
The Secret Life of Bees
(5.00 / 1 vote)[Footsteps Shuffling]
[Objects Clattering]
[Humming]
[Man]
Deborah?
- Where you been?
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry, T.
- Are you cheating on me?
- No, no! I'm not cheating on you.
- What...
- Stop it! What are you doing?
- T! Stop it!
- You ain't leaving me!
- Who is it?
- Nobody! It's you! I hate you!
T. Ray, just let me go!
- [T. Ray, Indistinct]
- No!
T. Ray, damn it!
Get off me!
Lily!
[Gunshot]
[Lily Narrating]
I killed my mother when I was four years old.
That's what I knew about myself.
She was all I wanted,
and I took her away.
Nothin' else much mattered.
[Buzzing]
[Buzzing Continues]
[T. Ray Snoring]
- T. Ray!
- What?
There's bees in my room!
Hundreds of' em! You've gotta see!
- What is it? Jesus Christ, Lily.
- They're in my room! Come see.
What?
Goddamn it, Lily.
This ain't funny.
But they were here.
They were flyin' everywhere.
You wake me again,
I'm gonna get out the grits.
You hear me?
Goddamn it.
[Lily Narrating]
The bees came the summer of'64...
The summer I turned 14 and my whole life
went spinnin' off into a whole new orbit.
Lookin' back on it,
I wanna say they were sent to me.
I wanna say they showed up like
the Angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary.
I know it's forward to compare
my small life to hers...
but I have good reason
to believe she wouldn't mind.
So, um, my birthday is tomorrow.
- [Utensils Clatter]
- Most girls want...
one of them little silver charm bracelets
they have down at the mercantile.
Think I'm the only girl in junior high
doesn't have one.
But I was just thinking you could tell me
about my mother instead.
All you ever said is she's from Virginia
and she's an only child like I am.
I don't even know what
her favorite food was...
and what she liked
to do and...nothin;
- You wanna know about your mama?
- Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
She used to spend hours
lurin' roaches and whatnot...
out of the house with graham crackers
and marshmallows.
[Chuckles]
Swear to God.
She was a lunatic about savin' bugs.
[Door Closes]
Here you go.
Hey, Lily! Nice ass!
[Laughing]
Oh!
Gotcha.
Rosaleen.
Look at this thing fight.
- What you doin' with that?
- Catching bees to show T. Ray.
Get yourself stung,
don't come cryin' to me.
- Come fix this.
- For the future... [Indistinct]
What'd they do?
Drop the atom bomb or somethin'?
Hush.
It does say that there are those
shall now also be equal
in the polling booths...
in the classrooms,
in the factories...
and in hotels and restaurants
and movie theaters...
Holy sh*t.
service to the public.
[Man]
Today, July the 2nd, 1964...
President Johnson signed
the Civil Rights bill into law.
Fifteen, 16, 17, 18...
When's my hair gonna
look like yours?
I bet mine used to drive you crazy the way
it goes off in 11 wrong directions.
I bet you used to brush it a hundred times a day
just to get it to lay down.
I bet you did.
- [T. Ray] Lily!
- [Panting]
Lily!
Lily!
- Who you out here with?
- What?
- Who's out there?
- Nobody. There's no one here but me. It's just me.
Get up from there.
Get in here.
No! You think you're grown? Huh?
Out there doing God knows what.
You'll get yourself pregnant
and then what? Huh?
Huh?
[Panting]
[Bottle Cap Falls To Floor]
You can go.
Mornin'.
How long your dad
keep you on these grits?
Hour.
[Sighs]
Look at ya.
Happy birthday.
I didn't know you made me a cake.
Of course I did.
It's your birthday.
- How big a piece you want?
- Real big.
[Door Closes]
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