third film // unintentional video

Jul 04, 2011 19:18

[The image starts out dim, dark greys and flickering blues, before it focuses to show Shoshanna, seated in the projection booth at the Crest Theater, watching-something-quite intently. Her NV, the gold compact she inherited from Madame Mimieux, has for one reason or another begun recording without its owner's knowledge; it's sitting on a nearby ( Read more... )

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[voice, French] mentis_reae July 5 2011, 00:33:34 UTC
[It's hard not to be moved by her clear emotion. Even as angry and frustrated and miserable as he is at the moment - even so, this rather softens his heart. So he speaks up with his child's voice, his French lightly accented but still excellent:]

Mademoiselle, I fear that your device is recording you. I suspect you would prefer that this moment be private.

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[voice, French] cinematiques July 5 2011, 00:45:10 UTC
[In due time, she notices her device lying open, and the light is flashing, indicating that she has a message. There's a delay of a good half a minute before her voice comes in:]

....Merde! I cannot remove it- [An irritated sigh.] My pardons.

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[voice, French] mentis_reae July 5 2011, 00:47:10 UTC
Please - no apology is necessary. I merely would not wish to intrude on a... [He struggles for the proper word; putting it delicately would be difficult even in one's native tongue. Finally:] Sentimental moment.

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[voice, French] cinematiques July 5 2011, 00:56:04 UTC
[Sounding embarrassed:] Bah! It was nothing...I didn't expect it, that's all.

[That's one way of putting it.]

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[voice, French] mentis_reae July 5 2011, 00:57:40 UTC
You...knew of the outcome of that conflict, did you not?

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[voice, French] cinematiques July 5 2011, 01:27:37 UTC
[There's a very pregnant pause.] I am afraid I didn't.

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[voice, French] mentis_reae July 5 2011, 01:51:21 UTC
Not until having watched this?

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cinematiques July 5 2011, 03:25:32 UTC
Correct.

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mentis_reae July 6 2011, 22:36:04 UTC
Then you are from some time ago.

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cinematiques July 7 2011, 00:17:46 UTC
Mm. Nineteen forty-three.

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mentis_reae July 7 2011, 00:30:50 UTC
Ah. That would explain it.

I take it you favored French independence.

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cinematiques July 7 2011, 01:18:44 UTC
With a certainty, yes. [Her tone turns wry.] I wouldn't exactly have been accepted by the Germans even if I had sided with them.

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mentis_reae July 7 2011, 01:19:44 UTC
You would have been counted as an undesirable, I take it?

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cinematiques July 7 2011, 01:27:56 UTC
That's one way of putting it, yes.

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