LEON(kind) Let me alone for a while, Mathilda, OK?
My life changed since I met you, you know? ...I have to find back myself a little... And, last time, you really didn't pass... And I wouldn't enjoy seeing you explode against a wall...
MATHILDA:
Risky business, isn't it?
LEON:
...You're young, Mathilda... You still have a chance to get out. You can't give up this chance. You have to protect it.
There's a lot of things to do in life, a lot of other jobs...
MATHILDA:
There are just two things I'm interested
in:
love and death. For the moment, I have none of the two!
Leon tries to reply, vainly.
LEON:
Mathilda... There's equally a lot of other things!
MATHILDA:
Huh, really? What? Come on, I'm waiting!
Leon searches.
LEON:
...Nothing, I tell you! Everything else reminds me a big yogurt: warm and rancid.
Leon laughs, she doesn't.
LEON:
No, excuse me... It's the yogurt that made me laugh.
MATHILDA:
You've just to love me and I'll be the happiest woman around.
LEON:
Yeah, I know! But for the moment you're not yet a woman. So, be patient... I need time... And you too. You have to grow up.
MATHILDA:
I don't grow up any more. I just get older.
Leon sighs. He takes his case and gets out.
LEON:
I won't be long. Two days at most, promised.
He closes the door. Mathilda remains sad, at her window.
* * * * * * * * * * RAIN ON THE CITY - MATHILDA'S BORED SERIES OF SHORT SEQUENCES - She's on the windowsill and looks at the flowing water that will temporarily clean the city.
She smokes a cigarette.
She opens the double bass.
She assembles and disassembles a Uzi, last model.
She watches television, falls on her head, embedded in her soft chair. She eventually switches off, at this extent the program bored her.