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Maggie's Plan Page #9
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- 2015
- 98 min
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- I want to help.
All right. Okay.
Lily, let's get your shoes on.
Oh, Justine, did you remember
your basketball uniform? I washed it.
It's folded!
Oh, the lunches are on the counter.
And it's quarter after,
so we're gonna be late.
- I can't find any of my socks.
- Just check the laundry basket.
- They're all dirty.
- Just wear them anyway.
Okay! We're good to go. Let's all go.
Uh...
- Maggie?
- Yes?
Just get all your stuff together
and I'll be there in a second.
Wait!
Paul, can you just climb on through
so we can get her in.
- Hi!
- Hi!
Is something burning?
No.
Hi, darling. Hi.
Hi.
- Thank God it's Friday.
- Oh, I know.
So I was thinking if we take
all the kids ice-skating,
then you can take Justine to that movie.
Because I think it's gonna scare Paul.
- No, it won't!
- Don't worry.
I'll take you and Lily to something else.
Why don't we see what's playing?
Ah!
Justine, where are the Band-Aids?
- Have you heard from John?
- I did.
He sold his car and he bought a motorcycle.
And he's taking us to the Giants on Sunday.
- Oh, for God's sake.
- Where is he living?
I don't know.
But I can ask him when we're in the stands.
- Justine, can you take Paul in to watch TV?
- Come on.
What is it?
I just think if you guys saw
each other again...
No, no. No more matchmaking ideas.
No more ideas, period.
You've had your thinking license revoked.
I'm not gonna get involved with
anybody's fate ever again. Not even my own.
I'm gonna become a completely passive,
non-interventional
Buddhist.
But I think that if you just saw him,
you guys just...
You have to let this go, Maggie.
This story has its own momentum,
apart from you. It always did.
I am so sick of being me.
You should really try the tapping.
- Try what?
- I went to this workshop on biofeedback.
It's amazing.
What you do is, you figure out what
the essential thing is you want to change.
And then you make a sort of a dictum.
Um, like, for you, for instance,
"I am not controlling,"
- if that is what you want to change.
- Yes, that's perfect.
- Okay, so "I am not controlling."
- I am not controlling.
- I am not controlling.
- I am not controlling.
You wanted to see me?
Yes. I wanted to return your book.
- And where shall I scatter these?
- Anywhere is fine.
I cannot believe, on top of everything else,
you burned my f***ing book.
I burned a copy of your book.
- You probably didn't even read it.
- Of course I read it.
That's why I burned it. You cannibalized
our marriage to write that story.
You didn't even bother to
fictionalize us in yours.
I don't write fiction.
Oh, you think you painted a precise
portrait of us in Bring Back the Geisha?
I cannot believe you're making me feel bad
about the sins of my unpublished manuscript
and you're glossing over
your actual lies and manipulation?
I'm not a liar. I never ever lie.
I lie now. I manipulated.
because I loved you so terribly much.
Maybe you could be flattered.
If you love me, why not just tell me?
You were married.
Georgette.
So you won't take responsibility
for the state of your life?
- You're just a victim of our plot?
- I'm not a victim.
I'm just a man who has f***ed
his whole life up, and now I'm looking
for an Airbnb to live in.
- So there's nothing more to say.
- Okay.
No other conversation. End it like that.
The reason your book doesn't work is
you put too much weight in the allegory.
You're trying to use
fiction to prove a thesis.
The text is crying out for
pure passages of economic theory.
Narrative blended with theory
is your specialty.
Make it a John Harding book.
It could be a phenomenon.
- I know it, John.
You just have to accept it'll be published by
Yale University Press, and not Scribner's.
Probably be shortlisted
for a Bateson Prize.
You might even win one.
Oh, f***.
- You did it again.
- What?
You know me better than I know me.
Sometimes I wish I didn't.
You look so good in this light.
I'll seek out these lighting conditions
whenever possible, in that case.
You look so nice.
I love that polka dot dress.
- Yeah, no!
- Not really.
- I think you'd be a great hockey player.
- Oh, look who it is.
Happy birthday, Lily!
Okay, have fun, all right? You got her?
Winter sports aren't really
your strong suit, are they?
It's not fair.
In skates I'm not even able to defend myself.
I'm gonna keep you on ice
for the rest of your life, in that case.
- Here we go, all right?
- Oh, no, no.
- We're gonna go fast.
- John! No!
Did it ever occur to you
this might have just happened anyway?
Even if you hadn't played Titania
and sprinkled fairy dust in their eyes?
- Of course it's occurred to me.
- Yeah.
if it was you or the hand of destiny.
I've decided to embrace
the mystery of the universe,
and stop bossing everybody
around so much.
Good luck with that, bossy pants.
He's gonna write a book about us one day,
and we are not gonna look good.
3,000, 100, 15,000.
What kind of 3-year-old loves
numbers that much?
- Was John into math? I know you weren't.
- Mmm-mmm.
I'm not sure.
Smile
A while
And give your face a rest, now
Smile
A while
And give your face a rest, now
Then, shake your hands
To the one you love the best, now
Then, shake your hand
To the one you love the best, now
What is to be
It must have to be, now
What is to be
It must have to be, now
Clap your hands
And move your feet
To the beat, now
Clap your hands
And groove to the beat, now
What is to be
It must have to be, now
What is to be
It must have to be, now
Clap your hands
And groove to the beat, now
Clap your hands
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