Shallow Grave Page #2

ALEX:

When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of

black to wear?

JULIET:

Now, let me get this straight. This affair that you're not

having, is it not with a man or not with a woman?

DAVID:

Turning very briefly to the subject of corporate finance -- no,

this is important. Leveraged buy-outs -- a good thing or a bad

thing?

ALEX:

With which of the following figures do you most closely identify:

Joan of Arc, Eva Braun or Marilyn Monroe?

JULIET:

It's just that you strike me as a man trapped in a crisis of

emotional direction, afflicted by a realization that the partner

of your dreams is, quite simply, just that.

DAVID:

Did you ever kill a man?

ALEX:

And when did anyone last say to you these exact words: You are

the sunshine of my life'?

JULIET:

OK, so A has left you, B is ambivalent, you're still seeing C but

D is the one you yearn for. What are we to make of this? If I

were you, I'd ditch the lot. There's a lot more letters in the

alphabet of love.

DAVID:

And what if I told you that I was the antichrist?

INT. SQUASH COURT. EVENING

In a sports centre Juliet sits outside a glass-walled squash

court. She is ready to play, but at present is watching Alex and

David, who are inside the court.

INT. SQUASH COURT. EVENING

Inside the squash court, Alex is about to serve.

ALEX:

Squash is often used as a metaphor to represent a struggle for

personal domination.

DAVID:

Serve.

ALEX:

I was trying to educate you.

DAVID:

Just serve.

ALEX:

In the same fashion as chess.

DAVID:

What?

ALEX:

Chess. Chess is often used as well.

DAVID:

Will you shut up and play.

ALEX:

You're a bad loser.

DAVID:

I haven't lost yet.

Alex serves.

INT. SQUASH COURT. EVENING

The squash-court door opens and David walks out past Juliet as

Alex stands behind, jabbing his finger at him.

ALEX:

Defeat, defeat, defeat-- sporting,personal, financial,

professional, sexual, everything. Next.

Juliet walks in and closes the door.

INT. SQUASH COURT. EVENING

Inside the squash court Alex is about to serve.

ALEX:

Did you know --

JULIET:

Just serve.

Alex serves.

INT. JULIET'S CAR (A MINI). NIGHT

Alex sits in the back, drinking.

Juliet is driving. David sits beside her.

ALEX:

I wasn't trying to win.

There is no response from Juliet.

ALEX:

(continued)

I don't want to devalue your victory, but I just want you to

know:
I wasn't trying to win.

DAVID:

Victory is the same as defeat. It's giving in to destructive

competitive urges.

ALEX:

You learn that in your psychotherapy group?

DAVID:

Discussion group, Alex, discussion.

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