The Unattainable Story Page #6

by many fine magicians.

Love has been proven

not to be logical.

Where is this

coming from?

I don't wanna say something

I'm gonna regret,

so I'm just gonna say this.

I love working with you,

I love being with you,

I...

Okay, forget it.

Let's just...

Let's just stop this

conversation right here,

'cause it's not

getting us anywhere.

Okay.

We just need this

to be a success.

You need it to be a success.

I need it to be a success,

so I can go on and do

the work that I wanna do.

Because right now you're

not doing what you wanna

be doing?

That's not what

I meant.

Can't we just

make this easier?

I know I will.

Time to go.

Okay, thank you, everybody.

Thank you.

All right. Bye.

You are wonderful.

Oh, thank you.

It's good to see you.

Thank you.

It's gonna be beautiful.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

I have been reading up

on Alma.

And this woman makes

Pamela Harriman and Cleopatra

sound like absolute amateur

femmes fatales.

She is the smart man's

femme fatale.

Kokoshka, Gropius, Klimt...

Does it remind you

of anyone?

Oh, yeah.

No direct parallels.

I remember.

The first day we met.

You're the expert, so...

Am I a Mahler or

a Gropius?

[laughs]

-You're in a different realm.

-Okay.

Drama and narrative arts.

They involve

music and visuals,

but this is so much more about

interaction.

What?

Is the blues coming

to an end?

What do you mean?

Nothing.

How's your drink?

It's okay.

I'll get you another one.

Cheer up.

Things are going well.

You have a play.

People who've seen

bits of it like it.

Who knows...

What?

I was thinking about

the ending.

Maybe we do something

a little different.

No, Alma does not get

what she wants.

And over the centuries,

we've all suffered

that same experience.

Really?

It's the hope.

The potential

of what can be.

I'll be right back.

[piano playing]

[Skene] I was so close.

At times, I was so confident...

And then I started

to question that

I may be just a character

in the story.

A piece of her puzzle as

she mines our relationship

looking for inspirations.

[actor as Mahler] You know

what is best in music is

not to be found in the notes.

[actress as Alma] I think I've

heard you mention that before.

[Mahler] Actually,

this symphony is

different from what

I usually write.

I'm not sure why

exactly.

It's strange, isn't it,

how people are put off

by art or music that

they think expresses

difficulty

when that's the only root

to any emotion with meaning?

Anyway...

the Viennese are not that

comfortable with the whole

concept of emotions,

so why waste

our time worrying?

The tenth, the tenth...

-I have to do it, Alma.

-Yes, of course.

Let's put all of us

into your work.

That's all that counts,

isn't it?

Alma, calm down.

I have no choice,

and you know that.

Of course.

[Skene] Opening night.

Alma, don't go.

You just told me to.

I need to work,

but not with you

turning on me because of it.

[Skene] What did I miss?

People may always believe

they know us better than we do

without looking at what

that really means.

Do you really think

you can change your future,

my future,

your life...

with a symphony?

[David]

These obsessions here,

these obsessions are

gonna make you

end up alone.

You get that?

You are going to

end up alone!

[Jacqueline]

Don't you think

I know that?

[Mahler]

And why is that wrong?

It is all I have

to make sense

of any of this.

[Alma] By all means...

compose something

about it.

[Skene] Gustav and Alma

become a shadow of the play,

and a memory written

by the critics.

I'm supposed to be your

happy ending, baby.

You know what?

Write a new ending.

[solemn instrumental music]

[Skene] So Alma goes off

with the director.

But hadn't Jacqueline

written that idea?

I was so wrapped up

in my opening night

that I failed to notice that

neither Peter nor David

showed up at the theater.

If they existed,

where are they?

There she goes,

leaving with her own story

that I will never

fully tell.

I thought that this play

was about a life that

happened to Jacqueline.

Little did I know

it was Jacqueline that

was happening to life.

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