Manderlay 2005 English subtitles Part 02
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On top of that, the pneumonia
brought by the dust was inevitable.
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The dust had got in everywhere
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particularly where no new boards
provided weatherproofing.
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Namely through the cracked glass
in the window above Claire's bed.
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Valuables, not to mention cash,
were non-existent at Manderlay
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since the elegant clock on
the mantelpiece turned out to be
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not Swiss, as Mam believed but a copy made
quite locally and worth practically nothing.
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The Freed Enterprise
of Manderlay was bust.
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Wilhelm and Grace
were therefore under no illusions
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that anybody
would attend class this day.
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But then, one by one, the
Manderlay flock began to appear.
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I'm happy you're all here.
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But I don't really
have a lecture for you today.
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I'd just like to say
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how badly I feel
about this hopeless situation.
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But of course words
aren't much use to you.
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No, Missy has learnt
that much, at least.
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But as regards hopelessness, it is
something we do know a bit about.
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There are a million plants
out there beneath the dust.
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If we can save but 50 of them
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perhaps we can grow a small quantity of
great quality and get a better price for it.
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I reckon we should make a move.
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That is how a great disaster turned
into a stroke of luck for Grace
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and how the people, with a common
foe, the dust, as their excuse
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suddenly found themselves working
together with their deadliest enemy
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to achieve the common goal
as free, grown-up Americans.
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Stanley and Bert
had sown the fields with sticks
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so people could tell where
to uncover the tender seedlings.
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While Flora, ever so childishly,
kept teasing Grace
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for her supposed
romantic feelings towards Timothy.
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Good night, old Wilma.
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Good night, child.
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We can talk for awhile
before we go to sleep.
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No, thank you, Wilma.
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I'm not weary enough
to go to bed yet. A little walk helps.
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A walk when a body ain't sleepy
is a very good thing.
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I do the same myself.
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- Good night.
- Good night.
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That everything seemed
as moving along on its own
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could be nothing
but welcomed by Grace.
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But her lack of an active part to play
had left her in a kind of vacuum
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and allowed other things
inside her to claim attention.
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Human things like instincts
and emotions.
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An ominous sense of homelessness
and loneliness struck Grace.
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Wandering about,
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Grace suddenly found herself outside
the wooden rear of the bath house.
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Without warning, the homelessness
transferred into a strange desire
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to move up that rusty pipe
against the flow of dirty water
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into where naked bodies
were being washed in cheap soap.
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Black skin...
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Male and black manhood.
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What Grace had felt at the bath
house was undignified. Shameful.
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Her mind was meant to be
devoted to policy at Manderlay.
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A matter in which these thoughts
had no business whatsoever.
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Grace had forced herself to sleep, to
rid her thoughts of those black bodies.
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An achievement that was possible thanks
to the stubbornness in Grace's family.
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But the cotton seedling in her
love-starved body did not give up.
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It manifested itself as a dream.
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Grace was in southern climes...
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There were women in exotic
costumes and men in turbans.
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Even in her sleep
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she hated with a passion any idea of
allowing that her father might be right.
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But it was a harem.
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A group of black slaves appeared,
bearing a huge charger of dates.
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In a twinkling Grace lay among
the dates trembling with pleasure
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as a flock of Bedouin satisfied her
one by one with their noses.
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And it was even more confusing
when Timothy appeared
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and was both the slave
bearing wine, hands shaking
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and the sheik himself,
whose authoritative hands
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tested the size
of Grace's most intimate orifices.
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- I must have overslept.
- I'm sorry. Claire's had another turn.
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Yeah...
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Yeah, she's running
a bad fever again.
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- She had anything to eat?
- Pork chops and baked chicken.
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She's taken a little oatmeal,
but it's hard to get into her.
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She had lung trouble
last year when the dust come, too.
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But there was
far more dust this year.
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Honestly, you oughta go back home to
the clean air and larders full of food.
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We're all in this together,
no matter how hard it gets.
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And hard it will get.
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I've seen what's left around here
though some folks are still filling their bellies.
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Right...
We've got to talk about that.
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Come on, it'll be all right, Rose.
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I propose that we ration
what we have left
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and spread
our provisions over a month
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until we can harvest more
from the vegetable gardens.
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And, as I hear there are
so very few beans and potatoes left
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I think we should give them
to Rose, who needs them for Claire.
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What's left will be shared out
equally among the rest of us.
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Excuse me...
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The rest of us?
That goes for us, too?
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- Of course it does.
- Your father wouldn't have approved.
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Joseph swears it couldn't be
called food at all. Legally speakin'.
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Your father used to
let us obtain stuff.
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Surely we could steal
something from somewhere.
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But I suppose
that's no good, either, Miss Grace.
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I'm afraid
you're one tough cookie.
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Maybe I am.
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Sadly, the most nourishing fare
the estate could provide
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had not improved
Claire's condition much.
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But she needed meat,
and Timothy knew it.
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So now they'd have to do without
the old donkey on the treadmill.
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It was not a good portent
of the level of morale
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that the gangsters were trying to fix
the car from the ravages of the dust.
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But luckily, Joseph, who was able to
interpret the most difficult of texts
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had met his match
in the 1923 Ford owner's manual.
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As time went by,
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the scattered cotton plants grew side
by side with its denizens' hunger
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now that the little donkey meat
that was left was reserved for Claire.
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Grace found herself in the peculiar situation
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of joining the women in what had been
completely forbidden under Mam's Law:
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Namely, the southern tradition
of eating dirt.
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Having given up
on the automobile manuals
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Joseph had found
a quaint phrase in the agreement
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he had originally made with Grace's father
regarding his employment.
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The wording could be interpreted
to mean that certain circumstances
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obliged an employee to obey
a higher authority than his boss.
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The authority in this case
being his stomach.
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The good news was that, though the drought
had been hard on the fields
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Stanley and Timothy had invented
a weapon to deploy against it.
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- Wait, wait...
- Watch out! It's coming...
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But the best news of all was Claire
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who had miraculously
gained so much strength
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that she could empty
her plate of good food.
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Always in the middle of the night
when everyone was asleep
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but nobody was looking but even so...
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If Grace had thought hunger would
stop her forbidden sensual fantasies
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actually the opposite
was more the case.
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Flora, what's goin' on
with the chickens?
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Are they fighting?
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You mean
the 4 whites after the black?
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You want I should
open the door and have a peek?
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No...
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Mind you,
that little black hen real proud.
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Wouldn't surprise me, them others took
the chance to give her the odd peck.
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Now, don't you tease me, Flora.
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- Goodnight, then.
- Goodnight.
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Flora had teased Grace before
with the little black hen.
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But they were hurting in there.
No doubt about it.
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And to make everything far worse
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that heat in her loins came back
in spite of the chicken's cry for help.
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Or may even have been
intensified by it.
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Devastated, humiliated and overcome
by fear for her sanity she fled.
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In a fit of madness, or what
others would call horniness
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she threw herself
onto her bed on her tummy
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forgot about
shame and political correctness
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and did what she had not done
since childhood
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when she had not yet known
it was so infinitely wrong:
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She pressed herself onto the knot
she had instinctively formed by bunching her quilt.
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Whether it was pleasurable
or painful is hard to tell
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but she kept at it.
It was beyond her control.
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With no regard for the other women
or common decency in general
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the pulsating explosions in her
nether regions took over her world.
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Who knows how it would have concluded
had there not appeared at that very moment,
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fortunately for Grace, a person shaking her back
to a state of self-defense.
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Miss Grace!
You gotta come quick, Miss Grace!
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She dead.
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I took such care of her...
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I fed her the good meat...
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She'd been eatin'...
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She dead...
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Now she's dead!
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- I said come on!
- She'd been eatin'...
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No! She hadn't been eatin'...
This 'un had!
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Y'gonna tell 'em, Wilma?
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I was so hungry...
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I get so dizzy...
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And my legs hurt
when I'm hungry.
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Our good friend and Claire's beloved Wilma been
visiting in the window while we slept.
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She emptied Claire's plate every,
single night!
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T'was easy as pie, since that window
could be opened from the outside.
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I've eaten
so much dirt in my time...
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My teeth can't take it no more.
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She killed our little girl.
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Jack... Jack, she was sick.
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Miss Grace, Rose didn't worry much
about feeding her during the day
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'cause she ate so much at night.
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I want Wilma punished
for killin' my little girl!
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I want this matter put to the vote.
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I want Wilma punished
for killin' my little girl.
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I want justice,
or I'll kill her myself right now!
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Let me go...
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Stop!
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- We will talk about it tomorrow!
- They're killing my little girl!
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Stop it!
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And so the next evening
a gathering took place
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under the magnificent, clear,
twinkling, starry sky of Manderlay.
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Now we've heard 'em all,
Wilhelm.
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Wilma showed no mercy
to our Claire
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so no mercy oughta
be shown to her. She must die!
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Jack...
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Killing old Wilma
won't bring Claire back.
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All we want is justice.
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You've said so many times
that we're entitled to it!
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I propose... that...
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... she be banished from Manderlay
for stealing food in an emergency.
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She probably won't survive
that anyway, as old as she is.
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After all, we don't know if the food
made any difference in Claire's fate.
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Wilma can't have known
whether it would kill her.
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But she didn't care when it
came to risking somebody else's life.
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That of our little girl!
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All Wilma saw was a plate nobody
was touching. She was hungry.
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What do you think
the rest of us was?
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All of us here
ate what we'd agreed.
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What do you think
little Claire was?
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We're all hungry...
and that just makes it far, far worse!
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I'd like to ask y'all
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to vote
on Jack and Rose's motion.
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All those who believe that Wilma
deserves to die, raise your hands.
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Thank you.
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Thank y'all.
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Stop!
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Grace?
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I thought we were the ones
who made the decisions here.
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That's what you always told us.
Or maybe it's only sometimes.
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Of course not. It's always.
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Then they's the decision
you're here to defend, ain't they?
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So let me go across and do it.
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No...
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If anybody is going to do it,
it's going to be me.
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It must not be
an act of vengeance.
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That's alright by me.
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As long as
she suffers as much as Claire.
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That will be up to me.
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I'll let you know when it's over.
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Grace...
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Be so kind as to tell me...
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What they decide?
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Am I gonna die?
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No, Wilma,
you're not going to die.
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What you mean?
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I mean the ballot did not go Jack's way.
You're not gonna die.
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They didn't think Claire would have
eaten the food on her plate, anyway.
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And anyhow, she'd certainly have died
from pneumonia from the dust.
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Did they really say that?
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Yes... They really said that.
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If you knew
how terrible the waitin' was...
238
00:25:43,703 --> 00:25:47,104
- I'm just so weary.
- I know.
239
00:25:48,875 --> 00:25:50,365
I know you are.
240
00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:54,944
But now you can sleep easy.
241
00:25:58,251 --> 00:25:59,309
Yes...
242
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,815
I can.
243
00:26:03,957 --> 00:26:05,925
Lie down and get some sleep.
244
00:26:11,864 --> 00:26:15,129
You are the daughter
I might have had.
245
00:26:26,746 --> 00:26:30,546
- Lie down.
- Will you stay till I sleep?
246
00:26:31,284 --> 00:26:33,047
I'll do that Wilma...
247
00:26:35,288 --> 00:26:36,482
Here...
248
00:26:41,894 --> 00:26:43,293
Lie down.
249
00:26:59,712 --> 00:27:01,009
Wilma?
250
00:28:44,383 --> 00:28:49,980
Harvest time finally did arrive and
the cotton went safe into the sacks.
251
00:28:51,491 --> 00:28:55,393
Despite the fewer bushes,
the harvest was splendid.
252
00:28:55,895 --> 00:28:58,431
It was as if
all the trials and tribulations
253
00:28:58,431 --> 00:29:02,731
had made the cotton extra white
and the fibers extra strong.
254
00:29:03,169 --> 00:29:08,129
And, even at current prices,
it would bring in a record sum.
255
00:29:10,743 --> 00:29:13,337
Although nothing
was the way it had ever been
256
00:29:13,412 --> 00:29:17,212
the harvest was as precise
as always at Manderlay.
257
00:29:17,817 --> 00:29:22,811
The moment the last tuft of cotton
was in the sack, the swallows arrived
258
00:29:22,922 --> 00:29:26,653
dropping from the skies
towards the marshes.
259
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,822
Everyone observed the sight in awe
260
00:29:29,929 --> 00:29:35,629
and for a moment it was greater
than all the words and politics in the world.
261
00:29:43,709 --> 00:29:48,737
The old gin was as ready as ever.
It had been for a week.
262
00:29:49,015 --> 00:29:54,510
Greased, stripped down and reassembled
by Sammy who had teamed up with Niels.
263
00:29:55,154 --> 00:29:57,281
They worked well in harness.
264
00:29:57,823 --> 00:30:03,557
Niels had never found a joke funny
so Sammy, the Clownin' Nigger, had given up
265
00:30:04,230 --> 00:30:09,429
trying to entertain him
with his somewhat weak material.
266
00:30:20,546 --> 00:30:21,808
Miss Grace?
267
00:30:25,184 --> 00:30:26,412
Edward!
268
00:30:28,221 --> 00:30:31,987
I hardly recognized you.
You've certainly changed the way you dress.
269
00:30:32,191 --> 00:30:35,957
Yes. Your father thought
it was time for a change.
270
00:30:36,462 --> 00:30:38,828
He's on his way
into a new area of business.
271
00:30:39,432 --> 00:30:43,163
- Is Daddy here?
- No, he sent me with a message.
272
00:30:46,872 --> 00:30:50,808
He says he'll be by a week,
Monday, at eight in the evening.
273
00:30:51,110 --> 00:30:56,275
He'll wait in the car outside the gates
for 15 minutes, not a second longer.
274
00:30:56,949 --> 00:31:01,283
The way he did in Dogville, he says,
and the way he did with your mother.
275
00:31:02,221 --> 00:31:05,622
- When he asked her to marry him.
- Something like that.
276
00:31:06,025 --> 00:31:09,461
If you want to go, you better be there
'cause he says he'll just push on.
277
00:31:09,862 --> 00:31:13,320
- I know, I get the message.
- All right, I'm on my way.
278
00:31:13,499 --> 00:31:16,024
- Take care, Miss Grace.
- You, too, Edward.
279
00:31:18,037 --> 00:31:19,334
Oh, Edward...
280
00:31:21,974 --> 00:31:25,774
Just tell Dad that
new times have come to Manderlay.
281
00:31:27,380 --> 00:31:32,511
Grace had no intention of going
with her father when he arrived.
282
00:31:32,685 --> 00:31:36,621
She had her own life now
and it suited her just fine.
283
00:31:36,922 --> 00:31:39,015
But she'd be at the gates, anyhow.
284
00:31:39,091 --> 00:31:46,122
She just had to show him what she had achieved:
A new and better Manderlay.
285
00:31:50,202 --> 00:31:53,729
It was examination day
for Stanley and the family.
286
00:31:53,973 --> 00:31:57,204
Even though things
had been going well recently
287
00:31:57,343 --> 00:32:00,642
when Stanley
partook of his beer
288
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,180
nobody'd be able to keep him
from revealing what'd happened on the plantation,
289
00:32:05,251 --> 00:32:07,344
and thereby ruin it all.
290
00:32:08,054 --> 00:32:12,957
Wilhelm had been skeptical about
letting the whites talk to the drivers.
291
00:32:13,225 --> 00:32:17,161
But Grace had insisted.
She trusted them.
292
00:32:19,598 --> 00:32:23,728
Oh, Sammy...!
Oh, Lord, Sam.
293
00:32:25,171 --> 00:32:26,832
Eejit nigger!
294
00:32:28,007 --> 00:32:30,100
Are you totally useless?
295
00:32:31,110 --> 00:32:32,702
Sorry, Mr Mays.
296
00:32:35,648 --> 00:32:36,740
I'm jokin'.
297
00:32:45,491 --> 00:32:48,949
Stanley Mays
and the family passed.
298
00:32:50,429 --> 00:32:54,763
That very evening Grace pronounced
them graduate Americans.
299
00:32:56,068 --> 00:32:57,797
Although they were free to go,
300
00:32:57,870 --> 00:33:05,276
they had elected to stay as there was talk of hiring
the family and Stanley permanently.
301
00:33:06,212 --> 00:33:08,180
And before anybody knew it
302
00:33:08,247 --> 00:33:11,283
the money was in the bank
303
00:33:11,283 --> 00:33:15,515
from where it had been picked up
by proud Timothy on horseback.
304
00:33:17,690 --> 00:33:23,026
Niels and Sammy had fixed the car
wisely without reference to the manual.
305
00:33:23,362 --> 00:33:26,297
- Thank you for everything.
- Thank you.
306
00:33:26,499 --> 00:33:31,095
- What are you gonna do now?
- I don't know.
307
00:33:31,437 --> 00:33:33,530
You could always
go back to gangstering.
308
00:33:37,176 --> 00:33:41,579
- Where's Mr Robinson?
- Down in the cabin, shakin' hands.
309
00:33:42,748 --> 00:33:48,152
Grace was touched by Mr Robinson's
sudden social interest in the former slaves.
310
00:33:48,521 --> 00:33:51,183
But it felt right when the car left.
311
00:33:51,490 --> 00:33:55,119
It was time for Grace
to say goodbye to power.
312
00:33:57,463 --> 00:34:02,264
Brave and strong,
thy men and women
313
00:34:02,468 --> 00:34:06,199
better this, than corn and wine.
314
00:34:06,539 --> 00:34:11,067
Make us worthy, God in Heaven
315
00:34:11,277 --> 00:34:16,544
of this goodly land of Thine.
316
00:34:16,949 --> 00:34:22,888
Hearts as open as our doorway
317
00:34:23,155 --> 00:34:30,118
Iiberal hands and spirits free
318
00:34:30,463 --> 00:34:36,800
Alabama, Alabama
319
00:34:37,036 --> 00:34:46,240
we will aye be true to thee.
320
00:35:00,993 --> 00:35:03,052
He's watching you.
321
00:35:05,264 --> 00:35:08,131
- No, he's not.
- He's watching you.
322
00:35:08,567 --> 00:35:09,795
No, he's not.
323
00:35:09,969 --> 00:35:12,836
I reckon it have somethin' to do
with them gangsters leavin'.
324
00:35:14,573 --> 00:35:19,738
See, honey, when you was boss,
he was visitin' your kingdom.
325
00:35:20,346 --> 00:35:25,648
Now you're visitin' his.
I reckon he wants you now...
326
00:35:26,919 --> 00:35:30,047
He should have some dinner.
I'm gonna go get him.
327
00:35:30,389 --> 00:35:33,119
- You gonna go get him?
- Uh-huh.
328
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,690
- You gotta come get some dinner.
- Quiet, woman.
329
00:36:04,690 --> 00:36:10,322
In Mam's bedroom Grace recalled
Flora's worrying, intimate details.
330
00:36:10,596 --> 00:36:15,624
Sexual intercourse among the Munsi
was determined by ancient traditions.
331
00:36:16,268 --> 00:36:19,169
It would not appeal to Grace,
Flora had said.
332
00:36:19,371 --> 00:36:24,104
Not with Grace's modern ideas of
equality of people and the sexes.
333
00:36:29,214 --> 00:36:33,150
But Grace seemed to have left her
progressive attitude at the table.
334
00:36:44,029 --> 00:36:51,435
Now actually in the situation she had dreamed of
it was all more bizarre than erotic.
335
00:36:51,971 --> 00:36:55,873
Anyway, Grace had decided
to hang on to this opinion.
336
00:38:22,061 --> 00:38:23,858
Timothy, wake up!
337
00:38:26,532 --> 00:38:28,659
Timothy's horse had escaped
338
00:38:28,734 --> 00:38:34,400
when fires had been lit around the slave quarters
while Grace was asleep.
339
00:38:48,353 --> 00:38:51,657
- What happened?
- I can't tell you.
340
00:38:51,657 --> 00:38:54,785
You're gonna
have to ask somebody else.
341
00:38:55,060 --> 00:38:58,052
- The gangsters took the money.
- What?
342
00:38:58,797 --> 00:39:00,662
The gangsters took the money.
343
00:39:01,066 --> 00:39:05,400
That's the answer. And I reckon
it's a pretty clear answer, too.
344
00:39:05,671 --> 00:39:08,037
It certainly is very clear.
345
00:39:09,408 --> 00:39:11,501
What makes you think so?
346
00:39:13,979 --> 00:39:15,742
When the party ended
347
00:39:17,349 --> 00:39:22,685
we all left the table to go
and take a look at the money.
348
00:39:24,623 --> 00:39:28,059
Timothy had hid it
behind the red slope.
349
00:39:29,194 --> 00:39:34,962
Timothy was meant to be keepin' an eye
on the place, but he wasn't there.
350
00:39:35,601 --> 00:39:38,934
And the box had been pulled up.
It was empty.
351
00:39:40,739 --> 00:39:47,577
One of the gangsters dug up the money
when he was pretendin' to say goodbye.
352
00:39:47,846 --> 00:39:49,939
But he couldn't have done it alone.
353
00:39:50,082 --> 00:39:54,246
Someone must have told him
where the box was.
354
00:39:56,989 --> 00:40:01,016
And Sammy
refused to admit it was him
355
00:40:01,860 --> 00:40:05,193
although he'd spent
a whole lot of time with Niels.
356
00:40:07,032 --> 00:40:11,264
And then everybody
started yellin' and screamin'
357
00:40:11,837 --> 00:40:16,433
and folks is angry
and no one's listenin'.
358
00:40:16,942 --> 00:40:21,140
Stanley Mays and the family
got away, I believe.
359
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,073
Although Philomena and Bertie
got cut up real bad.
360
00:40:27,820 --> 00:40:32,951
Elizabeth is dead, too,
although that was mostly by accident.
361
00:40:33,358 --> 00:40:37,385
It was too soon
to send the guns away.
362
00:40:39,231 --> 00:40:41,461
We weren't quite ready yet.
363
00:40:43,669 --> 00:40:46,832
For once
Grace had nothing to say.
364
00:40:47,172 --> 00:40:51,973
She could but reproach herself
for her joke to the gangsters
365
00:40:52,077 --> 00:40:56,514
about resorting to their former
occupation if things got tight.
366
00:40:56,949 --> 00:41:00,908
- Wilhelm, I can't rouse Timothy.
- No, I bet you can't.
367
00:41:02,054 --> 00:41:05,148
He drank three bottles
of hooch before we ate.
368
00:41:08,227 --> 00:41:10,320
The Munsi don't drink.
369
00:41:12,965 --> 00:41:18,562
Well, maybe...
they do on special occasions.
370
00:41:27,579 --> 00:41:31,345
Well, it certainly
is lively around here!
371
00:41:34,820 --> 00:41:37,721
Didn't I tell you
I didn't want to see you here again?
372
00:41:39,157 --> 00:41:44,220
Yes, but I haven't come to do a deal,
I've come to conclude one.
373
00:41:44,830 --> 00:41:49,358
And in the hope, of course,
that you'll see I am an honest man.
374
00:41:49,568 --> 00:41:52,093
I needn't have come back
to settle up at all.
375
00:41:55,540 --> 00:41:57,906
This is your 80%...
376
00:41:59,578 --> 00:42:02,604
Quite a tidy little sum, too,
as you can see.
377
00:42:04,783 --> 00:42:06,808
It's the money from our harvest.
378
00:42:06,885 --> 00:42:10,844
I expect so. It's that time of year.
379
00:42:12,557 --> 00:42:16,550
See, I had a little game with
a young man who came to see me.
380
00:42:16,862 --> 00:42:22,232
I knew he'd come from here, so...
I've made my humble return.
381
00:42:23,502 --> 00:42:26,562
Don't you think you just might
have been wrong about me?
382
00:42:27,339 --> 00:42:29,864
Who did you play
for all this money?
383
00:42:31,643 --> 00:42:35,443
Well, it was a day ago now.
I'd have come sooner
384
00:42:35,714 --> 00:42:40,447
but I pass this black car
with some gentlemen in dark coats.
385
00:42:40,619 --> 00:42:45,647
They began to follow me
shouting that I was going to die.
386
00:42:45,857 --> 00:42:49,588
That I was a con man
who dealt from the bottom.
387
00:42:50,329 --> 00:42:52,320
What an accusation!
388
00:42:53,665 --> 00:42:56,828
- It just took a while to get away.
- Who was it?
389
00:42:57,869 --> 00:43:01,805
The nigra fellow arrived
on horsesback. What was his name...?
390
00:43:02,374 --> 00:43:03,671
Timothy.
391
00:43:05,610 --> 00:43:06,736
That was it!
392
00:43:08,347 --> 00:43:11,839
- Timothy, yeah, that was his name.
- He's a Munsi.
393
00:43:13,485 --> 00:43:14,884
They don't gamble.
394
00:43:15,087 --> 00:43:19,990
Well, I know Munsi don't gamble.
I'm a bit of an expert in this field.
395
00:43:20,092 --> 00:43:23,220
Hell of a time gettin' them to
the gamin' table.
396
00:43:24,129 --> 00:43:25,790
He's no Munsi.
397
00:43:26,565 --> 00:43:29,557
In fact, he's what I'd call
a splendid fella at the card table.
398
00:43:29,634 --> 00:43:34,799
He just stayed bein' splendid,
no matter how much he lost.
399
00:43:35,841 --> 00:43:39,538
- He told everyone he was a Munsi.
- Of course.
400
00:43:39,678 --> 00:43:43,148
See, the girls
were wild about the tales he told.
401
00:43:43,148 --> 00:43:46,948
All the Munsi tales.
The proud African, the royal line.
402
00:43:47,252 --> 00:43:51,780
You know, all that old-fashioned morality.
And the accent, of course.
403
00:43:52,624 --> 00:43:56,993
So, on account of that,
the girls was easy to bed.
404
00:44:00,365 --> 00:44:04,028
I'm not even going
to avail myself of your gratitude.
405
00:44:04,736 --> 00:44:07,705
That's just the kind of fella I am.
Hey, ho!
406
00:44:10,876 --> 00:44:14,869
Now bless me if I can't
come up with a motto for today...
407
00:44:16,715 --> 00:44:21,550
They say the Mansi
are better hung than the Munsi.
408
00:44:22,687 --> 00:44:29,456
Or, the Munsi are so up-stuck.
But the Mansi, how they fuck!
409
00:44:36,134 --> 00:44:40,764
Well, I'll be seein' you.
We can talk business another day.
410
00:45:05,497 --> 00:45:11,402
Grace went to the last pages with
the personal details on the slaves at Manderlay.
411
00:45:12,070 --> 00:45:17,201
Where was Timothy, now?
Yes, his name had a "1" beside it.
412
00:45:17,709 --> 00:45:20,644
A Proudy Slave,
as she'd read earlier...
413
00:45:21,980 --> 00:45:23,470
Or did it?
414
00:45:25,884 --> 00:45:28,944
She looked more closely
at the hand-written number.
415
00:45:29,387 --> 00:45:32,845
She compared it to the "7"
next to Elizabeth's name.
416
00:45:33,425 --> 00:45:36,027
The Pleasin' Nigger
of the chameleon type.
417
00:45:36,027 --> 00:45:39,598
Expert in changing character
to whatever was opportune
418
00:45:39,598 --> 00:45:42,931
and what would titillate
and enthrall the other person.
419
00:45:43,935 --> 00:45:46,631
And then Grace could see it...
420
00:45:47,339 --> 00:45:50,536
Timothy's number was not a "1",
but a "7".
421
00:45:50,876 --> 00:45:53,674
She had only wanted
to read it as a "1 ".
422
00:45:54,679 --> 00:45:57,614
There was even a note
beside Timothy's name:
423
00:45:58,450 --> 00:46:01,942
Caution. Diabolically clever.
424
00:46:25,277 --> 00:46:30,044
Grace had called a final meeting
for everybody at Manderlay.
425
00:46:30,615 --> 00:46:34,608
For that evening, she had decided
to leave the place forever.
426
00:46:34,786 --> 00:46:38,779
- With her father when he arrived.
- Oh, you're all here.
427
00:46:40,358 --> 00:46:44,727
I persuaded the community
to assemble extraordinarily...
428
00:46:45,564 --> 00:46:46,428
for two ballots.
429
00:46:46,498 --> 00:46:50,594
They can scarcely have
anything to do with me anymore.
430
00:46:51,002 --> 00:46:54,768
- Don't be too certain of that.
- Well, I am certain.
431
00:46:57,142 --> 00:46:58,871
I've come to say goodbye.
432
00:47:01,646 --> 00:47:07,607
If you've had 2 ballots today,
that coincides with the 2 presents I brought.
433
00:47:08,353 --> 00:47:10,446
Farewell presents, if you like.
434
00:47:11,189 --> 00:47:14,488
The first... is this.
435
00:47:18,530 --> 00:47:21,727
It's the money from our harvest.
436
00:47:23,068 --> 00:47:28,028
Actually it's 80% of it. A card shark
kept the other 20% as commission.
437
00:47:28,773 --> 00:47:34,109
He scammed the money off somebody
from Manderlay in a game of cards.
438
00:47:34,713 --> 00:47:39,810
- So the gangsters didn't take it?
- No. No, they didn't.
439
00:47:40,385 --> 00:47:43,286
And I won't prolong the tension.
440
00:47:44,623 --> 00:47:47,057
It was the treasurer who did it.
441
00:47:47,592 --> 00:47:50,356
The man charged with
looking after the money.
442
00:47:51,229 --> 00:47:54,665
He was overcome
by his eagerness to play.
443
00:47:55,233 --> 00:47:59,226
Probably because
he isn't a Munsi at all...
444
00:48:00,672 --> 00:48:02,367
... but a Mansi.
445
00:48:03,508 --> 00:48:06,477
However unimportant
that may sound.
446
00:48:08,580 --> 00:48:11,208
Which brings me
to my second present.
447
00:48:11,716 --> 00:48:16,517
This one. Painful to you or not,
it has to come out.
448
00:48:18,256 --> 00:48:26,095
In this book which I still regard as the most
abominable document ever written
449
00:48:26,364 --> 00:48:29,094
Timothy is listed
as a Pleasin' Nigger.
450
00:48:29,401 --> 00:48:33,838
A person who can change
his appearance, as he has done.
451
00:48:36,941 --> 00:48:42,072
- Let me find the page...
- It's on page 104.
452
00:48:46,651 --> 00:48:50,188
How do you know?
I thought no slave had ever seen this book.
453
00:48:50,188 --> 00:48:53,521
How do you know
what's on page 104 of Mam's Law?
454
00:48:55,293 --> 00:48:57,158
Cause I wrote it.
455
00:49:12,143 --> 00:49:14,839
It's all in my meticulous hand.
456
00:49:17,382 --> 00:49:21,011
Mam and I were very young
when the war suddenly ended
457
00:49:21,419 --> 00:49:25,412
and this new statute terrified us.
458
00:49:26,124 --> 00:49:27,682
Terrified you?
459
00:49:29,394 --> 00:49:34,331
We tried to imagine what kind of
world were these slave let out into.
460
00:49:34,499 --> 00:49:36,057
Were they ready for it?
461
00:49:37,902 --> 00:49:39,631
Or more correctly...
462
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:42,831
Was it ready for them?
463
00:49:43,541 --> 00:49:47,409
Legislators made promises,
but we didn't believe them.
464
00:49:47,479 --> 00:49:52,849
It was then that Mam
urged me to commit to paper
465
00:49:53,451 --> 00:49:56,784
the way I thought
things should be done here
466
00:49:56,888 --> 00:49:59,652
if everyone stayed on
at Manderlay.
467
00:50:01,259 --> 00:50:04,057
But it's a
prolongation of slavery.
468
00:50:05,196 --> 00:50:09,724
You might call it that.
You also might call it the lesser of two evils.
469
00:50:13,805 --> 00:50:16,239
But did the others know
that you wrote this book?
470
00:50:16,374 --> 00:50:21,607
Groups 2, 3 and 5...
always knew.
471
00:50:22,347 --> 00:50:26,647
A few members of the other groups
were better off not knowing.
472
00:50:27,152 --> 00:50:28,619
But everyone knows now.
473
00:50:30,722 --> 00:50:34,920
I wrote Mam's Law
for the good of everyone.
474
00:50:37,395 --> 00:50:38,794
For the good of everyone.
475
00:50:43,401 --> 00:50:45,528
For the good of everyone?
476
00:50:48,306 --> 00:50:50,274
How dare you?
477
00:50:51,409 --> 00:50:58,611
It's a recipe for oppression
and humiliation.
478
00:50:58,917 --> 00:51:02,080
From start to finish.
479
00:51:03,121 --> 00:51:06,522
I think you've been reading it
through the wrong spectacles
480
00:51:06,858 --> 00:51:11,818
Miss Grace, if I may
take the liberty of saying so.
481
00:51:13,064 --> 00:51:15,328
Then Wilhelm initiated Grace
482
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,734
into the humane qualities
of the lesser of two evils.
483
00:51:20,338 --> 00:51:24,375
Mam's Law. How it
guaranteed food and shelter
484
00:51:24,375 --> 00:51:27,970
and allowed anybody
to complain about their masters
485
00:51:28,046 --> 00:51:31,277
instead of blaming themselves
for the life of no hope
486
00:51:31,349 --> 00:51:34,716
that they would surely
have to lead in the outside world.
487
00:51:35,553 --> 00:51:37,783
How the noonday parade
was a blessing
488
00:51:37,856 --> 00:51:42,555
since the parade ground was
the only place with shade in the heat.
489
00:51:43,027 --> 00:51:47,265
How the numbered groups were
determined by behavior patterns
490
00:51:47,265 --> 00:51:52,168
human beings resort to in order to
survive in an oppressive community
491
00:51:52,570 --> 00:51:55,664
so that life could be
made easier for each of them.
492
00:51:56,641 --> 00:52:01,476
Since a Proudy Nigger (not that
Manderlay had seen many, if any)
493
00:52:01,946 --> 00:52:06,508
survives by perceiving himself
as proud and could be helped
494
00:52:06,584 --> 00:52:09,988
by this system to believe
he was more persecuted
495
00:52:09,988 --> 00:52:12,183
and punished than the others.
496
00:52:13,124 --> 00:52:16,787
Since a Clowinin' Nigger
would benefit from the laughter
497
00:52:16,895 --> 00:52:19,989
that Mam's Law
demanded of its master
498
00:52:20,064 --> 00:52:24,000
just as any other groups
benefited from similar obligations.
499
00:52:24,602 --> 00:52:26,170
How cash was forbidden
500
00:52:26,170 --> 00:52:28,773
so gambling was done
with cotton money
501
00:52:28,773 --> 00:52:34,473
to prevent ruination and misery
for the families. Et cetera, et cetera.
502
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:38,308
Until Grace's head
felt fair ready to explode.
503
00:52:38,416 --> 00:52:40,577
Damn it, Wilhelm,
they're not free!
504
00:52:41,519 --> 00:52:45,546
- That's what matters!
- I call that a philosophical argument.
505
00:52:46,491 --> 00:52:50,757
Which neatly brings me
to the two ballots I just mentioned.
506
00:52:51,896 --> 00:52:54,729
Was Mam's Law still relevant?
507
00:52:56,301 --> 00:53:00,965
We agreed that unfortunately it was
as relevant now as it ever was.
508
00:53:02,173 --> 00:53:08,203
America was not ready to welcome us
Negroes as equals 70 years ago,
509
00:53:08,279 --> 00:53:10,042
and it still ain't.
510
00:53:10,648 --> 00:53:13,811
And the way things are goin', it
won't be in a 100 years from now.
511
00:53:14,218 --> 00:53:19,815
So we agreed we'd like to take
one step backwards at Manderlay
512
00:53:21,192 --> 00:53:23,626
and re-impose the old law.
513
00:53:24,062 --> 00:53:25,586
Excuse me, but I'm going.
514
00:53:26,464 --> 00:53:31,367
As for your going, I'd better tell you
about the second of our ballots.
515
00:53:32,136 --> 00:53:34,696
As you know,
sadly, we lost Mam.
516
00:53:35,506 --> 00:53:40,705
And unfortunately we've good
and well frightened off her descendants.
517
00:53:41,346 --> 00:53:45,043
In short: We lack a Mam.
518
00:53:51,756 --> 00:53:55,624
- No!
- You received every single vote.
519
00:53:56,494 --> 00:53:57,518
Never.
520
00:53:57,895 --> 00:54:00,693
With all your idealism
521
00:54:00,999 --> 00:54:06,130
I think you could enjoy being the guardian
for a kind of menagerie of creatures
522
00:54:06,371 --> 00:54:08,737
who have no chance in the wild.
523
00:54:11,376 --> 00:54:15,642
Just as you thought the notion of
community would be good for us.
524
00:54:16,714 --> 00:54:21,708
You were so sure, you permitted
yourself to use force to convince us.
525
00:54:22,286 --> 00:54:25,414
I'd be sorry
if we had to do likewise.
526
00:54:26,491 --> 00:54:29,949
What do you mean?
Do you intend to keep me prisoner?
527
00:54:30,428 --> 00:54:33,864
Only until you understand the way
you wanted us to understand.
528
00:54:34,565 --> 00:54:36,931
The gate has been repaired
and is closed.
529
00:54:38,069 --> 00:54:42,631
The fences are in good shape,
but they ain't particularly high.
530
00:54:44,475 --> 00:54:47,842
Those fences... Come on!
531
00:54:49,347 --> 00:54:53,977
Two men with a rusty shotgun
and a toy pistol.
532
00:54:55,186 --> 00:54:57,711
How dumb
do you really think we are?
533
00:54:58,823 --> 00:55:02,315
Too dumb to build a ladder
if we'd really wanted to get away?
534
00:55:04,462 --> 00:55:07,590
Grace had spent a great deal
of time on this meeting
535
00:55:07,665 --> 00:55:10,998
which, to her, didn't seem
to be getting anywhere.
536
00:55:11,602 --> 00:55:15,561
Her father and his car
would be at the gate at eight.
537
00:55:16,007 --> 00:55:19,499
That was in half an hour.
She had no ladder.
538
00:55:19,944 --> 00:55:22,879
And she was on her own
and guarded by many.
539
00:55:23,448 --> 00:55:26,508
Just how was she
to get out of Manderlay?
540
00:55:27,919 --> 00:55:31,116
When was a section
of the fence always down?
541
00:55:31,622 --> 00:55:34,648
Grace would have to
change her tactics rapidly
542
00:55:34,826 --> 00:55:37,056
if she was
to make the rendezvous.
543
00:55:38,029 --> 00:55:40,896
All right.
I'll do as you want.
544
00:55:41,999 --> 00:55:44,297
Not from my heart.
You couldn't expect that.
545
00:55:44,368 --> 00:55:47,531
But as my only option.
And you needn't be scared.
546
00:55:47,972 --> 00:55:50,065
I'll obey your beloved law.
547
00:55:51,175 --> 00:55:53,871
So we'd better start by dealing
with the present matter:
548
00:55:54,178 --> 00:56:01,744
Timothy. A slave from Group 7 has committed
a theft that almost ruined us all.
549
00:56:02,220 --> 00:56:07,283
As Mam's Law does not prescribe
any punishment for stealing money
550
00:56:07,358 --> 00:56:09,417
I shall have to be creative.
551
00:56:12,163 --> 00:56:17,191
What was it you said, Flora? About
planting a bottle of Rhenish wine?
552
00:56:19,003 --> 00:56:21,494
I believe there's a bottle of Rhenish
wine under Timothy's saddle...
553
00:56:21,639 --> 00:56:23,664
Don't you?
554
00:56:29,914 --> 00:56:34,351
So that's what I seen
when I went there yesterday...
555
00:56:35,253 --> 00:56:38,450
If it wasn't
a bottle of Rhenish wine!
556
00:57:21,199 --> 00:57:22,433
There was still ten minutes
557
00:57:22,433 --> 00:57:29,430
until her punctual father would arrive to wait
his 15 minutes and not a second longer.
558
00:57:30,074 --> 00:57:33,703
Just enough time
for a verbal farewell salute.
559
00:57:39,650 --> 00:57:42,949
Timothy, you can stop
being proud and silent.
560
00:57:44,121 --> 00:57:47,420
Cry... and shout
561
00:57:48,359 --> 00:57:50,327
and beg for mercy...
562
00:57:51,562 --> 00:57:53,621
... Iike the Mansi you are.
563
00:57:54,565 --> 00:57:57,796
The Mansi
who you despise so much.
564
00:57:59,070 --> 00:58:02,733
It's that hatred Timothy and the rest of you
bear towards yourselves
565
00:58:02,807 --> 00:58:04,707
that you'll never make me accept!
566
00:58:05,776 --> 00:58:08,506
You are a cheat
of the lowest the lowest kind...
567
00:58:09,647 --> 00:58:15,449
And Wilhelm and all of you who follow him
are merely traitors to your race.
568
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:21,420
I hope one day your fellow Negroes uncover
your betrayal and punish you for it!
569
00:58:22,426 --> 00:58:24,360
You make me sick!
570
00:58:27,698 --> 00:58:30,292
I'm sure you're quite right,
Miss Grace.
571
00:58:32,069 --> 00:58:35,664
Most likely it's impossible
to revile us niggers enough.
572
00:58:37,041 --> 00:58:40,135
But what I don't get is,
why it makes you so angry?
573
00:58:40,311 --> 00:58:41,608
What do you mean?
574
00:58:42,446 --> 00:58:44,209
Aren't you forgetting something?
575
00:58:48,819 --> 00:58:50,377
You made us!
576
00:59:12,376 --> 00:59:16,836
Probably the only thing that could
have stopped the lady with the whip
577
00:59:17,815 --> 00:59:21,410
was the cheerful tinkle that
announced her father’s presence.
578
00:59:28,192 --> 00:59:30,319
She needed his support now.
579
00:59:30,828 --> 00:59:36,164
Manderlay, too, really was a place
the world would be better off without.
580
00:59:48,346 --> 00:59:53,579
Grace recognized her father's
handwriting. "Dear Girl," it said.
581
00:59:53,784 --> 00:59:58,380
Dear Girl. So you tricked
your father yet again.
582
00:59:59,056 --> 01:00:04,824
I waited the fifteen minutes first,
but I am too kind-hearted.
583
01:00:05,363 --> 01:00:11,427
So I popped over to the fence
and peeked inside to check that you were okay.
584
01:00:12,570 --> 01:00:18,031
To my great surprise it really looked
as if you had a good grip on things, for once.
585
01:00:18,242 --> 01:00:22,474
I'm proud of you, my girl.
I hope we meet up some day
586
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:26,844
so you can tell me what you
meant by 'new times at Manderlay'.
587
01:00:27,551 --> 01:00:30,782
Love,
Your dumb old Dad.
588
01:00:38,362 --> 01:00:40,990
Ballots could be unrivaled
589
01:00:41,198 --> 01:00:45,965
but determining the time
by public debate was rarely feasible.
590
01:00:46,237 --> 01:00:48,398
That was quite apparent.
591
01:00:51,742 --> 01:00:57,977
Grace had but a few seconds to choose in which
direction to flee from her swarthy pursuers
592
01:00:58,482 --> 01:01:03,442
who as her father had teasingly predicted,
were carrying torches.
593
01:01:04,088 --> 01:01:08,752
Grace was in a hurry and did not
notice Burt, the former fugitive
594
01:01:08,859 --> 01:01:12,989
with a liberal attitude toward race
who never did make it far.
595
01:01:14,865 --> 01:01:16,594
Grace was angry.
596
01:01:17,068 --> 01:01:22,904
Manderlay had fossilized in a picture
of this country that was too negative.
597
01:01:23,841 --> 01:01:27,709
America was a many-faceted place,
no doubt about it.
598
01:01:28,412 --> 01:01:31,643
But "not ready"
to accept black people?
599
01:01:32,383 --> 01:01:34,578
You really could not say that.
600
01:01:34,885 --> 01:01:38,753
America had proffered its hand,
discreetly perhaps
601
01:01:39,090 --> 01:01:42,651
but if anybody refused
to see a helping hand
602
01:01:43,194 --> 01:01:46,357
he really only had himself to blame.
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On top of that, the pneumonia
brought by the dust was inevitable.
2
00:00:06,401 --> 00:00:08,665
The dust had got in everywhere
3
00:00:08,770 --> 00:00:13,434
particularly where no new boards
provided weatherproofing.
4
00:00:13,641 --> 00:00:18,840
Namely through the cracked glass
in the window above Claire's bed.
5
00:00:20,014 --> 00:00:25,543
Valuables, not to mention cash,
were non-existent at Manderlay
6
00:00:26,053 --> 00:00:31,457
since the elegant clock on
the mantelpiece turned out to be
7
00:00:31,526 --> 00:00:39,023
not Swiss, as Mam believed but a copy made
quite locally and worth practically nothing.
8
00:00:40,101 --> 00:00:44,197
The Freed Enterprise
of Manderlay was bust.
9
00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,666
Wilhelm and Grace
were therefore under no illusions
10
00:00:48,743 --> 00:00:51,871
that anybody
would attend class this day.
11
00:00:54,182 --> 00:00:58,676
But then, one by one, the
Manderlay flock began to appear.
12
00:01:08,196 --> 00:01:10,096
I'm happy you're all here.
13
00:01:14,135 --> 00:01:17,298
But I don't really
have a lecture for you today.
14
00:01:21,142 --> 00:01:23,406
I'd just like to say
15
00:01:27,148 --> 00:01:32,711
how badly I feel
about this hopeless situation.
16
00:01:38,526 --> 00:01:42,018
But of course words
aren't much use to you.
17
00:01:43,331 --> 00:01:46,823
No, Missy has learnt
that much, at least.
18
00:01:49,737 --> 00:01:54,800
But as regards hopelessness, it is
something we do know a bit about.
19
00:01:56,978 --> 00:02:00,106
There are a million plants
out there beneath the dust.
20
00:02:00,848 --> 00:02:02,941
If we can save but 50 of them
21
00:02:03,217 --> 00:02:08,177
perhaps we can grow a small quantity of
great quality and get a better price for it.
22
00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,458
I reckon we should make a move.
23
00:02:19,433 --> 00:02:24,735
That is how a great disaster turned
into a stroke of luck for Grace
24
00:02:24,906 --> 00:02:29,809
and how the people, with a common
foe, the dust, as their excuse
25
00:02:29,911 --> 00:02:34,615
suddenly found themselves working
together with their deadliest enemy
26
00:02:34,615 --> 00:02:39,245
to achieve the common goal
as free, grown-up Americans.
27
00:02:39,654 --> 00:02:42,782
Stanley and Bert
had sown the fields with sticks
28
00:02:42,890 --> 00:02:47,088
so people could tell where
to uncover the tender seedlings.
29
00:02:48,129 --> 00:02:52,566
While Flora, ever so childishly,
kept teasing Grace
30
00:02:52,633 --> 00:02:57,502
for her supposed
romantic feelings towards Timothy.
31
00:03:05,980 --> 00:03:07,379
Good night, old Wilma.
32
00:03:08,783 --> 00:03:10,683
Good night, child.
33
00:03:11,052 --> 00:03:14,715
We can talk for awhile
before we go to sleep.
34
00:03:15,089 --> 00:03:17,023
No, thank you, Wilma.
35
00:03:17,725 --> 00:03:22,594
I'm not weary enough
to go to bed yet. A little walk helps.
36
00:03:23,664 --> 00:03:27,794
A walk when a body ain't sleepy
is a very good thing.
37
00:03:29,737 --> 00:03:31,898
I do the same myself.
38
00:03:33,374 --> 00:03:36,707
- Good night.
- Good night.
39
00:03:45,252 --> 00:03:48,221
That everything seemed
as moving along on its own
40
00:03:48,289 --> 00:03:51,315
could be nothing
but welcomed by Grace.
41
00:03:51,993 --> 00:03:57,124
But her lack of an active part to play
had left her in a kind of vacuum
42
00:03:57,331 --> 00:04:00,664
and allowed other things
inside her to claim attention.
43
00:04:01,102 --> 00:04:06,005
Human things like instincts
and emotions.
44
00:04:08,609 --> 00:04:13,569
An ominous sense of homelessness
and loneliness struck Grace.
45
00:04:15,616 --> 00:04:16,851
Wandering about,
46
00:04:16,851 --> 00:04:21,879
Grace suddenly found herself outside
the wooden rear of the bath house.
47
00:04:26,227 --> 00:04:30,891
Without warning, the homelessness
transferred into a strange desire
48
00:04:30,965 --> 00:04:35,664
to move up that rusty pipe
against the flow of dirty water
49
00:04:35,970 --> 00:04:40,430
into where naked bodies
were being washed in cheap soap.
50
00:04:43,711 --> 00:04:45,804
Black skin...
51
00:04:46,981 --> 00:04:50,473
Male and black manhood.
52
00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:03,828
What Grace had felt at the bath
house was undignified. Shameful.
53
00:05:04,498 --> 00:05:08,161
Her mind was meant to be
devoted to policy at Manderlay.
54
00:05:08,469 --> 00:05:12,906
A matter in which these thoughts
had no business whatsoever.
55
00:05:15,609 --> 00:05:21,013
Grace had forced herself to sleep, to
rid her thoughts of those black bodies.
56
00:05:21,348 --> 00:05:27,218
An achievement that was possible thanks
to the stubbornness in Grace's family.
57
00:05:28,322 --> 00:05:32,782
But the cotton seedling in her
love-starved body did not give up.
58
00:05:33,394 --> 00:05:36,022
It manifested itself as a dream.
59
00:05:36,297 --> 00:05:39,266
Grace was in southern climes...
60
00:05:41,902 --> 00:05:46,930
There were women in exotic
costumes and men in turbans.
61
00:05:47,742 --> 00:05:48,943
Even in her sleep
62
00:05:48,943 --> 00:05:54,677
she hated with a passion any idea of
allowing that her father might be right.
63
00:05:54,849 --> 00:05:57,113
But it was a harem.
64
00:05:59,253 --> 00:06:05,249
A group of black slaves appeared,
bearing a huge charger of dates.
65
00:06:05,659 --> 00:06:10,153
In a twinkling Grace lay among
the dates trembling with pleasure
66
00:06:10,264 --> 00:06:15,668
as a flock of Bedouin satisfied her
one by one with their noses.
67
00:06:18,506 --> 00:06:21,907
And it was even more confusing
when Timothy appeared
68
00:06:22,143 --> 00:06:26,409
and was both the slave
bearing wine, hands shaking
69
00:06:26,614 --> 00:06:30,914
and the sheik himself,
whose authoritative hands
70
00:06:30,985 --> 00:06:35,820
tested the size
of Grace's most intimate orifices.
71
00:06:50,738 --> 00:06:56,438
- I must have overslept.
- I'm sorry. Claire's had another turn.
72
00:07:07,087 --> 00:07:08,247
Yeah...
73
00:07:10,658 --> 00:07:13,650
Yeah, she's running
a bad fever again.
74
00:07:14,228 --> 00:07:18,465
- She had anything to eat?
- Pork chops and baked chicken.
75
00:07:18,465 --> 00:07:21,457
She's taken a little oatmeal,
but it's hard to get into her.
76
00:07:22,369 --> 00:07:25,600
She had lung trouble
last year when the dust come, too.
77
00:07:26,207 --> 00:07:28,471
But there was
far more dust this year.
78
00:07:29,076 --> 00:07:33,570
Honestly, you oughta go back home to
the clean air and larders full of food.
79
00:07:36,150 --> 00:07:39,847
We're all in this together,
no matter how hard it gets.
80
00:07:40,154 --> 00:07:41,985
And hard it will get.
81
00:07:43,591 --> 00:07:48,790
I've seen what's left around here
though some folks are still filling their bellies.
82
00:07:51,532 --> 00:07:55,400
Right...
We've got to talk about that.
83
00:07:56,503 --> 00:07:58,471
Come on, it'll be all right, Rose.
84
00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,276
I propose that we ration
what we have left
85
00:08:12,052 --> 00:08:14,111
and spread
our provisions over a month
86
00:08:14,188 --> 00:08:17,555
until we can harvest more
from the vegetable gardens.
87
00:08:18,158 --> 00:08:23,653
And, as I hear there are
so very few beans and potatoes left
88
00:08:23,731 --> 00:08:28,430
I think we should give them
to Rose, who needs them for Claire.
89
00:08:29,904 --> 00:08:34,398
What's left will be shared out
equally among the rest of us.
90
00:08:37,244 --> 00:08:38,336
Excuse me...
91
00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,540
The rest of us?
That goes for us, too?
92
00:08:43,017 --> 00:08:47,147
- Of course it does.
- Your father wouldn't have approved.
93
00:08:47,288 --> 00:08:51,622
Joseph swears it couldn't be
called food at all. Legally speakin'.
94
00:08:54,828 --> 00:08:57,820
Your father used to
let us obtain stuff.
95
00:08:58,232 --> 00:09:00,666
Surely we could steal
something from somewhere.
96
00:09:02,169 --> 00:09:05,366
But I suppose
that's no good, either, Miss Grace.
97
00:09:06,907 --> 00:09:08,898
I'm afraid
you're one tough cookie.
98
00:09:10,611 --> 00:09:12,203
Maybe I am.
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Sadly, the most nourishing fare
the estate could provide
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had not improved
Claire's condition much.
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But she needed meat,
and Timothy knew it.
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So now they'd have to do without
the old donkey on the treadmill.
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It was not a good portent
of the level of morale
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that the gangsters were trying to fix
the car from the ravages of the dust.
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But luckily, Joseph, who was able to
interpret the most difficult of texts
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had met his match
in the 1923 Ford owner's manual.
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As time went by,
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the scattered cotton plants grew side
by side with its denizens' hunger
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now that the little donkey meat
that was left was reserved for Claire.
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Grace found herself in the peculiar situation
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of joining the women in what had been
completely forbidden under Mam's Law:
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Namely, the southern tradition
of eating dirt.
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Having given up
on the automobile manuals
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Joseph had found
a quaint phrase in the agreement
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he had originally made with Grace's father
regarding his employment.
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The wording could be interpreted
to mean that certain circumstances
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obliged an employee to obey
a higher authority than his boss.
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The authority in this case
being his stomach.
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The good news was that, though the drought
had been hard on the fields
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Stanley and Timothy had invented
a weapon to deploy against it.
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- Wait, wait...
- Watch out! It's coming...
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But the best news of all was Claire
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who had miraculously
gained so much strength
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that she could empty
her plate of good food.
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Always in the middle of the night
when everyone was asleep
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but nobody was looking but even so...
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If Grace had thought hunger would
stop her forbidden sensual fantasies
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actually the opposite
was more the case.
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Flora, what's goin' on
with the chickens?
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Are they fighting?
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You mean
the 4 whites after the black?
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You want I should
open the door and have a peek?
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No...
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Mind you,
that little black hen real proud.
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Wouldn't surprise me, them others took
the chance to give her the odd peck.
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Now, don't you tease me, Flora.
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- Goodnight, then.
- Goodnight.
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Flora had teased Grace before
with the little black hen.
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But they were hurting in there.
No doubt about it.
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And to make everything far worse
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that heat in her loins came back
in spite of the chicken's cry for help.
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Or may even have been
intensified by it.
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Devastated, humiliated and overcome
by fear for her sanity she fled.
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In a fit of madness, or what
others would call horniness
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she threw herself
onto her bed on her tummy
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forgot about
shame and political correctness
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and did what she had not done
since childhood
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when she had not yet known
it was so infinitely wrong:
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She pressed herself onto the knot
she had instinctively formed by bunching her quilt.
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Whether it was pleasurable
or painful is hard to tell
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but she kept at it.
It was beyond her control.
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With no regard for the other women
or common decency in general
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the pulsating explosions in her
nether regions took over her world.
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Who knows how it would have concluded
had there not appeared at that very moment,
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fortunately for Grace, a person shaking her back
to a state of self-defense.
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Miss Grace!
You gotta come quick, Miss Grace!
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She dead.
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I took such care of her...
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I fed her the good meat...
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She'd been eatin'...
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She dead...
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Now she's dead!
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- I said come on!
- She'd been eatin'...
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No! She hadn't been eatin'...
This 'un had!
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Y'gonna tell 'em, Wilma?
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I was so hungry...
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I get so dizzy...
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And my legs hurt
when I'm hungry.
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Our good friend and Claire's beloved Wilma been
visiting in the window while we slept.
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She emptied Claire's plate every,
single night!
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T'was easy as pie, since that window
could be opened from the outside.
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I've eaten
so much dirt in my time...
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My teeth can't take it no more.
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She killed our little girl.
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Jack... Jack, she was sick.
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Miss Grace, Rose didn't worry much
about feeding her during the day
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'cause she ate so much at night.
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I want Wilma punished
for killin' my little girl!
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I want this matter put to the vote.
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I want Wilma punished
for killin' my little girl.
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I want justice,
or I'll kill her myself right now!
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Let me go...
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Stop!
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- We will talk about it tomorrow!
- They're killing my little girl!
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Stop it!
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And so the next evening
a gathering took place
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under the magnificent, clear,
twinkling, starry sky of Manderlay.
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Now we've heard 'em all,
Wilhelm.
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Wilma showed no mercy
to our Claire
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so no mercy oughta
be shown to her. She must die!
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Jack...
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Killing old Wilma
won't bring Claire back.
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All we want is justice.
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You've said so many times
that we're entitled to it!
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I propose... that...
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... she be banished from Manderlay
for stealing food in an emergency.
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She probably won't survive
that anyway, as old as she is.
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After all, we don't know if the food
made any difference in Claire's fate.
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Wilma can't have known
whether it would kill her.
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But she didn't care when it
came to risking somebody else's life.
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That of our little girl!
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All Wilma saw was a plate nobody
was touching. She was hungry.
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What do you think
the rest of us was?
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All of us here
ate what we'd agreed.
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What do you think
little Claire was?
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We're all hungry...
and that just makes it far, far worse!
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I'd like to ask y'all
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to vote
on Jack and Rose's motion.
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All those who believe that Wilma
deserves to die, raise your hands.
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Thank you.
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Thank y'all.
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Stop!
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Grace?
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I thought we were the ones
who made the decisions here.
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That's what you always told us.
Or maybe it's only sometimes.
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Of course not. It's always.
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Then they's the decision
you're here to defend, ain't they?
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So let me go across and do it.
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No...
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If anybody is going to do it,
it's going to be me.
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It must not be
an act of vengeance.
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That's alright by me.
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As long as
she suffers as much as Claire.
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That will be up to me.
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I'll let you know when it's over.
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Grace...
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Be so kind as to tell me...
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What they decide?
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Am I gonna die?
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No, Wilma,
you're not going to die.
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What you mean?
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I mean the ballot did not go Jack's way.
You're not gonna die.
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They didn't think Claire would have
eaten the food on her plate, anyway.
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And anyhow, she'd certainly have died
from pneumonia from the dust.
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Did they really say that?
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Yes... They really said that.
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If you knew
how terrible the waitin' was...
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- I'm just so weary.
- I know.
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I know you are.
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But now you can sleep easy.
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Yes...
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I can.
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Lie down and get some sleep.
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You are the daughter
I might have had.
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- Lie down.
- Will you stay till I sleep?
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I'll do that Wilma...
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Here...
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Lie down.
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Wilma?
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Harvest time finally did arrive and
the cotton went safe into the sacks.
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Despite the fewer bushes,
the harvest was splendid.
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It was as if
all the trials and tribulations
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had made the cotton extra white
and the fibers extra strong.
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And, even at current prices,
it would bring in a record sum.
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Although nothing
was the way it had ever been
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the harvest was as precise
as always at Manderlay.
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The moment the last tuft of cotton
was in the sack, the swallows arrived
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dropping from the skies
towards the marshes.
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Everyone observed the sight in awe
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and for a moment it was greater
than all the words and politics in the world.
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The old gin was as ready as ever.
It had been for a week.
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Greased, stripped down and reassembled
by Sammy who had teamed up with Niels.
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They worked well in harness.
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Niels had never found a joke funny
so Sammy, the Clownin' Nigger, had given up
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trying to entertain him
with his somewhat weak material.
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Miss Grace?
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Edward!
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I hardly recognized you.
You've certainly changed the way you dress.
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Yes. Your father thought
it was time for a change.
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He's on his way
into a new area of business.
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- Is Daddy here?
- No, he sent me with a message.
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He says he'll be by a week,
Monday, at eight in the evening.
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He'll wait in the car outside the gates
for 15 minutes, not a second longer.
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The way he did in Dogville, he says,
and the way he did with your mother.
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- When he asked her to marry him.
- Something like that.
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If you want to go, you better be there
'cause he says he'll just push on.
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- I know, I get the message.
- All right, I'm on my way.
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- Take care, Miss Grace.
- You, too, Edward.
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Oh, Edward...
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Just tell Dad that
new times have come to Manderlay.
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Grace had no intention of going
with her father when he arrived.
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She had her own life now
and it suited her just fine.
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But she'd be at the gates, anyhow.
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00:31:39,091 --> 00:31:46,122
She just had to show him what she had achieved:
A new and better Manderlay.
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00:31:50,202 --> 00:31:53,729
It was examination day
for Stanley and the family.
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00:31:53,973 --> 00:31:57,204
Even though things
had been going well recently
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when Stanley
partook of his beer
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nobody'd be able to keep him
from revealing what'd happened on the plantation,
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and thereby ruin it all.
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00:32:08,054 --> 00:32:12,957
Wilhelm had been skeptical about
letting the whites talk to the drivers.
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00:32:13,225 --> 00:32:17,161
But Grace had insisted.
She trusted them.
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00:32:19,598 --> 00:32:23,728
Oh, Sammy...!
Oh, Lord, Sam.
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Eejit nigger!
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Are you totally useless?
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00:32:31,110 --> 00:32:32,702
Sorry, Mr Mays.
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00:32:35,648 --> 00:32:36,740
I'm jokin'.
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Stanley Mays
and the family passed.
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That very evening Grace pronounced
them graduate Americans.
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Although they were free to go,
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they had elected to stay as there was talk of hiring
the family and Stanley permanently.
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And before anybody knew it
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the money was in the bank
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from where it had been picked up
by proud Timothy on horseback.
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00:33:17,690 --> 00:33:23,026
Niels and Sammy had fixed the car
wisely without reference to the manual.
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00:33:23,362 --> 00:33:26,297
- Thank you for everything.
- Thank you.
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00:33:26,499 --> 00:33:31,095
- What are you gonna do now?
- I don't know.
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00:33:31,437 --> 00:33:33,530
You could always
go back to gangstering.
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00:33:37,176 --> 00:33:41,579
- Where's Mr Robinson?
- Down in the cabin, shakin' hands.
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00:33:42,748 --> 00:33:48,152
Grace was touched by Mr Robinson's
sudden social interest in the former slaves.
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But it felt right when the car left.
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00:33:51,490 --> 00:33:55,119
It was time for Grace
to say goodbye to power.
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Brave and strong,
thy men and women
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better this, than corn and wine.
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Make us worthy, God in Heaven
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of this goodly land of Thine.
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Hearts as open as our doorway
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Iiberal hands and spirits free
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Alabama, Alabama
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we will aye be true to thee.
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He's watching you.
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00:35:05,264 --> 00:35:08,131
- No, he's not.
- He's watching you.
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00:35:08,567 --> 00:35:09,795
No, he's not.
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00:35:09,969 --> 00:35:12,836
I reckon it have somethin' to do
with them gangsters leavin'.
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00:35:14,573 --> 00:35:19,738
See, honey, when you was boss,
he was visitin' your kingdom.
325
00:35:20,346 --> 00:35:25,648
Now you're visitin' his.
I reckon he wants you now...
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00:35:26,919 --> 00:35:30,047
He should have some dinner.
I'm gonna go get him.
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00:35:30,389 --> 00:35:33,119
- You gonna go get him?
- Uh-huh.
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00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,690
- You gotta come get some dinner.
- Quiet, woman.
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00:36:04,690 --> 00:36:10,322
In Mam's bedroom Grace recalled
Flora's worrying, intimate details.
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00:36:10,596 --> 00:36:15,624
Sexual intercourse among the Munsi
was determined by ancient traditions.
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00:36:16,268 --> 00:36:19,169
It would not appeal to Grace,
Flora had said.
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00:36:19,371 --> 00:36:24,104
Not with Grace's modern ideas of
equality of people and the sexes.
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00:36:29,214 --> 00:36:33,150
But Grace seemed to have left her
progressive attitude at the table.
334
00:36:44,029 --> 00:36:51,435
Now actually in the situation she had dreamed of
it was all more bizarre than erotic.
335
00:36:51,971 --> 00:36:55,873
Anyway, Grace had decided
to hang on to this opinion.
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00:38:22,061 --> 00:38:23,858
Timothy, wake up!
337
00:38:26,532 --> 00:38:28,659
Timothy's horse had escaped
338
00:38:28,734 --> 00:38:34,400
when fires had been lit around the slave quarters
while Grace was asleep.
339
00:38:48,353 --> 00:38:51,657
- What happened?
- I can't tell you.
340
00:38:51,657 --> 00:38:54,785
You're gonna
have to ask somebody else.
341
00:38:55,060 --> 00:38:58,052
- The gangsters took the money.
- What?
342
00:38:58,797 --> 00:39:00,662
The gangsters took the money.
343
00:39:01,066 --> 00:39:05,400
That's the answer. And I reckon
it's a pretty clear answer, too.
344
00:39:05,671 --> 00:39:08,037
It certainly is very clear.
345
00:39:09,408 --> 00:39:11,501
What makes you think so?
346
00:39:13,979 --> 00:39:15,742
When the party ended
347
00:39:17,349 --> 00:39:22,685
we all left the table to go
and take a look at the money.
348
00:39:24,623 --> 00:39:28,059
Timothy had hid it
behind the red slope.
349
00:39:29,194 --> 00:39:34,962
Timothy was meant to be keepin' an eye
on the place, but he wasn't there.
350
00:39:35,601 --> 00:39:38,934
And the box had been pulled up.
It was empty.
351
00:39:40,739 --> 00:39:47,577
One of the gangsters dug up the money
when he was pretendin' to say goodbye.
352
00:39:47,846 --> 00:39:49,939
But he couldn't have done it alone.
353
00:39:50,082 --> 00:39:54,246
Someone must have told him
where the box was.
354
00:39:56,989 --> 00:40:01,016
And Sammy
refused to admit it was him
355
00:40:01,860 --> 00:40:05,193
although he'd spent
a whole lot of time with Niels.
356
00:40:07,032 --> 00:40:11,264
And then everybody
started yellin' and screamin'
357
00:40:11,837 --> 00:40:16,433
and folks is angry
and no one's listenin'.
358
00:40:16,942 --> 00:40:21,140
Stanley Mays and the family
got away, I believe.
359
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,073
Although Philomena and Bertie
got cut up real bad.
360
00:40:27,820 --> 00:40:32,951
Elizabeth is dead, too,
although that was mostly by accident.
361
00:40:33,358 --> 00:40:37,385
It was too soon
to send the guns away.
362
00:40:39,231 --> 00:40:41,461
We weren't quite ready yet.
363
00:40:43,669 --> 00:40:46,832
For once
Grace had nothing to say.
364
00:40:47,172 --> 00:40:51,973
She could but reproach herself
for her joke to the gangsters
365
00:40:52,077 --> 00:40:56,514
about resorting to their former
occupation if things got tight.
366
00:40:56,949 --> 00:41:00,908
- Wilhelm, I can't rouse Timothy.
- No, I bet you can't.
367
00:41:02,054 --> 00:41:05,148
He drank three bottles
of hooch before we ate.
368
00:41:08,227 --> 00:41:10,320
The Munsi don't drink.
369
00:41:12,965 --> 00:41:18,562
Well, maybe...
they do on special occasions.
370
00:41:27,579 --> 00:41:31,345
Well, it certainly
is lively around here!
371
00:41:34,820 --> 00:41:37,721
Didn't I tell you
I didn't want to see you here again?
372
00:41:39,157 --> 00:41:44,220
Yes, but I haven't come to do a deal,
I've come to conclude one.
373
00:41:44,830 --> 00:41:49,358
And in the hope, of course,
that you'll see I am an honest man.
374
00:41:49,568 --> 00:41:52,093
I needn't have come back
to settle up at all.
375
00:41:55,540 --> 00:41:57,906
This is your 80%...
376
00:41:59,578 --> 00:42:02,604
Quite a tidy little sum, too,
as you can see.
377
00:42:04,783 --> 00:42:06,808
It's the money from our harvest.
378
00:42:06,885 --> 00:42:10,844
I expect so. It's that time of year.
379
00:42:12,557 --> 00:42:16,550
See, I had a little game with
a young man who came to see me.
380
00:42:16,862 --> 00:42:22,232
I knew he'd come from here, so...
I've made my humble return.
381
00:42:23,502 --> 00:42:26,562
Don't you think you just might
have been wrong about me?
382
00:42:27,339 --> 00:42:29,864
Who did you play
for all this money?
383
00:42:31,643 --> 00:42:35,443
Well, it was a day ago now.
I'd have come sooner
384
00:42:35,714 --> 00:42:40,447
but I pass this black car
with some gentlemen in dark coats.
385
00:42:40,619 --> 00:42:45,647
They began to follow me
shouting that I was going to die.
386
00:42:45,857 --> 00:42:49,588
That I was a con man
who dealt from the bottom.
387
00:42:50,329 --> 00:42:52,320
What an accusation!
388
00:42:53,665 --> 00:42:56,828
- It just took a while to get away.
- Who was it?
389
00:42:57,869 --> 00:43:01,805
The nigra fellow arrived
on horsesback. What was his name...?
390
00:43:02,374 --> 00:43:03,671
Timothy.
391
00:43:05,610 --> 00:43:06,736
That was it!
392
00:43:08,347 --> 00:43:11,839
- Timothy, yeah, that was his name.
- He's a Munsi.
393
00:43:13,485 --> 00:43:14,884
They don't gamble.
394
00:43:15,087 --> 00:43:19,990
Well, I know Munsi don't gamble.
I'm a bit of an expert in this field.
395
00:43:20,092 --> 00:43:23,220
Hell of a time gettin' them to
the gamin' table.
396
00:43:24,129 --> 00:43:25,790
He's no Munsi.
397
00:43:26,565 --> 00:43:29,557
In fact, he's what I'd call
a splendid fella at the card table.
398
00:43:29,634 --> 00:43:34,799
He just stayed bein' splendid,
no matter how much he lost.
399
00:43:35,841 --> 00:43:39,538
- He told everyone he was a Munsi.
- Of course.
400
00:43:39,678 --> 00:43:43,148
See, the girls
were wild about the tales he told.
401
00:43:43,148 --> 00:43:46,948
All the Munsi tales.
The proud African, the royal line.
402
00:43:47,252 --> 00:43:51,780
You know, all that old-fashioned morality.
And the accent, of course.
403
00:43:52,624 --> 00:43:56,993
So, on account of that,
the girls was easy to bed.
404
00:44:00,365 --> 00:44:04,028
I'm not even going
to avail myself of your gratitude.
405
00:44:04,736 --> 00:44:07,705
That's just the kind of fella I am.
Hey, ho!
406
00:44:10,876 --> 00:44:14,869
Now bless me if I can't
come up with a motto for today...
407
00:44:16,715 --> 00:44:21,550
They say the Mansi
are better hung than the Munsi.
408
00:44:22,687 --> 00:44:29,456
Or, the Munsi are so up-stuck.
But the Mansi, how they fuck!
409
00:44:36,134 --> 00:44:40,764
Well, I'll be seein' you.
We can talk business another day.
410
00:45:05,497 --> 00:45:11,402
Grace went to the last pages with
the personal details on the slaves at Manderlay.
411
00:45:12,070 --> 00:45:17,201
Where was Timothy, now?
Yes, his name had a "1" beside it.
412
00:45:17,709 --> 00:45:20,644
A Proudy Slave,
as she'd read earlier...
413
00:45:21,980 --> 00:45:23,470
Or did it?
414
00:45:25,884 --> 00:45:28,944
She looked more closely
at the hand-written number.
415
00:45:29,387 --> 00:45:32,845
She compared it to the "7"
next to Elizabeth's name.
416
00:45:33,425 --> 00:45:36,027
The Pleasin' Nigger
of the chameleon type.
417
00:45:36,027 --> 00:45:39,598
Expert in changing character
to whatever was opportune
418
00:45:39,598 --> 00:45:42,931
and what would titillate
and enthrall the other person.
419
00:45:43,935 --> 00:45:46,631
And then Grace could see it...
420
00:45:47,339 --> 00:45:50,536
Timothy's number was not a "1",
but a "7".
421
00:45:50,876 --> 00:45:53,674
She had only wanted
to read it as a "1 ".
422
00:45:54,679 --> 00:45:57,614
There was even a note
beside Timothy's name:
423
00:45:58,450 --> 00:46:01,942
Caution. Diabolically clever.
424
00:46:25,277 --> 00:46:30,044
Grace had called a final meeting
for everybody at Manderlay.
425
00:46:30,615 --> 00:46:34,608
For that evening, she had decided
to leave the place forever.
426
00:46:34,786 --> 00:46:38,779
- With her father when he arrived.
- Oh, you're all here.
427
00:46:40,358 --> 00:46:44,727
I persuaded the community
to assemble extraordinarily...
428
00:46:45,564 --> 00:46:46,428
for two ballots.
429
00:46:46,498 --> 00:46:50,594
They can scarcely have
anything to do with me anymore.
430
00:46:51,002 --> 00:46:54,768
- Don't be too certain of that.
- Well, I am certain.
431
00:46:57,142 --> 00:46:58,871
I've come to say goodbye.
432
00:47:01,646 --> 00:47:07,607
If you've had 2 ballots today,
that coincides with the 2 presents I brought.
433
00:47:08,353 --> 00:47:10,446
Farewell presents, if you like.
434
00:47:11,189 --> 00:47:14,488
The first... is this.
435
00:47:18,530 --> 00:47:21,727
It's the money from our harvest.
436
00:47:23,068 --> 00:47:28,028
Actually it's 80% of it. A card shark
kept the other 20% as commission.
437
00:47:28,773 --> 00:47:34,109
He scammed the money off somebody
from Manderlay in a game of cards.
438
00:47:34,713 --> 00:47:39,810
- So the gangsters didn't take it?
- No. No, they didn't.
439
00:47:40,385 --> 00:47:43,286
And I won't prolong the tension.
440
00:47:44,623 --> 00:47:47,057
It was the treasurer who did it.
441
00:47:47,592 --> 00:47:50,356
The man charged with
looking after the money.
442
00:47:51,229 --> 00:47:54,665
He was overcome
by his eagerness to play.
443
00:47:55,233 --> 00:47:59,226
Probably because
he isn't a Munsi at all...
444
00:48:00,672 --> 00:48:02,367
... but a Mansi.
445
00:48:03,508 --> 00:48:06,477
However unimportant
that may sound.
446
00:48:08,580 --> 00:48:11,208
Which brings me
to my second present.
447
00:48:11,716 --> 00:48:16,517
This one. Painful to you or not,
it has to come out.
448
00:48:18,256 --> 00:48:26,095
In this book which I still regard as the most
abominable document ever written
449
00:48:26,364 --> 00:48:29,094
Timothy is listed
as a Pleasin' Nigger.
450
00:48:29,401 --> 00:48:33,838
A person who can change
his appearance, as he has done.
451
00:48:36,941 --> 00:48:42,072
- Let me find the page...
- It's on page 104.
452
00:48:46,651 --> 00:48:50,188
How do you know?
I thought no slave had ever seen this book.
453
00:48:50,188 --> 00:48:53,521
How do you know
what's on page 104 of Mam's Law?
454
00:48:55,293 --> 00:48:57,158
Cause I wrote it.
455
00:49:12,143 --> 00:49:14,839
It's all in my meticulous hand.
456
00:49:17,382 --> 00:49:21,011
Mam and I were very young
when the war suddenly ended
457
00:49:21,419 --> 00:49:25,412
and this new statute terrified us.
458
00:49:26,124 --> 00:49:27,682
Terrified you?
459
00:49:29,394 --> 00:49:34,331
We tried to imagine what kind of
world were these slave let out into.
460
00:49:34,499 --> 00:49:36,057
Were they ready for it?
461
00:49:37,902 --> 00:49:39,631
Or more correctly...
462
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:42,831
Was it ready for them?
463
00:49:43,541 --> 00:49:47,409
Legislators made promises,
but we didn't believe them.
464
00:49:47,479 --> 00:49:52,849
It was then that Mam
urged me to commit to paper
465
00:49:53,451 --> 00:49:56,784
the way I thought
things should be done here
466
00:49:56,888 --> 00:49:59,652
if everyone stayed on
at Manderlay.
467
00:50:01,259 --> 00:50:04,057
But it's a
prolongation of slavery.
468
00:50:05,196 --> 00:50:09,724
You might call it that.
You also might call it the lesser of two evils.
469
00:50:13,805 --> 00:50:16,239
But did the others know
that you wrote this book?
470
00:50:16,374 --> 00:50:21,607
Groups 2, 3 and 5...
always knew.
471
00:50:22,347 --> 00:50:26,647
A few members of the other groups
were better off not knowing.
472
00:50:27,152 --> 00:50:28,619
But everyone knows now.
473
00:50:30,722 --> 00:50:34,920
I wrote Mam's Law
for the good of everyone.
474
00:50:37,395 --> 00:50:38,794
For the good of everyone.
475
00:50:43,401 --> 00:50:45,528
For the good of everyone?
476
00:50:48,306 --> 00:50:50,274
How dare you?
477
00:50:51,409 --> 00:50:58,611
It's a recipe for oppression
and humiliation.
478
00:50:58,917 --> 00:51:02,080
From start to finish.
479
00:51:03,121 --> 00:51:06,522
I think you've been reading it
through the wrong spectacles
480
00:51:06,858 --> 00:51:11,818
Miss Grace, if I may
take the liberty of saying so.
481
00:51:13,064 --> 00:51:15,328
Then Wilhelm initiated Grace
482
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,734
into the humane qualities
of the lesser of two evils.
483
00:51:20,338 --> 00:51:24,375
Mam's Law. How it
guaranteed food and shelter
484
00:51:24,375 --> 00:51:27,970
and allowed anybody
to complain about their masters
485
00:51:28,046 --> 00:51:31,277
instead of blaming themselves
for the life of no hope
486
00:51:31,349 --> 00:51:34,716
that they would surely
have to lead in the outside world.
487
00:51:35,553 --> 00:51:37,783
How the noonday parade
was a blessing
488
00:51:37,856 --> 00:51:42,555
since the parade ground was
the only place with shade in the heat.
489
00:51:43,027 --> 00:51:47,265
How the numbered groups were
determined by behavior patterns
490
00:51:47,265 --> 00:51:52,168
human beings resort to in order to
survive in an oppressive community
491
00:51:52,570 --> 00:51:55,664
so that life could be
made easier for each of them.
492
00:51:56,641 --> 00:52:01,476
Since a Proudy Nigger (not that
Manderlay had seen many, if any)
493
00:52:01,946 --> 00:52:06,508
survives by perceiving himself
as proud and could be helped
494
00:52:06,584 --> 00:52:09,988
by this system to believe
he was more persecuted
495
00:52:09,988 --> 00:52:12,183
and punished than the others.
496
00:52:13,124 --> 00:52:16,787
Since a Clowinin' Nigger
would benefit from the laughter
497
00:52:16,895 --> 00:52:19,989
that Mam's Law
demanded of its master
498
00:52:20,064 --> 00:52:24,000
just as any other groups
benefited from similar obligations.
499
00:52:24,602 --> 00:52:26,170
How cash was forbidden
500
00:52:26,170 --> 00:52:28,773
so gambling was done
with cotton money
501
00:52:28,773 --> 00:52:34,473
to prevent ruination and misery
for the families. Et cetera, et cetera.
502
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:38,308
Until Grace's head
felt fair ready to explode.
503
00:52:38,416 --> 00:52:40,577
Damn it, Wilhelm,
they're not free!
504
00:52:41,519 --> 00:52:45,546
- That's what matters!
- I call that a philosophical argument.
505
00:52:46,491 --> 00:52:50,757
Which neatly brings me
to the two ballots I just mentioned.
506
00:52:51,896 --> 00:52:54,729
Was Mam's Law still relevant?
507
00:52:56,301 --> 00:53:00,965
We agreed that unfortunately it was
as relevant now as it ever was.
508
00:53:02,173 --> 00:53:08,203
America was not ready to welcome us
Negroes as equals 70 years ago,
509
00:53:08,279 --> 00:53:10,042
and it still ain't.
510
00:53:10,648 --> 00:53:13,811
And the way things are goin', it
won't be in a 100 years from now.
511
00:53:14,218 --> 00:53:19,815
So we agreed we'd like to take
one step backwards at Manderlay
512
00:53:21,192 --> 00:53:23,626
and re-impose the old law.
513
00:53:24,062 --> 00:53:25,586
Excuse me, but I'm going.
514
00:53:26,464 --> 00:53:31,367
As for your going, I'd better tell you
about the second of our ballots.
515
00:53:32,136 --> 00:53:34,696
As you know,
sadly, we lost Mam.
516
00:53:35,506 --> 00:53:40,705
And unfortunately we've good
and well frightened off her descendants.
517
00:53:41,346 --> 00:53:45,043
In short: We lack a Mam.
518
00:53:51,756 --> 00:53:55,624
- No!
- You received every single vote.
519
00:53:56,494 --> 00:53:57,518
Never.
520
00:53:57,895 --> 00:54:00,693
With all your idealism
521
00:54:00,999 --> 00:54:06,130
I think you could enjoy being the guardian
for a kind of menagerie of creatures
522
00:54:06,371 --> 00:54:08,737
who have no chance in the wild.
523
00:54:11,376 --> 00:54:15,642
Just as you thought the notion of
community would be good for us.
524
00:54:16,714 --> 00:54:21,708
You were so sure, you permitted
yourself to use force to convince us.
525
00:54:22,286 --> 00:54:25,414
I'd be sorry
if we had to do likewise.
526
00:54:26,491 --> 00:54:29,949
What do you mean?
Do you intend to keep me prisoner?
527
00:54:30,428 --> 00:54:33,864
Only until you understand the way
you wanted us to understand.
528
00:54:34,565 --> 00:54:36,931
The gate has been repaired
and is closed.
529
00:54:38,069 --> 00:54:42,631
The fences are in good shape,
but they ain't particularly high.
530
00:54:44,475 --> 00:54:47,842
Those fences... Come on!
531
00:54:49,347 --> 00:54:53,977
Two men with a rusty shotgun
and a toy pistol.
532
00:54:55,186 --> 00:54:57,711
How dumb
do you really think we are?
533
00:54:58,823 --> 00:55:02,315
Too dumb to build a ladder
if we'd really wanted to get away?
534
00:55:04,462 --> 00:55:07,590
Grace had spent a great deal
of time on this meeting
535
00:55:07,665 --> 00:55:10,998
which, to her, didn't seem
to be getting anywhere.
536
00:55:11,602 --> 00:55:15,561
Her father and his car
would be at the gate at eight.
537
00:55:16,007 --> 00:55:19,499
That was in half an hour.
She had no ladder.
538
00:55:19,944 --> 00:55:22,879
And she was on her own
and guarded by many.
539
00:55:23,448 --> 00:55:26,508
Just how was she
to get out of Manderlay?
540
00:55:27,919 --> 00:55:31,116
When was a section
of the fence always down?
541
00:55:31,622 --> 00:55:34,648
Grace would have to
change her tactics rapidly
542
00:55:34,826 --> 00:55:37,056
if she was
to make the rendezvous.
543
00:55:38,029 --> 00:55:40,896
All right.
I'll do as you want.
544
00:55:41,999 --> 00:55:44,297
Not from my heart.
You couldn't expect that.
545
00:55:44,368 --> 00:55:47,531
But as my only option.
And you needn't be scared.
546
00:55:47,972 --> 00:55:50,065
I'll obey your beloved law.
547
00:55:51,175 --> 00:55:53,871
So we'd better start by dealing
with the present matter:
548
00:55:54,178 --> 00:56:01,744
Timothy. A slave from Group 7 has committed
a theft that almost ruined us all.
549
00:56:02,220 --> 00:56:07,283
As Mam's Law does not prescribe
any punishment for stealing money
550
00:56:07,358 --> 00:56:09,417
I shall have to be creative.
551
00:56:12,163 --> 00:56:17,191
What was it you said, Flora? About
planting a bottle of Rhenish wine?
552
00:56:19,003 --> 00:56:21,494
I believe there's a bottle of Rhenish
wine under Timothy's saddle...
553
00:56:21,639 --> 00:56:23,664
Don't you?
554
00:56:29,914 --> 00:56:34,351
So that's what I seen
when I went there yesterday...
555
00:56:35,253 --> 00:56:38,450
If it wasn't
a bottle of Rhenish wine!
556
00:57:21,199 --> 00:57:22,433
There was still ten minutes
557
00:57:22,433 --> 00:57:29,430
until her punctual father would arrive to wait
his 15 minutes and not a second longer.
558
00:57:30,074 --> 00:57:33,703
Just enough time
for a verbal farewell salute.
559
00:57:39,650 --> 00:57:42,949
Timothy, you can stop
being proud and silent.
560
00:57:44,121 --> 00:57:47,420
Cry... and shout
561
00:57:48,359 --> 00:57:50,327
and beg for mercy...
562
00:57:51,562 --> 00:57:53,621
... Iike the Mansi you are.
563
00:57:54,565 --> 00:57:57,796
The Mansi
who you despise so much.
564
00:57:59,070 --> 00:58:02,733
It's that hatred Timothy and the rest of you
bear towards yourselves
565
00:58:02,807 --> 00:58:04,707
that you'll never make me accept!
566
00:58:05,776 --> 00:58:08,506
You are a cheat
of the lowest the lowest kind...
567
00:58:09,647 --> 00:58:15,449
And Wilhelm and all of you who follow him
are merely traitors to your race.
568
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:21,420
I hope one day your fellow Negroes uncover
your betrayal and punish you for it!
569
00:58:22,426 --> 00:58:24,360
You make me sick!
570
00:58:27,698 --> 00:58:30,292
I'm sure you're quite right,
Miss Grace.
571
00:58:32,069 --> 00:58:35,664
Most likely it's impossible
to revile us niggers enough.
572
00:58:37,041 --> 00:58:40,135
But what I don't get is,
why it makes you so angry?
573
00:58:40,311 --> 00:58:41,608
What do you mean?
574
00:58:42,446 --> 00:58:44,209
Aren't you forgetting something?
575
00:58:48,819 --> 00:58:50,377
You made us!
576
00:59:12,376 --> 00:59:16,836
Probably the only thing that could
have stopped the lady with the whip
577
00:59:17,815 --> 00:59:21,410
was the cheerful tinkle that
announced her father’s presence.
578
00:59:28,192 --> 00:59:30,319
She needed his support now.
579
00:59:30,828 --> 00:59:36,164
Manderlay, too, really was a place
the world would be better off without.
580
00:59:48,346 --> 00:59:53,579
Grace recognized her father's
handwriting. "Dear Girl," it said.
581
00:59:53,784 --> 00:59:58,380
Dear Girl. So you tricked
your father yet again.
582
00:59:59,056 --> 01:00:04,824
I waited the fifteen minutes first,
but I am too kind-hearted.
583
01:00:05,363 --> 01:00:11,427
So I popped over to the fence
and peeked inside to check that you were okay.
584
01:00:12,570 --> 01:00:18,031
To my great surprise it really looked
as if you had a good grip on things, for once.
585
01:00:18,242 --> 01:00:22,474
I'm proud of you, my girl.
I hope we meet up some day
586
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:26,844
so you can tell me what you
meant by 'new times at Manderlay'.
587
01:00:27,551 --> 01:00:30,782
Love,
Your dumb old Dad.
588
01:00:38,362 --> 01:00:40,990
Ballots could be unrivaled
589
01:00:41,198 --> 01:00:45,965
but determining the time
by public debate was rarely feasible.
590
01:00:46,237 --> 01:00:48,398
That was quite apparent.
591
01:00:51,742 --> 01:00:57,977
Grace had but a few seconds to choose in which
direction to flee from her swarthy pursuers
592
01:00:58,482 --> 01:01:03,442
who as her father had teasingly predicted,
were carrying torches.
593
01:01:04,088 --> 01:01:08,752
Grace was in a hurry and did not
notice Burt, the former fugitive
594
01:01:08,859 --> 01:01:12,989
with a liberal attitude toward race
who never did make it far.
595
01:01:14,865 --> 01:01:16,594
Grace was angry.
596
01:01:17,068 --> 01:01:22,904
Manderlay had fossilized in a picture
of this country that was too negative.
597
01:01:23,841 --> 01:01:27,709
America was a many-faceted place,
no doubt about it.
598
01:01:28,412 --> 01:01:31,643
But "not ready"
to accept black people?
599
01:01:32,383 --> 01:01:34,578
You really could not say that.
600
01:01:34,885 --> 01:01:38,753
America had proffered its hand,
discreetly perhaps
601
01:01:39,090 --> 01:01:42,651
but if anybody refused
to see a helping hand
602
01:01:43,194 --> 01:01:46,357
he really only had himself to blame.
9999
00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00
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