Ashes
- Year:
- 2012
- 100 min
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Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Is anybody there?
Hello?
Hey. What are you doing in here?
Sorry, I'm looking for someone.
Used to live here.
This is private property.
So, come on. Out you go.
You couldn't do me a favor,
could you?
Please,
I've been searching for months.
His name is Frank Barron.
It's important.
Let's have a look.
Watch yourself on that glass.
Oh, yeah.
Took him off to Fairview.
Had to call the police.
He put up a hell of a fight.
- Fairview? What's that?
- Hospital.
Pass it on the way into town.
What do you want with him?
He's my dad.
- Hello?
- Hi, it's me. Did I wake you?
- What time is it?
- I found him!
- Are you serious?
- Yeah.
- I'm going to see him tomorrow.
- Oh my God.
I know.
Soon everything's
going to be all right.
I'll be back soon.
All right, bye.
Frank?
You have arrived
at our destination.
You have arrived to...
Yeah, I'm here to see Dr. Burrows.
Fairview is a secure unit
for patients
with severe mental difficulties.
including Alzheimer's,
what we think your father has.
He was sectioned
Various acts of aggression
have been reported,
which is why he was brought to us
for assessment.
- How bad is he?
- He may remember you.
But his memory comes and goes;
I don't want to raise your hopes.
Most of the time
he's in his own world,
when you leas expect it,
he sparks back into life.
But the disease
makes him paranoid
and prone to hallucinations.
I understand how hard that can be.
"Frank Barron".
We've only ever know him
as Frank, of course.
He's not the first to arrive here
without I.D.
Somehow people
slip below the radar.
It's not uncommon, sadly.
I'm surprised
you managed to find us.
Yes, it wasn't easy.
I've looked for him for months.
We weren't close.
I knew he grew up around here...
What sort of person was he?
like he's dead.
I'm sorry.
This must be very hard, but...
our Frank, the one
we've been looking after,
he's not the person you knew.
You must understand
that it's no Frank,
it's the disease.
It can be easier to think of him
as a different person.
A stranger even.
Maybe you should see for yourself.
Frank, for goodness sake.
I can't hear myself think!
That's better, isn't it?
Bit of light
makes all the difference.
I wish I was dead.
- What's that?
- I wish I was dead.
Come on, Frank.
You've got a special visitor.
Can you see who it is, Frank?
Your son has to come to visit you.
It's James.
- My Jamie.
- That's right. Yeah.
I'll leave you to yourselves.
I'm just outside if you need me.
Right. Thank you, thanks.
How you doing? You okay?
Everything all right?
- Where am I?
- Hospital.
- Accident?
- Not exactly.
- Where's my fags?
- Fags? I don't know.
Look, dad,
you might have a look at this?
- Can you remember anyone?
- Cathy.
- Cathy. That's right.
- My wife.
- Yea, you're right. Mum.
- Mummy. Your mummy.
Right. Well done.
You want your tape player?
Okay, I'll get you some music.
Here we go. I'll put it on.
It's all right, its off. It's off.
Hey! Stop!
Stop! Stop it!
Frank!
Frank!
Frank. Frank!
Frank, it's okay.
It's okay.
Jesus.
- I thought it went well.
- I'm so sorry.
It's the medication.
They've switched it
so many times,
I don't know who
the real Frank is.
Look, I tried my best.
What do you want me to do?
Bust him out?
I don't know what to say.
He's sick.
Yeah, really sick.
What I'm saying, it's like...
Alzheimer's or something.
- Morning.
- All right.
Sorry, they're not gonna let me
bring him back.
They just won't.
Don't be like that. I did.
Because I can't!
I'll see what I can do, all right?
Yeah, I will figure something.
We'll give you a cup of tea.
Don't be afraid.
I don't want tea!
I'm not a criminal!
I know. It's all right.
Let's go back inside.
He's been much better
since lunch.
Hello, darling. It's me, Susie.
- Yes?
- There's someone here to see you.
It's your son, Jamie.
Hi, Dad.
Now, are you going to say
sorry to James, Frank?
- You really hurt him.
- It's just a scratch.
All right, dad..
- All right.
- I could never hurt you, Jamie.
- This place isn't safe.
- Of course it is.
- They're killing me.
- Don't be a daft, dad.
Don't be daft.
Let go, Dad, come on.
Let go.
- They're killing me.
- It's all right..
- You want some tea?
- I'm no dumb.
No, no.
I'm no f***ing dumb.
- Let's get a cup of tea.
- I'm watching you.
All right.
- Time for his medication.
- Don't want them.
Frank, hold on one moment.
You okay?
Frank, wait, wait.
Just hold on a moment.
Make sure he takes them all.
- He's no good without them.
- All right.
Yeah, push it.
Go on. Here you go.
Come on.
That's all right. Come on.
There you go.
Come on, Frank, good man.
No, no! What are you doing?
You can't do that!
Not in the sink.
Not in the sink.
- Come on, dad.
- I'm not ill.
- They'll make you feel better.
- No.
All right, fine.
Fine.
I'll tell you what I got.
It's good.
Do you want some?
I'll tell you what:
I'll do you a deal.
You take one of these...
and you can wash it down
with some of that.
Open your mouth.
That's it!
That's it.
Yeah.
All right, Dad.
All right, that's enough.
That's enough.
Bosh. Down the hatch.
All right.
What's this mean?
Dad, can you remember?
- All coppers are bastards.
- All bastards, exactly.
What's that?
- Cathy. Mum.
- Cathy. Mum.
What then?
- Oh, Jesus Christ.
- Where's my fags?
- What?
- Where's my fags?
I haven't got them.
There's no fags. There's nothing.
Which fags? In here?
This fags?
Do you want a light as well?
There you go.
Is that nice?
How's that, relaxing?
Yeah?
You mind if I have one?
That's nice.
What'd you like.
That's good stuff, Dad.
Do you mind if I film it?
You don't mind, do you?
It's just a camera.
Could you?
Lovely, Dad, lovely. Yeah.
Do you miss me, Jamie?
I miss you.
Every single day.
I'm proud of you, kid.
I want to go home!
I want to go home!
- Twist.
- You can't, it's not Black Jack.
- Hit me.
- Concentrate on your painting.
- Excuse me.
- F***ing. Now what?
- Excuse me.
- Yes? Stop it, Dad.
- There's been a terrible mistake.
- Hit me.
- I'm not supposed to be here.
- Yeah, you and me both.
- I'm not supposed to be here!
- Hit me!
- I don't want to.
- Hit me!
- I want to go home!
- Hit me!
Stop it, Dad!
Hey, stop, leave it!
Calm down.
Okay.
Listen, Dad, I need your help.
I need you to get up.
That's it, well done.
Here we go. There we go.
Nice and easy, that's it.
Calm down, please.
Calm down!
Calm down!
That's it.
This way.
Nice and easy, nice and easy.
- Nurse!
- It's all right, I've got this one.
- Nurse!
- This way.
Come on, Frank Barron.
Take me. I'll go with you.
You go back inside.
Come on, here we go.
It's all right, It's okay.
Here we go.
Stay with me!
Stay with me!
You want to see a magic trick?
There you go.
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