Death Becomes Her

ultimate cruelty. 392 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,760 It offers us the taste of youth and vitality... 393 00:35:38,886 --> 00:35:42,931 and then makes us wetness our own decay. 394 00:35:44,267 --> 00:35:46,560 Well, it is the natural law. 395 00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:49,146 Screw the natural law! 396 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,243 What is that? 397 00:36:45,328 --> 00:36:49,539 What you came for. 398 00:36:49,624 --> 00:36:52,626 A touch of magic... 399 00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:57,005 in this world obsessed with science. 400 00:36:58,841 --> 00:37:01,218 A tonic. 401 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:05,180 A potion. 402 00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:08,892 What does it do? 403 00:37:08,976 --> 00:37:12,437 How old would you guess I am? 404 00:37:15,399 --> 00:37:18,485 I wouldn't... 405 00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:21,321 Come on. Don't try to flatter me. 406 00:37:21,405 --> 00:37:23,907 Thirty eight. 407 00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:26,993 Oh, twenty eight. Twenty... three? 408 00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:30,705 I am seventy-one years old. 409 00:37:30,831 --> 00:37:34,209 That's what it does. 410 00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:37,671 It stops the aging process dead in its tracks... 411 00:37:37,755 --> 00:37:40,048 and forces it into retreat. 412 00:37:40,132 --> 00:37:44,844 Drink that potion and you'll never grow even one day older. 413 00:37:44,929 --> 00:37:50,308 Don't drink it... and continue to watch yourself rot. 414 00:37:51,143 --> 00:37:53,103 How much is it? 415 00:37:55,648 --> 00:37:59,609 The sordid topic of coin... 416 00:37:59,652 --> 00:38:02,362 I'm afraid is not so simple. 417 00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:06,866 The cost, you see, it's different for everyone. 418 00:38:06,909 --> 00:38:10,203 Well, for me, how much? 419 00:38:25,469 --> 00:38:30,598 Well, thank you very much. I think I should be going. 420 00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:32,892 Sit! 421 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:50,660 Hold out your hand. 422 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:57,917 What are you, nuts? 423 00:38:58,002 --> 00:39:00,170 Watch. 424 00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:29,407 Check okay? 425 00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,409 Fine. 426 00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:34,120 But you must make me a promise. 427 00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:36,998 The secret that we share must never become public. 428 00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:39,751 You may continue your career for ten years, 429 00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:43,046 ten years of perfect, unchanged beauty. 430 00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:47,842 But at the end of that time, before people become suspicious, 431 00:39:47,885 --> 00:39:50,804 you have to disappear from public view forever. 432 00:39:50,888 --> 00:39:53,056 You can retire. 433 00:39:53,140 --> 00:39:56,393 You can stage your own phony death... 434 00:39:56,435 --> 00:39:59,020 or... 435 00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:02,607 as one of my clients simply said, 436 00:40:02,691 --> 00:40:05,527 "I vant to be alone, yah." 437 00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:08,571 No! She's not! 438 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:11,699 Wow! 439 00:40:37,977 --> 00:40:40,603 Bottoms up. 440 00:40:53,701 --> 00:40:57,787 - Now, a warning. - Now, a warning? 441 00:40:57,872 --> 00:41:01,332 Take care of yourself. 442 00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:07,213 You and your body are going to be together a long time. 443 00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:09,966 Be good to it. 444 00:41:11,677 --> 00:41:15,597 Siempre viva. Live forever. 445 00:41:56,597 --> 00:42:00,767 I can't believe... Del you... 446 00:42:00,809 --> 00:42:03,561 Oh... I'm a girl! 447 00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:07,023 Shh. 448 00:42:07,024 --> 00:42:10,360 Ernest, oh, we gotta stop. 449 00:42:10,444 --> 00:42:12,946 I know we... I know we... 450 00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:15,323 Really, Ernest. Oh. 451 00:42:15,449 --> 00:42:17,909 Ernest, don't be angry with me. 452 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:21,412 I'm fighting this as hard as I can, but just... 453 00:42:21,455 --> 00:42:23,081 Look at you! 454 00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:28,336 She's already destroyed your career. 455 00:42:28,379 --> 00:42:30,964 Now she's breaking your heart, 456 00:42:31,048 --> 00:42:33,800 stealing your pride, 457 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,177 flaunting her lovers... 458 00:42:36,303 --> 00:42:37,679 all over town. 459 00:42:37,721 --> 00:42:39,639 You know about that? 460 00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:43,309 Everyone does. 461 00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:47,021 At the party, people spoke of nothing else. 462 00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:49,899 How can you love me, Helen? 463 00:42:49,942 --> 00:42:54,320 I've been so weak for so long. 464 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:58,032 I should've divorced Madeline a long time ago. 465 00:43:00,369 --> 00:43:04,330 By God, that is exactly what I am going to do! 466 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:06,583 The first thing tomorrow morning, 467 00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:10,128 I am gonna go downtown and obtain a divorce from Madeline Ashton. 468 00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:14,090 - Ernest? - Monday. At the very least Tuesday. 469 00:43:14,174 --> 00:43:17,969 Divorce? In California? 470 00:43:18,095 --> 00:43:21,973 That's exactly what s...