I used to know such people...such two people. They love each other. The girl is very young, I guess she's about seventeen or eighteen years old. That man is much older. He is the kind of casual and wild person, and she is very beautiful. The two of them did a lot of ridiculous things together, and she liked that, even small things like going to the grocery store would be full of fun. They always laughed at those stupid things, and he liked to make her laugh.
The two of them don't care about anything, because all they want to do is stay with each other and they are inseparable.
He loves her more than anything else. He can't bear to be separated from her during the day at work...
So he quit his job just to stay with her at home. Soon, he had to find another job because he ran out of money. But then he resigned again. But it didn't take long before the girl began to worry...
(Jane):
For what?
(Travis):
I think it's money. There is not enough money, and I don’t know how to pay the next expenditure.
(Jane):
Yes. I understand that feeling.
(Travis):
So he began to feel uneasy and psychologically tortured.
(Jane): What do you mean?
(Travis):
He knew that he had to work to support him, but he still couldn't bear the separation from her.
(Jane): I understand.
(Travis): In the
end he left her and went to work. He became crazy and suspicious.
(Jane):
For example?
(Travis):
He started thinking wildly. He imagined her seduce other men. He put down work and went home, scolded her for hanging out with other people during the day, he yelled at her and even smashed everything in the trailer...
(Jane): The trailer?
(Travis):
Yes... They live in a trailer house.
Then, he started to drink heavily. He came home late to try her. See if she will be jealous. He wanted her to be jealous, but she didn't. She was just worried about him, but it made him crazy. Because he thinks that if she is not jealous, it means she doesn't really care about him, and jealousy is a sign of her love for him.
Just like that, one night... One night, she told him that she was pregnant, three or four months old, but he didn't even notice it. So suddenly everything changed, he stopped drinking and got a job. He had no doubt that she loved him because she was pregnant with his child. He will do his best to build a home for her.
But something unexpected happened, he didn't pay attention to her changes at first. From the day the child was born, she began to be irritable to everything around her, everything made her crazy, and even the child was a threat to her. He tried to accommodate her in everything, buy her things she likes, and take her out for dinner once a week, but nothing seemed to satisfy her. He spent two years trying to restore them to their original state, but in the end he found that it was in vain, so he started drinking again, but this time it was really hopeless.
One night, he went home very late when he was drunk. She was neither worried nor jealous, but angry. She accused him of making her give birth to her freedom. She told him that she dreamed of running away. All she dreamed of was to escape.
She dreamed that she was running along the highway at night, across the fields, across the river bed, and running all the time.
But whenever she thought she had escaped, he would show up, stop her in various ways, keep showing up and stop. When she told him these dreams, he believed that they were real, and he thought that she had to be stopped, otherwise she would really leave him forever.
(Travis):
So he tied a bell on her ankle so that he would know when she got out of bed at night. But she managed to unlock the bell, stuffed socks inside, and then slipped out of bed and disappeared into the night. One night, the socks stuffed in the bell fell out. He found that she was escaping to the highway, so he grabbed her and dragged her back to the trailer room, tied her to the stove with a belt, and then left her again. Back to the bed. He lay there and heard her screaming constantly. He also heard the child screaming. The strange thing was that he couldn't feel anything. All he wanted to do was sleep. For the first time, he hoped to leave there far and disappear into the vast wilderness where no one knew him. Without language and streets, he dreamed of a place without even a name.
(Travis):
When he woke up, he was already in flames, and the flames lit his sheets. He rushed through the flames to his two loved ones...but they were gone. His arm burned, he rushed outside and fell on the mud, then he ran away, never looking at the fire again, and ran until sunrise. He can't run anymore. When the sun went down, he started running again. I ran like this for five days until I completely lost my appearance...
(Travis):
I knew these people ...
These two people. They were in love with each other. The girl was ...very young, about seventeen
or eighteen, I guess.And the guy was ...quite a bit older.He was kind of ragged in, wild.She was very beautiful, you know.Yeah.And together they turned
everything into a kind of an adventure,and she liked that.Just an ordinary trip
down the grocery store was ...
full of adventure.
They were always laughing at stupid things.
He liked to make her laugh.
And ...
they didn 't much care for anything else,
Because all they wanted to do was
be with each other.
They were always together.
And he, he loved her more than
he ever felt possible.
He couldn't stand
being away from her,
uh. .. during the day when he went to work.
So, he quit.
Just to be home with her.
Then he got another job
when the money ran out,
then he quit again.
But pretty soon, she started to worry.
(Jane):
About what?
Travis:
Money, I guess.
Not having enough.
Not knowing
when the next check was coming in.
(Jane):
Yep.
I know that feeling.
(Travis ):
So he started to get kind of ...
torn inside.
(Jane):
How do you mean?
(Travis):
Well he knew he had to work
to support her,
but he couldn't stand
being away from her, either.
(Jane):
I see.
(Travis):
And the more he was away from her,
the crazier he got.
Except now,
he got really crazy.
He started imagining
all kinds of things.
(Jane):
Like what?
(Travis):
He started thinking that
she was seeing other men on the sly.
He'd come home from work
and accuse her of
spending the day
with somebody else.
He'd yell at her,
break things in the trailer.
(Jane):
The trailer?
(Travis):
Yes.
They lived in a trailer home.
Anyway, he started to drink
real bad.
And he'd stay out late
to test her.
To see if she'd get jealous.
He wanted her to get jealous,
but she didn't.
She just worried about him,
but that got him even madder.
Because ...
he thought if she never got jealous of him,
she didn't really care about him.
Jealousy was a sign
of her love for him.
And then one night,
one night, she told him
she was pregnant.
She was about three
or fourth month pregnant,
and he didn't even know.
And then suddenly everything changed.
He stopped drinking,
he got a steady job.
He was convinced
that she love him now,
because she was carrying his child.
And he was going to dedicated
himself to making a home for her.
But funny thing started to happen.
He didn't even notice at first.
She started to change.
On the day the baby was born,
she began to get irritated with everything around her.
She got mad at everything.
Even the baby
seemed to be an injustice to her.
He kept trying
to make everything all right for her.
Buy her things.
Take her out to dinner
once a week.
But nothing seemed
to satisfy her.
For two years,
He struggled to put them back together like
they were when they first met.
Finally , he knew
that it was never gonna work out.
So, he hit the bottle again.
But this time,
it got mean.
(Travis):
This time when he came home late at night,
she wasn't worried about him,
or jealous,
she was just enraged.
She accused him of holding her captive,
by making her have a baby.
She told him
that she dreamed about escaping.
That was all she dreamed about:
escape.
She saw herself at night,
running naked down a highway.
Running across fields,
running down river beds,
always running.
And always, just as she was about to get away,
he'd be there.
He would stop her somehow.
He would just appeare and stop her.
And when she told him these dreams,
he believed them.
He knew she had to be stopped,
or she'd leave him forever.
So he tied a cowbell to her ankle,
so he could hear it at night
if she tried to get out bed.
But she learned how to muffle
the bell by stucking a sock into it
and inched her away out bed
and into the night.
He caught her one night,
when the sock fell out
and he heard her trying to
run out to the highway.
He caught her, dragged her back to the trailer and tied her to the stove
with his belt.
He just left her there,
he went back to bed
and lay there and listening to her scream.
And he listened to his son scream.
He was surprised at himself because
he didn't feel anything anymore.
All he wanted to do was sleep.
And for the first time,
he wished he were far away.
Lost in a deep, vast country
where nobody knew him.
Somewhere without language
or streets.
And he dreamed about this place
without knowing its name.
And when he woke up,
he was on fire.
There were blue flames
burning the sheets of his bed.
He ran through the flames
towards the only two people he loved.
But they were gone.
His arms were burning.
And he threw himself outside,
and rolled on the wet ground.
Then he ran.
He never looked back at the fire.
He just ran.
He ran until the sun came up,
ten he couldn't run any further .
And when the sun went down,
he ran again.
For five days
he ran like this ...
until every sign of man ...
had disappeared……
It has been 8 years since the day it was issued, during which many friends said yes They are very helpful to understand the movie, but there are many typos in the excerpted translation text, so I am here to correct it. February 17, 2017
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