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- akumenang.com
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- And I'll telic you what, the storm
- system's still moving west.
- 5
- 00:00:40,124 --> 00:00:43,127
- What are you looking
- at, Caroline?
- 6
- 00:00:44,128 --> 00:00:45,755
- The wind, Mom.
- 7
- 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:51,260
- They say the
- hurricane is coming.
- 8
- 00:00:52,887 --> 00:00:56,057
- I'm on a boat.
- 9
- 00:00:56,140 --> 00:00:58,476
- I'm drifting.
- 10
- 00:01:00,770 --> 00:01:03,105
- Can I do anything for you, Mom?
- 11
- 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,317
- Make anything easier?
- 12
- 00:01:07,276 --> 00:01:08,694
- Oh, sugar...
- 13
- 00:01:09,195 --> 00:01:11,489
- There's nothing left to do.
- 14
- 00:01:11,989 --> 00:01:13,616
- Is what it is.
- 15
- 00:01:15,076 --> 00:01:18,079
- Finding it harder to
- keep my eyes open.
- 16
- 00:01:19,997 --> 00:01:23,167
- My mouth's full of cotton.
- 17
- 00:01:23,668 --> 00:01:25,836
- There, there, Miss Daisy.
- 18
- 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,673
- You gonna scratch
- yourself to ribbons.
- 19
- 00:01:33,552 --> 00:01:36,389
- Do you want any more
- medication, Mother?
- 20
- 00:01:37,264 --> 00:01:40,476
- Doctor said you could
- have as much as you want.
- 21
- 00:01:40,559 --> 00:01:42,853
- No need for anybody to suffer.
- 22
- 00:01:57,827 --> 00:02:00,746
- A friend told me that she
- never had the chance
- 23
- 00:02:00,830 --> 00:02:03,165
- to say goodbye to her mother.
- 24
- 00:02:06,252 --> 00:02:08,629
- - I wanted to...
- - It's okay.
- 25
- 00:02:08,713 --> 00:02:12,258
- I wanted to telic you how
- much I'm gonna miss you so...
- 26
- 00:02:12,717 --> 00:02:13,843
- Mom.
- 27
- 00:02:15,803 --> 00:02:17,596
- Oh, Caroline.
- 28
- 00:02:23,394 --> 00:02:24,895
- Are you afraid?
- 29
- 00:02:24,979 --> 00:02:26,731
- I'm curious.
- 30
- 00:02:28,441 --> 00:02:30,109
- What comes next?
- 31
- 00:02:35,614 --> 00:02:40,411
- They built the train
- station in 1918.
- 32
- 00:02:41,412 --> 00:02:44,206
- My father was there
- the day it opened.
- 33
- 00:02:45,833 --> 00:02:48,586
- He said they had
- 34
- 00:02:50,463 --> 00:02:51,797
- a tuba band playing.
- 35
- 00:02:56,552 --> 00:03:00,639
- They had the finest clockmaker
- in all of the South
- 36
- 00:03:01,223 --> 00:03:04,060
- to build that glorious clock.
- 37
- 00:03:05,895 --> 00:03:07,480
- His name was...
- 38
- 00:03:09,357 --> 00:03:11,192
- Mr. Gateau.
- 39
- 00:03:15,529 --> 00:03:16,739
- Mr. Cake.
- 40
- 00:03:19,283 --> 00:03:23,454
- He was married to a Creole
- of Evangeline Parish
- 41
- 00:03:23,537 --> 00:03:25,790
- and they had a son.
- 42
- 00:03:27,708 --> 00:03:32,838
- Mr. Gateau was, from
- birth, absolutely blind.
- 43
- 00:03:35,091 --> 00:03:39,345
- When their son was old enough.
- He joined the army.
- 44
- 00:03:40,262 --> 00:03:44,642
- And they prayed God would
- keep him out of harm's way.
- 45
- 00:03:47,561 --> 00:03:52,316
- For months, he did nothing
- but work on that clock.
- 46
- 00:03:56,362 --> 00:03:57,822
- One day.
- 47
- 00:03:59,156 --> 00:04:01,117
- A letter came.
- 48
- 00:04:06,330 --> 00:04:10,084
- And Mr. Gateau,
- done for the night,
- 49
- 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:13,295
- went up, alone, to bed.
- 50
- 00:04:15,923 --> 00:04:18,759
- And their son came home.
- 51
- 00:04:23,889 --> 00:04:26,726
- They buried him in
- the family plot,
- 52
- 00:04:26,809 --> 00:04:30,730
- where he would be with
- them when their time came.
- 53
- 00:04:32,690 --> 00:04:35,860
- Mr. Cake worked on his clock,
- 54
- 00:04:38,696 --> 00:04:42,324
- laboring to finish.
- 55
- 00:04:44,201 --> 00:04:47,538
- It was a morning to remember.
- 56
- 00:04:48,831 --> 00:04:52,001
- Papa said there were
- people everywhere.
- 57
- 00:04:53,377 --> 00:04:56,005
- Even Teddy Roosevelt came.
- 58
- 00:05:13,731 --> 00:05:15,608
- It's running backwards!
- 59
- 00:05:17,234 --> 00:05:18,986
- I made it that way
- 60
- 00:05:20,571 --> 00:05:22,451
- so that perhaps the boys
- that we lost in the war
- 61
- 00:05:22,531 --> 00:05:23,908
- might stand and come home again.
- 62
- 00:05:28,788 --> 00:05:30,247
- Home to farm,
- 63
- 00:05:31,332 --> 00:05:32,583
- work,
- 64
- 00:05:34,085 --> 00:05:35,836
- have children.
- 65
- 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:41,592
- To live long, full lives.
- 66
- 00:05:44,762 --> 00:05:47,473
- Perhaps my own son
- might come home again.
- 67
- 00:05:56,107 --> 00:05:58,693
- I'm sorry if I've
- offended anybody.
- 68
- 00:06:00,236 --> 00:06:02,530
- I hope you enjoy my clock.
- 69
- 00:06:03,406 --> 00:06:07,284
- Mr. Cake was never seen again.
- 70
- 00:06:11,622 --> 00:06:16,085
- Some say he died
- of a broken heart.
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- 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:20,131
- Some say he went to sea.
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- 00:06:25,219 --> 00:06:26,387
- Excuse me.
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- 00:06:26,470 --> 00:06:29,056
- Do you mind if I make a call?
- Somebody's watching my little boy.
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- 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:30,433
- Sure.
- 75
- 00:06:40,651 --> 00:06:42,903
- I hope I haven't
- disappointed you.
- 76
- 00:06:42,987 --> 00:06:46,115
- You couldn't disappoint me.
- 77
- 00:06:47,533 --> 00:06:52,455
- Well, I know I don't have
- much to show for myself.
- 78
- 00:06:54,999 --> 00:06:57,460
- Find my dark suitcase.
- 79
- 00:07:01,797 --> 00:07:04,717
- There's a diary.
- 80
- 00:07:06,844 --> 00:07:07,970
- This?
- 81
- 00:07:10,681 --> 00:07:13,601
- Could you read it to me?
- 82
- 00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:16,395
- Is this what you want to do?
- 83
- 00:07:16,479 --> 00:07:20,399
- I tried to read it a
- hundred different times.
- 84
- 00:07:21,359 --> 00:07:23,361
- Mom, it's not exactly...
- 85
- 00:07:23,444 --> 00:07:26,864
- It's just the sound of
- your voice, darling.
- 86
- 00:07:27,490 --> 00:07:28,699
- Okay-
- 87
- 00:07:31,827 --> 00:07:34,830
- It's dated April 4th, 1985.
- 88
- 00:07:35,915 --> 00:07:38,292
- And it says New Orleans.
- 89
- 00:07:38,376 --> 00:07:41,128
- "This is my last
- will and testament."
- 90
- 00:07:41,212 --> 00:07:45,424
- "I don't have much to leave, few
- possessions, no money, really."
- 91
- 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:51,055
- "I will go out of this world the same
- way I came in, alone and with nothing."
- 92
- 00:07:51,722 --> 00:07:53,599
- "All I have is my story,"
- 93
- 00:07:53,683 --> 00:07:57,103
- "and I'm writing it now
- while I still remember it."
- 94
- 00:07:57,895 --> 00:08:01,065
- "My name is Benjamin.
- Benjamin Button."
- 95
- 00:08:01,399 --> 00:08:04,568
- And I was born under
- unusual circumstances.
- 96
- 00:08:05,486 --> 00:08:07,738
- The First World War had ended,
- 97
- 00:08:08,406 --> 00:08:12,326
- and I've been told it was an
- especially good night to be born.
- 98
- 00:08:13,911 --> 00:08:16,122
- Thank God it's over!
- 99
- 00:08:16,205 --> 00:08:18,040
- We won the war!
- 100
- 00:08:32,930 --> 00:08:34,765
- The Great War is over!
- 101
- 00:08:46,986 --> 00:08:48,029
- What are you doing here?
- 102
- 00:08:48,112 --> 00:08:49,447
- Thomas,
- 103
- 00:08:50,656 --> 00:08:52,116
- I'm afraid she's going to die.
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- 00:08:52,199 --> 00:08:53,409
- What?
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- 00:08:54,535 --> 00:08:58,205
- That's enough. All of
- you, get away from her.
- 106
- 00:09:01,375 --> 00:09:04,503
- I came as quickly as I could. The
- streets are filled with people.
- 107
- 00:09:04,587 --> 00:09:05,880
- Thomas.
- 108
- 00:09:06,339 --> 00:09:08,966
- Promise me he has a place.
- 109
- 00:09:11,344 --> 00:09:12,511
- Yeah.
- 110
- 00:09:13,846 --> 00:09:15,890
- She gave her life for me.
- 111
- 00:09:16,891 --> 00:09:19,894
- And for that, I am
- forever grateful.
- 112
- 00:09:29,487 --> 00:09:30,905
- Mr. Button.
- 113
- 00:09:46,170 --> 00:09:47,421
- Thomas!
- 114
- 00:09:47,505 --> 00:09:48,798
- Thomas.
- 115
- 00:09:50,758 --> 00:09:52,968
- Thomas? Where are you going?
- 116
- 00:10:21,539 --> 00:10:23,916
- Hey! What are you doing there?
- 117
- 00:10:25,126 --> 00:10:27,211
- What do you have there?
- 118
- 00:11:24,810 --> 00:11:27,188
- - Come on, Queenie.
- - Now, Mr. Weathers!
- 119
- 00:11:27,271 --> 00:11:30,649
- Come on, now, you know I ain't got
- nothing but work to do around here.
- 120
- 00:11:30,733 --> 00:11:33,093
- - Come on. Just take some time.
- - Stop all this foolishness.
- 121
- 00:11:36,197 --> 00:11:37,990
- The air is sweet.
- 122
- 00:11:42,411 --> 00:11:45,498
- You look very handsome
- tonight, Miss Queenie.
- 123
- 00:11:46,791 --> 00:11:48,959
- Handsome as We ever seen.
- 124
- 00:11:50,378 --> 00:11:52,630
- The brown matches your eyes.
- 125
- 00:11:52,713 --> 00:11:54,090
- Oh, hush!
- 126
- 00:11:55,508 --> 00:11:59,679
- Let's see here. You ain't
- no slouch yourself.
- 127
- 00:12:08,229 --> 00:12:10,064
- Hambert's back in town.
- 128
- 00:12:10,147 --> 00:12:13,943
- He came home Legless,
- but he's home.
- 129
- 00:12:14,902 --> 00:12:17,571
- I know you were sweet
- on him one time.
- 130
- 00:12:18,072 --> 00:12:19,949
- Sweeter than I should've been.
- 131
- 00:12:20,032 --> 00:12:21,951
- Miss Simone messed herself.
- 132
- 00:12:22,034 --> 00:12:23,285
- Oh, sweet Jesus.
- 133
- 00:12:23,369 --> 00:12:25,913
- She got to stop doing that
- or it's diapers for her.
- 134
- 00:12:25,996 --> 00:12:28,082
- - I'll be right there, Miss Jameson!
- - Now, Queenie, now come on.
- 135
- 00:12:28,165 --> 00:12:30,751
- Okay, Queenie'll be right there.
- 136
- 00:12:30,835 --> 00:12:32,086
- It's awful nice out here.
- 137
- 00:12:32,169 --> 00:12:35,423
- Come on out back for a moment.
- Take your mind off things.
- 138
- 00:12:35,506 --> 00:12:36,549
- You're so bad.
- 139
- 00:12:36,632 --> 00:12:39,135
- - What in God's name?
- - What's this?
- 140
- 00:12:49,478 --> 00:12:51,731
- Oh, the Lord done
- something here.
- 141
- 00:12:51,814 --> 00:12:55,317
- Hope I didn't hurt it none
- stepping on it like that.
- 142
- 00:12:55,401 --> 00:12:56,944
- We best leave that
- for the police.
- 143
- 00:12:57,028 --> 00:12:58,571
- Poor baby.
- 144
- 00:12:59,363 --> 00:13:00,740
- I'll go.
- 145
- 00:13:01,365 --> 00:13:05,077
- It's for sure nobody wanted
- to keep it. Come on, baby.
- 146
- 00:13:07,705 --> 00:13:10,166
- Queenie? Where are you, Queenie?
- 147
- 00:13:10,249 --> 00:13:12,209
- Hold your water! You
- go deal with it.
- 148
- 00:13:12,293 --> 00:13:14,420
- Okay. No, go, I'll be back.
- 149
- 00:13:15,254 --> 00:13:18,549
- Queenie. Apple, she went and
- messed herself all over again!
- 150
- 00:13:18,632 --> 00:13:20,509
- Jane Childress,
- start her a bath!
- 151
- 00:13:20,593 --> 00:13:22,678
- And mind your own
- business, Mrs. Duprey.
- 152
- 00:13:22,762 --> 00:13:24,597
- You'll be messing
- yourself soon enough.
- 153
- 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:26,265
- Somebody stole my necklace.
- 154
- 00:13:26,349 --> 00:13:29,310
- Okay. All right, Mrs. Hollister,
- I'll be right with you, okay?
- 155
- 00:13:29,393 --> 00:13:31,604
- Go on back upstairs, hear?
- 156
- 00:13:37,902 --> 00:13:40,446
- You are as ugly as an old pot
- 157
- 00:13:40,529 --> 00:13:42,198
- but you're still a child of God.
- 158
- 00:13:42,281 --> 00:13:44,658
- Queenie. Apple, she won't
- take a bath without you!
- 159
- 00:13:44,742 --> 00:13:46,243
- Mercy.
- 160
- 00:13:46,327 --> 00:13:48,329
- I'll be right there!
- 161
- 00:13:51,332 --> 00:13:54,293
- Okay. You just wait right
- here for me now, okay?
- 162
- 00:13:57,588 --> 00:14:02,259
- My sister gave me those pearls.
- I can'! Find them anywhere.
- 163
- 00:14:02,343 --> 00:14:06,180
- - Somebody's been stealing my jewelry.
- - They're right here, Mrs. Hollister. See?
- 164
- 00:14:06,263 --> 00:14:09,600
- Right around your pretty white neck.
- Now, come on. Hush all that noise.
- 165
- 00:14:09,684 --> 00:14:12,311
- - Is Dr. Rose still here?
- - I don't know.
- 166
- 00:14:15,106 --> 00:14:16,399
- Your heart is strong.
- 167
- 00:14:16,482 --> 00:14:19,485
- You just want to avoid
- any undue stimulation.
- 168
- 00:14:20,069 --> 00:14:23,197
- I trust you ladies will
- help me outwith that?
- 169
- 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,450
- I have something. Could
- you come downstairs?
- 170
- 00:14:30,121 --> 00:14:33,833
- Never seen anything like it.
- Nearly blind from cataracts.
- 171
- 00:14:33,916 --> 00:14:38,004
- I'm not sure if he can hear. His
- bones indicate severe arthritis.
- 172
- 00:14:38,796 --> 00:14:43,217
- His skin has lost all elasticity, and
- his hands and feet are ossified.
- 173
- 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:47,888
- He shows all the deterioration, the
- infirmities, not of a newborn,
- 174
- 00:14:47,972 --> 00:14:50,641
- but of a man well in his 803
- on his way to the grave.
- 175
- 00:14:50,725 --> 00:14:51,726
- He's dying?
- 176
- 00:14:51,809 --> 00:14:55,104
- His body is failing him
- before his life's begun.
- 177
- 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:58,899
- Where'd he come from?
- 178
- 00:14:58,983 --> 00:15:03,362
- My sister's child. From Lafayette.
- She had an unfortunate adventure.
- 179
- 00:15:03,446 --> 00:15:07,366
- The poor child, he got the
- worst of it. Come out white.
- 180
- 00:15:10,369 --> 00:15:14,999
- There are places for unwanted
- babies like these. Queenie.
- 181
- 00:15:15,624 --> 00:15:18,294
- No room for another
- mouth to feed here.
- 182
- 00:15:18,377 --> 00:15:20,921
- The Nolan Foundation, despite
- their good intentions,
- 183
- 00:15:21,005 --> 00:15:23,799
- thinks this place is a
- large nuisance as it is.
- 184
- 00:15:23,883 --> 00:15:26,093
- - A baby...
- - You said he don't have long.
- 185
- 00:15:26,177 --> 00:15:30,765
- Queenie. Some creatures
- aren't meant to survive.
- 186
- 00:15:34,143 --> 00:15:37,897
- No. This baby, he is a miracle.
- That's for certain.
- 187
- 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:41,025
- Just not the kind of
- miracle one hopes to see.
- 188
- 00:15:44,028 --> 00:15:46,530
- Y'all listen. Y'all
- listen up here.
- 189
- 00:15:47,281 --> 00:15:48,324
- We're gonna have us a visitor
- 190
- 00:15:48,407 --> 00:15:51,535
- that's gonna be staying
- with us for a little while.
- 191
- 00:15:51,619 --> 00:15:55,373
- My sister had a child and she
- couldn't see right by it, so...
- 192
- 00:15:57,583 --> 00:15:59,377
- He's known as. . .
- 193
- 00:16:02,588 --> 00:16:05,883
- Benjamin.
- 194
- 00:16:06,759 --> 00:16:09,720
- He's not a well child, so we're gonna
- have to take good care of him.
- 195
- 00:16:09,804 --> 00:16:10,888
- I had 10 children.
- 196
- 00:16:10,971 --> 00:16:14,350
- There's not a baby I can't
- care for. Let me see him.
- 197
- 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:20,189
- God in Heaven. He looks
- just like my ex-husband.
- 198
- 00:16:20,981 --> 00:16:23,651
- Look, he's prematurely old.
- 199
- 00:16:24,110 --> 00:16:27,697
- Dr. Rose said he ain't got
- much more time on this earth.
- 200
- 00:16:27,988 --> 00:16:29,156
- Join the club.
- 201
- 00:16:34,245 --> 00:16:35,746
- He's smiling!
- 202
- 00:16:42,461 --> 00:16:45,172
- Hambert sends his
- remembrances to you.
- 203
- 00:16:54,932 --> 00:16:57,309
- Are you right out of your mind?
- 204
- 00:16:58,602 --> 00:17:01,981
- I know you ain't got all the parts
- it takes to make one of your own,
- 205
- 00:17:02,064 --> 00:17:03,315
- but this ain't yours to keep.
- 206
- 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:05,693
- It may not even be humankind.
- 207
- 00:17:14,785 --> 00:17:17,246
- Mr. Weathers, come back here.
- 208
- 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:20,791
- Please.
- 209
- 00:17:37,141 --> 00:17:39,727
- You never know what's
- coming for you.
- 210
- 00:17:49,695 --> 00:17:52,114
- It seemed I had found a home.
- 211
- 00:17:55,242 --> 00:17:56,327
- Is any of this true?
- 212
- 00:17:56,410 --> 00:17:59,830
- You have such a lovely voice.
- 213
- 00:18:00,331 --> 00:18:05,044
- Mom, it's an ancient
- streetcar token.
- 214
- 00:18:06,712 --> 00:18:09,882
- That clock just kept going.
- 215
- 00:18:10,841 --> 00:18:15,096
- Year after year after year.
- 216
- 00:18:19,350 --> 00:18:21,268
- But I didn't know I was a child.
- 217
- 00:18:21,352 --> 00:18:23,854
- Same old crap every day.
- 218
- 00:18:24,730 --> 00:18:27,525
- I thought I was like
- everyone else there.
- 219
- 00:18:28,526 --> 00:18:30,695
- An old man in the
- twilight of his life.
- 220
- 00:18:30,778 --> 00:18:33,155
- Could you make him stop that?
- 221
- 00:18:34,115 --> 00:18:37,201
- Stop banging that fork. It's used
- for eating, not for playing with.
- 222
- 00:18:37,284 --> 00:18:40,162
- And use your napkin,
- please, Mr. Benjamin.
- 223
- 00:18:42,498 --> 00:18:43,791
- Queenie!
- 224
- 00:18:55,845 --> 00:18:57,179
- Hey:
- 225
- 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,856
- Always had a healthy curiosity.
- 226
- 00:19:07,982 --> 00:19:11,485
- What was up the street? Or
- around the next corner?
- 227
- 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,655
- Go get him!
- 228
- 00:19:14,739 --> 00:19:18,451
- Benjamin! That is dangerous.
- Come back over here.
- 229
- 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,911
- Stay put. Child.
- 230
- 00:19:23,247 --> 00:19:25,249
- I loved her very much.
- 231
- 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,668
- She was my mother.
- 232
- 00:19:27,752 --> 00:19:30,755
- Mama.
- 233
- 00:19:31,547 --> 00:19:35,343
- Some days I feel different
- than the day before.
- 234
- 00:19:36,761 --> 00:19:40,806
- Everybody feels different about
- themselves, one way or another.
- 235
- 00:19:41,766 --> 00:19:44,101
- But we're all going
- the same way.
- 236
- 00:19:45,436 --> 00:19:49,106
- Just taking different roads
- to get there, that's all.
- 237
- 00:19:49,190 --> 00:19:51,692
- You're on your own
- road, Benjamin.
- 238
- 00:19:54,445 --> 00:19:57,114
- Mama? How much longer I got?
- 239
- 00:19:57,615 --> 00:20:00,910
- Just be thankful for
- what you're given. Hear?
- 240
- 00:20:00,993 --> 00:20:04,121
- You're already here longer
- than you're supposed to.
- 241
- 00:20:06,957 --> 00:20:09,919
- Some nights, I'd
- have to sleep alone.
- 242
- 00:20:18,594 --> 00:20:20,304
- I didn't mind.
- 243
- 00:20:21,138 --> 00:20:23,933
- I would listen to the
- house breathing.
- 244
- 00:20:25,101 --> 00:20:27,186
- All those people sleeping.
- 245
- 00:20:28,646 --> 00:20:30,856
- I felt safe.
- 246
- 00:20:51,669 --> 00:20:54,296
- It was a place of great routine.
- 247
- 00:20:54,380 --> 00:20:57,299
- Every morning at 5:30,
- no matter the weather,
- 248
- 00:20:57,383 --> 00:21:01,512
- General Winslow, U. 8. Army,
- Retired, would raise the flag.
- 249
- 00:21:04,348 --> 00:21:08,310
- Mrs. Sybil Wagner, once an
- opera singer of some note,
- 250
- 00:21:08,394 --> 00:21:11,063
- well, she sang Wagner.
- 251
- 00:21:22,867 --> 00:21:24,285
- All right, baby. Come on.
- 252
- 00:21:24,368 --> 00:21:28,247
- We got to put some life into
- these old sticks for you.
- 253
- 00:21:28,330 --> 00:21:32,668
- Get you walking so you can help me
- out around here. Come on now, hear?
- 254
- 00:21:33,711 --> 00:21:37,590
- No matter the season, supper
- was served promptly at 5:30.
- 255
- 00:21:37,673 --> 00:21:44,013
- Molasses.
- 256
- 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:47,516
- I learned to read
- when I was five.
- 257
- 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:51,979
- My grandfather was a dresser
- for a famous actor.
- 258
- 00:21:52,063 --> 00:21:54,815
- He brung home every
- play for me to read.
- 259
- 00:21:57,026 --> 00:22:00,780
- "Kind keepers of my
- weak decaying age,."
- 260
- 00:22:01,697 --> 00:22:05,326
- "Let dying Mortimer
- here rest himself."
- 261
- 00:22:06,077 --> 00:22:08,829
- "Even like a man new
- haled from the rack,."
- 262
- 00:22:08,913 --> 00:22:11,624
- "So fare my limbs with
- long imprisonment."
- 263
- 00:22:12,333 --> 00:22:16,003
- "And these gray locks. The
- pursuivants of death,."
- 264
- 00:22:16,587 --> 00:22:19,590
- "Argue the end of
- Edmund Mortimer."
- 265
- 00:22:23,469 --> 00:22:26,555
- You thought I was plain
- ignorant, didn't you?
- 266
- 00:22:26,639 --> 00:22:30,309
- The actor my grandfather worked
- for was John Wilkes Booth.
- 267
- 00:22:32,603 --> 00:22:34,647
- He killed Abraham Lincoln.
- 268
- 00:22:36,399 --> 00:22:39,068
- You never know what's
- coming for you.
- 269
- 00:22:39,735 --> 00:22:43,364
- On Saturday nights. Mama
- would make me go to church.
- 270
- 00:22:47,118 --> 00:22:48,536
- Benjamin!
- 271
- 00:22:59,630 --> 00:23:01,215
- - Amen! Amen!
- - Amen! Amen!
- 272
- 00:23:03,009 --> 00:23:05,386
- What can I do for you, sister?
- 273
- 00:23:15,187 --> 00:23:20,693
- Her parts are all twisted up inside
- and she can't have little children.
- 274
- 00:23:24,488 --> 00:23:28,534
- Lord, if you could see clear
- to forgive this woman her sins
- 275
- 00:23:28,617 --> 00:23:30,745
- so she can bear the
- fruit of the womb.
- 276
- 00:23:30,828 --> 00:23:33,247
- Out. Damnable affliction!
- 277
- 00:23:33,330 --> 00:23:35,499
- - Praise God!
- - Praise God!
- 278
- 00:23:35,583 --> 00:23:36,751
- Hallelujah!
- 279
- 00:23:36,834 --> 00:23:38,336
- - Hallelujah!
- - Hallelujah!
- 280
- 00:23:40,379 --> 00:23:43,174
- And what's this old
- man's irrediction?
- 281
- 00:23:44,842 --> 00:23:46,260
- He's got the Devil on his back,
- 282
- 00:23:46,344 --> 00:23:49,680
- trying to ride him into the
- grave before his time.
- 283
- 00:23:52,933 --> 00:23:54,393
- - Out, Zebuchar!
- - Yes!
- 284
- 00:23:54,477 --> 00:23:56,354
- - Out, Beelzebub!
- - Yes!
- 285
- 00:23:58,189 --> 00:23:59,940
- How old are you?
- 286
- 00:24:00,024 --> 00:24:02,568
- Seven. But I look a lot older.
- 287
- 00:24:03,611 --> 00:24:05,154
- God bless you.
- 288
- 00:24:05,696 --> 00:24:07,198
- He's seven.
- 289
- 00:24:09,992 --> 00:24:13,954
- Now, this is a man with
- optimism in his heart.
- 290
- 00:24:14,038 --> 00:24:15,748
- - All right.
- - Belief in his soul!
- 291
- 00:24:15,831 --> 00:24:16,832
- 'Yes! 'Yes!
- 292
- 00:24:16,916 --> 00:24:18,751
- We are all children
- in the eyes of God!
- 293
- 00:24:18,834 --> 00:24:20,127
- - Yes!
- - Hallelujah!
- 294
- 00:24:20,211 --> 00:24:23,130
- We are gonna get you
- out of that chair.
- 295
- 00:24:23,214 --> 00:24:25,257
- - And we're gonna have you walk.
- - Amen.
- 296
- 00:24:26,092 --> 00:24:27,718
- It's all right.
- 297
- 00:24:28,594 --> 00:24:30,846
- In the name of God's glory
- . .
- 298
- 00:24:31,681 --> 00:24:33,140
- Rise up!
- 299
- 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,018
- Come on.
- 300
- 00:24:37,812 --> 00:24:39,605
- Come on. Walk.
- 301
- 00:24:39,689 --> 00:24:41,148
- Come on, son. Come on.
- 302
- 00:24:41,232 --> 00:24:43,984
- - Come on with it, son. Come on.
- - Come on.
- 303
- 00:24:44,068 --> 00:24:47,446
- Now God is gonna see you
- the rest of the way.
- 304
- 00:24:47,530 --> 00:24:52,326
- He's gonna see this little old man walk
- without the use of a crutch or a cane.
- 305
- 00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:54,245
- He's gonna see that you
- walk from faith...
- 306
- 00:24:54,328 --> 00:24:57,331
- - Hallelujah!
- - And divine inspiration alone!
- 307
- 00:24:57,415 --> 00:24:58,582
- - Yes.
- - Hey, Ben!
- 308
- 00:24:58,666 --> 00:25:00,001
- - Go, son!
- - Now walk.
- 309
- 00:25:00,084 --> 00:25:01,335
- - Yes.
- - Come on.
- 310
- 00:25:03,421 --> 00:25:05,089
- Don't touch him.
- 311
- 00:25:07,425 --> 00:25:09,218
- Rise up, old man.
- 312
- 00:25:10,261 --> 00:25:12,847
- Rise up like Lazarus.
- 313
- 00:25:12,930 --> 00:25:15,099
- I said, rise up!
- 314
- 00:25:15,725 --> 00:25:17,101
- Hallelujah!
- 315
- 00:25:19,270 --> 00:25:20,479
- Yes.
- 316
- 00:25:20,938 --> 00:25:22,148
- Come on.
- 317
- 00:25:22,231 --> 00:25:23,232
- Say hallelujah.
- 318
- 00:25:23,315 --> 00:25:24,734
- - Hallelujah!
- - Hallelujah!
- 319
- 00:25:26,444 --> 00:25:27,653
- Walk.
- 320
- 00:25:28,446 --> 00:25:30,531
- Walk on. Yes.
- 321
- 00:25:34,368 --> 00:25:35,411
- That's right, Benjamin.
- 322
- 00:25:35,494 --> 00:25:38,748
- Now when I look back on
- it, it was miraculous.
- 323
- 00:25:38,831 --> 00:25:42,918
- But you know the saying, the Lord
- giveth and the Lord taketh away.
- 324
- 00:25:43,127 --> 00:25:45,046
- Glory in the highest!
- 325
- 00:25:49,133 --> 00:25:50,301
- Sweet Jesus!
- 326
- 00:25:50,426 --> 00:25:51,552
- - No!
- - No!
- 327
- 00:25:53,971 --> 00:25:55,348
- There were so many birthdays.
- 328
- 00:25:55,431 --> 00:25:58,976
- For he's a jolly good fellow For
- he's a jolly good fellow...
- 329
- 00:25:59,060 --> 00:26:01,687
- So we wouldn't run out, we
- would spare the candles.
- 330
- 00:26:01,771 --> 00:26:05,816
- Queenie. You know I don't like
- birthdays and I don't like cake.
- 331
- 00:26:06,484 --> 00:26:10,488
- And death was a common visitor.
- People came and went.
- 332
- 00:26:12,281 --> 00:26:14,700
- You always knew when
- someone left us.
- 333
- 00:26:14,784 --> 00:26:17,328
- There was a silence
- in the house.
- 334
- 00:26:31,342 --> 00:26:33,636
- It was a wonderful
- place to grow up.
- 335
- 00:26:33,719 --> 00:26:38,224
- I was with people who had shed ail
- the inconsequences of earlier life.
- 336
- 00:26:38,891 --> 00:26:43,020
- Left wondering about the weather,
- the temperature of a bath,
- 337
- 00:26:44,230 --> 00:26:46,482
- the light at the end of a day.
- 338
- 00:26:50,861 --> 00:26:54,865
- For everyone that died, someone
- would come to take their place.
- 339
- 00:26:55,866 --> 00:26:58,202
- I've been married five times.
- 340
- 00:26:58,703 --> 00:27:02,415
- My fifth wife and I are captured
- by a neighbor tribe of cannibals.
- 341
- 00:27:02,498 --> 00:27:03,582
- Oh, goodness gracious.
- 342
- 00:27:03,666 --> 00:27:05,126
- We escaped across the river.
- 343
- 00:27:05,209 --> 00:27:08,629
- My wife, she can't swim,
- so, sadly, she eaten.
- 344
- 00:27:08,713 --> 00:27:09,922
- Oh, my God.
- 345
- 00:27:10,006 --> 00:27:12,883
- My second wife steps
- on cobra and dies.
- 346
- 00:27:13,384 --> 00:27:16,178
- It was very bad luck
- to be married to me.
- 347
- 00:27:16,262 --> 00:27:19,306
- That's Mr. Oti. He's an acquaintance
- of an acquaintance of mine.
- 348
- 00:27:19,390 --> 00:27:21,517
- - The next summer I'm captured...
- - He's a Pygmy.
- 349
- 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,477
- With three others by
- the Baschiele tribe.
- 350
- 00:27:23,561 --> 00:27:28,482
- They trade us for pigs, shoes, and
- beer to a very strange American man.
- 351
- 00:27:47,585 --> 00:27:50,087
- I hear you're not so
- old as you're looking.
- 352
- 00:27:50,171 --> 00:27:52,423
- You just fooling everybody.
- 353
- 00:27:52,965 --> 00:27:56,010
- What's the matter? Did
- you get Madjembe?
- 354
- 00:27:56,093 --> 00:27:57,511
- What's Madjembe?
- 355
- 00:27:57,595 --> 00:27:58,929
- Worms.
- 356
- 00:27:59,263 --> 00:28:01,599
- I don't think I have worms.
- 357
- 00:28:02,224 --> 00:28:03,768
- This is just how I am.
- 358
- 00:28:03,851 --> 00:28:06,729
- - Did you take your pills today?
- - No, ma'am.
- 359
- 00:28:06,812 --> 00:28:09,190
- Come. Let's get a
- cold root beer.
- 360
- 00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:11,400
- I found the medication
- under your pillow.
- 361
- 00:28:11,484 --> 00:28:14,695
- I'm not supposed to.
- It's dangerous.
- 362
- 00:28:14,779 --> 00:28:17,531
- Who said that? Come
- on, little man.
- 363
- 00:28:18,783 --> 00:28:20,493
- Hello, children.
- 364
- 00:28:31,712 --> 00:28:33,255
- Hold, please.
- 365
- 00:28:35,883 --> 00:28:40,221
- Then I'm in the monkey house at
- Philadelphia Zoological Park.
- 366
- 00:28:41,097 --> 00:28:44,642
- Three thousand people
- show up my first day.
- 367
- 00:28:45,935 --> 00:28:46,977
- Look.
- 368
- 00:28:48,729 --> 00:28:50,648
- What's it like living in a cage?
- 369
- 00:28:50,731 --> 00:28:52,233
- It stinks.
- 370
- 00:28:52,817 --> 00:28:55,152
- But the monkeys.
- 371
- 00:28:55,903 --> 00:28:57,988
- They do some tricks there.
- 372
- 00:28:58,155 --> 00:29:00,908
- I throw a spear,
- wrestle with Kowali.
- 373
- 00:29:01,701 --> 00:29:03,494
- She is orangutan.
- 374
- 00:29:03,869 --> 00:29:07,415
- When I'm not playing with the monkeys,
- they want me to run to the bars
- 375
- 00:29:07,498 --> 00:29:09,667
- in my cage, with my teeth.
- 376
- 00:29:19,552 --> 00:29:21,637
- So then what'd you do?
- 377
- 00:29:21,721 --> 00:29:27,601
- Then I leave zoo, go here, go
- there. Wandered most of the time.
- 378
- 00:29:28,019 --> 00:29:29,103
- You were all alone?
- 379
- 00:29:29,186 --> 00:29:31,480
- Plenty of time you'll be alone.
- 380
- 00:29:31,564 --> 00:29:35,026
- When you're different like
- us, it's gonna be that way.
- 381
- 00:29:38,029 --> 00:29:39,905
- But I'll tell you
- a little secret.
- 382
- 00:29:39,989 --> 00:29:43,284
- Fat people, skinny
- people, tall people.
- 383
- 00:29:43,367 --> 00:29:46,412
- White people, they're
- just as alone as we are.
- 384
- 00:29:46,912 --> 00:29:49,165
- But they're scared shitless.
- 385
- 00:29:55,338 --> 00:29:58,007
- I think about the
- river I grew up on.
- 386
- 00:29:58,424 --> 00:30:01,385
- It would be nice to sit
- by my river again.
- 387
- 00:30:03,596 --> 00:30:06,015
- Come, I have an appointment.
- 388
- 00:30:08,392 --> 00:30:10,978
- There's my little man.
- You ready, sugar?
- 389
- 00:30:11,062 --> 00:30:13,397
- Always ready. Always ready.
- 390
- 00:30:15,191 --> 00:30:17,318
- Filamena, Mr. Benjamin.
- 391
- 00:30:18,319 --> 00:30:21,405
- - It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
- - My pleasure, ma'am.
- 392
- 00:30:21,489 --> 00:30:23,491
- You can find your own
- way home, can't you?
- 393
- 00:30:23,574 --> 00:30:26,327
- Take the St. Charles
- line to Napoleon.
- 394
- 00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:33,918
- Hey! Hey!
- 395
- 00:30:54,230 --> 00:30:57,775
- Where in God's name have
- you been? Get in here.
- 396
- 00:30:59,235 --> 00:31:02,530
- I mean, you take my breath
- away, you know that?
- 397
- 00:31:02,905 --> 00:31:05,533
- Oh, Lord, I was so
- worried about you.
- 398
- 00:31:09,203 --> 00:31:11,789
- It had been the best
- day of my life.
- 399
- 00:31:12,707 --> 00:31:15,418
- - How's her breathing?
- - It's shallow.
- 400
- 00:31:15,501 --> 00:31:17,062
- They say it'll reach
- us in a few hours,
- 401
- 00:31:17,128 --> 00:31:20,047
- so I gotta get my baby and
- take him to my sister's.
- 402
- 00:31:20,131 --> 00:31:22,633
- They say there's nothing to worry
- about here in the hospital.
- 403
- 00:31:22,717 --> 00:31:25,219
- Nurses'll be right here if
- you need them. Are you okay?
- 404
- 00:31:25,302 --> 00:31:29,098
- - Yeah, I'm okay reading.
- - I shouldn't be more than an hour.
- 405
- 00:31:30,474 --> 00:31:33,144
- Was there just company?
- 406
- 00:31:33,644 --> 00:31:36,105
- It was just Dorothy leaving.
- 407
- 00:31:38,232 --> 00:31:39,692
- Go on, Caroline.
- 408
- 00:31:39,775 --> 00:31:42,903
- "On Sundays, the families
- would come and visit."
- 409
- 00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:46,240
- It was Thanksgiving, 1930.
- 410
- 00:31:46,323 --> 00:31:49,326
- I met the person who
- changed my life forever.
- 411
- 00:32:01,339 --> 00:32:03,466
- Well, Benjamin.
- 412
- 00:32:03,841 --> 00:32:07,178
- Might I say you are looking
- strikingly youthful.
- 413
- 00:32:07,636 --> 00:32:09,221
- Good day, Mrs. Fuller.
- 414
- 00:32:09,305 --> 00:32:12,600
- A single cane, back
- straight as an arrow.
- 415
- 00:32:12,683 --> 00:32:15,061
- What elixir have
- you been drinking?
- 416
- 00:32:15,144 --> 00:32:18,522
- - Thank you, ma'am.
- - Grandma! Look at me!
- 417
- 00:32:20,941 --> 00:32:23,277
- That was really something.
- 418
- 00:32:23,361 --> 00:32:25,279
- Come on over here, you.
- 419
- 00:32:25,363 --> 00:32:28,199
- Now, this is my
- granddaughter, Daisy.
- 420
- 00:32:29,116 --> 00:32:30,993
- This is Mr...
- 421
- 00:32:31,077 --> 00:32:34,789
- I'm afraid, Benjamin, I don't
- rightly know your last name.
- 422
- 00:32:34,872 --> 00:32:36,540
- Benjamin's fine.
- 423
- 00:32:37,124 --> 00:32:39,502
- I never forgot her blue eyes.
- 424
- 00:32:39,877 --> 00:32:42,588
- Good people, supper is served.
- 425
- 00:32:42,672 --> 00:32:48,803
- Health and food, for love and friends.
- For everything thy goodness sends.
- 426
- 00:32:49,220 --> 00:32:50,388
- Amen.
- 427
- 00:32:50,471 --> 00:32:51,722
- - Amen!
- - Amen!
- 428
- 00:32:55,393 --> 00:32:57,978
- Did you know turkeys
- aren't really birds?
- 429
- 00:32:58,062 --> 00:32:59,146
- Why do you say that?
- 430
- 00:32:59,230 --> 00:33:02,358
- They're in the pheasant
- family, can't hardly fly.
- 431
- 00:33:02,441 --> 00:33:04,985
- It's sad, don't you think?
- Birds that can't fly?
- 432
- 00:33:05,069 --> 00:33:07,279
- I love birds that can't fly.
- 433
- 00:33:07,363 --> 00:33:09,407
- They are so delicious.
- 434
- 00:33:10,533 --> 00:33:12,993
- - That's terrible.
- - I have something to telic y'all
- 435
- 00:33:13,077 --> 00:33:16,288
- while we're giving thanks
- for God's blessings.
- 436
- 00:33:16,372 --> 00:33:18,332
- I had a miracle happen.
- 437
- 00:33:18,791 --> 00:33:21,460
- The Lord saw fit to
- answer my prayers.
- 438
- 00:33:25,131 --> 00:33:27,466
- What does she mean,
- answered her prayers?
- 439
- 00:33:27,550 --> 00:33:29,093
- Thanks. Thank you.
- 440
- 00:33:29,176 --> 00:33:31,595
- She's gonna have a baby, silly.
- 441
- 00:33:32,513 --> 00:33:35,516
- That's what my mama said when I
- was gonna have a baby brother,
- 442
- 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:37,935
- but he didn't live long,
- 443
- 00:33:39,103 --> 00:33:41,480
- "'cause he didn't
- breathe right."
- 444
- 00:33:44,316 --> 00:33:48,362
- "In the afternoon, when he had
- got his beautiful hind legs"
- 445
- 00:33:48,446 --> 00:33:52,074
- "just as Big God
- Nqong had promised."
- 446
- 00:33:52,908 --> 00:33:55,119
- "You can see that it is 5:00."
- 447
- 00:33:55,202 --> 00:33:59,206
- "Because Big God Nqong's
- clock says so."
- 448
- 00:33:59,290 --> 00:34:01,125
- Isn't that something?
- 449
- 00:34:01,667 --> 00:34:03,044
- Again, read it again.
- 450
- 00:34:03,127 --> 00:34:05,463
- Oh, read it again, please.
- 451
- 00:34:05,546 --> 00:34:08,883
- All right. But afterwards,
- you must go to bed.
- 452
- 00:34:09,216 --> 00:34:10,634
- I promise.
- 453
- 00:34:12,595 --> 00:34:14,472
- "Old Man Kangaroo."
- 454
- 00:34:18,726 --> 00:34:20,436
- Are you sleeping?
- 455
- 00:34:21,937 --> 00:34:23,439
- Who's that?
- 456
- 00:34:23,522 --> 00:34:25,149
- It's me, Daisy.
- 457
- 00:34:26,150 --> 00:34:27,651
- Oh, hi!
- 458
- 00:34:28,194 --> 00:34:29,737
- 'Kay, come on.
- 459
- 00:34:40,831 --> 00:34:42,625
- Where are we going?
- 460
- 00:34:43,751 --> 00:34:46,587
- Come on. Under here.
- 461
- 00:34:56,097 --> 00:34:57,556
- Here, you light it.
- 462
- 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,767
- I'm not supposed to
- play with matches.
- 463
- 00:34:59,850 --> 00:35:02,144
- Don't be a chicken. Light it.
- 464
- 00:35:13,197 --> 00:35:16,158
- I'll telic you a secret
- if you'll telic me one.
- 465
- 00:35:16,242 --> 00:35:17,702
- Okay-
- 466
- 00:35:17,785 --> 00:35:21,163
- I saw my mama kissing
- another man.
- 467
- 00:35:21,539 --> 00:35:23,624
- Her face was red from it.
- 468
- 00:35:25,876 --> 00:35:27,378
- Your turn.
- 469
- 00:35:30,673 --> 00:35:32,967
- I'm not as old as I look.
- 470
- 00:35:33,050 --> 00:35:34,677
- I thought so.
- 471
- 00:35:36,595 --> 00:35:39,056
- You don't seem like
- an old person.
- 472
- 00:35:39,724 --> 00:35:41,892
- - Like my grandma.
- - I'm not.
- 473
- 00:35:43,644 --> 00:35:45,271
- Are you sick?
- 474
- 00:35:45,813 --> 00:35:48,983
- Well, I heard Mama and
- Tizzy whispering.
- 475
- 00:35:49,066 --> 00:35:53,279
- They said I was gonna die
- soon, but maybe not.
- 476
- 00:35:55,489 --> 00:35:57,074
- You're odd.
- 477
- 00:35:57,783 --> 00:36:00,703
- You're different than
- anybody I've ever met.
- 478
- 00:36:03,831 --> 00:36:06,042
- - 'May I?
- - Okay,
- 479
- 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,257
- akumenang.com
- 480
- 00:36:13,257 --> 00:36:15,676
- What are you doing under there?
- akumenang.com
- 481
- 00:36:15,676 --> 00:36:15,760
- akumenang.com
- 482
- 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,221
- You come right out here
- and get back up to bed!
- akumenang.com
- 483
- 00:36:19,221 --> 00:36:19,305
- akumenang.com
- 484
- 00:36:19,305 --> 00:36:21,098
- It's after midnight!
- akumenang.com
- 485
- 00:36:21,098 --> 00:36:21,182
- akumenang.com
- 486
- 00:36:21,182 --> 00:36:22,000
- You are not to be
- playing together.
- akumenang.com
- 487
- 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,309
- You are not to be
- playing together.
- 488
- 00:36:23,392 --> 00:36:24,935
- '($5. ma'am.
- 489
- 00:36:25,019 --> 00:36:27,188
- Now you get back to
- bed, little lady.
- 490
- 00:36:27,271 --> 00:36:31,275
- You're too young to be wandering
- around in the night on your own.
- 491
- 00:36:33,944 --> 00:36:37,782
- And you ought to be
- ashamed of yourself.
- 492
- 00:36:53,047 --> 00:36:55,132
- You are a different child.
- 493
- 00:36:55,883 --> 00:36:57,009
- A man-child.
- 494
- 00:36:57,093 --> 00:37:01,597
- And, baby, people aren't gonna
- understand just how different you are.
- 495
- 00:37:07,853 --> 00:37:10,064
- What's wrong with me, Mama?
- 496
- 00:37:10,981 --> 00:37:12,775
- Come here.
- 497
- 00:37:14,902 --> 00:37:17,154
- God hasn't said yet, baby.
- 498
- 00:37:21,575 --> 00:37:25,121
- Now go on to bed, hear?
- And behave yourself.
- 499
- 00:37:26,414 --> 00:37:28,999
- Go on. Say your prayers. Hear?
- 500
- 00:37:40,803 --> 00:37:44,890
- Did I ever telic you I've been
- struck by lightning seven times?
- 501
- 00:37:47,184 --> 00:37:50,146
- Once when I was repairing
- a leak on the roof.
- 502
- 00:37:54,191 --> 00:37:57,486
- Once I was just crossing
- the road to get the mail.
- 503
- 00:38:13,502 --> 00:38:14,795
- I never forgot her...
- 504
- 00:38:14,879 --> 00:38:16,422
- ". . blue eyes."
- 505
- 00:38:17,882 --> 00:38:19,467
- Mom?
- 506
- 00:38:19,550 --> 00:38:24,347
- Did you get that this Benjamin loved you
- from the first time that he saw you?
- 507
- 00:38:25,556 --> 00:38:28,059
- Not many people experience that.
- 508
- 00:38:29,518 --> 00:38:31,312
- Want me to go on?
- 509
- 00:38:33,272 --> 00:38:35,316
- He crosses something out.
- 510
- 00:38:35,399 --> 00:38:38,694
- When that baby came,
- things were different.
- 511
- 00:38:38,778 --> 00:38:42,156
- Your mama gone away And
- your daddy gonna stay.
- 512
- 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,077
- Didn't leave nobody
- but the baby.
- 513
- 00:38:47,495 --> 00:38:50,122
- Babies were born, people died.
- 514
- 00:38:50,998 --> 00:38:53,876
- A lot of folks been
- through that old house.
- 515
- 00:38:55,795 --> 00:38:59,048
- I've come to say goodbye.
- I'm going away.
- 516
- 00:38:59,131 --> 00:39:00,424
- Going?
- 517
- 00:39:00,925 --> 00:39:02,468
- Where?
- 518
- 00:39:02,551 --> 00:39:04,136
- I haven't figured that out yet,
- 519
- 00:39:04,220 --> 00:39:06,681
- but I'll send you a
- postcard when I get there.
- 520
- 00:39:06,764 --> 00:39:09,558
- What about your friend,
- the tall lady?
- 521
- 00:39:09,642 --> 00:39:11,060
- We are not friends anymore.
- 522
- 00:39:11,143 --> 00:39:14,438
- That's what happens with
- tall people sometimes.
- 523
- 00:39:14,522 --> 00:39:17,316
- Well, goodbye.
- 524
- 00:39:36,585 --> 00:39:39,380
- Spent a lot of time
- by myself that year.
- 525
- 00:39:40,715 --> 00:39:41,966
- Hello?
- 526
- 00:39:43,718 --> 00:39:45,511
- - Hi.
- - I'm moving in today.
- 527
- 00:39:45,594 --> 00:39:48,431
- Welcome. We've been
- expecting you.
- 528
- 00:39:48,514 --> 00:39:51,559
- Can you please show her up
- to Mrs. Rousseau's old room?
- 529
- 00:39:51,642 --> 00:39:55,021
- I'm sorry, but we usually don't
- allow dogs in the house.
- 530
- 00:39:55,104 --> 00:39:58,107
- Well, she's old as the hills.
- She's almost blind.
- 531
- 00:39:58,190 --> 00:40:01,152
- She won't be a
- bother much longer.
- 532
- 00:40:01,235 --> 00:40:04,947
- Well, all right, long as she
- stays from up underfoot.
- 533
- 00:40:05,031 --> 00:40:06,240
- Right this way, ma'am.
- 534
- 00:40:06,323 --> 00:40:09,493
- As hard as I try, I can'!
- Remember her name.
- 535
- 00:40:09,577 --> 00:40:12,747
- Mrs. Lawson, or Mrs. Hartford.
- 536
- 00:40:13,748 --> 00:40:15,541
- Maybe it was Maple.
- 537
- 00:40:15,624 --> 00:40:17,960
- It's funny how sometimes the
- people we remember the least
- 538
- 00:40:18,044 --> 00:40:20,629
- make the greatest
- impression on us.
- 539
- 00:40:21,172 --> 00:40:23,549
- I do remember she wore diamonds.
- 540
- 00:40:23,632 --> 00:40:27,428
- And she always dressed in fine
- clothing, as if she was going out.
- 541
- 00:40:27,511 --> 00:40:31,140
- Although she never did and
- nobody ever came to visit her.
- 542
- 00:40:32,850 --> 00:40:35,186
- She taught me to play the piano.
- 543
- 00:40:40,524 --> 00:40:43,194
- It's not about how
- well you play.
- 544
- 00:40:43,903 --> 00:40:46,781
- It's how you feel about
- what you're playing.
- 545
- 00:40:46,864 --> 00:40:48,199
- Try this.
- 546
- 00:41:04,548 --> 00:41:07,802
- You can't help putting
- yourself in the music.
- 547
- 00:41:15,851 --> 00:41:17,853
- There were many changes.
- 548
- 00:41:17,937 --> 00:41:21,065
- Some you could see,
- some you couldn't.
- 549
- 00:41:22,149 --> 00:41:25,027
- Hair had started growing
- in all sorts of places.
- 550
- 00:41:25,528 --> 00:41:27,530
- Along with other things.
- 551
- 00:41:28,781 --> 00:41:31,575
- I felt pretty good, considering.
- 552
- 00:41:32,576 --> 00:41:35,287
- Darling, the pain.
- 553
- 00:41:35,371 --> 00:41:37,915
- All right, Mom,
- I'll get the nurse.
- 554
- 00:41:40,418 --> 00:41:43,212
- Look at this eye. This
- is a major hurricane,
- 555
- 00:41:43,295 --> 00:41:46,215
- a slow hurricane, with maximum
- sustained winds of...
- 556
- 00:41:46,298 --> 00:41:48,175
- Not doing too good?
- 557
- 00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:52,304
- Nobody seems to know
- whether to stay or leave.
- 558
- 00:41:52,388 --> 00:41:54,682
- I'm gonna ride it out.
- 559
- 00:41:54,765 --> 00:41:57,685
- There. That should make
- things much easier.
- 560
- 00:42:01,105 --> 00:42:04,316
- Have you had a chance
- to say your goodbyes?
- 561
- 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,903
- My father waited four hours for my
- brother to get here from Boger City.
- 562
- 00:42:07,987 --> 00:42:09,989
- Couldn't go without him.
- 563
- 00:42:10,489 --> 00:42:13,200
- - She seems like a sweet woman.
- - Yeah.
- 564
- 00:42:13,826 --> 00:42:15,536
- I haven't had as much time
- with her as I would've...
- 565
- 00:42:15,619 --> 00:42:17,538
- - You busy? I could use your help.
- - Excuse me.
- 566
- 00:42:17,621 --> 00:42:18,914
- Sure.
- 567
- 00:42:37,058 --> 00:42:39,101
- "Queenie would let me
- go with Mr. Daws..."
- 568
- 00:42:39,185 --> 00:42:43,022
- to Poverty Point to watch the
- boats go up and down the river.
- 569
- 00:42:43,105 --> 00:42:45,066
- These were hard times.
- 570
- 00:42:48,069 --> 00:42:51,822
- Did I ever telic you I was
- struck by lightning seven times?
- 571
- 00:42:52,698 --> 00:42:56,160
- Once when I was in the field,
- just tending to my cows.
- 572
- 00:43:02,666 --> 00:43:04,960
- My fourth hand didn't show up.
- 573
- 00:43:07,171 --> 00:43:10,675
- Anybody want to make $2 for
- a day's work 'round here?
- 574
- 00:43:12,551 --> 00:43:14,261
- What's the matter?
- 575
- 00:43:14,345 --> 00:43:17,139
- Nobody wants to do an honest day's
- work for an honest day's pay?
- 576
- 00:43:17,223 --> 00:43:18,808
- He never pays.
- 577
- 00:43:20,226 --> 00:43:22,561
- - Nobody wants a job?
- - I do.
- 578
- 00:43:24,188 --> 00:43:27,024
- You got your sea legs
- about you, old man?
- 579
- 00:43:28,109 --> 00:43:29,527
- I think.
- 580
- 00:43:33,447 --> 00:43:35,908
- Well, that's good enough for me.
- 581
- 00:43:35,991 --> 00:43:39,495
- Get your ass on board. We'll
- sure as hell find out.
- 582
- 00:43:44,959 --> 00:43:46,627
- I was as happy as I could be.
- 583
- 00:43:46,711 --> 00:43:47,962
- I need a volunteer!
- 584
- 00:43:48,045 --> 00:43:49,422
- I would do anything.
- 585
- 00:43:49,505 --> 00:43:50,965
- Yes, Captain!
- 586
- 00:43:51,048 --> 00:43:53,384
- Scrape off all this bird shit!
- 587
- 00:43:54,051 --> 00:43:55,803
- Right away, sir.
- 588
- 00:43:56,595 --> 00:44:01,100
- And I was actually gonna be paid for
- something I would've done for free.
- 589
- 00:44:02,727 --> 00:44:05,104
- His name was Captain Mike Clark.
- 590
- 00:44:06,063 --> 00:44:09,025
- He'd been on a tugboat
- since he was seven.
- 591
- 00:44:10,026 --> 00:44:11,777
- Get moving, then.
- 592
- 00:44:12,695 --> 00:44:14,238
- Come here.
- 593
- 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,410
- Can you still get it up?
- 594
- 00:44:20,745 --> 00:44:22,747
- I do every morning.
- 595
- 00:44:23,414 --> 00:44:26,834
- The old pole, huh?
- The high, hard one?
- 596
- 00:44:27,418 --> 00:44:28,753
- I guess.
- 597
- 00:44:31,339 --> 00:44:34,008
- When was the last
- time you had a woman?
- 598
- 00:44:36,510 --> 00:44:38,429
- - Never.
- - Never?
- 599
- 00:44:38,929 --> 00:44:41,015
- Not that I know of, sir.
- 600
- 00:44:41,474 --> 00:44:43,267
- Wait a minute, now.
- 601
- 00:44:44,060 --> 00:44:48,189
- You mean to say you've been on
- this earth however many years
- 602
- 00:44:48,272 --> 00:44:51,609
- and you've never had a woman?
- 603
- 00:44:56,238 --> 00:44:59,325
- Damn, that's the saddest thing
- I've ever heard in my life.
- 604
- 00:45:00,785 --> 00:45:02,036
- Never?
- 605
- 00:45:02,787 --> 00:45:03,913
- No.
- 606
- 00:45:06,499 --> 00:45:10,628
- Well, then, by Jesus,
- you are coming with me.
- 607
- 00:45:21,639 --> 00:45:23,224
- What did your father do?
- 608
- 00:45:23,307 --> 00:45:25,393
- I never met my father.
- 609
- 00:45:25,476 --> 00:45:27,436
- You lucky bastard.
- 610
- 00:45:28,312 --> 00:45:30,981
- All fathers want to
- do is hold you down.
- 611
- 00:45:33,567 --> 00:45:36,987
- Out on my father's boat,
- workin' the two-a-day.
- 612
- 00:45:37,321 --> 00:45:39,740
- This little, fat bastard.
- 613
- 00:45:39,824 --> 00:45:41,575
- "Tug Irish," they called him.
- 614
- 00:45:41,659 --> 00:45:45,037
- Anyway, I finally work up
- the nerve and telic him,
- 615
- 00:45:45,913 --> 00:45:49,625
- "I don't want to spend the rest
- of my life on a goddamn tugboat."
- 616
- 00:45:49,709 --> 00:45:51,711
- You know what I'm saying?
- 617
- 00:45:52,086 --> 00:45:54,755
- You don't want to spend the
- rest of your life on a tugboat.
- 618
- 00:45:54,839 --> 00:45:57,174
- Absolutely! Damn right!
- 619
- 00:45:59,927 --> 00:46:02,555
- So you know what my
- father says to me?
- 620
- 00:46:03,347 --> 00:46:07,810
- He says, "Who the hell
- do you think you are?"
- 621
- 00:46:07,893 --> 00:46:10,688
- "What the hell do you
- think you can do?"
- 622
- 00:46:10,938 --> 00:46:12,648
- So I telic him.
- 623
- 00:46:13,232 --> 00:46:16,485
- "Well, if you're asking,."
- 624
- 00:46:18,696 --> 00:46:20,781
- "I want to be an artist."
- 625
- 00:46:21,323 --> 00:46:23,242
- He laughs.
- 626
- 00:46:23,701 --> 00:46:28,748
- "An artist? God meant for you to
- work a tugboat, just like me."
- 627
- 00:46:28,831 --> 00:46:31,459
- "And that's exactly
- what you're gonna do."
- 628
- 00:46:31,542 --> 00:46:34,837
- Well, I turned myself
- into an artist.
- 629
- 00:46:37,256 --> 00:46:39,050
- A tattoo artist!
- 630
- 00:46:41,427 --> 00:46:44,263
- I put on every one
- of these myself.
- 631
- 00:46:46,766 --> 00:46:50,603
- You have to skin me alive to
- take my art away from me now.
- 632
- 00:46:51,395 --> 00:46:54,899
- When I'm dead. I'm
- gonna send him my arm.
- 633
- 00:46:56,150 --> 00:46:57,568
- That one.
- 634
- 00:46:59,904 --> 00:47:02,531
- Don't let anyone
- telic you different.
- 635
- 00:47:02,615 --> 00:47:05,242
- You gotta do what
- you're meant to do.
- 636
- 00:47:05,326 --> 00:47:08,454
- And I happen to be a
- goddamned artist.
- 637
- 00:47:09,038 --> 00:47:11,374
- But you're a tugboat captain.
- 638
- 00:47:11,916 --> 00:47:13,668
- Captain Mike?
- 639
- 00:47:13,751 --> 00:47:16,545
- We're ready for you
- and your friend.
- 640
- 00:47:18,255 --> 00:47:21,300
- Let's go, old timer, eh?
- Break your cherry.
- 641
- 00:47:22,468 --> 00:47:25,221
- - Hello, my love.-lies!
- - Hey, Captain.
- 642
- 00:47:25,304 --> 00:47:26,305
- - Hi, Captain.
- - Hi.
- 643
- 00:47:28,432 --> 00:47:29,558
- - Hi.
- - Hi.
- 644
- 00:47:29,642 --> 00:47:32,728
- He gives me the willies.
- That is not for me.
- 645
- 00:47:34,605 --> 00:47:36,941
- How are you tonight, grandpa?
- 646
- 00:47:37,566 --> 00:47:39,735
- It was a night to remember.
- 647
- 00:47:45,449 --> 00:47:49,120
- What are you. Dick Tracy or
- something? I've got to rest.
- 648
- 00:47:50,246 --> 00:47:51,497
- Again.
- 649
- 00:47:52,790 --> 00:47:55,126
- - Thank you.
- - No, thank you. You have a nice night.
- 650
- 00:47:55,209 --> 00:47:57,378
- - Will you be here tomorrow?
- - Every night but Sunday.
- 651
- 00:47:57,461 --> 00:48:01,173
- It sure made me understand the
- value of earning a living.
- 652
- 00:48:01,799 --> 00:48:03,634
- Good night, sweetie.
- Come back now.
- 653
- 00:48:03,718 --> 00:48:05,970
- Things money can buy you.
- 654
- 00:48:23,612 --> 00:48:25,322
- It's nasty out.
- 655
- 00:48:25,740 --> 00:48:28,659
- Can I offer you a
- ride somewhere?
- 656
- 00:48:30,411 --> 00:48:32,705
- Well, that's awfully
- kind of you, sir.
- 657
- 00:48:42,006 --> 00:48:44,508
- My name is Thomas,
- Thomas Button.
- 658
- 00:48:45,176 --> 00:48:47,303
- - I'm Benjamin.
- - Benjamin.
- 659
- 00:48:48,512 --> 00:48:50,681
- It's a pleasure to know you.
- 660
- 00:48:52,183 --> 00:48:55,436
- Would you like to stop
- somewhere and have a drink?
- 661
- 00:48:55,519 --> 00:48:56,937
- All right.
- 662
- 00:48:58,189 --> 00:49:00,524
- Evening, Mr. Button.
- 663
- 00:49:05,029 --> 00:49:07,031
- What'll it be, sir?
- 664
- 00:49:07,698 --> 00:49:10,785
- - I'll have whatever he's having.
- - Sazerac for the both of us.
- 665
- 00:49:10,868 --> 00:49:13,245
- With whiskey, not brandy.
- 666
- 00:49:13,329 --> 00:49:14,830
- You don't drink, do you?
- 667
- 00:49:14,914 --> 00:49:17,541
- - It's a night for firsts.
- - How's that?
- 668
- 00:49:17,625 --> 00:49:19,710
- I've never been to
- a brothel, either.
- 669
- 00:49:19,794 --> 00:49:22,588
- Well, it's an experience.
- 670
- 00:49:22,713 --> 00:49:25,800
- It certainly is. There's
- a time for everything.
- 671
- 00:49:25,883 --> 00:49:28,344
- - True enough.
- - Your drinks.
- 672
- 00:49:29,970 --> 00:49:35,226
- I don't mean to be rude, but
- your hands. Is that painful?
- 673
- 00:49:35,518 --> 00:49:38,145
- Well, I was born with
- some form of disease.
- 674
- 00:49:38,229 --> 00:49:39,814
- What kind of disease?
- 675
- 00:49:39,897 --> 00:49:41,691
- I was born old.
- 676
- 00:49:43,192 --> 00:49:44,902
- - I'm sorry.
- - No need to be.
- 677
- 00:49:44,985 --> 00:49:47,571
- There's nothing
- wrong with old age.
- 678
- 00:49:56,414 --> 00:49:59,458
- My wife passed away
- many years ago.
- 679
- 00:50:00,835 --> 00:50:02,712
- I'm so, so sorry.
- 680
- 00:50:04,130 --> 00:50:06,048
- She died in childbirth.
- 681
- 00:50:09,510 --> 00:50:12,096
- - To children.
- - To mothers.
- 682
- 00:50:16,892 --> 00:50:19,186
- What line of work
- you in, Mr. Button?
- 683
- 00:50:19,270 --> 00:50:23,441
- Buttons. Button's Buttons. There
- isn't a button that we don't make.
- 684
- 00:50:25,609 --> 00:50:27,987
- Our biggest competition is B.
- F. Goodrich
- 685
- 00:50:28,070 --> 00:50:29,822
- and his infernal zippers.
- 686
- 00:50:29,905 --> 00:50:32,700
- Would you gentlemen
- like anything else?
- 687
- 00:50:32,783 --> 00:50:34,869
- One for the road, Benjamin?
- 688
- 00:50:34,952 --> 00:50:37,788
- Only if you let me pay
- for it, Mr. Button.
- 689
- 00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,542
- So, what line of work do you do?
- 690
- 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,421
- I'm a tugboat man.
- 691
- 00:50:51,594 --> 00:50:53,637
- I enjoyed talking to you.
- 692
- 00:50:54,096 --> 00:50:56,265
- I enjoyed drinking with you.
- 693
- 00:50:59,810 --> 00:51:01,228
- Benjamin?
- 694
- 00:51:01,312 --> 00:51:04,774
- Would you mind if, time to time,
- I stopped by and said hello?
- 695
- 00:51:04,857 --> 00:51:08,319
- Anytime. Good night, Mr. Button.
- 696
- 00:51:08,819 --> 00:51:10,613
- Good night, Benjamin.
- 697
- 00:51:11,322 --> 00:51:12,698
- Drive on.
- 698
- 00:51:18,329 --> 00:51:19,705
- Where have you been?
- 699
- 00:51:19,789 --> 00:51:24,835
- Nothing. I met some people
- and listened to some music.
- 700
- 00:51:27,546 --> 00:51:29,799
- Oh, sweet Jesus, boy!
- 701
- 00:51:30,758 --> 00:51:33,886
- Growing up's a funny thing.
- Sneaks up on you.
- 702
- 00:51:34,804 --> 00:51:39,183
- One person is there, then suddenly
- somebody else has taken her place.
- 703
- 00:51:39,725 --> 00:51:41,435
- She wasn't all elbows
- and knees anymore.
- 704
- 00:51:41,519 --> 00:51:43,229
- Benjamin! Come on!
- 705
- 00:51:43,562 --> 00:51:44,980
- Okay-
- 706
- 00:51:46,190 --> 00:51:47,775
- I loved those weekends
- when she'd come
- 707
- 00:51:47,858 --> 00:51:50,695
- and spend the night
- with her grandmother.
- 708
- 00:51:58,744 --> 00:52:01,247
- Daisy. Daisy.
- 709
- 00:52:02,415 --> 00:52:04,583
- You want to see something?
- 710
- 00:52:05,710 --> 00:52:10,548
- You gotta keep it a secret. So get
- dressed. I'll meet you out back.
- 711
- 00:52:16,053 --> 00:52:17,430
- Come on.
- 712
- 00:52:19,223 --> 00:52:22,351
- - Can you swim?
- - I can do anything you can do.
- 713
- 00:52:22,435 --> 00:52:25,062
- Here, put this on.
- We gotta hurry.
- 714
- 00:52:37,992 --> 00:52:39,535
- Is he okay?
- 715
- 00:52:39,618 --> 00:52:41,078
- Captain?
- 716
- 00:52:42,705 --> 00:52:44,248
- Captain Mike?
- 717
- 00:52:47,918 --> 00:52:50,671
- Morning, Captain. Can
- you take us out?
- 718
- 00:52:51,797 --> 00:52:54,133
- Do you know what day it is?
- 719
- 00:52:54,216 --> 00:52:55,509
- Sunday?
- 720
- 00:52:55,593 --> 00:52:57,762
- Do you know what that means?
- 721
- 00:52:59,055 --> 00:53:01,474
- Means I was very
- drunk last night.
- 722
- 00:53:02,058 --> 00:53:04,352
- Well, you're drunk every night.
- 723
- 00:53:06,771 --> 00:53:09,106
- - Is that a girl?
- - Close friend.
- 724
- 00:53:09,774 --> 00:53:10,934
- I want to show her the river.
- 725
- 00:53:10,983 --> 00:53:14,320
- You're not supposed to go
- joyriding with civilians.
- 726
- 00:53:15,446 --> 00:53:17,615
- I could lose my license.
- 727
- 00:53:27,416 --> 00:53:28,918
- What are you waiting for?
- 728
- 00:53:59,073 --> 00:54:02,201
- Pulled in for repair
- a wounded duck.
- 729
- 00:54:03,619 --> 00:54:05,788
- She's flying now, huh?
- 730
- 00:54:06,288 --> 00:54:07,957
- Ahoy, sailor!
- 731
- 00:54:12,503 --> 00:54:14,839
- I wish we could go with them.
- 732
- 00:54:20,845 --> 00:54:23,139
- Did you say something, Mom?
- 733
- 00:54:30,855 --> 00:54:32,857
- It's getting really bad.
- 734
- 00:54:34,859 --> 00:54:36,694
- Can you hear me, Mom?
- 735
- 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,991
- Time just seeped out of me.
- 736
- 00:54:48,706 --> 00:54:50,541
- "Things were changing quickly."
- 737
- 00:54:50,624 --> 00:54:54,754
- I don't know how it's possible,
- but you seem to have more hair.
- 738
- 00:54:56,255 --> 00:54:59,258
- What if I told you that
- I wasn't getting older,
- 739
- 00:54:59,342 --> 00:55:02,636
- but I was getting younger
- than everybody else?
- 740
- 00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:06,640
- Well, I'd feel sorry for you,
- 741
- 00:55:06,724 --> 00:55:09,602
- to have to see everybody you
- love die before you do.
- 742
- 00:55:09,685 --> 00:55:11,604
- It's an awful responsibility.
- 743
- 00:55:11,687 --> 00:55:15,274
- I'd never thought about life
- or death that way before.
- 744
- 00:55:16,901 --> 00:55:20,988
- Benjamin, we're meant to
- lose the people we love.
- 745
- 00:55:21,405 --> 00:55:24,825
- How else would we know how
- important they are to us?
- 746
- 00:55:27,912 --> 00:55:32,416
- And one fall day, a familiar
- visitor came knocking on our door.
- 747
- 00:55:34,085 --> 00:55:36,921
- You want to go with
- me to the drugstore?
- 748
- 00:55:47,056 --> 00:55:49,433
- She taught me how
- to play the piano.
- 749
- 00:55:49,517 --> 00:55:50,810
- - Amen.
- - Amen.
- 750
- 00:55:50,893 --> 00:55:54,105
- And she taught me what it
- meant to miss somebody.
- 751
- 00:55:58,609 --> 00:56:00,111
- Let's go.
- 752
- 00:56:01,112 --> 00:56:03,030
- I had gone to a brothel.
- 753
- 00:56:03,114 --> 00:56:05,449
- I'd had my first drink.
- 754
- 00:56:05,533 --> 00:56:09,036
- Said goodbye to one friend
- and buried another.
- 755
- 00:56:09,537 --> 00:56:14,417
- In 1936, when I was coming to the
- end of the 17th year of my life,
- 756
- 00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:17,378
- I packed my bag, said goodbye.
- 757
- 00:56:17,461 --> 00:56:19,797
- - Bye, Benjamin.
- - Goodbye.
- 758
- 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:24,385
- I knew, life being what it was, I'd
- probably never see them again.
- 759
- 00:56:26,554 --> 00:56:28,222
- Bye, Mr. Benjamin.
- 760
- 00:56:28,305 --> 00:56:30,808
- - Good luck to you, son.
- - Thank you.
- 761
- 00:56:35,312 --> 00:56:38,232
- - I love you, Mama.
- - I love you, too, baby.
- 762
- 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,653
- I want you to say your
- prayers every night, hear?
- 763
- 00:56:47,491 --> 00:56:49,577
- Be safe, hear?
- 764
- 00:57:00,963 --> 00:57:02,340
- Benjamin!
- 765
- 00:57:05,426 --> 00:57:08,095
- - Where you going?
- - To sea.
- 766
- 00:57:09,472 --> 00:57:11,557
- I'll send you a postcard.
- 767
- 00:57:13,351 --> 00:57:15,311
- From everywhere.
- 768
- 00:57:15,394 --> 00:57:18,022
- Write me a postcard
- from everywhere.
- 769
- 00:57:32,536 --> 00:57:34,413
- Can you imagine?
- 770
- 00:57:36,791 --> 00:57:42,922
- He sent me a postcard
- from everywhere he went.
- 771
- 00:57:44,465 --> 00:57:46,467
- Every place he worked.
- 772
- 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,888
- Newfoundland. Baffin Bay.
- 773
- 00:57:51,430 --> 00:57:54,558
- Glasgow. Liverpool. Narvik.
- 774
- 00:57:55,309 --> 00:58:00,064
- He had gone with
- that Captain Mike.
- 775
- 00:58:02,066 --> 00:58:04,318
- Captain Mike had
- contracted for three years
- 776
- 00:58:04,402 --> 00:58:06,737
- with Moran Brothers
- Tug and Salvage.
- 777
- 00:58:06,821 --> 00:58:10,700
- The old ship had been refitted with a
- diesel engine and a new sea winch.
- 778
- 00:58:10,783 --> 00:58:13,703
- We went around Florida and
- up the Atlantic seaboard.
- 779
- 00:58:13,786 --> 00:58:17,206
- We were a crew of seven now.
- Captain Mike and me.
- 780
- 00:58:17,289 --> 00:58:20,668
- Cookie, Prentiss Mayes
- from Wilmington, Delaware.
- 781
- 00:58:20,751 --> 00:58:23,170
- The Brody twins, Rick and Vic.
- 782
- 00:58:23,254 --> 00:58:25,506
- Who got along fine at sea but.
- For some reason,
- 783
- 00:58:25,589 --> 00:58:28,676
- once they were on dry land couldn't
- stand the sight of each other.
- 784
- 00:58:28,759 --> 00:58:32,346
- You know, one in every
- eight boats never returns.
- 785
- 00:58:32,430 --> 00:58:34,557
- There was John Grimm,
- who sure fit his name.
- 786
- 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,517
- All hands lost at sea.
- 787
- 00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,853
- From Belvedere, South Dakota.
- 788
- 00:58:40,229 --> 00:58:43,065
- And Pleasant Curtis
- from Asheville, Notch.
- 789
- 00:58:43,149 --> 00:58:46,360
- Never said a word to
- anyone, except himself.
- 790
- 00:58:48,446 --> 00:58:51,365
- I wrote him constantly.
- 791
- 00:58:52,950 --> 00:58:57,997
- I told him I had been invited
- to audition in New York City
- 792
- 00:58:58,539 --> 00:59:01,208
- for the School of
- American Ballet.
- 793
- 00:59:01,292 --> 00:59:02,710
- Please stay.
- 794
- 00:59:02,793 --> 00:59:04,962
- Thank you. Thank you.
- 795
- 00:59:06,922 --> 00:59:08,215
- You can stay.
- 796
- 00:59:10,676 --> 00:59:13,804
- But I was relegated
- to the corps.
- 797
- 00:59:14,096 --> 00:59:16,474
- Another dancing gypsy.
- 798
- 00:59:20,770 --> 00:59:22,313
- Benjamin!
- 799
- 00:59:22,938 --> 00:59:25,399
- How is it when you showed up
- 800
- 00:59:25,483 --> 00:59:29,403
- you were no bigger than a bollard
- with one foot in the grave,
- 801
- 00:59:29,487 --> 00:59:33,699
- but now, either I drink a hell
- of a lot more than I think I do,
- 802
- 00:59:34,950 --> 00:59:36,619
- or you sprouted?
- 803
- 00:59:37,495 --> 00:59:39,288
- What's your secret?
- 804
- 00:59:40,664 --> 00:59:42,291
- Well, Captain,
- 805
- 00:59:44,043 --> 00:59:45,878
- you do drink a lot.
- 806
- 00:59:50,675 --> 00:59:54,929
- We stayed in a small hotel with a
- grand name, The Winter Palace.
- 807
- 00:59:55,012 --> 00:59:57,807
- You have no idea what
- you're talking about.
- 808
- 00:59:57,890 --> 01:00:01,394
- The hummingbird is not
- just another bird.
- 809
- 01:00:02,103 --> 01:00:05,856
- It's heart rate's 1,200
- beats per minute.
- 810
- 01:00:07,566 --> 01:00:10,319
- It's wings beat 80
- times a second.
- 811
- 01:00:12,196 --> 01:00:15,241
- If you was to stop their
- wings from beating,
- 812
- 01:00:15,866 --> 01:00:18,703
- it would be dead in
- less than 10 seconds.
- 813
- 01:00:19,704 --> 01:00:22,373
- This is no ordinary bird.
- 814
- 01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,167
- This is a frickin' miracle.
- 815
- 01:00:28,295 --> 01:00:32,216
- They slowed down their wings
- with moving pictures,
- 816
- 01:00:32,883 --> 01:00:35,094
- and you know what they saw?
- 817
- 01:00:35,553 --> 01:00:38,389
- Their wingtips are doing that.
- 818
- 01:00:42,393 --> 01:00:46,272
- You know what the figure eight
- is the mathematical symbol for?
- 819
- 01:00:49,233 --> 01:00:50,818
- Infinity.
- 820
- 01:00:50,901 --> 01:00:52,236
- Infinity!
- 821
- 01:00:55,740 --> 01:00:58,659
- Everybody, no matter what
- differences they had,
- 822
- 01:00:58,743 --> 01:01:02,788
- the languages. The color of their
- skin, had one thing in common.
- 823
- 01:01:03,706 --> 01:01:06,083
- They were drunk
- every single night.
- 824
- 01:01:06,167 --> 01:01:07,710
- Three, please.
- 825
- 01:01:07,793 --> 01:01:09,420
- Could you hold, dear,
- for us, please?
- 826
- 01:01:09,503 --> 01:01:11,797
- Thank you very much.
- Good evening.
- 827
- 01:01:11,881 --> 01:01:14,592
- Her name was Elizabeth Abbott.
- 828
- 01:01:14,675 --> 01:01:18,012
- She was not beautiful.
- She was plain as paper.
- 829
- 01:01:18,095 --> 01:01:20,931
- But she was pretty as
- any picture to me.
- 830
- 01:01:22,183 --> 01:01:24,268
- What are you looking at?
- 831
- 01:01:26,437 --> 01:01:29,023
- If you must know, we have
- a longstanding agreement
- 832
- 01:01:29,106 --> 01:01:30,483
- never to go to bed sober.
- 833
- 01:01:30,566 --> 01:01:32,985
- - Isn't that right, darling?
- - Whatever you say. Darling.
- 834
- 01:01:33,069 --> 01:01:35,154
- Her husband was Walter Abbott.
- 835
- 01:01:35,237 --> 01:01:39,158
- He was Chief Minister of the
- British Trade Mission in Murmansk,
- 836
- 01:01:39,241 --> 01:01:40,868
- and he was a spy.
- 837
- 01:01:40,951 --> 01:01:43,871
- - Darling.
- - Oh, thank you, my darling.
- 838
- 01:01:43,954 --> 01:01:45,998
- - Key, darling.
- - Oh, yes.
- 839
- 01:01:50,461 --> 01:01:53,547
- I broke my heel off
- one of my shoes.
- 840
- 01:01:53,631 --> 01:01:57,259
- I'm not in the habit of walking
- about in my stocking feet.
- 841
- 01:02:01,639 --> 01:02:03,808
- They were long days there.
- 842
- 01:02:11,315 --> 01:02:13,317
- And even longer nights.
- 843
- 01:02:15,486 --> 01:02:19,073
- One particular night, I was
- having trouble sleeping.
- 844
- 01:02:20,491 --> 01:02:22,034
- I'm sorry.
- 845
- 01:02:23,869 --> 01:02:25,663
- I couldn't sleep.
- 846
- 01:02:38,509 --> 01:02:42,013
- I was gonna make some tea.
- Would you like some?
- 847
- 01:02:42,888 --> 01:02:44,765
- Oh, no. Thank you.
- 848
- 01:03:22,553 --> 01:03:24,180
- Milk? Honey?
- 849
- 01:03:24,764 --> 01:03:26,724
- A bit of honey, please.
- 850
- 01:03:27,224 --> 01:03:29,018
- I hope you like flies
- in your honey.
- 851
- 01:03:29,101 --> 01:03:30,811
- Oh, perhaps not.
- 852
- 01:03:45,618 --> 01:03:49,914
- Oh, maybe better to let
- it steep a little.
- 853
- 01:03:50,873 --> 01:03:52,083
- Steep?
- 854
- 01:03:52,416 --> 01:03:53,542
- Soak.
- 855
- 01:03:53,751 --> 01:03:57,463
- I don't know, I mean, there's
- a proper way of making tea.
- 856
- 01:03:57,546 --> 01:04:00,800
- Well, where I'm from, people
- just want it to be hot.
- 857
- 01:04:00,883 --> 01:04:03,010
- Well, quite right.
- 858
- 01:04:11,894 --> 01:04:14,313
- - Now, you're a seaman.
- - A sailor.
- 859
- 01:04:14,397 --> 01:04:17,149
- I hope you won't think me
- impolite, but I have to ask,
- 860
- 01:04:17,233 --> 01:04:19,360
- aren't you a little old
- to be working on a boat?
- 861
- 01:04:19,443 --> 01:04:22,905
- There's no age limit, as
- long as you can do the work.
- 862
- 01:04:33,666 --> 01:04:36,002
- And you have trouble sleeping?
- Thank you.
- 863
- 01:04:36,085 --> 01:04:39,296
- I didn't think I did. I
- usually sleep like a baby.
- 864
- 01:04:40,256 --> 01:04:42,717
- Somethings been keeping me up.
- 865
- 01:04:43,926 --> 01:04:45,136
- My father, in his 80s.
- 866
- 01:04:45,219 --> 01:04:48,514
- He was so convinced he was
- gonna die in his sleep,
- 867
- 01:04:49,140 --> 01:04:52,309
- he limited himself to
- having afternoon naps.
- 868
- 01:04:53,019 --> 01:04:55,813
- He was so determined he
- was gonna cheat death.
- 869
- 01:04:56,981 --> 01:04:58,858
- - Did he?
- - Did he what?
- 870
- 01:04:58,983 --> 01:05:00,651
- Die in his sleep?
- 871
- 01:05:02,319 --> 01:05:04,905
- He died sitting in
- his favorite chair
- 872
- 01:05:04,989 --> 01:05:07,658
- listening to his favorite
- program on the wireless.
- 873
- 01:05:07,742 --> 01:05:10,244
- He must have known something.
- 874
- 01:05:15,958 --> 01:05:21,047
- My husband's the British Trade Minister,
- and we've been here for 14 months.
- 875
- 01:05:21,130 --> 01:05:24,467
- - Good God.
- - We were supposed to go to Peking
- 876
- 01:05:24,550 --> 01:05:28,054
- but it never seemed to work out.
- 877
- 01:05:29,513 --> 01:05:31,223
- Have you been in the Far East?
- 878
- 01:05:31,307 --> 01:05:33,517
- No. I've never been
- anywhere, really.
- 879
- 01:05:33,601 --> 01:05:36,062
- I mean, outside of harbors.
- 880
- 01:05:36,145 --> 01:05:37,813
- And where is it
- that you're from?
- 881
- 01:05:37,897 --> 01:05:40,441
- New Orleans. Louisiana.
- 882
- 01:05:41,901 --> 01:05:44,236
- I didn't know there was another.
- 883
- 01:05:46,530 --> 01:05:51,577
- And she told me about all the places
- she had been, and what she had seen.
- 884
- 01:05:53,162 --> 01:05:56,082
- And we talked till
- just before the dawn.
- 885
- 01:05:57,083 --> 01:05:58,584
- I'm just a lush, myself.
- 886
- 01:05:58,668 --> 01:06:03,631
- And we went back to our
- rooms, to our separate lives.
- 887
- 01:06:09,053 --> 01:06:12,390
- But every night, we'd
- meet again in that lobby.
- 888
- 01:06:17,687 --> 01:06:21,607
- A hotel in the middle of the
- night can be a magical place.
- 889
- 01:06:24,443 --> 01:06:27,405
- A mouse running, and stopping.
- 890
- 01:06:28,781 --> 01:06:30,908
- A radiator hissing.
- 891
- 01:06:31,909 --> 01:06:33,786
- A curtain blowing.
- 892
- 01:06:37,540 --> 01:06:40,918
- There's something
- peaceful, even comforting
- 893
- 01:06:41,002 --> 01:06:44,255
- knowing that the people you
- love are asleep in their beds
- 894
- 01:06:44,338 --> 01:06:46,590
- where nothing can harm them.
- 895
- 01:06:49,677 --> 01:06:52,638
- Elizabeth and I would
- lose track of the night
- 896
- 01:06:53,139 --> 01:06:55,349
- until just before daybreak.
- 897
- 01:06:57,935 --> 01:07:00,730
- I think I may have given
- you the wrong impression.
- 898
- 01:07:00,813 --> 01:07:02,356
- Beg pardon?
- 899
- 01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:06,277
- Well, married women don't
- customarily sit around
- 900
- 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,480
- in the middle of the night
- with strange men in hotels.
- 901
- 01:07:08,487 --> 01:07:12,074
- I wouldn't know what a married
- woman does or doesn't do.
- 902
- 01:07:17,788 --> 01:07:19,290
- Good night.
- 903
- 01:07:21,584 --> 01:07:22,918
- Murmansk.
- 904
- 01:07:25,504 --> 01:07:28,591
- "I've met somebody, and
- I've fallen in love."
- 905
- 01:07:28,674 --> 01:07:29,925
- Mom?
- 906
- 01:07:33,721 --> 01:07:36,307
- That was over 60 years ago.
- 907
- 01:07:37,558 --> 01:07:38,601
- Did you love him, Mother?
- 908
- 01:07:38,684 --> 01:07:41,479
- What does a girl
- know about love?
- 909
- 01:08:15,054 --> 01:08:16,305
- Well...
- 910
- 01:08:18,766 --> 01:08:22,561
- - I'm not dressed.
- - Oh, you look splendid, just as you are.
- 911
- 01:08:24,814 --> 01:08:27,900
- Don't waste anytime bothering about
- the wine or the cheese in Murmansk,
- 912
- 01:08:27,983 --> 01:08:31,028
- "'cause they're really
- completely ordinary,"
- 913
- 01:08:31,112 --> 01:08:36,117
- but the caviar and the vodka
- 914
- 01:08:36,659 --> 01:08:40,788
- are sublime and plentiful.
- 915
- 01:08:44,542 --> 01:08:45,876
- So.
- 916
- 01:08:51,132 --> 01:08:52,466
- Savor it.
- 917
- 01:08:54,552 --> 01:08:56,554
- And don't eat it all at once,
- 918
- 01:08:56,637 --> 01:08:59,765
- because that way, there's
- nothing left to enjoy.
- 919
- 01:09:01,392 --> 01:09:05,771
- And now, take a little swallow of
- vodka while it's still in your mouth.
- 920
- 01:09:20,619 --> 01:09:23,497
- You haven't been with
- many women, have you?
- 921
- 01:09:24,665 --> 01:09:26,333
- Not on Sundays.
- 922
- 01:09:28,502 --> 01:09:30,262
- And you've never had
- caviar before, have you?
- 923
- 01:09:30,338 --> 01:09:32,006
- No, ma'am.
- 924
- 01:09:37,803 --> 01:09:39,513
- When I was 19,
- 925
- 01:09:40,473 --> 01:09:46,771
- I attempted to become the first woman
- ever to swim the English Channel.
- 926
- 01:09:47,772 --> 01:09:49,190
- Really?
- 927
- 01:09:49,774 --> 01:09:52,860
- But the current that day
- was so strong that,
- 928
- 01:09:52,943 --> 01:09:56,072
- for every stroke I took,
- I was pushed back two.
- 929
- 01:09:56,614 --> 01:09:59,283
- I was in the water for 32 hours.
- 930
- 01:10:00,201 --> 01:10:04,080
- And when I was two
- miles from Calais,
- 931
- 01:10:05,164 --> 01:10:06,957
- it started to rain.
- 932
- 01:10:07,625 --> 01:10:09,585
- That's it! Steady on!
- 933
- 01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:10,086
- akumenang.com
- 934
- 01:10:10,086 --> 01:10:12,755
- When I couldn't go any further,
- akumenang.com
- 935
- 01:10:12,755 --> 01:10:14,298
- akumenang.com
- 936
- 01:10:14,298 --> 01:10:15,800
- I stopped.
- akumenang.com
- 937
- 01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:17,134
- akumenang.com
- 938
- 01:10:17,134 --> 01:10:18,803
- I just stopped.
- akumenang.com
- 939
- 01:10:18,803 --> 01:10:19,345
- akumenang.com
- 940
- 01:10:19,345 --> 01:10:22,000
- And everybody asked me.
- Would I try again?
- akumenang.com
- 941
- 01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,266
- And everybody asked me.
- Would I try again?
- 942
- 01:10:24,975 --> 01:10:26,852
- For why wouldn't I?
- 943
- 01:10:29,730 --> 01:10:31,482
- But I never did.
- 944
- 01:10:32,858 --> 01:10:37,154
- As a matter of fact, we never done
- anything with my life after that.
- 945
- 01:10:41,242 --> 01:10:43,327
- Your hands are so coarse.
- 946
- 01:10:53,629 --> 01:10:56,215
- I can feel the wind
- in your cheek.
- 947
- 01:11:02,972 --> 01:11:05,516
- I'm afraid it's the
- witching hour.
- 948
- 01:11:11,355 --> 01:11:14,650
- It was the first time a
- woman had ever kissed me.
- 949
- 01:11:15,192 --> 01:11:17,611
- It's something you never forget.
- 950
- 01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,124
- I think you make
- me feel younger.
- 951
- 01:11:30,207 --> 01:11:32,793
- You make me feel
- years younger, too.
- 952
- 01:11:32,877 --> 01:11:34,503
- I wish I was.
- 953
- 01:11:35,463 --> 01:11:37,631
- So many things I'd change.
- 954
- 01:11:38,299 --> 01:11:40,634
- I'd undo all my mistakes.
- 955
- 01:11:40,718 --> 01:11:42,470
- What mistakes?
- 956
- 01:11:45,765 --> 01:11:47,975
- I kept waiting, you know?
- 957
- 01:11:48,559 --> 01:11:53,105
- Thinking that I'd do something
- to change my circumstances.
- 958
- 01:11:54,357 --> 01:11:56,108
- Do something.
- 959
- 01:11:57,651 --> 01:12:00,905
- Such an awful waste.
- You never get it back.
- 960
- 01:12:01,364 --> 01:12:02,865
- Wasted time.
- 961
- 01:12:09,121 --> 01:12:11,582
- If we're going to
- have an affair,
- 962
- 01:12:12,249 --> 01:12:15,127
- you're never to look
- at me during the day.
- 963
- 01:12:15,753 --> 01:12:18,714
- And we're always to
- part before sunrise.
- 964
- 01:12:19,340 --> 01:12:22,009
- And we will never
- say "I love you."
- 965
- 01:12:23,594 --> 01:12:25,429
- Those are the rules.
- 966
- 01:12:28,015 --> 01:12:30,184
- - Are you cold?
- - I'm freezing.
- 967
- 01:12:30,267 --> 01:12:32,228
- Oh, you! You're frozen.
- 968
- 01:12:32,311 --> 01:12:35,564
- What an idiot, I'm standing here in
- this fur. How thoughtless of me.
- 969
- 01:13:09,181 --> 01:13:12,018
- She was the first woman
- that ever loved me.
- 970
- 01:13:14,979 --> 01:13:16,230
- You want me to skip some?
- 971
- 01:13:16,313 --> 01:13:22,111
- No. I'm glad he had
- somebody to keep him warm.
- 972
- 01:13:25,740 --> 01:13:28,242
- "I couldn't wait
- to see her again."
- 973
- 01:13:41,130 --> 01:13:43,466
- We saw each other every night.
- 974
- 01:13:44,008 --> 01:13:46,344
- We always used the same room.
- 975
- 01:13:48,304 --> 01:13:51,682
- But each time seemed
- new and different.
- 976
- 01:13:53,017 --> 01:13:54,518
- Come here.
- 977
- 01:14:01,942 --> 01:14:03,361
- Elizabeth.
- 978
- 01:14:04,695 --> 01:14:06,155
- Good night.
- 979
- 01:14:08,824 --> 01:14:10,493
- Until one night.
- 980
- 01:14:47,738 --> 01:14:53,327
- Yesterday, December 7th, 1941,
- 981
- 01:14:53,411 --> 01:14:56,539
- a date which will
- live in infamy...
- 982
- 01:14:56,622 --> 01:15:00,793
- It's a meeting, a policy
- meeting regarding your future,
- 983
- 01:15:01,711 --> 01:15:03,295
- possibly beyond.
- 984
- 01:15:04,672 --> 01:15:07,258
- There's been a change
- of plan, lads.
- 985
- 01:15:07,425 --> 01:15:10,052
- As you may or may not know,
- 986
- 01:15:10,136 --> 01:15:12,763
- the Japs bombed Pearl
- Harbor yesterday.
- 987
- 01:15:13,180 --> 01:15:16,684
- Frank D. Roosevelt's asked
- each of us to do our part.
- 988
- 01:15:17,143 --> 01:15:21,272
- The Chelsea's been commissioned to
- serve in the United States Navy.
- 989
- 01:15:21,689 --> 01:15:24,984
- To repair, to salvage,
- and to rescue.
- 990
- 01:15:26,485 --> 01:15:30,865
- Anybody doesn't want to go to
- war, now is the time to say so.
- 991
- 01:15:30,948 --> 01:15:35,161
- Once you set foot on that boat,
- you're in the Navy, friend.
- 992
- 01:15:38,372 --> 01:15:41,417
- Yeah, I've been meaning
- to talk with you, Mike.
- 993
- 01:15:41,500 --> 01:15:43,544
- My wife's doing poorly.
- 994
- 01:15:43,627 --> 01:15:46,380
- I'd like to maybe see
- her one more time.
- 995
- 01:15:48,090 --> 01:15:51,927
- You're free to make your way
- home any way you can, Mr. Mayes.
- 996
- 01:15:57,516 --> 01:15:59,310
- Well, if he's leaving,
- who's gonna cook?
- 997
- 01:15:59,393 --> 01:16:03,481
- Food poisoning's one of the
- leading causes of death at sea.
- 998
- 01:16:03,564 --> 01:16:05,941
- Right after inadequate
- safety equipment.
- 999
- 01:16:06,025 --> 01:16:08,694
- I can cook, Captain. Been
- doing it all my life.
- 1000
- 01:16:08,778 --> 01:16:13,199
- I don't know. You're a little
- moody for war, Benjamin.
- 1001
- 01:16:13,282 --> 01:16:15,242
- What the hell?
- 1002
- 01:16:15,326 --> 01:16:19,705
- I'll take any man wants to kick the
- shite out of the Japs and the Huns.
- 1003
- 01:16:21,082 --> 01:16:24,877
- That's it, pack your gear.
- We're going to war, gentlemen!
- 1004
- 01:16:31,717 --> 01:16:33,511
- She had left a note.
- 1005
- 01:16:34,845 --> 01:16:37,640
- She wrote, "It was
- nice to have met you."
- 1006
- 01:16:38,349 --> 01:16:40,017
- And that was it.
- 1007
- 01:16:43,187 --> 01:16:46,273
- It wasn't the war
- any of us expected.
- 1008
- 01:16:46,357 --> 01:16:50,027
- We would just tow crippled
- ships, scraps of metal, really.
- 1009
- 01:16:50,611 --> 01:16:53,614
- If there was a war,
- we didn't see it.
- 1010
- 01:16:55,491 --> 01:16:59,578
- There was a man assigned to us.
- The Chief Gunner loved the Navy.
- 1011
- 01:16:59,662 --> 01:17:01,872
- But most of all,
- he loved America.
- 1012
- 01:17:01,956 --> 01:17:04,875
- There is no other
- country in the world.
- 1013
- 01:17:04,959 --> 01:17:06,085
- When you spell America. . .
- 1014
- 01:17:06,168 --> 01:17:10,339
- His name was Dennis Smith, and
- he was a full-blooded Cherokee.
- 1015
- 01:17:10,423 --> 01:17:13,551
- His family had been Americans
- for over 500 years.
- 1016
- 01:17:13,634 --> 01:17:18,180
- These pacifists. They say they
- won't fight on conscience.
- 1017
- 01:17:18,264 --> 01:17:21,892
- Now, where would be if
- everybody decided to act
- 1018
- 01:17:21,976 --> 01:17:25,980
- - according to their conscience?
- - Keep it down, would you, Chief?
- 1019
- 01:17:42,163 --> 01:17:45,708
- Hey. I've been watching you.
- 1020
- 01:17:46,709 --> 01:17:48,544
- You seem trustworthy.
- 1021
- 01:17:50,296 --> 01:17:52,423
- If something happens to me,
- 1022
- 01:17:56,469 --> 01:17:59,055
- could you see that
- this gets to my wife?
- 1023
- 01:17:59,138 --> 01:18:03,726
- He'd given me all of his pay.
- Hadn't spent a dime of it.
- 1024
- 01:18:05,603 --> 01:18:08,898
- I want my family to know I
- was thinking about them.
- 1025
- 01:18:13,611 --> 01:18:15,488
- All hands on deck!
- 1026
- 01:18:17,948 --> 01:18:20,785
- Get your asses up here,
- you lazy bastards!
- 1027
- 01:18:42,056 --> 01:18:44,308
- The war had finally found us.
- 1028
- 01:18:46,977 --> 01:18:48,479
- All stop!
- 1029
- 01:18:51,148 --> 01:18:53,192
- Pleasant. Man that light.
- 1030
- 01:19:01,033 --> 01:19:05,246
- Atransport carrying 1,300 men
- had been split by a torpedo.
- 1031
- 01:19:07,623 --> 01:19:09,917
- We were first to
- arrive at the scene.
- 1032
- 01:19:10,001 --> 01:19:13,587
- - Cut the engines!
- - All stop!
- 1033
- 01:19:18,676 --> 01:19:20,636
- We were the only sound.
- 1034
- 01:19:34,525 --> 01:19:35,985
- Fellas!
- 1035
- 01:19:45,911 --> 01:19:47,038
- Sub!
- 1036
- 01:19:51,792 --> 01:19:54,628
- We sure as hell can't
- outrun them fuckers.
- 1037
- 01:19:56,339 --> 01:19:58,674
- Battle stations!
- 1038
- 01:20:08,517 --> 01:20:09,560
- Thank you, Chief.
- 1039
- 01:20:11,812 --> 01:20:12,938
- What?
- 1040
- 01:20:25,910 --> 01:20:27,745
- Is that the last one?
- 1041
- 01:21:49,326 --> 01:21:50,578
- Captain!
- 1042
- 01:22:06,177 --> 01:22:08,846
- They shot the hell
- out of my painting!
- 1043
- 01:22:10,097 --> 01:22:11,974
- Give me your other hand.
- 1044
- 01:22:17,313 --> 01:22:18,356
- You'll be all right, Captain.
- 1045
- 01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:22,735
- They got a nice spot in Heaven
- waiting for you. Nice spot.
- 1046
- 01:22:24,236 --> 01:22:27,323
- You can be as mad as a mad
- dog at the way things went.
- 1047
- 01:22:30,284 --> 01:22:33,996
- You could swear,
- curse the Fates.
- 1048
- 01:22:36,248 --> 01:22:38,417
- But when it comes to the end,
- 1049
- 01:22:40,586 --> 01:22:42,380
- you have to let go.
- 1050
- 01:22:49,345 --> 01:22:50,596
- Captain?
- 1051
- 01:23:11,409 --> 01:23:14,745
- Thirteen hundred and twenty
- eight men died that day.
- 1052
- 01:23:17,039 --> 01:23:20,292
- I said my goodbyes to the
- Cherokee, Dennis Smith.
- 1053
- 01:23:21,252 --> 01:23:24,463
- John Grimm, who was right,
- he was gonna die there.
- 1054
- 01:23:25,923 --> 01:23:28,676
- I sent Pleasant Curtis'
- wife his money.
- 1055
- 01:23:29,468 --> 01:23:32,555
- I said goodbye to the
- twin, Vic Brody,
- 1056
- 01:23:32,638 --> 01:23:37,351
- and to Mike Clark, captain
- of the tugboat Chelsea.
- 1057
- 01:23:39,770 --> 01:23:44,275
- I said goodbye to all the other
- men who had dreams of their own,
- 1058
- 01:23:44,358 --> 01:23:46,944
- ail the men who wanted
- to be insurance salesmen
- 1059
- 01:23:47,028 --> 01:23:49,989
- or doctors or lawyers
- or Indian chiefs.
- 1060
- 01:23:51,032 --> 01:23:52,867
- This don't get fixed.
- 1061
- 01:23:54,952 --> 01:23:58,039
- Out here, death
- didn't seem natural.
- 1062
- 01:24:15,014 --> 01:24:18,225
- I'd never seen a hummingbird
- that far out to sea.
- 1063
- 01:24:19,727 --> 01:24:21,354
- Before or since.
- 1064
- 01:24:27,193 --> 01:24:33,449
- And in May of 1945, when
- I was 26 years old,
- 1065
- 01:24:33,532 --> 01:24:34,658
- I came home.
- 1066
- 01:24:35,576 --> 01:24:38,204
- I'm ready! I'm ready!
- 1067
- 01:24:38,287 --> 01:24:39,663
- I'm coming!
- 1068
- 01:24:40,539 --> 01:24:44,210
- - I'm ready!
- - All right. I'm coming, Miss Alfalina.
- 1069
- 01:24:44,293 --> 01:24:45,836
- - Queenie?
- - Yes?
- 1070
- 01:24:51,676 --> 01:24:57,598
- Sweet Jesus! Oh, you're home!
- Oh, Lord, you came back!
- 1071
- 01:24:58,474 --> 01:25:00,434
- - Let me look at you.
- - Who's that, Mama?
- 1072
- 01:25:00,518 --> 01:25:03,771
- - Child, it's your brother, Benjamin.
- - I didn't know he was my brother.
- 1073
- 01:25:03,854 --> 01:25:05,564
- There's a shitload of things
- you don't know, child.
- 1074
- 01:25:05,648 --> 01:25:06,816
- Get on out there and
- finish sweeping.
- 1075
- 01:25:06,899 --> 01:25:09,110
- Come here, wash your hands, help
- me with the table. Go on, now.
- 1076
- 01:25:09,193 --> 01:25:13,114
- Turn around. You look like
- you've been born again.
- 1077
- 01:25:13,197 --> 01:25:15,449
- Younger than the springtime.
- 1078
- 01:25:15,533 --> 01:25:19,203
- I think that preacher laid hands
- on you gave you a second life.
- 1079
- 01:25:19,286 --> 01:25:22,957
- I knew it that moment I saw
- you, you were special.
- 1080
- 01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:24,917
- I telic you what,
- my knees are sore,
- 1081
- 01:25:25,001 --> 01:25:27,545
- 'cause I've been on them
- every night asking the Lord,
- 1082
- 01:25:27,628 --> 01:25:31,382
- I said, "God, just bring
- him home safely."
- 1083
- 01:25:31,465 --> 01:25:33,968
- Remember what I told you?
- 1084
- 01:25:34,051 --> 01:25:35,720
- "You never know what's
- coming for you?"
- 1085
- 01:25:35,803 --> 01:25:37,722
- That's right. Sit down.
- 1086
- 01:25:39,098 --> 01:25:43,227
- Well, you learn anything
- worth repeating?
- 1087
- 01:25:45,312 --> 01:25:49,567
- - I sure saw some things.
- - Oh, you seen some pain.
- 1088
- 01:25:51,068 --> 01:25:53,821
- - Some joy, too?
- - Sure. Sure, I did.
- 1089
- 01:25:53,904 --> 01:25:58,075
- Yeah, that's what I want
- to hear. Look at you.
- 1090
- 01:25:58,159 --> 01:26:01,704
- - Where's Tizzy?
- - Oh, baby.
- 1091
- 01:26:04,123 --> 01:26:08,002
- Mr. Weathers died in his
- sleep one night last April.
- 1092
- 01:26:08,085 --> 01:26:11,589
- - Mama, I'm so sorry.
- - Don't you worry about that, baby.
- 1093
- 01:26:13,299 --> 01:26:15,968
- Yeah, well, it's only one
- or two of them left now.
- 1094
- 01:26:16,052 --> 01:26:17,511
- They all just about new.
- 1095
- 01:26:17,595 --> 01:26:21,515
- Guess they're waiting their
- turn like everybody else, huh?
- 1096
- 01:26:21,599 --> 01:26:24,352
- I'm so glad you're
- back home with me!
- 1097
- 01:26:24,435 --> 01:26:27,605
- Now, we're gonna have to find you a
- wife and a new job! That's right.
- 1098
- 01:26:27,688 --> 01:26:29,607
- Come on in here, help
- me with this table.
- 1099
- 01:26:32,735 --> 01:26:34,362
- Benjamin.
- 1100
- 01:26:34,445 --> 01:26:37,573
- You're wasting your time, baby.
- She's stone deaf.
- 1101
- 01:26:37,656 --> 01:26:41,702
- Oh, and you'll be staying in what
- was Mrs. DeSeroux's old room.
- 1102
- 01:26:41,786 --> 01:26:44,747
- You're too big to be
- rooming with anybody else.
- 1103
- 01:26:48,834 --> 01:26:51,462
- It's a funny thing
- about coming home.
- 1104
- 01:26:52,129 --> 01:26:55,925
- Looks the same, smells the
- same, feels the same.
- 1105
- 01:26:58,636 --> 01:27:02,473
- Did I ever telic you I've been
- struck by lightning seven times?
- 1106
- 01:27:04,141 --> 01:27:07,520
- Once when I was sitting in my truck,
- just minding my own business.
- 1107
- 01:27:13,359 --> 01:27:16,821
- You realize what's
- changed is you.
- 1108
- 01:27:19,490 --> 01:27:23,536
- And late one morning, not
- long after I'd been back...
- 1109
- 01:27:23,911 --> 01:27:25,287
- Thank you.
- 1110
- 01:27:47,351 --> 01:27:48,436
- - He!
- 1111
- 01:27:52,982 --> 01:27:56,861
- - Excuse me, is Queenie here?
- - Daisy?
- 1112
- 01:28:00,614 --> 01:28:04,243
- - It's me, Benjamin.
- - Benjamin?
- 1113
- 01:28:07,955 --> 01:28:09,957
- Oh, my God!
- 1114
- 01:28:11,208 --> 01:28:15,171
- Of course it's you! Benjamin!
- 1115
- 01:28:17,214 --> 01:28:20,134
- How are you? It's been
- such a long time.
- 1116
- 01:28:20,217 --> 01:28:22,970
- There's so much I want to know.
- When did you get back?
- 1117
- 01:28:23,054 --> 01:28:24,472
- Well, I got back
- a few weeks ago.
- 1118
- 01:28:24,555 --> 01:28:28,559
- I spoke to Queenie, she said you
- were in the war, somewhere at sea.
- 1119
- 01:28:28,642 --> 01:28:32,396
- - We were so, so worried about you.
- - Oh, I'm okay.
- 1120
- 01:28:32,480 --> 01:28:36,400
- Well, look at you.
- You're so lovely.
- 1121
- 01:28:38,152 --> 01:28:39,945
- You stopped writing.
- 1122
- 01:28:42,031 --> 01:28:47,161
- "When I had left, she was a girl.
- And a woman had taken her place."
- 1123
- 01:28:47,453 --> 01:28:50,664
- "She was the most beautiful
- woman I'd ever seen."
- 1124
- 01:28:50,748 --> 01:28:52,083
- Beautiful.
- 1125
- 01:28:54,251 --> 01:28:56,087
- "The most beautiful."."
- 1126
- 01:28:57,880 --> 01:28:59,632
- - You remember Grandma Fuller?
- - Why, sure I do.
- 1127
- 01:28:59,715 --> 01:29:02,802
- - She passed.
- - I heard that. I'm sorry.
- 1128
- 01:29:02,885 --> 01:29:07,515
- I just can't believe we're
- both here. Must be fate.
- 1129
- 01:29:07,598 --> 01:29:09,558
- No. No, what do they call it?
- 1130
- 01:29:09,642 --> 01:29:11,060
- Kismet.
- 1131
- 01:29:11,143 --> 01:29:13,062
- Do you know about Edgar
- Cayce, the psychic?
- 1132
- 01:29:13,145 --> 01:29:14,188
- I don't believe I...
- 1133
- 01:29:14,271 --> 01:29:17,149
- He says that everything
- is predetermined,
- 1134
- 01:29:17,233 --> 01:29:20,611
- but I like to think
- of it as fate.
- 1135
- 01:29:23,781 --> 01:29:27,034
- I'm not sure how it works,
- but I'm glad it happened.
- 1136
- 01:29:27,118 --> 01:29:30,746
- Have you been to Manhattan? It's
- right across the river from me.
- 1137
- 01:29:30,830 --> 01:29:32,998
- Now, I can see the
- Empire State Building
- 1138
- 01:29:33,082 --> 01:29:34,875
- if I stand on my bed.
- 1139
- 01:29:34,959 --> 01:29:36,961
- What about you? Where
- have you been?
- 1140
- 01:29:37,044 --> 01:29:40,673
- Tell me everything. Last time you
- wrote, you said you'd been to Russia.
- 1141
- 01:29:40,756 --> 01:29:44,927
- I've always wanted to go to Russia.
- Is it as cold as they say?
- 1142
- 01:29:45,011 --> 01:29:47,805
- - Twice as cold.
- - My goodness.
- 1143
- 01:29:48,389 --> 01:29:53,102
- We always said you were different.
- But I think you really are.
- 1144
- 01:29:55,146 --> 01:29:58,733
- You wrote that you met somebody.
- Did it work out?
- 1145
- 01:29:59,191 --> 01:30:00,901
- It ran it's course.
- 1146
- 01:30:02,236 --> 01:30:04,321
- Hey, do you remember this?
- 1147
- 01:30:15,166 --> 01:30:17,918
- "This is the picture
- of Old Man Kangaroo"
- 1148
- 01:30:18,002 --> 01:30:20,129
- "at 5:00 in the afternoon."
- 1149
- 01:30:21,922 --> 01:30:24,175
- Would you like to have dinner?
- 1150
- 01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:34,560
- Did I telic you that I
- danced for Balanchine?
- 1151
- 01:30:35,227 --> 01:30:39,774
- Oh, he's a famous choreographer.
- He said that I had perfect line.
- 1152
- 01:30:41,484 --> 01:30:46,030
- You know, in a rehearsal
- once, a dancer fell.
- 1153
- 01:30:46,113 --> 01:30:48,949
- And he just... He just put it
- right into the production.
- 1154
- 01:30:49,033 --> 01:30:52,536
- I mean, can you imagine that? Like
- in a... In a classical ballet?
- 1155
- 01:30:52,620 --> 01:30:55,873
- You know, a dancer,
- intentionally falling.
- 1156
- 01:30:55,956 --> 01:30:59,627
- There's a whole new word for dance
- now. It's called "abstract."
- 1157
- 01:30:59,710 --> 01:31:01,071
- No. He's not the
- only one, though.
- 1158
- 01:31:01,128 --> 01:31:05,049
- There's Lincoln Kirstein and
- Lucia Chase, and oh, my...
- 1159
- 01:31:05,132 --> 01:31:07,635
- Oh, there's Agnes de Mille.
- 1160
- 01:31:07,718 --> 01:31:09,804
- She's just torn up all
- those conventions,
- 1161
- 01:31:09,887 --> 01:31:11,889
- you know, ail that
- straight-up-and-down stuff.
- 1162
- 01:31:11,972 --> 01:31:15,184
- It's not about the formality of the dance,
- it's about what the dancer's feeling.
- 1163
- 01:31:15,267 --> 01:31:17,978
- As she told me about
- this big new world,
- 1164
- 01:31:18,062 --> 01:31:20,606
- names that didn't
- mean a thing to me,
- 1165
- 01:31:20,690 --> 01:31:22,810
- I didn't really hear very
- much of what she was saying.
- 1166
- 01:31:22,858 --> 01:31:25,111
- It's new and it's modern
- and it's American.
- 1167
- 01:31:25,194 --> 01:31:28,364
- They understand our vigor
- and our physicality.
- 1168
- 01:31:28,447 --> 01:31:30,616
- Oh, my God. I've just
- been talking and talking.
- 1169
- 01:31:30,700 --> 01:31:35,204
- No. No, I've enjoyed listening.
- I didn't know you smoked.
- 1170
- 01:31:35,287 --> 01:31:36,872
- I'm old enough.
- 1171
- 01:31:40,209 --> 01:31:42,753
- I'm old enough for
- a lot of things.
- 1172
- 01:31:45,631 --> 01:31:48,092
- In New York, we
- stay up all night,
- 1173
- 01:31:49,343 --> 01:31:52,179
- watch the sun come up
- over the warehouses.
- 1174
- 01:31:54,473 --> 01:31:56,809
- There's always something to do.
- 1175
- 01:32:14,452 --> 01:32:16,620
- I have to go back tomorrow.
- 1176
- 01:32:17,747 --> 01:32:19,915
- - 80 soon.
- - Wish I could stay.
- 1177
- 01:32:24,670 --> 01:32:27,882
- Dancers don't need costumes
- or scenery anymore.
- 1178
- 01:32:27,965 --> 01:32:31,510
- I can imagine dancing
- completely naked.
- 1179
- 01:32:32,803 --> 01:32:35,181
- Have you read D. H . Lawrence?
- 1180
- 01:32:35,264 --> 01:32:37,391
- - Well...
- - His books were banned.
- 1181
- 01:32:37,475 --> 01:32:41,020
- The words are like making love.
- 1182
- 01:33:25,523 --> 01:33:30,152
- In our company, we have
- to trust each other.
- 1183
- 01:33:35,408 --> 01:33:39,120
- Sex is a part of it.
- 1184
- 01:33:43,499 --> 01:33:46,419
- You know, a lot of the
- dancers are lesbians.
- 1185
- 01:33:48,546 --> 01:33:51,674
- There was one woman who
- wanted to sleep with me.
- 1186
- 01:33:58,931 --> 01:34:01,976
- - Does that upset you?
- - Which part?
- 1187
- 01:34:03,060 --> 01:34:05,521
- Somebody wanting
- to sleep with me.
- 1188
- 01:34:06,022 --> 01:34:07,189
- You're a desirable woman.
- 1189
- 01:34:07,273 --> 01:34:11,027
- I would think most of them
- would want to sleep with you.
- 1190
- 01:34:11,110 --> 01:34:13,237
- Let's go back to the house.
- 1191
- 01:34:14,155 --> 01:34:16,574
- Or we could get a
- room somewhere.
- 1192
- 01:34:19,535 --> 01:34:22,747
- - We could lay down your jacket.
- - I don't know, Daisy.
- 1193
- 01:34:22,830 --> 01:34:28,210
- It's not that I wouldn't like to or
- anything. I think I'll just disappoint you.
- 1194
- 01:34:29,086 --> 01:34:32,214
- Oh, Benjamin. I've
- been with older men.
- 1195
- 01:34:32,965 --> 01:34:35,009
- You're going back to New
- York in the morning.
- 1196
- 01:34:35,092 --> 01:34:37,428
- You should be with your friends.
- 1197
- 01:34:38,429 --> 01:34:40,931
- - You're only young once.
- - Oh, I'm old enough.
- 1198
- 01:34:41,015 --> 01:34:43,642
- Daisy, just not tonight, is all.
- 1199
- 01:34:57,156 --> 01:34:59,325
- We could go hear some music.
- 1200
- 01:35:01,577 --> 01:35:04,288
- Our lives are defined
- by opportunities.
- 1201
- 01:35:05,122 --> 01:35:07,124
- Even the ones we miss.
- 1202
- 01:35:08,084 --> 01:35:11,629
- You look so handsome
- and so distinguished.
- 1203
- 01:35:11,712 --> 01:35:13,881
- They're saying the hurricane's
- gonna miss us, blow right on by.
- 1204
- 01:35:13,964 --> 01:35:18,594
- - Oh, that's great.
- - I'll stay under the blankets with Mother.
- 1205
- 01:35:18,678 --> 01:35:22,807
- She says nothing... Benjamin?
- 1206
- 01:35:24,684 --> 01:35:25,768
- "Things were becoming
- different..."
- 1207
- 01:35:25,851 --> 01:35:27,061
- for me.
- 1208
- 01:35:27,144 --> 01:35:30,731
- My hair had very little
- gray and grew like weeds.
- 1209
- 01:35:30,815 --> 01:35:34,610
- My sense of smell was keener.
- My hearing, more acute.
- 1210
- 01:35:34,694 --> 01:35:37,363
- I could walk further and faster.
- 1211
- 01:35:37,446 --> 01:35:43,244
- While everybody else was aging, I
- was getting younger, all alone.
- 1212
- 01:35:46,247 --> 01:35:47,498
- Come in.
- 1213
- 01:35:48,874 --> 01:35:50,209
- Benjamin.
- 1214
- 01:35:51,168 --> 01:35:54,422
- - Do you remember me?
- - Well, sure I do, Mr. Button.
- 1215
- 01:35:55,089 --> 01:35:58,676
- - What happened to you?
- - Darn foot. Got infected, so...
- 1216
- 01:36:00,344 --> 01:36:01,595
- Welcome home, my friend.
- 1217
- 01:36:04,265 --> 01:36:07,393
- I see you're still drinking
- your Sazerac with whiskey.
- 1218
- 01:36:07,476 --> 01:36:08,728
- Creature of habit.
- 1219
- 01:36:08,811 --> 01:36:10,938
- You still visiting the
- house on Bourbon Street?
- 1220
- 01:36:11,022 --> 01:36:12,773
- Not for a long time.
- 1221
- 01:36:14,358 --> 01:36:16,444
- Interesting times, though.
- 1222
- 01:36:16,527 --> 01:36:20,990
- We went from making 40,000 to nearly
- half a million buttons a day.
- 1223
- 01:36:21,073 --> 01:36:23,117
- We employed 10 times
- the number of people.
- 1224
- 01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:25,703
- We were operating
- around the clock.
- 1225
- 01:36:30,249 --> 01:36:31,667
- Damn shame.
- 1226
- 01:36:32,752 --> 01:36:35,713
- The war has been kind
- to the button industry.
- 1227
- 01:36:38,424 --> 01:36:39,800
- You know,
- 1228
- 01:36:42,053 --> 01:36:45,389
- I'm sick. I don't know
- how much longer I have.
- 1229
- 01:36:45,473 --> 01:36:48,351
- - I'm sorry to hear that, Mr. Button.
- - No...
- 1230
- 01:36:49,727 --> 01:36:52,813
- I don't have any people.
- I keep to myself.
- 1231
- 01:36:55,274 --> 01:36:58,319
- I hope you don't mind. But.
- Whenever possible,
- 1232
- 01:36:58,402 --> 01:37:00,404
- I'd enjoy your company-
- 1233
- 01:37:00,488 --> 01:37:03,032
- I'll certainly do what I can.
- 1234
- 01:37:06,285 --> 01:37:09,246
- Benjamin, do you know
- anything about buttons?
- 1235
- 01:37:12,792 --> 01:37:17,463
- Now, Button's Buttons has been
- in our family for 124 years.
- 1236
- 01:37:18,089 --> 01:37:22,718
- My grandfather was a tailor, and
- he had a small shop in Richmond.
- 1237
- 01:37:22,802 --> 01:37:25,221
- After the Civil War, he
- moved to New Orleans,
- 1238
- 01:37:25,304 --> 01:37:30,351
- where my father had the wisdom
- to make our own buttons.
- 1239
- 01:37:30,434 --> 01:37:35,356
- So, with his help, the
- tailor shop grew to this.
- 1240
- 01:37:36,065 --> 01:37:38,693
- And today, I can't sew a stitch.
- 1241
- 01:37:42,863 --> 01:37:45,241
- That's very, very interesting.
- 1242
- 01:37:48,661 --> 01:37:51,288
- You sure have done
- well for yourself.
- 1243
- 01:37:52,206 --> 01:37:56,293
- So, what can I do for you.
- Mr. Button?
- 1244
- 01:37:58,796 --> 01:38:01,841
- Benjamin? You're my son.
- 1245
- 01:38:09,348 --> 01:38:12,018
- I'm so sorry I never
- told you before.
- 1246
- 01:38:14,145 --> 01:38:17,565
- You were born the night
- the Great War ended.
- 1247
- 01:38:19,442 --> 01:38:23,154
- Your mother died
- giving birth to you.
- 1248
- 01:38:24,655 --> 01:38:26,866
- I thought you were a monster.
- 1249
- 01:38:30,411 --> 01:38:33,706
- I promised your mother I'd
- make sure you were safe.
- 1250
- 01:38:40,129 --> 01:38:42,590
- I should never have
- abandoned you.
- 1251
- 01:38:46,677 --> 01:38:48,054
- My mother?
- 1252
- 01:38:49,388 --> 01:38:52,350
- At the summer house on
- Lake Pontchartrain.
- 1253
- 01:38:52,433 --> 01:38:55,895
- When I was a boy, I'd love to
- wake-up before anyone else,
- 1254
- 01:38:55,978 --> 01:38:59,023
- run down to that lake and
- watch the day begin.
- 1255
- 01:39:00,649 --> 01:39:03,319
- It was as if I was
- the only one alive.
- 1256
- 01:39:05,112 --> 01:39:07,865
- I fell in love the
- first time I saw her.
- 1257
- 01:39:08,366 --> 01:39:11,035
- Your mother's name
- was Caroline Murphy.
- 1258
- 01:39:11,660 --> 01:39:14,538
- She worked in your
- grandfather's kitchen.
- 1259
- 01:39:17,792 --> 01:39:19,502
- She's from Dublin.
- 1260
- 01:39:20,127 --> 01:39:24,548
- In 1903, Caroline and all her brothers
- and sisters came to live here,
- 1261
- 01:39:24,632 --> 01:39:26,217
- in New Orleans.
- 1262
- 01:39:28,302 --> 01:39:31,180
- I'd find excuses to go
- down to that kitchen
- 1263
- 01:39:31,972 --> 01:39:34,141
- just so I could look at her.
- 1264
- 01:39:40,481 --> 01:39:44,235
- April 25th, 1918.
- Happiest day of my life.
- 1265
- 01:39:44,985 --> 01:39:47,238
- The day I married your mother.
- 1266
- 01:39:48,948 --> 01:39:51,117
- Why didn't you just telic me?
- 1267
- 01:39:51,951 --> 01:39:54,829
- I plan on leaving
- everything I have to you.
- 1268
- 01:39:56,330 --> 01:39:58,791
- - I have to go.
- - Where?
- 1269
- 01:39:59,834 --> 01:40:01,252
- Home.
- 1270
- 01:40:01,919 --> 01:40:03,254
- And what does he think, anyway?
- 1271
- 01:40:03,337 --> 01:40:04,672
- He thinks he can just show up
- 1272
- 01:40:04,755 --> 01:40:06,632
- and everything's supposed
- to be fine and dandy.
- 1273
- 01:40:06,716 --> 01:40:09,343
- Everybody's just
- supposed to befriends.
- 1274
- 01:40:09,427 --> 01:40:12,346
- Well, he got another thing
- coming, that's for sure.
- 1275
- 01:40:12,430 --> 01:40:15,850
- God be my witness, he got
- another thing coming.
- 1276
- 01:40:15,933 --> 01:40:19,020
- He left us $18 that
- night you was found.
- 1277
- 01:40:19,103 --> 01:40:20,938
- Eighteen ratty dollars
- 1278
- 01:40:21,022 --> 01:40:22,773
- - and a filthy diaper.
- - Good night, Mama.
- 1279
- 01:40:24,108 --> 01:40:25,317
- Good night, baby.
- 1280
- 01:40:38,581 --> 01:40:42,960
- Did I ever telic you I was
- struck by lightning seven times?
- 1281
- 01:40:44,712 --> 01:40:46,797
- Once, I was walking
- my dog down the road.
- 1282
- 01:40:51,761 --> 01:40:55,639
- I'm blind in the one
- eye, can't hardly hear,
- 1283
- 01:40:56,849 --> 01:41:01,479
- get twitches and shakes out of nowhere,
- always losing my line of thought.
- 1284
- 01:41:03,022 --> 01:41:04,732
- But you know what?
- 1285
- 01:41:05,483 --> 01:41:08,444
- God keeps reminding me
- I'm lucky to be alive.
- 1286
- 01:41:14,158 --> 01:41:15,743
- Storm's coming.
- 1287
- 01:41:43,646 --> 01:41:45,898
- May I help you, sir? Up the
- stairs, first bedroom.
- 1288
- 01:41:45,981 --> 01:41:47,066
- Thank you.
- 1289
- 01:42:02,915 --> 01:42:04,208
- Wake-up.
- 1290
- 01:42:06,711 --> 01:42:08,587
- Let's get you dressed.
- 1291
- 01:42:35,990 --> 01:42:37,658
- Now that's something.
- 1292
- 01:42:40,911 --> 01:42:42,288
- Thank you.
- 1293
- 01:43:42,431 --> 01:43:46,394
- You can be mad as a mad dog
- at the way things went.
- 1294
- 01:43:46,477 --> 01:43:48,938
- You can swear and
- curse the Fates.
- 1295
- 01:43:50,481 --> 01:43:52,733
- But when it comes to the end,
- 1296
- 01:43:53,943 --> 01:43:55,695
- you have to let go.
- 1297
- 01:44:17,675 --> 01:44:20,302
- Well, it sure is a
- beautiful service.
- 1298
- 01:44:22,138 --> 01:44:24,974
- He'll be buried right
- next to your mother.
- 1299
- 01:44:26,392 --> 01:44:28,060
- You're my mother.
- 1300
- 01:44:31,856 --> 01:44:33,149
- My baby.
- 1301
- 01:44:37,695 --> 01:44:39,864
- Now, I'd never seen New York.
- 1302
- 01:46:08,035 --> 01:46:11,455
- - Excuse me, I'm a friend of Daisy's.
- - Right this way.
- 1303
- 01:46:12,456 --> 01:46:17,837
- - Daisy has company. Daisy! Daisy!
- - Yes!
- 1304
- 01:46:18,212 --> 01:46:21,507
- - We need the wardrobe.
- - Is somebody looking for me?
- 1305
- 01:46:24,093 --> 01:46:26,303
- - Benjamin.
- - Hi.
- 1306
- 01:46:27,596 --> 01:46:31,392
- - What are you doing here?
- - Thought I'd come visit.
- 1307
- 01:46:31,475 --> 01:46:34,937
- Spend some time with
- you, if I could.
- 1308
- 01:46:35,021 --> 01:46:40,943
- Oh, well, I wish you would've
- called. You took me by surprise.
- 1309
- 01:46:42,278 --> 01:46:46,449
- - You can just throw them out.
- - No. Thank you, they're lovely.
- 1310
- 01:46:47,033 --> 01:46:51,871
- I couldn't take my eyes off of you.
- I thought you were mesmerizing.
- 1311
- 01:46:53,873 --> 01:46:56,709
- Thank you. That's very
- kind of you to say.
- 1312
- 01:47:02,006 --> 01:47:04,091
- I better get changed. A group
- of us are going to a party.
- 1313
- 01:47:04,175 --> 01:47:07,428
- - Would you want to come?
- - Someone told me about a restaurant
- 1314
- 01:47:07,511 --> 01:47:08,804
- I thought you might enjoy.
- 1315
- 01:47:08,888 --> 01:47:11,432
- I made a reservation,
- just in case.
- 1316
- 01:47:11,515 --> 01:47:14,518
- Just, all the dancers go out
- after the show. You're...
- 1317
- 01:47:14,602 --> 01:47:18,439
- You're welcome to come with us.
- I'll get changed. All right?
- 1318
- 01:47:24,862 --> 01:47:26,989
- She choreographs for
- the Ballets Russes.
- 1319
- 01:47:27,073 --> 01:47:28,407
- She's divine.
- 1320
- 01:47:29,033 --> 01:47:30,868
- You were breathtaking.
- 1321
- 01:47:36,540 --> 01:47:37,833
- Sweetie.
- 1322
- 01:47:38,959 --> 01:47:41,879
- This is David. He dances
- with the company.
- 1323
- 01:47:42,838 --> 01:47:44,882
- - This is Benjamin.
- - Who?
- 1324
- 01:47:44,965 --> 01:47:48,219
- - I told you about him.
- - Oh, yeah. How you doing?
- 1325
- 01:47:48,302 --> 01:47:51,806
- - I'll go get you a drink.
- - All right. Thanks.
- 1326
- 01:47:59,480 --> 01:48:02,650
- So, you were a friend
- of her grandmother's'?
- 1327
- 01:48:02,733 --> 01:48:04,694
- Or something like that?
- 1328
- 01:48:05,820 --> 01:48:07,613
- Something like that.
- 1329
- 01:48:07,905 --> 01:48:09,490
- Hey, excuse me.
- 1330
- 01:48:31,804 --> 01:48:33,097
- Come on.
- 1331
- 01:48:54,410 --> 01:48:55,494
- Hey!
- 1332
- 01:48:56,454 --> 01:48:58,956
- Now, I had no idea
- you were coming.
- 1333
- 01:48:59,957 --> 01:49:01,542
- Lord, Benjamin.
- 1334
- 01:49:04,128 --> 01:49:08,007
- What did you expect? What, you
- want me to drop everything?
- 1335
- 01:49:08,090 --> 01:49:10,051
- Now, this is my life.
- 1336
- 01:49:10,134 --> 01:49:12,636
- Babe! You going downtown?
- 1337
- 01:49:17,558 --> 01:49:20,686
- Come on. You'll
- have a good time.
- 1338
- 01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:23,064
- There's lots of musicians,
- interesting people.
- 1339
- 01:49:23,147 --> 01:49:26,067
- You don't have to do that.
- This is my fault.
- 1340
- 01:49:27,151 --> 01:49:28,569
- I should've called.
- 1341
- 01:49:28,652 --> 01:49:31,489
- I thought Id come here
- 1342
- 01:49:31,572 --> 01:49:34,325
- and sweep you off your
- feet or something.
- 1343
- 01:49:35,826 --> 01:49:40,331
- - Daisy! Come on! Let's go.
- - Be right there.
- 1344
- 01:49:42,083 --> 01:49:43,501
- Seems nice.
- 1345
- 01:49:44,835 --> 01:49:46,462
- Do you love him?
- 1346
- 01:49:49,548 --> 01:49:50,966
- I think so.
- 1347
- 01:49:53,052 --> 01:49:54,762
- I'm happy for you.
- 1348
- 01:49:56,681 --> 01:49:58,808
- Maybe I'll see you at home.
- 1349
- 01:50:01,394 --> 01:50:02,520
- Okay-
- 1350
- 01:50:04,522 --> 01:50:06,315
- I enjoyed the show!
- 1351
- 01:50:13,906 --> 01:50:18,452
- He came to telic me
- his father had died.
- 1352
- 01:50:19,912 --> 01:50:26,127
- - You couldn't have known.
- - I was 23. I... I just didn't care.
- 1353
- 01:50:28,671 --> 01:50:30,047
- What did you do next?
- 1354
- 01:50:30,131 --> 01:50:37,096
- Some photographs, I think,
- in the from of my bag.
- 1355
- 01:50:39,181 --> 01:50:43,310
- I was as good a dancer
- as I was ever gonna be.
- 1356
- 01:50:45,187 --> 01:50:47,148
- For five years. I...
- 1357
- 01:50:49,900 --> 01:50:51,694
- I danced everywhere.
- 1358
- 01:50:53,112 --> 01:50:56,657
- London, Vienna, Prague.
- 1359
- 01:50:57,241 --> 01:50:59,118
- I've never seen these.
- 1360
- 01:51:02,413 --> 01:51:03,539
- Mom.
- 1361
- 01:51:04,790 --> 01:51:07,501
- You never talked
- about your dancing.
- 1362
- 01:51:07,585 --> 01:51:09,628
- Well, I was the only American
- 1363
- 01:51:09,712 --> 01:51:14,675
- to be invited to dance
- with the Bolshoi, sugar.
- 1364
- 01:51:16,510 --> 01:51:18,554
- It was glorious.
- 1365
- 01:51:22,975 --> 01:51:26,729
- But Benjamin was never
- far from my thoughts.
- 1366
- 01:51:29,857 --> 01:51:33,444
- And I'd find myself saying...
- 1367
- 01:51:33,527 --> 01:51:35,363
- Good night, Benjamin.
- 1368
- 01:51:37,323 --> 01:51:40,993
- - "Good night, Daisy."
- - He said that?
- 1369
- 01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:44,520
- "Life wasn't all
- that complicated."
- 1370
- 01:51:45,164 --> 01:51:47,958
- "If you want, you might say I
- was looking for something."
- 1371
- 01:51:57,426 --> 01:52:00,429
- Benjamin? Mrs. La
- Tourneau just passed.
- 1372
- 01:52:06,811 --> 01:52:10,481
- - Letter for Mr. Benjamin Button?
- - That'd be me.
- 1373
- 01:52:13,359 --> 01:52:14,735
- Thank you.
- 1374
- 01:52:41,012 --> 01:52:42,930
- Miss Daisy Fuller.
- 1375
- 01:52:43,014 --> 01:52:45,850
- - Just a minute. Please have a seat.
- - Sure.
- 1376
- 01:52:53,315 --> 01:52:57,737
- Sometimes we're on a collision
- course and we just don't know it.
- 1377
- 01:52:58,279 --> 01:53:02,825
- Whether it's by accident or by design,
- there's not a thing we can do about it.
- 1378
- 01:53:05,619 --> 01:53:08,706
- A woman in Paris was on
- her way to go shopping.
- 1379
- 01:53:10,041 --> 01:53:13,794
- But she had forgotten her coat.
- Went back to get it.
- 1380
- 01:53:13,878 --> 01:53:16,088
- When she had gotten her
- coat, the phone had rung.
- 1381
- 01:53:16,172 --> 01:53:19,216
- So she had stopped to answer it and
- talked for a couple of minutes.
- 1382
- 01:53:20,676 --> 01:53:22,470
- While the woman
- was on the phone.
- 1383
- 01:53:22,553 --> 01:53:26,766
- Daisy was rehearsing for a performance
- at the Paris Opera House.
- 1384
- 01:53:26,849 --> 01:53:29,643
- And while she was rehearsing,
- the woman, off the phone now,
- 1385
- 01:53:29,727 --> 01:53:32,063
- had gone outside to get a taxi.
- 1386
- 01:53:36,567 --> 01:53:38,861
- Now, a taxi driver had
- dropped off a fare earlier,
- 1387
- 01:53:38,944 --> 01:53:41,697
- and had stopped to
- get a cup of coffee.
- 1388
- 01:53:42,573 --> 01:53:45,326
- And all the while,
- Daisy was rehearsing.
- 1389
- 01:53:48,829 --> 01:53:51,332
- And this cab driver, who
- dropped off the earlier fare
- 1390
- 01:53:51,415 --> 01:53:53,417
- and had stopped to get
- the cup of coffee,
- 1391
- 01:53:53,501 --> 01:53:55,221
- he picked up the lady
- who was going shopping
- 1392
- 01:53:55,294 --> 01:53:58,047
- and had missed getting
- the earlier cab.
- 1393
- 01:53:58,964 --> 01:54:01,384
- The taxi had to stop for a
- man crossing the street,
- 1394
- 01:54:01,467 --> 01:54:04,303
- who had left for work five minutes
- later than he normally did
- 1395
- 01:54:04,387 --> 01:54:06,931
- because he forgot
- to set his alarm.
- 1396
- 01:54:07,682 --> 01:54:10,976
- While that man, late for work,
- was crossing the street,
- 1397
- 01:54:11,060 --> 01:54:14,522
- Daisy had finished rehearsing
- and was taking a shower.
- 1398
- 01:54:15,022 --> 01:54:16,357
- And while Daisy was showering,
- 1399
- 01:54:16,440 --> 01:54:20,069
- the taxi was waiting outside a boutique
- for the woman to pick up a package
- 1400
- 01:54:20,152 --> 01:54:21,352
- which hadn't been wrapped yet,
- 1401
- 01:54:21,362 --> 01:54:23,197
- because the girl who was
- supposed to wrap it
- 1402
- 01:54:23,280 --> 01:54:26,909
- had broken up with her boyfriend
- the night before and forgot.
- 1403
- 01:54:27,535 --> 01:54:30,746
- When the package was wrapped, the
- woman, who was back in the cab,
- 1404
- 01:54:30,830 --> 01:54:32,498
- was blocked by a delivery truck.
- 1405
- 01:54:32,581 --> 01:54:35,334
- All the while, Daisy
- was getting dressed.
- 1406
- 01:54:36,794 --> 01:54:40,214
- The delivery truck pulled away.
- And the taxi was able to move
- 1407
- 01:54:40,297 --> 01:54:42,383
- while Daisy, the
- last to be dressed,
- 1408
- 01:54:42,466 --> 01:54:46,053
- waited for one of her friends
- who had broken a shoelace.
- 1409
- 01:54:46,470 --> 01:54:49,390
- While the taxi was stopped,
- waiting for a traffic light,
- 1410
- 01:54:49,473 --> 01:54:53,394
- Daisy and her friend came out
- the back of the theater.
- 1411
- 01:54:53,477 --> 01:54:56,897
- And if only one thing had
- happened differently,
- 1412
- 01:54:56,981 --> 01:54:59,066
- if that shoelace hadn't broken
- 1413
- 01:54:59,150 --> 01:55:01,694
- or that delivery truck had
- moved moments earlier
- 1414
- 01:55:01,777 --> 01:55:03,654
- or that package had
- been wrapped and ready
- 1415
- 01:55:03,738 --> 01:55:06,490
- because the girl hadn't
- broken up with her boyfriend,
- 1416
- 01:55:06,574 --> 01:55:10,244
- or that man had set his alarm
- and got up five minutes earlier
- 1417
- 01:55:10,327 --> 01:55:13,539
- or that taxi driver hadn't
- stopped for a cup of coffee
- 1418
- 01:55:13,622 --> 01:55:17,668
- or that woman had remembered her
- coat and got into an earlier cab,
- 1419
- 01:55:18,169 --> 01:55:20,880
- Daisy and her friend would
- have crossed the street
- 1420
- 01:55:20,963 --> 01:55:23,424
- and the taxi would
- have driven by.
- 1421
- 01:55:34,477 --> 01:55:36,228
- But, life being what it is,
- 1422
- 01:55:36,312 --> 01:55:39,315
- a series of intersecting
- lives and incidents
- 1423
- 01:55:39,398 --> 01:55:41,192
- out of anyone's control,
- 1424
- 01:55:42,026 --> 01:55:44,779
- that taxi did not go by,
- 1425
- 01:55:44,862 --> 01:55:47,698
- and that driver was
- momentarily distracted.
- 1426
- 01:55:48,699 --> 01:55:49,700
- Daisy!
- 1427
- 01:55:49,867 --> 01:55:51,118
- And that taxi hit Daisy.
- 1428
- 01:55:51,202 --> 01:55:52,953
- Daisy! Help!
- 1429
- 01:55:56,082 --> 01:55:58,084
- And her leg was crushed.
- 1430
- 01:56:05,466 --> 01:56:06,676
- Daisy?
- 1431
- 01:56:10,930 --> 01:56:13,516
- - Who told you?
- - Your friend wired me.
- 1432
- 01:56:14,558 --> 01:56:18,646
- Very kind of you to come all this
- way to see that I was all right.
- 1433
- 01:56:20,189 --> 01:56:22,233
- You'd do the same for me.
- 1434
- 01:56:24,110 --> 01:56:25,361
- My God.
- 1435
- 01:56:27,446 --> 01:56:30,950
- Look at you. You're perfect.
- 1436
- 01:56:33,744 --> 01:56:38,290
- I wish you hadn't come here. I don't
- want you to see me like this.
- 1437
- 01:56:44,714 --> 01:56:47,008
- Her leg had been
- broken in five places.
- 1438
- 01:56:47,091 --> 01:56:50,261
- And with therapy and time,
- she might walk again.
- 1439
- 01:56:51,762 --> 01:56:53,681
- But she'd never dance.
- 1440
- 01:56:55,266 --> 01:56:57,727
- I'm gonna take you home with me.
- 1441
- 01:56:57,810 --> 01:57:00,604
- - I want to look after you.
- - I'm not going back to New Orleans.
- 1442
- 01:57:00,688 --> 01:57:02,898
- Then I'll stay here in Paris.
- 1443
- 01:57:03,482 --> 01:57:06,444
- Don't you understand? I
- don't want your help.
- 1444
- 01:57:07,528 --> 01:57:11,866
- I know I'm feeling sorry for myself,
- but I don't want to be with you.
- 1445
- 01:57:11,949 --> 01:57:15,745
- Tried to telic you that in
- New York. You don't listen.
- 1446
- 01:57:17,246 --> 01:57:19,206
- You might change your mind.
- 1447
- 01:57:19,290 --> 01:57:22,293
- We are not little children
- anymore, Benjamin.
- 1448
- 01:57:24,295 --> 01:57:27,548
- Just stay out of my life.
- 1449
- 01:57:50,363 --> 01:57:53,657
- I was awfully cruel.
- 1450
- 01:57:54,700 --> 01:58:00,164
- He didn't understand. I couldn't
- have him see me like that.
- 1451
- 01:58:02,833 --> 01:58:04,210
- "I didn't leave right away."
- 1452
- 01:58:06,837 --> 01:58:10,174
- "I stayed in Paris for a
- while to look out for her."
- 1453
- 01:58:13,719 --> 01:58:15,596
- I never knew that.
- 1454
- 01:58:18,974 --> 01:58:23,062
- Oh, darling, could
- you get the nurse?
- 1455
- 01:58:26,732 --> 01:58:31,862
- I taught myself to walk again.
- 1456
- 01:58:34,907 --> 01:58:37,493
- I took the train to Lourdes.
- 1457
- 01:58:38,828 --> 01:58:44,417
- Let's take a look. That's
- normal. Pulse rate is slowing.
- 1458
- 01:58:44,500 --> 01:58:46,502
- She is gonna
- struggle to breathe.
- 1459
- 01:58:46,585 --> 01:58:48,838
- - Will you be all right?
- - Yeah.
- 1460
- 01:59:01,976 --> 01:59:07,898
- All right, he says, "I went back home."
- And then there's a lot of pages torn out.
- 1461
- 01:59:08,107 --> 01:59:11,861
- "I listened to the sound of the
- house." I read that already.
- 1462
- 01:59:12,737 --> 01:59:13,863
- He...
- 1463
- 01:59:14,780 --> 01:59:18,075
- He spilt something on it,
- so it's hard to read, Mom.
- 1464
- 01:59:19,201 --> 01:59:21,996
- Something about sailing,
- does that make sense?
- 1465
- 01:59:22,705 --> 01:59:26,083
- I learned to sail an old boat of
- my father's from the lake house.
- 1466
- 01:59:35,259 --> 01:59:37,261
- I can'! Lie.
- 1467
- 01:59:37,345 --> 01:59:40,181
- I did enjoy the company
- of a woman or two.
- 1468
- 01:59:48,481 --> 01:59:50,066
- Or maybe three.
- 1469
- 02:00:26,560 --> 02:00:30,815
- Don't know why you bother, Sam,
- just gonna be there again tomorrow.
- 1470
- 02:00:35,152 --> 02:00:36,320
- Mama.
- 1471
- 02:00:41,158 --> 02:00:43,661
- And in the spring of 1962,
- 1472
- 02:00:47,498 --> 02:00:49,041
- she came back.
- 1473
- 02:01:08,394 --> 02:01:12,064
- - You want to know where I've been?
- - No.
- 1474
- 02:01:14,025 --> 02:01:18,946
- How come you didn't write or nothing?
- Just disappearing like that.
- 1475
- 02:01:19,030 --> 02:01:21,615
- It was something I
- needed to do for myself.
- 1476
- 02:01:21,699 --> 02:01:25,453
- Yeah, well, I never took you
- to be the selfish type.
- 1477
- 02:01:25,536 --> 02:01:28,039
- I sure hope I'm not wrong.
- 1478
- 02:01:29,165 --> 02:01:31,250
- I'm usually not
- wrong about people.
- 1479
- 02:01:31,333 --> 02:01:33,878
- - Good night, Mama.
- - Good night, baby.
- 1480
- 02:01:34,837 --> 02:01:36,505
- Y'all have fun.
- 1481
- 02:01:39,216 --> 02:01:43,596
- - You haven't said two words.
- - I don't want to ruin it.
- 1482
- 02:02:13,751 --> 02:02:16,087
- - Sleep with me?
- - Absolutely.
- 1483
- 02:02:53,833 --> 02:02:56,293
- I asked her to
- come away with me.
- 1484
- 02:02:58,504 --> 02:03:01,632
- We sailed into the Gulf
- along the Florida Keys.
- 1485
- 02:03:42,965 --> 02:03:47,345
- I am so glad we didn't find
- one another when I was 26.
- 1486
- 02:03:47,428 --> 02:03:51,766
- - Why do you say that?
- - I was so young.
- 1487
- 02:03:51,849 --> 02:03:53,642
- And you were so old.
- 1488
- 02:03:54,310 --> 02:03:57,229
- It happened when it was
- supposed to happen.
- 1489
- 02:03:57,313 --> 02:04:00,483
- I will enjoy each and every
- moment I have with you.
- 1490
- 02:04:05,613 --> 02:04:08,115
- I bet I can stay out
- here longer than you.
- 1491
- 02:04:08,199 --> 02:04:09,825
- I bet you can't.
- 1492
- 02:04:12,661 --> 02:04:15,206
- Barely a line or a crease.
- 1493
- 02:04:15,581 --> 02:04:18,751
- Every day I have more wrinkles.
- It's not fair.
- 1494
- 02:04:20,378 --> 02:04:24,173
- I love your wrinkles.
- Both of them.
- 1495
- 02:04:29,845 --> 02:04:32,181
- What's it like growing younger?
- 1496
- 02:04:34,600 --> 02:04:39,230
- I can'! Really say. I'm always
- looking out my own eyes.
- 1497
- 02:04:44,235 --> 02:04:48,030
- Will you still love me when
- my skin grows old and saggy?
- 1498
- 02:04:48,114 --> 02:04:52,618
- Will you still love me when I
- have acne? When I wet the bed?
- 1499
- 02:04:53,911 --> 02:04:56,789
- When I'm afraid of
- what's under the stairs?
- 1500
- 02:05:04,255 --> 02:05:05,339
- What?
- 1501
- 02:05:11,345 --> 02:05:15,349
- - What are you thinking?
- - Well, I was thinking how nothing lasts.
- 1502
- 02:05:17,727 --> 02:05:19,770
- And what a shame that is.
- 1503
- 02:05:22,732 --> 02:05:24,400
- Some things last.
- 1504
- 02:05:26,652 --> 02:05:30,906
- - Good night, Daisy.
- - Good night, Benjamin.
- 1505
- 02:05:47,298 --> 02:05:48,382
- Mom?
- 1506
- 02:05:50,634 --> 02:05:54,680
- - When did you meet Dad?
- - Some time after that.
- 1507
- 02:05:57,808 --> 02:06:02,563
- - Did you telic him about this Benjamin?
- - He knew enough, darling.
- 1508
- 02:06:22,541 --> 02:06:23,668
- Mama?
- 1509
- 02:06:30,841 --> 02:06:32,134
- Queenie?
- 1510
- 02:06:35,262 --> 02:06:36,597
- Hello?
- 1511
- 02:06:37,014 --> 02:06:40,643
- Oh, hi, Mrs. Carter, it's
- Benjamin. Where is everybody?
- 1512
- 02:06:40,726 --> 02:06:45,940
- Oh, Benjamin. Queenie died.
- I'm so sorry.
- 1513
- 02:07:14,593 --> 02:07:18,014
- I'm so sorry for your loss.
- She was a great woman.
- 1514
- 02:07:18,097 --> 02:07:19,932
- Our deepest condolences.
- 1515
- 02:07:25,062 --> 02:07:28,107
- We buried her beside her
- beloved Mr. Weathers.
- 1516
- 02:07:35,072 --> 02:07:38,576
- And so we might have
- memories of our own,
- 1517
- 02:07:38,659 --> 02:07:40,619
- we sold my father's
- house on Esplanade.
- 1518
- 02:07:40,703 --> 02:07:43,330
- It is a wonderful
- old place, darling.
- 1519
- 02:07:43,914 --> 02:07:46,834
- I think we are going
- to be so happy here.
- 1520
- 02:07:46,917 --> 02:07:49,837
- Oh, what a long family
- history you have.
- 1521
- 02:07:49,920 --> 02:07:51,922
- They come with the house.
- 1522
- 02:07:54,508 --> 02:07:57,428
- - Come on.
- - You have to see the master suite.
- 1523
- 02:07:58,929 --> 02:08:01,182
- We bought ourselves a duplex.
- 1524
- 02:08:03,225 --> 02:08:05,269
- I loved that house.
- 1525
- 02:08:07,688 --> 02:08:09,690
- It smelled like firewood.
- 1526
- 02:08:10,775 --> 02:08:14,028
- Don't... Don't stop, darling.
- 1527
- 02:08:14,612 --> 02:08:17,490
- "It was one of the happiest
- times of my life."
- 1528
- 02:08:17,573 --> 02:08:20,117
- We didn't have a
- stick of furniture.
- 1529
- 02:08:20,910 --> 02:08:23,662
- We would have picnics
- in the living room.
- 1530
- 02:08:27,124 --> 02:08:31,128
- We ate when we felt like it. Stayed
- up all night when we wanted.
- 1531
- 02:08:32,546 --> 02:08:34,548
- We vowed never to
- fall into routine,
- 1532
- 02:08:34,632 --> 02:08:37,510
- to go to bed or wake-up
- at the same time.
- 1533
- 02:08:37,593 --> 02:08:39,637
- We lived on that mattress.
- 1534
- 02:09:15,339 --> 02:09:18,843
- Our neighbor, a Mrs. Van Dam,
- was a physical therapist.
- 1535
- 02:09:20,428 --> 02:09:23,180
- We lived four blocks
- from a public pool.
- 1536
- 02:10:01,552 --> 02:10:04,347
- You know, you might've got a
- few more years out of it,
- 1537
- 02:10:04,430 --> 02:10:08,559
- but you chose to do something
- so special and unique
- 1538
- 02:10:09,977 --> 02:10:13,731
- that there was only a short
- window of time you could do it.
- 1539
- 02:10:15,524 --> 02:10:18,027
- So, even if nothing
- ever happened,
- 1540
- 02:10:18,110 --> 02:10:21,238
- you'd still be right
- here where you are now.
- 1541
- 02:10:21,322 --> 02:10:23,574
- I just don't like getting old.
- 1542
- 02:10:25,117 --> 02:10:27,661
- They put too much
- chlorine in here.
- 1543
- 02:11:08,911 --> 02:11:12,790
- I promise you I'll never lose
- myself to self-pity again.
- 1544
- 02:11:17,128 --> 02:11:20,214
- And I think right there and then
- 1545
- 02:11:20,297 --> 02:11:24,301
- she realized none of
- us is perfect forever.
- 1546
- 02:11:28,264 --> 02:11:29,890
- She found peace.
- 1547
- 02:11:31,767 --> 02:11:34,687
- She opened a studio and taught
- young girls how to dance.
- 1548
- 02:11:34,770 --> 02:11:37,898
- And tend...
- 1549
- 02:11:37,982 --> 02:11:43,070
- Come back the other way. And
- spot, spot, spot. Excellent.
- 1550
- 02:11:44,739 --> 02:11:47,199
- - Good night, Miss Daisy.
- - Good night.
- 1551
- 02:12:12,683 --> 02:12:15,311
- You certainly are
- beautiful to watch.
- 1552
- 02:12:17,104 --> 02:12:19,523
- Dancing's all about the line.
- 1553
- 02:12:21,776 --> 02:12:23,694
- The line of your body.
- 1554
- 02:12:25,029 --> 02:12:29,367
- Sooner or later, you lose that
- line, and you never get it back.
- 1555
- 02:12:35,247 --> 02:12:41,212
- I figure, you were born
- in 1918, 49 years ago.
- 1556
- 02:12:41,295 --> 02:12:42,838
- I'm 43.
- 1557
- 02:12:45,007 --> 02:12:47,551
- We are almost the same age.
- 1558
- 02:12:50,846 --> 02:12:55,059
- - We're meeting in the middle.
- - We finally caught up with each other.
- 1559
- 02:12:56,227 --> 02:12:57,353
- Wait.
- 1560
- 02:12:58,688 --> 02:13:01,357
- I want to remember us
- just as we are now.
- 1561
- 02:13:12,201 --> 02:13:13,703
- I'm pregnant.
- 1562
- 02:13:31,387 --> 02:13:35,057
- You know, I swear the nurse
- slipped and said it was a boy.
- 1563
- 02:13:50,031 --> 02:13:52,033
- But I think it's a girl.
- 1564
- 02:13:57,329 --> 02:14:00,916
- - I know you're afraid.
- - I'm not hiding it.
- 1565
- 02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:02,126
- Okay-
- 1566
- 02:14:09,467 --> 02:14:12,053
- - What's your worst fear?
- - Baby born like me.
- 1567
- 02:14:12,136 --> 02:14:14,597
- Then I will love
- it all the more.
- 1568
- 02:14:16,599 --> 02:14:21,562
- Okay. How can I be a father when I'm
- heading in the other direction?
- 1569
- 02:14:22,188 --> 02:14:25,524
- It's not fair to a child. I don't
- want to be anybody's burden.
- 1570
- 02:14:25,608 --> 02:14:28,486
- Sugar, we all end up in diapers.
- 1571
- 02:14:29,945 --> 02:14:31,989
- I am gonna make this work.
- 1572
- 02:14:34,658 --> 02:14:37,578
- I want this, and I
- want it with you.
- 1573
- 02:14:37,661 --> 02:14:41,082
- I want you to have everything
- you want, all of it.
- 1574
- 02:14:41,165 --> 02:14:44,377
- I'm just not sure how
- to reconcile this.
- 1575
- 02:14:44,460 --> 02:14:46,580
- Would you telic a blind man
- he couldn't have children?
- 1576
- 02:14:46,629 --> 02:14:48,214
- Here you go.
- 1577
- 02:14:48,297 --> 02:14:51,759
- You'll be a father for
- as long as you can.
- 1578
- 02:14:51,842 --> 02:14:54,637
- I know the consequences.
- I've accepted that.
- 1579
- 02:14:54,720 --> 02:14:57,348
- Loving you is worth
- everything to me.
- 1580
- 02:15:01,852 --> 02:15:03,521
- I have to go pee.
- 1581
- 02:15:17,576 --> 02:15:19,829
- The oldest woman to ever
- swim the English Channel
- 1582
- 02:15:19,912 --> 02:15:21,664
- arrived here today in Calais...
- 1583
- 02:15:21,747 --> 02:15:24,250
- - Keep it.
- - Having made the swim in 34 hours,
- 1584
- 02:15:24,333 --> 02:15:26,544
- 22 minutes and 14 seconds.
- 1585
- 02:15:26,627 --> 02:15:31,465
- The 68-year-old Elizabeth Abbott
- arrived at 5:38 Greenwich mean time,
- 1586
- 02:15:31,549 --> 02:15:33,342
- exhausted but happy.
- 1587
- 02:15:33,426 --> 02:15:36,971
- Miss Abbott, how would you sum
- up, in words, this achievement?
- 1588
- 02:15:37,054 --> 02:15:38,681
- I suppose...
- 1589
- 02:15:40,057 --> 02:15:41,809
- Anything's possible.
- 1590
- 02:15:45,813 --> 02:15:46,981
- - All right?
- - Yes. Thank you.
- 1591
- 02:15:47,064 --> 02:15:48,065
- - You ready?
- - Thank you very much.
- 1592
- 02:15:48,149 --> 02:15:50,109
- Thank you. Thank you all.
- 1593
- 02:15:50,192 --> 02:15:52,194
- - Yeah.
- - You're very kind.
- 1594
- 02:15:59,410 --> 02:16:03,289
- In the spring, on a
- day like any other...
- 1595
- 02:16:04,040 --> 02:16:06,042
- I'll be back in an hour!
- 1596
- 02:16:11,047 --> 02:16:12,256
- Honey?
- 1597
- 02:16:14,300 --> 02:16:16,344
- Go and call an ambulance!
- 1598
- 02:16:19,263 --> 02:16:20,931
- The baby's coming.
- 1599
- 02:16:21,766 --> 02:16:22,808
- Operator, I need an ambulance.
- 1600
- 02:16:22,892 --> 02:16:25,353
- - The baby's coming!
- - 2714 Napoleon.
- 1601
- 02:16:32,568 --> 02:16:35,279
- There you go. Keep breathing.
- 1602
- 02:16:36,155 --> 02:16:38,574
- Deep breaths. Push.
- 1603
- 02:16:48,459 --> 02:16:49,877
- There we go.
- 1604
- 02:17:06,268 --> 02:17:09,647
- Everyone's fine. She's a
- perfectly healthy baby girl.
- 1605
- 02:17:16,529 --> 02:17:17,738
- Honey?
- 1606
- 02:17:19,657 --> 02:17:23,327
- She gave birth to a five
- pound, four ounce baby girl.
- 1607
- 02:17:39,510 --> 02:17:41,429
- Did you count the toes?
- 1608
- 02:17:45,725 --> 02:17:47,268
- She's perfect.
- 1609
- 02:17:47,685 --> 02:17:50,980
- "And we named her for
- my mother, Caroline."
- 1610
- 02:17:54,692 --> 02:17:56,861
- This Benjamin was my father?
- 1611
- 02:17:58,362 --> 02:18:00,531
- And this is how you telic me?
- 1612
- 02:18:06,078 --> 02:18:07,455
- Excuse me.
- 1613
- 02:18:17,923 --> 02:18:20,676
- Because all the ingredients
- are there for a major storm,
- 1614
- 02:18:20,760 --> 02:18:23,346
- possibly even up
- to a Category 5.
- 1615
- 02:18:30,061 --> 02:18:33,773
- Hey, I know it's hard.
- You can't smoke in here.
- 1616
- 02:18:37,026 --> 02:18:39,028
- Nobody can telic you exactly
- where it's gonna hit,
- 1617
- 02:18:39,111 --> 02:18:41,238
- but we have to go with the
- guidance that we have,
- 1618
- 02:18:41,322 --> 02:18:45,076
- incorporate that information
- and then pass it along to you.
- 1619
- 02:18:51,916 --> 02:18:56,754
- "You grew as the doctor had
- promised. Normal and healthy."
- 1620
- 02:19:05,429 --> 02:19:08,557
- You're gonna have to find
- a real father for her.
- 1621
- 02:19:11,686 --> 02:19:13,479
- What are you talking about?
- 1622
- 02:19:13,562 --> 02:19:16,857
- She's gonna need someone
- to grow old with.
- 1623
- 02:19:16,941 --> 02:19:19,777
- She'll learn to accept whatever
- happens. She loves you.
- 1624
- 02:19:19,860 --> 02:19:22,613
- Honey, she needs a
- father, not a playmate.
- 1625
- 02:19:26,742 --> 02:19:28,035
- - Is it me?
- - Of course not.
- 1626
- 02:19:28,119 --> 02:19:30,199
- - Is my age beginning to bother you?
- - Of course not.
- 1627
- 02:19:30,204 --> 02:19:34,250
- - Is that what you're telling me?
- - You can't raise the both of us.
- 1628
- 02:19:42,883 --> 02:19:47,805
- It was your first birthday.
- We had a party for you.
- 1629
- 02:19:48,556 --> 02:19:50,391
- The house was filled
- with children.
- 1630
- 02:19:50,474 --> 02:19:52,435
- - How are you?
- - Hey, man.
- 1631
- 02:19:52,518 --> 02:19:56,188
- Before you turn around, they'll
- be in high school, dating.
- 1632
- 02:20:28,596 --> 02:20:32,600
- I sold the summer house
- on Lake Pontchartrain,
- 1633
- 02:20:32,683 --> 02:20:35,436
- I sold Button's Buttons,
- 1634
- 02:20:35,519 --> 02:20:40,066
- I sold my father's sailboat, put
- it all into a savings account.
- 1635
- 02:20:42,318 --> 02:20:45,529
- And so that you and your
- mother might have a life,
- 1636
- 02:20:46,739 --> 02:20:50,701
- I left, before you could
- ever remember me.
- 1637
- 02:21:40,376 --> 02:21:42,586
- "I left with just the
- clothes on my back."
- 1638
- 02:21:43,921 --> 02:21:48,592
- I don't want to read this now. Can
- you just telic me where he went?
- 1639
- 02:21:50,052 --> 02:21:52,304
- I don't really know.
- 1640
- 02:22:03,566 --> 02:22:08,529
- It's for me. 1970. I was two.
- "Happy Birthday."
- 1641
- 02:22:11,282 --> 02:22:14,160
- "I wish I could have
- kissed you good night."
- 1642
- 02:22:19,248 --> 02:22:21,000
- They're all for me.
- 1643
- 02:22:22,001 --> 02:22:27,006
- Five. "I wish I could have taken
- you to your first day of school."
- 1644
- 02:22:31,510 --> 02:22:37,391
- six. "I wish I could have been
- there to teach you to play piano."
- 1645
- 02:22:40,811 --> 02:22:43,773
- 1981,13.
- 1646
- 02:22:43,856 --> 02:22:47,193
- "I wish I could have told
- you not to chase some boy."
- 1647
- 02:22:48,486 --> 02:22:52,156
- "I wish I could have held you
- when you had a broken heart."
- 1648
- 02:22:53,657 --> 02:22:59,455
- "I wish I could have been your father.
- Nothing I ever did will replace that."
- 1649
- 02:23:06,921 --> 02:23:09,465
- I guess he went to India.
- 1650
- 02:23:09,548 --> 02:23:12,009
- "For what it's worth,
- it's never too late,
- 1651
- 02:23:12,093 --> 02:23:14,573
- - "or, in my case, too early. .
- - Or, in my case, too early,
- 1652
- 02:23:15,179 --> 02:23:17,181
- to be whoever you want to be.
- 1653
- 02:23:21,185 --> 02:23:23,896
- There's no time limit.
- Start whenever you want.
- 1654
- 02:23:26,774 --> 02:23:31,278
- You can change or stay the same.
- There are no rules to this thing.
- 1655
- 02:23:33,823 --> 02:23:37,326
- We can make the best
- or the worst of it.
- 1656
- 02:23:37,410 --> 02:23:39,745
- And I hope you make
- the best of it.
- 1657
- 02:23:42,832 --> 02:23:45,543
- I hope you see things
- that startle you.
- 1658
- 02:23:47,712 --> 02:23:51,215
- I hope you feel things
- you never felt before.
- 1659
- 02:23:53,676 --> 02:23:57,221
- I hope you meet people with
- a different point of view.
- 1660
- 02:23:58,347 --> 02:24:01,058
- I hope you live a
- life you're proud of.
- 1661
- 02:24:04,061 --> 02:24:09,108
- And if you find that you're not,
- I hope you have the strength
- 1662
- 02:24:09,191 --> 02:24:12,403
- - to start all over again.
- - "...start all over again."
- 1663
- 02:24:13,946 --> 02:24:17,700
- He had been gone a longtime.
- 1664
- 02:24:19,452 --> 02:24:21,579
- I'll see you next Thursday.
- 1665
- 02:24:24,540 --> 02:24:27,918
- - Good night, Miss Daisy.
- - Oh, good night, sweetheart.
- 1666
- 02:24:45,770 --> 02:24:47,772
- I'm sorry, we're closing.
- 1667
- 02:24:50,691 --> 02:24:52,276
- Can I help you?
- 1668
- 02:24:53,819 --> 02:24:56,280
- Are you here to
- pick somebody up?
- 1669
- 02:25:06,624 --> 02:25:08,501
- Why did you come back?
- 1670
- 02:25:10,086 --> 02:25:13,506
- Mom?
- 1671
- 02:25:14,715 --> 02:25:16,258
- You ready yet?
- 1672
- 02:25:19,220 --> 02:25:20,346
- Mom, what's wrong?
- 1673
- 02:25:20,429 --> 02:25:24,016
- I was just hearing a very sad
- story about a mutual friend
- 1674
- 02:25:24,100 --> 02:25:26,811
- who I hadn't seen for
- a very long time.
- 1675
- 02:25:28,062 --> 02:25:30,815
- Caroline, this is Benjamin.
- 1676
- 02:25:30,898 --> 02:25:33,651
- You knew him when you
- were just a baby.
- 1677
- 02:25:36,070 --> 02:25:37,321
- - Hi.
- - Hi.
- 1678
- 02:25:39,240 --> 02:25:41,158
- - He!
- 1679
- 02:25:43,119 --> 02:25:47,957
- - Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were done.
- - Oh, this is a friend of my family's.
- 1680
- 02:25:48,040 --> 02:25:53,004
- Benjamin Button, this
- is my husband, Robert.
- 1681
- 02:25:53,087 --> 02:25:55,506
- - How do you do?
- - A pleasure.
- 1682
- 02:26:03,639 --> 02:26:06,642
- Well, it was very
- nice to meet you.
- 1683
- 02:26:06,726 --> 02:26:08,561
- - We'll be in the car, darling.
- - All right.
- 1684
- 02:26:08,644 --> 02:26:09,812
- Bye.
- 1685
- 02:26:10,521 --> 02:26:12,314
- I'm just locking up.
- 1686
- 02:26:17,028 --> 02:26:18,154
- Wow.
- 1687
- 02:26:20,656 --> 02:26:23,534
- She's beautiful.
- Like her mother.
- 1688
- 02:26:25,119 --> 02:26:27,621
- - Does she dance?
- - Not very well.
- 1689
- 02:26:27,705 --> 02:26:29,623
- I guess that'd be from
- my side of things.
- 1690
- 02:26:29,707 --> 02:26:31,709
- She's a dear, sweet girl.
- 1691
- 02:26:32,877 --> 02:26:37,256
- She seems a little lost.
- But then, who isn't at 12?
- 1692
- 02:26:37,423 --> 02:26:41,719
- A lot of her reminds me of you.
- 1693
- 02:26:42,553 --> 02:26:46,557
- My husband, he's a widower,
- or was. . . Was a widower.
- 1694
- 02:26:46,891 --> 02:26:50,853
- He's an incredibly kind, just
- bright, adventurous man.
- 1695
- 02:26:53,981 --> 02:26:56,734
- - He's been a terrific father.
- - Good.
- 1696
- 02:27:01,405 --> 02:27:05,326
- - You are so much younger.
- - Only on the outside.
- 1697
- 02:27:07,411 --> 02:27:08,954
- You were right.
- 1698
- 02:27:10,706 --> 02:27:14,085
- I couldn't have been
- raising both of you.
- 1699
- 02:27:14,168 --> 02:27:15,961
- I'm not that strong.
- 1700
- 02:27:20,132 --> 02:27:22,218
- So, where are you staying?
- 1701
- 02:27:24,845 --> 02:27:25,846
- What are you gonna do?
- 1702
- 02:27:25,930 --> 02:27:29,767
- I'm staying at the Pontchartrain
- Hotel on the Avenue.
- 1703
- 02:27:29,850 --> 02:27:33,396
- I don't know what I'm gonna do.
- 1704
- 02:27:33,479 --> 02:27:34,689
- But. . .
- 1705
- 02:27:41,153 --> 02:27:42,822
- They're waiting.
- 1706
- 02:28:24,947 --> 02:28:28,242
- I remember that. That was him?
- 1707
- 02:28:30,870 --> 02:28:32,079
- The hurricane has
- changed directions.
- 1708
- 02:28:32,163 --> 02:28:33,998
- It's going to make
- landfall sometime soon.
- 1709
- 02:28:34,081 --> 02:28:35,833
- - Am I supposed to do something?
- - Arrangements are being made
- 1710
- 02:28:35,916 --> 02:28:37,168
- to move people, but
- it's up to you.
- 1711
- 02:28:37,251 --> 02:28:39,128
- No. No, we're. . .
- We're staying.
- 1712
- 02:28:39,211 --> 02:28:41,881
- I'll let you know if
- anything changes.
- 1713
- 02:28:43,883 --> 02:28:48,262
- "That night, while I was sitting and
- wondering why I came back at all,"
- 1714
- 02:28:48,346 --> 02:28:50,681
- "there was a knock at the door."
- 1715
- 02:28:54,310 --> 02:28:55,561
- Come in.
- 1716
- 02:29:09,867 --> 02:29:11,535
- Are you all right?
- 1717
- 02:29:14,622 --> 02:29:18,751
- I'm sorry, I don't know
- what I'm doing here.
- 1718
- 02:29:27,760 --> 02:29:29,303
- Nothing lasts.
- 1719
- 02:29:32,723 --> 02:29:35,101
- I have never stopped loving you.
- 1720
- 02:29:41,065 --> 02:29:43,818
- Oh, but, Benjamin, I'm
- an old woman now.
- 1721
- 02:29:54,412 --> 02:29:56,664
- Some things you never forget.
- 1722
- 02:30:16,934 --> 02:30:18,019
- So few people even know
- 1723
- 02:30:18,102 --> 02:30:19,812
- that you were ever in
- jail in the first place.
- 1724
- 02:30:19,895 --> 02:30:22,106
- I'll telic you, I am
- sick about it, too,
- 1725
- 02:30:22,189 --> 02:30:24,775
- because. Please, if they're
- not gonna give you an award
- 1726
- 02:30:24,859 --> 02:30:26,944
- like "Man of the Year." at
- least what they could do
- 1727
- 02:30:27,028 --> 02:30:29,697
- is stop having you
- listed as an ex-convict
- 1728
- 02:30:29,780 --> 02:30:32,324
- which I think is,
- again, so unfair.
- 1729
- 02:30:45,087 --> 02:30:46,922
- Good night, Benjamin.
- 1730
- 02:30:48,424 --> 02:30:50,134
- Good night, Daisy.
- 1731
- 02:30:53,304 --> 02:30:57,558
- And as I knew I would,
- I watched her go.
- 1732
- 02:31:00,269 --> 02:31:02,605
- That's the last thing he wrote.
- 1733
- 02:31:03,731 --> 02:31:08,319
- Sometime after your
- father passed,
- 1734
- 02:31:08,402 --> 02:31:11,280
- there was a call.
- 1735
- 02:31:14,325 --> 02:31:15,493
- Hello.
- 1736
- 02:31:16,577 --> 02:31:18,120
- Yes, speaking.
- 1737
- 02:31:21,415 --> 02:31:23,918
- I'm sorry, I don't understand.
- 1738
- 02:31:33,719 --> 02:31:35,638
- It's the corner house.
- 1739
- 02:31:57,785 --> 02:31:59,203
- Come on in.
- 1740
- 02:32:04,750 --> 02:32:06,794
- - I'm Daisy Fuller.
- - I'm David Hernandez,
- 1741
- 02:32:06,877 --> 02:32:10,631
- with the Orleans Parish Department
- of Child Welfare Services.
- 1742
- 02:32:10,715 --> 02:32:13,384
- He was living in a
- condemned building.
- 1743
- 02:32:15,136 --> 02:32:17,471
- The police found this with him.
- 1744
- 02:32:17,555 --> 02:32:20,516
- This address. It's got
- your name in it a lot.
- 1745
- 02:32:21,684 --> 02:32:24,311
- He's in very poor health. He
- was taken to the hospital.
- 1746
- 02:32:24,395 --> 02:32:28,482
- He doesn't seem to know who or
- where he is. He's very confused.
- 1747
- 02:32:28,566 --> 02:32:32,153
- I was telling Mr. Hernandez
- that Benjamin is one of us.
- 1748
- 02:32:32,236 --> 02:32:36,073
- If he needs a place to stay, it's
- all right, he can stay here.
- 1749
- 02:33:05,519 --> 02:33:06,812
- Benjamin?
- 1750
- 02:33:10,649 --> 02:33:12,485
- You play beautifully.
- 1751
- 02:33:15,946 --> 02:33:17,823
- He doesn't seem to
- like to be touched.
- 1752
- 02:33:17,907 --> 02:33:19,627
- He goes in and out of
- states of recognition.
- 1753
- 02:33:19,658 --> 02:33:21,327
- The doctors say, if they
- didn't know any better,
- 1754
- 02:33:21,410 --> 02:33:23,871
- he has the beginnings
- of dementia.
- 1755
- 02:33:25,623 --> 02:33:27,416
- Do you remember me?
- 1756
- 02:33:30,544 --> 02:33:31,921
- I'm Daisy.
- 1757
- 02:33:34,465 --> 02:33:35,966
- I'm Benjamin.
- 1758
- 02:33:41,639 --> 02:33:44,350
- It's nice to meet you, Benjamin.
- 1759
- 02:33:46,018 --> 02:33:51,440
- Would you mind if I sit with you?
- I would love to hear you play.
- 1760
- 02:33:55,277 --> 02:33:56,821
- Do I know you?
- 1761
- 02:34:01,742 --> 02:34:03,411
- - I want some breakfast.
- - And every day.
- 1762
- 02:34:03,494 --> 02:34:07,456
- I would stop by to make sure
- that he was comfortable.
- 1763
- 02:34:07,540 --> 02:34:10,209
- - No, I didn't.
- - You just finished eating.
- 1764
- 02:34:10,292 --> 02:34:12,628
- Don't think I don't
- know what you're doing!
- 1765
- 02:34:12,712 --> 02:34:15,464
- You're all fucking liars!
- 1766
- 02:34:15,548 --> 02:34:18,509
- He doesn't believe he
- just had his breakfast.
- 1767
- 02:34:19,802 --> 02:34:23,431
- Now, why don't we see
- 1768
- 02:34:23,514 --> 02:34:26,934
- if we can't find something
- else for you to do?
- 1769
- 02:34:27,059 --> 02:34:30,271
- I have a feeling there's a lot
- of things I can't remember.
- 1770
- 02:34:30,354 --> 02:34:32,273
- Well, like what, sugar?
- 1771
- 02:34:33,524 --> 02:34:37,528
- It's like there's this
- whole life I had,
- 1772
- 02:34:38,988 --> 02:34:41,407
- and I can't remember
- what it was.
- 1773
- 02:34:44,201 --> 02:34:45,536
- It's okay.
- 1774
- 02:34:47,621 --> 02:34:49,123
- It's okay to forget things.
- 1775
- 02:34:49,331 --> 02:34:54,920
- Many times, he would simply
- forget who or where he was.
- 1776
- 02:34:55,212 --> 02:34:56,922
- There he is, he's up
- there on the roof.
- 1777
- 02:34:57,006 --> 02:34:58,716
- It wasn't easy.
- 1778
- 02:34:58,799 --> 02:35:01,052
- - Benjamin!
- - I can see everything!
- 1779
- 02:35:01,135 --> 02:35:02,928
- - I can see the big river!
- - That's right,
- 1780
- 02:35:03,012 --> 02:35:04,764
- you can see everything,
- sweetheart.
- 1781
- 02:35:04,847 --> 02:35:06,849
- I can see the graveyard
- where Mama's buried,
- 1782
- 02:35:06,932 --> 02:35:10,311
- - and all those other people.
- - I want you to come down!
- 1783
- 02:35:10,394 --> 02:35:14,190
- - What if I could fly?
- - I knew a man who could fly.
- 1784
- 02:35:15,149 --> 02:35:18,152
- You come down and I'll
- tells you all about him.
- 1785
- 02:35:21,697 --> 02:35:23,324
- Somebody go up there.
- 1786
- 02:35:29,914 --> 02:35:32,875
- He was five when I moved in.
- 1787
- 02:35:32,958 --> 02:35:37,463
- Nearly the same age I
- was when I had met him.
- 1788
- 02:35:43,427 --> 02:35:47,390
- "This is the picture
- of Old Man Kangaroo"
- 1789
- 02:35:47,473 --> 02:35:49,934
- "at 5:00 in the afternoon"
- 1790
- 02:35:50,017 --> 02:35:53,521
- "when he had got his
- beautiful hind legs."
- 1791
- 02:35:54,730 --> 02:35:56,023
- The days passed.
- 1792
- 02:35:56,107 --> 02:36:00,403
- And I watched as he
- forgot how to walk
- 1793
- 02:36:05,616 --> 02:36:08,077
- - and how to talk.
- - What's my name?
- 1794
- 02:36:08,494 --> 02:36:09,870
- I'm Daisy.
- 1795
- 02:36:10,996 --> 02:36:12,790
- Can you say "Daisy"?
- 1796
- 02:36:14,333 --> 02:36:19,630
- In 2002, they put up a new
- clock in that train station.
- 1797
- 02:36:26,470 --> 02:36:30,266
- And in the spring of 2003,
- 1798
- 02:36:34,603 --> 02:36:36,313
- he looked at me
- 1799
- 02:36:38,774 --> 02:36:43,863
- and I knew that he
- knew who I was.
- 1800
- 02:36:47,366 --> 02:36:53,205
- And then he closed his
- eyes as if to go to sleep.
- 1801
- 02:37:25,738 --> 02:37:29,950
- - I wish I'd known him.
- - Now you do.
- 1802
- 02:37:34,413 --> 02:37:38,209
- Mom, I think I should
- go see what's going on.
- 1803
- 02:37:45,216 --> 02:37:47,301
- Good night, Benjamin.
- 1804
- 02:38:09,657 --> 02:38:12,034
- We're expecting flash flooding
- after the levee break.
- 1805
- 02:38:12,118 --> 02:38:14,412
- It occurred in the Ninth Ward.
- 1806
- 02:38:17,415 --> 02:38:20,251
- Some people are born
- to sit by a river.
- 1807
- 02:38:21,752 --> 02:38:23,754
- Some get struck by lightning.
- 1808
- 02:38:25,589 --> 02:38:27,758
- Some have an ear for music.
- 1809
- 02:38:29,301 --> 02:38:30,970
- Some are artists.
- 1810
- 02:38:32,263 --> 02:38:33,639
- Some swim.
- 1811
- 02:38:35,057 --> 02:38:36,726
- Some know buttons.
- 1812
- 02:38:38,477 --> 02:38:39,895
- Some know Shakespeare.
- 1813
- 02:38:41,022 --> 02:38:42,815
- Some are mothers.
- 1814
- 02:38:42,825 --> 02:38:47,825
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