Mystery Train Page #6

Synopsis: A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Orion Home Video
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1989
110 min
1,311 Views


- I'm really sorry.

- Don't worry.

- "Air Combat"?

- Si.

Oh. Here.

Thank you.

- Are you all right?

- Uh...

no, I'm not all right.

This is, like, the worst day

in my entire life.

Just a minute.

Come on back over here.

Listen, I can make an exception.

This is one of those nights.

We're not that busy.

And after all, I can give you a room

for a share.

I mean, it's only gonna be

for one night, right?

Really? Um, you would do that for me?

Excuse me. I don't feel like being alone,

and I would stay only one night.

Would you like

to share the room with me?

- Uh, you wanna share the room with me?

- Man, f*** you!

Okay, 'cause I don't like

to be alone either...

and, you know, like,

then I'll have someone to talk to.

Yeah, that would be really neat.

You see? It worked out after all.

And I don't have to give her no discount.

That will be $22 in advance, please.

Oh, uh, we'll even up the bill

in the room. Okay?

Thank you very much.

By the way, are you all right?

I feel a little discombobulated.

Yes. I know the feeling.

Room 25 for the lovely ladies.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome, my dear.

Have a nice night.

Room 25.

Thanks.

I like very much your hat.

- I don't really like it.

- Oh, no, it looks good on you.

Thanks.

What a dump.

Not even a television.

F*** this.

So, you know the guy with the red suit, right?

The guy downstairs, right?

He said I couldn't stay here because I only

had enough money for half a room...

and I'd have to find a roommate

and everything.

Then he, like, starts this big argument

with me, you know?

Then, like, all of the sudden,

I, like, bang right into you.

It's so funny when things happen like that.

I mean, I can't believe it. It's, like, so strange.

I don't know.

I'm really gonna miss Memphis though.

I really like it here.

I had a pretty good time here and everything.

And, like, my brother lives here too.

See, we moved from New Jersey.

He opened this barber shop, and it's really

nice and everything. He's, like, really great.

I'm really gonna miss him.

But I feel so bad and everything 'cause I didn't

even call him and tell him I'm leaving.

It's, like, what am I, f***in' stupid?

You don't call your brother and say good-bye?

Like, now he's gonna find out

from Johnny if I don't reach him first...

but everything was so emotional

and f***ed-up with me and Johnny.

I don't know.

I feel so bad and everything.

But who is Johnny?

Johnny? Oh, he's my boyfriend.

Well, he was my boyfriend until today.

Well, until this morning.

See, that's why I'm leaving Memphis.

I just can't be with him anymore, you know.

I just gotta get away from him, you know.

I just have to leave here before he winds up

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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