Indignation

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[slow piano music playing]

Mrs. Anderson?

Olivia?

(Marcus, off) It is important

to understand about dying

that even though in general you do not

have a personal choice in the matter,

it is going to happen to you

when it happens to you.

There are reasons you die.

There are causes,

a chain of events

linked by causality,

and those events include decisions

that you have personally made.

How did you end up here,

on this exact day,

at this exact time,

with this specific event

happening to you?

[gunshot]

[gunfire]

[soldier shouts]

Hey!

[gunshot]

[thud on floor]

[singing in Hebrew]

(rabbi)

May our mourners rise.

Today, we mourn the loss

of young Jonah Greenberg,

fallen in Korea,

fighting for his country,

at 19 years of age.

Moses Greenberg, please,

to recite the Kaddish.

[reciting in Hebrew]

(all)

Amen.

(all)

Amen.

[light chatter]

[whispering]

Yeah, sure.

Marcus.

Hi, Mrs. Greenberg.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Yes, Marcus.

You're such a clever boy.

Jonah, he always looked

up to you.

Maybe not such close friends.

But he respected.

We were teammates. He

was a really good guy.

Baseball.

He enjoyed.

Marcus.

Don't go into this war.

For your parents' sake.

You should be

a baseball star.

Don't go into this draft.

(Max) He's going to

college, Miriam.

They keep the ones in

college from the draft.

Such a clever boy,

Marcus.

A scholarship,

is that right?

Yes. In Ohio,

this college is.

Ohio...

how will you keep kosher?

(David) Only one thing worse than dyin'

by gettin' stabbed with a bayonet,

and that's dyin' by gettin' stabbed with

a bayonet when you're still a virgin.

And Greenberg

was definitely a virgin.

Yeah? I thought maybe you and Greenberg

had taken care of each other

before he shipped out.

Shut up, asshole.

So, when do you report?

Two weeks.

Ah, you'll be okay.

You're smarter than Greenberg.

Not as smart

as you.

[bell on door rings]

Mrs. Davidovich.

Two chickens?

Let me see. (Max) Of course.

Markie! Flick two chickens

for Mrs. Davidovich, will ya?

Turn them around.

Yeah. I'll wrap them for you.

So what will you do when this

one goes off next month?

(Max) The Mrs. will help.

Like the old days.

(Max) I can't keep him here

chopping meat like me.

I have to go see Gurevich.

You can close up early.

And bring home some

brisket for your mother.

I told you, Dad. I'm going out

with Davey and Sam tonight.

You didn't tell me.

I told you! We're going

to the pictures.

To the pictures.

[scoffs]

I know what you boys are doing.

I heard from Mrs. Pearlgreen, about

that Eddie, going to pool halls.

Dad, I'm going to the pictures.

I told you.

I'm not Eddie Pearlgreen!

For Chrissake, I don't even

know how to play pool!

He took his father's car,

drove all the way to Scranton

to some special pool hall

they have there.

He bets, he gambles...

his father says he'll

be stealing cars next.

What does Eddie Pearlgreen

have to do with me?

Dad, I'm leaving

in less than a month.

You think I'm tempted

to steal cars?

[car horn honks]

Markie?

Mom?

Everything okay?

What's going on?

Your father.

What happened?

He went out.

Looking for you.

He was worried.

He's been talking to Artie Pearlgreen

again, it got him all riled up.

I think he smoked three packs of

cigarettes. Then he went. [sigh]

What's happening to him, Mom?

What's the matter with him?

He's crazy... he's driving me

crazy, he's driving you crazy.

It's your leaving.

It's all the boys dying,

Bennie and Abe in the last war,

now this new war, I don't know.

He's worried about you. He's

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