"I started playing golf" "The day my wife got herself a lover." "I've been playing for 3 years." "And it's been 2 years since she left me." "Some say golf is always the same gesture" "And a series of tips to remember in the correct order." "A total of fourteen." "The grip." "Good distance." "Looking at the goal." "Firmly standing on the ground" "I stick my butt out a little." "I slowly lift." "And if you forget something..." "It's a disaster." "Others say you shouldn't think about anything." "Winston Churchill said :" ""Golf is what spoils the stroll"" "When I see a bunker I think about him." "I would say that golf is somewhere between zen and nervous breakdown." "And then there's the etiquette" "It's always being uncluttered, courteous" "Replacing divots" "And when you miss a shot and want to yell "Fucking hell!"" "You just say "Biiip"." "Until my friend Polo dragged me to Thailand." "How about a *thai dish name* ?" "What's that?" "A soup." "Let's go." "Do you realize that the final year" "She didn't even run her hands through my hairs once" "We weren't even making love anymore." "It was crap." "Listen to me Jean." "You're a nice guy." "You're rather good looking." "You're well off." "You've got a great job." "There's no problem." "Whatever you say..." "Public works are great but it doesn't interest anybody." "Do you think women dream about a man with a red helmet on his head?" "And what about a consultant?" "Do you think that's what they dream about?" "At least you advise, you direct." "I stagnate." "I've built everything except a family." "Stupid, eh?" "What about your wife?" "What does she say when you leave like that?" "She doesn't say anything." "I told her you're depressed." "It's sad, but after 10 years of mariage she doesn't say anything." "She doesn't care." "You shouldn't have eaten that red thing." "Fuck, it would have been nice to tell me before." "Don't worry, it only burns three times!" "The first time in your mouth, the second in your belly" "And the third time tomorrow morning *farting noise*" "Fuck, have you seen those bugs?" "Fuck." "Fuck those are roaches!" "It tastes good, it's like chips." "Try it!" "No, no, no." "You won't make me eat roaches!" "A grasshoper then?" "Look!" "You're going to have the runs!" "It's good I swear!" "Taste it!" "Stop it !" "Stop it, I'm going to puke." "Fuck!" "You didn't drag me here so I could fuck a whore, did you?" "!" "This is fucking pathetic." "You haven't seen nothing yet." "I've being going in Thailand for 10 years" "And I'm still amazed." "This is my first time and I've had enough!" "It was funny for a moment but now it's just sad." "Yeah and there aren't any whores in France..." "I didn't say that." "But in France I don't fuck whores either." "This has nothing to do with what I said." "Ok, whatever you say." "Don't you find it revolting that some men are taking advantage of this?" "No, I think there is magic." "What the fuck do you mean "magic" ?" "Are you fucking with me or what?" "!" "This is prostitution." "All the girls start when they're 12 years old!" "Yeah and Chinese all wear pointy hats..." "What the fuck are you telling me?" "!" "Nothing..." "No, no, don't talk to me about pointy hats!" "It's reality I'm talking about!" "And on which tv channel did you saw this?" "Not on television!" "Everybody knows that!" "Except..." "Except those who know what can really happen in Thailand." "So Jean, allow me to say that you haven't seen nothing yet." "I'm in Bangkok." "Yeah, yeah, Bangkok." "No, no, I'm with Polo." "Yeah, right now he's on the bed eating grasshopers." "No, he's on the bed eating grasshopers." "What do you mean I'm taking it easy?" "Listen, what I do is my business, isn't it?" "Oh yeah?" "You telling me to fuck off?" "Why am I calling you?" "I don't know, I'm just asking how you're doing." "Ok, ok, listen." "How are you?" "That's great." "I just called Caroline." "It was at least 6 months since I had her on the phone." "It didn't go very well." "What's up with you?" "I don't know." "I felt like calling her." "To tell her that I am far away." "Actually I think I called her to piss her off." "Hey, forget it." "No, that's not it, but tomorrow when she'll take the subway" "She's going to think" ""This fucking asshole who never took me anywhere is in Thailand"" "Get naked and put a towell on." "I've called 2 traditional masseuses." "Tell me, when was the last time you had sex?" "I don't anwser to this kind of question." "Sorry, I was joking." "So sorry to joke about something as intimate as this." ""Traditional" I told you." ""Traditional" means no sex." "Oh yeah?" "Or does it?" "You can negociate." "Fuck, stop it!" "I can't stand it when you do that." "You're not funny." "Stop it!" "Stupid fucker!" "How are you?" "Do you speak french?" "The massage was great!" "I fell asleep like a hog." "Hey, you know what?" "She called me back!" "The masseuse?" "No." "Caroline." "She never did call me back before." "It's the first time." "I'm in the bunker." "At least you could stop talking when we play." "Excuse me." "At least I stopped talking for your swing." "Fuck, she did call me back." "It's unbelievable." "And what did she say to you?" "Oh nothing." "She left a message." "Which said that I'm a fucking asshole." "That it comes to her as no surprise that I'm in Thailand." "And that she wishes me a good time with the whores." "Which would do me some good." "This is rather nice." "Coming from her, I don't think so." "Let me tell you." "I feel like these calls changed something in me." "I don't really know what." "But it changed something." "Back off a little, please." "Go on, play big boy!" "Show me what you can do." "Don't make me laugh." "I stick my butt out a little." "I slowly lift." "Fuck, I am going to hit this as hard as I can." "With great delicacy." "Your problem is not power it's direction." "What you don't understand is that I never paid for a girl." "Oh really?" "In France you never paid for a woman?" "You paid everything for you wife." "Cut the bullshit." "You can say this to whoever you want but me." "This is different." "And you're paying her a 1200€ monthly alimony because she doesn't work." "Great isn't it?" "It's the law." "We were married under the regime of community of property." "And what are you paying for?" "She's the one who broke with you." "She didn't broke with me, we separated." "Alright, yeah, yeah, I'm paying." "And I'm still paying each month." "But something is bothering me here." "Something makes me feel guilty." "I'm not really going to pay for sex, am I ?" "!" "Have you ever given flowers to a woman?" "Yes, of course." "All the time." "Here you don't give flowers." "You give the flower money." "And the girl does what she wants with it." "Here girls only dream about one thing." "It's that you take them back to Paris or that you marry them." "Stop the bullshit..." "What?" "You think we're here for sex?" "Are you crazy or what?" "Sex is everywhere." "Next to your place." "Here it's different." "Hello honey." "Yeah, everything's good." "Really everything's good." "How's my daughter?" "Yes, great." "Yes, this afternoon." "Yes, a dream golf course." "We played really bad." "Yeah, worse than me." "Yeah, he's better now." "You know me." "Eat on time." "Sleep on time." "No, I can't hear you well." "It's because I'm the street." "I love you." "We hang up at 3." "1. 2. 3." "Ok, now you're going to do me a favor." "You're going to shut your mouth." "And we're gonna go see the girls." "I don't think these girls want to marry." "Why is that?" "I don't know, I feel it." "You're not at the Bois de Boulogne here." "I may not be at the Bois de Boulogne but..." "A girl is looking at me." "The one who's sitting down." "I see." "Stop it!" "Fuck she's going to come here now." "So what?" "!" "I don't know what to say to her!" "Don't worry." "Let her do her thing." "What did you say to her?" "Nothing." "Why is she laughing?" "I told her it was a long time since you had sex." "You're an asshole." "You're real a pain in the ass." "So?" "What are you doing?" "What do you want me to do?" "She neither speaks French nor English." "You don't have to give her a talk about Flemish painting..." "Well I like to talk before getting to it, ok?" "If that's ok with you." "You can pay her so she only stops dancing." "You don't have to fuck her." "You can go have a drink with her or have diner." "And talk if you want to." "I can resist this kind of girl." "No problem." "But what are you going to resist?" "You're single." "And you're a fucking asshole!" "Fuck, you're full of principles, eh?" "Not at all!" "That I do not want to fuck a whore doesn't mean that I have principles." "Fuck, you're breaking my balls." "No, no, come on cut the bullshit!" "So?" "What do we do?" "What do you mean?" "Do we bring them to the hotel?" "No." "What's your problem?" "I told you already." "You're annoying." "I don't pay for sex." "I don't want to be like all these guys." "Which guys?" "That filthy fat pig here." "Why couldn't he be happy?" "Because he's fat?" "This makes no sense." "And it's because he's fat that people think he's filthy." "As if him being fat wasn't enough." "No." "I think that handsome mens are the filthiests." "Don't you think so?" "You're tricking me." ""Let's go eat"" ""Let's just get a drink"" "And now, straight to the hotel." "I think you're making a big mistake." "There's something that really bothers me." "What is it?" "Do I have to remember you that I'm your daughter's godfather?" "It annoys me quite a bit." "So you do what you want but don't take me as an hostage." "I don't want to see you do your things." "Jean." "Jean?" "Are you losing it?" "Yes, you're completely losing it." "So you forget about Judite, you forget about my daughter, your goddaughter." "And we're going to have some fun." "We're going to have fun!" "We're not bothering anyone here." "Besides you're single." "What is this?" "Why is she laughing?" "This is what we give to Thai boxers before the fight." "Ok we're going." "Already?" "It's the right time." "You don't know that one." "No, I didn't know that one." "Classy." "I'm turning the light off for you." "Fuck!" "You're stupid." "Turn it on again!" "Polo!" "Polo can you turn it on again please?" "Fuck." "Stupid fucker." "How are you doing?" "Very good." "Do you speak French?" "No, my love." "My love?" "So?" "So... nothing." "I didn't do anything." "Well I just stroked her hair while she was sleeping." "I can't believe it..." "You're an alien..." "No, no, no, everything's fine!" "I swear everything's fine." "Except I couldn't sleep because of your Red Bull..." "Fuck, that stuff is strong." "I felt like I was 16." "Spending my first night with a girl." "I think I don't even remember how to make love." "Do you know about hunching your shoulders?" "What is this bullshit about?" "So you're with a woman." "At the moment you're about to come" "You hunch your shoulders and hold it." "Like that." "Precisely, I'm not sure if I can do that anymore..." "I only wanted to" "Paint her or photograph her." "I consumed her in front of the bay-window facing Bangkok." "Can you picture Batman?" "Batman... it was me." "Don't start again." "Keep this for yourself please!" "Anyway if I fall in love" "It will be with a lady." "Do you understand that?" "Yes." "You don't meet ladies in gogos or whorehouses and all that shit." "Look at them as they go." "It's for old men." "No, it's not for old people." "It's for guys like me." "A colleague gave me the address." "A colleague?" "It's where my cousin found his wife." "I act as I would in France." "The marriage agency is a well-tried way." "Listen, I'm 40 years old and I want to find a woman who matches me." "And if you can't understand this, never mind." "You mean a woman who likes narrow minded assholes." "Don't you want some fried rice?" "Stop it..." "Please don't make me laugh..." "Is there a number 69?" "Let's see 69." "She looks hot." "69, is it eat-in or take-out?" "Take-out." "Oh, you speak French." "Excuse me, I was just joking around with my friend." "He's a widower." "And he's looking for a wife." "Oh, you're a widower?" "Yes." "If you want girls to party go to Sukhumvit." "You're right." "Sukhumvit is good." "Wait." "I'm very serious about this." "How much is membership?" "400€ and you can meet 3 young women." "Oh, that's good." "Fine." "Do you accept credit cards?" "Sure." ""sure"" "I can still see her face." "She got you." "You're insane." "You're crazy." "You paid 400 euros, 20000 bahts just for membership." "Whereas you could have a girl all night for 2000 bahts." "Money which actually goes to the girl." "But in agencies you meet serious women." "You know what your problem is?" "You think as if you were in France." "It's a whole different thing." "You're a madman, a real madman." "I don't want a wife who knows how to say "my love" in 35 languages." "That's of no interest to me." "Are you sleeping?" "Fuck." "Don't you feel like you got fucked over now?" "Well, a little bit, yes." "My friend, it is time you go to the seaside." "Pattaya..." "The action isn't here." "It's over there." "Walking Street." "Jean." "Patrick." "Hello, Jean." "Welcome." "Nice to meet you." "This place is an El Dorado." "I've seen plenty of guys go mad." "Precisely like gold diggers." "Here you'll find everything you want." "The girl is like a mirror for you." "This is what's so dramatic." "It's yourself that you're going to find." "She's everything you want." "At that point you could break down." "If you don't know what you really want." "If you want love." "Or sex." "It can be hard to make the distinction." "I fell in love with a Thai 2 years ago." "I would do anything for her." "Even though I'm maried with 3 children, although they're grown-ups now." "This girl is a trash can." "And I must be trash." "But if she doesn't call me every hour, I'm going mad." "I search the whole of Pattaya for her." "No?" "I'm having a ball." "Thai women are like courtesans from the 19th century." "Like little Parisian laundresses." "Thai women are primitive women who have become novel characters." "They fuck the reader at every page." "Experts that they are in the art of love." "I would even say in the art of living." "We're nothing compared to them." "Cheers!" "The girls here... are they whores ?" "Stop it with your obsesssion with "whores"..." "I don't see any whores here." "I only see princesses." "That one playing pool is surely the queen of princesses." "Seriously, seriously?" "Are you kidding?" "There is something that you don't understand." "These girls don't just want to fuck customers one after another." "They just want to meet a nice guy who will take care of them." "Ok I already got that." "It's the same everywhere." "But this girl, she's playing pool." "She's not at the bar." "She's not flirting with me." "She doesn't care about us." "She's just playing." "Maybe she's not a whore." "Some are here to work and some are not." "Isn't it?" "Are you kidding?" "No." "Yes, you must be kidding." "This girl, she's a girl who likes to play pool." "She's a student." "Really?" "What?" "Do you like her?" "You're lucky." "She doesn't want." "Why?" "She doesn't want to go with you, you can't take her." "See I told you, she's not a whore, she's classy." "What do you think of her?" "Beautiful." "Who is she calling?" "Her mother?" "I don't like oysters with red pepper..." "I'm holding it." "Stay calm." "That skin you have." "It's unbelievable." "Fuck." "I can't believe this." "It's been at least 10 years since I danced like that." "I'm soaking wet." "Some guy is massaging me..." "is this normal?" "!" "Yeah it's normal." "I have to tell you something." "Last night." "It wasn't a girl that I brought to my room." "It wasn't a girl?" "It was a guy?" "So?" "How was it?" "Don't even think about it, nothing happened." "C'mon, you can tell me." "How was it?" "Was it good?" "Nothing happened." "It troubled me." "Not because she was a guy." "But she was so sad." "We talked all night." "She needs 3000€ for surgery." "Fuck, I need to clear my head." "Hello honey." "How are you?" "Yes, very well." "Yes, very well." "Yes, the weather is great." "Of course it's night now." "And you?" "How are you?" "Yeah." "We're in Pattaya." "Oh no, the town isn't that good." "I'm in my room." "With Jean." "Ok, yeah." "If you want." "He's in the toilet." "I'll tell him you said hi." "No." "No, nothing special to tell." "We're resting." "Yes." "Rest, rest." "Lots of rest." "Especially Jean, he really needed it." "He lives again." "Me too." "Kisses." "Kisses." "Ok." "We hang up at 3, ok?" "1, 2, 3." "Ok we're going." "Already?" "Yes, it's the right time, eh?" "Bye!" "Bye." "Fuck!" "They've been here for two hours!" "After 2 nights she tells me she loves me." "And you know what?" "I'm stupid enough to believe her." "Everything's right." "In her eyes..." "Her voice..." "I believe her." "Why shouldn't I trust her?" "Maybe there's something that can make a woman fall in love with me." "I don't know." "Something invisible." "Your money." "If she smells that you're rich, that you're a nice guy." "And a sucker who will take her to Paris." "One night with you would be enough for her to smell that." "You're a jerk." "You don't get it." "I've seen her for two nights and it feels like I've known her for 6 months." "I totally get it." "What the fuck are these Japanese doing?" "Are they playing or what?" "So you don't believe that a woman could fall in love with me?" "In Thailand?" "I doubt it." "She told me her life story." "It's not all rosy." "She had a severe motorcycle accident and her boyfriend died." "I don't know if he's the father of her child by the way." "She has a child?" "Yep." "But he lives with her parents." "Good." "You were looking for a family weren't you?" "Fuck." "You're a jerk." "C'mon, play." "You're too sentimental." "Don't rush me." "I'm not sentimental." "It's not an insult to be called sentimental." "Can't you people be quiet?" "!" "The Japanese, everyone, the caddy..." "And stop laughing at me." "3, 4." "I'm an asshole." "I shouldn't have listen to you." "I don't know what got into me." "I fucked up with Pat." "I was thinking about what you said." "That a Thai girl could never fall in love with me." "I never said that." "I said that I doubt it." "That's the same thing." "I wanted to think about this." "Now I made my decision." "I want to see her again." "Holy shit, you're addicted." "I need to go back to the beer bar." "Wait, I have an idea." "We'll mess around to make them laugh." "Because I think you're little Pat will be pissed off." "When you go black you never go back." "Shut up!" "I'm fucking miserable here." "She could have gone with a dwarf or a Japanese." "It would have been the same." "Excuse me but it's not really the same thing." "You're not going to compare Mike Tyson with a Japanese, are you?" "It's not the same calibre!" "Excuse-me." "You're a jerk." "Excuse-me." "What do you care?" "You're surrounded with beautiful chicks." "Very sweet girls." "You're right." "You're right I'm an asshole." "You're too sentimental." "Fuck!" "Stop it with that." "I'm not sentimental." "Is she the woman you're looking for?" "Seriously?" "I have a big problem with Pat." "I lost control." "Stop messing around." "You're not here to give yourself a headache." "Have fun Superman!" "You're right my little rabbit ( =pumpkin )." "I have butterflies in my stomach." "As if I was in love." "Ok, I'm not going to bother the both of you any longer." "Bye." "Remember what Patrick said?" "You've got to know if you're after sex or love." "It's a whole." "No, it's not." "You're either a boyfriend or a customer." "It's the relationship to money that changes." "You have to know what you want with her." "I'm not leaving." "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" "Yes." "I'm going to stay a few more days." "I have to see her again." "Be careful." "Why?" "Anyway even if she's putting an act on." "It's as good as if it was true." "Now is it an act or is it not..." "I don't even ask mysefl this question anymore." "You should." "Why did you bring me here then?" "So you could have fun." "Not so you could fall in love." "Oh yeah?" "Because you can control that?" "You're gifted, you're really gifted." "Here you love everything but don't love anybody." "I love much more than you think." "But I protect myself." "Don't forget." "These girls are the best actresses in the world." "You should never believe them." "You'll see if little Aom will cry for me in the cab." "Ok so have fun." "And be careful." "I'll call you as soon as I arrive." "Are you ok?" "Yeah, I'm ok." "Won't you feel lonely?" "I will." "But that"s good, it will be the first time." "Come on!" "No, no." "I can't make it to the meeting with the architects monday." "Yes." "I have a few problems to take care of." "Yes, in Bangkok." "No, I'm in Bangkok right now." "It's nice but you can't help me." "Thank you." "Bye." "My God, it's amazing here." "Hello, yes, Mr Montblanc?" "Hello, it's Jean Nova(?" ") on the phone." "But..." "How do I do?" "Of how much?" "5700€ ?" "I don't know how this happened." "I didn't thought I had withdrawn that much." "Hello, Polo?" "How are you?" "I'm in trouble." "I need money." "Oh yeah?" "You think I can see Patrick?" "No, no, that's good." "Ok, I leave you now." "Kisses." "Bye." "It's hard to believe." "It's an art." "She fucked me silly for a whole night." "I didn't know this could happen." "She's so beautiful." "So... crazy." "So sweet." "Nobody can know what I feel." "Nobody." "Why couldn't I fall in love with a whore?" "Others can think what they want, I don't give a fuck." "Your life and hers are in your hands." "It's very dangerous and very beautiful at the same time." "Do you understand?" "Yes." "I'm madly in love." "Me too." "I'm madly in love." "Fuck, what did I do?" "It's tough eh?" "It's your first time?" "It's my third time here and it's even harder." "Seriously?" "She didn't got over the fact that I went to Thailand with you." "She blew a fuse." "She must have smelled something." "I don't know." "I don't know what happened." "And your daughter?" "What about my daughter?" "She's the one leaving me." "Why are you talking about my daughter?" "What are you going to do?" "I don't know." "Get a good lawyer." "I wonder if someone did tell her something or made a mistake." "Who could have made such a mistake?" "I don't know." "Oh come one you've got to be kidding." "Seriously..." "you're kidding right?" "Don't beat around the bush." "If you've got something to say, say it." "For fuck's sake." "Sorry but it was a blow to me." "Judith told me she had you on the phone." "And?" "And?" "And nothing." "I thought you could have made a mistake." "She could have asked you how was Thailand." "You would have said "great,great!"." "And she would have asked "how were the girls?"." "And while you were at it, a bit dreamy, you could have said "great,great!"." "Or something like that." "Me, dreamy?" "You think I'm stupid or what?" "No." "Excuse-me." "I'm grasping at straws here." "I'm a bit lost." "Well you could very well have said to her that you had met someone." "Which caused her to suspect that I did as well." "But..." "You didn't meet anyone there." "Yeah." "Yeah?" "I'm in trouble." "Yes you're in trouble." "Red pepper." "What about it?" "I miss it." "Fuck, fuck, fuck." "So I told him very seriously that I don't really do politics." "It's just my way to do humanitarian aid." "And what he shot in Rwanda was terrible." "Really terrible." "You know, all those villages where horrible things happened." "Dreadful." "It's like what you said about Thailand." "You're totally bewitched." "It scares me." "You know what happens over there?" "The system is lousy." "Everything is lousy, it's revolting." "These girls who are taken from their villages." "And all those filthy pigs who go there." "It's..." "Yeah I know." "You've seen that right?" "You seem lost in thought." "No, no." "Did you call Caroline back?" "No." "Yes you did." "She told me." "She didn't appreciate you going to Thailand." "While you're complaining about paying her alimony." "That's your business, though." "She called Judith too." "I think things went bad for Polo." "Yeah." "I know." "I don't understand why you went there." "You're just asking for troubles." "Why don't you go to Corsica to play golf?" "The weather is good and Corsica is beautiful." "But you know what happens in Thailand." "Women trafficking." "It's revolting isn't it?" "Weren't you shocked to see this?" "Didn't you see anything?" "Are you listening to me?" "Sorry, excuse me." "Where are you?" "Far away." "You paid for girls?" "What?" "You paid for a girl?" "No it's not like that." "What is it like?" "Have you been given flowers?" "Yeah." "Here you don't give flowers." "You give the flower money." "And the girl does what she wants with it." "Do you understand?" "No, I don't." "Hello Polo?" "I'm in Bangkok." "Oh shit, sorry, did I wake you up?" "Ok listen, I left the keys with the concierge." "Ok?" "You can go anytime you want." "It's your home." "Ok?"