One of Them! (1998) - full transcript
Two flamboyant gay teenage boys who can't wait to grow up and get out of New Zealand take a trip to Rangitoto Island and recall their friendship.
This story begins with Lemmy
ringing me up one morning
and saying, listen,
Jamie, meet me at the ferry.
I could hear something in his voice,
like he's got something
really big to tell me.
So when he says, forget
school, just meet me OK.
I do.
Lemmy.
I say to Lemmy, but Lemmy,
it's only a week to school search.
We can't afford to keep wagging and
to just hang around talking about film stars
and hairdos, stuff like that anymore.
But Lemmy doesn't listen.
He's got something big on his mind.
Rangitoto Auckland's most recent
volcano exploded only 800 years ago.
It was once a "tapu place", burial
ground for the dead in times of war.
It was a lookout.
And in the last Depression, prison
labor was used to help build the roads.
Now the entire surface of Rankitoto Island
is lava, jagged and broken up.
Basil, the black rock sourced
to very high temperatures.
So it's an inhospitable island
with little topsoil, water or shelter.
Come on.
Let him take off.
With better luck of find death
in the interior?
Don't believe leave this place Lemmy.
Talk about and civilize...
- Oh.
- There isn't even a dairy.
Really?
But at least I'm prepared.
What a tragedy.
Oh, no.
Hey, you know what, Lemmy?
Mum and dad say I shouldn't be seeing you.
Why not?
Why not?
I don't know.
You know, you're a bad influence.
So firm, so clear.
So natural.
Easy.
Now you are here with me.
Truly, this is first day of my life.
This is first day of my life.
This is how he met in violence.
Brand the mommy's boy.
Take this fat boy.
Tasty.
Everyone who never love.
Everyone who never dream.
- Worried about school cert Lemmy.
- Give me a break.
What is it then?
Don't go so fast.
What's the race, Lemmy?
The only one who ever loved Bomb.
The only one who ever dreamed.
What are you going to do
when you left school, Lemmy?
I haven't decided yet.
Why?
I'm going to leave
New Zealand as soon as I can.
I'm going to be a famous
dress designer in Paris.
I'm already doing designs after
school for my first collection.
I think the colossa just the pits.
But I really like those dresses.
The ones the title on the hips.
Sequins knitting around the bottom
like Jane Mansfield used to wear.
When she still had her head.
You could come with me to Paris, Lemmy.
Gotta be lots of fun better than here.
You know, actually Bumpshead,
he likes doing
rude things in the changing shed.
He's... repulsive.
Hey, I know what.
Why don't we go to town on Friday night?
I'm not allowed to downtown.
- Why not?
- I'm in dead Lemmy.
♪ Downtown ♪
I'm not allowed into town
on my own or Friday nights.
♪ Looking pretty oh, yeah ♪
Don't tell them.
♪ Take me downtown tell ♪
If you don't tell them
you wouldn't be lying.
♪ Take me downtown tell ♪
I'll ask.
♪ Down downtown ♪
Okay, let's go.
Scream.
Such a scream.
I don't know what I'd do without you Lemmy.
♪ We've going downtown,
dowtown ♪
♪ We've going downtown,
dowtown ♪
Okay, let's go.
Good boy. Good boy, Jamie.
Hello, bad boy.
♪ We're going downtown, downtown ♪
♪ Main street bright
lights downtown you're looking pretty ♪
♪ Hot I feel a heartbeat off the city ♪
♪ Down White line ♪
♪ You're in your
back and you're looking real fine ♪
People laugh when they say Lemmy
and me together we just don't care.
We laugh back.
Lemmy says Jamie, everything
in New Zealand is so crummy.
Once you understand it,
everything becomes a joke.
♪ There's a boy that everyone talked about ♪
♪ 2:00 in the morning we stood out ♪
♪ We're going downtown ♪
I could be run over
and killed here with Lemmy.
That would be perfect.
Don't smoke.
Would you mind?
And I will borrow a cigarette.
How is the air up there?
Why should we care?
Ey Lemmy.
It was funny when my hat blew off.
Shame.
My favorite hat.
You laughed.
What's up, Lemmy?
Why don't you talk.
What is so fucking funny miss?
Faggot.
Sick
Shit.
They let me come home for the weekend,
Lemmy.
It's my birthday.
My mom.
Ciao.
Ciao.
Lemmy.
Someone is here Mama.
Jamie from school.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Stevenson.
Beautiful.
Lemmy never talked about his mother.
She was usually away in the bin.
Instead, Lemmy's dad had a love interest.
Miss Clairroll, 32.
That's what Lemmy called her.
Unique, the way she goes. So
much trouble to diea a roots black a.
Hello boy, how are we today?
♪ My daddy's arms made for holding me
but now he wants yours ♪
♪ My daddy's lips for pay for kiss me ♪
♪ But now he wants yours ♪
Oh Mummy love to made
oh very special man.
...
You could shut up for a minute.
"Chicken key take the galloping
into contention."
"Hope along, sonny to make his run
and looking like the outset a track
followed by Hurricane Harry".
"Further back to smart Suzy".
"Mike Kiwi is not far away..."
Go hold alone.
I wonder if it'll reach the glue.
Let me on warning you, boy.
"Offshore land, lifestyle in front,
close to home and lifestyle".
"Lifestyle has saved the hall
of Challenges to win".
"High five. Blue per second..."
"Wide out. Smart Sussy..."
Lemmy's dad always had
these bright ideas for getting rich.
Like buying an old gravel pit.
Lemmy always put on a brave face.
Lemmy could put a face on anything.
This is not cannery straight.
♪ But now he wants yours ♪
♪ My daddy play to make kiss me ♪
Oh. Liz is so ok.
What about Doris?
Doris do do.
What about Norma?
Norma Normal.
Norma Normal holyoke.
She's a signpost
pointing straight to hell.
♪ He said: When you love a man,
one especial man ♪
♪ All the man you likes me ♪
♪ My daddy owns to make hold me ♪
♪ But now, he want yours ♪
♪ My daddy leaves to make. ♪
Why don't you two get out
and stretch your legs?
The top 20 started.
You can listen to that stuff anytime.
I'm not rusty. We can't.
I've been listening to you to all the way
up here and all you can go on about is
that nothing in New Zealand
is good enough for you.
Everything's a bloody joke.
Boys are in for a real
shock when you grow up.
Shock?
I mean, what exactly does
he think this place is?
I think eyebrows are so
important, don't you?
I can never understand why there doesn't
this eyebags surgically removed.
Can be done here now.
Probably doesn't even cost that much.
It is always so unreasonable.
You know he's one of them.
That's disgusting.
He must be really... sick.
♪ It's not for you ♪
♪ But if you said the word ♪
♪ You know I'll be there ♪
Lemmy, how is your mother?
Oh.
She... is OK.
She might be coming home next week.
Lemmy... about school suit.
Hey, Jamie, listen to this.
A report on real life sexual
experience compiled by by Anonymous.
There he was. Good looking man.
I was six foot three of them
giving me the glad eye.
So I dropped everything quick,
smart and fell into a changing room.
And so helped me God, I got down on my
knees and started porch swinging him.
Because demon had sex was upon me and
I just couldn't keep a control to myself.
I cried out of the Lord.
I just can't keep a control of
myself, so help me God.
Lemmy, such as scream.
I don't believe you, Lemmy Stevenson.
I just don't believe you.
What?
Bristol is not one of them.
He can't be.
Telling me. Don't forget there's only.
One boat back and we have to be on it.
We've only got about an hour.
Let's go outside and watch
the thunderbill.
As much sweating as I can stand.
I mean, I want to get it.
So much and really I don't know
what mom and dad would say.
No if I didn't get school cert.
Lemmy.
I think we've got a live one.
Well, no Friggy Friggs.
So now it's our turn to teach him.
Come on, Mummies.
Boy.
Being good isn't easy when
you're here here with me.
- It is your down.
- You gonna be dead.
What if he has died, Lemmy?
What if he has died?
I must have put the ticket somewhere.
Maybe you'll kill me.
Bring your frigging boom for free.
It doesn't cost nothing.
French fries will bum you for free.
Spend the weekend with them.
Doesn't cost nothing.
- It doesn't make you a homo.
- It does.
Stupid, of course.
Go ask your cats first.
But it doesn't prove you French.
Are you a homo, Jamie?
Me?
Mother find suicide son.
Are you a homo, Jamie?
No.
For exist waiting, Jamie.
Not in your usual place, Jamie.
Where it rains.
Is that sir?
Homo.
Insult.
Insult.
Page 25.
We have a little treat in store for us.
We shall have one of the boys who has
the nicest softest voices
in the entire school reading for us.
All right.
Speak up.
Visited...
Listen, boys to hear soft voices.
No.
Your emphasis is all wrong.
Taught.
Taught.
Repeat after me.
Taught.
I'm waiting.
Who can say this?
Anyone.
And so I lost my voice.
I swore I'd never speak again
except to Lemmy.
I got sick of growing up.
I didn't want to anymore.
Why?
Because I doesn't like him.
Why not?
Because he's not a good influence.
He's not a bad influence.
He's just not bad influence?
No chance.
Let me sugest.
A bad influence on the...
And we don't want you to see.
He's my friend of mine.
But he's my friend.
He's my special friend.
We don't jade.
We don't think he's having influence.
Die without Lemmy, mom.
Die.
I'll die.
I'll die.
A cigarette.
They can separate us.
That's what they say.
That's what they think.
It doesn't make any difference.
When I call you up I'll put in the voice.
You can do the same for me.
I won't even notice.
Really, Lemmy?
What do you think, Lemmy?
We'll both just pretend
to be someone else?
Hey, that would be difficult.
Hey.
Whatever.
Hey, Lemmy.
Hey, Jamie.
Sort of like Auckland's Eiffel Tower, Lemmy.
It doesn't look so bad from up here.
What do you reckon?
What are you thinking about, Lemmyy?
Nothing.
Nothing much.
She was playing Glenn Miller.
Glen Miller?
On the radiogram.
Oh no.
Your mother...
not Moonlight Serenade.
What was it this time?
Stuck a hidden? Heaven again.
Pills.
Poor mother.
Are you?
Lemmy.
I have to do still set.
I can't just be nothing.
I might not get to be a Paris designer.
I might get to Paris.
I don't want to end up in a factory.
Really'
I'd die, Lemmy.
And kill me.
They'd kill me.
Get lost, why don't you?
No, Lemmy. That's the wrong way.
We'll miss the boat.
We'll be back stuck all night.
Bloody bugger.
Stop that.
♪ The road I take is not for you ♪
♪ but if you said the word
you know I'd be there ♪
♪ nightfalls as I walk away ♪
♪ as you walk away ♪
Going Mummy's boy.
Hi, Mommy's Boy.
Wanna have some fun?
Of course. There's no one home.
They must be expecting us.
Lemmy.
Silly me.
So clumsy.
What the helll...
Homo... dog.
Dog...
Fucking..
Fuck!!!
Why did we do that?
What made us?
What?
I don't know, really.
Except I had to.
We both had to.
This was so terrible.
It was bad, but it was necessary.
See you.
See you.
School, eh?
At the exam?
Maybe.
Ciao.
Lemmy didn't sit school.
He just didn't turn up.
Hello?
It's Jamie here.
Hello.
Yes.
I'm trying to contact Lemmy.
That'll be difficult.
Why?
Where is he?
He's away.
Away where?
I just got to speak to him,
Mr Stevenson.
He's had an accident...
with a razor.
He's in the bin.
What have you been doing?
Not much.
You know?
I set the exam.
How did you do?
I set the exam.?
Just called me Lemmy.
I cut my wrists.
Jamie.
I'm one of them.
You're having me on.
Of course you're not.
It's impossible.
But if you are then...
I am... I am one of them.
Have you heard Resty's latest?
It's called because of you.
I'm one of them, Jamie.
Lemmy.
Like would you like to
hear a rusty song ghost?
♪ I was a lonely boy ♪
♪ on the wrong side of love ♪
♪ afraid to reach out
my love I denied ♪
♪ then I found you
you were my guy ♪
♪ from the darkness you took me
into the light ♪
♪ it's because of you
my world turned out right ♪
♪ Because of you
I know dreams come true ♪
♪ it's because of you my world turned
out right... it's because of you ♪
♪ I was a lonely boy ♪
♪ on the wrong side of love ♪
♪ afraid to reach out
my love I denied ♪
♪ then I found you
you were my guy ♪
♪ from the darkness you took me
into the light ♪
♪ it's because of you
my world turned out right ♪
♪ Because of you
I know dreams come true ♪
♪ it's because of you my world turned
out right... it's because of you ♪
ringing me up one morning
and saying, listen,
Jamie, meet me at the ferry.
I could hear something in his voice,
like he's got something
really big to tell me.
So when he says, forget
school, just meet me OK.
I do.
Lemmy.
I say to Lemmy, but Lemmy,
it's only a week to school search.
We can't afford to keep wagging and
to just hang around talking about film stars
and hairdos, stuff like that anymore.
But Lemmy doesn't listen.
He's got something big on his mind.
Rangitoto Auckland's most recent
volcano exploded only 800 years ago.
It was once a "tapu place", burial
ground for the dead in times of war.
It was a lookout.
And in the last Depression, prison
labor was used to help build the roads.
Now the entire surface of Rankitoto Island
is lava, jagged and broken up.
Basil, the black rock sourced
to very high temperatures.
So it's an inhospitable island
with little topsoil, water or shelter.
Come on.
Let him take off.
With better luck of find death
in the interior?
Don't believe leave this place Lemmy.
Talk about and civilize...
- Oh.
- There isn't even a dairy.
Really?
But at least I'm prepared.
What a tragedy.
Oh, no.
Hey, you know what, Lemmy?
Mum and dad say I shouldn't be seeing you.
Why not?
Why not?
I don't know.
You know, you're a bad influence.
So firm, so clear.
So natural.
Easy.
Now you are here with me.
Truly, this is first day of my life.
This is first day of my life.
This is how he met in violence.
Brand the mommy's boy.
Take this fat boy.
Tasty.
Everyone who never love.
Everyone who never dream.
- Worried about school cert Lemmy.
- Give me a break.
What is it then?
Don't go so fast.
What's the race, Lemmy?
The only one who ever loved Bomb.
The only one who ever dreamed.
What are you going to do
when you left school, Lemmy?
I haven't decided yet.
Why?
I'm going to leave
New Zealand as soon as I can.
I'm going to be a famous
dress designer in Paris.
I'm already doing designs after
school for my first collection.
I think the colossa just the pits.
But I really like those dresses.
The ones the title on the hips.
Sequins knitting around the bottom
like Jane Mansfield used to wear.
When she still had her head.
You could come with me to Paris, Lemmy.
Gotta be lots of fun better than here.
You know, actually Bumpshead,
he likes doing
rude things in the changing shed.
He's... repulsive.
Hey, I know what.
Why don't we go to town on Friday night?
I'm not allowed to downtown.
- Why not?
- I'm in dead Lemmy.
♪ Downtown ♪
I'm not allowed into town
on my own or Friday nights.
♪ Looking pretty oh, yeah ♪
Don't tell them.
♪ Take me downtown tell ♪
If you don't tell them
you wouldn't be lying.
♪ Take me downtown tell ♪
I'll ask.
♪ Down downtown ♪
Okay, let's go.
Scream.
Such a scream.
I don't know what I'd do without you Lemmy.
♪ We've going downtown,
dowtown ♪
♪ We've going downtown,
dowtown ♪
Okay, let's go.
Good boy. Good boy, Jamie.
Hello, bad boy.
♪ We're going downtown, downtown ♪
♪ Main street bright
lights downtown you're looking pretty ♪
♪ Hot I feel a heartbeat off the city ♪
♪ Down White line ♪
♪ You're in your
back and you're looking real fine ♪
People laugh when they say Lemmy
and me together we just don't care.
We laugh back.
Lemmy says Jamie, everything
in New Zealand is so crummy.
Once you understand it,
everything becomes a joke.
♪ There's a boy that everyone talked about ♪
♪ 2:00 in the morning we stood out ♪
♪ We're going downtown ♪
I could be run over
and killed here with Lemmy.
That would be perfect.
Don't smoke.
Would you mind?
And I will borrow a cigarette.
How is the air up there?
Why should we care?
Ey Lemmy.
It was funny when my hat blew off.
Shame.
My favorite hat.
You laughed.
What's up, Lemmy?
Why don't you talk.
What is so fucking funny miss?
Faggot.
Sick
Shit.
They let me come home for the weekend,
Lemmy.
It's my birthday.
My mom.
Ciao.
Ciao.
Lemmy.
Someone is here Mama.
Jamie from school.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Stevenson.
Beautiful.
Lemmy never talked about his mother.
She was usually away in the bin.
Instead, Lemmy's dad had a love interest.
Miss Clairroll, 32.
That's what Lemmy called her.
Unique, the way she goes. So
much trouble to diea a roots black a.
Hello boy, how are we today?
♪ My daddy's arms made for holding me
but now he wants yours ♪
♪ My daddy's lips for pay for kiss me ♪
♪ But now he wants yours ♪
Oh Mummy love to made
oh very special man.
...
You could shut up for a minute.
"Chicken key take the galloping
into contention."
"Hope along, sonny to make his run
and looking like the outset a track
followed by Hurricane Harry".
"Further back to smart Suzy".
"Mike Kiwi is not far away..."
Go hold alone.
I wonder if it'll reach the glue.
Let me on warning you, boy.
"Offshore land, lifestyle in front,
close to home and lifestyle".
"Lifestyle has saved the hall
of Challenges to win".
"High five. Blue per second..."
"Wide out. Smart Sussy..."
Lemmy's dad always had
these bright ideas for getting rich.
Like buying an old gravel pit.
Lemmy always put on a brave face.
Lemmy could put a face on anything.
This is not cannery straight.
♪ But now he wants yours ♪
♪ My daddy play to make kiss me ♪
Oh. Liz is so ok.
What about Doris?
Doris do do.
What about Norma?
Norma Normal.
Norma Normal holyoke.
She's a signpost
pointing straight to hell.
♪ He said: When you love a man,
one especial man ♪
♪ All the man you likes me ♪
♪ My daddy owns to make hold me ♪
♪ But now, he want yours ♪
♪ My daddy leaves to make. ♪
Why don't you two get out
and stretch your legs?
The top 20 started.
You can listen to that stuff anytime.
I'm not rusty. We can't.
I've been listening to you to all the way
up here and all you can go on about is
that nothing in New Zealand
is good enough for you.
Everything's a bloody joke.
Boys are in for a real
shock when you grow up.
Shock?
I mean, what exactly does
he think this place is?
I think eyebrows are so
important, don't you?
I can never understand why there doesn't
this eyebags surgically removed.
Can be done here now.
Probably doesn't even cost that much.
It is always so unreasonable.
You know he's one of them.
That's disgusting.
He must be really... sick.
♪ It's not for you ♪
♪ But if you said the word ♪
♪ You know I'll be there ♪
Lemmy, how is your mother?
Oh.
She... is OK.
She might be coming home next week.
Lemmy... about school suit.
Hey, Jamie, listen to this.
A report on real life sexual
experience compiled by by Anonymous.
There he was. Good looking man.
I was six foot three of them
giving me the glad eye.
So I dropped everything quick,
smart and fell into a changing room.
And so helped me God, I got down on my
knees and started porch swinging him.
Because demon had sex was upon me and
I just couldn't keep a control to myself.
I cried out of the Lord.
I just can't keep a control of
myself, so help me God.
Lemmy, such as scream.
I don't believe you, Lemmy Stevenson.
I just don't believe you.
What?
Bristol is not one of them.
He can't be.
Telling me. Don't forget there's only.
One boat back and we have to be on it.
We've only got about an hour.
Let's go outside and watch
the thunderbill.
As much sweating as I can stand.
I mean, I want to get it.
So much and really I don't know
what mom and dad would say.
No if I didn't get school cert.
Lemmy.
I think we've got a live one.
Well, no Friggy Friggs.
So now it's our turn to teach him.
Come on, Mummies.
Boy.
Being good isn't easy when
you're here here with me.
- It is your down.
- You gonna be dead.
What if he has died, Lemmy?
What if he has died?
I must have put the ticket somewhere.
Maybe you'll kill me.
Bring your frigging boom for free.
It doesn't cost nothing.
French fries will bum you for free.
Spend the weekend with them.
Doesn't cost nothing.
- It doesn't make you a homo.
- It does.
Stupid, of course.
Go ask your cats first.
But it doesn't prove you French.
Are you a homo, Jamie?
Me?
Mother find suicide son.
Are you a homo, Jamie?
No.
For exist waiting, Jamie.
Not in your usual place, Jamie.
Where it rains.
Is that sir?
Homo.
Insult.
Insult.
Page 25.
We have a little treat in store for us.
We shall have one of the boys who has
the nicest softest voices
in the entire school reading for us.
All right.
Speak up.
Visited...
Listen, boys to hear soft voices.
No.
Your emphasis is all wrong.
Taught.
Taught.
Repeat after me.
Taught.
I'm waiting.
Who can say this?
Anyone.
And so I lost my voice.
I swore I'd never speak again
except to Lemmy.
I got sick of growing up.
I didn't want to anymore.
Why?
Because I doesn't like him.
Why not?
Because he's not a good influence.
He's not a bad influence.
He's just not bad influence?
No chance.
Let me sugest.
A bad influence on the...
And we don't want you to see.
He's my friend of mine.
But he's my friend.
He's my special friend.
We don't jade.
We don't think he's having influence.
Die without Lemmy, mom.
Die.
I'll die.
I'll die.
A cigarette.
They can separate us.
That's what they say.
That's what they think.
It doesn't make any difference.
When I call you up I'll put in the voice.
You can do the same for me.
I won't even notice.
Really, Lemmy?
What do you think, Lemmy?
We'll both just pretend
to be someone else?
Hey, that would be difficult.
Hey.
Whatever.
Hey, Lemmy.
Hey, Jamie.
Sort of like Auckland's Eiffel Tower, Lemmy.
It doesn't look so bad from up here.
What do you reckon?
What are you thinking about, Lemmyy?
Nothing.
Nothing much.
She was playing Glenn Miller.
Glen Miller?
On the radiogram.
Oh no.
Your mother...
not Moonlight Serenade.
What was it this time?
Stuck a hidden? Heaven again.
Pills.
Poor mother.
Are you?
Lemmy.
I have to do still set.
I can't just be nothing.
I might not get to be a Paris designer.
I might get to Paris.
I don't want to end up in a factory.
Really'
I'd die, Lemmy.
And kill me.
They'd kill me.
Get lost, why don't you?
No, Lemmy. That's the wrong way.
We'll miss the boat.
We'll be back stuck all night.
Bloody bugger.
Stop that.
♪ The road I take is not for you ♪
♪ but if you said the word
you know I'd be there ♪
♪ nightfalls as I walk away ♪
♪ as you walk away ♪
Going Mummy's boy.
Hi, Mommy's Boy.
Wanna have some fun?
Of course. There's no one home.
They must be expecting us.
Lemmy.
Silly me.
So clumsy.
What the helll...
Homo... dog.
Dog...
Fucking..
Fuck!!!
Why did we do that?
What made us?
What?
I don't know, really.
Except I had to.
We both had to.
This was so terrible.
It was bad, but it was necessary.
See you.
See you.
School, eh?
At the exam?
Maybe.
Ciao.
Lemmy didn't sit school.
He just didn't turn up.
Hello?
It's Jamie here.
Hello.
Yes.
I'm trying to contact Lemmy.
That'll be difficult.
Why?
Where is he?
He's away.
Away where?
I just got to speak to him,
Mr Stevenson.
He's had an accident...
with a razor.
He's in the bin.
What have you been doing?
Not much.
You know?
I set the exam.
How did you do?
I set the exam.?
Just called me Lemmy.
I cut my wrists.
Jamie.
I'm one of them.
You're having me on.
Of course you're not.
It's impossible.
But if you are then...
I am... I am one of them.
Have you heard Resty's latest?
It's called because of you.
I'm one of them, Jamie.
Lemmy.
Like would you like to
hear a rusty song ghost?
♪ I was a lonely boy ♪
♪ on the wrong side of love ♪
♪ afraid to reach out
my love I denied ♪
♪ then I found you
you were my guy ♪
♪ from the darkness you took me
into the light ♪
♪ it's because of you
my world turned out right ♪
♪ Because of you
I know dreams come true ♪
♪ it's because of you my world turned
out right... it's because of you ♪
♪ I was a lonely boy ♪
♪ on the wrong side of love ♪
♪ afraid to reach out
my love I denied ♪
♪ then I found you
you were my guy ♪
♪ from the darkness you took me
into the light ♪
♪ it's because of you
my world turned out right ♪
♪ Because of you
I know dreams come true ♪
♪ it's because of you my world turned
out right... it's because of you ♪