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And I'll telic you what, the storm
system's still moving west.

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What are you looking
at, Caroline?

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The wind, Mom.

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They say the
hurricane is coming.

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I'm on a boat.

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I'm drifting.

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Can I do anything for you, Mom?

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Make anything easier?

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Oh, sugar...

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There's nothing left to do.

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Is what it is.

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Finding it harder to
keep my eyes open.

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My mouth's full of cotton.

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There, there, Miss Daisy.

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You gonna scratch
yourself to ribbons.

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Do you want any more
medication, Mother?

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Doctor said you could
have as much as you want.

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No need for anybody to suffer.

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A friend told me that she
never had the chance

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to say goodbye to her mother.

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- I wanted to...
- It's okay.

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I wanted to telic you how
much I'm gonna miss you so...

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Mom.

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Oh, Caroline.

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Are you afraid?

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I'm curious.

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What comes next?

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They built the train
station in 1918.

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My father was there
the day it opened.

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He said they had

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a tuba band playing.

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They had the finest clockmaker
in all of the South

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to build that glorious clock.

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His name was...

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Mr. Gateau.

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Mr. Cake.

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He was married to a Creole
of Evangeline Parish

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and they had a son.

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Mr. Gateau was, from
birth, absolutely blind.

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When their son was old enough.
He joined the army.

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And they prayed God would
keep him out of harm's way.

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For months, he did nothing
but work on that clock.

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One day.

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A letter came.

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And Mr. Gateau,
done for the night,

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went up, alone, to bed.

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And their son came home.

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They buried him in
the family plot,

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where he would be with
them when their time came.

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Mr. Cake worked on his clock,

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laboring to finish.

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It was a morning to remember.

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Papa said there were
people everywhere.

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Even Teddy Roosevelt came.

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It's running backwards!

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I made it that way

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so that perhaps the boys
that we lost in the war

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might stand and come home again.

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Home to farm,

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work,

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have children.

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To live long, full lives.

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Perhaps my own son
might come home again.

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I'm sorry if I've
offended anybody.

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I hope you enjoy my clock.

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Mr. Cake was never seen again.

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Some say he died
of a broken heart.

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Some say he went to sea.

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Excuse me.

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Do you mind if I make a call?
Somebody's watching my little boy.

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Sure.

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I hope I haven't
disappointed you.

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You couldn't disappoint me.

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Well, I know I don't have
much to show for myself.

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Find my dark suitcase.

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There's a diary.

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This?

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Could you read it to me?

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Is this what you want to do?

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I tried to read it a
hundred different times.

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Mom, it's not exactly...

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It's just the sound of
your voice, darling.

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Okay-

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It's dated April 4th, 1985.

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And it says New Orleans.

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"This is my last
will and testament."

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"I don't have much to leave, few
possessions, no money, really."

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"I will go out of this world the same
way I came in, alone and with nothing."

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"All I have is my story,"

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"and I'm writing it now
while I still remember it."

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"My name is Benjamin.
Benjamin Button."

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And I was born under
unusual circumstances.

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The First World War had ended,

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and I've been told it was an
especially good night to be born.

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Thank God it's over!

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We won the war!

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The Great War is over!

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What are you doing here?

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Thomas,

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I'm afraid she's going to die.

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What?

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That's enough. All of
you, get away from her.

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I came as quickly as I could. The
streets are filled with people.

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Thomas.

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Promise me he has a place.

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Yeah.

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She gave her life for me.

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And for that, I am
forever grateful.

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Mr. Button.

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Thomas!

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Thomas.

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Thomas? Where are you going?

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Hey! What are you doing there?

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What do you have there?

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- Come on, Queenie.
- Now, Mr. Weathers!

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Come on, now, you know I ain't got
nothing but work to do around here.

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- Come on. Just take some time.
- Stop all this foolishness.

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The air is sweet.

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You look very handsome
tonight, Miss Queenie.

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Handsome as We ever seen.

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The brown matches your eyes.

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Oh, hush!

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Let's see here. You ain't
no slouch yourself.

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Hambert's back in town.

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He came home Legless,
but he's home.

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I know you were sweet
on him one time.

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Sweeter than I should've been.

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Miss Simone messed herself.

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Oh, sweet Jesus.

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She got to stop doing that
or it's diapers for her.

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- I'll be right there, Miss Jameson!
- Now, Queenie, now come on.

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Okay, Queenie'll be right there.

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It's awful nice out here.

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Come on out back for a moment.
Take your mind off things.

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You're so bad.

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- What in God's name?
- What's this?

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Oh, the Lord done
something here.

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Hope I didn't hurt it none
stepping on it like that.

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We best leave that
for the police.

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Poor baby.

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I'll go.

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It's for sure nobody wanted
to keep it. Come on, baby.

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Queenie? Where are you, Queenie?

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Hold your water! You
go deal with it.

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Okay. No, go, I'll be back.

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Queenie. Apple, she went and
messed herself all over again!

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Jane Childress,
start her a bath!

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And mind your own
business, Mrs. Duprey.

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You'll be messing
yourself soon enough.

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Somebody stole my necklace.

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Okay. All right, Mrs. Hollister,
I'll be right with you, okay?

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Go on back upstairs, hear?

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You are as ugly as an old pot

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but you're still a child of God.

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Queenie. Apple, she won't
take a bath without you!

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Mercy.

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I'll be right there!

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Okay. You just wait right
here for me now, okay?

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My sister gave me those pearls.
I can'! Find them anywhere.

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- Somebody's been stealing my jewelry.
- They're right here, Mrs. Hollister. See?

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Right around your pretty white neck.
Now, come on. Hush all that noise.

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- Is Dr. Rose still here?
- I don't know.

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Your heart is strong.

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You just want to avoid
any undue stimulation.

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I trust you ladies will
help me outwith that?

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I have something. Could
you come downstairs?

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Never seen anything like it.
Nearly blind from cataracts.

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I'm not sure if he can hear. His
bones indicate severe arthritis.

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His skin has lost all elasticity, and
his hands and feet are ossified.

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He shows all the deterioration, the
infirmities, not of a newborn,

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but of a man well in his 803
on his way to the grave.

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He's dying?

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His body is failing him
before his life's begun.

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Where'd he come from?

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My sister's child. From Lafayette.
She had an unfortunate adventure.

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The poor child, he got the
worst of it. Come out white.

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There are places for unwanted
babies like these. Queenie.

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No room for another
mouth to feed here.

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The Nolan Foundation, despite
their good intentions,

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thinks this place is a
large nuisance as it is.

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- A baby...
- You said he don't have long.

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Queenie. Some creatures
aren't meant to survive.

186
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No. This baby, he is a miracle.
That's for certain.

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Just not the kind of
miracle one hopes to see.

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Y'all listen. Y'all
listen up here.

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We're gonna have us a visitor

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that's gonna be staying
with us for a little while.

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My sister had a child and she
couldn't see right by it, so...

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He's known as. . .

193
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I loved her very much.

231
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She was my mother.

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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
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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


480
00:36:13,257 --> 00:36:15,676
What are you doing under there?


481
00:36:15,676 --> 00:36:15,760


482
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,221
You come right out here
and get back up to bed!


483
00:36:19,221 --> 00:36:19,305


484
00:36:19,305 --> 00:36:21,098
It's after midnight!


485
00:36:21,098 --> 00:36:21,182


486
00:36:21,182 --> 00:36:22,000
You are not to be
playing together.


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


934
01:10:10,086 --> 01:10:12,755
When I couldn't go any further,


935
01:10:12,755 --> 01:10:14,298


936
01:10:14,298 --> 01:10:15,800
I stopped.


937
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:17,134


938
01:10:17,134 --> 01:10:18,803
I just stopped.


939
01:10:18,803 --> 01:10:19,345


940
01:10:19,345 --> 01:10:22,000
And everybody asked me.
Would I try again?


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