旅行终点 The End of the Tour Movie Script

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DAVID:

37 EXT. DAVID’S HOUSE - 1996 - NIGHT 37 The car pulls up, parks. They get out with the spoils fromthe 7-Eleven. Mid-discourse: 22.

DAVID:

So if the book’s about anything, it’s about the question of: Why am I watching all this sh*t? It’s not about the sh*t, it’s about me. Why am I doing it? And what’s so American about what I’m doing?

We hear the dogs barking as David unlocks the door and they enter the house.

38 INT. DAVID’S HOUSE/LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN - 1996 - CONTINUOUS 38 The dogs run out to do their thing. David puts away the soda and snacks.

DAVID:

The minute I start talking about this stuff, it sounds, number one: very vague. And, two: really reductive.

LIPSKY:

I don’t think you’re being reductive or vague at all.

DAVID:

Because it’s like, I don’t have a diagnosis, a system of prescriptions.

You know? Like, why are we - and by “we” I mean people like you and me: mostly white, upper middle class, obscenely well-educated, doing really interesting jobs, sitting in really expensive chairs, watching the best, most sophisticated electronic equipment money can buy - why do we feel empty and unhappy?

LIPSKY:

Kinda like Hamlet. With channel- surfing.

DAVID:

I’m not saying TV is bad or a waste of your time. Any more than, you know, masturbation is bad or a waste of your time. It's a pleasurable way to spend a few minutes. But if you're doing it twenty times a day, if your primary sexual relationship is with your own hand, then there's something wrong.

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LIPSKY:

At least with masturbation, some action has been performed, though, right?

DAVID:

All right, you could make me look like a real dick if you print this: Yes, you're performing muscular movements with your hand as you're jerking off.

But what you're doing is running a movie in your head, and having a fantasy relationship with somebody who isn't real, in order to stimulate a purely neurological response.

Look:

as the Internet grows in the next ten, fifteen years, and virtual reality pornography becomes a reality, we're gonna have to develop some machinery, inside our guts, to help us turn off pure, unalloyed pleasure.

Otherwise, I don’t know about you, but I’m gonna have to leave the planet.

LIPSKY:

(smiles uncertainly) Why?

DAVID:

Because the technology is just gonna get better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money.

Which is fine. In low doses. But if that's the basic main staple of your diet? You're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die.

Silence. Lipsky mulls over the gravity of what David has said. David breaks the portentous silence when he pops a wad of tobacco in his mouth.

LIPSKY:

Can I try that?

DAVID:

Be my guest. It takes some getting used to.

Lipsky tries it and makes a horrible face. David laughs.

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