Shadows (2020) - full transcript
[laughter]
- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- Let's take a picture.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Lip gloss!
- Better not be wearing
the same color as me.
- Yeah, last homecoming.
- Wait, what color are
you wearing?
- Black.
- Mine is blue.
- Yeah, girl!
- Did you see Ms. Tom's
mustache today? [laughs]
- How could I not?
["Star-Spangled Banner"
playing on TV distantly]
- [yelling in Spanish]
- Ya voy, Mami!
[praying in Spanish]
[anthem ends]
[door opens, closes]
- I'm home!
[sports announcer speaks
indistinctly]
Uh, why aren't you ready?
Go take a shower.
- Later, Mom.
The game just started.
- No. Right now.
And take that dirty mitt
off my coffee table.
Tell your brother
dinner's early.
- [sighs]
- First pitch in a moment.
- [quietly] Allahu Ak Bar.
Allahu Ak Bar.
[door creaks]
Allahu Ak Bar.
[Latin music playing]
- Dale Mami. Dale.
[laughs]
Oh, come here.
You have to feel the music.
And the boy.
He should always lead.
- Ma, they don't play
your music.
- Ay, Nena.
- [speaks Spanish]
- No, no, no, no, no.
I don't want
to become a grandmother.
You be careful.
[speaks Spanish]
Ah, there he goes.
The man of the house.
Come. Come.
Show your sister how you dance.
- For what?
She ain't gonna do that.
- Oh, come on, why you gotta be
so serious?
Dance with your mother.
Come on.
- Ma.
- You also could have fun.
- Not tonight, Ma.
- [huffs] So serious!
- Uh...
[both laugh]
[all speaking Spanish]
- Hey!
- No.
That's fine.
- No, no, Mami.
I already have enough makeup.
- No, Mami, it's not
just makeup.
It highlights your mouth
so the focus
stays away from here
and people pay attention
to your words.
[both speaking Spanish]
Red is power.
- Mm-hmm.
Yes, that's beautiful.
- [puckers]
- Mm-hmm.
- [puckers]
- Look at beautiful that looks.
[monitor beeping]
[car horn honks distantly]
[beeping stops]
[laughter]
- Yo, I told you he was back!
Oh, I missed you, man.
- What's up, bro?
Bring it in, come on.
- The boys are back.
- Yo, why didn't you tell us
you got out?
- Dude, what is that?
- It's a kufi.
- [laughs]
- A what?
- I'm Muslim now.
- Muslim?
- Really?
[both laugh]
- I gotta get back inside.
- Yo, come on, Benny.
Live a little.
You ain't in prison no more.
- Come on.
It's homecoming.
- Remember high school?
All of us together?
- That was years ago.
I gotta get back inside.
- What, they got you
on house arrest?
- Yeah.
[door opens]
- Mom wants to take pictures.
- [laughs] Wowie!
Look at you!
- Damn!
Miss United States!
- You look beautiful.
- Who's the lucky guy?
- She ain't got time for that.
Naya, go inside.
Go!
[dog barking distantly]
- Your sister really grew up,
man.
- So beautiful.
- [speaks Spanish]
- Here, take a picture of her,
Mami.
[chuckles]
[door shuts]
Oh, good. Come, take a picture
with your sister.
- I'm good.
- Come on, Benito.
- My name is Abdul.
- Hey.
The last I remember, you were
Benito my son.
Come take a picture
with your sister.
Thank you.
- [sighs]
- Let's act like
we're a family.
Okay, there.
- Ma, can we just take
the photo?
- All right, relax.
- Flash.
- But, Mami, not so close.
[both speak Spanish]
[upbeat hip-hop music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
- ♪ I wanna love you
when I see ya ♪
♪ Yeah, you always acting
like a diva ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Always popping on tequila ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[crowd shouting]
both: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh!
- ♪ I wanna smash you
when I see ya ♪
[indistinct shouting]
- Gracias.
- [speaks Spanish]
- Hey, you stay up
for your sister, okay?
I'll be back in the morning.
- Okay.
- You okay now, right?
[whispers] Love you.
[hip-hop music playing]
- ♪ Good life ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ I lay with you,
make myself at home ♪
♪ Make you feel
like you're in control ♪
♪ Take my time,
I'm gon' take it slow ♪
♪ Make you feel like you
I may not go ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm on it ♪
♪ Keepin' you till
the morning time ♪
♪ I make you want it ♪
- ♪ Sexy lady ♪
♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
♪ Slow baby, when you
win pon it ♪
- Uh, Josh.
- ♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
- You wanna dance?
[laughter, chatter]
- ♪ Love when you next to me ♪
♪ You're gonna be
the death of me ♪
♪ Be your destiny,
flex with me ♪
♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
I got your caught ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
me a tell you from start ♪
- ♪ Slow baby, when you wine
pon it ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
I got your caught ♪
♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
me a tell you from start ♪
♪ I'ma tell you
what I promised ♪
♪ Come with me,
I'll leave it so weak ♪
♪ Girl, you know
I'm no novice ♪
♪ Gotta get you
before you get me ♪
♪ Lay with you,
make myself at home ♪
♪ Make you feel like
you're in control ♪
[phone chimes]
- Yes, girl!
- She's gonna get some penis
tonight!
[laughter]
- ♪ Destiny, flex with me ♪
♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
I got your caught ♪
[laughter, chatter]
- You're not going to like it
the first time.
Mm.
- Uh, it's okay.
I'm good.
- You sure?
- Thanks.
- All right.
Hey, how's softball going?
- Um, it's actually
really good.
I'm the captain now.
- That's what's up.
- Of the team, yeah.
- Congrats.
[phone jingle ringing]
Your brother's just jealous
you're the one
having all the fun.
- Yeah.
[phone clatters, stops ringing]
[low, desolate music]
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
[dog barking distantly]
[phone jingle ringing]
[sighs]
both: Yo!
- What is good?
- Bro.
- Yo, yo, fuck your little,
stupid whatever is
on your ankle
and--and--
- Yo, is Naya there?
- Cocaina!
- Yo, yo, but for real,
if you don't come, I'm gonna
give your share to Naya.
- Whoa, whoa, yo, yo,
do not do that!
- Man!
- Oh, yo, where are you?
[phone disconnects]
- [scoffs]
[hip-hop music playing]
- ♪ With my thugs, gotta go,
I'm on the run ♪
♪ ♪
- [mockingly] Chipotle,
Chipotle, Chipotle.
- Yo, my man!
- [laughing] No.
- Okay, fine.
[sniffs]
♪ ♪
- What are you doing here?
- What'd you do to her?
- Nothing, man.
What the fuck do you think?
- Hm? Oh, really?
- Yeah.
- Your boys FaceTimed me.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- What did it look like?
- You had drugs.
- Oh, okay.
- You give her the drugs?
- What?
You think you're a big man now,
buddy?
- Hey, stop, stop!
- Yo, get off me!
- Relax, relax.
- Hey, hey, stop.
- Don't touch me!
Come here.
He put his hands on you?
- [quietly] No, no.
- Her?
That's gross, man.
That's like my little sister.
♪ ♪
Come on, let's get the fuck
out of here.
♪ ♪
- Naya, I, um--
Naya, you didn't pick up
the phone!
Will you slow down please?
- I'm not your little sister
anymore.
- I thought you were gonna
get hurt or were in trouble--
- Leave me alone!
I stopped needing you.
[soft piano music]
- Come on.
Take my coat.
- I don't want
your stupid coat.
- You're freezing.
- I don't care!
- Really, Nene?
It's like that?
Come on.
- [quietly] No.
- Come on--
- Don't touch me!
- I messed up.
Okay?
Dad left; I was supposed to be
the man of the house.
And I wasn't.
Mom needed me.
You needed me.
And I left you.
And I want to make this right.
♪ ♪
Come on.
Mm!
- [chuckles] So...
Five times a day?
- I try to.
- What do you pray for?
- My cellmate Rahim asked me
to pray with him.
He said we pray
for forgiveness,
for the things
we have done wrong,
and for the wrongs we feel have
been committed against us.
And I pray when our team wins.
Like you and Mami.
So when's your first game?
- Two weeks.
[laughs]
- Think you can run faster than
the original number seven?
- I mean, uh, you're looking
a little slow.
- Oh-ho-ho, really?
- [chuckles]
- Ready?
[tender ambient music]
♪ ♪
[no audible dialogue]
♪ ♪
- [laughing] You cheated!
- I cheated?
How?
- You cheated!
- You being slow, girl.
- Yeah.
[both laughing]
- Cheater!
[sirens chirp]
♪ ♪
- Don't go.
You didn't do anything wrong.
- It won't matter.
- Benny--I mean, Abdul, wait!
♪ ♪
[emotional pop music]
- ♪ When there's no one
on my shoulder ♪
♪ And the nights
are getting colder ♪
♪ And I need someone help me
get through ♪
♪ ♪
♪ There's a power
deep inside me ♪
♪ I can feel it rise up
in me ♪
♪ And I find the strength
to carry on through ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When the struggle feels
impossible ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I know anything
is possible ♪
♪ 'Cause I got confidence ♪
♪ My strength is permanent ♪
♪ 'Cause I am fearless,
fearless ♪
♪ Fearless ♪
♪ 'Cause I feel confident ♪
♪ Whoo ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ There's a power
deep inside me ♪
♪ I can feel it rise up
in me ♪
♪ And I find the strength
to carry on through ♪
♪ ♪
- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- Let's take a picture.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Lip gloss!
- Better not be wearing
the same color as me.
- Yeah, last homecoming.
- Wait, what color are
you wearing?
- Black.
- Mine is blue.
- Yeah, girl!
- Did you see Ms. Tom's
mustache today? [laughs]
- How could I not?
["Star-Spangled Banner"
playing on TV distantly]
- [yelling in Spanish]
- Ya voy, Mami!
[praying in Spanish]
[anthem ends]
[door opens, closes]
- I'm home!
[sports announcer speaks
indistinctly]
Uh, why aren't you ready?
Go take a shower.
- Later, Mom.
The game just started.
- No. Right now.
And take that dirty mitt
off my coffee table.
Tell your brother
dinner's early.
- [sighs]
- First pitch in a moment.
- [quietly] Allahu Ak Bar.
Allahu Ak Bar.
[door creaks]
Allahu Ak Bar.
[Latin music playing]
- Dale Mami. Dale.
[laughs]
Oh, come here.
You have to feel the music.
And the boy.
He should always lead.
- Ma, they don't play
your music.
- Ay, Nena.
- [speaks Spanish]
- No, no, no, no, no.
I don't want
to become a grandmother.
You be careful.
[speaks Spanish]
Ah, there he goes.
The man of the house.
Come. Come.
Show your sister how you dance.
- For what?
She ain't gonna do that.
- Oh, come on, why you gotta be
so serious?
Dance with your mother.
Come on.
- Ma.
- You also could have fun.
- Not tonight, Ma.
- [huffs] So serious!
- Uh...
[both laugh]
[all speaking Spanish]
- Hey!
- No.
That's fine.
- No, no, Mami.
I already have enough makeup.
- No, Mami, it's not
just makeup.
It highlights your mouth
so the focus
stays away from here
and people pay attention
to your words.
[both speaking Spanish]
Red is power.
- Mm-hmm.
Yes, that's beautiful.
- [puckers]
- Mm-hmm.
- [puckers]
- Look at beautiful that looks.
[monitor beeping]
[car horn honks distantly]
[beeping stops]
[laughter]
- Yo, I told you he was back!
Oh, I missed you, man.
- What's up, bro?
Bring it in, come on.
- The boys are back.
- Yo, why didn't you tell us
you got out?
- Dude, what is that?
- It's a kufi.
- [laughs]
- A what?
- I'm Muslim now.
- Muslim?
- Really?
[both laugh]
- I gotta get back inside.
- Yo, come on, Benny.
Live a little.
You ain't in prison no more.
- Come on.
It's homecoming.
- Remember high school?
All of us together?
- That was years ago.
I gotta get back inside.
- What, they got you
on house arrest?
- Yeah.
[door opens]
- Mom wants to take pictures.
- [laughs] Wowie!
Look at you!
- Damn!
Miss United States!
- You look beautiful.
- Who's the lucky guy?
- She ain't got time for that.
Naya, go inside.
Go!
[dog barking distantly]
- Your sister really grew up,
man.
- So beautiful.
- [speaks Spanish]
- Here, take a picture of her,
Mami.
[chuckles]
[door shuts]
Oh, good. Come, take a picture
with your sister.
- I'm good.
- Come on, Benito.
- My name is Abdul.
- Hey.
The last I remember, you were
Benito my son.
Come take a picture
with your sister.
Thank you.
- [sighs]
- Let's act like
we're a family.
Okay, there.
- Ma, can we just take
the photo?
- All right, relax.
- Flash.
- But, Mami, not so close.
[both speak Spanish]
[upbeat hip-hop music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
- ♪ I wanna love you
when I see ya ♪
♪ Yeah, you always acting
like a diva ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Always popping on tequila ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[crowd shouting]
both: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh!
- ♪ I wanna smash you
when I see ya ♪
[indistinct shouting]
- Gracias.
- [speaks Spanish]
- Hey, you stay up
for your sister, okay?
I'll be back in the morning.
- Okay.
- You okay now, right?
[whispers] Love you.
[hip-hop music playing]
- ♪ Good life ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ I lay with you,
make myself at home ♪
♪ Make you feel
like you're in control ♪
♪ Take my time,
I'm gon' take it slow ♪
♪ Make you feel like you
I may not go ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm on it ♪
♪ Keepin' you till
the morning time ♪
♪ I make you want it ♪
- ♪ Sexy lady ♪
♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
♪ Slow baby, when you
win pon it ♪
- Uh, Josh.
- ♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
- You wanna dance?
[laughter, chatter]
- ♪ Love when you next to me ♪
♪ You're gonna be
the death of me ♪
♪ Be your destiny,
flex with me ♪
♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
I got your caught ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
me a tell you from start ♪
- ♪ Slow baby, when you wine
pon it ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
I got your caught ♪
♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
me a tell you from start ♪
♪ I'ma tell you
what I promised ♪
♪ Come with me,
I'll leave it so weak ♪
♪ Girl, you know
I'm no novice ♪
♪ Gotta get you
before you get me ♪
♪ Lay with you,
make myself at home ♪
♪ Make you feel like
you're in control ♪
[phone chimes]
- Yes, girl!
- She's gonna get some penis
tonight!
[laughter]
- ♪ Destiny, flex with me ♪
♪ Slow baby,
when you wine pon it ♪
- ♪ Tek weh yuh heart girl,
I got your caught ♪
[laughter, chatter]
- You're not going to like it
the first time.
Mm.
- Uh, it's okay.
I'm good.
- You sure?
- Thanks.
- All right.
Hey, how's softball going?
- Um, it's actually
really good.
I'm the captain now.
- That's what's up.
- Of the team, yeah.
- Congrats.
[phone jingle ringing]
Your brother's just jealous
you're the one
having all the fun.
- Yeah.
[phone clatters, stops ringing]
[low, desolate music]
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
[dog barking distantly]
[phone jingle ringing]
[sighs]
both: Yo!
- What is good?
- Bro.
- Yo, yo, fuck your little,
stupid whatever is
on your ankle
and--and--
- Yo, is Naya there?
- Cocaina!
- Yo, yo, but for real,
if you don't come, I'm gonna
give your share to Naya.
- Whoa, whoa, yo, yo,
do not do that!
- Man!
- Oh, yo, where are you?
[phone disconnects]
- [scoffs]
[hip-hop music playing]
- ♪ With my thugs, gotta go,
I'm on the run ♪
♪ ♪
- [mockingly] Chipotle,
Chipotle, Chipotle.
- Yo, my man!
- [laughing] No.
- Okay, fine.
[sniffs]
♪ ♪
- What are you doing here?
- What'd you do to her?
- Nothing, man.
What the fuck do you think?
- Hm? Oh, really?
- Yeah.
- Your boys FaceTimed me.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- What did it look like?
- You had drugs.
- Oh, okay.
- You give her the drugs?
- What?
You think you're a big man now,
buddy?
- Hey, stop, stop!
- Yo, get off me!
- Relax, relax.
- Hey, hey, stop.
- Don't touch me!
Come here.
He put his hands on you?
- [quietly] No, no.
- Her?
That's gross, man.
That's like my little sister.
♪ ♪
Come on, let's get the fuck
out of here.
♪ ♪
- Naya, I, um--
Naya, you didn't pick up
the phone!
Will you slow down please?
- I'm not your little sister
anymore.
- I thought you were gonna
get hurt or were in trouble--
- Leave me alone!
I stopped needing you.
[soft piano music]
- Come on.
Take my coat.
- I don't want
your stupid coat.
- You're freezing.
- I don't care!
- Really, Nene?
It's like that?
Come on.
- [quietly] No.
- Come on--
- Don't touch me!
- I messed up.
Okay?
Dad left; I was supposed to be
the man of the house.
And I wasn't.
Mom needed me.
You needed me.
And I left you.
And I want to make this right.
♪ ♪
Come on.
Mm!
- [chuckles] So...
Five times a day?
- I try to.
- What do you pray for?
- My cellmate Rahim asked me
to pray with him.
He said we pray
for forgiveness,
for the things
we have done wrong,
and for the wrongs we feel have
been committed against us.
And I pray when our team wins.
Like you and Mami.
So when's your first game?
- Two weeks.
[laughs]
- Think you can run faster than
the original number seven?
- I mean, uh, you're looking
a little slow.
- Oh-ho-ho, really?
- [chuckles]
- Ready?
[tender ambient music]
♪ ♪
[no audible dialogue]
♪ ♪
- [laughing] You cheated!
- I cheated?
How?
- You cheated!
- You being slow, girl.
- Yeah.
[both laughing]
- Cheater!
[sirens chirp]
♪ ♪
- Don't go.
You didn't do anything wrong.
- It won't matter.
- Benny--I mean, Abdul, wait!
♪ ♪
[emotional pop music]
- ♪ When there's no one
on my shoulder ♪
♪ And the nights
are getting colder ♪
♪ And I need someone help me
get through ♪
♪ ♪
♪ There's a power
deep inside me ♪
♪ I can feel it rise up
in me ♪
♪ And I find the strength
to carry on through ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When the struggle feels
impossible ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I know anything
is possible ♪
♪ 'Cause I got confidence ♪
♪ My strength is permanent ♪
♪ 'Cause I am fearless,
fearless ♪
♪ Fearless ♪
♪ 'Cause I feel confident ♪
♪ Whoo ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ There's a power
deep inside me ♪
♪ I can feel it rise up
in me ♪
♪ And I find the strength
to carry on through ♪
♪ ♪