Brotherly (2008) - full transcript

[ ANSWERING MACHINE ]

Hello Gerald, this is Paul calling...

just returning your call

about the interview...

yeah I think I'm ready

to talk about it...

so I...

uhh...

I can meet you at the center

after work if that is good,

OK, thanks,

bye.

May I smoke?

[ RECORDER STARTS ]

I was 10 years old.

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again tomorrow.

My parents were alcoholics,

had been all trough my childhood,

sometimes functional...

other times...

[ Paul: CRYING ]

[ BAD DREAM ]

''You are not my son

You...

you are going straight to hell,

you are sick.''

Paul, Paul, Paulie

Paulie?

Wake up

open your eyes.

When Michael woke me up,

I was relieved,

and I just immediately

stopped crying,

because...

it was Michael.

All right take off those

wet clothes, OK?

Underwear too dummy.

Did you drink a Coke before

bed again?

It just happened.

I wet the bed...

yes,

10 years old

and I wet the bed.

Arms up.

Well...

all better?

What?

Can I just stay with you tonight?

I distinctive remember,

the anger of my father,

[ BANG ]

but the thing about

alcoholics is if...

you never know if what they

are doing or saying is authentic,

my mom said she loved me but

there was never any proof of it,

my brother...

he was real.

Mike?

Miky?

Yeah.

You awake?

Yeah.

Can I ask you something?

What is it?

You promise you never...

ever to leave me?

Shut up.

Promise?

I promise,

and go to sleep,

I have a game tomorrow.

Miky?

What is it?

[ SIGH ]

It was the first time,

that I remembered being

that close to another man,

male...

whatever,

that...

way.

Michael's arms were strong

and warm,

it was like... I began to understand

what it felt like to be safe

for the first time in my life,

it's my best memory,

and uhh...

that's...

when we started to...

mess around...

you know...

have sex.

[ Paul: CRYING ]

And this went on for two years,

till Michael went off to college,

in my head,

I thought we were married,

like mom and dad,

and that he was going take

me with him to college

to be his...

I don't know...

wife?

but that didn't happen,

well I thought...

how could you leave me

like this?

with them...

who is going take care

of me?

[ VAN DRIVES AWAY ]

[ SIGH ]

He is married now,

no we don't talk about it,

Jane doesn't even know

about it,

you are the first person I have told.

[ WALKS OFF ]

[ PLAYGROUND ]

[ Piano music: Claude Debussy -

"Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut" ]