Zelig

00:25:32,323 --> 00:25:33,953 <i>and her lover rich and amused,</i> 397 00:25:34,325 --> 00:25:37,785 <i>Zelig's own existence is a nonexistence.</i> 398 00:25:38,538 --> 00:25:43,288 <i>Devoid of personality, his human qualities long since lost in the shuffle of life,</i> 399 00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:46,749 <i>he sits alone, quietly staring into space,</i> 400 00:25:47,171 --> 00:25:51,131 <i>a cipher, a non-person, a performing freak.</i> 401 00:25:52,176 --> 00:25:55,346 <i>He who wanted only to fit in, to belong,</i> 402 00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,636 <i>to go unseen by his enemies and be loved,</i> 403 00:25:59,392 --> 00:26:03,272 <i>neither fits in nor belongs, is supervised by enemies,</i> 404 00:26:03,813 --> 00:26:05,823 <i>and remains uncared for.</i> 405 00:26:06,983 --> 00:26:10,153 <i>The board at the hospital has all but forgotten Zelig.</i> 406 00:26:11,362 --> 00:26:13,822 <i>Only Dr. Fletcher continues to fight for his custody.</i> 407 00:26:14,782 --> 00:26:17,412 <i>The court turns her final appeal down.</i> 408 00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:20,541 <i>Throughout her valiant legal battle,</i> 409 00:26:20,705 --> 00:26:23,955 <i>she is frequently in the company of her attorney, Charles Koslow.</i> 410 00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:28,667 <i>He falls in love with her and presses for her hand in marriage.</i> 411 00:26:29,589 --> 00:26:31,259 <i>She is ambivalent.</i> 412 00:26:31,591 --> 00:26:36,511 <i>Reluctantly, she is beginning to abandon all hope of recovering Leonard Zelig.</i> 413 00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:42,385 <i>That summer, Geist has booked them in Spain.</i> 414 00:26:43,185 --> 00:26:47,185 <i>It is the last leg of a European tour that has been wildly successful.</i> 415 00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:52,649 <i>Relations between Martin Geist and Ruth Zelig have grown strained.</i> 416 00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:56,735 <i>They have become bored with one another, and quarrel frequently.</i> 417 00:26:58,075 --> 00:27:01,325 <i>The situation grows worse when she meets Luis Martinez,</i> 418 00:27:01,912 --> 00:27:05,752 <i>a mediocre and cowardly bullfighter with whom she falls in love.</i> 419 00:27:08,044 --> 00:27:10,346 <i>Though he wishes to impress Ruth Zelig,</i> 420 00:27:10,421 --> 00:27:13,721 <i>Martinez displays his usual panic in the arena.</i> 421 00:27:14,425 --> 00:27:18,465 <i>Good fortune is with him, however, as the bull gives himself a brain concussion.</i> 422 00:27:18,971 --> 00:27:22,731 <i>Martinez takes credit for the kill, and, cutting off the bull's ear,</i> 423 00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:25,693 <i>presents it to his lover with great bravado.</i> 424 00:27:27,063 --> 00:27:31,073 <i>That evening, in a jealous rage, Martin Geist returns to his hotel room</i> 425 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:35,743 <i>and confronts Ruth Zelig. He demands that she give him the ear.</i> 426 00:27:36,447 --> 00:27:40,197 <i>She refuses. Geist insists upon possession of the ear.</i> 427 00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:44,706 <i>They quarrel furiously, and Martinez is discovered hiding in the closet.</i> 428 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:47,214 <i>Geist pulls a revolver and shoots him.</i> 429 00:27:47,833 --> 00:27:53,013 <i>He turns the gun on Zelig's half-sister and kills her, then he takes his own life.</i> 430 00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:55,796 <i>In an orgy of jealous violence,</i> 431 00:27:55,883 --> 00:27:59,303 <i>Leonard Zelig's life is turned upside down.</i> 432 00:28:15,444 --> 00:28:18,324 <i>At first, the news reverberates around the world.</i> 433 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:22,865 <i>Then, just as quickly, the thrill-hungry public becomes apathetic.</i> 434 00:28:23,953 --> 00:28:26,293 <i>Fresh scandals appear and make headlines.</i> 435 00:28:26,956 --> 00:28:30,666 <i>Events in the Jazz Age move too rapidly, like Red Grange.</i> 436 00:28:31,669 --> 00:28:35,169 <i>A population glutted with distractions is quick to forget.</i> 437 00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:41,966 <i>The '20s come to a crashing climax, and still Leonard Zelig is nowhere to be found.</i> 438 00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:51,146 <i>Dr. Eudora Fletcher searches in vain to locate him.</i> 439 00:28:51,981 --> 00:28:56,441 <i>When several leads prove disappointing, she gives up, discouraged.</i> 440 00:28:57,361 --> 00:29:00,411 I felt it was a shame, because here was this unique case 441 00:29:00,489 --> 00:29:02,319 that I could make my reputation on. 442 00:29:03,033 --> 00:29:05,163 Not that I knew how to cure him, 443 00:29:05,369 --> 00:29:10,829 but if I could have him alone and feel my way 444 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,090 and be innovative and creative, 445 00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:18,800 I felt that I could change his life, if I only had the chance. 446 00:29:28,517 --> 00:29:31,517 <i>300,000 of the faithful are waiting before St. Peter's</i> 447 00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:33,814