A Monster Calls

I'm keeping you in a pigsty. 334 00:36:55,332 --> 00:36:56,584 Not much chance of that. 335 00:36:56,750 --> 00:36:59,674 Now, when you go to the hospital, 336 00:37:00,086 --> 00:37:03,090 your father may not notice how tired your mum is getting. 337 00:37:03,298 --> 00:37:06,347 So we have to make sure that he doesn't overstay his welcome. 338 00:37:06,676 --> 00:37:09,520 Not that that's historically been a problem. 339 00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:12,808 No eggs. You've already had eggs twice this week. 340 00:37:12,974 --> 00:37:16,899 If you get hungry, there's spinach in the fridge which you can steam. 341 00:37:17,062 --> 00:37:18,405 Yes, sure. 342 00:37:19,356 --> 00:37:20,983 Don't touch anything. 343 00:37:23,568 --> 00:37:25,662 I'll do my very best not to. 344 00:38:00,939 --> 00:38:01,986 Get in! 345 00:39:35,575 --> 00:39:36,576 Dad. 346 00:40:15,573 --> 00:40:17,200 How you doing? You look tired. 347 00:40:17,408 --> 00:40:18,660 I'm fine. 348 00:40:19,285 --> 00:40:21,538 Mum's on this new medicine. It'll make her better. 349 00:40:22,288 --> 00:40:24,632 She goes into hospital once every two weeks 350 00:40:24,791 --> 00:40:29,638 and they pump the medicine into her bloodstream. 351 00:40:30,129 --> 00:40:33,724 She is sick for the next few days, but she is better again. 352 00:40:40,807 --> 00:40:43,811 Your sister's doing better. 353 00:40:43,977 --> 00:40:45,399 Half-sister. 354 00:40:46,145 --> 00:40:47,237 Yeah. 355 00:40:47,689 --> 00:40:49,282 I'd still love you to meet her. 356 00:40:51,067 --> 00:40:53,911 I've been talking with your grandma about bringing you out to LA. 357 00:40:55,029 --> 00:40:56,531 You want me to come to LA? 358 00:40:56,698 --> 00:40:58,041 Yeah, absolutely! 359 00:40:58,199 --> 00:41:00,497 - You would you like that, wouldn't you? - Yeah. 360 00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:04,415 We were thinking over Christmas. You can be back here in time for school. 361 00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:07,292 So you mean just for a visit, then? 362 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:09,468 Yeah, but it would be great. 363 00:41:10,128 --> 00:41:12,426 I don't want to live with Grandma. 364 00:41:12,589 --> 00:41:14,842 It's an old lady's house, with old lady's things. 365 00:41:15,008 --> 00:41:17,136 You can't touch anything or sit anywhere. 366 00:41:17,302 --> 00:41:19,179 You can't leave a mess for two seconds. 367 00:41:19,345 --> 00:41:20,437 Conor... 368 00:41:20,597 --> 00:41:23,441 I want to have my own room in my own house and my own things. 369 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,828 You wouldn't have that in America. There's barely enough room for us. 370 00:41:25,852 --> 00:41:27,695 - I don't care! - Conor, listen. 371 00:41:27,854 --> 00:41:30,249 - She is so strict. - Your family, your life, your friends... 372 00:41:30,273 --> 00:41:34,073 - Her house is like a museum! - All of it is here. 373 00:41:34,235 --> 00:41:36,988 - It'd be unfair to take you out of it. - Unfair to who? 374 00:41:37,155 --> 00:41:38,247 Conor. 375 00:41:49,792 --> 00:41:52,136 Doesn't look like your grandma's home yet. 376 00:41:53,129 --> 00:41:56,724 She sometimes goes back to the hospital after I go to bed. 377 00:41:57,008 --> 00:41:59,181 The nurses let her sleep in a chair. 378 00:41:59,677 --> 00:42:03,181 Just because she doesn't like me, doesn't make her a bad person. 379 00:42:03,348 --> 00:42:06,101 She says you're all start and no finish. 380 00:42:07,894 --> 00:42:10,738 Well, she is entitled to her own opinion. 381 00:42:12,815 --> 00:42:14,533 How long are you here for? 382 00:42:14,692 --> 00:42:16,194 As long as I can be. 383 00:42:17,403 --> 00:42:19,121 What does that mean? 384 00:42:19,822 --> 00:42:23,543 We don't have a lot of money. And Americans don't get a lot of holidays. 385 00:42:23,701 --> 00:42:26,580 - You're not American. - But I live there now. 386 00:42:28,373 --> 00:42:30,091 I'll come back whenever I need to. 387 00:42:30,249 --> 00:42:31,929 And you are gonna come to LA for Christmas. 388 00:42:32,001 --> 00:42:34,345 In your cramped house, where there's no room for me. 389 00:42:34,545 --> 00:42:35,546 Conor! 390 00:42:38,633 --> 00:42:40,260 Why did you come? 391 00:42:46,724 --> 00:42:48,351 Conor, wait! 392 00:42:52,855 --> 00:42:54,903 Conor, I'll see you tomorrow, yeah? 393 00:42:55,817 --> 00:42:57,660 There's still loads of time! 394 00:44:46,052 --> 00:44:49,977 As destruction goes, that was remarkably pitiful. 395 00:44:50,932 --> 00:44:53,481 Now, I have come to tell you the second tale. 396 00:44:53,643 --> 00:44:55,065 Is this as bad as the last one? 397 00:44:56,354 --> 00:45:00,075 It ends with proper destruction, if that's what you mean. 398 00:45:00,233 --> 00:45:02,702 It's about a man who thought only of himself, 399 00:45:02,860 --> 00:45:05,204 who wasn't as generous as he should have been. 400 00:45:05,363 --> 00:45:08,708 A man who gets punished very badly indeed. 401 00:45:09,033 --> 00:45:11,912 Stories aren't real, though.