Dogville Page #4

Here?

But even if you meant it, it's impossible.

It's very small town, I have to hide.

People will ask questions.

Well, it might not matter.

Not if they all wanted to help you too.

Are you saying that everybody

in this town is like you?

They're good people.

You know, they're honest people.

They've all been in need themselves.

They might well turn you down, but...

I think it would be worth the trouble to ask.

But I got nothing to offer them in return.

No, I think you have plenty to offer Dogville.

[Narrator] To call the mood of the audience

at Tom's morale lecture in the mission house the next day,

"enthusiastic" would have been going to far,

but they had come.

And Tom had launched himself fearlessly

into his endeavor to illustrate the human problem:

To receive.

The subject was obvious, but quite

dreadfully ill-considered by this young man.

To compensate for his lack of preparation

Tom made diligent use of his technique

of lashing out somewhat haphazardly

in all directions.

His father peered around covertly

to gauge the mood,

and sensing that the assembly was not

entirely happy with this rather direct criticism,

he decided to forestall any protest.

Now I'm sure that you wish us well, Tom,

but um.. of any town, I believe this one has

a very fine sense of community.

Living side by side we all know one another.

I'm a pretty fair judge of character myself.

Honestly, Tom, you've done it again.

Made us come here to listen

to a lot of nonsense.

What do you think you are,

some kind of philosopher?

Observant, that's what I am.

Lazy, I would say.

We shovel snow together.

We shovel snow together?

Yeah.

Every household clears their own front walk.

Yeah, I gotta allow that Tom's right on that.

If roads don't get

cleared properly...

I'm sorry Tom, you're going to have to

come up with something better than that.

But the whole country would be better served

with a greater attitude of openness and accenpance.

You're suggesting that we all

wouldn't help out if someone needed help.

No, that's not the point.

That's not the point.

We care for human beings up here.

We would probably never find out.

Since nobody seems to want to admit

that there's a problem,

let me illustrate.

Now I'm not going to use something

that's already happened.

I'm going to use something

that's just about to happen.

[Narrator] And, after providing a quick summary

of the events of the previous evening

to the astonished people of Dogville,

Tom went down to the mine to retrieve

the fugitive from her hideaway.

Allow me to introduce Grace.

Grace, these are the citizens of Dogville.

- Hello.

- Hello.

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