
Puccini for Beginners
- Year:
- 2006
- 82 min
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Allegra!
How...how do you know her?
That's my girlfriend!
Your what?!
There are two kinds of people
in the world...
the kind who feel with their hearts,
and the kind who feel with their heads.
I was the head-feeling kind,
that's how I got into this mess.
See, I was her girlfriend...
but I was also his girlfriend.
Like everything in my life,
it started with two things:
opera, and me breaking
someone's heart.
This whole exoticizing of the "Orient"
really gets on my nerves.
If the Met thinks this is worth $200 a ticket,
they are sorely mistaken.
Stay awake! Stay awake!
This is Act III... I think.
It's so great! All of us here together
enjoying opera.
It's mysoginist...
and feminist at the same time.
That's the incredible
thing about it.
I'm not saying Puccini himself
was a feminist or anything, but...
He certainly was not a feminist.
That is funny, Puccini is a feminist!
It's the tension between Turandot's
desire to avenge
the rape of her foremother,
and also to give in to love!
Against her deep fears!
That's the brilliant contradiction,
that's what makes
the piece so compelling!
Allegra...need I remind you that
No, he does not rape her!
He does not, he loves her!
He loves her and she cries
for the first time.
Rainbows, and puppy dogs, and lollypops!
Passion!
You defend bad behavior
more than anyone
- I've ever met in my life.
- Someone I know used to like my bad behavior.
They've only been dating three months,
and Nell already wants to move in with her.
They're in love. Why are you making it
sound so pathological?
Because it's pathological to become
attached to the hip after three months.
I like Vivian. She's much better
than Nell's last girlfriend.
- What was her name?
- Flavia.
Flavia!
Right, right, right.
Flavia, Flavia...
Why do you still have your coat on?
I'm not staying.
Oh, come on sweetie! Please,
let's not have this fight again.
Allegra we have to break up.
- What?!
- Yeah.
When was the last time we did anything
together, and not end up in a fight?
- When we have sex.
- No, aside from that! Let's face it, OK?
I hate opera, and I have to look up
half the words that you use, and...
I'm...not a lesbian.
- OK, I just have to tell you one thing.
- What?
- I have a boyfriend.
- What?
- Yeah, I have a boyfriend.
- I don't care.
I can't believe you want to break up
over some stupid little detail
like who's a lesbian and who isn't!
- I saw Jeff.
- What?
Alriiiiiight! I win that one buddy!
He's going to Saint Barts on business
and he wants me to go with him.
Noone goes to Saint Barts
on business, Sam.
He loves me.
Are you saying that...
- You sure you'll use that?
- It's mine.
You're saying that I don't love you?
Well, you know, if you do
you haven't said so.
She's right.
I haven't said "I love you",
but I have a perfectly
logical explanation for it.
I'm only...
I'm still getting to know you.
It's only been nine months!
You can't just love
a person out of the blue.
You know what your problem is?
You're conflicted. Excuse me.
I'm conf...you...you want
to be Jeff's girlfriend
who occasionally sleeps with lesbians,
and you call me conflicted?
with you day and night
for six months...ocassional.
Look. Is it the lesbian thing?
Or is it me? Or what?
Can you shut the door, please?
- I wanna know.
- I've already told you.
Tell her again.
Allegra...I'm not a lesbian
and you're not
the right woman for me anyway.
love is a smoke screen
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