Cold Skin
- Year:
- 2017
- 108 min
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We are never very far
from those whom we hate.
For this very reason,
to those we love.
An appalling fact.
I knew it well enough
when I embarked.
But some truths
deserve our attention,
others are best left alone.
We set sail 67 days ago.
September, 1914.
Matches are as useless
as teats on a bull above deck.
Thank you.
There's your island.
Look, you see it?
What are you running from?
That was the first question
they asked me when I decided
to go to sea.
Prepare to weigh anchors.
That is a one man job,
you don't need two.
Russian ...
Be careful, go to the back,
don't get it wet.
Careful with that.
C'mon, come on!
No birds.
No weather offical
to greet you either.
Captain sir, where we leave the luggage
Here inside.
Tell the others to hold off
with the rest of the ...
No, no, bring it forth.
With respect, I am responsible
for your safe passage
and this is hardly reassuring.
You've already provided
such passage.
It had to be taken
as an act of kindness,
the Captain accompanied me
onto dry land.
Nothing obliged him.
But during the journey we'd come
to one of those understandings
that sometimes arise between men
of different generations.
with courtesy of an executioner.
If he could do anything
for me.. he would.
Boys, go back to the boat.
You in there?
Open up!
Can you hear me?
Hello!
Hello?
Hey!
Wake up!
Water, toad.
Wake up!
Maritime signal technician,
we are replacing the weather official,
Aldor Vigeland.
Can you tell of his whereabouts?
I said, where is the weather official?
Listen here, I'm a captain
of a ship in transit,
I had to change course
to bring this man here,
and take his predecessor away.
Now where is..?
Typhus.
He's dead?
Do you have any tobacco?
Vodka?
Where are the man's remains?
Christ man, speak up!
He went out one day.
I never saw him again.
For God's sake, it's an island!
How far could he have gone?
A swim..
Your name?
Gruner.
You like Frazer?
That's not my book.
You, you have tobacco?
Not on my person, no.
Mr. Gruner.
Captain..
I appreciate your concern but
I'm not about to turn back now.
Take this.
Don't mistake stubbornness
with stupidity.
I'll manage.
Thank you for all you've done.
Eat well.
Work hard.
Stay busy.
Fair winds.
And following seas.
I would have to live
in a solitude-like exile
for twelve months,
far from civilization,
with a job as monotonous
as it was insignificant:
To log the intensity
and direction of the winds.
Mr. Gruner.
Mr. Gruner.
Mr. Gruner, if this is
your idea of an initiat..
Open the door!
Let me in!
Gruner!
Gruner!
Gruner!
- Please, let me in!
- Should have stayed on the boat.
Gruner!
Gruner!
When I have fears
that I may cease to be,
before my pen has gleaned
my teeming brain,
before high piled books
and carrot tree
hold like rich garnest
the full ripened grain.
When I behold upon
the night-starred face,
huge cloudy symbols
of a high romance,
and think that I may never live
with the magic hand at Garnis,
and when I feel,
fair creature of an hour,
upon thee more,
never have relished the fairy power
of unreflecting love,
then, on the shore of the wide world,
I stand alone,
and think, to love and fame
to nothingness do sink.
Mother of God!
No!
- Don't shoot!
- Put your gun down!
Put it down!
Step back!
Whatta ya want?
Do I really need to spell it out?
You said you had tobacco?
Yes.
Coffee?
Yes.
- Vodka?
- Gin!
And ammunition.
Caliber?
There's plenty more!
- She's harmless.
- Harmless?
Come here, come.. here..
Come on.
See?
I think I'll call you.. Friend.
You got bitten.
Burned.
- How many'd you kill?
- Don't know.
The previous weather official..
It wasn't typhus.
You left him stranded
here like me.
- It's as good as murder.
- We gotta go.
Come on!
Pain gone?
- How long was I out for?
- A day or two by my reckoning.
Pissed your pants.
and sixty two.
Now that's what I call an armoury.
What's it doing?
Stupid thing.
- You can speak with the beasts.
- Not speak, command.
Doesn't it try and escape?
The dogs leave even
the cruellest of masters.
It's incredible.
I never even imagined
What we know it's a small island
in the vast ocean of what we don't.
I know that there are atolls that contain
unique and endemic species of fish
that have evolved
completely independently.
Hangover species that
have survived in isolation,
stuck in a kind
of evolutionary stalemate.
Maybe these beasts are like that,
not.. quite.. human,
or amphibian, reptile or fish.
She's not quite like the others,
is she?
This one doesn't bite, that's all.
What about that scar on your shoulder?
It was one time, the only time.
She learnt her lesson.
Remember..
that drowns a man.
I adjusted the mechanism
to sweep the coastline.
For all I know it's the controls,
like all infernal beasts.
They shun light, human or divine.
- Demons from Atlantis.
- I believe in what I see.
One thing I still can't understand
is that you could have escaped
4 days ago on the boat
that brought me here.
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