Lilith
- Year:
- 1964
- 114 min
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Hi.
Oh, thank you.
Can I help you?
Can you tell me where
I can find a Miss Brice?
That's me.
Well, I'm Vincent Bruce.
Please come in.
Won't you sit down?
- Would you like some coffee?
- Yeah, thank you.
- How do you take it?
- Black.
Well, we can begin either with your
telling me all about yourself...
...or my telling you all about us.
I'd better tell you about me. You may
not want to bother with the rest of it.
All right.
There's not really very much to tell.
I've been out of the Army for a while.
that I was really interested in.
You live here in Stonemont,
don't you?
I've lived here all my life...
...and I was always kind of curious
about this place.
Why?
I don't know. I guess I just was.
Are you interested in a permanent job
or just some sort of summer work?
No, I mean a permanent job.
I want to do some kind of work where
I can be of direct help to people.
And that's why I decided
to come here.
Get out of here.
Get out of here.
Vincent, I'd like you
to meet Mr. Polakis.
- Hello.
- This is Mr. Bruce.
It's not as disturbing
on this floor, is it?
Somehow insanity
seems a lot less sinister...
...to watch in a man than in a woman,
doesn't it?
I thought it best
to show you the worst first.
Young man.
- Are you a new patient?
- No, I'm just a visitor.
I may go to work here.
Tell me, have you read
Dostoyevsky?
I've read Crime and Punishment,
and Brothers Karamazov.
Oh, have you?
Tell me, do you believe it?
Do you believe that if there is no God,
there can be no such thing as virtue?
No.
- Do you?
- No.
I do hope you'll come and work here.
We shall be very great friends.
I hope so.
You handled that very well.
- Have you done a lot of reading?
- Some.
When you're in the Army,
you've got nothing but time.
It's a lot different
from a state institution, huh?
from very wealthy families.
They pay several thousand dollars
a month to keep them here.
Hi, Miss Brice.
Are you going to have lunch now?
It's a nice day, isn't it, Miss Brice?
I hope you have a nice lunch,
Miss Brice.
You have a very nice-looking friend.
It certainly is a nice day,
isn't it, Miss Brice?
Yes, Miss Glassman. It's a lovely day.
Of course, at first you'll be nothing
but an orderly, more or less.
It's long hours, terrible pay.
It's dirty, often degrading,
sometimes dangerous.
Do you know why you work here?
- Maybe I shouldn't ask you that.
- No, no. That's all right.
It's something that all of us
who work here have to ask ourselves.
And we're better off
if we can answer it...
...as honestly and as thoroughly
as possible.
I hope you will too.
Miss Brice.
Think about it this evening.
If you don't change your mind,
I'll see you in the morning.
- Hi.
- How are you?
- I'm fine. How are you?
- Fine.
- I heard you were back.
- I've been back for a while.
I'm glad. They told me
you were wounded or something.
Yeah, or something.
- Gee, you look good.
- Thanks. So do you.
Did you get my letter?
- How is your husband?
- He's very well, thanks.
He's working with the electric
...hoping to be office manager
in the fall.
- Right here in town, huh?
- Yes.
All your letters never once mentioned
anything about us or our future.
- Didn't I?
- No.
understanding of a romantic nature...
There's my bus.
I hope you visit us sometime. I'd like
you to meet Norman, my husband.
- I will. I will.
- Bye.
I can have the job if I want it.
- Do you?
- Yeah.
- You've had no training.
- They'll train me.
I want the very best for you.
You know that, don't you, Vincent?
Nothing to be ashamed about
working in an insane asylum.
Nothing wrong
with curing sick people.
Or is there, Grandma?
I'm not hungry.
Vincent.
If your poor mother knew
about this job...
...I think she would be very happy.
This was their greatest moment...
... their moment of triumph...
... over the bodies
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You'll die.
She dies.
Everybody dies.
Fourth floor.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
You take the third.
Polakis and Levitz.
And watch Dostoyevsky.
He's on his fresh-blood kick.
- Vincent Bruce, Bob Clayfield.
- We met earlier.
Accompany him for the week, observe
the way he deals with the patients...
...learn the Lodge rules
and procedures...
...and become generally oriented
to the hospital.
Come in.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
I thought you'd like to meet Mr. Bruce.
He's a new OT.
- Mr. Bruce, Mrs. Meaghan.
- Hello.
How do you do, Mr. Bruce?
- Please sit down.
- Thank you.
It's such a lovely day outside, we
thought you might like to take a walk.
Yes, it is a lovely day.
It's very kind of you,
but I cannot leave the building.
As you know, I have many enemies.
It'll be perfectly safe. Today,
there are two of us to protect you.
That's very kind of you.
Perhaps another day.
- Does Mr. Bruce play gin rummy?
- Sure, I play gin.
for a while, if you have the time.
Good.
I'll be out in a little while.
- You wanna deal?
- Yes.
Cut, please.
She made it herself.
Quite remarkable, isn't it?
Stop playing.
I said, stop playing!
I understand you've restricted
I think that's monstrous.
It was a staff decision. Some
of the patients complained, I believe.
Monstrous.
I don't feel like
playing cards anymore.
I'll be back in a minute.
Wanna play?
Yes.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Vincent.
Try to get her down here, will you?
Are you going on the picnic?
May I carry it?
- I don't know. May he, Mr. Bruce?
- Sure.
You're very perceptive.
I'm glad you came here.
- What nationality are you?
- I'm an American.
- No, I mean what descent are you?
- Mostly English, I guess.
Would you marry an English girl?
I mean, of English descent?
I don't know, I'm...
- Would you think I was Jewish?
Many think I am, but I'm Polish.
My grandfather was a priest.
I might get out of here soon. I'm
almost well. I might even get married.
Should I bring them back?
No. Stay where you are
untiI it lets up.
He says we can stay.
I never knew
...simply with grasses
and things of that kind.
They fade, but there are no colors
like them while they last.
I'd love to paint
or do anything like that.
How do you begin?
What is it that you do?
I don't do anything.
My hand just moves, and I follow it.
That's it.
Your hand moves, mine doesn't.
I can't trust my hands.
You must learn if you want them
to lead you to things you love.
No, I'm afraid I have
a scholar's mind, not an artist's.
It's a very different faculty,
you know.
You have the gift of tongues.
That's a great gift.
But it's nothing compared to you.
I've studied them. I know the grammar,
but you've invented one of your own.
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