Manderlay 2005 English Subtitles Part 01

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It was in the year of 1933.

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Grace and her father were heading
southward with their army of gangsters.

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After leaving Dogville
they'd returned to Denver

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only to find that the mice had been
truly playing while the cat was away

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and new forces had taken over
their former possessions.

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The result was
an unappealing retreat

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that had brought them through the state of
Alabama in search of new hunting grounds.

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No, they will not admit it,
but it's a fact.

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Deep down, there isn't a woman alive
who doesn't nurture these fantasies.

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Whether they involve harems, or

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being hunted through the jungle
by torch-bearing natives.

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However much they go on about
civilization and democracy sexy it ain't.

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Grace and her father had resumed
their legendary discord

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even as they
pulled out of Dogville.

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Although Grace had been
applying the technique

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of letting things go in one ear
and out the other for a long time

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she was somewhat weary of
her unbearably overweening daddy

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who believed any nagging woman
could be pacified

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with the good old bouquet of carnations.

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You wouldn't have had the guts to
talk like that if mother had been alive.

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No, you're right my girl,
I would not.

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We're going, boss...

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Miss... Lady, can I talk to you?
Can I talk to you?

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- Yes?
- They gonna whip him!

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I knew they would.
He ain't stole nothin'.

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They put that Rhenish wine from
Mam's bedside table in his cabin

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just to give them
somethin' to whip him for.

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One bottle, and it's a whippin'.
That's "Mam's Law"!

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What are you talking about? Who?
Who are they going to whip?

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- Timothy.
- Why?

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That's how they do us slaves.

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- Slaves?
- Yes, Ma'am.

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Surely
you've hear of slaves.

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That's what we is at Manderlay...
This godforsaken place.

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That's how I got out.

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When a whippin's in the offin'
they take out a section of the fence.

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Listen, Grace, it's a local matter.
It's not for us to poke our noses in.

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- Just because it's a local matter?
- It's not our responsibility.

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You think the Negroes
wanted to leave Africa?

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Wasn't it us who brought them here?
We've done them a great wrong.

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It's our abuse
that's made them what they are.

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Untie him!

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Stop!

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'Fraid not, lady. Slavery was
abolished seventy years ago.

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If you won't obey that law of your own accord,
we'll compel you to do so.

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Mam!
Help me get her inside.

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Water for Mam!
Act quickly, Rose.

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Spare me your hypocrisy,
you dumb old slave.

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Get out. Leave us alone.

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If you're looking for sympathy,
don't expect any from me.

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Listen...

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I'm very old and,
unfortunately, dying.

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I should like
to ask you for a favor.

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If it allows you to go on
exploiting these people like slaves

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I'll have to say no,
no matter how "dying" you are.

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Slavery is over now,
I can see that.

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It had to come one day.

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All right...

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I'll probably refuse you,
but you might as well ask.

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There's a book
under my mattress.

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I should like you to retrieve it

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and burn it for me.

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- It would be best for everyone.
- I'm sure you think so.

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But it's my view that anything is best served
by being brought out into the open.

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I beg you.
One woman to another.

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Woman to woman
makes no difference to me.

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The sins of the past are sins I cannot
and do not wish to help you erase.

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Now I must leave you. My father's
men have unlocked the gates

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so now everybody
can come and go as they please.

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Let everyone here know
that from now on

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they can enjoy the same freedoms
as any other citizen of this country.

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The Constitution
can be found at any courthouse.

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Here's a tip
for when you sue the family...

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There's a weighty written evidence
concealed in this very room.

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She's dead!

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The old devil...!

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Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it, Missy.

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No, no. If any of us
deserves an apology, it's not me.

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I'm afraid...

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There's nothing to be afraid of.
We've taken all the family's weapons.

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No.

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I'm afraid
of what will happen now.

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I fear we ain't ready

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for a completely new way of life.

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At Manderlay,
we slaves took supper at seven.

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When do people take supper
when they're free?

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We don't know these things.

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Free men eat when they're hungry.

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Free women, as well.

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Considering the times
and the situation,

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Grace's words on meal times for free citizens
may have seemed a trifle over-spirited.

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We shouldn't believe there lay
any contempt in these words

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for the wretched
and starving people of America.

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Grace rejoined the gangsters,

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who had concluded their disarmament
of the plantation's powers-that-had-been

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though their findings were meager
the shotgun and an old toy pistol.

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All right, we can go.

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No, let's just wait a moment.

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What are you waiting for?

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For them
to come and thank you?

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Or for them to burn the place down
by the glow of the torchlight?

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You are a bigot, Daddy!
You always have been.

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We owe these people! We brought them here.
We abused them.

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- We made them what they are!
- I admit I don't do deals with the Japs.

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You can't trust them when there's
big money at stake. But a bigot...?

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- Why don't they come out?
- That's exactly what you said last time.

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- Last time?
- Remember when you were six?

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You thought it was so sad that
your beloved Tweety was shut up in a cage.

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And nobody could persuade
you not to let him out.

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Tweety was a proud little bird.

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Well, his dignified exit
didn't do Tweety a hell of a lot of good,

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We found him the next morning
underneath your window.

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- Frozen to death.
- I know.

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He was an indoor bird.
He didn't have a chance.

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What do you think
those Negroes in there are?

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How many generations do you think
made their homes behind that fence?

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I bet most of them have taken up employment
in their former jobs. Contracts and all.

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Now they'll get a few dollars,
but they'll soon drink that up.

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Maybe they'll borrow a bit more
from their employers

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who have no doubt opened a store
full of colorful wares, just for them.

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They won't be able to pay back the
money, and they'll be trapped again.

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What you did
was all very noble, my girl but,

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when push comes to shove,
you've just made things far worse.

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Just as you did with Tweety.

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So, all we can do
is hope there's no frost.

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What you said
about contracts and loans...

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- That's fraud.
- Fraud?

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See, I've read

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that free slaves are given a mule and
a plot of land to establish themselves.

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Yep, that's true

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but it turned out that the fellow
who owned the mule and the land

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kept it all for himself.
So nothing really ever happened.

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It may take them a while to gather
evidence against the plantation

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for when the family goes on trial.

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Trial?

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Tater-pie,

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There are times when you seem even
less with it than your dear mother.

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No, I seem to have
underestimated 'em.

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We've at least one man
with a genuine thirst for freedom

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and he's gettin' out,
and he's in a hurry.

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He's high-tailin' it, all right.
Yeah, it's Gramps.

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- pardon me...
- Not a lot of dignity there.

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He's scared out of his wits.

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Would it be possible
to have a word with the young lady?

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- Yes, yes...
- Don't mean to inconvenience you.

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- That's exactly what you're doing.
- No, you're not.

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This is a grave day for everyone.

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I just thought we must
have seemed a bit ungrateful.

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We should like to thank you properly
for what you've done.

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It'll only take a moment.

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- Yes, of course.
- Ten minutes. Then I'm going.

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Not a second longer!

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Grace was conducted through
the wretched living quarters

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bestowed upon the slaves,
with their pitiful, leaky cabins.

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Her actions would mean an absolute
enrichment of these people's lives.

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There was no doubt about that

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or was there?

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Actually, Grace did not see
much of the glow she had hoped for

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that could have convinced her

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no one would end up
like her little, pale yellow canary.

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These were human beings

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but of the kind on whom pain
had been inflicted, Grace thought

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as she was suddenly interrupted
by a strangely exotic accent...

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When we were slaves

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we were not required
to offer thanks for our supper

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and for the water we drank
and the air we breathed.

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Nobody needs to say thank you...

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- But...
- But what?

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You mean there's something
we ought to be thankful for?

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I didn't mean "but",
I meant "and". And...

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There's no reason to be grateful for
anything as natural as your freedom.

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I'm the first
to apologize for everything

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you and your people
have been subjected to.

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Those gates should have been
unlocked  years ago.

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Only 70 years ago!

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But before that, of course
they were completely justified.

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No...

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No, no, no.
You misunderstand me.

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- What can I say?
- You needn't say nothing at all.

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We've heard of your kind.

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A society lady who spends her time
rescuing wretched niggers.

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I should like to say thank you.

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Missy done give her time
and effort to helpin' us.

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Time I bet she could have spent
on all kinds of different things.

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'Cause t'was perfect justice
when God made some of us slaves

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and not others.

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The nigra is violent by nature.

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Oh, I know
it ain't popular to say so.

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And it ain't
'cause of Burt that I say so.

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No, Victoria
did not base her perception

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only on her experience
of her husband

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though God knows
it weighed heavily.

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Burt was a useless eejit whose character
Victoria regrettably, so far in vain,

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had done her best to improve
by hitting him on any given occasion

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no matter how much
he threatened to take his life

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by throwing himself
into Manderlay's deep well.

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Grace looked at Wilhelm,
the old house slave, and understood:

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He had not brought her here
for anybody to thank her.

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He just wanted
her to see them all.

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The unfortunate flock
he rightly feared

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would have few chances
beyond the perimeter fence.

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Living proof of the
devastating power of oppression.

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Listen up...

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It's all been put on paper.

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We just needed
to check the wordin' first

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bein' as these things
are legal and bindin'.

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Bingo?

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- What are these?
- They're the contracts, Ma'am.

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The family has been so considerate
to offer us all employment.

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Grace was not a lawyer

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and unqualified to assess the contract
she that held in her hand.

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But she feared that any judge in the county
would deem it fair and proper.

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It appeared to Grace
that instead of "employee"

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they might as well have
retained the old term, "slave".

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A body would only sign it

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if he or she was utterly
ignorant of life in a liberal society.

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Or, if he or she
really had no choice.

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Folks, I suppose that
you're in urgent need of cash.

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- Mark?
- Cash?

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I once knew this fella from a little township
nobody'd know the name of

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so there ain't no grounds
to mention what it was called.

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He had cash. Not piles of it.

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We are prepared to lend you some money
as covered by this other paper.

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And we can also set up
a store here, if you like.

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After all,
it's a long way to town.

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And if you buy enough
for all of us

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I bet you liable
to get a real nice bulk discount

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and the goods'll be cheaper
than in town.

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Ain't that right, Miss Grace?

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I have no idea.

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- Please sign, everybody.
- What this be? What it is?

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Here...

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All right, let's go.

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- No, turn it off.
- Damn it!

235
00:19:50,707 --> 00:19:53,767
You said I didn't have the power
to help Tweety,

236
00:19:54,310 --> 00:19:55,334
and you were right.

237
00:19:57,881 --> 00:20:01,373
- I was a child then.
- So, what is it this time?

238
00:20:03,586 --> 00:20:05,884
This time
I have the power to act.

239
00:20:07,690 --> 00:20:09,487
You said so back in Dogville.

240
00:20:10,393 --> 00:20:12,588
That your power would be mine, too.

241
00:20:13,296 --> 00:20:15,127
And that I could use it
in my own way.

242
00:20:15,999 --> 00:20:19,901
That power
was to carry on the family firm.

243
00:20:21,071 --> 00:20:26,634
That I was open to new ideas.
The power you ask for now

244
00:20:26,943 --> 00:20:31,209
will undoubtedly be applied
to something that's foolish at best...

245
00:20:31,281 --> 00:20:33,044
Daddy, you promised.

246
00:20:33,583 --> 00:20:38,077
You were a bastard to Mother but
when you promised her something, she got it.

247
00:20:41,658 --> 00:20:42,716
Okay...

248
00:20:44,561 --> 00:20:46,654
You've been given
what I promised you.

249
00:20:48,631 --> 00:20:52,032
Maybe things haven't been split
right down the middle but

250
00:20:52,168 --> 00:20:54,261
this is as far as
I'm prepared to go.

251
00:20:54,838 --> 00:20:56,772
I want nothing to do
with your plans.

252
00:20:57,607 --> 00:21:01,441
And you won't be able to get
in touch with me if you need me

253
00:21:01,511 --> 00:21:04,947
to get you out of trouble,
because, fortunately, my dear

254
00:21:05,748 --> 00:21:07,443
you'll have no idea where I am.

255
00:21:12,555 --> 00:21:15,725
- Daddy, I'd like to take Joseph.
- No.

256
00:21:15,725 --> 00:21:17,852
I need a lawyer
to sort out paperwork.

257
00:21:17,927 --> 00:21:20,521
No... No. Never!

258
00:21:21,865 --> 00:21:25,301
Never! I'd never let Joseph go.

259
00:21:25,735 --> 00:21:31,037
He's the only man who can draw up a contract
so there's only one possible interpretation.

260
00:21:31,307 --> 00:21:33,867
Though I haven't needed
that talent as of yet

261
00:21:34,110 --> 00:21:35,873
I still might need it one day!

262
00:21:37,347 --> 00:21:40,009
- I'll give you Viggo and Bruno for him.
- Never!

263
00:21:41,784 --> 00:21:44,617
I've given you my best associates,
and you know it!

264
00:21:51,161 --> 00:21:56,064
Daddy, I was meant to be given half.
If Mother had been alive...

265
00:21:56,166 --> 00:21:58,157
Oh, damn it, Grace!

266
00:22:19,355 --> 00:22:22,654
So, that very day
and into the early hours

267
00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:26,529
Joseph employed the
celebrated unambiguous phrases

268
00:22:26,529 --> 00:22:31,159
his previous employer had given
him so little opportunity to practice.

269
00:22:32,535 --> 00:22:37,131
New contracts needed drawing up
and old ones needed nullifying.

270
00:22:38,107 --> 00:22:41,736
All with the astonishing goodwill
that parties always evince

271
00:22:41,811 --> 00:22:45,212
in the company of
rapid-firing machine pistols.

272
00:22:48,151 --> 00:22:49,584
These are the deeds of gift.

273
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,221
Transfer the property to the
former slaves in joint ownership.

274
00:22:53,289 --> 00:22:56,747
The last document is your contract
of employment, by this community,

275
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,024
Employment?

276
00:22:59,128 --> 00:23:03,292
I... don't quite get
what you mean by that.

277
00:23:04,167 --> 00:23:05,301
It'll be without pay

278
00:23:05,301 --> 00:23:08,896
and the right of termination
is in the hands of the employer.

279
00:23:08,972 --> 00:23:11,338
- But nevertheless...
- Manual labor.

280
00:23:12,342 --> 00:23:16,244
For you and your family
and Mr Mays. Hard labor.

281
00:23:18,815 --> 00:23:20,112
Say something, Bingo.

282
00:23:22,352 --> 00:23:24,377
My father's back ain't so strong.

283
00:23:25,488 --> 00:23:29,481
He climbed up to reach
the chandelier one Christmas Day

284
00:23:29,859 --> 00:23:32,020
and he fell off the banister
and struck a table.

285
00:23:32,962 --> 00:23:34,793
Well, that's what happens
when you've got chandeliers.

286
00:23:36,599 --> 00:23:42,868
When I consider your understanding
of the worth of other human beings

287
00:23:43,106 --> 00:23:45,267
has reached
the desirable stage

288
00:23:46,276 --> 00:23:49,439
you and Mr Mays and your family
will be allowed to go.

289
00:23:50,413 --> 00:23:53,746
- Go? And leave our home?
- Yes.

290
00:23:54,450 --> 00:23:58,318
Even starting from scratch
your prospects will be a lot better

291
00:23:58,388 --> 00:24:00,015
than your former laborers'
would have been.

292
00:24:02,959 --> 00:24:06,622
With regards
to the presence of me and my men:

293
00:24:07,363 --> 00:24:08,990
We'll only act
as your counselors.

294
00:24:09,432 --> 00:24:14,802
The guns are merely a precaution
in case of any threats to the new community.

295
00:24:15,471 --> 00:24:19,464
We intend to stay here but only
until the first harvest is home.

296
00:24:19,876 --> 00:24:23,676
After which any of the new
shareholders who wishes to do so

297
00:24:23,746 --> 00:24:26,874
may cash in his or her
deed of gift and receive a dividend.

298
00:24:29,018 --> 00:24:31,384
Will you collect your deeds?
Mark...?

299
00:24:31,521 --> 00:24:37,221
Nobody was enthusiastic or confident
about these legal formalities.

300
00:24:39,996 --> 00:24:42,328
But Grace
could see beyond this.

301
00:24:42,699 --> 00:24:47,136
And if she saw little else but fear
and disquiet in all these eyes

302
00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:51,267
at least she saw gratitude
in one, single pair.

303
00:24:51,507 --> 00:24:55,307
Namely,
in Wilhelm's mild, old gaze.

304
00:24:56,946 --> 00:24:57,776
Burt!

305
00:24:59,782 --> 00:25:01,613
Got a deed of gift here
that ain't been accepted.

306
00:25:01,684 --> 00:25:06,644
Will Mr Burt approach and take
delivery of his deed of gift. Mr Burt.

307
00:25:07,724 --> 00:25:08,554
Mr Burt?

308
00:25:08,958 --> 00:25:13,918
Burt had actually prepared
his escape from his ferocious wife.

309
00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:16,830
Despite her lack of faith
in his abilities

310
00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:20,558
Burt had succeeded in meeting
a woman through the fence

311
00:25:20,837 --> 00:25:23,567
and she had agreed
to help him to abscond.

312
00:25:24,474 --> 00:25:29,605
And there he was, waiting at
the agreed place at the agreed time.

313
00:25:34,917 --> 00:25:37,852
A helping hand,
the woman had said.

314
00:25:38,287 --> 00:25:41,814
What a coincidence that
two women should come to the aid

315
00:25:41,891 --> 00:25:44,689
of the Manderlay slaves
at the same time:

316
00:25:45,895 --> 00:25:49,592
Grace, and Burt's "helping hand".

317
00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:53,765
And the similarities between them
were also peculiar:

318
00:25:54,070 --> 00:25:59,235
Young, beautiful, white.
In male company.

319
00:26:00,309 --> 00:26:03,335
Actually, male company
in alarming numbers.

320
00:26:04,647 --> 00:26:05,636
Where's the nigger?

321
00:26:16,259 --> 00:26:19,023
Grace had moved
into the freed plantation

322
00:26:19,228 --> 00:26:24,222
among its new shareholders.
She was there as a guard, no more.

323
00:26:24,834 --> 00:26:27,962
But no one could stop her
from using this beautiful spring

324
00:26:28,037 --> 00:26:31,598
to make her own observations
on the people of Manderlay.

325
00:26:31,841 --> 00:26:37,404
Hoping to spot the burgeoning change
in character that freedom ought to bring.

326
00:26:38,047 --> 00:26:42,416
But, unfortunately
she saw little of just that.

327
00:26:43,553 --> 00:26:47,011
She saw Victoria
looking down the well

328
00:26:47,089 --> 00:26:49,785
in hopes of a glimpse
of the body of Burt.

329
00:26:51,594 --> 00:26:55,553
She saw Flora and Elizabeth
swooning for Timothy, as ever.

330
00:26:58,968 --> 00:27:02,131
She saw the men
spending their time on card games

331
00:27:02,205 --> 00:27:05,868
playing for tufts of cotton
under their leaking roof.

332
00:27:07,109 --> 00:27:12,648
And she saw how everybody
ignored Mark, not knowing

333
00:27:12,648 --> 00:27:17,051
he was never able to give
an intelligible answer to anything.

334
00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:21,213
We called him Puddin' Head, but
his real name wasn't Puddin' Head.

335
00:27:23,226 --> 00:27:28,129
Grace saw Victoria beating
her son for stealing a moldy cookie.

336
00:27:28,498 --> 00:27:33,128
And she saw the unstoppable
hierarchy of the beatings.

337
00:27:33,836 --> 00:27:38,273
Victoria beating Ed, Ed beating
Milton, and Milton beating Willie

338
00:27:38,508 --> 00:27:43,775
who vented his frustration further
down the food chain, on Claire

339
00:27:44,347 --> 00:27:47,441
who far too rarely managed
to make use of the window

340
00:27:47,517 --> 00:27:53,114
that her loving father Jack had
installed as an emergency entrance.

341
00:27:53,322 --> 00:27:57,190
Which also allowed her
to fall asleep every night

342
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,921
to her favorite view
of the twinkling stars.

343
00:28:02,965 --> 00:28:05,832
Every noontide,
Grace witnessed with pity

344
00:28:05,902 --> 00:28:08,871
how the former slaves
stood on the parade ground

345
00:28:08,938 --> 00:28:13,068
with its mysterious numbers
beneath Mam's balcony

346
00:28:13,442 --> 00:28:16,275
as if nothing
at Manderlay had changed.

347
00:28:16,612 --> 00:28:21,845
However, one of them did not submit
to this too-soothing power of habit:

348
00:28:22,118 --> 00:28:23,676
Timothy, of course.

349
00:28:23,853 --> 00:28:29,052
In a flash, his exotic pride
almost took Grace's breath away.

350
00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:34,991
This day Grace walked on past
the old Peach House

351
00:28:35,131 --> 00:28:40,694
where the whites were put to work
on almost needless little repairs

352
00:28:40,937 --> 00:28:44,429
on her way to the barn
housing her gangsters.

353
00:28:46,108 --> 00:28:49,600
- So how's everyone doing?
- I'm afraid the men got nothing to do.

354
00:28:49,946 --> 00:28:51,573
It's not good for the moral.

355
00:28:52,048 --> 00:28:55,279
Your father
always came up with something.

356
00:28:55,351 --> 00:28:58,650
I bet he did.
But it's patience that's required.

357
00:28:59,221 --> 00:29:01,189
Not this much patience, Niels says.

358
00:29:01,824 --> 00:29:03,689
His grandpa was a cotton grower.

359
00:29:04,193 --> 00:29:06,354
He says the cotton
should have been sown ages ago.

360
00:29:07,396 --> 00:29:11,833
- The soil doesn't look ready.
- Might be because nobody's plowed it.

361
00:29:12,768 --> 00:29:18,229
- Maybe things are different here.
- No, ma'am, don't reckon so.

362
00:29:18,507 --> 00:29:25,242
Well, if it should have been sown surely
the people here would be the first to know.

363
00:29:30,186 --> 00:29:32,347
Grace didn't want to impose.

364
00:29:32,521 --> 00:29:37,424
Her contact with the former slaves
had been limited to brief greetings.

365
00:29:37,793 --> 00:29:41,285
But now it was time
for a talk with some meat to it.

366
00:29:42,264 --> 00:29:47,566
Excuse me. Sir? Mark.
May I ask you something?

367
00:29:47,737 --> 00:29:49,705
It's about planting the cotton.

368
00:29:50,439 --> 00:29:55,775
I've been around for sowin' and harvestin'.
And birth and death.

369
00:29:55,878 --> 00:29:56,902
Right.

370
00:29:58,114 --> 00:30:00,048
So when should
the cotton be planted?

371
00:30:00,149 --> 00:30:02,014
There's strict rules for that.

372
00:30:02,618 --> 00:30:04,984
You can't mess around
with that sort of thing.

373
00:30:05,755 --> 00:30:10,454
Manderlay's always been renowned
for the precision of its harvest.

374
00:30:10,593 --> 00:30:13,926
The swallows always migrate
right afterwards.

375
00:30:14,830 --> 00:30:19,563
They settle here for the night
on their way across the marshes.

376
00:30:21,637 --> 00:30:22,968
But the planting?

377
00:30:23,873 --> 00:30:31,041
It's a science, my dear lady,
and the weather plays a fearsome role.

378
00:30:31,180 --> 00:30:34,616
Yes, yes. And when
will it be time this year?

379
00:30:34,784 --> 00:30:38,379
Not too soon and not too late.

380
00:30:40,156 --> 00:30:41,851
Yes, but when?

381
00:30:41,991 --> 00:30:43,754
Should the cotton
have already been planted?

382
00:30:43,826 --> 00:30:49,321
I'm not the sorta fella to pass on
information unless I'm damned sure.

383
00:30:49,665 --> 00:30:53,362
Unless the facts of the matter
are one hundred percent.

384
00:30:53,869 --> 00:30:58,863
In other words,
the facts need be beyond dispute.

385
00:31:03,946 --> 00:31:05,470
Do you know when to plant?

386
00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:10,913
- No.
- I'd better ask Wilhelm. Is he home?

387
00:31:11,153 --> 00:31:13,587
This morning
he went to the bath house.

388
00:31:13,889 --> 00:31:17,290
He'd gotten frayed
around the edges, as they say.

389
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,389
- It's a funny thing...
- I'm sorry. I'll go find him myself.

390
00:31:25,067 --> 00:31:28,093
Excuse me, Wilhelm,
I've come about the fields.

391
00:31:29,638 --> 00:31:33,802
The fields should have been plowed
and harrowed three weeks ago.

392
00:31:33,976 --> 00:31:35,978
And the cotton planted 2 weeks ago.

393
00:31:35,978 --> 00:31:37,605
Does everybody know that?

394
00:31:37,913 --> 00:31:40,575
Oh, yes,
but I reckon they're thinkin'

395
00:31:40,750 --> 00:31:43,742
somebody else
oughta go out into the fields first.

396
00:31:44,553 --> 00:31:49,081
In the old days Overseer Mays
would've driven us out there.

397
00:31:49,825 --> 00:31:54,285
Maybe it's because
nobody really trust you, Missy.

398
00:31:56,866 --> 00:32:01,269
Yeah, but Wilhelm, they could
be doing something else instead.

399
00:32:01,904 --> 00:32:06,398
Repairs to their homes...
They badly need it.

400
00:32:06,542 --> 00:32:08,737
The cabins
have always been a sore spot.

401
00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:13,307
But Mam said we ain't got
no materials to fix 'em up.

402
00:32:14,517 --> 00:32:16,417
We'll need
what we make on the cotton.

403
00:32:16,485 --> 00:32:18,453
How else will people
survive on their own?

404
00:32:18,521 --> 00:32:19,681
Yeah,

405
00:32:20,790 --> 00:32:25,318
if folks felt
they was given somethin'.

406
00:32:25,728 --> 00:32:29,858
Something brought out by this,
these new times.

407
00:32:31,267 --> 00:32:34,964
That made their lives better in a
convincing way.

408
00:32:35,070 --> 00:32:37,129
Right here and now!

409
00:32:37,973 --> 00:32:40,942
I don't know
what that might be, but...

410
00:32:41,477 --> 00:32:45,607
- But we don't have time for that.
- We've been forced to sow late before.

411
00:32:45,781 --> 00:32:49,512
The harvest might be improved
if we planted a bit late.

412
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:51,709
Even says that in Mam's Law.

413
00:32:52,521 --> 00:32:56,048
- Mam's Law?
- Yes, Mam's Law.

414
00:32:56,358 --> 00:32:59,759
It's all the rules
for running the plantation.

415
00:33:00,329 --> 00:33:04,993
But we weren't allowed to read it.
It was just for Mam and the family.

416
00:33:12,641 --> 00:33:16,042
Only for Mam and the family,
Grace thought.

417
00:33:17,479 --> 00:33:19,879
Certainly no more.

418
00:33:32,361 --> 00:33:34,226
And there on Mam's bed

419
00:33:34,296 --> 00:33:39,097
skimming through the book, filled
with bizarre and vicious regulations

420
00:33:39,268 --> 00:33:42,829
she came upon a page
that looked strangely familiar.

421
00:33:43,505 --> 00:33:46,668
A table with numbers
from one to seven.

422
00:33:47,476 --> 00:33:51,469
Somewhere Grace had seen
something similar, for sure.

423
00:33:55,451 --> 00:33:58,147
Mam's Law revealed it all:

424
00:33:59,188 --> 00:34:03,249
The Manderlay plantation
with its glamorous front mansion

425
00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:06,590
and pitiful rear where the slaves

426
00:34:06,662 --> 00:34:10,530
had been kept in an iron grip
by these very numbers.

427
00:34:11,166 --> 00:34:15,830
They represented the psychological
division of the Manderlay slaves.

428
00:34:16,739 --> 00:34:20,334
Sammy was a Group 5:
a Clownin' Nigger.

429
00:34:20,809 --> 00:34:25,678
The formidable Victoria was of course
a Number 4: a Hittin' Nigger.

430
00:34:25,915 --> 00:34:30,579
No wonder her husband Burt
had accepted "a helping hand"

431
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,552
even if it was
another color from his own.

432
00:34:33,956 --> 00:34:36,925
Wilma and Mark
were Losin' Niggers.

433
00:34:37,426 --> 00:34:42,386
Wilhelm was a 2: a Talkin' Nigger.
Flora was a Weepin' Nigger.

434
00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:47,859
Et cetera. There were Pleasin' Niggers
and Crazy Niggers by the dozen.

435
00:34:48,470 --> 00:34:52,236
The final category,
Number 1 : Proudy Niggers

436
00:34:52,308 --> 00:34:57,405
consisted nowadays of Timothy,
who was of course not there.

437
00:34:57,913 --> 00:34:59,505
And Elizabeth.

438
00:35:00,349 --> 00:35:04,649
No... It said 7, not 1.

439
00:35:05,087 --> 00:35:09,615
She was a Pleasin' Nigger,
also known as a chameleon.

440
00:35:10,025 --> 00:35:16,692
A person who could transform herself into
exactly the type the beholder wanted to see.

441
00:35:18,434 --> 00:35:23,565
This was how the slave system had
been kept alive so long at Manderlay:

442
00:35:24,106 --> 00:35:27,439
Bondage,
even through psychology.

443
00:35:30,346 --> 00:35:34,715
As Grace, in deep thought, gazed
across the fields of Manderlay

444
00:35:34,783 --> 00:35:37,911
she recalled
another page in Mam's Law

445
00:35:38,454 --> 00:35:44,086
dealing with the weeding of the paths
in the romantic "Old Lady's Garden".

446
00:35:44,426 --> 00:35:48,658
The name of the band of woodland
that skirted the plantation.

447
00:35:49,431 --> 00:35:53,595
Trees and tree trunks,
Grace thought.

448
00:35:54,136 --> 00:35:57,867
So there were materials
at Manderlay, after all.

449
00:36:13,322 --> 00:36:14,846
Excuse me...

450
00:36:16,892 --> 00:36:18,792
May I ask you all something?

451
00:36:23,065 --> 00:36:29,300
Isn't it true that somebody
who's even poor and colored

452
00:36:30,506 --> 00:36:33,475
can still take the trouble
to maintain their home?

453
00:36:38,814 --> 00:36:40,281
How dare you?

454
00:36:41,183 --> 00:36:44,914
You think colored folks prefer holes
in their roof, and wallowing in mud?

455
00:36:46,055 --> 00:36:48,580
Then all you need to do
is mend those holes.

456
00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:55,590
But I told you. There ain't never been
those kind of materials at Manderlay.

457
00:36:55,998 --> 00:36:59,798
No materials...?
That's not true.

458
00:37:01,737 --> 00:37:04,865
When I'm in the fields
I see timber wherever I look.

459
00:37:05,374 --> 00:37:07,740
Waiting to be turned into boards for a roof.

460
00:37:08,210 --> 00:37:11,577
Or an extension or maybe a whole new cabin.

461
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,044
That be Mam's garden.
You can't cut that down.

462
00:37:16,518 --> 00:37:19,146
And why can't we cut down
The Old Lady's Garden?

463
00:37:20,556 --> 00:37:26,188
Have you spent that many happy hours
on your knees weeding her romantic paths?

464
00:37:26,662 --> 00:37:30,257
That's true.
There's loads of timber.

465
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:34,892
We ain't seen it as anything
but The Old Lady's Garden.

466
00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:42,773
I don't know what you think,
but to me it sounds like a splendid idea.

467
00:37:54,656 --> 00:38:02,791
And at a stroke, these seated, reclining, resting
people had turned into people going full tilt.

468
00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:06,361
Walking,
running, working people.

469
00:38:06,602 --> 00:38:10,800
Without anyone having to threaten
them with "The Lady's Hand"

470
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:14,304
as Grace had been told
the great whip was called.

471
00:38:14,843 --> 00:38:17,641
And Grace had won
a kind of victory.

472
00:38:18,046 --> 00:38:20,015
A small beginning of something

473
00:38:20,015 --> 00:38:25,419
that would one day erase all the negative,
inherited behavior patterns at Manderlay.

474
00:38:33,362 --> 00:38:38,197
But the appetite for improving
the living quarters

475
00:38:38,267 --> 00:38:42,397
unfortunately exceeded that
for preparing the fields.

476
00:38:43,639 --> 00:38:46,608
A few of the former slaves had volunteered

477
00:38:47,075 --> 00:38:49,703
and with the white family and Grace

478
00:38:49,845 --> 00:38:53,872
they made up a sort of gang
to prepare the soil for the seeds.

479
00:38:54,149 --> 00:39:00,577
Under the gaze of a hostile Timothy
with his mysterious white handkerchief.

480
00:39:12,801 --> 00:39:15,599
- He wasn't born here?
- He's a Munsi.

481
00:39:16,672 --> 00:39:19,732
It's a line of African royalty.
It's a very proud line.

482
00:39:20,842 --> 00:39:26,337
He don't drink or gamble like the others be doin'
with their little tufts of cotton money.

483
00:39:26,882 --> 00:39:32,377
T'was Mam's Law.
We weren't allowed no real money.

484
00:39:33,989 --> 00:39:38,050
Grace knew about the clever system
of currency in Mam's Law.

485
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,662
Not real money that you
could use in the outside world.

486
00:39:43,932 --> 00:39:47,026
The Munsi don't gamble 'cause
they don't believe in winnings.

487
00:39:48,036 --> 00:39:51,802
They believe you have to be
humble to your crops

488
00:39:52,007 --> 00:39:54,498
and only take
what's absolutely necessary.

489
00:39:56,778 --> 00:39:59,303
I've never heard
of these Munsi before

490
00:39:59,581 --> 00:40:02,106
but I believe
I once heard of the Mansi.

491
00:40:02,217 --> 00:40:05,778
They different.
They was slaves of African kings.

492
00:40:06,121 --> 00:40:10,751
They gamble...
They is true mischief, Timothy say.

493
00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:14,288
So Timothy has prejudices,
as well.

494
00:40:14,563 --> 00:40:19,000
- What?
- Oh, nothing. I was just thinking aloud.

495
00:40:19,668 --> 00:40:25,368
- So you find company, Flora.
- No, no. I was on my way out, anyway.

496
00:40:31,146 --> 00:40:32,204
Timothy?

497
00:40:34,449 --> 00:40:36,110
Let me tell you one thing.

498
00:40:37,219 --> 00:40:39,016
I know you don't like me.

499
00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:43,682
And don't trust me.
And I can see why.

500
00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:48,887
Although our ideals differ,
you have a pride within you

501
00:40:49,298 --> 00:40:53,166
that I believe will one day be the
salvation of everybody at Manderlay.

502
00:40:55,037 --> 00:40:56,834
Let me tell you one thing, too!

503
00:40:57,806 --> 00:41:02,175
You got fine words, a posse
of gangsters, and your white skin.

504
00:41:02,744 --> 00:41:06,043
Somethin' folks here seem to fall for,
but I ain't fooled.

505
00:41:06,948 --> 00:41:11,248
You're not interested in us.
Not as human beings.

506
00:41:11,820 --> 00:41:16,052
It's tough telling people apart
when they're from another race.

507
00:41:16,291 --> 00:41:20,125
We whites have committed irreparable
crimes against an entire people.

508
00:41:21,129 --> 00:41:26,965
Manderlay is a moral obligation,
because we made you.

509
00:41:31,773 --> 00:41:35,038
Luckily, I'm just a nigger
who don't understand such words.

510
00:41:36,211 --> 00:41:40,807
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've come
here for the company of my girl

511
00:41:40,949 --> 00:41:43,213
and that ain't nothin'
for you to see.

512
00:41:44,786 --> 00:41:46,651
Black hides meetin'...

513
00:41:46,788 --> 00:41:52,124
And if I were you, I'd leave now
before things get too nasty.

514
00:42:03,405 --> 00:42:07,205
Grace regarded Timothy's hostility
as a challenge.

515
00:42:07,409 --> 00:42:11,213
The very next day
she took a step to dispel his claim

516
00:42:11,213 --> 00:42:15,775
that as a white she was incapable
of caring for blacks as individuals.

517
00:42:16,418 --> 00:42:20,718
She'd had a chat with Venus
about her maladjusted son Jim.

518
00:42:21,022 --> 00:42:23,513
Venus had revealed
that Jim's behavior

519
00:42:23,592 --> 00:42:27,688
was merely that of
a budding, but frustrated, artist.

520
00:42:29,097 --> 00:42:33,534
- Tell me, have you seen Venus?
- Nobody here wants your charity.

521
00:42:37,172 --> 00:42:38,696
I have something for Jim.

522
00:42:39,274 --> 00:42:42,243
I've had a good look
at his face since our chat

523
00:42:42,644 --> 00:42:47,138
and you're right.
It does possess an artist's sensitivity.

524
00:42:48,884 --> 00:42:52,020
- This is far too much...
- No, no, no!

525
00:42:52,020 --> 00:42:54,488
Go on, call him.
This is for him.

526
00:42:56,224 --> 00:43:00,456
Jim, come on out here
with me and Miss Grace, baby.

527
00:43:07,736 --> 00:43:11,900
These are for you,
because we believe in you.

528
00:43:12,574 --> 00:43:16,908
Now run along
and paint your fantastic pictures.

529
00:43:17,145 --> 00:43:20,182
Never mind close-minded folks
who think they know

530
00:43:20,182 --> 00:43:24,209
what art is meant to look like.
Give them hell from me, Jim!

531
00:43:26,621 --> 00:43:30,751
Excuse me, but I ain't Jim.
I'm Jack.

532
00:43:31,827 --> 00:43:32,851
That's Jim.

533
00:43:41,603 --> 00:43:46,700
It is tricky. I've never
been able to tell them apart, either.

534
00:43:48,577 --> 00:43:51,546
They're both colored
and they both got curly hair.

535
00:43:51,913 --> 00:43:53,676
Why look any deeper than that?

536
00:43:55,617 --> 00:44:00,680
To be honest, Grace had never been quite sure
which was Jim and which was Jack.

537
00:44:01,289 --> 00:44:07,353
A blunder like that would, in her former life
merely have occasioned a little laughter.

538
00:44:08,563 --> 00:44:12,966
In her life at Manderlay
it was... disastrous.

539
00:44:14,369 --> 00:44:21,537
But like her father, she didn't take long to change
defeat into anger energy and a counterattack.

540
00:44:21,743 --> 00:44:25,372
This is what has created
all this resistance.

541
00:44:25,447 --> 00:44:28,507
Even you regard it
as almost sacred, don't you?

542
00:44:29,184 --> 00:44:32,711
I must admit it's played
a right important part in my life.

543
00:44:32,854 --> 00:44:36,415
That will be my next move.
They should be allowed to see it.

544
00:44:37,926 --> 00:44:40,588
And understand
it can't do them any more harm.

545
00:44:40,795 --> 00:44:42,660
I wouldn't advise it, Missy.

546
00:44:44,032 --> 00:44:47,399
Presenting it to them would
be like showing a child the rod

547
00:44:47,736 --> 00:44:49,135
with which it is to be beaten.

548
00:44:49,271 --> 00:44:52,866
It must be made public
but we ain't all ripe for it.

549
00:44:58,146 --> 00:44:59,408
All right.

550
00:45:01,283 --> 00:45:04,252
We'll have to see about
ripening you, and quickly.

551
00:45:04,519 --> 00:45:09,218
I'm not talking about the meetings
I've organized where hardly anybody came.

552
00:45:09,291 --> 00:45:11,418
I mean teaching with a timetable.

553
00:45:11,493 --> 00:45:13,654
Old-fashioned,
hands on schooling.

554
00:45:16,665 --> 00:45:21,693
I've got something for you to do.
It even involves bossing people about.

555
00:45:21,870 --> 00:45:26,967
At noon tomorrow I'm giving my first
lesson to all Manderlay's former slaves.

556
00:45:27,108 --> 00:45:29,906
It'll be your job
to make sure they're there.

557
00:45:30,545 --> 00:45:33,605
- No excuse for not showing up.
- And the family?

558
00:45:34,115 --> 00:45:37,016
No, they're pretty well
teaching themselves.

559
00:45:39,454 --> 00:45:43,584
- Are you listening to me?
- It's 'cause Niels just got a great hand

560
00:45:44,359 --> 00:45:45,257
What?

561
00:45:51,633 --> 00:45:52,691
Who are you?

562
00:45:54,469 --> 00:45:56,960
My name is Doctor Hector.

563
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:04,234
Do excuse me a moment.
I'll have to pay my way out of this round.

564
00:46:06,314 --> 00:46:09,875
I don't believe you possess
any cards of real significance.

565
00:46:10,285 --> 00:46:12,446
You have a poker player's face.

566
00:46:16,324 --> 00:46:18,451
You see
here my entire enterprise.

567
00:46:19,427 --> 00:46:23,056
I've never gained access
to Manderlay before.

568
00:46:23,198 --> 00:46:26,827
So when I drove by today
and saw the gates were open

569
00:46:27,602 --> 00:46:29,695
I took it as a sign of new times.

570
00:46:29,904 --> 00:46:33,362
- What exactly do you do?
- I entertain.

571
00:46:34,209 --> 00:46:36,837
Party games, card games,
and the like.

572
00:46:37,412 --> 00:46:39,539
Well, nowadays
mainly the latter.

573
00:46:41,049 --> 00:46:42,414
You play for money.

574
00:46:43,151 --> 00:46:46,587
But I do more than play.
I cheat.

575
00:46:49,190 --> 00:46:54,651
And you don't object to revealing
this business secret of yours?

576
00:46:54,929 --> 00:46:57,261
Oh, to some people,
but not to you.

577
00:46:57,999 --> 00:47:03,266
If you and I establish the business
relationship I'm anticipating

578
00:47:03,838 --> 00:47:05,829
you'll know
exactly what to expect.

579
00:47:06,074 --> 00:47:07,666
And what can I expect?

580
00:47:09,177 --> 00:47:10,439
Eighty percent.

581
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:18,742
You know all the problems that arose
when our beloved new deal was imposed in '65.

582
00:47:19,454 --> 00:47:22,787
Plantation owners had plenty
of land, but nobody to work it.

583
00:47:22,924 --> 00:47:25,415
So they contracted
with their former slaves.

584
00:47:25,894 --> 00:47:30,160
But they didn't have the same hold
on the rascals as in the old days.

585
00:47:30,498 --> 00:47:32,466
Of course they lent them money.

586
00:47:32,667 --> 00:47:34,601
But quite a few of the nigras

587
00:47:35,603 --> 00:47:39,437
actually saved up and paid off their debts.

588
00:47:39,808 --> 00:47:43,244
So the plantation owners got worried.

589
00:47:46,147 --> 00:47:47,808
- I bet they did!
- Oh, yeah.

590
00:47:48,116 --> 00:47:50,107
That's where my idea came in.

591
00:47:50,418 --> 00:47:54,320
I went to the plantations
with the full backing of the owners

592
00:47:54,389 --> 00:47:59,383
to entertain their employees,
and they were sorely in need of diversion.

593
00:47:59,928 --> 00:48:01,828
We just had a little game of cards.

594
00:48:02,063 --> 00:48:08,992
If anyone was close to repaying his debt
I would take the shirt off their back.

595
00:48:11,906 --> 00:48:15,774
And I am prepared to offer you
the very same service today, Ma'am.

596
00:48:22,984 --> 00:48:25,009
You are not convinced.

597
00:48:26,121 --> 00:48:29,284
Let me give you another token
of my profound loyalty.

598
00:48:29,424 --> 00:48:34,225
I have here a letter from
a man by the name of Stanley.

599
00:48:35,897 --> 00:48:37,626
He asked me to smuggle it out.

600
00:48:38,199 --> 00:48:40,599
Perhaps you'd like to see it
before it's mailed.

601
00:48:41,536 --> 00:48:43,436
Listen, Mr Hector...

602
00:48:44,906 --> 00:48:50,003
Let me say I have never met a man
whom I have so instantly despised

603
00:48:50,078 --> 00:48:55,448
so wholeheartedly, both for
his personality and his occupation.

604
00:48:58,453 --> 00:49:00,717
So you're
turning down my offer?

605
00:49:00,955 --> 00:49:03,822
I never want
to see you here again.

606
00:49:07,562 --> 00:49:08,551
All right...

607
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:13,629
Well, I am disappointed.

608
00:49:14,235 --> 00:49:17,295
I shall nevertheless bestow
upon you my thought for the day.

609
00:49:17,672 --> 00:49:19,731
I indulge in word games.

610
00:49:20,074 --> 00:49:24,773
I like to give my clients something
to laugh or think about when I leave.

611
00:49:26,414 --> 00:49:28,678
The best technique for a card shark

612
00:49:30,952 --> 00:49:32,647
is dealing from the bottom.

613
00:49:34,222 --> 00:49:37,123
Look as if you're dealing
from the top of the deck

614
00:49:38,359 --> 00:49:42,318
but instead you just take
the bottom card. One that you know.

615
00:49:44,299 --> 00:49:47,496
Taking from the bottom
means something else in social terms.

616
00:49:47,969 --> 00:49:49,664
But it is what I do.

617
00:49:50,505 --> 00:49:52,063
I take from the bottom.

618
00:49:54,409 --> 00:49:57,572
It won't be hard to find me
if you change your mind.

619
00:50:06,454 --> 00:50:12,552
The letter was aimed at a Mr Miller one of
the truckers who picked up cotton from Manderlay

620
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,719
and the plantation's only
real contact with the outside world.

621
00:50:18,066 --> 00:50:20,330
It was short and to the point:

622
00:50:21,035 --> 00:50:25,597
We are being held prisoner by
gangsters and coloreds at Manderlay.

623
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:31,342
Inform the police and please come
to our aid with all due dispatch.

624
00:50:47,195 --> 00:50:50,221
Indignation is a rare emotion for a gangster

625
00:50:50,431 --> 00:50:53,902
but such a state was
what Grace's men experienced

626
00:50:53,902 --> 00:50:57,497
while they herded the
colored people in for their lesson

627
00:50:57,839 --> 00:51:02,503
as Grace had reported on Dr Hector's
trick of taking from the bottom.

628
00:51:03,211 --> 00:51:06,748
It was hardly the sophisticated
ambiguity of the term

629
00:51:06,748 --> 00:51:09,239
that had affected them
so dramatically.

630
00:51:10,852 --> 00:51:12,820
Welcome to our lesson.

631
00:51:13,988 --> 00:51:14,977
Yes, I call it a lesson,

632
00:51:15,056 --> 00:51:19,049
as the term "meeting" seems to have scared
some people out of attending.

633
00:51:19,127 --> 00:51:23,154
I was comin'... but I was late.

634
00:51:23,498 --> 00:51:26,296
You hadn't made it
by the time we finished.

635
00:51:26,401 --> 00:51:30,064
In the old days we heard the bell
from the old clock in the hall.

636
00:51:30,605 --> 00:51:34,302
T'was easier to keep up with time,
but we never hear it no more.

637
00:51:35,043 --> 00:51:37,341
Probably because
nobody winds it up.

638
00:51:37,912 --> 00:51:41,939
But now for the topic
of this lesson: Working together.

639
00:51:43,618 --> 00:51:48,954
Only four people from your wing
helped to prepare the fields

640
00:51:49,157 --> 00:51:52,183
and only five helped to plant.

641
00:51:53,795 --> 00:51:55,330
If I'd been
a shareholder in this enterprise

642
00:51:55,330 --> 00:51:58,925
and had also been one of the five,
I would have felt cheated.

643
00:52:00,868 --> 00:52:04,929
Democracy means
government by the people.

644
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,167
But, as it's not practical
for everyone to sit in Congress

645
00:52:09,243 --> 00:52:13,304
a method by which people may
express their views is required.

646
00:52:13,448 --> 00:52:17,214
This method is called a ballot.
All right?

647
00:52:19,020 --> 00:52:20,578
So, let's try it out.

648
00:52:20,822 --> 00:52:25,623
We should choose a problem.
Anything anyone can't decide on?

649
00:52:26,361 --> 00:52:30,525
- If I may suggest a small matter...
- Please do.

650
00:52:31,432 --> 00:52:36,335
I reckon the little broken rake is mine.
But Flora reckons it's hers.

651
00:52:36,838 --> 00:52:37,702
It's my rake

652
00:52:37,772 --> 00:52:42,937
That's an excellent suggestion.
It's a great example.

653
00:52:43,444 --> 00:52:48,245
I assume you all know of this dispute
and feel able to have an opinion.

654
00:52:48,716 --> 00:52:53,449
Who does the community think
owns the rake?

655
00:52:53,755 --> 00:52:57,452
It could turn out to belong
to both parties equally.

656
00:52:57,992 --> 00:53:01,928
That would correspond nicely
with the subject of this lesson:

657
00:53:02,230 --> 00:53:04,289
Working together,
sharing together.

658
00:53:04,399 --> 00:53:08,665
All right, so who thinks
it's Elizabeth's rake...?

659
00:53:09,103 --> 00:53:10,593
Sammy?

660
00:53:13,274 --> 00:53:17,540
I think...
I think it's Elizabeth's rake.

661
00:53:18,046 --> 00:53:19,172
All right, all right!

662
00:53:19,247 --> 00:53:24,014
Slowly the point of Grace's
discourse dawned on the majority.

663
00:53:24,552 --> 00:53:27,715
Most thought the rake
was Elizabeth's

664
00:53:27,855 --> 00:53:32,451
a few, that it was Flora's,
and nobody, that it could be shared.

665
00:53:32,527 --> 00:53:40,798
I still remain... undecided whether the rake
is Elizabeth's or Flora's.

666
00:53:40,935 --> 00:53:45,702
Right. So, not surprisingly,
neither party receives Mark's vote.

667
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:50,174
From now on the little broken rake
belongs to Elizabeth.

668
00:53:50,311 --> 00:53:53,769
There are
winners and losers with balloting.

669
00:53:54,048 --> 00:53:56,016
But the community has spoken.

670
00:53:56,584 --> 00:54:03,319
Now Grace embarked on an explanation
of Flora's difficulties raking without a rake

671
00:54:03,858 --> 00:54:07,658
and that joint ownership
could have its advantages.

672
00:54:08,496 --> 00:54:11,761
To make sure everyone understood
the democratic principle

673
00:54:11,833 --> 00:54:15,530
they carried out
another ballot at Jim's suggestion.

674
00:54:15,703 --> 00:54:23,007
I wanna talk about Sammy be laughin' so loud
at his own jokes and they ain't funny.

675
00:54:23,211 --> 00:54:29,150
I been tryin' to sleep and I can't get no sleep
'cause he laughs so loud.

676
00:54:30,218 --> 00:54:33,278
Maybe there can be a time
when he can stop his jokes

677
00:54:33,387 --> 00:54:36,686
and stop laughin',
so we can get some sleep.

678
00:54:38,359 --> 00:54:42,819
Surely you can't vote
on a man's laughter.

679
00:54:42,930 --> 00:54:46,764
I'm hearing it's at sundown.

680
00:54:46,968 --> 00:54:50,460
That's what I'm hearing.
So let's do a vote.

681
00:54:51,172 --> 00:54:52,764
All right, so that's settled.

682
00:54:58,646 --> 00:55:00,341
That's democracy.

683
00:55:00,715 --> 00:55:04,852
Finally Wilhelm proposed that
somebody should be responsible

684
00:55:04,852 --> 00:55:09,016
for winding up the clock with
its small but penetrating chimes.

685
00:55:09,690 --> 00:55:14,957
For mysterious reasons the fairly
passive artist Jim was appointed

686
00:55:15,196 --> 00:55:18,131
despite the song and dance
his mother kicked up.

687
00:55:19,500 --> 00:55:24,130
Grace ended by announcing
that the next day's topic would be:

688
00:55:24,272 --> 00:55:28,003
Our anger
and how to communicate it.

689
00:55:28,809 --> 00:55:31,937
Maybe someone would
at least tell me what the time is.

690
00:55:33,714 --> 00:55:36,877
Ask Timothy.
He always know what time it is.

691
00:55:37,084 --> 00:55:39,279
He tell by the sun.
He always do that.

692
00:55:39,854 --> 00:55:41,583
Or you can ask Wilhelm.

693
00:55:41,656 --> 00:55:44,318
He's so old, he's from
before the clock ever got here.

694
00:55:45,726 --> 00:55:50,527
Wilhelm and Timothy each made
his suggestion as to what the time was.

695
00:55:50,731 --> 00:55:53,325
And they were
astonishingly close.

696
00:55:53,968 --> 00:55:58,701
Wilhelm thought it was 8 minutes to.
Timothy thought it was 5 minutes to.

697
00:55:59,006 --> 00:56:05,002
Grace rejoiced quietly at this natural ability
they found so straightforward.

698
00:56:05,580 --> 00:56:11,519
But rapidly 2 factions emerged.
One which insisted it was 8 minutes to

699
00:56:11,586 --> 00:56:15,215
and the other would not
hear anything but 5 minutes to.

700
00:56:16,123 --> 00:56:21,060
They were thus able to draw on the
day's learning and put it to the vote.

701
00:56:22,163 --> 00:56:29,695
The result was 5 minutes to,
by a small majority. And so it was decided:

702
00:56:29,904 --> 00:56:34,466
The official time at Manderlay
was five minutes to two.

703
00:56:39,347 --> 00:56:43,283
Grace's first lesson
took place in relative good humor.

704
00:56:43,451 --> 00:56:50,516
But the second one that unfortunately proved
unavoidable was severer in character.

705
00:56:55,596 --> 00:56:56,563
Read!

706
00:56:58,466 --> 00:57:04,928
Daily ration of food
for slaves from Category 7...

707
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:11,437
Oh. Oh, no. "1... is..."

708
00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:14,204
Six ounces of solid food.

709
00:57:15,249 --> 00:57:20,288
They've always been given that.
No matter how little was in the stores.

710
00:57:20,288 --> 00:57:26,124
That's a lot less
than Category 7, for example.

711
00:57:26,260 --> 00:57:34,998
Why should a "Proudy Nigger"
have less to eat than an "Eye-Pleasin"' one?

712
00:57:37,672 --> 00:57:40,539
How can the way
your head seems to be arranged

713
00:57:40,808 --> 00:57:45,006
have anything to do with
the amount people are given to eat?

714
00:57:46,147 --> 00:57:51,983
I really don't know, either.
Not precisely. Do you, Mr Mays?

715
00:57:52,053 --> 00:57:55,682
It could be
just to punish them for their pride.

716
00:57:55,856 --> 00:57:58,950
No, I just did what it said.

717
00:57:59,593 --> 00:58:04,428
It mattered a lot to my mother
that we followed these rules.

718
00:58:04,732 --> 00:58:10,295
I know of many places where they
got quite a bit less than six ounces.

719
00:58:10,905 --> 00:58:13,237
And where
they began to eat dirt.

720
00:58:13,774 --> 00:58:17,437
It's a kind of custom coloreds have
when food's scarce 'round here.

721
00:58:18,646 --> 00:58:21,308
But it was forbidden
under Mam's Law.

722
00:58:21,382 --> 00:58:23,350
That's not
what we're discussing here.

723
00:58:23,684 --> 00:58:28,451
Don't you see what an affront it is,
to divide people up like that?

724
00:58:30,091 --> 00:58:31,649
Folks is different.

725
00:58:32,860 --> 00:58:37,160
Oxen and rabbits
don't need equal shares, neither.

726
00:58:37,798 --> 00:58:40,198
Both parties
would come down with bellyaches.

727
00:58:40,267 --> 00:58:43,862
Stop it! I'm not at all satisfied
with what I've heard here today.

728
00:58:44,739 --> 00:58:47,139
You're all speaking up
for this foolishness.

729
00:58:49,377 --> 00:58:51,311
I'm going
to have to penalize you

730
00:58:51,445 --> 00:58:54,846
because so little effort
has been made in these lessons.

731
00:59:17,772 --> 00:59:22,676
Grace thought her idea of making
the whites make up their faces

732
00:59:22,676 --> 00:59:27,170
which had seemed so just
in her flash of anger that afternoon

733
00:59:27,681 --> 00:59:31,117
was perhaps a tad too much
in the wrong direction.

734
00:59:34,422 --> 00:59:37,983
Even though as a child
Philomena would never have dreamt

735
00:59:38,058 --> 00:59:41,926
of going to the toilet
without her black nanny.

736
00:59:41,996 --> 00:59:43,793
Look at your Uncle Jim.

737
00:59:45,099 --> 00:59:48,694
He's in the bathtub,
learning how to swim.

738
00:59:58,145 --> 01:00:00,170
Can we clean our faces now?

739
01:00:02,450 --> 01:00:04,179
Yes. Yes, of course.

740
01:00:10,691 --> 01:00:12,386
Well...

741
01:00:14,495 --> 01:00:16,429
Here comes the dust.

742
01:00:18,699 --> 01:00:20,997
Then none of this
will matter anymore.

743
01:00:22,536 --> 01:00:26,768
- What do you mean?
- There's gonna be a dust storm.

744
01:00:29,376 --> 01:00:31,708
The plants
have only just begun to grow.

745
01:00:34,148 --> 01:00:35,672
It couldn't be worse.

746
01:00:38,252 --> 01:00:41,551
But Manderlay's fields have never
been harmed by a dust storm.

747
01:00:43,724 --> 01:00:45,851
'Cause the windbreak
was still in place.

748
01:00:47,828 --> 01:00:53,698
Grace was not inclined to go into the
meaning of these mysterious words.

749
01:00:53,968 --> 01:00:57,938
Soon she'd convinced herself
they had no meaning at all

750
01:00:57,938 --> 01:01:01,635
apart from spreading
disquiet and despondency.

751
01:01:03,143 --> 01:01:06,772
The next day's lesson
on unleashing one's anger

752
01:01:06,847 --> 01:01:09,839
met little understanding
from the assembly.

753
01:01:12,253 --> 01:01:15,322
It was when
they wound up voting

754
01:01:15,322 --> 01:01:20,055
and had decided
to use Wilma's potatoes for seed

755
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,323
as she was old
and didn't have to eat much

756
01:01:23,430 --> 01:01:25,796
that they heard the wind.

757
01:01:38,345 --> 01:01:42,611
The dust had come at this time for
as long as anybody could remember.

758
01:01:42,883 --> 01:01:45,909
But every year from
time immemorial

759
01:01:46,053 --> 01:01:51,058
it had spared the newly planted cotton
as the plantation had been cleverly shielded

760
01:01:51,058 --> 01:01:58,123
by a narrow band of trees known in
common parlance as "The Old Lady's Garden".

761
01:02:06,307 --> 01:02:11,142
In the midst of the almost biblical
darkness that fell on Manderlay

762
01:02:11,211 --> 01:02:16,148
Grace knew that even hand in hand
with all the races of the world

763
01:02:16,216 --> 01:02:19,447
no army of gangsters
could counter this:

764
01:02:19,620 --> 01:02:23,317
Nature's extravagant
demonstration of power.

765
01:02:24,925 --> 01:02:30,192
She could only watch as row upon row
of the seedlings she had welcomed

766
01:02:30,264 --> 01:02:33,927
disappeared
beneath the devastating dust.

767
01:02:35,402 --> 01:02:37,962
Nobody could do a thing.

768
01:02:41,775 --> 01:02:45,677
But apparently it did not mean
that no one would try

769
01:02:46,380 --> 01:02:49,281
for now Grace
discerned a rider out there.

770
01:02:49,383 --> 01:02:51,749
He was riding like crazy.

771
01:02:52,686 --> 01:02:57,783
Wherever he spotted
a pile of dust beginning to grow

772
01:02:57,858 --> 01:03:00,986
he would break it up
with his horse's hooves.

773
01:03:03,964 --> 01:03:10,665
Whether it would help at all
was hard to tell, but it was a battle

774
01:03:10,904 --> 01:03:16,206
no matter how senseless
it might be. Heroic and dangerous.

775
01:03:16,477 --> 01:03:17,967
Timothy...

776
01:03:19,346 --> 01:03:20,540
Come back!

777
01:03:21,548 --> 01:03:24,449
Come back...! Timothy!

778
01:03:24,652 --> 01:03:27,587
- Timothy!
- Timothy's gonna be all right!

779
01:03:27,655 --> 01:03:29,486
He knows these storms.

780
01:03:32,593 --> 01:03:37,394
Miss Grace, you's head over heels for him.
You's a fool, Miss Grace.

781
01:04:08,328 --> 01:04:11,092
- Where'd you find him?
- He was behind the house.

782
01:04:28,782 --> 01:04:32,650
- Is he alive?
- I do believe I know what you askin'.

783
01:04:32,786 --> 01:04:36,187
- But what does it mean, to be alive?
- It means, is he breathing?

784
01:04:36,924 --> 01:04:38,482
Forget it.

785
01:04:41,995 --> 01:04:43,428
Is he dead?

786
01:04:45,032 --> 01:04:49,264
We colored folks can be awfully
hard to kill if we want it that way.

787
01:05:22,836 --> 01:05:26,707
That very afternoon
Timothy was back on his feet

788
01:05:26,707 --> 01:05:30,575
surveying the buildings
for damage caused by the storm.

789
01:05:32,446 --> 01:05:35,540
The dust had struck
a devastating blow.

790
01:05:36,016 --> 01:05:42,683
Hardest hit were the food stores in the dilapidated
Peach House which had lost its roof.

791
01:05:43,457 --> 01:05:46,858
Almost all of their provisions
were now inedible.



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