Les passagers Page #3

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You don't catch it like that.

You're all alike.

Make up your mind.

You can't sleep with your girl

and expect us just to hold hands.

l know what you want, but still...

What's our daily lot?

Fear, distrust of others.

And then AIDS comes

and complicates things.

Why are homosexuals the hardest hit?

You really are naive.

Let's say a guy has one girl a week.

A fellow who prefers guys

can have one a day.

Some even have several.

Nothing easier.

With a girl,

things are more complicated.

,

You have to take her out

Talk to her... a lot. It takes time.

With a guy,

you meet, get it on,

,

make love an hour, or 10 minutes

and separate.

Sex and love don't automatically mix.

Things are clearer.

If so many are contaminated,

it's a mere question of arithmetic.

Get it? Straight or gay,

the virus couldn't care less.

"Sexuality" has no prefix.

On TV they never explain

how the disease spreads.

Can you explain it?

Understand what Im saying?

Can u come tomorrow?.

No, not tomorrow.

Im at a movie.

- The day after?

What day is that? Wednesday... No.

Im at the gym.

ln the evening?

Okay.

But not before 10.

Have the door code?

10-45-B.

Avicenne Hospital.

l hope you're not a homosexual.

Ive nothing against them.

l have lots of homosexual friends.

But l have a special rapport

with them.

Im no fanatic.

l want to know, that's all.

l like women to be feminine

and men masculine.

You're masculine-looking.

You work out or something?

You have a girlfriend.

l have a wife.

Or rather, a companion.

Funny how desire flows

between men and women.

l asked you a stupid question.

Homosexuals don't exist.

Homosexuality exists.

Its even a scientific fact.

l have a friend who does research.

He's an anthropologist.

l help him out

,

because l work in the field

while he stays in his lab.

You see, sexuality...

You have to get involved.

l go out,

l meet people in the projects,

in hi-rise basements

It's a science.

It's sexology, it requires a hard-on.

lt's a science you study

from in the inside.

Homosexuality is odd.

It doesn't belong to homosexuals.

Anyone can practice homosexuality.

You don't need a label.

Homosexual desire is all around us.

If l had homosexual urges,

paradoxically, it would be

for a non-homosexual.

My wife also likes men masculine

and women feminine.

Too bad if it sounds conformist.

When you're open to experiences

like we are

you needn't look for femininity in men

and masculinity in women.

It doesn't make sense.

Nature distributed things like that,

you have to accept it.

l find you very attractive.

l can see people desiring you.

l don't want to have sex with you.

l want to see you

in an erotic situation.

With my wife, for instance.

Still...

something bothers me.

I have to admit it

l have a theory about

male homosexual behaviour.

l discovered a category of women

and a category of men

that are paradoxical :

f*ggot women and lesbian men.

My wife has masculine

homosexual tendencies.

That makes her a f*ggot.

What l mean is

when she has sex with' a man

she fantasises about being a man.

If l talk about a desire

to have sex with you,

it comes from her male

homosexual desire.

So l cruise for my wife.

My wife is a f*ggot.

Speaking to you,

l realise that more and more.

At the same time, you have...

lesbian men.

Lesbian men are people

,

who make love with women

thinking themselves a woman.

That makes them lesbians.

You may be a bit lesbian yourself,

without knowing it.

There's a wide range of possibilities.

You can have anything.

But nature is full of contradictions.

Nipples. The proof is in the nipple.

What's a male nipple?

What's a nipple for?

lt's for breast-feeding, milking a baby.

But for machos, it's something awful.

A less contradictory nature might

have made a nipple-less breast.

But no! Men have nipples.

ln any case,

the clitoris is a penis,

the ovaries are testicles.

It proves we're bisexual.

Bisexuality is a laugh, too.

lt's a gimmick.

"Bisexual" is meaningless.

By bisexuality,

you mean sexual open-mindedness.

Ideal open-mindedness

would be trisexuality.

Trisexuality :

masturbation, homosexuality,

heterosexuality.

ln the age of AIDS,

talk about masturbation

advocate learning masturbation,

and do away with the guilt

associated with it.

lt's stupid.

lt's an erotic technique

like hetero and homosexuality.

They're all equal.

Jerking off isn't inferior

to getting laid.

Freud used to say :

childhood - masturbation

adolescence - homosexuality,

adulthood - heterosexuality.

You can be an onanist

all your life. It's all right.

They're all equal.

You getting off?

How could you get taken in

by that story?

Because of all the hype.

I'd virtually forgotten the story.

You didn't see it when it came out.

You talk about it

as if it were an old movie.

l see now they talked it up

too much.

lt's not what The Mother

and the Whore was to the 70s.

Whose dumb idea was that?

l read it in several newspapers.

My senior students said

the same thing.

lt's nonsense! The film lacks

what gave Eustache's movie its value :

a real moral devoid of exhibitionism.

lt's crazy!

ln this age of prevention,

here's a guy, HIV-positive,

who has unprotected sex,

and everybody cheers!

What's that?

An apotheosis of

premeditated murder!

Aren't you appalled?

But finally the girl isn't contaminated.

So?. That's worse.

It prompts a**holes to do likewise.

"Who needs condoms : In this exemplary

film the girl stays clean."

You pinpointed the worst of it.

And the film's used

in anti-AIDS drives!

How wrong can you get?

We all foul up.

No one tries to understand.

This is an age of consensual slavey.

We keep a low profile.

We swallow what we're fed

mindlessly.

That goes for more than just movies.

This is nice county.

Recognise the setting

of L'Atalante?

Yep! Virtually unchanged.

When the low, heavy sky,

like a leaden hood

weighs on the mind

long pressed with care

When it embraces the horizon's curve

The light it pours is

as black as despair...

Things are so simple with you.

You need me, and Im here.

I'm afraid without you

and l call you.

You were everything for me

from the start.

Everything l dreamed of.

You know

all the dreams that never come true.

You believe in dreams coming true?.

With you, l do.

I'm sure of it.

I'm cold.

You're the little brother l never had.

l love you.

More than that.

lt's hard to say.

l love your smile,

the way you look at me.

lt's all new to me.

l bet you get any girl you want.

Not really.

l guess Im clumsy.

l think they intimidate me.

Me too?

You're different.

l hope it's always like this.

Always! What a funny word!

We say "always"

but it only lasts a while.

We only have good moments.

Why try to make them last?

lt must be possible.

Have confidence.

l so want to have confidence in you.

You're unlike the men Ive known.

Ill stay with you,

teach you to stop being afraid.

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