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Crimes and Misdemeanors Page #5
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- 1989
- 104 min
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down the road from your house.
I can be there in five minutes.
I'm going to,
unless you meet me right now.
No, Judah. No, Judah.
No. I wanna talk to you in person,
or I'm coming over.
- Just calm down, OK?
- You said we were going away.
And when we get back,
I want you to bring everything
to a conclusion with Miriam.
I can't go on like this! I can't wait for ever!
You don't know what it's like!
Maybe it would help if you
talked to somebody, like a therapist.
Don't trick me, Judah! Christ, I'm shaking.
Listen.
I brought you a birthday present.
I know how much you love Schubert.
Sometimes, when there's real love
and true acknowledgement of a mistake,
there can be forgiveness, too.
I know Miriam.
Her values, her feelings. Our place
among our friends and colleagues.
But what choice do you have
if the woman is going to tell her?
You have to confess the wrong
and hope for understanding.
I couldn't go on living
if I didn't feel with all my heart
a moral structure with real meaning and
forgiveness,
and some kind of higher power.
Otherwise,
there's no basis to know how to live.
And I know you well enough to know that
the spark of that notion is inside you, too.
Could you really go through with it?
What choice do I have, Ben?
Tell me.
Give the people that you've hurt
Miriam won't forgive me. She'll be broken.
She worships me.
She'll be humiliated before our friends.
This woman plans to make a stink.
- Did you make promises to her?
- No.
Maybe I led her on more than I realised.
She's so emotionally hungry.
- But it's deeper than just Miriam now.
- Meaning financial improprieties?
No.
Maybe I... Maybe I did
make some questionable moves.
Only you would know that, Judah.
I don't any more, Ben.
Sometimes it's worse than...
worse than jail.
It's a human life.
You don't think God sees?
God is a luxury I can't afford.
Now you're talking like your brother Jack.
Jack lives in the real world.
You live in the kingdom of heaven.
I managed to keep free of that real world
but... suddenly it's found me.
You fool around with her for pleasure
and then, when you think it's enough,
you wanna sweep her under the rug?
There's no other solution but Jack's, Ben.
I push one button and
Could you sleep with that?
Is that who you really are?
I will not be destroyed
by this neurotic woman.
But the law, Judah.
Without the law, it's all darkness.
You sound like my father.
What good is the law if it prevents me
from receiving justice?
Is what she's doing to me just?
Is this what I deserve?
Jack? It's Judah.
with what we discussed.
How much will you need?
Not funny. It's not funny, guys.
No, it's not. You're not thinking funny.
You gotta think with your ear.
Do you understand what I'm telling you?
Here's the difference. It's very easy.
If it bends, it's funny.
If it breaks, it's not funny.
It's very simple. Wait a minute. Here.
- Jeff, this is Alva.
- Hi. Pleased to meet you.
Don't... Don't shoot this part.
Alva will play a small part in the new
series. I don't know what. I just want her.
- It's wonderful. You look great.
- Thank you.
They love you. Wonderful. Be right out.
OK. Don't do that while they're shooting.
It's messing my hair up.
Understand what I'm saying?
Think of Oedipus. Oedipus is funny.
That's the structure of funny, right there.
"Who did this terrible thing?"
"Oh, God - it was me." That's funny.
But the difference is... Not while they're
shooting. What the hell are you doing?
You will notice that what we are aiming at
when we fall in love
is a very strange paradox.
The paradox consists of the fact
that, when we fall in love,
we are seeking to re-find
all or some of the people
to whom we were attached as children.
On the other hand, we ask our beloved
to correct all of the wrongs
that these early parents or siblings
inflicted upon us.
So that love contains in it
the contradiction:
The attempt to return to the past
and the attempt to undo the past.
See? No limos, no bimbos,
no awards or anything.
This guy's just a thinker, an intellect.
I was just thinking, when you show this to
the people that make the final decision,
you should emphasise
his overall view of life.
It's great. It's life-affirming.
They love a positive statement.
See, this is what I need. A little interest
in my work. A little encouragement. It's...
Let me ask you something. I got a bottle
of champagne as a prize, from Paris.
I got honourable mention for a little
documentary I did on leukaemia, and...
- You want some champagne?
- I never say no to champagne, or caviar.
OK. That's perfect. I have no caviar.
I have oat bran. It's better for your heart.
He was very eloquent on the subject
of love, didn't you think?
Yeah. I wish I'd read him
before I got married. You know?
Would've saved me
a gall bladder operation.
- What did you say?
- Nothing.
You know, he wrote a very interesting
book on human relationships.
He speaks very, very highly
of love at first sight.
My ex-husband and I fell in love at first
sight. I should've taken a second look.
No. Actually, it was my fault
as much as his.
I notice you still wear a wedding ring.
Any reason for that?
Well... I don't know. I guess
I'm just not ready to take it off.
It's good. It keeps me
from being asked out on dates.
You must have had a terrible marriage
if you don't want any dates.
Well, no... I mean, he was great.
He was very brilliant. He's an architect.
Real handsome and everything.
But if you're gonna have an affair, not
with my best friend in my four-poster bed.
And they didn't have to finish
all my pistachio nuts.
That inconsiderate?
I hope it hasn't soured you
on marriage or men.
- I can hear myself sounding like a bore.
- Just the opposite. Hello.
Yeah, she's here. How'd you know?
Hold on one second.
It's Lester.
Hello.
Yeah?
Sure, if you want me to.
OK. At the office? At what time?
- Nine?
- Nine o'clock? The building'll be dark.
The floor's dark. There's nobody
at the office. The office is closed.
You'll be in a dark room with Lester.
Yeah, the office is
kind of spooky at nine o'clock.
- Definitely.
- Sure. The hotel's even nearer.
- Don't go to the hotel.
- What was that?
OK. Room 1911. Sure.
OK, I'll see you there. OK.
You're not gonna go to the hotel with him.
It's crazy. I'd better go with you.
- Come on. Don't be ridiculous.
- He won't keep his hands off you.
He'll get you in a room, read you your
Miranda rights and tear your clothes off.
- He wants to produce something of mine.
- Your first child.
I've never been seduced by a guy
who wears loafers and no socks.
- Much less one who says "nucular".
- He also says "foilage".
- I don't like this.
- Why have you got Singin' in the Rain?
It's the one print that I own.
It's a very good 16mm print. I play it every
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