thematic reflection
Jack:
No. I'm just a little tired.
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
hired a man named Charles Grady, as
the winter caretaker. He came up
here with his wife and two little
girls of about eight or ten. And
he had a good employment record,
good references and from what I've
been told, I mean, he seemed like a
completely normal individual. But
at some point during the winter, he
must have suffered some kind of a
complete mental breakdown.
(MORE)
11.
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
He ran amok and eh... killed his
family with an axe,
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
The police eh... they thought that
it was what the old-timers used to
call cabin-fever, a kind of
claustrophobic reaction which can
occur when people are
ULLMAN (OFF) (CONT'D)
shut in together over long periods
of time.
Well it's just one of those things.
You know... purely an accident, um.
My husband had oh... been drinking,
and he came home about three hours
late, so he wasn't exactly in the
greatest mood that night. And well
Danny had scattered some of his
school papers all over the room...
and my husband grabbed his arm, you
know, and pulled him away from them.
It's...it's just the sort of thing
you do a hundred times with a
child - you know, in a park or on
the streets - but on this particular
occasion my husband just... used
too much strength and he injured
Danny's arm.
CUT TO:
M.S. DOCTOR
WENDY (OFF) (CONT'D)
Anyway, something good did come out
of it all because he said:
CUT TO:
M.C.S. WENDY
WENDY (CONT'D)
"Wendy, I'm never gonna touch
another drop and if I do you can
leave me", and he didn't and he
hasn't had any alcohol in eh five
months.
Jack:
I'm not being grouchy. I just want
to finish my work.
No.45—D: Danny! Everything's okay... Just
go play in your room for a while.
Your Dad's just got a headache.
Danny - mind what I say. Go play
in your room!
Hon, let me just go and get him out
of here. I'll be right back.
No.47—D:850
Jack:
I did hurt him once, okay? It was
an accident, complete unintentional.
It could have happened to anybody.
Jack:
And it was three goddam years ago.
The little fucker had thrown all my
papers all over the floor. All I
tried to do was to pull him up. A
momentary loss of muscular
coordination. I mean... A few
extra foot pounds of energy, per
second... per second.
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ULLMAN (CONT'D)
hired a man named Charles Grady, as
the winter caretaker. He came up
here with his wife and two little
girls of about eight or ten. And
he had a good employment record,
good references and from what I've
been told, I mean, he seemed like a
completely normal individual. But
at some point during the winter, he
must have suffered some kind of a
complete mental breakdown.
(MORE)
11.
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
He ran amok and eh... killed his
family with an axe,