"THE FALL a very free adaptation of La Chute by Albert Camus" "Reality has disturbed my dreams." "sound editor" "music" "With thanks to Castle Groeneveld producer assistant director a film by" "Well..." "We've laughed a lot." "Especially after a drink, then he would get started." "He had a strange sense of hum humour crazy humour." "Lately he would suddenly relapse." "I don't know..." "Just as if something was happening to him." "Then he would suddenly want to leave." "My coat would be sent for." "I'd have to lie very close to him." "As if he were very cold." "I remember he woke me up." "And asked if I wanted to laugh as well, or scream." "Dunno..." "There are times..." "Maybe it's for the best." "Perhaps it should be like this." "I've had everything." "Money, I could do what I liked, we went everywhere." "He always made money, lots of money." "I'm on the best side of the counter." "He never lost a single trial." "I slept with lady Justice again, he said." "Brilliant man." "No, I never heard from him again." "He suddenly left." "That was his way." "I think he's somewhere in Amsterdam." "Enter." "Please excuse me for receiving you from my bed." "I think I have a cold or something." "Nothing a stiff drink won't fix." "I have that often." "How do you like the room?" "Empty?" "It looks like a Vermeer." "There are for example no books." "I stopped reading years ago." "Before my house was filled with books." "I maybe read half of them." "Right now my only concern is revelations." "But if those writers become confidential, beware." "You can be sure there's some old corpse getting make up." "I know about that, be assured." "And that is why I quit." "No books." "No odds or ends." "Only the bare necessities." "Making your room look as tidy as a coffin." "moreover shafts in his heart of our bed will be placed Amsterdam to brussels" "Did you hear screaming too?" "I think I have a mild fever." "Did you close the door properly?" "Would you mind making sure?" "This may all sound strange, but I have a lock complex." "A sort of fear that they'll take something from me." "I didn't use to, before I always said dear god, property equals murder." "Now I don't have a penny." "So no worries there." "I'm only scared for myself." "My presence of mind." "I should sit up straight to get some air..." "I'm tired." "It wasn't for my own pleasure that I had all those discussions with you." "I used to, when I could talk for hours without saying anything." "But now it has a purpose." "I simply involve you in the things that I have to say and want to share." "You should regard that as a coincidence." "But that is up to you." "That's the way life is." "A chaos of coincidences." "I have no mercy." "For nobody, never." "There's no such thing as good intentions." "Never mind innocence." "So we are all guilty." "I feel like a kind of typical freedom fighter." "Relevant or not" "I've always been very good with that kind of thing." "Especially if I didn't like it." "Please stop that singing." "I've told you before that you can't do it." "You sing something then." "I can't, I told you that before as well." "It's an accident, I'll buy you a new one some day." "I'm sorry." "You can't, it was an old one." "My mother gave it to me." "You with your family always." "When will you get over that?" "That junk..." "That table was misplaced." "You should forget more, it makes living easier." "You're always dreaming." "Ready?" "Called a cab?" "Got small change on you?" "I only have large." "That woman won't have change for that." "When will I see you again?" " No idea." "You know where I have to go." "The trial may take longer." "My pal, when you're so alone, you're forced to find someone." "Especially now that god is no longer fashionable." "By the way, that word means nothing anymore." "Our esteemed moralists..." "Love thy neighbour..." "The only difference with the christians is they don't preech." "That reminds me of a friend of mine." "A writer of novels." "An atheist." "But still he was praying every night." "In itself that's not strange, but if you knew the things that happened to god in his books." "We're all the same." "Eighty percent of all writers all prefer to write about god, ...as long as it's anonymous." "But they are too vain." "And because they have to write something, they start moralizing." "I knew someone..." "His marriage broke down because he started thinking about the faith." "Oh well..." "Our Father..." "Who is on earth for the time being..." "Apparently you're still not bored with listening to me." "You're a bit like a police officer after all." "It all goes wrong when a religion starts to moralize." "Judgement Day..." "Don't make me laugh." "I wait for that, but it leaves me cold." "I found something that can really destroy you." "The judgment of the people." "That damn humidity in here." "Do you know why that other man was nailed to the cross?" "Did you ever think about that?" "Motives enough." "When you've truly committed a crime, there's always a lawyer at hand." "If you're innocent you have to search for them real hard." "I've known those motives for 2000 years." "On and on and on." "But by god I don't know why that 1 reason always remained hidden." "That man knew full well he wasn't that innocent." "He must've heard talking at some point about a certain infanticide." "You know..." "Those children who were cut into pieces." "For his sake, surely." "Isn't it?" "I'm sure he never quite got over it." "His entire performance was one big melancholy." "Incurable." "And that is very logical." "If you are chased, ...without your guilt, ...you'd better quit." "But I empathize with him." "And in the end he died without knowing it." "I rather like him." "We just lack the courage, to do what he did." "But here I am pleading a case again." "My old trouble returns." "I wish I felt nice and warm again." "Do you know that feeling?" "Have you ever thought about why they nailed that man to the cross?" "I rather like him." "Would you have the guts to do what he's done?" "Mama, I can't sleep, I'm so scared." "Yes dear." "Go to sleep." "Mama will see you soon." "But I can't sleep because I am so warm." "Mama will come soon." "Leave the light on." "Why don't you stay?" "I have an appointment." "Would you open the window please?" "It's suffocating in here." "But no, leave it." "At the same time I am cold." "I should do less thinking." "At least, about the past." "I've found a sort of emergency solution for it." "I've started to abandon everything." "But I already told you that." "Then I closed my law firm and I set out, just travelled to a city." "I sometimes still help those little bourgeois men who've taken to crime." "I have a special knack for them." "To play them." "I always require a certain technique." "For starters I sum up all their bad qualities." "And then I accuse myself and this and that." "I'm quite successful at that." "Takes no effort." "And if they heighten it further, ...then it gives me a portrait." "A sort of mask." "Which doesn't just resemble me, but you as well." "You sometimes see them at carnivals." "And when I've finished that portrait, ...it changes into a mirror." "We're all in the same pickle." "Only I have the advantage of knowing it." "And that gives me the right to speak." "A huge advantage." "I can say to you whatever I like." "You should try it sometimes." "That makes you smile." "As soon as you entered I knew that you would not be an easy client." "At some point you'll have to bite the bullet." "You are less at ease than at first." "But you'll be back some time." "I am certain of it." "When you'll return not much will have changed." "Nothing has ever changed, really." "I still do what I like." "Now and then I hear some screaming." "But now to business." "You are not with the police, then." "That would be too easy." "You practice the fair trade of lawyer." "Hence the affinity." "I felt it before." "I knew we were the same kind of people." "Talking without saying anything." "But then I'd like to know if you saw something special on that bridge." "That keeps me awake at night."