1 000:33,492 --> 00:00:36,078 # [ Woman Vocalizing ] 2 00:01:14,950 --> 00:01:16,827 [ Bird Squawking ] 3 00:01:16,952 --> 00:01:18,829 [ Dog Barking ] 4 00:01:18,954 --> 00:01:23,167 - [ Girl ] Buglar, make it stop! - I can’t! I can’t! 5 00:01:23,292 --> 00:01:25,294 - Please! [ Crying ] - [ Boy Screaming ] Mama! 6 00:01:25,377 --> 00:01:29,173 [ Dog Growling, Whimpering ] 7 00:01:29,298 --> 00:01:31,550 - [ Screaming ] - Make it stop, please! 8 00:01:33,302 --> 00:01:35,846 - [ Whimpering Continues ] - [ Boy ] Mama, help me! 9 00:01:37,973 --> 00:01:40,100 - [ Boy Screaming ] - [ Girl ] Here, Boy! 10 00:01:40,225 --> 00:01:42,352 [ Crying ] 11 00:01:42,477 --> 00:01:45,898 [ Whimpering Continues ] 12 00:01:49,860 --> 00:01:53,697 - Oh, Grandma Baby. - Mmm-mm. 13 00:02:06,585 --> 00:02:08,378 Shh! 14 00:02:08,504 --> 00:02:11,673 - We’re gonna need some food. Wait here. - Okay. 15 00:02:17,429 --> 00:02:19,348 [ Here Boy Whimpering ] 16 00:02:22,184 --> 00:02:24,061 Good boy, Here Boy. 17 00:02:46,375 --> 00:02:47,751 Howard, come on! 18 00:02:50,712 --> 00:02:53,757 - Come on. - Howard, Buglar! 19 00:02:53,882 --> 00:02:55,759 Where you goin’? 20 00:02:55,884 --> 00:02:57,261 - Bye, Denver. - Bye? 21 00:02:59,221 --> 00:03:01,390 - [ Gasps ] - We gotta go! 22 00:03:04,893 --> 00:03:06,979 - [ Crying ] - Buglar, come on. 23 00:03:08,105 --> 00:03:11,775 - No! Buge! - Go ahead. 24 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:13,777 Howard! 25 00:03:26,957 --> 00:03:29,877 Now what’d you go and do that for? 26 00:03:31,545 --> 00:03:33,463 [ Panting ] 27 00:03:40,262 --> 00:03:42,139 Mama. 28 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:16,173 [ Hoofbeats Clattering ] 29 00:04:19,009 --> 00:04:21,386 # [ Woman Vocalizing ] 30 00:05:03,679 --> 00:05:06,557 [ Barking ] 31 00:05:07,975 --> 00:05:10,769 Watch out there, Here Boy. 32 00:05:10,894 --> 00:05:12,771 [ Child Crying ] 33 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,081 [ Barking ] 34 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:09,661 Paul? 35 00:06:11,788 --> 00:06:13,665 Paul D? 36 00:06:14,791 --> 00:06:17,503 Is that you? 37 00:06:17,628 --> 00:06:19,505 What’s left. 38 00:06:19,630 --> 00:06:22,799 [ Hoofbeats Clattering ] 39 00:06:23,884 --> 00:06:27,221 How you been, girl? Besides barefoot. 40 00:06:29,473 --> 00:06:31,975 Messed up my legs back yonder. 41 00:06:32,059 --> 00:06:33,977 Chamomile. 42 00:06:34,061 --> 00:06:36,230 I don’t even wanna hear about it. 43 00:06:36,355 --> 00:06:38,232 I always did hate that stuff. 44 00:06:38,357 --> 00:06:41,026 You’re lookin’ good. 45 00:06:41,151 --> 00:06:43,779 Devil’s confusion, Sethe. 46 00:06:43,862 --> 00:06:47,324 He lets me look good as long as I feel bad. 47 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:50,911 How long has it been? 48 00:06:55,791 --> 00:06:57,751 Eighteen years. 49 00:06:59,586 --> 00:07:02,172 Eighteen years? 50 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:05,634 I swear, I’ve been walkin’ every one of ‘em. 51 00:07:07,302 --> 00:07:10,472 - Mind if I join you? - You wanna soak ‘em? Let me get you some water. 52 00:07:10,556 --> 00:07:13,517 No. Can’t baby feet. 53 00:07:13,642 --> 00:07:16,895 They’s got a whole lot more tramplin’ to do. 54 00:07:17,020 --> 00:07:19,189 [ Sighing ] 55 00:07:19,314 --> 00:07:22,359 You ain’t leavin’ right away. You stay awhile. 56 00:07:22,484 --> 00:07:26,280 Ah, well, long enough to see Baby Suggs... 57 00:07:26,405 --> 00:07:28,365 and you. 58 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:30,826 Where is she? 59 00:07:30,909 --> 00:07:32,828 Dead. 60 00:07:35,706 --> 00:07:37,749 Oh, no. 61 00:07:37,791 --> 00:07:41,795 - When? - Eight years ago now. 62 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,298 Almost nine. 63 00:07:44,423 --> 00:07:49,052 Was it hard? I hope she didn’t die hard. 64 00:07:49,178 --> 00:07:51,805 Soft as cream. 65 00:07:51,930 --> 00:07:55,142 Bein’ alive was the hard part. 66 00:07:55,267 --> 00:07:57,728 Sorry you missed her, though. 67 00:07:57,853 --> 00:07:59,938 Is that what you came by for? 68 00:08:01,565 --> 00:08:04,568 That’s some of what I came for. 69 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:06,570 Rest is you. 70 00:08:09,448 --> 00:08:13,452 [ Sighs ] Truth be known... 71 00:08:13,577 --> 00:08:16,788 these days I go anywhere they let me sit down. 72 00:08:20,501 --> 00:08:24,296 I wouldn’t have to ask you about him, would I? 73 00:08:25,797 --> 00:08:29,051 You’d tell me if there was anything to tell, wouldn’t you? 74 00:08:29,134 --> 00:08:31,553 I’d tell you. You know I would. 75 00:08:32,763 --> 00:08:34,640 So you don’t know nothin’ either. 76 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:41,939 [ Sighs ] Halle, Halle. [ Grunts ] 77 00:08:42,064 --> 00:08:43,941 [ Horse Whinnying ] 78 00:08:58,247 --> 00:09:00,624 We got spare rooms. 79 00:09:02,209 --> 00:09:04,795 Could stay the night if you had the mind to. 80 00:09:04,878 --> 00:09:06,880 You don’t sound too steady in the offer. 81 00:09:07,005 --> 00:09:09,800 Oh, it’s truly meant. 82 00:09:09,883 --> 00:09:12,135 It’s just that I hope you’ll pardon my house. 83 00:09:12,219 --> 00:09:14,137 ’My house.’ 84 00:09:16,807 --> 00:09:19,852 I like the sound of that. 85 00:09:20,018 --> 00:09:21,854 Come on in. 86 00:09:27,860 --> 00:09:29,862 - Come on in. - [ Chuckling ] 87 00:09:42,916 --> 00:09:46,837 Good God, girl. What kind of evil you got in there? 88 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,257 It ain’t evil. Just sad. Come on. 89 00:09:50,382 --> 00:09:52,259 Step on through. 90 00:11:02,830 --> 00:11:05,249 I- I thought you said she died soft. 91 00:11:05,332 --> 00:11:07,918 That’s not Baby Suggs. 92 00:11:09,086 --> 00:11:11,755 - Who then? - My daughter. 93 00:11:13,632 --> 00:11:17,261 - The one I sent ahead with the boys before I run off. - She didn’t live? 94 00:11:17,386 --> 00:11:19,805 - No. - Boys too? 95 00:11:19,930 --> 00:11:21,932 No, they alive, I pray. 96 00:11:22,057 --> 00:11:25,435 They run off just before Baby Suggs went and died. 97 00:11:30,023 --> 00:11:33,277 Probably best. Ahh! 98 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,821 Negro boy got legs, he ought to use ‘em. 99 00:11:35,946 --> 00:11:39,783 Sit around too long, somebody’ll figure out a way to tie ‘em up. 100 00:11:39,867 --> 00:11:42,619 Ahh! 101 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:51,795 - By yourself then? - No. 102 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:55,132 Got the girl I was carryin’ when I left Sweet Home. 103 00:11:55,215 --> 00:12:00,470 You had that baby, did you? Damn, I didn’t think you’d make it. 104 00:12:00,554 --> 00:12:03,515 Runnin’ off pregnant, all by yourself too. 105 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,475 - [ Footsteps ] - Denver! 106 00:12:08,145 --> 00:12:10,022 Come here, baby. 107 00:12:10,147 --> 00:12:12,357 I want you to meet somebody. 108 00:12:15,736 --> 00:12:17,863 Paul D, this here is my Denver. 109 00:12:22,951 --> 00:12:26,246 Uh, mornin’, Miss Denver. It’s a pleasure. 110 00:12:33,545 --> 00:12:35,422 Mornin’, Mr D. 111 00:12:35,547 --> 00:12:40,677 Uh, Garner, baby. Paul D Garner. 112 00:12:40,761 --> 00:12:43,347 - Yes, sir. - Glad to get a look at you. 113 00:12:43,472 --> 00:12:45,933 She a fine-lookin’ young lady, Sethe. 114 00:12:46,058 --> 00:12:49,728 Yeah. Got her daddy’s sweet face. 115 00:12:49,853 --> 00:12:51,188 You know my daddy? 116 00:12:51,271 --> 00:12:55,234 Of course he know your daddy. He from Sweet Home. 117 00:12:55,359 --> 00:12:57,861 Yeah. 118 00:12:57,945 --> 00:12:59,863 Sweet Home. 119 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:05,536 How come everybody who run off from Sweet Home can’t stop talkin’ about it? 120 00:13:05,661 --> 00:13:08,914 It looks like if it was so sweet, you wouldn’t run away. 121 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:11,875 Girl, who you think you talkin’ to? 122 00:13:11,959 --> 00:13:14,503 True, true. She-She right, Sethe. 123 00:13:14,586 --> 00:13:19,216 It wasn’t sweet, and it sure wasn’t home. 124 00:13:19,299 --> 00:13:23,387 But it’s where we were, all together. 125 00:13:23,512 --> 00:13:26,807 Come back whether we wanted to or not. 126 00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,062 [ Sighs ] 127 00:13:33,397 --> 00:13:35,315 We have a ghost here, you know? 128 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,610 - [ Liquid Pouring ] - We met. 129 00:13:38,735 --> 00:13:40,487 Denver, heat up that stove. 130 00:13:40,612 --> 00:13:43,991 Can’t have a friend stop by and don’t feed him. 131 00:13:44,116 --> 00:13:46,368 Oh, don’t go to no trouble on my account. 132 00:13:46,451 --> 00:13:49,079 Bread ain’t no trouble. 133 00:13:49,204 --> 00:13:51,582 The rest I bring back from where I work. 134 00:13:51,707 --> 00:13:55,002 Least I can do workin’ dawn to noon is bring home supper. 135 00:13:55,127 --> 00:13:57,004 Got any objections to pike? 136 00:13:57,129 --> 00:13:59,631 If he don’t object to me, I don’t object to him. 137 00:14:04,469 --> 00:14:06,763 Why don’t you spend the night, Mr Garner? 138 00:14:06,889 --> 00:14:10,434 That way, two of you can talk about Sweet Home all night long. 139 00:14:10,517 --> 00:14:13,061 Denver, what is the matter with you? 140 00:14:13,145 --> 00:14:15,105 I never known you to behave this way. 141 00:14:15,230 --> 00:14:17,107 [ Crying ] 142 00:14:18,984 --> 00:14:21,862 [ Sniffling ] Mama, I can’t no more. 143 00:14:22,946 --> 00:14:24,865 [ Sniffling Continues ] 144 00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:27,784 I can’t no more. 145 00:14:27,868 --> 00:14:29,870 You can’t what? What can’t you? 146 00:14:29,995 --> 00:14:31,872 Can’t live here. 147 00:14:34,208 --> 00:14:37,085 I don’t know where I’m gonna go or what I’m gonna do... 148 00:14:37,169 --> 00:14:39,129 but I can’t stay here! 149 00:14:39,296 --> 00:14:41,965 [ Sobbing ] 150 00:14:42,090 --> 00:14:45,260 Nobody speaks to us, nobody comes by... 151 00:14:45,344 --> 00:14:49,014 nobody even knows I’m alive. 152 00:14:49,139 --> 00:14:51,141 Oh, Denver. 153 00:14:51,266 --> 00:14:53,143 Come here, baby. 154 00:14:55,187 --> 00:14:57,147 - It’s all right. - Sethe. 155 00:14:57,231 --> 00:14:59,149 I’m a grown man... 156 00:15:00,484 --> 00:15:02,653 with nothin’ new left to see or do... 157 00:15:02,736 --> 00:15:05,155 but I tell you it can’t be easy... 158 00:15:05,239 --> 00:15:07,574 a young girl livin’ in a haunted place. 159 00:15:07,699 --> 00:15:09,785 Maybe you ought to move. 160 00:15:09,910 --> 00:15:11,829 No. 161 00:15:11,912 --> 00:15:15,582 No movin’. No leavin’. 162 00:15:15,707 --> 00:15:17,918 It’s all right the way it is. It’s all right. 163 00:15:18,043 --> 00:15:20,379 You wanna tell me it’s all right, Sethe... 164 00:15:20,504 --> 00:15:22,381 and that child’s half outta her mind. 165 00:15:22,506 --> 00:15:24,174 [ Clattering ] 166 00:15:25,926 --> 00:15:28,679 - [ Denver Whimpering ] - Hush, I say! 167 00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:33,684 I got a tree on my back... 168 00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:35,978 and a haint in my house... 169 00:15:36,061 --> 00:15:38,564 and nothin’ in between but the daughter I’m holdin’ in my arms. 170 00:15:38,689 --> 00:15:41,984 No leavin’. No runnin’ from nothin’. 171 00:15:42,067 --> 00:15:44,236 - You hear me? - [ Mumbling ] 172 00:15:44,361 --> 00:15:48,532 I will never run from another thing on this Earth. 173 00:15:52,411 --> 00:15:54,329 Come on. 174 00:15:54,413 --> 00:15:56,999 You can sit down and eat... 175 00:15:57,082 --> 00:16:00,085 - or you can leave us be. - [ Sobbing ] 176 00:16:24,651 --> 00:16:27,404 [ Grunts ] 177 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:29,406 Lord. 178 00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:41,835 What tree, Sethe? 179 00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:47,716 Huh? 180 00:16:48,967 --> 00:16:51,345 I don’t see nothin’ growin’ on your back. 181 00:16:54,473 --> 00:16:56,892 It’s there all the same. 182 00:16:56,975 --> 00:16:59,144 Chokecherry tree. 183 00:17:00,854 --> 00:17:02,731 Leaves, branches. 184 00:17:04,191 --> 00:17:07,611 That was 18 years ago. 185 00:17:07,694 --> 00:17:10,239 - Happened that night. - That night? 186 00:17:10,322 --> 00:17:14,618 - [ Screaming ] - Tree could have cherries by now for all I know. 187 00:17:14,743 --> 00:17:17,830 I ain’t followin’ you, Sethe. 188 00:17:17,955 --> 00:17:19,832 I had milk, Paul D. 189 00:17:19,957 --> 00:17:21,291 [ Chattering ] 190 00:17:21,416 --> 00:17:23,293 I had milk, see? 191 00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:27,965 I was pregnant with Denver... 192 00:17:28,048 --> 00:17:30,884 but I hadn’t stopped nursin’ my baby girl... 193 00:17:31,009 --> 00:17:33,846 before I sent her and the boys off. 194 00:17:33,971 --> 00:17:35,764 [ Crying ] 195 00:17:35,848 --> 00:17:41,061 All I knew was, I had to get milk to my baby girl. 196 00:17:41,186 --> 00:17:43,522 I thought we was talkin’ about a tree. 197 00:17:43,647 --> 00:17:47,985 We was all supposed to meet in the cornfield. None of you came. 198 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:52,322 I had to leave my children, go back lookin’ for Halle. 199 00:17:52,406 --> 00:17:54,324 That’s when I saw you in the shed. 200 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:57,452 Sixo dead. Schoolteacher done gone and burnt him. 201 00:17:57,536 --> 00:17:59,454 Paul A too. They hang him from a tree. 202 00:17:59,538 --> 00:18:02,833 Said you were gonna run no matter what. 203 00:18:02,916 --> 00:18:05,002 I didn’t think you would make it to the gate. 204 00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:08,714 - I went back in the barn to look for Halle. - Animal. 205 00:18:08,839 --> 00:18:11,008 That’s when Schoolteacher saw me. 206 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:12,676 [ Schoolteacher ] What’s it taste like? 207 00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:15,304 Came in there with his boys after me. 208 00:18:15,387 --> 00:18:18,015 You’ve got animal characteristics. 209 00:18:18,098 --> 00:18:20,517 Them boys took my milk. 210 00:18:20,601 --> 00:18:23,270 That’s my baby’s food! 211 00:18:23,395 --> 00:18:26,231 That’s what they come in there for. 212 00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:29,067 [ Screaming ] 213 00:18:29,193 --> 00:18:32,696 Hold me down, take it. 214 00:18:34,239 --> 00:18:36,158 I told Miss Garner on ‘em. 215 00:18:36,241 --> 00:18:37,868 [ Sethe ] They’re lyin’, the animals! 216 00:18:40,662 --> 00:18:43,373 She had that lump on her neck and couldn’t speak. 217 00:18:43,457 --> 00:18:46,543 But her eyes rolled out tears, I remember. 218 00:18:48,921 --> 00:18:51,006 Them boys found out I told on ‘em. 219 00:18:51,089 --> 00:18:55,719 - [ Screaming ] - You’re horrible and beaten up! 220 00:18:55,844 --> 00:18:57,721 You’re horrible and beaten up! 221 00:18:57,846 --> 00:19:00,724 Schoolteacher had one of ‘em whoopin’ up my back. 222 00:19:02,434 --> 00:19:04,853 And when they closed... 223 00:19:07,606 --> 00:19:09,525 it left a tree. 224 00:19:14,530 --> 00:19:16,615 They used cowhide on you. 225 00:19:23,747 --> 00:19:25,624 And they took my milk. 226 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,046 They beat you and you was pregnant? 227 00:19:32,798 --> 00:19:35,217 And they took my milk. 228 00:20:20,679 --> 00:20:23,348 Oh, Lord, girl. 229 00:20:32,858 --> 00:20:35,777 [ Clattering, Baby Crying ] 230 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,370 [ Crying Continues ] 231 00:20:55,547 --> 00:20:57,508 [ Screaming ] 232 00:20:57,591 --> 00:21:00,344 [ Screaming ] Goddam it! 233 00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:03,180 Hush up! 234 00:21:03,222 --> 00:21:04,973 [ Barking ] 235 00:21:05,057 --> 00:21:07,559 [ Sethe ] Denver! Denver! 236 00:21:07,684 --> 00:21:09,520 Move! Move! 237 00:21:09,603 --> 00:21:11,688 Get outta the way! 238 00:21:11,772 --> 00:21:14,191 [ Paul D ] Leave this place alone! 239 00:21:18,695 --> 00:21:21,323 I said, hush up, goddam it! 240 00:21:21,406 --> 00:21:23,867 Paul D, look out! 241 00:21:26,453 --> 00:21:28,163 Paul D! 242 00:21:28,247 --> 00:21:30,916 [ Paul D Groaning ] 243 00:21:35,796 --> 00:21:39,383 - Paul D! - You wanna fight? 244 00:21:40,801 --> 00:21:45,055 Then come on, goddam it! [ Yelling ] 245 00:21:49,351 --> 00:21:51,228 [ Panting ] 246 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:04,199 [ Birds Twittering ] 247 00:22:15,586 --> 00:22:17,462 [ Panting Continues ] 248 00:22:40,986 --> 00:22:42,863 [ Coughing ] 249 00:25:12,971 --> 00:25:15,390 [ Chickens Clucking ] 250 00:25:34,743 --> 00:25:36,620 [ Baby Cooing ] 251 00:25:36,745 --> 00:25:39,581 - [ Man ] I was up there in the loft! - [ Paul D Screaming ] Halle! 252 00:25:39,665 --> 00:25:42,459 - [ Sethe ] Them boys took my milk. - Halle! 253 00:25:42,543 --> 00:25:45,462 - That’s what they come in there for. - [ Halle ] The loft, the loft. 254 00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:47,464 - Halle! - I seen it all! 255 00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:51,927 - [ Sethe ] Hold me down and take it. - [ Screaming ] 256 00:25:52,010 --> 00:25:53,428 [ Gasping ] 257 00:25:53,512 --> 00:25:55,597 - Halle! - Milk it like a cow. 258 00:25:55,681 --> 00:25:59,351 - That’s what we mean by animal characteristics. - Halle! Stop! 259 00:26:28,088 --> 00:26:30,299 [ Paul D ] # Little rice# 260 00:26:30,382 --> 00:26:32,676 # Little bean# 261 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:37,181 # No meat in between# 262 00:26:37,222 --> 00:26:40,142 # Hard work ain’t easy # 263 00:26:40,184 --> 00:26:42,144 [ Sethe ] Anybody here? 264 00:26:42,269 --> 00:26:45,189 Mama! Mama! 265 00:26:45,272 --> 00:26:47,524 [ Chuckling ] 266 00:26:49,902 --> 00:26:52,905 - Sethe? [ Clears Throat ] - Hmm? 267 00:26:53,030 --> 00:26:56,158 I was thinkin’ of lookin’ for work around here. 268 00:26:56,241 --> 00:26:59,661 - What you think? - Hmm. Ain’t much. 269 00:26:59,745 --> 00:27:02,664 River mostly. And hogs. 270 00:27:02,748 --> 00:27:05,000 Well, I never worked on the river... 271 00:27:05,083 --> 00:27:07,961 but I can pick up anything heavy as me, hogs included. 272 00:27:08,086 --> 00:27:11,381 White folks here better than Kentucky... 273 00:27:11,465 --> 00:27:14,218 but you just might have to scramble some. 274 00:27:14,343 --> 00:27:17,304 Well, it ain’t whether I scramble, it’s where. 275 00:27:17,429 --> 00:27:20,599 You sayin’ it’s all right to scramble here? 276 00:27:20,724 --> 00:27:23,018 Better than all right. 277 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,398 Your girl, Denver, it seems she of a different mind though. 278 00:27:28,524 --> 00:27:30,901 You don’t never have to worry about Denver. 279 00:27:30,984 --> 00:27:34,905 She a charmed child from the beginning. 280 00:27:35,030 --> 00:27:37,741 Gotta know one thing though, Paul D. 281 00:27:37,825 --> 00:27:39,952 This here ain’t no better life. 282 00:27:40,077 --> 00:27:41,995 Just not that other one. 283 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,706 What I do here-- all I ever do... 284 00:27:44,790 --> 00:27:48,210 is keep Denver from that other one. 285 00:27:48,293 --> 00:27:51,922 Won’t let the past in my yard again. You understand? 286 00:27:52,005 --> 00:27:54,842 Dangerous to love any one thing that much, Sethe. 287 00:27:54,967 --> 00:27:57,845 The best thing is to love everything just a little bit. 288 00:27:57,970 --> 00:28:02,432 That way, if it breaks or runs off or is taken away... 289 00:28:02,516 --> 00:28:04,560 you know, maybe, you still have a little love left over. 290 00:28:04,643 --> 00:28:08,021 Hmm. Well, that’s the way it is, Paul D. 291 00:28:08,146 --> 00:28:12,651 If I have to choose, well, ain’t no choice. 292 00:28:12,776 --> 00:28:15,612 That’s the whole point. I ain’t askin’ you to choose. 293 00:28:15,737 --> 00:28:19,449 I just wanna know if there’s a place for me. 294 00:28:19,533 --> 00:28:23,287 If there’s more than, ’You can stay, it’s fine.’ 295 00:28:23,412 --> 00:28:26,290 More like, ’I want you here, Paul.’ 296 00:28:27,749 --> 00:28:31,962 Maybe we ought to just leave things the way they are. 297 00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:36,258 Sethe, I’m not sayin’ this ’cause I need a place to stay. 298 00:28:36,383 --> 00:28:40,470 We could make a life, girl. A life. 299 00:28:40,554 --> 00:28:44,183 - I don’t know about that, Paul D Garner. - Leave it to me! 300 00:28:44,308 --> 00:28:48,145 See how it goes. No promises if you don’t wanna make none. 301 00:28:48,228 --> 00:28:51,023 Just leave it to me. All right? 302 00:28:51,148 --> 00:28:53,066 [ Hoofbeats Clattering ] 303 00:28:53,192 --> 00:28:56,445 - All right, we’ll see how it goes. - [ Sighing ] 304 00:28:56,528 --> 00:29:00,282 You’re willin’ to leave it to me? 305 00:29:00,365 --> 00:29:02,284 Some of it. 306 00:29:02,367 --> 00:29:06,497 Some. Okay. Okay. 307 00:29:06,622 --> 00:29:09,791 Here’s some. There’s a carnival in town. 308 00:29:09,917 --> 00:29:12,336 Thursdays for coloreds, and I got two dollars. 309 00:29:12,419 --> 00:29:15,339 Me, you and Denver gonna spend every penny. 310 00:29:15,422 --> 00:29:18,342 - What you say? - I don’t know. 311 00:29:18,467 --> 00:29:20,344 All right? 312 00:29:24,181 --> 00:29:26,517 - No. - Aw-- Please! 313 00:29:33,273 --> 00:29:36,360 [ Denver ] You think Baby Ghost’s really gone? 314 00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:40,489 Don’t know. 315 00:29:41,740 --> 00:29:44,368 She my sister. 316 00:29:44,535 --> 00:29:46,370 I miss her. 317 00:29:48,872 --> 00:29:53,877 [ Paul D ] # Well, I said come here, black woman? 318 00:29:54,002 --> 00:29:56,797 I wish he’d shut up. He gonna ruin everything. 319 00:29:56,922 --> 00:30:00,801 - Shh. Give him a chance. - # [ Singing Continues ] 320 00:30:00,926 --> 00:30:03,345 - Do that for me. - Why? 321 00:30:03,428 --> 00:30:05,347 How long he stayin’? 322 00:30:07,474 --> 00:30:12,396 - Don’t know. -# I said run here, black woman? 323 00:30:12,479 --> 00:30:16,817 I think the baby ain’t gone. 324 00:30:16,942 --> 00:30:19,778 I think the baby got plans. 325 00:30:22,781 --> 00:30:24,700 - Maybe. -# I know your house # 326 00:30:26,243 --> 00:30:28,162 [ Sethe ] Maybe so. 327 00:30:33,125 --> 00:30:36,003 [ Bird Squawking, Wings Fluttering ] 328 00:30:36,128 --> 00:30:39,923 [ Snoring ] 329 00:30:40,048 --> 00:30:42,092 [ Wheezing ] 330 00:30:47,681 --> 00:30:52,394 [ Snoring, Wheezing Continue ] 331 00:30:55,772 --> 00:30:57,733 [ Gasping ] 332 00:31:18,837 --> 00:31:20,756 [ Wheezing Continues ] 333 00:31:27,262 --> 00:31:30,390 [ Snoring ] 334 00:31:51,036 --> 00:31:53,956 [ Wheezing, Snorting ] 335 00:32:04,007 --> 00:32:07,636 - # [ Calliope ] - [ Man ] Come one, come forward, come all! Do not fear! 336 00:32:08,887 --> 00:32:13,851 Come inside to the largest lady, Roundella, with me today. 337 00:32:13,934 --> 00:32:18,188 Sweet, gentle and delicate, eating a chicken from each hand. 338 00:32:18,313 --> 00:32:22,734 - Come inside now and see her. Don’t be afraid. Come this way. - Wait! Come back! 339 00:32:22,860 --> 00:32:24,736 [ Crowd Chattering ] 340 00:32:28,907 --> 00:32:31,535 ...and who will swallow a Confederate sword to the hilt... 341 00:32:31,577 --> 00:32:33,704 in front of your very eyes. 342 00:32:33,787 --> 00:32:37,040 - Step forward and see! - Whoo! 343 00:32:37,124 --> 00:32:40,252 [ Chattering ] 344 00:32:40,377 --> 00:32:42,504 Oh, Grace. 345 00:32:42,588 --> 00:32:46,049 - You’ll never believe who come walkin’ up in here. - [ Lion Growling ] 346 00:32:46,133 --> 00:32:49,428 - How do? - [ Man ] Come on, Lucy. 347 00:32:49,553 --> 00:32:52,556 [ Boy ] Don’t forget the pig ride. 348 00:32:52,681 --> 00:32:54,558 [ Paul D ] How do, ma’am? 349 00:32:54,683 --> 00:32:58,562 [ Crowd Gasping, Applauding ] 350 00:32:58,687 --> 00:33:02,733 Step inside to see the things you thought could never be. 351 00:33:02,816 --> 00:33:05,903 The ferocious African savage, Cluck Butoo! 352 00:33:05,986 --> 00:33:10,407 Born with fangs, raised by wild animals and captured crazy. 353 00:33:16,246 --> 00:33:18,582 Look how fat she is, Mama. 354 00:33:18,665 --> 00:33:20,584 [ Growling ] 355 00:33:24,713 --> 00:33:27,090 I- I knew this one back in Roanoke. 356 00:33:31,220 --> 00:33:35,098 - Want some liquorice, Denver? - Yes, please. 357 00:33:35,182 --> 00:33:37,392 - Peppermint stick? - Yes, please. 358 00:33:37,476 --> 00:33:41,021 - Some gumdrops? - Yes, please. 359 00:33:44,024 --> 00:33:45,943 Mind if I take a sip? 360 00:33:56,537 --> 00:33:59,915 Mmm. Mmm! 361 00:34:03,794 --> 00:34:06,547 Hey, Denver! 362 00:34:06,672 --> 00:34:09,299 Hi. 363 00:34:09,341 --> 00:34:11,468 Thank you. 364 00:34:15,556 --> 00:34:18,100 I’ll take one of those lemonades too. 365 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,357 But tell me about some work. 366 00:34:25,482 --> 00:34:29,027 - I mean, tell me about where I can find some. - Well, they have-- 367 00:34:29,153 --> 00:34:32,573 [ Man ]...turns his head inside his own face... 368 00:34:32,656 --> 00:34:35,284 - and pulls his ears-- - [ Men Chattering ] 369 00:34:36,410 --> 00:34:39,663 [ Crowd Singing ] # Headin’ back# 370 00:34:39,830 --> 00:34:43,417 # Goin’ home# 371 00:34:43,542 --> 00:34:46,587 # [ Continues ] 372 00:34:46,712 --> 00:34:49,965 [ Chattering ] 373 00:34:50,132 --> 00:34:52,301 What’s that? 374 00:34:52,426 --> 00:34:56,054 # Ain’t wanna hurt nobody# 375 00:34:56,180 --> 00:34:59,183 -# Oh, no# - [ Snoring ] 376 00:34:59,266 --> 00:35:01,685 # Ain’t gonna hurt nobody# 377 00:35:01,768 --> 00:35:06,231 # Oh, Lord# 378 00:35:06,356 --> 00:35:08,192 # [ Continues ] 379 00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:11,778 [ Gasping ] 380 00:35:24,249 --> 00:35:26,126 Excuse me. 381 00:35:59,868 --> 00:36:01,787 [ Coughing ] 382 00:36:01,870 --> 00:36:04,414 You from around here? 383 00:36:20,681 --> 00:36:22,891 What might your name be? 384 00:36:23,016 --> 00:36:27,062 [ Speaking In Guttural Voice ] B... 385 00:36:27,187 --> 00:36:29,815 E... 386 00:36:29,898 --> 00:36:32,192 L... 387 00:36:32,317 --> 00:36:33,819 O... 388 00:36:33,902 --> 00:36:36,280 V... 389 00:36:36,363 --> 00:36:39,366 E... 390 00:36:39,491 --> 00:36:41,702 D. 391 00:36:41,827 --> 00:36:45,455 Beloved. [ Grunting ] 392 00:36:47,291 --> 00:36:50,294 That’s a pretty name, Beloved. 393 00:36:50,377 --> 00:36:53,714 Why don’t you rest yourself while I-- I fix us a little somethin’. 394 00:36:53,839 --> 00:36:58,135 We just got back from the carnival over in Cincinnati. 395 00:36:58,218 --> 00:37:02,222 [ Paul D ] Miss? Miss? 396 00:37:02,389 --> 00:37:04,558 You wanna rest a spell? 397 00:37:12,065 --> 00:37:14,234 - [ Beloved Gasping ] - I got her! 398 00:37:14,359 --> 00:37:16,528 I got her. I got her. 399 00:37:20,073 --> 00:37:21,950 [ Whimpering ] 400 00:37:35,088 --> 00:37:37,549 Look at her feet. 401 00:37:37,674 --> 00:37:40,093 Ain’t walkin’ feet. 402 00:37:41,595 --> 00:37:43,764 - More like she... - [ Wheezing ] 403 00:37:43,889 --> 00:37:45,766 ride from somewhere all the way here. 404 00:37:45,891 --> 00:37:48,352 Is she feverish, Denver? 405 00:37:50,062 --> 00:37:52,189 No, she cold. 406 00:37:52,231 --> 00:37:55,859 - [ Paul D ] Could have the cholera. - She ain’t sick. 407 00:38:11,583 --> 00:38:15,128 - [ Paul D Chuckling ] - [ Sethe ] Nah, it’s just a little somethin’ I whipped up. 408 00:38:15,254 --> 00:38:17,840 A little somethin’ you whipped up? 409 00:38:17,965 --> 00:38:20,425 - Mmm. Mmm. - [ Beloved Moaning ] 410 00:38:24,054 --> 00:38:26,265 Heard there’s work down in Bucktown. 411 00:38:27,641 --> 00:38:29,977 Go see it for myself today. 412 00:38:36,942 --> 00:38:38,861 [ Paul D And Sethe Laughing ] 413 00:38:49,163 --> 00:38:51,039 [ Wheezing ] 414 00:38:54,334 --> 00:38:58,297 [ Snoring ] 415 00:39:06,513 --> 00:39:09,016 Mmm-mm. 416 00:39:09,141 --> 00:39:12,978 [ Paul D ] Whoa! Whoa! Hey! Ho-ho! Whoa! 417 00:39:13,103 --> 00:39:14,771 Hey! 418 00:39:14,855 --> 00:39:16,773 [ Chattering ] 419 00:39:20,110 --> 00:39:22,488 [ Wheezing, Snoring Continue ] 420 00:39:49,723 --> 00:39:52,601 # [ Denver Singing ] 421 00:39:57,314 --> 00:39:59,691 - # [ Stops ] - [ Wheezing, Snoring Continue ] 422 00:40:16,083 --> 00:40:18,001 [ Grunting ] 423 00:40:34,852 --> 00:40:36,937 You wanna try some? 424 00:40:53,537 --> 00:40:56,081 Come on, come on. Come on. 425 00:40:57,291 --> 00:41:00,002 - Over here. Come on. - [ Beloved Wheezing ] 426 00:41:00,127 --> 00:41:02,004 There you go. 427 00:41:07,467 --> 00:41:09,928 Come on! [ Laughing ] 428 00:41:10,053 --> 00:41:14,474 I knew you could do it. [ Chuckling ] Oh. 429 00:41:22,232 --> 00:41:24,109 You hungry? 430 00:41:27,821 --> 00:41:29,698 [ Giggles ] 431 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:43,837 It’s good! 432 00:41:47,674 --> 00:41:49,593 [ Giggling ] 433 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,599 Slow down. 434 00:42:13,033 --> 00:42:14,952 [ Laughing ] 435 00:42:15,035 --> 00:42:17,496 # [ Woman Vocalizing ] 436 00:42:31,844 --> 00:42:33,720 Come on. 437 00:42:38,058 --> 00:42:41,311 Chicken, chicken, shoo, shoo, shoo. 438 00:42:41,395 --> 00:42:46,400 - # [ Vocalizing Stops ] - I call this one June... 439 00:42:46,567 --> 00:42:48,402 and that’s May. 440 00:42:50,404 --> 00:42:52,865 You gotta do soft touch. 441 00:42:52,990 --> 00:42:55,868 Remember? Can you do soft touch? 442 00:42:55,993 --> 00:42:58,162 Touch it-- No! 443 00:42:58,245 --> 00:43:00,164 Beloved. 444 00:44:34,633 --> 00:44:37,010 [ Wheezing ] 445 00:44:37,135 --> 00:44:39,012 Beloved. 446 00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:43,892 I help make you bread. 447 00:44:45,561 --> 00:44:47,479 That’s nice. 448 00:44:47,563 --> 00:44:49,481 Is my apron here? 449 00:44:51,150 --> 00:44:53,235 All right, we need a little flour. We need some-- 450 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,155 I don’t know. I see you got all my things laid out. 451 00:44:56,238 --> 00:44:59,741 Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now you need some of that right there. 452 00:44:59,867 --> 00:45:02,035 You need this. 453 00:45:02,161 --> 00:45:04,913 There. Wait, wait. 454 00:45:04,997 --> 00:45:08,500 [ Paul D ] # Little rice, little bean# 455 00:45:08,625 --> 00:45:11,170 # Ain’t no meat in between # 456 00:45:11,253 --> 00:45:13,213 [ Beloved Chattering ] 457 00:45:13,255 --> 00:45:18,844 [ Denver Laughing ] Ooh, look at you. 458 00:45:18,927 --> 00:45:21,638 Okay, put it down. Put it back. 459 00:45:21,722 --> 00:45:23,640 # [ Continues ] 460 00:45:23,724 --> 00:45:27,269 [ Beloved ] Go inside and get biscuit. 461 00:45:27,394 --> 00:45:29,605 Easy. 462 00:45:29,730 --> 00:45:33,025 [ Denver ] # I went downtown to get my grits# 463 00:45:33,150 --> 00:45:36,320 # Came back home just a-pullin’ the skiff# 464 00:45:36,403 --> 00:45:38,780 # Just a-pullin’ the skiff# 465 00:45:38,906 --> 00:45:41,950 # I ran upstairs to make my bed# 466 00:45:42,075 --> 00:45:45,037 # I made a mistake and I bumped my head# 467 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,582 # Just a-pullin’ the skiff Just a-pullin’ the skiff# 468 00:45:48,707 --> 00:45:52,085 # Went downstairs to milk my cow# 469 00:45:52,211 --> 00:45:54,880 # I made a mistake and I milked my sow# 470 00:45:55,005 --> 00:45:58,217 # Just a-pullin’ the skiff Just a-pullin’ the skiff# 471 00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:01,553 # Tomorrow, tomorrow Tomorrow never comes# 472 00:46:01,678 --> 00:46:04,806 # Tomorrow, tomorrow Tomorrow never comes # 473 00:46:04,932 --> 00:46:08,060 # [ Singing ] 474 00:46:28,872 --> 00:46:31,750 [ Thunder Rumbling ] 475 00:46:34,378 --> 00:46:37,005 - [ Beloved Whimpering ] - Come on! 476 00:46:37,130 --> 00:46:39,216 Clouds look like they’re gonna burst. 477 00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:41,593 - [ All Screaming, Laughing ] - Oh, here it come! 478 00:46:41,718 --> 00:46:43,095 - Here, here! - Come on, girl. 479 00:46:43,220 --> 00:46:46,014 - Here, Mama! Pull! - Pull it! 480 00:46:46,139 --> 00:46:47,724 - Go! Go! Hurry up! - Hurry up. Come on. 481 00:46:47,808 --> 00:46:50,227 - Beloved, pick up that sheet. - Run! It’s raining! 482 00:46:50,310 --> 00:46:52,646 - You’re draggin’ it on the ground. - Go! 483 00:46:52,771 --> 00:46:55,232 [ Screaming, Laughing Continue ] 484 00:46:59,194 --> 00:47:01,947 Stop draggin’ them sheets. Pick ‘em up off the ground now... 485 00:47:02,072 --> 00:47:04,616 so we don’t have to wash ‘em again. 486 00:47:04,741 --> 00:47:06,869 Come on. Whoo! 487 00:47:06,994 --> 00:47:09,705 Almost didn’t make it. 488 00:47:09,830 --> 00:47:12,416 Spread ‘em out. Beloved, put that sheet down now. 489 00:47:12,499 --> 00:47:14,751 Spread it out. Keep it up off the floor. 490 00:47:16,003 --> 00:47:17,921 # [ Singing ] 491 00:48:02,633 --> 00:48:04,551 Where... 492 00:48:04,676 --> 00:48:07,763 your diamonds? 493 00:48:09,306 --> 00:48:12,017 Diamonds? [ Chuckles ] 494 00:48:12,142 --> 00:48:14,728 What would I be doin’ with diamonds? 495 00:48:14,853 --> 00:48:18,273 On your ears. 496 00:48:21,235 --> 00:48:23,153 Wish I did. 497 00:48:24,446 --> 00:48:27,825 Come to think of it... 498 00:48:27,908 --> 00:48:31,245 I had some crystal once. 499 00:48:31,370 --> 00:48:33,747 Present from the lady I used to work for. 500 00:48:33,872 --> 00:48:35,749 Tell me. 501 00:48:37,751 --> 00:48:40,379 Tell me your diamonds. 502 00:48:40,462 --> 00:48:43,215 Wedding present from Miss Garner... 503 00:48:43,298 --> 00:48:45,968 back at Sweet Home... 504 00:48:46,093 --> 00:48:50,931 when Halle and me got married-- what they called married back there and then. 505 00:48:51,056 --> 00:48:54,726 Guess she saw how bad I felt when... 506 00:48:54,810 --> 00:48:57,896 I saw there wasn’t gonna be no ceremony, no preacher. 507 00:48:59,189 --> 00:49:02,901 I never saw you with no crystals. 508 00:49:02,985 --> 00:49:05,654 Gone. 509 00:49:05,779 --> 00:49:07,656 Long gone. 510 00:49:11,618 --> 00:49:14,830 Come here, girl. You best unbraid that hair. 511 00:49:15,956 --> 00:49:17,833 Come on. Get the comb. 512 00:49:20,127 --> 00:49:22,045 It’s right here. 513 00:49:23,797 --> 00:49:25,841 Ow! That hurts. 514 00:49:25,966 --> 00:49:29,261 Comb it every day, it won’t. 515 00:49:29,344 --> 00:49:31,555 Your woman... 516 00:49:31,638 --> 00:49:35,934 never fix up your hair? 517 00:49:36,018 --> 00:49:38,478 My woman? You mean my mother? 518 00:49:38,604 --> 00:49:41,857 Mama don’t talk about all those things. 519 00:49:41,982 --> 00:49:43,859 Tell me. 520 00:49:47,738 --> 00:49:49,948 If she did, I don’t remember. 521 00:49:50,073 --> 00:49:53,827 I don’t think I saw her but a few times out in the field... 522 00:49:53,952 --> 00:49:56,330 once workin’ indigo. 523 00:49:57,831 --> 00:50:03,086 By the time I woke up mornings, she was in line. 524 00:50:03,170 --> 00:50:06,757 Hmm. If the moon was bright, they worked by its light. 525 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:11,136 Sundays, she slept like a stick. 526 00:50:12,888 --> 00:50:16,099 Tell me about her. 527 00:50:19,186 --> 00:50:24,566 I remember, once, she picked me up and carried me behind the smokehouse. 528 00:50:25,692 --> 00:50:28,570 Only thing I do remember, in fact. 529 00:50:30,531 --> 00:50:35,661 She opened up her dress, and right on her rib-- 530 00:50:35,744 --> 00:50:37,663 right here-- 531 00:50:40,707 --> 00:50:42,918 was a circle... 532 00:50:43,043 --> 00:50:46,922 and a cross burnt right in the skin. 533 00:50:47,047 --> 00:50:50,300 She points at this mark, and she says-- 534 00:50:50,384 --> 00:50:52,511 she says to me... 535 00:50:52,594 --> 00:50:57,850 ’This is your ma’am. I’m the only one got this mark now. 536 00:50:57,933 --> 00:51:00,060 The rest all dead. 537 00:51:00,185 --> 00:51:03,063 Somethin’ happen to me, you can’t tell me by my face... 538 00:51:03,188 --> 00:51:06,358 you know me by this mark.’ 539 00:51:06,441 --> 00:51:08,277 Scared me so I couldn’t think of nothin’ to say... 540 00:51:08,402 --> 00:51:11,530 so I says, ‘Yes, ma’am. 541 00:51:11,655 --> 00:51:14,408 But how you know me? Mark the mark on me. 542 00:51:14,533 --> 00:51:16,743 Mark me too.’ 543 00:51:16,785 --> 00:51:19,079 Did she? 544 00:51:19,204 --> 00:51:21,081 No. 545 00:51:21,206 --> 00:51:23,959 She slapped my face. 546 00:51:27,713 --> 00:51:30,090 I didn’t understand it then. 547 00:51:32,426 --> 00:51:35,345 Not till I had a mark of my own. 548 00:51:36,805 --> 00:51:41,727 [ Beloved ] What happened to her? 549 00:51:41,852 --> 00:51:44,521 Hung. 550 00:51:48,358 --> 00:51:52,738 Ma’am. What’s the matter with you, ma’am? 551 00:51:56,116 --> 00:51:57,576 Why they hang your mama? 552 00:51:59,786 --> 00:52:02,414 I never found out. 553 00:52:03,957 --> 00:52:05,876 Was a lot of ‘em. 554 00:52:05,959 --> 00:52:08,086 [ People Crying ] 555 00:52:08,212 --> 00:52:10,589 - [ Bones Cracking ] - [ Woman Sobbing ] 556 00:52:57,261 --> 00:53:00,097 Paul D be here in a minute. 557 00:53:10,065 --> 00:53:12,484 Hope this pudding’s good tonight. 558 00:53:15,404 --> 00:53:17,823 Denver, pass me your plate down here. 559 00:53:21,869 --> 00:53:23,745 Paul D. 560 00:53:46,185 --> 00:53:49,730 Where you been all them years... 561 00:53:49,855 --> 00:53:53,275 since Sweet Home, Mr Paul? 562 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,819 Ain’t you got no people? 563 00:53:55,903 --> 00:53:59,031 - You wanna know about me now. - Uh-huh. 564 00:54:06,079 --> 00:54:08,499 I got no people. 565 00:54:14,254 --> 00:54:18,634 Eighteen years since I left Sweet Home, and I’ve been walkin’ the whole time. 566 00:54:18,759 --> 00:54:23,472 Move, walk, run, hide, sometimes steal and move on. 567 00:54:25,724 --> 00:54:29,228 Only time I stayed in one spot for more than a month or so... 568 00:54:29,353 --> 00:54:31,980 was with a weaver woman in Wilmington, Delaware. 569 00:54:32,105 --> 00:54:34,525 Meanest place for a Negro I ever seen... 570 00:54:34,608 --> 00:54:37,569 outside of Pulaski County, Kentucky. 571 00:54:37,653 --> 00:54:42,241 I seen Negroes so stunned and hungry... 572 00:54:42,324 --> 00:54:45,160 they lived in caves, fought owls for food. 573 00:54:45,285 --> 00:54:47,412 Seen some who slept in trees in the day... 574 00:54:47,454 --> 00:54:49,456 and moved only by night... 575 00:54:49,581 --> 00:54:53,043 who buried themselves in slop to hide from... 576 00:54:53,126 --> 00:54:56,797 posses and lawmen and regulators. 577 00:54:56,922 --> 00:55:00,092 Met a Negro boy once-- about 14-- 578 00:55:00,175 --> 00:55:02,594 - who lived by hisself in the woods... - [ Sighing ] 579 00:55:02,678 --> 00:55:06,014 and said he could never remember livin’ anywhere else. 580 00:55:06,139 --> 00:55:09,768 Seen a witless coloured woman hang... 581 00:55:09,852 --> 00:55:13,188 for stealing ducks she believed was her own babies. 582 00:55:17,442 --> 00:55:20,612 In all these years, girl... 583 00:55:20,737 --> 00:55:23,448 you beat all. 584 00:55:23,532 --> 00:55:26,451 I ain’t never seen a Negro like you. 585 00:55:29,246 --> 00:55:32,541 I think it’s time you tell us a little somethin’ about yourself. 586 00:55:32,666 --> 00:55:34,543 She don’t remember nothin’. 587 00:55:34,668 --> 00:55:38,839 Oh, you’d be surprised what you start rememberin’ soon as you start talkin’. 588 00:55:41,341 --> 00:55:44,469 Ain’t you got no brothers or sisters? 589 00:55:49,183 --> 00:55:52,895 I ain’t got nobody. 590 00:55:53,020 --> 00:55:54,897 Paul D, stop it. 591 00:55:56,315 --> 00:55:59,151 Denver, help me clean up this table. 592 00:55:59,234 --> 00:56:01,653 I wanna know, Sethe. 593 00:56:05,199 --> 00:56:08,243 What you lookin’ for when you come here, Beloved? 594 00:56:10,496 --> 00:56:12,372 This place. 595 00:56:15,042 --> 00:56:18,754 I look for this place I could be in. 596 00:56:18,879 --> 00:56:20,964 Somebody tell you about this place? 597 00:56:27,387 --> 00:56:29,348 She told me. 598 00:56:30,724 --> 00:56:35,771 When I was at the bridge, she told me. 599 00:56:35,896 --> 00:56:38,732 How you come? Who brung ya? 600 00:56:40,901 --> 00:56:42,820 I walk here. 601 00:56:45,906 --> 00:56:50,327 It’s a long, long, long, long way. 602 00:56:51,829 --> 00:56:55,457 - Nobody bring me. - You wearin’ new shoes, gal. 603 00:56:55,582 --> 00:56:58,710 - If you walked so long, how come your shoes don’t show it? - [ Sethe ] Paul D. 604 00:56:58,794 --> 00:57:00,587 Stop pickin’ on her. 605 00:57:00,712 --> 00:57:04,424 I wanna know! Where you get them shoes and the dress you had on? 606 00:57:04,550 --> 00:57:08,512 I take the shoes, and I take the dress! 607 00:57:09,930 --> 00:57:13,600 The shoestrings don’t fit. 608 00:57:13,725 --> 00:57:16,603 I’ll teach you how to tie your shoes. 609 00:57:19,273 --> 00:57:21,150 [ Gagging ] 610 00:57:24,611 --> 00:57:27,322 Beloved. Beloved! 611 00:57:28,657 --> 00:57:30,242 - [ Coughing ] - Beloved. 612 00:57:30,325 --> 00:57:32,953 Beloved, Beloved, you all right? 613 00:57:33,078 --> 00:57:34,955 - Let it out. - [ Hand Hitting Back ] 614 00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,332 Go to sleep now. 615 00:57:37,457 --> 00:57:40,252 [ Denver ] You can come in my room. 616 00:57:40,335 --> 00:57:42,754 I can take care of you up there. 617 00:57:45,132 --> 00:57:47,509 [ Crying Continues ] 618 00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:56,518 What’s the matter with you? What is it about her vex you so? 619 00:57:56,643 --> 00:57:59,271 I don’t understand what the hold is. 620 00:57:59,354 --> 00:58:03,734 It’s clear why she hold on to you. I just can’t see why you holdin’ on to her. 621 00:58:03,817 --> 00:58:06,570 What you care who holdin’ on to who? 622 00:58:06,653 --> 00:58:09,072 She nice girl, company for Denver. 623 00:58:09,198 --> 00:58:11,158 There’s something funny about that gal. 624 00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,702 Act sick, sound sick, but she don’t look sick. 625 00:58:13,827 --> 00:58:16,455 Eats sweets all day long, as strong as a bull. 626 00:58:16,538 --> 00:58:20,584 She not strong. She can’t hardly even walk without holdin’ on to somethin’. 627 00:58:20,667 --> 00:58:23,337 Can’t walk, but I seen her pick up the rocker with one hand. 628 00:58:23,462 --> 00:58:25,339 You ain’t seen no such a-thing. 629 00:58:25,464 --> 00:58:28,425 Hey, don’t tell me. Ask Denver. She right there with her. 630 00:58:30,219 --> 00:58:34,640 Sethe, Sethe, baby. 631 00:58:34,723 --> 00:58:39,269 We were startin’ to feel a little like a family ourself till she come along. 632 00:58:39,353 --> 00:58:43,232 - Is that what got your teeth on edge? - It’s a feelin’ in me. 633 00:58:43,357 --> 00:58:47,486 - I can’t place it. It’s her. - You wanna feel somethin’? 634 00:58:47,569 --> 00:58:51,114 Feel what it feel like to be a coloured woman roamin’ the roads. 635 00:58:51,198 --> 00:58:54,451 And anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that! 636 00:58:54,535 --> 00:58:56,662 I know every bit of that, Sethe. 637 00:58:56,787 --> 00:58:59,289 I wasn’t born yesterday, and I never mistreated a woman in my life. 638 00:58:59,373 --> 00:59:02,251 Well, that makes one of you in this world. 639 00:59:02,376 --> 00:59:04,753 One. Not two? 640 00:59:08,549 --> 00:59:10,425 No, not two. 641 00:59:12,636 --> 00:59:15,430 What’d Halle ever do to you? Halle stood by you. 642 00:59:15,556 --> 00:59:18,767 Halle ran off. 643 00:59:18,892 --> 00:59:22,271 He left me, and he left our children. 644 00:59:22,396 --> 00:59:25,357 - You don’t know that. - Who he leave then if he didn’t leave me? 645 00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:28,861 He wasn’t there. He wasn’t where he said he was gonna be. 646 00:59:28,944 --> 00:59:31,530 I had to pack my babies off ahead of me on their own. 647 00:59:31,572 --> 00:59:33,532 Stayed behind to look for him. 648 00:59:33,657 --> 00:59:36,952 Got caught by Schoolteacher and his boys for my trouble. 649 00:59:37,077 --> 00:59:38,954 [ Dishes Clattering ] 650 00:59:43,584 --> 00:59:46,837 He couldn’t get out the... loft, I expect. 651 00:59:50,299 --> 00:59:52,217 Loft? 652 00:59:52,301 --> 00:59:54,386 What loft? 653 00:59:54,469 --> 00:59:56,889 One in the barn, I reckon. 654 01:00:02,311 --> 01:00:04,229 He was there? 655 01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:08,692 How do you know? 656 01:00:11,695 --> 01:00:13,572 Mornin’ after you run, I seen Halle... 657 01:00:13,697 --> 01:00:15,574 chained to a post. 658 01:00:16,783 --> 01:00:19,995 I said, ‘What happened? Where you been?’ 659 01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,749 ’The loft, the loft. The loft.’ 660 01:00:23,832 --> 01:00:26,084 That’s all he said. 661 01:00:26,210 --> 01:00:30,297 - Could never figure out what he meant by that. - [ Sighing ] 662 01:00:34,301 --> 01:00:37,596 He saw them boys do that to me? 663 01:00:38,722 --> 01:00:41,517 And he let them keep on breathin’? 664 01:00:41,642 --> 01:00:44,645 I- I ask him... 665 01:00:44,770 --> 01:00:46,688 ’How come you didn’t run with Sethe?’ 666 01:00:46,814 --> 01:00:48,774 He never answered me. 667 01:00:48,857 --> 01:00:53,195 I seen him once more, the day Schoolteacher sold me to Brandywine. 668 01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,198 Takin’ me away in the wagon. 669 01:00:56,323 --> 01:00:58,909 There Halle was, in the yard... 670 01:00:58,992 --> 01:01:01,286 sittin’ by the churn. 671 01:01:03,497 --> 01:01:08,919 They didn’t need to put no chains on him no more. His mind was gone. 672 01:01:16,844 --> 01:01:18,762 Sethe... 673 01:01:23,559 --> 01:01:26,937 a man ain’t a goddam axe... 674 01:01:27,020 --> 01:01:29,273 choppin’ and hackin’... 675 01:01:29,356 --> 01:01:32,609 bustin’ every minute of the day. 676 01:01:32,693 --> 01:01:34,736 Things get to him. 677 01:01:34,862 --> 01:01:38,240 Things he can’t chop down ’cause they inside. 678 01:01:39,867 --> 01:01:42,828 Halle never just run off and leave you, Sethe. 679 01:01:43,996 --> 01:01:46,790 You see... 680 01:01:46,874 --> 01:01:50,711 you the only one of us who made it out that night. 681 01:01:50,836 --> 01:01:53,213 The only one. 682 01:02:24,411 --> 01:02:26,288 [ Thunder Rumbling ] 683 01:02:31,084 --> 01:02:34,004 I didn’t plan on telling you all that. 684 01:02:37,758 --> 01:02:39,885 I’m sorry. 685 01:02:42,554 --> 01:02:44,932 I didn’t plan on hearin’ it. 686 01:02:47,851 --> 01:02:51,522 Didn’t plan on you walkin’ down that road neither... 687 01:02:51,605 --> 01:02:54,149 comin’ into my house... 688 01:02:54,274 --> 01:02:56,652 bringin’ all this with you. 689 01:03:05,035 --> 01:03:06,578 [ Denver Humming ] 690 01:03:09,248 --> 01:03:11,124 [ Denver Giggling ] 691 01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,841 - Where’d you learn to dance? - Nowhere! 692 01:03:18,966 --> 01:03:21,385 Watch me do this. 693 01:03:21,468 --> 01:03:23,387 Ohh! 694 01:03:23,470 --> 01:03:26,098 [ Laughing ] Now you! Come on! 695 01:03:26,181 --> 01:03:29,143 You may as well. Just go on! 696 01:03:29,268 --> 01:03:31,145 [ Laughing ] 697 01:03:31,270 --> 01:03:33,647 [ Screaming ] 698 01:03:37,401 --> 01:03:39,778 [ Groaning, Sighing ] 699 01:03:50,330 --> 01:03:52,958 Why you call yourself Beloved? 700 01:03:55,043 --> 01:03:59,840 In the dark, my name Beloved. 701 01:03:59,965 --> 01:04:04,970 What’s it like where you was before? Can you tell me? 702 01:04:05,095 --> 01:04:09,475 Dark. I was small in that place... 703 01:04:10,601 --> 01:04:13,145 like this here. 704 01:04:13,228 --> 01:04:16,023 - Were you cold? - Hot! 705 01:04:16,148 --> 01:04:19,526 Nothing to breathe down there. 706 01:04:19,651 --> 01:04:24,239 No room to move. 707 01:04:27,075 --> 01:04:28,994 You see anybody? 708 01:04:30,329 --> 01:04:32,498 It’s a lot of people... 709 01:04:32,581 --> 01:04:34,500 down there. 710 01:04:35,751 --> 01:04:38,003 Some is dead. 711 01:04:38,045 --> 01:04:42,508 You see Jesus? Baby Suggs? 712 01:04:43,675 --> 01:04:46,720 I don’t know. 713 01:04:46,845 --> 01:04:49,097 I don’t know the names. 714 01:04:50,390 --> 01:04:53,268 Well, what you come back here for? 715 01:04:55,771 --> 01:04:59,358 To see her face. 716 01:04:59,483 --> 01:05:01,610 Mama’s? 717 01:05:01,735 --> 01:05:03,862 Sethe’s? 718 01:05:03,946 --> 01:05:06,782 Sethe. 719 01:05:06,907 --> 01:05:09,660 I remember! 720 01:05:11,245 --> 01:05:13,121 I remember! 721 01:05:13,247 --> 01:05:15,874 I was in the water. 722 01:05:15,958 --> 01:05:20,003 I see her diamonds down there. 723 01:05:24,591 --> 01:05:27,886 Then she left me behind... 724 01:05:28,011 --> 01:05:30,973 by myself. 725 01:05:34,268 --> 01:05:36,103 Don’t. 726 01:05:37,271 --> 01:05:40,691 You won’t ever leave us, will ya? 727 01:05:42,818 --> 01:05:46,572 No. Never. 728 01:05:46,655 --> 01:05:49,616 This is where I am! 729 01:05:52,494 --> 01:05:54,413 Don’t tell. 730 01:05:54,496 --> 01:05:57,708 Please don’t let Mama know who you are. You hear me? 731 01:05:57,791 --> 01:05:59,376 Don’t tell me what to do! 732 01:05:59,459 --> 01:06:02,671 Don’t you never, never tell me what to do! 733 01:06:02,796 --> 01:06:05,090 - But I’m on your side! - She the one! 734 01:06:05,174 --> 01:06:07,092 She the one l need! 735 01:06:07,176 --> 01:06:12,097 You can go! She the one I have to have! 736 01:06:36,497 --> 01:06:39,249 [ Mumbles ] 737 01:06:48,175 --> 01:06:51,053 Tell me how Sethe... 738 01:06:51,178 --> 01:06:53,889 make you in the boat. 739 01:06:57,810 --> 01:07:00,604 Tell me. 740 01:07:03,899 --> 01:07:06,693 She never told me all of it. 741 01:07:08,695 --> 01:07:10,614 Tell me. 742 01:07:12,699 --> 01:07:14,618 Denver. 743 01:07:15,744 --> 01:07:19,665 Tell me. [ Crying ] 744 01:07:22,793 --> 01:07:24,670 Well-- 745 01:07:26,547 --> 01:07:28,841 Mama was runnin’! 746 01:07:29,633 --> 01:07:31,927 - [ Bird Squawking ] - [ Sethe Panting ] 747 01:07:39,393 --> 01:07:41,395 [ Screaming ] 748 01:07:46,525 --> 01:07:49,486 [ Moaning ] 749 01:07:55,075 --> 01:07:58,370 [ Moaning Continues ] 750 01:07:58,495 --> 01:08:00,372 Who in there? 751 01:08:01,832 --> 01:08:04,209 Who that back there? 752 01:08:07,129 --> 01:08:09,548 [ Panting ] 753 01:08:09,631 --> 01:08:12,801 [ Chuckling ] My, my, my. 754 01:08:12,926 --> 01:08:15,095 My, my, my, my! 755 01:08:15,220 --> 01:08:18,807 It’s a nigger! If that don’t beat all! 756 01:08:20,767 --> 01:08:23,520 Girl, you about the scariest-lookin’ somethin’ I ever saw. 757 01:08:23,604 --> 01:08:25,522 What you doin’ way back up here? 758 01:08:25,606 --> 01:08:28,192 I’m runnin’. 759 01:08:29,943 --> 01:08:31,862 These the feet you runnin’ on? 760 01:08:31,945 --> 01:08:34,239 - [ Groans ] - Jesus, my! 761 01:08:34,364 --> 01:08:37,618 Miss, am I in Ohio? [ Gasps ] 762 01:08:37,743 --> 01:08:40,871 [ Chuckling ] Ohio? No, girl, you in Kentucky. 763 01:08:40,954 --> 01:08:43,248 You about a thousand miles away from Ohio. 764 01:08:43,332 --> 01:08:45,667 You havin’ a baby? 765 01:08:45,792 --> 01:08:47,669 Oh, my! 766 01:08:47,794 --> 01:08:51,215 I expect this baby there is gonna die in these wild onions. 767 01:08:51,298 --> 01:08:53,884 I gotta eat me somethin’. 768 01:08:53,967 --> 01:08:58,222 W- W-Where-Where was you on your way to-to, miss? 769 01:08:58,305 --> 01:09:01,141 Boston. Get me some velvet. 770 01:09:01,266 --> 01:09:05,521 It’s a store called Wilson’s. They just have the ‘purtiest’ velvet. 771 01:09:05,646 --> 01:09:07,856 You ever seen velvet or touched it? 772 01:09:07,981 --> 01:09:11,151 I- If-- If I did, I didn’t know it. 773 01:09:11,276 --> 01:09:13,403 Velvet I seen was brown... 774 01:09:13,487 --> 01:09:16,406 but in Boston, they got all colours. 775 01:09:18,700 --> 01:09:20,619 What they call you? 776 01:09:20,702 --> 01:09:23,163 L- Lu. 777 01:09:23,330 --> 01:09:25,791 [ Nervously Chuckling ] 778 01:09:25,916 --> 01:09:28,627 Well, what you gonna do, Lu? You just gonna lay here and foal? 779 01:09:28,710 --> 01:09:33,173 I-- I-I can’t get up. I- I can’t move. 780 01:09:33,298 --> 01:09:36,844 Oh, sure, you can, Lu. Come on. You stay here, the snakes might get ya. 781 01:09:36,969 --> 01:09:38,887 - I can’t. - Come on, come on. 782 01:09:39,012 --> 01:09:42,808 - Come on, come on. Come on. - [ Groaning ] 783 01:09:44,685 --> 01:09:47,020 Come on! 784 01:09:47,146 --> 01:09:51,650 I was fishin’ off the Beaver once when a nigger floated right by me. 785 01:09:51,692 --> 01:09:54,486 I don’t like drowned people much. Do you? 786 01:09:57,030 --> 01:09:59,324 Your feet kinda reminded me of him. 787 01:09:59,408 --> 01:10:01,326 All swoll-like. 788 01:10:04,496 --> 01:10:06,665 - Now this is gonna hurt a little. - [ Groaning ] 789 01:10:06,748 --> 01:10:08,917 Anything dead comin’ back to life hurts. 790 01:10:09,042 --> 01:10:12,963 You ain’t got no business pokin’ ‘round these hills, miss. 791 01:10:13,046 --> 01:10:15,174 Lookit here who’s talkin’. 792 01:10:15,257 --> 01:10:17,676 Ain’t nobody after me, but I know somebody after you... 793 01:10:17,759 --> 01:10:20,846 and they catch you, they’re gonna cut your head off. 794 01:10:20,929 --> 01:10:24,016 - Stop wiggling, girl. - My back hurt me. 795 01:10:24,099 --> 01:10:26,018 - Your back? - Yeah. 796 01:10:26,101 --> 01:10:29,646 Girl, you a mess. Turn over here and let me see. 797 01:10:29,730 --> 01:10:31,648 [ Groaning ] 798 01:10:44,077 --> 01:10:46,455 [ Screaming, Moaning ] 799 01:10:47,581 --> 01:10:50,459 Come here. Jesus! 800 01:10:52,836 --> 01:10:55,214 It’s a tree, Lu. 801 01:10:55,339 --> 01:10:57,925 Your back got a whole tree on it. 802 01:10:58,050 --> 01:11:01,345 Chokecherry tree in bloom. 803 01:11:01,428 --> 01:11:03,722 See? Here’s the trunk. 804 01:11:03,806 --> 01:11:09,311 It’s spread and split wide open, full of sap and branches. 805 01:11:09,436 --> 01:11:12,189 And darned if these ain’t blossoms. 806 01:11:13,315 --> 01:11:16,193 Come on, girl. [ Gasping ] 807 01:11:18,111 --> 01:11:21,073 ’Cause of me, you’re up and walkin’. 808 01:11:21,156 --> 01:11:24,159 See, Jesus. Lu made it through. 809 01:11:24,284 --> 01:11:26,370 I’m good with sick things, ain’t I? 810 01:11:26,537 --> 01:11:28,413 Yeah, you good. 811 01:11:30,290 --> 01:11:33,502 - What’s all over your dress, girl? - It’s milk. 812 01:11:33,627 --> 01:11:35,504 Gotta get milk to my baby girl. 813 01:11:35,629 --> 01:11:38,465 You mean, you got another baby waitin’ for you? 814 01:11:38,590 --> 01:11:40,467 Oh, my, Jesus. 815 01:11:44,304 --> 01:11:47,683 - [ Panting ] - Come on. 816 01:11:57,109 --> 01:12:00,946 Come on. Come on. 817 01:12:02,614 --> 01:12:05,075 [ Giggling ] Now... 818 01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,912 that’s Ohio. 819 01:12:35,022 --> 01:12:37,774 [ Giggling ] 820 01:12:45,365 --> 01:12:47,409 Jesus lookin’ at you, girl! 821 01:12:47,534 --> 01:12:49,411 [ Laughing ] 822 01:12:50,537 --> 01:12:52,915 Whoo! Come on. 823 01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:55,959 [ Groaning ] 824 01:12:56,001 --> 01:13:00,380 Oh, here’s your paddle! 825 01:13:05,010 --> 01:13:07,805 - [ Screaming ] - What you doin’ now, poor girl? 826 01:13:09,306 --> 01:13:11,350 - [ Gasping ] - Stop that right now! 827 01:13:11,433 --> 01:13:15,270 - Jesus, Lu! Stop it! Stop it! - [ Panting ] 828 01:13:15,395 --> 01:13:17,940 Lu! Lu! Stop it! 829 01:13:18,065 --> 01:13:21,151 Oh, Jesus! I’m awfully sorry about braggin’. 830 01:13:21,235 --> 01:13:23,862 I need you here now! 831 01:13:23,946 --> 01:13:27,699 - Don’t be gettin’ lost on me now, Jesus! - [ Continues Panting ] 832 01:13:27,783 --> 01:13:30,953 Come on! Push! Push! 833 01:13:31,078 --> 01:13:33,455 - [ Screaming ] - Push! 834 01:13:33,580 --> 01:13:35,165 Oh, here comes the head. 835 01:13:35,249 --> 01:13:38,168 Oh, dear Jesus, please, help! 836 01:13:38,252 --> 01:13:40,295 God, it’s stuck! 837 01:13:40,420 --> 01:13:44,132 - [ Grunting ] Come on! - [ Screaming ] 838 01:13:44,258 --> 01:13:47,386 [ Panting ] 839 01:13:47,469 --> 01:13:49,680 - [ Laughing ] - [ Baby Crying ] 840 01:13:57,187 --> 01:14:00,691 Oh, praise Jesus. Praise Jesus. 841 01:14:00,774 --> 01:14:02,693 [ Crying Continues ] 842 01:14:15,539 --> 01:14:18,417 She ain’t never gonna know who I am. 843 01:14:22,045 --> 01:14:24,423 You better tell her who brung her into this world. 844 01:14:24,548 --> 01:14:26,425 [ Crying ] 845 01:14:26,550 --> 01:14:30,471 You say, ‘Miss Amy Denver... 846 01:14:30,596 --> 01:14:32,973 - of Boston.’ - Mm. 847 01:14:34,099 --> 01:14:37,478 Pretty. That’s pretty. 848 01:14:38,937 --> 01:14:40,814 Denver. 849 01:14:41,899 --> 01:14:45,903 Real pretty. Shh. 850 01:14:48,322 --> 01:14:51,825 [ Denver Narrating ] So Amy Denver, she left me and Mama on the riverbank. 851 01:14:51,950 --> 01:14:54,703 That was the first time we met Stamp Paid. 852 01:14:56,997 --> 01:14:58,916 [ Denver Crying ] 853 01:15:21,897 --> 01:15:24,817 Hey there. 854 01:15:24,942 --> 01:15:26,819 You headin’ across? 855 01:15:28,737 --> 01:15:31,114 Yes, sir. 856 01:15:31,198 --> 01:15:34,660 Anybody know you comin’? 857 01:15:36,036 --> 01:15:38,956 Yes, sir. My mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. 858 01:15:40,290 --> 01:15:42,167 [ Crying Continues ] 859 01:16:10,195 --> 01:16:13,115 [ Denver Narrating ] Most folk call her Baby Suggs Holy. 860 01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:17,369 - To me, she were Grandma Baby. - [ Laughing ] 861 01:16:19,454 --> 01:16:22,875 Thank you, Ella. Thank you, Stamp. 862 01:16:24,585 --> 01:16:26,879 [ Laughing ] Oh! 863 01:16:27,004 --> 01:16:30,841 [ Laughing Continues ] 864 01:16:31,008 --> 01:16:34,678 Oh, my Lord. 865 01:16:34,761 --> 01:16:37,514 My sweet Jesus! 866 01:16:37,598 --> 01:16:39,516 Thank you! 867 01:16:40,767 --> 01:16:44,146 - [ Baby Suggs Laughing ] - [ Sethe Crying ] 868 01:16:44,271 --> 01:16:46,106 Where’s my Halle? 869 01:16:46,273 --> 01:16:48,775 Well, he w-wasn’t there... 870 01:16:48,901 --> 01:16:52,154 where he said to meet him, and I had to go. 871 01:16:52,279 --> 01:16:54,156 Had to. 872 01:16:54,281 --> 01:16:56,200 H- H-He’ll make it. 873 01:16:56,283 --> 01:16:59,244 If I made it, Halle sure can. 874 01:17:00,496 --> 01:17:04,249 - Where-Where’s my children? - Oh, no, not now. 875 01:17:04,374 --> 01:17:06,293 We got to fix you up first. 876 01:17:06,418 --> 01:17:10,047 You too ugly-lookin’ to wake ‘em. [ Laughing ] 877 01:17:14,802 --> 01:17:18,180 - Shh. - [ Door Opening ] 878 01:17:20,474 --> 01:17:23,727 - Buglar, Howard! - [ Both ] Mama, Mama! 879 01:17:25,229 --> 01:17:28,524 - Oh, look at you. - [ Children Laughing ] 880 01:17:28,649 --> 01:17:30,734 Let me see. Oh! 881 01:17:30,818 --> 01:17:33,237 Tell me the other baby. 882 01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:35,781 Tell me you big sister. 883 01:17:35,906 --> 01:17:38,617 [ Denver ] Mm, Baby Suggs call her... 884 01:17:38,742 --> 01:17:42,621 Crawlin’ Already Baby. 885 01:17:42,746 --> 01:17:46,917 Crawlin’ already? Ain’t this somethin’? 886 01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:50,128 All right, baby girl. Right this way. 887 01:17:50,212 --> 01:17:52,130 Mama’s waitin’. 888 01:17:57,344 --> 01:17:59,429 All right, Howard, Buglar. 889 01:17:59,596 --> 01:18:01,515 [ Crying ] 890 01:18:04,810 --> 01:18:07,771 You’re okay. Yeah. 891 01:18:07,855 --> 01:18:11,066 Ain’t nothin’ here worth savin’. 892 01:18:11,191 --> 01:18:14,611 What is this? 893 01:18:14,695 --> 01:18:17,114 Weddin’ present from Mrs Garner. 894 01:18:19,199 --> 01:18:23,829 I wish there was a groom to go with it. 895 01:18:32,087 --> 01:18:33,964 Put ‘em on, child. 896 01:18:35,340 --> 01:18:40,012 Maybe they’ll light his way. 897 01:18:42,389 --> 01:18:45,184 Look at those shine. 898 01:18:45,309 --> 01:18:47,186 Pretty, huh? 899 01:18:51,064 --> 01:18:53,692 Daddy come soon, huh? 900 01:18:56,236 --> 01:18:59,114 No matter what happen... 901 01:18:59,239 --> 01:19:02,326 God has led you home. 902 01:19:03,410 --> 01:19:05,329 So... 903 01:19:05,412 --> 01:19:07,873 lay ‘em down, Sethe. 904 01:19:07,956 --> 01:19:10,959 Sword and shield. 905 01:19:11,084 --> 01:19:13,712 Study war no more. 906 01:19:13,837 --> 01:19:15,672 God has led you home. 907 01:19:21,845 --> 01:19:25,474 - Where we goin’, Mama? - We goin’ to pay tribute to your daddy. 908 01:19:27,726 --> 01:19:30,312 Our house used to be a whole different thing. 909 01:19:30,437 --> 01:19:32,689 Strangers rested there. 910 01:19:32,773 --> 01:19:36,735 People leavin’ messages. Folks comin’ and goin’ all the time. 911 01:19:36,860 --> 01:19:40,572 It was a happy house when I first got there with Denver strapped to my chest... 912 01:19:40,697 --> 01:19:43,033 waitin’ on her daddy to come. 913 01:19:43,116 --> 01:19:45,035 Daddy. 914 01:19:45,118 --> 01:19:48,372 Halle bought Baby Suggs’ freedom... 915 01:19:48,455 --> 01:19:51,250 but slavery done already busted her legs... 916 01:19:51,333 --> 01:19:55,045 and busted her back, hands, everything. 917 01:19:55,128 --> 01:19:58,173 When she come here, she ain’t had nothin’ left to make no livin’ with... 918 01:19:58,298 --> 01:20:01,176 besides her heart. 919 01:20:06,348 --> 01:20:09,268 Baby Suggs used to preach right here. 920 01:20:11,103 --> 01:20:14,106 Let the children come. 921 01:20:14,231 --> 01:20:16,608 - [ Laughing ] - [ Footsteps ] 922 01:20:18,735 --> 01:20:22,656 Let your mothers hear you laugh. 923 01:20:22,781 --> 01:20:25,200 [ Children Laughing ] 924 01:20:37,963 --> 01:20:40,841 Let the grown men come. 925 01:20:48,974 --> 01:20:53,061 Let your wives and your children... 926 01:20:53,187 --> 01:20:55,564 see you dance. 927 01:20:58,692 --> 01:21:01,069 [ Crowd Cheering, Chattering ] 928 01:21:27,054 --> 01:21:31,433 Women! Women! 929 01:21:31,558 --> 01:21:35,270 I want you to weep! 930 01:21:35,395 --> 01:21:37,272 Just weep... 931 01:21:40,442 --> 01:21:42,319 for the living... 932 01:21:43,904 --> 01:21:45,823 for the dead. 933 01:21:48,158 --> 01:21:50,828 Weep. 934 01:22:17,020 --> 01:22:21,400 Grandma Baby used to say your daddy was too good for this world. 935 01:22:21,525 --> 01:22:23,402 Remember? 936 01:22:24,528 --> 01:22:26,738 He was a good man. 937 01:22:26,864 --> 01:22:28,866 It scared her. 938 01:22:28,949 --> 01:22:33,745 She used to always fret whether he wasn’t gonna make it through nothin’. 939 01:22:33,871 --> 01:22:36,248 He made it through a lot. 940 01:22:37,374 --> 01:22:40,252 Maybe Grandma Baby was right. 941 01:22:45,299 --> 01:22:47,217 Denver... 942 01:22:48,552 --> 01:22:51,930 your daddy ain’t gonna never show up here. 943 01:22:53,390 --> 01:22:56,268 - You understand? - But-- 944 01:22:58,979 --> 01:23:01,690 The day ain’t gonna never come... 945 01:23:01,815 --> 01:23:05,903 when Halle knocks on that door. 946 01:23:05,986 --> 01:23:07,905 Never. 947 01:23:20,584 --> 01:23:22,461 There-- 948 01:23:31,053 --> 01:23:32,971 Mama! 949 01:23:50,364 --> 01:23:52,491 Paul! 950 01:23:52,616 --> 01:23:55,536 Paul D! Paul D! 951 01:23:55,661 --> 01:23:57,830 You here? 952 01:23:57,955 --> 01:24:02,334 [ Laughing ] Where else would I be on a Sunday off? 953 01:24:02,459 --> 01:24:04,336 [ Water Splashing ] 954 01:24:12,553 --> 01:24:15,722 [ Panting ] You’re here. 955 01:24:16,974 --> 01:24:18,851 Uh-huh. 956 01:24:20,144 --> 01:24:22,521 Why don’t you come on in here? [ Laughing ] 957 01:24:26,066 --> 01:24:28,193 Girls right behind me. 958 01:24:28,318 --> 01:24:30,195 I don’t hear nobody. 959 01:24:31,864 --> 01:24:34,366 - I gotta cook. - Me too. 960 01:24:43,834 --> 01:24:45,711 Yeah, yeah. 961 01:24:53,719 --> 01:24:56,388 I thought I’d make some snap beans. 962 01:25:07,316 --> 01:25:09,902 - Fry up a little corn. - Yeah. 963 01:25:14,198 --> 01:25:16,742 Paul D, stop it. Stop it. 964 01:25:16,825 --> 01:25:20,746 - [ Paul D Whispering ] - Denver? 965 01:25:20,829 --> 01:25:24,583 - Beloved? That you? - [ Paul D ] Shh, shh. 966 01:25:24,708 --> 01:25:28,045 - [ Sethe Slapping Paul D ] - Paul D! 967 01:25:28,128 --> 01:25:30,255 [ Paul D Chuckling ] Come on. 968 01:25:30,380 --> 01:25:32,257 [ Sethe Giggling ] 969 01:25:34,676 --> 01:25:37,638 [ Whimpering ] 970 01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:43,477 [ Crying ] 971 01:25:54,238 --> 01:25:55,989 [ Crying Continues ] 972 01:27:18,405 --> 01:27:20,282 [ Calling ] 973 01:27:36,006 --> 01:27:38,383 [ Beloved Wheezing ] 974 01:27:38,509 --> 01:27:41,720 That was real fine, Sethe. Thank you. 975 01:27:41,845 --> 01:27:43,931 - Sure you got enough? - Yes, ma’am. 976 01:27:44,097 --> 01:27:46,725 Bone-tired and river-whipped. 977 01:27:46,809 --> 01:27:48,727 [ Dishes Clattering ] 978 01:27:52,022 --> 01:27:53,899 [ Sethe Chattering ] 979 01:28:32,187 --> 01:28:34,606 - Paul D. - [ Groaning ] 980 01:28:38,318 --> 01:28:41,446 Don’t tell me I slept in this chair the whole night. 981 01:28:41,530 --> 01:28:43,991 I’m not gonna say a thing. 982 01:28:44,158 --> 01:28:46,118 - Why you didn’t rouse me? - I did. 983 01:28:46,243 --> 01:28:48,370 I tried callin’ you two or three times. 984 01:28:48,495 --> 01:28:51,290 - I thought maybe you went out somewhere. - Sorry, honey. 985 01:28:51,415 --> 01:28:55,085 - I’ll make us some breakfast. - You know somethin’? 986 01:28:55,169 --> 01:28:57,588 Breakfast can wait. [ Chuckling ] 987 01:29:00,340 --> 01:29:04,845 - Paul! Paul D! Paul D! - [ Paul D Snoring ] 988 01:29:04,970 --> 01:29:08,098 What you doin’ in Baby Suggs’ bed? 989 01:29:08,182 --> 01:29:10,100 I don’t know. 990 01:29:11,602 --> 01:29:14,354 like I’m havin’ house fits. 991 01:29:15,689 --> 01:29:18,400 It got me to move from bed... 992 01:29:18,525 --> 01:29:20,486 to chair to bed. 993 01:29:22,029 --> 01:29:23,947 Slept good though. 994 01:29:25,449 --> 01:29:28,243 No. Come on now. You gonna be late for work. 995 01:29:28,368 --> 01:29:31,580 Come on, come on. I got to get to work. So do you. 996 01:29:34,333 --> 01:29:36,210 Come on. 997 01:29:36,335 --> 01:29:39,046 Yeah, right. 998 01:29:39,129 --> 01:29:41,840 - Come on, Beloved. - Yeah. 999 01:29:41,965 --> 01:29:43,842 [ Thunder Rumbling ] 1000 01:30:03,111 --> 01:30:06,240 [ Beloved ] Why don’t the chickens have no teeth? 1001 01:30:06,365 --> 01:30:09,076 [ Sethe Laughing ] 1002 01:30:09,201 --> 01:30:12,079 - [ Beloved Mumbling ] - [ Sethe ] Whoo! 1003 01:30:12,204 --> 01:30:15,833 - Chicken has no teeth. - [ Sethe Laughing ] 1004 01:30:15,916 --> 01:30:19,545 Mama’s cookin’ chicken! 1005 01:30:39,731 --> 01:30:42,609 [ Paul D Moaning ] 1006 01:30:50,492 --> 01:30:54,538 Oh, God. [ Gasps ] 1007 01:30:56,665 --> 01:30:58,584 Head hurts. 1008 01:31:54,765 --> 01:31:57,142 What you want in here? 1009 01:32:04,733 --> 01:32:09,905 I want you touch me... 1010 01:32:10,030 --> 01:32:13,158 on the inside part... 1011 01:32:13,283 --> 01:32:15,869 and call my name. 1012 01:32:15,994 --> 01:32:21,542 Good people take you in, treat you good... 1013 01:32:21,667 --> 01:32:24,670 you oughta try to be good back. 1014 01:32:24,753 --> 01:32:27,047 You don’t-- 1015 01:32:27,131 --> 01:32:29,424 Sethe loves you... 1016 01:32:29,550 --> 01:32:31,718 as much as her own daughter, you know that. 1017 01:32:31,844 --> 01:32:34,680 She don’t love me like I love her. 1018 01:32:34,763 --> 01:32:37,724 I don’t love nobody but her. 1019 01:32:37,850 --> 01:32:40,060 Then what you come in here for? 1020 01:32:44,273 --> 01:32:49,111 I want you to touch me on the inside part. 1021 01:32:49,236 --> 01:32:52,531 Go back in that house and get in that bed. 1022 01:32:58,453 --> 01:33:03,208 You has to touch me on the inside part. 1023 01:33:03,292 --> 01:33:06,462 You has to call me my name. 1024 01:33:06,587 --> 01:33:08,464 No! 1025 01:33:08,589 --> 01:33:11,091 - No. - I’ll go if you call it. 1026 01:33:11,216 --> 01:33:15,053 - No, Beloved. - Please, call it. 1027 01:33:16,763 --> 01:33:18,640 Beloved. 1028 01:33:18,765 --> 01:33:20,642 [ Groaning ] 1029 01:33:22,102 --> 01:33:24,021 Beloved. 1030 01:33:28,775 --> 01:33:30,652 Red heart. 1031 01:33:31,778 --> 01:33:34,573 Red heart. 1032 01:33:34,656 --> 01:33:37,409 Red heart. 1033 01:33:37,493 --> 01:33:39,828 Red heart. 1034 01:33:39,953 --> 01:33:42,998 Red heart. Red heart. 1035 01:33:47,294 --> 01:33:49,797 [ Paul D ] Red heart. 1036 01:33:49,922 --> 01:33:52,800 Red heart. Red heart! 1037 01:33:52,925 --> 01:33:54,802 Red heart! 1038 01:33:54,927 --> 01:33:58,013 Red heart. Red heart. 1039 01:33:59,139 --> 01:34:01,850 [ Paul D Crying ] 1040 01:34:01,975 --> 01:34:03,852 [ Screaming ] 1041 01:34:08,565 --> 01:34:11,443 [ Crying Continues ] 1042 01:34:17,825 --> 01:34:20,619 Are there flowers in the dark? 1043 01:34:20,744 --> 01:34:22,621 There is. 1044 01:34:35,634 --> 01:34:41,390 - [ Steamship Whistling ] - [ Man Yelling ] 1045 01:34:43,892 --> 01:34:45,811 [ Yelling Continues ] 1046 01:34:51,066 --> 01:34:53,986 [ Men Chattering ] 1047 01:34:54,069 --> 01:34:56,488 - Come on. Come on. - Whoo-hoo! 1048 01:34:56,572 --> 01:35:00,576 [ Paul D Mumbling ] 1049 01:35:00,701 --> 01:35:03,996 Paul D! Wanna ride with us? 1050 01:35:04,079 --> 01:35:07,332 We got the wagon today. Why don’t we-- 1051 01:35:26,810 --> 01:35:29,855 [ Whispering ] If I could just tell her. 1052 01:35:50,250 --> 01:35:54,046 [ Paul D ] Now, Sethe, you ain’t gonna like what I’m about to say. 1053 01:35:55,756 --> 01:35:58,217 Somethin’ is happening to me. 1054 01:35:58,300 --> 01:36:00,219 That girl do it. 1055 01:36:02,679 --> 01:36:07,726 Fixin’ me. Yeah. She fixed me, Sethe. 1056 01:36:07,810 --> 01:36:11,563 She fixed me, and I can’t break it. 1057 01:36:11,647 --> 01:36:14,066 She-She moved me out of the house... 1058 01:36:14,191 --> 01:36:17,402 and then she-- she joined me. 1059 01:36:17,528 --> 01:36:19,404 No. 1060 01:36:21,114 --> 01:36:23,659 - Paul D? - [ Dog Barking ] 1061 01:36:23,784 --> 01:36:25,661 Paul D? 1062 01:36:27,412 --> 01:36:29,581 Why, you make me feel like a young girl... 1063 01:36:29,665 --> 01:36:33,710 comin’ by to pick me up after work. 1064 01:36:33,794 --> 01:36:36,964 Pupski. There you go, Pupski. 1065 01:36:37,089 --> 01:36:42,386 Better watch out. I might start lookin’ forward to it. 1066 01:36:42,469 --> 01:36:44,513 You get off from work early or what? 1067 01:36:46,265 --> 01:36:48,433 I took off early. 1068 01:36:48,517 --> 01:36:52,271 - [ Horse Whinnying ] - Anything the matter? 1069 01:36:53,355 --> 01:36:55,983 In a way of speakin’. 1070 01:37:01,238 --> 01:37:05,367 Sethe, you ain’t gonna like what I’m about to say. 1071 01:37:07,703 --> 01:37:11,290 Well, say it, Paul D, whether I like it or not. 1072 01:37:15,586 --> 01:37:18,464 I want you pregnant. 1073 01:37:27,890 --> 01:37:30,142 You want me pregnant? 1074 01:37:32,060 --> 01:37:35,314 Is that what you come by here for? 1075 01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:38,734 Don’t you think I’m a little too old to start that all over again? 1076 01:37:38,859 --> 01:37:40,819 Th-Think about it. 1077 01:37:40,903 --> 01:37:42,821 [ Paul D Laughing ] 1078 01:37:50,162 --> 01:37:52,039 You crazy man. 1079 01:37:56,001 --> 01:37:57,878 Come on. 1080 01:37:58,003 --> 01:38:00,380 [ Laughing Continues ] 1081 01:38:11,725 --> 01:38:13,936 [ Sethe ] What has got into you? 1082 01:38:14,061 --> 01:38:17,940 You need some babies or somebody to play with. 1083 01:38:18,065 --> 01:38:22,194 I’m sure willin’ to try. I need a willin’ partner though. 1084 01:38:22,319 --> 01:38:24,404 I’ll say. I’ll say. 1085 01:38:33,413 --> 01:38:35,290 Mercy. 1086 01:38:36,917 --> 01:38:39,545 Let’s run. Let’s run. 1087 01:38:39,628 --> 01:38:42,381 I’ve been on my feet all day. 1088 01:38:42,464 --> 01:38:44,967 Oh, where I been, Sethe? 1089 01:38:45,092 --> 01:38:48,428 Stop, Paul D. My legs ain’t made for this. 1090 01:38:48,554 --> 01:38:50,430 [ Laughing ] 1091 01:38:50,556 --> 01:38:53,809 # Hard work ain’t easy# 1092 01:38:53,934 --> 01:38:57,980 # Dry bread ain’t greasy# [ Laughing ] 1093 01:38:58,105 --> 01:39:01,650 # Little rice, little bean# 1094 01:39:01,775 --> 01:39:03,735 Hey, Stamp! Stamp Paid! 1095 01:39:03,819 --> 01:39:05,946 I’m gonna take this one home with me! 1096 01:39:06,071 --> 01:39:10,576 [ Yelling, Laughing ] 1097 01:39:10,701 --> 01:39:14,163 Hey, you like this work so much, maybe you best get in the chute with the others. 1098 01:39:14,288 --> 01:39:16,415 You ain’t got much more sense than they do. 1099 01:39:16,498 --> 01:39:18,750 # No meat in between # 1100 01:39:18,834 --> 01:39:20,627 I ain’t singin’ about this! 1101 01:39:20,752 --> 01:39:24,006 If a man can make a plan, the man can make the good times happen. 1102 01:39:24,131 --> 01:39:28,635 The man got plans? You savin’ up for a gold mine, boy? 1103 01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:32,222 Better than gold. Me and my woman’s plannin’ on startin’ a family. 1104 01:39:32,306 --> 01:39:35,601 Yeah, a new life. Born free! 1105 01:39:35,684 --> 01:39:38,437 Now, if that don’t mean a good time, I don’t know what does. 1106 01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:41,148 Nothin’ born free ever again. 1107 01:39:41,273 --> 01:39:43,650 What you talkin’? 1108 01:39:44,902 --> 01:39:47,488 I been bought and sold five times. 1109 01:39:47,613 --> 01:39:51,033 The last time, to the Northpoint Bank and Railway Company. 1110 01:39:51,158 --> 01:39:55,829 No more! I walk and I sleep and I eat where I please. 1111 01:39:55,954 --> 01:39:58,165 I earn a free man’s wage. 1112 01:39:58,248 --> 01:40:00,626 Nobody’s gonna own us no more. 1113 01:40:00,751 --> 01:40:03,128 Nobody’s gonna own my children either. 1114 01:40:03,253 --> 01:40:05,798 No more! No more! 1115 01:40:05,923 --> 01:40:08,926 Children inherit where they come from. 1116 01:40:09,009 --> 01:40:13,013 Just ‘cause you can’t see no chains don’t mean they not there. 1117 01:40:13,138 --> 01:40:17,601 And as long as the world is white, that’s where we stayin’. 1118 01:40:18,936 --> 01:40:21,146 Come on. Let’s go get somethin’ to eat. 1119 01:40:21,230 --> 01:40:24,149 Come on. Come on. 1120 01:40:26,693 --> 01:40:29,029 [ Hogs Squealing ] 1121 01:40:31,281 --> 01:40:33,325 Mind if I join you? 1122 01:40:34,576 --> 01:40:37,621 Free country, no matter what nobody say. 1123 01:40:45,337 --> 01:40:48,215 You don’t know, do you, son? 1124 01:40:48,340 --> 01:40:50,759 Know what? 1125 01:40:52,052 --> 01:40:55,430 You one of Baby Suggs’ Sweet Home men, ain’t ya? 1126 01:40:55,514 --> 01:40:57,683 Yes, sir. 1127 01:40:57,766 --> 01:41:02,229 Me. My brothers. Her son, Halle. 1128 01:41:02,354 --> 01:41:04,898 - You knew Baby? - Oh, yeah. 1129 01:41:04,982 --> 01:41:08,569 Baby Suggs Holy. God rest her soul. 1130 01:41:08,694 --> 01:41:12,406 Yeah. Sethe told me she died soft as cream. 1131 01:41:12,531 --> 01:41:15,742 Well, maybe on the outside. 1132 01:41:15,826 --> 01:41:18,453 Why is that? 1133 01:41:24,293 --> 01:41:26,753 [ Papers Shuffling ] 1134 01:41:33,969 --> 01:41:39,266 It was me who had brung Sethe across the river when she run away from Sweet Home. 1135 01:41:42,102 --> 01:41:45,481 I was there the day it happened. 1136 01:41:50,819 --> 01:41:53,238 Who is it? 1137 01:41:53,322 --> 01:41:56,450 That there’s a picture of Sethe. 1138 01:41:56,533 --> 01:41:58,452 Sethe? 1139 01:42:00,537 --> 01:42:03,457 [ Scoffs ] That ain’t her mouth. 1140 01:42:03,582 --> 01:42:06,835 I can see why you may think it... 1141 01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:09,421 around the eyes. 1142 01:42:12,090 --> 01:42:15,803 B- But that there ain’t her mouth. 1143 01:42:18,430 --> 01:42:23,644 Besides, why would they put some coloured woman’s picture in the paper? 1144 01:42:23,727 --> 01:42:26,688 You don’t read, do you, son? 1145 01:42:32,861 --> 01:42:36,657 You want me to read to you? 1146 01:42:38,158 --> 01:42:40,536 [ Sweeping ] 1147 01:42:43,163 --> 01:42:45,541 [ Chattering, Distant ] 1148 01:43:16,864 --> 01:43:19,199 [ Horse Whinnying ] 1149 01:43:19,283 --> 01:43:23,579 Already fed the girls. You eat? 1150 01:43:25,330 --> 01:43:28,041 Want something? 1151 01:43:53,066 --> 01:43:55,903 Best you come inside. 1152 01:44:15,047 --> 01:44:18,467 I don’t have to tell you about Sweet Home... 1153 01:44:18,592 --> 01:44:20,469 what it was. 1154 01:44:22,137 --> 01:44:27,267 Maybe you don’t know what it was like for me to get away from there. 1155 01:44:28,435 --> 01:44:31,897 I did it. I got us all out. 1156 01:44:31,980 --> 01:44:36,443 Up until then, it was the only thing I ever did on my own. 1157 01:44:36,527 --> 01:44:40,197 Me... usin’ my own head. 1158 01:44:43,158 --> 01:44:46,078 But it was more than that. 1159 01:44:47,412 --> 01:44:50,249 I was-- I was big... 1160 01:44:50,332 --> 01:44:52,751 and wide, Paul. 1161 01:44:52,835 --> 01:44:58,298 So wide, when I stretched out my arms, all my children could get in between. 1162 01:44:58,423 --> 01:45:02,302 Looked like I-- Looked like I loved ‘em more after we got here. 1163 01:45:02,386 --> 01:45:04,304 [ Chuckles ] 1164 01:45:04,388 --> 01:45:08,976 Maybe I just knew that long as we was in Kentucky with Schoolteacher... 1165 01:45:09,101 --> 01:45:11,979 they really wasn’t mine to love. 1166 01:45:12,104 --> 01:45:14,982 Look like when I jumped off that wagon... 1167 01:45:15,065 --> 01:45:19,778 wasn’t nobody in this world I couldn’t love if I want to. 1168 01:45:21,446 --> 01:45:23,907 Twenty-eight days. 1169 01:45:24,032 --> 01:45:28,078 Twenty-eight good days of free life. 1170 01:45:29,163 --> 01:45:31,915 I’d wake up in the morning and... 1171 01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:36,128 decide for myself what to do with the day. 1172 01:45:37,921 --> 01:45:40,841 Sometimes I-- I hear my boys-- 1173 01:45:40,924 --> 01:45:44,887 hear ‘em laughin’ a laugh I ain’t never heard. 1174 01:45:45,012 --> 01:45:48,682 First I get scared, scared somebody might hear ‘em... 1175 01:45:48,807 --> 01:45:51,018 and get mad. 1176 01:45:51,143 --> 01:45:54,855 Then I remembered that if they laughed that hard till it hurt... 1177 01:45:54,980 --> 01:45:58,400 that’d be the only hurt they have all day. 1178 01:46:00,277 --> 01:46:03,030 And when the people would gather-- 1179 01:46:03,113 --> 01:46:06,700 they’d come from all around to hear Baby Suggs Holy-- 1180 01:46:06,783 --> 01:46:11,330 I seen and heard things I ain’t never seen before. 1181 01:46:14,208 --> 01:46:18,504 I seen what free Negroes look like for the first time. 1182 01:46:20,297 --> 01:46:25,385 Here in this place, we are flesh. 1183 01:46:25,511 --> 01:46:28,680 Flesh that weeps... 1184 01:46:28,764 --> 01:46:30,682 laughs... 1185 01:46:30,766 --> 01:46:33,602 dances barefoot in the grass. 1186 01:46:33,727 --> 01:46:36,688 [ Audience Murmuring Approval ] 1187 01:46:36,772 --> 01:46:40,317 Love your flesh. 1188 01:46:41,443 --> 01:46:43,904 Love it hard. 1189 01:46:44,029 --> 01:46:49,660 Yonder... they do not love our flesh. 1190 01:46:49,785 --> 01:46:52,120 [ Man ] Amen. 1191 01:46:53,247 --> 01:46:58,085 [ Chuckling ] Oh, my people... 1192 01:46:59,753 --> 01:47:03,549 they do not love your hands. 1193 01:47:05,467 --> 01:47:11,014 Those... they only use... 1194 01:47:11,140 --> 01:47:14,518 tie... bind... 1195 01:47:14,643 --> 01:47:17,020 chop off... 1196 01:47:17,104 --> 01:47:19,857 and leave empty. 1197 01:47:22,526 --> 01:47:25,612 Love your hands. 1198 01:47:29,074 --> 01:47:31,785 Raise them up... 1199 01:47:31,869 --> 01:47:34,788 and kiss them. 1200 01:47:35,914 --> 01:47:37,791 [ Kissing ] 1201 01:47:37,916 --> 01:47:40,461 [ Guffawing ] 1202 01:47:40,544 --> 01:47:43,964 [ All Laughing, Clapping ] 1203 01:47:45,257 --> 01:47:49,803 Twenty-eight days of... freedom. 1204 01:47:51,805 --> 01:47:54,808 On the 29th day, it was over. 1205 01:48:02,941 --> 01:48:05,319 [ Chopping ] 1206 01:48:06,528 --> 01:48:08,989 [ Whispering ] Outside. 1207 01:48:13,827 --> 01:48:15,829 [ Baby Crying ] 1208 01:48:15,954 --> 01:48:17,998 [ Chopping Continues ] 1209 01:48:24,546 --> 01:48:27,883 - # [ Humming ] - [ Crying Continues ] 1210 01:48:45,818 --> 01:48:50,697 [ Sethe Narrating ] There’s a look that white folks get. 1211 01:48:50,739 --> 01:48:55,035 Righteous look that’s like a flag goin’ up a pole. 1212 01:48:57,663 --> 01:49:00,290 A righteousness that... 1213 01:49:00,415 --> 01:49:03,627 comes along with the whip and the fist... 1214 01:49:03,752 --> 01:49:07,214 the burnin’, the lie. 1215 01:49:07,339 --> 01:49:10,551 Long before it happens in the open. 1216 01:49:10,676 --> 01:49:13,846 No, no! 1217 01:49:13,929 --> 01:49:18,016 - Howard, Buglar, get in the shed! - [ Crying ] 1218 01:49:18,100 --> 01:49:21,895 Get in the shed! Run! 1219 01:49:22,020 --> 01:49:24,064 [ Crying Continues ] 1220 01:49:25,524 --> 01:49:28,110 [ Screaming ] No! 1221 01:49:28,235 --> 01:49:31,446 Get in the shed! No! 1222 01:49:33,240 --> 01:49:38,579 [ Sethe, Distant ] No! No! No! No! 1223 01:49:38,704 --> 01:49:41,748 [ Sethe Continues Screaming ] 1224 01:49:44,168 --> 01:49:46,295 [ Whinnying ] 1225 01:49:47,921 --> 01:49:53,218 [ Screaming Hysterically ] No, no, no! 1226 01:49:53,302 --> 01:49:57,473 - [ Sethe ] No, no, no! - [ Boy ] Mama! 1227 01:49:57,598 --> 01:50:00,434 [ Boys Screaming ] 1228 01:50:00,517 --> 01:50:03,061 [ Boy Screaming, Crying ] Mama! 1229 01:50:03,145 --> 01:50:07,316 [ Screaming, Crying Continue ] 1230 01:50:12,362 --> 01:50:14,406 [ Baby Crying ] 1231 01:50:14,490 --> 01:50:16,658 - [ Grunting ] - Sethe! Sethe! No! 1232 01:50:16,783 --> 01:50:20,579 - Sethe! - [ Screaming ] 1233 01:50:20,662 --> 01:50:22,915 [ Sethe Panting ] 1234 01:50:22,998 --> 01:50:25,667 [ Coughing, Crying ] 1235 01:50:25,793 --> 01:50:28,003 God Almighty. 1236 01:50:28,128 --> 01:50:30,756 [ Denver Crying ] 1237 01:50:37,221 --> 01:50:40,182 What’d you go and do that for? 1238 01:50:40,307 --> 01:50:43,352 What’d you go and do that for? 1239 01:50:43,477 --> 01:50:46,313 [ Breathing Heavily ] 1240 01:50:49,024 --> 01:50:51,985 What’d you go and do that for? 1241 01:50:57,741 --> 01:51:00,661 [ Denver Continues Crying ] 1242 01:51:07,668 --> 01:51:09,545 [ Gasping ] 1243 01:51:09,670 --> 01:51:14,341 Y’all better go on. Nothin’ here to claim, I guess. 1244 01:51:14,466 --> 01:51:18,053 - Look like your business is over. - [ Throwing Hat ] 1245 01:51:19,263 --> 01:51:21,348 Mine’s started. 1246 01:51:22,432 --> 01:51:24,351 [ Spits ] 1247 01:51:24,476 --> 01:51:26,728 Animal. 1248 01:51:26,854 --> 01:51:29,565 [ Crying Continues ] 1249 01:51:38,574 --> 01:51:40,492 [ Baby Suggs Gasping ] 1250 01:51:40,576 --> 01:51:43,537 Oh. [ Continues Gasping ] 1251 01:51:43,620 --> 01:51:45,539 Oh. 1252 01:51:48,250 --> 01:51:52,588 - Oh. - I’m going out. I’ll send for a wagon. 1253 01:51:53,755 --> 01:51:57,259 Howard, Howard! [ Wheezing ] 1254 01:51:57,384 --> 01:52:00,596 - Wake up. Buglar. Baby! - [ Buglar Wheezing ] 1255 01:52:00,721 --> 01:52:03,223 Come on, sweetheart. Wake up! Wake up! 1256 01:52:03,348 --> 01:52:05,559 - [ Moaning ] - Oh! 1257 01:52:05,684 --> 01:52:07,895 I beg your pardon. 1258 01:52:08,020 --> 01:52:12,399 Sethe, you take my armload and give me your’n. 1259 01:52:12,524 --> 01:52:17,237 - [ Boys Coughing ] - [ Crying ] 1260 01:52:17,404 --> 01:52:22,701 [ Baby Suggs ] I beg your pardon. I beg your pardon. 1261 01:52:22,784 --> 01:52:25,788 I beg your pardon. 1262 01:52:27,915 --> 01:52:30,709 Your love is too thick, Sethe. 1263 01:52:32,252 --> 01:52:35,589 Love is or it isn’t, Paul D. 1264 01:52:35,672 --> 01:52:38,550 Thin love ain’t no love at all. 1265 01:52:38,634 --> 01:52:41,094 I stopped him. 1266 01:52:41,178 --> 01:52:44,598 I put my babies where’d they be safe. 1267 01:52:44,723 --> 01:52:48,060 Didn’t work, though, did it? 1268 01:52:48,143 --> 01:52:51,396 Your boys are gone, you don’t know where. 1269 01:52:51,480 --> 01:52:57,027 One girl’s dead. The other can’t get further than the yard. 1270 01:52:58,320 --> 01:53:00,614 How did it work? 1271 01:53:01,865 --> 01:53:04,368 They ain’t at Sweet Home. 1272 01:53:04,493 --> 01:53:07,246 Schoolteacher ain’t got ‘em. 1273 01:53:07,329 --> 01:53:12,084 - Maybe there’s worse. - It ain’t my job to know what’s worse, Paul D. 1274 01:53:12,167 --> 01:53:17,131 It’s my job to know what is and keep my children away from it, ’cause I’d rather know... 1275 01:53:17,256 --> 01:53:21,093 they at peace in heaven than live in a hell here on Earth, so help me, Jesus. 1276 01:53:21,176 --> 01:53:24,638 - What you did was wrong, Sethe. - I should’ve gone back there? 1277 01:53:24,721 --> 01:53:28,142 Took my babies back to Sweet Home? 1278 01:53:28,225 --> 01:53:30,519 There could’ve been a way. Some other way. 1279 01:53:30,644 --> 01:53:32,604 What way, Paul D? 1280 01:53:32,688 --> 01:53:36,316 You got two feet, Sethe, not four. 1281 01:53:45,117 --> 01:53:47,828 You can set aside supper for me. 1282 01:53:52,708 --> 01:53:56,170 I might be late gettin’ back. 1283 01:53:59,673 --> 01:54:03,343 After all I just told you, Paul D... 1284 01:54:05,679 --> 01:54:09,433 and after you tellin’ me how many feet I got... 1285 01:54:09,516 --> 01:54:14,021 you think sayin’ goodbye is gonna break me into pieces? 1286 01:54:20,944 --> 01:54:23,530 You’re a sweet man. 1287 01:54:34,625 --> 01:54:37,377 [ Door Shutting ] 1288 01:54:37,461 --> 01:54:40,130 So long, Paul D. 1289 01:54:57,731 --> 01:55:00,067 We could roast some taters. 1290 01:55:00,192 --> 01:55:03,862 Too late. Tomorrow. 1291 01:55:21,004 --> 01:55:24,299 # [ Humming Lullaby ] 1292 01:55:28,846 --> 01:55:31,223 # [ Continues ] 1293 01:55:43,861 --> 01:55:45,904 # [ Stops ] 1294 01:55:46,989 --> 01:55:49,950 I made that song up. 1295 01:55:50,033 --> 01:55:53,912 I made it up and sang it to my children. 1296 01:55:53,996 --> 01:55:56,957 Nobody knows that song but... 1297 01:55:58,208 --> 01:56:00,627 me and my children. 1298 01:56:02,129 --> 01:56:04,715 I know. 1299 01:56:04,840 --> 01:56:07,801 # [ Resumes Humming ] 1300 01:56:28,280 --> 01:56:31,867 [ Muffled Humming, Wheezing ] 1301 01:57:02,189 --> 01:57:04,066 [ Gasping ] 1302 01:57:11,907 --> 01:57:14,701 You came back to me. 1303 01:57:17,996 --> 01:57:20,374 [ Softly ] Yeah. 1304 01:58:00,622 --> 01:58:05,294 - [ Beloved Snoring, Wheezing ] - Ohh. 1305 01:58:05,419 --> 01:58:08,464 - Back stiff? - Mmm. Yeah. 1306 01:58:10,507 --> 01:58:14,219 - Sleeping on the floor’s supposed to be good for you. - Hurt like the devil. 1307 01:58:14,303 --> 01:58:17,014 Should I wake her? 1308 01:58:17,139 --> 01:58:19,683 No. Let her rest. 1309 01:58:19,808 --> 01:58:22,186 She likes to see you off in the morning. 1310 01:58:22,311 --> 01:58:25,314 I’m gonna let her, but first get me that ham out of there. 1311 01:58:25,439 --> 01:58:30,110 I’m gonna make us a nice, big breakfast against the cold outside. 1312 01:58:30,235 --> 01:58:33,614 - Won’t you be late for work? - First time I’ll be late in 16 years. 1313 01:58:33,697 --> 01:58:35,616 It don’t matter. 1314 01:58:35,699 --> 01:58:39,453 Whatever goes on out there goes on with or without me showin’ up on time. 1315 01:58:39,536 --> 01:58:41,789 The world is right here in this room. 1316 01:58:41,914 --> 01:58:46,627 - Right here is all that is and all there needs to be. - [ Stirring ] 1317 01:58:46,752 --> 01:58:52,049 - She ain’t even mad at me. Not a bit. - [ Continues Wheezing ] 1318 01:58:52,174 --> 01:58:54,301 [ Groaning ] 1319 01:59:03,101 --> 01:59:05,479 [ Girls Chattering, Distant ] 1320 01:59:08,732 --> 01:59:10,651 [ Chuckling ] 1321 01:59:12,361 --> 01:59:14,696 Whoo. 1322 01:59:29,795 --> 01:59:33,048 - [ Boy #1 ] Mama! - [ Boy #2 ] Mama! 1323 01:59:36,343 --> 01:59:38,220 - Mama! - Mama! 1324 01:59:38,345 --> 01:59:41,723 [ Footsteps Crunching In Snow ] 1325 01:59:43,433 --> 01:59:45,936 - Mama! - Mama! 1326 01:59:57,281 --> 01:59:59,283 [ Chattering ] 1327 02:00:05,873 --> 02:00:08,459 [ Man ] Put it back in there. Put it back. 1328 02:00:08,584 --> 02:00:11,336 [ Speaking German ] That’s it. You’re late. You’re fired. 1329 02:00:11,420 --> 02:00:13,630 That’s all. I- I-- I’ve had it. 1330 02:00:13,755 --> 02:00:16,800 You make potato salad always too sweet. 1331 02:00:16,925 --> 02:00:19,428 And you didn’t make the pies today. 1332 02:00:19,553 --> 02:00:23,182 You take home too much food. Where are you going? Where are you going? 1333 02:01:13,774 --> 02:01:17,736 - My goodness. Is that-- - Yes, it is. 1334 02:01:22,950 --> 02:01:26,370 - Did you see that? - What? That’s a disgrace. 1335 02:01:29,540 --> 02:01:31,959 [ Chattering ] 1336 02:01:35,838 --> 02:01:37,965 Sethe. 1337 02:01:38,090 --> 02:01:41,927 [ Woman ] Don’t look now, but there is Sethe. 1338 02:01:52,104 --> 02:01:54,356 - Mm. - Is she the one? 1339 02:02:11,748 --> 02:02:14,668 Will that be all, ma’am? 1340 02:02:14,751 --> 02:02:17,337 [ All Screaming ] 1341 02:02:17,463 --> 02:02:19,339 - [ Women ]# To get my grip# - [ Screaming ] 1342 02:02:19,465 --> 02:02:23,677 # I came back home just a-pullin’ the skiff, just a-pullin’ the skiff# 1343 02:02:23,802 --> 02:02:26,638 # Went upstairs to make my bed# 1344 02:02:26,722 --> 02:02:29,766 # I made a mistake and bumped my head# 1345 02:02:29,892 --> 02:02:32,936 # Just a-pullin’ the skiff Just a-pullin’ the skiff# 1346 02:02:33,061 --> 02:02:36,356 [ Together ] # I came downstairs to milk that cow# 1347 02:02:36,523 --> 02:02:39,401 # I made a mistake and I milked that sow# 1348 02:02:39,526 --> 02:02:43,614 # Just a-pullin’ the skiff Just a-pullin’ the skiff# 1349 02:02:43,739 --> 02:02:46,033 - [ Screeching, Laughing ] -# Tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow never comes# 1350 02:02:46,158 --> 02:02:49,536 # Tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow never comes# 1351 02:02:49,620 --> 02:02:52,748 - [ Denver ] The best part. - # [ All Grunting In Tune ] 1352 02:02:52,915 --> 02:02:56,376 - # [ Grunting Continues ] - [ Beloved Babbling ] 1353 02:02:56,460 --> 02:03:00,047 - Look at my pretty baby. She’s my best thing. - Denver. 1354 02:03:00,130 --> 02:03:02,883 [ Beloved ] # Tomorrow never come# 1355 02:03:03,008 --> 02:03:06,512 - Thank you, Mama. -# Tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow in the barn # 1356 02:03:06,595 --> 02:03:10,140 - [ Laughing ] - # [ Grunting ] 1357 02:03:20,192 --> 02:03:23,070 [ Beloved Babbling ] 1358 02:03:37,584 --> 02:03:39,461 This one? 1359 02:03:39,586 --> 02:03:43,048 - Would you wrap it, please? - What’s she doing? 1360 02:03:57,354 --> 02:03:59,606 [ Sethe Panting ] 1361 02:03:59,690 --> 02:04:02,401 The first day we got here to Bluestone Road... 1362 02:04:02,484 --> 02:04:05,154 you dribbled clear spit on my face. 1363 02:04:05,279 --> 02:04:10,200 Just like when you come back and drink that water, it run down your chin. 1364 02:04:10,284 --> 02:04:12,703 I’d have recognized you right off... 1365 02:04:12,828 --> 02:04:15,456 - [ Beloved Grunting ] - but Paul D, he distract me. 1366 02:04:15,581 --> 02:04:17,624 Then later on... 1367 02:04:17,708 --> 02:04:22,296 when you asked me about them earrings I used to dangle for you to play with... 1368 02:04:22,379 --> 02:04:25,340 - [ Babbling ] - I’d have known that was you... 1369 02:04:25,466 --> 02:04:27,342 except for Paul D. 1370 02:04:29,344 --> 02:04:32,097 Looked to me like he wanted you out from the beginning. 1371 02:04:32,181 --> 02:04:35,601 But I wouldn’t let him. What you think? 1372 02:04:35,726 --> 02:04:37,644 Hmm. 1373 02:04:37,728 --> 02:04:42,566 I mean, look how he run off first he hear about you and me in the shed. 1374 02:04:43,984 --> 02:04:46,695 Too tough for him to even listen to. 1375 02:04:47,821 --> 02:04:51,366 ’My love too thick,’ he said. 1376 02:04:51,492 --> 02:04:54,203 What do he know about it? 1377 02:04:54,328 --> 02:04:56,663 [ Sethe ]# High Johnny# 1378 02:04:57,581 --> 02:04:59,082 # Wide Johnny# 1379 02:04:59,208 --> 02:05:03,086 # Don’t you leave my side# 1380 02:05:03,212 --> 02:05:06,340 # High Johnny# 1381 02:05:06,465 --> 02:05:09,259 # Wide Johnny# 1382 02:05:09,343 --> 02:05:14,848 # Sweet William, bend down low# 1383 02:05:17,643 --> 02:05:21,980 -# Jack, we raise up high# - [ Beloved Laughs ] 1384 02:05:22,064 --> 02:05:26,235 -# Lambs wool # - Why you hurt me? 1385 02:05:26,360 --> 02:05:30,239 Baby, you know. 1386 02:05:30,364 --> 02:05:32,699 Why you leave me? 1387 02:05:33,909 --> 02:05:36,578 Beloved, I wasn’t never gonna leave you. 1388 02:05:36,703 --> 02:05:38,580 Never. 1389 02:05:38,705 --> 02:05:42,167 But there wasn’t no way I was gonna let Schoolteacher come haul all of us off... 1390 02:05:42,251 --> 02:05:45,045 and measure your behind ’fore he tore it up. 1391 02:05:45,170 --> 02:05:48,757 - You leave me. - No, baby. No. 1392 02:05:48,882 --> 02:05:53,804 See, my plan was to get us all over to the other side where my own mammy is. 1393 02:05:53,929 --> 02:05:56,890 They stopped me from gettin’ us all there, but you had to be put... 1394 02:05:57,015 --> 02:05:59,810 where you’d be safe, and I did that. 1395 02:06:00,894 --> 02:06:02,980 Now you come back... 1396 02:06:03,105 --> 02:06:05,983 and baby, I ain’t gonna never let you go. 1397 02:06:06,108 --> 02:06:07,985 I want a sweet. 1398 02:06:08,110 --> 02:06:10,654 Sweet? 1399 02:06:10,779 --> 02:06:13,240 [ Moaning, Grunting ] Sweet. 1400 02:06:13,323 --> 02:06:15,826 We don’t have nothin’ sweet no more, baby. 1401 02:06:15,951 --> 02:06:19,329 Why you don’t let me eat the pie no more? 1402 02:06:19,455 --> 02:06:21,748 [ Plate Crashing ] 1403 02:06:21,874 --> 02:06:25,836 - [ Moaning ] - Since Mama spent all the money, we don’t have no more. 1404 02:06:25,961 --> 02:06:29,756 [ Screaming ] I want a sweet! I want a sweet! 1405 02:06:29,882 --> 02:06:33,343 - Sweet, sweet, sweet! - Beloved? Beloved! 1406 02:06:33,469 --> 02:06:37,139 - [ Screaming Continues ] - [ Sethe ] Beloved, baby? 1407 02:06:37,264 --> 02:06:39,516 Baby? Beloved! 1408 02:06:39,641 --> 02:06:43,353 [ Screaming, Crying ] 1409 02:06:46,148 --> 02:06:48,484 It’s all right. 1410 02:06:51,153 --> 02:06:55,365 - [ Gasping ] - I understand. 1411 02:06:55,491 --> 02:06:58,869 - [ Buzzing ] - [ Whimpering ] 1412 02:07:15,761 --> 02:07:18,639 [ Buzzing Continues ] 1413 02:07:23,936 --> 02:07:26,188 [ Chirping ] 1414 02:07:33,028 --> 02:07:35,322 [ Moaning ] 1415 02:07:40,035 --> 02:07:42,329 [ Gagging ] 1416 02:07:45,916 --> 02:07:48,836 [ Screeching ] 1417 02:07:53,298 --> 02:07:55,425 [ Screeching Continues ] 1418 02:07:55,551 --> 02:07:57,427 Beloved? 1419 02:08:02,224 --> 02:08:05,144 [ Crying ] 1420 02:08:12,234 --> 02:08:14,153 [ Buzzing ] 1421 02:08:17,448 --> 02:08:19,283 [ Birds Chirping ] 1422 02:08:28,709 --> 02:08:30,878 [ Clucking ] 1423 02:09:04,912 --> 02:09:08,415 - [ Clanking ] - [ Beloved Screaming ] 1424 02:09:18,675 --> 02:09:23,263 - [ Glass Breaking ] - [ Beloved Screaming ] 1425 02:09:30,437 --> 02:09:32,314 Mama! 1426 02:09:34,858 --> 02:09:38,362 - [ Footsteps Above ] - Mama! 1427 02:09:38,487 --> 02:09:40,948 - [ Metal Clanking ] - [ Babbling ] 1428 02:09:41,031 --> 02:09:42,950 [ Groaning ] 1429 02:09:43,033 --> 02:09:45,452 [ Babbling Continues ] 1430 02:09:56,338 --> 02:09:58,257 Mama! 1431 02:09:59,633 --> 02:10:03,971 - [ Rattling ] - [ Screaming, Babbling ] 1432 02:10:04,054 --> 02:10:05,973 Mama! 1433 02:10:10,018 --> 02:10:11,937 Mama! 1434 02:10:14,857 --> 02:10:17,234 [ Babbling Resumes ] 1435 02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:31,165 You best leave that quilt alone. 1436 02:10:32,249 --> 02:10:34,668 That’s Grandma’s quilt. 1437 02:10:38,005 --> 02:10:40,048 [ Gasping ] 1438 02:10:47,973 --> 02:10:52,311 [ Babbling ] I want a sweet. Where is sweet? 1439 02:10:58,817 --> 02:11:01,195 [ Clattering, Distant ] 1440 02:11:09,077 --> 02:11:11,997 [ Chattering, Distant ] 1441 02:11:31,058 --> 02:11:35,979 [ Baby Suggs ] You mean I never tell you about your daddy, Halle? 1442 02:11:36,104 --> 02:11:40,150 How he bought my freedom with all that toil... 1443 02:11:40,234 --> 02:11:44,238 and never had a chance to see the promised land for hisself? 1444 02:11:45,948 --> 02:11:50,202 Didn’t I tell you about the Bodwins... 1445 02:11:50,285 --> 02:11:52,955 who find me this here house... 1446 02:11:53,080 --> 02:11:55,916 and give me work in theirs? 1447 02:11:56,041 --> 02:12:01,213 How the Bodwins, they saved your Mama’s neck from the rope. 1448 02:12:02,297 --> 02:12:06,760 I never tell you all this? 1449 02:12:06,802 --> 02:12:10,264 Is that why you scared... 1450 02:12:10,347 --> 02:12:13,725 to go down them steps and out yonder... 1451 02:12:13,809 --> 02:12:16,687 by yourself? 1452 02:12:16,812 --> 02:12:20,107 Is that why you didn’t go back to Miss Lady... 1453 02:12:20,232 --> 02:12:22,609 and finish learnin’ your letters? 1454 02:12:22,693 --> 02:12:26,780 You liked going there. I remember. 1455 02:12:26,864 --> 02:12:32,202 Bein’ with the other children. All of a sudden you’ve stopped. 1456 02:12:35,414 --> 02:12:37,791 There was this boy... 1457 02:12:39,501 --> 02:12:42,421 and he said things about Mama. 1458 02:12:42,504 --> 02:12:45,591 - [ Gasping ] - He said he could prove it. 1459 02:12:45,674 --> 02:12:49,303 [ Wheezing ] My Jesus, my. 1460 02:12:51,221 --> 02:12:53,640 Come here, child. 1461 02:13:01,607 --> 02:13:04,443 We got to go sometime. 1462 02:13:04,526 --> 02:13:09,698 You got to go out yonder by yourself sometime. 1463 02:13:11,909 --> 02:13:15,245 You got to go on out of the yard. 1464 02:13:15,370 --> 02:13:17,831 Go on. 1465 02:14:40,038 --> 02:14:42,249 [ Hammering ] 1466 02:14:44,460 --> 02:14:46,837 [ Chattering ] 1467 02:14:53,760 --> 02:14:56,054 [ Man ] Come on, now. 1468 02:15:08,525 --> 02:15:10,652 [ Denver ] I want to work, Miss Lady. 1469 02:15:11,695 --> 02:15:13,614 Work? 1470 02:15:13,697 --> 02:15:17,242 Start learnin’ your letters again? 1471 02:15:19,828 --> 02:15:22,289 I mean ‘work’ work. 1472 02:15:24,333 --> 02:15:26,251 Well, Denver... 1473 02:15:27,461 --> 02:15:29,922 what can you do? 1474 02:15:35,260 --> 02:15:37,930 I can’t do nothin’. 1475 02:15:38,013 --> 02:15:42,226 But I could learn it for you... if you have a little extra. 1476 02:15:44,603 --> 02:15:46,480 Extra? 1477 02:15:49,316 --> 02:15:51,193 Food. 1478 02:15:56,406 --> 02:15:58,325 My mama... 1479 02:16:00,285 --> 02:16:03,288 she don’t feel too good. 1480 02:16:04,456 --> 02:16:07,167 [ Sighs ] Oh, baby. 1481 02:16:22,558 --> 02:16:26,186 Eat. Bad Sethe. 1482 02:16:26,270 --> 02:16:29,398 Yes. Bad Sethe. 1483 02:16:35,404 --> 02:16:38,449 [ Beloved Babbling ] 1484 02:16:38,615 --> 02:16:41,994 [ Beloved ] Eat. 1485 02:16:42,077 --> 02:16:44,037 Eat. 1486 02:17:13,275 --> 02:17:15,152 [ Chirping ] 1487 02:17:18,363 --> 02:17:21,116 Ohh, honey. 1488 02:17:21,241 --> 02:17:23,118 What you got? 1489 02:17:39,927 --> 02:17:42,513 - [ Gasping ] - Thank you, ma’am. 1490 02:17:42,638 --> 02:17:45,516 You’re more than welcome, my child. 1491 02:18:01,031 --> 02:18:02,950 Thank you. 1492 02:18:05,452 --> 02:18:08,831 [ Woman ] No, no. That’s not my bowl. 1493 02:18:08,956 --> 02:18:11,083 Sugar, mine got a blue ring on it. 1494 02:18:11,166 --> 02:18:13,460 You wanna come in a spell? Come on in. 1495 02:18:13,585 --> 02:18:17,881 - I got some warm gingerbread. You just go on in there. - Okay. 1496 02:18:24,596 --> 02:18:26,431 [ Rooster Crowing ] 1497 02:18:31,645 --> 02:18:33,981 [ Chattering ] 1498 02:18:56,211 --> 02:18:58,589 [ Dog Barking ] 1499 02:18:58,714 --> 02:19:03,385 Shh. Shh. Go on. Move. Get off of me. 1500 02:19:03,510 --> 02:19:07,598 - You stink, and you messin’ up my dress. Stop it. - [ Barking Continues ] 1501 02:19:07,723 --> 02:19:10,517 I’m tellin’ you, get off of me. Get off of me, now! 1502 02:19:10,642 --> 02:19:13,228 - [ Grunting ] Stop it. - [ Growling ] 1503 02:19:13,353 --> 02:19:16,607 - How far you goin’, miss? - I goin’ to Cincinnati. 1504 02:19:21,904 --> 02:19:26,742 - [ Driver ] That’s as far as we’re goin’, miss. Get off. - Thank you. 1505 02:19:28,619 --> 02:19:31,997 - How’s it goin’? - Take care of yourself, all right? 1506 02:19:32,080 --> 02:19:35,751 Excuse me. I was lookin’ for the Bodwin’s house. 1507 02:19:35,876 --> 02:19:40,047 You bugger off, you hear me? 1508 02:19:40,172 --> 02:19:42,883 [ Chattering ] 1509 02:19:55,938 --> 02:19:57,815 Yes? 1510 02:20:02,194 --> 02:20:04,488 What you want? 1511 02:20:07,282 --> 02:20:12,121 I wanted to see Mr and Mrs Bowman-- Mr and Mrs Bodwin. 1512 02:20:12,246 --> 02:20:14,581 Ms Bodwin. 1513 02:20:14,665 --> 02:20:18,585 They brother and sister, darlin’. What you want with ‘em? 1514 02:20:18,710 --> 02:20:24,383 I was lookin’ for work, and I thought that they might know about some. 1515 02:20:25,801 --> 02:20:28,262 Ohh... 1516 02:20:28,345 --> 02:20:31,390 you Baby Suggs’ kid, ain’t you? 1517 02:20:31,473 --> 02:20:36,103 - [ Chuckling ] Yes’m. - I heard your mother took sick. 1518 02:20:36,228 --> 02:20:40,023 - Is that so? - Yes’m. 1519 02:20:41,400 --> 02:20:45,362 Well, come on in. You’re lettin’ in flies. Come on. 1520 02:20:48,031 --> 02:20:52,995 You know what? I been here since I’m 14, and I can remember like yesterday... 1521 02:20:53,120 --> 02:20:57,458 when Baby Suggs Holy came here and sat right where you are. 1522 02:20:57,541 --> 02:21:02,379 White man, name of Garner, brought her. He and Mr Bodwin was good friends. 1523 02:21:02,463 --> 02:21:07,384 - That’s how she got that house you all live in. Other things too. - Yes’m. 1524 02:21:07,509 --> 02:21:12,097 I never went to those woodland services, but she was always nice to me. 1525 02:21:12,181 --> 02:21:15,684 Always. Never be another like her. 1526 02:21:15,809 --> 02:21:17,978 I miss her. 1527 02:21:18,103 --> 02:21:23,150 Bet you do. Everybody miss her. That was a good woman. 1528 02:21:25,027 --> 02:21:26,987 Well... 1529 02:21:27,070 --> 02:21:32,117 I don’t know whether the Bodwins think so or not, but they sure could use some extra help. 1530 02:21:32,201 --> 02:21:34,703 - [ Both Chuckling ] - You think? 1531 02:21:34,828 --> 02:21:38,207 Especially at night, when it’s no good for me to come. 1532 02:21:38,332 --> 02:21:42,461 It’ll take some convincin’, but maybe you could come after supper. 1533 02:21:42,544 --> 02:21:46,673 Take care of your mama during the day. How’s that? 1534 02:21:46,799 --> 02:21:49,927 - Fine. - [ Chuckling ] 1535 02:21:50,052 --> 02:21:51,929 But what would I do at night? 1536 02:21:52,054 --> 02:21:56,266 - Just be here in case. - In case what? 1537 02:21:56,391 --> 02:22:01,563 In case the house burned down or bad weather slopped the roads up so bad I can’t get here on time. 1538 02:22:01,688 --> 02:22:03,857 Or late guests needed cleanin’ up after. 1539 02:22:03,941 --> 02:22:06,026 Anything. 1540 02:22:06,110 --> 02:22:10,239 [ Snickering ] Don’t ask me what white folks need at night. 1541 02:22:11,740 --> 02:22:15,035 - They good white folk? - Oh, yeah. They good. 1542 02:22:15,160 --> 02:22:19,414 Can’t say they ain’t good. I wouldn’t trade ‘em for another pair, I tell you that. 1543 02:22:19,540 --> 02:22:24,878 But you come back in a few days. Give me a chance to lead up to it. 1544 02:22:25,003 --> 02:22:27,464 All right? 1545 02:22:31,176 --> 02:22:33,762 What is it, child? 1546 02:22:34,930 --> 02:22:38,267 What’s the trouble with Sethe? 1547 02:22:40,394 --> 02:22:42,271 [ Whimpering ] 1548 02:22:42,479 --> 02:22:44,523 [ Chattering ] 1549 02:22:46,442 --> 02:22:49,194 Is it really the daughter, Janey? The killed one? 1550 02:22:49,236 --> 02:22:51,613 That’s what the girl say. 1551 02:22:51,738 --> 02:22:55,325 - How do you know it’s her? - It’s sittin’ there, Lucille. 1552 02:22:55,451 --> 02:22:58,162 It sleeps, eats and raises hell. 1553 02:22:58,287 --> 02:23:01,165 - I’ll be. A baby. - [ All Murmuring ] 1554 02:23:01,290 --> 02:23:05,210 Nah. It’s grown. It’s the age it would’ve been had it lived. 1555 02:23:05,294 --> 02:23:08,213 - Mercy. - What you talkin’ about? You talkin’ about flesh? 1556 02:23:08,297 --> 02:23:12,718 - I’m talkin’ about flesh... and it’s whoopin’ her... - [ Women Gasping ] 1557 02:23:12,801 --> 02:23:14,678 like she was batter. 1558 02:23:14,803 --> 02:23:20,225 - I guess she had it comin’ a little. - Nobody got that comin’. 1559 02:23:20,309 --> 02:23:25,272 But Ella, you just don’t up and kill your children. 1560 02:23:25,397 --> 02:23:29,818 No, and the children can’t just up and kill the mama. 1561 02:23:29,943 --> 02:23:33,280 Them that die bad don’t stay in the ground. 1562 02:23:33,405 --> 02:23:35,699 [ All Commenting ] 1563 02:23:39,953 --> 02:23:42,122 [ Sethe Muttering ] 1564 02:23:42,247 --> 02:23:44,500 [ Chopping ] 1565 02:23:47,002 --> 02:23:49,671 [ Beloved Snorting ] 1566 02:23:49,797 --> 02:23:52,424 [ Sethe ] Schoolteacher-- 1567 02:23:52,508 --> 02:23:54,468 Mama? 1568 02:23:55,636 --> 02:23:58,680 Nobody ain’t makin’ nothin’. 1569 02:23:58,806 --> 02:24:01,767 - Nobody. - Mama, I’m going out now. 1570 02:24:01,850 --> 02:24:04,186 [ Continues Muttering ] 1571 02:24:04,311 --> 02:24:06,772 [ Chopping Continues ] 1572 02:24:06,855 --> 02:24:10,526 I got a job workin’ nights over at the Bodwins. 1573 02:24:11,777 --> 02:24:15,030 Mr Bodwin’s coming to pick me up now. 1574 02:24:17,157 --> 02:24:20,869 Writin’ my baby’s characteristics! [ Grunts ] 1575 02:24:20,994 --> 02:24:23,122 Lay that down. 1576 02:24:23,205 --> 02:24:26,291 We have money now. 1577 02:24:28,460 --> 02:24:31,338 [ Muttering Continues ] 1578 02:24:31,463 --> 02:24:33,298 Mama! 1579 02:24:40,681 --> 02:24:42,724 [ Muttering ] 1580 02:24:43,809 --> 02:24:46,270 [ Beloved Wheezing ] 1581 02:25:04,872 --> 02:25:06,707 Hey. 1582 02:25:17,342 --> 02:25:19,219 [ Snorting ] 1583 02:26:05,724 --> 02:26:07,601 [ Sniffling ] 1584 02:26:09,770 --> 02:26:12,648 [ Footsteps Approaching ] 1585 02:26:15,442 --> 02:26:18,320 [ Agitated Chattering ] 1586 02:26:25,994 --> 02:26:28,413 It’s comin’ out. It’s over. 1587 02:26:28,497 --> 02:26:32,000 [ Chanting ] 1588 02:26:44,263 --> 02:26:46,890 [ Chanting Continues ] 1589 02:26:51,645 --> 02:26:55,190 - [ All Murmuring ] - [ Woman ] Help us, help us. 1590 02:26:55,315 --> 02:26:57,192 Ohh! 1591 02:26:57,317 --> 02:26:59,820 Ohh, amen! 1592 02:26:59,945 --> 02:27:02,406 [ Chanting ] 1593 02:27:02,531 --> 02:27:05,451 [ Crying Out ] 1594 02:27:05,534 --> 02:27:09,288 - [ All Joining In ] - Help us, Jesus! 1595 02:27:09,371 --> 02:27:13,250 [ Crying Intensifies ] 1596 02:27:13,375 --> 02:27:15,252 [ Screaming ] 1597 02:27:15,377 --> 02:27:18,422 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 1598 02:27:18,547 --> 02:27:21,049 - [ Woman ]# I heard the voice# - Yes. 1599 02:27:21,175 --> 02:27:24,678 - I heard the voice. -# I heard the voice# 1600 02:27:24,803 --> 02:27:29,433 - I heard the voice. -# I heard the voice# 1601 02:27:31,477 --> 02:27:35,105 # I heard the voice say# 1602 02:27:35,230 --> 02:27:39,985 # Come unto me and rest# 1603 02:27:40,068 --> 02:27:43,572 [ All, Growing Louder ] # I# 1604 02:27:43,655 --> 02:27:46,867 -# Heard# - [ Woman ]# The voice# 1605 02:27:46,992 --> 02:27:50,037 # The# 1606 02:27:50,162 --> 02:27:52,998 # Voice# 1607 02:27:53,081 --> 02:27:56,919 # Of# 1608 02:27:57,044 --> 02:28:02,800 -# Jesus# - [ Wheezing ] 1609 02:28:02,925 --> 02:28:06,261 # Say# 1610 02:28:06,386 --> 02:28:08,597 # Come# 1611 02:28:08,722 --> 02:28:15,229 # Un-to# 1612 02:28:15,354 --> 02:28:19,149 # Me# 1613 02:28:19,274 --> 02:28:22,152 # And# 1614 02:28:22,277 --> 02:28:25,739 # Rest# 1615 02:28:25,864 --> 02:28:29,243 - [ Woman ]# Lay down, thou weary one# - It’s all right. 1616 02:28:29,326 --> 02:28:35,249 # Lay down thy head upon my breast# 1617 02:28:35,332 --> 02:28:38,961 [ All ]# Lay# 1618 02:28:39,086 --> 02:28:41,755 # Down# 1619 02:28:41,880 --> 02:28:45,175 # Thou# 1620 02:28:45,300 --> 02:28:51,849 # Weary# 1621 02:28:51,974 --> 02:28:54,893 # One# 1622 02:28:54,977 --> 02:28:57,479 - Mama# -# Lay# 1623 02:28:57,604 --> 02:29:00,190 - [ Snorting ] -# Down# 1624 02:29:00,315 --> 02:29:02,776 - # [ Trails Off ] - [ Murmuring ] 1625 02:29:02,901 --> 02:29:06,989 [ Gasping, Screaming ] 1626 02:29:07,114 --> 02:29:10,868 - [ Woman ]# I came to Jesus# - [ Grunting ] 1627 02:29:10,993 --> 02:29:13,829 - Oh, Lord, please. -# As I was# 1628 02:29:13,954 --> 02:29:17,791 # The weary one who said# 1629 02:29:17,916 --> 02:29:21,753 # I# 1630 02:29:21,837 --> 02:29:24,548 # Came# 1631 02:29:24,673 --> 02:29:27,342 # To# 1632 02:29:27,468 --> 02:29:34,349 # Je-sus# 1633 02:29:34,475 --> 02:29:37,436 # As# 1634 02:29:37,519 --> 02:29:41,190 # I# 1635 02:29:41,315 --> 02:29:43,358 # Was# 1636 02:29:44,651 --> 02:29:48,363 # He# 1637 02:29:49,698 --> 02:29:54,661 # Had# 1638 02:29:54,787 --> 02:29:59,541 # Hold and# 1639 02:30:01,168 --> 02:30:03,086 -# Said# - No. 1640 02:30:03,212 --> 02:30:05,255 - No, no, no, no. -# Tilt your eyes down low# 1641 02:30:05,380 --> 02:30:07,424 No, no, no, no. 1642 02:30:07,549 --> 02:30:10,052 [ Screeching ] 1643 02:30:10,135 --> 02:30:12,054 [ Crying ] 1644 02:30:12,179 --> 02:30:14,431 - Mama? -# I # 1645 02:30:14,556 --> 02:30:17,392 Mama? 1646 02:30:17,518 --> 02:30:20,687 - [ Continues Screaming ] - Mama, that’s Mr Bodwin! 1647 02:30:20,813 --> 02:30:23,899 - # [ Singing Continues ] - Mama! 1648 02:30:24,024 --> 02:30:26,610 Mama! 1649 02:30:28,237 --> 02:30:32,282 - Mama! - No, no, no! No, no, no! 1650 02:30:32,407 --> 02:30:37,538 - No! - Mama! Mama! 1651 02:30:37,621 --> 02:30:41,708 - [ All Yelling ] - [ Sethe Whimpering ] 1652 02:30:47,172 --> 02:30:49,133 [ Screaming ] 1653 02:30:53,303 --> 02:30:55,722 [ Screaming Stops ] 1654 02:31:03,772 --> 02:31:06,150 [ Birds Chirping ] 1655 02:31:15,826 --> 02:31:17,744 [ Chirping Continues ] 1656 02:31:17,828 --> 02:31:20,747 # [ Girl Humming ] 1657 02:31:31,925 --> 02:31:34,303 # [ Humming Continues ] 1658 02:32:02,873 --> 02:32:05,292 [ Hammering ] 1659 02:32:05,375 --> 02:32:07,753 [ Chattering ] 1660 02:32:33,654 --> 02:32:36,573 Paul D? ls that you? 1661 02:32:42,454 --> 02:32:44,623 Good morning. 1662 02:32:44,706 --> 02:32:48,377 Well, it is now. 1663 02:32:50,796 --> 02:32:54,091 - How you gettin’ along? - Don’t pay to complain. 1664 02:32:54,216 --> 02:32:57,511 - Yeah. Right. You on your way home? - No. 1665 02:32:57,636 --> 02:33:00,430 I got an afternoon job at the shirt factory. 1666 02:33:00,556 --> 02:33:03,767 I figure between that and my night work at the Bodwins... 1667 02:33:03,892 --> 02:33:06,937 I might be able to put somethin’ aside for me and Mama. 1668 02:33:07,062 --> 02:33:10,858 - They treatin’ you right over at the Bodwins? - Mm-hmm. More than all right. 1669 02:33:10,983 --> 02:33:13,694 Ms Bodwin, she teachin’ me stuff. Book stuff. 1670 02:33:13,819 --> 02:33:16,071 She say I might go to Oberlin College. 1671 02:33:16,155 --> 02:33:19,324 That’s fine, mighty fine. 1672 02:33:22,119 --> 02:33:24,037 Well. 1673 02:33:24,163 --> 02:33:27,416 [ Stammering ] Your mother all right? 1674 02:33:32,421 --> 02:33:37,050 No. She’s not a bit all right. 1675 02:33:37,176 --> 02:33:41,180 She hasn’t gotten out of bed since that day. 1676 02:33:43,348 --> 02:33:47,269 Think I should stop by? Think she’d welcome it? 1677 02:33:49,521 --> 02:33:51,899 I don’t know. 1678 02:33:54,026 --> 02:33:57,529 I think I lost my mama, Paul D. 1679 02:34:00,324 --> 02:34:03,243 Th-That girl. You know. Beloved. 1680 02:34:04,912 --> 02:34:08,290 She-She gone like they say? 1681 02:34:08,373 --> 02:34:11,835 Haven’t seen her since that day. 1682 02:34:11,960 --> 02:34:16,048 Mama say she gone. She can feel it. 1683 02:34:16,173 --> 02:34:19,843 You think she sure enough your sister? 1684 02:34:21,053 --> 02:34:22,971 At times. 1685 02:34:24,097 --> 02:34:26,350 At other times... 1686 02:34:29,019 --> 02:34:30,896 I think she was more. 1687 02:34:34,900 --> 02:34:38,403 But who would know that better than you, Paul D? 1688 02:34:38,529 --> 02:34:41,406 You sure enough knew her. 1689 02:34:41,532 --> 02:34:45,244 - Well, if you want my opinion-- - I don’t. 1690 02:34:45,369 --> 02:34:47,788 I have my own. 1691 02:34:47,913 --> 02:34:50,541 - # [ Woman Vocalizing ] - You grown. 1692 02:34:50,666 --> 02:34:52,543 Yes, sir. 1693 02:34:55,838 --> 02:34:59,216 Well, good luck with your job. 1694 02:34:59,383 --> 02:35:01,635 Thank you. 1695 02:35:01,760 --> 02:35:04,513 # [ Vocalizing Continues ] 1696 02:35:06,932 --> 02:35:08,851 Bye, now. 1697 02:35:08,934 --> 02:35:11,895 [ Man ] Watch your step. 1698 02:35:17,609 --> 02:35:19,736 Paul D? 1699 02:35:22,281 --> 02:35:24,158 You don’t have to stay away. 1700 02:35:26,201 --> 02:35:29,204 But you watch how you talk to my mama, you hear? 1701 02:35:29,288 --> 02:35:31,498 Don’t worry. 1702 02:35:31,623 --> 02:35:34,001 [ Horse Whinnying ] 1703 02:35:34,126 --> 02:35:37,337 [ Man ] Hey, Miss Denver! Wait up! 1704 02:35:37,463 --> 02:35:39,756 Hi. 1705 02:35:46,305 --> 02:35:48,265 Watch it, miss. 1706 02:35:56,732 --> 02:35:59,109 Yeah. [ Chuckles ] 1707 02:36:00,569 --> 02:36:02,446 Ohh. 1708 02:36:07,993 --> 02:36:09,953 # [ Vocalizing Ends ] 1709 02:37:04,216 --> 02:37:07,094 [ Heavy Breathing ] 1710 02:37:14,852 --> 02:37:16,728 Sethe? 1711 02:37:27,406 --> 02:37:29,283 Paul D? 1712 02:37:41,587 --> 02:37:43,630 [ Sighs ] 1713 02:37:47,885 --> 02:37:50,262 [ Chuckling ] 1714 02:37:53,765 --> 02:37:55,684 You shaved. 1715 02:37:57,770 --> 02:38:01,190 Yeah. Look bad? 1716 02:38:02,733 --> 02:38:04,610 Lookin’ good. 1717 02:38:04,735 --> 02:38:07,529 [ Guffawing ] 1718 02:38:07,613 --> 02:38:09,531 Devil’s confusion. 1719 02:38:27,716 --> 02:38:32,221 - I seen Denver. She tell ya? - [ Gasping ] 1720 02:38:33,347 --> 02:38:36,266 You gotta get up from here, girl. 1721 02:38:40,104 --> 02:38:45,442 Look. Denver be here in the day. I’ll be here at night. 1722 02:38:45,526 --> 02:38:48,278 I’m gonna take care of you, ya hear? 1723 02:38:48,362 --> 02:38:50,697 Startin’ now. 1724 02:38:59,581 --> 02:39:03,127 What, baby? What? 1725 02:39:07,798 --> 02:39:11,760 [ Crying ] She leave me. 1726 02:39:14,263 --> 02:39:16,140 She gone again. 1727 02:39:16,265 --> 02:39:18,892 Oh, girl. Don’t cry. 1728 02:39:20,185 --> 02:39:22,688 She leave me. 1729 02:39:22,813 --> 02:39:25,357 Sethe, Sethe. 1730 02:39:26,650 --> 02:39:28,986 [ Voice Breaking ] Paul... 1731 02:39:29,069 --> 02:39:32,781 she my best thing. 1732 02:39:35,409 --> 02:39:38,412 You your best thing, Sethe. 1733 02:39:41,999 --> 02:39:44,084 You are. 1734 02:39:48,255 --> 02:39:50,174 Me? 1735 02:39:53,051 --> 02:39:55,471 Me? [ Gasping ] 1736 02:40:03,228 --> 02:40:08,025 And the beat, beat of your heart. 1737 02:40:08,108 --> 02:40:11,737 [ Audience Applauding, Murmuring Approval ] 1738 02:40:11,862 --> 02:40:15,032 - # [ Chorus Vocalizing ] - Love it... 1739 02:40:15,157 --> 02:40:17,367 more than the lungs... 1740 02:40:17,493 --> 02:40:20,913 that need yet... 1741 02:40:21,038 --> 02:40:23,916 to breathe free air; 1742 02:40:25,167 --> 02:40:27,711 more than the womb... 1743 02:40:27,836 --> 02:40:30,506 that holds life; 1744 02:40:32,090 --> 02:40:35,803 more than the private parts... that give life. 1745 02:40:35,928 --> 02:40:40,098 - [ Man ] That’s right. - Love your heart. 1746 02:40:40,224 --> 02:40:43,310 - [ Audience Applauding ] - [ Man ] Yes! Love your heart! 1747 02:40:43,435 --> 02:40:46,355 This... this... 1748 02:40:47,481 --> 02:40:49,691 this is the prize. 1749 02:40:49,775 --> 02:40:51,819 [ Applause, Cheering ] 1750 02:40:51,944 --> 02:40:53,821 - Amen. - [ Man ] Yes! 1751 02:40:53,946 --> 02:40:57,574 - [ Woman ] Amen. - This is the prize. 1752 02:41:01,620 --> 02:41:03,497 Amen. 1753 02:41:03,622 --> 02:41:06,834 # [ Vocalizing Continues ] 1754 02:41:08,460 --> 02:41:11,964 - [ Man ] Thank you, sister. - [ Woman ] Thank you, sister. 1755 02:41:16,093 --> 02:41:18,470 [ Crying ] 1756 02:41:18,595 --> 02:41:21,056 [ Woman ] I feel it. 1757 02:41:23,142 --> 02:41:26,019 [ Crying Continues ] 1758 02:41:28,689 --> 02:41:30,941 Bless you. Bless you. 1759 02:41:31,066 --> 02:41:33,193 - Bless you. - Hallelujah! 1760 02:41:33,318 --> 02:41:36,155 [ All ] Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 1761 02:41:40,200 --> 02:41:43,120 Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 1762 02:41:49,293 --> 02:41:55,090 # [ Children Singing In Foreign Language ] 1763 02:42:06,727 --> 02:42:09,521 # [ Singing Continues ] 1764 02:42:36,799 --> 02:42:38,675 # [ Singing Ends ] 1765 02:42:43,889 --> 02:42:47,434 # [ Woman Singing Dirge In Foreign Language ] 1766 02:43:27,933 --> 02:43:30,853 # [ Singing Continues ] 1767 02:44:54,311 --> 02:44:56,688 # [ Singing Continues ] 1768 02:45:53,036 --> 02:45:55,414 # [ Singing Ends ] 1769 02:47:10,656 --> 02:47:13,075 # [ Woman Vocalizing ] 1770 02:48:13,051 --> 02:48:15,471 # [ Vocalizing Continues ] 1771 02:48:59,765 --> 02:49:02,643 # [ Chorus Vocalizing ] 1772 02:49:36,218 --> 02:49:38,595 # [ Vocalizing Ends ]