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Collateral Beauty Page #5
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2016
- 97 min
- $30,982,955
- 13,291 Views
You know,
I should be the one
That was the worst thing I've ever done.
That was the best thing I've ever done.
What was that thing you said
about Einstein in there?
Einstein called time
a stubbornly persistent illusion.
What's that even mean?
Time doesn't go from January to December,
or from noon to midnight.
You know, we all just make it that way
in our heads.
That's absurd.
Try telling that to a person
who's an hour late to a wedding
or was just sentenced to 20 years in jail.
(SCOFFS)
Or someone fighting a baby clock.
We really don't need
to have this conversation, ever.
Anyway, just...
Yeah, wanted to say great job today.
Just a stubborn illusion, Claire.
You have all the time in the world.
You're nine!
"You're nine."
Hi.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Um...
You gotta be friggin' kidding me.
I'm eating.
You said goodbye, and that...
(SIGHS) We don't get to choose
who we love or who loves us back.
And that means you're powerless to me
as long as you're alive
because I'm the fabric of life.
I'm within you. I'm within everything.
Howard,
if you can accept that, then maybe...
I don't know,
but maybe you get to live again.
I completely screwed it up.
I was weepy and apologetic.
Well, I think love can be
weepy and apologetic.
I think I was better at the end.
Hey, hey. I'm sure you were great.
You're sweet.
Can I kiss you?
You don't have to sexualize it.
I can kiss you without sexualizing it.
Seriously, I've had sex
without sexualizing it.
You should take "sweet," Whit.
It's a promotion.
"Irresistible" would be a promotion.
He believes it.
How could you tell?
I could tell by his eyes.
That's great, but no one else has seen it
and that's ultimately
what we need to have happen.
We think if you would engage with him
- one more time, um, in public.
- Great. Mmm-hmm.
WHIT:
But this time try to...SIMON:
But you need to provokeWhy?
Because our private investigator's
gonna capture it on video.
And we're gonna use it as evidence.
It'll be like being in a movie.
Except you'll be digitally removed.
No.
Sorry?
This is too intense.
Um, I'm sorry. I can't be a part of this.
Amy, there is no "too intense" in acting.
Do you wanna be loved
or do you wanna make an impact?
I mean, this isn't Nol Coward.
This is... This is Chekhov.
This is horrible!
The... You know,
you did start the agency
with him, didn't you, Whit?
And, Claire, he was your mentor.
And, Simon, he gave you part
ownership in a business
when he absolutely didn't have to.
- I may have told her a few things...
- Mmm-hmm.
- ...when we were...
- Mmm-hmm.
AMY:
I'm sorry, this is horrible.I... I can't...
No, I can't be a part of this. Thank you.
- Sorry. Thanks.
- Amy, no.
Amy.
Amy. No.
Oh, she's so passionate, you know.
Amy!
I'm so sorry. She will be back.
But if she isn't, um,
I'll step in. I do know all about love.
Amy!
What'd I miss?
People crying because their kids died.
Hmm. Uh...
Uh, there's a thing called
bereavement hallucinations.
Yes.
Right. Um. Okay.
So, uh...
I looked them up.
And here's the thing. I don't sleep.
Okay.
(STAMMERING) Like, not a lot.
I mean, I sleep.
Mmm.
But I get six or seven hours a week.
that's probably why...
Why what?
Um...
(SIGHS)
I'm having conversations.
Mmm-hmm.
I mean, conversations.
Okay.
It's okay. Never mind. Um...
- Howard?
- Yeah.
You wanna have a conversation with me?
Uh, yes.
So, I assume you're a part of the 79%?
Mmm?
Of couples who get divorced
after losing a child.
Yeah.
Mmm.
Yeah, me too.
Do you still love her?
I don't even know what love is anymore.
Do you still love him?
We never fell out of love.
At least, I don't think so. It's just...
We can...
(SIGHS)
The day our divorce was final,
he sent me this.
"If only we could be strangers again."
Now we are.
The most romantic gesture he ever made.
So, to answer your question,
yes,
I still love him.
What did you mean
when you said
you were having conversations?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Conversations with who?
- Um...
It's not "who."
It's really... It's...
Try me.
Um, can I show you?
MADELINE:
"Dead tissuethat won't decompose."
Just a mean, little, arrogant thug.
And he was the first one
that appeared, right?
Uh, no. Death came first.
She met me in the dog park.
Oh, so Death is a "her"?
Uh, yeah. It turns out
Death is an elderly white woman.
What was the trade?
You said Death wouldn't make the trade.
What does that mean?
When we realized our...
My daughter was dying, I prayed, uh...
Not to God or the universe, but to Death.
I offered a trade.
Take me,
leave my daughter.
But she didn't wanna make the trade, so...
BRIGITTE:
So, who won that round?You or the porcelain?
(CHUCKLES) Porcelain.
Porcelain's undefeated.
Yes, they did. But I'm here to close up.
SIMON:
Good.You need help getting home?
No. I'm fine.
I'm... I'm good.
I Googled you.
- You did?
- Yeah.
(WHISPERS) Oh, God.
You came from nothing.
You put yourself through Duke,
you married a wonderful woman,
you're a loving father.
So, you lived well. You lived right.
But, my friend, you're not dying right.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Are you gonna tell me how to die?
Have you told your family yet?
- Mmm-mmm.
- You're not helping them.
You're just denying them
what is rightfully theirs.
Yeah? And what's that?
Pain? Atrophy? Disease?
Yes. Yes.
All of it.
And the chance to say goodbye.
Stick to acting.
MADELINE:
Okay.I have something
that I haven't told anyone.
It doesn't involve letters
or angels or anything like that,
They were preparing Olivia to say goodbye.
calm my mother in the parking lot
because she lost it.
So I was alone
and I was sitting there
in the waiting room
at Maimonides Hospital.
And there was this woman
who sat next to me.
And she asked me who I was about to lose.
And I told her.
And she looked at me and she said,
"Just be sure to notice
"the collateral beauty."
I mean, she...
She said it so casually.
In the next room,
my six-year-old daughter
was being taken off life support.
And this woman says "collateral beauty."
People don't know
what to say in those moments.
No, she did.
I just didn't get it at the time.
See, it wasn't said out of
sympathy or awkwardness.
It was from experience.
About a year later,
something started to
happen to me, you know.
I would be walking
or on the subway, whatever,
and I would just burst into tears.
But these weren't Olivia tears.
These were tears born from something else,
from this kind of profound
connection to everything.
And I realized
it was the collateral beauty.
I mean, there's...
There's no such thing
as collateral beauty.
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