"I believe you are sincere and good at heart" "If you do not attain happiness always remember that you are on the right road" "try not to leave it." "Above all, avoid falsehood every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself teach us something useful" "Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself" "What seems bad to you within yourself will grow pure by the very fact of you observing it" "this is ridicilous -we're paying for this you're a disgrace" "Avoid fear, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood" "Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love" "Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions" "I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams." "Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and so everyone can see" "Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last too long but is soon over with all looking on and applauding as if on a stage" "But active love, active love is labour and fortitude" "Dostoyevsky so what was that all about?" "that's what we're here to discuss but you never discuss anything, you just ask questions we've been stuck on the same paragraph for a month and a half" "it's an important paragraph read it" "i believe you are sincere and good at heart if you do not attain happiness always remember you are on the righ road try not to leave it a bove all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself" "watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute" "by the very fact of your observing it" "what do you make of that?" "it's good advice man" "is it?" "you tell me i don't know but you're the teacher i teach literature, i dont give advice you're wasting our time i'm asking you questions we're supposed to ask the questions you're supposed to give us the answers" "perhaps its not as important to know the answers as it is to ask the questions better there you see he told us something no he didnt he just asked us another question" "Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love" "Stop that!" "what is father Zossima trying to tell this woman?" "I'm warning you man is it possible to appreciate this advice if we aren't faithful?" "tell me something!" "tell me something thats gonna help me pass the final exam what do we mean when we use the word faith?" "two coffees please you can't beat up students beacause they don't like Dostoyevsky perhaps" "can you give a ride to town today?" "sure are you okay?" "Air's too cold, sun's too bright." "this coffee although i haven't had any yet is undoubtedly too strong." "i wanna lie down and evaporate you're having a crisis of faith" "No i'm not" "Yes you are" "Henry i'm an atheist maybe you only think you're an atheist" "i'm in pain -all pain is desire" "Is that criticism or advice?" "i think its Buddhism" "Henry?" "yes?" "i'm in love -no really?" "yes i think so how can you tell?" "lack of concentration erratic mood swings faulty reasoning obsessive behavior its not like you to go running off after young women i'm not running off after anyone i'm falling towards her" "as if you cant help yourself?" "yea something like that i see, i've read about this type of thing and then there's this" "love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams is this an active love or a dream?" "it's a dream about to become reality name the proofs of this reality a thoughtful gesture, delicate smile white slender neck an earnest inquisitive and alluring voice greacful figure, intelligent sensuous eyes" "describe the nature of the dream -intimacy name the constituent elements of intimacy kissing, caressing, holding" "slapping, shouting, talking waiting, sleeping, crying listening, hoping, incouraging forgiving, laughing, volanting" "in a word: verbs and therefore active" "oh i feel much better now waitress are settling much prettier than i first came in ambient shadows less irritating daylight is not threatening me anymore it's just there filling the street for no apparent reason a mistake perhaps but in any event i'm not afraid" "glad to hear it -check please how do you proceed?" "to live just move forward towards those you love" "intriguing theory -no an impeccable truth but knowledge wont help where you're going what will?" "faith -you mean love no faith whats the distinction between faith and love?" "love without faith is merely a infatuation infatutaion such a beautiful word my friend you're doomed perhaps, so why do you need to go into town?" "i've been thrown out of school" "No well what are you going to do?" "i dont know maybe i'll get a job" "well if there's anything you need just ask -thanks" "so i'll see in the parking lot at 4 -okay well here goes desperate, his frustration spills no bursts forth thats better his frustration bursts forth into audacity he says as fast as he can whatever he feels" "he says as fast as he can whatever he feels he feels hurt and speaks pain i like that very direct, passionate he feels he concludes he likes you" "who?" "your literature professor oh yes i know you shouldnt get mixed up with him people will think you sleep with him to get a better grade people are disapointing let me intruduce you to Mark i dont want to get involved with anyone right now" "why not?" "because i'm busy i have a lot to study and i'm enjoying it, working hard but Mark is so good looking and he likes you" "he fascinates me a little" "Mark?" "No my teacher" "Really?" "there's something sort of tragic about him don't you think?" "he's name is Jude like in Jude The Obscure" "he looks half mad -he's in love" "Men are pathetic i think he's kind of charming" "in a way i write about him what do you write about?" "different things, speculate, study him i'm going to write a short story with him at the center or some one like him" "Him that's what i call it Him" "i'm doing laundry tonight -me too do you want to split a bottle of detergent?" "okay" "thanks for the ride where you gonna stay?" "oh i have some friends who will put me up" "i'll see you later -see you around" "marry me?" "come on excuse me sir but will you take my hand in marriage?" "come on get outta here -marry me please to love and to cherish to love and to cherish would you get out of the street?" "what are you looking at?" "square.. bug off excuse me sir but will you allow me to be your wife?" "please!" "here don't want your money to love and to cherish hey you marry me come on" "somebody need any help?" "somebody need any assistance?" "can i help some one?" "somebody need any help?" "can i help some one?" "my manager says you either gotta buy a book or leave listen to this" "ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness we're almost entirely ignorant of ourselves absolutely of others in ignorance we find our bliss in illusions our happiness" "i write down all those questions you ask in class you do?" "i take them home and re-read the chapters you've assigned, it helps" " what does?" " asking the questions how?" "submitting all i read in the book to that ongoing list of questions somehow it shows it shows how consistent his concerns were" "Dostoevsky it does huh?" "before i began asking those questions over and over again of the text i was having a hard time i couldn't see what he was getting at i kept hoping he get back to the story and then what happened?" "the questions focused my concentration i'm getting more out of my reading now does anybody work here?" "i can't say i intended to teach you anything but i'm glad it helps but they're your questions you asked them first" "i asked them for different reasons what reasons?" "the book seems alive you seem alive that book there seems alive too things you're reading are having an effect on you me?" "i read i understand, i appreciate but still i'm left unchanged i can't put into actions what it is i understand" "shouldn't knowledge provide solace?" "i don't know perhaps i don't understand anything do you have anywhere to go?" "you've been in here for hours when do you get off work?" "8 o'clock can i drive you back to campus?" "no thanks i take the bus will you have a drink with me before you take the bus?" "okay but only if you leave now my manager will yell at me if you don't okay the bar on the corner?" "do you wanna buy the book?" "nah books don't help to love and to cherish" "what's that?" "it's coffee and a muffin what's this suppose to mean?" "it's not suppose to mean anything you can't get something for nothing you know mister no not usually i suppose just because a guy buys a girl a cup of coffee doesn't mean she has to jump into the sack with him" "look i'm putting it over here why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" "what?" "that's the truth about things mister look it's right here see?" "coffee and a muffin okay?" "to love and to cherish marry me excuse me?" "let me be you wife i'm sorry" "to love and to cherish hey professor you waiting for somebody?" "yeah a girl pretty girl?" "yes. a pretty girl and young too i imagine what's it to you?" "you admire her inteligence as a matter of fact yes i do and you're impressed with her charming combination of unassuming conscientiousness and girlish naivete so what if i am?" "trouble with us americans is we always want a tragedy with a happy ending hey i need a beer" " Hi" " Hi you want a drink?" "a beer please i have to make a call" "a beer a beer" "Joe it's me Sophie i won't be home for an hour so sorry something came up i'll do my laundry tomorrow night" "i'm at a bar with some friends" "girlfriends bye" "do you like your job?" "it's okay i get a discount on my books it helps do you like yours?" "not really i'm bad at it are you bad at it because you don't like it or do you not like it because you're bad at it?" "do you think i'm a bad teacher?" "i have learn things in your class you're a better student than i am a teacher that's because you give me more attention than the others" "that's true does that bother you?" "no to tell you the truth" "when i feel i'm teaching well when i'm making myself clear when i'm actually incouraging a student to think specifically and articulate more appropriately when i feel this i'm usually thinking of you does that embarrass you?" "a little when i'm reading that really excites me for instance i want desperately to share it with some one" "it's you i wanna share it with why me?" "it's complicated no it's not it's not?" "it's because you think i'm pretty perhaps" "i'm sorry it doesn't change the fact that i care for you you hardly know me that's true i hardly know anyone but i know how i feel even if i don't know why would you like me to tell you something about myself?" "if you want to i appreciate being taken seriously but i'm always concerned that i'm not sufficiently serious i know men look at me and think i'm alright but i think it's contemptuous to utilize that fact in order to achieve something" "but if had to i'm afraid i might and that bothers me" "i'm very curious and i'm afraid of seeming gullible so i'm argumentative more than i think i should be what did you lie to your roommate you were out with some one else?" "if people knew we were out together they would say i was sleeping with you in order to get a better grade" " but we're not - not what sleeping together" "not yet anyway" "one..two..three..four five..six..seven..eight" " i don't like this song - i love the video can you turn it down i have to study?" " that guy called again - what guy?" " you the one - the one you like?" "with the long hair" " did he ask you out?" " yes" " but i said i was busy - do you think he'll call back?" "definelty i wish i had legs like hers i wish my breasts were smaller do you like this dress?" "i like that one better i'm going to write a novel" " now?" " no someday can i help someone?" "somebody need any help?" "somebody need any assitance?" "can i help someone?" "somebody need any help?" "can i help someone?" " you weren't in class today - i've missed you" "i've missed you too it was terrible i didn't know what to do i overslept my class is a 2 o'clock in the afternoon let's not argue i'm not arguing i'm concerned are you eating alright?" "look i'm a grownup person" " can i see you tonight?" " perhaps what's that suppose to mean?" "it's what you always say" " is it?" " yes perhaps when do i say that?" "well for instance whenever you don't want to admit that you're wrong you always look away and say perhaps" " no i don't - yes you do i always admit when i'm wrong that's not true yes it is i cherish my flaws ah you see that's another thing you always do what is?" "whenever you're losing an argument you always depict yourself as hopelessly incompetent as if humbly admiting your shortcomings somehow places you above the argumentative hand there for negating the other person's point of view entirely" "you're pretty thorough honestly observent" " i'm pretty flattered - i'll make a note of that you haven't answer my question what question is that?" " can i see you tonight?" " perhaps i've gotta go call me" " Henry - oh hi Jude what are you doing here?" "i work here now" " no kidding - yea great job, all these books boss doesn't like me too much but i always had a problem with authority what are you doing here?" "oh i came to see Sophie ahh Sophie" "Sophia that's greek you know it's means to know i'll keep that in mind but she's got a boyfriend" " no she doesn't - sure she does lots of 'em, they're in here everyday she flirts with them constantly no she would've told me if she were involved with some one" " why?" " why what?" "why would she have told you?" "because she would have wanted me to know we are close you know" " how close?" " close" " do you sleep together?" " no not yet so you're just friends we're a little bit more than friends" "Jude you're deluding yourself you don't know anything about it a man'll throw all his heart won wisdom toss away years of aquired knowledge all for what?" "a pretty face well what is all your deligent cynicism and years of intellectual inquiry gotten you huh?" "a job in a bookstore" " piece of mind - what?" "or atleast something approximating piece of mind you don't live in the real world henry you live in books and ideas you're a victim of theoretical abstraction hey i struggle with my demons as much as you but are they really demons?" "all distractions are demons" "you know my biggest fear is this that all my hard work all my good intentions all my studying have been nothing more than bulding of a wall between me and life" " extacly - what?" "you must withdraw from life don't be stupid i wanna embrace life to know about life sometimes you have step away from it oh yeah?" "listen to this" ""yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past"" "he is quiet yet opinionated powerful but shy" "i need new clothes thoughtful and impetuous" " i hate this video - i like this song the lead singer is hot he looks mean and insensitive" "do you think i should make my hair blonde?" "not untill summer i wanna lose weight is Marguerite Duras a lesbian?" "god i hope Mike calls me back he is solemn despite himself reckless and hell bent freightened of his own carelessness that's a pradox" " hello?" " get outta here it's my mother" "how are you?" "Jude?" "i'm a wreck excuse me?" "i'm excited too excited to sleep" " where are you?" " on a street in town?" "i've been walking for hours i had to walk, think i'm gonna walk all night why don't you come out and walk with me?" "what's come over you?" "i can't get you out of my head i'll drive up to campus and pick you up we stay out all night" " i can't - why not?" "i've got classes tomorrow i've gotta study so what!" "i wrote a poem for you a poem?" " yea - really?" "yea i was at a bar i was possessed, inspired beyond belief i grabbed a napkin scrolled it out in one huge burst of creativity beautiful poem really beautiful and then i spilled my bear on it and now i don't remember how it went" "meet me at the cafe in an hour" " Henry" " Jude ive decided i'm joing the priesthood you always say that when you've had too much to drink yeah this time i mean it what about your job at the bookstore?" "i got fired jesus Henry monastery is probably just the place for you think so?" "you are socially retarded i march to the beat of a different drum you got any money?" "i don't need money i got conviction well here this will help sustain your conviction you know Jude that's your problem you don't believe in anything that's a problem?" "ofcourse it is it seems to me the people who believe in things are the problem" "how do you mean?" "people who bomb embassies usually insist that they believe in things rival terrorist organizations machine gun women and children in the supermarkets because they believe in things elected officials shut down hospitals and then vote for increases in the defence budget usually because believe in things" "no i rather not believe in things but what's the alternative?" "man can't live without faith he can live without faith he can't live without understanding faith comes after understanding and how do you suppose one gains understanding?" "through exprience ah you wanna achieve spiritual end through materialist means that's your problem" "Henry leave me alone you're drunk you won't listen to reason no i won't listen to reason not tonight" " but you must - don't try and stop me Henry you'll never survive this how do you know?" "besides i don't know if i want to" "are you okay?" "i don't know maybe i'll never be the same again but who cares?" "kiss me" "why did you tell your roommate it was your mother on the phone?" " i told you why - but it's different now how is it different?" "it's understood that you're not here in order to get a better grade" "isn't?" "well yes it is between us no one else matters" "i'm embarrassed of me?" "i don't want to seem like somebody i'm not to who?" "to myself" "you should go i don't want to you don't know why you're here people often do things they don't understand it doesn't make them less genuine" "maybe do you want me to go?" "no are you sure?" "yes i'm going to undress okay" "do you think i'm very beautiful?" "yes" "if you never see me again after tonight will you be sad?" "don't worry about it" "yes but you know will you be tortured by the memory of having been with me?" "of having caressed me will you wonder if i'm with other men?" "will you be jealous?" "will you become obssessed?" "will you carry your disappointment around with you forever?" "will you be maudlin and anti-social?" "will you get into fights?" "will you expect other women to be somehow more like me?" "my mouth my eyes the way i wear my hair will you?" "will you be like that you think?" "perhaps it's the nature of things you know regret" "i'll risk it" "hey will you marry me?" "please why do you wanna marry me?" "why not?" "i can think a lot of reasons if i weren't so drunk why are you so drunk?" "i don't know, nights are too long the nights are too long because you have no one to share them with that's a very compassion way of putting it" " marry me - but i don't know you what does that matter?" "does anyone really know anyone else?" "ah that's a good point i'd go a step further and ask does anybody really know themselves?" "exactly what's your name?" "Katy" " glad to meet you Katy, Henry - how are you Henry?" "wasted so what do you say will you marry me?" "well i doubt we can get married right here in the middle of the night" " we could if we were in Reno - yea god i wish we lived in Reno let's sleep on it" "no way mister why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" " what?" " you know what i mean we don't have to sleep on it together why?" "don't you think i'm beautiful?" "Katy you're a goddess listen pal don't waste my time there are plenty of men out there who died trying to marry me i don't doubt it listen why don't we just get engaged for the time being?" " engaged huh?" " yea that way i can find us a place to live get set up right and proper why don't you have a place to live now?" "no not exactly what about a ring?" "a ring?" "a ring if we're gonna get engaged you gotta give me a ring oh ring here, it's my college ring oh god" " it's beautiful - it's a little big on you oh no it's just perfect henry thank you aw it's worth just to see you smile like that Katy so do you have a job?" "a job?" "ahh no not at the moment i'm working on my PhD you're a doctor?" "of theology. almost what are you gonna do when you get out of school?" "ooh i don't know i've been in school all my life i don't know how to do anything well i hope you don't expect me to go and support you for the rest of your life?" "already with the nagging what a torturous path i've made for myself shackling myself to you" "oh Katy now don't get so upset all newlyweds have these little battles we'll survive" " you think so?" " absolutely" "you're a good man Henry" "Ah Kate come on let's go home and get some sleep" " okay i know a place - good" "his weaknesses are enduring" "his strengths threathen to eclipse my own self confidence" "he eats out a lot" " hey aren't you?" " no" " yes you are - no i'm not" " but last night - what about last night?" "you were with him no i wasn't i'm sorry perhaps i'm mistaking perhaps" "i just saw your girlfriend" "Sophia she claims not to know you" " no - yes" "NO afraid so" "i don't understand there's nothing to understand we're animals" ""Eros is a bad and fickle little godhead"" "does this thing still work?" "i hate when she does that today's the first day of spring that's no consultation boy i must've been hammered last night i woke up in a strange apartment somehow i managed to lose my college ring eat your toast and get out" " no love is free - what?" "freud said that don't start with me Henry heard a fascinating statement in a movie last night you don't seem to be aware of the pain i'm expriencing" " excuse me?" " forget it" " it's biblical - what is?" "the statement, "love does not discriminate"" "i don't follow" "and the people asked him saying:" ""what shall we do then"" " that's Luke - chapter 3 verse 10" " so?" " "so the apostle replies love and cherish unquestioningly whoever happens to be before you" "Love does not discriminate"" "I'm no apostle, Henry" "Take it easy, it was just something I heard in a movie" "Listen pal, you can't waltz in here, use my toaster and start spouting universal truths without qualification!" "what's that?" "what?" "you smell that?" "oh yeah she's left her fragrance here that's it." "Get out!" " what about my toast?" " Get out!" " Scram - what?" "why did you do that?" "i'm upset i guess idiot why do you deny me?" "i don't wanna get involved with anyone right now i'm busy studying working hard and i like it" "why do you need what's between us to be seen?" "i don't i need it to be acknowledged this is embarrassing" "what are you writing?" "it's part of a story can i hear it?" "no read it" "read it" "he is desperate and his frustration mounts to overflowing before giving way to his final and audacious mistake" "finaly he caves in gives up and takes what is offered because he knows he can because he knows he wants he lacks faith and therefore patience the giving of himself has left him empty and old before his time" "that's very interesting but i think it should be a woman" "what do you think?" "go on read it as a woman" "she is desperate and her frustration mounts to overflowing before giving way to her final and audacious mistake" "finaly she caves in, gives up and takes what is offered because she knows she can because she knows she wants she lacks faith and therefore patience" "the giving of herself has left her empty and old before her time" "just don't" "damn" "excuse me miss what do you want?" "i want you to be my wife what?" "i mean it. marry me. please why should i marry you?" "well why not me?" "listen mister i'm already engaged see?" "this is an engagement ring that's not an engagement ring that's a college ring and it belongs to my friend Henry" "Back off pal i don't know anyone named Henry this is an engagement ring a significant emblem a potent piece of jewelry and it's mine" "but i thought you wanted to get married" "i just wanted somebody to ask" "Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky" "born in moscow 1821 his father was a" "drunken brute of an army Surgeon who treated his sowers horribly so he... they murdered him by pouring vodka down his throat till he gagged" "Fyodor had some success with his first novel but then he was arrested for subversion against Tsar" "after 8 months in solitary confinement he was led before a firing squad" "he stood there in a death shroud facing an open and hastily dug grave awaiting his execution then some one decided he didn't need to be shot" "so for the next 4 or 5 years he did hard labour in some cold siberian prison it was there in siberia that he began to suffer from epilepsy" "finally 10 years after being dragged away in chains he returned to Saint Petersburg" "he converted to a conservative and profoundly religious philosophy nevertheless he was utterly destitute an alcoholic and a compulsive gambler he married Anna Dostoyevskaya and wrote atleast 4 of the greatest novels in history" "i have nothing else to say i can't teach you anything" "class dismissed" "Knowing is not enough" "pal you alright?" "yeah i'll be okay just let me rest my head here in the gutter for 5 or 10 minutes i'll be alright" "i'm sorry to bother you what is it?" "can you tell me how to get down to the river from here?" "does anyone need any assistance?" "anyone need any assistance?" "can i help someone?" "somebody need any help?" "can i help someone?" "someone need any assistance?" "can i help someone?" "can i help someone?" "somebody need any help?" "someone need any assistance?" "can i help someone?" "someone need any help?" "does anyone need any assistance?" "can i help someone?" "can i help someone?" "can i help someone?" "Subtitle by:" "AleeReza"