"[girl whispering] Get with child a mandrake root." "Tell me where all past years are." "Or who cleft the devil's foot." "Or to keep off the envy's stinging." "Teach me to hear mermaids singing." "[father whispering] The alchemy is salvation." "Write the story in your blood and your bones will turn from lead to gold." "[soft music]" "[people chatting] [soft music]" "M mm." "Bet you'd like another." "So you'd win." "Same again?" "[music continues]" "( Grace ) What if he's a mass murderer?" "The bogeyman." "The creature from the black lagoon." "M mm, the prince." "[chuckling] Dreams?" "Listen, don't get any ideas." "Stick to the plan." "[music resumes]" "Cheers." "[music changes to mystic]" "[soft music]" "[muffled laughter] [laughter]" "( father) Lead to gold." "Lead to gold." "( Grace ) Did you dose him?" "(Violet ) He dosed himself." "Are you guys twins?" "I n a manner of speaking." "[laughs] Oh, yes." "I have died and gone to heaven." "Come here." "[soft music]" "Good night, sweetheart." "[clock ticking]" "I want it to be like a fairy tale." "Great." "Beauty and the Beast by the looks of him." "U nless... don'tget any ideas." "Stick to the plan." "You listen, M issy." "I don't give a damn about the plan." "Will be my baby." "Our baby." "Party time!" "[soft music]" "[both shout]" "Are you hungry?" "You don't live around here, do you?" "No." "Where are you from?" "No fixed address." "You know, traveling." "( Grace ) Traveling salesman?" "No." "You're in acquisitions." "She means you're an entrepreneur." "I'll bet you're the kind of guy who likes a challenge." "Yeah, it may be." "You are a challenge." "You can stay for a few days if you like." "Yeah, I might just do that." "We could use a handyman." "Are you handy?" "Violet." "Grace." "Luke." "It's a pretty big house." "You got this whole place for yourself?" "Yes." "What's through there?" "We don't go in there." "[chuckles] Why not?" "is this where you hide the skeletons?" "Here's Johnny!" "Holy shit!" "It's our parents' room." "( Luke ) We're are your parents anyway?" "Sorry." "[opens door]" "M ind if I take a bath?" "No." "I have a friend who wants to be a mermaid." "She tells me of... sealions and flying fish." "Caress of rare fantastic swimmers." "Handsome sailors." "They're seafaring skulls smashed on the rocks following the sirens' song." "( Luke ) Who's there?" "J ust drop it." "Thanks." "[closes door]" "[door closes] [door closes]" "What are you doing?" "Pay. I wanna see what he does." "You're making an effort." "He can't be too cautious." "[hinges squeak] [wind blows]" "That's our father." "What is he?" "An artist, doctor, professor, what?" "A doctor of sorts." "[clock ticking]" "You got his nose." "( father) That's it." "Turn them out to gold." "Emptying their felt." "Good girl." "♫ I fall in love to Italy. ♫" "♫ I fall in love too bad. ♫" "♫ I fall in love. ♫" "Do you want some?" "H uh?" "No?" "Fine, suit yourself." "[music resumes]" "♫ My heart should be well schooled ♫" "♫ 'cause I've been fooled in the past. ♫" "♫ But still I fall in love to Italy. ♫" "♫ I fall in love too fast. ♫ [instrumental music continues]" "[music stops]" "I wouldn't do that lf l were you." "[soft music]" "(Violet ) These are by our father." "Your father wrote all these books?" "The Alchemy of Creativity." "It's pretty heavy going." "Read." ""Thou all my desires." "The beauty of caresses?"" "Let's go for a drive." "What about Grace?" "What about Grace?" "Come on." "Are you alright?" "M m-hm." "Sure?" "Let's get in the car and keep on going, you know." "You don't even know me." "What does that matter?" "You mean like who really knows anyone anyway?" "No. lt just... doesn'tmatter." "How would we live?" "Gee, I don't know." "From luck I guess." "And money grows on trees." "Well, actually as a matter of fact no, it doesn't." "It tends to grow behind little girls' ears when they don't wash properly, but I'm sure it'll be okay." "How did you do that?" "You want some magic?" "♫ Oh, oh, you and I are alone. ♫" "♫ How could I be so blind. ♫" "♫ You and I, you and I. ♫" "♫ Oh, you and I all alone. ♫" "(Violet ) Caution is necessary for survival." "Yeah, whatever gets you through the night." "I don't think you'd understand." "So, what do yo want, Violet?" "I want you to fall in love with me." "Are you serious?" "[chuckles] I'm sorry, wrong guy." "I don't do love." "[engine stops]" "[door opens] [soft music]" "[childish voice] Hello." "I think I'm gonna go and get a drink." "(Violet ) There's a bottle of bourbon in the refrigerator." "You're flushed." "We kissed." "You're braking the rules." "There are no rules." "[girl whispering] Can't we call through other kings?" "I don't want a baby anymore." "This is my game now and you're not stopping me." "[clock ticking]" "You Frankenstein." "Where's the tequila?" "I don't know." "[laughter]" "So, what do you do for fun, Luke?" "What do I do for fun?" "I'll tell you what I do." "I kidnap difficult women and I do nasty things to them." "[both girls laugh]" "What are you afraid of?" "What are you afraid of?" "( Grace laughs]" "Lucky spin." "What the hell was that?" "[laughing] I know." "Let's play Spin Lukey." "Wait a minute." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Hey!" "[laughs]" "It's the double act from hell." "I think he likes us." "He'll save the world for you, 'cause it's supposed to make you hallucinate." "No, thanks." "I forgot." "You're the solid type, aren't you?" "What's wrong with that?" "Strong, in silence." "Still waters run deep." "Or stagnate." "You're the unknown." "You might need a little rewiring." "How would you tame a horse?" "Braking the spirit." "You don't really think that, do you?" "Showing his true cards now." "How would you tame a woman?" "Break her heart." "Oh !" "Well, the alternative is not to tame her." "He slithered out of that one." "It's women who tame men." "Ooh, civilize she means." "No, she means manipulate them, and some men can't be manipulated." "is that a dare?" "Let's play a little game and see what happens." "No." "J ust let's play" "Let's play the alpha game." "What's the alpha game?" "We count you into the alpha state and you see if you can guess who we are thinking of." "It's sort of mild hypnosis." "The zone were all minds are connected." "No way." "No." "I just must be completely out of my mind." "(Violet ) Not yet, but you soon will be." "Who shall we think of?" "( Grace ) J ust relax and breathe." "With each number you become more and more relaxed." "Relax your jaw." "Ten, nine." "Relax your neck and shoulders." "Eight." "Down." "Seven." "Six." "You're feeling very floaty." "Five." "Four." "Three." "The kid's gone to sleep." "[chuckles] [clears throat] You're holding the image of a man." "Can you get his name?" "It's a man's name." "It's a man's name." "[man shouting] Party timel [girls shout]" "Hey!" "You don't fucking mess with me." "It's just a game." "Hey, it's just a game." "Hey, hey." "You didn't get his name but you sure went somewhere." "Maybe he's not a pop person after all." "She was the late housekeeper's daughter." "Yeah, and she loved the silence underwater." "He is quick, is our Lukey." "The dark horse." "A unicorn." "He has that certain... nothing." "Don't go sweet on him." "The story." "This girl is no ordinary mermaid." "She has a vision." "Her vision has walls of skin and veins as large as the Panama Canal." "Thanks to her I know about circles." "I know that the beginning was a bang and so shall be the end." "A thousand fold aurora borealis." "The oceans will grow eyes from their beds." "Her eyes glow like a lighthouse." "Bright as a beacon." "I tell you she is some sea princess." "We all know how men feel about the sea." "The perfect mixture of terror and reverence." "She won't have any of them." "Neptune is waiting for her." "She's told me of the cool, silk green depths." "Small fish in translucent clouds, tickling her flesh with the flicks of their slippery tails." "She could barely tear herself away." "Silence." "( father) Write the story in your blood and your bones will turn from lead to gold." "[sighs]" "Good morning." "I'm sorry. I thought you were Violet." "Hey." "[door opens]" "♫ Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green. ♫" "♫ When I am done, dilly, dilly ♫ [both girls] Make two beds in ivory." "Tipped his clothes for awful kings." "He should go." "He just got here." "He's destroying the equilibrium." "C'mon. lsn't it nice having a fox in a hen house?" "Breaks the monotony." "What do you think a fox does in a hen house, stupid girl?" "It's not fun anymore." "He's staying and that's real." "He's not what you think." "( father) Find a hue, then the reins." "Come to me, Grace." "I will never leave you." "[father singing] ♫ Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, will I ever see thee wed?" "♫ [girl singing] ♫ I will marry when thy will, when thy will. ♫ [both sing] ♫ When thy will. ♫" "♫ Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, will I ever see thee wed?" "♫" "♫ I will marry when thy will, so when thy will. ♫" "♫ When thy will. ♫" "[Grace singing] ♫ Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, will I ever see thee wed?" "♫" "♫ I will marry when thy will so when thou art dead. ♫" "♫ When thou art dead. ♫" "♫ When thou art dead. ♫" "[Luke] What do you want, Violet?" "[Violet] I want you to fall in love with me." "( Luke ) Are you serious?" "I'm sorry, wrong guy." "I don't do love." "Got you." "[soft music]" "Desire is the will of the body, and will is the desire of the mind." "You're right." "( father) Violet, there's no expression there." "Do you want me to make you feel something?" "Maybe this will help you feel something." "What's wrong, bum nose?" "Come here." "Come here!" "Tch, tch, tch, tch, tch." "I was wondering where that got to." "[shouts] [both chuckle]" "Okay, I gotta be bad." "I can do it blindfold." "You know how?" "Could I get it?" "[giggles]" "Sh, sh, sh." "It's alright." "[soft music]" "So you cannot come with me?" "Where?" "( Luke ) I don't know." "New York, Mexico." "(girl whispers ) Nothing outside is worthy." "H uh?" "You know, I could really get used to you." "What's the matter now?" "Isn't that what you wanted?" "( father) See if you can make the flame go higher, Grace." "Direct your thought like a laser." "Energy responds to intention." "Never mind." "We'll try again later." "Are you there yet?" "Almost." "Gotcha." "[man moaning in pain]" "[male voice] He took wise precautions for the disposal of the body." "That is too weird, man." "Let's talk." "What do you want to talk about?" "I don't know." "Life." "[chuckles] lt's all history repeating itself endlessly, isn't it?" "Wanna go for a drive?" "[whispering] lt's late." "[whispering voice]" "[girl whispering] Show what you're made of." "[thriller music]" "[hinges squeak] [squeaking continues]" "I've got to get out of this house." "Are you gonna come with me?" "I can't." "What is wrong with you, Violet?" "You're hurting me." "What do you want?" "You don't do love, remember?" "Come on !" "Do you honestly believe that?" "I don't even really know you." "What you see is what you get." "Come on." "Don't you want to get out of here?" "Don't you wanna see the world?" "Yeah, I know about your world." "Circus animals jumping through hoops." "Push the button and you too can laugh, cry, even die on cue." "You believe in nothing." "I believe in myself, not some crap theories." "[Luke] Listen to yourself for one goddamn minute." "We become god-like by our ability to imagine." "And create what we imagine." "And not our ability to love?" "I wanna create something of value." "I wanna know authentic life." "I know you do." "So why, why do you surround yourself in make-believe?" "What's your story?" "You're a thief!" "Alright." "Sorry." "Come with me." "I can't." "Fuck you." "So good." "Like Scheherazade when she tells a story." "I will die." "Bastard." "No." "He loves me." "Doesn't have to hate you to prove it." "Where do we go?" "We're frauds." "Who's life is this?" "( father whispering ) The alchemy is selfish." "Write the story in your blood and your bones will turn from lead to gold." "The soul flies like a bird." "That is the true for a demon." "That is the life's work." "( father) Sacred geometry." "The golden proportion." "Magic spiral." "The space between atoms." "Gold of super neighbors." "The future and atom, cadmium." "Painting is fire, and fire is light." "And light is color." "And color is frozen music." "And music is liquid light." "And light does lift like New Year." "[girl whispering] I will never leave you." "( father) And the bones will turn from lead to gold." "From lead to gold." "[soft background music] [soft background music]" "How have you been?" "Wanna grab your coat?" "[clock ticking]" "Remember what H itchcock said when asked for motivation?" "It's only a movie, dear." "I want you to think of life a little bit more like that." "( Grace ) She says she's not long for this world." "She has a well inside her as deep as the sea and as wide." "It's made her up and it's made me up." "She calls it atom's dream, the dream of flesh." "To prepare to meet Neptune I'm to plunge a dagger through her heart to release her from this dream of flesh so she may join him in the watery depths." "I could never do this." "But tonight." "I will prepare a fine supper." "( Grace ) A striped bass and beaujolais." "For ten hours I will comb the matted seaweed from her hair." "And afterwards I will ignore her tears as I tell her of the death of Neptune." "I n this way I shall ensure my survival." "Do you think I could stay here" "( Grace ) Have you noticed that there's always a mad look in the attic in these films?" "Yes, and the good girls ring their hands." "The bad girls locked in terror are dead." "She's coming." "is it as hard for you to leave me as-- as it now for me to leave you?" "Say it, Jane, say it." "[both scream]" "Don't." "I'll marry you." "[clock ticking]" "Feeling anything yet?" "( mother) Grace." "Grace." "When the black of the void meets the white light of creation, it does not create rain," "but all the colors of the rainbow." "[clock ticking]" "[soft music]" "I have to go." "Grace." "I'm sorry." "No." "[sobs]" "[birds chirping]" "We'll start at the jazz festivals in New Orleans and I'll take you to New York." "Paris in the springtime and London at the fall." "How are we gonna live?" "We'll be fine." "We'll live of our wits and the kindness of strangers." "No more stealing from little old ladies." "No." "I only do multinational corporations that exploit little third world countries." "Hey, don't worry about it." "It'll be fine." "I'll take care of you." "We could just stay here!" "Come on !" "Don't you have any money hidden around anywhere?" "We do." "But I don't think that Grace is gonna let us have any." "Well, that's fine 'cause I got a little sister, so she can keep her money." "So is that a yes?" "is what a yes?" "You wanna come with me?" "Yes." "You can't survive out there." "They eat people like you for lunch." "Even the Amazons thought men were good for something." "Yeah, making babies." "So make one and then he can go." "I'm going with him." "No, we set the bait for him to swallow, Violet, not you." "I'm going." "You can't leave, Violet, you know that." "He's not worthy of you." "Do you want me to prove it to you?" "Nothing outside is worth having." "[girl whispering] Nothing outside is worth having." "You can never be." "( Grace ) You want me to prove it to you?" "[soft music]" "Luke?" "I'm gonna go to the market." "Do you wanna come?" "I was hoping Luke would help me." "You heard the lady." "Earn your keep." "See you outside." "[laughs]" "[shouts]" "Luke?" "I need your help." "Yeah." "It's just up there. lt's" "Here, I got it." "Grace, what are you doing?" "No, move." "Tall as one castle." "J ust move." "Get out of the way." "J ust back off, man." "J ust one kiss." "One kiss for the sister of the bride." "What are you frightened of?" "what are you afraid of?" "What are you scared of?" "[door opens]" "Shit." "Get over it." "Would you piss off?" "Lighten up." "It was so easy you gotta laugh." "You know, Grace?" "Something's died and you don't give a shit." "You enjoy it." "You think it's funny a fucking comedy." "Dying is easy." "Comedy is hard." "You should be more appreciative." "What are you doing?" "Can't you just grow up, for God sakes?" "M h?" "You'll regret that." "[whispering] You're just a child." "[whispering] And I shall be a child eternally." "Who stands by you?" "I stand by myself." "[recorder music]" "( father) Violet, there's no expression there." "Play what you feel." "Do you want me to make you feel something?" "Maybe this'll make you feel something." "There's no expression there." "You want me to make you feel something?" "Feeling anything yet?" "[shouting] Play!" "How was that, father?" "[clock ticking]" "I've got something to tell you." "I think you should know the truth about prince charming." "( Grace ) Tell her." "Tell her." "J ust let her be." "[soft music]" "[muffled voice] Violet!" "[soft music]" "Okay?" "Watch !" "I can't." "[laughs]" "You're okay?" "Yeah?" "[child Grace] My turn." "[child Violet] No, it's my turn." "My turn." "[overlapped voices] I win." "I win." "I win, I win." "I win." "( man ) Sign in right there." "Thank you." "[whispering] And I shall be a child eternally." "There you are." "( father) Lead to gold." "Lead to gold." "Lead to gold." "Lead to gold." "Are you okay?" "Bad dream?" "I'm pregnant." "Hold on, hold on." "It's fucking great." "It's great." "( Luke ) I'll get a job." "Can get a little house." "( Luke ) Surf, sea." "( Luke ) Surf, sea." "California, here we come." "♫ Lavender's blue, dilly dilly." "Lavender's green. ♫" "♫ When you are king, dilly dilly, I shall be queen. ♫" "♫ Who told you so, dilly dilly?" "Who told you so?" "♫" "♫ 'Twas my own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so. ♫" "♫ Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly." "Lavender's green. ♫" "♫ When you are king, dilly, dilly, I shall be queen. ♫" "Shit, Violet!" "[girl whispering] You can never leave." "Don't you dare look so pleased with yourself." "She needs looking after." "It's not like getting a pet, you know." "She'll be fine." "She's smarter than you think." "And you?" "How smart are you?" "Reasonable." "Capable of reasoning or reasonable average?" "You know?" "I feel so sorry for you." "So witty and wise!" "You know what they say?" "Kindness is the greatest wisdom." "And death the greatest kindness." "What did you just say?" "Nothing that you would ever understand." "We're gonna have a child, Grace." "Shit." "I've to get out of here." "Please." "I'm out of here now and either you're coming with me or you're not." "You just got here." "Stay one more night." "Please!" "J ust one more night." "One night." "One." "One more." "One more." "Let's have a truce now." "Please?" "( Grace ) I could make a celebratory feast." "How about that?" "Our last supper." "That would be lovely." "Maybe..." "Lukewouldstandforme so I can finish the painting I started." "Are you painting me?" "Yes, Grace has been painting you as Saint Sebastian." "(Violet ) lt won't hurt." "I'm so happy for you." "Really?" "Really." "I'm gonna go to the market." "No, no, you stay here." "I'll go, okay?" "You relax." "What are you doing?" "It's freezing !" "Grace." "He's family now." "Go inside." "So I'm finally allowed in the inner sight?" "[whispering voices]" "[overlapping voices]" "[whispering voices] [whispering] Revenge is fine." "[laughs] Don't be absurd." "Why do you need me to pose for you?" "To capture your soul." "Can you take your shirt off?" "What?" "Other rendezvous?" "I assure you that was business." "Strictly business, not pleasure." "You're such a bitch." "It's not to say I didn't enjoy the teensy-weensy bit." "Yeah, and you really needed it." "I'm gonna enjoy this." "is this absolutely necessary?" "Are you worried that I won't be able to contain myself?" "H uh?" "[whispering voices]" "Oh, no." "So am I part of the experiment then?" "The infamous theory." "I suppose you can call it an experiment." "Think of it more as..." "like polishing the lamp so that genie can come out." "What's that, like the three-wishes genie?" "Sort of." "The genie is the maker." "He eases what is enmity to create." "And you get your wish but not the wish you think." "It's your blood wish." "It's not always easy to close the genie up." "If it ever comes all the way out, it's got genius." "Oh, I see." "How suitably in love the ambition for Grace." "No. I want to be with the genie." "That's all." "When the genie takes over I am her river." "It presses down on me." "It devours me, it pares me to the bone." "It cleans me." "And the genie is out." "Doesn't matter what's happening on the outside." "I nside me is... silence." "Which means what?" "It's not right." "( father) Painting is wild." "It transforms what it touches." "Are you comfortable?" "Yeah." "( mother) They're running wild." "( father) Slow down I" "They should be in school." "( father) They must learn to think for themselves." "( mother) But they don't, that's the point." "It's your thoughts in their heads." "( father) Those girls are special gifted." "( father) Paint, paint." "Create an eye in which to perceive yourself." "An infinite elliptical interchange." "( father) You can paint on the canvas, Grace." "( father) Think for themselves." "[whispering voices]" "Are gonna kill me now?" "I don't care." "That's right, Grace, you don't care." "You don't give a shit." "All you care about is this fucking bullshit!" "Grace, no!" "All this crap." "[shouts]" "[women scream]" "[water running]" "[screams]" "[starts engine]" "( father) By their fruits you shall know them." "You create what you are." "And you are what you create." "[hinges squeak]"