Blind

427 00:28:41,615 --> 00:28:44,467 Soon. Soon. 428 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,972 - Are you doing okay in here? - It's not a situation I can't handle. 429 00:28:54,094 --> 00:28:55,926 Where's your ring? 430 00:28:56,026 --> 00:28:59,039 I didn't think it was a good time to be flaunting what we have. 431 00:28:59,139 --> 00:29:02,218 I want that ring on your finger. You hear me? 432 00:29:03,604 --> 00:29:06,280 - Mark... - There's nothing to be ashamed of. 433 00:29:06,707 --> 00:29:09,326 It's just a little uncomfortable. 434 00:29:11,844 --> 00:29:15,731 - Tell me about the community service. - It's fine. 435 00:29:16,215 --> 00:29:18,185 What do you want to know? 436 00:29:18,285 --> 00:29:21,844 This blind man you read to. 437 00:29:22,512 --> 00:29:24,380 What's he do? 438 00:29:24,791 --> 00:29:27,595 He was a novelist and now he teaches. 439 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:29,696 Teaches. 440 00:29:29,796 --> 00:29:32,233 - What's his name? - Bill Oakland. 441 00:29:32,333 --> 00:29:35,503 He wrote that book, "Throw it on the Line for Venus." 442 00:29:35,603 --> 00:29:39,707 - It made a lot of money. - He doesn't have a lot of money now. 443 00:29:39,807 --> 00:29:41,408 What'd you think? 444 00:29:41,508 --> 00:29:44,193 - Of the book? - Yeah. 445 00:29:45,411 --> 00:29:46,929 I never read it. 446 00:29:48,815 --> 00:29:52,553 "She put down her book, leaned back and clasped the paper knife tightly in both hands. 447 00:29:52,653 --> 00:29:56,690 "There was nothing to be ashamed of. She called up all her Moscow memories. 448 00:29:56,790 --> 00:29:59,254 "She recalled the ball, and Vronsky and his humble, enamored gaze... 449 00:29:59,354 --> 00:30:03,038 "...and their relations with one another. There was nothing to be ashamed of." 450 00:30:03,138 --> 00:30:06,340 Hold on. Hold on. Why are you reading it that way? 451 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,920 - What way? - As if it has no meaning. 452 00:30:09,020 --> 00:30:11,405 This is the most important moment in the book. 453 00:30:11,505 --> 00:30:15,687 This is the moment that Anna realizes that she can no longer go on... 454 00:30:15,787 --> 00:30:19,213 ...bullshitting herself that she's happy with her life. 455 00:30:20,013 --> 00:30:22,006 - Okay. - And once you cross that line... 456 00:30:22,106 --> 00:30:25,506 ...you either have to make the terrifying change that will alter your life... 457 00:30:25,606 --> 00:30:27,832 ...in ways you can't imagine... 458 00:30:28,757 --> 00:30:30,458 - ...or. - Or? 459 00:30:30,558 --> 00:30:32,159 You take the safe route. 460 00:30:32,259 --> 00:30:36,330 To live out the rest of your days drowning in that familiar security... 461 00:30:36,430 --> 00:30:40,108 ...while at night your dreams are filled with feasts you never touched... 462 00:30:40,968 --> 00:30:43,052 ...and love you never tasted. 463 00:30:47,006 --> 00:30:49,009 Why aren't you saying anything? 464 00:30:49,458 --> 00:30:52,313 I thought I was supposed to be reading your students' stories. 465 00:30:52,413 --> 00:30:56,363 I'm teaching Karenina next semester. I wanted to get reacquainted. 466 00:30:56,463 --> 00:30:58,200 Okay, sorry, I'm... 467 00:30:58,985 --> 00:31:01,689 - Where were we? - "Nothing to be ashamed of." 468 00:31:01,789 --> 00:31:04,825 Right. "There's nothing to be ashamed of. 469 00:31:04,925 --> 00:31:06,752 "And yet... 470 00:31:06,852 --> 00:31:10,231 "...at this very point of her recollections... 471 00:31:10,331 --> 00:31:12,269 "...the feeling of shame was intensified... 472 00:31:12,369 --> 00:31:15,336 <i>"...just as though when she was thinking about Vronsky...</i> 473 00:31:15,436 --> 00:31:19,488 <i>"...some inner voice said to her, warm, very warm, hot.</i> 474 00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:24,044 <i>"While she said to herself resolutely changing her position on the seat...</i> 475 00:31:24,144 --> 00:31:27,014 <i>"...what about it? What does it mean?</i> 476 00:31:27,114 --> 00:31:30,984 <i>"Am I really afraid to look straight at what passed between us?</i> 477 00:31:31,084 --> 00:31:34,420 <i>"Well, what did pass between us, is there really...</i> 478 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,491 <i>"...can there be anything more between myself and that boy officer...</i> 479 00:31:37,591 --> 00:31:41,678 <i>"...than there is between me and every one of my acquaintances?"</i> 480 00:32:52,498 --> 00:32:57,118 Oh, honey pot, you like your Chanel No. 5. 481 00:33:15,988 --> 00:33:18,426 <i>"Something in my blood was screaming out...</i> 482 00:33:18,526 --> 00:33:22,029 "...at the top of his lungs, can we still save the big easy?" 483 00:33:22,429 --> 00:33:24,330 Can we open the window? 484 00:33:26,199 --> 00:33:30,787 - I'm sorry, would you repeat that? - Can we open... open the window? 485 00:33:32,772 --> 00:33:37,044 If I may, pleas...