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  • All right, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's...

  • it's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life.

  • - What?

  • So Listen. Here's the deal. This is what we should do.

  • You should get off the train with me here in Vienna,

  • and come check out the town.

  • - What?

  • Come on, it'll be fun.

  • What would we do?

  • Um, I don't know.

  • I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us.

  • Not you, or me.

  • But just in this little space in between.

  • If there's any kind of magic in this world

  • it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something.

  • I know it's almost impossible to succeed but...

  • Who cares? Really.

  • The answer must be in the attempt.

  • The first film was really just about trying to capture two people connecting.

  • The intangible thing between these two people.

  • It was a very minimalist design.

  • Nothing great happened in the movie other than this connection so...

  • I just remember wanting to make a film just about that.

  • I think he's crazy about you.

  • You gonna see him again?

  • We haven't talked about that yet.

  • I remember Julie once saying,

  • "This movie's boring. Call someone to write some jokes,

  • this is really boring Rick."

  • And Rick said, "I've been with you in Vienna

  • for six weeks and I haven't been bored for one second."

  • This is...

  • Gorgeous.

  • - Yeah...

  • This is beautiful.

  • So if you can be as interesting and whole as you are here in this room,

  • in front of the camera and somebody's bored in a two hour movie

  • then I don't like them.

  • I don't care if they don't like our movie.

  • Because that's somebody's that's...

  • That's not who I'm making this movie for.

  • So...

  • You have been on a journey.

  • You are...

  • An adventurer.

  • A seeker.

  • You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life.

  • Only, if you find peace within yourself,

  • you'll find true connection with others.

  • You think tonight's it, huh?

  • I mean that tonight's our only night?

  • Can I tell you secret?

  • - Yeah. - Come here.

  • - What? - Come here.

  • It's... the only way, no?

  • Well alright.

  • Let's do it. We'll just make tonight great.

  • Hi.

  • Hello.

  • - How are you? - I'm good, and you?

  • I'm great, I'm um...

  • Do you maybe want to... maybe get a cup of coffee?

  • Didn't he just say you had a plane to catch?

  • Yeah... But um... I have a little time.

  • - Okay.

  • Can you believe it was nine years ago that we were walking around Vienna.

  • - Nine years? That's impossible! - It was, I know!

  • It feels like it was two months ago to me, but it was summer '94.

  • Do I look any different?

  • Alright your trains gonna leave. Say goodbye.

  • Bye.

  • Goodbye.

  • I do?

  • I'd have to see you naked.

  • What!?

  • The great Sam Fuller. I remember him speaking and he said,

  • "Cinema's about: Don't talk about it, show it!"

  • You don't talk about a character experience.

  • You show them having that experience.

  • - Lets get on that boat. Come on.

  • - No! - Come on, it'll be fun!

  • - You don't have time!

  • But I never approach cinema like that.

  • I always thought people talking was so evocative and...

  • what they were describing, it has a double effect.

  • Not only does it conjure what they're talking about in the viewers mind

  • Because you're not showing it.

  • To me, it's more interesting because not only do you get the essence of them...

  • but also of what they're talking about.

  • I feel like if somebody were to touch me, I would dissolve into molecules.

  • Reality and love are almost contradictory for me. It's funny,

  • every single one of my exes are now married.

  • men go out with me, we break up and they they get married.

  • And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is.

  • Why didn't they ask me to marry them! I would've said no, but at least they could've asked!

  • But it's my fault. I know it's my fault because I never felt it was the right man.

  • Never!

  • But what does it mean, "the right man, the love of your life"

  • the concept is absurd, the idea that we can only be complete with another person...

  • it's evil! Right?

  • I want to try something. - What?

  • I want to see if you stay together or if you dissolve into molecules.

  • How am I doing?

  • Still here.

  • Good I like being here.

  • It's not about like what's happening, or what twist is happening there,

  • it's an emotional arc...

  • there is a first act, second act, third act but it's just on an emotional level.

  • Now that we've met again, we can change our memory of that December 16th.

  • It no longer has that sad ending of us never seeing eachother again.

  • You're right.

  • I guess a memory's never finished, as long as you're alive.

  • Baby...

  • You are gonna miss that plane.

  • I know.

  • All three of these movies are about a connection between two people,

  • And to really capture that on film he wanted our help in creating these people

  • who would connect.

  • So there could be something authentic about it,

  • something real about it.

  • Lots of directors ask you to be a part of their vision,

  • but almost nobody asks you to find the vision with them.

  • I've just been checking you out from across the cafe,

  • and I don't want to make you uncomfortable but

  • you are by far the best-looking woman in this place.

  • - I don't talk to strangers. - That's the thing, I'm not a stranger.

  • Summer '94?

  • Okay, you give me a word I take the word

  • and then, then I will write a poem with the word inside.

  • If you feel it adds something to your life in any way

  • then you can pay me whatever you feel like. - Milkshake!

  • Milkshake, oh good yeah, I was going to say rooster prick

  • but great, Milkshake.

  • You're mistaking me for someone else. - No.

  • We even fell in love.

  • Let's say that, you and I were together all the time,

  • You'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms.

  • The way every time that we would have people over

  • I'd be insecure and I'd get a little too drunk.

  • Why am I finding myself so attracted this woman!

  • Or...

  • The way I tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again...

  • and again...

  • He tells me that even though I have an offer for an amazing job

  • he wants me to throw it all away and move to Chicago

  • - Thats not what I said. - Yes!

  • - I said I missed him - So we could babysit every other weekend...

  • For his ex-wife!

  • You see, I've heard all those stories, so...

  • of course I'm sick of myself.

  • being with you uh it's made me feel like I was somebody else if we're a meeting

  • for the first time to down a drain would you find me attractive of course no but

  • really right now as I am would you stop talking to me would you ask me to get

  • off the train you think of it like this I jump ahead 10 20 years okay

  • and you're married and only your marriage doesn't have that same energy

  • that it used to I don't want to live a boring life where two people own each

  • other where two people are institutionalized in a box that others

  • created because there is a bunch of stifling bullshit you start to blame

  • your husband you start to think about all those guys you've met in your life

  • and what might have happened if you picked up with one right well I'm one of

  • those guys that's me what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you

  • and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything

  • I'm just the biggest losers he is totally unmotivated totally boring and

  • you made the right choice and you're really happy

  • you know what's going on here I don't think I love you anymore I just travel

  • away from the future I was just with your 82 year old self who gave me a

  • letter to read to you so here I am we did okay

  • there's dear Celine I'm sending you this young man yes young and he will be your

  • escort God knows he has many problems and has struggled his whole life

  • connecting and being present even with those he loves the most and for that he

  • is deeply sorry

  • why you are is only hope okay Jessie can you stop this stupid game

  • we're not in one of your stories okay did you hear what I said to you back in

  • the room did you hear me now whether you love me anymore I

  • figured you didn't mean it but if you did that

  • you know something you're just like the little girls and everybody else you want

  • to live inside some fairy tale that put up with plenty of your shit and if you

  • think I'm just some dog is gonna keep coming back then you're wrong but if you

  • want true love love then this is it this is real life it's not perfect but it's

  • real and if you can't see it then you're blind all right I give up it's really a

  • mirror it's where you're at in your own life and you know if you're about to

  • break up with someone movie could be a reflection of that if

  • you've endured you know a relationship and it's still working for you it could

  • be an expression

  • good have fun

  • were you really just

  • sure okay

  • daydream delusion limousine eyelash Oh baby was a pretty face

  • drop it tear my wine glass look at those big eyes see what you mean to me sweet

  • cakes and milkshakes I'm a delusion aim I'm fed to separate I want you to know

  • what I think don't want you to guess anymore you have no idea where I came

  • from you have no idea where we're going watch them lad like branches in the

  • river flowing downstream car than the current I'll carry you you'll carry me

  • that's how it could be don't you know me don't you know me by now it sounds weird

  • to say but I mean it's kind of a dream come true to make something that is

  • intensely personal and that you love and do it only for yourself and then if

  • other people actually like it that almost never happens

  • it's unique most things that you work on or not and this is you know they may be

  • good they may be not going whatever but this one is unique will just be the most

  • rewarding thing for you to do these fields

  • being with each other yeah

  • you

  • you

All right, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's...

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