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THE POINT OF VIEW
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You'll see, honey, they're going to be delicious pancakes. You'll love them.
- I'm telling you. - Yeah.
They're going to be great.
Here you are.
Could you pass me a teaspoon?
Can it be a tablespoon? All the teaspoons are dirty.
Fine, thanks.
- How are the pancakes? - I haven't tried them yet.
So, Shall we see a film after dinner?
No, I don't think so. There are still some things to do at home.
But what?
Do the dishes, hang the curtains!
– Ok, fine, I'll do the dishes but later on. – No, you'll do it wrong.
But can't we see the film first, take some rest and do the chores after it?
– What film? – I don't know, there's something on TV soon.
Do we really need to run and fight all the filth in the world?
What's it like?
Be cool, I'll wash those dishes.
No, you sit down and watch some TV, and I'll join you when I finish.
Honey, come on, the film's about to start! Leave it be!
Can you give me a hand with the closet?
- Get a chair. - What for? I'm tall enough. I can make it.
Well, looks fine. All in all you've thought it out well.
So...?
- No, ***! - What? ***?
- Yeah, ***! - But you wanted this curtain?
Yeah, and I don't like it.
Listen, I'm going to get some beer. Do you need anything from the shop?
- Coca-Cola. - Oh no, no, no! Definitely no Coca-Cola!
- I want Coca-Cola, two-litre bottle! - Two-litre!? Really?
- No, no, no. Isn't a juice a better idea? - I'm sick of drinking juices. How much juice can I drink?
- But you have to drink juices. - Can you bring me some Coke?
- But a small one? - Fine, let it be small.
- Listen, why did you wash those dishes? - Somebody had to do it.
What do you mean "somebody had to do it"? Couldn't you wait for me?
- I said... - When were you planning to do it?
- I said I would clean up after the film, right?
- Well, I did it earlier.
I don't believe it! You've been running back and forth since morning, and what?
Can't you just sit down and take some rest?
Don't you understand I can't live in filth? I must have order around.
Yeah, great.
I brought you Coke, 0.2 litre.
Thanks.
Ola, what are you doing?
Laundry.
But can't you just tell me, call me? I'd take it.
Do you want this small resident of this belly to pop out all of a sudden?
- Do you want to go to hospital? - I do.
Ok, I know you want to go to hospital because you're tired,
...but, but you get even more tired pulling this tub.
You're really strange.
Could you help me and fetch if over there for me, then?
Well, I don't know, because I'm quite helpless at the moment.
Seriously.
You know what? Leave it! Ok?
But what's the problem?
I can't look at the way you’re doing it. You're clumsy.
I'll do it better myself.
But I was supposed to do it, Ola!
You can't peg out the washing. What... What does it look like? What is this?
It's just underwear... Come on... What's your problem?!
Fine, I'll do it better. You can... just go and take care of yourself.
Good afternoon, we're doing a research on homosexual breeding animals.
Could you spare a moment to this important research?
Yes, yes, that's fascinating.
...a moment which is how long exactly?
About 6 hours, but we've got cool slides.
Will you tell me who it was?
What do you mean who? Services for the population. Cleaning, cooking, making laundry...
Dishwashing, laundry pegging.
But I said, "no, thanks", since we've already got those, right?
- Oh, really? - Oh, really.
Yeah, what for?
You've poured water over the soapbox
No way... So now what?
- You should clean that up. - Should I?
You don't expect me to beg you, do you?
Honey, you know what? Go and take some rest.
Clean up the mess you've made.
Honey, leave it... really.
I feel stupid about it. I'm having a beer, watching TV and you’re walking and running around me...
Come on, let me do it.
I'm about to finish now. I'll be there in a minute.
Yes, and then...
...then you keep telling everyone that I'm a bad and awful husband because I don't clean up.
- But... this is... - I'll be there in a minute, ok?
- Can you open the Coke for me, please? - ...this is a bit of paranoia, you know.
Give it a break. Go and sit down.
- Finally, honey, you've sat down here with me. - I'm happy too.
- Your hair's curled here. - Yeah? - Yep.
Do you think the baby's going to have those little curls?
I bet he keeps cleaning up in there.
Look how he's moving. Here he's with the broom and here with the vacuum cleaner.
- Just like his mummy. - Just like his mummy.
I really like this film. You should've watched it from the beginning.
– Who's playing? – Some famous actors.
But I like the camerawork very much, you know, black and white.
Very much.
You know what, honey? I'm really worried about you.
You shouldn't be.
Get some rest. You definitely need that…
cast
- Good day, neighbour. - Good day
What's new? ...good day.
- Oh, really tough, the ninth month. - Yeah, the last stage.
Last stage. I need to be in touch all the time
- Absolutely. - Absolutely.
- That's crazy... Cleaning up all the time. - A bit obsessive, right?
- Yeah, the whole place has to be spruce. - Yeah, that's it. She has to have her nest clean.
– You also had such trouble with yours....? – Some time ago I did, but now she's letting it go step by step.
- Letting it go... - Yeah, letting it go.
I don’t know...
...before she got pregnant she had been the same, it had to be obsessively clean.
If the whole place hadn’t been perfectly tidy, she wouldn’t have sat down.
- Maybe it's just the kind of personality? - Maybe...
...well, maybe it's true. I once had a friend who wouldn’t have sat down in front of the TV before he hadn’t cleaned up.
- And yet... - And yet...
- A kind of personality. - A kind of personality.
I'm going to get some beer...
translated by: Magda Rościńska-Frankowska & Łukasz Rutkowski
cast
music by
director of fotography & camera by
editing, written & directed by
acknowledgements
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