No Place Like Home (2006) - full transcript
When Susan, a film producer from NYC, goes to Jamaica to shoot a shampoo commercial, she finds herself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, drifting further and further away from the world she knows and into the life of the island, a strange alternative reality that turns many of her previously held assumptions upside down.
Yeah. I'll change that for you.
In direction to the camera.
You guys wanted to come towards
the camera?
I wanted to stay where she is.
Ok. Beautiful.
Another magazine, quick.
OK. Now the filter is in there, right?
Yes. Hold on.
I just want to warn you that the
sun is getting brighter.
So we'll get a little -
But listen, you know, the thing is this
way the sun is getting brighter.
We're going to lose her because we were
shooting back light so if, you know?
You know, bear with me.
Just kind of -.
Tie up in the back.
Cameras!
Action!
That she gets - she starts moving around
it's impossible to follow her, you know, it's
like following her with
with a with a shotgun,.
What, she has to go very straight?
Well, yeah, except that
the sun is getting too
bright now.
You know, the thing is
we told her to move, to
move straight and she keeps going
all over the place and
I can't follow the 600.
OK, Don, thank you.
Yeah, but listen, we're gonna break
here. We'll, just to some hand
held shots.
Start the music.
Cut!
I'm sorry. Let's go back.
It was my fault.
It was my fault.
We have to play the music every time.
You have to play the music every time.
You have to play the music every time!
So do you like it?
Of course we like it, I wrote it.
But, you know...
It really
is important to get the move, the right
move, across the meadow with the music.
It looks much better
because if we didn't have
the music, then you'd be walking
any which way you
felt like, this way at least
you have a move. You have the right mood to
move you, ok?
Von?
Yes.
You tell me that the DJ wrote the song?
No her husband wrote the song.
You get a release for the song from your
husband?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
It was cleared.
In other words, you have
a separate release for
her as the model and from her husband?
Oh yeah. It's all been taken care of.
Okay, ready? Okay.
Paul, are you ready?
Okay. That's nice.
Expose yourself.
Okay.
And I'm gonna roll.
Roll music. Cut! Cut!
Okay. Now, come on now.
OK, standby music.
Ok. Roll
music.
Rolling.
Really great!
OK, let's wrap here.
We'll move to the falls,
we'll do lunch there.
All right. It's a wrap!
93 FM, your favorite station for
sports.
And now the commentary on the crucial day of
this test
between England and the West Indies.
He may not be as quite as quick as
Flores, but he can certainly deliver a
ball swiftly enough...
And here he is running in and out.
That short of a length.
The ball coming through
at a reasonable height.
Right above the waist. As the defense quickly
recovers.
Because like this tree is, is
that you can call pure oaks.
And
saranacs four or five years, right?
This root will grow down to form a trunk.
In
the next couple of years...
You might think it's
like four different trees.
But it's just one tree that started it.
Just from one sprout, one little root. It's
strange.
I would stand right on the root that supports
these tree.
Check this out.
It's like a real locks.
Locks, locks!
Locks that grows, you know, like hair that grows
and is matted. Hair that grows right down like
that.
You can't imagine me with locks?
Locks, standing brave.
This song called
"Dread Knotty, Dread Knotty"
This tree could freak you out!
Look at me at the camera.
OK. We need to reflector there.
Ronnie, what's happening?
Passing through, man.
What are you doing here, man?
Press focus, so you see her behind it, but it
would be sort of covering her.
So there would be the
nude look but we won't see it.
Cut!
It's not very serious, you'll be alright.
It's still a little knotty, right?
I think what really
caused this is being in the
water so long.
I'm just getting old!
PJ, here is what is going to happen.
When I say action, you
take the bottle, very naturally
you bring it towards you.
You open the cap
and pour it in your hand.
And as you're pouring it, smile.
But as natural as it's
possible.
With the label this way,
always.
Go in with your hand behind
it so that the label will be that way.
Like...
That's it.
We have to see the label, PJ.
Now,
just like that. Turn
it over that way.
OK. When you're gonna pour twist it over.
OK?
All right.
OK, let's go. Let's go.
Here we go.
Rolling.
He's all first position.
Second position.
OK. That's beautiful, great.
Hold it there.
Nice.
Really relate to the product.
The smell, you know, going through your
fingers, everything very, very, almost
erotic. You know, a big Miss America smile.
You know.
Want me to do more than I just did?
I can't look at the bottle
and, you know, love
the bottle. It's just a bottle.
I've been doing it naturally.
Love. Just let's try it.
All right.
One more. Just give, you know,
really relate to it.
All right?
You said you wanted
nautral, I don't understand
what you really want.
I don't want to look foolish!
Would you please talk to PJ and tell her to
do whatever Frank wants her to do?
Hello.
Yes.
Yes, it is.
No.
Hi. How are you?
Fine.
Yes.
My office called you? Why? Yeah.
We were out on the beach, we just got back.
Oh, no, they're changing it?
We shot the product today.
All right, Tom is going to bring it?
When is he coming?
Yeah.
Oh, well, that's not bad.
I can have someone meet him. What's
the, what's plate number?
And it gets? Yeah.
Okay, I'll have somebody meet him, yeah.
Oh, pretty good.
You know, usual.
The client - No.
No.
No, it's just the usual.
Good
Well, yeah.
Yes. Yes.
OK.
OK. Thanks a lot for calling, right?
Right. Bye.
OK. Pass to my right?
OK. All right, below me, below
me. No, your right.
Hold it. Change
magazine.
I got a call from the
office and we spoke this
morning.
Seems that the label, the real label, is
finished now.
And they're sending it down to shoot that
instead of a prototype.
Can we do that today?
It's on its way down now.
It'll be here - Tom Daley's flying it in...
By the time they get to the beach it might be
3:30. You
think you could do it today?
I don't think so. We're going to have to
reshoot.
Well, what about the...
wait wait a second. What about all the other
stuff we did yesterday at the falls?
Well, we have to redo that.
Well. The label they
gave us was a prototype so,
you know,
now, suddenly, the real one has come through
and they want us to -
Well what were we doing yesterday?! Were we,
you know, jerking off yesterday?
Well I didn't think that it was going to be
late.
Look, Frank...
Theres's no reason to run into the extra
expense of another day.
Well, there may be a
reason and we need to play
it by ear.
I mean, if we can do
it here we will do it but
if we can't...
We'll work it out.
Where's that fella Carl?
Carl. You know Tom Daley.
Tom is coming down on a plane that gets in
about 1:00 o'clock.
He's got something that we need very, very
important. Will you go and fetch
Tom and bring him back here.
I'll do that.
As quick as you can.
I'm telling you, the tourist business...
The tourist business
was good for Jamaica this
year and I was happy, I'm
particularly happy about the tourist business
being good this year because
I try my best to tell the people
all about the tourist business because the
tourist business is the
money business and the
money business is the rent
business, and you can't
make unless you've got
some money!
So go get some money and once you get some
money, you just might get some love
So you live in Montego Bay?
No, I'm not from Montego,
I'm really from Kingston,
but I go three times
a week for work.
What kind of work?
I dance.
Oh?
No, I'm only going there for an audition.
I really work with
Ivan often.
You serious?
Why? You know?
I know for Ivan for a long time,
we used to dance.
So you're a dancer?
You really know Ivan?
Look, I like you, I can't figure out where we
meet before.
Matter of time. I guess there's a time
for everything.
Not everybody understands that.
But I do.
That's why I don't mess
it myself with just any
and everybody, my dear.
You care to stop for a drink?
Thanks for the lunch.
If it wasn't for you, I would still be out
there in that hot sun, you know.
You think so?
What time do you have to get in?
Not until later this evening.
As a matter of fact, I
think I might just rest
of here.
And go back in the cool.
If you're interested...
There's a place I could take you.
Okay.
Bring two beers.
Leave a car.
I'm going to take a ride.
When asked about the recent raids in
western Jamaica, the commissioner said
they would continue
until he was satisfied that
the link between hippy tourism and the drug
trade were severed, and he
wants to send a strong message.
Hey Tom.
Hey Carl.
I just barely missed you.
I've been here now for about three hours
waiting for you.
I didn't know what to do. Got out the plane.
I didn't see you.
I took the cab, about a million cab guys.
You really got some competition here.
I mean, I never expected you guys on down
here to hustle.
Carl? What happened? What happened this
afternoon?
A problem with the car, that's all.
That's just not good enough. I mean, I've got
to have you doing what you're supposed to be
doing. I've got to have some results from you
or that's it.
I don't need you on the set anymore.
All right.
Tom, I'll see you.
What about money, Carl?
I get paid every day.
What about today?
It doesn'tmatter.
I'm sorry about what happened.
That's cool but next time just tell him how I
operate.
But you know...
It's alright. It's alright.
She's gone. She just took off.
Well, she went with this
driver that we have on
the thing and I just got a lead on him...
Huh? Taxi
driver, man did we put
on the production, hun.
I'm going now to a nightclub to find him.
See if he can help me to find her.
I've got to find her.
I've got to bring it back to New York.
We've got to have her there next week.
I don't know what kind of man he is, he's a
taxi driver, he seems...
Well, he's about six feet tall
and he's got a face...
Yes, I am.
Yes. Yes.
I'm being silly, but the point is this.
I've got to get the
girl. I've got to bring her
back to New York so I won't be back until
Monday. Would you call your office and tell
them that?
No, I don't think I am.
No, Jeff, that is not...
Well maybe it is.
Yeah. All right.
It is. I do need the time.
OK.
No, I don't need five days.
I have to be in New York on Monday.
I'll be back.
Jeff, let me have a couple of days,
if I'm not back in New York then you call the
embassy.
I'm not gonna go out
and beat the bushes. It's a
civilized country. I'll be fine.
It's hard to find a guy that
really blows your mind.
And you just dig everything he does.
Like. Like when he gives you that great big
special hug and
that heavy kiss.
Girls.
You know the kind, the kind
that's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And it really turns you on.
Then that time happens to all
of us.
We had an argument.
And like all and I mean all those
girls, I said some pretty dumb things [music
[ends]
Hello!
Can we speak for just a minute?
Yes we could.
Sit down?
Oh, thank you. Sorry.
Carl, I have a problem.
We've lost here.
Oh I don't know she's taken off.
Someone told me that
she went off with you the
other day.
She left with me and I give her a ride to the
bus terminal. She told
me that she was getting
out of here.
Well, I've got to find her.
I mean, I've got to take her back to New York
with me.
Well, we might head that way tomorrow.
So you could probably travel with me.
What time would be convenient for you?
About 9:00 in the morning, or so?
9:00, 10:00, I can pick you.
OK, great. Pick me up at the hotel.
Thank you very much.
You're leaving? No...
I don't want to interrupt your evening.
This is Virgie. You know, she's responsible
for
this show, you know.
No kidding! Beautiful.
So, you know, sit down.
We used to dance together
when he first came to north coast.
You still dance?
Not anymore, my dear.
Not with a family and three children.
You want something to drink?
Did
you just feel that you had to be running?
To
be famous? And what do you have to be to
be famous?
And
you, did you come?
So you gave up the idea of being famous.
How famous?
That's how you came to us.
I'd forgotten that Tom told us he had this
man who knew all about Jamaica.
How to put his hands on
everything immediately.
But when I saw you, boy, when I saw this old
car, I thought there is no
way that is our man.
Well, I'm afraid it ended badly
for you.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it happened.
There isn't anything left to love.
I mean, the man has become papers
and, and...
Problems.
No, you can't go away,
see, not when you work like he does.
If you go away, there's another
lawyer in another office and your client
can just go right there.
Knock on that man's door...
That man can solve his problem and
make up the paper you would make up.
He loves what he does
and he's very successful.
I mean, it only costs him...
17 hours every day.
Sunday's off most of the time.
And things that he can't
eat, you know, because
his stomach burns, this burning.
And me. I mean me too, you know.
I find you just...
Couldn't go any more. So that's all it
costs him but he's
successful and, so he loves
it.
You can't say that.
Well, you need to bring him to Jamaica, I'll
help him relax.
What would he do here?
Bring him down, man.
No. You don't know...
You don't know that problem, that pressure.
When you go inside,
you see this
coral, beautiful
polished coral.
You're sitting back in the cave.
You look outside.
You see the vines coming down.
You say to yourself "This is an impossbile
place to be, right?
How many places can exist?".
It sounds perfect.
If Adam and Eve, if you know they
were, this is where they woulda been.
Because if they weren't here then they made a
mistake.
When I was a kid, I used to watch Tarzan
swinging on the vines, you know. Like
this is almost like getting back to that
trip, back into nature.
I threw all my shoes away.
I threw all my shoes away.
That means you're not going back, right?
Well, I'll buy a pair of shoes if I go back.
They take pictures and
they show their friends.
Next thing you know, they get on a plane and
they're coming down.
Two and two is four and eight and sixteen and
thirty two.
The progression of life...
Carl, any word from PJ?
Good.
Put your arm on the sign.
Your store.
Want to make it look good.
OK. Beautiful.
Perfect.
I made this one year.
This is most effective to me.
It softens the hair and grows to hair long.
What you read is what you get.
The customers demands it, asks for it.
Well, now, why is it you advertise?
How do they know?
I don't advertise it.
Sometimes I go advertise it in the store.
But he'd advertise it himself?
When one customer
buy it they tell each other.
What we call a 'word of mouth.'
You know?
Yes, I know.
It's great. You don't need an advertising
agency.
I don't totally need it.
If you put everything
on your package, you just
tell what it does, tell how to use
it, and then try and sell it.
Hi. How are you all doing?
Good?
I'm glad I see you all now.
I'm going off to Kingston
for a little while so
I could call it a rental.
It's a bit early, but...
How you doing?
I'm alright.
Any complaints?
Everyone giving me seedy bush.
Just got to compensate for that.
Take care. - All right, bye.
It's you, it's you, it's you I'm
talkin' to!
Wanted for theft. We know who you are
and you're going to get caught.
Those who steal are a
burden to those who pay.
The penalty for stealing electric
power is prosecution, fine,
or a term in prison.
If you are stealing...
You are wanted.
...Yesterday
broke ground for a 600 room hotel.
Turning to the long term development plans,
Mr. Cableton listed the building of an air strip
and of a telephone system.
The expansion of clinical and health
facilities...
Money, money, money,
money, money.
Give me some money man.
Got to be our love on one foundation.
Got to be all love, on one foundation.
There will never be, yeah,
no love at all.
There will never be,
no love at all.
Got to put aside
Maybe segregation, yeah
Got to put aside...
Got to put aside...
There will be
no love at all
Got to build our love on one solid
foundation.
Got to build our love on one foundation.
Or there will never be a single drop of love
Got to build our love on one foundation
What does it mean when people yell like that
from the side of the road?
Really? I fix something...
So, it probably running with no problem.
Then it needed a fix.
But they can only fix it one time.
Then it broke down.
And not it's the way it is. Every
little little thing is the way it is.
Anything at once.
Right?
Right.
...Living in Kingston, it was not right for
me. Water pollution.
Sometimes your nose burn when you take
a deep breath. You just feel upset, you
know?
So I say I cannot stay in the city here.
That place is not my home.
The doctor told me that
I had prostate cancer.
So, I got to leave the town and come
to the country and do some farming.
See if I could get rid
of this terrible disease
that is messing up
my whole body.
So when I
come to country it's what I do to get rid
out of it.
So when I go back to the
doctor, the doctor asks me 'How did
I get rid of that thing?"
And I can say I eat
and feed on the vegetable
like ocra and carrot
and all those things, you know? I find myself
in the bushy part of the country hills here.
Here where these nice birds are singing...
You know, and I do a
little farming and taking a nice
breeze, the breeze is
fresh, man. You know, it
is so very nice to get
up in the morning, take
a walk...
Here in Jamaica it's no exception...
Yes, to the extra satisfaction.
I hear the wind callin' me
away...
They're not going to leave space for you,
Carl.
Can't you see that?
They'll run right over you.
You're from the Spanishtown ploice station, yes?
- Yes sir.
Can you tell us what the
situation is in Spanishtown?
Well there's...
Let's see...
Operator, can you connect me
with the Kingston airport?
I'm trying to reach the Kingston Airport.
No, no, no. I did
dial. I can't get through.
Well, uhh, Air
Jamaica.
Yes. I will hold.
Get
up in the morning slaving for bread, sir...
So that
every mouth can be fed...
Ohh, the Israelites.
Get up in the morning slaving
for bread, sir...
So that every mouth can be fed...
Ohh, the Israelites.
My wife and my kids are
packed up to leave me...
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Shirt them a tear-up, trousers are gone...
I
don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
After a storm there must be a calm...
They catch me in the
farm, you sound the alarm.
Things fall apart.
The center cannot hold.
Mere anarchy
is loose on the world.
The slacker prediction...
And the worst are full of passion
and intensity.
We need to examine the social relationships
that are giving rise to this phenomenon,
and why is it that people have lost their
confidence
in commissioners of police and others.
Because the state has failed. It cannot
guarantee to the
people order and justice.
And seems to be making no real effort.
Politics is about self-interest,
not the public interest.
It's about party.
The public interest must be subservient
to these considerations.
The cost of it, to this society, is severe.
And it is going to become even more so.
Yeah Alfred.
Yes.
Oh, I'm sorry. OK, I'm finished.
Thanks very much.
Good afternoon. Jamaica
paradise hotel. How can I help you?
I believe a Carl James works there.
Can I speak to him, please?
Mr. James is the manager of the hotel, ma'am,
and he is late for a meeting.
But if you leave your number, I'll be sure to
give him the message that you called.
Yes, stay for a minute where the
rum come from...
The rum come from, the rum come from...
Relax and have some fun.
The weather may be
cold as ice, cold as ice...
I can tell my people
that Freddy will hlep us.
Listen, in two weeks we'll
option this place.
And we build it in a few years, and we run in
to profits for the past 18 months, so...
This beach here is
worth ten fields, and the
Goldmans is aware of that.
So.
I'm chairman of this one committee
and we plan to develop the entire beach.
Essence of sunflower oil to
renew life, life is sun itself...
Perhaps the only shampoo on earth inspired by
the sun.
He was
morning and I was nighttime...
When
they woke up to find him lying beside my bed.
For I've been lonely in need of someone...
As though I done someone
wrong somewhere, but I
don't know where.
You are the sun, I am the moon, you are the
words, I am the tune...
Song he sang to me...
Words he brang to me.
You are the sun, I am the moon...
You are the words, I am the tune...
And so it was
that I came to travel, up on a road that was
found and now in another place...
You are the sun, I am the moon, you are the
words, I am the tune.
You are the sun, I am moon,
you are the words, I am the tune.
You are the sun, I am the moon,
You are the words, I am the tune...
In direction to the camera.
You guys wanted to come towards
the camera?
I wanted to stay where she is.
Ok. Beautiful.
Another magazine, quick.
OK. Now the filter is in there, right?
Yes. Hold on.
I just want to warn you that the
sun is getting brighter.
So we'll get a little -
But listen, you know, the thing is this
way the sun is getting brighter.
We're going to lose her because we were
shooting back light so if, you know?
You know, bear with me.
Just kind of -.
Tie up in the back.
Cameras!
Action!
That she gets - she starts moving around
it's impossible to follow her, you know, it's
like following her with
with a with a shotgun,.
What, she has to go very straight?
Well, yeah, except that
the sun is getting too
bright now.
You know, the thing is
we told her to move, to
move straight and she keeps going
all over the place and
I can't follow the 600.
OK, Don, thank you.
Yeah, but listen, we're gonna break
here. We'll, just to some hand
held shots.
Start the music.
Cut!
I'm sorry. Let's go back.
It was my fault.
It was my fault.
We have to play the music every time.
You have to play the music every time.
You have to play the music every time!
So do you like it?
Of course we like it, I wrote it.
But, you know...
It really
is important to get the move, the right
move, across the meadow with the music.
It looks much better
because if we didn't have
the music, then you'd be walking
any which way you
felt like, this way at least
you have a move. You have the right mood to
move you, ok?
Von?
Yes.
You tell me that the DJ wrote the song?
No her husband wrote the song.
You get a release for the song from your
husband?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
It was cleared.
In other words, you have
a separate release for
her as the model and from her husband?
Oh yeah. It's all been taken care of.
Okay, ready? Okay.
Paul, are you ready?
Okay. That's nice.
Expose yourself.
Okay.
And I'm gonna roll.
Roll music. Cut! Cut!
Okay. Now, come on now.
OK, standby music.
Ok. Roll
music.
Rolling.
Really great!
OK, let's wrap here.
We'll move to the falls,
we'll do lunch there.
All right. It's a wrap!
93 FM, your favorite station for
sports.
And now the commentary on the crucial day of
this test
between England and the West Indies.
He may not be as quite as quick as
Flores, but he can certainly deliver a
ball swiftly enough...
And here he is running in and out.
That short of a length.
The ball coming through
at a reasonable height.
Right above the waist. As the defense quickly
recovers.
Because like this tree is, is
that you can call pure oaks.
And
saranacs four or five years, right?
This root will grow down to form a trunk.
In
the next couple of years...
You might think it's
like four different trees.
But it's just one tree that started it.
Just from one sprout, one little root. It's
strange.
I would stand right on the root that supports
these tree.
Check this out.
It's like a real locks.
Locks, locks!
Locks that grows, you know, like hair that grows
and is matted. Hair that grows right down like
that.
You can't imagine me with locks?
Locks, standing brave.
This song called
"Dread Knotty, Dread Knotty"
This tree could freak you out!
Look at me at the camera.
OK. We need to reflector there.
Ronnie, what's happening?
Passing through, man.
What are you doing here, man?
Press focus, so you see her behind it, but it
would be sort of covering her.
So there would be the
nude look but we won't see it.
Cut!
It's not very serious, you'll be alright.
It's still a little knotty, right?
I think what really
caused this is being in the
water so long.
I'm just getting old!
PJ, here is what is going to happen.
When I say action, you
take the bottle, very naturally
you bring it towards you.
You open the cap
and pour it in your hand.
And as you're pouring it, smile.
But as natural as it's
possible.
With the label this way,
always.
Go in with your hand behind
it so that the label will be that way.
Like...
That's it.
We have to see the label, PJ.
Now,
just like that. Turn
it over that way.
OK. When you're gonna pour twist it over.
OK?
All right.
OK, let's go. Let's go.
Here we go.
Rolling.
He's all first position.
Second position.
OK. That's beautiful, great.
Hold it there.
Nice.
Really relate to the product.
The smell, you know, going through your
fingers, everything very, very, almost
erotic. You know, a big Miss America smile.
You know.
Want me to do more than I just did?
I can't look at the bottle
and, you know, love
the bottle. It's just a bottle.
I've been doing it naturally.
Love. Just let's try it.
All right.
One more. Just give, you know,
really relate to it.
All right?
You said you wanted
nautral, I don't understand
what you really want.
I don't want to look foolish!
Would you please talk to PJ and tell her to
do whatever Frank wants her to do?
Hello.
Yes.
Yes, it is.
No.
Hi. How are you?
Fine.
Yes.
My office called you? Why? Yeah.
We were out on the beach, we just got back.
Oh, no, they're changing it?
We shot the product today.
All right, Tom is going to bring it?
When is he coming?
Yeah.
Oh, well, that's not bad.
I can have someone meet him. What's
the, what's plate number?
And it gets? Yeah.
Okay, I'll have somebody meet him, yeah.
Oh, pretty good.
You know, usual.
The client - No.
No.
No, it's just the usual.
Good
Well, yeah.
Yes. Yes.
OK.
OK. Thanks a lot for calling, right?
Right. Bye.
OK. Pass to my right?
OK. All right, below me, below
me. No, your right.
Hold it. Change
magazine.
I got a call from the
office and we spoke this
morning.
Seems that the label, the real label, is
finished now.
And they're sending it down to shoot that
instead of a prototype.
Can we do that today?
It's on its way down now.
It'll be here - Tom Daley's flying it in...
By the time they get to the beach it might be
3:30. You
think you could do it today?
I don't think so. We're going to have to
reshoot.
Well, what about the...
wait wait a second. What about all the other
stuff we did yesterday at the falls?
Well, we have to redo that.
Well. The label they
gave us was a prototype so,
you know,
now, suddenly, the real one has come through
and they want us to -
Well what were we doing yesterday?! Were we,
you know, jerking off yesterday?
Well I didn't think that it was going to be
late.
Look, Frank...
Theres's no reason to run into the extra
expense of another day.
Well, there may be a
reason and we need to play
it by ear.
I mean, if we can do
it here we will do it but
if we can't...
We'll work it out.
Where's that fella Carl?
Carl. You know Tom Daley.
Tom is coming down on a plane that gets in
about 1:00 o'clock.
He's got something that we need very, very
important. Will you go and fetch
Tom and bring him back here.
I'll do that.
As quick as you can.
I'm telling you, the tourist business...
The tourist business
was good for Jamaica this
year and I was happy, I'm
particularly happy about the tourist business
being good this year because
I try my best to tell the people
all about the tourist business because the
tourist business is the
money business and the
money business is the rent
business, and you can't
make unless you've got
some money!
So go get some money and once you get some
money, you just might get some love
So you live in Montego Bay?
No, I'm not from Montego,
I'm really from Kingston,
but I go three times
a week for work.
What kind of work?
I dance.
Oh?
No, I'm only going there for an audition.
I really work with
Ivan often.
You serious?
Why? You know?
I know for Ivan for a long time,
we used to dance.
So you're a dancer?
You really know Ivan?
Look, I like you, I can't figure out where we
meet before.
Matter of time. I guess there's a time
for everything.
Not everybody understands that.
But I do.
That's why I don't mess
it myself with just any
and everybody, my dear.
You care to stop for a drink?
Thanks for the lunch.
If it wasn't for you, I would still be out
there in that hot sun, you know.
You think so?
What time do you have to get in?
Not until later this evening.
As a matter of fact, I
think I might just rest
of here.
And go back in the cool.
If you're interested...
There's a place I could take you.
Okay.
Bring two beers.
Leave a car.
I'm going to take a ride.
When asked about the recent raids in
western Jamaica, the commissioner said
they would continue
until he was satisfied that
the link between hippy tourism and the drug
trade were severed, and he
wants to send a strong message.
Hey Tom.
Hey Carl.
I just barely missed you.
I've been here now for about three hours
waiting for you.
I didn't know what to do. Got out the plane.
I didn't see you.
I took the cab, about a million cab guys.
You really got some competition here.
I mean, I never expected you guys on down
here to hustle.
Carl? What happened? What happened this
afternoon?
A problem with the car, that's all.
That's just not good enough. I mean, I've got
to have you doing what you're supposed to be
doing. I've got to have some results from you
or that's it.
I don't need you on the set anymore.
All right.
Tom, I'll see you.
What about money, Carl?
I get paid every day.
What about today?
It doesn'tmatter.
I'm sorry about what happened.
That's cool but next time just tell him how I
operate.
But you know...
It's alright. It's alright.
She's gone. She just took off.
Well, she went with this
driver that we have on
the thing and I just got a lead on him...
Huh? Taxi
driver, man did we put
on the production, hun.
I'm going now to a nightclub to find him.
See if he can help me to find her.
I've got to find her.
I've got to bring it back to New York.
We've got to have her there next week.
I don't know what kind of man he is, he's a
taxi driver, he seems...
Well, he's about six feet tall
and he's got a face...
Yes, I am.
Yes. Yes.
I'm being silly, but the point is this.
I've got to get the
girl. I've got to bring her
back to New York so I won't be back until
Monday. Would you call your office and tell
them that?
No, I don't think I am.
No, Jeff, that is not...
Well maybe it is.
Yeah. All right.
It is. I do need the time.
OK.
No, I don't need five days.
I have to be in New York on Monday.
I'll be back.
Jeff, let me have a couple of days,
if I'm not back in New York then you call the
embassy.
I'm not gonna go out
and beat the bushes. It's a
civilized country. I'll be fine.
It's hard to find a guy that
really blows your mind.
And you just dig everything he does.
Like. Like when he gives you that great big
special hug and
that heavy kiss.
Girls.
You know the kind, the kind
that's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And it really turns you on.
Then that time happens to all
of us.
We had an argument.
And like all and I mean all those
girls, I said some pretty dumb things [music
[ends]
Hello!
Can we speak for just a minute?
Yes we could.
Sit down?
Oh, thank you. Sorry.
Carl, I have a problem.
We've lost here.
Oh I don't know she's taken off.
Someone told me that
she went off with you the
other day.
She left with me and I give her a ride to the
bus terminal. She told
me that she was getting
out of here.
Well, I've got to find her.
I mean, I've got to take her back to New York
with me.
Well, we might head that way tomorrow.
So you could probably travel with me.
What time would be convenient for you?
About 9:00 in the morning, or so?
9:00, 10:00, I can pick you.
OK, great. Pick me up at the hotel.
Thank you very much.
You're leaving? No...
I don't want to interrupt your evening.
This is Virgie. You know, she's responsible
for
this show, you know.
No kidding! Beautiful.
So, you know, sit down.
We used to dance together
when he first came to north coast.
You still dance?
Not anymore, my dear.
Not with a family and three children.
You want something to drink?
Did
you just feel that you had to be running?
To
be famous? And what do you have to be to
be famous?
And
you, did you come?
So you gave up the idea of being famous.
How famous?
That's how you came to us.
I'd forgotten that Tom told us he had this
man who knew all about Jamaica.
How to put his hands on
everything immediately.
But when I saw you, boy, when I saw this old
car, I thought there is no
way that is our man.
Well, I'm afraid it ended badly
for you.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it happened.
There isn't anything left to love.
I mean, the man has become papers
and, and...
Problems.
No, you can't go away,
see, not when you work like he does.
If you go away, there's another
lawyer in another office and your client
can just go right there.
Knock on that man's door...
That man can solve his problem and
make up the paper you would make up.
He loves what he does
and he's very successful.
I mean, it only costs him...
17 hours every day.
Sunday's off most of the time.
And things that he can't
eat, you know, because
his stomach burns, this burning.
And me. I mean me too, you know.
I find you just...
Couldn't go any more. So that's all it
costs him but he's
successful and, so he loves
it.
You can't say that.
Well, you need to bring him to Jamaica, I'll
help him relax.
What would he do here?
Bring him down, man.
No. You don't know...
You don't know that problem, that pressure.
When you go inside,
you see this
coral, beautiful
polished coral.
You're sitting back in the cave.
You look outside.
You see the vines coming down.
You say to yourself "This is an impossbile
place to be, right?
How many places can exist?".
It sounds perfect.
If Adam and Eve, if you know they
were, this is where they woulda been.
Because if they weren't here then they made a
mistake.
When I was a kid, I used to watch Tarzan
swinging on the vines, you know. Like
this is almost like getting back to that
trip, back into nature.
I threw all my shoes away.
I threw all my shoes away.
That means you're not going back, right?
Well, I'll buy a pair of shoes if I go back.
They take pictures and
they show their friends.
Next thing you know, they get on a plane and
they're coming down.
Two and two is four and eight and sixteen and
thirty two.
The progression of life...
Carl, any word from PJ?
Good.
Put your arm on the sign.
Your store.
Want to make it look good.
OK. Beautiful.
Perfect.
I made this one year.
This is most effective to me.
It softens the hair and grows to hair long.
What you read is what you get.
The customers demands it, asks for it.
Well, now, why is it you advertise?
How do they know?
I don't advertise it.
Sometimes I go advertise it in the store.
But he'd advertise it himself?
When one customer
buy it they tell each other.
What we call a 'word of mouth.'
You know?
Yes, I know.
It's great. You don't need an advertising
agency.
I don't totally need it.
If you put everything
on your package, you just
tell what it does, tell how to use
it, and then try and sell it.
Hi. How are you all doing?
Good?
I'm glad I see you all now.
I'm going off to Kingston
for a little while so
I could call it a rental.
It's a bit early, but...
How you doing?
I'm alright.
Any complaints?
Everyone giving me seedy bush.
Just got to compensate for that.
Take care. - All right, bye.
It's you, it's you, it's you I'm
talkin' to!
Wanted for theft. We know who you are
and you're going to get caught.
Those who steal are a
burden to those who pay.
The penalty for stealing electric
power is prosecution, fine,
or a term in prison.
If you are stealing...
You are wanted.
...Yesterday
broke ground for a 600 room hotel.
Turning to the long term development plans,
Mr. Cableton listed the building of an air strip
and of a telephone system.
The expansion of clinical and health
facilities...
Money, money, money,
money, money.
Give me some money man.
Got to be our love on one foundation.
Got to be all love, on one foundation.
There will never be, yeah,
no love at all.
There will never be,
no love at all.
Got to put aside
Maybe segregation, yeah
Got to put aside...
Got to put aside...
There will be
no love at all
Got to build our love on one solid
foundation.
Got to build our love on one foundation.
Or there will never be a single drop of love
Got to build our love on one foundation
What does it mean when people yell like that
from the side of the road?
Really? I fix something...
So, it probably running with no problem.
Then it needed a fix.
But they can only fix it one time.
Then it broke down.
And not it's the way it is. Every
little little thing is the way it is.
Anything at once.
Right?
Right.
...Living in Kingston, it was not right for
me. Water pollution.
Sometimes your nose burn when you take
a deep breath. You just feel upset, you
know?
So I say I cannot stay in the city here.
That place is not my home.
The doctor told me that
I had prostate cancer.
So, I got to leave the town and come
to the country and do some farming.
See if I could get rid
of this terrible disease
that is messing up
my whole body.
So when I
come to country it's what I do to get rid
out of it.
So when I go back to the
doctor, the doctor asks me 'How did
I get rid of that thing?"
And I can say I eat
and feed on the vegetable
like ocra and carrot
and all those things, you know? I find myself
in the bushy part of the country hills here.
Here where these nice birds are singing...
You know, and I do a
little farming and taking a nice
breeze, the breeze is
fresh, man. You know, it
is so very nice to get
up in the morning, take
a walk...
Here in Jamaica it's no exception...
Yes, to the extra satisfaction.
I hear the wind callin' me
away...
They're not going to leave space for you,
Carl.
Can't you see that?
They'll run right over you.
You're from the Spanishtown ploice station, yes?
- Yes sir.
Can you tell us what the
situation is in Spanishtown?
Well there's...
Let's see...
Operator, can you connect me
with the Kingston airport?
I'm trying to reach the Kingston Airport.
No, no, no. I did
dial. I can't get through.
Well, uhh, Air
Jamaica.
Yes. I will hold.
Get
up in the morning slaving for bread, sir...
So that
every mouth can be fed...
Ohh, the Israelites.
Get up in the morning slaving
for bread, sir...
So that every mouth can be fed...
Ohh, the Israelites.
My wife and my kids are
packed up to leave me...
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Shirt them a tear-up, trousers are gone...
I
don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
After a storm there must be a calm...
They catch me in the
farm, you sound the alarm.
Things fall apart.
The center cannot hold.
Mere anarchy
is loose on the world.
The slacker prediction...
And the worst are full of passion
and intensity.
We need to examine the social relationships
that are giving rise to this phenomenon,
and why is it that people have lost their
confidence
in commissioners of police and others.
Because the state has failed. It cannot
guarantee to the
people order and justice.
And seems to be making no real effort.
Politics is about self-interest,
not the public interest.
It's about party.
The public interest must be subservient
to these considerations.
The cost of it, to this society, is severe.
And it is going to become even more so.
Yeah Alfred.
Yes.
Oh, I'm sorry. OK, I'm finished.
Thanks very much.
Good afternoon. Jamaica
paradise hotel. How can I help you?
I believe a Carl James works there.
Can I speak to him, please?
Mr. James is the manager of the hotel, ma'am,
and he is late for a meeting.
But if you leave your number, I'll be sure to
give him the message that you called.
Yes, stay for a minute where the
rum come from...
The rum come from, the rum come from...
Relax and have some fun.
The weather may be
cold as ice, cold as ice...
I can tell my people
that Freddy will hlep us.
Listen, in two weeks we'll
option this place.
And we build it in a few years, and we run in
to profits for the past 18 months, so...
This beach here is
worth ten fields, and the
Goldmans is aware of that.
So.
I'm chairman of this one committee
and we plan to develop the entire beach.
Essence of sunflower oil to
renew life, life is sun itself...
Perhaps the only shampoo on earth inspired by
the sun.
He was
morning and I was nighttime...
When
they woke up to find him lying beside my bed.
For I've been lonely in need of someone...
As though I done someone
wrong somewhere, but I
don't know where.
You are the sun, I am the moon, you are the
words, I am the tune...
Song he sang to me...
Words he brang to me.
You are the sun, I am the moon...
You are the words, I am the tune...
And so it was
that I came to travel, up on a road that was
found and now in another place...
You are the sun, I am the moon, you are the
words, I am the tune.
You are the sun, I am moon,
you are the words, I am the tune.
You are the sun, I am the moon,
You are the words, I am the tune...