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Crimes and Misdemeanors Page #7
- PG-13
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- 1989
- 104 min
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Wasn't Lester... so silly?
I mean, the guy is so self-important.
He was pushing all night.
I was frankly embarrassed for him.
What is he doing there?
You're talkin' business at 12 midnight?
Well... Gee, that could be very dangerous.
You want me...
You want me to come over?
OK. If you can handle it.
OK. I'll see you tomorrow.
I'm completely in love with Halley,
and Lester is startin' to make his move.
He wants her just
for a conquest. I can tell.
You know, it's so shallow,
How can I compete with the guy?
He's rich and famous and successful.
- Come on. He's no competition for you.
- God bless you for saying that.
But you'll find, as you go through life, that
great depth and smouldering sensuality
does not always win, I'm sorry to say.
Meanwhile, his brother Ben, the rabbi,
he's a wonderful guy.
He called me last night. He's going blind.
He's got a terrible eye disease.
He's gonna be blind in a few months.
And he's got a great attitude.
He's really a mensch.
All right. Look left.
Now straight ahead, Ben.
Now to the right.
That's good.
My mother said that
I should go to the doctor,
because I was... My eyes weren't so good.
Well, you're an ophthalmologist.
Do you agree the eyes
are the windows of the soul?
Well, I believe they're windows,
but I'm not sure it's a soul I see.
My mother taught me I have a soul,
and it'll live on after me when I'm gone,
and if you look deeply enough
in my eyes, you can see it.
So what's the verdict?
Cos I'd like to get this resolved
before my daughter's wedding.
- Julie's getting married?
- Time passes quickly, doesn't it?
Remember she was just a baby?
Well, yours, too.
- Yes.
- Are you OK, Judah?
- Yeah.
- You don't look so good.
I'm fine.
I just haven't been sleeping that well.
Tell me... if I'm not prying... did you ever
resolve your personal difficulties?
Yes, actually.
It resolved itself.
Did she?
That's wonderful. So you got a break.
Sometimes to have a little good luck
is the most brilliant plan.
Judah, relax. You're white.
You're gonna have a breakdown. It's over.
What do you expect me to be?
My old self?
I jump when the phone rings.
- No good can come of this, Jack.
- Don't be so guilty. I kept you uninvolved.
The guy who's responsible is gone.
He's back in New Orleans.
It's pure evil, Jack.
A man kills for money.
He doesn't even know his victims.
He kills, you pay him
and then he... he kills again.
What was your alternative?
How did I get in so deep? I...
What dream was I following?
Judah, you said it yourself a million
times. You only go around once.
Jack, I went to her place after.
I had to retrieve
some incriminating things.
I saw her there... just staring up.
An inert object.
There was nothing behind her eyes
if you looked into them.
All you saw was a
black void.
Can I help you?
I used to live in this house once.
Really? When?
Many years ago.
My brother and I
used to race through these rooms.
He was a wonderful kid, my brother.
We were very close in those days.
My father had high hopes for him,
but it never seemed to... work out for him.
Would you mind if I just take a minute?
Everything seems to be
flooding through me.
Sure.
Come on, Sol. Get on with it. I'm hungry.
- Do you mind, May?
- It's nonsense anyway.
Why put us through this mumbo jumbo?
Bring on the main course.
I apologise for my disrespectful sister.
This is the twentieth century.
You have young boys sitting here.
- Don't fill their heads with superstition.
- The intellectual. The schoolteacher.
Spare us your Leninist philosophy
just this once.
Afraid if you don't obey the rules
God'll punish you?
- Not me, May. He punishes the wicked.
- Who? Like Hitler?
- We're having a Seder!
- Six million Jews burned to death
- and they got away with it.
- How did they get away with it?
Come on, Sol, open your eyes!
Six million Jews and millions of others.
- And they got off.
- How could humans do such a thing?
- Until the Americans marched in...
- I don't like this talk at my Seder.
OK, OK! All right!
I think this is interesting.
You know, there's this joke about
the prizefighter who enters the ring.
And his brother says to the family priest
"Father, pray for him."
The priest said "I will.
But if he can punch, it'll help."
What are you saying, May? You challenge
the whole moral structure of everything?
What moral structure? Is that the kind
of nonsense you use on your pupils?
Do you not find human impulses
basically decent?
- There's basically nothing.
- Such a cynic, my sister. A nihilist.
- Back to Russia!
- Well... Listen.
when it comes to all that mumbo jumbo.
How can you say that? You come
to every Seder. You pray in Hebrew.
Yes. I'm going through the motions.
It's like any ritual. It's a habit.
What are you saying, May? There's
no morality anywhere in the whole world?
For those who want morality,
there's morality.
- Nothing's handed down in stone.
- Sol's kind of faith is a gift.
It's like an ear for music,
or the talent to draw.
He believes. You can use logic
on him and he still believes.
Must everything be logical?
And if a man commits a crime,
if he... if he kills...
- One way or another he will be punished.
- If he's caught, Sol.
If he's not, that which originates from a
black deed will blossom in a foul manner.
- You're relying too heavily on the Bible.
- No, no, no.
Whether it's the Old Testament
or Shakespeare, murder will out.
- Who said anything about murder?
- You did.
Did I?
And I say,
if he can do it and get away with it
and he chooses
not to be bothered by the ethics,
then he's home free.
Remember,
history is written by the winners.
If the Nazis had won, future generations
would see World War II quite differently.
Your aunt is a brilliant woman, Judah,
but she's had a very unhappy life.
And if all your faith is wrong, Sol?
Just what if, huh? If?
than all of those that doubt.
Wait a minute. Are you telling me
that you prefer God to the truth?
If necessary,
I will always choose God over truth.
I agree with him.
I say what goes around comes around.
- Are you OK?
- Yes.
- I was worried. It's late.
- I had some business.
- Mrs Ames is waiting.
- Any messages?
Yeah. An odd one.
A Detective O'Donnell called.
He wanted to talk to you about something.
I tried to get him to tell me what,
but he said he only wants to talk with you.
# He says "Murder", he says
# Every time we kiss,
he says "Murder", he says
# Keep it up like this
and then "Murder", he says
# In that impossible tone
# Will bring on
nobody's murder but his own
That was not such a great movie,
but it was fun.
Yeah, I liked it. I think maybe
when I'm older, I wanna be an actress.
Don't be an actress. I want you to be
on the Supreme Court, or a doctor.
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