Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

493 00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:12,646 All circuits are busy now. Will you please... 494 00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:16,316 Okay. Okay. 495 00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:20,237 [LINE RINGING] 496 00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:26,201 Sorry, due to heavy calling, we cannot complete your call at this time. 497 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:43,051 LINDA: Mom, I don't know, I've already told you everything I know. 498 00:37:43,219 --> 00:37:47,013 Hospitals, the police, and any number I can find. 499 00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:50,350 I only missed one of the calls. 500 00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:52,644 No, I don't want you to come over. 501 00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:56,356 I don't want to make any of this any bigger for Oskar than it already is. 502 00:37:57,566 --> 00:38:00,193 Uh, I'll call you if I need you, okay? 503 00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:02,612 [SIREN CHIRPING] 504 00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:25,218 [HORN BLARES] 505 00:38:26,595 --> 00:38:28,596 [SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE] 506 00:39:20,775 --> 00:39:22,275 WOMAN [ON RECORDING]: Recording. 507 00:39:22,943 --> 00:39:27,906 Hi, you've reached the Schell residence. Today is Tuesday, September 11 th. 508 00:39:28,282 --> 00:39:30,325 Here's today's fact of the day: 509 00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:33,578 It is so cold in Yakutia, that breath instantly freezes... 510 00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:37,624 ...with a crackling sound they call "the whispering of the stars." 511 00:39:40,086 --> 00:39:42,837 OSKAR: Hi, you've reached the Schell resid... 512 00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:53,807 OSKAR [IN VOICE-OVER]: Now no one will ever have to listen to them like I did. 513 00:39:57,770 --> 00:40:00,355 Just like nothing ever happened. 514 00:40:15,454 --> 00:40:19,457 Every time I left our apartment, I became a little lighter... 515 00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:22,252 ...because I was getting closer to Dad. 516 00:40:24,338 --> 00:40:29,008 But I also got a little heavier, because I was further from Mom. 517 00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:43,231 Why are you looking at me like that? 518 00:40:44,233 --> 00:40:47,527 - Like how? - Like I did something wrong. 519 00:40:51,615 --> 00:40:54,492 - Do you have your cell phone? - Right here. 520 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,706 I love you. 521 00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:48,671 [SOBBING] 522 00:42:00,893 --> 00:42:03,686 Maybe she was waiting there until I left. 523 00:42:03,979 --> 00:42:06,564 Or maybe she'd already walked away. 524 00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:10,610 Maybe she was just talking too quietly for me to hear. 525 00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:27,919 Hazelle Black lived in Hamilton Heights. 526 00:42:28,087 --> 00:42:29,295 ALL [SINGING]: - Gonna worry about 527 00:42:29,463 --> 00:42:30,463 Come on, come on. 528 00:42:30,631 --> 00:42:35,760 If you know the Lord is keepin' you Why don't you sing and shout? 529 00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:37,136 HAZELLE: Hey! 530 00:42:40,432 --> 00:42:44,143 HAZELLE: Dear God, I just ask that you would watch over little Oskar... 531 00:42:44,436 --> 00:42:47,105 ...and I pray, oh, God, for a miracle for him. 532 00:42:47,273 --> 00:42:52,986 And that you keep him safe and in your loving arms as he goes on his way. 533 00:42:53,153 --> 00:42:54,946 ALL: Amen. 534 00:42:56,323 --> 00:43:00,410 Remember, every day is a miracle. 535 00:43:00,828 --> 00:43:02,662 I don't believe in miracles. 536 00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:05,456 Finding what this key fits... 537 00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:08,334 ...would be a miracle. 538 00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:18,136 OSKAR: I started with a simple problem: A key with no lock. 539 00:43:18,304 --> 00:43:20,680 And I designed a system I thought fit the problem. 540 00:43:22,182 --> 00:43:25,476 I broke everything down into the smallest parts... 541 00:43:26,478 --> 00:43:32,191 ...and tried to think of each person as a number in a gigantic equation. 542 00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:37,864 It could be for a safe deposit box or a lockbox. 543 00:43:38,198 --> 00:43:41,826 It's old. Can I try it to see if it fits something? 544 00:43:45,914 --> 00:43:47,790 But it wasn't working. 545 00:43:47,958 --> 00:43:52,211 Because people aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. 546 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,798 And those letters want to become stories. 547 00:43:56,383 --> 00:43:59,636 And Dad said that stories need to be shared. 548 00:44:07,978 --> 00:44:09,812 That's it, leg, leg, leg, leg! 549 00:44:10,064 --> 00:44:14,817 I had anticipated a six-minute visit with each person named Black... 550 00:44:15,736 --> 00:44:18,404 ...but they were never just six minutes. 551 00:44:26,330 --> 00:44:29,374 Everyone took more time than I had planned for... 552 00:44:29,583 --> 00:44:33,419 ...to try and comfort me and make me feel better about my dad. 553 00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,590 And to tell me their stories. 554 00:44:47,726 --> 00:44:51,437 But I didn't want to feel better and I didn't want friends. 555 00:44:52,773 --> 00:44:55,274 Tae Kwon Do, museum, comic book convention. 556 00:44:55,442 --> 00:44:57,276 I just wanted the lock...