My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

1. Christy!

2. Christy! Christy!

3. Get away from the window.

4. Bye.

5. Mr. Punch…

6. Now, there you are.

7. …you will call me, won't you?

8. Come on, this way, please. This way.

9. No, no, no. I don't need that.

10. Your house is gorgeous.

11. Here we go.

12. Well, you're very welcome, Christy, very welcome.

13. To your humble abode.

14. Hmm? Oh. Yes.

15. Oh, my humble abode. Yes. Well, I suppose so.

16. Hello. My name is Mary.

17. I'll be with you till you go on this evening.

18. I have to take him into the library.

19. I'll see you later.

20. See you later.

21. Be careful of that fellow.

22. Shut your mouth.

23. I'll be OK.

24. I wouldn't be too sure about that.

25. Well, now, you're all very welcome

26. to my humble abode and, uh, to this benefit

27. organized by my friend— my friend, Dr. Eileen Cole.

28. Dr. Eileen Cole. Ahem.

29. Now, I'm not going to ask you

30. to put your hands in your pockets. Not yet.

31. Because we're going to start the evening

32. with a little concert.

33. Do you want to go out and watch?

34. No.

35. Do you want to see the original?

36. The original?

37. Of the book?

38. It looks good.

39. Looks can be deceiving.

40. It's a bit sentimental.

41. Did you paint this?

42. Yeah.

43. That's very good.

44. Mr. Brown…

45. your son was born a couple of hours ago.

46. There's been some complications.

47. Where's the small one?

48. A pint and a small one?

49. That's what I said.

50. So long as you're paying for it.

51. Are you gonna put him in a home, Paddy?

52. He'll go in a coffin

53. before any son of mine will go in a home.

54. Uh, Paddy,

55. I believe it's the end of the road for you and the breeding stakes.

56. Who told you that?

57. Ah, now…

58. what—what are you going to do, huh? Ha ha.

59. You gonna tie a knot in it?

60. Aah!

61. Paddy, there was no need for that.

62. Shut mouth catches no flies.

63. Where's Tom?

64. Is Tom not up yet?

65. It's all right!

66. I'm up! I'm up! I'm up! I'm up ages!

67. Say goodbye to Christy, Father.

68. Goodbye, Christy.

69. Good girl.

70. I'll see you later.

71. See you, Christy.

72. See you, Christy.

73. Bye, Christy.

74. Something for the money box, Christy.

75. Another pound saved, Christy.

76. Aye, Christy.

77. That's it.

78. I have to go away, Christy.

79. To hospital.

80. Don't worry.

81. Sheila's going to look after you when I'm gone.

82. Do you understand, Christy?

83. That's my ma.

84. That's my da.

85. I was their baby.

86. It's only for a few days, Christy.

87. I better get this house organized before I go.

88. You can't be sticking to me

89. like sticking plaster forever, Christy.

90. Nearly there, Christy.

91. Christy, I have to go and make a phone call.

92. Stay there.

93. Oh, my God.

94. Nan? Nan! Nan!

95. Ohh!

96. Aah! Ohh!

97. So what really happened?

98. Well, as you know,

99. I heard this terrible banging and rushed over.

100. She was carrying Christy down the stairs when she fell.

101. And there he was…

102. lyin' at the bottom of the stairs like a moron.

103. God help her.

104. He's a terrible cross to the poor woman.

105. Aw, he has the mind of a 3-year-old.

106. "A" is for apples. Huh?

107. "B" is for butter.

108. "C" is for carrot. Huh?

109. And "D" is for dunce.

110. You poor, unfortunate gobshite.

111. Enough to feed an army.

112. God, you'll never go hungry, Christy.

113. Would you like to come back with me till your mammy comes home?

114. What's 25% of a quarter?

115. 25% of a quarter?

116. Um…

117. that's a stupid question, huh?

118. I mean, 25% is a quarter.

119. You can't have a quarter of a quarter.

120. You can. Can't you, Christy?

121. What would he know?

122. Ma!

123. Ma, Christy picked up the chalk.

124. Go on, Christy. Go on. Make your mark.

125. It's a "Y."

126. It's an "X."

127. What's that, Christy?

128. That's only an old squiggle.

129. There's something in that.

130. Aw, don't be getting notions into your head, woman.

131. The child's a cripple. Face facts.

132. It won't do anybody any good

133. trying to put ideas in his head.

134. Wait. Look. Watch this.

135. - Whee! - Whee!

136. Yeah, Christy!

137. Whoo-hoo! Whee!

138. - Ooh! - That's great!

139. All right, come on.

140. We're gonna put the engine on now.

141. You're puttin' an engine in it?

142. Yeah! Come on, Christy.

143. Is he putting an engine in it?

144. All right!

145. Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay!

146. Beep!

147. Come on, engine.

148. All he needs now is a license.

149. That's great.

150. Take it easy, will you?

151. Aw, go on. Take it easy.

152. Look at those!

153. They're massive.

154. God.

155. What's that?

156. That's her thing.

157. You put your thing in there for a half an hour,

158. and you get a baby.

159. If you do it for an hour, you get twins.

160. My cousin's a twin.

161. Benny! Brian! Tom!

162. Here's your ma!

163. Quick, Tom. Here's Ma!

164. It's not my magazine!

165. Is Benny in there?

166. - Hide it! - Where?

167. Just hide it!

168. Are you too deaf or something?

169. Come in this minute for your tea.

170. Hide it under Christy.

171. Have you gone deaf or what?

172. I been calling you there for 20 minutes

173. to come in for your tea. Come on.

174. Come on, Christy.

175. It's—It's OK, Ma. We'll take him.

176. Well, take him in now. It's been on the table

177. for at least a half an hour.

178. Why won't he go to bed?

179. He loves that old chariot.

180. Come on. Get him up.

181. I want to go and have a pint.

182. - Come on, Christy. - Come on.

183. Way past your bedtime.

184. It's nearly closing time.

185. Now, son, you know you can never get out of Hell.

186. You can get out of Purgatory,

187. but you can never get out of Hell.

188. Do you know that?

189. Do you?

190. Mrs. Brown…

191. I don't think you should bring him to the altar just yet.

192. You've been very helpful, Father.

193. Christy, do you know all about—

194. do you know about All Souls' Night?

195. Did I ever tell you about that?

196. It's a very special night, you know, because…

197. every time that you light a candle on All Souls' Night,

198. then you have to say five Our Fathers

199. and five Hail Marys and five Glory Bes, right,

200. and then a soul flies up out of the flames of Purgatory

201. and goes straight up to Heaven.

202. Say some prayers for the poor souls of Purgatory.

203. Right.

204. Uhh!

205. What's wrong with you?

206. Uhh!

207. Christy, keep your voice down.

208. What's wrong with you, son?

209. Uhh!

210. What the matter with you?

211. What do you want?

212. Do you want to light another candle? Is that it?

213. Do you? For the poor souls?

214. Good boy. That's a good boy.

215. And don't forget, Christy,

216. if we can't understand you, God can.

217. See, Christy?

218. Even God has to lock his house.

219. Oh, Christy, look! Go and turn here!

220. Look, there's your soul going up to Heaven!

221. Oh, look!

222. Look, Christy. Oh, look.

223. Oh, you frightened the life out of him.

224. Here, Christy.

225. You are king of the bonfire.

226. Ooh!

227. Ooh!

228. Don't be frightened, Christy.

229. It's only your brother, Tom.

230. This way, Christy. This way. This way.

231. Get him over here!

232. Burn the witch!

233. You all right, Christy?

234. What's Christy doing, Sheila?

235. Is he all right?

236. He's drawing.

237. He's drawing a triangle.

238. No, Christy, you don't start there.

239. Here, son.

240. Now, now that's a triangle.

241. That's not a triangle.

242. That's an "A."

243. What's up?

244. Keep quiet.

245. All I said was, "What's up?"

246. Sit down!

247. Here, Paddy.

248. Why don't you go and have a pint?

249. - What? Huh? - Here.

250. What's that?

251. It's money.

252. Where'd you get it?

253. From the fairies.

254. Go and have a drink, Paddy.

255. I don't need a drink!

256. All I need is to be obeyed in me own house!

257. - Mother. - Shh.

258. Sweet Jesus.

259. Jesus suffering Christ.

260. He's a Brown!

261. He's a Brown, all right!

262. Christy's a Brown!

263. Out!

264. Where you goin', Paddy?

265. Where do you think?

266. This man deserves a jar!

267. This is Christy Brown!

268. My son.

269. Genius.

270. Hello.

271. Is he OK?

272. He's grand.

273. Good.

274. It's just that he can be a bit…

275. What?

276. A bit—A bit like Christy.

277. Oh, he's fine.

278. He's asleep now.

279. Well…

280. I'll leave you alone, then.

281. MRS. 14…

282. 15, 16…

283. Shh. Keep your voice down.

284. MRS. 17.

285. Great.

286. Yay! Yay! Yay!

287. Go on. Go on.

288. Go on now, me boy.

289. He's a man now, Father.

290. Come on, Christy. 17 candles.

291. Now take a deep breath. Come on.

292. Will you shut that baby up, for Christ's sake?

293. Take it easy, Christy.

294. Go on.

295. Come on, Christy.

296. Go on, Christy.

297. Come on, Christy.

298. Come on, Christy!

299. Come on, Christy.

300. Go on.

301. It's like the bleedin' fire of hell, that one is.

302. Here you go, Christy. Here.

303. There, now. Go on.

304. That's it.

305. Well done.

306. Don't worry. You'll get your wish there, Christy.

307. Aah! Get it! Go!

308. Get the fuckin' ball!

309. Save it, Christy!

310. Well saved, Christy!

311. Good save!

312. Aah!

313. He bit me!

314. He bit me!

315. He bit me!

316. It's a free out! A free out!

317. - Right up, eh? - We're taking it, eh?

318. OK, come on.

319. Pass it! Pass it, will ya?

320. Stay away from them sheets!

321. He handled it!

322. Peno for the Browns. Right here. Give us it.

323. Let Christy take it.

324. You can't hold him up.

325. - Right! - Right!

326. - Yeah! - Yeah!

327. He's got a left like a cannon!

328. If it stops at Tom, I'll kill you.

329. Nobody.

330. No, nobody.

331. It's pointin' at Christy.

332. He's not in the game.

333. He is if it's pointing at him.

334. I don't think it's pointing at me.

335. Sure, you're the nicest of the lot.

336. And you've nice eyes, too.

337. Hey!

338. Hey!

339. Come on. Let's go. Let's go.

340. Ah, Christy, you boy, you. Chasin' the women.

341. See you, Tom.

342. See you, Rachel.

343. See you, Tom.

344. Not here, Brendan. Later.

345. This is a fine time of night to be coming in.

346. What's wrong, Ma?

347. I don't like these late nights, Sheila.

348. What's this?

349. Holiday pay, isn't it?

350. I got laid off.

351. What about Christy's wheelchair?

352. Christy will get his wheelchair, OK?

353. Why did you get laid off?

354. Don't you question me in front of the children.

355. A brick hit the foreman on the head accidentally on purpose.

356. It's Rachel.

357. How ya?

358. What?

359. "Your beautiful eyes

360. "are splendid pools of blue

361. in whose depths I swim regularly."

362. It's lovely, isn't it?

363. He even signed it himself.

364. Even signed it himself.

365. C.B.

366. That's not Tom Brown.

367. That's Christy.

368. Surely he does it with his left foot!

369. You're in love with a cripple.

370. - Cripple! - Cripple!

371. Rachel, come back!

372. Anyone? We're abed!

373. Can I speak to Christy Brown, please?

374. Christy!

375. You're wanted.

376. Did you paint that?

377. Yeah.

378. I can't take it.

379. Sorry.

380. Tell your brother Tom we were asking for him.

381. What's this?

382. What does it look like?

383. But we had porridge for breakfast.

384. So?

385. And we had it for dinner.

386. So?

387. I'm not eating any more.

388. You get that into you.

389. I can't.

390. Get it into you.

391. Go on. More.

392. What did you say?

393. What did he say, Missus?

394. He just said the porridge is lovely.

395. Keep quiet!

396. Come on, Christy. Everybody has to go to bed.

397. I have to do my painting.

398. I know you have to do your painting,

399. but everybody has to go to bed because there's no coal.

400. Now, Christy, don't push me nerves any further, all right?

401. I'm sorry.

402. Oh, Christy, someday you'll have a place of your own.

403. All right, come on, you lot. Come on, now.

404. Mind my paintings.

405. Are all those kids in bed?

406. - Right. - Huh?

407. What's up, Christy?

408. Coal.

409. What?

410. Coal!

411. Coal?

412. Mm-hmm.

413. It's too early.

414. Coal!

415. Ah, all right, all right!

416. Mister! Mister!

417. Me driver abandoned me. Can you push me out?

418. Come back, you bastard!

419. Your plan's not working, Christy.

420. Wait till he goes up the hill.

421. - Ha ha ha! - Aah!

422. Margaret, hold the baby.

423. Come on, Christy!

424. We'll be warm for the whole winter, Christy!

425. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! What's happened to you?

426. It's all right, Ma. It's only coal.

427. I know where you got that coal.

428. You know it's a sin to steal.

429. And you know that God is looking down on you right now.

430. And that coal is not coming into this house.

431. Come on in here, and sit by the fire, woman.

432. You want me to wash you, Christy?

433. No.

434. Night, Christy.

435. Don't you be late!

436. Ma! Ma, there's something wrong with Christy!

437. There's something wrong with him.

438. What's wrong with you, Christy?

439. What's wrong?

440. Fire!

441. Fire!

442. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!

443. Aah!

444. Aah!

445. Uhh! Aah!

446. Ma, what are you trying to do?

447. Get water, quick!

448. Hurry up!

449. What's wrong with you? Are you mad?

450. Uhh.

451. What have you got in the box, woman?

452. Christy's money.

453. What?

454. Money for Christy's wheelchair.

455. Must be 20 Pounds in there.

456. 28 pounds, 7, and threepence.

457. We've been sitting here in the freezing cold,

458. eating porridge for breakfast, dinner, and tea,

459. and you have 28 pounds, 7, and threepence

460. up the fucking chimney.

461. Tom, Brian.

462. Everybody, upstairs.

463. Now!

464. Ma, what's wrong?

465. You, too, Christy.

466. Your daughter's getting married.

467. Why, that's wonderful news.

468. When?

469. Friday.

470. What's the rush?

471. She's pregnant.

472. That's great news.

473. I mean, that's wonderful.

474. That's just what we need.

475. Who's the father? Or do you know?

476. Leave me alone.

477. It's not my fault.

478. Then whose fault is it, then? Is it mine?

479. Oh, that's a lovely picture.

480. The old woman that lives in the shoe

481. and the daughter that couldn't keep her knickers on!

482. Stop it.

483. Stop it!

484. You dirty, sleazy bitch!

485. Stop it! Stop it, Father!

486. Get out of here, Sheila.

487. She should be thrown out!

488. Her and her swollen belly. I'll give her fornication!

489. Get away from me!

490. That'll keep your legs shut for you!

491. Paddy, leave her!

492. I get hold of you,

493. I'll break every bone in your fuckin' body!

494. Fucking kill him.

495. Oh, Christy, stop.

496. - Jesus Christ! - Christy, please stop.

497. What am I gonna do in this fucking house?

498. Tom, Benny, stop him.

499. Oh, I said stop, Christy.

500. Please stop him!

501. Christy, stop!

502. Chris-Christy, please stop!

503. Christy, stop! Christy, please stop!

504. Christy, stop!

505. Aah!

506. Christy, please! Christy, stop!

507. Stop it, Christy! Come on!

508. Christy. Christy, stop.

509. Christy. It's all right, Christy.

510. He's gone now, Christy.

511. Christy, come on. Come on.

512. Christy. Christy. It's all right.

513. Christy…

514. I'm going away.

515. I'll miss you, too.

516. Look after me ma for me.

517. I need a light.

518. What?

519. I need a light.

520. I don't smoke.

521. I need a light!

522. I'm not deaf. I can hear you.

523. You need a light.

524. I haven't got any matches,

525. so you'll just have to wait here while I go and get one.

526. Don't you think I'm your mother

527. just 'cause I'm looking after you for the evening.

528. I don't need a fucking psychology lesson.

529. I just need a fucking light.

530. Light.

531. Have you got a cigarette?

532. I'm just after telling you I don't smoke.

533. Is there anything else I can do for you?

534. Glass.

535. No point in drinking out of the bottle, huh?

536. Tsk tsk.

537. Hello. Dr. Cole, please.

538. Hello, Eileen.

539. Yes. Yeah.

540. Athetoid cerebral palsy.

541. He's 19?

542. Yes, 19.

543. Yes, 19.

544. Yes. That's correct.

545. Mmm. Mmm. I'll get his address.

546. OK. OK.

547. Mm-hmm.

548. Dr. Cole thinks that, uh…

549. this model

550. would be the best for your son.

551. Which one?

552. This one.

553. That is grand.

554. Yeah.

555. See, that there, now,

556. he won a prize for that.

557. That's lovely.

558. His best one's here.

559. Wait until I show you now.

560. What's that?

561. Oh, that's nothing. See that one?

562. - Isn't that lovely? - Mm.

563. And that one— torn, but you get the idea.

564. That's his first one he ever did there. See?

565. Watch your step there.

566. I'm fine.

567. Christy, there's someone to see you.

568. This is Dr. Cole.

569. Hello, Christy.

570. You're a great painter.

571. No.

572. Look, I'm a doctor, like your mother says,

573. and I specialize in cerebral palsy.

574. Now, we've just started a clinic here in Dublin,

575. and I wonder, would you like to attend it?

576. No, we don't have to pay, Christy.

577. We don't have to pay.

578. Well?

579. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

580. He said, "Hope deferred…"

581. "maketh the heart sick."

582. I understood that.

583. Ah, come on.

584. Maybe.

585. Good.

586. Come on in. Come on in.

587. Please.

588. No!

589. You have to.

590. What do you want me to do, tow you behind?

591. You want to ride up front with the driver?

592. Come on, Christy. Come up in front with me.

593. I'm all right.

594. He said he's all right.

595. Oh, excellent.

596. Eileen.

597. Eileen, come here.

598. Easy. Come on. Relax.

599. What?

600. I want to go home.

601. Are you sure?

602. Yeah.

603. He's locked the door,

604. hasn't been out for two days now.

605. - I've got to try. - I don't know if…

606. I'll tell him you're here now.

607. Christy.

608. Go away.

609. Christy, there's somebody here to see you.

610. Christy?

611. I'm not a child.

612. "Not a child," he says.

613. There's too many children at the clinic, you know.

614. He doesn't think he ought to return here.

615. Christy, if you like, we can work here.

616. Fuck off.

617. With speech therapy, I could teach you

618. how to say, "Fuck off," more clearly.

619. 1, 2…

620. 3, 4…

621. 5. And over again.

622. 1, 2—

623. Just relax with it. Relax.

624. 3, 4…

625. 5. That's it.

626. 1, 2, 3, and out.

627. Breathe.

628. Nope. Your lungs are too weak. Here, leave it be.

629. That's right.

630. Try this instead.

631. Right.

632. Now you have a go.

633. You go. Blow.

634. Steady. Steady.

635. And one big breath.

636. That's very good.

637. That's very good.

638. Now focus the breath.

639. Breathe slowly, and—

640. He's been like that for 3 days now.

641. I don't know what's wrong with him.

642. He won't talk to me.

643. Go on up and see him.

644. Go on.

645. I've brought you a present.

646. Thanks.

647. There's a speech in there I'd love you to have a look at.

648. It's "To be or not to be." Hamlet.

649. I wish you'd stop feeling sorry for yourself.

650. You know, I don't want to be a failure, either.

651. Will you have a look at it for me?

652. Maybe.

653. "To…

654. be…"

655. "or not…

656. to be."

657. "To be…

658. "or…

659. "not to be—

660. "that is the question.

661. "To be…

662. "or not…

663. "To be—

664. that is the question—"

665. "whether 'tis…

666. "nobler in the mind…

667. "to—

668. "to be…

669. Or not to be."

670. "To be or not to be—

671. "that is the question—

672. "whether it is nobler

673. in the mind…"

674. to have to fucking suffer listening to that.

675. He's in love with this girl Eileen.

676. Well…

677. so long as he's getting better.

678. Could get hurt, Paddy.

679. Broken body's nothing to a broken heart.

680. Hmm.

681. Yeah.

682. Eileen, how's it going?

683. Very, very well.

684. I've got some news for you.

685. What?

686. Well, remember I told you about Peter

687. and his gallery?

688. Yeah.

689. Well…

690. he's offered you an exhibition of your own.

691. What do you think about that?

692. I think you're brilliant.

693. Yeah. I'm only as brilliant as my patients.

694. "Consummation

695. "devoutly to be wished.

696. To die, to sleep—"

697. "to sleep,

698. "perchance to dream.

699. "Aye, there's the rub—

700. "for in that sleep of death,

701. what dreams may come."

702. Is that our Christy up there?

703. Huh?

704. Does that sound like our Christy?

705. Sounds a lot better.

706. Not to me, it doesn't.

707. Are you mad, woman?

708. You can understand your child for the first time.

709. I always understood him.

710. Well, nobody else ever did.

711. At least he can function now.

712. "To sleep…"

713. There's something in that voice that—

714. that disturbs me.

715. What do you mean?

716. Too much hope in it.

717. What?

718. There's too much hope in it.

719. "Fly to others that we know not of?

720. Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all".

721. What was it?

722. "And thus, the native hue…"

723. "And thus, the native hue of resolution

724. "is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought,

725. "and enterprises of great pitch and moment,

726. "with this regard,

727. "their currents turn awry

728. and lose the name of action."

729. Well, what do you think about Hamlet, Christy?

730. A cripple.

731. He can't act.

732. Well, he did in the end.

733. Too late.

734. Eileen…

735. I like you very much.

736. And I like you, Christy.

737. You have the heart of a poet.

738. No.

739. Oh, well.

740. What?

741. Nothing.

742. I better go.

743. Ladies and gentlemen.

744. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.

745. It gives me great pleasure to open this exhibition

746. of the work of Christy Brown.

747. A lot of people say that Christy is a great crippled painter.

748. I think that's an insult to Christy.

749. That's right!

750. Christy is simply a great painter, full stop.

751. He has struggled with his material,

752. as every painter must do,

753. to bring it under control.

754. If you look around the walls today,

755. you'll see the forces that shape Christy Brown…

756. his mother,

757. his father…

758. his brothers and sisters,

759. and the lady who brought him to public recognition,

760. Dr. Eileen Cole.

761. Yes!

762. So, what do you think?

763. I think there's something for everyone.

764. There are only two kinds of painting—

765. religious and the circus.

766. Give me some wine.

767. You know, on each side of the mouth.

768. That's what it says here,

769. Saturday seascape,

770. something around there.

771. OK.

772. And you've had enough to drink, Christy.

773. Now, don't have any more drink. Do you hear me?

774. I'm all right.

775. I'm going for a meal, Ma. You coming?

776. No. No, no, no. I'm—

777. I'll take your father home.

778. He's not feeling well.

779. There's no pints, you mean.

780. It's good wine. Tell him.

781. Your father never drank anything but pints in his life, Christy.

782. No. I'll take him home.

783. You getting a taxi?

784. Eileen's giving us a lift.

785. Right.

786. I'll see you later.

787. I'll see you later.

788. I think Mulcahy

789. is a great painter

790. in the…

791. soul.

792. You see? I agree with Christy.

793. Well, he's too uncontrolled for me.

794. Ah, Tim. Let Christy try the wine.

795. Intro ibo ad altare dei.

796. What's he saying?

797. The Latin mass.

798. I thought that was James Joyce.

799. The wine's A1.

800. Can you tell us what year it is, Christy?

801. I'm not that sophisticated.

802. Not yet.

803. I love you, Eileen.

804. And I love you, Christy.

805. No.

806. I really love you.

807. I love you all.

808. That's good.

809. I even love Peter.

810. Well, I'm glad you like Peter, Christy,

811. because we're going to get married in six months.

812. Well, Christy, what do you think of that?

813. Con…

814. Con…

815. Congratulations…

816. Peter and Eileen

817. on the won…

818. wonderful news.

819. I'm glad you taught me how to speak

820. so I could say that, Eileen.

821. Ahem.

822. Well…

823. where were we, then?

824. Discussing Mulcahy.

825. Mulcahy's empty.

826. I thought you said Mulcahy was full of soul.

827. I said he was empty. Whiskey!

828. Take it easy, Christy.

829. You're not my mother.

830. Never forget that.

831. Mmm.

832. You know,

833. I know what age that is.

834. That's 10-year-old…

835. same age as me.

836. Don't give him any more.

837. Pour!

838. Take that whiskey from him, Tony.

839. Touch it,

840. and I'll kick you

841. in the only part of your anatomy

842. that's animated.

843. Stop it.

844. Uhh! Uhh!

845. Why did you say you love me?

846. Because I do love you.

847. Ah, you mean platonic love.

848. I've had nothing but platonic love

849. all my life.

850. Do you know what I say?

851. Fuck Plato!

852. And fuck all love

853. that's not 100% commitment!

854. Pour.

855. I—I can't let you go any further.

856. Let's discuss nature.

857. Keep quiet, Christy.

858. Christy…

859. what are you going to do about it, Peter?

860. You're a nice man.

861. What are you going to do about it?

862. Peter, sit down.

863. I'm going to wheel you out of this restaurant.

864. Yeah?

865. Uhh!

866. Stop!

867. Stop!

868. Just stop it.

869. Where's the fucking brake on this thing?

870. Stop it!

871. Just stop it.

872. Stop it! Stop it, you bastard!

873. Stop it!

874. Sharon!

875. Sharon…

876. come in for your tea.

877. Come on in for your tea, will you?

878. Sharon, come in—

879. come in now for your tea, please.

880. Come on.

881. All right, all right, Ma.

882. Get up, Christy.

883. I'm not well.

884. You've got a hangover.

885. That's all that's wrong with you.

886. Leave me alone.

887. You get more like your father every day…

888. all hard on the outside and putty on the inside.

889. It's in here…

890. battles are won…

891. not in the pub

892. pretending to be a big fella in front of the lads.

893. Right.

894. If you've given up, I haven't.

895. Uhh.

896. What do you think you're doing, Mum?

897. Building a room for you.

898. Don't be mad.

899. Maybe if you have a room of your own,

900. might start painting again.

901. Uhh!

902. You have me heartbroken,

903. Christy Brown.

904. Sometimes, I think you are me heart.

905. Look, if I could give you my legs,

906. I would gladly take yours.

907. What's wrong with you, Christy?

908. I'm sorry, Mum.

909. What in the name of God is going on here?

910. Christy and me is building a room.

911. Is you building a room?

912. Yep.

913. Will you have a look at this?

914. Ah, Christy, you may be a great painter,

915. but you'll never be a brickie.

916. Fair play to you, missus.

917. Right, lads.

918. You bring in some more bricks.

919. Mix up a bit of muck.

920. Bring me in me level, will you?

921. Brown & Son Contractors are on the job.

922. Ha ha ha ha!

923. Here. You start over there. I'll start over here,

924. and by the time you have three courses up there,

925. I'll be finished here, and I'll be inside having me tea.

926. Not at all.

927. Water.

928. Water. More water.

929. I'm not beaten yet, bejesus.

930. My dad.

931. Listen, listen, Brian, boys.

932. Listen to me. Listen to me.

933. Let your father win.

934. - What? - He needs this.

935. - Here. - Eh.

936. Take it easy, Father, will you?

937. Heh heh ha ha!

938. Take it easy?

939. I was never able to take it easy,

940. and you of all people ought to know that.

941. Heh heh. Right, lads?

942. That's her finished.

943. Heh heh!

944. They've a long way to go

945. to be a better man than their father.

946. Ohh.

947. Yeah.

948. Well, Christy,

949. that's the nearest he'll ever come to saying he loves you.

950. Hey!

951. How are you?

952. Did you see the face on them?

953. To see you pushing that cart.

954. I'm parched now.

955. Do you want a cup of tea?

956. I'm going to make a nice cup of tea.

957. I'm going to have the cake here.

958. Oh, Christy.

959. Ohh. I'll just put the kettle on.

960. - All right, Ma. - Get the cherry log.

961. I wonder why…

962. Aw, come on. Who's in there?

963. These kids. I don't…

964. What's happening?

965. Aw, come on, let me in.

966. Well, what's going on?

967. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Christy!

968. What?

969. Christy, your father's lying on the floor, and I can't open the door.

970. Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Paddy!

971. Christy, I can't open the door.

972. Get out of the way.

973. Christy, you can't open the door.

974. Oh, Jesus. It doesn't open.

975. Christy, push!

976. Unh!

977. Ohh!

978. Unh! Jesus.

979. Paddy?

980. Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Paddy.

981. Ohh.

982. Seven pounds, five shillings,

983. and sixpence he owed, missus.

984. Fair play to you, Christy.

985. Drinks for everyone.

986. - Take it easy. - Give us another blast.

987. That's my painting money.

988. I'm trying to get some drinks in—

989. Get her a cider. Will you shut the old bitch up?

990. Fair play to you, Christy.

991. Your old fella'll never be dead.

992. How's me ma going to survive?

993. Don't be worrying about that.

994. We'll be all right.

995. Terry, will you tell us about when you and the old fella

996. carried the fireman up the ladder?

997. What happened there?

998. Later.

999. Yeah.

1000. Give us a song, somebody.

1001. Give us a song.

1002. Tom, give us a song.

1003. Christy.

1004. Sing daddy's favorite.

1005. All right, yeah.

1006. Aw, will somebody shut him up?

1007. Hey.

1008. You have to keep it down a bit there, lads.

1009. He was singing that for his father.

1010. His father was nothing but a mouth…

1011. like all the Browns.

1012. All right, lads,

1013. take it easy.

1014. Respect for Da.

1015. I don't fight cripples.

1016. Hold on.

1017. Wreck the pub!

1018. Somebody get the till!

1019. Get the till! Get the money!

1020. Get the till!

1021. Drinks on the house!

1022. That's great, Christy.

1023. No, it's not.

1024. Why not?

1025. It's not there. I've no eye.

1026. What?

1027. I'm not a painter.

1028. I think it's brilliant.

1029. It's the image of Da.

1030. Poor Tom, what?

1031. Yeah.

1032. "All is nothing.

1033. Therefore nothing must end."

1034. What's all this, Christy?

1035. Nothing.

1036. Sorry I asked.

1037. Benny, would you help us?

1038. Doing what?

1039. Writing.

1040. Yeah. Writing what?

1041. Me own story.

1042. Yeah. Course I will.

1043. No.

1044. Don't worry, Christy. The book is great.

1045. It's not bad.

1046. Do you know what I was going to call it?

1047. What?

1048. "The Reminiscences…"

1049. Reminiscences?

1050. "of a Mental Defective."

1051. That's a terrible title.

1052. It was my Blue Period.

1053. And you typed all of it with your left foot?

1054. I didn't do it with me nose.

1055. I really wanted to finish it.

1056. You'll hear it later.

1057. I have an appointment. I told you.

1058. Is he good-looking?

1059. Who?

1060. Your appointment.

1061. Yeah, in his own way, he's nice.

1062. Well, it doesn't matter to me.

1063. You can meet who you like.

1064. Is he, now?

1065. What?

1066. Is he good-looking?

1067. Yeah.

1068. Are you in love with him?

1069. You're very bloody nosy, Christy Brown.

1070. I was only asking.

1071. Would you like a drink?

1072. I'm working. I can't.

1073. Later.

1074. I have a date. I told you.

1075. Yeah. I forgot.

1076. You're a fast worker, aren't you?

1077. Read your book.

1078. I can't with you staring at me.

1079. So I'll look away.

1080. Oh, God.

1081. She's very pretty, isn't she?

1082. Prettier than that bloody picture.

1083. Just a minute.

1084. Ma, are you in?

1085. All right, then.

1086. Jesus, £800, Christy.

1087. Are you finished, love?

1088. That was scrumptious, Ma.

1089. Like you.

1090. I fancy something sweet now.

1091. What have you for dessert, Ma?

1092. Ma, what have you for dessert?

1093. - Dessert? - Yeah.

1094. Kids, kids, do you not fancy a drop of ice cream now?

1095. I do. Ice cream, Ma.

1096. Yeah, Ma, get some ice cream.

1097. Some raspberry ripple, I think.

1098. No, get us some Neapolitan.

1099. All right, all right!

1100. - The— - All right!

1101. - The pink and green stuff. - All right. All right.

1102. But just this once, mind you now.

1103. Won't see me spending money on an ice cream.

1104. Jesus, what's this?

1105. Here now, Ma!

1106. What's this?

1107. It's Christy's money, Ma!

1108. - Count it! - Bring it here!

1109. £800.

1110. That's more money than your poor father

1111. ever earned in a whole year.

1112. I can't take it.

1113. It's for you. It's yours.

1114. I can't take it, son.

1115. Da was a bricklayer, Ma,

1116. and I'm a writer.

1117. I know it's mad money.

1118. I want you to have it.

1119. What would I do with it?

1120. Well, to start, get yourself a dress

1121. and a new pair of shoes.

1122. Will you?

1123. Christy? You have a visitor.

1124. You look well.

1125. So do you.

1126. Thank you.

1127. Sit down.

1128. Um…

1129. look, I won't stay very long.

1130. Stay as long as you like.

1131. I need to ask you a favor.

1132. What?

1133. A benefit.

1134. Where?

1135. Lord Castlewelland's.

1136. Him? He's mad.

1137. Posh.

1138. Filthy rich.

1139. Look, I know you don't like appearing in public,

1140. but it's for a good cause.

1141. For the cripples.

1142. For the cripples.

1143. Yeah.

1144. I'll try to behave myself.

1145. Sure it won't upset you too much?

1146. So I'll anesthetize myself.

1147. No. Not too much.

1148. How's Peter?

1149. We have to get going, Christy.

1150. Yeah.

1151. What do you think? Too much self-pity?

1152. No. I think he's a lovely man

1153. and not in the least sentimental.

1154. Mary, do you really think so?

1155. Yep.

1156. And would you go out with him?

1157. Certainly.

1158. Now, now, listen, everyone…

1159. So you'd go out with me?

1160. I might. Shh. He's talking about you.

1161. I want to introduce you to one of the brave—

1162. well, no, quite the bravest chap I've ever come across.

1163. Yes, well, now, when Christy Brown was born,

1164. the doctors told his mother that just no good…

1165. Stay with us for a couple of hours.

1166. …just a vegetable for the rest of his little life,

1167. but Bridget Brown, she wouldn't take that.

1168. Oh, no. She knew…

1169. Would you go out with me tonight?

1170. I told you Christy, I have an appointment.

1171. And so we have with us here tonight…

1172. Are you in love with him?

1173. Her faith in him and…

1174. Well?

1175. I asked you did you love him, Mary?

1176. …introduce to you Christy Brown,

1177. man of genius.

1178. Mary?

1179. Christy.

1180. Mary, I asked you a question.

1181. Do you?

1182. That's none of your business.

1183. So you won't answer me?

1184. Why should I?

1185. What are you afraid of?

1186. I'm not afraid of anything.

1187. You imagine that people are afraid of you.

1188. I'm not afraid of you, OK?

1189. You're afraid of yourself.

1190. Ah, come on. Look, just—

1191. You're afraid of me.

1192. I can't talk about this now. Look, I'm going.

1193. Why can't we talk now? Now's good enough time for me.

1194. I'll see you again sometime.

1195. "Again sometime." I heard that before, Mary.

1196. Why is it always some fucking time?

1197. Mary, stay!

1198. Stay!

1199. Christy.

1200. We've got to go.

1201. Right. Take me out to the firing squad so.

1202. I must say I'm really honored to be asked

1203. to give voice to the words of Christy Brown. Heh.

1204. "I was born in the Rotunda Hospital

1205. on June the fifth, 1932."

1206. "There were 22 children in all,

1207. of which 13 survived."

1208. "It would not be true to say that I am no longer lonely.

1209. "I have made myself articulate and understood

1210. "to people in many parts of the world,

1211. "and this is something we all wish to do

1212. "whether we're crippled or not.

1213. "Yet, like everyone else,

1214. "I am acutely conscious sometimes of my own isolation,

1215. "even in the midst of people.

1216. "And I often give up hope of ever being able

1217. to really communicate with them."

1218. What's the matter, Christy?

1219. "It is not only the sort of isolation

1220. "that every writer or artist must experience

1221. "in the creative mood

1222. "if he is to create anything at all.

1223. "It's like a black cloud

1224. "sweeping down on me unexpectedly,

1225. "cutting me off from others.

1226. A sort of deaf-muteness."

1227. "I lay back in my chair

1228. "while my own left foot beat time to a new rhythm.

1229. "Now I could relax and enjoy myself completely.

1230. I was at peace. Happy."

1231. Thank you.

1232. Come on, Ma. Stand up.

1233. Mother, come here.

1234. Christy, no, don't.

1235. These are for you.

1236. Give us one of them flowers, Ma.

1237. You're not coming with us in the car, Christy?

1238. No.

1239. You're mad, Christy. It's great.

1240. Get in the car before I kick your arse.

1241. Good luck, Christy.

1242. Good night, Christy.

1243. Good night, Ma.

1244. Go on. I'm all right.

1245. Will you get in the car now, Ma? I'm fine.

1246. Night, Christy.

1247. Be careful.

1248. You're not me da, Tom.

1249. You take it easy, Christy.

1250. Take it easy yourself!

1251. Let's go.

1252. Christy, come, tuck that under you.

1253. Thank you.

1254. I hope to see you again.

1255. Yes. I hope to see you again, Christy.

1256. Before closing time.

1257. I thought I'd lost ya.

1258. Not at all.

1259. I can just see Joyce's tower down there.

1260. Oh, aye?

1261. And that's where J.M. Synge was born,

1262. at the foot of the mountains.

1263. What'll we drink to?

1264. Let's drink to Dublin.

1265. To Dublin?

1266. - Yeah. - Why?

1267. Because Christy Brown was born there.

1268. - Oh! - Whoo-hoo!