Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014) - full transcript

(crickets chirping)

- Oh, my god, no,
not the chicken.

(laughing)

You eat your dinner, young lady.

You eat your dinner.

(screaming)

She stabbed me with a chicken!

She stabbed me with a chicken!

(screaming)
(laughing)

- You eat your
dinner, sweet puff.

- [Girl] You got it
all over my dress.



- [Man] Whether
you like it or not.

It sure looked pretty real

didn't it?
- [Girl] Where'd you get

this thing?

- [Man] It's just a god damn
Thanksgiving decoration.

- [Girl] Damn it.

(man coughing)

How am I gonna get this out?

- [Voiceover] For all my
life, I missed my lover.

I wanted my lover.

I wanted to be near my lover.

(dog growling)

But the way my lover
opened and closed my legs,

the way my lover
folded and unfolded me



into my lover's breast,
my lover knows how

to love me.

(dog barking)

(gentle music)

But things kept getting
in the way of my lover

and I could not
be with my lover.

Until now.

(dog barking)

(woman humming)

- [Jeremiah] What do you do
in your free time makin'?

You're not drawing
shingles off of roofs.

- [Akin] I make beer.

- [Jeremiah] What?

You don't talk
much, do you, boy?

- Sorry, sir.

- Don't apologize.

No, no, nope, that's Sarah's
job, let her do that.

- [Voiceover] Hey, babe.

I'm just calling because um...

I had this dream.

It was our wedding day and
Daddy gave me away to you and...

When you lifted the veil...

Your face just went away.

You were just like
a black hole or

and I woke up with this
feeling in my stomach.

I just wish you would come home.

(alarm shrieking)

- [Sarah] Good morning.

- Thought you wanted
me to do that.

- No, I was up early,
you can do it tomorrow.

You have a little one?

- What?

No.

- I would have a baby right now

if Daddy would let me.

The last guy who worked
here had five kids.

Did you hear me?

- [Akin] Yep.

* He said murder,
he said every time

* He said murder, he
says at a time like this

* So murder he says

* Is that language of love

* He says barn, he says

* Take me in his arms

* Barn he says, meet no charm

* He says barn, he says

(gun fires)

(TV singer murmuring)

(gun fires)

- [Jeremiah] We're
gonna have to make

some more decisions.

(Sarah crying)

I know it's gonna
be hard to look at.

All right?

Hello, sweetie.

Come in and say good
bye to her sweetheart.

- [Sarah] Come on.

It's okay.

Yeah.

- [Jeremiah] Sweet baby, yes.

(creaking)

- [Voiceover] My lover did
not fall down from the sky

or grow up from the earth.

My lover does not have hands

like hands I've known.

My lover can touch me
everywhere at once.

(gentle music)

- [Jeremiah] How much work
you've done in your life, son.

If I can just pick the
fork up to your mouth.

- [Akin] I usually
do cellar work,

carpentry and house paint.

- I ask you to do house painting

with scraggled up
shoulders like that.

Somebody tell you
to say that, son?

- [Akin] No, sir.

- [Sarah] He used
to work in a school,

Robin told us that.

- There's just
something about the way

you carry yourself.

The way about you walk.

You just carry a lot of
tension in your shoulders.

Like you got a secret
that you don't want

anyone to know, or
maybe you're gay.

- You want some more peas?

- [Akin] No thank you.

- It's not a typical
gay walk, but...

You know there's
something gay about it

all of a sudden.

Give Sarah your
plate if you're done.

(grunting)

Sarah, we got
another sulker, huh?

Looks like we hire
one every summer.

Sulker.

- [Voiceover] My lover
did not know I was waiting

for my lover.

(gentle music)

But I held my lover like
a knife holds its bread.

I could feel through my body.

And how to become
close to my lover.

And how to become
close to my lover.

(crickets chirping)

- [Jeremiah] You know any
constellation, shoulders?

(twig snapping)

(rumbling)

- [Sarah] Are you following me?

- [Akin] No.

- [Sarah] Are you sure?

(Sarah singing)

- [Jeremiah] You okay, son?

- Yes, sir.

(cows groaning)

- You don't like
him, do you, girl?

(humming)

(radio singing in
foreign language)

(dramatic music)

(Sarah laughing)

- I wanna come home.

Hello?

Nothing's wrong.

I shouldn't have come.

I know that we need the money.

- [Voiceover] Come
home, babe, I miss her.

- [Akin] I miss her too.

(breathing heavily)

(clunking)

(uneasy music)

- Jeremiah!

Daddy!

Jeremiah!

- [Jeremiah] Yeah.

- [Sarah] Cows got out.

I can't find Flowers.

- [Jeremiah] Well saddle
up, we'll go look for her.

All right?

- [Sarah] Okay.

- [Jeremiah] Kite
where she roams.

Shoulders, come here.

Come here, I want you to
show him the property line

all right, where that
fence needs a fix.

- [Sarah] Okay.

Come on.

(gentle music)

You got a long life
ahead if you work cattle

and you don't ride horses.

- [Akin] I just don't get
along with him real well.

- [Sarah] Did one kick you?

- [Akin] Hm?

- [Sarah] Did you get
kicked when you were young?

- [Akin] Yeah, maybe.

- [Sarah] Well, did
you or didn't you?

- [Akin] No, I
didn't get kicked.

- [Sarah] Knock knock.

- [Akin] Who's there?

- [Sarah] Boo.

- [Akin] Boo who?

(Sarah laughing)

- Hi, Flowers.

Come here.

Did you go no a
little adventure?

Oh, my god.

I just saw one.

Did you ever catch frogs
when you were little, Akin?

- [Akin] No.

- [Sarah] Really?

- [Akin] I don't
like amphibians.

- Really, I love them.

Ah.

Oh!

- [Akin] I don't like
anything that slithers.

- [Sarah] I do.

It almost went in my shirt.

(laughs) That feels so funny.

Whoa.

Bad frog.

No, no.

(grunting)

(flies buzzing)

(grunting and groaning)

(cow groaning)

(cow groaning)

Come on, Flowers,
get, go, go, go, go.

(breathing heavily)

- [Jeremiah] You
like to cook, Akin?

A man should know how
to cook green beans.

- [Akin] Yeah, I
cook green beans.

I mostly just cook
simple things.

- Type of things like eggs.

A man should know
how to cook eggs.

- [Akin] I can make eggs.

- I'll bet you can.

You look to me like a man

who would send his clothes
out to the laundry.

Is that true?

- [Akin] I mean I've
never been to one.

- How do you do your wash?

- [Akin] Well we have
a washing machine.

- Who's we?

- [Akin] Me and my room mate.

- [Jeremiah] Does
room mate have a name?

- [Akin] Christopher.

- [Jeremiah] We...

We sort of have a room
mate here, don't we, Sarah?

Lives out in the barn.

It's amazing how long you
can keep somebody alive,

you just clean their wounds.

We have had issues
with buzzards.

(dog barking)

You know.

It doesn't bother me, son,
if somebody lies to me.

You got a tan line
around your finger, son.

You've been hiding
that you're married.

Hoping to get a little
action in the summer?

- No, sir.

- [Jeremiah] Yeah,
and if you are,

you're more than welcome to.

Oh, by the way, thank you
for doing that milking.

That's gonna be your
regular job now, all right?

- Yes, sir.

(footsteps tapping)

Hey.

That's my job.

- [Sarah] I know.

- [Akin] Why are
you doing my job?

- Ah, well, I like to,
you can do another job.

Hey, your wife's real pretty.

- What?

- [Sarah] You already have
a baby, you lied about that.

- [Akin] Where'd you get that?

- Door was unlocked.

That's what happens
when a door is unlocked.

- This is my personal property.

- [Sarah] Your personal what?

- Look, please, don't
go into my room again.

- [Sarah] I can't
promise that, Akin.

- [Akin] Why not?

- [Sarah] Well...

- Why not?

- [Sarah] Let's go.

Yeah.

(cow groaning)

(mysterious music)

(breathing heavily)

* You are

* The one

* My only one

* The only one

* I would go

* You are the sun

* The stars, the earth

* You make life worth

* Living for

* I've only had a single dream

* It just goes on

* It only has a single dream

* With a single for

* That you are the one

(clanking)

(Sarah laughing)

- [Sarah] No, stop, no, please.

(Jeremiah laughing)

(kettle whistling)

(Sarah humming)

- [Voiceover] That's
disgusting, you know what?

I bet that you would
like to be a beer.

(laughing)

Just a beer coming
out of a bottle,

glug, glug, glug.

He and I would both drink it,

how do you feel about that?

- [Voiceover] Well I'd be a.

I'd drink a beer.

- [Voiceover] Squeeze
some hopps out of you.

Come on, little buddy, let's go.

Come on, let's get us some beer.

- [Voiceover] I
wanna see that hop.

(group shouting at once)

- [Voiceover] Come on.

Come on, give me the break.

Oh, (smooches) to you too.

Lay it out.

- [Voiceover] We'll
milk beer out of him.

(men murmuring)

- [Voiceover] Well this
is shoulders' cave.

- [Voiceover] Oh,
look at this here.

- [Voiceover] Oh, yeah.

Oh, my god.

How many gallons
is that, shoulders?

- [Voiceover] You can
drink all that tonight.

(men murmuring)

That's so cute, it's
like a little baby.

- [Voiceover] Is that your baby?

- [Voiceover] Is it?

- [Voiceover] It's
shoulder's little baby,

oh, little baby.

(laughing)

- [Voiceover] Is this
how you sleep, shoulders?

You just curl up against
your little baby?

(laughing)

(gentle music)

- [Jeremiah] She
said no you're not.

In every human being,
there exists two wolves

and they fight and
one wolf is goodness,

gratitude, graciousness, love.

The other one is evil,
the other one is hate,

judgment, all the bad things
and they fight together

and the little boy
said which wolf wins?

- [Sarah] Akin.

- [Akin] Yeah.

- [Sarah] Why did you
start making beer?

- [Akin] What?

- Why did you start making beer?

- Oh, I think it's a
little hard to explain.

- [Sarah] I wanna hear.

- [Akin] Well...

I guess I just like the
feeling of drinking something

that I made.

- That's it, that's
a long story?

You interrupted my story
for that commercial?

- Well, I mean, with
cooking, you just still

pretty much have the same thing.

If you cook an egg, you
still just have an egg.

But with beer, you're actually
transforming something.

I mean you're taking water
and you're making alcohol

out of it.

You're changing water
and you're making poison.

- You're like a witch.

You're just like a witch,
that's what witches do.

You even have a point
on the end of your nose

and a mole right here.

Yeah, a yellow one with
10 wooly black hairs

coming out of it.

All your little
brothers are witches too

and they help you carve
out the kids' eye,

you can make like chuck cookies.

Get stuck in his mustache.

(frantic music)

(laughing)

- [Akin] This guy was
the biggest, meanest guy

on the football team.

They turn the lights
on, hundreds of rats,

just like a wall of rat eyes.

(Akin and Sarah drowned
out by frantic music)

(laughing)

Aren't I giving
enough on that side?

- So, now, are you
telling me to halt

'cause both sides are pulling.

- Oh, I see.

- Right?
- [Akin] Right.

So I'll just have to
stay close enough to,

wait, why are you turning?

- I don't know, I thought
I was going to bump

into something.

- Well, come on, you
have to trust me.

- (laughs) Okay.

- [Jeremiah] If you hadn't
insisted on keeping her alive,

we wouldn't have to sell.

- [Sarah] Why are you
doing business with them?

- [Jeremiah] 'Cause
they pay me that's why.

- [Sarah] Last time
you sold them a cow,

they shorted us money.

- [Jeremiah] That was a
mistake, they called about that.

- Was it a mistake?

People who have money
know how to make money.

Their guilding is
completely barn sour.

Yesterday they reared out
and came down with some

kid cowboy, some
trainer they have

but we weren't as third, now
they say we gotta put him down.

- [Jeremiah] Well
they probably should.

- Yeah, well I told
them I'd work with it.

Horses are gallivanting
, he was five,

you can't lock up a horse
that's been a stallion

his whole life.

- [Akin] I think he wanted
us to start dinner early.

- [Sarah] Yeah, well it's
just a little further.

Do you have too many friends?

- Yeah.

No.

- [Sarah] What's your wife like?

- She's a good mom.

I don't know, I don't
really think about it.

She's kind of like you, I guess.

- [Voiceover] Dear family,
leave us your number

and we might call you back.

- [Voiceover] Hey, guys,
sorry to bother you,

I got your home
number from Robin.

I was wondering.

I just haven't heard
from Akin in awhile,

so if you can have
him call me back

or if someone is
there, it's his wife.

Is anyone home?

- No way.

- [Akin] There you go.

- You can do that.

I thought you were lying to me.

- Then you give me 200.

(phone ringing)
- [Jeremiah] Good Lord.

- [Sarah] What are you
at, what are you at,

are you catching?

- You ready?

- [Sarah] Okay, I'm
catching, I'll catch it.

(shouting)

I can't do it.

- Send them back.

- [Sarah] One, two.

- [Jeremiah] It's for you.
- [Sarah] Three.

- [Akin] It is?

- [Jeremiah] Uh-huh.

- Hello?

- [Voiceover] Hi, honey,
how's it over there?

- [Akin] It's fine.

- [Voiceover] Jeremiah
invited us for a visit.

- [Akin] He did?

- [Voiceover] Yeah,
(mumbles) I said of course.

- Why, that's great.

- [Voiceover] So we're
gonna be out there next

Thursday, I guess.

He said he was gonna pick
us up and everything.

- Wow, babe, that's
really, that's...

Um, how's Jack doing?

- [Voiceover] He's
still tiny, babe.

But he only cries through
half of his music class today

so that's an improvement.

- Yeah, that's great.

Um...

Well I'm really looking
forward to seeing ya.

Are you gonna bring Jack?

- [Voiceover] Yeah, yeah, I am.

- So...

Who was that?

- [Akin] It was my wife.

She's gonna come visit.

(rock music)

(mysterious music)

- There, little stranger.

- [Girl] Doggies, whoa.

- It's a catch.

(cheering and clapping)

- [Girl] Last time
he couldn't find it.

(kids chattering)

- It's been all right.

It's been an all
right summer though.

- You like it here?

- That's the ball,
that's the ball.

Look that's the ball.

Who's that, who's that?

That's Mama.

(toy squeaking)

That's Mummy.

(chattering drowned
out by somber music)

He's adorable.

Hello.

I thought she was going to
be a girl from the picture.

- [Voiceover] Do you
land over here too?

(chattering)

- The whole time there's
a guy staring at me

with a beer in each
hand, so we're swaying

and I think I said to him
and this was our second date,

second date, I
think I said to him,

"Why don't you take me
out a few more times

"and bring some wine."

(laughing)

What about you guys?

- [Voiceover] Well.

- [Voiceover] Heard
this 100 times.

- I asked Richard
actually, you know,

he was playing all hard
to get on the road a lot

and I said, "Richard,
I wanna settle down,

"have a home and if
you can't do that,

"I'll ask Jeffrey."

Jeffrey was our neighbor,
and he said yes.

- I suppose that's
the way it happened.

Coercion, that's the
only thing it's good for.

- [Woman] Do you know
where Cooper went?

- So you said yes the next time?

- I did, I was drunk,
but I meant it.

It's hard not to want
a man with so much

silence in him.

Makes it easier
around the house.

(laughing)

- I haven't found
him to be so silent.

- [Wife] No.

- [Sarah] No, he talks to me.

- Does he?

- [Sarah] I guess so.

- [Jeremiah] Well, would
anybody like more pie?

- [Voiceover] Oh, no.

(group chattering at once)

- It's good.

- What did you tell them, Akin?

Did you tell them
about your family?

- [Jeremiah] Well, he
told us about his hops.

(laughing)

- [Voiceover] His god
damn hippity hops.

(laughing)

- [Jeremiah] Also told
us he didn't have a wife.

Fact, he just put his
wedding ring back on today.

- He told me about you, Drew,

he told me you were
beautiful and bewitching,

I think he said.

- That's nice, anything else?

- You have a kid.

- That's good he told you that.

- [Jeremiah] I wouldn't
judge him too hard.

Every man wants a little
action, right, Richard?

- [Richard] Yep.

- [Voiceover] Well just
stay awake long enough

for me to get you home.

- [Jeremiah] Well what this
table needs is some music.

(joyful music)

- [Drew] She's nice.

I wouldn't blame you
if you liked her.

- [Akin] I like you.

- Akin, what you got?

Got some can in a beer.

- [Akin] Mine aren't ready yet.

(laughing)

- Too hops out of a
year if I have to.

(laughing)

Come on, come on, come on.

(men talking at once)

Your wife is really
cute, shoulders.

Pretty, pretty girl.

- Akin.

- Akin.

- [Akin] Yeah, baby.

- [Drew] Akin.

- She never gets this drunk.

- [Jeremiah] No?

- She's pretty drunk
now, would you say?

- Yeah.

- So...

What kind of panties
does she got on, Akin?

Huh?

What do you wanna do to her?

What do you wanna do to
her when she's just lying

there half dead?

What do you like?

- I think she had
more than just beer.

(Drew moaning)

You okay, sweetie?

- [Jeremiah] You ever lay
out a calf, shoulders?

- [Akin] No, I haven't.

- [Jeremiah] Horses,
they easy as pie,

anybody can breed one of them,

but a cervix you could
drive a truck through you.

Just throw that semen in there

like you would in a
javelin but a cow.

A cow takes precision.

A cow take finesse.

A cow takes a very,
very precise hand

with a very, very
impious syringe.

- [Sarah] Gently down.

- So I'm wondering now.

Is shoulders a horseman...

Or is shoulders a cow man?

(crickets chirping)

- [Drew] I don't wanna go.

I wanna stay with you.

- [Jeremiah] Hey boy.

I got something
I wanna tell you.

You know I'm not Sarah's dad.

- [Akin] What?

- [Jeremiah] You listenin'?

I can smell your
vagina. (laughs)

(Drew moaning)

(uneasy music)

- Shoulders.

(murmuring)

It nobody's your mom.

- [Akin] Drew?

Drew?

Are you feeling okay?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

- [Akin] Okay.

Really?

- Yeah, Akin.

- Look at what Drew showed me.

Isn't that beautiful?

Drew told me about
your daughter.

It's a big thing to
keep on your shoulders.

- Yeah.

I guess I don't like
to talk about it.

- [Sarah] Sorry I gave you a
hard time about the horses.

- [Drew] I'm hungover already
and it's not even tomorrow.

(Akin chuckles)

- [Sarah] What is that one?

- [Drew] You have
good shoulders.

- [Sarah] You look
like a superhero.

- You look like somebody
who's about to get shot.

- [Sarah] No, keep
it on, keep it on.

- [Akin] What are
you guys doing?

- [Sarah] Can you
feel, almost touch it.

(heavy breathing)

(insects chirping)

(groaning)

(moaning)
(grunting)

(laughing)

- I see that in the movies.

- Fuck.

- Can I go next?

- Did she ask you?

- Not yet.

(shouting)

(Akin and Sarah murmuring)

- [Jeremiah] Get out
your tongue, little girl.

Come on, give it.

- [Akin] Baby, come on, get up,

let's get out of here.

(Sarah screams)

(unsettling music)

(screaming)

(screaming)

(shouting)

(growling)

(shrieking)

(sqeuaking)

- [Akin] Shh, shh.

Where's the little boy, have
you guys seen a little boy?

(squeaking)

- [Sarah] Don't go
in, don't go in.

- [Akin] Where's Drew?

- [Sarah] Shh, I don't know.

- [Akin] Where's Jack?

- [Sarah] I don't know.

(car horn honking)

- [Jeremiah] Sarah!

- Daddy?

- [Jeremiah] Stop honking
that god damn horn.

- [Sarah] I thought I heard
coyotes near the barn.

- [Jeremiah] Then
go check on it.

- But someone's gotta
stay with the kids.

- Well then I'll check
the fucking chicken.

Yeah, yeah, shoulders.

(Sarah shouting)

You god damn.

- Don't!

- Or what?

(Sarah shouts)
(gun fires)

(Jack crying)

- Dad!

(Sarah squealing)

I am so sorry.

- [Jeremiah] Listen to me.

- [Sarah] I am so sorry.

- [Jeremiah] It's okay.

It's okay,

it's okay,

it's okay.

- [Sarah] Daddy.

- [Jeremiah] It's okay.

- [Voiceover] If
you're a woman or a man

or a cow or a turtle,

if you're the sky
or you're the stars,

if you're the stairwell,
you might've seen my lover.

My lover comes and goes.

My lover is up with the
birds when they're singing.

My lover is in our
fruits before we cry.

My lover is stiller
than stillness.

When you meet my lover,
you will fall in love.

My lover is always there.

You should not be afraid.

You should not be afraid.

Every little branch on a tree

is shaking its head
at you and every star

in the sky is belling your name.

And the big ones up
top might be smiling

down on you.

Might be smiling just like a cow

on the prairie smells
on its grass every day.

This is how I got to my lover

and this is how my
lover got to me.

(Sarah crying)

(Sarah screams)

(gentle music)

* I'll not be a stranger

* When I get to that city

* I'm acquainted with folks

* Over there

* There'll be friends
there to greet me

* There will be
loved ones to meet me

* At the gates of
that city four square

* Through the years,
through the days

* They've gone one by one

* But they wait at the gate

* Until my race is run

* I'll not be a stranger

* When I get to that city

* I'm acquainted with folks

* Over there

* I'll not be a stranger

* When I get to that city

* I have a home on the streets

* Paid with gold

* I feel right at home there

* In that beautiful somewhere

* With a loved one
whose memory I own

* Through the years,
through the days

* They've gone one by one

* But they wait at the gate

* Until my race is run

* I'll not be a stranger

* When I get to that city

* I'm acquainted
with folks over there

* I'll not be a stranger

* When I get to that city

* There'll be no lonely days

* Over there

* There'll be no stormy weather

* But a great time together

* On the streets of
that city four square

* Through the years,
through the kids

* They've gone one by one

* But they wait at the gate

* Until my race is run

* I'll not be a stranger

* When I get to that city

* I'm acquainted with folks

* Over there

(country music)

* Well, well, well, well

* What kind of life
you think we'll find

* Keeping pain in our hearts

* Nothin' but
trouble in the mind

* And rumors and gossip

* Our lying lips do tell

* By saying prayers to the devil

* And the heaven
were created is hell

* Well, well, well, well

* Got caught up in a spell

* Jealousy and worry

* And darkness is where we dwell

* We can weep, we can moan

* But we've reaped
what we've sown

* And we'll cry like a baby

* As our love bids us farewell

* Well, well, well, well