Kubrick - Eyes Wide Shut (forg.könyv részlet)

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BEDROOM

Alice skillfully rolls two joints.

MINUTES LATER

Bill and Alice sitting in bed, partly undressed and smoking the joints.

Alice inhales and leans back with an ashtray in her lap.

She is high.

ALICE

How about the truth game?



BILL

Always a bit dangerous with pot.

ALICE

Isn't that the fun?

BILL

I'm putty in your hands.

ALICE

Okay, let's start with who were those

those two gorgeous women at the

party last night?

BILL

Don't really know. One of them just

started talking to me.

ALICE

I thought they might be patients?

BILL

No such luck. They're models. One of

them said I once removed something

from her eyes on windy day in

Rockefeller Plaza.

ALICE

Always on the job.



BILL

That's me.

ALICE

And what did they want from you this

time?

BILL

My body - what else?

ALICE doesn't find the remark particularly amusing.

BILL

Hey, come on - all I did was talk to

them... Anyway, who was the guy _you_

were dancing with?

BILL is not that interested and just wants to change the subject.

ALICE

Sandor?

BILL

Sandor... Who is he?

ALICE

A friend of the Zieglers.

BILL

And what does he do?

ALICE

I never actually found out?

BILL

Rich?

ALICE

Talked like he was.

BILL

And what did he want?



ALICE

Sex. Upstairs. Then and there.

The pot makes ALICE think this is hilarious.

BILL

Well, I guess that's understandable.

ALICE

Understandable?

BILL

Well, you're a beautiful woman.

ALICE

Oh, I see. So does exhaustive

research show that every man I meet

wants to screw me?

BILL

There might be some exceptions.

ALICE

Does that mean that all men, with

_possibly_ _some_ _exceptions_, want to

screw all beautiful women, married or

otherwise?



BILL

I suppose, basically, yes.

ALICE

So does that mean you wanted to

screw the two models?

BILL

I did say with some exceptions.

ALICE

And of course you're an exception?

BILL

Yes.



ALICE

How come?

BILL

Because I love you.

ALICE

Any other reasons?

BILL

Because we're married.

ALICE

Any others?

BILL

And because I wouldn't lie to you or

hurt you.

ALICE

So basically what it comes down to is

that you wouldn't screw the two

models out of _consideration_ for me,

but otherwise you would.

BILL

Hey, is this thing on Court TV?

BILL feigns looking around for cameras.

ALICE

Why don't you just give me a

straight answer?

BILL

Hey, come on, honey. The pot's

making you aggressive.

He takes her cigarette and puts it out.

ALICE



I'm not being aggressive at all - and

how about you not putting out my


BILL

Okay. Okay. Okay.

ALICE

Now try to be honest. When some

really great-looking woman comes in to

your office to have her tits checked out,

don't you ever think about screwing

her?

BILL

Come on, give me a break. I'm a

doctor. It's all very impersonal. And

anyway my insurance requires that a

nurse is always present.

ALICE

You're being evasive. When you're

feeling her tits, is it never any more

than sheer professionalism?

BILL

Basically, that's all it is.

ALICE

Just basically?

BILL

Oh, come on. There are no absolutes

in anything.

ALICE

No absolutes... Okay. Fine... And does

the same thing go for women? While

they're having their tits squeezed, do

you suppose your lady patients ever

wonder what your dick might be like?

BILL



Definitely not.

ALICE

And why is that?

BILL (laughs)

Because they're too worried about

what I might find.

ALICE

You know what I mean.

BILL

No, again. Not most of them.

ALICE

Why?

BILL

Well, I suppose that most women are

programmed differently from men

ALICE

Oh, yes, I forgot. Millions of years of

evolution - right? Men have to put

their sperm into as many women as

they can, but women stay at home

with pretty pink things and take care of

the children?

BILL

A bit oversimplified but something like

that.

A dispirited smile passes over her face.

ALICE

Oh, if you men only knew.

The look in her eyes changes, becoming cool and impenetrable,

and BILL allows her hands to slip from his.

BILL



If we knew -? What do you mean

by that?

ALICE (in a strangely harsh voice)

About what you imagine, my dear.

BILL

Hey, Alice, hey, look at me... The truth.

Is there something you've kept from

me?

ALICE looks down with a strange smile.

BILL (laughs)

You're just trying to wind me up.

ALICE

If you say so.

BILL

If I say so? Wait a minute. I'm not

going to let you get away with that...

Seriously... Is there's something you

haven't told me?

ALICE stops short of saying something.

BILL

Say it.

ALICE nods.

ALICE

Well, last summer at Cape Cod - I

don't suppose you remember one night

in the dining room, there was a young

Naval officer sitting near us. He was

with two other officers.



BILL

As a matter of fact, I don't But what

about him?

ALICE

The waiter brought him a message

during dinner, at which point he left

the table?

Bill waits for her to continue.

ALICE

Well...I first saw him that morning in

the lobby. He was checking in and he

was following the bellboy with his

luggage to the elevator.

He glanced at me as he walked past

but didn't stop until he had gone a few

more steps. Then he turned and

looked at me.

He didn't say anything. He didn't smile.

In fact, it seemed to me that he

scowled. Maybe I did the same thing.

ALICE stops for a moment.

ALICE

I was very stirred by him. That whole

day I lay on the beach, lost in dreams.

She stops.

BILL

Go on.

ALICE thinks about how to continue.

BILL stares at her.



ALICE

That afternoon you and I made love

and talked about our future, and our

child.

Later we were sitting on the balcony

and he passed below us without

looking up.

Just the sight of him stirred me deeply

and I thought if he wanted me, I could

not have resisted. I thought I was

ready to give up you,

the child, my whole future.

And yet at the same time - if you can

understand it - you were dearer to me

than ever, and I stroked your forehead

and kissed your hair, and at that

moment my love for you was both

tender and sad.

At dinner I wore a white rose and you

said I was very beautiful. It might not

have been just an accident that he and

his friends sat near us.

He didn't look up but I actually

considered getting up, walking over to

him and like someone in a movie,

saying, 'Here I am, my love, for whom

I have waited - take me.'

Well, it was about then that the waiter

brought him the envelope. He read it,

turned pale, said goodbye to his friends

- and glancing at me mysteriously, he

left the room.

ALICE stops for a moment.

ALICE



I barely slept that night and woke up

the next morning very agitated. I didn't

know whether I was afraid that he had

left or that he might still be there... But

by dinner I realised he was gone and I

breathed a sigh of relief.

Long silence

BILL

And if he hadn't left?

Alice doesn't reply.

ALICE

I don't know.

BILL doesn't say anything but there is a scornful expression around his

mouth.

The phone rings.