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What are you doing here?
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Georgianna went a half hour ago.
You're gonna miss it.
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Put that on my tab.
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Your bill.
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"Tab" sounds like
y'all might pay it someday.
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Time was never a friend to Bobby Long.
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It would conspire against him...
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allow him to believe in a generous nature,
then rob him blind every time.
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We had lost Lorraine, all of us...
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but long before she died.
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You can't park here.
You'll get another ticket.
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I don't see no signs, Miss Daisy.
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It's all right.
I can walk to the curb from here.
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Get me a beer.
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You find a job?
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You clean the fuck up?
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That Bobby guy called again today.
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- Again?
- He called a couple of days ago, remember?
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No, you didn't tell me. What did he want?
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He wanted to tell you about Lorraine.
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What about her?
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She died.
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She what?
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She's dead, all right? He called
because he thought you'd wanna know.
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Lorraine died and you didn't tell me?
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To Lorraine. May she finally find peace.
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So, now what?
Lorraine finally kick y'all out?
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No.
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She never would.
Besides, God wouldn't let that happen.
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Really? And why not?
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'Cause God knows me, and I know God.
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Go.
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Cecil's pretty torn up. Make sure he eats.
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I'll see you later.
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She never meant nothing to you...
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and you didn't mean a damn thing to her.
I didn't think you would care.
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Come on, baby, stop.
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Look, I'm sorry, all right?
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Why don't you just cook me some dinner
and I'll go rent us a porno?
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I have to go to a funeral, Lee...
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unless I missed it
because you forgot to tell me...
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that my mother is dead!
Fucking asshole. I am so out of here.
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She was never your mother!
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Purslane? This is Bobby Long again.
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I don't know if you remember me...
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but you missed your mama's funeral.
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So long.
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You got any smokes?
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Sorry, sir.
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- Y'all going down to Cecil's?
- In a minute.
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- I'll see you guys.
- See you there.
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You got a light?
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- I thought you didn't have any.
- I don't.
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Not for Junior.
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He's got to cut down.
He's got fierce emphysema.
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That cough sends shivers of mortality
down my spine.
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"He'd make a lovely corpse,"
but I'll make no contribution.
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Of course not. "Contribute only
to one's own death." That's my motto.
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Did you get the girl? She know anything?
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- "He'd make a lovely corpse."
- Come on, man. Charles Dickens.
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Are you serious? It's Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Smart-ass.
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New Orleans is a siren of a city.
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A place of fables and illusion.
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A place Lorraine had to escape from...
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and Bobby and I had to escape to.
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Away from Alabama...
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away from lives
that no longer belonged to us.
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I thought she was getting better
that last time, I really did.
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When was that?
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- A few years ago, at least.
- It'll be six years, October.
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Was it that long since we seen her?
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Since you seen her.
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We should have gone
to the hospital with you.
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You should have done a lot of things.
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Coming.
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This Lorraine's house?
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And who are you?
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No one. I just live here.
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Come on in.
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Nice place.
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Thanks. We try.
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- You're not old enough to be Bobby.
- That's because I'm Lawson.
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Okay.
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I'm sorry about your mother.
You look a lot like her.
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Sorry to wake you so early. It's barely noon.
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Bobby. We got company, man. Wake up!
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Honey, put your bags down. We don't bite.
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- Juice?
- No.
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- Bobby, get up. She's here.
- Who?
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- Pursey.
- Who?
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The girl is here. Get up.
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So, when's the funeral?
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It was yesterday. It was real nice.
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You should have been there, young lady.
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That's your opinion.
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You must be here for some reason.
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I guess you already know
the deal on the house.
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What deal?
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- The house. Your mother owned it...
- The deal!
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Let me tell you what the deal is.
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The deal is that
Lorraine left the three of us the house.
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Lawson and I are two-thirds,
and you are only one-third.
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She did what?
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Lawson and I have been living here
for some time.
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Your mother hasn't lived here for years.
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And I don't believe
that she thought you'd be interested.
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Lorraine was great at being wrong.
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Purslane, honey, we are here to stay.
This is our home.
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It's no big deal...
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Lorraine thinking I'd share this shithole
with two alcoholic strangers.
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You are alcoholics, aren't you?
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But we are not strangers.
We were her friends.
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We took care of her.
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And this shithole is just fine for us.
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It's not suited for a girl like you.
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I'm getting up out of bed now.
You can watch if you want.
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It don't matter to me.
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It seems hard to believe...
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that you haven't seen a man naked before.
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Not an old one.
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I know that you're no innocent...
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because I spoke to that boyfriend of yours...
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over on the Redneck Riviera.
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You certainly didn't choose him
for his brains.
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You don't know nothing about me.
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I guess that will change
if we all became roommates, wouldn't it?
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I'll see you later. I'm out of cigarettes.
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My brand is on sale.
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Good to see you again, Purslane.
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All growed up.
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He's not usually such a jackass.
He's just upset about Lorraine. We all are.
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He's right, you know. I can't stay here.
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It's pretty funny, actually.
My grandma was always talking about...
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the pretty little house
Lorraine was fixing up for me...
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and I guess
that was the Ernest & Julio talking.
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It's fine.
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- There's no real surprises here.
- The hospital sent her stuff.
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Lorraine would want you to have these.
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They went everywhere she did.
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She loved those books.
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I guess I could unload them
at a flea market or something.
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- Here, I'll help you out.
- No, I'm fine.
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I really did want to come to the funeral.
I just never got his message.
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That girl looks so much like Lorraine.
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I remember the first time
you took me to see her sing.
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It was my first time in New Orleans.
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I was so taken.
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You were kind of sheltered.
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Choked by that silver spoon.
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I thought she was so beautiful.
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She was.
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What else can I get you boys?
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Did anyone ever tell you that you smell
like a Parisian woman in springtime?
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Every day, at least once. Y'all gonna eat?
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The lawyer could get to her at any time.
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So what?
The will says we can stay for a year.
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Should I just come back?
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Do you know how lethal the smell
of a Parisian woman in springtime is?
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Not nearly as lethal as
a Louisiana woman who don't give a shit.
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- Eggs and bacon, ma'am. Both of us.
- Cheese on our grits, darling. Please.
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You are fucking shameless.
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Why didn't you use the bed, sweetheart?
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- Oh, God.
- I could have come in and cuddled with you.
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That would have been fine with me.
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- We could have spooned together.
- Save it.
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Why'd you give her this?
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This is stories of misfits...
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invisible people. It's beautiful.
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Have you ever read it?
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Have you ever read any book?
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Lorraine didn't know she was a poet.
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I really do enjoy...
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fostering inspiration.
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Lawson's a writer. A fine one, too.
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Really?
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He's writing a book about me.
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That's fascinating.
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"Chapter 1:
I got up, I got drunk, I passed out.
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- "Chapter 2: I got up, I got drunk..."
- Lovely and witty.
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You're an embarrassment of riches,
little girl.
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Which room is mine?
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I'll need a place to stay,
and y'all said I had a right.
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Just figured I'd stay here
until you get fed up and leave.
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We are never leaving. Never!
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- And don't even get it in your mind.
- She should have Lorraine's room.
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- I'll stay out here. I'll bunk with you.
- Okay, fine.
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Are you fucking crazy?
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Better than her poking around
and finding out the truth.
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She won't last.
You're gonna make sure of that.
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Besides, you're always complaining
how your bed is so cold.
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You're too skinny for me.
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- So, y'all are really into books?
- They're mostly Bobby's.
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- That's the plumage of an English professor.
- Him?
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- A professor?
- Yeah, he was a good one.
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And you, you're really a writer?
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Bobby likes to think I am.
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These boxes are all Lorraine's, so...
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So what?
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- I knew your mother pretty well.
- How well?
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She was hard to understand,
but she kept the door to her heart open.
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The way I heard it,
it was more of a revolving door, wasn't it?
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Purslane Hominy Will.
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How come you know my name?
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I know a lot about you.
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Your mama and I were close
since we were young.
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I helped name you.
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Your mama thought you were golden...
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so we named you
after yellow flowers and corn.
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This is you here:
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Pretty, golden purslane.
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Purslane's really a weed, you know.
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A neighbor told me when I was 9
and I ran over his tomato plants.
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He said all gardeners hate purslane.
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Yeah, and dandelions.
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It doesn't stop kids
from making wishes on them.
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Purslane's an axillary bloom.
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It closes up when the sun goes down.
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Thanks.
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Damn.
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Last time I saw you, you were teeny.
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Is there anyone here who doesn't remember
me with Lorraine, or am I the only one?
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She used to sing here. I was about your age.
She was something.
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- I'm so sorry.
- Don't be.
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I'll have red beans and rice
and a beer, please.
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I hear you'll be staying
at Bobby and Lawson's for a while?
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No, I'll be staying at Lorraine's indefinitely.
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- Will you be starting school in September?
- No.
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I don't go to school. I waitress.
You need one?
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No, just me and Uncle Earl.
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They know you're not going to school?
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They're all torn up about it. Ranks up there
with being out of vodka and cigarettes.
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Mother, go make my bed
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Make it long and narrow
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My true love died for me yesterday
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I shall die for him tomorrow
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She was buried in the church house yard
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And he was buried there beside her
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And from his grave grew roses red
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From hers grew greenbriers
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They grew and they grew so very high
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Till they could grow no higher
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And at the top grew a true lover's knot
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Twined with greenbriers
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Y'all, this is Lorraine's daughter, Pursey.
She's gonna stay with us for a while.
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Come on in.
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- You grew up real pretty.
- Thank you.
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Make yourself at home, darling.
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I'm Ruthie. My gentleman friend, Ray.
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00:24:41,091 --> 00:24:42,887
Here 26 years.
251
00:24:43,392 --> 00:24:45,950
Go on and relax, baby. Drink your beer.
252
00:24:46,426 --> 00:24:47,686
Find anything?
253
00:24:48,326 --> 00:24:50,053
I filled out a few applications.
254
00:24:50,126 --> 00:24:52,024
You let that fresh young thing
live with you?
255
00:24:52,092 --> 00:24:53,683
She's fresh, all right.
256
00:24:54,293 --> 00:24:58,589
I remember when there was a new one
every night. Y'all was pussy magnets.
257
00:24:59,192 --> 00:25:02,182
Which one of y'all snores
like a goddamn train?
258
00:25:02,259 --> 00:25:05,055
Bobby. If he's on his back,
you have to turn him over.
259
00:25:05,127 --> 00:25:09,855
I saw this program on the Medical Channel
that you can cure people of snoring...
260
00:25:09,928 --> 00:25:12,086
by cutting their throats open.
261
00:25:18,594 --> 00:25:22,186
I believe that I do have a story
for you gentlemen.
262
00:25:22,994 --> 00:25:25,120
Quiet. Bobby's gonna tell a story.
263
00:25:25,261 --> 00:25:29,490
When I was growing up, I always hung
around boys a couple years older than me.
264
00:25:31,962 --> 00:25:35,122
And this one summer,
I was, I don't know, 10 or 11.
265
00:25:35,930 --> 00:25:40,658
And we were doing all the normal things
that boys in Alabama do.
266
00:25:41,262 --> 00:25:43,023
We were fishing...
267
00:25:43,229 --> 00:25:46,355
and playing ball,
and swimming, and beating off.
268
00:25:49,163 --> 00:25:53,095
But in addition to these activities
of an innocent childhood...
269
00:25:53,330 --> 00:25:56,228
mine included a lot of talk...
270
00:25:56,764 --> 00:26:01,288
about this wonderfully
elusive something called pussy.
271
00:26:02,530 --> 00:26:04,554
I wasn't sure exactly what it was...
272
00:26:04,630 --> 00:26:09,029
but I knew it was magical and very special
because of the way it was spoken about.
273
00:26:09,764 --> 00:26:11,492
Always in a whisper.
274
00:26:12,231 --> 00:26:15,857
I'd go through the fields
saying it to myself: "Pussy."
275
00:26:20,531 --> 00:26:22,555
One day, we was all...
276
00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:25,824
playing ball out in a broom sage field.
277
00:26:26,998 --> 00:26:29,793
And up rode Leroy Tuberville.
278
00:26:30,866 --> 00:26:35,424
Now, Leroy was
an upstanding delinquent. Twelve.
279
00:26:36,266 --> 00:26:40,595
And his shoulders were already broad,
and his fingers were stained with tobacco.
280
00:26:41,466 --> 00:26:45,831
And Leroy, he parked himself casually
by third base, and he went in his pocket...
281
00:26:46,633 --> 00:26:50,861
and he pulled out something. He started
throwing it high in the air like that.
282
00:26:51,267 --> 00:26:53,664
And I watched him play it cool...
283
00:26:54,734 --> 00:26:57,564
his mysterious jewel going up and down.
284
00:26:59,167 --> 00:27:01,963
I couldn't take it any longer. I had to ask.
285
00:27:02,034 --> 00:27:04,160
"What's that you got there, Leroy?"
286
00:27:04,901 --> 00:27:06,628
And everyone fell silent.
287
00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:11,995
And Leroy looked at me
with that nasty sideways grin...
288
00:27:12,435 --> 00:27:16,731
and he said,
"It's a piece of pussy, Long. My very own."
289
00:27:18,635 --> 00:27:21,227
My face got hot, my breath quickened.
290
00:27:22,835 --> 00:27:27,700
There he was, with this perfect piece of girl,
tossing her up in the air.
291
00:27:28,670 --> 00:27:33,000
And I watched, knowing that I had seen God
for the first time.
292
00:27:33,303 --> 00:27:35,497
And I wanted her for my very own.
293
00:27:38,670 --> 00:27:42,034
But old Leroy popped his treasure
between his teeth...
294
00:27:42,637 --> 00:27:45,330
jumped on his bike grinning at me,
and rode off...
295
00:27:45,404 --> 00:27:48,495
leaving us in a cloud of dust and desire.
296
00:27:49,104 --> 00:27:53,196
And it was in that tormented haze,
at the age of 10...
297
00:27:53,904 --> 00:27:56,462
when I dedicated the rest of my life...
298
00:27:56,738 --> 00:28:01,363
to finding my very own tiny piece
of love and wonder...
299
00:28:01,805 --> 00:28:04,294
that I could carry with me for eternity.
300
00:28:07,972 --> 00:28:10,234
All right, that's it. I'm going home.
301
00:28:12,272 --> 00:28:13,568
To Florida?
302
00:28:15,673 --> 00:28:17,831
Now, look, be careful.
303
00:28:18,140 --> 00:28:21,003
"We cannot tear out
a single page of our lives...
304
00:28:21,073 --> 00:28:23,698
"but we can throw
the whole book in the fire."
305
00:28:24,774 --> 00:28:26,262
George Sand.
306
00:28:26,506 --> 00:28:28,972
I thought that would be a hard one.
307
00:28:32,707 --> 00:28:35,003
I don't feel right about lying to her.
308
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,169
What would a teenage hussy want
with this place, anyway?
309
00:28:40,241 --> 00:28:44,106
Said herself it was a shithole.
She's better off.
310
00:28:46,675 --> 00:28:49,403
Besides, when you sell that book,
everything will change...
311
00:28:49,474 --> 00:28:50,667
Change?
312
00:28:52,107 --> 00:28:55,074
We'll go to Paris, drink '61 Latour...
313
00:28:55,141 --> 00:28:58,574
write bad poetry.
Yes, everything will be just perfect.
314
00:29:06,542 --> 00:29:11,031
"We die only once,
and for such a long time."
315
00:29:15,276 --> 00:29:16,503
Molière.
316
00:29:22,043 --> 00:29:23,407
She's here, honey.
317
00:29:26,344 --> 00:29:28,707
I'll take better care of her this time.
318
00:29:36,110 --> 00:29:37,838
See you tomorrow, darling.
319
00:29:47,178 --> 00:29:49,303
Your mama used to come here a lot.
320
00:29:51,912 --> 00:29:54,208
Why do you talk about her so much?
321
00:29:55,779 --> 00:29:57,575
Because I miss her, I guess.
322
00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:01,442
Were you in love with her or something?
323
00:30:03,912 --> 00:30:05,538
We all loved her.
324
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,502
- She knew how to reach people, you know?
- No, not really.
325
00:30:12,347 --> 00:30:14,210
The night before my grandma died...
326
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,212
she warned me that
Lorraine would always be selfish.
327
00:30:17,681 --> 00:30:20,044
She finally told me about my father.
328
00:30:22,180 --> 00:30:23,544
She did, did she?
329
00:30:24,013 --> 00:30:26,037
Some sax player in Memphis.
330
00:30:26,781 --> 00:30:28,714
Pretty much a one-night stand.
331
00:30:30,748 --> 00:30:35,077
I think Gran wanted me to know that when
she was gone, I'd be totally on my own.
332
00:30:35,882 --> 00:30:37,212
She was right.
333
00:30:37,847 --> 00:30:40,678
After she died,
I hardly ever heard from Lorraine.
334
00:30:40,815 --> 00:30:43,281
Never even got a chance to hear her sing.
335
00:30:43,381 --> 00:30:47,314
Your mama loved you, you know?
You meant the world to her.
336
00:30:55,983 --> 00:30:58,949
She used to sit
right where you're sitting now.
337
00:30:59,249 --> 00:31:00,647
Always writing.
338
00:31:01,250 --> 00:31:03,647
Called this granddaddy the Tree of Life.
339
00:31:04,517 --> 00:31:06,006
That's so corny.
340
00:31:17,984 --> 00:31:21,644
- You're in the wrong appliance.
- What?
341
00:31:22,885 --> 00:31:26,373
To succeed in killing oneself,
one must be in the oven.
342
00:31:26,985 --> 00:31:30,042
God damn, girl. You woke up productive.
343
00:31:33,152 --> 00:31:37,175
- Come see what Pursey did.
- Christ. Stop yelling.
344
00:31:40,819 --> 00:31:42,842
I see what she didn't do: Leave.
345
00:31:44,552 --> 00:31:46,212
She ain't gonna leave.
346
00:31:47,852 --> 00:31:50,250
That's a really good look for you, too.
347
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,886
Good morning to y'all, too.
348
00:32:02,888 --> 00:32:06,342
No school, I hear. What, you skip a grade?
349
00:32:07,387 --> 00:32:10,512
A few. The 10th, 11th, and 12th.
Do you mind?
350
00:32:10,588 --> 00:32:14,680
God, we are living under the same roof
as a goddamn dropout.
351
00:32:14,921 --> 00:32:18,250
It takes one to mock one.
At least I can support myself.
352
00:32:18,755 --> 00:32:22,811
Look, as long as
you're not lazing around here...
353
00:32:22,889 --> 00:32:27,322
making Lawson lose his concentration,
I do not care what you do.
354
00:32:32,088 --> 00:32:33,578
You got work to do.
355
00:32:33,855 --> 00:32:36,720
Do you have to go after her
like that, relentlessly?
356
00:32:36,790 --> 00:32:39,381
Do you want her to stick around?
Is that what you want?
357
00:32:39,456 --> 00:32:43,912
Has it ever occurred to you that if we help
her get on her feet, she might move on?
358
00:32:44,123 --> 00:32:45,679
How help her?
359
00:32:45,923 --> 00:32:49,617
You want to help her out of
them tight little pants. That's what you want.
360
00:32:49,691 --> 00:32:52,122
- Forget it, man, all right?
- Forgotten.
361
00:32:57,024 --> 00:33:00,319
A New Orleans summer
drowns in thick, dank stillness.
362
00:33:09,024 --> 00:33:10,922
Come on, man, let's play gin.
363
00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:13,957
- Can't you see us doing something here?
- To hell with you.
364
00:33:14,025 --> 00:33:18,685
Lorraine's house shrank with each
passing day, straining uneasy walls closer.
365
00:33:30,125 --> 00:33:33,558
Turn that music off, girl!
Can't you see he's working?
366
00:33:48,060 --> 00:33:49,186
Jesus H. Christ.
367
00:33:49,261 --> 00:33:53,250
How long you gonna sit around here
smoking up our cigarette money?
368
00:33:53,428 --> 00:33:55,223
Lawson said he didn't mind.
369
00:33:56,461 --> 00:33:59,621
Lawson's cigarettes are red. Mine are green.
370
00:33:59,995 --> 00:34:03,051
You may not smoke green. Bobby's.
371
00:34:11,163 --> 00:34:14,686
What is that shit you are drinking?
God, it reeks.
372
00:34:14,963 --> 00:34:17,225
This is beer and tomato juice.
373
00:34:17,462 --> 00:34:19,394
Breakfast of champions.
374
00:34:22,229 --> 00:34:24,024
Champion fuckup, maybe.
375
00:34:24,696 --> 00:34:28,390
You know, girl, I have had
just about enough of your bad attitude.
376
00:34:29,164 --> 00:34:32,755
Whether you like it or not,
I am the senior male in this house...
377
00:34:32,830 --> 00:34:34,693
and you will respect me!
378
00:34:37,497 --> 00:34:40,895
We have been very patient
out of respect for Lorraine...
379
00:34:41,530 --> 00:34:44,123
but you will not continue
to lay around here...
380
00:34:44,197 --> 00:34:46,629
and play parasite to our generosity.
381
00:34:47,532 --> 00:34:51,055
Now, you must work
as if you're gonna live 100 years...
382
00:34:52,130 --> 00:34:54,596
and pray as if you're gonna die tomorrow.
383
00:34:54,664 --> 00:34:57,858
- What did you say?
- Ben Franklin said it.
384
00:34:57,932 --> 00:35:00,194
It probably meant something
coming from him.
385
00:35:00,265 --> 00:35:02,629
You know damn well
I've been looking for a job.
386
00:35:02,699 --> 00:35:06,825
God, what do you do? Except shit around
and talk about how smart you used to be.
387
00:35:06,899 --> 00:35:10,127
I am a professor. I am a troubadour. A poet.
388
00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:12,893
And it's none of your damn business
how we live.
389
00:35:12,966 --> 00:35:16,194
- You are responsible for your share.
- My share?
390
00:35:16,266 --> 00:35:18,028
You already live in my house for free.
391
00:35:18,099 --> 00:35:20,498
- God, you should be grateful...
- This is our house!
392
00:35:20,566 --> 00:35:23,294
Maybe you'd rather I earn money
bringing friends home.
393
00:35:23,367 --> 00:35:26,765
Didn't Lorraine have to do that for a while?
Most junkies do.
394
00:35:27,867 --> 00:35:29,560
God damn it!
395
00:35:29,633 --> 00:35:31,724
Have you no respect for the dead?
396
00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,259
That was your mother, Pursey.
397
00:35:40,201 --> 00:35:41,564
Besides...
398
00:35:43,301 --> 00:35:46,029
we all know
that you ain't no angel of purity...
399
00:35:46,868 --> 00:35:48,925
are you, little Purslane?
400
00:35:50,702 --> 00:35:54,066
Did you ever have two men at once?
Have you?
401
00:35:54,169 --> 00:35:57,862
That would buy a lot of cigarettes
in our house. It would, wouldn't it?
402
00:35:57,935 --> 00:35:59,731
Fuck you!
403
00:36:00,803 --> 00:36:03,997
You're supposed to be the senior male?
The grownup.
404
00:36:04,070 --> 00:36:07,433
I'm just a girl. Don't you get that?
405
00:36:07,503 --> 00:36:11,663
I'm so sick of your high and mighty attitude
about poor, dead Lorraine.
406
00:36:11,736 --> 00:36:14,601
You wanna teach me about respect?
Who respects you?
407
00:36:14,670 --> 00:36:19,364
The wife who's smart enough to get rid
of you, or the kids you never fucking see?
408
00:36:20,704 --> 00:36:22,897
What did I tell you about her?
409
00:36:24,504 --> 00:36:26,436
Oh, God!
410
00:37:23,275 --> 00:37:25,764
You know, I know what y'all think of me.
411
00:37:26,941 --> 00:37:30,066
- School just seemed like a waste of time.
- It's not.
412
00:37:31,308 --> 00:37:34,741
I know that.
I'm not some dumb kid, you know.
413
00:37:35,609 --> 00:37:38,302
I wanna be normal. It's just not my life.
414
00:37:39,241 --> 00:37:41,571
What is your life? What do you want?
415
00:37:42,909 --> 00:37:44,876
If I could do anything?
416
00:37:48,676 --> 00:37:50,369
Promise you won't laugh?
417
00:37:51,509 --> 00:37:53,270
I don't know if I can promise.
418
00:37:53,343 --> 00:37:57,140
Well, I thought about maybe working
in a hospital or something...
419
00:37:57,310 --> 00:38:00,333
like being an x-ray technician
or something like that.
420
00:38:01,344 --> 00:38:02,332
Okay.
421
00:38:03,444 --> 00:38:06,035
- Can I ask why?
- I don't know.
422
00:38:08,211 --> 00:38:10,802
I like the way bones look on a light box.
423
00:38:10,877 --> 00:38:14,173
They're like portraits, but on the inside.
424
00:38:16,044 --> 00:38:18,669
I know it does sound totally stupid.
425
00:38:19,478 --> 00:38:21,808
No, it's not stupid.
426
00:38:34,045 --> 00:38:35,137
Hello?
427
00:38:36,379 --> 00:38:39,368
Hello? Is anyone there?
428
00:38:59,780 --> 00:39:01,269
- Sorry.
- It's all right.
429
00:39:01,348 --> 00:39:04,041
I keep forgetting
there's a woman in the house.
430
00:39:50,684 --> 00:39:52,149
Any sign of him?
431
00:39:52,217 --> 00:39:54,843
Listen, Pursey, I need to tell you something.
432
00:39:56,684 --> 00:39:58,673
What, you worried about him?
433
00:40:03,718 --> 00:40:05,446
What are you doing today?
434
00:40:06,052 --> 00:40:08,177
I thought I'd go down to the Quarter...
435
00:40:08,251 --> 00:40:10,774
look for a job. I haven't tried there yet.
436
00:40:11,586 --> 00:40:13,983
Want someone to show you around?
437
00:40:28,987 --> 00:40:31,852
- Give us a call next week.
- All right, thanks.
438
00:40:33,453 --> 00:40:34,647
Well?
439
00:40:35,653 --> 00:40:38,586
Maybe, but only part-time.
440
00:40:39,087 --> 00:40:42,213
It's not like you have rent.
You don't have to work full-time.
441
00:40:42,287 --> 00:40:45,981
I need to get away
from Bobby full-time. Overtime.
442
00:40:46,588 --> 00:40:50,315
Maybe I could help you get started
on those bone portraits.
443
00:40:50,487 --> 00:40:52,477
You can get your GED, you know.
444
00:40:52,822 --> 00:40:55,379
Sure I can. Then maybe I can go to Harvard.
445
00:40:56,289 --> 00:40:57,414
Maybe.
446
00:41:10,755 --> 00:41:12,722
You know, you eat like shit?
447
00:41:13,323 --> 00:41:14,788
You drink too much.
448
00:41:15,856 --> 00:41:16,844
Okay.
449
00:41:17,389 --> 00:41:19,480
Would you let me read your book sometime?
450
00:41:19,557 --> 00:41:21,648
- I don't think so.
- Why not?
451
00:41:21,789 --> 00:41:25,745
- Most of it ends up in the trash.
- How long you been writing it?
452
00:41:26,190 --> 00:41:28,316
Too long, and not long enough.
453
00:41:28,857 --> 00:41:32,255
- Did you graduate from college?
- Yes, ma'am, I did.
454
00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:35,983
With the privilege of becoming
Bobby Long's teaching assistant.
455
00:41:37,224 --> 00:41:39,656
Why did y'all leave that school?
456
00:41:41,157 --> 00:41:44,420
It's complicated. So many reasons.
457
00:41:46,292 --> 00:41:47,451
Tell me one.
458
00:41:50,392 --> 00:41:52,517
A lot happened real fast...
459
00:41:53,659 --> 00:41:55,454
and New Orleans, all this...
460
00:41:56,058 --> 00:41:58,422
it sort of seemed romantic at the time.
461
00:41:59,859 --> 00:42:01,052
Is it?
462
00:42:02,292 --> 00:42:03,849
Is it romantic?
463
00:42:08,593 --> 00:42:10,354
It has its moments.
464
00:42:16,027 --> 00:42:18,219
Would you really help me get my GED?
465
00:42:19,126 --> 00:42:20,616
Yes, I really would.
466
00:42:21,893 --> 00:42:23,587
- Why?
- Why not?
467
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,949
Don't have anything else to do.
468
00:42:26,494 --> 00:42:28,789
Would you quit drinking so much?
469
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,149
Why?
470
00:42:32,494 --> 00:42:35,359
Why not?
You don't have anything else to do.
471
00:42:40,395 --> 00:42:41,656
All right.
472
00:42:43,495 --> 00:42:44,825
All right.
473
00:43:05,930 --> 00:43:08,395
So, where is he, the son of a bitch?
474
00:43:09,230 --> 00:43:13,595
Probably on some barstool somewhere,
whining about how misunderstood he is.
475
00:43:13,797 --> 00:43:17,524
You've better things to do than waste
another day worrying about Bobby Long.
476
00:43:17,597 --> 00:43:20,654
He didn't. We had a nice day, didn't we?
477
00:43:22,831 --> 00:43:23,819
Yeah.
478
00:43:29,498 --> 00:43:31,987
Come on, darling, we better get home.
479
00:43:33,031 --> 00:43:34,588
See you at home.
480
00:43:40,865 --> 00:43:43,888
It must be getting pretty crowded for you,
only two rooms.
481
00:43:43,966 --> 00:43:47,090
What about your work, sugar?
There's no privacy there.
482
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:49,257
You could stay at my place.
483
00:43:51,232 --> 00:43:53,130
Will you think about it?
484
00:44:02,634 --> 00:44:03,895
I'm back.
485
00:44:06,301 --> 00:44:08,289
Aren't you people glad to see me?
486
00:44:08,368 --> 00:44:10,356
- No.
- You might have called.
487
00:44:11,167 --> 00:44:13,758
Well, then ask me. Say:
488
00:44:14,102 --> 00:44:16,533
"Bobby, what have you brought me?"
489
00:44:20,668 --> 00:44:21,827
Biloxi?
490
00:44:23,735 --> 00:44:25,861
Video poker or nickel slots?
491
00:44:27,003 --> 00:44:29,297
- Man, where's my car?
- I sold it.
492
00:44:29,369 --> 00:44:32,665
Now, Pursey, go put some music on.
We're gonna celebrate.
493
00:44:35,103 --> 00:44:38,069
- You what?
- I sold it. We didn't need a car.
494
00:44:38,536 --> 00:44:42,127
This is a single malt. When was the last time
you had a single malt?
495
00:44:42,203 --> 00:44:44,226
- For how much?
- $300.
496
00:44:44,303 --> 00:44:47,463
You fucking sold my car for fucking $300?
497
00:44:47,536 --> 00:44:49,366
Have you lost
your goddamn mind completely?
498
00:44:49,436 --> 00:44:50,959
Just hold that punch.
499
00:44:51,237 --> 00:44:52,793
Now, you remember...
500
00:44:53,504 --> 00:44:55,333
I have a broken face.
501
00:44:56,304 --> 00:44:59,202
Now, I didn't have any money.
502
00:45:00,837 --> 00:45:03,303
That's because your check is here.
503
00:45:03,404 --> 00:45:07,063
And this, too. From the lawyer.
It's time to tell her.
504
00:45:07,604 --> 00:45:10,798
I waited for you to get the...
What the fuck are you doing?
505
00:45:10,871 --> 00:45:14,826
You give me five minutes,
and then you do what you think is right.
506
00:45:18,771 --> 00:45:21,636
Well, look how nice
you changed everything.
507
00:45:23,439 --> 00:45:28,167
I'd have destroyed that TV weeks ago
if I'd known it would drive you to Steinbeck.
508
00:45:28,506 --> 00:45:31,064
All right, now, I have something to tell y'all.
509
00:45:31,139 --> 00:45:32,798
Come on in, sit down.
510
00:45:34,506 --> 00:45:36,028
Come on, man, sit...
511
00:45:36,539 --> 00:45:40,063
Will you stop grieving
about that hunk of shit and sit down?
512
00:45:40,140 --> 00:45:41,401
I'll stand.
513
00:45:42,272 --> 00:45:44,068
All right, close your eyes.
514
00:45:46,073 --> 00:45:48,767
- Close your eyes, man.
- I'm not closing my goddamn eyes.
515
00:45:48,841 --> 00:45:50,636
Come on, Lawson. Christ.
516
00:45:53,941 --> 00:45:55,201
All right, now.
517
00:45:57,507 --> 00:45:59,496
You can open them now, darling.
518
00:46:00,408 --> 00:46:02,532
Courtesy of a lovely teacher...
519
00:46:02,642 --> 00:46:06,540
whose heart once found Bobby Long
cause enough to skip a beat or two.
520
00:46:06,608 --> 00:46:10,131
"To certify that Purslane Hominy Will...
521
00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:13,138
"has successfully completed
the 11th grade...
522
00:46:13,209 --> 00:46:15,971
"and is recommended to the 12th grade."
523
00:46:16,608 --> 00:46:19,234
"Why stay we on earth except to grow?"
524
00:46:26,909 --> 00:46:28,273
Robert Browning.
525
00:46:28,342 --> 00:46:31,366
He's definitely your run-of-the-mill
senior-year poet.
526
00:46:32,343 --> 00:46:34,468
Is this really your idea of an apology...
527
00:46:34,543 --> 00:46:37,475
or are you just trying to one-up
his GED offer?
528
00:46:39,110 --> 00:46:40,508
Great minds.
529
00:46:46,378 --> 00:46:48,503
Come on, man.
Of course she takes a language.
530
00:46:48,577 --> 00:46:51,066
- You want to speak French, don't you?
- Don't be an ass.
531
00:46:51,144 --> 00:46:54,110
You know that
she can't take French 1 as a senior.
532
00:46:54,245 --> 00:46:55,370
All right.
533
00:46:55,811 --> 00:47:00,176
So we got English Lit, European History,
Geography, Psychology.
534
00:47:00,245 --> 00:47:01,836
We need one more.
535
00:47:02,379 --> 00:47:04,811
- I think Art Appreciation.
- Music.
536
00:47:04,878 --> 00:47:07,344
- I think she'd like music.
- I'm not going.
537
00:47:11,113 --> 00:47:13,545
Well, God damn, it's already set up.
538
00:47:13,612 --> 00:47:16,773
Do you know how much I had to go through
for you for this?
539
00:47:16,846 --> 00:47:20,404
For me? You expect me to...
Come on. What's in it for you?
540
00:47:21,513 --> 00:47:24,571
Firstly, it'll get you out of the house,
for my sanity.
541
00:47:24,647 --> 00:47:27,341
- That's what I thought.
- No, look.
542
00:47:27,647 --> 00:47:30,375
You said something to me recently.
It got me thinking.
543
00:47:30,447 --> 00:47:32,571
You said, "I'm just a girl."
544
00:47:33,313 --> 00:47:37,371
Maybe I've grown too calloused
over the years, but you are just a girl.
545
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:42,104
Not unlike the students
that flowed through my classes years ago.
546
00:47:43,748 --> 00:47:46,373
And I know that
we must seem horrible to you...
547
00:47:46,448 --> 00:47:49,903
but we still got something to offer. We must.
548
00:47:52,548 --> 00:47:55,810
And besides,
I think we owe it to your mother.
549
00:47:57,815 --> 00:47:59,940
And as hard is it is to believe...
550
00:48:00,383 --> 00:48:03,815
we, too, once were innocent children.
551
00:48:03,949 --> 00:48:05,848
You are such a shameless ham.
552
00:48:06,750 --> 00:48:09,011
What makes you think I could do this?
553
00:48:10,249 --> 00:48:12,512
Because we know God, and God knows us.
554
00:48:13,083 --> 00:48:15,913
And he and Lorraine brought you here
for a reason.
555
00:48:17,117 --> 00:48:18,743
School starts in a month.
556
00:48:18,816 --> 00:48:21,214
You can give us a chance. It might be fun.
557
00:48:21,283 --> 00:48:23,113
"Fun" is a stretch, don't you think?
558
00:48:23,183 --> 00:48:26,547
Listen, sweetheart,
that's one of your mama's songs.
559
00:48:28,083 --> 00:48:29,743
That's beautiful.
560
00:48:33,851 --> 00:48:35,545
She'd be so proud.
561
00:49:26,154 --> 00:49:28,245
What do you think of my face?
562
00:49:30,521 --> 00:49:33,010
See this bone? It's broken.
563
00:49:33,254 --> 00:49:34,880
But you can move it.
564
00:49:38,122 --> 00:49:39,816
How'd that happen?
565
00:49:40,722 --> 00:49:43,813
"Never fight fair with a stranger."
Arthur Miller.
566
00:49:43,989 --> 00:49:46,478
That happened in a fight? You lost?
567
00:49:47,956 --> 00:49:50,319
Well, I lost a lot more than the fight.
568
00:49:52,622 --> 00:49:55,919
Does it take away from my appearance,
in your opinion, miss?
569
00:49:56,956 --> 00:49:59,081
I think you're still handsome.
570
00:49:59,357 --> 00:50:02,049
Well, aren't y'all sweet?
571
00:50:04,090 --> 00:50:06,988
Are you having sexual intercourse
with one another?
572
00:50:09,257 --> 00:50:12,485
- Okay, Dr. Ruth, let's go.
- It's all right if you are.
573
00:50:12,758 --> 00:50:14,156
Sex is nice.
574
00:50:14,757 --> 00:50:17,156
Just remember to be kind to one another.
575
00:50:17,257 --> 00:50:21,212
And stay young as long as you can.
Your youth is fleeting. Be kind.
576
00:50:22,591 --> 00:50:24,387
We should start with memorization.
577
00:50:24,458 --> 00:50:26,856
I think we should stick to
the Socratic method.
578
00:50:26,924 --> 00:50:30,413
You do? Just exactly who is Plato
and who is Socrates...
579
00:50:30,492 --> 00:50:32,685
in this arrangement?
Because I'll just stay out.
580
00:50:32,759 --> 00:50:34,725
You are Socrates, of course.
581
00:50:34,792 --> 00:50:37,281
- You are the Teacher.
- You're goddamn right I am.
582
00:50:37,359 --> 00:50:38,985
I wish y'all would just shut up...
583
00:50:39,059 --> 00:50:42,048
because if it's gonna be like this,
I ain't learning nothing.
584
00:50:42,126 --> 00:50:44,854
Girl, your English is fucking atrocious.
585
00:50:46,059 --> 00:50:47,958
Purslane Hominy, sit up.
586
00:50:48,292 --> 00:50:50,020
Why can't I study in bed?
587
00:50:50,127 --> 00:50:52,456
It's so hot,
and this chair is so uncomfortable.
588
00:50:52,526 --> 00:50:56,118
It is not supposed to be comfortable.
It'll put your brain to sleep. Sit up.
589
00:50:56,193 --> 00:50:59,318
- It's just bad habits.
- You're talking to me about bad habits?
590
00:50:59,394 --> 00:51:02,054
Don't fuck with the Teacher, okay?
591
00:51:02,627 --> 00:51:06,617
Just tell me what is Nebraska's role
in American Literature? Go.
592
00:51:06,694 --> 00:51:10,888
- Shouldn't I be learning the state capitals?
- Bullshit. You'll learn what matters.
593
00:51:10,961 --> 00:51:13,587
- Don't procrastinate.
- By whatever do you mean?
594
00:51:13,662 --> 00:51:16,322
I don't have a card for procrastinate.
595
00:51:16,395 --> 00:51:18,691
You are just incorrigible.
596
00:51:25,596 --> 00:51:26,856
"Procrastinate.
597
00:51:27,096 --> 00:51:29,584
"To drag one's ass
in such a pathetic manner...
598
00:51:29,663 --> 00:51:32,595
"as to ensure one's place in life as a loser."
599
00:51:32,663 --> 00:51:34,959
Hey, who are you calling a loser?
600
00:51:36,330 --> 00:51:37,625
- Fuck.
- Go.
601
00:51:38,196 --> 00:51:40,128
All right, Nebraska.
602
00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:43,788
Home state of Willa Cather,
one of our first successful female authors.
603
00:51:43,863 --> 00:51:46,557
Or should I move east to Missouri,
where Mark Twain...
604
00:51:46,630 --> 00:51:49,290
alias Samuel Clemens, was born,
or down south to Kansas...
605
00:51:49,363 --> 00:51:51,488
where William Burroughs
spent his last years?
606
00:51:51,564 --> 00:51:53,995
- Stop!
- Hey, man...
607
00:51:54,064 --> 00:51:56,791
I don't think they'll teach Burroughs
at Catholic school.
608
00:51:56,865 --> 00:51:58,353
Well, they ought to.
609
00:52:12,898 --> 00:52:15,387
Why don't you pour your old buddy a drink?
610
00:52:15,499 --> 00:52:18,829
- We're out of juice.
- Well, what's in that glass?
611
00:52:19,899 --> 00:52:21,558
It doesn't have a smell.
612
00:52:21,632 --> 00:52:24,690
Well, God damn it,
pour some vodka in it then.
613
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,027
- Go ahead.
- We gotta quit.
614
00:52:29,299 --> 00:52:33,426
I promised Pursey if she'd study.
I mean, look at us. We're worthless.
615
00:52:34,667 --> 00:52:37,225
And when was that, that you quit?
616
00:52:38,167 --> 00:52:41,031
Nineteen hours ago, when we were quizzing.
617
00:52:44,401 --> 00:52:47,367
- Did you get some sleep?
- No.
618
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:54,232
There's no rush for her or for us...
619
00:52:54,934 --> 00:52:58,298
so if you want to quit, take it slow.
620
00:52:59,135 --> 00:53:00,692
Now, trust me on this.
621
00:53:01,069 --> 00:53:03,626
Take away the bottle, take away the genie.
622
00:54:00,705 --> 00:54:02,604
Hey, what are you doing here?
623
00:54:05,406 --> 00:54:08,134
I just thought I'd give Lawson a break.
624
00:54:08,406 --> 00:54:10,895
Let him use the bedroom.
Come on, sit down.
625
00:54:18,340 --> 00:54:20,703
You look very pretty today, Purslane.
626
00:54:21,106 --> 00:54:24,267
No one calls me that
but my dead grandmother, but thanks.
627
00:54:24,573 --> 00:54:26,732
Now, you remember how to get there?
628
00:54:27,241 --> 00:54:30,798
I know where it is all right,
so I guess I should be going.
629
00:54:32,441 --> 00:54:33,633
You nervous?
630
00:54:34,608 --> 00:54:35,596
No.
631
00:54:38,241 --> 00:54:39,332
Yeah.
632
00:54:41,075 --> 00:54:43,438
Want me to take the streetcar with you?
633
00:54:44,108 --> 00:54:45,733
No, I'll be okay.
634
00:54:48,676 --> 00:54:51,073
Well, I know you'll just do fine.
635
00:54:51,542 --> 00:54:54,303
And we'll be right here
when you get back from school...
636
00:54:54,376 --> 00:54:56,170
to help you with your homework.
637
00:54:56,243 --> 00:54:58,868
Christ, you're really living
in some parallel universe.
638
00:54:58,942 --> 00:55:01,204
Me and "homework" in the same sentence.
639
00:55:09,209 --> 00:55:13,108
It's about to become you and "tardy"
in the same sentence, so...
640
00:55:29,245 --> 00:55:30,835
Think she'll come right home?
641
00:55:30,911 --> 00:55:33,571
Where else would a teenage girl go
but straight home...
642
00:55:33,645 --> 00:55:36,008
to her endlessly entertaining
middle-aged roommates?
643
00:55:36,079 --> 00:55:39,636
She's no picnic.
Tortures me with that noise.
644
00:55:40,878 --> 00:55:44,470
That child should know
anything worth listening to is on vinyl.
645
00:55:45,245 --> 00:55:46,575
My kids knew it.
646
00:55:47,745 --> 00:55:50,576
I taught them. I was their father.
647
00:55:52,546 --> 00:55:53,772
You still are.
648
00:55:58,846 --> 00:56:02,643
One day they'll understand,
when you finish that book.
649
00:56:06,646 --> 00:56:08,476
My kids don't even know me.
650
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,909
Shit, can we do anything besides this?
651
00:56:11,980 --> 00:56:13,913
- Like what?
- Fuck if I know.
652
00:56:13,981 --> 00:56:16,970
- We could go fishing.
- You don't fish.
653
00:56:18,580 --> 00:56:20,206
Maybe I should start...
654
00:56:22,114 --> 00:56:23,444
something.
655
00:56:23,515 --> 00:56:26,311
Maybe you should start working
on your damn book.
656
00:56:28,448 --> 00:56:30,812
I don't know the end of the story yet.
657
00:56:31,548 --> 00:56:34,572
Checkmate. Let's get out of here.
We're depressing me.
658
00:56:38,816 --> 00:56:40,782
You know, I wanna say something...
659
00:56:40,849 --> 00:56:44,542
about life, because an unexamined life...
660
00:56:44,616 --> 00:56:47,708
- is simply a life...
- Not worth living.
661
00:56:48,349 --> 00:56:50,872
Purslane, our prodigy has returned.
662
00:56:50,950 --> 00:56:52,972
Now, tell us everything.
663
00:56:55,117 --> 00:56:57,912
Honey, why did you leave school early?
664
00:57:01,184 --> 00:57:02,843
I didn't belong there.
665
00:57:02,917 --> 00:57:06,850
I appreciate what y'all are doing,
but I'm not going back.
666
00:57:07,217 --> 00:57:08,342
What?
667
00:57:08,850 --> 00:57:10,646
I really need a job.
668
00:57:13,351 --> 00:57:16,840
- You can work here on the weekends, sugar.
- Really?
669
00:57:17,818 --> 00:57:21,581
- Only if you're in school, though.
- Good one, Earl.
670
00:57:36,586 --> 00:57:39,483
Autumn comes slowly in New Orleans.
671
00:57:40,486 --> 00:57:42,679
The grass remains a stubborn green...
672
00:57:42,753 --> 00:57:45,311
but the heat gives way to a gentle warmth.
673
00:57:46,254 --> 00:57:48,947
Pursey did begin to catch on in school.
674
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,681
She was surprised. We weren't.
675
00:57:55,254 --> 00:57:59,085
Winter arrived before we realized
the sunlit hours of summer had waned.
676
00:58:05,155 --> 00:58:07,678
Somehow, the wine began
to outlast the day...
677
00:58:11,522 --> 00:58:14,386
and that was more than
anyone could have asked for.
678
00:58:24,190 --> 00:58:28,212
Someone should have told them Creoles we
got something called winter in Louisiana.
679
00:58:28,289 --> 00:58:30,482
We might have improved
on their oversight...
680
00:58:30,556 --> 00:58:33,022
with this cool new invention called heat.
681
00:58:33,257 --> 00:58:36,246
- Pursey, where'd you put the vodka?
- You told me to hide it.
682
00:58:36,322 --> 00:58:38,811
I did. But where did you hide it?
683
00:58:39,023 --> 00:58:41,080
I'm not supposed to tell you, remember?
684
00:58:41,157 --> 00:58:43,714
You don't do anything else I tell you to do.
Where is it?
685
00:58:43,791 --> 00:58:47,689
Lawson, Bobby's trying to get me
to tell him where the vodka is again.
686
00:58:48,857 --> 00:58:52,619
- It is Christmas.
- Whatever. It's under the back stairs.
687
00:58:53,824 --> 00:58:57,052
And I could have sworn
it was your turn to do the laundry.
688
00:58:57,125 --> 00:58:59,613
Don't forget to use the cuddly bear stuff.
689
00:59:28,460 --> 00:59:30,551
But you aren't a virgin, are you?
690
00:59:31,461 --> 00:59:34,256
You know, some people would call you
a disgusting old man...
691
00:59:34,326 --> 00:59:36,019
for your constant sexual harassment.
692
00:59:36,094 --> 00:59:39,549
I believe the term is "dirty old man,"
not "disgusting."
693
00:59:40,027 --> 00:59:42,994
And you are a young, blooming bud.
694
00:59:43,261 --> 00:59:46,955
- Let me live vicariously. You aren't, are you?
- Are you?
695
00:59:47,528 --> 00:59:49,118
Well, I have children.
696
00:59:49,995 --> 00:59:51,824
Why don't you ever see them?
697
00:59:52,095 --> 00:59:55,858
Well, that's a good question.
But you haven't answered mine.
698
00:59:56,162 --> 00:59:59,287
You know, I'm trying to be serious for once,
Bobby. God.
699
01:00:03,929 --> 01:00:07,418
The truth is, I wish I could see them.
I miss them like hell.
700
01:00:10,830 --> 01:00:13,761
It seems to me
if someone wanted to see their kids...
701
01:00:13,830 --> 01:00:17,227
then they damn well would,
unless they didn't give a shit.
702
01:00:20,363 --> 01:00:21,886
How about you?
703
01:00:22,230 --> 01:00:26,027
Do you remember your mother
when y'all were living together?
704
01:00:30,064 --> 01:00:33,258
No, not really.
705
01:00:37,131 --> 01:00:40,255
I used to try to remember her.
706
01:00:43,632 --> 01:00:45,393
Anything about her.
707
01:00:46,964 --> 01:00:51,124
Like her voice, the way she smelled,
you know, anything.
708
01:00:52,832 --> 01:00:56,196
I used to think real hard...
709
01:00:56,266 --> 01:00:58,596
wanting memories.
710
01:00:59,433 --> 01:01:02,160
And I just started making them up.
711
01:01:06,367 --> 01:01:09,855
That she was putting on her eye shadow
and talking to me in the mirror...
712
01:01:09,933 --> 01:01:10,921
or I'd pretend that...
713
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,955
she'd make me these perfect grilled cheeses
with the crusts cut off.
714
01:01:15,467 --> 01:01:18,762
I had all kinds of made-up memories.
715
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:23,560
My favorite one was that
she'd take me to see her shows...
716
01:01:24,867 --> 01:01:27,595
and I would be sitting on the side
with this nice man...
717
01:01:27,667 --> 01:01:30,724
who'd give me
all the Shirley Temples I wanted.
718
01:01:33,901 --> 01:01:36,163
I made up so many memories...
719
01:01:39,035 --> 01:01:42,729
I actually started to believe
I was really remembering her.
720
01:01:46,302 --> 01:01:49,234
But she never came for me, so I just forgot.
721
01:01:50,069 --> 01:01:51,330
You know...
722
01:01:53,035 --> 01:01:54,763
stopped pretending.
723
01:01:59,336 --> 01:02:01,199
Ho, ho, ho!
724
01:02:02,470 --> 01:02:05,868
- Is that a real tree?
- Lord, where did you get that?
725
01:02:06,503 --> 01:02:08,469
It fell off the back of a truck.
726
01:02:08,538 --> 01:02:11,561
- Like hell it did.
- All right, maybe it was a Volvo.
727
01:02:11,637 --> 01:02:14,365
We should put it right up front
where everybody could see.
728
01:02:14,437 --> 01:02:15,529
Sure.
729
01:02:16,638 --> 01:02:18,763
Lawson, where's the laundry?
730
01:02:19,571 --> 01:02:20,662
Shit.
731
01:02:25,504 --> 01:02:29,436
"I remember the day I graduated
from protégé to confidant.
732
01:02:33,372 --> 01:02:36,099
"He never meant to let me in on his secrets.
733
01:02:36,173 --> 01:02:38,434
"He thrived on his own mystery.
734
01:02:38,772 --> 01:02:41,000
"But once the first one was discovered...
735
01:02:41,073 --> 01:02:44,506
"it wasn't long before
there were none left between us.
736
01:02:45,572 --> 01:02:47,629
"I was on the back steps of the library...
737
01:02:47,707 --> 01:02:51,230
"when I spotted his uniform,
a freshly laundered shirt...
738
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,368
"the color of Easter, and that damn hat.
739
01:02:55,307 --> 01:02:57,932
"He strode across campus with purpose.
740
01:02:58,007 --> 01:03:00,439
"Everything about Tommy said ready."
741
01:03:00,540 --> 01:03:04,065
- I'm Tommy, just so you can follow.
- Sounds just like you.
742
01:03:07,407 --> 01:03:09,532
"He almost skipped right passed me.
743
01:03:09,607 --> 01:03:12,698
"'Nice hat,' I said...
744
01:03:12,775 --> 01:03:15,501
"eliciting Tommy's notorious smile.
745
01:03:16,108 --> 01:03:20,404
"It was the same smile that he granted
to each woman that caught his eye.
746
01:03:20,475 --> 01:03:24,533
"The smile that served as an answer
to all undesirable questions.
747
01:03:24,608 --> 01:03:26,540
"Or the smile for one of his children...
748
01:03:26,609 --> 01:03:29,870
"whenever he found
a tiny hand reaching for his."
749
01:03:30,675 --> 01:03:32,073
That's nice...
750
01:03:32,775 --> 01:03:35,935
- but I think that might be a bad sentence.
- I think they all are.
751
01:03:36,009 --> 01:03:39,272
That's why they're hanging
from the goddamn Christmas tree.
752
01:03:39,342 --> 01:03:42,968
No, but it's just that, normally,
it's just not on...
753
01:03:44,343 --> 01:03:48,332
"Tommy took the stairs, two at a time,
bellowing, 'Well, God damn...
754
01:03:48,609 --> 01:03:51,701
"if it isn't the South's next great native son.'
755
01:03:52,011 --> 01:03:55,966
"I was only one of hundreds
who came religiously twice a week...
756
01:03:56,111 --> 01:04:00,339
"to be dazzled by the Professor,
each performance worthy of applause.
757
01:04:01,011 --> 01:04:04,534
"Tommy, at the front of the hall,
waving his arms wildly...
758
01:04:04,611 --> 01:04:07,134
"as if mastering an imaginary lasso."
759
01:04:09,411 --> 01:04:13,003
- I like "lariat" better. I think you...
- I like "lasso."
760
01:04:16,813 --> 01:04:19,244
Years ago, you trusted my opinion.
761
01:04:19,379 --> 01:04:21,902
Years ago, you were easier to trust.
762
01:05:14,849 --> 01:05:17,872
Thank y'all very much.
Have a Merry Christmas.
763
01:05:18,783 --> 01:05:22,180
Nobody can do the Alabama shuffle
as good as Bobby Long...
764
01:05:22,283 --> 01:05:24,772
but this sweet thing, she can move.
765
01:05:28,383 --> 01:05:32,713
- Why can't you be this sweet all the time?
- Sure, and what would that get me?
766
01:05:33,650 --> 01:05:35,946
Pure, unadulterated joy.
767
01:05:36,050 --> 01:05:39,983
- You keep your lecherous eyes off our girl.
- What?
768
01:05:40,584 --> 01:05:44,414
She don't like me.
She likes Lawson better than she likes me.
769
01:05:46,150 --> 01:05:48,844
You like Lawson better than me, don't you?
770
01:05:50,618 --> 01:05:52,049
You're drunk.
771
01:05:52,118 --> 01:05:54,949
You know what, I am. I really am.
772
01:05:55,018 --> 01:05:58,383
But it's all right,
because Lawson is gonna take us home.
773
01:05:58,452 --> 01:06:01,044
Not tonight. I got him all to myself.
774
01:06:02,052 --> 01:06:04,610
You told them about the news, honey?
775
01:06:05,152 --> 01:06:07,743
We were just thinking
that maybe after the holidays...
776
01:06:07,820 --> 01:06:10,251
he could move in with me
and get some more work done.
777
01:06:10,319 --> 01:06:13,150
It's just something that we kicked around.
778
01:06:25,687 --> 01:06:28,244
Lawson is not in love with you.
779
01:06:31,020 --> 01:06:34,078
Bobby, I don't think
that's any of your damn business.
780
01:06:34,921 --> 01:06:38,785
I've seen him with a woman
that he can't get enough of.
781
01:06:39,455 --> 01:06:42,978
A woman that's crawled
into every molecule of his being...
782
01:06:43,188 --> 01:06:45,654
that consumed his every thought...
783
01:06:46,021 --> 01:06:49,579
and turned him into a creation
of devotion and obsession.
784
01:06:49,655 --> 01:06:52,144
I have the scars of that love on my face.
785
01:06:52,556 --> 01:06:54,647
Have you told her about that?
786
01:06:54,722 --> 01:06:58,155
Have you told her
about the difference between true love...
787
01:06:58,222 --> 01:07:00,415
and a warm bed to pass the time away?
788
01:07:00,489 --> 01:07:03,683
Cool it. Don't go after her.
I never said I was going anywhere.
789
01:07:03,756 --> 01:07:05,655
I only speak the truth.
790
01:07:06,956 --> 01:07:09,548
The woman deserves to know the truth.
791
01:07:12,423 --> 01:07:15,389
And you, you're free to do as you please.
792
01:07:19,557 --> 01:07:21,045
Am I, really?
793
01:07:21,790 --> 01:07:23,450
Finally free?
794
01:07:27,458 --> 01:07:29,822
I want to say something on this occasion...
795
01:07:29,891 --> 01:07:33,948
where we're celebrating our love
and friendships with one another.
796
01:07:35,192 --> 01:07:38,316
"Friend by enemy I call you out
797
01:07:38,392 --> 01:07:41,949
"You there, with a bad coin in your socket
798
01:07:42,026 --> 01:07:44,957
"You there, my friend with a winning air
799
01:07:46,026 --> 01:07:50,356
"Who palmed the lie on me when you looked
Brassily at my shyest secret
800
01:07:50,992 --> 01:07:53,753
"With my whole heart under your hammer
801
01:07:54,727 --> 01:07:56,989
"That though I loved him for his faults
802
01:07:57,059 --> 01:07:59,150
"As much as for his good
803
01:08:00,460 --> 01:08:03,324
"My friend were an enemy on stilts
804
01:08:03,393 --> 01:08:05,791
"With his head in a cunning cloud"
805
01:08:12,060 --> 01:08:13,424
Bravo, man.
806
01:08:15,928 --> 01:08:20,258
Now, why don't you come out
and fucking say what you really mean?
807
01:08:21,594 --> 01:08:25,220
Does every word out of your mouth
have to be in character...
808
01:08:25,828 --> 01:08:29,522
or is that the idea:
Just to be anybody but who you really are?
809
01:08:30,895 --> 01:08:34,452
You want to tell me
that you're disappointed in me?
810
01:08:35,161 --> 01:08:37,787
'Cause maybe I'm disappointed in you.
811
01:08:38,729 --> 01:08:41,820
You know, I never asked
to write your damn book.
812
01:08:42,830 --> 01:08:46,058
Your redemption and my penance, right?
813
01:08:48,196 --> 01:08:49,718
Haven't I paid?
814
01:08:51,096 --> 01:08:53,655
Nine fucking years.
815
01:08:58,797 --> 01:09:01,388
I am sorry, all right?
816
01:09:01,863 --> 01:09:04,159
I am so fucking sorry.
817
01:09:08,231 --> 01:09:09,890
It's Dylan Thomas.
818
01:09:12,897 --> 01:09:15,057
To Others Than You.
819
01:09:20,565 --> 01:09:22,326
That's an easy one.
820
01:09:34,832 --> 01:09:36,493
Good night, Bobby.
821
01:10:25,169 --> 01:10:26,294
Shit.
822
01:10:43,304 --> 01:10:45,270
You okay? Can I come in?
823
01:10:56,938 --> 01:10:59,802
You really did a number on yourself
this time.
824
01:11:00,838 --> 01:11:03,600
Lawson's gonna leave me right by myself.
825
01:11:04,805 --> 01:11:06,464
I always knew it.
826
01:11:08,672 --> 01:11:10,137
I deserve it.
827
01:11:12,238 --> 01:11:14,034
I'm gonna die alone.
828
01:11:23,173 --> 01:11:24,729
He's not gonna leave you.
829
01:11:24,806 --> 01:11:26,397
- Yes, he is.
- No.
830
01:11:26,873 --> 01:11:28,566
He'll always be there for you.
831
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:32,003
He cut up my story
and hung it on the Christmas tree.
832
01:11:45,141 --> 01:11:47,698
Honey, I peed myself.
833
01:11:48,607 --> 01:11:51,472
All right, let's get you into bed. Come on.
834
01:11:52,541 --> 01:11:54,030
Oh, God.
835
01:12:16,309 --> 01:12:18,208
It's so damn cold.
836
01:12:44,078 --> 01:12:45,408
How is he?
837
01:12:47,611 --> 01:12:50,169
- I think he peed blood.
- God damn it.
838
01:12:51,178 --> 01:12:53,576
I knew he wasn't himself tonight.
839
01:12:54,812 --> 01:12:56,710
He's afraid of doctors.
840
01:12:57,313 --> 01:13:00,472
It's probably some bacterial thing.
It's nothing.
841
01:13:07,913 --> 01:13:11,037
- Are you gonna move out?
- No.
842
01:13:20,147 --> 01:13:22,136
Are you in love with her?
843
01:13:23,581 --> 01:13:24,638
No.
844
01:13:28,181 --> 01:13:29,840
She's really nice.
845
01:13:32,247 --> 01:13:33,804
Yeah, she is.
846
01:13:36,248 --> 01:13:38,271
Are you worried about him?
847
01:13:48,181 --> 01:13:50,045
What happened, Lawson?
848
01:14:00,083 --> 01:14:03,879
When I met Bobby,
he seemed absolutely larger than life.
849
01:14:06,117 --> 01:14:08,583
Did whatever the hell he wanted...
850
01:14:08,951 --> 01:14:11,940
but still he had the beautiful wife and kids.
851
01:14:12,650 --> 01:14:15,275
Students loved him. Faculty hated him.
852
01:14:16,384 --> 01:14:17,644
Women wanted him.
853
01:14:17,717 --> 01:14:20,877
Christ, he had me so convinced
of my own grand destiny...
854
01:14:20,951 --> 01:14:24,542
I may have fallen a little in love myself.
855
01:14:29,985 --> 01:14:32,008
We hung out all the time.
856
01:14:35,285 --> 01:14:39,342
There was a woman who I wanted to marry.
857
01:14:40,352 --> 01:14:43,011
Her friend fell for Bobby pretty hard.
858
01:14:44,486 --> 01:14:48,509
He started spending more time with us
than he was at home.
859
01:14:51,919 --> 01:14:55,181
One night,
their youngest had a Little League game.
860
01:14:57,854 --> 01:14:59,785
It was a double-header.
861
01:15:00,386 --> 01:15:04,285
So I convinced him to have drinks
with the girls first.
862
01:15:05,086 --> 01:15:07,780
Said I'd go to the game with him later.
863
01:15:08,954 --> 01:15:11,420
He kept on saying he had to leave.
864
01:15:12,154 --> 01:15:16,143
Somehow one drink became two,
and then three.
865
01:15:18,588 --> 01:15:19,781
And then...
866
01:15:21,020 --> 01:15:23,919
this idiot, the dean's nephew...
867
01:15:24,222 --> 01:15:26,211
came in and announced...
868
01:15:28,489 --> 01:15:31,353
that he was sleeping with my girlfriend...
869
01:15:31,722 --> 01:15:33,688
and everyone knew but me.
870
01:15:35,288 --> 01:15:37,482
I went after him.
871
01:15:38,423 --> 01:15:39,786
He took a swing.
872
01:15:40,690 --> 01:15:42,246
Bobby stepped in...
873
01:15:42,323 --> 01:15:45,051
and he cracked Bobby's face wide open.
874
01:15:47,389 --> 01:15:51,344
Bobby went crazy.
He beat up that kid pretty bad.
875
01:15:56,357 --> 01:15:58,084
It'd just gotten so late.
876
01:15:59,923 --> 01:16:01,856
I knew Ben would be waiting.
877
01:16:04,891 --> 01:16:07,982
But when we got there, he was gone.
878
01:16:12,325 --> 01:16:13,621
Everyone was.
879
01:16:16,658 --> 01:16:18,920
He should never have been by himself.
880
01:16:22,024 --> 01:16:25,617
He was just a little boy, and it was so dark.
881
01:16:33,059 --> 01:16:35,116
There's too many people...
882
01:16:35,559 --> 01:16:37,650
in such a damn hurry on that road.
883
01:16:37,727 --> 01:16:40,248
There's no way
a driver could have seen him.
884
01:16:41,260 --> 01:16:43,749
I mean, he was so little.
885
01:16:45,726 --> 01:16:48,056
And, God, he worshipped his dad.
886
01:16:53,461 --> 01:16:56,427
Juliette told Bobby to leave
and never come back.
887
01:16:57,328 --> 01:16:59,260
She needed a better man.
888
01:17:00,394 --> 01:17:02,223
That's how she put it.
889
01:17:06,628 --> 01:17:08,060
So you came here?
890
01:17:10,496 --> 01:17:14,518
Seemed like a good place to write.
It was far away...
891
01:17:17,662 --> 01:17:19,219
good universities.
892
01:17:20,130 --> 01:17:22,062
Bobby could start over.
893
01:17:23,696 --> 01:17:25,958
I thought I should be here with him.
894
01:17:27,363 --> 01:17:30,193
I mean, if it wasn't for me that night...
895
01:17:31,562 --> 01:17:33,358
things might have...
896
01:17:38,497 --> 01:17:40,895
I don't know what happened, really.
897
01:17:42,363 --> 01:17:44,296
We read too many damn books.
898
01:17:47,331 --> 01:17:49,456
There's something about this city.
899
01:17:52,264 --> 01:17:53,355
That's all.
900
01:17:59,798 --> 01:18:01,730
You should get some sleep.
901
01:19:14,736 --> 01:19:17,032
I made you breakfast in mattress.
902
01:19:17,503 --> 01:19:19,129
Thank you, ma'am.
903
01:19:21,804 --> 01:19:23,895
Have we heard from the man yet?
904
01:19:24,737 --> 01:19:26,896
No. Should we get him up first?
905
01:19:28,071 --> 01:19:30,503
Can you give me that shirt, please?
906
01:19:33,403 --> 01:19:34,529
Thank you.
907
01:19:59,707 --> 01:20:00,899
Nice hat.
908
01:20:04,607 --> 01:20:07,471
Get up, old man.
I hear we gotta take you to a doctor.
909
01:20:07,540 --> 01:20:09,665
And get that off your pecker.
910
01:20:09,940 --> 01:20:12,906
What do you care?
You're slicing it up, anyway.
911
01:20:13,074 --> 01:20:16,131
It doesn't mean I want my book
getting the clap.
912
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:22,473
I had the urge to read something likable
about myself.
913
01:20:23,708 --> 01:20:25,196
Find anything?
914
01:20:26,407 --> 01:20:27,737
Not really.
915
01:20:32,642 --> 01:20:36,301
I didn't mean to mess things up
between you and Georgianna.
916
01:20:39,109 --> 01:20:41,166
I didn't mean what I said.
917
01:20:42,842 --> 01:20:44,206
Oh, Christ.
918
01:20:44,308 --> 01:20:47,502
Last night was a blur.
I don't know what was said.
919
01:20:48,109 --> 01:20:50,007
And I don't want to remember.
920
01:20:51,143 --> 01:20:54,405
- Come on.
- Good, presents. Yay!
921
01:20:55,343 --> 01:20:56,707
Merry Christmas!
922
01:21:00,777 --> 01:21:04,368
It was our home that night, all of ours.
923
01:21:05,577 --> 01:21:08,008
We both knew we should tell her the truth...
924
01:21:08,077 --> 01:21:10,737
but every day felt like the wrong day.
925
01:21:11,711 --> 01:21:15,404
And Christmas is as good a day as any
to believe in fairy tales.
926
01:21:23,245 --> 01:21:26,541
That night reminded Bobby and me
of a time in our lives...
927
01:21:26,612 --> 01:21:29,545
we'd both chosen to forget until she arrived.
928
01:21:30,812 --> 01:21:32,607
It felt good to remember...
929
01:21:34,179 --> 01:21:35,974
if just for a little while.
930
01:21:45,846 --> 01:21:47,243
I'm so full.
931
01:21:49,380 --> 01:21:51,402
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
932
01:21:54,447 --> 01:21:55,969
I wish it would snow.
933
01:21:57,113 --> 01:21:59,204
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
934
01:22:02,314 --> 01:22:03,779
But I love the rain.
935
01:22:05,181 --> 01:22:07,613
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
936
01:22:14,915 --> 01:22:17,403
Come on, man. You gotta piss sometime.
937
01:22:18,348 --> 01:22:20,746
Christ, I can't do it
while you're watching me.
938
01:22:20,815 --> 01:22:22,678
I've seen you piss a thousand times.
939
01:22:22,749 --> 01:22:25,271
Well, suddenly I am shy, okay?
940
01:22:25,649 --> 01:22:27,512
Piss right now.
941
01:22:29,649 --> 01:22:32,172
Christ, it's probably nothing, man.
942
01:22:37,049 --> 01:22:39,174
I've lived long enough anyhow.
943
01:22:41,750 --> 01:22:43,340
Lord, it's cold.
944
01:22:46,784 --> 01:22:48,613
It's clear. I pissed clear.
945
01:22:48,683 --> 01:22:50,843
Like hell you did. Don't lie to me.
946
01:22:51,084 --> 01:22:53,448
So it was a little pink. I'm not going.
947
01:23:04,618 --> 01:23:09,074
You got any short stories
you haven't destroyed by fire or scissor?
948
01:23:09,285 --> 01:23:12,047
My English final, I gotta write something...
949
01:23:12,118 --> 01:23:15,573
and read it in front of the entire class,
and there's no exceptions.
950
01:23:15,652 --> 01:23:18,118
- Fuck!
- So you're doing okay in English.
951
01:23:18,918 --> 01:23:21,885
I'm doing okay reading English.
I'm not a writer.
952
01:23:23,519 --> 01:23:25,917
- What the hell are you wearing?
- What do you care?
953
01:23:25,986 --> 01:23:28,952
It's Lorraine's.
You just let her stuff collect dust in there.
954
01:23:29,019 --> 01:23:31,542
You'd rather freeze
than wear your mama's clothes.
955
01:23:31,620 --> 01:23:33,643
This robe and the person who wore it...
956
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:37,175
is worth more than a hundred people
who don't appreciate them.
957
01:23:38,187 --> 01:23:39,652
Is something wrong?
958
01:23:39,888 --> 01:23:42,217
- You gonna tell her?
- Tell her what?
959
01:23:42,586 --> 01:23:46,280
We gotta take Bobby to the doctor.
He's still pissing blood.
960
01:23:46,521 --> 01:23:48,680
He's been putting it off for weeks.
961
01:23:53,220 --> 01:23:54,209
Okay.
962
01:23:55,054 --> 01:23:57,316
I hope you're not wearing
them lady underwear.
963
01:23:57,388 --> 01:24:00,513
I most certainly am. They're good luck.
964
01:24:01,388 --> 01:24:03,684
Besides, they're gonna
take them off anyway...
965
01:24:03,755 --> 01:24:06,153
and put one of them
backless numbers on me.
966
01:24:06,222 --> 01:24:07,915
Everybody's seen my peter.
967
01:24:07,989 --> 01:24:11,648
That's right.
Everyone just wants to see your peter.
968
01:24:12,189 --> 01:24:13,621
And my ass.
969
01:24:14,456 --> 01:24:15,683
Let's go.
970
01:24:21,556 --> 01:24:25,852
What did I tell you?
Goddamn string draped over my ass.
971
01:24:50,658 --> 01:24:54,386
Where's Bobby? I made him
that andouille gumbo shit he loves.
972
01:24:54,458 --> 01:24:56,890
They needed him for some more tests.
973
01:24:57,458 --> 01:25:00,051
- Is he all right?
- They think so.
974
01:25:00,559 --> 01:25:03,457
They just gotta look at his toe
and make sure.
975
01:25:04,993 --> 01:25:08,948
Well, then, maybe you might wanna
invite Georgianna over for dinner.
976
01:25:09,026 --> 01:25:12,685
I think she's working.
Is there an occasion I don't know about?
977
01:25:13,959 --> 01:25:15,447
I have a date.
978
01:25:16,426 --> 01:25:18,392
Really? That's a first.
979
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:22,555
I figured it was about time I got a life.
980
01:25:24,593 --> 01:25:25,957
Great to hear it.
981
01:25:26,161 --> 01:25:27,956
- Is that a new dress?
- Yeah.
982
01:25:28,727 --> 01:25:30,216
Well, sort of.
983
01:25:31,394 --> 01:25:35,349
I mean, Bobby's right. There's no reason
to let Lorraine's clothes collect dust.
984
01:25:35,427 --> 01:25:39,190
She was really tiny.
You should have seen me trying to zip it up.
985
01:25:39,262 --> 01:25:41,558
Just make sure it stays zipped up.
986
01:25:42,761 --> 01:25:46,387
I'm a big girl, Lawson.
I have been for quite some time now.
987
01:25:52,028 --> 01:25:55,189
Hey, is that an SAT application?
988
01:25:55,262 --> 01:25:58,695
Yeah. My guidance counselor gave it to me.
I meant to throw it out.
989
01:25:58,762 --> 01:25:59,751
What?
990
01:25:59,829 --> 01:26:03,728
If she thinks your grades are good enough
for college, you go to college.
991
01:26:03,796 --> 01:26:07,059
- Well, college costs money.
- There's financial aid.
992
01:26:07,897 --> 01:26:09,760
I might have to go away.
993
01:26:11,330 --> 01:26:12,693
You might.
994
01:26:14,531 --> 01:26:17,361
- I have to go.
- Isn't he picking you up?
995
01:26:17,863 --> 01:26:19,796
No. I'm meeting him somewhere.
996
01:26:20,198 --> 01:26:22,561
You can't walk home
from the streetcar alone.
997
01:26:22,631 --> 01:26:25,563
- Call me at Ray and Ruthie's and I'll...
- No, I'll get a ride.
998
01:26:25,631 --> 01:26:28,097
Besides, you should spend time alone
with Georgianna.
999
01:26:28,165 --> 01:26:31,619
You haven't stayed over there
since before Christmas, right?
1000
01:26:46,099 --> 01:26:49,190
You said you wanted to see more
of the New Orleans music scene.
1001
01:26:49,266 --> 01:26:51,664
I figure this is a good place to start.
1002
01:27:01,667 --> 01:27:03,428
- I know him.
- Really?
1003
01:27:21,101 --> 01:27:23,125
Hey, sugar, what are you doing here?
1004
01:27:23,201 --> 01:27:25,929
My friend Sean brought me.
Sean, this is Junior.
1005
01:27:26,001 --> 01:27:28,264
Great to meet you.
I've seen you play around, man.
1006
01:27:28,334 --> 01:27:32,131
You are great, man. Really, really great.
1007
01:27:33,102 --> 01:27:35,534
How come I didn't know
you were a badass sax player?
1008
01:27:35,602 --> 01:27:38,296
Well, I don't play much anymore, you know.
1009
01:27:38,736 --> 01:27:41,032
I mean, I don't have...
1010
01:27:42,569 --> 01:27:44,559
Don't got the lungs for it.
1011
01:27:44,636 --> 01:27:47,102
- How's Bobby?
- Better than you sound.
1012
01:27:47,836 --> 01:27:51,496
- You sitting in again, or what?
- Tiny, there's somebody I want you to meet.
1013
01:27:51,570 --> 01:27:54,434
This can't be that sweet baby girl, Purslane.
1014
01:27:55,804 --> 01:27:58,668
- You don't remember me, do you?
- No, sorry.
1015
01:27:59,436 --> 01:28:01,300
When your mama used to play here...
1016
01:28:01,371 --> 01:28:04,531
she used to sit you right over there
on that stool.
1017
01:28:04,604 --> 01:28:06,194
And you was so cute.
1018
01:28:06,937 --> 01:28:10,098
See, my job was to keep you
full of Shirley Temples.
1019
01:28:10,604 --> 01:28:12,297
You remember that?
1020
01:28:12,372 --> 01:28:15,098
With Junior.
You used to play with Lorraine back then.
1021
01:28:15,172 --> 01:28:16,660
You were in the band, weren't you?
1022
01:28:16,739 --> 01:28:21,068
Yeah, she and Junior was our best night
here, when they wasn't bickering.
1023
01:28:22,505 --> 01:28:24,096
Little Purslane.
1024
01:28:24,172 --> 01:28:26,968
Look, you come back
and see old Tiny again, all right?
1025
01:28:27,038 --> 01:28:29,664
And the Shirley Temples on the house.
1026
01:28:30,106 --> 01:28:31,571
See you later, man.
1027
01:28:32,673 --> 01:28:34,831
You were really in Lorraine's band?
1028
01:28:36,906 --> 01:28:38,532
Of course I was.
1029
01:28:39,107 --> 01:28:42,800
I mean, everybody was at that time.
That's just how it was.
1030
01:28:45,107 --> 01:28:46,903
Lorraine and me...
1031
01:28:48,107 --> 01:28:50,596
we were close at one time.
1032
01:28:55,041 --> 01:28:57,598
I remember the last time
she wore that dress.
1033
01:28:58,441 --> 01:29:00,737
It looks just as pretty on you.
1034
01:29:05,809 --> 01:29:07,173
I gotta go.
1035
01:29:07,974 --> 01:29:09,702
Glad you came, honey.
1036
01:29:12,408 --> 01:29:15,806
Why didn't you tell me
your mama was a singer? That's so cool.
1037
01:29:17,909 --> 01:29:20,171
I don't know. It was a long time ago.
1038
01:29:23,476 --> 01:29:25,998
You want a drink? I'm ready.
1039
01:29:40,443 --> 01:29:43,534
Jesus. Are you anxious to get home?
1040
01:29:44,111 --> 01:29:47,167
Unless you and Purslane
don't want me around anymore.
1041
01:29:47,244 --> 01:29:49,266
You finally figured us out.
1042
01:29:50,577 --> 01:29:53,043
- What's the verdict?
- I got a kidney infection.
1043
01:29:53,111 --> 01:29:55,270
They gave me some medicine.
1044
01:29:55,878 --> 01:29:57,537
Said I got to dry out.
1045
01:30:00,179 --> 01:30:01,644
What about the toe?
1046
01:30:01,746 --> 01:30:04,905
It's just a fungus. Got goop.
1047
01:30:07,112 --> 01:30:09,543
You're a lucky man.
You're gonna be all right.
1048
01:30:09,612 --> 01:30:12,009
Of course I am. But what if I wasn't?
1049
01:30:12,445 --> 01:30:13,809
What do you mean?
1050
01:30:13,879 --> 01:30:16,505
I saw you with Purslane on Christmas Eve.
1051
01:30:17,746 --> 01:30:21,678
- Are you sleeping with her, Lawson?
- No. How could you think that?
1052
01:30:22,547 --> 01:30:25,536
Because she's becoming more fetching
every day.
1053
01:30:25,980 --> 01:30:27,775
Because she's a young woman.
1054
01:30:27,946 --> 01:30:31,072
She's got a crush,
and we both know how nice that is.
1055
01:30:31,146 --> 01:30:33,773
- She's a kid, Bobby.
- She's 18.
1056
01:30:34,947 --> 01:30:37,072
My wife was 18 when I met her.
1057
01:30:38,713 --> 01:30:40,680
It was love at first sight.
1058
01:30:41,514 --> 01:30:44,241
Nothing happened. That night...
1059
01:30:44,514 --> 01:30:46,707
things had gotten a little out of hand...
1060
01:30:46,781 --> 01:30:49,144
and I think she was
kind of frightened by it all.
1061
01:30:49,215 --> 01:30:51,237
She was feeling a bit lonely and cold.
1062
01:30:51,315 --> 01:30:54,372
Well, my guess is
that she wasn't the only one.
1063
01:30:55,649 --> 01:30:58,444
Just remember, she's Lorraine's daughter.
1064
01:31:01,816 --> 01:31:04,145
- You're jealous.
- Absolutely.
1065
01:31:06,316 --> 01:31:08,474
Shit, I ain't worth this much.
1066
01:31:11,016 --> 01:31:12,277
Fuck, no.
1067
01:31:19,116 --> 01:31:22,208
Winter never feels truly at home
in New Orleans.
1068
01:31:22,917 --> 01:31:25,679
An unwelcome visitor
that shows up long enough...
1069
01:31:25,750 --> 01:31:28,115
to remind us of what we're missing...
1070
01:31:28,184 --> 01:31:31,014
and leaves us just in time
for us to forget again.
1071
01:31:38,718 --> 01:31:40,945
Spring, and we're still here.
1072
01:31:45,118 --> 01:31:47,949
How about we grab a bottle of wine...
1073
01:31:48,585 --> 01:31:52,382
and go down to the river like we used to?
What do you think of that?
1074
01:31:52,451 --> 01:31:55,543
Remember that very generous girl
who used to skinny-dip?
1075
01:31:55,619 --> 01:31:58,210
- What was her name?
- I don't know.
1076
01:31:58,986 --> 01:32:00,849
She's born-again now.
1077
01:32:07,086 --> 01:32:10,052
Think we'll still be living together
in heaven?
1078
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:13,483
If we make it to heaven,
then everybody will be there...
1079
01:32:13,554 --> 01:32:16,020
and I'll have my pick
of goddamn debauchers:
1080
01:32:16,087 --> 01:32:17,950
Byron, de Sade, Hemingway.
1081
01:32:18,020 --> 01:32:21,475
I'll be more fun
than all of them whiners put together.
1082
01:32:21,555 --> 01:32:23,453
Yes, I guess you would.
1083
01:32:24,354 --> 01:32:28,286
- I really think Pursey can get financial aid.
- Will you forget that?
1084
01:32:28,388 --> 01:32:32,650
She's gonna go off to some fancy school
after we taught her everything she knows.
1085
01:32:32,721 --> 01:32:35,346
We'll still be sitting here
getting older and uglier...
1086
01:32:35,422 --> 01:32:37,410
and any spring could be our last...
1087
01:32:37,489 --> 01:32:40,046
God damn it, I wanna go to the river now.
1088
01:32:41,422 --> 01:32:44,115
Why are you such a dramatic old bastard?
1089
01:32:45,222 --> 01:32:47,484
"I just want to breathe in every day.
1090
01:32:48,522 --> 01:32:52,216
"Happiness makes up in height
what it lacks in length."
1091
01:32:54,989 --> 01:32:57,956
- Robert Frost.
- Come on.
1092
01:32:58,756 --> 01:33:01,484
You know damn well she'll miss us
if she leaves.
1093
01:33:01,589 --> 01:33:04,750
If she leaves, she's gone.
Final chapter. End of story.
1094
01:33:04,823 --> 01:33:07,312
I want to go to the river now.
1095
01:33:09,957 --> 01:33:12,616
But I need peace and quiet.
I got so much to do...
1096
01:33:12,691 --> 01:33:16,714
to pull off this graduation. I gotta write
a short story, or poem, or something.
1097
01:33:16,790 --> 01:33:18,120
I can't think of anything.
1098
01:33:18,191 --> 01:33:20,851
- I'm gonna blow the whole thing.
- I know you.
1099
01:33:20,957 --> 01:33:23,822
- You'll be fine.
- I'll see you later.
1100
01:33:30,591 --> 01:33:31,888
Hey, babe.
1101
01:33:34,126 --> 01:33:36,251
I've been waiting for you all day.
1102
01:33:36,959 --> 01:33:39,925
Lee, what are you doing here?
How did you find me?
1103
01:33:39,992 --> 01:33:41,481
You smell nice.
1104
01:33:42,693 --> 01:33:45,318
Aren't you gonna ask me in?
I drove all night.
1105
01:33:45,393 --> 01:33:47,791
And I got you this.
1106
01:33:58,594 --> 01:34:00,718
This place really looks like you.
1107
01:34:01,927 --> 01:34:03,518
All those lady magazines...
1108
01:34:03,594 --> 01:34:06,356
I don't read those anymore.
I don't have the time.
1109
01:34:06,427 --> 01:34:09,019
What are you doing now? You waitressing?
1110
01:34:09,494 --> 01:34:12,154
No, I'm... It's none of your business.
1111
01:34:14,727 --> 01:34:17,818
Man, you must be doing okay. No rent...
1112
01:34:17,895 --> 01:34:20,622
and this place definitely kicks ass
over the trailer.
1113
01:34:20,695 --> 01:34:23,389
- Lee, what do you want?
- What do you mean?
1114
01:34:23,962 --> 01:34:26,484
I just came up here
to make sure that you're safe...
1115
01:34:26,562 --> 01:34:30,222
- once Lorraine's fool friends get the boot.
- What are you talking about?
1116
01:34:30,296 --> 01:34:33,092
Those guys
that you had to share this place with.
1117
01:34:33,162 --> 01:34:35,458
How do you know who I live with?
1118
01:34:40,263 --> 01:34:42,525
Some lawyer sent you a letter.
1119
01:34:42,596 --> 01:34:44,825
Which you, of course, opened.
1120
01:34:50,630 --> 01:34:52,562
Their year is almost up...
1121
01:34:54,163 --> 01:34:57,130
and I've been trying really hard
to better myself.
1122
01:34:57,197 --> 01:35:00,789
- I've missed you so much...
- This letter says as of July 1...
1123
01:35:00,864 --> 01:35:03,659
- I'm the sole owner of this house.
- Yeah, I know.
1124
01:35:04,498 --> 01:35:07,328
You didn't know that? Jesus Christ, man!
1125
01:35:07,399 --> 01:35:11,354
- Those fucking scumbag losers lied...
- They are not losers. They're my...
1126
01:35:12,198 --> 01:35:14,563
- They're your what?
- You cannot call them losers.
1127
01:35:14,631 --> 01:35:17,427
You think that... I have a real life now.
I go to school...
1128
01:35:17,498 --> 01:35:18,964
- A real life?
- Yeah.
1129
01:35:19,232 --> 01:35:22,426
As opposed to the piece-of-shit life
that we had?
1130
01:35:22,565 --> 01:35:25,397
And I guess you got some real men
in your real life, too.
1131
01:35:25,465 --> 01:35:28,556
Men who lie to girls
so they can have a roof over their heads?
1132
01:35:28,632 --> 01:35:29,724
- Fuck you!
- Or what?
1133
01:35:29,799 --> 01:35:32,732
Are they getting something else
for their trouble?
1134
01:35:33,900 --> 01:35:36,058
They used you, Purslane.
1135
01:35:36,266 --> 01:35:38,994
- Just like they used Lorraine.
- Get out.
1136
01:35:39,300 --> 01:35:42,824
That's just fine!
I came all the way up here to see you!
1137
01:35:44,834 --> 01:35:48,289
You're in school now.
That's some funny stuff.
1138
01:35:50,035 --> 01:35:52,523
I want you
to remember something, Purslane.
1139
01:35:52,900 --> 01:35:55,492
A weed is just a weed...
1140
01:35:56,901 --> 01:35:58,696
no matter how pretty the flower.
1141
01:35:58,768 --> 01:36:01,996
That's just fucking brilliant, Lee. Get out!
1142
01:36:13,902 --> 01:36:15,629
What the hell is going on?
1143
01:36:15,969 --> 01:36:18,435
She must be cleaning or something.
1144
01:36:19,736 --> 01:36:21,361
She locked the door.
1145
01:36:22,736 --> 01:36:24,599
Pursey, open up, honey.
1146
01:36:26,536 --> 01:36:28,059
Pursey, it's us.
1147
01:36:33,269 --> 01:36:34,997
Pursey, honey, open up.
1148
01:36:36,804 --> 01:36:40,633
- You locked the door.
- God damn it, I told you this would happen.
1149
01:36:40,737 --> 01:36:43,635
No. Oh, God. How?
1150
01:36:44,437 --> 01:36:46,666
Let's go. She needs some time.
1151
01:36:50,871 --> 01:36:53,337
Two goddamn days and no one's seen her.
1152
01:36:53,405 --> 01:36:55,337
She asked for the weekend off.
1153
01:36:56,805 --> 01:36:58,464
The trail is exhausted.
1154
01:36:59,372 --> 01:37:03,031
Ray said she came in early this morning.
Used the phone.
1155
01:37:03,272 --> 01:37:05,897
- She snuck past us?
- Probably on purpose.
1156
01:37:06,172 --> 01:37:09,434
You have not been very supportive
in this ordeal.
1157
01:37:11,439 --> 01:37:15,371
You're staying with me, aren't you?
You're welcome to go elsewhere.
1158
01:37:17,540 --> 01:37:19,165
I can rectify this.
1159
01:37:19,873 --> 01:37:23,567
Tomorrow she goes to school.
I'll set the alarm. Get up early.
1160
01:37:24,473 --> 01:37:26,099
Talk to her on the way.
1161
01:37:27,540 --> 01:37:29,438
Work this whole thing out.
1162
01:37:30,941 --> 01:37:32,703
We don't have an alarm.
1163
01:38:32,711 --> 01:38:35,677
Sweetheart, we've been waiting for you.
1164
01:38:41,345 --> 01:38:45,108
What do you think?
It's all your favorite colors.
1165
01:38:45,712 --> 01:38:49,236
And guess who helped?
We had Ray, and Ike, and even Earl.
1166
01:38:58,279 --> 01:39:01,803
It'll probably add value to the selling price,
so thanks.
1167
01:39:38,882 --> 01:39:41,371
Don't know why you have to go so soon.
1168
01:39:42,449 --> 01:39:45,574
We'll still be friends.
It's them I wanna get away from.
1169
01:39:47,316 --> 01:39:49,340
You know they didn't mean to hurt you...
1170
01:39:49,416 --> 01:39:52,940
Why don't you start off in the kitchen?
I'll finish this.
1171
01:40:48,520 --> 01:40:50,042
"My sweet Purslane...
1172
01:40:50,887 --> 01:40:53,614
"I am getting well and can't wait to see you.
1173
01:40:54,321 --> 01:40:57,048
"Time seems to stand still in these places...
1174
01:40:57,120 --> 01:41:00,951
"but somehow too much of it has passed,
and there's so much to say.
1175
01:41:01,054 --> 01:41:05,317
"I write to you always, but
never have the courage to send my letters.
1176
01:41:05,522 --> 01:41:08,885
"I want you to have them now
to give you our history.
1177
01:41:09,721 --> 01:41:11,949
"I'd like you to know your daddy...
1178
01:41:12,021 --> 01:41:16,386
"and to know that only I'm to blame for
the fact that he doesn't already know you.
1179
01:41:17,822 --> 01:41:19,913
"I wrote this song for you both."
1180
01:41:36,023 --> 01:41:39,113
Honey, where do you want me
to put your glasses?
1181
01:41:43,489 --> 01:41:44,853
What's wrong?
1182
01:41:45,591 --> 01:41:49,318
How could you talk about her all the time
and never tell me this?
1183
01:41:54,257 --> 01:41:55,724
Is this true?
1184
01:42:01,025 --> 01:42:04,082
"Your singing touched my soul.
Bobby Long."
1185
01:42:06,725 --> 01:42:09,556
I always suspected, but she never told me.
1186
01:42:11,159 --> 01:42:13,125
I loved her first.
1187
01:42:13,191 --> 01:42:15,953
And Bobby got here,
and all hell broke loose.
1188
01:42:16,759 --> 01:42:18,747
Bobby was still married.
1189
01:42:19,993 --> 01:42:22,356
He never even knew how she felt.
1190
01:42:25,593 --> 01:42:27,957
She worked so hard to get clean.
1191
01:42:30,459 --> 01:42:35,359
And when she did, she came home
for a big show at the Howlin' Wolf.
1192
01:42:37,393 --> 01:42:38,620
This show?
1193
01:42:42,961 --> 01:42:44,587
The date's right.
1194
01:42:46,360 --> 01:42:49,192
She said your grandma would bring you up.
1195
01:42:52,962 --> 01:42:56,587
You never did show. He never did, either.
1196
01:42:57,495 --> 01:43:01,086
Boy, she was devastated
neither one of you was there.
1197
01:43:02,796 --> 01:43:04,261
"To my sweet Bobby.
1198
01:43:04,995 --> 01:43:09,053
"I am feeling better and coming home
to sing you a brand-new song.
1199
01:43:09,762 --> 01:43:13,956
"Please come. Someone I love will be there
and I want to introduce you."
1200
01:43:16,729 --> 01:43:18,627
This was you, darling.
1201
01:43:21,263 --> 01:43:22,729
You and Bobby.
1202
01:43:26,563 --> 01:43:27,790
I just...
1203
01:43:30,097 --> 01:43:31,791
I can't believe it.
1204
01:44:39,101 --> 01:44:41,567
Why do you keep drinking that shit?
1205
01:44:41,635 --> 01:44:44,863
Don't you know it's gonna kill you?
Didn't you watch Lorraine?
1206
01:44:44,935 --> 01:44:48,163
God, sometimes you make me
so fucking sick.
1207
01:44:48,269 --> 01:44:50,599
You're living in some fantasy world...
1208
01:44:50,668 --> 01:44:53,794
where life's a book
and no one takes responsibility for writing.
1209
01:44:53,870 --> 01:44:58,200
Every idiot knows that books are better
than life. That's why they're books!
1210
01:45:02,836 --> 01:45:05,927
Pursey, honey,
you go right ahead and be wicked.
1211
01:45:06,004 --> 01:45:07,492
We deserve it.
1212
01:45:08,203 --> 01:45:12,862
But when you're finished, why don't
we just all sit down and talk like a family?
1213
01:45:14,170 --> 01:45:15,693
Like a family.
1214
01:45:16,470 --> 01:45:18,732
Would that be like
that family you destroyed?
1215
01:45:18,804 --> 01:45:20,930
Are we just gonna be like that family?
1216
01:45:21,004 --> 01:45:25,027
'Cause the weird thing is that,
according to Lorraine, I am your family.
1217
01:45:30,705 --> 01:45:33,171
Couldn't you count to nine months?
1218
01:45:36,839 --> 01:45:40,464
I never understood
why she would want me to live with y'all...
1219
01:45:54,039 --> 01:45:55,835
but you're my father.
1220
01:46:08,807 --> 01:46:10,137
I just...
1221
01:46:18,608 --> 01:46:20,131
Did you love her?
1222
01:46:23,809 --> 01:46:28,138
- Did you love her?
- Yes, very much. But I just...
1223
01:46:31,809 --> 01:46:33,638
I wish we never knew.
1224
01:46:35,810 --> 01:46:38,536
No. Don't go, Pursey.
1225
01:46:40,809 --> 01:46:42,400
Don't walk away.
1226
01:46:42,476 --> 01:46:45,102
- It's too late.
- No, it's not too late.
1227
01:46:45,776 --> 01:46:49,265
You got me now, honey.
You're not alone anymore.
1228
01:46:52,377 --> 01:46:53,899
Let me be here.
1229
01:46:55,144 --> 01:46:57,336
What can I do? Tell me.
1230
01:47:00,477 --> 01:47:01,807
What, honey?
1231
01:47:01,878 --> 01:47:04,606
Remember when I told you
I made up memories about her?
1232
01:47:04,677 --> 01:47:05,665
Yes.
1233
01:47:08,378 --> 01:47:12,810
The really pathetic part was that
I used to make up memories about myself.
1234
01:47:13,578 --> 01:47:17,033
Like parents got lots of stories
about their kids.
1235
01:47:17,879 --> 01:47:22,369
You know, like, "Wasn't it cute when
Suzie couldn't say supercalifucking..."
1236
01:47:22,445 --> 01:47:23,707
Whatever.
1237
01:47:24,713 --> 01:47:28,008
I mean, people remember a lot of weird shit.
1238
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:31,239
Like you probably got a ton of stories
about your kids, right?
1239
01:47:31,313 --> 01:47:32,642
Yes, I do.
1240
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:36,673
Well, I kind of felt that maybe...
1241
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:41,105
I used to do some cute or funny stuff
when I was little.
1242
01:47:42,213 --> 01:47:46,306
But the truth is nobody was really there
watching, were they?
1243
01:47:46,380 --> 01:47:50,608
Honey, I was there. Sweetheart, I was there.
1244
01:47:51,014 --> 01:47:54,071
I saw. It was never very long,
but I was there.
1245
01:47:55,948 --> 01:47:57,879
- Will you tell me about her?
- Yes.
1246
01:47:57,947 --> 01:48:00,312
- Every tiny thing about her?
- Oh, yes.
1247
01:48:00,381 --> 01:48:01,972
And about me, too?
1248
01:48:02,748 --> 01:48:06,271
'Cause I think I really need to know now.
1249
01:48:09,015 --> 01:48:10,003
Yes.
1250
01:48:10,482 --> 01:48:14,005
I don't want to sell our house.
I love our house. I just...
1251
01:48:14,082 --> 01:48:15,844
I was so mad at you.
1252
01:48:18,549 --> 01:48:20,015
I'm so sorry.
1253
01:48:32,150 --> 01:48:34,775
I don't remember how to do this.
1254
01:48:36,150 --> 01:48:37,877
I'll do it for you.
1255
01:48:38,717 --> 01:48:40,910
Shit, man. Your foot's blue.
1256
01:48:43,684 --> 01:48:48,049
I've been practicing wearing this shoe.
It's just numb, is all.
1257
01:48:55,751 --> 01:48:59,877
I don't want any reason for my daughter
to be ashamed of her daddy.
1258
01:49:00,418 --> 01:49:02,748
- Now, how do I look?
- Damn good.
1259
01:49:03,085 --> 01:49:07,074
- How do I look?
- Well, pretty good.
1260
01:49:08,452 --> 01:49:10,419
Your hair's sticking up.
1261
01:49:11,919 --> 01:49:13,385
There you go.
1262
01:49:18,953 --> 01:49:21,976
Good Lord, y'all look like regular taxpayers.
1263
01:49:22,052 --> 01:49:25,485
- Maybe I ain't dressed appropriate.
- You look fine.
1264
01:49:25,554 --> 01:49:28,611
Your fly is down.
Come on, we're gonna be late.
1265
01:49:30,420 --> 01:49:33,250
Are you ready
to see our daughter graduate?
1266
01:49:33,554 --> 01:49:35,110
Yes, I am, sir.
1267
01:49:36,287 --> 01:49:39,812
- It's a day to count our blessings.
- Yes.
1268
01:50:43,192 --> 01:50:45,783
Quiet, everybody. Quiet down.
1269
01:50:46,425 --> 01:50:48,652
I'd like to propose a toast...
1270
01:50:49,558 --> 01:50:53,992
to my very beautiful daughter,
Purslane Hominy...
1271
01:50:54,592 --> 01:50:57,115
who is my very own golden girl.
1272
01:50:58,659 --> 01:51:03,115
Cecil mentioned earlier that today
was a day we should count our blessings.
1273
01:51:04,293 --> 01:51:07,885
And as I look around,
I see that there are many...
1274
01:51:08,560 --> 01:51:10,890
that I have not given credence to.
1275
01:51:12,994 --> 01:51:16,983
I am thankful for a God
that I had thought had given up on me...
1276
01:51:18,327 --> 01:51:21,851
and the love of a child who, God willing...
1277
01:51:23,194 --> 01:51:25,387
will be in college this fall.
1278
01:51:25,461 --> 01:51:29,621
And not no Vinegar Bend Junior College,
neither. My baby's smart.
1279
01:51:30,161 --> 01:51:32,093
Smarter than her old man.
1280
01:51:32,161 --> 01:51:34,127
That's for goddamn sure.
1281
01:51:35,128 --> 01:51:38,855
Pursey, honey, you have taught
this old fool a thing or two.
1282
01:51:39,028 --> 01:51:41,824
And in the glorious words of T.S. Eliot:
1283
01:51:43,263 --> 01:51:45,593
"We shall not cease exploration.
1284
01:51:47,362 --> 01:51:49,727
"And at the end of all our exploring...
1285
01:51:50,062 --> 01:51:53,119
"will be to arrive where we started...
1286
01:51:54,097 --> 01:51:56,961
"and know the place for the first time."
1287
01:51:58,497 --> 01:52:01,361
And that's what you've given your old man.
1288
01:52:02,864 --> 01:52:04,693
And he is forever grateful.
1289
01:52:05,297 --> 01:52:08,627
Now, come on up
and give your old man an Alabama shuffle.
1290
01:52:12,397 --> 01:52:14,886
Play that slow one that I asked for.
1291
01:53:30,969 --> 01:53:35,367
Some people reach a place in time
where they've gone as far as they can...
1292
01:53:35,536 --> 01:53:39,093
the place where wives and jobs
collide with desire...
1293
01:53:39,169 --> 01:53:42,897
that which is unknowable,
and those who remain out of sight.
1294
01:53:44,570 --> 01:53:48,025
"See what is invisible,
and you will see what to write. "
1295
01:53:49,870 --> 01:53:52,200
That's how Bobby used to put it.
1296
01:53:52,337 --> 01:53:55,599
It was the invisible people
he wanted to live with.
1297
01:53:55,704 --> 01:53:58,431
The ones that we walk past every day.
1298
01:53:58,504 --> 01:54:00,732
The ones we sometimes become.
1299
01:54:01,071 --> 01:54:04,902
The ones in books
who live only in someone's mind's eye.
1300
01:54:07,005 --> 01:54:10,665
He was a man who was destined
to go through life and not around it.
1301
01:54:11,505 --> 01:54:15,597
A man who was sure the shortest path
to heaven was straight through hell.
1302
01:54:17,573 --> 01:54:19,629
But the truth of his handicap...
1303
01:54:19,739 --> 01:54:24,399
lay only in a mind both exalted
and crippled by too many stories...
1304
01:54:24,940 --> 01:54:27,462
and the path he chose to become one.
1305
01:54:29,140 --> 01:54:33,038
Bobby Long's tragic flaw
was his romance with all that he saw.
1306
01:54:34,539 --> 01:54:38,097
And I guess if people want to believe
in some form of justice...
1307
01:54:38,173 --> 01:54:40,934
then Bobby Long got his for a song.