Wetherby
- R
- Year:
- 1985
- 102 min
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Nixon? Yes.
You remember?
Of course I remember.
That's funny
how many people forget.
It wasn't so long ago.
Ten years.
What was happening
He was a distinguished
member of my own profession.
What, liar?
No, not liar.
Solicitor.
Well, lawyer.
He trained as a lawyer.
Liar or lawyer.
Is there a difference?
I wonder, have we got
time for another drink?
Wouldn't it be marvelous
Right now!
You just can't help it.
Oh, I can't go on.
Oh, Stanley.
Oh, we've lived
in this town for too long.
Aye.
time, gentlemen, please.
I'll tell you
Shouldn't you be getting
back to school?
No. No, listen.
I'll tell you the one story
about Nixon. All right?
When he first met pat,
she didn't like him very much.
So, after a bit, she said she
didn't want to see him anymore.
"Well," he said,
"it breaks my heart, pat.
I'll only stop seeing you on one condition".
"What's that?" she said.
"that I can always
be the chauffeur".
When she went out with men, say,
to the cinema, he'd drive them.
He'd drive them
all the way to the cinema.
They'd go in, her and her date,
and he'd wait outside.
He'd wait outside
during the whole film.
With a packet of popcorn
And then they'd come out,
and he'd drive them home.
I ask you, what does
that tell you about Nixon?
Jean, I ask you, what does
that tell you about pat?
If you want
to be loved in life,
There's no use
in having opinions.
I think you're right.
People who get loved are easy.
Easy to get along with.
Jean.
Have we lost the corkscrew?
I can't do the bloody thing!
There's a new girl
at work, at the library.
The sort of girl
men fall for. Vacant.
Cool?
Yeah, distant.
That's right.
She doesn't really
have a personality.
She just has a way
of suggesting to men
That she'll be whatever
they want her to be.
Not a person.
Not a real person.
What's she done, this
girl? Well, I'll tell you...
Just being this thing you object
to, or has she done anything wrong?
She exists.
She's young?
Yes, if you like.
She's young. So w-
It's an offense.
But there's no her!
I look at the young,
truly, and I'm mystified.
They want nothing. They need
nothing. They have no ambition.
Get married,
have children, get a mortgage.
of human evolution.
Brontosaurus,
tyrannosaurus, man.
And the sum ambition?
Two up, two down in
the west riding of Yorkshire
On a custom-built
estate of brick and glass.
That's not right. Is it?
Well, can anyone tell me?
She's young. That's all
you're saying. She's young.
I think it's fixed.
Thank you.
A slate fell off
in the middle of the night.
I was frightened to go up.
It's all right.
Shall we go down?
I knew you'd say that.
I knew you would.
Lethal.
It wasn't
heath Phelps.
It was!
No, no, no.
It was. Don't you remember
the size of the hailstones?
There weren't any hailstones,
Stanley. Don't be ridiculous.
Yes, it was! It was pissing
with rain! Ah, coffee.
Whether our faces show.
This is the question.
We read a face.
We look into a face.
Into that face all sorts
Mary here.
Or John.
John's got a sly face.
he has, too.
He has got a sly face.
He's got sly features.
Is John a sly boy?
he's sly, all right.
Right.
Do we become
the way we look?
Or do we look
the way we really are?
"if thou hast eyes to see..."
It's about the play.
Will you be needing me?
I'll be needing you, all right.
Will you do it? I should think so.
Good day, miss.
See you.
Miss Travers,
I was wondering,
Do you have
time for a chat?
Miss Travers, do you
think there's any point
In my going on
in the sixth form?
Of course. Don't be silly.
What makes you say that?
It's just that everyone
seems to end up unemployed.
Not everyone.
But, um, I do
know what you mean.
You get a university degree,
like in French. Then what?
Maybe you get to be a secretary,
and that's if you're lucky.
Honestly, I've really
thought about it,
And I don't really think
it's worth it, you see.
That's not what
education is, though, Suzie.
If you're thinking, "I must
use education for a career,"
Then you're already thinking of
education... In the wrong way.
Education...
Is a thing in itself.
It's a way of
fulfilling your potential,
Looking for ways
Ways which,
if you're lucky,
Will help not just your career,
but your whole life.
What ways?
Well...
Ways of being
more ordered, I suppose,
Of having more discipline
in the way you think.
Learning not
to rush into things.
Do you think
uneducated people do that?
Well, I don't. No.
Not necessarily.
I mean...
Sometimes.
Are they inferior for
not knowing how to think?
No. Of course not.
But if you have something-
What you call a way of
thinking- which they don't,
Surely you're saying
you're superior.
No, Suzie.
I wouldn't say that.
What, then?
Different.
Better or worse?
I brought you some pheasants.
Am I disturbing you?
Well, I'll make some tea.
I love the slow evenings,
It doesn't get dark until 8:00.
Are you staying
long with Marcie?
No.
I don't know Marcie.
What?
But you said...
What?
When you came to dinner.
I met her on the doorstep.
I thought...
Who invited you?
No one.
Are you saying...
it's not possible.
Are you saying...
I met Marcie on the doorstep.
I introduced myself.
I thought you came with her.
No.
It's not possible.
Then I said John Morgan,
if you remember.
Yes.
And you shook my hand.
Come on.
Come in, come in.
The more, the merrier.
And you accepted me.
I'll lay
an extra place.
Thank you.
It's absurd. It's impossible.
No.
no!
No!
Yes! Yes!
No.
Yes!
Don't you mean yes?
I mean yes! Yes!
Let me see.
Let me look at you.
You're not meant to.
I know.
Do you fly these?
Not a chance.
Engine fitters
don't get to fly.
get to go on a flying course.
Longer, maybe,
and then not one of these.
Really? They take the troops
out in these... To the jungle.
Oh!
To the war.
You come down seven times
before you get to Malaya.
It takes over a week.
By the time you get there, you know
you've been traveling. I'm sure.
Did you realize you might
have to fight when you joined?
You're an airman,
you want to fly.
You're a soldier,
you want to fight.
Not much point else.
No.
I'll walk you home.
Happen if I were killed,
I'd still say fine.
I joined to fight.
Didn't have to.
Could just have
done national service,
Tramped the parade ground.
We're not even at war.
Well, not properly at war.
Half a war.
Malaya's half a war.
But I liked the idea.
Is your mum in bed?
I think so.
If she ever asks,
we saw the third man.
Jean?
Still awake?
Yes. How was it?
Good.
Orson Wells killed
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