:22:03
Is it interesting?
:22:04
Yes and no.
:22:06
The work is too administrative
for his taste.
:22:12
I don't think he's made to be a bureaucrat.
:22:16
His dream was to be an art critic.
:22:19
But the two aren't incompatible, right?
:22:22
Right.
:22:23
He says he's writing a book...
:22:26
...but he constantly changes the focus,
and it never amounts to anything.
:22:30
In my opinion,
women have been a bad influence on him.
:22:33
Women?
:22:36
First, his wife.
:22:38
My mother.
:22:40
She wasn't interested in art?
:22:42
On the contrary.
:22:44
But in her own way.
:22:46
She'd have liked him to be an artist...
:22:48
...a creator, which he isn't.
:22:51
He is too critical with himself
and admires others too much.
:22:56
Does he paint?
:22:58
Not at all.
:23:00
Ideally, she would've wanted him to be
a painter or an architect...
:23:03
...or a musician or a writer,
because that's where his talent lies.
:23:08
He writes well. Sometimes really well.
:23:10
But it's extremely difficult for him.
:23:14
It annoyed my mother to see him rewrite
the same page, it discouraged him.
:23:19
And the others?
:23:21
The other women?
:23:24
Now there's Eve, his girlfriend.
:23:26
She's different.
:23:28
She's a bit of a vampire.
:23:31
She steals his ideas. She wrote
an article for a small magazine.
:23:35
She's fairly talented.
In any case, writing is easy for her.
:23:38
It's not personal at all, very journalistic.
:23:41
Doesn't that stimulate your father?
:23:44
You don't know him!
It kills his inspiration instantly.
:23:49
Recently, he's given up.
:23:51
There's his manuscript.
He hasn't touched it.
:23:53
It's very sad.
:23:56
In any case, that girl
is a bad influence on him, on every level.