FRANCESCA
Sleep all right?
ROBERT Yes,
thanks.
FRANCESCA Good.
More coffee? (he nods, she pours) Robert,
I hope you don't mind my asking, but I feel
like I should.
ROBERT What?
FRANCESCA Well,
these... women friends of yours... all over
the world. How does it work? Do you see
some of them again? Do you forget others?
Do you write them now and then? How do you
manage it?
ROBERT I...
What do you want?
FRANCESCA Well,
I just want to know the procedure. I don't
want to upset your routine.
Do you want any jam?
ROBERT (insulted)
Routine! I don't have a routine. And if
you think that's what this is -
FRANCESCA Well,
what is this?
ROBERT (upset)
Well, why is that up to me? You're the one
who's married. You told me you have no intention
of leaving your husband.
FRANCESCA To
do what? Be with someone who needs everyone
and no one in particular? I mean,
what would be the
point? Would you pass the butter?
ROBERT I was
honest with you. I told you who I was.
FRANCESCA Yes.
Absolutely. You have this habit of not needing
and that it's hard to break. I understand.(beat)
Of course, in that case, why sleep -- you
don't need rest or for that matter eat,
you don't need food.
ROBERT
What are you doing?
FRANCESCA (sarcastic)
Gee, I don't know. I guess I'm
not cut out to be a World Citizen who
experiences everything and nothing at the
same time.
ROBERT How
do you know what I experience?
FRANCESCA (angry)
I know you! What can this possibly mean
to anyone who doesn't "need" meaning
- (mocking) "Who goes with the Mystery"
-- who pretends he isn't scared to death.
ROBERT Stop
it!
FRANCESCA You
have no idea what you've done to me, do
you? And after you leave, I'm going to have
to wonder for the rest of my life what happened
here. If anything happened at all! And I'll
have to wonder if you find yourself in some...
housewife's kitchen in Romania if you'll
sit there and tell her about your world
of good friends and secretly include me
in that group.
ROBERT What
do you want me to say?
FRANCESCA (nonchantly)
I don't want you to say anything. I don't
need you to say anything.
ROBERT STOP
IT!
FRANCESCA Fine.
More eggs or should we just fuck on the
linoleum
one last time?
ROBERT (grabs
her) I told you! I won't apologize for who
I am.
FRANCESCA No
one's asking you to!
ROBERT
I won't be made to feel like I've done something
wrong.
FRANCESCA (angry)
You won't be made to feel! Period.
You've carved out this little part for yourself
in the world where you get to be a
voyeur,
a hermit
and a lover whenever you feel like it and
the rest of us are just supposed to feel
so incredibly grateful for the brief time
you've touched our lives! Well, go to hell!
It isn't human not to feel lonely -- it
isn't human not to afraid! You're a
hypocrite
and you're a phony!
ROBERT (cries
out) I don’t want to need you!
FRANCESCA WHY?
ROBERT Because
I can’t have you!
FRANCESCA What
does that have to do with it?
FRANCESCA (cont'd)
(softly) Don't you see, I've got to know
the truth, Robert. I've got to know the
truth or I'll go crazy. Either way. Just
tell me. But I can't act like this is enough
because it has to be. I can't pretend I
don't feel what I feel because it's over
tomorrow.
ROBERT If I've
done anything to make you think that what's
happened between us is nothing new for me
-- is some routine -- then I do apologize.
FRANCESCA What
makes it different, Robert?
(Robert turns to face her. He is so hopelessly
in love he can hardly find the words. His
eyes fill up with tears.)
ROBERT
Because... if I even think about tomorrow
-- if I...(voice cracks) even think about
leaving here without you -- I'm not sure
I can... that I - (he shakes his head)
(He can't even finish. He kneels down before
her wrapping his arms around her and burying
his face into her body. Francesca starts
to cry -- out of happiness, out of pain
-- holding onto him as if for dear life.)
FRANCESCA
Oh God... what are we going to do?
Useful lanuage
items:
I'm
not cut out to be a World Citizen.
我生来就不是一个世界公民。Back
Period.
这个词的原意是标点符号中的句号,这里,Francesca
的意思是,够了,别再说了。Back