
Indignation
1
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,
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
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.
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