:12:02
peace in Vietnam
in 1966.
:12:05
For Americans, there is more
than one Vietnam,
:12:08
since Saigon is also
in Los Angeles,
:12:10
Santo Domingo and Berkeley.
:12:12
Once the Pentagon's foes
were only Orientals,
:12:15
now they are Black,
Marxist, academic.
:12:17
Che Guevara's prophecy
has come true...
:12:20
"Vietnam crippled America."
:12:21
May the year 1966
:12:24
see an escalation
of peace efforts.
:12:26
May the tears
and bloodshed end.
:12:29
Charles?
:12:32
Let's make a wish.
:12:36
Listen, Charles.
:12:40
We get out tomorrow.
:12:42
Let's make this the last night
we ever spend in prison.
:12:46
You make about as much sense
as what I'm reading.
:12:51
Damn it,
there must be another way.
:12:54
Let's do something else.
:12:56
"Scene 1:
:12:59
The set is a record store
on a boulevard.
:13:03
Close-up of a hand taking
a record by Bécaud,
:13:07
and furtively slipping it
under a raincoat."
:13:10
"Writing for yourself
or others, dear Carla,
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is a way of setting
the record straight.
:13:17
It's confession
without a priest.
:13:19
It's a cry from the heart
when your courage fails.
:13:23
For someone who always acted
without thinking,
:13:26
writing enables me
to reverse the process...
:13:30
to think before acting.
:13:33
At last I know
how ungrateful I've been.
:13:36
I simply accepted
the world of money.
:13:38
My morals,
education and desires
:13:41
were those of a decadent
and doomed class.
:13:44
Evidently, people appreciated
money after the war.
:13:47
It was a way out
of the nightmare.
:13:49
The war justified everything!
:13:51
It had justified so many crimes,
why not money?
:13:55
But what can peace justify,
besides peace itself?
:13:59
Only the joy of living
with others,