Puccini for Beginners Page #7

I went a little bit over the deep end.

Please, tell me you'll marry me,

I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Allegra, I'm serious. I love you

with all my heart and soul.

Red! Red! Red!

- Molly.

- I'm sorry.

- Philip, what are you doing here?

- Jeff and I went to college together.

Can I just have Allegra

for a quick sec...

Come here.

Whatever you do,

do NOT go into the kitchen.

He met someone else. He met some

woman-saint and he wants to marry her.

We were together for six years,

and in five minutes he wants

to marry someone else.

I can't believe it!

I mean, I don't even want to

marry him, but it's a principle!

What did you tell him Grace?

I told him that I'm a lesbian now.

After meeting you,

I'm a whole new person.

- Grace, get a hold of yourself!

- I quit my job.

I wanna be a glass blower.

And I'm gonna get a dog.

I'll be right back. Wait.

Allegra!

Why is she wearing a catering uniform?

She was so smug

about her new relationship

with this woman.

She was going on and on about it,

and I just...I felt so angry!

OK. Then, what happened?

She ran out of the restaurant.

- You ran after her?

- No, no.

You were with a woman who ran out of

a restaurant after an argument,

and you didn't run after her?

No! What was I supposed to do?

When a woman runs out of a restaurant,

that's your cue to get up and run after her.

- Whose side are you on, anyway?

- Not on anyone's side!

Allegra!

How do you know her?

That's my girlfriend.

Your what?!

Philip, I met Grace after I met you.

I had no idea you...

you two were ex's.

I had no idea...

I was gonna end up...

seeing both of you.

It got complicated,

and it was like...

being on a moving train

that...couldn't stop.

Some people wanna find someone...

they can grow old with.

I didn't understand that before now.

It makes total sense,

even if it takes

going through hell to get there.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I didn't mean...to hurt anyone...

The reason Freud thought

there were no coincidences

is because we're always

more aware than we think we are.

We think we just

run into someone but, in fact,

we might have seen him out of the

corner of our eye earlier that day.

We just didn't register it.

Once something lodges itself

in your unconscious

it's just there,

pleading to be realized.

So,

this was the last coincidence

I had with Philip and Grace.

It was also the last time

I ever saw them.

I never again left anything

in my life just to chance.

A poet once wrote:

"The Heart is the capital of the Mind"

"The Mind is a single State"

"The Heart and the Mind together make

A single Continent."

"A single Continent", it's just such a great

concept when you think about it.

Emily Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson?

- She wrote it.

- Are you sure?

Honey, if she says so,

you can take it to the bank.

Really?

I just get Emily Dickinson

confused with the other one

the one who stayed home all the time.

- Emily Dickinson.

- Emily Dickinson!

What about the Bront's, didn't the

Bront's stay home all the time too?

Hey, honey.

- Sorry I'm late.

- No, you're not late.

- I got you maccaroni and cheese.

- You're such a good girlfriend.

- So, how did it go today?

- I got ten pages down.

That's great!

Did you ever read any Emily Dickinson?

Al...you know I hate poetry.

Yeah...yeah.

I love that about you.

I love you. I love you totally.

Good. I love you too, and...

there's tons of laundry to do later

and I'm not doing it alone, so...

What do you say we stay in tonight

and watch an old movie?

SUBTITLES by LouCid

Rate this script:5.0 / 1 vote