Mecava Page #5

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What do you have against me?

That you are

neediness,

poverty.

That you have to go to others

for payment so you could

smoke one cigarette.

That you need to go to Slavonija

and excruciate yourself

just so you could

buy your wife shoes.

That you will have to

sell cows and sheep,

take milk from your children's mouth

so you could pay tax.

That you are sh*t.

Like all of us!

That's why I won't give you Masha.

She will have anything that

her heart wants with Ivan.

You heard it now.

And now you go.

Goodbye.

Even if you would let her choose,

she can't leave me.

What, do I tie her?

Maybe she is tied.

What did you say?

There is nothing more to hide.

It's not the girls fault.

I'm the guilty one. Not her.

But now it's over and...

...and she can't go with Ivan.

She can go only with me.

Son of a b*tch!

I will strangle you!

I will strangle you!

- Jole let me go! Jole...

...let go!

- I will kill you.

Son of a b*tch!

I will kill him!

- No!

Dear father no, no!

Let him go.

Father let him go.

I will go with Ivan.

I will go,

I swear on God... I will go.

I will go...

Perelja?

Perelja.

My Perelja!

Mom, water!

Fast, water.

Perelja, my life.

My everything in this world, God...

My only God, bring him back.

I swear to you,

I will go with Ivan.

I will go with Ivan...

Masha.

Get ready.

You should go meet Ivan.

Son, we came home! Son!

Did you make it girls?

- We did.

Which one of you is my Anka?

Have you forgotten me?

I did crossed the ocean but America

is full of old ladies like this.

Mom?

- Son. My son!

Are you my bride?

- Yes. Yes she is.

Really pretty.

Eh, what is life.

When I went to America

my Anka looked like this.

Left a girl, found an old lady.

Ivan, leave your mother alone.

Masha is here.

Why did I do all this...

Years spent in what...

How did I suffer.

Just now when I saw you,

now I undertsand that

life passed.

Like wind.

Why did I run around that America.

God damn it.

And sank it.

Why do we need all this

when life passed.

We are in grave.

You forgot you have a son.

He doesn't need to go to America

again. You earned for him.

And he will return this to you.

He will give you grandchildren.

You are right.

Right.

If life slipped away for us,

we will settle that with Ivan.

Yes. And Masha...

... a real beauty.

Lucky you, spring came

so it's not difficult to bathe.

It's worst to bathe

when it's cold.

Even if it was black winter

Ivan will warm her up.

Let's go!

Let's go!

Hey you?

Come here!

Who are you?

Perelja Zdunich.

Why aren't you in the

wedding feast?

I'm just passing through.

I'm going out for work.

- In America?

No. In Slavonija.

Go.

Go, leave, go.

Wait.

You will work when you give birth,

don't worry. But first, give birth.

The two of us will carry it.

In America it's like this.

The whole modern world

takes a pregnant woman to the doctor.

Come, you have nothing

to be afraid or ashamed of, go in.

Come, go in.

SHOP AND TAVERN:

owner Marko Lulich

Good evening.

Oh, good evening.

Go in.

Go in Friends.

Look at all those girls and boys.

Come sit, sit.

We only came to see what is

with Masha? - They'll be here soon.

I guees they will fled from rain.

Why did Ivan take Masha to

see a doctor, what's with her?

Today it's modern for a

pregnant woman to check up.

It's not like in the old times.

Even today I wouldn't take my

clothess off in front of a doctor.

What is it?

Nothing.

Nothing when you can.

When you have to.

- Have to.

In America a pregnant woman

goes to the doctor.

In America that's the way you

know who succeeded in life.

If you can pay the doctor

it means you have enough money.

Wanting to say,

when you are poor it's all the same.

If you are in America or Lika,

you can't get sick.

This paraffin lamp

shines like an electric one.

At our houses those shimmering lamps

simmer so much that you hit wife's bed.

So you don't make a mistake

and lay with young sister in law.

Bite your tongue.

Toma what are you doing on parties?

You're not a bachelor.

I'm a widower.

In some way it's the same.

I also don't have at home

what bachelors have.

May God forgive you, friend

we should go to tavern.

Where are you going?

Stop. Leave that, leave that!

He would drink devil himself.

Are there parties in America?

There's no time for parties.

And how do people have fun there?

Here's Toma, ask him.

He's never been to America.

But he knows how to talk about it

better than anyone who lived there.

Is that true Toma?

- It's not the same to live or tell.

Look, a cow gives milk, has udder

but doesn't know how to make cheese.

But then where do our countrymen

have fun there?

Our countrymen go there

to work and save money.

They don't have

so much fun, it's expensive.

Now and then someone takes

a risk and goes to saloon.

And that is unforgetable

for anyone.

What is a saloon?

I can't say it in front

of people. - Do tell.

There are women here.

- We are not like we used to be.

As you can see today women

here also go to doctors.

Believe it or not,

near the coal mine

there was a little town.

And in it a bar.

Something like a tavern but

better decorated and bigger.

And so many people in it

like bees in a beehive.

Is that right, Jole?

To the word.

People inside like in a station.

One going in, one out.

Go on, go on.

And inside girls my God,

as beautiful as they can be.

And they walk

across the bar like this...

...but, and they tease people

like this.

And they toss some word

to everyone and joke-e...

And they

did to us too, to us.

But we didn't understand them.

- When you look at them it's like

angels descending from the sky,

and you just wait for them

to fly again. - Yes.

Angels indeed, just that they

don't have wings.

What do they do?

Ugh... with nothing.

They walk and have fun.

Saloons are behind that bar.

Saloons, it's like rooms.

But decorated as beautiful

as they can be.

When you sit in an armchair

you sink in up to the throat.

It's softer than any seared clover.

And there is also a bed.

There's a bed in the saloon, too

so you can lay down a little bit.

And you pay on the counter in

the bar, 7 dollars...

Five...

Seven, Jole.

Five.

Yes, five dollars.

And you won't believe me,

so help me Jole.

Choose anyone you want,

take her to the saloon

and take her as you would

take your lawfully one.

To the word.

- Can it be?

It can!

That is given there to the people

just like any other things.

And, you choose who you want?

What do you think?

It's not like here.

Your father picks one for you and

then do her your whole life.

That's America my Bajko,

saloons, beauty.

If I weren't there I wouldn't

believe it neither.

Quiet uncle, if aunt hears you...

- Oh shut up.

Would our wives believe in that

angels would lie with ones like us.

My God, what is this now?

You whore!

Whore! Whore!

Here you go!

Ivane my child, don't do it.

Don't do it!

- Let him hit her!

What did she do to you, Ivan?!

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