Anomalisa Page #4

I understand.

You sure you don't mean Emily?

Everyone always

likes Emily better.

Uh...

Ugh. This is awkward.

I'm going to the room, Lisa.

I'll see you later maybe.

Have fun.

Em, I came here with you.

I'm not going to

just abandon you.

Oh, don't be an idiot, Lisa.

He's gorgeous.

Yeah, it's okay?

Have fun.

Good night.

So, I'm over this way.

Okay.

Have fun. Good night.

Oh!

Oh, Jesus!

Are you okay?

I'm okay, I'm okay.

It happens all the time.

Mmm?

Oh.

Look how neat

you left your room,

with the little slippers

laid out next to the bed

and the blanket turned down

all ready for sleepy time.

No, the maid did that.

They come and

fix it up at night.

It's called turn-down service.

Oh, god. I'm so embarrassed.

Lisa the moron. I don't...

I don't stay in

hotels like this.

Emily and I splurged, because

it's like a vacation.

I'm an idiot. No, you're not.

Would you like a drink?

Yes, please. I would

really like a drink.

I don't think I can make an apple mojito.

I can order one.

No, that's okay.

I'll just have a glass

of wine, please.

I'm glad to get you

alone for a while.

Yeah? Yeah.

You don't like Emily?

Everybody likes Emily.

Emily's a prince.

Ess.

Emily's a Princess.

She's very nice.

I just felt

a sort of

special thing with you.

Really? Hmm.

Most people like Emily.

Thank you. Here you go.

Thank you.

Most people don't really

like to look at me too much

because, you know...

I think you're lovely.

No, you don't.

I've always done phone work

because I'd never get hired

to work in a store

or a restaurant or...

How did it happen?

If it's okay for me to ask?

I don't, um...

I don't like to talk about it.

May I kiss you there?

Oh, my god.

Oh, my god. No.

Oh, god.

Sorry.

You're not like

a pervert or something?

Like some weird version

of a chubby chaser?

No.

I just don't understand why you

would want to kiss me there.

Because...

Because I like you.

Oh.

Why?

I mean, I'm not smart like Emily.

And I'm ugly.

You're a really smart guy.

You should like Emily.

I don't even understand a lot

of the words in your book.

I sat there with a dictionary.

I try to learn. But I'm

never going to be smart.

And I'm ugly.

I find it enormously charming

that you read any book

with a dictionary next to you.

My last boyfriend

was eight years ago.

And he wasn't even my boyfriend.

He was almost 60 and fat

and he worked in human resources

and he had a wife and his

daughter was older than me.

And the only reason

he pursued me

was because he thought

he'd have a good shot.

Which he did.

I think you're extraordinary.

Why?

I don't know yet.

It's just obvious

to me that you are.

I never went to college.

I've never even made it past

team leader in my department.

Your voice is like

magic.

Oh, really?

Wow.

Well, you know,

I have been doing

phone work for

a really long time now,

so I pride myself on sounding

pleasant and professional,

and having a pleasing

phone voice and manner.

It works. Do you sing?

What? No.

No! God!

You're weird!

I mean, I sing. Everybody sings.

I just don't sing well.

I sometimes sing along

with the radio.

I love Cyndi Lauper.

Because she's got

such a great voice

and she doesn't care

what people think about her.

She's just herself, and that

takes a lot of courage.

I admire that.

You know what I mean?

Yeah. I think so.

Would you sing

one of her songs for me?

No!

Come on.

Come on. It'd make me so

happy to hear you sing.

You're being weird. Please.

It'll make me happy.

I don't know.

Okay, crazy man.

Just a little.

Okay, here goes.

Don't laugh at me!

I come home in

the morning light

my mother says when you

gonna live your life right

oh, mother, dear

we're not the fortunate ones

and girls, they wanna have fun

oh, girls just wanna have fun

some boys take

a beautiful girl

and hide her away

from the rest of the world

I want to be the one

to walk in the sun

and girls, they wanna have fun

oh, girls just wanna have

that's all they really want

some fun

when the working day is done

oh, girls, they wanna have fun

oh, girls just

wanna have fun

That's beautiful...

Girls, they want

wanna have fun, girls

they wanna have

just wanna they just wanna

just wanna they just wanna

oh, girls just wanna

just wanna have fun

Okay. That's it.

Happy?

That was so beautiful.

No, it was...

Oh, my god, are those tears?

It was beautiful.

It's such a great song.

"I want to be the one

who walks in the sun."

That describes so perfectly

who I want to be.

You're so sensitive, Michael.

It's incredibly sweet.

It's your voice, Lisa.

Keep talking.

Tell me everything.

You're, like, amazing.

Why are you doing this?

Are you making fun of me?

No. No.

Oh, god.

Oh, my god.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Will you...

Will you kiss me again?

I hope to.

I hope you do, too.

Sometime.

Oh.

I haven't been with

anybody in eight years.

Let's just lie together

and you can tell me

about your day.

Yes. Okay.

Um...

Well, em picked me up at,

like, 7:
00 this morning

so we could drive down here.

We stopped at Starbucks

and I got a grande

mocha frappuccino.

Emily got a grande Chai.

I looked at the road

atlas and figured

it's a little over 200 miles,

so at 60 miles an hour, we could

do it in under four hours

with bathroom breaks

and whatever.

The 71 goes pretty much

straight here, so it was easy.

We listened to a lot of

no doubt, which em likes.

And I brought my

Sarah Brightman cds.

She sings this

beautiful version of

girls just want to

have fun in Italian.

It's called Le ragazze

vogliono meglio.

Do you want to hear it?

Please.

Very pretty.

Oh, my god, it is.

I want to learn Italian someday.

It's so wonderful.

It's just so romantic.

Keep talking.

Um...

I like different languages.

I love French and

Italian the most.

I don't like German.

It sounds mean to me.

All those "ach's."

And I love Japanese, obviously.

Oh, I love Portuguese.

I love to listen to

Brazilian singers.

They sing in Portuguese in

Brazil, a little-known fact.

It's kind of weird

because it's the only

country in south America

where they sing in Portuguese.

It's an anomaly, right? Uh-huh.

I learned that word

in your book.

I like that word.

Anomaly. I like

the way it sounds

and I like what it means.

I feel like an anomaly.

Before I used to know

there was a word for it,

it made me feel bad

to be different.

Now I kind of like it.

Sometimes.

I mean, not a lot,

but sometimes.

It makes me special, sort of.

You know what I mean?

Anomalisa.

Oh, I love that!

It's like

"anomaly" plus my name.

Will you call me

that all the time?

I guess it's long to

say "all the time."

I mean, I guess I'm assuming

there is going to be

an "all the time."

There's not going to be an

"all the time," is there?

It's just now. Some weird

thing for just now.

It's okay, though. It's

really nice for just now.

It's an anomaly.

Sorry. What? Did I tickle you?

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