Frances.1982 Subtitles

At 00:00:22,433, Character said: * [classical piano]
[birds chirping]

At 00:00:36,867, Character said: [water drips]

At 00:01:02,200, Character said: [Frances] No one ever
came to me and said,

At 00:01:05,200, Character said: "You're a fool. There isn't
such a thing as God.

At 00:01:09,067, Character said: "Somebody's
just been stuffing you."

At 00:01:12,633, Character said: It wasn't murder. I think
God just died of old age.

At 00:01:18,467, Character said: And when I realized
that He wasn't any more,

At 00:01:20,833, Character said: it didn't shock me.
It seemed natural and right.

At 00:01:25,800, Character said: Maybe it's because
I was never

At 00:01:27,567, Character said: properly impressed
with the religion.

At 00:01:30,700, Character said: I went to Sunday school,
and I liked the stories

At 00:01:32,900, Character said: about Christ
and the Christmas Star.

At 00:01:35,467, Character said: They were beautiful.

At 00:01:37,400, Character said: But I didn't believe them.

At 00:01:39,200, Character said: Religion was too vague.

At 00:01:42,500, Character said: God was different,
though.

At 00:01:44,367, Character said: He was something real,
something I could feel.

At 00:01:47,600, Character said: But there were only certain
times that I could feel it.

At 00:01:50,400, Character said: I used to lie between cool,
clean sheets at night,

At 00:01:53,600, Character said: after I'd had a bath,
after I'd scrubbed my knuckles

At 00:01:56,400, Character said: and fingernails and teeth,

At 00:01:58,100, Character said: and talk to God.

At 00:02:00,400, Character said: "I'm clean now.

At 00:02:02,400, Character said: "I've never been this clean,

At 00:02:04,067, Character said: "and I'll never be cleaner."

At 00:02:06,800, Character said: And somehow, it was God.
I wasn't sure that it was.

At 00:02:10,600, Character said: Just something cool
and dark and clean.

At 00:02:14,467, Character said: That wasn't religion, though.

At 00:02:16,667, Character said: There was too much
of the physical about it.

At 00:02:20,100, Character said: After a time, even at night,

At 00:02:22,300, Character said: the feeling of God
didn't last.

At 00:02:25,467, Character said: I began to wonder
what the minister meant

At 00:02:27,900, Character said: when he said, "God the father

At 00:02:30,233, Character said: "sees even the smallest
sparrow fall.

At 00:02:33,267, Character said: "He watches over
all His children."

At 00:02:35,967, Character said: That jumbled it all up
for me.

At 00:02:38,700, Character said: If God were a father
with children,

At 00:02:41,467, Character said: then that cleanness
I'd been feeling wasn't God.

At 00:02:44,767, Character said: So at night,
when I went to bed,

At 00:02:47,167, Character said: I would think,
"I'm clean. I'm sleepy."

At 00:02:51,533, Character said: And then I went to sleep.

At 00:02:53,900, Character said: And it didn't keep me

At 00:02:55,500, Character said: from enjoying
the cleanness any less.

At 00:02:57,267, Character said: I just knew
that God wasn't there.

At 00:02:59,667, Character said: "Sometimes, I found Him
useful to remember,

At 00:03:02,933, Character said: "especially when I lost
things that were important.

At 00:03:05,900, Character said: "After slamming through
the house,

At 00:03:07,967, Character said: "breathless and panicky
from searching,

At 00:03:09,967, Character said: I could stop and--"

At 00:03:12,933, Character said: Good night,
princess.

At 00:03:15,767, Character said: Lillian.

At 00:03:22,767, Character said: See you next weekend, Dad.

At 00:03:28,500, Character said: "I could stop in the middle
of the room and shut my eyes.

At 00:03:32,233, Character said: "'Please, God,
help me find my red hat
with the blue trimmings'.

At 00:03:36,167, Character said: It usually worked."

At 00:03:38,267, Character said: "That satisfied me
until I began to figure out

At 00:03:41,300, Character said: "that if God loved
all His children equally,

At 00:03:44,167, Character said: "then why did he bother
about my red hat,

At 00:03:46,867, Character said: "and let other people
lose their fathers
and mothers for always?

At 00:03:51,500, Character said: "I began to see that He
didn't have much to do

At 00:03:53,933, Character said: "about people's dying,
or hats, or anything.

At 00:03:57,767, Character said: "They happened whether
he wanted them to or not.

At 00:04:00,967, Character said: And He stayed in Heaven
and pretended not to notice."
Outrageous.

At 00:04:05,100, Character said: "I wondered a little why God
was such a useless thing."

At 00:04:07,633, Character said: [gasps]
Well!

At 00:04:09,167, Character said: "It seemed a waste
of time to have him.

At 00:04:12,233, Character said: "I felt rather proud
to think

At 00:04:14,067, Character said: "that I had found
the truth myself

At 00:04:16,267, Character said: "without help from anyone.

At 00:04:18,367, Character said: "It puzzled me that others
hadn't found out, too.

At 00:04:21,800, Character said: "God was gone.
Why couldn't they see it?

At 00:04:26,200, Character said: It still puzzles me."

At 00:04:41,633, Character said: You're going straight
to Hell, Frances Farmer!

At 00:04:44,800, Character said: Heathen!
Blasphemer!

At 00:04:47,500, Character said: [Man]
If this is what our schools
are coming to, well--

At 00:04:57,067, Character said: [Newsreel narrator]
As bread lines
and unemployment rolls

At 00:04:58,833, Character said: get longer and longer,

At 00:05:00,467, Character said: violence is erupting
around the nation,

At 00:05:02,467, Character said: and left-wing politicians
are gaining strength.

At 00:05:05,367, Character said: In Seattle, congressional
candidate Martoni Kaminski
works the crowd.

At 00:05:09,067, Character said: [all] No!

At 00:05:10,900, Character said: [Kaminski] Is it radical
for the wealth of this country

At 00:05:13,500, Character said: to be turned back
to the people who built
this country?

At 00:05:16,100, Character said: No!

At 00:05:17,700, Character said: Good! Because, brothers,
that's you!

At 00:05:20,067, Character said: Yay!

At 00:05:24,433, Character said: [Narrator] Judging
from the crowd reaction,

At 00:05:26,300, Character said: the U.S. Congress
had better prepare

At 00:05:28,300, Character said: for men like Kaminski.

At 00:05:30,067, Character said: [crowd, chanting]
...want Kaminski!

At 00:05:31,267, Character said: We want Kaminski!

At 00:05:33,233, Character said: [Narrator] Seattle
is in the news again,

At 00:05:35,700, Character said: as a high school junior
wins a national competition

At 00:05:38,700, Character said: and the $100 prize,
with an essay denying God.

At 00:05:42,433, Character said: This is exactly
the sort of thing

At 00:05:44,633, Character said: Seattle does not need.

At 00:05:46,867, Character said: Now, I don't know
who's responsible,

At 00:05:49,133, Character said: but the notion
that God is dead

At 00:05:51,500, Character said: seems a very
sinister one to me,

At 00:05:54,067, Character said: and far beyond
the sophistication

At 00:05:55,867, Character said: of a mere high school girl.

At 00:05:57,800, Character said: No. I would not be
at all surprised to learn

At 00:06:00,567, Character said: that this essay was written
by some anarchist,

At 00:06:03,100, Character said: some agitator.

At 00:06:05,167, Character said: You know, Frances is not
havin' a war with God.

At 00:06:09,433, Character said: [Narrator] Miss Frances Farmer
was unavailable for comment,

At 00:06:12,067, Character said: but her mother,
Lillian Farmer,

At 00:06:13,867, Character said: a well-known local
dietician,

At 00:06:15,600, Character said: stepped
to her daughter's defense.

At 00:06:17,700, Character said: [Lillian] Unlike in the dark
countries to the East,

At 00:06:21,567, Character said: freedom of speech

At 00:06:24,200, Character said: is alive and well
in America...

At 00:06:28,667, Character said: and in my home.

At 00:06:34,533, Character said: Hi, Emma.

At 00:06:40,133, Character said: [Man] Hey, there's
that girl from the news.
[Man] Who cares?

At 00:06:42,500, Character said: Hey, where ya goin'?
Hey, York!

At 00:06:44,533, Character said: Hey, lover boy!
Hey, hey, hey!

At 00:06:46,300, Character said: Think
you can handle her?

At 00:06:47,600, Character said: [whistles]
Hey!

At 00:06:50,133, Character said: Come here!
I wanna talk to you.

At 00:06:55,133, Character said: Uh, Mama told you
not to talk
to strangers, huh?

At 00:06:59,133, Character said: Hey!

At 00:07:00,333, Character said: Don't touch me.

At 00:07:01,833, Character said: I'm not gonna hurt ya.
I just wanna talk.

At 00:07:05,967, Character said: All right, then.

At 00:07:08,100, Character said: You're causin' a lot
of trouble, you know?

At 00:07:10,300, Character said: I'm causing trouble?

At 00:07:12,167, Character said: You're a pain in the butt.

At 00:07:13,800, Character said: You newshounds have been
after me and my folks

At 00:07:15,833, Character said: ever since I won
that dumb contest.

At 00:07:19,500, Character said: I'm only 16 years old.

At 00:07:21,067, Character said: Who the hell cares
what I think?

At 00:07:22,600, Character said: Not me, but some people
seem to.

At 00:07:24,400, Character said: Well, if you didn't
put it in the papers--

At 00:07:26,533, Character said: Wait a second, sweetie.
Do I look like
a newshound to you?

At 00:07:31,933, Character said: No, you look more
like a cop.

At 00:07:35,233, Character said: Well, that's rich.
If I was a cop,

At 00:07:37,167, Character said: I'd be packin',
wouldn't I?

At 00:07:38,267, Character said: You see a gun?

At 00:07:39,433, Character said: Go ahead. Search me.

At 00:07:40,800, Character said: Pat me down.

At 00:07:44,133, Character said: ...