Nymphomaniac.Vol.II.2013.720p.BluRay-en Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:19,376 --> 00:00:22,211 Can I help you? 2 00:00:44,335 --> 00:00:46,202 I have to go back a bit. 3 00:00:46,204 --> 00:00:48,337 I was 12 years old 4 00:00:48,339 --> 00:00:50,539 and on a school trip in the hills. 5 00:02:44,020 --> 00:02:46,355 Are you making fun of me? 6 00:02:46,357 --> 00:02:47,756 What do you mean? 7 00:02:47,758 --> 00:02:49,925 You have this o***m, not only an o***m, 8 00:02:49,927 --> 00:02:53,262 - ...but a spontaneous o***m. - Yes, it was an o***m, 9 00:02:53,264 --> 00:02:55,764 though the doctor described it as a... 10 00:02:55,766 --> 00:02:57,333 An epileptic seizure. 11 00:02:57,335 --> 00:02:58,767 And during that o***m, 12 00:02:58,769 --> 00:03:00,402 you have this vision 13 00:03:00,404 --> 00:03:03,772 of these two women on each side of you? 14 00:03:03,774 --> 00:03:07,409 Was she holding the veil with two fingers like this? 15 00:03:13,049 --> 00:03:15,651 What's the matter? 16 00:03:15,653 --> 00:03:18,987 You don't even know who these women were, do you? 17 00:03:20,557 --> 00:03:24,293 No, but one of them did look like the Virgin Mary, 18 00:03:24,295 --> 00:03:26,061 now that you mention it. 19 00:03:26,063 --> 00:03:28,797 Well, it wasn't the Virgin Mary, I can tell you that. 20 00:03:28,799 --> 00:03:31,333 From your description, it must've been 21 00:03:31,335 --> 00:03:33,068 Valeria Messalina, 22 00:03:33,070 --> 00:03:35,671 the wife of Emperor Claudius, 23 00:03:35,673 --> 00:03:39,074 the most notorious nymphomaniac in history. 24 00:03:39,076 --> 00:03:40,876 And the other woman, 25 00:03:40,878 --> 00:03:43,312 the one astride the creature, 26 00:03:43,314 --> 00:03:46,615 that was no one else but the great w***e of Babylon 27 00:03:46,617 --> 00:03:49,151 riding on Nimrod in the form of a bull. 28 00:03:53,056 --> 00:03:55,391 Your story is like a... 29 00:03:55,393 --> 00:03:58,527 Blasphemous retelling 30 00:03:58,529 --> 00:04:01,163 of the transfiguration of Jesus on the mount... 31 00:04:02,699 --> 00:04:05,000 Which is one of the eastern church's 32 00:04:05,002 --> 00:04:06,935 holiest passages. 33 00:04:08,338 --> 00:04:10,539 It's when the humanity of Christ 34 00:04:10,541 --> 00:04:13,442 is illuminated by the divine light of eternity. 35 00:04:16,379 --> 00:04:18,881 If anyone else would have told me that story, 36 00:04:18,883 --> 00:04:21,950 I would've seen it as a blasphemous joke, 37 00:04:21,952 --> 00:04:24,119 spiced up with a biblical light 38 00:04:24,121 --> 00:04:28,190 emanating from nothing less than a spontaneous o***m. 39 00:04:31,361 --> 00:04:34,596 And then later, you lost your o***m altogether. 40 00:04:40,670 --> 00:04:42,971 Wagner. "Das Rheingold, 41 00:04:42,973 --> 00:04:45,140 the descent into Nibelheim." 42 00:04:45,142 --> 00:04:47,376 Was it that bad? 43 00:04:47,378 --> 00:04:50,746 Try to imagine that in one fell swoop, 44 00:04:50,748 --> 00:04:53,115 you lost all desire to read 45 00:04:53,117 --> 00:04:56,118 and all your love and passion for books and letters. 46 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,221 I don't even know if I can imagine that. 47 00:05:34,592 --> 00:05:37,860 This is nothing less than Zeno's paradox. 48 00:05:39,062 --> 00:05:41,096 You are Achilles 49 00:05:41,098 --> 00:05:43,832 and the tortoise is the o***m. 50 00:05:43,834 --> 00:05:45,133 Oh, come on. 51 00:05:45,135 --> 00:05:47,169 Because you were giving chase, 52 00:05:47,171 --> 00:05:49,972 you couldn't reach satisfaction. That's the paradox. 53 00:05:49,974 --> 00:05:53,575 I'm sorry, but it seems as if you're not taking this very seriously. 54 00:05:53,577 --> 00:05:56,678 I'm telling you about the worst thing that's happened to me, 55 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,981 that I, at that point within seconds, 56 00:05:58,983 --> 00:06:01,517 lost all sexual sensation. 57 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:04,453 My c***t simply went numb! 58 00:06:04,455 --> 00:06:06,221 And immediately we have to hear 59 00:06:06,223 --> 00:06:09,157 about this ridiculous mathematical problem. 60 00:06:09,159 --> 00:06:11,960 In fact, I'm in doubt whether 61 00:06:11,962 --> 00:06:13,262 you're even listening. 62 00:06:14,664 --> 00:06:16,532 Why do you doubt that? 63 00:06:16,534 --> 00:06:20,235 Whenever I've told other men about experiences, 64 00:06:20,237 --> 00:06:23,171 episodes in my s***x life, 65 00:06:23,173 --> 00:06:27,209 it was easy to see that they became quite excited. 66 00:06:28,144 --> 00:06:29,578 I g***t excited. 67 00:06:29,580 --> 00:06:31,880 Yes, about the mathematical crap, 68 00:06:31,882 --> 00:06:33,582 not about the story. 69 00:06:41,257 --> 00:06:44,326 What kind of a person are you actually? 70 00:06:49,933 --> 00:06:51,667 I... 71 00:06:53,169 --> 00:06:55,037 You wouldn't know. 72 00:06:58,641 --> 00:07:00,642 No, but I can guess. 73 00:07:03,947 --> 00:07:05,914 Why didn't I get that earlier? 74 00:07:07,684 --> 00:07:11,053 The fact you don't get excited over my dirty stories 75 00:07:12,288 --> 00:07:14,590 is because you can't relate to them. 76 00:07:16,793 --> 00:07:18,727 You've never been with a woman. 77 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,375 That's quite accurate. 78 00:07:34,711 --> 00:07:36,612 Not with a man either. 79 00:07:45,321 --> 00:07:47,389 Are you sorry about that? 80 00:07:52,095 --> 00:07:54,663 Well yeah, but... 81 00:07:54,665 --> 00:07:57,699 Out of curiosity. 82 00:07:59,035 --> 00:08:01,803 Not out of lust, as you would think. 83 00:08:08,044 --> 00:08:11,847 I consider myself... Asexual. 84 00:08:13,616 --> 00:08:16,051 Of course I... Experimented 85 00:08:16,053 --> 00:08:19,121 with masturbation when I was a teenager, but... 86 00:08:20,223 --> 00:08:21,890 It didn't do much for me. 87 00:08:24,927 --> 00:08:28,296 So there's nothing sexual about me. 88 00:08:34,303 --> 00:08:36,705 It's not as uncommon as you would think. 89 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,274 And of course I've... 90 00:08:39,276 --> 00:08:42,344 I've read a lot about sexual subjects: 91 00:08:42,346 --> 00:08:44,980 "Canterbury tales," "Decameron," 92 00:08:44,982 --> 00:08:46,648 "thousand and one nights." 93 00:08:46,650 --> 00:08:49,017 You name it 94 00:08:49,019 --> 00:08:52,888 and I've read it with great interest and enjoyment... 95 00:08:54,157 --> 00:08:56,825 But only literary enjoyment. 96 00:08:58,828 --> 00:09:01,063 But I... but I think maybe it makes me 97 00:09:01,065 --> 00:09:03,465 a better listener to your story. 98 00:09:05,635 --> 00:09:08,270 I have no preconceived notions or... 99 00:09:08,272 --> 00:09:10,839 Or preferences. 100 00:09:10,841 --> 00:09:14,376 I'm actually the best judge you could give your story to. 101 00:09:14,378 --> 00:09:16,712 And when it comes to deciding whether you're 102 00:09:16,714 --> 00:09:18,246 a bad human being or not, I'm... 103 00:09:18,248 --> 00:09:20,949 I have no problems with that. 104 00:09:20,951 --> 00:09:23,919 Because I don't look at you through the glasses 105 00:09:23,921 --> 00:09:26,421 colored by sexuality 106 00:09:26,423 --> 00:09:28,957 or sexual experience. 107 00:09:30,893 --> 00:09:32,861 I'm a virgin. 108 00:09:34,397 --> 00:09:36,498 I'm innocent. 109 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,221 She's looking at me. 110 00:10:00,456 --> 00:10:02,457 Yes. 111 00:10:02,459 --> 00:10:04,693 It's an icon. 112 00:10:04,695 --> 00:10:06,461 Is it Russian? 113 00:10:06,463 --> 00:10:08,396 Yes, it's... 114 00:10:08,398 --> 00:10:10,065 It's a skilled copy, 115 00:10:10,067 --> 00:10:13,135 maybe in the manner of Rublev. 116 00:10:18,941 --> 00:10:22,177 Icons are usually connected to the eastern church. 117 00:10:22,179 --> 00:10:24,012 The eastern church? 118 00:10:24,014 --> 00:10:27,082 I might become a bit theoretical. 119 00:10:28,484 --> 00:10:30,318 You may. 120 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,054 I'd like you to tell me about your picture. 121 00:10:34,123 --> 00:10:36,358 Although the Christian church 122 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,362 was split up in 1054 because of differences in opinion 123 00:10:40,364 --> 00:10:43,064 between the eastern church and the western church... 124 00:10:43,066 --> 00:10:45,867 What we today call the orthodox church 125 00:10:45,869 --> 00:10:48,036 and the roman catholic church. 126 00:10:49,505 --> 00:10:53,809 This is a typical eastern church icon. 127 00:10:53,811 --> 00:10:56,912 And it usually depicts the Virgin Mary 128 00:10:56,914 --> 00:10:59,047 and the infant Jesus, and more rarely, 129 00:10:59,049 --> 00:11:01,216 for instance, the crucifixion, 130 00:11:01,218 --> 00:11:04,286 which in the western church was much more prevalent. 131 00:11:04,288 --> 00:11:06,888 If you generalize, you could say that 132 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:09,791 the western church is the church of suffering, 133 00:11:09,793 --> 00:11:13,762 and the eastern church is the church of happiness. 134 00:11:13,764 --> 00:11:16,865 If you imagine a mental journey from Rome eastward, 135 00:11:16,867 --> 00:11:19,801 you feel how you move away 136 00:11:19,803 --> 00:11:23,171 from guilt and pain towards joy and light. 137 00:11:23,173 --> 00:11:25,974 But you say you didn't believe in God. 138 00:11:25,976 --> 00:11:30,312 No, but the concept of religion is...