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Macbeth False Memories
   
 

Macbeth False Memories

... precious to you. You said you don't know what you believe in or why belief matters.
 
Pause.
 
Could you speak up please?
 
Bennet   I said I can't remember what I ever looked forward to or what is precious to me. I don't know what I am supposed to feel connected to Nor do I want to feel unconnected. I appreciate that I have to find my own point to life and that there is not a higher being or supernatural force that will give me a point. . .
 
Pause.
 
Lavelli's Daughter   You said you appreciate you have to find your own point to life.
 
Bennet   I said I am having some difficulty finding the point. I think I was once interested in politics . . . but I can't remember what I valued above something else . . . I cannot connect myself to it . . . it sounds far away . . . round the block, your voice sounds nearer than that, nearer than right and wrong and evil and good.
 
Lavelli's Daughter   You said you love your wife.
 
Bennet (flat)   Yes.
 
Lavelli's Daughter   But you said you have no dreams?
 
Fade in film:
Woods.
Three five-year-old
Girls. They wear Elizabethan costumes and hairityles. They stare unblinkingly from the screen during his speech.
 
Girls (sing)   'Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomorrow!'
 
Bennet (soft)   I said I have no dreams.

 
 
 
         
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