Psycho Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1960
- 109 min
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SAM:
And I'm a working man! We're a regular
working-class tragedy!
(he laughs)
MARY:
It is tragic! Or it will be... if we
go on meeting in shabby hotels
whenever you can find a tax-deductible
excuse for flying down deductible
here...
SAM:
(interrupting,
seriously)
You can't laugh at it, huh?
MARY:
Can you?
SAM:
Sure. It's like laughing through a
broken jaw, but...
He breaks off, his cheeriness dissolved, goes to the window,
tries to raise the shade. It sticks. He pulls at it.
It comes down entirely, and the hot sun glares into the room,
revealing it in all its shabbiness and sordidness as if
corroborating Mary's words and attitude. Sam kicks at the
fallen shade, laughs in frustration, grabs on to his humor
again.
SAM:
And besides, when you say I make tax-
deductible excuses you make me out a
criminal.
MARY:
(having to smile)
You couldn't be a criminal if you
committed a major crime.
SAM:
I wish I were. Not an active criminal
but... a nice guy with the conscience
of a criminal.
(goes close to mary,
touches her)
Next best thing to no conscience at
all.
MARY:
(pulling away)
I have to go, Sam.
SAM:
I can come down next week.
MARY:
No.
SAM:
Not even just to see you, to have
lunch... in public?
MARY:
We can see each other, we can even
have dinner... but respectably, in
my house with my mother's picture on
the mantel and my sister helping me
broil a big steak for three!
SAM:
And after the steak... do we send
Sister to the movies and turn Mama's
picture to the wall?
MARY:
Sam! No!
SAM:
(after a pause, simply)
All right.
She stares at him, surprised at his willingness to continue
the affair on her terms, as girls are so often surprised
when they discover men will continue to want them even after
the sexual bait has been pulled in. Sam smiles reassuringly,
places his hands gently on her arms, speaks with gentle and
simple sincerity.
SAM:
Mary, whenever it's possible, tax-
deductible or not, I want to see
deductible you. And under any
conditions.
(a smile)
Even respectability.
MARY:
You make respectability sound...
disrespectful.
SAM:
(brightly)
I'm all for it! It requires patience
and temperance and a lot of sweating-
out... otherwise, though, it's only
hard work.
(a pause)
But if I can see you, touch you even
as simply as this... I won't mind.
He moves away and again the weight of his pain and problems
crushes away his good humor. There is a quiet moment.
SAM:
I'm fed up with sweating for people
who aren't there. I sweat to pay off
my father's debts... and he's in his
grave... I sweat to pay my ex-wife
alimony, and she's living on the
other side of the world somewhere.
MARY:
(a smile)
I pay, too. They also pay who meet
in hotel rooms.
SAM:
A couple of years and the debts will
be paid off. And if she ever re-
marries, the alimony stops... and
then...
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