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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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00:24:41,391 --> 00:24:43,186
Here 26 years.
251
00:24:43,692 --> 00:24:46,249
Go on and relax, baby. Drink your beer.
252
00:24:46,725 --> 00:24:47,985
Find anything?
253
00:24:48,625 --> 00:24:50,352
I filled out a few applications.
254
00:24:50,425 --> 00:24:52,323
You let that fresh young thing
live with you?
255
00:24:52,391 --> 00:24:53,981
She's fresh, all right.
256
00:24:54,592 --> 00:24:58,887
I remember when there was a new one
every night. Y'all was pussy magnets.
257
00:24:59,491 --> 00:25:02,480
Which one of y'all snores
like a goddamn train?
258
00:25:02,558 --> 00:25:05,353
Bobby. If he's on his back,
you have to turn him over.
259
00:25:05,425 --> 00:25:10,153
I saw this program on the Medical Channel
that you can cure people of snoring...
260
00:25:10,225 --> 00:25:12,384
by cutting their throats open.
261
00:25:18,891 --> 00:25:22,483
I believe that I do have a story
for you gentlemen.
262
00:25:23,291 --> 00:25:25,416
Quiet. Bobby's gonna tell a story.
263
00:25:25,558 --> 00:25:29,786
When I was growing up, I always hung
around boys a couple years older than me.
264
00:25:32,258 --> 00:25:35,418
And this one summer,
I was, I don't know, 10 or 11.
265
00:25:36,225 --> 00:25:40,953
And we were doing all the normal things
that boys in Alabama do.
266
00:25:41,558 --> 00:25:43,319
We were fishing...
267
00:25:43,525 --> 00:25:46,650
and playing ball,
and swimming, and beating off.
268
00:25:49,458 --> 00:25:53,390
But in addition to these activities
of an innocent childhood...
269
00:25:53,625 --> 00:25:56,523
mine included a lot of talk...
270
00:25:57,058 --> 00:26:01,582
about this wonderfully
elusive something called pussy.
271
00:26:02,824 --> 00:26:04,847
I wasn't sure exactly what it was...
272
00:26:04,924 --> 00:26:09,323
but I knew it was magical and very special
because of the way it was spoken about.
273
00:26:10,058 --> 00:26:11,785
Always in a whisper.
274
00:26:12,525 --> 00:26:16,150
I'd go through the fields
saying it to myself: "Pussy."
275
00:26:20,824 --> 00:26:22,847
One day, we was all...
276
00:26:23,458 --> 00:26:26,117
playing ball out in a broom sage field.
277
00:26:27,291 --> 00:26:30,086
And up rode Leroy Tuberville.
278
00:26:31,158 --> 00:26:35,716
Now, Leroy was
an upstanding delinquent. Twelve.
279
00:26:36,558 --> 00:26:40,887
And his shoulders were already broad,
and his fingers were stained with tobacco.
280
00:26:41,757 --> 00:26:46,122
And Leroy, he parked himself casually
by third base, and he went in his pocket...
281
00:26:46,924 --> 00:26:51,152
and he pulled out something. He started
throwing it high in the air like that.
282
00:26:51,558 --> 00:26:53,955
And I watched him play it cool...
283
00:26:55,024 --> 00:26:57,854
his mysterious jewel going up and down.
284
00:26:59,458 --> 00:27:02,253
I couldn't take it any longer. I had to ask.
285
00:27:02,325 --> 00:27:04,450
"What's that you got there, Leroy?"
286
00:27:05,191 --> 00:27:06,918
And everyone fell silent.
287
00:27:08,124 --> 00:27:12,284
And Leroy looked at me
with that nasty sideways grin...
288
00:27:12,724 --> 00:27:17,020
and he said,
"It's a piece of pussy, Long. My very own."
289
00:27:18,924 --> 00:27:21,516
My face got hot, my breath quickened.
290
00:27:23,124 --> 00:27:26,213
There he was,
with this perfect piece of girl,
291
00:27:26,239 --> 00:27:28,013
tossing her up in the air.
292
00:27:28,958 --> 00:27:33,288
And I watched, knowing that I had seen God
for the first time.
293
00:27:33,592 --> 00:27:35,784
And I wanted her for my very own.
294
00:27:38,958 --> 00:27:42,322
But old Leroy popped his treasure
between his teeth...
295
00:27:42,924 --> 00:27:45,618
jumped on his bike grinning at me,
and rode off...
296
00:27:45,691 --> 00:27:48,782
leaving us in a cloud of dust and desire.
297
00:27:49,391 --> 00:27:53,483
And it was in that tormented haze,
at the age of 10...
298
00:27:54,191 --> 00:27:56,748
when I dedicated the rest of my life...
299
00:27:57,024 --> 00:28:01,649
to finding my very own tiny piece
of love and wonder...
300
00:28:02,091 --> 00:28:04,580
that I could carry with me for eternity.
301
00:28:08,258 --> 00:28:10,520
All right, that's it. I'm going home.
302
00:28:12,558 --> 00:28:13,853
To Florida?
303
00:28:15,958 --> 00:28:18,117
Now, look, be careful.
304
00:28:18,425 --> 00:28:21,289
"We cannot tear out
a single page of our lives...
305
00:28:21,358 --> 00:28:23,983
"but we can throw
the whole book in the fire."
306
00:28:25,058 --> 00:28:26,547
George Sand.
307
00:28:26,791 --> 00:28:29,257
I thought that would be a hard one.
308
00:28:32,991 --> 00:28:35,287
I don't feel right about lying to her.
309
00:28:37,124 --> 00:28:40,454
What would a teenage hussy want
with this place, anyway?
310
00:28:40,525 --> 00:28:44,389
Said herself it was a shithole.
She's better off.
311
00:28:46,958 --> 00:28:49,685
Besides, when you sell that book,
everything will change...
312
00:28:49,757 --> 00:28:50,950
Change?
313
00:28:52,391 --> 00:28:55,357
We'll go to Paris, drink '61 Latour...
314
00:28:55,425 --> 00:28:58,857
write bad poetry.
Yes, everything will be just perfect.
315
00:29:06,824 --> 00:29:11,314
"We die only once,
and for such a long time."
316
00:29:15,558 --> 00:29:16,784
Molière.
317
00:29:22,325 --> 00:29:23,688
She's here, honey.
318
00:29:26,624 --> 00:29:28,988
I'll take better care of her this time.
319
00:29:36,391 --> 00:29:38,118
See you tomorrow, darling.
320
00:29:47,458 --> 00:29:49,582
Your mama used to come here a lot.
321
00:29:52,191 --> 00:29:54,487
Why do you talk about her so much?
322
00:29:56,058 --> 00:29:57,853
Because I miss her, I guess.
323
00:29:59,358 --> 00:30:01,721
Were you in love with her or something?
324
00:30:04,191 --> 00:30:05,816
We all loved her.
325
00:30:07,757 --> 00:30:11,780
- She knew how to reach people, you know?
- No, not really.
326
00:30:12,624 --> 00:30:14,488
The night before my grandma died...
327
00:30:14,557 --> 00:30:17,490
she warned me that
Lorraine would always be selfish.
328
00:30:17,958 --> 00:30:20,322
She finally told me about my father.
329
00:30:22,458 --> 00:30:23,821
She did, did she?
330
00:30:24,291 --> 00:30:26,314
Some sax player in Memphis.
331
00:30:27,058 --> 00:30:28,990
Pretty much a one-night stand.
332
00:30:31,024 --> 00:30:35,354
I think Gran wanted me to know that when
she was gone, I'd be totally on my own.
333
00:30:36,158 --> 00:30:37,488
She was right.
334
00:30:38,124 --> 00:30:40,954
After she died,
I hardly ever heard from Lorraine.
335
00:30:41,091 --> 00:30:43,556
Never even got a chance to hear her sing.
336
00:30:43,657 --> 00:30:47,589
Your mama loved you, you know?
You meant the world to her.
337
00:30:56,258 --> 00:30:59,224
She used to sit
right where you're sitting now.
338
00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:00,922
Always writing.
339
00:31:01,524 --> 00:31:03,922
Called this granddaddy the Tree of Life.
340
00:31:04,791 --> 00:31:06,280
That's so corny.
341
00:31:18,258 --> 00:31:21,917
- You're in the wrong appliance.
- What?
342
00:31:23,158 --> 00:31:26,646
To succeed in killing oneself,
one must be in the oven.
343
00:31:27,258 --> 00:31:30,315
God damn, girl. You woke up productive.
344
00:31:33,425 --> 00:31:37,447
- Come see what Pursey did.
- Christ. Stop yelling.
345
00:31:41,091 --> 00:31:43,114
I see what she didn't do: Leave.
346
00:31:44,824 --> 00:31:46,483
She ain't gonna leave.
347
00:31:48,124 --> 00:31:50,521
That's a really good look for you, too.
348
00:31:58,191 --> 00:32:00,157
Good morning to y'all, too.
349
00:32:03,158 --> 00:32:06,612
No school, I hear. What, you skip a grade?
350
00:32:07,657 --> 00:32:10,782
A few. The 10th, 11th, and 12th.
Do you mind?
351
00:32:10,858 --> 00:32:14,950
God, we are living under the same roof
as a goddamn dropout.
352
00:32:15,191 --> 00:32:18,520
It takes one to mock one.
At least I can support myself.
353
00:32:19,024 --> 00:32:23,081
Look, as long as
you're not lazing around here...
354
00:32:23,158 --> 00:32:27,590
making Lawson lose his concentration,
I do not care what you do.
355
00:32:32,358 --> 00:32:33,846
You got work to do.
356
00:32:34,124 --> 00:32:36,988
Do you have to go after her
like that, relentlessly?
357
00:32:37,058 --> 00:32:39,649
Do you want her to stick around?
Is that what you want?
358
00:32:39,724 --> 00:32:44,180
Has it ever occurred to you that if we help
her get on her feet, she might move on?
359
00:32:44,390 --> 00:32:45,946
How help her?
360
00:32:45,972 --> 00:32:46,772
I know you.
361
00:32:46,791 --> 00:32:49,001
You want to help her
out of them tight little pants.
362
00:32:49,027 --> 00:32:50,009
That's what you want.
363
00:32:50,058 --> 00:32:52,490
- Forget it, man, all right?
- Forgotten, forgotten.
364
00:32:57,291 --> 00:33:00,586
A New Orleans summer
drowns in thick, dank stillness.
365
00:33:09,291 --> 00:33:11,189
Come on, man, let's play gin.
366
00:33:11,258 --> 00:33:14,224
- Can't you see us doing something here?
- To hell with you.
367
00:33:14,291 --> 00:33:18,950
Lorraine's house shrank with each
passing day, straining uneasy walls closer.
368
00:33:30,390 --> 00:33:33,823
Turn that music off, girl!
Can't you see he's working?
369
00:33:48,324 --> 00:33:49,449
Jesus H. Christ.
370
00:33:49,524 --> 00:33:53,513
How long you gonna sit around here
smoking up our cigarette money?
371
00:33:53,691 --> 00:33:55,486
Lawson said he didn't mind.
372
00:33:56,724 --> 00:33:59,884
Lawson's cigarettes are red. Mine are green.
373
00:34:00,258 --> 00:34:03,314
You may not smoke green. Bobby's.
374
00:34:11,424 --> 00:34:14,948
What is that shit you are drinking?
God, it reeks.
375
00:34:15,225 --> 00:34:17,486
This is beer and tomato juice.
376
00:34:17,724 --> 00:34:19,656
Breakfast of champions.
377
00:34:22,490 --> 00:34:24,285
Champion fuckup, maybe.
378
00:34:24,958 --> 00:34:28,651
You know, girl, I have had
just about enough of your bad attitude.
379
00:34:29,424 --> 00:34:33,016
Whether you like it or not,
I am the senior male in this house...
380
00:34:33,091 --> 00:34:34,954
and you will respect me!
381
00:34:37,757 --> 00:34:41,155
We have been very patient
out of respect for Lorraine...
382
00:34:41,791 --> 00:34:44,382
but you will not continue
to lay around here...
383
00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:46,889
and play parasite to our generosity.
384
00:34:47,791 --> 00:34:51,314
Now, you must work
as if you're gonna live 100 years...
385
00:34:52,390 --> 00:34:54,856
and pray as if you're gonna die tomorrow.
386
00:34:54,924 --> 00:34:58,118
- What did you say?
- Ben Franklin said it.
387
00:34:58,191 --> 00:35:00,452
It probably meant something
coming from him.
388
00:35:00,524 --> 00:35:02,888
You know damn well
I've been looking for a job.
389
00:35:02,958 --> 00:35:07,084
God, what do you do? Except shit around
and talk about how smart you used to be.
390
00:35:07,158 --> 00:35:10,385
I am a professor. I am a troubadour. A poet.
391
00:35:10,457 --> 00:35:13,151
And it's none of your damn business
how we live.
392
00:35:13,224 --> 00:35:16,452
- You are responsible for your share.
- My share?
393
00:35:16,524 --> 00:35:18,285
You already live in my house for free.
394
00:35:18,357 --> 00:35:20,755
- God, you should be grateful...
- This is our house!
395
00:35:20,824 --> 00:35:23,551
Maybe you'd rather I earn money
bringing friends home.
396
00:35:23,624 --> 00:35:27,022
Didn't Lorraine have to do that for a while?
Most junkies do.
397
00:35:28,124 --> 00:35:29,817
God damn it!
398
00:35:29,891 --> 00:35:31,982
Have you no respect for the dead?
399
00:35:32,357 --> 00:35:34,516
That was your mother, Pursey.
400
00:35:40,457 --> 00:35:41,821
Besides...
401
00:35:43,557 --> 00:35:46,284
we all know
that you ain't no angel of purity...
402
00:35:47,124 --> 00:35:49,180
are you, little Purslane?
403
00:35:50,958 --> 00:35:54,321
Did you ever have two men at once?
Have you?
404
00:35:54,424 --> 00:35:58,118
That would buy a lot of cigarettes
in our house. It would, wouldn't it?
405
00:35:58,190 --> 00:35:59,986
Fuck you!
406
00:36:01,058 --> 00:36:04,251
You're supposed to be the senior male?
The grownup.
407
00:36:04,324 --> 00:36:07,688
I'm just a girl. Don't you get that?
408
00:36:07,757 --> 00:36:11,917
I'm so sick of your high and mighty attitude
about poor, dead Lorraine.
409
00:36:11,991 --> 00:36:14,855
You wanna teach me about respect?
Who respects you?
410
00:36:14,924 --> 00:36:19,618
The wife who's smart enough to get rid
of you, or the kids you never fucking see?
411
00:36:20,958 --> 00:36:23,150
What did I tell you about her?
412
00:36:24,757 --> 00:36:26,689
Oh, God!
413
00:37:23,524 --> 00:37:26,013
You know, I know what y'all think of me.
414
00:37:27,190 --> 00:37:30,315
- School just seemed like a waste of time.
- It's not.
415
00:37:31,557 --> 00:37:34,990
I know that.
I'm not some dumb kid, you know.
416
00:37:35,858 --> 00:37:38,551
I wanna be normal. It's just not my life.
417
00:37:39,490 --> 00:37:41,820
What is your life? What do you want?
418
00:37:43,157 --> 00:37:45,123
If I could do anything?
419
00:37:48,924 --> 00:37:50,617
Promise you won't laugh?
420
00:37:51,757 --> 00:37:53,518
I don't know if I can promise.
421
00:37:53,591 --> 00:37:57,387
Well, I thought about maybe working
in a hospital or something...
422
00:37:57,557 --> 00:38:00,580
like being an x-ray technician
or something like that.
423
00:38:01,591 --> 00:38:02,579
Okay.
424
00:38:03,691 --> 00:38:06,282
- Can I ask why?
- I don't know.
425
00:38:08,457 --> 00:38:11,048
I like the way bones look on a light box.
426
00:38:11,123 --> 00:38:14,419
They're like portraits, but on the inside.
427
00:38:16,290 --> 00:38:18,916
I know it does sound totally stupid.
428
00:38:19,724 --> 00:38:22,053
No, it's not stupid.
429
00:38:34,290 --> 00:38:35,381
Hello?
430
00:38:36,624 --> 00:38:39,613
Hello? Is anyone there?
431
00:39:00,023 --> 00:39:01,512
- Sorry.
- It's all right.
432
00:39:01,591 --> 00:39:04,284
I keep forgetting
there's a woman in the house.
433
00:39:50,924 --> 00:39:52,389
Any sign of him?
434
00:39:52,457 --> 00:39:55,082
Listen, Pursey, I need to tell you something.
435
00:39:56,924 --> 00:39:58,913
What, you worried about him?
436
00:40:03,957 --> 00:40:05,685
What are you doing today?
437
00:40:06,290 --> 00:40:08,415
I thought I'd go down to the Quarter...
438
00:40:08,490 --> 00:40:11,012
look for a job. I haven't tried there yet.
439
00:40:11,824 --> 00:40:14,221
Want someone to show you around?
440
00:40:29,224 --> 00:40:32,088
- Give us a call next week.
- All right, thanks.
441
00:40:33,691 --> 00:40:34,884
Well?
442
00:40:35,891 --> 00:40:38,823
Maybe, but only part-time.
443
00:40:39,324 --> 00:40:42,449
It's not like you have rent.
You don't have to work full-time.
444
00:40:42,524 --> 00:40:46,217
I need to get away
from Bobby full-time. Overtime.
445
00:40:46,824 --> 00:40:50,551
Maybe I could help you get started
on those bone portraits.
446
00:40:50,724 --> 00:40:52,713
You can get your GED, you know.
447
00:40:53,057 --> 00:40:55,615
Sure I can. Then maybe I can go to Harvard.
448
00:40:56,524 --> 00:40:57,649
Maybe.
449
00:41:10,990 --> 00:41:12,956
You know, you eat like shit?
450
00:41:13,557 --> 00:41:15,022
You drink too much.
451
00:41:16,090 --> 00:41:17,078
Okay.
452
00:41:17,624 --> 00:41:19,715
Would you let me read your book sometime?
453
00:41:19,791 --> 00:41:21,881
- I don't think so.
- Why not?
454
00:41:22,023 --> 00:41:25,978
- Most of it ends up in the trash.
- How long you been writing it?
455
00:41:26,424 --> 00:41:28,549
Too long, and not long enough.
456
00:41:29,090 --> 00:41:32,488
- Did you graduate from college?
- Yes, ma'am, I did.
457
00:41:32,557 --> 00:41:36,216
With the privilege of becoming
Bobby Long's teaching assistant.
458
00:41:37,457 --> 00:41:39,888
Why did y'all leave that school?
459
00:41:41,390 --> 00:41:44,652
It's complicated. So many reasons.
460
00:41:46,524 --> 00:41:47,683
Tell me one.
461
00:41:50,624 --> 00:41:52,749
A lot happened real fast...
462
00:41:53,890 --> 00:41:55,686
and New Orleans, all this...
463
00:41:56,290 --> 00:41:58,654
it sort of seemed romantic at the time.
464
00:42:00,090 --> 00:42:01,283
Is it?
465
00:42:02,524 --> 00:42:04,080
Is it romantic?
466
00:42:08,823 --> 00:42:10,585
It has its moments.
467
00:42:16,257 --> 00:42:18,450
Would you really help me get my GED?
468
00:42:19,357 --> 00:42:20,845
Yes, I really would.
469
00:42:22,123 --> 00:42:23,816
- Why?
- Why not?
470
00:42:24,190 --> 00:42:26,179
Don't have anything else to do.
471
00:42:26,724 --> 00:42:29,019
Would you quit drinking so much?
472
00:42:30,390 --> 00:42:31,378
Why?
473
00:42:32,724 --> 00:42:35,588
Why not?
You don't have anything else to do.
474
00:42:40,624 --> 00:42:41,884
All right.
475
00:42:43,724 --> 00:42:45,053
All right.
476
00:43:06,157 --> 00:43:08,623
So, where is he, the son of a bitch?
477
00:43:09,457 --> 00:43:13,822
Probably on some barstool somewhere,
whining about how misunderstood he is.
478
00:43:14,023 --> 00:43:17,750
You've better things to do than waste
another day worrying about Bobby Long.
479
00:43:17,823 --> 00:43:20,880
He didn't. We had a nice day, didn't we?
480
00:43:23,057 --> 00:43:24,045
Yeah.
481
00:43:29,723 --> 00:43:32,212
Come on, darling, we better get home.
482
00:43:33,257 --> 00:43:34,813
See you at home.
483
00:43:41,090 --> 00:43:44,113
It must be getting pretty crowded for you,
only two rooms.
484
00:43:44,190 --> 00:43:47,315
What about your work, sugar?
There's no privacy there.
485
00:43:47,390 --> 00:43:49,481
You could stay at my place.
486
00:43:51,457 --> 00:43:53,355
Will you think about it?
487
00:44:02,857 --> 00:44:04,118
I'm back.
488
00:44:06,524 --> 00:44:08,513
Aren't you people glad to see me?
489
00:44:08,591 --> 00:44:10,580
- No.
- You might have called.
490
00:44:11,390 --> 00:44:13,981
Well, then ask me. Say:
491
00:44:14,324 --> 00:44:16,755
"Bobby, what have you brought me?"
492
00:44:20,890 --> 00:44:22,049
Biloxi?
493
00:44:23,957 --> 00:44:26,082
Video poker or nickel slots?
494
00:44:27,224 --> 00:44:29,520
- Man, where's my car?
- I sold it.
495
00:44:29,591 --> 00:44:32,886
Now, Pursey, go put some music on.
We're gonna celebrate.
496
00:44:35,324 --> 00:44:38,290
- You what?
- I sold it. We didn't need a car.
497
00:44:38,756 --> 00:44:42,348
This is a single malt. When was the last time
you had a single malt?
498
00:44:42,424 --> 00:44:44,447
- For how much?
- $300.
499
00:44:44,524 --> 00:44:47,683
You fucking sold my car for fucking $300?
500
00:44:47,756 --> 00:44:49,586
Have you lost
your goddamn mind completely?
501
00:44:49,656 --> 00:44:51,179
Just hold that punch.
502
00:44:51,457 --> 00:44:53,013
Now, you remember...
503
00:44:53,723 --> 00:44:55,553
I have a broken face.
504
00:44:56,524 --> 00:44:59,422
Now, I didn't have any money.
505
00:45:01,057 --> 00:45:03,523
That's because your check is here.
506
00:45:03,624 --> 00:45:07,283
And this, too. From the lawyer.
It's time to tell her.
507
00:45:07,823 --> 00:45:11,017
I waited for you to get the...
What the fuck are you doing?
508
00:45:11,090 --> 00:45:15,045
You give me five minutes,
and then you do what you think is right.
509
00:45:18,990 --> 00:45:21,854
Well, look how nice
you changed everything.
510
00:45:23,656 --> 00:45:28,385
I'd have destroyed that TV weeks ago
if I'd known it would drive you to Steinbeck.
511
00:45:28,723 --> 00:45:31,281
All right, now,
I have something to tell y'all.
512
00:45:31,357 --> 00:45:33,016
Come on in, sit down.
513
00:45:34,723 --> 00:45:36,246
Come on, man, sit...
514
00:45:36,756 --> 00:45:40,280
Will you stop grieving
about that hunk of shit and sit down?
515
00:45:40,357 --> 00:45:41,617
I'll stand.
516
00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:44,285
All right, close your eyes.
517
00:45:46,290 --> 00:45:48,983
- Close your eyes, man.
- I'm not closing my goddamn eyes.
518
00:45:49,057 --> 00:45:50,852
Come on, Lawson. Christ.
519
00:45:54,157 --> 00:45:55,418
All right, now.
520
00:45:57,723 --> 00:45:59,712
You can open them now, darling.
521
00:46:00,623 --> 00:46:02,748
Courtesy of a lovely teacher...
522
00:46:02,857 --> 00:46:06,755
whose heart once found Bobby Long
cause enough to skip a beat or two.
523
00:46:06,823 --> 00:46:10,347
"To certify that Purslane Hominy Will...
524
00:46:10,490 --> 00:46:13,354
"has successfully completed
the 11th grade...
525
00:46:13,424 --> 00:46:16,185
"and is recommended to the 12th grade."
526
00:46:16,823 --> 00:46:19,449
"Why stay we on earth except to grow?"
527
00:46:27,123 --> 00:46:28,487
Robert Browning.
528
00:46:28,556 --> 00:46:31,579
He's definitely your run-of-the-mill
senior-year poet.
529
00:46:32,556 --> 00:46:34,681
Is this really your idea of an apology...
530
00:46:34,756 --> 00:46:37,688
or are you just trying to one-up
his GED offer?
531
00:46:39,324 --> 00:46:40,721
Great minds.
532
00:46:46,590 --> 00:46:48,715
Come on, man.
Of course she takes a language.
533
00:46:48,790 --> 00:46:51,279
- You want to speak French, don't you?
- Don't be an ass.
534
00:46:51,357 --> 00:46:54,323
You know that
she can't take French 1 as a senior.
535
00:46:54,457 --> 00:46:55,581
All right.
536
00:46:56,023 --> 00:47:00,388
So we got English Lit, European History,
Geography, Psychology.
537
00:47:00,457 --> 00:47:02,047
We need one more.
538
00:47:02,590 --> 00:47:05,022
- I think Art Appreciation.
- Music.
539
00:47:05,090 --> 00:47:07,555
- I think she'd like music.
- I'm not going.
540
00:47:11,324 --> 00:47:13,755
Well, God damn, it's already set up.
541
00:47:13,823 --> 00:47:16,983
Do you know how much I had to go through
for you for this?
542
00:47:17,057 --> 00:47:20,614
For me? You expect me to...
Come on. What's in it for you?
543
00:47:21,723 --> 00:47:24,780
Firstly, it'll get you out of the house,
for my sanity.
544
00:47:24,857 --> 00:47:27,550
- That's what I thought.
- No, look.
545
00:47:27,857 --> 00:47:30,584
You said something to me recently.
It got me thinking.
546
00:47:30,656 --> 00:47:32,781
You said, "I'm just a girl."
547
00:47:33,523 --> 00:47:37,580
Maybe I've grown too calloused
over the years, but you are just a girl.
548
00:47:38,290 --> 00:47:42,313
Not unlike the students
that flowed through my classes years ago.
549
00:47:43,957 --> 00:47:46,582
And I know that
we must seem horrible to you...
550
00:47:46,656 --> 00:47:50,111
but we still got something to offer. We must.
551
00:47:52,756 --> 00:47:56,018
And besides,
I think we owe it to your mother.
552
00:47:58,023 --> 00:48:00,148
And as hard is it is to believe...
553
00:48:00,590 --> 00:48:04,023
we, too, once were innocent children.
554
00:48:04,157 --> 00:48:06,055
You are such a shameless ham.
555
00:48:06,957 --> 00:48:09,219
What makes you think I could do this?
556
00:48:10,456 --> 00:48:12,718
Because we know God, and God knows us.
557
00:48:13,290 --> 00:48:16,120
And he and Lorraine brought you here
for a reason.
558
00:48:17,324 --> 00:48:18,949
School starts in a month.
559
00:48:19,023 --> 00:48:21,421
You can give us a chance. It might be fun.
560
00:48:21,489 --> 00:48:23,319
"Fun" is a stretch, don't you think?
561
00:48:23,390 --> 00:48:26,753
Listen, sweetheart,
that's one of your mama's songs.
562
00:48:28,290 --> 00:48:29,949
That's beautiful.
563
00:48:34,057 --> 00:48:35,750
She'd be so proud.
564
00:49:26,357 --> 00:49:28,447
What do you think of my face?
565
00:49:30,723 --> 00:49:33,212
See this bone? It's broken.
566
00:49:33,456 --> 00:49:35,082
But you can move it.
567
00:49:38,324 --> 00:49:40,017
How'd that happen?
568
00:49:40,923 --> 00:49:44,014
"Never fight fair with a stranger."
Arthur Miller.
569
00:49:44,190 --> 00:49:46,678
That happened in a fight? You lost?
570
00:49:48,157 --> 00:49:50,520
Well, I lost a lot more than the fight.
571
00:49:52,823 --> 00:49:56,119
Does it take away from my appearance,
in your opinion, miss?
572
00:49:57,157 --> 00:49:59,282
I think you're still handsome.
573
00:49:59,556 --> 00:50:02,250
Well, aren't y'all sweet?
574
00:50:04,290 --> 00:50:07,188
Are you having sexual intercourse
with one another?
575
00:50:09,456 --> 00:50:12,684
- Okay, Dr. Ruth, let's go.
- It's all right if you are.
576
00:50:12,957 --> 00:50:14,354
Sex is nice.
577
00:50:14,957 --> 00:50:17,354
Just remember to be kind to one another.
578
00:50:17,456 --> 00:50:21,411
And stay young as long as you can.
Your youth is fleeting. Be kind.
579
00:50:22,790 --> 00:50:24,585
We should start with memorization.
580
00:50:24,656 --> 00:50:27,054
I think we should stick to
the Socratic method.
581
00:50:27,123 --> 00:50:30,611
You do? Just exactly who is Plato
and who is Socrates...
582
00:50:30,690 --> 00:50:32,883
in this arrangement?
Because I'll just stay out.
583
00:50:32,957 --> 00:50:34,923
You are Socrates, of course.
584
00:50:34,990 --> 00:50:37,478
- You are the Teacher.
- You're goddamn right I am.
585
00:50:37,556 --> 00:50:39,182
I wish y'all would just shut up...
586
00:50:39,257 --> 00:50:42,246
because if it's gonna be like this,
I ain't learning nothing.
587
00:50:42,323 --> 00:50:45,051
Girl, your English is fucking atrocious.
588
00:50:46,257 --> 00:50:48,155
Purslane Hominy, sit up.
589
00:50:48,489 --> 00:50:50,217
Why can't I study in bed?
590
00:50:50,323 --> 00:50:52,653
It's so hot,
and this chair is so uncomfortable.
591
00:50:52,723 --> 00:50:56,314
It is not supposed to be comfortable.
It'll put your brain to sleep. Sit up.
592
00:50:56,389 --> 00:50:59,514
- It's just bad habits.
- You're talking to me about bad habits?
593
00:50:59,590 --> 00:51:02,250
Don't fuck with the Teacher, okay?
594
00:51:02,823 --> 00:51:06,812
Just tell me what is Nebraska's role
in American Literature? Go.
595
00:51:06,890 --> 00:51:11,084
- Shouldn't I be learning the state capitals?
- Bullshit. You'll learn what matters.
596
00:51:11,157 --> 00:51:13,782
- Don't procrastinate.
- By whatever do you mean?
597
00:51:13,857 --> 00:51:16,516
I don't have a card for procrastinate.
598
00:51:16,590 --> 00:51:18,886
You are just incorrigible.
599
00:51:25,790 --> 00:51:27,051
"Procrastinate.
600
00:51:27,289 --> 00:51:29,778
"To drag one's ass
in such a pathetic manner...
601
00:51:29,857 --> 00:51:32,789
"as to ensure one's place
in life as a loser."
602
00:51:32,857 --> 00:51:35,153
Hey, who are you calling a loser?
603
00:51:36,523 --> 00:51:37,819
- Fuck.
- Go.
604
00:51:38,389 --> 00:51:40,321
All right, Nebraska.
605
00:51:40,423 --> 00:51:43,981
Home state of Willa Cather,
one of our first successful female authors.
606
00:51:44,057 --> 00:51:46,750
Or should I move east to Missouri,
where Mark Twain...
607
00:51:46,823 --> 00:51:49,482
alias Samuel Clemens, was born,
or down south to Kansas...
608
00:51:49,556 --> 00:51:51,681
where William Burroughs
spent his last years?
609
00:51:51,756 --> 00:51:54,188
- Stop!
- Hey, man...
610
00:51:54,256 --> 00:51:56,984
I don't think they'll teach Burroughs
at Catholic school.
611
00:51:57,057 --> 00:51:58,545
Well, they ought to.
612
00:52:13,090 --> 00:52:15,578
Why don't you pour your old buddy a drink?
613
00:52:15,690 --> 00:52:19,020
- We're out of juice.
- Well, what's in that glass?
614
00:52:20,090 --> 00:52:21,749
It doesn't have a smell.
615
00:52:21,823 --> 00:52:24,880
Well, God damn it,
pour some vodka in it then.
616
00:52:26,990 --> 00:52:29,217
- Go ahead.
- We gotta quit.
617
00:52:29,489 --> 00:52:33,615
I promised Pursey if she'd study.
I mean, look at us. We're worthless.
618
00:52:34,857 --> 00:52:37,414
And when was that, that you quit?
619
00:52:38,356 --> 00:52:41,220
Nineteen hours ago, when we were quizzing.
620
00:52:44,590 --> 00:52:47,556
- Did you get some sleep?
- No.
621
00:52:51,023 --> 00:52:54,420
There's no rush for her or for us...
622
00:52:55,123 --> 00:52:58,486
so if you want to quit, take it slow.
623
00:52:59,323 --> 00:53:00,880
Now, trust me on this.
624
00:53:01,256 --> 00:53:03,814
Take away the bottle, take away the genie.
625
00:54:00,890 --> 00:54:02,788
Hey, what are you doing here?
626
00:54:05,590 --> 00:54:08,317
I just thought I'd give Lawson a break.
627
00:54:08,590 --> 00:54:11,078
Let him use the bedroom.
Come on, sit down.
628
00:54:18,523 --> 00:54:20,887
You look very pretty today, Purslane.
629
00:54:21,289 --> 00:54:24,449
No one calls me that
but my dead grandmother, but thanks.
630
00:54:24,756 --> 00:54:26,915
Now, you remember how to get there?
631
00:54:27,423 --> 00:54:30,981
I know where it is all right,
so I guess I should be going.
632
00:54:32,623 --> 00:54:33,816
You nervous?
633
00:54:34,790 --> 00:54:35,778
No.
634
00:54:38,423 --> 00:54:39,514
Yeah.
635
00:54:41,256 --> 00:54:43,620
Want me to take the streetcar with you?
636
00:54:44,289 --> 00:54:45,915
No, I'll be okay.
637
00:54:48,857 --> 00:54:51,254
Well, I know you'll just do fine.
638
00:54:51,723 --> 00:54:54,484
And we'll be right here
when you get back from school...
639
00:54:54,556 --> 00:54:56,351
to help you with your homework.
640
00:54:56,423 --> 00:54:59,048
Christ, you're really living
in some parallel universe.
641
00:54:59,122 --> 00:55:01,384
Me and "homework" in the same sentence.
642
00:55:09,389 --> 00:55:13,287
It's about to become you and "tardy"
in the same sentence, so...
643
00:55:29,423 --> 00:55:31,013
Think she'll come right home?
644
00:55:31,089 --> 00:55:33,749
Where else would a teenage girl go
but straight home...
645
00:55:33,823 --> 00:55:36,186
to her endlessly entertaining
middle-aged roommates?
646
00:55:36,256 --> 00:55:39,814
She's no picnic.
Tortures me with that noise.
647
00:55:41,056 --> 00:55:44,648
That child should know
anything worth listening to is on vinyl.
648
00:55:45,423 --> 00:55:46,753
My kids knew it.
649
00:55:47,923 --> 00:55:50,753
I taught them. I was their father.
650
00:55:52,723 --> 00:55:53,950
You still are.
651
00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:02,819
One day they'll understand,
when you finish that book.
652
00:56:06,823 --> 00:56:08,652
My kids don't even know me.
653
00:56:09,857 --> 00:56:12,084
Shit, can we do anything besides this?
654
00:56:12,156 --> 00:56:14,088
- Like what?
- Fuck if I know.
655
00:56:14,156 --> 00:56:17,145
- We could go fishing.
- You don't fish.
656
00:56:18,756 --> 00:56:20,381
Maybe I should start...
657
00:56:22,289 --> 00:56:23,619
something.
658
00:56:23,690 --> 00:56:26,485
Maybe you should start working
on your damn book.
659
00:56:28,623 --> 00:56:30,986
I don't know the end of the story yet.
660
00:56:31,723 --> 00:56:34,746
Checkmate. Let's get out of here.
We're depressing me.
661
00:56:38,989 --> 00:56:40,955
You know, I wanna say something...
662
00:56:41,022 --> 00:56:44,716
about life, because an unexamined life...
663
00:56:44,790 --> 00:56:47,881
- is simply a life...
- Not worth living.
664
00:56:48,523 --> 00:56:51,045
Purslane, our prodigy has returned.
665
00:56:51,122 --> 00:56:53,145
Now, tell us everything.
666
00:56:55,289 --> 00:56:58,084
Honey, why did you leave school early?
667
00:57:01,356 --> 00:57:03,015
I didn't belong there.
668
00:57:03,089 --> 00:57:07,021
I appreciate what y'all are doing,
but I'm not going back.
669
00:57:07,389 --> 00:57:08,514
What?
670
00:57:09,022 --> 00:57:10,818
I really need a job.
671
00:57:13,523 --> 00:57:17,011
- You can work here on the weekends, sugar.
- Really?
672
00:57:17,989 --> 00:57:21,752
- Only if you're in school, though.
- Good one, Earl.
673
00:57:36,756 --> 00:57:39,654
Autumn comes slowly in New Orleans.
674
00:57:40,656 --> 00:57:42,849
The grass remains a stubborn green...
675
00:57:42,922 --> 00:57:45,480
but the heat gives way to a gentle warmth.
676
00:57:46,423 --> 00:57:49,116
Pursey did begin to catch on in school.
677
00:57:49,690 --> 00:57:52,850
She was surprised. We weren't.
678
00:57:55,423 --> 00:57:59,253
Winter arrived before we realized
the sunlit hours of summer had waned.
679
00:58:05,323 --> 00:58:07,845
Somehow, the wine began
to outlast the day...
680
00:58:11,690 --> 00:58:14,554
and that was more than
anyone could have asked for.
681
00:58:24,356 --> 00:58:28,379
Someone should have told them Creoles we
got something called winter in Louisiana.
682
00:58:28,456 --> 00:58:30,649
We might have improved
on their oversight...
683
00:58:30,723 --> 00:58:33,188
with this cool new invention called heat.
684
00:58:33,423 --> 00:58:36,412
- Pursey, where'd you put the vodka?
- You told me to hide it.
685
00:58:36,489 --> 00:58:38,977
I did. But where did you hide it?
686
00:58:39,189 --> 00:58:41,246
I'm not supposed to tell you, remember?
687
00:58:41,323 --> 00:58:43,880
You don't do anything else I tell you to do.
Where is it?
688
00:58:43,956 --> 00:58:47,854
Lawson, Bobby's trying to get me
to tell him where the vodka is again.
689
00:58:49,022 --> 00:58:52,785
- It is Christmas.
- Whatever. It's under the back stairs.
690
00:58:53,989 --> 00:58:57,217
And I could have sworn
it was your turn to do the laundry.
691
00:58:57,289 --> 00:58:59,778
Don't forget to use the cuddly bear stuff.
692
00:59:28,623 --> 00:59:30,714
But you aren't a virgin, are you?
693
00:59:31,623 --> 00:59:34,418
You know, some people would call you
a disgusting old man...
694
00:59:34,489 --> 00:59:36,182
for your constant sexual harassment.
695
00:59:36,256 --> 00:59:39,911
I believe the term is "dirty old man,"
not "disgusting."
696
00:59:40,189 --> 00:59:43,155
And you are a young, blooming bud.
697
00:59:43,423 --> 00:59:46,193
Let me live vicariously.
Now, you aren't, are you?
698
00:59:46,219 --> 00:59:47,141
Are you?
699
00:59:47,690 --> 00:59:49,280
Well, I have children.
700
00:59:50,156 --> 00:59:51,985
Why don't you ever see them?
701
00:59:52,256 --> 00:59:54,045
Well, that's a good question.
702
00:59:54,271 --> 00:59:56,244
But you haven't answered mine.
703
00:59:56,323 --> 00:59:59,448
You know, I'm trying to be serious for once,
Bobby. God.
704
01:00:04,089 --> 01:00:07,578
The truth is, I wish I could see them.
I miss them like hell.
705
01:00:10,989 --> 01:00:13,921
It seems to me
if someone wanted to see their kids...
706
01:00:13,989 --> 01:00:17,387
then they damn well would,
unless they didn't give a shit.
707
01:00:20,523 --> 01:00:22,045
How about you?
708
01:00:22,389 --> 01:00:26,185
Do you remember your mother
when y'all were living together?
709
01:00:30,223 --> 01:00:33,417
No, not really.
710
01:00:37,289 --> 01:00:40,414
I used to try to remember her.
711
01:00:43,789 --> 01:00:45,551
Anything about her.
712
01:00:47,122 --> 01:00:51,282
Like her voice, the way she smelled,
you know, anything.
713
01:00:52,989 --> 01:00:56,353
I used to think real hard...
714
01:00:56,423 --> 01:00:58,752
wanting memories.
715
01:00:59,590 --> 01:01:02,317
And I just started making them up.
716
01:01:06,523 --> 01:01:10,011
That she was putting on her eye shadow
and talking to me in the mirror...
717
01:01:10,089 --> 01:01:11,077
or I'd pretend that...
718
01:01:11,156 --> 01:01:15,111
she'd make me these perfect grilled cheeses
with the crusts cut off.
719
01:01:15,623 --> 01:01:18,918
I had all kinds of made-up memories.
720
01:01:19,556 --> 01:01:23,715
My favorite one was that
she'd take me to see her shows...
721
01:01:25,022 --> 01:01:27,749
and I would be sitting on the side
with this nice man...
722
01:01:27,822 --> 01:01:30,879
who'd give me
all the Shirley Temples I wanted.
723
01:01:34,056 --> 01:01:36,318
I made up so many memories...
724
01:01:39,189 --> 01:01:42,882
I actually started to believe
I was really remembering her.
725
01:01:46,456 --> 01:01:49,388
But she never came for me, so I just forgot.
726
01:01:50,223 --> 01:01:51,484
You know...
727
01:01:53,189 --> 01:01:54,916
stopped pretending.
728
01:01:59,489 --> 01:02:01,352
Ho, ho, ho!
729
01:02:02,622 --> 01:02:06,020
- Is that a real tree?
- Lord, where did you get that?
730
01:02:06,655 --> 01:02:08,621
It fell off the back of a truck.
731
01:02:08,689 --> 01:02:11,712
- Like hell it did.
- All right, maybe it was a Volvo.
732
01:02:11,789 --> 01:02:14,517
We should put it right up front
where everybody could see.
733
01:02:14,590 --> 01:02:15,680
Sure.
734
01:02:16,789 --> 01:02:18,914
Lawson, where's the laundry?
735
01:02:19,722 --> 01:02:20,813
Shit.
736
01:02:25,655 --> 01:02:29,587
"I remember the day I graduated
from protégé to confidant.
737
01:02:33,523 --> 01:02:36,250
"He never meant to let me in on his secrets.
738
01:02:36,323 --> 01:02:38,584
"He thrived on his own mystery.
739
01:02:38,922 --> 01:02:41,150
"But once the first one was discovered...
740
01:02:41,223 --> 01:02:44,655
"it wasn't long before
there were none left between us.
741
01:02:45,722 --> 01:02:47,779
"I was on the back steps of the library...
742
01:02:47,856 --> 01:02:51,380
"when I spotted his uniform,
a freshly laundered shirt...
743
01:02:51,789 --> 01:02:54,517
"the color of Easter, and that damn hat.
744
01:02:55,456 --> 01:02:58,081
"He strode across campus with purpose.
745
01:02:58,156 --> 01:03:00,587
"Everything about Tommy said ready."
746
01:03:00,689 --> 01:03:04,213
- I'm Tommy, just so you can follow.
- Sounds just like you.
747
01:03:07,555 --> 01:03:09,680
"He almost skipped right passed me.
748
01:03:09,755 --> 01:03:12,846
"'Nice hat', I said...,
749
01:03:12,922 --> 01:03:15,649
"eliciting Tommy's notorious smile.
750
01:03:16,256 --> 01:03:20,551
"It was the same smile that he granted
to each woman that caught his eye.
751
01:03:20,622 --> 01:03:24,679
"The smile that served as an answer
to all undesirable questions.
752
01:03:24,755 --> 01:03:26,687
"Or the smile for one of his children...
753
01:03:26,755 --> 01:03:30,017
"whenever he found
a tiny hand reaching for his."
754
01:03:30,822 --> 01:03:32,220
That's nice...
755
01:03:32,922 --> 01:03:36,082
- but I think that might be a bad sentence.
- I think they all are.
756
01:03:36,156 --> 01:03:39,418
That's why they're hanging
from the goddamn Christmas tree.
757
01:03:39,489 --> 01:03:43,114
No, but it's just that, normally,
it's just not on...
758
01:03:44,489 --> 01:03:48,478
"Tommy took the stairs, two at a time,
bellowing, 'Well, God damn...
759
01:03:48,755 --> 01:03:51,846
"if it isn't the South's
next great native son.'
760
01:03:52,156 --> 01:03:56,111
"I was only one of hundreds
who came religiously twice a week...
761
01:03:56,256 --> 01:04:00,484
"to be dazzled by the Professor,
each performance worthy of applause.
762
01:04:01,156 --> 01:04:04,679
"Tommy, at the front of the hall,
waving his arms wildly...
763
01:04:04,755 --> 01:04:07,278
"as if mastering an imaginary lasso."
764
01:04:09,555 --> 01:04:13,147
- I like "lariat" better. I think you...
- I like "lasso."
765
01:04:16,956 --> 01:04:19,388
Years ago, you trusted my opinion.
766
01:04:19,522 --> 01:04:22,045
Years ago, you were easier to trust.
767
01:05:14,989 --> 01:05:18,012
Thank y'all very much.
Have a Merry Christmas.
768
01:05:18,922 --> 01:05:22,320
Nobody can do the Alabama shuffle
as good as Bobby Long...
769
01:05:22,422 --> 01:05:24,911
but this sweet thing, she can move.
770
01:05:28,522 --> 01:05:32,852
- Why can't you be this sweet all the time?
- Sure, and what would that get me?
771
01:05:33,789 --> 01:05:36,085
Pure, unadulterated joy.
772
01:05:36,189 --> 01:05:40,121
- You keep your lecherous eyes off our girl.
- What?
773
01:05:40,722 --> 01:05:44,552
She don't like me.
She likes Lawson better than she likes me.
774
01:05:46,289 --> 01:05:48,982
You like Lawson better than me, don't you?
775
01:05:50,755 --> 01:05:52,187
You're drunk.
776
01:05:52,256 --> 01:05:55,086
You know what, I am. I really am.
777
01:05:55,156 --> 01:05:58,519
But it's all right,
because Lawson is gonna take us home.
778
01:05:58,589 --> 01:06:01,181
Not tonight. I got him all to myself.
779
01:06:02,189 --> 01:06:04,746
You told them about the news, honey?
780
01:06:05,289 --> 01:06:07,880
We were just thinking
that maybe after the holidays...
781
01:06:07,956 --> 01:06:10,387
he could move in with me
and get some more work done.
782
01:06:10,455 --> 01:06:13,286
It's just something that we kicked around.
783
01:06:25,822 --> 01:06:28,379
Lawson is not in love with you.
784
01:06:31,156 --> 01:06:34,213
Bobby, I don't think
that's any of your damn business.
785
01:06:35,056 --> 01:06:38,920
I've seen him with a woman
that he can't get enough of.
786
01:06:39,589 --> 01:06:43,113
A woman that's crawled
into every molecule of his being...
787
01:06:43,323 --> 01:06:45,788
that consumed his every thought...
788
01:06:46,156 --> 01:06:49,713
and turned him into a creation
of devotion and obsession.
789
01:06:49,789 --> 01:06:52,278
I have the scars of that love on my face.
790
01:06:52,689 --> 01:06:54,780
Have you told her about that?
791
01:06:54,856 --> 01:06:58,289
Have you told her
about the difference between true love...
792
01:06:58,355 --> 01:07:00,548
and a warm bed to pass the time away?
793
01:07:00,622 --> 01:07:03,816
Cool it. Don't go after her.
I never said I was going anywhere.
794
01:07:03,889 --> 01:07:05,787
I only speak the truth.
795
01:07:07,089 --> 01:07:09,680
The woman deserves to know the truth.
796
01:07:12,555 --> 01:07:15,521
And you, you're free to do as you please.
797
01:07:19,689 --> 01:07:21,178
Am I, really?
798
01:07:21,922 --> 01:07:23,581
Finally free?
799
01:07:27,589 --> 01:07:29,953
I want to say something on this occasion...
800
01:07:30,022 --> 01:07:34,079
where we're celebrating our love
and friendships with one another.
801
01:07:35,322 --> 01:07:38,447
"Friend by enemy I call you out
802
01:07:38,522 --> 01:07:42,080
"You there, with a bad coin in your socket
803
01:07:42,156 --> 01:07:45,088
"You there, my friend with a winning air
804
01:07:46,156 --> 01:07:50,485
"Who palmed the lie on me when you looked
Brassily at my shyest secret
805
01:07:51,122 --> 01:07:53,883
"With my whole heart under your hammer
806
01:07:54,856 --> 01:07:57,118
"That though I loved him for his faults
807
01:07:57,189 --> 01:07:59,279
"As much as for his good
808
01:08:00,589 --> 01:08:03,453
"My friend were an enemy on stilts
809
01:08:03,522 --> 01:08:05,920
"With his head in a cunning cloud"
810
01:08:12,189 --> 01:08:13,552
Bravo, man.
811
01:08:16,056 --> 01:08:20,385
Now, why don't you come out
and fucking say what you really mean?
812
01:08:21,722 --> 01:08:25,347
Does every word out of your mouth
have to be in character...
813
01:08:25,956 --> 01:08:29,649
or is that the idea:
Just to be anybody but who you really are?
814
01:08:31,022 --> 01:08:34,579
You want to tell me
that you're disappointed in me?
815
01:08:35,288 --> 01:08:37,914
'Cause maybe I'm disappointed in you.
816
01:08:38,856 --> 01:08:41,947
You know, I never asked
to write your damn book.
817
01:08:42,956 --> 01:08:46,184
Your redemption and my penance, right?
818
01:08:48,322 --> 01:08:49,845
Haven't I paid?
819
01:08:51,222 --> 01:08:53,780
Nine fucking years.
820
01:08:58,922 --> 01:09:01,513
I am sorry, all right?
821
01:09:01,989 --> 01:09:04,284
I am so fucking sorry.
822
01:09:08,355 --> 01:09:10,015
It's Dylan Thomas.
823
01:09:13,022 --> 01:09:15,180
To Others Than You.
824
01:09:20,689 --> 01:09:22,450
That's an easy one.
825
01:09:34,956 --> 01:09:36,615
Good night, Bobby.
826
01:10:25,288 --> 01:10:26,413
Shit.
827
01:10:43,422 --> 01:10:45,388
You okay? Can I come in?
828
01:10:57,056 --> 01:10:59,920
You really did a number on yourself
this time.
829
01:11:00,956 --> 01:11:03,717
Lawson's gonna leave me right by myself.
830
01:11:04,922 --> 01:11:06,581
I always knew it.
831
01:11:08,789 --> 01:11:10,254
I deserve it.
832
01:11:12,355 --> 01:11:14,150
I'm gonna die alone.
833
01:11:23,288 --> 01:11:24,845
He's not gonna leave you.
834
01:11:24,922 --> 01:11:26,512
- Yes, he is.
- No.
835
01:11:26,989 --> 01:11:28,682
He'll always be there for you.
836
01:11:28,755 --> 01:11:32,118
He cut up my story
and hung it on the Christmas tree.
837
01:11:45,255 --> 01:11:47,813
Honey, I peed myself.
838
01:11:48,722 --> 01:11:51,586
All right, let's get you into bed. Come on.
839
01:11:52,655 --> 01:11:54,143
Oh, God.
840
01:12:16,422 --> 01:12:18,320
It's so damn cold.
841
01:12:44,188 --> 01:12:45,518
How is he?
842
01:12:47,722 --> 01:12:50,279
- I think he peed blood.
- God damn it.
843
01:12:51,288 --> 01:12:53,686
I knew he wasn't himself tonight.
844
01:12:54,922 --> 01:12:56,820
He's afraid of doctors.
845
01:12:57,422 --> 01:13:00,582
It's probably some bacterial thing.
It's nothing.
846
01:13:08,021 --> 01:13:11,146
- Are you gonna move out?
- No.
847
01:13:20,255 --> 01:13:22,244
Are you in love with her?
848
01:13:23,689 --> 01:13:24,746
No.
849
01:13:28,288 --> 01:13:29,947
She's really nice.
850
01:13:32,355 --> 01:13:33,912
Yeah, she is.
851
01:13:36,355 --> 01:13:38,378
Are you worried about him?
852
01:13:48,288 --> 01:13:50,151
What happened, Lawson?
853
01:14:00,188 --> 01:14:03,984
When I met Bobby,
he seemed absolutely larger than life.
854
01:14:06,222 --> 01:14:08,688
Did whatever the hell he wanted...
855
01:14:09,055 --> 01:14:12,044
but still he had the beautiful wife and kids.
856
01:14:12,755 --> 01:14:15,380
Students loved him. Faculty hated him.
857
01:14:16,488 --> 01:14:17,749
Women wanted him.
858
01:14:17,822 --> 01:14:20,981
Christ, he had me so convinced
of my own grand destiny...
859
01:14:21,055 --> 01:14:24,647
I may have fallen a little in love myself.
860
01:14:30,088 --> 01:14:32,111
We hung out all the time.
861
01:14:35,388 --> 01:14:39,445
There was a woman who I wanted to marry.
862
01:14:40,455 --> 01:14:43,114
Her friend fell for Bobby pretty hard.
863
01:14:44,589 --> 01:14:48,612
He started spending more time with us
than he was at home.
864
01:14:52,021 --> 01:14:55,283
One night,
their youngest had a Little League game.
865
01:14:57,955 --> 01:14:59,887
It was a double-header.
866
01:15:00,488 --> 01:15:04,386
So I convinced him to have drinks
with the girls first.
867
01:15:05,188 --> 01:15:07,881
Said I'd go to the game with him later.
868
01:15:09,055 --> 01:15:11,521
He kept on saying he had to leave.
869
01:15:12,255 --> 01:15:16,244
Somehow one drink became two,
and then three.
870
01:15:18,689 --> 01:15:19,881
And then...
871
01:15:21,121 --> 01:15:24,019
this idiot, the dean's nephew...
872
01:15:24,322 --> 01:15:26,311
came in and announced...
873
01:15:28,589 --> 01:15:31,453
that he was sleeping with my girlfriend...
874
01:15:31,821 --> 01:15:33,788
and everyone knew but me.
875
01:15:35,388 --> 01:15:37,581
I went after him.
876
01:15:38,522 --> 01:15:39,885
He took a swing.
877
01:15:40,788 --> 01:15:42,345
Bobby stepped in...
878
01:15:42,422 --> 01:15:45,149
and he cracked Bobby's face wide open.
879
01:15:47,488 --> 01:15:51,443
Bobby went crazy.
He beat up that kid pretty bad.
880
01:15:56,455 --> 01:15:58,182
It'd just gotten so late.
881
01:16:00,021 --> 01:16:01,953
I knew Ben would be waiting.
882
01:16:04,988 --> 01:16:08,079
But when we got there, he was gone.
883
01:16:12,422 --> 01:16:13,718
Everyone was.
884
01:16:16,754 --> 01:16:19,016
He should never have been by himself.
885
01:16:22,121 --> 01:16:25,713
He was just a little boy, and it was so dark.
886
01:16:33,155 --> 01:16:35,212
There's too many people...
887
01:16:35,655 --> 01:16:37,745
in such a damn hurry on that road.
888
01:16:37,821 --> 01:16:40,344
There's no way
a driver could have seen him.
889
01:16:41,355 --> 01:16:43,843
I mean, he was so little.
890
01:16:45,821 --> 01:16:48,151
And, God, he worshipped his dad.
891
01:16:53,555 --> 01:16:56,521
Juliette told Bobby to leave
and never come back.
892
01:16:57,422 --> 01:16:59,354
She needed a better man.
893
01:17:00,488 --> 01:17:02,317
That's how she put it.
894
01:17:06,721 --> 01:17:08,153
So you came here?
895
01:17:10,589 --> 01:17:14,612
Seemed like a good place to write.
It was far away...
896
01:17:17,754 --> 01:17:19,311
good universities.
897
01:17:20,222 --> 01:17:22,154
Bobby could start over.
898
01:17:23,788 --> 01:17:26,050
I thought I should be here with him.
899
01:17:27,455 --> 01:17:30,285
I mean, if it wasn't for me that night...
900
01:17:31,655 --> 01:17:33,450
things might have...
901
01:17:38,589 --> 01:17:40,986
I don't know what happened, really.
902
01:17:42,455 --> 01:17:44,387
We read too many damn books.
903
01:17:47,422 --> 01:17:49,547
There's something about this city.
904
01:17:52,355 --> 01:17:53,446
That's all.
905
01:17:59,888 --> 01:18:01,820
You should get some sleep.
906
01:19:14,821 --> 01:19:17,117
I made you breakfast in mattress.
907
01:19:17,588 --> 01:19:19,214
Thank you, ma'am.
908
01:19:21,888 --> 01:19:23,979
Have we heard from the man yet?
909
01:19:24,821 --> 01:19:26,980
No. Should we get him up first?
910
01:19:28,155 --> 01:19:30,586
Can you give me that shirt, please?
911
01:19:33,488 --> 01:19:34,612
Thank you.
912
01:19:59,788 --> 01:20:00,981
Nice hat.
913
01:20:04,688 --> 01:20:07,552
Get up, old man.
I hear we gotta take you to a doctor.
914
01:20:07,621 --> 01:20:09,746
And get that off your pecker.
915
01:20:10,021 --> 01:20:12,987
What do you care?
You're slicing it up, anyway.
916
01:20:13,155 --> 01:20:16,212
It doesn't mean I want my book
getting the clap.
917
01:20:19,121 --> 01:20:22,553
I had the urge to read something likable
about myself.
918
01:20:23,788 --> 01:20:25,277
Find anything?
919
01:20:26,488 --> 01:20:27,817
Not really.
920
01:20:32,721 --> 01:20:36,381
I didn't mean to mess things up
between you and Georgianna.
921
01:20:39,188 --> 01:20:41,245
I didn't mean what I said.
922
01:20:42,921 --> 01:20:44,285
Oh, Christ.
923
01:20:44,388 --> 01:20:47,581
Last night was a blur.
I don't know what was said.
924
01:20:48,188 --> 01:20:50,086
And I don't want to remember.
925
01:20:51,222 --> 01:20:54,483
- Come on.
- Good, presents. Yay!
926
01:20:55,422 --> 01:20:56,785
Merry Christmas!
927
01:21:00,855 --> 01:21:04,447
It was our home that night, all of ours.
928
01:21:05,654 --> 01:21:08,086
We both knew we should tell her the truth...
929
01:21:08,155 --> 01:21:10,814
but every day felt like the wrong day.
930
01:21:11,788 --> 01:21:15,481
And Christmas is as good a day as any
to believe in fairy tales.
931
01:21:23,322 --> 01:21:26,617
That night reminded Bobby and me
of a time in our lives...
932
01:21:26,688 --> 01:21:29,620
we'd both chosen to forget until she arrived.
933
01:21:30,888 --> 01:21:32,683
It felt good to remember...
934
01:21:34,255 --> 01:21:36,050
if just for a little while.
935
01:21:45,921 --> 01:21:47,319
I'm so full.
936
01:21:49,454 --> 01:21:51,477
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
937
01:21:54,521 --> 01:21:56,044
I wish it would snow.
938
01:21:57,188 --> 01:21:59,279
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
939
01:22:02,388 --> 01:22:03,853
But I love the rain.
940
01:22:05,255 --> 01:22:07,686
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
941
01:22:14,988 --> 01:22:17,476
Come on, man. You gotta piss sometime.
942
01:22:18,421 --> 01:22:20,819
Christ, I can't do it
while you're watching me.
943
01:22:20,888 --> 01:22:22,751
I've seen you piss a thousand times.
944
01:22:22,821 --> 01:22:25,344
Well, suddenly I am shy, okay?
945
01:22:25,721 --> 01:22:27,584
Piss right now.
946
01:22:29,721 --> 01:22:32,244
Christ, it's probably nothing, man.
947
01:22:37,121 --> 01:22:39,246
I've lived long enough anyhow.
948
01:22:41,821 --> 01:22:43,411
Lord, it's cold.
949
01:22:46,855 --> 01:22:48,684
It's clear. I pissed clear.
950
01:22:48,754 --> 01:22:50,913
Like hell you did. Don't lie to me.
951
01:22:51,155 --> 01:22:53,518
So it was a little pink. I'm not going.
952
01:23:04,688 --> 01:23:09,144
You got any short stories
you haven't destroyed by fire or scissor?
953
01:23:09,354 --> 01:23:12,116
My English final, I gotta write something...
954
01:23:12,188 --> 01:23:15,642
and read it in front of the entire class,
and there's no exceptions.
955
01:23:15,721 --> 01:23:18,187
- Fuck!
- So you're doing okay in English.
956
01:23:18,988 --> 01:23:21,954
I'm doing okay reading English.
I'm not a writer.
957
01:23:23,588 --> 01:23:25,986
- What the hell are you wearing?
- What do you care?
958
01:23:26,055 --> 01:23:29,021
It's Lorraine's.
You just let her stuff collect dust in there.
959
01:23:29,088 --> 01:23:31,610
You'd rather freeze
than wear your mama's clothes.
960
01:23:31,688 --> 01:23:33,711
This robe and the person who wore it...
961
01:23:33,788 --> 01:23:37,243
is worth more than a hundred people
who don't appreciate them.
962
01:23:38,255 --> 01:23:39,720
Is something wrong?
963
01:23:39,955 --> 01:23:42,285
- You gonna tell her?
- Tell her what?
964
01:23:42,654 --> 01:23:46,347
We gotta take Bobby to the doctor.
He's still pissing blood.
965
01:23:46,588 --> 01:23:48,747
He's been putting it off for weeks.
966
01:23:53,288 --> 01:23:54,276
Okay.
967
01:23:55,121 --> 01:23:57,382
I hope you're not wearing
them lady underwear.
968
01:23:57,454 --> 01:24:00,579
I most certainly am. They're good luck.
969
01:24:01,454 --> 01:24:03,750
Besides, they're gonna
take them off anyway...
970
01:24:03,821 --> 01:24:06,219
and put one of them
backless numbers on me.
971
01:24:06,287 --> 01:24:07,981
Everybody's seen my peter.
972
01:24:08,055 --> 01:24:11,714
That's right.
Everyone just wants to see your peter.
973
01:24:12,255 --> 01:24:13,686
And my ass.
974
01:24:14,521 --> 01:24:15,748
Let's go.
975
01:24:21,621 --> 01:24:25,917
What did I tell you?
Goddamn string draped over my ass.
976
01:24:50,721 --> 01:24:54,448
Where's Bobby? I made him
that andouille gumbo shit he loves.
977
01:24:54,521 --> 01:24:56,953
They needed him for some more tests.
978
01:24:57,521 --> 01:25:00,113
- Is he all right?
- They think so.
979
01:25:00,621 --> 01:25:03,519
They just gotta look at his toe
and make sure.
980
01:25:05,055 --> 01:25:09,010
Well, then, maybe you might wanna
invite Georgianna over for dinner.
981
01:25:09,088 --> 01:25:12,747
I think she's working.
Is there an occasion I don't know about?
982
01:25:14,021 --> 01:25:15,509
I have a date.
983
01:25:16,487 --> 01:25:18,453
Really? That's a first.
984
01:25:19,821 --> 01:25:22,616
I figured it was about time I got a life.
985
01:25:24,654 --> 01:25:26,018
Great to hear it.
986
01:25:26,221 --> 01:25:28,017
- Is that a new dress?
- Yeah.
987
01:25:28,788 --> 01:25:30,276
Well, sort of.
988
01:25:31,454 --> 01:25:35,409
I mean, Bobby's right. There's no reason
to let Lorraine's clothes collect dust.
989
01:25:35,487 --> 01:25:39,249
She was really tiny.
You should have seen me trying to zip it up.
990
01:25:39,321 --> 01:25:41,617
Just make sure it stays zipped up.
991
01:25:42,821 --> 01:25:46,446
I'm a big girl, Lawson.
I have been for quite some time now.
992
01:25:52,088 --> 01:25:55,247
Hey, is that an SAT application?
993
01:25:55,321 --> 01:25:58,754
Yeah. My guidance counselor gave it to me.
I meant to throw it out.
994
01:25:58,821 --> 01:25:59,809
What?
995
01:25:59,888 --> 01:26:03,786
If she thinks your grades are good enough
for college, you go to college.
996
01:26:03,855 --> 01:26:07,117
- Well, college costs money.
- There's financial aid.
997
01:26:07,955 --> 01:26:09,818
I might have to go away.
998
01:26:11,387 --> 01:26:12,751
You might.
999
01:26:14,588 --> 01:26:17,418
- I have to go.
- Isn't he picking you up?
1000
01:26:17,921 --> 01:26:19,853
No. I'm meeting him somewhere.
1001
01:26:20,254 --> 01:26:22,618
You can't walk home
from the streetcar alone.
1002
01:26:22,688 --> 01:26:25,620
- Call me at Ray and Ruthie's and I'll...
- No, I'll get a ride.
1003
01:26:25,688 --> 01:26:28,153
Besides, you should spend time alone
with Georgianna.
1004
01:26:28,221 --> 01:26:31,676
You haven't stayed over there
since before Christmas, right?
1005
01:26:46,154 --> 01:26:49,245
You said you wanted to see more
of the New Orleans music scene.
1006
01:26:49,321 --> 01:26:51,719
I figure this is a good place to start.
1007
01:27:01,721 --> 01:27:03,482
- I know him.
- Really?
1008
01:27:21,154 --> 01:27:23,177
Hey, sugar, what are you doing here?
1009
01:27:23,254 --> 01:27:25,982
My friend Sean brought me.
Sean, this is Junior.
1010
01:27:26,055 --> 01:27:28,316
Great to meet you.
I've seen you play around, man.
1011
01:27:28,387 --> 01:27:32,183
You are great, man. Really, really great.
1012
01:27:33,154 --> 01:27:35,586
How come I didn't know
you were a badass sax player?
1013
01:27:35,654 --> 01:27:38,347
Well, I don't play much anymore, you know.
1014
01:27:38,788 --> 01:27:41,083
I mean, I don't have...
1015
01:27:42,621 --> 01:27:44,610
Don't got the lungs for it.
1016
01:27:44,688 --> 01:27:47,153
- How's Bobby?
- Better than you sound.
1017
01:27:47,888 --> 01:27:51,547
- You sitting in again, or what?
- Tiny, there's somebody I want you to meet.
1018
01:27:51,621 --> 01:27:54,485
This can't be that sweet baby girl, Purslane.
1019
01:27:55,855 --> 01:27:58,719
- You don't remember me, do you?
- No, sorry.
1020
01:27:59,487 --> 01:28:01,350
When your mama used to play here...
1021
01:28:01,421 --> 01:28:04,581
she used to sit you right over there
on that stool.
1022
01:28:04,654 --> 01:28:06,244
And you was so cute.
1023
01:28:06,988 --> 01:28:10,147
See, my job was to keep you
full of Shirley Temples.
1024
01:28:10,654 --> 01:28:12,347
You remember that?
1025
01:28:12,421 --> 01:28:15,148
With Junior.
You used to play with Lorraine back then.
1026
01:28:15,221 --> 01:28:16,710
You were in the band, weren't you?
1027
01:28:16,788 --> 01:28:21,117
Yeah, she and Junior was our best night
here, when they wasn't bickering.
1028
01:28:22,554 --> 01:28:24,144
Little Purslane.
1029
01:28:24,221 --> 01:28:27,017
Look, you come back
and see old Tiny again, all right?
1030
01:28:27,087 --> 01:28:29,713
And the Shirley Temples on the house.
1031
01:28:30,154 --> 01:28:31,620
See you later, man.
1032
01:28:32,721 --> 01:28:34,880
You were really in Lorraine's band?
1033
01:28:36,955 --> 01:28:38,580
Of course I was.
1034
01:28:39,154 --> 01:28:42,848
I mean, everybody was at that time.
That's just how it was.
1035
01:28:45,154 --> 01:28:46,950
Lorraine and me...
1036
01:28:48,154 --> 01:28:50,643
we were close at one time.
1037
01:28:55,087 --> 01:28:57,645
I remember the last time
she wore that dress.
1038
01:28:58,487 --> 01:29:00,783
It looks just as pretty on you.
1039
01:29:05,855 --> 01:29:07,218
I gotta go.
1040
01:29:08,020 --> 01:29:09,748
Glad you came, honey.
1041
01:29:12,454 --> 01:29:15,852
Why didn't you tell me
your mama was a singer? That's so cool.
1042
01:29:17,955 --> 01:29:20,216
I don't know. It was a long time ago.
1043
01:29:23,521 --> 01:29:26,043
You want a drink? I'm ready.
1044
01:29:40,487 --> 01:29:43,578
Jesus. Are you anxious to get home?
1045
01:29:44,154 --> 01:29:47,211
Unless you and Purslane
don't want me around anymore.
1046
01:29:47,287 --> 01:29:49,310
You finally figured us out.
1047
01:29:50,621 --> 01:29:53,086
- What's the verdict?
- I got a kidney infection.
1048
01:29:53,154 --> 01:29:55,313
They gave me some medicine.
1049
01:29:55,921 --> 01:29:57,580
Said I got to dry out.
1050
01:30:00,221 --> 01:30:01,687
What about the toe?
1051
01:30:01,788 --> 01:30:04,947
It's just a fungus. Got goop.
1052
01:30:07,154 --> 01:30:09,586
You're a lucky man.
You're gonna be all right.
1053
01:30:09,654 --> 01:30:12,051
Of course I am. But what if I wasn't?
1054
01:30:12,487 --> 01:30:13,851
What do you mean?
1055
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:16,546
I saw you with Purslane on Christmas Eve.
1056
01:30:17,788 --> 01:30:21,720
- Are you sleeping with her, Lawson?
- No. How could you think that?
1057
01:30:22,588 --> 01:30:25,577
Because she's becoming more fetching
every day.
1058
01:30:26,020 --> 01:30:27,816
Because she's a young woman.
1059
01:30:27,987 --> 01:30:31,112
She's got a crush,
and we both know how nice that is.
1060
01:30:31,187 --> 01:30:33,813
- She's a kid, Bobby.
- She's 18.
1061
01:30:34,987 --> 01:30:37,112
My wife was 18 when I met her.
1062
01:30:38,754 --> 01:30:40,720
It was love at first sight.
1063
01:30:41,554 --> 01:30:44,281
Nothing happened. That night...
1064
01:30:44,554 --> 01:30:46,747
things had gotten a little out of hand...
1065
01:30:46,821 --> 01:30:49,184
and I think she was
kind of frightened by it all.
1066
01:30:49,254 --> 01:30:51,277
She was feeling a bit lonely and cold.
1067
01:30:51,354 --> 01:30:54,411
Well, my guess is
that she wasn't the only one.
1068
01:30:55,688 --> 01:30:58,483
Just remember, she's Lorraine's daughter.
1069
01:31:01,855 --> 01:31:04,184
- You're jealous.
- Absolutely.
1070
01:31:06,354 --> 01:31:08,513
Shit, I ain't worth this much.
1071
01:31:11,054 --> 01:31:12,315
Fuck, no.
1072
01:31:19,154 --> 01:31:22,245
Winter never feels truly at home
in New Orleans.
1073
01:31:22,954 --> 01:31:25,716
An unwelcome visitor
that shows up long enough...
1074
01:31:25,788 --> 01:31:28,151
to remind us of what we're missing...
1075
01:31:28,221 --> 01:31:31,051
and leaves us just in time
for us to forget again.
1076
01:31:38,754 --> 01:31:40,981
Spring, and we're still here.
1077
01:31:45,154 --> 01:31:47,984
How about we grab a bottle of wine...
1078
01:31:48,621 --> 01:31:52,417
and go down to the river like we used to?
What do you think of that?
1079
01:31:52,487 --> 01:31:55,578
Remember that very generous girl
who used to skinny-dip?
1080
01:31:55,654 --> 01:31:58,245
- What was her name?
- I don't know.
1081
01:31:59,020 --> 01:32:00,883
She's born-again now.
1082
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:10,086
Think we'll still be living together
in heaven?
1083
01:32:10,154 --> 01:32:13,518
If we make it to heaven,
then everybody will be there...
1084
01:32:13,588 --> 01:32:16,054
and I'll have my pick
of goddamn debauchers:
1085
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,983
Byron, de Sade, Hemingway.
1086
01:32:18,054 --> 01:32:21,509
I'll be more fun
than all of them whiners put together.
1087
01:32:21,588 --> 01:32:23,486
Yes, I guess you would.
1088
01:32:24,387 --> 01:32:26,879
I really think Pursey
can get financial aid.
1089
01:32:26,905 --> 01:32:28,344
Will you forget that?
1090
01:32:28,421 --> 01:32:32,683
She's gonna go off to some fancy school
after we taught her everything she knows.
1091
01:32:32,754 --> 01:32:35,379
We'll still be sitting here
getting older and uglier...
1092
01:32:35,454 --> 01:32:37,443
and any spring could be our last...
1093
01:32:37,521 --> 01:32:40,378
God damn it, I wanna go to the river now.
1094
01:32:41,454 --> 01:32:44,147
Why are you such a dramatic old bastard?
1095
01:32:45,254 --> 01:32:47,516
"I just want to breathe in every day.
1096
01:32:48,554 --> 01:32:52,247
"Happiness makes up in height
what it lacks in length."
1097
01:32:55,020 --> 01:32:56,448
Robert Frost.
1098
01:32:57,274 --> 01:32:58,611
Come on.
1099
01:32:58,787 --> 01:33:01,515
You know damn well she'll miss us
if she leaves.
1100
01:33:01,621 --> 01:33:04,780
If she leaves, she's gone.
Final chapter. End of story.
1101
01:33:04,854 --> 01:33:07,343
I want to go to the river now.
1102
01:33:09,987 --> 01:33:12,647
But I need peace and quiet.
I got so much to do...
1103
01:33:12,721 --> 01:33:16,743
to pull off this graduation. I gotta write
a short story, or poem, or something.
1104
01:33:16,820 --> 01:33:18,150
I can't think of anything.
1105
01:33:18,221 --> 01:33:20,880
- I'm gonna blow the whole thing.
- I know you.
1106
01:33:20,987 --> 01:33:23,851
- You'll be fine.
- I'll see you later.
1107
01:33:30,621 --> 01:33:31,916
Hey, babe.
1108
01:33:34,154 --> 01:33:36,279
I've been waiting for you all day.
1109
01:33:36,987 --> 01:33:39,953
Lee, what are you doing here?
How did you find me?
1110
01:33:40,020 --> 01:33:41,509
You smell nice.
1111
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:45,346
Aren't you gonna ask me in?
I drove all night.
1112
01:33:45,421 --> 01:33:47,818
And I got you this.
1113
01:33:58,621 --> 01:34:00,745
This place really looks like you.
1114
01:34:01,954 --> 01:34:03,545
All those lady magazines...
1115
01:34:03,621 --> 01:34:06,382
I don't read those anymore.
I don't have the time.
1116
01:34:06,454 --> 01:34:09,045
What are you doing now? You waitressing?
1117
01:34:09,521 --> 01:34:12,180
No, I'm... It's none of your business.
1118
01:34:14,753 --> 01:34:17,844
Man, you must be doing okay. No rent...
1119
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,648
and this place definitely kicks ass
over the trailer.
1120
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:23,414
- Lee, what do you want?
- What do you mean?
1121
01:34:23,987 --> 01:34:26,510
I just came up here
to make sure that you're safe...
1122
01:34:26,588 --> 01:34:30,247
- once Lorraine's fool friends get the boot.
- What are you talking about?
1123
01:34:30,321 --> 01:34:33,116
Those guys
that you had to share this place with.
1124
01:34:33,187 --> 01:34:35,483
How do you know who I live with?
1125
01:34:40,287 --> 01:34:42,549
Some lawyer sent you a letter.
1126
01:34:42,621 --> 01:34:44,848
Which you, of course, opened.
1127
01:34:50,653 --> 01:34:52,586
Their year is almost up...
1128
01:34:54,187 --> 01:34:57,153
and I've been trying really hard
to better myself.
1129
01:34:57,221 --> 01:35:00,812
- I've missed you so much...
- This letter says as of July 1...
1130
01:35:00,887 --> 01:35:03,682
- I'm the sole owner of this house.
- Yeah, I know.
1131
01:35:04,521 --> 01:35:07,351
You didn't know that? Jesus Christ, man!
1132
01:35:07,421 --> 01:35:11,376
- Those fucking scumbag losers lied...
- They are not losers. They're my...
1133
01:35:12,221 --> 01:35:14,585
- They're your what?
- You cannot call them losers.
1134
01:35:14,653 --> 01:35:17,449
You think that... I have a real life now.
I go to school...
1135
01:35:17,521 --> 01:35:18,986
- A real life?
- Yeah.
1136
01:35:19,254 --> 01:35:22,448
As opposed to the piece-of-shit life
that we had?
1137
01:35:22,588 --> 01:35:25,418
And I guess you got some real men
in your real life, too.
1138
01:35:25,487 --> 01:35:28,578
Men who lie to girls
so they can have a roof over their heads?
1139
01:35:28,653 --> 01:35:29,744
- Fuck you!
- Or what?
1140
01:35:29,820 --> 01:35:32,752
Are they getting something else
for their trouble?
1141
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,079
They used you, Purslane.
1142
01:35:36,287 --> 01:35:39,014
- Just like they used Lorraine.
- Get out.
1143
01:35:39,321 --> 01:35:42,844
That's just fine!
I came all the way up here to see you!
1144
01:35:44,854 --> 01:35:48,309
You're in school now.
That's some funny stuff.
1145
01:35:50,054 --> 01:35:52,543
I want you
to remember something, Purslane.
1146
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:55,512
A weed is just a weed...
1147
01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:58,715
no matter how pretty the flower.
1148
01:35:58,787 --> 01:36:02,015
That's just fucking brilliant, Lee. Get out!
1149
01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:15,647
What the hell is going on?
1150
01:36:15,987 --> 01:36:18,453
She must be cleaning or something.
1151
01:36:19,753 --> 01:36:21,379
She locked the door.
1152
01:36:22,753 --> 01:36:24,616
Pursey, open up, honey.
1153
01:36:26,553 --> 01:36:28,076
Pursey, it's us.
1154
01:36:33,287 --> 01:36:35,014
Pursey, honey, open up.
1155
01:36:36,820 --> 01:36:40,650
- You locked the door.
- God damn it, I told you this would happen.
1156
01:36:40,753 --> 01:36:43,651
No. Oh, God. How?
1157
01:36:44,454 --> 01:36:46,681
Let's go. She needs some time.
1158
01:36:50,887 --> 01:36:53,353
Two goddamn days and no one's seen her.
1159
01:36:53,421 --> 01:36:55,353
She asked for the weekend off.
1160
01:36:56,820 --> 01:36:58,480
The trail is exhausted.
1161
01:36:59,387 --> 01:37:03,046
Ray said she came in early this morning.
Used the phone.
1162
01:37:03,287 --> 01:37:05,912
- She snuck past us?
- Probably on purpose.
1163
01:37:06,187 --> 01:37:09,449
You have not been very supportive
in this ordeal.
1164
01:37:11,454 --> 01:37:15,386
You're staying with me, aren't you?
You're welcome to go elsewhere.
1165
01:37:17,553 --> 01:37:19,179
I can rectify this.
1166
01:37:19,887 --> 01:37:23,580
Tomorrow she goes to school.
I'll set the alarm. Get up early.
1167
01:37:24,486 --> 01:37:26,112
Talk to her on the way.
1168
01:37:27,553 --> 01:37:29,452
Work this whole thing out.
1169
01:37:30,954 --> 01:37:32,715
We don't have an alarm.
1170
01:38:32,720 --> 01:38:35,686
Sweetheart, we've been waiting for you.
1171
01:38:41,354 --> 01:38:45,116
What do you think?
It's all your favorite colors.
1172
01:38:45,720 --> 01:38:49,244
And guess who helped?
We had Ray, and Ike, and even Earl.
1173
01:38:58,287 --> 01:39:01,810
It'll probably add value to
the selling price, so thanks.
1174
01:39:38,887 --> 01:39:41,375
Don't know why you have to go so soon.
1175
01:39:42,453 --> 01:39:45,578
We'll still be friends.
It's them I wanna get away from.
1176
01:39:47,321 --> 01:39:49,343
You know they didn't mean to hurt you...
1177
01:39:49,420 --> 01:39:52,944
Why don't you start off in the kitchen?
I'll finish this.
1178
01:40:48,520 --> 01:40:50,043
"My sweet Purslane...
1179
01:40:50,887 --> 01:40:53,614
"I am getting well and can't wait to see you.
1180
01:40:54,320 --> 01:40:57,048
"Time seems to stand still in these places...
1181
01:40:57,120 --> 01:41:00,950
"but somehow too much of it has passed,
and there's so much to say.
1182
01:41:01,054 --> 01:41:05,315
"I write to you always, but
never have the courage to send my letters.
1183
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:08,884
"I want you to have them now
to give you our history.
1184
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:11,948
"I'd like you to know your daddy...
1185
01:41:12,020 --> 01:41:16,384
"and to know that only I'm to blame for
the fact that he doesn't already know you.
1186
01:41:17,820 --> 01:41:19,911
"I wrote this song for you both."
1187
01:41:36,020 --> 01:41:39,111
Honey, where do you want me
to put your glasses?
1188
01:41:43,486 --> 01:41:44,850
What's wrong?
1189
01:41:45,587 --> 01:41:49,314
How could you talk about her all the time
and never tell me this?
1190
01:41:54,253 --> 01:41:55,719
Is this true?
1191
01:42:01,020 --> 01:42:04,077
"Your singing touched my soul.
Bobby Long."
1192
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:09,550
I always suspected, but she never told me.
1193
01:42:11,154 --> 01:42:13,120
I loved her first.
1194
01:42:13,187 --> 01:42:15,948
And Bobby got here,
and all hell broke loose.
1195
01:42:16,753 --> 01:42:18,742
Bobby was still married.
1196
01:42:19,987 --> 01:42:22,350
He never even knew how she felt.
1197
01:42:25,587 --> 01:42:27,951
She worked so hard to get clean.
1198
01:42:30,453 --> 01:42:35,351
And when she did, she came home
for a big show at the Howlin' Wolf.
1199
01:42:37,386 --> 01:42:38,613
This show?
1200
01:42:42,954 --> 01:42:44,579
The date's right.
1201
01:42:46,353 --> 01:42:49,183
She said your grandma would bring you up.
1202
01:42:52,954 --> 01:42:56,579
You never did show. He never did, either.
1203
01:42:57,486 --> 01:43:01,078
Boy, she was devastated
neither one of you was there.
1204
01:43:02,787 --> 01:43:04,252
"To my sweet Bobby.
1205
01:43:04,987 --> 01:43:09,044
"I am feeling better and coming home
to sing you a brand-new song.
1206
01:43:09,753 --> 01:43:13,947
"Please come. Someone I love will be there
and I want to introduce you."
1207
01:43:16,720 --> 01:43:18,618
This was you, darling.
1208
01:43:21,253 --> 01:43:22,719
You and Bobby.
1209
01:43:26,553 --> 01:43:27,780
I just...
1210
01:43:30,087 --> 01:43:31,780
I can't believe it.
1211
01:44:39,086 --> 01:44:41,552
Why do you keep drinking that shit?
1212
01:44:41,620 --> 01:44:44,848
Don't you know it's gonna kill you?
Didn't you watch Lorraine?
1213
01:44:44,920 --> 01:44:48,147
God, sometimes you make me
so fucking sick.
1214
01:44:48,253 --> 01:44:50,583
You're living in some fantasy world...
1215
01:44:50,653 --> 01:44:53,778
where life's a book
and no one takes responsibility for writing.
1216
01:44:53,854 --> 01:44:58,183
Every idiot knows that books are better
than life. That's why they're books!
1217
01:45:02,820 --> 01:45:05,911
Pursey, honey,
you go right ahead and be wicked.
1218
01:45:05,987 --> 01:45:07,475
We deserve it.
1219
01:45:08,186 --> 01:45:12,846
But when you're finished, why don't
we just all sit down and talk like a family?
1220
01:45:14,153 --> 01:45:15,676
Like a family.
1221
01:45:16,453 --> 01:45:18,715
Would that be like
that family you destroyed?
1222
01:45:18,787 --> 01:45:20,912
Are we just gonna be like that family?
1223
01:45:20,987 --> 01:45:25,009
'Cause the weird thing is that,
according to Lorraine, I am your family.
1224
01:45:30,687 --> 01:45:33,152
Couldn't you count to nine months?
1225
01:45:36,820 --> 01:45:40,445
I never understood
why she would want me to live with y'all...
1226
01:45:54,019 --> 01:45:55,815
but you're my father.
1227
01:46:08,787 --> 01:46:10,116
I just...
1228
01:46:18,587 --> 01:46:20,109
Did you love her?
1229
01:46:23,787 --> 01:46:28,116
- Did you love her?
- Yes, very much. But I just...
1230
01:46:31,787 --> 01:46:33,616
I wish we never knew.
1231
01:46:35,787 --> 01:46:38,514
No. Don't go, Pursey.
1232
01:46:40,787 --> 01:46:42,377
Don't walk away.
1233
01:46:42,453 --> 01:46:45,078
- It's too late.
- No, it's not too late.
1234
01:46:45,753 --> 01:46:49,241
You got me now, honey.
You're not alone anymore.
1235
01:46:52,353 --> 01:46:53,876
Let me be here.
1236
01:46:55,119 --> 01:46:57,312
What can I do? Tell me.
1237
01:47:00,453 --> 01:47:01,783
What, honey?
1238
01:47:01,854 --> 01:47:04,581
Remember when I told you
I made up memories about her?
1239
01:47:04,653 --> 01:47:05,641
Yes.
1240
01:47:08,353 --> 01:47:12,786
The really pathetic part was that
I used to make up memories about myself.
1241
01:47:13,553 --> 01:47:17,007
Like parents got lots of stories
about their kids.
1242
01:47:17,854 --> 01:47:22,344
You know, like, "Wasn't it cute when
Suzie couldn't say supercalifucking..."
1243
01:47:22,420 --> 01:47:23,681
Whatever.
1244
01:47:24,687 --> 01:47:27,982
I mean, people remember a lot of weird shit.
1245
01:47:28,053 --> 01:47:31,213
Like you probably got a ton of stories
about your kids, right?
1246
01:47:31,286 --> 01:47:32,616
Yes, I do.
1247
01:47:33,453 --> 01:47:36,647
Well, I kind of felt that maybe...
1248
01:47:37,453 --> 01:47:41,078
I used to do some cute or funny stuff
when I was little.
1249
01:47:42,186 --> 01:47:46,278
But the truth is nobody was really there
watching, were they?
1250
01:47:46,353 --> 01:47:50,581
Honey, I was there. Sweetheart, I was there.
1251
01:47:50,986 --> 01:47:54,043
I saw. It was never very long,
but I was there.
1252
01:47:55,919 --> 01:47:57,851
- Will you tell me about her?
- Yes.
1253
01:47:57,919 --> 01:48:00,283
- Every tiny thing about her?
- Oh, yes.
1254
01:48:00,353 --> 01:48:01,943
And about me, too?
1255
01:48:02,720 --> 01:48:06,243
'Cause I think I really need to know now.
1256
01:48:08,986 --> 01:48:09,974
Yes.
1257
01:48:10,453 --> 01:48:13,976
I don't want to sell our house.
I love our house. I just...
1258
01:48:14,053 --> 01:48:15,815
I was so mad at you.
1259
01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:19,985
I'm so sorry.
1260
01:48:32,119 --> 01:48:34,745
I don't remember how to do this.
1261
01:48:36,119 --> 01:48:37,846
I'll do it for you.
1262
01:48:38,687 --> 01:48:40,879
Shit, man. Your foot's blue.
1263
01:48:43,653 --> 01:48:48,017
I've been practicing wearing this shoe.
It's just numb, is all.
1264
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:59,845
I don't want any reason for my daughter
to be ashamed of her daddy.
1265
01:49:00,386 --> 01:49:02,716
- Now, how do I look?
- Damn good.
1266
01:49:03,053 --> 01:49:07,042
- How do I look?
- Well, pretty good.
1267
01:49:08,420 --> 01:49:10,386
Your hair's sticking up.
1268
01:49:11,886 --> 01:49:13,352
There you go.
1269
01:49:18,919 --> 01:49:21,942
Good Lord, y'all look like regular taxpayers.
1270
01:49:22,019 --> 01:49:25,452
- Maybe I ain't dressed appropriate.
- You look fine.
1271
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:28,577
Your fly is down.
Come on, we're gonna be late.
1272
01:49:30,386 --> 01:49:33,216
Are you ready
to see our daughter graduate?
1273
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:35,076
Yes, I am, sir.
1274
01:49:36,253 --> 01:49:39,776
- It's a day to count our blessings.
- Yes.
1275
01:50:43,153 --> 01:50:45,744
Quiet, everybody. Quiet down.
1276
01:50:46,386 --> 01:50:48,614
I'd like to propose a toast...
1277
01:50:49,520 --> 01:50:53,952
to my very beautiful daughter,
Purslane Hominy...
1278
01:50:54,553 --> 01:50:57,075
who is my very own golden girl.
1279
01:50:58,620 --> 01:51:03,075
Cecil mentioned earlier that today
was a day we should count our blessings.
1280
01:51:04,253 --> 01:51:07,844
And as I look around,
I see that there are many...
1281
01:51:08,520 --> 01:51:10,849
that I have not given credence to.
1282
01:51:12,953 --> 01:51:16,942
I am thankful for a God
that I had thought had given up on me...
1283
01:51:18,286 --> 01:51:21,809
and the love of a child who, God willing...
1284
01:51:23,153 --> 01:51:25,346
will be in college this fall.
1285
01:51:25,420 --> 01:51:29,580
And not no Vinegar Bend Junior College,
neither. My baby's smart.
1286
01:51:30,119 --> 01:51:32,051
Smarter than her old man.
1287
01:51:32,119 --> 01:51:34,085
That's for goddamn sure.
1288
01:51:35,086 --> 01:51:38,813
Pursey, honey, you have taught
this old fool a thing or two.
1289
01:51:38,986 --> 01:51:41,781
And in the glorious words of T.S. Eliot:
1290
01:51:43,220 --> 01:51:45,550
"We shall not cease exploration.
1291
01:51:47,320 --> 01:51:49,683
"And at the end of all our exploring...
1292
01:51:50,019 --> 01:51:53,076
"will be to arrive where we started...
1293
01:51:54,053 --> 01:51:56,917
"and know the place for the first time."
1294
01:51:58,453 --> 01:52:01,317
And that's what you've given your old man.
1295
01:52:02,819 --> 01:52:04,648
And he is forever grateful.
1296
01:52:05,253 --> 01:52:08,583
Now, come on up
and give your old man an Alabama shuffle.
1297
01:52:12,353 --> 01:52:14,841
Play that slow one that I asked for.
1298
01:53:30,919 --> 01:53:35,318
Some people reach a place in time
where they've gone as far as they can...
1299
01:53:35,486 --> 01:53:39,043
the place where wives and jobs
collide with desire...
1300
01:53:39,119 --> 01:53:42,846
that which is unknowable,
and those who remain out of sight.
1301
01:53:44,519 --> 01:53:47,974
"See what is invisible,
and you will see what to write. "
1302
01:53:49,819 --> 01:53:52,149
That's how Bobby used to put it.
1303
01:53:52,286 --> 01:53:55,547
It was the invisible people
he wanted to live with.
1304
01:53:55,652 --> 01:53:58,380
The ones that we walk past every day.
1305
01:53:58,453 --> 01:54:00,680
The ones we sometimes become.
1306
01:54:01,019 --> 01:54:04,849
The ones in books
who live only in someone's mind's eye.
1307
01:54:06,953 --> 01:54:10,612
He was a man who was destined
to go through life and not around it.
1308
01:54:11,453 --> 01:54:15,544
A man who was sure the shortest path
to heaven was straight through hell.
1309
01:54:17,519 --> 01:54:19,576
But the truth of his handicap...
1310
01:54:19,686 --> 01:54:24,346
lay only in a mind both exalted
and crippled by too many stories...
1311
01:54:24,886 --> 01:54:27,409
and the path he chose to become one.
1312
01:54:29,086 --> 01:54:32,984
Bobby Long's tragic flaw
was his romance with all that he saw.
1313
01:54:34,485 --> 01:54:38,043
And I guess if people want to believe
in some form of justice...
1314
01:54:38,119 --> 01:54:40,880
then Bobby Long got his for a song.