(FRENCH ACCENT) You don't speak Spanish, right? Are you ready? Everything is cool? Yes. Good. Use your imagination and your skills. Everything is subjective. (UNDER BREATH) Whatever that means. He who think he's bigger than the rest must go to the cemetery. They will see what life really is. It's a handful of dust. (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE) Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Go to the towers. Go to the cafe. Wait a couple of days. And watch for the violin. (PA ANNOUNCEMENT IN FRENCH) Bon voyage. (BEEP) (SEATBELT SIGN BEEPS, ENGINE WHIRRS) (SIRENS WAIL IN THE DISTANCE) (SPEAKS JAPANESE) (THUNDER RUMBLES) (BIRDS CHIRP) (MAN SPEAKS SPANISH) Uh, two espressos in separate cups. No. Two espressos in separate cups. No. I said TWO espressos. Dos. Espressos. Dos espressos in separate cups. Si. (HELICOPTER WHIRRS IN THE DISTANCE) (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS ON STEREO) (CHURCH BELLS CHIME IN THE DISTANCE) Dos espressos in separate cups. (SPANISH ACCENT) Two espressos in separate cups? Si. (SPEAKS SPANISH) WAITER: Dos espressos. Gracias. No. (MOTORBIKE PASSES) Very loud. Are you interested in music, by any chance? What else? Wait with a girl. She's a crisscross. 1 No. Yeah, you left your bag unprotected. There's nothing in it. Oh. (GROANS) Yes. So what's wrong? You don't like sex? Never while I'm working. Really? Mmm. How can you stand it? (TRAFFIC DRONES AND HELICOPTER WHIRRS IN THE DISTANCE) (LOW-LEVEL CONVERSATION) (PEOPLE CHATTER QUIETLY) (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS) (NOISY CHATTER) (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH QUIETLY) Hola. Do you like my raincoat? Yes. (MOBILE PHONE RINGS) (CRASH!) So you don't like mobiles either? No guns. No mobiles. No sex. No. Hola. (SPEAKS SPANISH) Gracias. 'Suspicion'. Hitchcock. Are you interested in films, by any chance? Hmm. I like really old films. You can really see what the world looked like 30, 50, 100 years ago. You know, the clothes, the telephones, the trains, the way people smoked cigarettes... ..the little details of life. The best films are like dreams you're never sure you've really had. I have this image in my head of a room full of sand and a bird flies towards me and dips its wing into the sand and I honestly have no idea whether this image came from a dream or a film. Sometimes I like it in films when people just sit there, not saying anything. Oh, yes. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Have you seen 'The Lady From Shanghai' ` Orson Welles? That one makes no sense. Rita Hayworth as a blonde. I think it's the only film she's ever a blonde in. It's like a game. Deception. (SIGHS) Glamour. A shoot-out with shattered mirrors. She dies in the end. (POLICE SIREN WAILS) So I finally have what you need. Do you have what I need? (LAUGHS COYLY) (ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS) Do you like Schubert, by any chance? I love him. He died when he was 31 years old. Something like that. (MAN SPEAKS SPANISH OVER PA SYSTEM) TENSE MUSIC (SIGHS) BEEPING, INDISTINCT SPEECH LOUD CLANGING CAR ALARM CHIRPS CAR ALARM CHIRPS TENSE MUSIC Are you interested in science, by any chance? I'm interested in molecules. The Sufi say each one of us is a planet spinning in ecstasy but I say each one of us is a set of shifting molecules... spinning in ecstasy. In the near future, worn-out things will be made new again by reconfiguring their molecules ` a pair of shoes, tyres. Molecular detection will also allow the determination of an object's physical history. This matchbox, for example ` its collection of molecules could indicate everywhere it's ever been. They could do it with your clothes or even with your skin, for that matter. Wait three days until you see the bread. The guitar will find you. Among us, there are those who are not among us. I'm among no one. (CHILDREN CHATTER NEARBY) 1 (CHILDREN CHATTER NEARBY) (CHILDREN SPEAK INDISTINCTLY) No. (HELICOPTER WHIRRS) (BALLAD PLAYS FAINTLY) (FLAMENCO GUITAR PLAYS) (PEOPLE CONVERSE IN SPANISH) (SPEAKS SPANISH) Take a seat. (ALL SPEAK SPANISH) (PLAYS SEDUCTIVE MELODY) Ole. (MAN SPEAKS SPANISH) (BOTH SPEAK SPANISH) Ole. Ole. Ole. (CLAPS AND STOMPS) (STOMPS) (SINGS IN SPANISH) (MAN CONTINUES SINGING) (RHYTHMIC STOMPING) Ole. (SINGS WITH GUSTO) (CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS) (BOTH SPEAK SPANISH) (PATRONS SPEAK SPANISH) (PLAYS EVOCATIVE MELODY) (GUITAR RESONATES) (TRAFFIC HUMS IN THE DISTANCE) (CHURCH BELLS CHIME IN THE DISTANCE) (CHURCH BELL TOLLS) (HELICOPTER WHIRRS IN THE DISTANCE) Oh, I don't speak Spanish either. Except maybe when I'm in Spain. Would one still call those bohemians? My grandfather was Bohemian. You know, in the Prague sense. I strongly doubt that he would've had any bloody sympathy for those kinds of bohemians. And then, of course, they are often the true artists, are they not? Are you interested in art, by any chance? Maybe painting, perhaps? (SNIGGERS) Yes. Well, as we were discussing, the derivation of the usage of 'bohemian' in reference to artists or artistic types, wasn't that it? Ah. I don't know the origin exactly. Of course there's Puccini's opera, 'La Boheme' - that's based on the French book, 'Scenes de la Vie de Boheme', probably published mid-19th century. There was an oddly beautiful... ..Finnish film... ..some years ago based on the book. But where the use of 'bohemian', or 'boheme' in French, came from to begin with... ..I can only speculate. Oh. Yes, of course. I imagine you have, um... ..things to do. The Mexican will find you. He has the driver. Oh, yes. The driver. You do know... that this guitar was owned and played by Manuel El Sevillano? It was recorded on a wax cylinder in the 1920s, believe it or not. God only knows whatever happened to that. It's been nice talking with you. As they say, "La vida no vale nada." (LAUGHS) (STRUMS GUITAR) (CAR APPROACHES) (WOMAN GASPS) (HELICOPTER WHIRRS OVERHEAD) (SPEAKS SPANISH) Los Americanos. 1 (ROOSTER CROWS IN THE DISTANCE) (SPEAKS SPANISH) I heard you have a very beautiful black girlfriend. She's asleep. Nothing is true. Everything's imagined. Mmm. Do you notice reflections? For me, sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected. Are you interested in hallucinations, by any chance? Have you ever tried peyote? (SPEAKS SPANISH) They wear mirrors around their necks... ..and they play violins, hand-made violins, with only one string. I'm gonna call the driver. No more buyers. (SPEAKS SPANISH) Yeah, yeah, yeah. No mobiles. (SPEAKS SPANISH) (STARTS ENGINE) ENGINE RUMBLES, REVS ENGINE REVS INDISTINCT CHATTER TENSE MUSIC HEARTBEAT THUDS ENGINE REVS GEARS CRANK, ENGINE REVS, TYRES PEAL Whoo! ENGINE ROARS, TYRES PEAL Yo! TYRES SQUEAL Whoo-hoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo! I feel like I'm in a game. BOTH: Whoo! EXCITING MUSIC LAUGHTER, TYRES SQUEAL Far out! BOTH LAUGH This is insane! POWERFUL MUSIC (ENGINE STARTS) (HELICOPTER WHIRRS) (SPEAKS JAPANESE) 1 (MEN SPEAK IN THE DISTANCE) (SECURITY DOOR UNLOCKS) (ELECTRONIC BLEEPS) (SECURITY DOOR LOCKS) These fucking Spanish assholes. Jesus Christ. Addington? Fuckin' soundproof door. How the fuck did you get in here? I used my imagination. (COCKS GUN, FIRES BLANK) (COCKS GUN AGAIN, FIRES BLANK) Is this your twisted idea of...revenge for something? No. Revenge is useless. (SHOUTS) Addington! Security! Goddammit! What is your fucking agenda here? You people don't understand a fucking thing about how the world really works. I understand. But I understand subjectivity. That's fucking nonsense. Your sick minds have been polluted with crap. Your music, movies... science. Fucking bohemians on hallucinogenic drugs. All that shit has poisoned you, and it has nothing to do with the real world. And I suppose you believe that, by eliminating me, you will eliminate control over some fucking artificial reality. Reality is arbitrary. Fuck you. (THUD) (CAR ENGINE IDLES) (CAR DOOR SLAMS) ('EL QUE SE TENGA POR GRANDE' BY CARMEN LINARES) (URINAL FLUSHES) (SIRENS WAIL IN THE DISTANCE) (HELICOPTER WHIRRS) (HELICOPTER CONTINUES WHIRRING) ('FAREWELL' BY BORIS PLAYS) Supertext Captions by Red Bee Media Australia www.redbeemedia.com.au www.able.co.nz Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Able 2016