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

2
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What are you looking
at, Caroline?

3
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The wind, Mom.

4
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They say the
hurricane is coming.

5
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I'm on a boat.

6
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I'm drifting.

7
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Can I do anything for you, Mom?

8
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Make anything easier?

9
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Oh, sugar...

10
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There's nothing left to do.

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Is what it is.

12
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Finding it harder to
keep my eyes open.

13
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My mouth's full of cotton.

14
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There, there, Miss Daisy.

15
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You gonna scratch
yourself to ribbons.

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Do you want any more
medication, Mother?

17
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Doctor said you could
have as much as you want.

18
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No need for anybody to suffer.

19
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A friend told me that she
never had the chance

20
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to say goodbye to her mother.

21
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- I wanted to...
- It's okay.

22
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I wanted to telic you how
much I'm gonna miss you so...

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Mom.

24
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Oh, Caroline.

25
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Are you afraid?

26
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I'm curious.

27
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What comes next?

28
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They built the train
station in 1918.

29
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My father was there
the day it opened.

30
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He said they had

31
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a tuba band playing.

32
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They had the finest clockmaker
in all of the South

33
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to build that glorious clock.

34
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His name was...

35
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Mr. Gateau.

36
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Mr. Cake.

37
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He was married to a Creole
of Evangeline Parish

38
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and they had a son.

39
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Mr. Gateau was, from
birth, absolutely blind.

40
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When their son was old enough.
He joined the army.

41
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And they prayed God would
keep him out of harm's way.

42
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For months, he did nothing
but work on that clock.

43
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One day.

44
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A letter came.

45
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And Mr. Gateau,
done for the night,

46
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went up, alone, to bed.

47
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And their son came home.

48
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They buried him in
the family plot,

49
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where he would be with
them when their time came.

50
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Mr. Cake worked on his clock,

51
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laboring to finish.

52
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It was a morning to remember.

53
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Papa said there were
people everywhere.

54
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Even Teddy Roosevelt came.

55
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It's running backwards!

56
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I made it that way

57
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so that perhaps the boys
that we lost in the war

58
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might stand and come home again.

59
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Home to farm,

60
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work,

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have children.

62
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To live long, full lives.

63
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Perhaps my own son
might come home again.

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I'm sorry if I've
offended anybody.

65
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I hope you enjoy my clock.

66
00:06:03,396 --> 00:06:07,300
Mr. Cake was never seen again.

67
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Some say he died
of a broken heart.

68
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Some say he went to sea.

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Excuse me.

70
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Do you mind if I make a call?
Somebody's watching my little boy.

71
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Sure.

72
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I hope I haven't
disappointed you.

73
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You couldn't disappoint me.

74
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Well, I know I don't have
much to show for myself.

75
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Find my dark suitcase.

76
00:07:01,788 --> 00:07:04,724
There's a diary.

77
00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:07,961
This?

78
00:07:10,697 --> 00:07:13,600
Could you read it to me?

79
00:07:14,670 --> 00:07:16,403
Is this what you want to do?

80
00:07:16,469 --> 00:07:20,407
I tried to read it a
hundred different times.

81
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Mom, it's not exactly...

82
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It's just the sound of
your voice, darling.

83
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Okay-

84
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It's dated April 4th, 1985.

85
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And it says New Orleans.

86
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"This is my last
will and testament."

87
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"I don't have much to leave, few
possessions, no money, really."

88
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"I will go out of this world the same
way I came in, alone and with nothing."

89
00:07:51,738 --> 00:07:53,606
"All I have is my story,"

90
00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:57,110
"and I'm writing it now
while I still remember it."

91
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"My name is Benjamin.
Benjamin Button."

92
00:08:01,414 --> 00:08:04,584
And I was born under
unusual circumstances.

93
00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,754
The First World War had ended,

94
00:08:08,421 --> 00:08:12,325
and I've been told it was an
especially good night to be born.

95
00:08:13,927 --> 00:08:16,129
Thank God it's over!

96
00:08:16,196 --> 00:08:18,310
We won the war!

97
00:08:32,946 --> 00:08:34,781
The Great War is over!

98
00:08:46,993 --> 00:08:48,280
What are you doing here?

99
00:08:48,128 --> 00:08:49,462
Thomas,

100
00:08:50,663 --> 00:08:52,132
I'm afraid she's going to die.

101
00:08:52,198 --> 00:08:53,400
What?

102
00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:58,204
That's enough. All of
you, get away from her.

103
00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:04,511
I came as quickly as I could. The
streets are filled with people.

104
00:09:04,577 --> 00:09:05,879
Thomas.

105
00:09:06,346 --> 00:09:08,982
Promise me he has a place.

106
00:09:11,351 --> 00:09:12,519
Yeah.

107
00:09:13,853 --> 00:09:15,889
She gave her life for me.

108
00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:19,893
And for that, I am
forever grateful.

109
00:09:29,502 --> 00:09:30,904
Mr. Button.

110
00:09:46,186 --> 00:09:47,420
Thomas!

111
00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:48,788
Thomas.

112
00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:52,959
Thomas? Where are you going?

113
00:10:21,554 --> 00:10:23,923
Hey! What are you doing there?

114
00:10:25,125 --> 00:10:27,227
What do you have there?

115
00:11:24,818 --> 00:11:27,187
- Come on, Queenie.
- Now, Mr. Weathers!

116
00:11:27,287 --> 00:11:30,657
Come on, now, you know I ain't got
nothing but work to do around here.

117
00:11:30,724 --> 00:11:33,930
- Come on. Just take some time.
- Stop all this foolishness.

118
00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:37,997
The air is sweet.

119
00:11:42,402 --> 00:11:45,505
You look very handsome
tonight, Miss Queenie.

120
00:11:46,806 --> 00:11:48,975
Handsome as We ever seen.

121
00:11:50,377 --> 00:11:52,645
The brown matches your eyes.

122
00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:54,800
Oh, hush!

123
00:11:55,515 --> 00:11:59,686
Let's see here. You ain't
no slouch yourself.

124
00:12:08,228 --> 00:12:10,630
Hambert's back in town.

125
00:12:10,163 --> 00:12:13,933
He came home Legless,
but he's home.

126
00:12:14,901 --> 00:12:17,570
I know you were sweet
on him one time.

127
00:12:18,710 --> 00:12:19,939
Sweeter than I should've been.

128
00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,941
Miss Simone messed herself.

129
00:12:22,420 --> 00:12:23,276
Oh, sweet Jesus.

130
00:12:23,376 --> 00:12:25,912
She got to stop doing that
or it's diapers for her.

131
00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,810
- I'll be right there, Miss Jameson!
- Now, Queenie, now come on.

132
00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:30,750
Okay, Queenie'll be right there.

133
00:12:30,850 --> 00:12:32,850
It's awful nice out here.

134
00:12:32,185 --> 00:12:35,422
Come on out back for a moment.
Take your mind off things.

135
00:12:35,522 --> 00:12:36,556
You're so bad.

136
00:12:36,623 --> 00:12:39,125
- What in God's name?
- What's this?

137
00:12:49,469 --> 00:12:51,738
Oh, the Lord done
something here.

138
00:12:51,805 --> 00:12:55,308
Hope I didn't hurt it none
stepping on it like that.

139
00:12:55,408 --> 00:12:56,943
We best leave that
for the police.

140
00:12:57,430 --> 00:12:58,578
Poor baby.

141
00:12:59,379 --> 00:13:00,747
I'll go.

142
00:13:01,381 --> 00:13:05,850
It's for sure nobody wanted
to keep it. Come on, baby.

143
00:13:07,721 --> 00:13:10,156
Queenie? Where are you, Queenie?

144
00:13:10,256 --> 00:13:12,225
Hold your water! You
go deal with it.

145
00:13:12,292 --> 00:13:14,427
Okay. No, go, I'll be back.

146
00:13:15,261 --> 00:13:18,565
Queenie. Apple, she went and
messed herself all over again!

147
00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:20,500
Jane Childress,
start her a bath!

148
00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,669
And mind your own
business, Mrs. Duprey.

149
00:13:22,769 --> 00:13:24,604
You'll be messing
yourself soon enough.

150
00:13:24,671 --> 00:13:26,272
Somebody stole my necklace.

151
00:13:26,339 --> 00:13:29,309
Okay. All right, Mrs. Hollister,
I'll be right with you, okay?

152
00:13:29,409 --> 00:13:31,611
Go on back upstairs, hear?

153
00:13:37,917 --> 00:13:40,453
You are as ugly as an old pot

154
00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:42,188
but you're still a child of God.

155
00:13:42,288 --> 00:13:44,657
Queenie. Apple, she won't
take a bath without you!

156
00:13:44,758 --> 00:13:46,259
Mercy.

157
00:13:46,326 --> 00:13:48,328
I'll be right there!

158
00:13:51,331 --> 00:13:54,300
Okay. You just wait right
here for me now, okay?

159
00:13:57,604 --> 00:14:02,275
My sister gave me those pearls.
I can'! Find them anywhere.

160
00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:06,179
- Somebody's been stealing my jewelry.
- They're right here, Mrs. Hollister. See?

161
00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:09,616
Right around your pretty white neck.
Now, come on. Hush all that noise.

162
00:14:09,683 --> 00:14:12,318
- Is Dr. Rose still here?
- I don't know.

163
00:14:15,121 --> 00:14:16,389
Your heart is strong.

164
00:14:16,489 --> 00:14:19,492
You just want to avoid
any undue stimulation.

165
00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,196
I trust you ladies will
help me outwith that?

166
00:14:23,296 --> 00:14:26,466
I have something. Could
you come downstairs?

167
00:14:30,136 --> 00:14:33,840
Never seen anything like it.
Nearly blind from cataracts.

168
00:14:33,907 --> 00:14:38,110
I'm not sure if he can hear. His
bones indicate severe arthritis.

169
00:14:38,812 --> 00:14:43,216
His skin has lost all elasticity, and
his hands and feet are ossified.

170
00:14:43,316 --> 00:14:47,887
He shows all the deterioration, the
infirmities, not of a newborn,

171
00:14:47,987 --> 00:14:50,657
but of a man well in his 803
on his way to the grave.

172
00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:51,725
He's dying?

173
00:14:51,825 --> 00:14:55,950
His body is failing him
before his life's begun.

174
00:14:57,430 --> 00:14:58,898
Where'd he come from?

175
00:14:58,998 --> 00:15:03,370
My sister's child. From Lafayette.
She had an unfortunate adventure.

176
00:15:03,436 --> 00:15:07,374
The poor child, he got the
worst of it. Come out white.

177
00:15:10,377 --> 00:15:15,150
There are places for unwanted
babies like these. Queenie.

178
00:15:15,615 --> 00:15:18,284
No room for another
mouth to feed here.

179
00:15:18,385 --> 00:15:20,920
The Nolan Foundation, despite
their good intentions,

180
00:15:21,210 --> 00:15:23,790
thinks this place is a
large nuisance as it is.

181
00:15:23,890 --> 00:15:26,920
- A baby...
- You said he don't have long.

182
00:15:26,192 --> 00:15:30,764
Queenie. Some creatures
aren't meant to survive.

183
00:15:34,134 --> 00:15:37,904
No. This baby, he is a miracle.
That's for certain.

184
00:15:37,971 --> 00:15:41,410
Just not the kind of
miracle one hopes to see.

185
00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,546
Y'all listen. Y'all
listen up here.

186
00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:48,314
We're gonna have us a visitor

187
00:15:48,415 --> 00:15:51,551
that's gonna be staying
with us for a little while.

188
00:15:51,618 --> 00:15:55,388
My sister had a child and she
couldn't see right by it, so...

189
00:15:57,590 --> 00:15:59,392
He's known as. . .

190
00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:05,899
Benjamin.

191
00:16:06,766 --> 00:16:09,736
He's not a well child, so we're gonna
have to take good care of him.

192
00:16:09,803 --> 00:16:10,904
I had 10 children.

193
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:14,341
There's not a baby I can't
care for. Let me see him.

194
00:16:16,509 --> 00:16:20,180
God in Heaven. He looks
just like my ex-husband.

195
00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:23,650
Look, he's prematurely old.

196
00:16:24,117 --> 00:16:27,687
Dr. Rose said he ain't got
much more time on this earth.

197
00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:29,155
Join the club.

198
00:16:34,260 --> 00:16:35,762
He's smiling!

199
00:16:42,469 --> 00:16:45,171
Hambert sends his
remembrances to you.

200
00:16:54,948 --> 00:16:57,317
Are you right out of your mind?

201
00:16:58,618 --> 00:17:01,988
I know you ain't got all the parts
it takes to make one of your own,

202
00:17:02,550 --> 00:17:03,323
but this ain't yours to keep.

203
00:17:03,390 --> 00:17:05,692
It may not even be humankind.

204
00:17:14,801 --> 00:17:17,237
Mr. Weathers, come back here.

205
00:17:19,539 --> 00:17:20,807
Please.

206
00:17:37,157 --> 00:17:39,726
You never know what's
coming for you.

207
00:17:42,128 --> 00:17:44,531
It seemed I had found a home.

208
00:17:47,667 --> 00:17:48,768
Is any of this true?

209
00:17:48,835 --> 00:17:52,272
You have such a lovely voice.

210
00:17:52,772 --> 00:17:57,477
Mom, it's an ancient
streetcar token.

211
00:17:59,145 --> 00:18:02,315
That clock just kept going.

212
00:18:03,283 --> 00:18:07,520
Year after year after year.

213
00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:13,693
But I didn't know I was a child.

214
00:18:13,793 --> 00:18:16,296
Same old crap every day.

215
00:18:17,163 --> 00:18:19,966
I thought I was like
everyone else there.

216
00:18:20,967 --> 00:18:23,136
An old man in the
twilight of his life.

217
00:18:23,203 --> 00:18:25,572
Could you make him stop that?

218
00:18:26,539 --> 00:18:29,642
Stop banging that fork. It's used
for eating, not for playing with.

219
00:18:29,709 --> 00:18:32,579
And use your napkin,
please, Mr. Benjamin.

220
00:18:34,914 --> 00:18:36,216
Queenie!

221
00:18:48,261 --> 00:18:49,596
Hey:

222
00:18:56,936 --> 00:18:59,272
Always had a healthy curiosity.

223
00:19:00,407 --> 00:19:03,910
What was up the street? Or
around the next corner?

224
00:19:05,745 --> 00:19:07,800
Go get him!

225
00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:10,884
Benjamin! That is dangerous.
Come back over here.

226
00:19:11,584 --> 00:19:13,353
Stay put. Child.

227
00:19:15,689 --> 00:19:17,691
I loved her very much.

228
00:19:18,425 --> 00:19:20,930
She was my mother.

229
00:19:20,193 --> 00:19:23,196
Mama.

230
00:19:23,963 --> 00:19:27,767
Some days I feel different
than the day before.

231
00:19:29,202 --> 00:19:33,239
Everybody feels different about
themselves, one way or another.

232
00:19:34,207 --> 00:19:36,543
But we're all going
the same way.

233
00:19:37,877 --> 00:19:41,548
Just taking different roads
to get there, that's all.

234
00:19:41,614 --> 00:19:44,117
You're on your own
road, Benjamin.

235
00:19:46,886 --> 00:19:49,556
Mama? How much longer I got?

236
00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,326
Just be thankful for
what you're given. Hear?

237
00:19:53,426 --> 00:19:56,563
You're already here longer
than you're supposed to.

238
00:19:59,399 --> 00:20:02,335
Some nights, I'd
have to sleep alone.

239
00:20:11,110 --> 00:20:12,746
I didn't mind.

240
00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:16,349
I would listen to the
house breathing.

241
00:20:17,517 --> 00:20:19,619
All those people sleeping.

242
00:20:21,870 --> 00:20:23,289
I felt safe.

243
00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:46,713
It was a place of great routine.

244
00:20:46,813 --> 00:20:49,716
Every morning at 5:30,
no matter the weather,

245
00:20:49,816 --> 00:20:53,953
General Winslow, U. 8. Army,
Retired, would raise the ?ag.

246
00:20:56,790 --> 00:21:00,727
Mrs. Sybil Wagner, once an
opera singer of some note,

247
00:21:00,827 --> 00:21:03,496
well, she sang Wagner.

248
00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:16,710
All right, baby. Come on.

249
00:21:16,810 --> 00:21:20,680
We got to put some life into
these old sticks for you.

250
00:21:20,747 --> 00:21:25,850
Get you walking so you can help me
out around here. Come on now, hear?

251
00:21:26,152 --> 00:21:30,230
No matter the season, supper
was served promptly at 5:30.

252
00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:36,429
Molasses.

253
00:21:37,364 --> 00:21:39,933
I learned to read
when I was five.

254
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,404
My grandfather was a dresser
for a famous actor.

255
00:21:44,504 --> 00:21:47,240
He brung home every
play for me to read.

256
00:21:49,442 --> 00:21:53,213
"Kind keepers of my
weak decaying age,."

257
00:21:54,114 --> 00:21:57,751
"Let dying Mortimer
here rest himself."

258
00:21:58,518 --> 00:22:01,254
"Even like a man new
haled from the rack,."

259
00:22:01,354 --> 00:22:04,570
"So fare my limbs with
long imprisonment."

260
00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:08,428
"And these gray locks. The
pursuivants of death,."

261
00:22:09,290 --> 00:22:12,320
"Argue the end of
Edmund Mortimer."

262
00:22:15,902 --> 00:22:18,972
You thought I was plain
ignorant, didn't you?

263
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,742
The actor my grandfather worked
for was John Wilkes Booth.

264
00:22:25,450 --> 00:22:27,800
He killed Abraham Lincoln.

265
00:22:28,815 --> 00:22:31,484
You never know what's
coming for you.

266
00:22:32,152 --> 00:22:35,789
On Saturday nights. Mama
would make me go to church.

267
00:22:39,559 --> 00:22:40,960
Benjamin!

268
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:53,640
- Amen! Amen!
- Amen! Amen!

269
00:22:55,442 --> 00:22:57,811
What can I do for you, sister?

270
00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:13,126
Her parts are all twisted up inside
and she can't have little children.

271
00:23:16,930 --> 00:23:20,967
Lord, if you could see clear
to forgive this woman her sins

272
00:23:21,340 --> 00:23:23,169
so she can bear the
fruit of the womb.

273
00:23:23,269 --> 00:23:25,672
Out. Damnable affliction!

274
00:23:25,772 --> 00:23:27,941
- Praise God!
- Praise God!

275
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,175
Hallelujah!

276
00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:30,777
- Hallelujah!
- Hallelujah!

277
00:23:32,812 --> 00:23:35,615
And what's this old
man's irrediction?

278
00:23:37,283 --> 00:23:38,685
He's got the Devil on his back,

279
00:23:38,785 --> 00:23:42,122
trying to ride him into the
grave before his time.

280
00:23:45,358 --> 00:23:46,826
- Out, Zebuchar!
- Yes!

281
00:23:46,893 --> 00:23:48,795
- Out, Beelzebub!
- Yes!

282
00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:52,365
How old are you?

283
00:23:52,465 --> 00:23:55,100
Seven. But I look a lot older.

284
00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:57,570
God bless you.

285
00:23:58,138 --> 00:23:59,639
He's seven.

286
00:24:02,409 --> 00:24:06,379
Now, this is a man with
optimism in his heart.

287
00:24:06,479 --> 00:24:08,181
- All right.
- Belief in his soul!

288
00:24:08,248 --> 00:24:09,249
'Yes! 'Yes!

289
00:24:09,349 --> 00:24:11,184
We are all children
in the eyes of God!

290
00:24:11,251 --> 00:24:12,552
- Yes!
- Hallelujah!

291
00:24:12,652 --> 00:24:15,555
We are gonna get you
out of that chair.

292
00:24:15,655 --> 00:24:17,691
- And we're gonna have you walk.
- Amen.

293
00:24:18,525 --> 00:24:20,160
It's all right.

294
00:24:21,270 --> 00:24:23,263
In the name of God's glory
. .

295
00:24:24,970 --> 00:24:25,565
Rise up!

296
00:24:27,330 --> 00:24:28,435
Come on.

297
00:24:30,236 --> 00:24:32,380
Come on. Walk.

298
00:24:32,105 --> 00:24:33,573
Come on, son. Come on.

299
00:24:33,673 --> 00:24:36,409
- Come on with it, son. Come on.
- Come on.

300
00:24:36,509 --> 00:24:39,879
Now God is gonna see you
the rest of the way.

301
00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:44,751
He's gonna see this little old man walk
without the use of a crutch or a cane.

302
00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:46,686
He's gonna see that you
walk from faith...

303
00:24:46,753 --> 00:24:49,756
- Hallelujah!
- And divine inspiration alone!

304
00:24:49,856 --> 00:24:51,240
- Yes.
- Hey, Ben!

305
00:24:51,910 --> 00:24:52,425
- Go, son!
- Now walk.

306
00:24:52,525 --> 00:24:53,760
- Yes.
- Come on.

307
00:24:55,862 --> 00:24:57,530
Don't touch him.

308
00:24:59,866 --> 00:25:01,634
Rise up, old man.

309
00:25:02,702 --> 00:25:05,271
Rise up like Lazarus.

310
00:25:05,372 --> 00:25:07,540
I said, rise up!

311
00:25:08,141 --> 00:25:09,542
Hallelujah!

312
00:25:11,711 --> 00:25:12,912
Yes.

313
00:25:13,380 --> 00:25:14,581
Come on.

314
00:25:14,647 --> 00:25:15,648
Say hallelujah.

315
00:25:15,749 --> 00:25:17,150
- Hallelujah!
- Hallelujah!

316
00:25:18,885 --> 00:25:20,860
Walk.

317
00:25:20,887 --> 00:25:22,956
Walk on. Yes.

318
00:25:26,793 --> 00:25:27,827
That's right, Benjamin.

319
00:25:27,927 --> 00:25:31,164
Now when I look back on
it, it was miraculous.

320
00:25:31,264 --> 00:25:35,335
But you know the saying, the Lord
giveth and the Lord taketh away.

321
00:25:35,568 --> 00:25:37,470
Glory in the highest!

322
00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:42,742
Sweet Jesus!

323
00:25:42,842 --> 00:25:43,977
- No!
- No!

324
00:25:46,413 --> 00:25:47,781
There were so many birthdays.

325
00:25:47,847 --> 00:25:51,418
For he's a jolly good fellow For
he's a jolly good fellow...

326
00:25:51,484 --> 00:25:54,120
So we wouldn't run out, we
would spare the candles.

327
00:25:54,187 --> 00:25:58,258
Queenie. You know I don't like
birthdays and I don't like cake.

328
00:25:58,925 --> 00:26:02,929
And death was a common visitor.
People came and went.

329
00:26:04,698 --> 00:26:07,133
You always knew when
someone left us.

330
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,769
There was a silence
in the house.

331
00:26:23,783 --> 00:26:26,520
It was a wonderful
place to grow up.

332
00:26:26,152 --> 00:26:30,657
I was with people who had shed ail
the inconsequences of earlier life.

333
00:26:31,324 --> 00:26:35,462
Left wondering about the weather,
the temperature of a bath,

334
00:26:36,663 --> 00:26:38,898
the light at the end of a day.

335
00:26:43,303 --> 00:26:47,307
For everyone that died, someone
would come to take their place.

336
00:26:48,308 --> 00:26:50,643
I've been married five times.

337
00:26:51,144 --> 00:26:54,848
My fifth wife and I are captured
by a neighbor tribe of cannibals.

338
00:26:54,914 --> 00:26:56,160
Oh, goodness gracious.

339
00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:57,550
We escaped across the river.

340
00:26:57,650 --> 00:27:01,540
My wife, she can't swim,
so, sadly, she eaten.

341
00:27:01,154 --> 00:27:02,355
Oh, my God.

342
00:27:02,422 --> 00:27:05,325
My second wife steps
on cobra and dies.

343
00:27:05,825 --> 00:27:08,595
It was very bad luck
to be married to me.

344
00:27:08,695 --> 00:27:11,731
That's Mr. Oti. He's an acquaintance
of an acquaintance of mine.

345
00:27:11,831 --> 00:27:13,933
- The next summer I'm captured...
- He's a Pygmy.

346
00:27:14,340 --> 00:27:15,902
With three others by
the Baschiele tribe.

347
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,907
They trade us for pigs, shoes, and
beer to a very strange American man.

348
00:27:40,260 --> 00:27:42,529
I hear you're not so
old as you're looking.

349
00:27:42,595 --> 00:27:44,864
You just fooling everybody.

350
00:27:45,398 --> 00:27:48,435
What's the matter? Did
you get Madjembe?

351
00:27:48,535 --> 00:27:49,936
What's Madjembe?

352
00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:51,371
Worms.

353
00:27:51,705 --> 00:27:54,400
I don't think I have worms.

354
00:27:54,641 --> 00:27:56,209
This is just how I am.

355
00:27:56,276 --> 00:27:59,145
- Did you take your pills today?
- No, ma'am.

356
00:27:59,245 --> 00:28:01,614
Come. Let's get a
cold root beer.

357
00:28:01,715 --> 00:28:03,817
I found the medication
under your pillow.

358
00:28:03,917 --> 00:28:07,120
I'm not supposed to.
It's dangerous.

359
00:28:07,220 --> 00:28:09,956
Who said that? Come
on, little man.

360
00:28:11,224 --> 00:28:12,926
Hello, children.

361
00:28:24,137 --> 00:28:25,672
Hold, please.

362
00:28:28,308 --> 00:28:32,645
Then I'm in the monkey house at
Philadelphia Zoological Park.

363
00:28:33,513 --> 00:28:37,830
Three thousand people
show up my first day.

364
00:28:38,351 --> 00:28:39,419
Look.

365
00:28:41,154 --> 00:28:43,890
What's it like living in a cage?

366
00:28:43,156 --> 00:28:44,657
It stinks.

367
00:28:45,258 --> 00:28:47,594
But the monkeys.

368
00:28:48,328 --> 00:28:50,430
They do some tricks there.

369
00:28:50,597 --> 00:28:53,333
I throw a spear,
wrestle with Kowali.

370
00:28:54,134 --> 00:28:55,935
She is orangutan.

371
00:28:56,302 --> 00:28:59,839
When I'm not playing with the monkeys,
they want me to run to the bars

372
00:28:59,939 --> 00:29:02,108
in my cage, with my teeth.

373
00:29:11,985 --> 00:29:14,540
So then what'd you do?

374
00:29:14,154 --> 00:29:20,260
Then I leave zoo, go here, go
there. Wandered most of the time.

375
00:29:20,460 --> 00:29:21,528
You were all alone?

376
00:29:21,628 --> 00:29:23,897
Plenty of time you'll be alone.

377
00:29:23,997 --> 00:29:27,467
When you're different like
us, it's gonna be that way.

378
00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:32,339
But I'll tell you
a little secret.

379
00:29:32,405 --> 00:29:35,709
Fat people, skinny
people, tall people.

380
00:29:35,809 --> 00:29:38,845
White people, they're
just as alone as we are.

381
00:29:39,346 --> 00:29:41,581
But they're scared shitless.

382
00:29:47,754 --> 00:29:50,423
I think about the
river I grew up on.

383
00:29:50,857 --> 00:29:53,827
It would be nice to sit
by my river again.

384
00:29:56,290 --> 00:29:58,431
Come, I have an appointment.

385
00:30:00,834 --> 00:30:03,403
There's my little man.
You ready, sugar?

386
00:30:03,503 --> 00:30:05,839
Always ready. Always ready.

387
00:30:07,607 --> 00:30:09,743
Filamena, Mr. Benjamin.

388
00:30:10,744 --> 00:30:13,847
- It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
- My pleasure, ma'am.

389
00:30:13,913 --> 00:30:15,915
You can find your own
way home, can't you?

390
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,752
Take the St. Charles
line to Napoleon.

391
00:30:24,724 --> 00:30:26,359
Hey! Hey!

392
00:30:46,646 --> 00:30:50,216
Where in God's name have
you been? Get in here.

393
00:30:51,651 --> 00:30:54,954
I mean, you take my breath
away, you know that?

394
00:30:55,321 --> 00:30:57,957
Oh, Lord, I was so
worried about you.

395
00:31:01,628 --> 00:31:04,230
It had been the best
day of my life.

396
00:31:05,131 --> 00:31:07,834
- How's her breathing?
- It's shallow.

397
00:31:07,934 --> 00:31:09,502
They say it'll reach
us in a few hours,

398
00:31:09,569 --> 00:31:12,472
so I gotta get my baby and
take him to my sister's.

399
00:31:12,572 --> 00:31:15,750
They say there's nothing to worry
about here in the hospital.

400
00:31:15,141 --> 00:31:17,644
Nurses'll be right here if
you need them. Are you okay?

401
00:31:17,744 --> 00:31:21,514
- Yeah, I'm okay reading.
- I shouldn't be more than an hour.

402
00:31:22,916 --> 00:31:25,585
Was there just company?

403
00:31:26,860 --> 00:31:28,521
It was just Dorothy leaving.

404
00:31:30,657 --> 00:31:32,125
Go on, Caroline.

405
00:31:32,192 --> 00:31:35,328
"On Sundays, the families
would come and visit."

406
00:31:35,695 --> 00:31:38,665
It was Thanksgiving, 1930.

407
00:31:38,765 --> 00:31:41,768
I met the person who
changed my life forever.

408
00:31:53,780 --> 00:31:55,882
Well, Benjamin.

409
00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:59,619
Might I say you are looking
strikingly youthful.

410
00:32:00,530 --> 00:32:01,654
Good day, Mrs. Fuller.

411
00:32:01,721 --> 00:32:05,250
A single cane, back
straight as an arrow.

412
00:32:05,125 --> 00:32:07,494
What elixir have
you been drinking?

413
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,964
- Thank you, ma'am.
- Grandma! Look at me!

414
00:32:13,366 --> 00:32:15,702
That was really something.

415
00:32:15,802 --> 00:32:17,704
Come on over here, you.

416
00:32:17,804 --> 00:32:20,640
Now, this is my
granddaughter, Daisy.

417
00:32:21,541 --> 00:32:23,410
This is Mr...

418
00:32:23,510 --> 00:32:27,213
I'm afraid, Benjamin, I don't
rightly know your last name.

419
00:32:27,313 --> 00:32:28,982
Benjamin's fine.

420
00:32:29,549 --> 00:32:31,918
I never forgot her blue eyes.

421
00:32:32,318 --> 00:32:35,210
Good people, supper is served.

422
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:41,227
Health and food, for love and friends.
For everything thy goodness sends.

423
00:32:41,661 --> 00:32:42,829
Amen.

424
00:32:42,896 --> 00:32:44,164
- Amen!
- Amen!

425
00:32:47,834 --> 00:32:50,403
Did you know turkeys
aren't really birds?

426
00:32:50,503 --> 00:32:51,571
Why do you say that?

427
00:32:51,671 --> 00:32:54,774
They're in the pheasant
family, can't hardly fly.

428
00:32:54,874 --> 00:32:57,410
It's sad, don't you think?
Birds that can't fly?

429
00:32:57,510 --> 00:32:59,713
I love birds that can't fly.

430
00:32:59,779 --> 00:33:01,848
They are so delicious.

431
00:33:02,949 --> 00:33:05,418
- That's terrible.
- I have something to telic y'all

432
00:33:05,518 --> 00:33:08,722
while we're giving thanks
for God's blessings.

433
00:33:08,788 --> 00:33:10,757
I had a miracle happen.

434
00:33:11,224 --> 00:33:13,893
The Lord saw fit to
answer my prayers.

435
00:33:17,564 --> 00:33:19,899
What does she mean,
answered her prayers?

436
00:33:19,966 --> 00:33:21,534
Thanks. Thank you.

437
00:33:21,601 --> 00:33:24,370
She's gonna have a baby, silly.

438
00:33:24,938 --> 00:33:27,941
That's what my mama said when I
was gonna have a baby brother,

439
00:33:28,410 --> 00:33:30,377
but he didn't live long,

440
00:33:31,544 --> 00:33:33,913
"'cause he didn't
breathe right."

441
00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:40,787
"In the afternoon, when he had
got his beautiful hind legs"

442
00:33:40,887 --> 00:33:44,491
"just as Big God
Nqong had promised."

443
00:33:45,325 --> 00:33:47,560
"You can see that it is 5:00."

444
00:33:47,627 --> 00:33:51,631
"Because Big God Nqong's
clock says so."

445
00:33:51,731 --> 00:33:53,566
Isn't that something?

446
00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:55,468
Again, read it again.

447
00:33:55,568 --> 00:33:57,904
Oh, read it again, please.

448
00:33:57,971 --> 00:34:01,307
All right. But afterwards,
you must go to bed.

449
00:34:01,641 --> 00:34:03,760
I promise.

450
00:34:05,110 --> 00:34:06,913
"Old Man Kangaroo."

451
00:34:11,151 --> 00:34:12,852
Are you sleeping?

452
00:34:14,354 --> 00:34:15,855
Who's that?

453
00:34:15,955 --> 00:34:17,590
It's me, Daisy.

454
00:34:18,591 --> 00:34:20,930
Oh, hi!

455
00:34:20,627 --> 00:34:22,162
'Kay, come on.

456
00:34:33,273 --> 00:34:35,410
Where are we going?

457
00:34:36,176 --> 00:34:39,120
Come on. Under here.

458
00:34:48,521 --> 00:34:49,989
Here, you light it.

459
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,192
I'm not supposed to
play with matches.

460
00:34:52,292 --> 00:34:54,561
Don't be a chicken. Light it.

461
00:35:05,638 --> 00:35:08,575
I'll telic you a secret
if you'll telic me one.

462
00:35:08,675 --> 00:35:10,143
Okay-

463
00:35:10,210 --> 00:35:13,580
I saw my mama kissing
another man.

464
00:35:13,980 --> 00:35:16,490
Her face was red from it.

465
00:35:18,318 --> 00:35:19,819
Your turn.

466
00:35:23,890 --> 00:35:25,392
I'm not as old as I look.

467
00:35:25,492 --> 00:35:27,930
I thought so.

468
00:35:29,290 --> 00:35:31,498
You don't seem like
an old person.

469
00:35:32,165 --> 00:35:34,334
- Like my grandma.
- I'm not.

470
00:35:36,690 --> 00:35:37,704
Are you sick?

471
00:35:38,238 --> 00:35:41,408
Well, I heard Mama and
Tizzy whispering.

472
00:35:41,508 --> 00:35:45,712
They said I was gonna die
soon, but maybe not.

473
00:35:47,914 --> 00:35:49,516
You're odd.

474
00:35:50,216 --> 00:35:53,119
You're different than
anybody I've ever met.

475
00:35:56,256 --> 00:35:58,458
- 'May I?
- Okay,

476
00:36:05,699 --> 00:36:08,101
What are you doing under there?

477
00:36:08,201 --> 00:36:11,638
You come right out here
and get back up to bed!

478
00:36:11,738 --> 00:36:13,540
It's after midnight!

479
00:36:13,606 --> 00:36:15,742
You are not to be
playing together.

480
00:36:15,809 --> 00:36:17,377
Yes ma'am.

481
00:36:17,444 --> 00:36:19,612
Now you get back to
bed, little lady.

482
00:36:19,713 --> 00:36:23,717
You're too young to be wandering
around in the night on your own.

483
00:36:26,386 --> 00:36:30,223
And you ought to be
ashamed of yourself.

484
00:36:45,472 --> 00:36:47,574
You are a different child.

485
00:36:48,308 --> 00:36:49,442
A man-child.

486
00:36:49,509 --> 00:36:54,140
And, baby, people aren't gonna
understand just how different you are.

487
00:37:00,286 --> 00:37:02,489
What's wrong with me, Mama?

488
00:37:03,423 --> 00:37:05,191
Come here.

489
00:37:07,327 --> 00:37:09,596
God hasn't said yet, baby.

490
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,537
Now go on to bed, hear?
And behave yourself.

491
00:37:18,838 --> 00:37:21,441
Go on. Say your prayers. Hear?

492
00:37:33,219 --> 00:37:37,323
Did I ever telic you I've been
struck by lightning seven times?

493
00:37:39,626 --> 00:37:42,562
Once when I was repairing
a leak on the roof.

494
00:37:46,633 --> 00:37:49,903
Once I was just crossing
the road to get the mail.

495
00:38:05,919 --> 00:38:07,220
I never forgot her...

496
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,855
". . blue eyes."

497
00:38:10,323 --> 00:38:11,891
Mom?

498
00:38:11,991 --> 00:38:16,763
Did you get that this Benjamin loved you
from the first time that he saw you?

499
00:38:17,997 --> 00:38:20,500
Not many people experience that.

500
00:38:21,935 --> 00:38:23,737
Want me to go on?

501
00:38:25,705 --> 00:38:27,741
He crosses something out.

502
00:38:27,841 --> 00:38:31,111
When that baby came,
things were different.

503
00:38:31,211 --> 00:38:34,581
Your mama gone away And
your daddy gonna stay.

504
00:38:34,681 --> 00:38:38,518
Didn't leave nobody
but the baby.

505
00:38:39,919 --> 00:38:42,555
Babies were born, people died.

506
00:38:43,423 --> 00:38:46,292
A lot of folks been
through that old house.

507
00:38:48,228 --> 00:38:51,464
I've come to say goodbye.
I'm going away.

508
00:38:51,564 --> 00:38:52,866
Going?

509
00:38:53,366 --> 00:38:54,901
Where?

510
00:38:54,968 --> 00:38:56,569
I haven't figured that out yet,

511
00:38:56,636 --> 00:38:59,105
but I'll send you a
postcard when I get there.

512
00:38:59,205 --> 00:39:01,975
What about your friend,
the tall lady?

513
00:39:02,750 --> 00:39:03,476
We are not friends anymore.

514
00:39:03,576 --> 00:39:06,880
That's what happens with
tall people sometimes.

515
00:39:06,946 --> 00:39:09,749
Well, goodbye.

516
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,805
Spent a lot of time
by myself that year.

517
00:39:33,139 --> 00:39:34,407
Hello?

518
00:39:36,142 --> 00:39:37,944
- Hi.
- I'm moving in today.

519
00:39:38,110 --> 00:39:40,847
Welcome. We've been
expecting you.

520
00:39:40,947 --> 00:39:43,983
Can you please show her up
to Mrs. Rousseau's old room?

521
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,454
I'm sorry, but we usually don't
allow dogs in the house.

522
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,523
Well, she's old as the hills.
She's almost blind.

523
00:39:50,623 --> 00:39:53,593
She won't be a
bother much longer.

524
00:39:53,660 --> 00:39:57,364
Well, all right, long as she
stays from up underfoot.

525
00:39:57,464 --> 00:39:58,665
Right this way, ma'am.

526
00:39:58,765 --> 00:40:01,935
As hard as I try, I can'!
Remember her name.

527
00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:05,171
Mrs. Lawson, or Mrs. Hartford.

528
00:40:06,172 --> 00:40:07,974
Maybe it was Maple.

529
00:40:08,410 --> 00:40:10,377
It's funny how sometimes the
people we remember the least

530
00:40:10,477 --> 00:40:13,460
make the greatest
impression on us.

531
00:40:13,613 --> 00:40:15,982
I do remember she wore diamonds.

532
00:40:16,490 --> 00:40:19,853
And she always dressed in fine
clothing, as if she was going out.

533
00:40:19,953 --> 00:40:23,556
Although she never did and
nobody ever came to visit her.

534
00:40:25,291 --> 00:40:27,627
She taught me to play the piano.

535
00:40:32,966 --> 00:40:35,635
It's not about how
well you play.

536
00:40:36,336 --> 00:40:39,205
It's how you feel about
what you're playing.

537
00:40:39,305 --> 00:40:40,640
Try this.

538
00:40:56,990 --> 00:41:00,226
You can't help putting
yourself in the music.

539
00:41:08,268 --> 00:41:10,270
There were many changes.

540
00:41:10,370 --> 00:41:13,506
Some you could see,
some you couldn't.

541
00:41:14,574 --> 00:41:17,444
Hair had started growing
in all sorts of places.

542
00:41:17,944 --> 00:41:19,946
Along with other things.

543
00:41:21,214 --> 00:41:24,170
I felt pretty good, considering.

544
00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:27,721
Darling, the pain.

545
00:41:27,787 --> 00:41:30,357
All right, Mom,
I'll get the nurse.

546
00:41:32,859 --> 00:41:35,628
Look at this eye. This
is a major hurricane,

547
00:41:35,729 --> 00:41:38,631
a slow hurricane, with maximum
sustained winds of...

548
00:41:38,732 --> 00:41:40,600
Not doing too good?

549
00:41:41,434 --> 00:41:44,738
Nobody seems to know
whether to stay or leave.

550
00:41:44,804 --> 00:41:47,107
I'm gonna ride it out.

551
00:41:47,207 --> 00:41:50,110
There. That should make
things much easier.

552
00:41:53,546 --> 00:41:56,750
Have you had a chance
to say your goodbyes?

553
00:41:56,816 --> 00:42:00,320
My father waited four hours for my
brother to get here from Boger City.

554
00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:02,422
Couldn't go without him.

555
00:42:02,922 --> 00:42:05,625
- She seems like a sweet woman.
- Yeah.

556
00:42:06,259 --> 00:42:07,961
I haven't had as much time
with her as I would've...

557
00:42:08,610 --> 00:42:09,963
- You busy? I could use your help.
- Excuse me.

558
00:42:10,630 --> 00:42:11,331
Sure.

559
00:42:29,482 --> 00:42:31,518
"Queenie would let me
go with Mr. Daws..."

560
00:42:31,618 --> 00:42:35,455
to Poverty Point to watch the
boats go up and down the river.

561
00:42:35,522 --> 00:42:37,490
These were hard times.

562
00:42:40,493 --> 00:42:44,264
Did I ever telic you I was
struck by lightning seven times?

563
00:42:45,131 --> 00:42:48,601
Once when I was in the field,
just tending to my cows.

564
00:42:55,108 --> 00:42:57,377
My fourth hand didn't show up.

565
00:42:59,612 --> 00:43:03,116
Anybody want to make $2 for
a day's work 'round here?

566
00:43:04,984 --> 00:43:06,686
What's the matter?

567
00:43:06,786 --> 00:43:09,556
Nobody wants to do an honest day's
work for an honest day's pay?

568
00:43:09,656 --> 00:43:11,224
He never pays.

569
00:43:12,659 --> 00:43:14,994
- Nobody wants a job?
- I do.

570
00:43:16,629 --> 00:43:19,466
You got your sea legs
about you, old man?

571
00:43:20,533 --> 00:43:21,968
I think.

572
00:43:25,872 --> 00:43:28,341
Well, that's good enough for me.

573
00:43:28,408 --> 00:43:31,911
Get your ass on board. We'll
sure as hell find out.

574
00:43:37,384 --> 00:43:39,520
I was as happy as I could be.

575
00:43:39,152 --> 00:43:40,387
I need a volunteer!

576
00:43:40,487 --> 00:43:41,855
I would do anything.

577
00:43:41,921 --> 00:43:43,390
Yes, Captain!

578
00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:45,825
Scrape off all this bird shit!

579
00:43:46,493 --> 00:43:48,228
Right away, sir.

580
00:43:49,290 --> 00:43:53,533
And I was actually gonna be paid for
something I would've done for free.

581
00:43:55,168 --> 00:43:57,537
His name was Captain Mike Clark.

582
00:43:58,505 --> 00:44:01,441
He'd been on a tugboat
since he was seven.

583
00:44:02,442 --> 00:44:04,210
Get moving, then.

584
00:44:05,111 --> 00:44:06,680
Come here.

585
00:44:08,682 --> 00:44:11,851
Can you still get it up?

586
00:44:13,186 --> 00:44:15,188
I do every morning.

587
00:44:15,855 --> 00:44:19,259
The old pole, huh?
The high, hard one?

588
00:44:19,859 --> 00:44:21,194
I guess.

589
00:44:23,763 --> 00:44:26,433
When was the last
time you had a woman?

590
00:44:28,935 --> 00:44:30,870
- Never.
- Never?

591
00:44:31,371 --> 00:44:33,440
Not that I know of, sir.

592
00:44:33,907 --> 00:44:35,709
Wait a minute, now.

593
00:44:36,476 --> 00:44:40,613
You mean to say you've been on
this earth however many years

594
00:44:40,714 --> 00:44:44,500
and you've never had a woman?

595
00:44:48,655 --> 00:44:51,758
Damn, that's the saddest thing
I've ever heard in my life.

596
00:44:53,226 --> 00:44:54,461
Never?

597
00:44:55,228 --> 00:44:56,329
No.

598
00:44:58,932 --> 00:45:03,690
Well, then, by Jesus,
you are coming with me.

599
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,648
What did your father do?

600
00:45:15,749 --> 00:45:17,817
I never met my father.

601
00:45:17,917 --> 00:45:19,853
You lucky bastard.

602
00:45:20,754 --> 00:45:23,423
All fathers want to
do is hold you down.

603
00:45:25,992 --> 00:45:29,429
Out on my father's boat,
workin' the two-a-day.

604
00:45:29,763 --> 00:45:32,165
This little, fat bastard.

605
00:45:32,265 --> 00:45:34,000
"Tug Irish," they called him.

606
00:45:34,100 --> 00:45:37,470
Anyway, I finally work up
the nerve and telic him,

607
00:45:38,338 --> 00:45:42,420
"I don't want to spend the rest
of my life on a goddamn tugboat."

608
00:45:42,142 --> 00:45:44,144
You know what I'm saying?

609
00:45:44,511 --> 00:45:47,180
You don't want to spend the
rest of your life on a tugboat.

610
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,616
Absolutely! Damn right!

611
00:45:52,352 --> 00:45:54,988
So you know what my
father says to me?

612
00:45:55,789 --> 00:46:00,226
He says, "Who the hell
do you think you are?"

613
00:46:00,326 --> 00:46:03,129
"What the hell do you
think you can do?"

614
00:46:03,363 --> 00:46:05,650
So I telic him.

615
00:46:05,665 --> 00:46:08,902
"Well, if you're asking,."

616
00:46:11,137 --> 00:46:13,206
"I want to be an artist."

617
00:46:13,740 --> 00:46:15,675
He laughs.

618
00:46:16,142 --> 00:46:21,181
"An artist? God meant for you to
work a tugboat, just like me."

619
00:46:21,247 --> 00:46:23,883
"And that's exactly
what you're gonna do."

620
00:46:23,983 --> 00:46:27,253
Well, I turned myself
into an artist.

621
00:46:29,689 --> 00:46:31,491
A tattoo artist!

622
00:46:33,860 --> 00:46:36,696
I put on every one
of these myself.

623
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:43,360
You have to skin me alive to
take my art away from me now.

624
00:46:43,837 --> 00:46:47,340
When I'm dead. I'm
gonna send him my arm.

625
00:46:48,575 --> 00:46:50,100
That one.

626
00:46:52,345 --> 00:46:54,948
Don't let anyone
telic you different.

627
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,684
You gotta do what
you're meant to do.

628
00:46:57,751 --> 00:47:00,887
And I happen to be a
goddamned artist.

629
00:47:01,454 --> 00:47:03,790
But you're a tugboat captain.

630
00:47:04,357 --> 00:47:06,920
Captain Mike?

631
00:47:06,192 --> 00:47:08,962
We're ready for you
and your friend.

632
00:47:10,697 --> 00:47:13,733
Let's go, old timer, eh?
Break your cherry.

633
00:47:14,901 --> 00:47:17,637
- Hello, my love.-lies!
- Hey, Captain.

634
00:47:17,737 --> 00:47:18,738
- Hi, Captain.
- Hi.

635
00:47:20,874 --> 00:47:21,975
- Hi.
- Hi.

636
00:47:22,750 --> 00:47:25,145
He gives me the willies.
That is not for me.

637
00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:29,382
How are you tonight, grandpa?

638
00:47:29,983 --> 00:47:32,152
It was a night to remember.

639
00:47:33,386 --> 00:47:35,722
- Thank you.
- No, thank you. You have a nice night.

640
00:47:35,789 --> 00:47:37,957
- Will you be here tomorrow?
- Every night but Sunday.

641
00:47:38,580 --> 00:47:41,761
It sure made me understand the
value of earning a living.

642
00:47:42,395 --> 00:47:44,230
Good night, sweetie.
Come back now.

643
00:47:44,297 --> 00:47:46,566
Things money can buy you.

644
00:48:04,184 --> 00:48:05,919
It's nasty out.

645
00:48:06,319 --> 00:48:09,255
Can I offer you a
ride somewhere?

646
00:48:10,990 --> 00:48:13,293
Well, that's awfully
kind of you, sir.

647
00:48:22,602 --> 00:48:25,105
My name is Thomas,
Thomas Button.

648
00:48:25,772 --> 00:48:27,874
- I'm Benjamin.
- Benjamin.

649
00:48:29,109 --> 00:48:31,277
It's a pleasure to know you.

650
00:48:32,779 --> 00:48:36,160
Would you like to stop
somewhere and have a drink?

651
00:48:36,116 --> 00:48:37,517
All right.

652
00:48:38,785 --> 00:48:41,121
Evening, Mr. Button.

653
00:48:45,625 --> 00:48:47,627
What'll it be, sir?

654
00:48:48,294 --> 00:48:51,364
- I'll have whatever he's having.
- Sazerac for the both of us.

655
00:48:51,464 --> 00:48:53,833
With whiskey, not brandy.

656
00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:55,402
You don't drink, do you?

657
00:48:55,502 --> 00:48:58,138
- It's a night for firsts.
- How's that?

658
00:48:58,204 --> 00:49:00,306
I've never been to
a brothel, either.

659
00:49:00,373 --> 00:49:03,176
Well, it's an experience.

660
00:49:03,309 --> 00:49:06,379
It certainly is. There's
a time for everything.

661
00:49:06,479 --> 00:49:08,915
- True enough.
- Your drinks.

662
00:49:10,550 --> 00:49:15,822
I don't mean to be rude, but
your hands. Is that painful?

663
00:49:16,890 --> 00:49:18,725
Well, I was born with
some form of disease.

664
00:49:18,825 --> 00:49:20,393
What kind of disease?

665
00:49:20,493 --> 00:49:22,262
I was born old.

666
00:49:23,763 --> 00:49:25,498
- I'm sorry.
- No need to be.

667
00:49:25,565 --> 00:49:28,168
There's nothing
wrong with old age.

668
00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:40,460
My wife passed away
many years ago.

669
00:49:41,414 --> 00:49:43,283
I'm so, so sorry.

670
00:49:44,718 --> 00:49:46,619
She died in childbirth.

671
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:52,692
- To children.
- To mothers.

672
00:49:57,464 --> 00:49:59,766
What line of work
you in, Mr. Button?

673
00:49:59,866 --> 00:50:04,370
Buttons. Button's Buttons. There
isn't a button that we don't make.

674
00:50:06,206 --> 00:50:08,575
Our biggest competition is B.
F. Goodrich

675
00:50:08,641 --> 00:50:10,410
and his infernal zippers.

676
00:50:10,477 --> 00:50:13,279
Would you gentlemen
like anything else?

677
00:50:13,380 --> 00:50:15,448
One for the road, Benjamin?

678
00:50:15,548 --> 00:50:18,385
Only if you let me pay
for it, Mr. Button.

679
00:50:19,619 --> 00:50:22,122
So, what line of work do you do?

680
00:50:23,556 --> 00:50:25,992
I'm a tugboat man.

681
00:50:32,165 --> 00:50:34,234
I enjoyed talking to you.

682
00:50:34,667 --> 00:50:36,836
I enjoyed drinking with you.

683
00:50:40,407 --> 00:50:41,808
Benjamin?

684
00:50:41,908 --> 00:50:45,345
Would you mind if, time to time,
I stopped by and said hello?

685
00:50:45,445 --> 00:50:48,915
Anytime. Good night, Mr. Button.

686
00:50:49,416 --> 00:50:51,184
Good night, Benjamin.

687
00:50:51,918 --> 00:50:53,286
Drive on.

688
00:50:58,925 --> 00:51:00,293
Where have you been?

689
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:05,432
Nothing. I met some people
and listened to some music.

690
00:51:08,134 --> 00:51:10,370
Oh, sweet Jesus, boy!

691
00:51:11,338 --> 00:51:14,474
Growing up's a funny thing.
Sneaks up on you.

692
00:51:15,375 --> 00:51:19,779
One person is there, then suddenly
somebody else has taken her place.

693
00:51:20,313 --> 00:51:22,150
She wasn't all elbows
and knees anymore.

694
00:51:22,115 --> 00:51:23,817
Benjamin! Come on!

695
00:51:24,150 --> 00:51:25,552
Okay-

696
00:51:26,786 --> 00:51:28,355
I loved those weekends
when she'd come

697
00:51:28,455 --> 00:51:31,291
and spend the night
with her grandmother.

698
00:51:39,332 --> 00:51:41,835
Daisy. Daisy.

699
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,171
You want to see something?

700
00:51:46,306 --> 00:51:51,144
You gotta keep it a secret. So get
dressed. I'll meet you out back.

701
00:51:56,649 --> 00:51:58,180
Come on.

702
00:51:59,819 --> 00:52:02,922
- Can you swim?
- I can do anything you can do.

703
00:52:03,230 --> 00:52:05,658
Here, put this on.
We gotta hurry.

704
00:52:18,571 --> 00:52:20,106
Is he okay?

705
00:52:20,206 --> 00:52:21,675
Captain?

706
00:52:23,276 --> 00:52:24,844
Captain Mike?

707
00:52:28,515 --> 00:52:31,251
Morning, Captain. Can
you take us out?

708
00:52:32,385 --> 00:52:34,721
Do you know what day it is?

709
00:52:34,788 --> 00:52:36,890
Sunday?

710
00:52:36,189 --> 00:52:38,358
Do you know what that means?

711
00:52:39,626 --> 00:52:42,620
Means I was very
drunk last night.

712
00:52:42,629 --> 00:52:44,931
Well, you're drunk every night.

713
00:52:47,367 --> 00:52:49,703
- Is that a girl?
- Close friend.

714
00:52:50,370 --> 00:52:51,504
I want to show her the river.

715
00:52:51,571 --> 00:52:54,908
You're not supposed to go
joyriding with civilians.

716
00:52:56,420 --> 00:52:58,211
I could lose my license.

717
00:53:07,987 --> 00:53:09,489
What are you waiting for?

718
00:53:39,652 --> 00:53:42,789
Pulled in for repair
a wounded duck.

719
00:53:44,190 --> 00:53:46,359
She's flying now, huh?

720
00:53:46,860 --> 00:53:48,528
Ahoy, sailor!

721
00:53:53,990 --> 00:53:55,435
I wish we could go with them.

722
00:54:01,441 --> 00:54:03,710
Did you say something, Mom?

723
00:54:11,451 --> 00:54:13,453
It's getting really bad.

724
00:54:15,455 --> 00:54:17,290
Can you hear me, Mom?

725
00:54:19,859 --> 00:54:22,562
Time just seeped out of me.

726
00:54:29,302 --> 00:54:31,137
"Things were changing quickly."

727
00:54:31,204 --> 00:54:35,342
I don't know how it's possible,
but you seem to have more hair.

728
00:54:36,843 --> 00:54:39,846
What if I told you that
I wasn't getting older,

729
00:54:39,913 --> 00:54:43,216
but I was getting younger
than everybody else?

730
00:54:43,316 --> 00:54:47,220
Well, I'd feel sorry for you,

731
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,190
to have to see everybody you
love die before you do.

732
00:54:50,256 --> 00:54:52,192
It's an awful responsibility.

733
00:54:52,258 --> 00:54:55,862
I'd never thought about life
or death that way before.

734
00:54:57,497 --> 00:55:01,568
Benjamin, we're meant to
lose the people we love.

735
00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:05,405
How else would we know how
important they are to us?

736
00:55:08,508 --> 00:55:13,130
And one fall day, a familiar
visitor came knocking on our door.

737
00:55:14,681 --> 00:55:17,517
You want to go with
me to the drugstore?

738
00:55:27,627 --> 00:55:30,300
She taught me how
to play the piano.

739
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:31,398
- Amen.
- Amen.

740
00:55:31,464 --> 00:55:34,701
And she taught me what it
meant to miss somebody.

741
00:55:39,205 --> 00:55:40,707
Let's go.

742
00:55:41,708 --> 00:55:43,610
I had gone to a brothel.

743
00:55:43,710 --> 00:55:46,460
I'd had my first drink.

744
00:55:46,112 --> 00:55:49,616
Said goodbye to one friend
and buried another.

745
00:55:50,116 --> 00:55:54,988
In 1936, when I was coming to the
end of the 17th year of my life,

746
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,957
I packed my bag, said goodbye.

747
00:55:58,580 --> 00:56:00,393
- Bye, Benjamin.
- Goodbye.

748
00:56:00,460 --> 00:56:04,964
I knew, life being what it was, I'd
probably never see them again.

749
00:56:07,133 --> 00:56:08,802
Bye, Mr. Benjamin.

750
00:56:08,902 --> 00:56:11,404
- Good luck to you, son.
- Thank you.

751
00:56:15,909 --> 00:56:18,812
- I love you, Mama.
- I love you, too, baby.

752
00:56:19,979 --> 00:56:23,249
I want you to say your
prayers every night, hear?

753
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:30,156
Be safe, hear?

754
00:56:41,534 --> 00:56:42,936
Benjamin!

755
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,675
- Where you going?
- To sea.

756
00:56:50,430 --> 00:56:52,145
I'll send you a postcard.

757
00:56:53,947 --> 00:56:55,882
From everywhere.

758
00:56:55,982 --> 00:56:58,618
Write me a postcard
from everywhere.

759
00:57:13,133 --> 00:57:15,100
Can you imagine?

760
00:57:17,370 --> 00:57:23,510
He sent me a postcard
from everywhere he went.

761
00:57:25,450 --> 00:57:27,470
Every place he worked.

762
00:57:28,348 --> 00:57:31,484
Newfoundland. Baffin Bay.

763
00:57:32,180 --> 00:57:35,155
Glasgow. Liverpool. Narvik.

764
00:57:35,889 --> 00:57:40,660
He had gone with
that Captain Mike.

765
00:57:42,662 --> 00:57:44,898
Captain Mike had
contracted for three years

766
00:57:44,998 --> 00:57:47,333
with Moran Brothers
Tug and Salvage.

767
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:51,271
The old ship had been refitted with a
diesel engine and a new sea winch.

768
00:57:51,371 --> 00:57:54,274
We went around Florida and
up the Atlantic seaboard.

769
00:57:54,374 --> 00:57:57,777
We were a crew of seven now.
Captain Mike and me.

770
00:57:57,877 --> 00:58:01,247
Cookie, Prentiss Mayes
from Wilmington, Delaware.

771
00:58:01,348 --> 00:58:03,750
The Brody twins, Rick and Vic.

772
00:58:03,850 --> 00:58:06,860
Who got along fine at sea but.
For some reason,

773
00:58:06,186 --> 00:58:09,255
once they were on dry land couldn't
stand the sight of each other.

774
00:58:09,356 --> 00:58:12,926
You know, one in every
eight boats never returns.

775
00:58:13,260 --> 00:58:15,128
There was John Grimm,
who sure fit his name.

776
00:58:15,228 --> 00:58:17,970
All hands lost at sea.

777
00:58:17,197 --> 00:58:19,432
From Belvedere, South Dakota.

778
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,636
And Pleasant Curtis
from Asheville, Notch.

779
00:58:23,737 --> 00:58:26,940
Never said a word to
anyone, except himself.

780
00:58:29,420 --> 00:58:31,945
I wrote him constantly.

781
00:58:33,546 --> 00:58:38,585
I told him I had been invited
to audition in New York City

782
00:58:39,119 --> 00:58:41,788
for the School of
American Ballet.

783
00:58:41,888 --> 00:58:43,289
Please stay.

784
00:58:43,390 --> 00:58:45,558
Thank you. Thank you.

785
00:58:47,494 --> 00:58:48,795
You can stay.

786
00:58:51,264 --> 00:58:54,401
But I was relegated
to the corps.

787
00:58:54,667 --> 00:58:57,700
Another dancing gypsy.

788
00:59:01,341 --> 00:59:02,909
Benjamin!

789
00:59:03,510 --> 00:59:05,979
How is it when you showed up

790
00:59:06,790 --> 00:59:09,983
you were no bigger than a bollard
with one foot in the grave,

791
00:59:10,830 --> 00:59:14,287
but now, either I drink a hell
of a lot more than I think I do,

792
00:59:15,522 --> 00:59:17,190
or you sprouted?

793
00:59:18,910 --> 00:59:19,859
What's your secret?

794
00:59:21,261 --> 00:59:22,862
Well, Captain,

795
00:59:24,631 --> 00:59:26,466
you do drink a lot.

796
00:59:31,271 --> 00:59:35,508
We stayed in a small hotel with a
grand name, The Winter Palace.

797
00:59:35,608 --> 00:59:38,378
You have no idea what
you're talking about.

798
00:59:38,478 --> 00:59:41,981
The hummingbird is not
just another bird.

799
00:59:42,682 --> 00:59:46,453
It's heart rate's 1,200
beats per minute.

800
00:59:48,154 --> 00:59:50,890
It's wings beat 80
times a second.

801
00:59:52,792 --> 00:59:55,829
If you was to stop their
wings from beating,

802
00:59:56,463 --> 00:59:59,299
it would be dead in
less than 10 seconds.

803
01:00:00,300 --> 01:00:02,969
This is no ordinary bird.

804
01:00:03,636 --> 01:00:05,739
This is a frickin' miracle.

805
01:00:08,875 --> 01:00:12,812
They slowed down their wings
with moving pictures,

806
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,682
and you know what they saw?

807
01:00:16,149 --> 01:00:18,985
Their wingtips are doing that.

808
01:00:22,989 --> 01:00:26,860
You know what the figure eight
is the mathematical symbol for?

809
01:00:29,829 --> 01:00:31,398
Infinity.

810
01:00:31,498 --> 01:00:32,832
Infinity!

811
01:00:36,336 --> 01:00:39,239
Everybody, no matter what
differences they had,

812
01:00:39,339 --> 01:00:43,376
the languages. The color of their
skin, had one thing in common.

813
01:00:44,277 --> 01:00:46,680
They were drunk
every single night.

814
01:00:46,746 --> 01:00:48,281
Three, please.

815
01:00:48,381 --> 01:00:50,160
Could you hold, dear,
for us, please?

816
01:00:50,830 --> 01:00:52,385
Thank you very much.
Good evening.

817
01:00:52,452 --> 01:00:55,188
Her name was Elizabeth Abbott.

818
01:00:55,255 --> 01:00:58,591
She was not beautiful.
She was plain as paper.

819
01:00:58,692 --> 01:01:01,528
But she was pretty as
any picture to me.

820
01:01:02,762 --> 01:01:04,864
What are you looking at?

821
01:01:07,330 --> 01:01:09,602
If you must know, we have
a longstanding agreement

822
01:01:09,703 --> 01:01:11,710
never to go to bed sober.

823
01:01:11,137 --> 01:01:13,573
- Isn't that right, darling?
- Whatever you say. Darling.

824
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,742
Her husband was Walter Abbott.

825
01:01:15,809 --> 01:01:19,746
He was Chief Minister of the
British Trade Mission in Murmansk,

826
01:01:19,813 --> 01:01:21,448
and he was a spy.

827
01:01:21,548 --> 01:01:24,451
- Darling.
- Oh, thank you, my darling.

828
01:01:24,551 --> 01:01:26,586
- Key, darling.
- Oh, yes.

829
01:01:31,570 --> 01:01:34,127
I broke my heel off
one of my shoes.

830
01:01:34,227 --> 01:01:37,831
I'm not in the habit of walking
about in my stocking feet.

831
01:01:42,235 --> 01:01:44,404
They were long days there.

832
01:01:51,911 --> 01:01:53,913
And even longer nights.

833
01:01:56,820 --> 01:01:59,652
One particular night, I was
having trouble sleeping.

834
01:02:01,870 --> 01:02:02,622
I'm sorry.

835
01:02:04,457 --> 01:02:06,259
I couldn't sleep.

836
01:02:19,105 --> 01:02:22,609
I was gonna make some tea.
Would you like some?

837
01:02:23,476 --> 01:02:25,345
Oh, no. Thank you.

838
01:03:03,149 --> 01:03:04,751
Milk? Honey?

839
01:03:05,352 --> 01:03:07,320
A bit of honey, please.

840
01:03:07,821 --> 01:03:09,589
I hope you like flies
in your honey.

841
01:03:09,689 --> 01:03:11,391
Oh, perhaps not.

842
01:03:26,206 --> 01:03:30,510
Oh, maybe better to let
it steep a little.

843
01:03:31,444 --> 01:03:32,679
Steep?

844
01:03:33,130 --> 01:03:34,114
Soak.

845
01:03:34,347 --> 01:03:38,510
I don't know, I mean, there's
a proper way of making tea.

846
01:03:38,118 --> 01:03:41,388
Well, where I'm from, people
just want it to be hot.

847
01:03:41,454 --> 01:03:43,590
Well, quite right.

848
01:03:52,465 --> 01:03:54,901
- Now, you're a seaman.
- A sailor.

849
01:03:54,968 --> 01:03:57,737
I hope you won't think me
impolite, but I have to ask,

850
01:03:57,804 --> 01:03:59,939
aren't you a little old
to be working on a boat?

851
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,476
There's no age limit, as
long as you can do the work.

852
01:04:14,254 --> 01:04:16,589
And you have trouble sleeping?
Thank you.

853
01:04:16,656 --> 01:04:19,893
I didn't think I did. I
usually sleep like a baby.

854
01:04:20,827 --> 01:04:23,296
Somethings been keeping me up.

855
01:04:24,497 --> 01:04:25,732
My father, in his 80s.

856
01:04:25,799 --> 01:04:29,102
He was so convinced he was
gonna die in his sleep,

857
01:04:29,736 --> 01:04:32,906
he limited himself to
having afternoon naps.

858
01:04:33,606 --> 01:04:36,409
He was so determined he
was gonna cheat death.

859
01:04:37,577 --> 01:04:39,446
- Did he?
- Did he what?

860
01:04:39,579 --> 01:04:41,247
Die in his sleep?

861
01:04:42,916 --> 01:04:45,485
He died sitting in
his favorite chair

862
01:04:45,585 --> 01:04:48,254
listening to his favorite
program on the wireless.

863
01:04:48,321 --> 01:04:50,824
He must have known something.

864
01:04:56,529 --> 01:05:01,634
My husband's the British Trade Minister,
and we've been here for 14 months.

865
01:05:01,701 --> 01:05:05,380
- Good God.
- We were supposed to go to Peking

866
01:05:05,138 --> 01:05:08,641
but it never seemed to work out.

867
01:05:10,110 --> 01:05:11,811
Have you been in the Far East?

868
01:05:11,878 --> 01:05:14,114
No. I've never been
anywhere, really.

869
01:05:14,180 --> 01:05:16,649
I mean, outside of harbors.

870
01:05:16,716 --> 01:05:18,385
And where is it
that you're from?

871
01:05:18,485 --> 01:05:21,210
New Orleans. Louisiana.

872
01:05:22,489 --> 01:05:24,824
I didn't know there was another.

873
01:05:27,127 --> 01:05:32,165
And she told me about all the places
she had been, and what she had seen.

874
01:05:33,733 --> 01:05:36,669
And we talked till
just before the dawn.

875
01:05:37,671 --> 01:05:39,172
I'm just a lush, myself.

876
01:05:39,239 --> 01:05:44,210
And we went back to our
rooms, to our separate lives.

877
01:05:49,649 --> 01:05:52,986
But every night, we'd
meet again in that lobby.

878
01:05:58,258 --> 01:06:02,195
A hotel in the middle of the
night can be a magical place.

879
01:06:05,310 --> 01:06:08,100
A mouse running, and stopping.

880
01:06:09,369 --> 01:06:11,504
A radiator hissing.

881
01:06:12,505 --> 01:06:14,374
A curtain blowing.

882
01:06:18,111 --> 01:06:21,514
There's something
peaceful, even comforting

883
01:06:21,581 --> 01:06:24,851
knowing that the people you
love are asleep in their beds

884
01:06:24,918 --> 01:06:27,187
where nothing can harm them.

885
01:06:30,256 --> 01:06:33,226
Elizabeth and I would
lose track of the night

886
01:06:33,727 --> 01:06:35,929
until just before daybreak.

887
01:06:38,531 --> 01:06:41,301
I think I may have given
you the wrong impression.

888
01:06:41,401 --> 01:06:42,936
Beg pardon?

889
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:46,873
Well, married women don't
customarily sit around

890
01:06:46,940 --> 01:06:49,750
in the middle of the night
with strange men in hotels.

891
01:06:49,750 --> 01:06:52,645
I wouldn't know what a married
woman does or doesn't do.

892
01:06:58,385 --> 01:06:59,886
Good night.

893
01:07:02,155 --> 01:07:03,490
Murmansk.

894
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,162
"I've met somebody, and
I've fallen in love."

895
01:07:09,262 --> 01:07:10,497
Mom?

896
01:07:14,300 --> 01:07:16,903
That was over 60 years ago.

897
01:07:18,138 --> 01:07:19,172
Did you love him, Mother?

898
01:07:19,272 --> 01:07:22,750
What does a girl
know about love?

899
01:07:55,642 --> 01:07:56,876
Well...

900
01:07:59,346 --> 01:08:03,149
- I'm not dressed.
- Oh, you look splendid, just as you are.

901
01:08:05,385 --> 01:08:08,488
Don't waste anytime bothering about
the wine or the cheese in Murmansk,

902
01:08:08,555 --> 01:08:11,624
"'cause they're really
completely ordinary,"

903
01:08:11,691 --> 01:08:16,696
but the caviar and the vodka

904
01:08:17,230 --> 01:08:21,368
are sublime and plentiful.

905
01:08:25,138 --> 01:08:26,473
So.

906
01:08:31,711 --> 01:08:33,460
Savor it.

907
01:08:35,148 --> 01:08:37,150
And don't eat it all at once,

908
01:08:37,217 --> 01:08:40,353
because that way, there's
nothing left to enjoy.

909
01:08:41,988 --> 01:08:46,359
And now, take a little swallow of
vodka while it's still in your mouth.

910
01:09:01,207 --> 01:09:04,770
You haven't been with
many women, have you?

911
01:09:05,245 --> 01:09:06,913
Not on Sundays.

912
01:09:09,820 --> 01:09:10,850
And you've never had
caviar before, have you?

913
01:09:10,917 --> 01:09:12,585
No, ma'am.

914
01:09:18,391 --> 01:09:20,930
When I was 19,

915
01:09:21,610 --> 01:09:27,367
I attempted to become the first woman
ever to swim the English Channel.

916
01:09:28,368 --> 01:09:29,769
Really?

917
01:09:30,370 --> 01:09:33,440
But the current that day
was so strong that,

918
01:09:33,540 --> 01:09:36,643
for every stroke I took,
I was pushed back two.

919
01:09:37,210 --> 01:09:39,879
I was in the water for 32 hours.

920
01:09:40,780 --> 01:09:44,651
And when I was two
miles from Calais,

921
01:09:45,752 --> 01:09:47,554
it started to rain.

922
01:09:48,221 --> 01:09:50,156
That's it! Steady on!

923
01:09:50,657 --> 01:09:53,326
When I couldn't go any further,

924
01:09:54,894 --> 01:09:56,396
I stopped.

925
01:09:57,731 --> 01:09:59,399
I just stopped.

926
01:09:59,933 --> 01:10:04,838
And everybody asked me.
Would I try again?

927
01:10:05,572 --> 01:10:07,440
For why wouldn't I?

928
01:10:10,310 --> 01:10:12,780
But I never did.

929
01:10:13,446 --> 01:10:17,751
As a matter of fact, we never done
anything with my life after that.

930
01:10:21,821 --> 01:10:23,923
Your hands are so coarse.

931
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,803
I can feel the wind
in your cheek.

932
01:10:43,543 --> 01:10:46,112
I'm afraid it's the
witching hour.

933
01:10:51,951 --> 01:10:55,221
It was the first time a
woman had ever kissed me.

934
01:10:55,789 --> 01:10:58,191
It's something you never forget.

935
01:11:08,668 --> 01:11:10,704
I think you make
me feel younger.

936
01:11:10,804 --> 01:11:13,373
You make me feel
years younger, too.

937
01:11:13,473 --> 01:11:15,750
I wish I was.

938
01:11:16,420 --> 01:11:18,211
So many things I'd change.

939
01:11:18,878 --> 01:11:21,214
I'd undo all my mistakes.

940
01:11:21,314 --> 01:11:23,490
What mistakes?

941
01:11:26,353 --> 01:11:28,555
I kept waiting, you know?

942
01:11:29,155 --> 01:11:33,693
Thinking that I'd do something
to change my circumstances.

943
01:11:34,928 --> 01:11:36,696
Do something.

944
01:11:38,231 --> 01:11:41,501
Such an awful waste.
You never get it back.

945
01:11:41,935 --> 01:11:43,436
Wasted time.

946
01:11:49,709 --> 01:11:52,178
If we're going to
have an affair,

947
01:11:52,846 --> 01:11:55,715
you're never to look
at me during the day.

948
01:11:56,349 --> 01:11:59,285
And we're always to
part before sunrise.

949
01:11:59,919 --> 01:12:02,589
And we will never
say "I love you."

950
01:12:04,190 --> 01:12:06,260
Those are the rules.

951
01:12:08,595 --> 01:12:10,764
- Are you cold?
- I'm freezing.

952
01:12:10,864 --> 01:12:12,799
Oh, you! You're frozen.

953
01:12:12,899 --> 01:12:16,136
What an idiot, I'm standing here in
this fur. How thoughtless of me.

954
01:12:49,769 --> 01:12:52,605
She was the first woman
that ever loved me.

955
01:12:55,575 --> 01:12:56,810
You want me to skip some?

956
01:12:56,910 --> 01:13:02,682
No. I'm glad he had
somebody to keep him warm.

957
01:13:06,319 --> 01:13:08,822
"I couldn't wait
to see her again."

958
01:13:21,701 --> 01:13:24,370
We saw each other every night.

959
01:13:24,604 --> 01:13:26,940
We always used the same room.

960
01:13:28,875 --> 01:13:32,278
But each time seemed
new and different.

961
01:13:33,613 --> 01:13:35,115
Come here.

962
01:13:42,522 --> 01:13:43,957
Elizabeth.

963
01:13:45,291 --> 01:13:46,726
Good night.

964
01:13:49,396 --> 01:13:51,640
Until one night.

965
01:14:28,334 --> 01:14:33,907
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941,

966
01:14:34,700 --> 01:14:37,110
a date which will
live in infamy...

967
01:14:37,210 --> 01:14:41,381
It's a meeting, a policy
meeting regarding your future,

968
01:14:42,282 --> 01:14:43,883
possibly beyond.

969
01:14:45,251 --> 01:14:47,854
There's been a change
of plan, lads.

970
01:14:48,210 --> 01:14:50,623
As you may or may not know,

971
01:14:50,724 --> 01:14:53,360
the Japs bombed Pearl
Harbor yesterday.

972
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:57,263
Frank D. Roosevelt's asked
each of us to do our part.

973
01:14:57,731 --> 01:15:01,868
The Chelsea's been commissioned to
serve in the United States Navy.

974
01:15:02,268 --> 01:15:05,572
To repair, to salvage,
and to rescue.

975
01:15:07,730 --> 01:15:11,444
Anybody doesn't want to go to
war, now is the time to say so.

976
01:15:11,544 --> 01:15:15,749
Once you set foot on that boat,
you're in the Navy, friend.

977
01:15:18,952 --> 01:15:21,988
Yeah, I've been meaning
to talk with you, Mike.

978
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:24,124
My wife's doing poorly.

979
01:15:24,224 --> 01:15:26,960
I'd like to maybe see
her one more time.

980
01:15:28,661 --> 01:15:32,499
You're free to make your way
home any way you can, Mr. Mayes.

981
01:15:38,104 --> 01:15:39,906
Well, if he's leaving,
who's gonna cook?

982
01:15:39,973 --> 01:15:44,770
Food poisoning's one of the
leading causes of death at sea.

983
01:15:44,144 --> 01:15:46,513
Right after inadequate
safety equipment.

984
01:15:46,613 --> 01:15:49,282
I can cook, Captain. Been
doing it all my life.

985
01:15:49,349 --> 01:15:53,787
I don't know. You're a little
moody for war, Benjamin.

986
01:15:53,853 --> 01:15:55,822
What the hell?

987
01:15:55,922 --> 01:16:00,293
I'll take any man wants to kick the
shite out of the Japs and the Huns.

988
01:16:01,661 --> 01:16:05,465
That's it, pack your gear.
We're going to war, gentlemen!

989
01:16:12,305 --> 01:16:14,107
She had left a note.

990
01:16:15,442 --> 01:16:18,211
She wrote, "It was
nice to have met you."

991
01:16:18,945 --> 01:16:20,613
And that was it.

992
01:16:23,783 --> 01:16:26,853
It wasn't the war
any of us expected.

993
01:16:26,953 --> 01:16:30,623
We would just tow crippled
ships, scraps of metal, really.

994
01:16:31,191 --> 01:16:34,194
If there was a war,
we didn't see it.

995
01:16:36,620 --> 01:16:40,166
There was a man assigned to us.
The Chief Gunner loved the Navy.

996
01:16:40,233 --> 01:16:42,469
But most of all,
he loved America.

997
01:16:42,535 --> 01:16:45,472
There is no other
country in the world.

998
01:16:45,538 --> 01:16:46,673
When you spell America. . .

999
01:16:46,740 --> 01:16:50,910
His name was Dennis Smith, and
he was a full-blooded Cherokee.

1000
01:16:51,110 --> 01:16:54,147
His family had been Americans
for over 500 years.

1001
01:16:54,214 --> 01:16:58,752
These pacifists. They say they
won't fight on conscience.

1002
01:16:58,852 --> 01:17:02,489
Now, where would be if
everybody decided to act

1003
01:17:02,555 --> 01:17:06,559
- according to their conscience?
- Keep it down, would you, Chief?

1004
01:17:22,742 --> 01:17:26,279
Hey. I've been watching you.

1005
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:29,115
You seem trustworthy.

1006
01:17:30,884 --> 01:17:33,190
If something happens to me,

1007
01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:39,626
could you see that
this gets to my wife?

1008
01:17:39,726 --> 01:17:44,297
He'd given me all of his pay.
Hadn't spent a dime of it.

1009
01:17:46,199 --> 01:17:49,469
I want my family to know I
was thinking about them.

1010
01:17:54,207 --> 01:17:56,760
All hands on deck!

1011
01:17:58,545 --> 01:18:01,381
Get your asses up here,
you lazy bastards!

1012
01:18:22,635 --> 01:18:24,904
The war had finally found us.

1013
01:18:27,574 --> 01:18:29,750
All stop!

1014
01:18:31,745 --> 01:18:33,780
Pleasant. Man that light.

1015
01:18:41,621 --> 01:18:45,825
Atransport carrying 1,300 men
had been split by a torpedo.

1016
01:18:48,194 --> 01:18:50,497
We were first to
arrive at the scene.

1017
01:18:50,597 --> 01:18:54,167
- Cut the engines!
- All stop!

1018
01:18:59,272 --> 01:19:01,207
We were the only sound.

1019
01:19:15,121 --> 01:19:16,556
Fellas!

1020
01:19:26,499 --> 01:19:27,634
Sub!

1021
01:19:32,372 --> 01:19:35,208
We sure as hell can't
outrun them ****ers.

1022
01:19:36,910 --> 01:19:39,245
Battle stations!

1023
01:19:49,890 --> 01:19:50,156
Thank you, Chief.

1024
01:19:52,392 --> 01:19:53,526
What?

1025
01:20:06,506 --> 01:20:08,341
Is that the last one?

1026
01:21:29,923 --> 01:21:31,157
Captain!

1027
01:21:46,773 --> 01:21:49,442
They shot the hell
out of my painting!

1028
01:21:50,677 --> 01:21:52,545
Give me your other hand.

1029
01:21:57,884 --> 01:21:58,952
You'll be all right, Captain.

1030
01:21:59,190 --> 01:22:03,323
They got a nice spot in Heaven
waiting for you. Nice spot.

1031
01:22:04,824 --> 01:22:07,894
You can be as mad as a mad
dog at the way things went.

1032
01:22:10,864 --> 01:22:14,567
You could swear,
curse the Fates.

1033
01:22:16,836 --> 01:22:19,500
But when it comes to the end,

1034
01:22:21,174 --> 01:22:22,976
you have to let go.

1035
01:22:29,916 --> 01:22:31,184
Captain?

1036
01:22:52,500 --> 01:22:55,342
Thirteen hundred and twenty
eight men died that day.

1037
01:22:57,610 --> 01:23:00,880
I said my goodbyes to the
Cherokee, Dennis Smith.

1038
01:23:01,848 --> 01:23:05,510
John Grimm, who was right,
he was gonna die there.

1039
01:23:06,519 --> 01:23:09,255
I sent Pleasant Curtis'
wife his money.

1040
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,126
I said goodbye to the
twin, Vic Brody,

1041
01:23:13,226 --> 01:23:17,931
and to Mike Clark, captain
of the tugboat Chelsea.

1042
01:23:20,367 --> 01:23:24,871
I said goodbye to all the other
men who had dreams of their own,

1043
01:23:24,938 --> 01:23:27,540
ail the men who wanted
to be insurance salesmen

1044
01:23:27,607 --> 01:23:30,577
or doctors or lawyers
or Indian chiefs.

1045
01:23:31,611 --> 01:23:33,446
This don't get fixed.

1046
01:23:35,548 --> 01:23:38,618
Out here, death
didn't seem natural.

1047
01:23:55,602 --> 01:23:58,805
I'd never seen a hummingbird
that far out to sea.

1048
01:24:00,306 --> 01:24:01,941
Before or since.

1049
01:24:07,781 --> 01:24:14,200
And in May of 1945, when
I was 26 years old,

1050
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:15,255
I came home.

1051
01:24:16,156 --> 01:24:18,792
I'm ready! I'm ready!

1052
01:24:18,858 --> 01:24:20,260
I'm coming!

1053
01:24:21,127 --> 01:24:24,798
- I'm ready!
- All right. I'm coming, Miss Alfalina.

1054
01:24:24,864 --> 01:24:26,433
- Queenie?
- Yes?

1055
01:24:32,272 --> 01:24:38,178
Sweet Jesus! Oh, you're home!
Oh, Lord, you came back!

1056
01:24:39,450 --> 01:24:41,140
- Let me look at you.
- Who's that, Mama?

1057
01:24:41,114 --> 01:24:44,351
- Child, it's your brother, Benjamin.
- I didn't know he was my brother.

1058
01:24:44,451 --> 01:24:46,152
There's a shitload of things
you don't know, child.

1059
01:24:46,219 --> 01:24:47,387
Get on out there and
finish sweeping.

1060
01:24:47,487 --> 01:24:49,689
Come here, wash your hands, help
me with the table. Go on, now.

1061
01:24:49,789 --> 01:24:53,693
Turn around. You look like
you've been born again.

1062
01:24:53,793 --> 01:24:56,290
Younger than the springtime.

1063
01:24:56,129 --> 01:24:59,799
I think that preacher laid hands
on you gave you a second life.

1064
01:24:59,866 --> 01:25:03,536
I knew it that moment I saw
you, you were special.

1065
01:25:03,636 --> 01:25:05,505
I telic you what,
my knees are sore,

1066
01:25:05,572 --> 01:25:08,141
'cause I've been on them
every night asking the Lord,

1067
01:25:08,208 --> 01:25:11,978
I said, "God, just bring
him home safely."

1068
01:25:12,450 --> 01:25:14,547
Remember what I told you?

1069
01:25:14,647 --> 01:25:16,316
"You never know what's
coming for you?"

1070
01:25:16,383 --> 01:25:18,318
That's right. Sit down.

1071
01:25:19,686 --> 01:25:23,823
Well, you learn anything
worth repeating?

1072
01:25:25,892 --> 01:25:30,163
- I sure saw some things.
- Oh, you seen some pain.

1073
01:25:31,664 --> 01:25:34,401
- Some joy, too?
- Sure. Sure, I did.

1074
01:25:34,501 --> 01:25:38,672
Yeah, that's what I want
to hear. Look at you.

1075
01:25:38,738 --> 01:25:42,275
- Where's Tizzy?
- Oh, baby.

1076
01:25:44,711 --> 01:25:48,581
Mr. Weathers died in his
sleep one night last April.

1077
01:25:48,682 --> 01:25:52,185
- Mama, I'm so sorry.
- Don't you worry about that, baby.

1078
01:25:53,887 --> 01:25:56,556
Yeah, well, it's only one
or two of them left now.

1079
01:25:56,623 --> 01:25:58,910
They all just about new.

1080
01:25:58,191 --> 01:26:02,950
Guess they're waiting their
turn like everybody else, huh?

1081
01:26:02,195 --> 01:26:04,931
I'm so glad you're
back home with me!

1082
01:26:05,310 --> 01:26:08,201
Now, we're gonna have to find you a
wife and a new job! That's right.

1083
01:26:08,268 --> 01:26:10,203
Come on in here, help
me with this table.

1084
01:26:13,306 --> 01:26:14,941
Benjamin.

1085
01:26:15,410 --> 01:26:18,144
You're wasting your time, baby.
She's stone deaf.

1086
01:26:18,244 --> 01:26:22,282
Oh, and you'll be staying in what
was Mrs. DeSeroux's old room.

1087
01:26:22,382 --> 01:26:25,318
You're too big to be
rooming with anybody else.

1088
01:26:29,422 --> 01:26:32,580
It's a funny thing
about coming home.

1089
01:26:32,726 --> 01:26:36,496
Looks the same, smells the
same, feels the same.

1090
01:26:39,232 --> 01:26:43,690
Did I ever telic you I've been
struck by lightning seven times?

1091
01:26:44,738 --> 01:26:48,108
Once when I was sitting in my truck,
just minding my own business.

1092
01:26:53,947 --> 01:26:57,417
You realize what's
changed is you.

1093
01:27:00,860 --> 01:27:04,124
And late one morning, not
long after I'd been back...

1094
01:27:04,491 --> 01:27:05,859
Thank you.

1095
01:27:27,947 --> 01:27:29,150
- He!

1096
01:27:33,553 --> 01:27:37,457
- Excuse me, is Queenie here?
- Daisy?

1097
01:27:41,194 --> 01:27:44,831
- It's me, Benjamin.
- Benjamin?

1098
01:27:48,535 --> 01:27:50,537
Oh, my God!

1099
01:27:51,805 --> 01:27:55,742
Of course it's you! Benjamin!

1100
01:27:57,811 --> 01:28:00,714
How are you? It's been
such a long time.

1101
01:28:00,814 --> 01:28:03,550
There's so much I want to know.
When did you get back?

1102
01:28:03,650 --> 01:28:05,510
Well, I got back
a few weeks ago.

1103
01:28:05,151 --> 01:28:09,155
I spoke to Queenie, she said you
were in the war, somewhere at sea.

1104
01:28:09,222 --> 01:28:12,992
- We were so, so worried about you.
- Oh, I'm okay.

1105
01:28:13,590 --> 01:28:16,996
Well, look at you.
You're so lovely.

1106
01:28:18,732 --> 01:28:20,533
You stopped writing.

1107
01:28:22,602 --> 01:28:27,741
"When I had left, she was a girl.
And a woman had taken her place."

1108
01:28:28,410 --> 01:28:31,244
"She was the most beautiful
woman I'd ever seen."

1109
01:28:31,344 --> 01:28:32,679
Beautiful.

1110
01:28:34,848 --> 01:28:36,683
"The most beautiful."."

1111
01:28:38,451 --> 01:28:40,220
- You remember Grandma Fuller?
- Why, sure I do.

1112
01:28:40,286 --> 01:28:43,390
- She passed.
- I heard that. I'm sorry.

1113
01:28:43,456 --> 01:28:48,940
I just can't believe we're
both here. Must be fate.

1114
01:28:48,194 --> 01:28:50,130
No. No, what do they call it?

1115
01:28:50,230 --> 01:28:51,631
Kismet.

1116
01:28:51,731 --> 01:28:53,633
Do you know about Edgar
Cayce, the psychic?

1117
01:28:53,733 --> 01:28:54,768
I don't believe I...

1118
01:28:54,868 --> 01:28:57,737
He says that everything
is predetermined,

1119
01:28:57,804 --> 01:29:01,207
but I like to think
of it as fate.

1120
01:29:04,377 --> 01:29:07,614
I'm not sure how it works,
but I'm glad it happened.

1121
01:29:07,714 --> 01:29:11,317
Have you been to Manhattan? It's
right across the river from me.

1122
01:29:11,418 --> 01:29:13,586
Now, I can see the
Empire State Building

1123
01:29:13,653 --> 01:29:15,455
if I stand on my bed.

1124
01:29:15,555 --> 01:29:17,557
What about you? Where
have you been?

1125
01:29:17,624 --> 01:29:21,261
Tell me everything. Last time you
wrote, you said you'd been to Russia.

1126
01:29:21,327 --> 01:29:25,498
I've always wanted to go to Russia.
Is it as cold as they say?

1127
01:29:25,598 --> 01:29:28,401
- Twice as cold.
- My goodness.

1128
01:29:28,968 --> 01:29:33,673
We always said you were different.
But I think you really are.

1129
01:29:35,742 --> 01:29:39,312
You wrote that you met somebody.
Did it work out?

1130
01:29:39,779 --> 01:29:41,481
It ran it's course.

1131
01:29:42,816 --> 01:29:44,918
Hey, do you remember this?

1132
01:29:55,762 --> 01:29:58,498
"This is the picture
of Old Man Kangaroo"

1133
01:29:58,598 --> 01:30:00,700
"at 5:00 in the afternoon."

1134
01:30:02,502 --> 01:30:04,771
Would you like to have dinner?

1135
01:30:12,212 --> 01:30:15,148
Did I telic you that I
danced for Balanchine?

1136
01:30:15,815 --> 01:30:20,353
Oh, he's a famous choreographer.
He said that I had perfect line.

1137
01:30:22,550 --> 01:30:26,626
You know, in a rehearsal
once, a dancer fell.

1138
01:30:26,693 --> 01:30:29,529
And he just... He just put it
right into the production.

1139
01:30:29,629 --> 01:30:33,133
I mean, can you imagine that? Like
in a... In a classical ballet?

1140
01:30:33,199 --> 01:30:36,469
You know, a dancer,
intentionally falling.

1141
01:30:36,536 --> 01:30:40,206
There's a whole new word for dance
now. It's called "abstract."

1142
01:30:40,306 --> 01:30:41,641
No. He's not the
only one, though.

1143
01:30:41,708 --> 01:30:45,645
There's Lincoln Kirstein and
Lucia Chase, and oh, my...

1144
01:30:45,712 --> 01:30:48,214
Oh, there's Agnes de Mille.

1145
01:30:48,314 --> 01:30:50,383
She's just torn up all
those conventions,

1146
01:30:50,483 --> 01:30:52,485
you know, ail that
straight-up-and-down stuff.

1147
01:30:52,552 --> 01:30:55,755
It's not about the formality of the dance,
it's about what the dancer's feeling.

1148
01:30:55,855 --> 01:30:58,558
As she told me about
this big new world,

1149
01:30:58,658 --> 01:31:01,194
names that didn't
mean a thing to me,

1150
01:31:01,261 --> 01:31:03,396
I didn't really hear very
much of what she was saying.

1151
01:31:03,430 --> 01:31:05,699
It's new and it's modern
and it's American.

1152
01:31:05,765 --> 01:31:08,935
They understand our vigor
and our physicality.

1153
01:31:09,350 --> 01:31:11,204
Oh, my God. I've just
been talking and talking.

1154
01:31:11,271 --> 01:31:15,775
No. No, I've enjoyed listening.
I didn't know you smoked.

1155
01:31:15,875 --> 01:31:17,444
I'm old enough.

1156
01:31:20,780 --> 01:31:23,350
I'm old enough for
a lot of things.

1157
01:31:26,219 --> 01:31:28,688
In New York, we
stay up all night,

1158
01:31:29,923 --> 01:31:32,759
watch the sun come up
over the warehouses.

1159
01:31:35,610 --> 01:31:37,397
There's always something to do.

1160
01:31:55,480 --> 01:31:57,217
I have to go back tomorrow.

1161
01:31:58,318 --> 01:32:00,487
- 80 soon.
- Wish I could stay.

1162
01:32:05,258 --> 01:32:08,461
Dancers don't need costumes
or scenery anymore.

1163
01:32:08,561 --> 01:32:12,980
I can imagine dancing
completely naked.

1164
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:15,769
Have you read D. H . Lawrence?

1165
01:32:15,835 --> 01:32:17,971
- Well...
- His books were banned.

1166
01:32:18,710 --> 01:32:21,608
The words are like making love.

1167
01:33:06,119 --> 01:33:10,724
In our company, we have
to trust each other.

1168
01:33:15,995 --> 01:33:19,699
*** is a part of it.

1169
01:33:24,700 --> 01:33:27,700
You know, a lot of the
dancers are lesbians.

1170
01:33:29,142 --> 01:33:32,245
There was one woman who
wanted to sleep with me.

1171
01:33:36,950 --> 01:33:39,986
- Does that upset you?
- Which part?

1172
01:33:41,870 --> 01:33:43,523
Somebody wanting
to sleep with me.

1173
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:45,191
You're a desirable woman.

1174
01:33:45,291 --> 01:33:49,290
I would think most of them
would want to sleep with you.

1175
01:33:49,129 --> 01:33:51,264
Let's go back to the house.

1176
01:33:52,165 --> 01:33:54,601
Or we could get a
room somewhere.

1177
01:33:57,537 --> 01:34:00,774
- We could lay down your jacket.
- I don't know, Daisy.

1178
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:06,212
It's not that I wouldn't like to or
anything. I think I'll just disappoint you.

1179
01:34:07,113 --> 01:34:10,216
Oh, Benjamin. I've
been with older men.

1180
01:34:10,984 --> 01:34:13,190
You're going back to New
York in the morning.

1181
01:34:13,119 --> 01:34:15,455
You should be with your friends.

1182
01:34:16,456 --> 01:34:18,958
- You're only young once.
- Oh, I'm old enough.

1183
01:34:19,250 --> 01:34:21,661
Daisy, just not tonight, is all.

1184
01:34:35,175 --> 01:34:37,344
We could go hear some music.

1185
01:34:39,579 --> 01:34:42,315
Our lives are defined
by opportunities.

1186
01:34:43,149 --> 01:34:45,151
Even the ones we miss.

1187
01:34:46,860 --> 01:34:49,656
You look so handsome
and so distinguished.

1188
01:34:49,723 --> 01:34:51,891
They're saying the hurricane's
gonna miss us, blow right on by.

1189
01:34:51,991 --> 01:34:56,596
- Oh, that's great.
- I'll stay under the blankets with Mother.

1190
01:34:56,696 --> 01:35:00,834
She says nothing... Benjamin?

1191
01:35:02,702 --> 01:35:03,770
"Things were becoming
different..."

1192
01:35:03,870 --> 01:35:05,710
for me.

1193
01:35:05,171 --> 01:35:08,742
My hair had very little
gray and grew like weeds.

1194
01:35:08,842 --> 01:35:12,612
My sense of smell was keener.
My hearing, more acute.

1195
01:35:12,712 --> 01:35:15,382
I could walk further and faster.

1196
01:35:15,448 --> 01:35:21,254
While everybody else was aging, I
was getting younger, all alone.

1197
01:35:24,257 --> 01:35:25,525
Come in.

1198
01:35:26,893 --> 01:35:28,228
Benjamin.

1199
01:35:29,195 --> 01:35:32,432
- Do you remember me?
- Well, sure I do, Mr. Button.

1200
01:35:33,990 --> 01:35:36,703
- What happened to you?
- Darn foot. Got infected, so...

1201
01:35:38,371 --> 01:35:39,606
Welcome home, my friend.

1202
01:35:42,275 --> 01:35:45,412
I see you're still drinking
your Sazerac with whiskey.

1203
01:35:45,478 --> 01:35:46,746
Creature of habit.

1204
01:35:46,813 --> 01:35:48,948
You still visiting the
house on Bourbon Street?

1205
01:35:49,490 --> 01:35:50,784
Not for a long time.

1206
01:35:52,385 --> 01:35:54,454
Interesting times, though.

1207
01:35:54,554 --> 01:35:58,992
We went from making 40,000 to nearly
half a million buttons a day.

1208
01:35:59,920 --> 01:36:01,127
We employed 10 times
the number of people.

1209
01:36:01,227 --> 01:36:03,730
We were operating
around the clock.

1210
01:36:08,268 --> 01:36:09,669
Damn shame.

1211
01:36:10,770 --> 01:36:13,740
The war has been kind
to the button industry.

1212
01:36:16,443 --> 01:36:17,811
You know,

1213
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:23,416
I'm sick. I don't know
how much longer I have.

1214
01:36:23,483 --> 01:36:26,353
- I'm sorry to hear that, Mr. Button.
- No...

1215
01:36:27,754 --> 01:36:30,824
I don't have any people.
I keep to myself.

1216
01:36:33,293 --> 01:36:36,329
I hope you don't mind. But.
Whenever possible,

1217
01:36:36,429 --> 01:36:38,431
I'd enjoy your company-

1218
01:36:38,498 --> 01:36:41,340
I'll certainly do what I can.

1219
01:36:44,304 --> 01:36:47,273
Benjamin, do you know
anything about buttons?

1220
01:36:50,810 --> 01:36:55,482
Now, Button's Buttons has been
in our family for 124 years.

1221
01:36:56,116 --> 01:37:00,720
My grandfather was a tailor, and
he had a small shop in Richmond.

1222
01:37:00,820 --> 01:37:03,223
After the Civil War, he
moved to New Orleans,

1223
01:37:03,323 --> 01:37:08,361
where my father had the wisdom
to make our own buttons.

1224
01:37:08,461 --> 01:37:13,366
So, with his help, the
tailor shop grew to this.

1225
01:37:14,670 --> 01:37:16,703
And today, I can't sew a stitch.

1226
01:37:20,874 --> 01:37:23,243
That's very, very interesting.

1227
01:37:26,680 --> 01:37:29,315
You sure have done
well for yourself.

1228
01:37:30,216 --> 01:37:34,320
So, what can I do for you.
Mr. Button?

1229
01:37:36,823 --> 01:37:39,859
Benjamin? You're my son.

1230
01:37:47,367 --> 01:37:50,360
I'm so sorry I never
told you before.

1231
01:37:52,172 --> 01:37:55,575
You were born the night
the Great War ended.

1232
01:37:57,444 --> 01:38:01,181
Your mother died
giving birth to you.

1233
01:38:02,682 --> 01:38:04,884
I thought you were a monster.

1234
01:38:08,421 --> 01:38:11,725
I promised your mother I'd
make sure you were safe.

1235
01:38:18,131 --> 01:38:20,600
I should never have
abandoned you.

1236
01:38:24,704 --> 01:38:26,720
My mother?

1237
01:38:27,407 --> 01:38:30,377
At the summer house on
Lake Pontchartrain.

1238
01:38:30,443 --> 01:38:33,913
When I was a boy, I'd love to
wake-up before anyone else,

1239
01:38:33,980 --> 01:38:37,500
run down to that lake and
watch the day begin.

1240
01:38:38,651 --> 01:38:41,321
It was as if I was
the only one alive.

1241
01:38:43,123 --> 01:38:45,892
I fell in love the
first time I saw her.

1242
01:38:46,393 --> 01:38:49,620
Your mother's name
was Caroline Murphy.

1243
01:38:49,662 --> 01:38:52,565
She worked in your
grandfather's kitchen.

1244
01:38:55,802 --> 01:38:57,504
She's from Dublin.

1245
01:38:58,138 --> 01:39:02,575
In 1903, Caroline and all her brothers
and sisters came to live here,

1246
01:39:02,642 --> 01:39:04,244
in New Orleans.

1247
01:39:06,312 --> 01:39:09,182
I'd find excuses to go
down to that kitchen

1248
01:39:09,983 --> 01:39:12,152
just so I could look at her.

1249
01:39:18,491 --> 01:39:22,262
April 25th, 1918.
Happiest day of my life.

1250
01:39:22,996 --> 01:39:25,265
The day I married your mother.

1251
01:39:26,966 --> 01:39:29,135
Why didn't you just telic me?

1252
01:39:29,969 --> 01:39:32,839
I plan on leaving
everything I have to you.

1253
01:39:34,341 --> 01:39:36,810
- I have to go.
- Where?

1254
01:39:37,844 --> 01:39:39,279
Home.

1255
01:39:39,946 --> 01:39:41,281
And what does he think, anyway?

1256
01:39:41,348 --> 01:39:42,682
He thinks he can just show up

1257
01:39:42,782 --> 01:39:44,651
and everything's supposed
to be fine and dandy.

1258
01:39:44,718 --> 01:39:47,354
Everybody's just
supposed to befriends.

1259
01:39:47,454 --> 01:39:50,357
Well, he got another thing
coming, that's for sure.

1260
01:39:50,457 --> 01:39:53,860
God be my witness, he got
another thing coming.

1261
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:57,300
He left us $18 that
night you was found.

1262
01:39:57,130 --> 01:39:58,965
Eighteen ratty dollars

1263
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:00,800
- and a filthy diaper.
- Good night, Mama.

1264
01:40:02,135 --> 01:40:03,336
Good night, baby.

1265
01:40:16,583 --> 01:40:20,987
Did I ever telic you I was
struck by lightning seven times?

1266
01:40:22,722 --> 01:40:24,824
Once, I was walking
my dog down the road.

1267
01:40:29,763 --> 01:40:33,666
I'm blind in the one
eye, can't hardly hear,

1268
01:40:34,868 --> 01:40:39,506
get twitches and shakes out of nowhere,
always losing my line of thought.

1269
01:40:41,410 --> 01:40:42,742
But you know what?

1270
01:40:43,510 --> 01:40:46,446
God keeps reminding me
I'm lucky to be alive.

1271
01:40:52,185 --> 01:40:53,753
Storm's coming.

1272
01:41:21,648 --> 01:41:23,917
May I help you, sir? Up the
stairs, first bedroom.

1273
01:41:23,983 --> 01:41:25,850
Thank you.

1274
01:41:40,934 --> 01:41:42,235
Wake-up.

1275
01:41:44,738 --> 01:41:46,606
Let's get you dressed.

1276
01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:15,668
Now that's something.

1277
01:42:18,938 --> 01:42:20,306
Thank you.

1278
01:43:20,433 --> 01:43:24,404
You can be mad as a mad dog
at the way things went.

1279
01:43:24,504 --> 01:43:26,940
You can swear and
curse the Fates.

1280
01:43:28,508 --> 01:43:30,744
But when it comes to the end,

1281
01:43:31,945 --> 01:43:33,713
you have to let go.

1282
01:43:55,702 --> 01:43:58,304
Well, it sure is a
beautiful service.

1283
01:44:00,140 --> 01:44:02,976
He'll be buried right
next to your mother.

1284
01:44:04,411 --> 01:44:06,790
You're my mother.

1285
01:44:09,883 --> 01:44:11,151
My baby.

1286
01:44:15,722 --> 01:44:17,891
Now, I'd never seen New York.

1287
01:45:46,460 --> 01:45:49,482
- Excuse me, I'm a friend of Daisy's.
- Right this way.

1288
01:45:50,483 --> 01:45:55,855
- Daisy has company. Daisy! Daisy!
- Yes!

1289
01:45:56,222 --> 01:45:59,526
- We need the wardrobe.
- Is somebody looking for me?

1290
01:46:02,950 --> 01:46:04,330
- Benjamin.
- Hi.

1291
01:46:05,598 --> 01:46:09,402
- What are you doing here?
- Thought I'd come visit.

1292
01:46:09,502 --> 01:46:12,939
Spend some time with
you, if I could.

1293
01:46:13,390 --> 01:46:18,945
Oh, well, I wish you would've
called. You took me by surprise.

1294
01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:24,451
- You can just throw them out.
- No. Thank you, they're lovely.

1295
01:46:25,510 --> 01:46:29,889
I couldn't take my eyes off of you.
I thought you were mesmerizing.

1296
01:46:31,891 --> 01:46:34,728
Thank you. That's very
kind of you to say.

1297
01:46:40,330 --> 01:46:42,102
I better get changed. A group
of us are going to a party.

1298
01:46:42,202 --> 01:46:45,438
- Would you want to come?
- Someone told me about a restaurant

1299
01:46:45,538 --> 01:46:46,806
I thought you might enjoy.

1300
01:46:46,906 --> 01:46:49,442
I made a reservation,
just in case.

1301
01:46:49,542 --> 01:46:52,545
Just, all the dancers go out
after the show. You're...

1302
01:46:52,612 --> 01:46:56,449
You're welcome to come with us.
I'll get changed. All right?

1303
01:47:02,889 --> 01:47:04,991
She choreographs for
the Ballets Russes.

1304
01:47:05,910 --> 01:47:06,426
She's divine.

1305
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:08,895
You were breathtaking.

1306
01:47:14,567 --> 01:47:15,835
Sweetie.

1307
01:47:16,970 --> 01:47:19,906
This is David. He dances
with the company.

1308
01:47:20,840 --> 01:47:22,909
- This is Benjamin.
- Who?

1309
01:47:22,976 --> 01:47:26,246
- I told you about him.
- Oh, yeah. How you doing?

1310
01:47:26,312 --> 01:47:29,816
- I'll go get you a drink.
- All right. Thanks.

1311
01:47:37,490 --> 01:47:40,660
So, you were a friend
of her grandmother's'?

1312
01:47:40,760 --> 01:47:42,696
Or something like that?

1313
01:47:43,830 --> 01:47:45,632
Something like that.

1314
01:47:45,932 --> 01:47:47,500
Hey, excuse me.

1315
01:48:09,823 --> 01:48:11,124
Come on.

1316
01:48:32,412 --> 01:48:33,513
Hey!

1317
01:48:34,481 --> 01:48:36,983
Now, I had no idea
you were coming.

1318
01:48:37,984 --> 01:48:39,552
Lord, Benjamin.

1319
01:48:42,155 --> 01:48:46,260
What did you expect? What, you
want me to drop everything?

1320
01:48:46,920 --> 01:48:48,610
Now, this is my life.

1321
01:48:48,161 --> 01:48:50,663
Babe! You going downtown?

1322
01:48:55,568 --> 01:48:58,705
Come on. You'll
have a good time.

1323
01:48:59,539 --> 01:49:01,740
There's lots of musicians,
interesting people.

1324
01:49:01,174 --> 01:49:04,770
You don't have to do that.
This is my fault.

1325
01:49:05,178 --> 01:49:06,579
I should've called.

1326
01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:09,516
I thought Id come here

1327
01:49:09,582 --> 01:49:12,352
and sweep you off your
feet or something.

1328
01:49:13,853 --> 01:49:18,358
- Daisy! Come on! Let's go.
- Be right there.

1329
01:49:20,930 --> 01:49:21,528
Seems nice.

1330
01:49:22,862 --> 01:49:24,464
Do you love him?

1331
01:49:27,567 --> 01:49:28,968
I think so.

1332
01:49:31,710 --> 01:49:32,772
I'm happy for you.

1333
01:49:34,708 --> 01:49:36,810
Maybe I'll see you at home.

1334
01:49:39,412 --> 01:49:40,547
Okay-

1335
01:49:42,549 --> 01:49:44,317
I enjoyed the show!

1336
01:49:51,925 --> 01:49:56,463
He came to telic me
his father had died.

1337
01:49:57,931 --> 01:50:04,137
- You couldn't have known.
- I was 23. I... I just didn't care.

1338
01:50:06,673 --> 01:50:08,740
What did you do next?

1339
01:50:08,141 --> 01:50:15,115
Some photographs, I think,
in the from of my bag.

1340
01:50:17,183 --> 01:50:21,321
I was as good a dancer
as I was ever gonna be.

1341
01:50:23,189 --> 01:50:25,158
For five years. I...

1342
01:50:27,927 --> 01:50:29,696
I danced everywhere.

1343
01:50:31,131 --> 01:50:34,667
London, Vienna, Prague.

1344
01:50:35,268 --> 01:50:37,137
I've never seen these.

1345
01:50:40,440 --> 01:50:41,541
Mom.

1346
01:50:42,809 --> 01:50:45,512
You never talked
about your dancing.

1347
01:50:45,612 --> 01:50:47,647
Well, I was the only American

1348
01:50:47,714 --> 01:50:52,686
to be invited to dance
with the Bolshoi, sugar.

1349
01:50:54,521 --> 01:50:56,556
It was glorious.

1350
01:51:00,994 --> 01:51:04,731
But Benjamin was never
far from my thoughts.

1351
01:51:07,867 --> 01:51:11,471
And I'd find myself saying...

1352
01:51:11,538 --> 01:51:13,373
Good night, Benjamin.

1353
01:51:15,342 --> 01:51:19,120
- "Good night, Daisy."
- He said that?

1354
01:51:21,147 --> 01:51:22,515
"Life wasn't all
that complicated."

1355
01:51:23,183 --> 01:51:25,985
"If you want, you might say I
was looking for something."

1356
01:51:35,428 --> 01:51:38,431
Benjamin? Mrs. La
Tourneau just passed.

1357
01:51:44,838 --> 01:51:48,508
- Letter for Mr. Benjamin Button?
- That'd be me.

1358
01:51:51,378 --> 01:51:52,746
Thank you.

1359
01:52:19,390 --> 01:52:20,940
Miss Daisy Fuller.

1360
01:52:21,410 --> 01:52:23,877
- Just a minute. Please have a seat.
- Sure.

1361
01:52:31,317 --> 01:52:35,755
Sometimes we're on a collision
course and we just don't know it.

1362
01:52:36,289 --> 01:52:40,827
Whether it's by accident or by design,
there's not a thing we can do about it.

1363
01:52:43,630 --> 01:52:46,733
A woman in Paris was on
her way to go shopping.

1364
01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:51,805
But she had forgotten her coat.
Went back to get it.

1365
01:52:51,905 --> 01:52:54,107
When she had gotten her
coat, the phone had rung.

1366
01:52:54,174 --> 01:52:57,243
So she had stopped to answer it and
talked for a couple of minutes.

1367
01:52:58,678 --> 01:53:00,480
While the woman
was on the phone.

1368
01:53:00,580 --> 01:53:04,784
Daisy was rehearsing for a performance
at the Paris Opera House.

1369
01:53:04,851 --> 01:53:07,654
And while she was rehearsing,
the woman, off the phone now,

1370
01:53:07,754 --> 01:53:10,900
had gone outside to get a taxi.

1371
01:53:14,594 --> 01:53:16,863
Now, a taxi driver had
dropped off a fare earlier,

1372
01:53:16,963 --> 01:53:19,699
and had stopped to
get a cup of coffee.

1373
01:53:20,600 --> 01:53:23,336
And all the while,
Daisy was rehearsing.

1374
01:53:26,840 --> 01:53:29,342
And this cab driver, who
dropped off the earlier fare

1375
01:53:29,442 --> 01:53:31,444
and had stopped to get
the cup of coffee,

1376
01:53:31,511 --> 01:53:33,246
he picked up the lady
who was going shopping

1377
01:53:33,313 --> 01:53:36,490
and had missed getting
the earlier cab.

1378
01:53:36,983 --> 01:53:39,386
The taxi had to stop for a
man crossing the street,

1379
01:53:39,486 --> 01:53:42,322
who had left for work five minutes
later than he normally did

1380
01:53:42,389 --> 01:53:44,958
because he forgot
to set his alarm.

1381
01:53:45,692 --> 01:53:48,995
While that man, late for work,
was crossing the street,

1382
01:53:49,620 --> 01:53:52,532
Daisy had finished rehearsing
and was taking a shower.

1383
01:53:53,330 --> 01:53:54,367
And while Daisy was showering,

1384
01:53:54,467 --> 01:53:58,710
the taxi was waiting outside a boutique
for the woman to pick up a package

1385
01:53:58,171 --> 01:53:59,372
which hadn't been wrapped yet,

1386
01:53:59,372 --> 01:54:01,207
because the girl who was
supposed to wrap it

1387
01:54:01,307 --> 01:54:04,911
had broken up with her boyfriend
the night before and forgot.

1388
01:54:05,545 --> 01:54:08,748
When the package was wrapped, the
woman, who was back in the cab,

1389
01:54:08,848 --> 01:54:10,517
was blocked by a delivery truck.

1390
01:54:10,583 --> 01:54:13,353
All the while, Daisy
was getting dressed.

1391
01:54:14,821 --> 01:54:18,224
The delivery truck pulled away.
And the taxi was able to move

1392
01:54:18,324 --> 01:54:20,393
while Daisy, the
last to be dressed,

1393
01:54:20,493 --> 01:54:24,640
waited for one of her friends
who had broken a shoelace.

1394
01:54:24,497 --> 01:54:27,400
While the taxi was stopped,
waiting for a traffic light,

1395
01:54:27,500 --> 01:54:31,404
Daisy and her friend came out
the back of the theater.

1396
01:54:31,504 --> 01:54:34,908
And if only one thing had
happened differently,

1397
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:37,770
if that shoelace hadn't broken

1398
01:54:37,177 --> 01:54:39,713
or that delivery truck had
moved moments earlier

1399
01:54:39,779 --> 01:54:41,681
or that package had
been wrapped and ready

1400
01:54:41,748 --> 01:54:44,517
because the girl hadn't
broken up with her boyfriend,

1401
01:54:44,584 --> 01:54:48,254
or that man had set his alarm
and got up five minutes earlier

1402
01:54:48,355 --> 01:54:51,558
or that taxi driver hadn't
stopped for a cup of coffee

1403
01:54:51,624 --> 01:54:55,695
or that woman had remembered her
coat and got into an earlier cab,

1404
01:54:56,196 --> 01:54:58,898
Daisy and her friend would
have crossed the street

1405
01:54:58,965 --> 01:55:01,434
and the taxi would
have driven by.

1406
01:55:12,479 --> 01:55:14,247
But, life being what it is,

1407
01:55:14,314 --> 01:55:17,317
a series of intersecting
lives and incidents

1408
01:55:17,417 --> 01:55:19,219
out of anyone's control,

1409
01:55:20,530 --> 01:55:22,789
that taxi did not go by,

1410
01:55:22,889 --> 01:55:25,725
and that driver was
momentarily distracted.

1411
01:55:26,726 --> 01:55:27,727
Daisy!

1412
01:55:27,894 --> 01:55:29,129
And that taxi hit Daisy.

1413
01:55:29,229 --> 01:55:30,964
Daisy! Help!

1414
01:55:34,100 --> 01:55:36,102
And her leg was crushed.

1415
01:55:43,476 --> 01:55:44,678
Daisy?

1416
01:55:48,948 --> 01:55:51,518
- Who told you?
- Your friend wired me.

1417
01:55:52,585 --> 01:55:56,656
Very kind of you to come all this
way to see that I was all right.

1418
01:55:58,191 --> 01:56:00,260
You'd do the same for me.

1419
01:56:02,128 --> 01:56:03,363
My God.

1420
01:56:05,465 --> 01:56:08,968
Look at you. You're perfect.

1421
01:56:11,771 --> 01:56:16,309
I wish you hadn't come here. I don't
want you to see me like this.

1422
01:56:22,716 --> 01:56:25,180
Her leg had been
broken in five places.

1423
01:56:25,118 --> 01:56:28,288
And with therapy and time,
she might walk again.

1424
01:56:29,789 --> 01:56:31,691
But she'd never dance.

1425
01:56:33,293 --> 01:56:35,729
I'm gonna take you home with me.

1426
01:56:35,829 --> 01:56:38,631
- I want to look after you.
- I'm not going back to New Orleans.

1427
01:56:38,698 --> 01:56:40,900
Then I'll stay here in Paris.

1428
01:56:41,501 --> 01:56:44,471
Don't you understand? I
don't want your help.

1429
01:56:45,538 --> 01:56:49,876
I know I'm feeling sorry for myself,
but I don't want to be with you.

1430
01:56:49,976 --> 01:56:53,747
Tried to telic you that in
New York. You don't listen.

1431
01:56:55,248 --> 01:56:57,217
You might change your mind.

1432
01:56:57,317 --> 01:57:00,320
We are not little children
anymore, Benjamin.

1433
01:57:02,322 --> 01:57:05,558
Just stay out of my life.

1434
01:57:28,381 --> 01:57:31,685
I was awfully cruel.

1435
01:57:32,719 --> 01:57:38,191
He didn't understand. I couldn't
have him see me like that.

1436
01:57:40,860 --> 01:57:42,228
"I didn't leave right away."

1437
01:57:44,864 --> 01:57:48,201
"I stayed in Paris for a
while to look out for her."

1438
01:57:51,738 --> 01:57:53,606
I never knew that.

1439
01:57:56,976 --> 01:58:01,810
Oh, darling, could
you get the nurse?

1440
01:58:04,751 --> 01:58:09,889
I taught myself to walk again.

1441
01:58:12,926 --> 01:58:15,495
I took the train to Lourdes.

1442
01:58:16,830 --> 01:58:22,435
Let's take a look. That's
normal. Pulse rate is slowing.

1443
01:58:22,502 --> 01:58:24,504
She is gonna
struggle to breathe.

1444
01:58:24,604 --> 01:58:26,840
- Will you be all right?
- Yeah.

1445
01:58:39,986 --> 01:58:45,925
All right, he says, "I went back home."
And then there's a lot of pages torn out.

1446
01:58:46,126 --> 01:58:49,863
"I listened to the sound of the
house." I read that already.

1447
01:58:50,764 --> 01:58:51,865
He...

1448
01:58:52,799 --> 01:58:56,102
He spilt something on it,
so it's hard to read, Mom.

1449
01:58:57,203 --> 01:59:00,600
Something about sailing,
does that make sense?

1450
01:59:00,707 --> 01:59:04,110
I learned to sail an old boat of
my father's from the lake house.

1451
01:59:13,286 --> 01:59:15,288
I can'! Lie.

1452
01:59:15,355 --> 01:59:18,191
I did enjoy the company
of a woman or two.

1453
01:59:26,499 --> 01:59:28,680
Or maybe three.

1454
02:00:04,571 --> 02:00:08,842
Don't know why you bother, Sam,
just gonna be there again tomorrow.

1455
02:00:13,179 --> 02:00:14,347
Mama.

1456
02:00:19,185 --> 02:00:21,688
And in the spring of 1962,

1457
02:00:25,525 --> 02:00:27,600
she came back.

1458
02:00:46,413 --> 02:00:50,830
- You want to know where I've been?
- No.

1459
02:00:52,520 --> 02:00:56,956
How come you didn't write or nothing?
Just disappearing like that.

1460
02:00:57,570 --> 02:00:59,626
It was something I
needed to do for myself.

1461
02:00:59,726 --> 02:01:03,463
Yeah, well, I never took you
to be the selfish type.

1462
02:01:03,563 --> 02:01:06,660
I sure hope I'm not wrong.

1463
02:01:07,167 --> 02:01:09,269
I'm usually not
wrong about people.

1464
02:01:09,335 --> 02:01:11,905
- Good night, Mama.
- Good night, baby.

1465
02:01:12,839 --> 02:01:14,507
Y'all have fun.

1466
02:01:17,243 --> 02:01:21,614
- You haven't said two words.
- I don't want to ruin it.

1467
02:01:51,778 --> 02:01:54,114
- Sleep with me?
- Absolutely.

1468
02:02:03,890 --> 02:02:05,558
I asked her to
come away with me.

1469
02:02:07,761 --> 02:02:10,897
We sailed into the Gulf
along the Florida Keys.

1470
02:02:38,958 --> 02:02:43,363
I am so glad we didn't find
one another when I was 26.

1471
02:02:43,430 --> 02:02:47,767
- Why do you say that?
- I was so young.

1472
02:02:47,867 --> 02:02:49,636
And you were so old.

1473
02:02:50,303 --> 02:02:53,239
It happened when it was
supposed to happen.

1474
02:02:53,306 --> 02:02:56,476
I will enjoy each and every
moment I have with you.

1475
02:03:01,614 --> 02:03:04,117
I bet I can stay out
here longer than you.

1476
02:03:04,217 --> 02:03:05,819
I bet you can't.

1477
02:03:08,655 --> 02:03:11,224
Barely a line or a crease.

1478
02:03:11,591 --> 02:03:14,761
Every day I have more wrinkles.
It's not fair.

1479
02:03:16,396 --> 02:03:20,166
I love your wrinkles.
Both of them.

1480
02:03:25,839 --> 02:03:28,174
What's it like growing younger?

1481
02:03:30,610 --> 02:03:35,248
I can'! Really say. I'm always
looking out my own eyes.

1482
02:03:40,253 --> 02:03:44,240
Will you still love me when
my skin grows old and saggy?

1483
02:03:44,124 --> 02:03:48,628
Will you still love me when I
have acne? When I wet the bed?

1484
02:03:49,929 --> 02:03:52,799
When I'm afraid of
what's under the stairs?

1485
02:04:00,273 --> 02:04:01,341
What?

1486
02:04:07,347 --> 02:04:11,351
- What are you thinking?
- Well, I was thinking how nothing lasts.

1487
02:04:13,720 --> 02:04:15,789
And what a shame that is.

1488
02:04:18,725 --> 02:04:20,393
Some things last.

1489
02:04:22,662 --> 02:04:26,900
- Good night, Daisy.
- Good night, Benjamin.

1490
02:04:43,316 --> 02:04:44,384
Mom?

1491
02:04:46,653 --> 02:04:50,690
- When did you meet Dad?
- Some time after that.

1492
02:04:53,827 --> 02:04:58,565
- Did you telic him about this Benjamin?
- He knew enough, darling.

1493
02:05:18,551 --> 02:05:19,686
Mama?

1494
02:05:26,860 --> 02:05:28,128
Queenie?

1495
02:05:31,264 --> 02:05:32,599
Hello?

1496
02:05:33,330 --> 02:05:36,636
Oh, hi, Mrs. Carter, it's
Benjamin. Where is everybody?

1497
02:05:36,736 --> 02:05:41,941
Oh, Benjamin. Queenie died.
I'm so sorry.

1498
02:06:10,603 --> 02:06:14,700
I'm so sorry for your loss.
She was a great woman.

1499
02:06:14,107 --> 02:06:15,942
Our deepest condolences.

1500
02:06:21,810 --> 02:06:24,117
We buried her beside her
beloved Mr. Weathers.

1501
02:06:31,910 --> 02:06:34,594
And so we might have
memories of our own,

1502
02:06:34,661 --> 02:06:36,629
we sold my father's
house on Esplanade.

1503
02:06:36,696 --> 02:06:39,332
It is a wonderful
old place, darling.

1504
02:06:39,933 --> 02:06:42,836
I think we are going
to be so happy here.

1505
02:06:42,936 --> 02:06:45,839
Oh, what a long family
history you have.

1506
02:06:45,939 --> 02:06:47,941
They come with the house.

1507
02:06:50,510 --> 02:06:53,446
- Come on.
- You have to see the master suite.

1508
02:06:54,948 --> 02:06:57,183
We bought ourselves a duplex.

1509
02:06:59,219 --> 02:07:01,287
I loved that house.

1510
02:07:03,690 --> 02:07:05,692
It smelled like firewood.

1511
02:07:06,793 --> 02:07:10,300
Don't... Don't stop, darling.

1512
02:07:10,630 --> 02:07:13,500
"It was one of the happiest
times of my life."

1513
02:07:13,566 --> 02:07:16,136
We didn't have a
stick of furniture.

1514
02:07:16,903 --> 02:07:19,672
We would have picnics
in the living room.

1515
02:07:23,143 --> 02:07:27,147
We ate when we felt like it. Stayed
up all night when we wanted.

1516
02:07:28,548 --> 02:07:30,550
We vowed never to
fall into routine,

1517
02:07:30,650 --> 02:07:33,520
to go to bed or wake-up
at the same time.

1518
02:07:33,586 --> 02:07:35,655
We lived on that mattress.

1519
02:08:04,150 --> 02:08:07,654
Our neighbor, a Mrs. Van Dam,
was a physical therapist.

1520
02:08:09,222 --> 02:08:11,991
We lived four blocks
from a public pool.

1521
02:08:50,363 --> 02:08:53,133
You know, you might've got a
few more years out of it,

1522
02:08:53,233 --> 02:08:57,370
but you chose to do something
so special and unique

1523
02:08:58,772 --> 02:09:02,542
that there was only a short
window of time you could do it.

1524
02:09:04,310 --> 02:09:06,813
So, even if nothing
ever happened,

1525
02:09:06,913 --> 02:09:10,500
you'd still be right
here where you are now.

1526
02:09:10,116 --> 02:09:12,385
I just don't like getting old.

1527
02:09:13,920 --> 02:09:16,456
They put too much
chlorine in here.

1528
02:09:57,697 --> 02:10:01,601
I promise you I'll never lose
myself to self-pity again.

1529
02:10:05,939 --> 02:10:09,900
And I think right there and then

1530
02:10:09,109 --> 02:10:13,113
she realized none of
us is perfect forever.

1531
02:10:17,500 --> 02:10:18,685
She found peace.

1532
02:10:20,553 --> 02:10:23,490
She opened a studio and taught
young girls how to dance.

1533
02:10:23,556 --> 02:10:26,693
And tend...

1534
02:10:26,793 --> 02:10:31,865
Come back the other way. And
spot, spot, spot. Excellent.

1535
02:10:33,533 --> 02:10:36,200
- Good night, Miss Daisy.
- Good night.

1536
02:11:01,494 --> 02:11:04,970
You certainly are
beautiful to watch.

1537
02:11:05,899 --> 02:11:08,334
Dancing's all about the line.

1538
02:11:10,570 --> 02:11:12,505
The line of your body.

1539
02:11:13,840 --> 02:11:18,178
Sooner or later, you lose that
line, and you never get it back.

1540
02:11:24,500 --> 02:11:30,230
I figure, you were born
in 1918, 49 years ago.

1541
02:11:30,900 --> 02:11:31,624
I'm 43.

1542
02:11:33,793 --> 02:11:36,363
We are almost the same age.

1543
02:11:39,632 --> 02:11:43,870
- We're meeting in the middle.
- We finally caught up with each other.

1544
02:11:45,380 --> 02:11:46,139
Wait.

1545
02:11:47,474 --> 02:11:50,143
I want to remember us
just as we are now.

1546
02:12:00,987 --> 02:12:02,489
I'm pregnant.

1547
02:12:20,173 --> 02:12:23,843
You know, I swear the nurse
slipped and said it was a boy.

1548
02:12:38,825 --> 02:12:40,827
But I think it's a girl.

1549
02:12:46,132 --> 02:12:49,703
- I know you're afraid.
- I'm not hiding it.

1550
02:12:49,803 --> 02:12:50,937
Okay-

1551
02:12:58,278 --> 02:13:00,847
- What's your worst fear?
- Baby born like me.

1552
02:13:00,947 --> 02:13:03,383
Then I will love
it all the more.

1553
02:13:05,385 --> 02:13:10,357
Okay. How can I be a father when I'm
heading in the other direction?

1554
02:13:10,990 --> 02:13:14,327
It's not fair to a child. I don't
want to be anybody's burden.

1555
02:13:14,394 --> 02:13:17,297
Sugar, we all end up in diapers.

1556
02:13:18,732 --> 02:13:20,800
I am gonna make this work.

1557
02:13:23,470 --> 02:13:26,373
I want this, and I
want it with you.

1558
02:13:26,473 --> 02:13:29,876
I want you to have everything
you want, all of it.

1559
02:13:29,976 --> 02:13:33,179
I'm just not sure how
to reconcile this.

1560
02:13:33,246 --> 02:13:35,382
Would you telic a blind man
he couldn't have children?

1561
02:13:35,415 --> 02:13:37,170
Here you go.

1562
02:13:37,830 --> 02:13:40,553
You'll be a father for
as long as you can.

1563
02:13:40,653 --> 02:13:43,423
I know the consequences.
I've accepted that.

1564
02:13:43,523 --> 02:13:46,159
Loving you is worth
everything to me.

1565
02:13:50,663 --> 02:13:52,332
I have to go pee.

1566
02:14:06,379 --> 02:14:08,615
The oldest woman to ever
swim the English Channel

1567
02:14:08,715 --> 02:14:10,450
arrived here today in Calais...

1568
02:14:10,550 --> 02:14:13,530
- Keep it.
- Having made the swim in 34 hours,

1569
02:14:13,119 --> 02:14:15,355
22 minutes and 14 seconds.

1570
02:14:15,422 --> 02:14:20,260
The 68-year-old Elizabeth Abbott
arrived at 5:38 Greenwich mean time,

1571
02:14:20,360 --> 02:14:22,128
exhausted but happy.

1572
02:14:22,228 --> 02:14:25,765
Miss Abbott, how would you sum
up, in words, this achievement?

1573
02:14:25,865 --> 02:14:27,467
I suppose...

1574
02:14:28,868 --> 02:14:30,603
Anything's possible.

1575
02:14:34,607 --> 02:14:35,775
- All right?
- Yes. Thank you.

1576
02:14:35,875 --> 02:14:36,876
- You ready?
- Thank you very much.

1577
02:14:36,943 --> 02:14:38,912
Thank you. Thank you all.

1578
02:14:38,978 --> 02:14:40,980
- Yeah.
- You're very kind.

1579
02:14:48,221 --> 02:14:52,920
In the spring, on a
day like any other...

1580
02:14:52,826 --> 02:14:54,828
I'll be back in an hour!

1581
02:14:59,833 --> 02:15:01,670
Honey?

1582
02:15:03,103 --> 02:15:05,138
Go and call an ambulance!

1583
02:15:08,740 --> 02:15:09,743
The baby's coming.

1584
02:15:10,577 --> 02:15:11,611
Operator, I need an ambulance.

1585
02:15:11,678 --> 02:15:14,147
- The baby's coming!
- 2714 Napoleon.

1586
02:15:21,354 --> 02:15:24,900
There you go. Keep breathing.

1587
02:15:24,958 --> 02:15:27,360
Deep breaths. Push.

1588
02:15:37,270 --> 02:15:38,671
There we go.

1589
02:15:55,550 --> 02:15:58,458
Everyone's fine. She's a
perfectly healthy baby girl.

1590
02:16:05,331 --> 02:16:06,533
Honey?

1591
02:16:08,468 --> 02:16:12,138
She gave birth to a five
pound, four ounce baby girl.

1592
02:16:28,321 --> 02:16:30,223
Did you count the toes?

1593
02:16:34,527 --> 02:16:36,620
She's perfect.

1594
02:16:36,496 --> 02:16:39,766
"And we named her for
my mother, Caroline."

1595
02:16:43,503 --> 02:16:45,672
This Benjamin was my father?

1596
02:16:47,173 --> 02:16:49,342
And this is how you telic me?

1597
02:16:54,881 --> 02:16:56,249
Excuse me.

1598
02:17:06,726 --> 02:17:09,462
Because all the ingredients
are there for a major storm,

1599
02:17:09,562 --> 02:17:12,132
possibly even up
to a Category 5.

1600
02:17:18,872 --> 02:17:22,575
Hey, I know it's hard.
You can't smoke in here.

1601
02:17:25,812 --> 02:17:27,814
Nobody can telic you exactly
where it's gonna hit,

1602
02:17:27,914 --> 02:17:30,500
but we have to go with the
guidance that we have,

1603
02:17:30,116 --> 02:17:33,887
incorporate that information
and then pass it along to you.

1604
02:17:40,727 --> 02:17:45,565
"You grew as the doctor had
promised. Normal and healthy."

1605
02:17:54,240 --> 02:17:57,344
You're gonna have to find
a real father for her.

1606
02:18:00,480 --> 02:18:02,282
What are you talking about?

1607
02:18:02,349 --> 02:18:05,652
She's gonna need someone
to grow old with.

1608
02:18:05,752 --> 02:18:08,588
She'll learn to accept whatever
happens. She loves you.

1609
02:18:08,655 --> 02:18:11,424
Honey, she needs a
father, not a playmate.

1610
02:18:15,528 --> 02:18:16,830
- Is it me?
- Of course not.

1611
02:18:16,930 --> 02:18:18,998
- Is my age beginning to bother you?
- Of course not.

1612
02:18:18,998 --> 02:18:23,360
- Is that what you're telling me?
- You can't raise the both of us.

1613
02:18:31,678 --> 02:18:36,616
It was your first birthday.
We had a party for you.

1614
02:18:37,350 --> 02:18:39,185
The house was filled
with children.

1615
02:18:39,285 --> 02:18:41,221
- How are you?
- Hey, man.

1616
02:18:41,321 --> 02:18:44,991
Before you turn around, they'll
be in high school, dating.

1617
02:19:17,390 --> 02:19:21,394
I sold the summer house
on Lake Pontchartrain,

1618
02:19:21,494 --> 02:19:24,230
I sold Button's Buttons,

1619
02:19:24,330 --> 02:19:28,868
I sold my father's sailboat, put
it all into a savings account.

1620
02:19:31,104 --> 02:19:34,340
And so that you and your
mother might have a life,

1621
02:19:35,542 --> 02:19:39,512
I left, before you could
ever remember me.

1622
02:20:29,162 --> 02:20:31,398
"I left with just the
clothes on my back."

1623
02:20:32,732 --> 02:20:37,404
I don't want to read this now. Can
you just telic me where he went?

1624
02:20:38,838 --> 02:20:41,107
I don't really know.

1625
02:20:52,352 --> 02:20:57,323
It's for me. 1970. I was two.
"Happy Birthday."

1626
02:21:00,930 --> 02:21:02,962
"I wish I could have
kissed you good night."

1627
02:21:08,340 --> 02:21:09,803
They're all for me.

1628
02:21:10,804 --> 02:21:15,809
Five. "I wish I could have taken
you to your first day of school."

1629
02:21:20,313 --> 02:21:26,186
six. "I wish I could have been
there to teach you to play piano."

1630
02:21:29,622 --> 02:21:32,559
1981,13.

1631
02:21:32,659 --> 02:21:35,995
"I wish I could have told
you not to chase some boy."

1632
02:21:37,297 --> 02:21:40,967
"I wish I could have held you
when you had a broken heart."

1633
02:21:42,469 --> 02:21:48,241
"I wish I could have been your father.
Nothing I ever did will replace that."

1634
02:21:55,715 --> 02:21:58,251
I guess he went to India.

1635
02:21:58,351 --> 02:22:00,820
"For what it's worth,
it's never too late,

1636
02:22:00,887 --> 02:22:03,356
- "or, in my case, too early. .
- Or, in my case, too early,

1637
02:22:03,990 --> 02:22:05,992
to be whoever you want to be.

1638
02:22:09,996 --> 02:22:12,699
There's no time limit.
Start whenever you want.

1639
02:22:15,568 --> 02:22:20,730
You can change or stay the same.
There are no rules to this thing.

1640
02:22:22,609 --> 02:22:26,112
We can make the best
or the worst of it.

1641
02:22:26,212 --> 02:22:28,548
And I hope you make
the best of it.

1642
02:22:31,618 --> 02:22:34,354
I hope you see things
that startle you.

1643
02:22:36,523 --> 02:22:40,260
I hope you feel things
you never felt before.

1644
02:22:42,462 --> 02:22:46,320
I hope you meet people with
a different point of view.

1645
02:22:47,133 --> 02:22:49,869
I hope you live a
life you're proud of.

1646
02:22:52,872 --> 02:22:57,911
And if you find that you're not,
I hope you have the strength

1647
02:22:57,977 --> 02:23:01,214
- to start all over again.
- "...start all over again."

1648
02:23:02,749 --> 02:23:06,486
He had been gone a longtime.

1649
02:23:08,254 --> 02:23:10,390
I'll see you next Thursday.

1650
02:23:13,326 --> 02:23:16,730
- Good night, Miss Daisy.
- Oh, good night, sweetheart.

1651
02:23:34,581 --> 02:23:36,583
I'm sorry, we're closing.

1652
02:23:39,486 --> 02:23:41,870
Can I help you?

1653
02:23:42,622 --> 02:23:45,910
Are you here to
pick somebody up?

1654
02:23:55,435 --> 02:23:57,303
Why did you come back?

1655
02:23:58,872 --> 02:24:02,308
Mom?

1656
02:24:03,510 --> 02:24:05,450
You ready yet?

1657
02:24:08,140 --> 02:24:09,149
Mom, what's wrong?

1658
02:24:09,215 --> 02:24:12,819
I was just hearing a very sad
story about a mutual friend

1659
02:24:12,886 --> 02:24:15,622
who I hadn't seen for
a very long time.

1660
02:24:16,856 --> 02:24:19,626
Caroline, this is Benjamin.

1661
02:24:19,693 --> 02:24:22,462
You knew him when you
were just a baby.

1662
02:24:24,864 --> 02:24:26,132
- Hi.
- Hi.

1663
02:24:28,340 --> 02:24:29,969
- He!

1664
02:24:31,905 --> 02:24:36,743
- Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were done.
- Oh, this is a friend of my family's.

1665
02:24:36,843 --> 02:24:41,815
Benjamin Button, this
is my husband, Robert.

1666
02:24:41,881 --> 02:24:44,317
- How do you do?
- A pleasure.

1667
02:24:52,425 --> 02:24:55,428
Well, it was very
nice to meet you.

1668
02:24:55,528 --> 02:24:57,364
- We'll be in the car, darling.
- All right.

1669
02:24:57,430 --> 02:24:58,598
Bye.

1670
02:24:59,332 --> 02:25:01,101
I'm just locking up.

1671
02:25:05,839 --> 02:25:06,940
Wow.

1672
02:25:09,442 --> 02:25:12,345
She's beautiful.
Like her mother.

1673
02:25:13,913 --> 02:25:16,416
- Does she dance?
- Not very well.

1674
02:25:16,516 --> 02:25:18,418
I guess that'd be from
my side of things.

1675
02:25:18,518 --> 02:25:20,520
She's a dear, sweet girl.

1676
02:25:21,688 --> 02:25:26,590
She seems a little lost.
But then, who isn't at 12?

1677
02:25:26,226 --> 02:25:30,530
A lot of her reminds me of you.

1678
02:25:31,364 --> 02:25:35,368
My husband, he's a widower,
or was. . . Was a widower.

1679
02:25:35,702 --> 02:25:39,639
He's an incredibly kind, just
bright, adventurous man.

1680
02:25:42,776 --> 02:25:45,545
- He's been a terrific father.
- Good.

1681
02:25:50,216 --> 02:25:54,120
- You are so much younger.
- Only on the outside.

1682
02:25:56,222 --> 02:25:57,757
You were right.

1683
02:25:59,492 --> 02:26:02,896
I couldn't have been
raising both of you.

1684
02:26:02,962 --> 02:26:04,764
I'm not that strong.

1685
02:26:08,935 --> 02:26:11,400
So, where are you staying?

1686
02:26:13,640 --> 02:26:14,641
What are you gonna do?

1687
02:26:14,741 --> 02:26:18,578
I'm staying at the Pontchartrain
Hotel on the Avenue.

1688
02:26:18,645 --> 02:26:22,182
I don't know what I'm gonna do.

1689
02:26:22,282 --> 02:26:23,483
But. . .

1690
02:26:29,956 --> 02:26:31,624
They're waiting.

1691
02:27:13,733 --> 02:27:17,370
I remember that. That was him?

1692
02:27:19,672 --> 02:27:20,874
The hurricane has
changed directions.

1693
02:27:20,974 --> 02:27:22,809
It's going to make
landfall sometime soon.

1694
02:27:22,876 --> 02:27:24,644
- Am I supposed to do something?
- Arrangements are being made

1695
02:27:24,711 --> 02:27:25,979
to move people, but
it's up to you.

1696
02:27:26,460 --> 02:27:27,914
No. No, we're. . .
 We're staying.

1697
02:27:28,140 --> 02:27:30,684
I'll let you know if
anything changes.

1698
02:27:32,686 --> 02:27:37,570
"That night, while I was sitting and
wondering why I came back at all,"

1699
02:27:37,157 --> 02:27:39,492
"there was a knock at the door."

1700
02:27:43,960 --> 02:27:44,364
Come in.

1701
02:27:58,678 --> 02:28:00,347
Are you all right?

1702
02:28:03,416 --> 02:28:07,554
I'm sorry, I don't know
what I'm doing here.

1703
02:28:16,563 --> 02:28:18,980
Nothing lasts.

1704
02:28:21,534 --> 02:28:23,903
I have never stopped loving you.

1705
02:28:29,876 --> 02:28:32,612
Oh, but, Benjamin, I'm
an old woman now.

1706
02:28:43,223 --> 02:28:45,458
Some things you never forget.

1707
02:29:05,745 --> 02:29:06,813
So few people even know

1708
02:29:06,913 --> 02:29:08,548
that you were ever in
jail in the first place.

1709
02:29:09,616 --> 02:29:11,718
like "Man of the Year." at
least what they could do

1710
02:29:11,785 --> 02:29:14,454
is stop having you
listed as an ex-convict

1711
02:29:14,554 --> 02:29:17,900
which I think is,
again, so unfair.

1712
02:29:29,836 --> 02:29:31,671
Good night, Benjamin.

1713
02:29:33,173 --> 02:29:34,908
Good night, Daisy.

1714
02:29:38,780 --> 02:29:42,315
And as I knew I would,
I watched her go.

1715
02:29:45,180 --> 02:29:47,354
That's the last thing he wrote.

1716
02:29:48,488 --> 02:29:53,930
Sometime after your
father passed,

1717
02:29:53,159 --> 02:29:56,290
there was a call.

1718
02:29:59,990 --> 02:30:00,266
Hello.

1719
02:30:01,334 --> 02:30:02,869
Yes, speaking.

1720
02:30:06,172 --> 02:30:08,675
I'm sorry, I don't understand.

1721
02:30:18,485 --> 02:30:20,387
It's the corner house.

1722
02:30:42,542 --> 02:30:43,977
Come on in.

1723
02:30:49,516 --> 02:30:51,551
- I'm Daisy Fuller.
- I'm David Hernandez,

1724
02:30:51,651 --> 02:30:55,388
with the Orleans Parish Department
of Child Welfare Services.

1725
02:30:55,488 --> 02:30:58,158
He was living in a
condemned building.

1726
02:30:59,893 --> 02:31:02,228
The police found this with him.

1727
02:31:02,328 --> 02:31:05,265
This address. It's got
your name in it a lot.

1728
02:31:06,433 --> 02:31:09,690
He's in very poor health. He
was taken to the hospital.

1729
02:31:09,169 --> 02:31:13,239
He doesn't seem to know who or
where he is. He's very confused.

1730
02:31:13,339 --> 02:31:16,910
I was telling Mr. Hernandez
that Benjamin is one of us.

1731
02:31:17,100 --> 02:31:20,847
If he needs a place to stay, it's
all right, he can stay here.

1732
02:31:50,276 --> 02:31:51,578
Benjamin?

1733
02:31:55,415 --> 02:31:57,250
You play beautifully.

1734
02:32:00,720 --> 02:32:02,589
He doesn't seem to
like to be touched.

1735
02:32:02,655 --> 02:32:04,391
He goes in and out of
states of recognition.

1736
02:32:04,424 --> 02:32:06,920
The doctors say, if they
didn't know any better,

1737
02:32:06,159 --> 02:32:08,628
he has the beginnings
of dementia.

1738
02:32:10,397 --> 02:32:12,165
Do you remember me?

1739
02:32:15,301 --> 02:32:16,669
I'm Daisy.

1740
02:32:19,239 --> 02:32:20,740
I'm Benjamin.

1741
02:32:26,413 --> 02:32:29,115
It's nice to meet you, Benjamin.

1742
02:32:30,784 --> 02:32:36,189
Would you mind if I sit with you?
I would love to hear you play.

1743
02:32:40,260 --> 02:32:41,594
Do I know you?

1744
02:32:46,499 --> 02:32:48,168
- I want some breakfast.
- And every day.

1745
02:32:48,268 --> 02:32:52,205
I would stop by to make sure
that he was comfortable.

1746
02:32:52,305 --> 02:32:54,974
- No, I didn't.
- You just finished eating.

1747
02:32:55,410 --> 02:32:57,377
Don't think I don't
know what you're doing!

1748
02:32:57,477 --> 02:33:00,213
You're all ****ing liars!

1749
02:33:00,313 --> 02:33:03,283
He doesn't believe he
just had his breakfast.

1750
02:33:04,551 --> 02:33:08,188
Now, why don't we see

1751
02:33:08,288 --> 02:33:11,691
if we can't find something
else for you to do?

1752
02:33:11,825 --> 02:33:15,280
I have a feeling there's a lot
of things I can't remember.

1753
02:33:15,128 --> 02:33:17,300
Well, like what, sugar?

1754
02:33:18,298 --> 02:33:22,302
It's like there's this
whole life I had,

1755
02:33:23,737 --> 02:33:26,172
and I can't remember
what it was.

1756
02:33:28,975 --> 02:33:30,310
It's okay.

1757
02:33:32,379 --> 02:33:33,880
It's okay to forget things.

1758
02:33:34,800 --> 02:33:39,686
Many times, he would simply
forget who or where he was.

1759
02:33:39,986 --> 02:33:41,688
There he is, he's up
there on the roof.

1760
02:33:41,755 --> 02:33:43,490
It wasn't easy.

1761
02:33:43,556 --> 02:33:45,825
- Benjamin!
- I can see everything!

1762
02:33:45,892 --> 02:33:47,694
- I can see the big river!
- That's right,

1763
02:33:47,761 --> 02:33:49,529
you can see everything,
sweetheart.

1764
02:33:49,596 --> 02:33:51,598
I can see the graveyard
where Mama's buried,

1765
02:33:51,698 --> 02:33:55,680
- and all those other people.
- I want you to come down!

1766
02:33:55,168 --> 02:33:58,938
- What if I could fly?
- I knew a man who could fly.

1767
02:33:59,906 --> 02:34:02,909
You come down and I'll
tells you all about him.

1768
02:34:06,446 --> 02:34:08,810
Somebody go up there.

1769
02:34:14,688 --> 02:34:17,624
He was five when I moved in.

1770
02:34:17,724 --> 02:34:22,228
Nearly the same age I
was when I had met him.

1771
02:34:28,201 --> 02:34:32,138
"This is the picture
of Old Man Kangaroo"

1772
02:34:32,238 --> 02:34:34,708
"at 5:00 in the afternoon"

1773
02:34:34,774 --> 02:34:38,278
"when he had got his
beautiful hind legs."

1774
02:34:39,479 --> 02:34:40,780
The days passed.

1775
02:34:40,880 --> 02:34:45,151
And I watched as he
forgot how to walk

1776
02:34:50,390 --> 02:34:52,826
- and how to talk.
- What's my name?

1777
02:34:53,259 --> 02:34:54,627
I'm Daisy.

1778
02:34:55,762 --> 02:34:57,564
Can you say "Daisy"?

1779
02:34:59,990 --> 02:35:04,404
In 2002, they put up a new
clock in that train station.

1780
02:35:11,244 --> 02:35:15,150
And in the spring of 2003,

1781
02:35:19,352 --> 02:35:21,870
he looked at me

1782
02:35:23,523 --> 02:35:28,628
and I knew that he
knew who I was.

1783
02:35:32,132 --> 02:35:37,971
And then he closed his
eyes as if to go to sleep.

1784
02:36:10,503 --> 02:36:14,708
- I wish I'd known him.
- Now you do.

1785
02:36:19,179 --> 02:36:22,982
Mom, I think I should
go see what's going on.

1786
02:36:29,989 --> 02:36:32,580
Good night, Benjamin.

1787
02:36:54,414 --> 02:36:56,783
We're expecting flash flooding
after the levee break.

1788
02:36:56,883 --> 02:36:59,185
It occurred in the Ninth Ward.

1789
02:37:02,188 --> 02:37:05,250
Some people are born
to sit by a river.

1790
02:37:06,526 --> 02:37:08,528
Some get struck by lightning.

1791
02:37:10,363 --> 02:37:12,532
Some have an ear for music.

1792
02:37:14,670 --> 02:37:15,735
Some are artists.

1793
02:37:17,370 --> 02:37:18,405
Some swim.

1794
02:37:19,806 --> 02:37:21,474
Some know buttons.

1795
02:37:23,243 --> 02:37:24,644
Some know Shakespeare.

1796
02:37:25,779 --> 02:37:27,580
Some are mothers.