
Stories We Tell
(0.00 / 0 votes)"When you're
in the middle of a story,
"it isn't a story at all,
"but only a confusion,
"a dark roaring, a blindness,
"a wreckage of shattered glass
and splintered wood,
"like a house in a whirlwind,
"or else a boat
crushed by the icebergs
"or swept over the rapids,
"and all aboard
are powerless to stop it.
"It's only afterwards
"that it becomes anything
like a story at all,
"when you're telling it to yourself...
"or to someone else. "
How far am I gonna go up?
- Three flights.
- Just keep going.
Take a break when you need to.
Jolly good.
Here we are, then. Hi.
All right.
So this is where you're sitting.
- Right.
- Put this here.
Right, then.
Let's have a look and see... Oh.
So this is the first half.
This is what, love?
The first half
of what we're recording.
I'm going to do the whole lot?
Yeah, there's another...
- All this?
- Yeah.
It's the whole
of the thing that I wrote.
It's a thing of punishment.
Whose tea is that?
I know.
sweating through my shirt.
Yeah. I'm ready.
Keep it handy.
I don't like this.
- Are you nervous?
- A little.
It'll get worse.
I hope you'll
explain to me sometime
what all this is
that you're trying to do.
With two cameras
and me recording it visually.
What about it?
It's not the normal way
of doing it, is it?
I don't know.
We've told you it's a documentary,
but it's actually...
It's an interrogation process.
What?
It's an interrogation process
that we've set up.
I honestly need pills.
Do you really?
- I'm so nervous.
- Are you really?
Are my teeth okay?
I feel like I'm sweating.
What's my frame?
Okay. How are my breasts?
Okay. Showtime.
Me? Do you want me?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay, Dad,
so we can start any time.
Are you rolling? Yeah.
Okay.
We're off.
In the beginning, the end.
I am unique.
From that precise moment
when I was dragged out
of my mother's womb
into this cold world,
I was complete...
an amalgam of the DNA
passed on to me
by my mother and father,
and they too had been born
finished products,
by their respective parents,
and so back ad infinitum.
It is clear to me
that I was always there,
somewhere in my ancestors' DNA,
just waiting to be born.
So this unique guy
has always existed,
even in the mystery
of nothingness.
So where to start?
Dad, can you tell the whole story?
The marriage to Mom
and everything
that happened since?
Good God.
The entire story?
I'm gonna ask you now
to tell the whole story
as though I don't know the story,
from the very beginning
to the very end.
Shit.
Can you tell this whole story
from beginning to end
in your own words?
Like, as though you're telling
a story to someone.
Like a medley.
- A medley.
- Yeah, okay.
Can you describe the whole story
from the beginning
until now in your own words?
What?
Wow.
Wow.
- Give me a moment.
- Take a pee.
What do you think
of this documentary being made?
You can be totally candid.
Can I?
A lot of people have been.
I guess I have
this instinctive reaction of
who fucking cares
about our family?
Can I swear?
Who cares
about our stupid family?
I'm sort of embarrassed,
'cause I think it's our family,
But I do think it's really interesting
to look at this one thing
that happened
and how it's refracted
in so many different ways,
and there's so many different angles.
by describing Mom
in as much detail as possible.
Oh. Well, Mom, Mom.
I will refer her
to as "Mom," not Diane.
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