WEBVTT FILE 1 00:02:06.860 --> 00:02:08.127 Father, 2 00:02:10.864 --> 00:02:12.297 where are you? 3 00:05:35.001 --> 00:05:36.335 Father, 4 00:05:37.070 --> 00:05:38.704 speak to me. 5 00:09:56.696 --> 00:09:58.096 I have water for you here, yeshua. 6 00:10:00.299 --> 00:10:02.200 That's what your mother calls you, isn't it? 7 00:10:05.671 --> 00:10:07.806 Any name that's good enough for Mary is good enough for me. 8 00:10:15.014 --> 00:10:16.715 And what does your father call you? 9 00:10:53.052 --> 00:10:53.952 Yeshua. 10 00:12:02.988 --> 00:12:04.055 Hello? 11 00:12:45.765 --> 00:12:47.232 I'm looking for water. I can work for it. 12 00:12:51.103 --> 00:12:52.937 What can you do? Whatever's needed. 13 00:12:52.939 --> 00:12:55.406 You're building up here. I know carpentry and stone. 14 00:13:05.951 --> 00:13:07.886 Where are you headed? 15 00:13:07.888 --> 00:13:09.420 Jerusalem. But I'm a little lost. 16 00:13:13.292 --> 00:13:14.225 Oh. 17 00:13:16.996 --> 00:13:17.562 Where are you coming from? 18 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:20.965 From spending time in the desert. 19 00:13:21.901 --> 00:13:23.268 Why? There's nothing here. 20 00:13:29.575 --> 00:13:30.875 What is Jerusalem like? 21 00:13:34.346 --> 00:13:35.814 Dirty and corrupt. 22 00:13:37.583 --> 00:13:39.017 But also alive. 23 00:13:39.852 --> 00:13:41.052 Very alive. 24 00:13:43.222 --> 00:13:44.956 Do you have a father? 25 00:13:44.958 --> 00:13:46.991 Yes. He's out. 26 00:13:46.993 --> 00:13:48.893 He'll ask me if i offered you food. 27 00:13:48.895 --> 00:13:50.161 That's not necessary. 28 00:13:51.397 --> 00:13:52.463 Thank you. 29 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:54.999 Stay. Please. 30 00:13:55.001 --> 00:13:56.301 Rest for a while. 31 00:14:16.922 --> 00:14:19.190 Talking to your father is like talking to a rock. 32 00:14:21.560 --> 00:14:23.862 He's so busy with his little things, 33 00:14:23.864 --> 00:14:26.431 the shape of a drop of dew, 34 00:14:26.433 --> 00:14:30.235 the sound roots make breaking their way through the ground. 35 00:14:30.237 --> 00:14:32.337 Everything matters more to him than you. 36 00:14:33.005 --> 00:14:33.938 No. 37 00:14:35.107 --> 00:14:36.541 My father loves me. 38 00:14:39.278 --> 00:14:40.645 He is amused by you. 39 00:14:42.047 --> 00:14:43.481 He loves himself only. 40 00:14:49.388 --> 00:14:50.455 Are you lost? 41 00:14:51.290 --> 00:14:52.223 No. 42 00:14:54.460 --> 00:14:57.362 Are you one of those preachers? 43 00:14:57.364 --> 00:14:59.230 Looking for something here in the desert 44 00:14:59.232 --> 00:15:01.366 that you can't find anywhere else? 45 00:15:04.904 --> 00:15:07.572 How long have you been out here, holy man? 46 00:15:09.341 --> 00:15:12.110 Since the last full moon. Maybe a little longer. 47 00:15:12.112 --> 00:15:13.645 Alone? 48 00:15:13.647 --> 00:15:16.381 No. You people are never alone. 49 00:15:18.284 --> 00:15:21.085 Some spirit or something is always with you, isn't it? 50 00:15:24.189 --> 00:15:27.125 Tell me one thing you've learned out here, 51 00:15:27.127 --> 00:15:28.426 and I'll offer you shelter for the night. 52 00:15:28.428 --> 00:15:30.361 Oh, that's not necessary. 53 00:15:30.363 --> 00:15:32.297 Please. It would give me pleasure. 54 00:15:35.467 --> 00:15:37.135 Man makes do anywhere. 55 00:15:38.470 --> 00:15:40.038 Because he is man. 56 00:15:42.108 --> 00:15:43.141 Good. 57 00:15:44.977 --> 00:15:46.277 Give me a hand with this. 58 00:15:59.191 --> 00:16:00.224 Thank you. 59 00:16:46.438 --> 00:16:48.473 There's no need to wait for her. 60 00:16:48.475 --> 00:16:50.641 I don't mean to offend, but I'm fasting. 61 00:16:57.683 --> 00:17:00.752 What is it? 62 00:17:00.754 --> 00:17:03.354 She thinks it's funny that she wants to eat but can't, 63 00:17:04.523 --> 00:17:06.391 and our guest, who can, won't. 64 00:17:49.568 --> 00:17:50.601 What are you building up there? 65 00:17:52.604 --> 00:17:54.138 A house for me to live in. 66 00:17:56.442 --> 00:17:58.543 My father wants me to stay here. 67 00:17:58.545 --> 00:18:01.212 To help him make something of this place. 68 00:18:01.214 --> 00:18:02.280 Is that what you want? 69 00:18:06.285 --> 00:18:07.752 What is it that you want? 70 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.193 I want to go to Jerusalem. 71 00:18:16.628 --> 00:18:19.197 And I want to see the sea. 72 00:18:19.199 --> 00:18:21.866 And I want to see the lighthouse at Alexandria. 73 00:18:21.868 --> 00:18:22.834 And does your father know that? 74 00:18:25.237 --> 00:18:27.271 No. 75 00:18:27.273 --> 00:18:28.706 Why don't you talk to him about it? 76 00:18:38.517 --> 00:18:41.185 I've seen Jerusalem. 77 00:18:41.187 --> 00:18:43.521 I've walked away without my father knowing and I've seen it from a Ridge. 78 00:18:45.824 --> 00:18:48.192 It shines in the sun and I want it so much, I could scream. 79 00:18:55.534 --> 00:18:57.835 I don't want to waste my time here. 80 00:18:57.837 --> 00:18:59.470 Wasting life is a sin. 81 00:19:01.607 --> 00:19:03.407 I want to leave my footprint on the world. 82 00:19:08.514 --> 00:19:09.814 Come, holy man. 83 00:19:16.588 --> 00:19:18.422 Oh, this isn't necessary. I can sleep outside. 84 00:19:18.424 --> 00:19:19.590 No. She won't bother you. 85 00:20:16.582 --> 00:20:17.648 Rabbi? 86 00:20:19.518 --> 00:20:20.718 Rabbi. 87 00:20:24.990 --> 00:20:27.491 I've committed a horrible sin. 88 00:20:29.995 --> 00:20:32.463 My son is not my husband's son. 89 00:20:34.266 --> 00:20:35.766 I don't want to die 90 00:20:37.603 --> 00:20:39.403 and leave this lie behind me. 91 00:20:44.443 --> 00:20:46.978 I don't want my son trapped here forever. 92 00:20:49.581 --> 00:20:51.249 Help me, please. 93 00:23:09.755 --> 00:23:13.424 In your holy man comings-and-goings, 94 00:23:13.426 --> 00:23:14.859 have you learned any medicine? 95 00:23:20.065 --> 00:23:21.565 Cures are the only things worth seeking. 96 00:23:22.734 --> 00:23:26.137 For pain, suffering. 97 00:23:27.573 --> 00:23:29.974 The rest is just... 98 00:23:34.112 --> 00:23:35.880 This boy is good at taking care of the sick. 99 00:23:37.749 --> 00:23:39.683 He's had practice, unfortunately. 100 00:23:41.853 --> 00:23:43.621 If he had come into this world somewhere else, 101 00:23:43.623 --> 00:23:45.022 he could have made it his life's work. 102 00:23:47.793 --> 00:23:48.926 And what did you want for yourself when you were a boy? 103 00:23:51.463 --> 00:23:54.665 I wanted to raise livestock 104 00:23:54.667 --> 00:23:56.634 and be a butcher, like my father. 105 00:23:58.537 --> 00:24:00.037 He never taught me any of it, though. 106 00:24:01.573 --> 00:24:06.710 He said it had taken him years and years 107 00:24:06.712 --> 00:24:08.579 to master the skill on his own, 108 00:24:08.581 --> 00:24:10.114 and he wasn't just going to give it away. 109 00:24:13.051 --> 00:24:15.820 "Every man must make himself." I heard that a thousand times. 110 00:24:17.022 --> 00:24:18.622 He was a selfish man. 111 00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:22.526 And he died alone. 112 00:24:25.597 --> 00:24:27.932 What does your father do? 113 00:24:27.934 --> 00:24:31.068 Ask for permission when you address a guest, boy. 114 00:24:31.070 --> 00:24:32.903 That's all right. We spoke some yesterday. 115 00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:36.674 My father's a carpenter. 116 00:24:38.076 --> 00:24:40.978 Smart man. 117 00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:43.113 A man who is good at work like that can always provide for his children. 118 00:24:48.053 --> 00:24:50.221 And did you want to be a carpenter also when you were a boy? 119 00:25:07.072 --> 00:25:11.075 Your good intentions will be wasted here. 120 00:25:11.077 --> 00:25:12.610 They don't need us to ruin their lives. 121 00:25:12.612 --> 00:25:13.911 They'll do that all by themselves. 122 00:25:15.981 --> 00:25:18.782 Do you know what I do when they're finally mine? 123 00:25:18.784 --> 00:25:21.585 I have them watch the life they've lived over and over again. Forever. 124 00:25:24.055 --> 00:25:25.623 Oh, what anger. 125 00:25:26.725 --> 00:25:28.158 You are your father's son. 126 00:25:31.029 --> 00:25:32.930 Very well. I'll stay out of it. Surprise me. 127 00:25:33.798 --> 00:25:35.232 And if I do? 128 00:25:35.234 --> 00:25:36.834 A wager? 129 00:25:40.205 --> 00:25:43.707 If you can solve this entanglement, this knot, 130 00:25:43.709 --> 00:25:47.978 to the satisfaction of the mother, the father and the child, 131 00:25:47.980 --> 00:25:50.581 I'll stay out of your way for the rest of your journey home. 132 00:25:55.620 --> 00:25:58.088 And if I fail? 133 00:25:58.090 --> 00:25:59.823 Failure is its own punishment. 134 00:26:01.827 --> 00:26:03.027 That's daddy talk. 135 00:26:03.995 --> 00:26:05.129 Enough for the day. 136 00:26:12.070 --> 00:26:15.739 This is all just an excuse to delay your departure, isn't it? 137 00:26:15.741 --> 00:26:17.341 Because you're scared to go on. Scared out of your head. 138 00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:20.811 You're not ready and you know it. 139 00:27:51.169 --> 00:27:52.269 Here. 140 00:28:50.495 --> 00:28:52.062 What part of a bird doesn't fly? 141 00:28:54.265 --> 00:28:56.200 It's a riddle. What part of a bird doesn't fly? 142 00:28:59.971 --> 00:29:01.071 I don't know. 143 00:29:01.806 --> 00:29:03.006 Its shadow. 144 00:29:05.410 --> 00:29:06.376 Did you make that up? 145 00:29:06.378 --> 00:29:07.845 Yes. 146 00:29:07.847 --> 00:29:08.946 It's good. 147 00:29:14.085 --> 00:29:15.352 Yes. 148 00:29:28.066 --> 00:29:29.767 I want the boy to learn a trade. 149 00:29:33.171 --> 00:29:34.538 There's plenty for him to learn right here. 150 00:29:38.109 --> 00:29:40.110 Any trade that he wants. 151 00:29:41.379 --> 00:29:42.980 Or that you want for him. 152 00:29:44.816 --> 00:29:46.850 In Jerusalem, perhaps. 153 00:29:54.025 --> 00:29:56.293 I want this very much. 154 00:29:56.295 --> 00:29:59.096 I would need money for that. 155 00:29:59.098 --> 00:30:01.098 Just to get him set up and started. 156 00:30:01.100 --> 00:30:03.567 No one will take him as an apprentice without payment. 157 00:30:04.402 --> 00:30:06.503 For food, at least. 158 00:30:08.439 --> 00:30:09.873 Impossible. 159 00:30:11.242 --> 00:30:13.343 You are 160 00:30:14.445 --> 00:30:15.846 a powerful, 161 00:30:17.182 --> 00:30:18.415 resourceful, 162 00:30:19.250 --> 00:30:22.085 beautiful man, 163 00:30:22.087 --> 00:30:23.987 and you will find a way. 164 00:30:25.590 --> 00:30:27.124 I know it. 165 00:30:37.435 --> 00:30:39.336 I cannot do my dying while he's here. 166 00:30:50.582 --> 00:30:52.482 My father was 47 when he had me. 167 00:30:52.484 --> 00:30:53.584 My mother was 20. 168 00:30:56.020 --> 00:31:00.123 He had another wife before her, but she died. 169 00:31:00.125 --> 00:31:01.525 And now my mother will die too. 170 00:31:04.128 --> 00:31:06.063 And my father says a man makes his own luck. 171 00:31:07.065 --> 00:31:08.198 No. 172 00:31:10.501 --> 00:31:12.269 What did he do to make two wives die? 173 00:31:13.571 --> 00:31:15.005 Nothing. 174 00:31:16.074 --> 00:31:17.574 I agree with you. 175 00:31:26.217 --> 00:31:27.651 Do you have a wife or children? 176 00:31:31.890 --> 00:31:33.090 Do you plan to? 177 00:31:37.028 --> 00:31:38.128 Well, you never know, right? 178 00:31:48.907 --> 00:31:50.274 Have you ever sailed on a boat? 179 00:31:50.276 --> 00:31:51.675 Yes, I have. 180 00:31:51.677 --> 00:31:53.210 Is it scary? 181 00:31:53.212 --> 00:31:54.177 It can be terrifying. 182 00:31:55.546 --> 00:31:56.914 But mostly it's thrilling. 183 00:32:07.191 --> 00:32:08.392 My father sailed on a boat once. 184 00:32:12.597 --> 00:32:14.131 He said he got caught in a storm at sea. 185 00:32:15.934 --> 00:32:17.067 He said it was a nightmare. 186 00:32:20.705 --> 00:32:23.340 Everything outside of our world is scary to him. 187 00:35:40.638 --> 00:35:42.172 My father says once my mother is buried here that we cannot leave. 188 00:35:46.911 --> 00:35:48.678 He says a grave ties a man to the land forever. 189 00:35:54.285 --> 00:35:56.153 Do you think I'm selfish because I don't want to live here? 190 00:35:56.787 --> 00:35:59.456 No. 191 00:35:59.458 --> 00:36:00.690 My father has lived here his whole life, 192 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:03.927 and he's lived it the way he wanted to. 193 00:36:06.531 --> 00:36:07.931 But now it's my turn. Men take turns. 194 00:36:13.671 --> 00:36:15.205 I am not a bad son. 195 00:36:16.374 --> 00:36:17.474 I'm not. 196 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:30.420 I am not a bad son! 197 00:36:33.724 --> 00:36:35.959 I am not a bad son! 198 00:36:38.629 --> 00:36:39.796 I'm not a bad son! 199 00:36:49.407 --> 00:36:51.808 I am not a bad son! 200 00:39:02.006 --> 00:39:02.806 Rabbi? 201 00:39:04.909 --> 00:39:05.875 Rabbi! 202 00:39:08.479 --> 00:39:09.546 It hurts. 203 00:39:12.683 --> 00:39:14.551 I want it to be over. 204 00:39:15.886 --> 00:39:17.087 I'm not afraid of death. 205 00:39:19.357 --> 00:39:22.392 I'm only scared of being alone when I get there. 206 00:39:24.862 --> 00:39:26.463 You will not be alone. 207 00:39:28.999 --> 00:39:30.567 None of us is alone. 208 00:39:40.010 --> 00:39:42.645 Find better words, yeshua. You must work at that. 209 00:39:44.014 --> 00:39:45.482 Intention is good, 210 00:39:46.784 --> 00:39:48.518 but often the words are hollow and useless. 211 00:39:50.121 --> 00:39:51.654 Or better still, 212 00:39:52.690 --> 00:39:53.957 find an action. 213 00:39:54.825 --> 00:39:55.759 Yes. 214 00:39:57.561 --> 00:39:58.828 Action over words. Always. 215 00:40:01.732 --> 00:40:02.799 Otherwise, silence. 216 00:41:57.181 --> 00:41:58.748 You think you are his only child? 217 00:42:02.152 --> 00:42:03.653 There are others. 218 00:42:06.724 --> 00:42:07.690 No. 219 00:42:09.627 --> 00:42:10.894 There is only me. 220 00:42:14.098 --> 00:42:15.565 There is only me. 221 00:42:36.620 --> 00:42:38.021 Look in on your mother. 222 00:42:54.605 --> 00:42:56.673 Did the boy speak with you when you went to the water? 223 00:42:57.875 --> 00:42:58.908 A little. 224 00:43:05.082 --> 00:43:07.650 I don't know how to talk to him. 225 00:43:07.652 --> 00:43:09.786 The words get caught in my throat. 226 00:43:09.788 --> 00:43:12.755 I fight to push them through and they come out harsh. 227 00:43:14.158 --> 00:43:16.326 I suppose he thinks I'm angry at him. 228 00:43:18.862 --> 00:43:20.196 He doesn't know me, 229 00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:23.800 and I don't know him. 230 00:43:32.209 --> 00:43:34.077 Any words of advice, holy man? 231 00:43:37.681 --> 00:43:40.049 Talk to him about something that he's interested in. 232 00:43:41.819 --> 00:43:43.152 What is he interested in? 233 00:43:46.890 --> 00:43:49.092 Riddles. 234 00:43:49.094 --> 00:43:50.727 He makes up a very good riddle. 235 00:43:54.765 --> 00:43:55.999 I don't like riddles. 236 00:44:13.817 --> 00:44:14.951 That shooting star last night. 237 00:44:15.853 --> 00:44:17.186 You enjoyed that. 238 00:44:17.188 --> 00:44:18.655 It was a bore. 239 00:44:18.657 --> 00:44:20.089 Liar. 240 00:44:20.091 --> 00:44:21.290 I am a liar. That is the truth. 241 00:44:27.164 --> 00:44:29.098 I've seen every shooting star since the first one. 242 00:44:30.267 --> 00:44:31.868 Every flash of lightning. 243 00:44:33.370 --> 00:44:35.838 I've heard the last gasp of each thing that ever lived. 244 00:44:37.074 --> 00:44:39.375 Nothing's interesting anymore. 245 00:44:39.377 --> 00:44:41.711 Nothing surprises you? Not a thing? 246 00:44:48.018 --> 00:44:49.385 The repetitiveness. 247 00:44:50.754 --> 00:44:52.388 The obstinate, dull repetitiveness 248 00:44:52.390 --> 00:44:56.426 of your father's plan is bewildering to me. 249 00:44:56.428 --> 00:44:59.929 The same lives lived over and over and over and over again. 250 00:45:00.764 --> 00:45:03.299 Is there a plan? 251 00:45:03.301 --> 00:45:04.934 It all has to turn into something, it has to 252 00:45:04.936 --> 00:45:06.302 pour out into something, but into what? 253 00:45:08.105 --> 00:45:09.772 And that's my weakness, 254 00:45:11.375 --> 00:45:12.709 curiosity. 255 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.481 But I'll stay as long as it takes, forever, 256 00:45:19.349 --> 00:45:20.450 to witness the end. 257 00:45:21.785 --> 00:45:23.052 The final sunset. If there is one. 258 00:45:26.156 --> 00:45:30.093 Maybe on that day, late in the afternoon, seconds away, 259 00:45:30.095 --> 00:45:31.461 he'll want to start it all over again, 260 00:45:32.796 --> 00:45:33.496 from the beginning. 261 00:45:34.965 --> 00:45:36.966 He's done it before. 262 00:45:36.968 --> 00:45:40.937 Recreated the whole thing, retold the whole thing. On a whim. 263 00:45:40.939 --> 00:45:43.172 With little differences that must mean the world to him, 264 00:45:43.174 --> 00:45:45.208 a branch that crooks in a different direction, 265 00:45:45.210 --> 00:45:47.477 one egg more or less in the nest of a flea. 266 00:45:49.780 --> 00:45:54.917 What a self-centered, self-indulgent creature he is. Isn't he? 267 00:45:54.919 --> 00:45:57.420 Deaf-mute. Insatiable. 268 00:45:59.490 --> 00:46:01.090 These things he expects of you. 269 00:46:02.493 --> 00:46:03.826 Do you think anyone will care? 270 00:46:05.062 --> 00:46:06.829 Men of 1,000 years from now? 271 00:46:17.941 --> 00:46:19.375 What's it like to be in his presence? 272 00:46:25.783 --> 00:46:26.816 Is there a face? 273 00:46:28.418 --> 00:46:29.519 No. 274 00:46:32.356 --> 00:46:33.856 There is no face. 275 00:46:36.326 --> 00:46:37.860 There is no face. 276 00:46:40.998 --> 00:46:42.465 There's a thing that swallows you. 277 00:46:45.869 --> 00:46:48.538 It holds you together while it's tearing you apart and it's terrifying. 278 00:46:50.407 --> 00:46:52.208 It makes you feel worthless, 279 00:46:53.477 --> 00:46:55.144 and it makes you want to be worthless. 280 00:46:59.149 --> 00:47:00.383 And all the while, it makes you believe 281 00:47:00.385 --> 00:47:02.385 that you and he are one and the same... 282 00:47:05.989 --> 00:47:07.190 And that is... 283 00:47:12.563 --> 00:47:14.530 Well, that can be quite confusing. 284 00:47:22.874 --> 00:47:25.508 That's how i remember it, anyway. 285 00:47:25.510 --> 00:47:28.411 It's been a million years since he so much as looked in my direction. 286 00:47:28.413 --> 00:47:30.313 Your pride made him angry. 287 00:47:30.315 --> 00:47:32.248 I'm not proud. I am not proud. 288 00:47:34.017 --> 00:47:35.218 He's the proud one. 289 00:47:40.624 --> 00:47:41.457 How's our little wager going? 290 00:47:42.392 --> 00:47:43.893 I do not wager. 291 00:47:43.895 --> 00:47:45.394 Oh, dear me, course not. 292 00:47:54.438 --> 00:47:56.005 What? 293 00:47:56.007 --> 00:47:57.273 You already know the outcome, don't you? 294 00:47:58.175 --> 00:47:59.909 No. Not at all. 295 00:47:59.911 --> 00:48:02.378 Yes. Yes, you do. 296 00:48:02.380 --> 00:48:05.114 I am able to do that generally, yes. 297 00:48:05.116 --> 00:48:08.050 But when it comes to you and your little things, not always. 298 00:48:14.191 --> 00:48:15.625 I could tell you what would've happened 299 00:48:15.627 --> 00:48:17.093 if you'd passed by this place a moment earlier. 300 00:48:20.130 --> 00:48:21.163 Would you like to know? 301 00:48:27.437 --> 00:48:28.905 The boy would not have met you. 302 00:48:31.475 --> 00:48:35.344 After the mother's death, his relationship with the father deteriorates. 303 00:48:36.580 --> 00:48:38.314 He puts up with it for several years, 304 00:48:38.316 --> 00:48:40.049 expecting that the father will not live long. 305 00:48:42.552 --> 00:48:46.522 Eventually, he poisons the father and is hanged for it. 306 00:48:48.325 --> 00:48:52.428 Along the way, the boy has a son who remains here. 307 00:48:52.430 --> 00:48:53.930 Like the grandfather, he loves the desert. 308 00:48:57.467 --> 00:49:00.937 That's how it would have been this time. 309 00:49:00.939 --> 00:49:03.673 In previous tellings of the world, it was all a little different. 310 00:49:03.675 --> 00:49:05.207 Sometimes it was nothing but love 311 00:49:05.209 --> 00:49:07.276 between the father and the son. 312 00:49:09.680 --> 00:49:11.681 That's how your father amuses himself. 313 00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:18.154 Now it's your turn to take a hand. 314 00:49:19.623 --> 00:49:21.290 Can you do any better? 315 00:49:36.006 --> 00:49:37.273 Why do you live here? 316 00:49:38.241 --> 00:49:40.176 Because the desert is ruthless. 317 00:49:42.179 --> 00:49:46.115 It strips you of your vanities, your illusions 318 00:49:46.117 --> 00:49:49.051 and gives you the opportunity to see yourself for who you are. 319 00:49:50.087 --> 00:49:52.722 Isn't that why you're here? 320 00:49:52.724 --> 00:49:56.459 Because your god speaks louder here? 321 00:49:59.029 --> 00:50:00.596 God speaks wherever a man wants to listen. 322 00:50:08.572 --> 00:50:10.673 What I said to you about my son... 323 00:50:10.675 --> 00:50:13.542 It doesn't matter that we don't talk. 324 00:50:13.544 --> 00:50:15.778 We're not women. 325 00:50:15.780 --> 00:50:17.613 A father talks through example. 326 00:50:23.020 --> 00:50:24.587 He's the best boy in the world. 327 00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.426 Too good, perhaps. 328 00:50:38.301 --> 00:50:42.438 Do you see that? The smooth rock jutting out. 329 00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:44.440 Just below the crack there. The reddish rock? 330 00:50:44.442 --> 00:50:47.476 Yes. That's Jasper stone. I'm sure of it. 331 00:50:47.478 --> 00:50:50.246 I need a sample to take to market. 332 00:50:50.248 --> 00:50:52.181 I would share any profits with you. 333 00:50:52.183 --> 00:50:54.316 No, that wouldn't be necessary. 334 00:50:54.318 --> 00:50:57.420 I can't in good conscience allow you to do more work for nothing. 335 00:50:59.256 --> 00:51:01.157 If you don't want the money, you give it to the poor. 336 00:51:03.060 --> 00:51:04.126 How would you go about it? 337 00:51:12.636 --> 00:51:13.602 It would take three people. 338 00:51:14.771 --> 00:51:16.439 Two to lower the third. 339 00:51:17.174 --> 00:51:19.542 Yes, that's right. 340 00:51:19.544 --> 00:51:22.078 You and I would lower the boy. Just to pick at the rock. 341 00:51:23.380 --> 00:51:24.780 And if it's all that I think it is, 342 00:51:24.782 --> 00:51:26.549 I will return with laborers and dig deep. 343 00:51:30.220 --> 00:51:31.487 It could change the course of our lives. 344 00:51:35.258 --> 00:51:36.826 The boy's life, anyway. 345 00:52:04.454 --> 00:52:06.555 I feel better. 346 00:52:06.557 --> 00:52:09.325 You do? Good. That's good. 347 00:52:20.604 --> 00:52:22.204 My mother had this when she was my age. 348 00:52:23.673 --> 00:52:25.474 And then she was fine. 349 00:52:44.494 --> 00:52:46.362 My father, my sisters and I 350 00:52:47.864 --> 00:52:49.765 once spent a night in Jaffa. 351 00:52:51.369 --> 00:52:52.535 Did I tell you this already? 352 00:52:53.570 --> 00:52:54.803 Tell me again. 353 00:52:57.440 --> 00:52:59.642 My father's cousin put us up by the port. 354 00:53:01.478 --> 00:53:02.912 I could barely sleep 355 00:53:03.914 --> 00:53:05.714 with the sounds of the city, 356 00:53:07.217 --> 00:53:08.551 dogs barking, 357 00:53:10.487 --> 00:53:12.254 music from a wedding, 358 00:53:13.657 --> 00:53:15.391 men quarreling, 359 00:53:17.827 --> 00:53:18.894 a pig brought to slaughter, 360 00:53:21.565 --> 00:53:23.365 a drunk woman laughing. 361 00:53:25.435 --> 00:53:26.635 And the smells... 362 00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:33.509 Pepper, cedar wood, 363 00:53:35.579 --> 00:53:36.612 garum. 364 00:53:53.830 --> 00:53:55.497 If you're ever there, 365 00:53:57.801 --> 00:53:59.268 you think of me. 366 00:54:01.238 --> 00:54:02.438 Yes. I will. 367 00:54:21.758 --> 00:54:23.859 I took her to doctors, 368 00:54:23.861 --> 00:54:26.996 brought doctors to her. 369 00:54:26.998 --> 00:54:30.366 Magicians, quacks. I tried them all. 370 00:54:34.537 --> 00:54:35.971 She's going to die, holy man. 371 00:54:37.474 --> 00:54:39.575 There is nothing to be done about her. 372 00:54:42.946 --> 00:54:45.381 When her eyes close for the last time, 373 00:54:47.651 --> 00:54:50.019 our whole world will come to an end forever. 374 00:54:52.889 --> 00:54:55.457 It's stunning, isn't it? 375 00:54:57.661 --> 00:54:59.428 That life ends. 376 00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:04.633 You will meet again. 377 00:55:13.076 --> 00:55:15.678 We will have been here together. 378 00:55:15.680 --> 00:55:17.346 And we leave the boy behind. 379 00:55:19.616 --> 00:55:20.949 That'll have to do. 380 00:56:41.030 --> 00:56:42.531 How far can a man walk into the desert? 381 00:56:44.934 --> 00:56:47.136 Only halfway. 382 00:56:47.138 --> 00:56:48.103 After that, he's walking out. 383 00:56:51.975 --> 00:56:53.075 Mmm. 384 00:56:59.482 --> 00:57:01.950 When you leave, you could take me with you. 385 00:57:01.952 --> 00:57:04.186 I could pass for your son. 386 00:57:04.188 --> 00:57:06.922 That would be believable, wouldn't it? 387 00:57:06.924 --> 00:57:08.557 Believable, yes, but nevertheless a lie. 388 00:57:10.126 --> 00:57:11.727 But a lie that wouldn't hurt anyone. 389 00:57:11.729 --> 00:57:12.895 My mother and father wouldn't be there to hear it. 390 00:57:14.431 --> 00:57:15.664 A lie hurts the person who tells it. 391 00:57:23.139 --> 00:57:25.140 You could adopt me. 392 00:57:25.142 --> 00:57:27.876 That way it wouldn't be a lie. 393 00:57:27.878 --> 00:57:29.478 The romans do it all the time, adopt each other. 394 00:57:40.690 --> 00:57:41.590 Have you found what you were looking for out here? 395 00:57:46.129 --> 00:57:47.763 Yes. Yes, I have. 396 00:57:50.600 --> 00:57:51.667 What were you looking for? 397 00:57:56.706 --> 00:57:58.240 I was looking for a place to reflect and to pray in peace. 398 00:58:01.611 --> 00:58:03.545 A place to look inward and to find myself. 399 00:58:08.051 --> 00:58:09.485 I walk out there, too. 400 00:58:13.189 --> 00:58:15.691 Sometimes when I'm out there, 401 00:58:15.693 --> 00:58:16.959 I feel this thing rising inside of me, 402 00:58:19.529 --> 00:58:21.697 that I am everything and that everything is me. 403 00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:24.967 That I will always be alive. Forever. 404 00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:32.875 And it's very conceited, I know, to feel that way. 405 00:58:33.943 --> 00:58:35.210 I'm ashamed of that feeling. 406 00:59:13.216 --> 00:59:16.151 Some wine, holy man? 407 00:59:16.153 --> 00:59:17.786 No. Thank you. 408 00:59:26.062 --> 00:59:26.895 Boy. 409 00:59:27.864 --> 00:59:28.697 Boy. 410 01:00:40.103 --> 01:00:41.370 You are an easy target. 411 01:00:43.006 --> 01:00:44.706 Because you're weak. 412 01:01:04.661 --> 01:01:06.862 How's your mother doing? 413 01:01:06.864 --> 01:01:08.897 She's feeling better. She thinks it's passing. 414 01:01:18.307 --> 01:01:19.074 Take your knife, boy. 415 01:01:28.151 --> 01:01:29.885 Just in case. 416 01:02:39.222 --> 01:02:42.157 If I had fallen behind like that, 417 01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:44.192 my father would have caned me on the soles of my feet. 418 01:03:03.312 --> 01:03:04.212 Come. 419 01:03:23.032 --> 01:03:27.836 I am stronger than 10 men 420 01:03:27.838 --> 01:03:30.405 and I am taller than 10 men, but a boy can carry me. 421 01:03:31.974 --> 01:03:33.041 What am I? 422 01:03:36.813 --> 01:03:38.046 It's a riddle. 423 01:03:41.551 --> 01:03:44.219 I am stronger than 10 men, 424 01:03:44.221 --> 01:03:46.154 I'm longer than 10 men, and a boy can carry me. 425 01:03:47.256 --> 01:03:48.290 What am I? 426 01:03:56.099 --> 01:03:57.299 A rope. 427 01:04:00.102 --> 01:04:01.236 It's a rope. 428 01:04:42.912 --> 01:04:43.879 Come. 429 01:04:45.548 --> 01:04:46.514 Come. 430 01:04:50.219 --> 01:04:51.119 Do you see that piece of rock? 431 01:04:52.889 --> 01:04:55.891 The holy man and i will lower you with rope. 432 01:04:55.893 --> 01:04:58.393 All you have to do is chisel out a piece and we'll pull you back up. 433 01:05:00.396 --> 01:05:01.263 No. 434 01:05:05.201 --> 01:05:06.968 No. I'm not going down there. 435 01:05:07.503 --> 01:05:08.603 You will. 436 01:05:11.407 --> 01:05:14.142 No. You know I'm afraid of falling from high places. 437 01:05:14.144 --> 01:05:15.443 That is precisely why you will do it. 438 01:05:17.546 --> 01:05:20.982 I will not do it! I'm not going down there! 439 01:05:20.984 --> 01:05:23.385 You will not disobey me. You will regret it. 440 01:05:23.387 --> 01:05:24.953 He knows I'm scared to death of heights. 441 01:05:24.955 --> 01:05:25.987 What kind of father asks me to do this? 442 01:05:29.593 --> 01:05:31.226 Please. Please, let him go. Let him go. 443 01:05:31.228 --> 01:05:34.362 I can go down. I'll do it. I'll do it. 444 01:06:17.673 --> 01:06:19.074 I will go down myself. 445 01:06:20.977 --> 01:06:23.211 Do you think it can be done? 446 01:06:23.213 --> 01:06:24.312 Just you and the boy to hold the ropes? 447 01:06:30.152 --> 01:06:31.119 Yes. 448 01:09:23.592 --> 01:09:23.591 Boy! 449 01:09:26.228 --> 01:09:27.395 Cut yourself from the rope. 450 01:09:27.897 --> 01:09:30.565 You too, holy man. 451 01:09:30.567 --> 01:09:31.933 I'll only drag you over if I slip again. 452 01:10:48.344 --> 01:10:49.611 No! 453 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:13.328 What is it? 454 01:12:16.765 --> 01:12:17.865 What is it? What is it? 455 01:14:37.973 --> 01:14:39.006 I don't want my mother to see him like this. 456 01:16:12.034 --> 01:16:13.267 He looks so much smaller now, doesn't he? 457 01:16:51.740 --> 01:16:52.707 You are a good son. 458 01:18:36.044 --> 01:18:36.844 Your son loves you. 459 01:18:38.447 --> 01:18:41.182 Your son loves you. 460 01:18:41.184 --> 01:18:43.084 Your son loves you. He is your son and he loves you. 461 01:19:16.318 --> 01:19:17.918 Am I expected to just walk away now? 462 01:19:21.089 --> 01:19:22.089 As if I'd never met these people? 463 01:19:24.392 --> 01:19:25.760 As if they mean nothing to me? 464 01:20:37.833 --> 01:20:38.866 Mother! 465 01:20:42.003 --> 01:20:42.937 Mother! 466 01:24:15.583 --> 01:24:16.450 Go. 467 01:24:18.453 --> 01:24:19.620 Please, go. 468 01:24:34.436 --> 01:24:36.703 If I leave here without a blessing, 469 01:24:36.705 --> 01:24:39.306 I won't make it one night out there. 470 01:24:39.308 --> 01:24:41.208 A boy needs his father's permission to become a man. 471 01:24:42.710 --> 01:24:44.144 It's perverse, isn't it? 472 01:24:54.422 --> 01:24:55.556 Love god above all things. 473 01:25:00.195 --> 01:25:01.195 Love life. 474 01:25:41.169 --> 01:25:42.536 Show me his destiny. 475 01:25:42.538 --> 01:25:43.871 Yeshua... Show me now! 476 01:26:16.938 --> 01:26:18.338 You could have pulled the father up 477 01:26:18.340 --> 01:26:20.340 and seven heavier men if you'd wanted to. 478 01:26:20.342 --> 01:26:21.441 That's nonsense. 479 01:26:29.651 --> 01:26:31.251 No. She's mine! 480 01:27:26.407 --> 01:27:27.474 No. 481 01:27:52.433 --> 01:27:53.333 Who the hell do you think you are? 482 01:28:45.653 --> 01:28:46.920 This is it for me. 483 01:28:50.625 --> 01:28:51.525 You didn't think i was going to walk you all the way, did you? 484 01:28:53.528 --> 01:28:54.561 Why here? 485 01:28:55.930 --> 01:28:56.797 My feet hurt. 486 01:29:17.452 --> 01:29:19.953 I'll come to you in the end. 487 01:29:19.955 --> 01:29:22.823 And if you give me a sign I'll help you down and you can stay. 488 01:29:37.038 --> 01:29:38.138 Give my regards to the old man.