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A Pawel Cichonski film
GREEN
['TO PLAY GREEN' - 1. Polish idiom that isn't commonly known: to be young, innocent, careless, free
(also in terms of a spirit); origin in an old-fashioned youth's custom; 2. slang: to smoke weed]
Stop!
Do I really have to explain you everything as if it was our first meeting?
Don't tell me I fell wrong again.
This time next week there will be a full audience.
500 spectators from all over the town.
You don't care about people longing to experience a high, moving, simply cathartic art!
Listen.
I don't know what you're thinking about when your character is getting to know that he's got *** but you're far from any dread or despair.
You don't put any feelings into your part. No engagement, no experiencing.
I'm sorry.
It's really hard to me to concentrate today.
I've already thought it's been all about me.
- Then am I alright? - You'll be next.
Now please pay attention.
We'll stage our performance 2 weeks before our high school exams on purpose.
It's a voice of our generation. On this stage it will be represented.
But I'm so distracted that I don't even know what she's talking about.
Exactly, I think 'delta, delta' [discriminant of a quadratic function] all the time as well.
Alright, it was stupid.
Come on, we're listening to you.
Think what is today's youth known for?
We're overwhelmed by a technological development
and simple, utterly, worthless entertainments.
The media offers us an empty, destructive lifestyle.
Only the appearance matters but inside...
a vanity.
We shallow our communication with internet and phones by ourselves.
We're unable to set goals but we're a part of our society thanks to it.
Even now go out to the streets and ask somebody a question:
'What are you living for?'
You'll see how much people know about themselves.
We all wear masks to endear ourselves to everyone
not to manifest ourselves, not to be ourselves for love nor money.
But...
Somewhere inside...
Really deeply...
We want to live naturally, be frank and able to trust.
We want to be carried away by the wind, return to the nature
to live instead of exist, to go crazy and do stupid things because time for it is now.
We want to play green, that's why our play is titled so.
What does 'play green' mean?
Dunno, maybe it's about baking.
...and appreciate the beauty. They live their lives, keep being sensitive... free...
But you're one of them!
You have to use it playing your part. That's why you've got it.
Remember who you personally are. It bonds you with your character.
At this moment, when you're sitting on this chair
and getting to know about your disease from this person
there's no way not to be overwhelmed by a strong feeling of losing your life.
As if someone took away your identity, your present, your future, seperate from the nature, from everything I told you about?
Your memories are all you've got.
Then focus on some moment when you felt exceptionally happy.
The best would be some connection to the nature.
Let this bliss come over you...
Lose yourself in it for a second...
and in a moment, on the chair, think
that it all has gone...
...and move on, because I've got important things to do and I won't stay here all day long.
We won't leave this place until you learn how to fall over properly.
- Come on, calm down! - Won't we? Will you tell me what to do?
You'd better know we leave before I'll fall over properly. *** you and your crap!
Damn it if your foolish sulks break my rehearsal!
Stop! Wait a minute!
And now what?
Oh don't know, maybe let's not waste our time... let's try again.
Without the director?
Well, yes, come on! When he was explaining it to you, you seemed to get it so let's make use of it.
OK...
I don't feel very well, though.
Come on, let's go.
- Ready? - Yeah.
The last days seemed like ages to me.
I guess only when I was in hospital time went by so slowly.
It's natural.
Well, not to prolong...
We've already known the test results.
Unfortunately.
It's positive.
I'm sorry.
But please remember that before the examination we briefly talked about what this result would involve.
I'm here to point out all the opportunities and answer all your questions.
What's happening?
I feel sick.
- I think I'm gonna throw up. - There's a bathroom.
No.
I killed a man, do you understand?
With just one movement, few inches and...
...I wasted all my life
though...
- though it had just begun. - But how did this happen?
I stopped playing green on my own free will, do you understand?
No...
You don't understand.
- How could you know? - Please calm down.
Calm down?
Calmly is how you sit in here.
You wanna help someone but you don't even know whom you're talking to.
You didn't know I'd come to you
I'd catch you
- And now what? - Stop it, let me go!
Now what?
- And how about that? - Let me go.
Few inches.
Few.
And it would be me who wouldn't be here.
But... unfortunately for you...
You've got a knife with you.
Can you hear it?
Maybe... maybe we go out to get a breath of fresh air?
It's rain.
Though this time it won't cleanse me.
When I was going to this place, I was passing the birds, the trees...
I could see the clouds in the sky.
I always used to enjoy the nature in itself
as if I used to live in some bloody harmony with it and now?
Now it all has gone, I was indifferent to it.
But you repentance is obvious...
If I could go back in time
I'd do it once again.
The punishment isn't a jail. The punishment is just the nature.
Now it's shouting to me
that I'm all alone in this world.
But just like *** doesn't mean AIDS, the same...
I don't wanna die, though...
No...
Maybe I couldn't appreciate what I had at all but...
but what worse could happen to me?
I did it for my own accord but...
but I'd never had any role model, any guiding light...
I wanted to... live to the full in the world that was collapsing.
Don't punish me, have mercy on me!
Enough to me is the punishment I managed to realise by myself!
I don't even know the truth about myself!
Why are you lying on the floor?
I've fainted.
Listen, if you wish, we could stop and you'd go home.
- Or I'd better pick you up. - Actually, I guess we should give it a rest for today.
- What about the ballerina? - She'll come back in the moment.
- I've got those whims out of her head. - Hasn't her costume got wet?
Though it's not raining. So? Are we going?
No...
I don't want to stop. I want to act.
As good as in your play.
The show must go on.
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