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Hope Springs Page #5
You want to know what? Fine.
What I'm afraid will happen here
is what probably happens in every
goddamn therapist's office
every time any poor couple goes in there.
You say whatever thing, because
somebody Iike you
is dragging it out of them and
then you can't take it back.
There are things in this Iife that
you don't say for a reason.
Like what? What would you say?
Uh...
Tell me.
I want to know. I want to know.
It's worse not knowing when there are
things that you're holding back
you won't say because you think
I'm too fragile or whatever.
No, it's not that. It's...
Something I can't hear.
AII right, fine! AII right.
She has a way... Say it to Kay.
You have a way of saying that
something's up to me
and then when I make a decision
and it's something you don't Iike,
you don't actually say anything,
but you sure do get your point across.
Well, can I just say, I don't
Iike... Is it my turn?
I don't Iike the way that we always do
something for Christmas,
or an anniversary,
that's a joint gift for the
house, Iike a water heater.
Yes, but you did, too. You shower.
Why is that a special gift for me?
Hmm?
And I hate watching golf. I
do. I think it's boring.
about golf, even worse.
It's Iike being married to ESPN.
And when you eat ranch chips,
your breath smells.
I Iike ranch chips.
And I hate it when you rub up against me,
Iike you just expect me to do it.
"Come on, Iet's go."
Hell, it got to the point I was afraid
to make any kind of move.
If I even so much as tried to kiss you...
Well, you never kiss me.
You don't want to kiss me,
you just want "it."
Not me.
(SIGHS) You know, he always has
It's not me. You just want "it."
Hell, yes, I want "it." You can
bet your Iife I want "it."
have sex with my wife!
And, you know, it's not pleasant
to do that with somebody who
doesn't want to do it.
But you never saw me...
What?
Go on, Arnold.
I didn't complain because
Kay didn't want sex.
Love. That's what I wanted. Not just sex.
I wanted you.
Well, what about all those
years I wanted you?
And I didn't cheat.
I didn't go to hookers.
I watched a Iittle porn, but who doesn't?
I was good. I did the right thing.
Now you're bringing me here for...
You're the one who stopped, not me.
Yeah, for a while I stopped,
yes, but you stopped, too.
You did. You stopped.
Well, you don't just turn
it on and off, you know?
Maybe when it's off, it's just off.
Off.
(SIGHS)
I want you to do something for me.
I want you to tell me about
the best sex you ever had.
The time that you can remember that
was the best. Either of you.
Even if it wasn't very good.
Even if it was terrible.
Best time that you remember.
Well...
Hmm.
Oh.
I remember one time.
Kay was pregnant.
Where were you? In the kitchen.
She was making soup.
And I came in there and she kept
saying she had to stir her soup.
And pretty soon, she forgot
about that soup.
What do you remember, Kay?
Well, we were on the floor, and...
And it was slow.
He... He put some dish
towels behind my head
so my head wouldn't bang on...
Wouldn't bump up against the
bottom of the cabinet.
That was... (LAUGHS)
Arnold, what else do you
remember about that?
Just wanting her.
Standing there in the kitchen.
Happy.
Beautiful.
She had a Iittle apron which was getting
belly was getting so big.
You were very attracted to her then.
Yeah, I was, and...
Are you still?
Uh, I don't... I don't know.
It's been a Iong time since we've...
I don't Iook Iike I did then.
No, it's not that.
No. I never could Iose all the weight.
You Iook fine. I just don't think
of it in that way anymore.
About her that way anymore.
Well, of course, I...
DR. FELD:
No, it's not "of course."Sometimes when a connection is Iost,
we forget how to want one another.
Do you still want Kay?
Well, yes!
Do you still fantasize about her?
(STAMMERING) You mean, now?
These days.
I don't know.
I don't... I...
I had one.
I had a fantasy.
Was it...
It was...
It was... It was...
Like you said. It was just us,
and it was really different.
Something we've never done before.
Something new.
I'm going to ask you to take a Ieap
of faith and try something.
It is most Iikely way out
of your comfort zone.
Try to think of it in terms of...
Remember the metaphor of a nose breaking?
It's the nose.
(SHUSHING)
Well, you can't break a
nose slowly, can you?
(MEN SPEAKING FRENCH ONSCREEN)
with the popcorn popper.
Oh.
(COUGHS)
Thank you.
I don't see why you can't tell
me what you're planning on.
Because he said it was fine this way.
It just makes me uncomfortable not to know
what I'm going to be asked to do.
When it's your turn, you
can do what you want.
What if we don't do the exercise again?
We're moving at a rapid clip here. Okay.
It's your ball game.
I'll tell you one thing.
You would never get me into a French
movie if we were at home.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
(ARNOLD LAUGHING)
This is pretty good.
Oh.
Sorry.
(UNZIPPING)
(KAY EXHALES)
(CHUCKLING)
(GROANS)
I'm sorry, I can't see!
You just need to take it easy.
Watch it with the teeth!
I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't mean...
It's all right.
I can't see.
Oh, God. (SIGHS)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
Hey, you can hurt someone!
(SOBBING) I'm so sorry! I can't do this.
Kay. Kay. Kay.
Kay, it's okay.
It's not okay!
It's not okay.
(SIGHS)
Kay, Iisten.
Kay, this is not a big deal.
I should...
I'm not good at anything.
There's not anything to be good at!
I don't know how to be good at anything.
Listen, wait. I'm not sexy!
Wait. Yes, you are very...
What? What? Yes, what?
Maybe you just don't have...
Maybe there's just certain things
you're not experienced at.
Kay!
I must have Iooked so stupid!
But how did you feel?
Like a fake.
I'm just not... I'm...
I just can't do that.
Well, the whole situation
was just dangerous,
with those cup holders, and
and back and forth and the cramped space,
the concrete floor, those people
everywhere. (GROANS)
That's not me.
I just can't be a person who commits
an illegal act in a movie theater.
It's just... Is that really
who I have to be?
It's not about being a sex object.
It's about pleasing the man you Iove.
Well, I don't even know how to do that!
Ultimately, I think you
have to ask yourself,
to me than my pride?"
Oh, yeah. I mean...
Yes.
Kay's putting it all on the Iine here.
What are you putting on the Iine?
Everything.
He is everything.
But I'm really Ionely.
And I think
to be with somebody and not
really with him is...
Ionely if I were alone.
Do you want to be alone? No!
I don't know.
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