
Dangerous Beauty Page #6
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- 1998
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SHE MUST REPENT WITCHCRAF OR BE CONDEMNED.
SHE'S JUST BEGINNING,
YOUR GRACE.
PERHAPS SHE HEADS
IN THAT DIRECTION.
SENATOR,
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
THE CHURCH CANNOT DENY
HER RIGHT TO SEEK GOD'S MERCY.
THAT'S THE LAW.
CONFESSION IS SACROSANCT!
DO NOT INSTRUCT ME ON
THEN I CALL UPON
THE DOGE TO DEMAND
THAT THE INQUISITION
ABIDE BY THEM!
[MURMURING]
IF CHRISTIAN MERCY
IS GONE,
THEN AT LEAST VENETIAN
JUSTICE STILL EXISTS.
I PRAY YOUR GRACE
HAS HEARD ENOUGH OF THIS.
IT DOES SEEM ODD, YOUR HOLINESS,
THAT THE HOLY MOTHER CHURCH
WOULD DENY:
A SINNER CONFESSION.
I SEE NO HARM:
IN HEARING HER.
SHE WILL SAVE:
OR DAMN HERSELF.
DAMNED HERSELF.
BUT IF IT PLEASES
THE ESTEEMED DOGE OF VENICE,
[MURMURING]
I CONFESS...
TO FEEL THE TOUCH
OF MY LOVER'S LIPS...
HIS HANDS UPON ME...
HIS ARMS ENFOLDING ME.
VERONICA, STOP!
SAVE YOURSELF,
PLEASE.
SUCH SURRENDER:
HAS BEEN MINE.
TO BE FILLED AND ENFLAMED.
TO MELT INTO:
BEYOND:
THIS TROUBLED PLACE...
TO WHERE WE ARE:
NOT EVEN OURSELVES.
TO KNOW THAT ALWAYS, ALWAYS,
THIS IS MINE.
YOUR GRACE...
IS THIS NECESSARY?
SHE HOPES:
IF I HAD LIVED ANOTHER WAY,
A CHILD:
TO A HUSBAND'S WHIM,
MY SOUL HARDENED FROM LACK
I CONFESS SUCH:
ENDLESS DAYS AND NIGHTS
WOULD BE PUNISHMENT FAR GREATER
THAN ANY YOU CAN METE OUT.
ARE YOU FINISHED?
NO, YOUR GRACE.
YOU, ALL OF YOU,
YOU WHO HUNGER SO
FOR WHAT I GIVE,
BUT CANNOT BEAR TO SEE
SUCH POWER IN A WOMAN,
YOU CALL:
GOD'S GREATEST GIFT...
OURSELVES, OUR YEARNING,
OUR NEED TO LOVE,
YOU CALL IT FILTH AND SIN
AND HERESY.
ENOUGH.
ONE LAST TIME BEFORE
YOU ARE CONDEMNED.
I DO NOT REPENT MY LIFE.
THEN, VERONICA FRANCO,
THE HOLY INQUISITION
HAS HEARD THE EVIDENCE
AGAINST YOU AND IS SATISFIED.
NO!
THERE IS MORE CONFESSION
TO BE HEARD!
RIGHT OF CONFESSION!
YOU ARE NOT ON TRIAL!
WE ARE STILL ON:
CONSECRATED GROUND.
I CONFESS I AM:
HER ACCOMPLICE.
[MURMURING]
IF SHE IS A WITCH, THEN
DAMN ME BECAUSE:
I DO NOT REPENT.
I WILL NOT LIVE:
WITHOUT HER.
YOUR GRACE, THIS IS
A CYNICAL TRICK.
SHE'S A WITCH!
PROVEN AND CONVICTED,
THE DEVIL IN OUR MIDST,
AND I AM HER ACCOMPLICE!
BUT ARREST ME, TOO!
ARREST THE SENATOR OF
VENICE FOR WITCHCRAFT!
YOU THINK I SHRINK FROM
NO, I WELCOME IT.
I WAIT FOR THE SHACKLES.
NOT HIS HEAD, YOUR GRACE.
HE IS BLINDED:
BY HIS OWN LUST.
IF SHE IS A WITCH, THEN SO
IS EVERY WOMAN IN VENICE.
[LOUD CLAMOR]
SILENCE!
WE ARE A STRANGE CITY,
YOUR HOLINESS.
PERHAPS ACCURSED.
BUT PERHAPS WE LIVE IN
A PECULIAR STATE OF GRACE.
I AM NOT ALONE:
IN LOVING THIS WOMAN,
THOUGH I LOVE HER
WE ACCOMPLICES WERE MANY...
AND PROUD.
IF WE DO NOT SPEAK NOW,
IF VENICE:
AND ACKNOWLEDGE WHO SHE IS,
THEN WE ARE ALL DAMNED.
NOT BEFORE THIS COURT.
BEFORE ETERNITY.
THEN YOU MUST SPEAK THE NAMES
OF YOUR ACCOMPLICES.
YOUR GRACE...
THE MEN WHO LOVED HER
THEY HAD NO VOLITION.
SHALL WE PUNISH EVEN
IS CORRUP:
I WILL SPARE YOUR LIFE.
I HAD NO ACCOMPLICES,
YOUR GRACE.
STAND.
STAND!
STAND!
ALL OF YOU WHO DEFILED
YOUR SACRED MARRIAGE BEDS
STAND UP WITH ME!
AS WE STOOD AGAINS OUR ENEMIES AT SEA!
THERE.
YOU SEE, YOUR GRACE?
THERE ARE:
NO ACCOMPLICES.
HER FROM YOUR JUSTICE.
THEN I STAND ALONE
FOR VENICE:
AND FOR THIS WOMAN.
ARREST THE SENATOR.
HIS TRIAL:
WILL COMMENCE TOMORROW.
MINISTER.
DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK?
I REPEAT, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING
TO SAY TO THIS COURT?
I AM STANDING.
YOUR GRACE.
PERHAPS THERE IS ANOTHER
WHO WOULD LIKE TO STAND.
PERHAPS WE'VE BEEN HASTY,
YOUR GRACE.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
WITCHCRAFT MAY BE
TOO HARSH A CHARGE.
[MURMURING]
IS EVERYTHING I HEARD
ABOUT THIS CITY TRUE?
SURELY THE HOLY INQUISITION
NEED NOT SULLY ITS HANDS
WITH A COMMON WHORE?
THIS IS A MATTER FOR
THE STATE, DON'T YOU THINK?
TO VENICE...
WHICH RICHLY DESERVES HER.
[LOUD CLAMOR]
CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY
WARNER BROS.
CAPTIONING PERFORMED BY
THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING
INSTITUTE, INC.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF CAPTIONS
PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF
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