MTTH: Buying a watch
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:28 pm
The music continues from the previous segment in Smithie's house, so this seems to be one block of the movie, not separate ones. We see a lampshade (which I don't identify), then a slow pan up a painting of a pregnant angel reaching up for doves but whose foot has been scratched, then we see a pool with torches around it and the interior of what seems to be a somewhat "eastern" looking temple. People are wandering around like zombies and some are dancing mechanically in another room.
No characters are identified so I'll use the initials of the actors to indicate who is speaking, G for Gruszka and M for Majchzrzak. I can't tell exactly everything that is said because of the accents so I'll indicate that by (?).
M. is sitting on the floor with a zombie woman opposite him not speaking; the impression is that he is controlling her with his thoughts. As she leaves we see G. looking around, zombie couples watch her approach M. with pained but helpless expressions. She sits on the floor facing M who is slouching against a wall.
M. (says something in Polish)
G. What?
M. (more Polish)
G. You're speaking ... Polish.
M. (more Polish)
G. I don't understand.
M. (says something, maybe it means, "Are you Polish?")
G. I don't ... speak it.
M. You want to buy a watch? (opens his coat to show many watches inside.)
G. I have heard about them.
M. What did you hear?
G. That they are magic.
M. Magic!
G. Yes and that they bring you some good luck. Do they?
M. They tell time!
G. What else?
M. What more do you want from a watch?
G. I already have a watch that tells time.
M. So what more do you want?
G. I want ...
M. Yeah?
G. I heard that they bring good luck.
M. Only if you give something. No?
G. What? Money?
M. Yeah! They cost twenty-five dollars!
G. And this is it? (?)
M. No! You hold my hand.
G. I don't understand.
M. I'm speaking English. (?)
G. Hold your hand I mean....
M. You give me twenty-five dollars. you hold my hand for ... two seconds!
G. And then?
M. Then you'll have good luck.
G. Real good luck?
M. Yes. I will look over you.
G. What?
M. Don't you understand?
G. I want to have some good luck. Things are not going so good. But ... no it's just, uh, crazy to be thinking a watch can bring good luck. And you say you'll look over me ... it's just pooping me out?. (?) (Old expression meaning "making me tired".) What is this really?
M. You have heard something. What you heard has made you curious. Now you come here, you come here to me! Others have come to me. There hae been many others! I sell you a watch and you will have a change in what you call luck.
G. For the better?
M. Yeah!
G. Real good luck?
M. Yeah, it will be good luck! Who wants bad luck?
G. I want ... good luck.
M. Buy a watch from me.
G. You scare me (?) I think ... I think ... that ... I want to buy the watch.
M. It's your decision.
G. The others who bought the watches, what about them?
M. What about them! They have what they wanted! What about them....
G. What ... what do you want from me?
M. I want to hold your hand.
G. And, uh ... twenty-five dollars?
M. Nothing can happen unless you will it!
G. I am ... I forget (?)! Sell me a watch! Just sell me one of your lucky watches.
(She takes money out of her shoe and hands it to him. He holds out the watch on a little piece of cloth that seems to protect his hand from it. (Or maybe this relates to the silk, the "fabric of time".) As she reaches for it with the money, he grabs her hand, clutching it hard. He tightens his grip working up to her wrist. Then we see a close up of his face that looks just like one we have seen of Devon as Billy in one of the sex scenes. Then we see her face showing no will, as if her soul has been taken, she is a zombie. We see the painting again, a devil under a rock is reaching up with claws toward the angel's scratched foot. We see fire in the darkness and a damned soul covering his/her face with hands and rocking slowly who looks like a figure from near the bottom of Michelangelo's Last judgment. Then more fire and sparks. The music continues into the next scene: Mr. K.'s face in a very strange monolog sequence.)
No characters are identified so I'll use the initials of the actors to indicate who is speaking, G for Gruszka and M for Majchzrzak. I can't tell exactly everything that is said because of the accents so I'll indicate that by (?).
M. is sitting on the floor with a zombie woman opposite him not speaking; the impression is that he is controlling her with his thoughts. As she leaves we see G. looking around, zombie couples watch her approach M. with pained but helpless expressions. She sits on the floor facing M who is slouching against a wall.
M. (says something in Polish)
G. What?
M. (more Polish)
G. You're speaking ... Polish.
M. (more Polish)
G. I don't understand.
M. (says something, maybe it means, "Are you Polish?")
G. I don't ... speak it.
M. You want to buy a watch? (opens his coat to show many watches inside.)
G. I have heard about them.
M. What did you hear?
G. That they are magic.
M. Magic!
G. Yes and that they bring you some good luck. Do they?
M. They tell time!
G. What else?
M. What more do you want from a watch?
G. I already have a watch that tells time.
M. So what more do you want?
G. I want ...
M. Yeah?
G. I heard that they bring good luck.
M. Only if you give something. No?
G. What? Money?
M. Yeah! They cost twenty-five dollars!
G. And this is it? (?)
M. No! You hold my hand.
G. I don't understand.
M. I'm speaking English. (?)
G. Hold your hand I mean....
M. You give me twenty-five dollars. you hold my hand for ... two seconds!
G. And then?
M. Then you'll have good luck.
G. Real good luck?
M. Yes. I will look over you.
G. What?
M. Don't you understand?
G. I want to have some good luck. Things are not going so good. But ... no it's just, uh, crazy to be thinking a watch can bring good luck. And you say you'll look over me ... it's just pooping me out?. (?) (Old expression meaning "making me tired".) What is this really?
M. You have heard something. What you heard has made you curious. Now you come here, you come here to me! Others have come to me. There hae been many others! I sell you a watch and you will have a change in what you call luck.
G. For the better?
M. Yeah!
G. Real good luck?
M. Yeah, it will be good luck! Who wants bad luck?
G. I want ... good luck.
M. Buy a watch from me.
G. You scare me (?) I think ... I think ... that ... I want to buy the watch.
M. It's your decision.
G. The others who bought the watches, what about them?
M. What about them! They have what they wanted! What about them....
G. What ... what do you want from me?
M. I want to hold your hand.
G. And, uh ... twenty-five dollars?
M. Nothing can happen unless you will it!
G. I am ... I forget (?)! Sell me a watch! Just sell me one of your lucky watches.
(She takes money out of her shoe and hands it to him. He holds out the watch on a little piece of cloth that seems to protect his hand from it. (Or maybe this relates to the silk, the "fabric of time".) As she reaches for it with the money, he grabs her hand, clutching it hard. He tightens his grip working up to her wrist. Then we see a close up of his face that looks just like one we have seen of Devon as Billy in one of the sex scenes. Then we see her face showing no will, as if her soul has been taken, she is a zombie. We see the painting again, a devil under a rock is reaching up with claws toward the angel's scratched foot. We see fire in the darkness and a damned soul covering his/her face with hands and rocking slowly who looks like a figure from near the bottom of Michelangelo's Last judgment. Then more fire and sparks. The music continues into the next scene: Mr. K.'s face in a very strange monolog sequence.)