Knight of Cups Page #2

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- I know a guy.

- I know a guy...

- like future space.

- You're at a party, it's alright.

You know who'd be hot?

Cleopatra.

If her nose had been this much shorter,

it would've changed the world.

The Pearl.

Somewhere in the sea.

A chaos.

Hungry.

Longing for something other...

without knowing what it is.

What about pink?

Do you like pink?

- I love the company of women.

- It's pretty. Did it lake long?

It seemed they knew something.

Some men don't like pink.

- But closer.

- Now you tell me something.

To the mystery.

Treat this world as it deserves.

There are no principles...

just circumstances.

Nobody's home.

Smoke machines in an empty sea.

I got women in Tennessee.

What can run but never walk,

some word have I found but never talk.

Gonna take me out to see...

Ge! up.

Find it.

There's a ketamine party we're having

next week. Have you ever heard of that?

You're here for 20 seconds and then,

wham, you're out. You're in another room.

Your wife. You're in another one.

You oughtta do that.

Have you been to Sarajevo?

I have prayed, man,

for God to take my arm, take both arms.

I felt so useless.

What's your name?

Dear friend.

I wonder where I was in all that time.

A sleepwalker.

In love with the world,

in love with love.

Mum The world's a swamp.

You have to fly over it.

Fly...

High up...

where everything is just...

a speck.

You changed.

The world absorbed you.

More and more.

I regret that it turned out the way it did.

You always wanted to get away.

I wanted a mate.

I couldn't have you.

Just didn't wanna be alone.

Are you sorry that you brought me here?

Are you sorry you came?

Do you remember how happy we were?

Different these days.

What's going on with you?

You used to sing in the morning

coming down the stairs.

I meant to make you happy.

I wanted nothing else.

But then you began to be angry with me...

just for little things.

I don't wanna accuse you,

bu! you turned more unkind toward me.

Almost cruel.

Just don't threaten me with leaving, okay?

Just do what you wanna do!

Just go!

Stay.

I want you.

Hold you.

Have you.

Mine.

Are you sorry

we didn't have babies?

I am.

Got started so late.

You wanted me to help you

through the dangers of a young man's life.

Ambition.

Fear.

When was the last time

you took these boots off?

I think you were afraid

of going astray.

I couldn't help you stay on the right path.

Your head was turned

in the wrong direction.

Can you move all your fingers?

Yeah, they look a little bit bruised.

You never really wanted

to be totally inside our marriage.

Nor outside it, either.

You were sincere in the promises you made.

Still... they didn't come from your heart.

I was afraid when I was young.

Afraid of life.

Who pays for it.

I'm sorry you had to pay as well.

My hope.

You gave me peace.

You gave me what the world can't give.

Mercy.

Love.

Joy.

All else is cloud.

Mist.

Be with me.

Always.

You 're still the love of my life.

Should I tell you that?

Drinking is bad.

Bu! feelings are worse.

Sober girls are the worst,

but so are really drunk ones.

The sweet spot is one xanie,

four white wines.

If you're not first in line,

you're smelling somebody else's brown eye.

Balls deep.

Living my life is like

playing Call oi Duty on easy.

I just go around and f*** sh*t up.

Why don't we take

"yes" for an answer.

Let me tell you about you.

You worked long and hard

to get to this moment.

Mountain air.

Freedom.

What are you gonna do?

Crawl back down because

you don't like the altitude?

You have an incomparable opportunity.

I told you about you.

Now let me tell you about me.

I wanna make you rich.

Is there anyone you wanna sit

in a room with?

Is there anyone you wanna know?

You wanna climb your stairs, or theirs?

Never get your shot.

Your time on Earth.

AH you need to do is say yes.

Nod.

Wink.

Where else will you go?

It'll be the same there.

Don't get your head

too far up your own ass.

Once people envied

and respected me.

They called me in.

Give me your ID's.

Give me your...

give me your pass to open the doors.

They have a checklist.

They didn't count the pros

and cons...

I gave my life up for you kids.

It wasn't a noble sacrifice.

It was what we were supposed to do.

It was the way I was raised.

Try starving once! I've tried it.

I've done it!

Now ifs all over. Now it's leaving me.

Now it's going away from me.

You think when you reach a

certain age things will start making sense.

Then you find out you're

just as last as you were before.

I suppose that's what damnation is.

The pieces of your life

never to some together.

Just splashed out there.

His goods are in peace. Bu! when

a stranger than he shall came upon you...

This was a vision,

nice and

clear as a mountain stream.

The mind revealing itself to itself.

In my vision

I was on the verandah of a vast estate,

a palazzo of some fantastic proportion.

There seemed to emanate from it a light

from within this gleaming, radiant marble.

That's good, that's good.

Tuck.

Relax your mouth.

Who is responsible for this clothing?

Who is it?

- Can you step out of the wind?

- Stop smiling.

And don't move too fast.

They didn't take eighty.

Doesn't matter.

I had a dream.

Don't stare at me like this.

I meta woman from another world.

I was taken up above the earth.

I shook with fear.

Wonder.

Lean into her.

Put your breasts against her back.

Don't look sweet. Don't look scared.

You like this, Helen.

Who are you?

Look into the camera. F***ing make

ii hard. You're a dirty, f***ing b*tch.

Work those muscles. You're a 1975 housewife

who takes steroids and fucks girls.

I travel.

A wanderer.

A stranger.

Like you.

Stop, take your hands off your hip.

Hit her hard, pop.

I keep thinking

I can make a new start.

Helen?

Two weeks.

Can you swim?

Higher.

Is this a friendship we have?

I don't wanna wreak havoc

in men's lives anymore.

Oh life.

What do you want from me?

To weave a spell over you?

To make you dream?

Dreams are nice.

But you can't Jive in them.

There's somewhere else

we needle get to.

I know it.

It comes to me now.

How tenderly you touched my face...

when you were four years old.

And I'd bounce you on my knee.

So much I was given.

So much I left behind.

Remember.

The pearl.

Whispering.

Beckoning.

Each man,

each woman.

A guide.

A god.

except I got better

math and science scores...

You live in exile.

Stranger in a strange land.

A Pilgrim.

A knight.

Find your way...

from darkness...

to fight.

You wanna give him a high-five?

Thank you.

- How long will you be here?

- A week, Sara's got folks here.

Have you been out here before?

You told me

that sometimes you felt like a spy.

Always had to pretend.

You were afraid.

You would hide behind

the rocking chair before he came home

and you'd get real stiff.

I hope you have children.

You're always wondering, are they too cold,

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