Blue Valentine Page #7

Synopsis: Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie. Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out together and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage. Dean, a high school drop out, comes from a broken home, where he never really had a mother figure. He never saw himself getting married or having a family despite falling in love at first sight with Cindy. He doesn't have any professional ambition beyond his current work - which he enjoys since he feels he can knock off a beer at 8 o'clock in the morning without it affecting his work - although Cindy believes he has so much more potential in life. Cindy also comes from a dysfunctional family, with her own mother and father not setting an example of a harmonious married or family life. One of her previous serious relationshi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Derek Cianfrance
Production: Weinstein Company
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 52 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
2010
112 min
$9,600,000
Website
1,494 Views


You f***ing a**hole!

I'm gonna kill you!

- You son of a b*tch!

- That's enough.

You son of a b*tch!

- I f***ing hate you!

- You two, break it up.

- That's enough.

- Stop it! Don't. Don't.

Mimi, please!

Cindy, would you get out

of here? You are done here, get out!

- Get out! You're done!

- I'm trying to take him!

She's done?! You're gonna fire my wife?!

Hey! This is between

you and me, motherf***er.

Don't you f***ing

blame her for that sh*t!

- Yeah, you're going to jail, my friend.

- I'm going to jail?

- Please, come with me!

- Just get the hell out of here!

- That's it. Keep moving!

- Come on!

Give me the keys.

I f***ing want a divorce!

Where are you going?!

What the f*** are you doing!?

- Hey.

- Mr. Heller.

- You must be Dean.

- Yeah.

I didn't know if it was pot luck,

so I brought an eggplant.

- Very funny. Come in.

- Thank you.

Let me see. Let me see.

I don't know what you're talking about.

See what?

- Let me see.

- See me through the flowers?

- Do you like 'em?

- Oh, babe.

- Does it hurt?

- Yeah.

Like right now, when you're doing that.

- Sorry!

- Yeah.

Cindy doesn't usually bring

her boyfriends home for dinner.

So... I'm thinking

this might be serious.

- Don't listen to him.

- Well, I hope so.

- You hope so.

- Yes, sir.

- Mmmm

- I mean, I'm pretty serious.

What do your folks do, Dean?

Well... I don't know...

My mother, I don't know,

to be honest, what she does.

But my father is a janitor...

...and he's a very talented musician.

- What does he play?

- Everything.

He can kind of play

a little bit of everything.

He's one of those people.

- So you don't see your mother?

- No, I don't.

Why?

Not that it's my business...

No, I understand you asking.

I don't really talk about it very often,

to be honest.

You know, she just...

When I was ten, she...

my father and her just decided

that it wasn't, you know, gonna work out

and she...

...she met somebody, and I think...

...that was that.

You graduate

from high school, Dean?

Well, sir, no, I didn't, I didn't.

But, you know, I didn't feel like...

...there was a place for me there,

to be honest.

I don't think that high school

is all it's cracked up to be.

Cindy's... studying.

- I know. She's...

- it's exciting.

She's about the smartest person

I ever met.

How's it going?

- It's good.

- Yeah?

Mm-hmm. It's really good. Um...

There's one teacher in particular that

I've really enjoyed getting to know.

She says that I have a lot of potential.

What's her name?

- Professor Comstock.

- Comstock!

What's so funny about that?

Teachers, they just always

have these names you know?

It's never like... I don't know...

They always have these names. Comstock.

- Is that funny?

- Yeah.

I don't know why, sorry. So you...

- What course is that?

- it's a biology course.

That's good.

Cindy wants to be a doctor.

I know, that's...

She'd be a great doctor.

I wish she'd be my doctor.

I'd trust her.

A lot of these doctors,

they're just in it for the money.

It would make me relieved to know

that someone like Cindy

was my doctor, or my kid's doctor.

She's got a lot ahead of her.

it's really exciting.

- You know I'm not good enough for you.

- Stop it.

- it's true.

- Stop it.

- Baby, it's true.

- No, it's not.

- It is true.

- You're hurting my feelings.

- Don't say that.

- No, but nobody is.

You know, so as long as...

that's the case, I want the job.

Baby...

- What?

- I got you a present.

That's it. Hold on... Boom!

- Oh, baby...

- Mmm?

Did you make it?

Well, I didn't make it,

but I got us a song.

You know, like our song

that will just be for you and me.

Because everybody's got songs, but

they're lame and they all share them.

You know, it's disgusting.

- Not us. We have our own song.

- We have our own song.

- What is it?

- Do you wanna listen to it?

OK, turn it up.

- Stop it.

- Take it easy.

Listen.

Baby! Hi!

Look at you.

Oh...

Hi.

- Are you OK?

- I don't want to talk to you.

I can't play right now, OK?

What's going on, Dean?

Dean, leave her alone.

Hey! You can't lock me

out of my own house!

I don't have my oxygen out here! Hey!

You know, it's not just us.

We got a little girl

we gotta think about.

I know, I am thinking about her.

I can't do this anymore.

Baby, you're just thinking

about yourself. What about Frankie?

You want her to grow up

in a broken home?

- Is that what you want?

- I am thinking about Frankie.

You're not

thinking about Frankie.

- I am thinking about...

- No, you're not.

Is this how you want her to grow up?

I don't want her

to grow up in a home

where her parents

treat each other like this.

Don't...

I'm sorry...

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

- Baby, I'm sorry.

- I can't do this anymore!

I know.

Baby, I'm just fighting, you know,

fighting for my family.

I don't know what to do.

I don't know what else to do.

Tell me what to do.

- Tell me what to do.

- I don't know what to do.

- Tell me how I should be.

- I don't know.

Just tell me, I'll do it.

I'll do it.

I don't know what to say.

I'm so sorry,

I don't know what else to do.

I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do it.

Just tell me.

We're not good together,

We're not good anymore.

- The way that we treat each other!

- Don't say that, baby.

I can't stop, you can't stop!

I can't stop!

I don't know what else to do!

- I can stop, and I will stop.

- No!

- No. No.

- Come here, just come here.

- Come here, come here, come here...

- No, no, no...

Just come here. Just come here.

NO...

[? Grizzly Bear:
Shift

What are you thinking about?

I just wish they'd hurry up

so you can't change your mind.

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Baby, you made a promise to me, OK?

You said for better or worse.

You said that.

You said it. It was a promise.

I'm sorry.

Now, this is my worst.

OK? This is my worst.

I'm sorry.

But I'm gonna get better.

You just got to give me

a chance to get better.

- Up here, please.

- OK.

- Please face one another.

- OK.

I'm so sorry...

I love you so much.

Dean, I give you this ring...

...as a symbol...

- ... as a symbol...

- ... of my solemn vow...

- ... of my solemn vow...

- ... and everlasting love.

...and everlasting love.

For as much as you have

consented in holy wedlock before God...

...I do, by the power vested in me,

by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

pronounce you husband and wife.

You may kiss the bride.

- Baby, baby, baby, baby...

- You've gotta just give me some space.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Hey, Frankie, come back!

Daddy! Daddy!

Daddy!

Frankie, you got to go back, OK?

Daddy!

- Where is she?

- She ran after Dean.

Go back to your mom, please.

Don't go. Stay here.

- Go back to your mom.

- Just come back!

- You want to race?

- OK.

One, two, three, go!

Oh, sweetheart, it's OK.

Who's my big girl?

- I love him.

- I know, baby.

I got you. Don't cry.

It's OK.

OK.

I can't really sing.

I have to sing goofy in order to sing.

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Derek Cianfrance

Derek M. Cianfrance (; born January 1974) is an American film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor. more…

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