Suddenly, Last Summer

- So they say. 576 00:39:43,670 --> 00:39:48,296 You've been invited to try your hand at what is a hopeless case. 577 00:39:48,508 --> 00:39:52,672 Is it hopeless? What do you think? 578 00:39:55,307 --> 00:39:58,094 - Where are you from? - Lions View. 579 00:40:04,190 --> 00:40:06,313 The state asylum. 580 00:40:07,318 --> 00:40:09,311 Where they have the Drum. 581 00:40:09,529 --> 00:40:13,112 What you call the Drum is not a torture chamber. 582 00:40:13,324 --> 00:40:16,325 It's really a recreation hall. 583 00:40:16,828 --> 00:40:19,663 They'll keep me there forever. 584 00:40:19,872 --> 00:40:22,790 Like an animal in a cage. 585 00:40:23,876 --> 00:40:27,043 - She is merciless, isn't she? - Who? 586 00:40:27,213 --> 00:40:30,167 Aunt Violet. Why else do you think I'm here? 587 00:40:30,341 --> 00:40:32,713 Where no one can see me, hear me? 588 00:40:32,927 --> 00:40:35,762 You sound as if you think she hates you. 589 00:40:35,972 --> 00:40:37,086 Doesn't she? 590 00:40:37,306 --> 00:40:39,465 Do you hate her? 591 00:40:39,809 --> 00:40:41,848 What, hate? 592 00:40:42,061 --> 00:40:45,726 No. I don't understand what hate is... 593 00:40:45,940 --> 00:40:48,976 ...or how anyone could hate and still be sane. 594 00:40:49,193 --> 00:40:51,814 I really do think I am sane... 595 00:40:52,029 --> 00:40:55,363 ...despite considerable evidence to the contrary. 596 00:40:55,574 --> 00:41:01,659 - Your aunt, Mrs. Venable... - Can no more help herself than I could. 597 00:41:01,872 --> 00:41:04,363 Help herself? How do you mean? 598 00:41:05,250 --> 00:41:07,706 You see, we all loved Sebastian. 599 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,380 Women, men, children, animal, mineral, vegetable... 600 00:41:12,591 --> 00:41:16,174 Sebastian was a vocation, not a man. 601 00:41:17,471 --> 00:41:20,472 Poor Aunt Vi was hooked from the beginning. 602 00:41:20,682 --> 00:41:23,802 Loved Sebastian and nobody else. 603 00:41:24,019 --> 00:41:27,186 She gave up everything for Sebastian. 604 00:41:27,397 --> 00:41:29,271 Even her husband. 605 00:41:29,483 --> 00:41:32,400 What was Mr. Venable like? 606 00:41:32,611 --> 00:41:35,102 Mr. Venable was a good man... 607 00:41:35,322 --> 00:41:38,691 ...but dull to the point of genius. 608 00:41:39,993 --> 00:41:42,199 That was Sebastian talking. 609 00:41:42,412 --> 00:41:45,413 From him, it wouldn't have sounded cruel. 610 00:41:45,582 --> 00:41:50,493 When I talk like him or when Aunt Vi talks like him, we sound heartless. 611 00:41:50,712 --> 00:41:54,792 And we're not really. Though we do terrible things. 612 00:41:55,008 --> 00:41:58,092 What do you consider terrible? 613 00:41:58,636 --> 00:42:02,219 Aunt Vi let her husband die because of Sebastian. 614 00:42:02,432 --> 00:42:05,386 Killed him, some people thought. 615 00:42:05,643 --> 00:42:07,932 How, killed him? 616 00:42:08,146 --> 00:42:12,475 Once, Sebastian decided to give up the torments of this world... 617 00:42:12,650 --> 00:42:16,019 ...and become a Buddhist monk. That was in Tibet. 618 00:42:16,237 --> 00:42:20,531 He shaved his head, was given a wooden bowl and was happy. 619 00:42:20,742 --> 00:42:22,533 Till Aunt Vi came. 620 00:42:22,744 --> 00:42:24,736 Why? What did she do? 621 00:42:24,954 --> 00:42:29,248 Lived in a hut, even took vows, or whatever women do. 622 00:42:29,459 --> 00:42:33,955 Anything to be near him, to get to him, to make him come home. 623 00:42:34,213 --> 00:42:36,372 While there, word came. 624 00:42:36,591 --> 00:42:39,924 Mr. Venable was dying. He had to see her. 625 00:42:40,344 --> 00:42:42,004 And she chose to stay? 626 00:42:42,972 --> 00:42:46,886 She chose to let her husband die alone. 627 00:42:47,101 --> 00:42:51,478 If you'd known Sebastian, you'd understand she had no choice... 628 00:42:51,689 --> 00:42:56,979 ...how none of us ever had a choice, once Sebastian had decided we were... 629 00:42:57,361 --> 00:42:58,986 ...to be used. 630 00:42:59,196 --> 00:43:00,607 Used? 631 00:43:00,823 --> 00:43:03,658 You mean he used people? 632 00:43:03,867 --> 00:43:05,445 Yes. 633 00:43:06,161 --> 00:43:09,910 Isn't that what love is? Using people? 634 00:43:10,124 --> 00:43:14,999 And maybe that's what hate is. Not being able to use people. 635 00:43:15,254 --> 00:43:17,330 - Go on. - Go on where? 636 00:43:17,548 --> 00:43:19,339 Anywhere. 637 00:43:19,550 --> 00:43:23,594 To the first memory you come to. 638 00:43:24,012 --> 00:43:25,720 My first memory? 639 00:43:26,682 --> 00:43:29,220 It was once at a Mardi Gras ball. 640 00:43:29,768 --> 00:43:32,093 The Mardi Gras ball? Yes? 641 00:43:33,689 --> 00:43:36,310 My very first memory. 642 00:43:36,566 --> 00:43:38,808 It was last spring. 643 00:43:39,027 --> 00:43:44,234 Before last spring, I remember nothing. Nothing at all. 644 00:43:44,574 --> 00:43:49,450 It's as if my life began and ended that night. 645 00:43:52,457 --> 00:43:54,533 Tell me about it. 646 00:43:55,085 --> 00:43:57,576 At the ball... 647 00:43: