"THE LIAR" "Isn't life a disappointment?" "No, but it's on dangerous ground" "I have a feeling that something w ill happen today" "Why?" " I can't wait any longer" "What could happen then?" " I don't know" "I don't either." " I suppose it doesn't matter" "MAIN CHARACTERS" "SCRIPT" "DIRECTED BY" "A packet of Colt, please." " 5,80" "Have you heard of the man I found in a gutter?" "He was run over by a bus in the rush hour" "Or would you believe in my honesty, - if I told you that you make me despise my whole former life?" "I've been living like a rabbit with rabies" "Do I have to hang my self in your eyelashes, - so that you could see me?" "Where shall we go in the evening?" " I'll go home" "Whose home?" " Mine" "But whose own?" " My husband's and mine" "How sad" "When are you going to divorce him?" " Never" "Did you know the woman, who cut her husband into pieces - and put him in cement?" "She loved her husband, too" "Two cold beers, please" "Could I have seen your face in a magazine?" "I haven't been in any magazine yet" "You have classic features, " "I'd like to take photos of you and show them to a friend, - he works for a big magazine" "Are you an artist, too?" "Maybe, - but my art can't compete with your eyes" "You must be crazy." " I don't care" "Here you are. 6.30 marks" "I was on my way to the bank, - but when I saw you, I forgot all about it..." "Could you pay for these, then we can go together..." "How was this year for you?" " Should I know you?" "Absolutely." "I would like you to." "What's your phone number?" "When did you lose your virginity?" "Hey, how are you Ville." " I'm okay" "Give me a mark" "Thanks." " Take care" "Hey, you there!" "The ticket!" "Sav a." " Sav a bien" "I've fallen in love." " In what?" "In one girl, even the stray dogs go to the other side of the street, - when they see her, just out of pure respect" "When did she lose her virginity?" "I don't know." "She disappeared, when I tried to ask her" "Is she rich?" " I think so, apparently she goes to work" "You wouldn't be a great loss to the world" "Thanks a lot!" "Do you think that love is just eroticism - or even less?" "I'm fed up with this discussion, and with sheepish young lovers" "Bridegroom, lend me ten marks" "I fell in love when I was two." "I ran away with my nurse" "Before that I read her "Re fugees" by Linnankoski" "Your conception hasn't reached universal dimensions" "Conceptions o f what?" " Of the nature o f the woman" "Bridegroom, lend me ten marks" "You're a deeply inhuman being, Juuso" "If a person can be inhuman, then it's congenital in my case" "Ville, wait a minute." " Hey, I was just looking for you" "And I've been looking for you for almost 3 weeks" "Once I saw you on a street corner but you disappeared." " I'm sorry" "When I got there, you were gone." "The street was empty" "I haven't been out much lately." "My mother has been ill." " Really?" "I've been with her almost all the time, " "Except during the day, when I go to work" "Where do you work?" "In the Ministry o f Justice" " That's great" "In the institute they were asking about our research" "I hope you haven't forgotten it." "Not at all, on the contrary" "I've often been thinking of its problematic..." "You see, on the basis of the results of our interviews - it's easy to prove our basic assertion" "People's happiness isn't an abstract thing" "It depends on certain social commitments" "That's true, but it's impossible to see - the difference between identity and dissimilarity." " What do you mean?" "It's impossible to see, if love - between the sexes is enjoyment of identity in dissimilarity, - or enjoyment of dissimilarity in identity" "Your dialectics are absurd" "Your problem is that you can't distinguish - the dialectics of thought from the dialectics of facts" "You are a problem yourself" "Heads." " Tails" "Our de finition o f happiness confuses - the progression towards positivism" "May I read your introduction to the premises of happiness some day" "Yes, but the article isn't finished yet" "I haven't been able to get the original source I need" "All my money's been spent on mother's medical treatment" "I'm sorry about your mother." " That's okay" "Everybody has his mother to bear" "I don't have much money now, but I could lend you the price o f the book" "Could you?" "Here you are." " Good" "I'll just pop to the men's room and then we can start working" "What's your name?" " Tuula" "That doesn't give you the right to do a thing like that" "Life is too short to be ruined." "If a man loses - his self respect he might as well shoot himself" "I'm not a man" "No, you are a madonna, and madonnas are not of this world" "A person is what he pretends to be, that's why you have to becareful" "What does my work have to do with you, you don't even know me?" "We can get to know each other later... the most important thing is that I don't want my girlfriend to be a toy" "Was that a marriage proposal?" "We'll go out tomorrow, before that you'll resign" "I can take care o f both o f us." " Oh really" "We'll meet tomorrow at 6 o'clock." "I'll go now." "Don't kiss me today" "See for yourself, there's nothing" "Is Kari there?" "No?" "Is he dead?" "In the army?" "I knew he was dead" "Is Jukka there?" "Who are you then?" "Marja-Leena." "A beautiful name." "As a child I had a dog that was called Marja-Leena" "Don't worry, it died" "Lend me 500 instead, " "I'll pay you back without your noticing" "At least you've got a reason to see me" "I believe you're as pretty as your voice" "Oh, but I shouldn't really, as I'm already in love" "Hi, do you have any money?" "No, I haven't left you" "I didn't call you because of the money, you know that" "I want to find my self, " "I've got lost in the market of lies" "Yes, in a line of customers" "How can you live without money?" "Why don't you go to work?" "Bye" "Yes, I had a good time." "Nice company" "Yes, I would like to go next weekend, too" "Oh yes, I'll remember" "Okay, good, that's fine" "Hello" "How is the biggest next Finnish working class writer?" "Things are not going well" "I'm in trouble" "Me too" "So you have come for money." "Can't you get it from anyone else?" "You are the only one I dare to ask." " You should go to work" "That's why I came here." " To get a job?" "Your job isn't good enough for me" "I came for money, as you quickly understood" "I need it to get a job" "I've got a post as a research assistant" "We're doing a research on people's happiness" "It's a chance of a lifetime..." "but there's a slight problem" "I lost the recorder which I interviewed people with" "The people are very sad." " Stick to the point" "The recorder costs 7200 and I have to pay today, - or I'll lose the job" "I have saved 6500 marks for my trip around the world" "I have to use that now, but I still need 500" "You are the only person that I trust more than my self" "Okay, is 100 enough?" " You don't trust me" "Don't hurt people's feelings" "Happiness is an important thing" "When could you pay me back?" " Before the revolution" "I can't wait so long" "You really have style" "And you are slothful and cold." "Full of big words, small thoughts" "Good evening." " Good evening" "Good evening." " Good evening" "You ought to be more smartly dressed, - hair, jacket and trousers" "But I have hair, jacket and trousers, everything in the right place" "But not smartly." " Not smartly?" "What about now?" "Excellent wine, isn't it?" " What do you do for living?" "I'm writing my first novel and loving you" "Full-time?" "I have time to love you only in the day time, because I write at nights" "You don't get any money for it." " You just smiled at me" "In fact, I don't do anything, because there isn't anything worth doing" "Isn't there?" " Don't you accept lazy men?" "Yes, if they are naturally lazy." " Let's talk about you instead" "What is there to talk about?" "My garter was undone" "I believe that your biography could become a classic" "Why?" "You don't even know me" "You remind me o f a girl..." "I lived at that time in Warsaw, working as a sandblaster" "We were deeply in love" "We wanted to get married, but a week before the wedding " "Nadia was run over by an underground train" "I was very upset then and asked my self - why was I punished with this life" "I can never forget her, except maybe, for you" "Do you believe in that story yourself?" "Not always, but today I'd like to believe in it." " Why?" "I'd like to choose sadness instead of emptiness, - but I always have to choose emptiness" "I think I feel sorry for you." " I love you too" "What's the matter with you?" "It's that pain of existence, - to be born under the threat of the bomb, you know" "You're a little naive, aren't you?" "That's true, of course, the worst thing is to know it oneself." "Let's go" "Thank you." " You're welcome" "Thanks..." "Wait a minute" "The fact that y ou generally talk about Bergson - when we speak of C handler, it's almost - as if you claimed that Hitchcock is a Brechtian film maker" "And so he is." "Notice, - that Chandler is originally a product of European culture, - and that only in the States he was able to combine these two - main strands of western civilization." "Just like Hemingway" "There I'd agree only in so far as - the relationship between Hemingway and Chandler is concerned, - but it can't be explained by any French philosophy" "The promised land for existentialism is France, isn't it Ville?" "I would claim - that the promised land for modern existentialism is Finland" "You may be right, but..." " I'm a fraid I'm always right" "Ville has a maximum amount of intelligence" "In any case, there is - an interesting relationship between Bergson, Proust, Chandler and Camus" "Hey, don't drink any more." "You'll die, if you drink so much" "I know that, I was born dead" "Hey" "I didn't have time to clean, I've been writing all the day" "What have you accomplished?" " Nothing special" "You were so much on my mind that I couldn't concentrate" "Don't kiss me or you'll get pregnant" "When will you bring the rest o f your stuff here?" "There's no room for all my books" "Can we a fford to go and have a few beers today?" "Yes, but can't we go to the movies instead?" "I've seen all the films in town, - they're all the same" "Ville." " Yes, my darling?" "There's a job for a stock-room man in the company - and I could talk to them, if you, maybe, could go there..." "The necessity to eat doesn't justify prostituting the acts" "I've been working all the time." " Me too, and I get paid for it" "Let's buy a couple of manly cutlets - and 2 meters of sausage." " What?" "I want meat!" "I thought of buy ing some cucumber and tomatoes - and making a good salad" "I want black coffee and cutlets and a couple of cheap sausages" "You are crazy!" " As you like it, baby" "Could you, please, take my things separately" "I'd like to open an account." "My social security number is 040407/6 A" "We don't have customer accounts" "Maybe I ought to go to the bank" "Take this as security, it's worth at least 100 marks, " "I bought it my self" "What was your name?" " Ville Alfa" "Where is your wife?" " She le ft" "Sad." " It doesn't matter." "Life must go on in any case" "Is the devil a woman?" " The creature is nothing but a nuisance" "Yeah, a person is always alone in the end" "Why not..." "When did you..." "lose your virginity?" "This reminds me of a girl" "I lived in Paris at that time and I was awfully in love with Lola" "But as it so o ften happens, - fate separated us in a very cruel way" "Did you love her as much as Nadia?" "Yes, but in another way" "Your honesty alway s surprises me, - but there's no crazy glow in your relations with women, - because they are unrealistic, unlike mine" "Yes, you must understand that I'm the most miserable of all creatures" "Even the angle worms are ashamed of me" "As a child I already knew that I never ou ght to have been born, - but I w asn't given a chance to choose" "There is no Buenos Aires." " Take the trash out, please!" "There y ou see, I'm no-good and I don't have the right to drag you with me along the endless chain of talking - and rotting" "But don't be worried of me, because now I really have found, " "I swear it, I have found a good job." " Don't tell lies to me" "Believe me!" "I've decided to repair to a monastery to cultivate the land" "There I can't cause - any harm to other people and nobody has to feel sorry for me." "You aren't working." "You don't even want to study" "You don't have any hobbies." "Your only hobby is to go to pubs" "It's impossible even to talk to you" "You're at your best when you've passed out" "You don't see anything, you don't hear anything" "Get away..." "You could make something of yourself, really" "Get lost!" "One whisky, please" "Hello." " Hey, how are you doing" "Could you, please, buy me a whisky." "I really need it, - my brother died this morning" "No, not Harri!" "I just spoke to him yesterday" "Their office is being renovated, and as Harri was going to work, - a man fell from the scaffolding on top of him" "His neck was broken and he died immediately." " Oh my God!" "No, such things cannot happen" "They do." "Could you buy me a whisky?" "Yes, of course." "Hey, one whisky, please" "And what happened to the man?" "Nothing serious, he broke his leg and banged his head" "Ville, my God, I'm sorry" "Can I, could I help you somehow?" "I don't need anything any more." "If you could lend me a hundred or two, - so that I could buy a suit for the funeral, - you will be there, too, won't you, I'll let you know" "Hey, listen, I have 300, take this, - but call me tomorrow and tell me more about it" "Oh boy." "What a thing to happen!" "I suppose I won't be needed here anymore"