0:00:02 > 0:00:06This film contains some strong language and some scenes of a sexual nature.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52WOMEN SPEAK LOCAL LANGUAGE
0:01:01 > 0:01:03MAN: I haven't heard from my daughter.
0:01:03 > 0:01:09- WOMAN: Still living with the woman? - Yes, still a lesbian.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Still on the farm.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16- She thinks it's safer. - Nowhere's safe.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Too many people with nothing to do but cause trouble.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23How's work?
0:01:23 > 0:01:27They look through me when I speak, forget my name.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30There's no respect any more.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Have you missed me?
0:01:39 > 0:01:41I miss you all the time.
0:01:53 > 0:01:59I'm curious. How do you manage this life? Is there a husband?
0:02:02 > 0:02:03You better go now.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26I forgot to tell you, my mother's ill.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31I have to take care of her, so I won't be here next week.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Will I see you the Thursday after?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36I'm not sure. Why don't you ring the agency?
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Give me your number, I'll ring you direct.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41No. Ring the agency.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54"That had usurped upon a living thought
0:02:54 > 0:02:56"That never more could be."
0:02:59 > 0:03:04Why did Wordsworth use the unusual verb form 'usurp upon'?
0:03:04 > 0:03:09Because usurp upon means to 'intrude' or 'encroach upon'.
0:03:09 > 0:03:16"The clouds cleared, the peak was unveiled, and we grieved to see it."
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Why 'grieve'?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25WOMAN LAUGHS
0:03:28 > 0:03:30I already have a boyfriend.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52THUNDER RUMBLES
0:04:06 > 0:04:08THUNDER RUMBLES AND RAIN BEGINS TO FALL
0:04:08 > 0:04:10SQUEALING AND LAUGHTER
0:04:12 > 0:04:15My lunch is wet. Wait.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Ow!
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Are you all right?
0:04:35 > 0:04:36I'm fine.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Melanie, isn't it?
0:04:42 > 0:04:46My favourite season and time of day.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Do you live around here?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Across the line. I share a flat.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58I live nearby.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04May I invite you for a drink?
0:05:07 > 0:05:11OK. But I have to be back by 7:30.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14PIANO MUSIC
0:05:35 > 0:05:40What is the reason for taking a course in Romantic Poetry?
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- It's mainly for the atmosphere. - Are you enjoying the course?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45I'm not that crazy about Wordsworth.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Wordsworth has been one of my masters.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- Maybe he'll grow on me. - Maybe.
0:05:51 > 0:05:58But in my experience, poetry speaks to you at first sight or not at all.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00SWITCHES ON CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Like falling in love.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09What are your career plans?
0:06:09 > 0:06:13Stagecraft and design. I'm doing a diploma in theatre.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14- I see. - Yeah.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19You've got a lot of books on Byron. Didn't he die young?
0:06:19 > 0:06:23They all die young or dry up or...go mad.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- I must go. - Stay longer.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Why?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Because you ought to.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- Why ought I? - Why?
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43It's part of the bounty she brings into the world.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46She has a duty to share it.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49What if I already share it?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Then you should share it more widely.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58I must leave.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Shall I walk you home?
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- No. - Very well. Goodbye.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14GATE BUZZES
0:07:49 > 0:07:50PHONE RINGS
0:07:50 > 0:07:54- WOMAN: 'Hello.' - May I speak to Melanie, please?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57'Just a minute.'
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Is something the matter?
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Are you worried about the two of us?
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Maybe.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19No need.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22I won't let it go too far.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45PANTING
0:09:10 > 0:09:13RAIN FALLS
0:09:34 > 0:09:36I'll give you a ride home.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54I missed you yesterday in class.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Are you all right?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Did you get my carnations?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Is there something wrong?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Please, tell me.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- SHE SIGHS - Thanks.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Aren't you going to invite me in?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14I think my flatmate is home.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18- What about this evening? - I've got rehearsals.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Then, when do I see you again?
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Thanks.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33WOMAN: Could you do my hair like Oprah's?
0:10:33 > 0:10:36MAN: We don't want much now, do we, dearie?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Well, I'll go and make some magic chemical.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43But, meanwhile, can I get you ladies some coffee?
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- WOMAN: I'll have mine white, please. - I'll have mine black, please.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Well, that's easy to remember!
0:10:49 > 0:10:52I've come for the job you've advertised.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54So? What are you waiting for?
0:10:54 > 0:10:57There's the broom. Make yourself useful!
0:11:09 > 0:11:13WOMEN SCREAM
0:11:13 > 0:11:14WOMAN: No! No!
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Everything has to happen much quicker - a la Marx Brothers!
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Ryan, is this gadget gonna work? I want a loud bang and sparks.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Are the others gonna work? There's only one lamp blinking.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Melanie, don't pre-empt.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I want to see shock in your body language.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30You're coming across like a limp fish.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33DOOR BUZZES
0:11:34 > 0:11:37MUSIC PLAYS
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Not now. My cousin will be back!
0:12:59 > 0:13:01So, you're the professor, huh?
0:13:01 > 0:13:04- Melanie's told me about you. - Indeed. What has she told you?
0:13:04 > 0:13:08- That you fuck her. - That's enough. What do you want?
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Don't tell me that's enough!
0:13:09 > 0:13:11You can't do what you want when it suits you!
0:13:11 > 0:13:13It's time for you to leave.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Goodbye, Professor Chips.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Just you wait and see.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49As we saw last week,
0:13:49 > 0:13:52notoriety and scandal affected not only Byron's life,
0:13:52 > 0:13:57but also the way his poems were received by the public.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04"At times resign his own for others' good,
0:14:04 > 0:14:08"But not in pity, not because he ought,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11"But in some strange perversity of thought,
0:14:11 > 0:14:15"That sway'd him onward with a secret pride
0:14:15 > 0:14:19"To do what a few or none would do beside,
0:14:19 > 0:14:24"And this same impulse would, in tempting time,
0:14:24 > 0:14:28"Mislead his spirit equally to crime."
0:14:36 > 0:14:37So...
0:14:39 > 0:14:42What kind of creature is this Lucifer?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46MAN: He does what he feels like.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Doesn't care if it's good or bad, he just does it.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Exactly.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Good or bad, he just does it.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57He doesn't act on principles but on impulse,
0:14:57 > 0:15:02and the source of his impulses is dark to him.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Read a few lines further.
0:15:05 > 0:15:10"His madness was not of the head, but heart..."
0:15:12 > 0:15:15A mad heart.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18What is a mad heart?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Never mind.
0:15:26 > 0:15:31Note that we are not asked to condemn this being with a mad heart.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36On the contrary, we are invited to sympathise.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40For though he lives among us, he is not one of us.
0:15:40 > 0:15:45He is what he calls himself, a 'thing' - that is, a monster.
0:15:45 > 0:15:51Not possible to love and condemned to solitude.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04Melanie, may I have a word with you in my office, please?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Melanie...
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Would you mind waiting outside, please?
0:16:36 > 0:16:41My dear, I can't have your friend disrupting my class.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44And you have to make up the test you missed.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47I can't. I haven't done the reading.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Just take the test, Melanie. Let's set a date.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56How about next Monday?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59You've got the weekend to do the reading.
0:16:59 > 0:17:0212 o'clock, here in my office.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:23 > 0:17:24MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVS
0:17:32 > 0:17:33MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVS
0:17:41 > 0:17:43HE BRAKES
0:18:05 > 0:18:07MAN: Where can I find Professor Lurie?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Here I am.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Professor, what you have done is not right.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20You should be ashamed of yourself.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25We never thought we were sending our daughter into a nest of vipers!
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Won't you come to my office?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30So help me God, if I have the wrong end of the stick,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32but I don't think so.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34I can see it from your face.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Excuse me, I have business to attend to.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Professor Lurie! Professor Lurie! You can't run away!
0:18:40 > 0:18:43You haven't heard the last of it yet!
0:18:48 > 0:18:53I was thinking of seeing Lucy after the inquiry.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Of course, I haven't told her.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Well, let me tell you, everyone already knows
0:18:59 > 0:19:02about this latest affair of yours, in the juiciest detail.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Really?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07The story is she took sleeping pills.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Come on, David, we shared a bed for 10 years.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Why should you have secrets? Was she in love with you?
0:19:15 > 0:19:19No, Rosalind, I'm afraid it wasn't that dramatic.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23- SHE SIGHS - What an inglorious end to a brilliant career.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24What if you lose your pension?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27They can't cut me off without a penny.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32You haven't asked me whether I was in love with her.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35For God's sake, David, you're 52!
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Will you be able to resume your post?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43I'm not sure I'll want to.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48The whole thing is disgusting.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Disgusting and vulgar. And I don't mind saying so.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00DOOR SLAMS
0:20:14 > 0:20:17MAN: David, is there any member of the committee
0:20:17 > 0:20:21whose participation you feel might be prejudicial to you?
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Not in a legal sense.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Let me remind everyone this is not a trial but an inquiry.
0:20:29 > 0:20:34Now, the first complaint comes from Miss Melanie Isaacs.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36You all have a copy of her statement?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37OTHERS: Yes.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Will Miss Isaacs be appearing in person?
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Miss Isaacs appeared before the committee yesterday.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Now, if we could push on...
0:20:44 > 0:20:48The second and related charge comes from the registrar.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50The record shows a mark of 70%
0:20:50 > 0:20:53for a midterm test which she did not sit.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59I'm sure this committee have better things to do
0:20:59 > 0:21:02than rehash a story over which there's no dispute.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04I plead guilty to both charges.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Pass sentence and let us get on with our lives.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Professor Lurie, we are here to listen to both sides.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Perhaps it would be better if you were represented
0:21:14 > 0:21:18by someone who is more familiar with our procedure?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Why? I can represent myself perfectly well.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26Despite the plea I've entered, must we continue with this hearing?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28We want to give you a chance to state your position.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I've stated my position. I'm guilty.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- Guilty of what? - Of all I'm charged with.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37You are taking us in circles. Have you read Miss Isaacs' statement?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39No, but I'm sure it's all true.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Would it not be prudent to actually read her statement?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44No.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47There are more important things in life than being prudent.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Have you consulted anyone?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51A priest, for instance, or a counsellor?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Would you be prepared to undergo counselling?
0:21:53 > 0:21:56No. I'm beyond counselling.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59I've made my plea.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Is there any form of public statement
0:22:05 > 0:22:07you'd be prepared to subscribe to?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09What do you want the statement to contain?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11An admission that you were wrong.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13I've admitted that. I'm guilty.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15There's a difference between pleading guilty
0:22:15 > 0:22:16and admitting you were wrong.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20And that would satisfy you? An admission I was wrong?
0:22:20 > 0:22:23No!
0:22:23 > 0:22:25First, Professor Lurie must make his statement.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Then we can decide if we can accept it.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29See if it comes from the heart.
0:22:30 > 0:22:36From the words I use, you can see if it comes from the heart?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Very well.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48I took advantage of my position.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51It was wrong...
0:22:52 > 0:22:54..and I regret it.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00The question is, does it reflect your sincere feelings?
0:23:01 > 0:23:02That's enough.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Let's play it by the book.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07I plead guilty.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11I'd become a servant of Eros.
0:23:13 > 0:23:14- WOMAN: That's him! - WOMAN 2: Here he comes!
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Professor Lurie!
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Excuse me, Professor, can we talk to you for a minute?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19- What about? - You know, the hearing.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22- I can't comment on that. - Are you sorry?
0:23:22 > 0:23:24No. I was enriched by the experience.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28- He was what by the experience? - He was enriched.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33TELEPHONE RINGS
0:23:33 > 0:23:36OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:25:00 > 0:25:03CAR APPROACHES
0:25:24 > 0:25:27I always forget how far away you live.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Well, you're here now. Nice and safe.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45- Where's Helen? - Back in Johannesburg, since April.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47You didn't tell me you broke up.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- Aren't you nervous on your own? - I've got the dogs.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53And I've started a boarding kennel.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Anyway, if there's a break-in,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56I don't see how two people are better than one.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Very philosophical.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02And I have a rifle. It's never been used, but it's there.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05An armed philosopher. I like that.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Did you bring work with you?
0:26:08 > 0:26:14I'm thinking of perhaps writing an opera - Byron's time in Italy.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
0:26:29 > 0:26:31- Petrus... - Mm?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33This is my father.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Molo. Kunjani?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42I have come for the spray.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44It's in the Kombi. Wait here, I'll go get it.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56I look after the dogs and work in the garden.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Yes, the dog man.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06I'm anxious about my daughter alone. So isolated.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Yes, everything dangerous today.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13But here, it is all right, I think.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Thanks.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Petrus helps me out.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- He's also co-proprietor. - Since when?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Does he live on the property?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31I've put electricity in the old stable. He stays there.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34What would you like to do first?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Like a cup of tea or a show-off around the farm?
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Show me what you've been up to.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Rosalind rang me, filled me in with the details.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46What happened with the hearing?
0:27:46 > 0:27:49They wanted me to go through some kind of public repentance.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I'd prefer to be put up against a wall and shot.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58- So, you left the university? - I was asked to resign.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Oh, dear. Will you miss teaching?
0:28:02 > 0:28:09Ah, my daughter, the one who comes to teach, learns the keenest of lessons.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10Those who come to learn, learn nothing.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Well, we start at five tomorrow morning, Professor.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Shall I wake you?
0:28:16 > 0:28:18If you make me coffee.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29DOGS BARK
0:29:04 > 0:29:07I will do that. Take those to the Kombi.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55Monica, this is my father, David, visiting from Cape Town.
0:29:55 > 0:29:56OK. Hi.
0:29:56 > 0:30:01BOTH SPEAK LOCAL LANGUAGE
0:30:10 > 0:30:12Have you ever thought of getting married again?
0:30:12 > 0:30:14I wasn't made for marriage.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18- Well, you can't keep... - Preying on young women?
0:30:18 > 0:30:20It's not gonna get any easier as you get older.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23Do you remember Blake?
0:30:23 > 0:30:26He says, "Sooner murder an infant in the cradle
0:30:26 > 0:30:28"than nurse unacted desires."
0:30:33 > 0:30:34Good day. How much are your carrots?
0:30:34 > 0:30:37- Two rand. - I'll take one, thank you very much.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39- Thanks. - OK.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41- Bye. - Bye.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44Why did you quote that to me?
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Just that every woman I've been close to
0:30:47 > 0:30:49has taught me something about myself.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52To that extent, they've made me a better person.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06- 500 rand. - Mm. That's pretty good.
0:31:07 > 0:31:11I'm gonna stop in on Bev. I need to collect medicine for the dogs.
0:31:12 > 0:31:13Who's Bev?
0:31:13 > 0:31:15She's one of my closest friends.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17She runs an animal clinic. All voluntary.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24KNOCK AT DOOR
0:31:25 > 0:31:27Hello?
0:31:28 > 0:31:29KITTEN MEWS
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Hello, Lucy. How are you?
0:31:34 > 0:31:37- Good. And you? - I'm good.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42- Bev, this is my father, David. - Nice to meet you, David.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45Come in. Yeah?
0:31:46 > 0:31:49- Sorry we're late. - That's all right. You're here now.
0:31:52 > 0:31:56- Hello, Bill. - Lucy, how are you?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58- I'm well. How are you? - Fine.
0:31:59 > 0:32:00Ah, you must be David.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03I'm Bill. Come, make yourself at home.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Tea? Sit down, sit down.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09We can't stay. I'm just gonna get the medicine for the dogs.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11I'll go and get it.
0:32:17 > 0:32:21CAT MIAOWS
0:32:33 > 0:32:35DOOR OPENS
0:32:40 > 0:32:42- TURNS TV ON - Oh, shit.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44MAN TALKS EXCITEDLY ON TV
0:32:46 > 0:32:49Mmm!
0:32:49 > 0:32:51Oh! He is good.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54Mmm! He is a good man.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56PETRUS EXCLAIMS AND LAUGHS
0:32:56 > 0:32:58Hmm?
0:33:02 > 0:33:05TURNS VOLUME UP
0:33:08 > 0:33:10KNOCK AT DOOR AND DOOR OPENS
0:33:14 > 0:33:15What's the story with Petrus?
0:33:15 > 0:33:18Can he just come in here and do as he pleases?
0:33:19 > 0:33:21We have an understanding.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23He got a Land Affairs grant earlier this year,
0:33:23 > 0:33:26enough to buy a hectare and a bit from me.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29We share the dam, and everything from there to the fence is his.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31If he gets a second grant,
0:33:31 > 0:33:33he'll build a house and move out of the stable.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35He's very busy. You should give him a hand.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39Give Petrus a hand? I like that.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43I like the historical piquancy.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46- And will he pay me? - I'm sure he will.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Why don't you ask him?
0:33:49 > 0:33:51And what can I do for you while I'm here?
0:33:53 > 0:33:56You can help me with the dogs, you can help Bev at the clinic.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59You mean Bev? Help Bev?
0:33:59 > 0:34:03I don't think Bev and I will hit it off.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Well, don't expect to get paid.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10You'll have to do it out of the goodness of your heart.
0:34:10 > 0:34:12Hmm, I don't know, Lucy.
0:34:12 > 0:34:15These animal welfare people are a bit like Christians.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned
0:34:17 > 0:34:22that, after a while, you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging.
0:34:22 > 0:34:23Or kick a cat.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27Bev tries to set an example.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32What are you reading?
0:34:33 > 0:34:36Oh.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00- Hey, mister! - Some money, please, sir?
0:35:00 > 0:35:03- Can I have some money? - Sorry, I've got nothing.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06DOGS BARK
0:35:18 > 0:35:21- BEV: Come on. - GOAT BLEATS
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Oh!
0:35:23 > 0:35:24David, just in time.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26Could you hold him from the front?
0:35:28 > 0:35:30Come round and take his legs.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33There, my friend. Hey, steady, my friend.
0:35:33 > 0:35:34Hey, my friend.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40It's OK.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44Steady, steady, my friend.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46Shh.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Blowflies.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51You waited too long.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54You can leave him here with me and I will give him a quiet end,
0:35:54 > 0:35:56or come back on Thursday when the vet is here,
0:35:56 > 0:35:57but I think it's too late.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59GOAT BLEATS
0:36:05 > 0:36:07What a pity.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11But you can't force the owners.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13They like to slaughter their animals their own way.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19How do you pay for this stuff?
0:36:19 > 0:36:20We get it wholesale.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23Hold public collections, donations.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25We get a grant for putting the dogs down.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Who does that?
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Dr Oosthuizen, our vet.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32But there are too many of them.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34So, I help out, do what's left on a Sunday.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38Oh, which reminds me, check yourself for fleas tonight.
0:36:38 > 0:36:42- Are they all going to die? - If nobody wants them.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44And you don't mind doing the job?
0:36:44 > 0:36:46- DOGS BARK AND WHIMPER - Hey, hey, hey, hey. Settle down.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50I do mind. Hey! I mind deeply.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54And I wouldn't want someone doing it for me who didn't mind. Would you?
0:37:02 > 0:37:04DOG GROWLS
0:37:18 > 0:37:19Aren't they lovely?
0:37:20 > 0:37:22They come back every year, the same three.
0:37:24 > 0:37:29I feel so lucky to be visited - the one chosen.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Animals are creatures of habit.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35SHE SIGHS
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Come on, Jessie.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44When you were small, our next-door neighbour had a dog.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46A golden retriever, remember?
0:37:46 > 0:37:48Dimly.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51It was a male, and whenever a bitch went past,
0:37:51 > 0:37:53it got excited, unmanageable.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57And with Pavlovian regularity, its owner would beat it,
0:37:57 > 0:38:00so that at the mere smell of a bitch, the dog would run around the garden
0:38:00 > 0:38:03with its ears flat and its tail between its legs,
0:38:03 > 0:38:05whining and trying to hide.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08I don't see the point.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12Well, you can punish a dog for chewing a slipper.
0:38:12 > 0:38:13The dog can accept that.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15But desire's another story.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Is that the moral?
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Males must be allowed to follow their instincts unchecked?
0:38:20 > 0:38:23No, that's not the moral.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25What was ignoble about the spectacle
0:38:25 > 0:38:30was that the poor dog had begun to hate its own nature.
0:38:30 > 0:38:34It no longer needed to be beaten. It punished itself.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37At that point, it would have been better to shoot it.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42- Have you always felt this way? - No.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45At times, I've felt just the opposite -
0:38:45 > 0:38:49that desire's a burden we could well do without.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Hey, what've you got there?
0:38:52 > 0:38:54DOGS BARK IN THE DISTANCE
0:38:54 > 0:38:56Should we be nervous?
0:39:02 > 0:39:03- DOG GROWLS - Stay.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06HE HISSES
0:39:09 > 0:39:13Petrus! Petrus!
0:39:13 > 0:39:16- MAN SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE - Hamba!
0:39:19 > 0:39:21Quiet!
0:39:24 > 0:39:25What do you want?
0:39:25 > 0:39:29We must telephone. His sister, accident.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31- What kind of accident? - A baby.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33- Where are you from? - Erasmuskraal.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35Why don't you ring from the forestry station?
0:39:35 > 0:39:37Is no-one there.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48Hold on.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54Inside. Quiet. Quiet!
0:40:02 > 0:40:04You stay. ..You come in.
0:40:08 > 0:40:09Lucy...
0:40:28 > 0:40:30DOG BARKS
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Lucy! Lucy!
0:40:34 > 0:40:35DOOR CLOSES
0:40:35 > 0:40:37SHOUTS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE
0:40:38 > 0:40:39Get him! Get him!
0:40:46 > 0:40:48BOY SCREAMS Lucy!
0:40:51 > 0:40:52SCREAMING
0:40:55 > 0:40:57BOY CRIES OUT
0:41:14 > 0:41:17HIGH-PITCHED WHINE
0:41:40 > 0:41:42(Lucy.)
0:41:46 > 0:41:48(Lucy!)
0:41:49 > 0:41:51Lucy!
0:41:52 > 0:41:54Lucy!
0:41:55 > 0:41:58DISTANT VOICES
0:42:23 > 0:42:25No! No!
0:42:25 > 0:42:27FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:42:35 > 0:42:39FOOTSTEPS RECEDE
0:42:41 > 0:42:44DOGS BARK
0:42:47 > 0:42:51GUNSHOT AND DOG WHINES
0:42:51 > 0:42:54GUNSHOT
0:43:00 > 0:43:02DAVID GASPS No!
0:43:02 > 0:43:05GUNSHOT AND DOG WHINES
0:43:05 > 0:43:10GUNSHOTS
0:43:10 > 0:43:13HE GASPS
0:43:33 > 0:43:36HE WHIMPERS
0:43:51 > 0:43:55HE CRIES OUT
0:44:12 > 0:44:15MEN TALK AND LAUGH OUTSIDE
0:44:17 > 0:44:20CAR ENGINE STARTS
0:44:40 > 0:44:42DOOR HANDLE RATTLES
0:45:02 > 0:45:04WATER RUNS
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Lucy?
0:45:53 > 0:45:58Lucy? Lucy?
0:46:11 > 0:46:13What on earth did they do to you?
0:46:49 > 0:46:51They've stolen your car
0:46:51 > 0:46:55and let down the tyres of the Kombi and they smashed the phone.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57I'm walking over to Ettinger.
0:46:57 > 0:46:59You say what happened to you,
0:46:59 > 0:47:00and I'll say what happened to me, please.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35I never go anywhere without my Beretta.
0:47:35 > 0:47:40At least you can save yourself, because the police won't.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43Not any more, you can be sure.
0:47:43 > 0:47:49I told Lucy to install bars like me, and a security gate and a fence.
0:47:50 > 0:47:54And to buy a pistol and a two-way radio.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14WOMAN SPEAKS ON PA SYSTEM
0:48:28 > 0:48:31- May I help you? - My father's been severely burnt.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33I was wondering when he could see a doctor.
0:48:33 > 0:48:37- You'll have to wait in line. - Thanks.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Ettinger's going to take me to the police station.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44You stay here. If they discharge you, just wait here.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48Won't the police want to see me too?
0:48:48 > 0:48:51I don't think there's anything you can tell them that I can't.
0:48:51 > 0:48:53Or is there?
0:49:01 > 0:49:04WOMAN: You're lucky that there's no damage to the eye itself.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06If they'd used petrol instead of methylated spirits,
0:49:06 > 0:49:09now, that would have been a different story.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11The burns on your scalp aren't serious.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14You just need to keep an eye out for infection.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30David?
0:49:30 > 0:49:33Shocking. Absolutely shocking.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Lucy's at our place. It's all right.
0:49:36 > 0:49:37I'm all right.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40It takes you back, you know.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42It's like being in the war all over again.
0:49:42 > 0:49:46Has Lucy been to the police and a doctor?
0:49:46 > 0:49:50Yes, yes. There's a bulletin out for your car.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52All attended to.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01Lucy...
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Lucy... Lucy?
0:50:09 > 0:50:11LOUD CLATTERING
0:50:20 > 0:50:22Lucy?
0:50:22 > 0:50:25I have to speak to Lucy. I want to see Lucy.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32I had a dream. I'm sorry, I thought you were calling me.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34I wasn't. Go to bed.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Try and sleep now.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36How is she?
0:51:42 > 0:51:44CAT MIAOWS
0:52:04 > 0:52:10This is not an easy thing to talk about, but have you seen a doctor?
0:52:10 > 0:52:13- There's a risk... - I saw my doctor last night.
0:52:13 > 0:52:17And is he taking care of all eventualities?
0:52:19 > 0:52:21'She' - 'she', not 'he'.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25How can a doctor take care of all eventualities? Have some sense.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30What are our plans for today?
0:52:32 > 0:52:35To go back to the farm and clean up.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38We can't just pick up where we left off.
0:52:38 > 0:52:39Why not?
0:52:39 > 0:52:42Because it's not a good idea. Because it's not safe.
0:52:42 > 0:52:47It was never safe. And it's not an idea, good or bad.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50I'm not going back for the sake of an idea. I'm just going back.
0:52:50 > 0:52:54Lucy, things are changing. Guns and gates don't save you.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56Ettinger is wrong.
0:52:56 > 0:53:01No, no. We are not going back.
0:53:45 > 0:53:49HE GRUNTS
0:54:15 > 0:54:18CAR APPROACHES
0:54:45 > 0:54:47PETRUS TALKS IN THE DISTANCE
0:54:57 > 0:55:00MEN SHOUT
0:55:43 > 0:55:45Petrus is back...
0:55:45 > 0:55:49with a load of building material and a woman.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52Oh, good. That's his new wife.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58Why didn't he tell you he was going away?
0:55:58 > 0:56:00His timing is a bit suspicious.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02I can't order Petrus about. He is his own master.
0:56:02 > 0:56:03Lucy...
0:56:06 > 0:56:09..there's no shame in being the object of a crime.
0:56:09 > 0:56:12Are you trying to remind me of something?
0:56:12 > 0:56:14Remind you of what?
0:56:15 > 0:56:17Of what women undergo at the hands of men?
0:56:19 > 0:56:21Nothing could be further from my thoughts.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23As far as I'm concerned, what happened to me
0:56:23 > 0:56:25is purely a private matter,
0:56:25 > 0:56:28this place being what it is.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31- This place being what? - This place being South Africa.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16You must have heard we had a big robbery on Wednesday,
0:57:16 > 0:57:18while you were away.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23Yes. I heard.
0:57:24 > 0:57:26Very bad. Very, very bad.
0:57:27 > 0:57:31- But you are all right now. - Oh, I'm alive.
0:57:31 > 0:57:36As long as one is alive, one is all right? Is that what you mean?
0:57:39 > 0:57:41Will Lucy go to the market tomorrow?
0:57:43 > 0:57:46She will lose her stall if she does not go.
0:57:58 > 0:58:00Like peasants everywhere.
0:58:00 > 0:58:04Honest toil and honest cunning.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06Petrus wants to know if you're going to the market,
0:58:06 > 0:58:09otherwise you might lose your stall.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21GOAT BLEATS
0:58:40 > 0:58:42GOAT BLEATS
0:58:47 > 0:58:50Don't you think you could tie them where they could graze?
0:58:50 > 0:58:53They are for the party.
0:58:53 > 0:58:55On Saturday, I will slaughter them for the party.
0:58:55 > 0:58:59You and Lucy must come. The big party.
0:59:16 > 0:59:19Why is Petrus having a party?
0:59:21 > 0:59:25Because of the land transfer, I guess. It's a big day for him.
0:59:25 > 0:59:27We should put in an appearance, take him a present.
0:59:27 > 0:59:29I don't like the way he does things,
0:59:29 > 0:59:31bringing the beasts home to acquaint them with the people
0:59:31 > 0:59:33who are going to eat them.
0:59:33 > 0:59:34Wake up, David.
0:59:36 > 0:59:37This is the country.
0:59:55 > 0:59:58MUSIC PLAYS
1:00:13 > 1:00:17- LUCY SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE - You must open it.
1:00:17 > 1:00:19SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:00:24 > 1:00:26WOMAN GASPS HAPPILY
1:00:27 > 1:00:28It's a bedspread.
1:00:30 > 1:00:33Lucy is our benefactor.
1:00:33 > 1:00:35MEN SPEAK LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:00:40 > 1:00:42When is the baby due?
1:00:42 > 1:00:45October. We hope it is a boy.
1:00:45 > 1:00:49- What have you got against a girl? - A girl? Very expensive.
1:00:49 > 1:00:51Always money, money, money.
1:00:53 > 1:00:56GUESTS SPEAK LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:01:00 > 1:01:02I'm going to dance.
1:01:08 > 1:01:11WOMAN SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE Thank you.
1:01:58 > 1:02:01- They're here! - Who's here?
1:02:01 > 1:02:03I saw one of them out at... out at the back.
1:02:03 > 1:02:06I don't want to kick up a fuss, but can we just leave at once?
1:02:22 > 1:02:23I know you!
1:02:26 > 1:02:29MAN SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:02:29 > 1:02:31Do you know who this is?
1:02:31 > 1:02:34- What is the trouble? - He is one of them. Ask Lucy.
1:02:34 > 1:02:37Ask him why the police are looking for him.
1:02:37 > 1:02:40- It's not true. - SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:02:41 > 1:02:43SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:02:43 > 1:02:46He says he does not know what you're talking about.
1:02:46 > 1:02:48He's lying.
1:02:50 > 1:02:53I'm going to telephone the police.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57DOOR SLAMS SHUT
1:02:58 > 1:02:59DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
1:02:59 > 1:03:02If you call the police, it will destroy the evening for Petrus!
1:03:02 > 1:03:04Really?
1:03:04 > 1:03:08I fail to understand why you did not lay real charges against them
1:03:08 > 1:03:09in the first place.
1:03:09 > 1:03:13And why are you protecting Petrus? Petrus is with them!
1:03:13 > 1:03:16Don't shout at me! This is my life!
1:03:16 > 1:03:18I'm the one who has to live here!
1:03:18 > 1:03:21Lucy, if you're too scared to call the police now,
1:03:21 > 1:03:24we should never have involved them in the first place.
1:03:24 > 1:03:27We should have just kept quiet and waited for the next attack,
1:03:27 > 1:03:28or cut our own throats.
1:03:28 > 1:03:33Stop it, David! You don't know what happened.
1:03:33 > 1:03:36I don't know? Why do you keep saying that?
1:03:36 > 1:03:39You don't begin to know.
1:03:41 > 1:03:45Lucy, please, if you buckle now,
1:03:45 > 1:03:47you won't be able to live with yourself.
1:03:47 > 1:03:50If you show you're afraid, you're finished.
1:03:50 > 1:03:54Please, let me call the police.
1:03:59 > 1:04:00No.
1:04:16 > 1:04:19MAN SHOUTS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:04:21 > 1:04:24AUDIENCE WHISTLES AND ULULATES
1:04:34 > 1:04:37ALL FALL SILENT
1:05:00 > 1:05:04Can I borrow some tools? I have to put in my PVC pipes.
1:05:04 > 1:05:06And could you help me fit the regulator?
1:05:07 > 1:05:10I don't know anything about regulators or plumbing.
1:05:10 > 1:05:13It is not plumbing, it is pipe-fitting.
1:05:13 > 1:05:15Just laying pipes.
1:05:27 > 1:05:31Lucy has given her permission for the pipes to cross her land.
1:05:31 > 1:05:35She is forward-looking, Lucy. Not backward-looking.
1:05:35 > 1:05:38Petrus, the boy...what's his name?
1:05:39 > 1:05:41Yes. He is angry.
1:05:41 > 1:05:43You are calling him a thief.
1:05:43 > 1:05:47It is hard for me, as I must keep the peace.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49I have no intention of getting you involved.
1:05:49 > 1:05:52I need the boy's name and the police can take care of it.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55But the insurance will give you a new car, new TV.
1:05:58 > 1:06:01The insurance will not give me a new car.
1:06:01 > 1:06:04They will give me a percentage of what the old car was worth,
1:06:04 > 1:06:06if they're not bankrupt by now with all the car theft in this country.
1:06:06 > 1:06:10Besides, it's Lucy that's the issue. You know what happened to her.
1:06:10 > 1:06:15Yes, I know what happened. But now it is all right.
1:06:15 > 1:06:16Who says it's all right?!
1:06:16 > 1:06:19I say. I will protect her.
1:06:19 > 1:06:21You didn't the last time!
1:06:21 > 1:06:23And now, one of them is your friend.
1:06:23 > 1:06:28The boy is not a criminal. He is not guilty.
1:06:28 > 1:06:29He is too young.
1:06:29 > 1:06:33What can I say? You know everything.
1:06:33 > 1:06:35Do you need me any longer?
1:06:35 > 1:06:39- LAUGHS SOFTLY - No, now it is easy.
1:06:39 > 1:06:42Now I must just dig the pipe in.
1:06:49 > 1:06:51BEV: You underestimate Petrus.
1:06:51 > 1:06:54He slaved to get that market garden going for Lucy.
1:06:54 > 1:06:57I'm not saying she owes him everything, but she owes him a lot.
1:06:59 > 1:07:03In my opinion, he's itching for Lucy to pull out.
1:07:03 > 1:07:05Made sure he wasn't home, no warning, nothing.
1:07:05 > 1:07:07Now he's turning a blind eye.
1:07:10 > 1:07:11Poor Lucy.
1:07:12 > 1:07:15First Helen leaves, now this.
1:07:15 > 1:07:16SIGHS
1:07:16 > 1:07:18She's been through such a lot.
1:07:18 > 1:07:21I know what Lucy's been through, I was there.
1:07:22 > 1:07:24But you weren't there, David.
1:07:24 > 1:07:26She told me. You weren't.
1:07:28 > 1:07:30I'm ready. Can you bring in the next dog?
1:07:40 > 1:07:42Hello, my girl.
1:07:44 > 1:07:47Hello. Hello, my fine friend.
1:07:47 > 1:07:49DOG WHINES SOFTLY Come on.
1:07:49 > 1:07:50- That's it. - Good girl.
1:07:57 > 1:08:00That's my girl. That's my girl.
1:08:00 > 1:08:04Come on. Good girl. Good girl.
1:08:04 > 1:08:05That's my girl.
1:08:07 > 1:08:09Come on, sweetheart. Here we go.
1:08:09 > 1:08:12Good girl. Come on.
1:08:13 > 1:08:16That's it, sweetheart. That's my girl.
1:09:11 > 1:09:14CRIES
1:09:25 > 1:09:27FLIES BUZZ
1:10:21 > 1:10:24WOMAN ON TV: For each correct answer, you win a prize.
1:10:24 > 1:10:27I'll ask you two questions. Your first prize is a steam iron.
1:10:27 > 1:10:30- WOMAN: Oh, excellent. - Here's your first question.
1:10:30 > 1:10:34What is the entertainment centre of New York called?
1:10:34 > 1:10:36Is it Greenmarket...?
1:10:40 > 1:10:43I'll do that. You'll be wanting to get back.
1:10:43 > 1:10:44I'm in no hurry.
1:10:46 > 1:10:49You must find it dull here.
1:10:49 > 1:10:54Miss your own circle of friends, particularly your women friends.
1:10:54 > 1:10:57Women friends didn't bring me much luck.
1:10:58 > 1:11:01Do you regret it?
1:11:01 > 1:11:02No. Of course not.
1:11:02 > 1:11:06In the heat of the act, there are no regrets. You must know that.
1:11:09 > 1:11:12You must find Grahamstown very quiet by comparison.
1:11:12 > 1:11:15At least I'm out of the way of temptation.
1:11:49 > 1:11:52CHAINSAW STARTS
1:12:04 > 1:12:07PHONE RINGS
1:12:12 > 1:12:14David Lurie speaking.
1:12:16 > 1:12:18BEV: Can we meet at the clinic at 4:00?
1:12:20 > 1:12:21I'll be there.
1:12:23 > 1:12:26CHAINSAW STARTS UP AGAIN
1:13:40 > 1:13:45"She walks in beauty...
1:13:46 > 1:13:48"..like the night..."
1:13:50 > 1:13:52ENGINE STARTS
1:14:05 > 1:14:08Ah, I forgot.
1:14:08 > 1:14:11A Detective-Sergeant Esterhuyse rang.
1:14:11 > 1:14:12They found your car.
1:14:12 > 1:14:16Oh, that's wonderful news. I'd given up. Is it driveable?
1:14:17 > 1:14:19Yes, he said you can take it home.
1:14:19 > 1:14:22Oh, come on, let's get out of here.
1:14:28 > 1:14:30Come on.
1:14:46 > 1:14:50This is the car we found, sir, that fits the description you gave us.
1:14:50 > 1:14:52Unfortunately, this is not my car.
1:14:54 > 1:14:58- A lighter colour. - OK.
1:14:58 > 1:14:59- Oh, well. - Thanks.
1:14:59 > 1:15:01Yeah, it's a mistake.
1:15:01 > 1:15:03- Anyway... - All right.
1:15:12 > 1:15:14It's all a mistake. A waste of time.
1:15:14 > 1:15:17They have a Corolla, but it's not mine.
1:15:17 > 1:15:20And, anyway, even if they are caught and there's a trial,
1:15:20 > 1:15:21would you testify?
1:15:21 > 1:15:23Are you ready for that?
1:15:25 > 1:15:26Lucy...
1:15:28 > 1:15:31..it's time to face your choices.
1:15:31 > 1:15:33Can't we talk about it rationally?
1:15:33 > 1:15:38I can't talk any more, David. I just can't.
1:15:38 > 1:15:40I just can't.
1:16:01 > 1:16:04Lucy, lock the house,
1:16:04 > 1:16:05pay Petrus to look after things,
1:16:05 > 1:16:07go to Holland, see your mother.
1:16:07 > 1:16:09I'll pay for it.
1:16:10 > 1:16:15If I go...I won't come back.
1:16:15 > 1:16:17Is that such a bad thing?
1:16:17 > 1:16:19There are some things you just don't understand.
1:16:21 > 1:16:25You just don't understand. Don't pull over here.
1:16:25 > 1:16:27It's a bad stretch.
1:16:29 > 1:16:34On the contrary, I understand all too well.
1:16:35 > 1:16:38You were raped by three men...
1:16:38 > 1:16:40..and I did nothing.
1:16:45 > 1:16:48If they'd come two weeks earlier, I would've been alone.
1:16:48 > 1:16:51CRIES
1:16:54 > 1:16:56They've done it before.
1:16:59 > 1:17:01They do rape.
1:17:01 > 1:17:04Stealing is a sideline.
1:17:04 > 1:17:07Are you afraid they're going to come back?
1:17:10 > 1:17:12I think they've marked me.
1:17:12 > 1:17:15Then you can't possibly stay!
1:17:17 > 1:17:20Maybe they see me as owing something...
1:17:23 > 1:17:26..and they see themselves as debt collectors.
1:17:26 > 1:17:31Lucy, don't try and work out how they see things.
1:17:33 > 1:17:35Maybe...
1:17:36 > 1:17:39..hating a woman, for a man, makes sex more exciting.
1:17:42 > 1:17:44When you trap a woman...
1:17:45 > 1:17:47..hold her down...
1:17:53 > 1:17:56..it must be a bit like killing.
1:17:59 > 1:18:01You're a man.
1:18:05 > 1:18:07You should know.
1:18:10 > 1:18:13Perhaps.
1:18:13 > 1:18:15Sometimes.
1:18:15 > 1:18:17For some men.
1:18:39 > 1:18:41I think you should give her some room.
1:18:43 > 1:18:45Go back to Cape Town for a while.
1:18:48 > 1:18:50Things have a way of working themselves out.
1:18:56 > 1:18:57Everything will be all right.
1:19:42 > 1:19:44WOMAN: Hello.
1:19:44 > 1:19:47I'm looking for Mr Isaacs. My name is Lurie.
1:19:47 > 1:19:51- He's not home yet. - When do you expect him home?
1:19:51 > 1:19:52Any minute now.
1:19:56 > 1:19:58GATE BUZZES
1:20:08 > 1:20:11Hi. I'm Desiree.
1:20:11 > 1:20:13You can come wait inside for him if you like.
1:20:39 > 1:20:42- Where are you from? - Cape Town.
1:20:42 > 1:20:46My sister's in Cape Town. She's at the university.
1:20:49 > 1:20:52DOOR OPENS
1:20:57 > 1:20:59I'm David Lurie. Do you remember me?
1:21:01 > 1:21:03Desiree, come.
1:21:13 > 1:21:16So, what do I owe this unexpected pleasure?
1:21:16 > 1:21:21You've heard Melanie's side of the story. I'd like to give you mine.
1:21:37 > 1:21:40It began without premeditation on my part.
1:21:40 > 1:21:42One of those sudden little adventures
1:21:42 > 1:21:44that men of a certain kind have.
1:21:44 > 1:21:48Excuse me for talking this way. I'm trying to be frank.
1:21:50 > 1:21:54However, something unexpected happened.
1:21:55 > 1:21:58Melanie struck up a fire in me.
1:22:01 > 1:22:05I ask myself, what on earth you think you are up to,
1:22:05 > 1:22:08coming to my house and telling me stories?
1:22:08 > 1:22:12I'm sorry. It's outrageous, I know.
1:22:13 > 1:22:16How is Melanie?
1:22:16 > 1:22:18Melanie's well.
1:22:18 > 1:22:20She's resumed her studies.
1:22:20 > 1:22:23She continues with her theatre work in her spare time.
1:22:23 > 1:22:24So, Melanie's all right.
1:22:30 > 1:22:34Is there something else you wanted to tell me, Mr Lurie?
1:22:36 > 1:22:43I am truly sorry for what I put your daughter and your family through...
1:22:45 > 1:22:51..the grief I have caused you and Mrs Isaacs.
1:23:08 > 1:23:12So, at last, you have apologised.
1:23:14 > 1:23:17I say to myself, we are all sorry when we are found out.
1:23:18 > 1:23:22But the question is what are you going to do now that you are sorry?
1:23:25 > 1:23:28May I pronounce the word 'God'?
1:23:30 > 1:23:34What does God want from you, besides being very sorry?
1:23:37 > 1:23:40Why do you think you are here, Mr Lurie?
1:23:42 > 1:23:46You were passing through George and you thought..."Why not?"
1:23:46 > 1:23:49No...I came to George to speak to you.
1:23:49 > 1:23:53You are not hoping that we are going to intervene on your behalf
1:23:53 > 1:23:56with the university, are you?
1:23:56 > 1:23:57To intervene?
1:23:57 > 1:24:00Because the path you are on, Mr Lurie,
1:24:00 > 1:24:03is one that God has ordained for you.
1:24:03 > 1:24:05It is not for us to intervene.
1:24:05 > 1:24:08No. I don't want you to intervene.
1:25:04 > 1:25:07I ask you all forgiveness.
1:26:44 > 1:26:47PLAYS BANJO
1:26:55 > 1:26:57LAUGHTER
1:26:57 > 1:27:00Mmm! Mmm!
1:27:00 > 1:27:04And what have we here? A bit too much oomph!
1:27:06 > 1:27:08I suppose you want it straightened?
1:27:08 > 1:27:10Could you do my hair like Oprah's?
1:27:10 > 1:27:12Oh, she's not asking for much, eh?
1:27:12 > 1:27:16I'll tell you what, I'll go and mix up some magical chemicals.
1:27:16 > 1:27:17Can I get you ladies some coffee?
1:27:17 > 1:27:21- I'll have mine white, please. - I'll have mine black, please.
1:27:21 > 1:27:24Well, that's easy to remember!
1:27:24 > 1:27:26LAUGHTER
1:27:30 > 1:27:33And one cappuccino coming up.
1:27:33 > 1:27:36I've come for the job you've advertised.
1:27:36 > 1:27:39Oh, is it? Well, what are you waiting for, girl?
1:27:39 > 1:27:42Pick up the broom and make yourself useful.
1:28:03 > 1:28:05SCREAMS
1:28:16 > 1:28:18- Jesus Christ! - SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
1:28:21 > 1:28:22MAN: (Professor!)
1:28:22 > 1:28:26Oh, girls! We have until the end of the month to pay the rent!
1:28:26 > 1:28:28Oh! That savage, savage Indian!
1:28:28 > 1:28:31- What are we going to do, Sidney? - Professor!
1:28:31 > 1:28:34We're not going to panic. We must be cowboys.
1:28:34 > 1:28:36You know, I've got enough chemicals back there
1:28:36 > 1:28:39to make an exploding onion bhaji!
1:28:39 > 1:28:42And we're going to stick that right up his...turban.
1:28:42 > 1:28:45I've got a better idea!
1:28:46 > 1:28:50Brilliant! Genius! The girl's a nutcracker!
1:28:57 > 1:29:00Are you going to explain this childish behaviour?
1:29:01 > 1:29:04Haven't you learnt your lesson?
1:29:04 > 1:29:06- What was my lesson? - Stick with your own kind.
1:29:06 > 1:29:09Melanie will spit in your eyes if she sees you again.
1:29:09 > 1:29:11Keep away from her.
1:29:15 > 1:29:19Find yourself another life, Professor!
1:29:20 > 1:29:22UNLOCKS CAR
1:29:31 > 1:29:34WOMAN: Hey, you take him. It's your turn.
1:29:35 > 1:29:36Fine.
1:29:39 > 1:29:41Hi. Hi, big boy.
1:29:41 > 1:29:44You looking for a good time? Hello?
1:29:44 > 1:29:46Oh, we have a grumpy one.
1:29:46 > 1:29:48BOTH LAUGH
1:29:49 > 1:29:52Hi. Hello?
1:30:05 > 1:30:07MOANS SOFTLY
1:30:16 > 1:30:18Thank you. Goodnight.
1:30:18 > 1:30:20Goodnight.
1:30:32 > 1:30:34LUCY: 'Are you OK?'
1:30:34 > 1:30:36I'm fine. I'm very busy.
1:30:40 > 1:30:42Ring me any time.
1:30:42 > 1:30:44I miss you, Lucy.
1:30:44 > 1:30:47- 'Goodnight.' - Goodnight.
1:30:47 > 1:30:48LUCY HANGS UP
1:31:41 > 1:31:44Why are you going to Durban?
1:31:44 > 1:31:47Are you applying for a job there?
1:31:49 > 1:31:50I lied.
1:31:50 > 1:31:53I wanted to see if you were all right.
1:31:53 > 1:31:55I missed you.
1:31:56 > 1:31:58- I'm pregnant. - You're what?
1:31:58 > 1:32:01I'm pregnant.
1:32:04 > 1:32:05From that day?
1:32:05 > 1:32:07From that day.
1:32:07 > 1:32:11But I thought you said you'd taken care of it with that woman GP.
1:32:11 > 1:32:13I'm not having an abortion.
1:32:13 > 1:32:17Are you telling me you're going to have the child?
1:32:17 > 1:32:19Yes.
1:32:19 > 1:32:22A child from one of those men?
1:32:22 > 1:32:24Yes.
1:32:24 > 1:32:26But why, Lucy?
1:32:28 > 1:32:30I'm a woman, David.
1:32:30 > 1:32:33Do you think I hate children?
1:32:33 > 1:32:36Must I choose against a child because of who the father is?
1:32:38 > 1:32:40And your mind's made up?
1:32:42 > 1:32:44Yes.
1:32:46 > 1:32:47Very well.
1:32:49 > 1:32:51I'll stand by you, no matter what.
1:32:57 > 1:32:59I'm going for a walk.
1:33:03 > 1:33:06DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
1:33:17 > 1:33:20CRIES SOFTLY
1:33:35 > 1:33:36SNIFFS
1:33:36 > 1:33:37Mmm!
1:33:44 > 1:33:46By the way, the boy's back.
1:33:46 > 1:33:47The boy?
1:33:47 > 1:33:51The boy you had a row with at Petrus's party.
1:33:51 > 1:33:53He's staying with Petrus.
1:33:54 > 1:33:56Helps him out.
1:33:56 > 1:33:57His name is Pollux.
1:34:01 > 1:34:05Anyway, he turns out to be the brother of Petrus's wife.
1:34:10 > 1:34:13So, Pollux returns to the scene of the crime
1:34:13 > 1:34:17and we must all behave as if nothing's happened.
1:34:19 > 1:34:21I want you to stay clear of him.
1:34:21 > 1:34:23I suspect there's something wrong with him,
1:34:23 > 1:34:27but I can't order him off the property, it's not in my power.
1:34:27 > 1:34:29- Particularly... - Particularly what?
1:34:29 > 1:34:32Particularly when he may be the father
1:34:32 > 1:34:34of the child you are carrying.
1:34:59 > 1:35:00Molo.
1:35:02 > 1:35:05I'm looking for Petrus.
1:35:38 > 1:35:41Ah, David. You are back.
1:35:41 > 1:35:43- How was Cape Town? - Good, good.
1:35:43 > 1:35:47Lucy tells me the boy is back - Pollux.
1:35:47 > 1:35:49He is my relative.
1:35:50 > 1:35:52You told me you didn't know him.
1:35:52 > 1:35:54You lied to me.
1:35:55 > 1:35:58You come, look after your child.
1:35:58 > 1:36:00I also look after my child.
1:36:00 > 1:36:03Your child? So, now he's your child?
1:36:03 > 1:36:06Yes, he is a child.
1:36:06 > 1:36:08He is my family, my people.
1:36:08 > 1:36:10You say it is bad what happened.
1:36:10 > 1:36:13I also say it is bad, but now it is finished.
1:36:13 > 1:36:15It's not finished.
1:36:15 > 1:36:19It will go on long after I'm dead and you're dead.
1:36:19 > 1:36:21He will marry Lucy.
1:36:22 > 1:36:26But he is too young - too young to marry.
1:36:26 > 1:36:28He is a child.
1:36:28 > 1:36:30A dangerous child. A jackal.
1:36:30 > 1:36:33Yes, too young to marry.
1:36:33 > 1:36:37Maybe one day, he can marry, but not now.
1:36:37 > 1:36:39I will marry.
1:36:45 > 1:36:46You will marry whom?
1:36:46 > 1:36:49I will marry Lucy.
1:36:54 > 1:36:56Lucy, this is preposterous!
1:36:56 > 1:37:01He's not offering a church wedding. He's offering an alliance, a deal.
1:37:01 > 1:37:02I contribute the land
1:37:02 > 1:37:05and, in return, I'm allowed to creep in under his wing.
1:37:05 > 1:37:07Otherwise, I'm without protection.
1:37:07 > 1:37:09What about the personal side?
1:37:09 > 1:37:11I don't think Petrus wants to sleep with me.
1:37:11 > 1:37:13- And you? - Don't be ridiculous.
1:37:13 > 1:37:16Good, then I will go and tell him that we refuse his offer.
1:37:17 > 1:37:19Wait!
1:37:22 > 1:37:25Say I accept his protection.
1:37:25 > 1:37:28If he wants me to be known as his wife, so be it.
1:37:28 > 1:37:32But then the child becomes his too, part of his family.
1:37:33 > 1:37:36As for the land, say I will sign the land over to him.
1:37:36 > 1:37:39But the house remains mine.
1:37:40 > 1:37:42I'll become a tenant on his land.
1:37:46 > 1:37:50No-one is to enter the house without my permission, including him.
1:37:50 > 1:37:52And I keep the kennels.
1:37:52 > 1:37:54Lucy, it's not workable.
1:37:54 > 1:37:57I'm not leaving, David.
1:38:01 > 1:38:03Go and tell Petrus what I have said.
1:38:20 > 1:38:23How humiliating, to end like this.
1:38:23 > 1:38:26Yes, I agree.
1:38:30 > 1:38:31Like a dog.
1:38:35 > 1:38:37Yes.
1:38:38 > 1:38:40Like a dog.
1:38:56 > 1:39:00SHOWER RUNS
1:39:09 > 1:39:11DOG GROWLS
1:39:17 > 1:39:19DOG BARKS
1:39:19 > 1:39:21You animal!
1:39:29 > 1:39:31Swine! You filthy swine!
1:39:31 > 1:39:33David! Stop it!
1:39:37 > 1:39:40Easy. Easy, easy. Easy. Easy.
1:39:40 > 1:39:41Are you all right?
1:39:43 > 1:39:45Come, let's go wash it.
1:39:59 > 1:40:02WAILS
1:40:04 > 1:40:06SCREAMS
1:40:06 > 1:40:08We will kill you!
1:40:12 > 1:40:15We will kill you!
1:40:15 > 1:40:17SCREAMS
1:40:17 > 1:40:18This can't go on, David.
1:40:18 > 1:40:21- He was spying on you. - He's a disturbed child!
1:40:21 > 1:40:25Is that an excuse for what he did to you? He should be in an institution.
1:40:25 > 1:40:28Well, he's here and he's a fact of life!
1:40:31 > 1:40:35Everything had settled down before you came back, David.
1:40:35 > 1:40:38Then I'd better pack my bags.
1:41:01 > 1:41:04Is this just a visit or are you here for a while?
1:41:04 > 1:41:06Oh, I'm back for as long as necessary,
1:41:06 > 1:41:09but I won't be staying with Lucy.
1:41:09 > 1:41:12Anyway, I'm looking for a room,
1:41:12 > 1:41:16so if you hear of anything, let me know.
1:41:18 > 1:41:20BANJO PLAYS
1:41:20 > 1:41:24# She walks in beauty
1:41:24 > 1:41:26# Like the night
1:41:26 > 1:41:32# Of cloudless climes and starry skies
1:41:32 > 1:41:38# And all that's best of dark and bright
1:41:38 > 1:41:42# She walks in beauty... #
1:41:42 > 1:41:45CHILDREN LAUGH
1:41:45 > 1:41:47# ..aspect... #
1:41:47 > 1:41:48CHILDREN LAUGH
1:41:48 > 1:41:53# ..and her eyes
1:41:53 > 1:41:55# Thus mellow'd...
1:42:00 > 1:42:05# ..her eyes Thus mellow'd... #
1:42:15 > 1:42:17- WOMAN: Thanks. - Thank you.
1:42:17 > 1:42:18- Bye. - Bye-bye.
1:42:32 > 1:42:35DOG WHINES
1:42:39 > 1:42:42DOG WHIMPERS EXCITEDLY
1:43:09 > 1:43:10Was that the last?
1:43:11 > 1:43:13One more.
1:43:16 > 1:43:18I thought you would save him for another week.
1:43:19 > 1:43:21Are you giving him up?
1:43:23 > 1:43:25Yes.
1:45:53 > 1:45:54Lucy?
1:45:59 > 1:46:01Lucy?
1:46:04 > 1:46:08Hello, Milo. Good boy. That's my boy.
1:46:15 > 1:46:17I didn't hear you.
1:46:23 > 1:46:25Where's the truck?
1:46:25 > 1:46:28I parked up the road, took a walk.
1:46:40 > 1:46:42Will you come in for some tea?
1:48:01 > 1:48:05WOMAN: # She walks
1:48:06 > 1:48:10# In beauty
1:48:10 > 1:48:15# Like the night
1:48:15 > 1:48:19# Of cloudless climes
1:48:19 > 1:48:24# And starry skies
1:48:25 > 1:48:29# And all that's best
1:48:29 > 1:48:33# Of dark and bright
1:48:33 > 1:48:37# Meets in her aspect
1:48:37 > 1:48:42# And in her eyes
1:48:42 > 1:48:46# Thus mellow'd
1:48:46 > 1:48:53# To that tender light
1:48:53 > 1:48:56# Which Heaven
1:48:56 > 1:49:02# To gaudy day denies. #