505 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:29,605 - You never know. 506 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,732 - Oh, I know. 507 00:27:31,857 --> 00:27:32,982 - Mm-hmm. 508 00:27:32,983 --> 00:27:34,943 You should get some more rest. 509 00:27:37,404 --> 00:27:38,573 Leonard, be careful. 510 00:27:38,698 --> 00:27:41,325 I will go and get Junior and we can just- 511 00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:43,036 - I'm really okay. 512 00:27:43,161 --> 00:27:44,119 I'm really okay. 513 00:27:48,165 --> 00:27:51,752 (gentle acoustic music) 514 00:27:51,877 --> 00:27:53,337 - Don't get out of bed. 515 00:27:53,462 --> 00:27:54,297 Stay there. 516 00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:58,801 (gentle acoustic music) 517 00:28:03,347 --> 00:28:07,644 (gentle acoustic music continues) 518 00:28:11,314 --> 00:28:15,609 (gentle acoustic music continues) 519 00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:20,406 - [Leonard] You know, I wrote a poem about you 520 00:28:20,531 --> 00:28:22,533 before I even met you. 521 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:24,451 Before anything here. 522 00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:28,664 - Well, do I get to 523 00:28:30,250 --> 00:28:31,291 hear the poem? 524 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,134 - Whenever I happen to see her 525 00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:43,346 I forget for a while 526 00:28:46,098 --> 00:28:50,185 that I feel ugly in my own eyes for not winning her. 527 00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:54,982 I wanted you to choose me 528 00:28:56,608 --> 00:28:59,778 over all the other men that you know 529 00:29:01,905 --> 00:29:05,117 because I feel destroyed in their company. 530 00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:10,874 I have often prayed for you like this. 531 00:29:13,125 --> 00:29:14,042 Let me have her. 532 00:29:17,630 --> 00:29:20,090 (Marianne chortles) 533 00:29:20,215 --> 00:29:21,883 - Well, you have me. (laughs) 534 00:29:21,884 --> 00:29:22,844 - Do I? 535 00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:28,223 - I love you. 536 00:29:30,143 --> 00:29:31,685 - Really? - Mm-hmm. 537 00:29:31,810 --> 00:29:34,564 (both chortles) 538 00:29:35,981 --> 00:29:38,734 (cart rattling) 539 00:29:40,862 --> 00:29:43,030 (cart thuds) 540 00:29:43,155 --> 00:29:44,739 - Young love. 541 00:29:44,740 --> 00:29:46,159 - (chortles) Hello, George. 542 00:29:46,284 --> 00:29:47,868 - Now that's something to write about. 543 00:29:47,993 --> 00:29:49,118 (Marianne laughs) 544 00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:51,163 - You don't know what you're talking about. 545 00:29:54,125 --> 00:29:57,503 I really, really, really wish you wouldn't do this. 546 00:29:58,337 --> 00:29:59,631 I'm afraid we have to, love. 547 00:29:59,756 --> 00:30:03,926 We've kind of reached the point where we need to go back, 548 00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:07,430 sort of become the people we used to be. 549 00:30:10,057 --> 00:30:15,270 Oh, yeah, we're having a bit of a farewell drinks party. 550 00:30:16,439 --> 00:30:17,856 Well, not really a party, probably more like a wake 551 00:30:17,981 --> 00:30:21,818 but Saturday at Douskos, if you're around. 552 00:30:21,944 --> 00:30:24,071 It'd be nice to see you there. 553 00:30:24,196 --> 00:30:25,279 - We will try to be there 554 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,784 but Leonard really needs to rest, so we'll see. 555 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:31,078 - All right. Rest up, mate. 556 00:30:32,413 --> 00:30:33,748 - You look great, man. 557 00:30:34,874 --> 00:30:37,626 - You're a liar, but a charming one, Leonard. 558 00:30:40,505 --> 00:30:43,215 (phone ringing) 559 00:30:45,050 --> 00:30:45,801 - Wait. 560 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:51,015 (crowd chattering) 561 00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:54,685 (speaking in foreign language) 562 00:30:54,810 --> 00:30:56,436 Leonard, telephone. 563 00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:57,854 - [Leonard] Okay. 564 00:30:57,855 --> 00:30:59,189 - It's. 565 00:30:59,190 --> 00:30:59,981 - All right. 566 00:30:59,982 --> 00:31:00,983 - There. 567 00:31:02,317 --> 00:31:05,404 (footsteps thumping) 568 00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:10,285 - Hello? - Hey, Lenny? 569 00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:11,200 Hey, it's me. 570 00:31:11,201 --> 00:31:12,536 - Oh, hi, Irving. How you doing? 571 00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:14,163 - [Irving] I read your book. 572 00:31:15,414 --> 00:31:17,458 - Oh, man, just throw it out, you know, set it on fire. 573 00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:18,375 It was really- 574 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:19,668 - No, no, no, Lenny, 575 00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:22,504 it's the best writing you've done so far. 576 00:31:22,505 --> 00:31:25,382 I never told you because I always thought your suites 577 00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:28,094 were better than your prose, but this is... 578 00:31:28,928 --> 00:31:29,721 It's fucking authentic. 579 00:31:29,846 --> 00:31:31,846 It's so real. It's like life. 580 00:31:31,847 --> 00:31:33,347 Really, really good. 581 00:31:33,348 --> 00:31:34,099 - Really? 582 00:31:34,224 --> 00:31:35,182 - [Irving] Yeah, yeah. 583 00:31:35,183 --> 00:31:38,605 - It's not just entirely indulgent? 584 00:31:39,396 --> 00:31:40,564 - Well, if it's indulgent, 585 00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:43,232 it's the most indulgent piece of crap I ever read 586 00:31:43,233 --> 00:31:45,861 but I do love it. (chortles) 587 00:31:45,862 --> 00:31:48,572 You know, Louise loved it, Morton loved it. 588 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:51,741 And my wife, she's fucking into your book, man. 589 00:31:51,742 --> 00:31:55,329 She had her first orgasm on page six. 590 00:31:55,454 --> 00:31:57,413 - Oh, she's never had any good taste, so. 591 00:31:57,414 --> 00:31:59,874 - Because you never had sex with me, Lenny. 592 00:31:59,875 --> 00:32:02,836 You didn't have sex with Mr. Zeus, did you? 593 00:32:03,962 --> 00:32:06,590 Hey, we need you to come back to Montreal 594 00:32:06,715 --> 00:32:08,050 as soon as you can. 595 00:32:09,801 --> 00:32:14,222 - Irving, you're really the only opinion ever 596 00:32:15,182 --> 00:32:16,266 that I've ever cared about. 597 00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,185 - Ah, you're just flattering me now. 598 00:32:18,310 --> 00:32:19,560 I wouldn't have told you all this 599 00:32:19,561 --> 00:32:22,104 if I didn't believe in you. 600 00:32:22,105 --> 00:32:23,272 And I'm an honest guy. 601 00:32:23,273 --> 00:32:26,527 I shoot straight from my hairy balls. 602 00:32:26,653 --> 00:32:28,863 I've written poetry that will stand time, 603 00:32:28,988 --> 00:32:31,824 it will survive together with the best of Shakespeare, 604 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,240 Keats, and Wordsworth. 605 00:32:33,241 --> 00:32:35,202 But honestly, I have never written 606 00:32:35,327 --> 00:32:37,079 anything like this, Lenny. 607 00:32:37,829 --> 00:32:38,873 I wish I had. 608 00:32:40,165 --> 00:32:41,500 - I can't tell you how happy this makes me. 609 00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:44,002 - Congratulations. - Really, I'm just- 610 00:32:45,171 --> 00:32:49,049 - But you need to come back here and we have to promote it. 611 00:32:49,174 --> 00:32:50,092 - Yeah. 612 00:32:50,093 --> 00:32:51,634 - [Irving] As soon as you can. 613 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:52,469 - All right. So long. 614 00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:53,304 - [Irving] All right. 615 00:32:53,429 --> 00:32:54,595 - I'll see you very soon. 616 00:32:54,596 --> 00:32:57,099 - [Irving] Well, I'll be waiting with a few beers. 617 00:32:59,059 --> 00:32:59,935 - Okay. 618 00:33:01,061 --> 00:33:02,689 It was a very nice phone call. 619 00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:03,814 - Yeah? - Yeah, it was from 620 00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:05,147 Mr. Irving Layton. 621 00:33:05,148 --> 00:33:07,150 He quite enjoyed my manuscript. 622 00:33:07,151 --> 00:33:08,193 - He did? - Yeah. 623 00:33:08,318 --> 00:33:09,737 - That's incredible! - Leonard! 624 00:33:09,862 --> 00:33:10,989 - Well, he doesn't like anything. 625 00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:12,154 - Of course he liked it. 626 00:33:12,155 --> 00:33:13,865 I told you. I told you he would like. 627 00:33:13,990 --> 00:33:14,990 - Well, let's celebrate. 628 00:33:14,991 --> 00:33:16,201 I'll get some drinks. 629 00:33:17,077 --> 00:33:18,538 - I'm so proud of you. 630 00:33:20,163 --> 00:33:21,749 I guess some people enjoyed it, you know? 631 00:33:21,874 --> 00:33:23,959 - (chuckles) No. 632 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,086 - Well, I think he said now 633 00:33:25,211 --> 00:33:27,671 that I should return to Montreal, 634 00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:29,757 and we can try and sell it. 635 00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:32,426 He thinks it's a commercial work. 636 00:33:32,551 --> 00:33:35,303 I'm not sure I agree, but he seems to have faith in it. 637 00:33:35,304 --> 00:33:37,723 And Dudek as well and Aviva liked it, too. 638 00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:40,684 Aviva's a tough judge as well. 639 00:33:40,809 --> 00:33:45,981 - She is, but when would you wanna go to Montreal? 640 00:33:48,358 --> 00:33:50,987 - Well, I don't know, you know, as soon as possible. 641 00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:54,655 - What do you mean? 642 00:33:54,656 --> 00:33:57,785 The doctor, I mean, you need, your body needs rest. 643 00:33:57,910 --> 00:33:58,786 You can't just... 644 00:33:59,787 --> 00:34:01,538 You think that you're gonna go on a plane now 645 00:34:01,663 --> 00:34:03,958 in the condition you're in, and go do some big show. 646 00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:05,250 I mean. 647 00:34:05,375 --> 00:34:08,545 - You know, I don't really, I don't enjoy being yelled at 648 00:34:08,670 --> 00:34:10,171 after I've gotten the first good news 649 00:34:10,172 --> 00:34:12,506 I've gotten in quite a long time. 650 00:34:12,507 --> 00:34:13,549 - I'm not yelling at you, I'm just- 651 00:34:13,550 --> 00:34:14,843 - Oh yes, you are. 652 00:34:14,844 --> 00:34:17,011 You're raising your voice on me for no reason. 653 00:34:17,012 --> 00:34:18,806 - You nearly died. 654 00:34:18,931 --> 00:34:19,931 - Well, if the book doesn't sell, 655 00:34:20,056 --> 00:34:21,809 then I nearly died for nothing. 656 00:34:22,768 --> 00:34:23,811 - We're not coming with you, 657 00:34:23,936 --> 00:34:25,103 so if you wanna kill yourself, go ahead. 658 00:34:25,228 --> 00:34:26,105 - Oh, terrific. 659 00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:29,025 - Congratulations. 660 00:34:30,777 --> 00:34:33,153 (crowd chattering) 661 00:34:33,278 --> 00:34:34,112 What's wrong? 662 00:34:36,032 --> 00:34:36,990 - [Charmian] George? 663 00:34:37,115 --> 00:34:38,241 - Yep? 664 00:34:38,242 --> 00:34:39,911 - I think we should do the rest of the packing tomorrow 665 00:34:40,036 --> 00:34:43,413 because we're supposed to be at Douskos in half an hour. 666 00:34:43,414 --> 00:34:45,083 - What? - Are you dressed? 667 00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:46,416 - [George] What? 668 00:34:46,541 --> 00:34:48,585 - I think we should leave that 669 00:34:48,710 --> 00:34:50,087 and do the rest of it tomorrow 670 00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:53,800 because we're supposed to be at Douskos in half an hour. 671 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:54,717 - Sorry? 672 00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:56,802 Yeah. 673 00:34:58,221 --> 00:35:01,014 Ugh, well, how about a little coffee first, Charm? 674 00:35:01,139 --> 00:35:03,643 You might want a coffee first before we go? 675 00:35:04,393 --> 00:35:05,769 (bell gently chiming) 676 00:35:05,894 --> 00:35:07,480 - Oh, for God's sake, George. 677 00:35:08,648 --> 00:35:09,648 Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you're the one 678 00:35:09,773 --> 00:35:11,067 who needs another drink? 679 00:35:13,068 --> 00:35:16,405 (George clears throat) 680 00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:18,448 (lips smacking) 681 00:35:18,449 --> 00:35:19,534 - You look beautiful. 682 00:35:21,744 --> 00:35:23,704 I think we look beautiful together. 683 00:35:26,623 --> 00:35:27,875 - When are you leaving? 684 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:30,253 - Um. 685 00:35:35,173 --> 00:35:36,092 Maybe on Monday. 686 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:39,970 Was that a straight question? 687 00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:42,097 You're interested in my travel plans? 688 00:35:43,181 --> 00:35:45,143 (Marianne snickers) 689 00:35:45,268 --> 00:35:46,561 You know, if you'd like to come with me, 690 00:35:46,686 --> 00:35:48,396 that's absolutely up to you. 691 00:35:48,521 --> 00:35:51,439 - You know that I cannot come back with you there 692 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,402 because I am not one of you. 693 00:35:54,527 --> 00:35:56,652 - Well, I don't know what that means. 694 00:35:56,653 --> 00:35:58,988 I have to sell the book because we don't have any money. 695 00:35:58,989 --> 00:36:01,116 - Oh, okay, so you think that this is about money? 696 00:36:01,117 --> 00:36:02,784 - Of course it's about money. 697 00:36:04,119 --> 00:36:06,789 It's all about money, this is what I do. 698 00:36:07,706 --> 00:36:08,666 I'm a writer. 699 00:36:08,791 --> 00:36:09,876 That's how I'm supposed to make money. 700 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:11,626 What I do is who I am. 701 00:36:12,711 --> 00:36:14,422 - Oh. 702 00:36:15,922 --> 00:36:18,717 - What? What are these theatrics? 703 00:36:18,842 --> 00:36:21,011 These sounds you're making towards me, what? 704 00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:22,178 - You know, it's just funny, 705 00:36:22,179 --> 00:36:23,347 it's just that Axel used to say the exact same- 706 00:36:23,472 --> 00:36:25,891 - Well, I'm not fucking Axel! 707 00:36:26,016 --> 00:36:27,017 I'm not Axel. 708 00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:28,185 I'm not- - Right now you are. 709 00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,936 - What, do I have to get a contract? 710 00:36:30,061 --> 00:36:32,648 Got to show you my fucking birth certificate? 711 00:36:34,567 --> 00:36:35,358 I'm not Axel. 712 00:36:35,483 --> 00:36:36,193 There's a key difference. 713 00:36:36,318 --> 00:36:37,861 I am here. 714 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:39,362 Your son calls me dad. 715 00:36:39,487 --> 00:36:40,572 - Don't drag my son into this. 716 00:36:40,697 --> 00:36:41,532 Please don't drag my son into this. 717 00:36:41,657 --> 00:36:43,074 - He is already in it! 718 00:36:44,409 --> 00:36:46,411 If we don't get money, then he has no food, 719 00:36:46,536 --> 00:36:47,370 we have no electricity. 720 00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:48,539 We'll have to sell everything. 721 00:36:48,664 --> 00:36:50,583 We'll have to sell the house. 722 00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:52,960 Why don't you try living in the real world, 723 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:54,711 not this fantasy fucking, 724 00:36:54,836 --> 00:36:56,463 you're like a tourist in your own life. 725 00:36:56,588 --> 00:36:57,882 - Oh, okay, okay! 726 00:36:58,007 --> 00:36:59,381 So you'd rather be a tourist in Montreal, 727 00:36:59,382 --> 00:37:01,384 where all the girls, they just drool themselves, 728 00:37:01,385 --> 00:37:03,887 "Oh, Leonard, the God, the genius, the writer, the poet!" 729 00:37:04,012 --> 00:37:05,306 I don't fucking even know, okay? 730 00:37:05,431 --> 00:37:07,390 I have nothing to do there. 731 00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:08,725 - Don't denigrate what I do 732 00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:11,519 because you've never done anything with your life. 733 00:37:13,313 --> 00:37:15,358 - (snickers) Yeah. 734 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:18,527 I made a child. 735 00:37:19,778 --> 00:37:21,529 Actually, I made two, but luckily for you and your mom 736 00:37:21,530 --> 00:37:23,990 one of them died, so there's that, you know? 737 00:37:25,117 --> 00:37:27,576 - Okay, splendid. 738 00:37:27,577 --> 00:37:29,537 - [Marianne] Splendid, ugh. 739 00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:31,539 - Well, I'm going to Douskos, so. 740 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:33,750 - [Marianne] Yeah. 741 00:37:33,751 --> 00:37:36,503 - If you'd like to come, you know, be my fucking guest. 742 00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:45,471 (speaking in foreign language) 743 00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:52,519 - I'm not her favourite person right now. 744 00:37:52,644 --> 00:37:54,396 - She should have learned by now. 745 00:37:57,190 --> 00:37:59,068 - Will you keep an eye on her when I'm gone? 746 00:38:00,152 --> 00:38:01,778 Stop by the house and, you know, check in, 747 00:38:01,903 --> 00:38:03,572 make sure she's, I don't know, 748 00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:06,617 not smashing the furniture. 749 00:38:06,742 --> 00:38:08,451 - Yeah. - All right. 750 00:38:08,452 --> 00:38:09,577 - Of course. 751 00:38:11,204 --> 00:38:12,914 - You think I'm doing the right thing, right? 752 00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:18,420 - Yeah. 753 00:38:20,422 --> 00:38:21,423 - It's work. 754 00:38:22,842 --> 00:38:25,844 (lively music) 755 00:38:25,969 --> 00:38:27,221 (glass clinking) 756 00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:30,099 (lively music) 757 00:38:34,603 --> 00:38:36,104 (speaking in foreign language) 758 00:38:36,105 --> 00:38:37,315 (Leonard sighs) 759 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,982 (lively music) 760 00:38:39,983 --> 00:38:43,028 (crowd chattering) 761 00:38:49,117 --> 00:38:50,536 Can I sit beside you? 762 00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:51,453 - Yeah, please. 763 00:38:51,454 --> 00:38:53,121 - [Leonard] Okay. 764 00:38:54,206 --> 00:38:56,332 - We did have some good times, too. 765 00:38:56,333 --> 00:38:57,876 Yeah, it's really- - They were all good times. 766 00:38:58,001 --> 00:38:58,834 - Really good. - All good times. 767 00:38:58,835 --> 00:39:00,003 - Yeah. 768 00:39:00,128 --> 00:39:03,172 I was always just a bit too old for you. 769 00:39:03,173 --> 00:39:04,966 - I always thought you were too young for me. 770 00:39:04,967 --> 00:39:08,762 - Wow. (chuckles) 771 00:39:08,887 --> 00:39:11,474 (both laughs) 772 00:39:14,768 --> 00:39:17,813 (Charmian laughing) 773 00:39:23,068 --> 00:39:25,403 (crowd chattering) 774 00:39:25,528 --> 00:39:28,824 You've always been so kind. (chuckles) 775 00:39:30,867 --> 00:39:36,081 And everybody else here just hates me. 776 00:39:36,748 --> 00:39:37,666 And I, 777 00:39:39,793 --> 00:39:44,255 I helped every one of them when they got here. 778 00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:48,844 (crowd chattering) 779 00:39:54,974 --> 00:39:58,103 (Charmian sniffling) 780 00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:03,983 - Crying at a party? 781 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,401 - No. - Yeah, you are. 782 00:40:05,402 --> 00:40:07,905 - Leonard. - No, no, no. 783 00:40:08,030 --> 00:40:08,904 Oh. 784 00:40:08,905 --> 00:40:10,490 Now you'll really be crying. 785 00:40:10,615 --> 00:40:12,366 - You do me, you do me one last favour, 786 00:40:12,367 --> 00:40:13,911 you sing me a song. 787 00:40:14,036 --> 00:40:15,704 - I'm not dying, dear. - Please. 788 00:40:16,704 --> 00:40:18,498 - Just going away for a little while. 789 00:40:18,623 --> 00:40:19,500 - Just one song. 790 00:40:22,335 --> 00:40:23,378 - What's the matter? 791 00:40:24,463 --> 00:40:25,797 - I don't know, 792 00:40:27,757 --> 00:40:28,842 I just don't want things to change 793 00:40:28,967 --> 00:40:30,385 and I just want them to... 794 00:40:31,594 --> 00:40:34,639 I just want everything to be the way it was, you know? 795 00:40:34,764 --> 00:40:35,724 - Never is. 796 00:40:36,641 --> 00:40:38,309 That's life, it's change. 797 00:40:39,769 --> 00:40:41,271 That's why it's precious 798 00:40:41,396 --> 00:40:45,067 because it has a finite ending, you know? 799 00:40:47,318 --> 00:40:49,070 You just gotta pick your battles. 800 00:40:50,739 --> 00:40:51,907 You can't bloody win. 801 00:40:53,284 --> 00:40:54,241 - I wish- - But, you know, 802 00:40:54,242 --> 00:40:55,411 you just gotta give it a good go. 803 00:40:56,661 --> 00:40:57,413 - Mm-hmm. 804 00:40:59,956 --> 00:41:01,333 (lips smacks) 805 00:41:01,458 --> 00:41:03,250 - Don't cry, darling. 806 00:41:03,251 --> 00:41:04,919 You're gonna be all right. 807 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,045 - [Marianne] Mm-hmm. 808 00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:07,338 You think so? 809 00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:08,923 - Yes, I know so. 810 00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:11,426 Look at me and old Charm. 811 00:41:11,427 --> 00:41:12,760 If we can make it, you can. 812 00:41:14,637 --> 00:41:16,764 You keep an eye on him while I'm gone. 813 00:41:18,057 --> 00:41:22,937 ♪ Like a bird ♪ 814 00:41:22,938 --> 00:41:26,649 ♪ On the wire ♪ 815 00:41:26,650 --> 00:41:31,905 ♪ Like a drunk in a midnight choir ♪ 816 00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:38,746 ♪ I have tried in my way ♪ 817 00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:45,920 ♪ To be free ♪ 818 00:41:47,545 --> 00:41:52,635 ♪ Like a worm on a hook ♪ 819 00:41:56,472 --> 00:42:01,643 ♪ Like a knight in some old-fashioned book ♪ 820 00:42:02,436 --> 00:42:06,648 ♪ I have saved all my ribbons ♪ 821 00:42:08,983 --> 00:42:11,277 ♪ For thee ♪ 822 00:42:13,447 --> 00:42:15,324 - You all right, love? 823 00:42:16,659 --> 00:42:19,702 ♪ And if I ♪ 824 00:42:19,827 --> 00:42:24,916 ♪ If I had been unkind ♪ 825 00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:34,175 ♪ I hope that you can just let it go by ♪ 826 00:42:38,681 --> 00:42:42,309 (calm guitar music) 827 00:42:42,434 --> 00:42:45,478 ♪ And if I ♪ 828 00:42:45,603 --> 00:42:49,524 ♪ If I have been untrue ♪ 829 00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:52,527 (Marianne laughs) 830 00:42:55,864 --> 00:43:01,036 ♪ Know it was never to you ♪ 831 00:43:03,454 --> 00:43:08,501 ♪ Like a baby stillborn ♪ 832 00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:16,885 ♪ Like a beast with its horn ♪ 833 00:43:17,969 --> 00:43:19,220 ♪ I have torn ♪ 834 00:43:19,221 --> 00:43:21,514 - Come on, everyone. 835 00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:24,351 ♪ All my lovers ♪ 836 00:43:27,021 --> 00:43:27,896 - Okay. 837 00:43:28,938 --> 00:43:29,690 Goodbye, then. 838 00:43:29,815 --> 00:43:33,443 ♪ Who reached out for me ♪ 839 00:43:33,568 --> 00:43:35,402 (calm guitar music) 840 00:43:35,403 --> 00:43:36,447 - Bye. 841 00:43:36,572 --> 00:43:41,744 ♪ But I swear by this song ♪ 842 00:43:45,246 --> 00:43:49,793 ♪ And all that I've done wrong ♪ 843 00:43:49,918 --> 00:43:55,048 ♪ I will try to make it up ♪ 844 00:43:56,342 --> 00:43:57,759 ♪ To thee ♪ 845 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,929 (calm guitar music) 846 00:44:03,139 --> 00:44:08,353 ♪ I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch ♪ 847 00:44:13,275 --> 00:44:15,651 (calm guitar music) 848 00:44:15,652 --> 00:44:20,949 ♪ He said to me, you must not ask for so much ♪ 849 00:44:25,536 --> 00:44:28,498 (calm guitar music) 850 00:44:28,623 --> 00:44:33,711 ♪ A pretty woman leaning on her darkened door ♪ 851 00:44:38,467 --> 00:44:41,343 (calm guitar music) 852 00:44:41,344 --> 00:44:44,556 ♪ She cried to me ♪ 853 00:44:44,681 --> 00:44:48,017 ♪ Hey, why not ask for more ♪ 854 00:44:48,018 --> 00:44:48,976 (calm guitar music)