"(CLATTERING)" "MAN:" "Ow!" "Damn it!" "(SIGHS)" "Rachel, I don't think..." "It's not like, you know..." "You're..." "(SIGHS)" "Car's ready." "Are you ready to go?" "Ready to go, pal?" "Come on." "Let's go." "Come on, Bernie." "Let's go." "Come on, Bern." "Car's leaving." "Come on." "Come on, Bernie." "Come on. (CLAPS)" "(CLAPPING)" "I'll just get him later." "RACHEL:" "Okay." "Yeah." "(DOOR CREAKING)" "This is the last box here." "(GRUNTS)" "All right." "Let me know if I leave anything behind." "Sure." "(CREAKING)" "Oh!" "(GROANS)" "Fuck!" "Jesus!" "Fuck!" "(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)" "(SOBBING)" "(SNIFFLES)" "(SOBBING)" "Hey." "Hey." "Thanks so much for letting me crash here." "Yeah, of course, come on in." "Just got to the point where I guess she..." "She lost faith in me." "She lost faith in..." "In our relationship." "She lost faith in any possibility that we might be able to resolve this somehow." "And she lost faith." "Wow." "What was Mom's take on all this?" "Mom, you know..." "(EXHALES)" "You know, she was drunk, she was angry at me." "She blamed me for everything, basically." "PHIL:" "Yeah." "Yeah." "And called me a pussy, in her own way." "(PHIL CHUCKLES)" "PHIL:" "Yeah, I can't say I'm surprised." "Is that my shirt?" "This?" "What, the V-neck?" "No, the shirt underneath." "The white shirt." "What, with the..." "I think Rachel got me this." "The button-down?" "I've been looking for that shirt for, like, two years." "Honey?" "I cleared out the..." "The right hand side of the basement, the far right hand side by the boiler, for all of Alex's stuff." "So, okay." "PHIL:" "Thank you." "Mmm-hmm." "ALEX:" "Thanks." "I really appreciate it." "Yeah." "So what about the tour?" "Are you still going to go out by yourself?" "I have to." "PHIL:" "You can't cancel?" "I can't cancel it, no." "I need the money, you know." "I need to start chipping away at this debt." "Unless..." "Unless you and Clay want to lend me $4,000." "And you know, I think, you know, maybe just being on the road..." "You know, just alone with my thoughts for two weeks." "Maybe that's a good thing." "You know, it'll give me..." "Give me an opportunity to reflect on things." "Maybe give me a little bit of perspective." "You know, in the whole situation." "And you know, maybe that's a good thing." "So what do you think?" "You want to come with me?" "All right." "No, I..." "I have Pete's number." "Petey!" "Pistol Pete!" "When did people stop calling you that?" "Oh, okay." "I didn't..." "Wesley!" "What's shaking, brother?" "Listen, I know this might seem out of the blue, but, um, do you remember that movie I made a few years ago, called Woodpecker?" "This is the movie that was about these two birdwatchers looking for this elusive woodpecker which is on the brink of extinction." "It starts tomorrow." "It lasts two weeks." "There's 12 screenings in two weeks." "And I was going to do it with Rachel but unfortunately, she couldn't make it because, um..." "She's actually working on a job in..." "In Miami." "I forgot the name of the city." "I think it's in Western Poland." "And so unfortunately, she's not going to be able to come with me on the tour, so I'm just calling to see if maybe you want to, kind of, just take an impulsive, crazy adventure with me through the south." "Totally, man, I understand." "I mean..." "The little ones need their father." "I thought I did invite you to my birthday party." "Okay, is it still..." "Did you switch to Gmail or are you still Yahoo!" "?" "Say hi to Leslie." "Lisa!" "Say hi to Lisa." "Okay, bye." "Fuck!" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Alex?" "Yeah?" "Doing okay in there?" "Uh, hold on a second." "(CLATTERING)" "Hey." "Hey." "Uh..." "What's up?" "Oh, I don't know." "Are you okay?" "I..." "Yeah." "...heard some racket and some yelling in there." "Oh yeah, that was me." "I was making some phone calls." "Calling my buddies." "Yeah." "I'm sorry if I was making too..." "Was it too loud?" "Well, no, no." "I just, uh..." "I was just..." "I'm just worried about you." "Going through a rough time, right?" "I, uh..." "I don't want to intrude, okay, but I did read somewhere that we form neurological associations between swear words and stress anxiety." "And we make those stress words very powerful." "One way to maybe help that out is to replace the swear word with a normal, ordinary word." "And maybe the swear words can kind of lose their power." "Um, and..." "And then maybe later on down the road, you're going to have to replace that word with another word, and then maybe that word with another word, but it might be a good way to, you know, help with your stress management, you know." "Right?" "Yup." "Clay, that is the dumbest, retarded thing, I've ever heard in my life." "Yeah." "There you go." "Yeah." "You're a good person, you know that?" "You're a very good person and I appreciate you trying to help." "I appreciate your act of kindness." "I wish there was more kindness in this world." "(SIGHS)" "Do you guys, maybe, want to come down to Atlanta?" "Tomorrow?" "Join me for the first few days of the tour?" "No." "(CAR ALARM BLARING)" "(COUGHING)" "MAN ON SCREEN:" "Behind me, that's a Pileated." "So we're going to stay right here, Wes." "That's not the bird I'm looking for." "(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)" "(MUSIC CONTINUES)" "EMCEE:" "As you know, how this works..." "We are very pleased to have the filmmaker with us this evening, and Alex Karpovsky is selected as one of 25 new faces in independent film by  Filmmakers Magazine." "Not only is he a filmmaker, but he's also an actor." "And in this past year, he played the voices of several Russian gangsters in  Grand Theft Auto IV." "His newest film..." "ALEX:" "In the early 1940s, this beautiful creature, the most colorful, the largest woodpecker to ever fly in the American skies, was declared extinct." "Because of our deforestation, our negligence, we lost another glorious creature on this planet." "Um..." "Or so we thought." "A few years ago, hikers, kayakers started spotting what they thought was the elusive, and long forgotten Ivory-billed Woodpecker." "And as word grew and people started to flock down there to the swamps of Eastern Arkansas, hoping to grab definitive evidence, proof of this bird, it became sort of a national story." "But proof was elusive, no one could get that photo." "And if they could get that photo, then maybe its habitat could be preserved." "Legislation could be passed, and it could be a protected area, and these two or three woodpeckers, or however might still be out there, could be allowed to flourish." "So, this notion of a second chance, in every sense of that phrase, was very interesting to me, in a driving source of enthusiasm, throughout..." "Throughout this process of working on the film." "And something that on a personal level, especially recently, is something that I can relate to, you know, in many..." "Well, in one specific aspect of my life, anyway, I wish..." "I wish I also was given a second chance." "And I think maybe some of the people in this room, maybe could relate to that notion." "So..." "That's all the time we have tonight." "Thank you so much for coming out to check out the film, especially on Valentine's Day." "I really appreciate it, and maybe I'll see you down the road." "Good night." "(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)" "(CROWD SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "All right." "WOMAN:" "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "All right, happy Valentine's Day." "WOMAN:" "Thank you, you too." "All right." "Thank you very much." "Happy Valentine's Day." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "(WOMEN LAUGHING)" "(CAR BEEPS)" "Hey, guys." "Ahem!" "Guys?" "Guys!" "(CAR BEEPING)" "Guys!" "(SIGHS)" "(PEOPLE LAUGHING)" "(INAUDIBLE)" "Fallen tree is right there." "This is the spot." "The Ivory-billed was counted out of existence." "If it can make a comeback, anything can make a comeback." "I mean, that's just a..." "It's actually just one of the few pleasures of life that we have, while we're here, is making a comeback, when you're called down and out, when you're called extinct." "Well, we're a..." "(CELL PHONE CHIMING)" "You can see something over there." "ALEX:" "Henry, what's up, man?" "Alex, what's going on, baby?" "What you up to, you son of a bitch?" "(CHUCKLES) Not much, I'm just doing a tech check before one of our Woodpecker  screenings." "Well, listen, I've been thinking about your offer and if your offer still stands," "I'm gonna come down and join you on the tour if it's possible." "Yeah, yeah, I just think it will be really inspiring." "That's great." "As long as I'm not imposing." "No, no, no." "That's great news." "Cool, awesome." "I'm really excited about it." "Yeah, I'm so glad you reconsidered." "I've been sitting in my shitty apartment, drawing shitty illustrations, thinking about Shel Silverstein, feeling slightly suicidal." "I just got to get the fuck out of here." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "But in all honesty, there was this media blitz, uh..." "They were all, sort of, blasting us with this incredible, strange story about a strange woodpecker." "It's a beautiful story." "It's a story about Americana, about second chances." "I wanted to kind of dive into this very new, rich, unfamiliar place." "Because it's so free of associations and so full of wonder, and that's a huge part of the magnetism as well." "This is a great, like, charismatic, megafauna kind of story, and you seem like a very charismatic megafauna." "So I hope we see more of you and more of your work, and I don't really have a question," "I just wanted to say that." "ALEX:" "Thank you very much, that's very sweet." "I appreciate it." "Charismatic megafauna was actually a working title for the film." "(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)" "I've had a wonderful time talking to you in this beautiful theater." "I'll see you down the road." "Good night." "(APPLAUDING)" "MAN:" "It's Tricia." "T-R-I-C-I-A." "ALEX:" "T-R-I..." "MAN:" "C-I-A." "ALEX:" "C-I-A." "Like that." "Are you guys bird watchers?" "MAN:" "Pardon me?" "ALEX:" "Are you bird watchers?" "MAN:" "I'm more of a hunter." "ALEX:" "Thank you for coming and watching the film." "MAN:" "Okay, see you." "ALEX:" "Thank you very much." "Hey, how's it going?" "Good, good, how are you?" "Those were really sweet things that you said in there." "Thank you." "I really appreciate it." "You were great." "It was such a good movie." "Thank you so much." "And you were so funny." "Thank you so much." "And you're really talented." "Oh, fuck!" "(RIVER MOANS)" "(BOTH MOANING)" "RIVER:" "There's a maple tree on one side of my lawn that has, like, a really high vibration, but then there's a cypress tree on the other side, and it has the most mellow vibration and I can't figure out why." "I'm thinking because it's older, you know?" "Left here?" "Yes." "This was so great." "It was really fun, yeah." "Yeah, I loved it." "Good night." "Yeah, it was a fun night." "(SIGHS) Hmm." "Yeah." "So, it was great seeing you." "Mmm!" "(RIVER MOANS)" "All right." "Mmm-hmm." "Cool." "Mmm-hmm." "Yeah." "So... (GRUNTS)" "All right, Riv." "Well, I'm sorry you got to go." "Yeah, it's just..." "It's work." "PF's and stuff." "Well, maybe I'll see you down the road." "Yeah, yeah." "I would like that." "Yeah, that'll be fun, right?" "Yeah." "Take care." "Okay." "I love your work." "Bye-bye." "See you later." "(MUFFLED SPEAKING)" "RACHEL:" "That means good night." "Good night." "ALEX:" "Put that hat on." "Rachel." "The one..." "Yeah, put that one on." "(MUFFLED SPEAKING)" "(MUFFLED SPEAKING)" "(MUFFLED) I'm just studying." "...I'm gonna be a nurse." "Do you like nurses?" "ALEX:" "Is this my nurse fantasy or is this your nurse fantasy?" "(BOTH LAUGH)" "(MUFFLED SPEAKING)" "(ALEX CHUCKLING)" "(ALEX SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN)" "(MOTHER REPLYING IN RUSSIAN)" "ALEX:" "All right, Ma, okay." "(CONTINUES SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN)" "(MOTHER REPLIES IN RUSSIAN)" "(BOTH CONVERSE IN RUSSIAN)" "(INCREASING TV VOLUME)" "Henry." "Henry!" "Alex!" "(CHUCKLES) How's it going?" "Great." "Good to see you." "Good to see you too." "They lost my bag." "They did?" "Did you..." "This isn't even my flight." "Everybody who was on my flight has come and gone." "Yeah, they said they're going to call me when it's ready, so..." "What a bummer!" "I'm sorry to hear that." "Oh, it's all right." "It's just stuff." "It's just stuff." "Good seeing you." "You look great." "Good to see you too, yeah." "I've never seen you with long hair before." "Oh, yeah?" "What do you think?" "You like it?" "All right." "Well, how much are you taking off?" "It's just cutting, it's tough cutting." "Fucking bullshit." "Give me those fucking scissors." "It's looking good." "Uh-huh, yeah." "I think so." "This is what I'm talking about." "Some Thomas Dolby shit." "(TOILET FLUSHING)" "ALEX:" "Rachel asked me to move something from, uh..." "This old TV, it doesn't even really work that well." "She asked me to move it from the living room to the dining room." "And I think, I just..." "You know how you're supposed to bend your bend your knees." "Did you actually bend over and do that?" "I always do that." "I always bend my knees, but this one time I spaced out and..." "How is she?" "Rachel?" "Yeah." "She's doing well." "Yeah." "Yeah?" "You guys have been together for four years?" "Four and a half years now." "Four and a half years." "Yeah." "That's incredible." "That's amazing." "I mean, that's great." "You guys are great together." "So I'm really happy for you." "I mean..." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I wish I could do that." "So how many people did you call before you called me to come on this trip?" "(CHUCKLES)" "I know I wasn't the first person." "You're not the first person I called." "I didn't think so." "I'll admit that." "I'm gonna have to get some work done in between your screening." "I'm not going to make all the screenings." "Yeah, yeah, of course, of course." "You don't..." "I mean..." "I only expect you to make one." "And you only have to go to the first one." "Well, you know..." "No, I'm looking forward to seeing it." "I'm just going to have to stay at the motel certain nights and get some work done." "Of course, of course." "I have to, so..." "You got to work on your illustrations or..." "Uh-huh." "Yeah." "So how's all that going?" "What's the latest?" "It's going well, yeah." "I got a children's book deal." "Oh, you did get a deal?" "Yeah, yeah." "That's great, because last time we spoke, you said you were maybe about to or something, but you got it..." "Hey, I found out about a month ago and I didn't want to jinx it." "But you know, now it's pretty official, so I'm starting to tell people." "There's a book I started about eight months ago, called Henry and the Haunted Piano." "And I sent you a PDF for that a while back." "Never heard from you about it and so..." "Right." "I don't know if I got it." "Did I get it?" "Yeah, you got it." "You were busy." "And it's a big commitment to read a children's book, so... (CHUCKLES)" "You weren't the first person I sent the PDF to, either." "(CHUCKLES)" "Fair enough." "Henry and the Haunted Piano." "Little boy named Henry, walking home from school one day," "He hears this music, piano playing coming from the cemetery, goes to the cemetery." "Discovers a piano haunted by a ghost there, all right?" "Gets terrified, runs away, and continues to hear the music because he lives very close to the cemetery, right." "And later that night, he can hear the piano playing while he's doing his homework, while he's taking a bath, while he's trying to sleep." "He gets pissed off when he's trying to sleep because he can't sleep." "He goes back to the cemetery, confronts the ghost for a final confrontation." "That's where it gets a little bit dark." "And the publishers are a little concerned about that." "They think the ending is..." "The ending is too dark, so..." "Well, why?" "What happens in the ending?" "Henry dies." "The ghost kill him?" "Well, that's interpretive." "The children can interpret that." "But they think it's a little too dark." "Well, I..." "I don't want to take sides, but I can see where they're coming from." "Right!" "No, so I'm trying to find a way to change it." "If I get published by this company, it's pretty good." "It'll be good for my, you know, burgeoning..." "Well, non-existent career, but it could lead to things." "So, I wanted to make sure they're happy and..." "Seems like you're very ready to compromise your artistic vision to get published by a medium-sized publisher rather than preserving your integrity and your vision and going to a slightly smaller, fringe, edgy, publisher." "Absolutely, I'll do whatever it takes to get this thing published." "So, rape me, here's the lubrication." "Rape me, here's the lubrication." "You're allowing them to rape you." "You're easing the process." "Oh!" "In this case, I want to get raped." "I want to make a living, having sodomy." "(SIGHS) Can you get some more nach..." "Uh, the chips?" "You want me to get them?" "No, no, I'm looking for the guy." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Front desk." "This is Alan." "Hey, Alan, this is Alex calling from room 106." "Um, I have a little bit of a back pain and it's making it really difficult for me to sleep at night." "I'm doing a lot of..." "Kind of tossing and turning." "And I was wondering if it'd be possible to maybe get a late checkout." "Oh!" "Tomorrow morning." "You're out of luck, I'm sorry." "It's not in our policy to allow late checkouts." "It's the hotel's policy to not allow late checkouts." "(TV PLAYING)" "How was the call?" "It was good." "Sorry I was on the phone so long." "Oh, that's okay." "How are you?" "You all right?" "Yeah, yeah." "Good." "How's your back?" "I feel like for the past little while it was getting better and better and then..." "These little..." "Just sharp little..." "I was in the bathroom a little while ago and just felt this, like, jolt of pain go up my spine." "(SIGHS) I know this guy who's a reflexologist and he..." "He fixes backs, by, uh..." "You know, reflexologists?" "ALEX:" "The..." "The foot?" "Yeah, he massages pressure points in the feet and he actually fixes back pain that way." "So you might have to think about looking up a reflexologist tomorrow and checking that out, because it could help." "(YAWNING) I doubt there..." "I doubt there are reflex..." "You shouldn't dismiss it." "I think there's Africans, when they get circumcised," "African women, who wanna have their clitoris reattached, they..." "Plastic surgeons would take the tip of their toe, they'll sever the tip of their toe and reattach it to their vagina." "If there's a connection between the tip of the toe and the vagina, there's probably a connection between pressure points in the foot and, like..." "The energy that resides at the base of the back." "The kundalini, which is..." "Sounds like yours is out of whack and..." "So, I think it's worth checking into, Alex." "(GROANS SOFTLY)" "Like, I'm really sensual in the sack." "I like to kiss, I like to cuddle, I'm affectionate." "Mmm-hmm." "Kissing's big." "And kissing's not easy when you're having sex." "Yeah, I hear girls love it when you kiss them during sex." "Mmm-hmm." "Rachel!" "Do you guys kiss when you..." "Sure." "Sure." "Yeah, yeah." "Girls must love the beard when you go down on them, right?" "'Cause then..." "Have they ever told you that?" "'Cause of the bristles." "Um..." "'Cause I had a goatee once, right after college..." "Remember when I had a goatee, right after college?" "Yeah, yeah." "You looked..." "And I went down on a girl and she said," ""I love the fact that you have these sort of sharp, bristly things..."" "Oh, they like that?" "The girls hate..." "This one girl did." "My..." "The girls that I get with hate it when I have a really short one, when it's this really short and bristly." "They like it when it's soft, 'cause it's..." "When it's long and soft." "Right, right." "Yeah, it's like a cat's tongue, you know?" "Yeah." "I've only been with a few girls that have actually had a cat go down on them." "I've heard that cats have dicks that hook back and so, when they latch on, it's harder for the female to escape." "Have you heard this?" "I don't know if it's just like a horned dick." "No." "Like with a curve at the end, like hooks them in." "And you think that's brilliant 'cause basically all animal sex is rape, I think." "Right?" "Oh, right!" "'Cause they don't really ask for permission." "But that..." "Why haven't we all developed the hook dick?" "It seems obvious." "That's interesting." "Right." "Now this is an interesting..." "Ohh!" "This is an interesting connection." "This is your neck." "And that can be both physical, in terms of a crick in the neck, whiplash, whatever." "Or..." "I know, sweetie..." "It can be, um..." "Tied to a..." "Someone who's being a pain in the neck." "Quite often your mother, although certainly, potentially a female person." "I know, sweetie." "(MURMURING)" "(LAUGHING)" "Basically, your neck just said, "Hey, they're all pains in the neck."" "(LAUGHING)" "No gender specificity here." "(CHUCKLING) It's all a pain in the neck." "Yeah, yeah, you got a point there, buddy." "You got a point there." "I heard that in Africa, you know there's..." "In some cultures there's a strange tradition of circumcising women's genitalia." "Yeah, yeah." "And sometimes they have these Doctors Without Borders or whatever, and they actually try to correct the surgery later on." "Yes, yes." "I don't know if you've heard about this." "They actually..." "What they do sometimes is that they take a part of their toe and put it where the clitoris used to be." "Yes, yes." "So is there, anatomically, a part of the foot that has a sexual center?" "Because it is the end of a digit, for all practical purposes, my guess would be..." "Chances are good." "So, 50-50 would be my thought." "Ohh!" "ALEX:" "Would it be possible to, like, sell some DVDs here or somewhere too?" "Put up a little table or something?" "Let's go in here, we'll talk about it now." "I'm gonna stay out here." "Can we eat?" "Can I eat this?" "No!" "You have to just stand here and look at it." "HENRY: (LAUGHS) Oh, I can eat this." "Don't eat." "Don't eat." "We haven't had dinner yet." "It's so pretty..." "Well, what do you need..." "Are we gonna go in there?" "Just..." "Just..." "Let's go this way." "MAN:" "Did you hear that?" "It's coming from over there, behind me." "That's a Pileated." "So we're going to stay right here, Wes." "That's not the bird I'm looking for." "ALEX:" "Okay." "That's good." "Hey, Rachel, how are you?" "I'm just calling to, uh... (STAMMERING) To call and..." "And..." "Yeah, if you feel like giving me a call, I'd love to..." "To, you know, to see..." "Just to check in with you and see how you're doing." "So give me a call when you get a chance, if you feel like it." "Okay, I hope you're well, bye." "(SIGHS)" "(GRUNTING)" "(GROANING)" "Frittata!" "MAN:" "We have the gate band concert on Saturday to try to make some more money to help buy this place back from the bank so we can really own it." "We're working our way there, um..." "As you can probably see on the slides, we, you know, have the building fund going on." "We really want to pay off the bank this year, so fork it over." "And keep coming to the movies and all that." "We have, uh..." "I Love You Phillip Morris continues through Thursday, starting Friday." "(MAN CONTINUES TALKING)" "MAN:" "Who wrote that?" "ALEX:" "What's that?" "MAN:" "Who wrote that?" "ALEX:" "The movie?" "I wrote it." "MAN:" "That's clever." "Thank you." "It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time." "Oh, that's nice, thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you, we tried to have some fun with the..." "RIVER:" "Thank you." "Hey, how's it going?" "Hi." "Good, how're you?" "All right, nice to see you again." "Great to see you." "So, what made you come out here?" "I..." "You know, it's just better the second time." "Oh, thank you very much." "Yeah." "Congratulations!" "You just..." "Well, thank you very much." "You keep getting better with age." "I bought my DVD already." "Just..." "I don't know." "Can I talk to you for one second?" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "'Cause I just..." "I wanna..." "One second." "RIVER:" "Yeah." "ALEX:" "Hey." "Hi." "How are you?" "I'm doing well." "It's good." "Oh, sorry!" "(WHISPERING) What's going on?" "What're you doing here?" "I just..." "I wanted to surprise you." "Well, it's a surprise, it's a surprise." "Surprise." "What's going?" "Why'd you come here?" "Because I just..." "I thought that we should be together, right?" "I mean, I thought you would like it." "I just wanted to make you happy." "You thought I'd like it?" "You thought I'd like it for you to follow me to the next town that I'm in?" "Yeah." "How did you get here?" "I took the bus." "You took the bus all the way out here?" "Yeah." "Okay." "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "River, that night was just that night." "I'm sorry I have to be so direct with you." "But we..." "That's it." "Okay?" "That's it." "That's..." "That's it." "Okay?" "(EXHALES)" "Wait, I don't know what you're saying." "I'm sorry." "I don't mean to be a dick." "I don't understand." "I don't know how to be any more clear about this." "Look, I think it's really cute and romantic and fun that you came here." "But there's no chance we're hooking up again tonight." "Okay?" "Okay, that was a mistake, I regret..." "I don't mean to be rude, but I regret it." "I had..." "I had a break in something..." "What?" "A break?" "...and I got something out of my system." "I just..." "I can't..." "I have to go sell some DVDs." "I can't really spend time with this, right now." "Wait." "I don't..." "I don't know what you're saying," "I don't understand." "Hey, hey, go home." "Go home." "What do you mean?" "How can I be any more clear to you?" "Go home." "It's fucking over, okay?" "It wasn't any..." "There's nothing even to end." "What do you mean, "It's over"?" "(INAUDIBLE)" "What do you mean?" "Keep your voice down." "Keep your voice down." "Don't fucking touch me." "I wanna touch you." "Shh!" "Just relax." "Okay, look, I'll be back in one minute." "Okay?" "I'll be back in one minute." "HENRY:" "So, she followed you out here?" "I think she researched the next stop on the tour and she just showed up." "Did you fuck her?" "No, no!" "We talked very briefly for like, 10 minutes after one of the screenings we had a few days ago and like..." "She thought there's a brief connection." "We talked about birds for like 10 minutes and the movie and she thought there's this connection and now we're like soul mates." "(LAUGHS)" "She never would've followed someone out to another city because of a conversation about birds." "Okay, I don't..." "She thought we're meant for each other, she thought it was destiny and she thought it'd be this really grand romantic gesture for her to just surprise me." "She's really cute." "Yeah." "We should take her for a drink." "We should go have a drink with her." "You know, if she's upset, you know, she..." "It's the least you could do." "I don't want anything to do with this girl." "She's clingy, she's needy, she's unstable, trust me." "I mean, she came all the way out here and she's feeling a little bit out of it." "So we should, you know..." "One drink." "She's really cute, man." "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "What I love about this place is that it's haunted, there's an actual ghost here." "Don't you think there's something going on here?" "Kismet?" "That's like my favorite word." "That's a Turkish word." "RIVER:" "Kismet?" "Mmm-hmm." "It's like fate, it's destiny." "How do ghosts fit in that?" "Well, you know, two spirits, two lost spirits, having spirits at a place that's haunted by things." "You know, everybody's got a ghost." "A skeleton in the closet, right?" "But the third and the most important S..." "RIVER:" "You're so wise." "The most important S..." "Thank you, so are you." "...is to celebrate your life." "But celebrate with an "S"." "(LAUGHING) Not a "C", right?" "Sounds crazy!" "it's not just important that you spell things differently and that you see things differently, and that you live things differently..." "You live your life differently." "That's so brilliant!" "Isn't it?" "So brilliant!" "You're so brilliant." "I am going to go celebrate in the ladies room." "I'll be back." "She's fantastic." "Yeah." "You guys are really clicking." "I love her." "What's the problem?" "(MUMBLES)" "Maybe there isn't a problem." "There's no problem at all." "You should go back to the hotel and I'll stay with her and you know, we'll just continue talking." "Oh, really?" "Yeah?" "Yeah, I mean, yeah." "This'll be great." "You sure?" "I'll take a taxi back." "You know, you shouldn't worry about it, it's totally cool." "Really?" "Yeah, go back." "Yeah, it's fantastic, I mean, this is great." "Okay, sounds great." "Well, good luck!" "Yeah, hopefully..." "I don't think you need it though." "Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow." "Okay. (LAUGHS) Yeah?" "(LOUD MUSIC PLAYING)" "(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)" "ALEX:" "Hey, Rachel, it's me." "Just calling to see if you wanted to chat." "As the days go on here on the road, I have more time." "It's given me a little bit more perspective on things, and I'm slowly, sort of, you know..." "I'm sort of looking back on the..." "On what happened, what went wrong and..." "I feel like, you know, I've had..." "I've needed to have this, sort of, vision of myself as a more successful and more established and more secure person." "I've been sort of fixated on the future, you know what I mean?" "And I felt..." "I've always felt like marriage would maybe compromise that possibility for growth, if not annihilate it, you know?" "I felt like marriage was like... (STAMMERING)" "Those amber drops that they put on insects, to make them specimens, you know, that..." "That was sort of my fear of marriage." "It would sort of make me freeze..." "Make me plateau." "So what (STUTTERING) underlies that?" "What underlies that fear of stagnation?" "What underlies..." "What underlies that fear of stagnation?" "What..." "It doesn't... (MUMBLING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "(TV PLAYING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "(PHONE CLICKS) CONCIERGE:" "Hello, front desk." "Yes, hi, would it be possible to get a late checkout tomorrow morning?" "Maybe an extra hour?" "Sorry, sir, we cannot do it." "Why not?" "(TRAFFIC PASSING)" "RIVER:" "And ever since that incident..." "HENRY: ...the piano playing ceased..." "RIVER:" "And as for little Henry Holiday..." "HENRY: ...he was allowed to rest in peace." "HENRY:" "And then his glasses are there in front of the tombstone." "RIVER:" "He's dead." "He's dead." "He's dead." "It's stupid." "Oh, no, it's actually brilliant because..." "No, it's too dark." "When do..." "No." "When do you ever see a kid die in a children's book?" "It's great, I mean, I love that he's dead." "Really?" "I mean, not that I wanted him to die because he's a great protagonist but, like, kids never get to see people die and you know they get told all these lies, like, their grandma went to the farm" "or something..." "(LAUGHS) No, their dog went to the farm, and that's just not true." "I appreciate that, I agree with that completely." "I think that the reason why I want there to be death in a children's book..." "I've never seen death so ostensibly portrayed in a children's book..." "Is so that kids can be exposed to bad things early in life so they're more prepared to deal with it later." "You know?" "Yeah, no, it's a public service." "This is really..." "This is a good education." "Good heart inside your chest, I can feel it." "(LAUGHS)" "HENRY:" "It's bleeding right now, you probably need a tampon for your heart." "(INDISTINCT TALKING AND LAUGHING CONTINUES)" "(SNORING)" "(GROANS)" "Hey." "(WHISPERING) How'd you sleep?" "(SOFTLY) I slept well." "How'd you sleep?" "I slept really well." "Yeah, River, she stayed here last night." "Guys stayed here last night?" "Yeah." "When did you guys get in?" "Just a couple of hours ago." "I haven't even been asleep yet." "I actually... (MUMBLING) Let's talk outside for a second." "I don't want to wake her up." "I had one of the greatest nights of my life with her last night!" "I mean, we just..." "We just connected." "It was incredible." "I've never had an experience like this before." "It's like looking in a mirror and seeing myself." "She's like the perfect height, perfect intelligence." "It's hard to explain, man, I would never in a million years say the word soulmate, but..." "I think we're soulmates." "And she's got friends in Shreveport and I was thinking that she would ride along with us and we could stay with her friends." "And you know, save money on the motel, and you know..." "You want her to go on the tour with us?" "Not the whole tour, just..." "That's the thing, I feel like we've known each other our whole lives." "I feel like this instant kinda...connection, you know?" "I've never had this happen before." "It's amazing." "(STAMMERING) You really like this girl, huh?" "Yes... (STUTTERS) I like her a lot." "It's incredible." "You know." "(MUMBLING)" "You know, what..." "What does that mean?" "That's what it is, I think, you know?" "And then an infinity symbol, like the heart." "There's so many symbols and logos going through my head right now, thinking of her." "Let me..." "Let me just have a cup of coffee." "Let me wake up a little bit and we'll go from there, let me just think about it for a second, okay?" "Yeah." "BOTH:" "¶ If you want me, you can have me" "¶ Sideways, upside down, any way you want" "(VOCALIZING)" "¶ Put it in all the way" "¶ Put it in all the way" "¶ I love you and I know you love me back" "¶ Let me slide it in" "¶ All the way to your crack, is that?" "BOTH:" "¶ If you want me, you can have me" "¶ Sideways, upside down, any way you want" "¶ So come on" "¶ Baby, come on" "Alex, you know this shit." "One, two, three!" "¶ Come on!" "¶ Baby, come on!" "¶ Stop!" "(BOTH CHEERING)" "HENRY:" "We are gonna totally start a fucking band." "It's gonna be awesome!" "RIVER:" "That was so good." "My heart was feeling a totally different number, not 28." "I was feeling 33, that was the age Jesus Christ was when he died." "That was the age of Chris Farley when he died." "And I should have gone with that, because Chris Farley's image..." "His face just popped in my head." "But 28 is what I was feeling as well." "But 33 ultimately is what I should have chose." "You got close, though." "Do you think the source that's telling you 33 is the number you should have drawn is the same source that told you initially that 28 was the right number?" "You never know." "I feel like... (INDISTINCT) Now I'm thinking the source is 33." "No, now you think it's 33?" "HENRY:" "But what was the number?" "It landed on 30, which is between 28 and 33 almost, so I should have chose 33." "You know what, stop the car..." "ALEX:" "What are you doing?" "...because I'm going to do it again." "ALEX:" "Close the door." "I think you guys stay in the car this time." "Because I think you were distracting me, because you're gorgeous." "ALEX:" "Henry, please get in the car." "You were distracting me because you're defeatist." "I'm going to do what I should have done with all this money." "ALEX:" "Henry!" "Rest of the money I have, by the way..." "What're you doing?" "...on the age of Jesus when he died, 33." "Your credit card debt, say goodbye to it, because it's going to be gone." "You're going to thank me when I come back!" "Henry, Henry!" "Last night, did you guys..." "When you were hanging out last night, did you..." "Does he know how we met?" "Does he know that we had sex?" "No, he doesn't know." "You guys didn't talk about it?" "It hasn't come up." "He doesn't know that we hooked up?" "a lot of fascinating, wonderful, personal, intellectual ideas." "We haven't talked about you, I'm sorry." "Mr. Self-involved filmmaker." "Okay, so..." "Though he did mention that you have a girlfriend back home." "So he doesn't know we had sex on the beach?" "No, he doesn't." "If it did come up, if he asked you, would you tell him?" "Yeah, I would tell him." "If he asks me, I will tell him." "Why?" "Because I don't lie, I'm not a liar." "I don't lie to people, I don't lie to them and take advantage of them." "You know, like some people..." "Like some people who..." "You know, they seem like charismatic megafauna and then you realize that they're not really charismatic at all." "Nor are their films even that good when you watch them a second time." "How did it go?" "How'd it go?" "HENRY:" "Was Jesus 32 or 33 when he died?" "Because I thought he was 33, but then, I read somewhere about the Christian calendar being..." "You know, the Christian calendar is totally off... (INDISTINCT TALKING)" "(INAUDIBLE)" "Okay, so River has to go back to Jackson, Mississippi, tomorrow for her thesis class, or she has to teach a TA class or something like that." "Okay." "I think I'm going to go with her." "Back to Jackson?" "Yeah, I'm going to get on the bus with her and go back." "And I don't want to leave you hanging, 'cause I know this is your trip, and, well, we're doing this together and I've had an amazing time." "It's been so amazing." "But I have to go with her, I have to." "I keep thinking about Shel Silverstein and the way he died." "You know who Shel Silverstein is?" "Yeah, the comic." "No, he was..." "The illustrator." "He was an illustrator, and wrote children's books." "A Light in the Attic." "BOTH:" "Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree." "All these great children's books that he wrote, amazing." "But when he died, he died alone, of a heart attack, in his bedroom." "No one discovered him for two days." "He was discovered by his maid." "I keep thinking about that, I don't want to be that person." "All the great children's books that he wrote, stories that he wrote, all the joy that he brought to children's lives." "Ultimately, I'm just haunted by this image of him dead alone in his bedroom." "I don't want that to be me, you know?" "I want someone to discover my body relatively early after I die." "I think River could be that person." "You know?" "I love her." "And I'm lonely, man." "It's like, it's..." "I've been waiting my whole life to meet someone like this." "All the relationships I've gone through, they just don't work out, you know, six months in, year in." "It's not the person for me." "I get terrified of the thought of being with someone." "After just a couple of days, I really think I can spend the rest of my life with her." "You don't know what I'm talking about 'cause you have Rachel in your life." "You probably forgot what it's like to..." "To be isolated or to be alone." "And I've always had my work to fall back on, my illustrations, but I want something more now." "And I feel like she could be the person." "If I don't go with her, I'm just gonna be thinking about her the whole time anyway." "So, when she takes that Greyhound bus tomorrow," "I wanna be sitting next to her." "Mmm, I think you should, man." "I think, you know..." "I think you should be sitting beside her in that bus." "Yeah." "Yeah, and I'm really happy for you." "Like this is..." "And I don't wanna leave you..." "You don't have to ask my permission, of course I understand." "Yeah." "So, tomorrow night, you're going to Jackson." "Go comb your hair." "What do you mean?" "Go comb your hair, it's a..." "It's a Johnny Cash song." "Oh, really?" "Yeah." "HENRY:" "Shel Silverstein wrote A Boy Named Sue." "ALEX:" "Shel Silverstein wrote that song?" "Yeah, he wrote that." "ALEX:" "Really?" "Yeah." "There is a parade in Baton Rouge in an hour." "It's a pre-Mardi bra." "(CHUCKLING) Mardi Bra?" "Mardi Gras parade." "She just told me." "Let's go." "Why don't..." "Can we go?" "Can we go?" "ALEX: (SIGHS) I don't know." "I'm not really a... (PEOPLE CHEERING)" "RIVER:" "Oh!" "Hey!" "(EXCLAIMING) Oh!" "Fuck!" "(GROANING)" "Easy!" "(GROANS)" "(POLICE SIRENS BLARING)" "(MARCHING BAND)" "(TRUMPETS PLAYING)" "(CELL PHONE CHIMING)" "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(PEOPLE CHEERING)" "(RINGING)" "Alex, you gotta stop calling me." "Yeah, I know." "But, look." "I really need to talk to you." "Okay, I've been doing a lot of thinking." "I've had a lot of time on the road to just kind of look back on our relationship." "It's given me a lot of perspective on things and..." "And I'm beginning to sort of see..." "I'm beginning to sort of see, you know, I'm beginning to make sense of things." "Okay, now when I used to, like, look up at the night sky" "I used to kind of just see, like, these little dots." "These little, like, points of disagreement, and..." "And the arguments that we had." "But now I feel like I look up and I see a constellation." "I'm trying to make sense of it, so it's a constellation." "You know what I mean?" "Does that make sense?" "Look, Alex." "I'm not ready to talk about this stuff yet." "No, I know." "But listen, just hear me out here." "I just..." "I'm realizing that I've been really sort of fixated on this future self." "Like a future version of myself, a more successful, and established and..." "A secure version of myself." "I need that just to make sense of myself, in a way." "And I've always feared that marriage would somehow just compromise that possibility for that growth." "You know, so really, there is a..." "There's a fear of stagnation in place." "But what underlies that fear of stagnation?" "Right?" "What's beneath it, what are the roots of it?" "You know?" "Death!" "Death is the underlying root of all this." "This fear of commitment, this fear of marriage, it's a reverberation of my death anxiety." "Okay, that's what's going on." "It's all around us." "Death is everywhere." "It's the underlying fear and that's the most..." "It's ridiculous." "There is no way to stop death." "There is no way to really postpone it for very long." "So if you realize the absurdity of the underlying fear, then, you know, any reverberatory fears, you know, quadruply, astronomically more ridiculous." "Where are you going with all this?" "That's what I'm saying." "We all are, we're all gonna die, okay?" "By denying that, we misdirect our search for happiness." "I'm ready to die." "Which means I'm ready to live." "And I'm ready to love you." "Which is actually why I need you to fly down to Louisiana tomorrow afternoon." "So I can ask you something in person." "So I could ask you something" "I really, really, really don't wanna ask you on the phone." "What are you talking about?" "You want me to drop everything, get on a plane, and fly halfway across the country?" "Yeah, just come down for 12 hours." "I don't care how much it costs." "I'm just begging you, please, please, please, come down." "I'm on my knees." "Okay, look, I'm on my knees." "I just..." "I'm begging you to please come down." "Alex, I'm tired." "I'm just driving back from work." "I've had a really long week." "Maybe this is something we can talk about when you get back." "Okay?" "No, look." "There's a moment happening here." "Okay, there is a moment that I cannot risk evaporating, okay?" "And I need to seize the moment." "Okay?" "Please." "Look, I'll fly you in, spend one night, and then you can fly back." "Rachel, come on!" "I'm begging you." "I see the constellation, okay?" "Just give me a second chance." "Okay, I'm begging you." "All right?" "I..." "Just..." "Just get on the fucking plane." "(SIGHING)" "(WHOOPING)" "I don't understand the rush." "I mean, why don't you just ask her when you're back..." "I don't know." "I just thought it'd be romantic and..." "You know, spontaneous, impulsive..." "Impulsive..." "ALEX:" "You know what I mean?" "Yeah!" "Impulsive, you know?" "HENRY:" "I don't think it's that impulsive." "He's been dating her..." "It's a little impulsive." "...for three, four and a half years." "Constantly?" "Perpetually?" "ALEX:" "Oh, yeah, yeah." "HENRY:" "Alex is not a compulsive person." "Impulsive and spontaneous." "What have you done impulsive?" "Oh, I don't know, but..." "This week, what have you done..." "I just think it would be nice, if you know, I can tell my kids down the road, "Hey, guess how I proposed to your mother?" You know?" "On a whim, I just called her up." "It'll be a nice story." "HENRY:" "That's cool, because we're part of the story, you know." "ALEX:" "And you guys are part of the story." "HENRY:" "On the southern director's tour and..." "Yeah." "And 80 years from now, when you're on your third marriage, and you talk to your grandkids about your first wife, you know." "We'll be part of that, part of the story." "That'll be amazing." "That's great!" "That's fantastic, man." "Congratulations." "Kanpai!" "Kanpai!" "Kanpai!" "Empty." "Sorry, bad luck." "Oh, okay." "Would you guys mind if I dropped you off a little bit early at the bus station tomorrow, like, around 2:00 or 2:15?" "That way I can get to the airport without being late." "Yeah, that's fine." "No problem." "ALEX:" "All right." "RIVER:" "Oh!" "It's not letting me click on 3:00." "I think it's actually..." "On a Tuesday, they're sold out at 3:00 already, really?" "Strange." "There's another bus at 8:00." "Going to Jackson, we could do that." "ALEX:" "You think it allows you to click on the 8:00 but not the 3:00?" "Yeah, it does, it's weird." "(BIRDS CHIRPING)" "So, how much is this one here?" "This one here is sold for $8,550." "The only thing that I can think of that we have that will go in that price range will be maybe this, I mean..." "It's emerald, as far as your color." "The stone itself, I think it's..." "A gem stone, but..." "ALEX:" "Okay." "Okay." "So I mean, if that's her birthstone, I think that would be nice." "ALEX:" "Okay, yeah." "And how much does this go for?" "$24.99." "ALEX:" "And the box is included?" "I got it." "Let's see it." "Let's see it." "Check it out." "You guys ready?" "Yeah." "Oh, look at that." "Ah!" "That's pretty." "That's nice." "You guys don't like it?" "I like it." "No, it's very green." "So, that's something." "I mean..." "Well..." "What does that mean?" "Well, it's a green box and a green stone." "Like, probably, what?" "A gem stone." "It's an emerald, it's her birthstone." "I think it looks nice." "That's not an emerald, that's a gem stone." "That's like, that's some kind of..." "Emerald is a type of gem." "How are you?" "Good." "It's nice to see you." "You too." "I'm sorry I'm late." "It's okay." "Thank you so much for coming." "Sure." "No problem." "You want me to get your bag?" "No." "I got it." "You sure?" "Yeah, no, no." "I got it." "I can grab it." "(LAUGHING) You're a wild boy, you're a wild boy." "All right, so the co-op is..." "No, they..." "Do you like arugula and quinoa and stuff like that?" "Hey, guys." "They have all that kind of..." "How's it going?" "Rachel..." "What's up?" "You look great." "I'm good." "And this is River." "Rachel, River." "Hi." "Hi." "Hey, so you guys want to get going?" "HENRY:" "I got a studio space, but I don't really use it that much." "I try to go on location as much as possible when I'm working." "Like I actually went, believe it or not, to a graveyard when I was doing a lot of the conceptual sketches for the book." "Actually, it was there, around, surrounded by death constantly to the right of me, to the left of me, in front of me." "It was cool." "I actually was inspired." "I could see, I've never..." "Draw the..." "I drew the graveyard, of course, when I saw it was great from 360 angles, and that kind of thing." "But there's something else, something morbid, that kind of seeped into me." "I felt like I was possessed or something while I was writing." "Do you think it's that building?" "That kind of looks like..." "I can't see." "Oh, Atkinson, this is it." "It's Atkinson." "See, it's on the inside." "Okay." "Okay, all right." "This is it, Atkinson Hall." "All right!" "So..." "You know, intro is gonna be a few minutes of Q and A. You wanna meet here..." "What time?" "Let's meet here at 4:30." "Okay." "Does that work for you?" "Yeah." "You guys know where you are?" "Uh-huh." "You're not gonna get lost?" "No." "See you later." "Okay." "I'm gonna go introduce the movie." "You wanna come in or..." "Uh, yeah." "You sure?" "You don't have to." "No, no, no." "I'll come in." "Okay." "Okay, class." "We're going to watch the Woodpecker, and as an added treat, we have the writer and director," "Mr. Alex Karpovsky, here to watch it with us and answer any questions afterwards." "So everybody give him a round of applause." "(CLASS APPLAUDING)" "Thanks a lot." "Thank you." "All right." "Well, thank you." "Thank you very much for coming here, for watching my film." "I really appreciate it." "Most of the venues where I've been showing my film on the tour have been little art house theaters and auditoriums in college campuses, where we show the film at night." "So, it's kind of a..." "It's a treat for me." "It's nice to do something different, to show the movie in a classroom environment." "With a production class." "But I hope you enjoy it." "I'll be here for a Q and A after the film where maybe we can get into some of the details about the film and the process." "Okay, enjoy the film." "And I'll see you soon." "Bye-bye." "(CLASS APPLAUDING)" "Did you get the sense that everyone in that classroom was high?" "There was this look in their eyes where they all just seemed totally glazed over and baked." "Or maybe that's just an old man looking upon the youth." "ALEX:" "I kind of almost even think of those as sister anxieties, or companion anxieties, because one, like, ricochets off the other." "When one is affected, there's kind of a ripple or trickle down." "And in a way, I kind of think of those two as almost like a binary star system." "It's like one kind of just orbits the other." "But there's still a kind of..." "They're still part of the constellation as a whole." "You know, they're still part of the whole framework." "You know what I mean?" "I don't care about constellations and reverberations and ricocheting." "How do you expect me to believe that after seven years of being in a relationship, that you've had these epiphanies and you've become this new man?" "You're telling me that all of your fears that have fully informed you and your personality are now just completely gone?" "That now you're just ready to just jump back into the relationship as this new person?" "Yeah, epiphanies happen." "You know, sometimes I think, especially in extraordinary situations, you know, you can have real breakthroughs like..." "Look, the last week, for better or for worse, has been, you know..." "In a way, it's been an extraordinary week." "We've never fully properly broken up before." "You know, and it's forced me to think in a very unfamiliar, unexplored place that has turned over a lot of stones for me." "It's been very illuminating, you know..." "It's been a week." "Look, I'm not saying Rome was built..." "Okay, I know Rome wasn't built in a day." "I know it's gonna take time." "I feel like I'm making very significant insight that's gonna lead to very..." "You know, various..." "Significant progress." "But, look, I also think you know, if you..." "If you really just sort of..." "Spotlight..." "Put all the spotlight and focus on certain fears, then they can evaporate, you know..." "I don't care about any of that stuff." "Do you love me?" "Do you wanna spend the rest of your life with me?" "Are you gonna be fully honest and open?" "Am I gonna stifle you?" "I love you with every part of my heart, every part of my being." "Okay?" "I wanna spend the rest of my life with you." "I think being with you will be the opposite of stifling." "I think it will open up a whole new world to explore." "And that's why I wanted to fly you down here." "Okay, to tell you all this." "And also to ask you, you know, a very important question, which I didn't..." "Kind of wasn't preparing to do it anyway." "Just..." "So I wanna ask you something." "I don't want you to answer now." "'Cause I don't wanna put that pressure on you." "Within the next few days." "Whenever you're ready." "I'm glad you flew down." "I'm glad you're here." "It means so much to me." "I'm glad I was able to tell you this in person and finally ask you this question." "So..." "Rachel, will you marry me?" "Okay?" "Is it too tight?" "Yeah." "I don't think it's gonna..." "Well, if you..." "Does that hurt?" "Yeah." "That's good." "It's..." "It's fine, it's fine." "It's emerald, it's your birthstone." "Matches your eyes nicely." "It looks really nice." "I think if you..." "If you actually hold it the other way... (GROANS) What's wrong?" "It's just a spasm." "All right, it'll go away." "Since when do you get back spasms?" "I hurt my back." "Actually I hurt it..." "Oh!" "I better just try sitting somewhere." "There's..." "There's, like, scratches all over your back." "Is that where it's from?" "Scratches?" "Yeah." "They're all over your back." "Well, I don't really see them." "Oh, I see them a little bit." "No, I mean they're like all over." "Oh, in the back." "Yeah." "I wonder..." "Oh, you know what?" "I think me and Henry were..." "We were driving and we pulled off on the side of the highway to try to pee." "But we pulled in this terrible spot, there was all these bushes, like these scratchy bushes, and I think I kind of..." "I had to get in there to get out of the highway so people wouldn't see my dick, you know, so..." "Got all scratched up." "I mean, you can't even see it though." "Have you been with anyone since you moved out?" "Have I been with anyone?" "Like, have I hooked up with someone else?" "Yeah." "Or anything like that." "No." "You promise?" "Yes!" "Okay." "It looks really nice on you." "It matches your eyes." "Does Cat in the Hat..." "Like, was that a euphemism for something?" "(YAWNS) How is it disgusting?" "You're wearing..." "Hey, guys, how's it going?" "...new dresses..." "Good, how are you?" "All right, we've got a few minutes." "Yeah?" "Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" "Let me talk to you for a second." "Come here, come here." "For a second." "I'll be right back." "What?" "HENRY:" "What did she say?" "ALEX:" "What's that?" "HENRY:" "What did she say?" "Did you ask her?" "ALEX:" "She said, uh..." "Hmm." "You're so pretty." "(CHUCKLES) And you look beautiful with that ring on and..." "Congratulations." "Uh..." "It's a little complicated." "Hmm." "But I asked her not to answer the question." "But she allowed me to put the ring on her finger." "She's wearing the ring?" "She's wearing the ring right now." "That's great." "You're engaged!" "Yeah, it's like a soft yes." "That's awesome." "Give me a hug." "Yeah." "That's fantastic." "Congratulations." "You're a husband." "Well, yeah!" "She is..." "This is..." "It's exciting in a lot of ways." "It is exciting." "Tragic too, in some ways." "Yeah." "But there's a 50% chance it's gonna work out for you." "You know, that's really great!" "So you've been traveling with them long?" "Like three days." "Few days, few days." "Like a lifetime though, you know." "You're having a good time?" "Um, it's a little..." "It's interesting." "Hmm." "Good." "Do you know anything about scratches on his back?" "Is that a band?" "No, like..." "Like scratches." "Like, Alex has scratches all over his back." "Do you have any idea what that's from?" "I don't know, they could be from anything." "You have no idea?" "Hey, I mean, I have a few ideas." "I always have ideas about things." "Like, I have a very vivid imagination." "Well, I mean..." "I can imagine a lot of things." "I know." "But do you know where they're from?" "I was thinking maybe I would do the invitations to the wedding." "Oh, that's a great idea." "The illustrations." "Maybe do art cards." "Maybe do like an actual..." "That's a good idea." "Look, I'm asking you, do you know about the scratches on his back?" "Do you know where they're from?" "Why can't you just answer me?" "I don't know where they came from exactly." "I can't be sure." "Because I haven't seen them." "Did you fuck Alex?" "You're asking me that?" "You just got engaged." "Okay?" "You don't wanna ask me something like that." "That's not what a person who's just got engaged..." "Did you fuck him?" "Did you fuck my boyfriend?" "So, this is awesome, man." "Yeah, I'm really excited." "She doesn't look excited, though." "What's going on over there?" "Is she excited?" "Why would you ask me..." "Why won't you answer me?" "Did you fuck Alex?" "Yes, I fucked him, okay?" "And he fucked me right back." "That's what happened." "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Relax." "What's wrong with you?" "You couldn't keep your mouth shut, you fucking evil witch!" "(INDISTINCT ARGUING)" "You fucked her?" "(INDISTINCT ARGUING)" "TEACHER:" "Okay, well, it looks like Alex isn't here yet." "Does anybody have anything they want to mention?" "Hey, Rachel." "Rachel, could you stop, please?" "Rachel?" "Hey!" "Where are you going?" "Open the car and get my bag." "Where are you going?" "I'm leaving." "You going to the airport and you're gonna fly away?" "Yeah." "Open the car." "Look, I'm sorry." "Okay?" "I'm sorry." "In the grand scheme of things, I didn't think it mattered." "Okay?" "You asked me if I hooked up with anyone." "In the grand scheme of things, in terms of what I was trying to communicate to you in the moment, in terms of our plans for our future together, my hopes for my future with you, it did not matter." "And I still feel like it doesn't matter." "Just give me my bag." "You're sick." "You're sick." "ALEX:" "Here you have this incredible, glorious creature, one of the most beautiful birds to ever fly in North America." "And then, because of our own stupidities, deforestation, our negligence," "it was allowed to fade away." "It disappeared, it went extinct." "And then we find out 60, 70 years later, that, perhaps it's been miraculously revived." "And, uh..." "Here we have an unbelievable opportunity to..." "To learn from our mistakes." "To find the bird, to protect its habitat, and perhaps, set an example for other endangered species." "However, more recently," "I realized that there's no such thing as second chances, because we're gonna make the same mistakes again." "Sooner or later, it's gonna happen." "And if we're doomed to make the same mistakes again, then in principle, we can't really have a true and free second opportunity." "And the reason we're doomed to make the same mistakes again is..." "Is because we don't change." "Fundamentally, we'll never be able to change." "We're all going to make the same mistakes again in one form or another, until we die." "A great poet once said, "Hope is the thing with feathers."" "A great, glorious thing that allows us to fly high above the thought of our imminent extinction." "Now, my feathers have been plucked, my feathers have been scattered." "But maybe one day they will find me again." "Somehow, somewhere down this lonely American road." "WOMAN:" "I understand, but I still can't give you a late checkout tomorrow morning." "Why not?" "After everything I've told you." "After explaining to you that my heart has been ripped out of my chest, okay?" "I've been abandoned by everyone I know, that I'm gonna have to continue the rest of this frittata tour all by myself." "My back is raging with pain." "Okay, I'm not gonna be able to sleep comfortably for more than 20 minutes in a row tonight, okay?" "You can't give me one extra hour to lick my wounds?" "WOMAN:" "That's correct, sir." "Those are the rules." "Right." "Right, rules are rules, right?" "Gotta follow the rules, right?" "Gotta follow the rules, right?" "Rules and regs." "What's the point of living in a world that's this cold, this unforgiving, this harsh." "Hmm?" "What happened to a random act of kindness to a stranger?" "What's the point?" "Look, if you wanna stay an extra hour tomorrow morning, I'm gonna charge you for an extra day." "Okay." "Well, you know, I..." "I guess I'll take my pain killers and hope, you know, my back pain isn't too terribly excruciating." "And, you know, if I end up needing an extra, you know, half an hour or hour of sleep tomorrow morning, you can go ahead and charge me for the whole day rate, just charge it on my card." "Go ahead, use the card." "Okay." "Mmm-hmm, yeah." "Charge..." "Put it on the card." "Yeah, charge it up." "Okay, sir, you have a great night." "All right, have a better night." "(LINE DISCONNECTS)" "Okay." "(HOLD MUSIC PLAYING)" "Thank you for calling Bank Of America." "This is Barbara, how may I help you?" "Hi, Barbara." "I seem to have misplaced my credit card." "And I was wondering if you could maybe freeze it, you know." "Put a freeze on it and maybe send me a new one?" ""Goodbye, everyone." ""Some of you" ""will remember me" ""as a kind friend," ""a caring brother," ""or a..."" "Something filmmaker." "What kind of a filmmaker?" ""Gifted."" ""Adroit."" ""Or as an adroit filmmaker." ""But most of you" ""will remember me as..."" "As what?" "(PILLS CLATTERING)" "(RETCHING)" "NEWSCASTER:" "Global network that supports our lives can act as a conductor." "(INDISTINCT) ...240 nano-Tesla is going to be mind-boggling, leaving us fully exposed to the fury of the sun." "MAN:" "A nano-Tesla is a measure of electro-magnetic power." "The biggest solar storm recorded in 1859 is estimated to have been around 200 nano-Teslas." "The one now moving towards Earth is unprecedented." "(TV PLAYING)" "(KNOCKING AT DOOR) Housekeeper." "Housekeeper." "It's 12:30." "Housekeeper." "Housekeeper." "Sir, checkout time is 12:30." "It's 12:30 now?" "Yes." "Am I dead?" "Get out of here." "Because the police is on its way." "I told you, you couldn't do it." "Hey, excuse me." "Excuse me." "You forgot something." "This is yours." "What's that?" "This is yours." "You left this." "Oh, yeah." "I was..." "I was writing down some notes last night." "It's for a project." "Internet was down, so I had to..." "HOUSEKEEPER:" "Mmm-hmm." "Do you know why they never give people late checkouts?" "Rules are rules." "Applies to everybody." "Even for adroit filmmakers like yourself." "Got it." "Is everything okay?" "Yeah, everything..." "Everything is fine." "Things are horrible." "Do you need a hug?" "Do you want a hug?" "Okay." "Do you wanna come to Shreveport with me?" "HOUSEKEEPER:" "How long are you going for?"