Vigil
- Year:
- 1984
- 90 min
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You know, the more I think about it,
the more I reckon we're heading
for the South Pole.
Maybe the Pole's coming up to us even.
Huh!
Ice-cap shifting...
...coming north.
That's why we're getting
this wicked weather.
Lisa!
Dad! Wait for me!
Hey, Dad!
Where are we going?
To the tops.
A dead hawk
is a good hawk, eh, Dad?
Yeah.
Wire 'em up,
the live ones keep away.
- Are we in the clouds now?
- Fog.
Same thing, Granddad says.
He would.
Clouds, alright.
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
One potato, two potato,
three potato, four.
Coming!
Ready or not!
Coming!
Huh!
Thought I'd lost you.
Toss, when you're working as a team,
you don't lose the boss,
so stay near me.
- Got it?
- I got it.
Oh!
Uh!
Uh!
Uh.
Uh... uh!
Mom!
Mom!
Mom!
He fell.
et Spiritus Sanctus.
Thou shalt not be afraid
of the terror by night,
nor the arrow that flieth by day,
nor for the pestilence
that walketh in darkness,
nor the destruction...
One potato, two potato...
Three potato, four...
Coming!
Ready or not!
Coming!
I better go and fix the carburetor.
What am I going to do with it all?
Burn 'em, give 'em away.
I've got such a lot to do.
I wanted you to know
about the other day.
No need, it's over now.
- Thanks for all that you've done.
- No trouble.
I was shooting your goats, and...
The coroner said it was an accidental death,
now let's leave it at that.
Right.
I just wanted to get it sorted out.
Do you feel better now?
Yeah. Thanks.
Well, now you can piss off.
Pass me the Big Tom.
No, the big one.
Whatcha been doing this morning?
'Coming.'
Here, give us a go.
Huh.
Ha ha!
You got it going, Grandpa!
Keep her in your sights, Toss.
She's got a mind of her own.
Where's she taking us, Grandpa?
That tractor's been sitting out there
watching, waiting.
Before you know it,
she's up and off and after us.
Do you mean the tractor's alive?
Stands to reason.
How do you see it otherwise?
Look...
It sends out little miniatures of itself.
Du-du-du-du-du...
They hit your eyeball and explode, flash.
Get that tractor fixed,
and the world's my oyster.
I'll have time to do the things
I need to do.
Good man, that Ethan Ruir.
Good pair of shoulders on him.
At the funeral, the priest talked about
Oh, it's just the sort of thing they say.
See, I've got this idea for a sheep dip
where you make the sheep do all the work.
Where is the valley?
Maybe I could combine it with the turbine.
A small one to start with, and then...
Ho ho!
Where is it?
Oh, it's just priest's talk.
Don't bother with it.
They make simple things complicated
so as to keep themselves in work.
I can use this jacket.
- Got us a new shepherd.
- What do you mean?
- New shepherd. The bloke who...
- Oh, you shouldn't have done that.
There's too much for this old back
to carry. And yours.
Besides, we owe him a favor.
A favor?
We're not staying here.
I'm getting out.
Huh!
We're going to get out, are we?
Well, we'll bloody soon see about that!
Go on, clear out of it, the lot of you!
Go on!
Oh, Mom!
Keep your head down.
It won't take a minute.
Well, maybe we'll get you a ballet teacher
when we leave here.
Mind you, you should have started
a lot earlier.
You'll just have to practice and not let up.
Let your hair grow long, tie it back...
not a loose strand.
Shiny, smooth, clear sharp lines.
How are you, Birdie?
Great set-up you've got here.
Come on in.
That hut on the hill suits me fine.
Now what have you got lined up for me?
What's the matter?
Nothing.
Silly bugger, Justin.
Only time I ever saw him worked up
was over them hawks.
Oh, he got a bit toey
when he thought I was shirking,
but not worked up though.
Not like the hawks got him going.
His passion was hawks.
Or killing them.
Silly bugger.
Takes more than him or you
to wipe out hawks.
He wasn't a smiling man, Justin.
But when he was wiring them
to the fences, he smiled.
And I got to thinking
about Justin and the hawks,
how he saw them,
what they looked like in his head.
You follow?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Now, when you think of hawks,
what do you see?
I see them diving out of the sun,
so that their prey can't see them.
And racing just above the ground
Ah, there you are.
What you see depends on who you are.
He just saw them as something bigger
and tougher than he was -
smarter too,
though that wouldn't take much.
I watched him through the years.
And I tried to see the hawks
like he saw them.
Mom! Mom!
Mom, I'm scared.
I've got something to show you.
Surprised, are you?
Of course it isn't finished yet.
Don't seem right to work on it
now he's gone.
Well, no sense in getting Liz more upset.
You had a bit of dust-up
the other day, huh?
Best keep your head down
till she blows warm again.
- When's that gonna be?
- Oh, can't say.
Getting a bit of work done
might warm her up.
Go on.
Grab the parrot beaks
behind the chimney.
'Toss. Toss.'
Course it's here.
Listen.
Sounds hollow?
Course it is.
Known about it for years.
Right.
What's first?
Peg her out.
Right.
Eight foot square.
No sense in skimping.
Here.
Here. Uh!
Bit to your right.
Here.
And... here.
Right.
Twelve-six on your diagonals.
Now.
How high do you reckon
she'd be from that?
About eighteen feet.
Huh, sixty-two.
You see,
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