The Night Watch
- Year:
- 2011
- 89 min
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If you go to the cinema
mid way through a film,
you watch the second
half first, don't you?
So you see how the characters
end up in the story.
'In spite of shortages
and rationing...'
What happened to turn them
into the people they became...
it's like a riddle
you have to solve...
Get your paper!
No.
No.
Try to keep an open
mind, Mr Bryant.
No. How about this one?
New in last week.
Enjoys dressmaking, walking and...
No-one in spectacles.
Here...
I haven't got time for this.
You know the type I want.
If and when you get
one suitable call me.
It's like he thinks
finding the perfect woman
is his reward for doing
his bit in the war.
What about our Forest Hill lady?
I had one this morning.
EX-RAF, married the
girl next door...
came home to a peroxide blonde
chasing anything in trousers.
War changes people.
Not always for the better.
Our two o'clock will be along.
Better see if we've
got anyone suitable.
Forever Amber is on at the Odeon.
We should go one evening.
I'll bring my brother, he
could do with a night out.
You can bring your chap.
About time I got to meet him.
Sounds like fun.
CLOCKS CHIMING:
Don't they drive you mad?
Thought we'd treat ourselves to
tea in the parlour this time.
Fish paste all right, dear?
Done.
You don't belong in this...
museum, Duncan.
You belong at home
with Dad and me.
It's not like you owe him anything,
is it? It's just not healthy.
Do you think if we keep having
this conversation, it'll
come out the way you want?
Can you not even visit?
Come home for Sunday lunch once in
a... I can't go back to that house!
You bloody know why.
KNOCK AT DOOR:
Mats and cosy, Duncan.
Cat... or cottage?
The cat, why not?
Let's see now...
Thank you for the
gift of food, oh Lord,
and we will keep in mind
that lust and covetness
are powerless in the face of
your forgiveness. Amen. Amen.
Shall I be mother?
PHONE RINGING:
SIRENS WAILING:
'Guest house in Jostlyn Street.
Stop it!
'Section 58 call
out deal with it!'
Run Rabbit, Run Rabbit,
run, run, run...
'Is she worth that much?'
BANGING:
Our legs are all mixed up. You
can't tell which belongs to who.
Can I see?
You look so glamorous.
You're biased.
Do you think it's wrong,
being so happy when there's been
so much suffering in the world?
All the more reason
not to squander it.
Do you think I do squander it?
I think you feel you've
forfeited the right to be happy,
to atone for past sins.
Behave! Not until you say it.
You know I'll make
you eventually.
I concede! I love you.
You better.
Hello, Duncan.
Fraser.
They said at the front desk
I'd find you back here.
You haven't changed one iota.
Not one bit!
How did you know where to...
I phoned the parole
office, at the scrubs.
Chatted up the secretary,
she said to try here.
She said you got
out just after me.
Six months after.
come looking for me.
I wanted to see how
you were getting on.
I'd better let you get on.
Give me your number,
we can meet.
I'm not on the phone.
Here's my number.
Call me, we can have a drink...
Or drop round if you'd prefer.
Don't leave it too long, OK?
Hello, gorgeous.
You know it's coming up
for six years for us?
You're my life raft, Viv.
Only you keeps me afloat.
If you hadn't forgiven me.
If you'd walked out of my life.
I'd have no life.
My love.
My precious girl.
We can't, not here.
My dearest love,
let me in, please.
Promise you'll never leave?
Say it again, my love.
Say it!
All the best, love.
Thank you.
Paper!
They say romance is dead.
It's for Dad.
I sometimes think he loves the
Royal Family more than his own.
Prezzie for you.
Peaches for a peach.
Oi! Watch it, Mr!
Miss, I should say.
Stop the car!
Stop! What? What is it?
I know her! I'm sure I do!
Paper!
'Where's the fighting Spits that
kept us going through the war?
'Everywhere people are
asking how long they
must go on lacking
the basic things...'
and they don't only mean
the food on their table
'and the clothes on their backs,
'It's not just our fighting
spirit that's shrunken up...'
MUSIC BOX PLAYING
Glory be.
Finally.
Better late than never.
Two years late.
I swore if you ignored
my last letter
it'd be the last one I'd send.
Tardy b*tch.
So spill, what's been
going on with you?
I got left some money, my aunt in
Holland Park with the antique shop,
so, I'm what you call
a lady of leisure.
Until the well runs dry anyway.
You didn't fancy running
the shop yourself?
What one earth do you do
with yourself all day?
Walk mostly.
Walk where? Anywhere.
Wherever.
Did you hear it?
Interview on the Home
Service on her latest book.
Look at us!
You were the bravest
person I knew.
No, I think it's easy
to be brave in war time.
this, Nancy. Stronger than this.
But everything always
goes back to that night.
Most people you pass
on the street have
lost a heck of a
lot more than me.
They've lost a child or...
They're getting on with
their lives, aren't they?
Listen to me.
Going on about loss
to you of all people.
I'm not fit company
for anyone but myself.
Don't you dare run
out on me now.
You're human, Kay...
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