Nadja (1994)

[bunniefuu]

- Nights, nights without sleep,

long nights in which the brain
lights up like a big city

in Europe, it's hard to find food

after 10 o'clock, even Paris Orman mos.

Of course, it's
impossible. Dublin, though.

I love Dublin. Pathetic.

Europe is a village here.

You feel so many things rushing together.

It even gets more exciting after midnight.

- Do you find it hectic?
- Sometimes. I need to get away.

I want to be alone without this

- Confusion.

- A tree, a lake, a dog.

I dream of that.

- Do you work?
- No,

I'm not really good for much of anything.

I'm lucky because my father, though,

he's a real b*stard, looks after me.

He's wealthy. You want to
know what he does? Right?

- Only if you want
- To. Family money from Romania.

It goes way back. Like all
vast fortunes of this kind.

It comes from the suffering

and exploitation of the poor,
the peasants, the workers.

- You don't seem happy.

- I want to simplify my life,

even on a superficial level. The trouble

- Is it's hard to resist the feeling that

all these choices in our lives,

that everything is superficial.

- Would you like another drink?

Oh,

- My father,

my father's dead.

Jim,

are you all right?

- I'm sorry, kid. I get
overly enthusiastic.

I gotta watch that left Hope.

- Leave us alone for a
minute. Will you? Okay.

Sorry. I was just It's your uncle.

- He's dead
- In jail.

- What? For
- m*rder.

It didn't make sense, but it didn't

sound too surprising either.

You knew how he gets

You k*lled somebody.

Yeah. They didn't say who?
Just how a stake in the heart.

Are you sure you're okay?

- A stake in the heart.
I just can't picture it.

- I can picture it.
- It's crazy.

- He confessed. Plus there are witnesses.

He's stalking the guy. Sh.
Don't look mad, but your noses.

Hold on.

- You okay? Kent? You get
- Lost.

- I'm okay. Really? Okay.

- I'm sorry. I just don't apologize.

Okay. Okay. How many?

- Two.
- What's my name?

- Lucy.

How long have we been married?

Forever. I'll be back

in an hour or so, or I'll call you.

It wouldn't be right for you to tag along.

He knows you don't like him.

I will be late. Thinking
can keep the bed warm.

- Yeah. I'll see what I can do. Okay.

- We have come for the body
of Count. Voda. Armenio.

Escu, Dracula. I believe there is a

wooden stake in the heart.

You will take us to him.

- How did you know about that?

- I'm a relative. Can
you identify the body?

We will take the body.

- The thing is Jim, he was tired, lost,

and he was like, he was
like Elvis in the end,

drugs infused, surrounded by zombies,

and he was just going through the motions.

Magic was gone and he knew it.

I mean, he knew I didn't k*ll him.

He was already dead. Now
they got to cut off his head

and then burn the body.

Want a drink? Yeah. Good idea.

Oh, we can't get a drink here,
Jim. This is a coffee shop.

What was I thinking about? What
the hell are we doing here?

You want something deep?
That's right. Oh yeah.

Locked up in that hallway
tank for two hours.

My stomach rumbling like a volcano.

What I need is a vodka. I mean,

it wasn't thinking about what?

What? Well, now is not
the time to stare at me

and wishing you had a butterfly.

That just seems to me you've
gone through something

and you haven't quite
come out the other side.

Oh, you may not k*ll somebody.

Not gonna turn you. Right. Well,

I k*lled a fiend who is not dead.

That's not m*rder. It's
not the same thing.

He's undead

and if they don't destroy his
body correctly, he'll be back.

He'll be back and it won't be pretty.

- I can't quite believe he's dead.

I keep expecting to look up and see him.

It's like he's there in the
corner of my eye. I look.

He's not there.

- I feel that way for a long time.

- Why do you say that?
- I've had

more experience with that than you.

Why do you know that's died?
That actually cared about

- My mother.

But you know, she died when I was born.

I want to change my life.

It's not that easy. Shut up.

Things will be different. He's gone.

I'm free. Sure you.

I am free and I can live a
new life. I can start over.

I'll find someone. I'll be happy.

Can say

please a double.

You got a cigarette.

Thank you.

That accent. Where are you from?

I was born by the Black
Sea, under the shadow

of the Carpathian Mountains.

Is the Black Sea really black?

It's blue actually, and very beautiful.

You seem upset. I am.

Do you want to know why I'm
going to see my brother?

I haven't seen him for years,

and that makes me anxious.

You don't like him? I love him very much,

but he hates me.

He wants to destroy me.

- Does he live in Carpathia?

- No. Brooklyn. I've never been there.

Have you

- Brooklyn?

Once? No, actually twice a long time ago.

- Do you have siblings?
- I had a

brother and he died.

He k*lled himself. He was 21.

He was too young. Too young to do

that. He didn't know anything.

- I don't believe that. Young
people don't know anything.

I think they know just about everything,

but they can't defend themselves
against what they know.

What about your parents?

- It was just me and him. My parents split

up a long time ago.

My dad met a woman who was born again.

Do you know what that means?

He got born again too.

Married her and sewn me

because my lifestyle was not
in sync with our religion.

They moved to Australia with
their born again children.

But I'm married now and
all of this family stuff.

It feels so far removed from me now.

It's almost

- Abstract.

No. See how you bury the primary pain?

It goes underground. It
seeps into the water supply.

You are poisoned. All your
relationships are poisoned.

You must dare to dredge
up the primary pain.

- What good would it do?
- It frees you.

For myself, I'm not afraid of anything.

It's true. It's life is full of pain,

but the pain I feel is
the pain of fleeting joy.

- I don't know what that is.

- I'm with someone I
love. I feel so much joy.

Then I have to go away.

Even if it's only for a day,

- I'm sure I'll never see them again.

I feel so alone. I don't
know what's in front of me.

I can't breathe.

The pain of fleeting joy.

- I gotta go. No, no.
You'll k*ll me. No. Wait.

You gotta hear the end of
this story, the full story.

You want to hear that,
don't you? This is crucial.

Over the past 400 years, the FI has had

countless b*stard children, countless

born to ravage victims, women seduced

and abandoned in one night.

The children are all raving idiots, insane

monsters, deformed, the walking dead.

These creatures are everywhere.

The streets are full of them.

Any major city, they just blend in.

But he was in love once
about 200 years ago

by the Black Sea, under the shadow

of the Carpathian Mountains,
a simple peasant girl,

shy, poetic.

He, he thought things were

possible, a new life.

He tried to change, tried
to resist the usual pattern.

He managed to show some restraint,

but she, she died,

did childbirth, leaving behind

two children, a son

and a daughter, twins.

And after that, he didn't
care about anything.

It was back to basics.

- Jim,

Jim.

No, it's always like
this. His demented uncle.

They go out drinking.

Maybe he's f*cking around. I don't know.

He's not happy. And I get

worried and angry and lonely.

Ignore me. I'm drunk. I

I didn't know they were pets.

They're actually very shy.

He scares most people.
He, what's his name?

Bella. What does he eat?

Potatoes, potato salad. Deer.

I tried to teach him French,
but he wasn't interested.

Maybe he has a learning disability.

Why do you show me that? I, I don't know.

I just thought it was, I don't know.

Sorry. I'm anxious.

I told you you want something
to drink? Yes, please.

Your husband is very lucky.

He wouldn't necessarily agree
with you at this moment.

I can't believe I'm
letting you do this to me.

- I am such an idiot.
- Don't talk.

- I think I'm in love.
- Why do you say that?

- I feel terrible.
- Sleep it off.

- I haven't been in interested
in a woman in a long time.

Such a long time.

I mean, they're smarter than men.

More sensitive.

- I don't need to hear this, do

- I?

Yes you do. You are my best friend.

- I don't want to be your best friend.

- Hey, come on.

I don't feel well.

My period's all f*cked up.

- I'm dying. Me too.

I mean a f*cking mad man.

My hair feels drunk.

Your nose.

It's okay.

Your hands are cold.
That's a lot of blood.

I can't do this.

I need, I need to.

Yeah. It's me, Ben
Helsing, we have to talk.

- I can't let you
- In right now. Lucy's sick.

What's wrong with her? It's her period.

She gets really bad cramps. What's me in?

Body disappeared. What body?

Body of the man I supposedly
k*lled. I mean, why?

What happened? Did it
just sit up on its own

and walk out on some pins?

I don't think so. Now,
the guy at the morgue,

he said a young woman

and young man came by and he blacked out.

- Oh, wait a minute.
Are you, are you saying

- I'm telling you.

I'm telling you. It's the
children that took him back.

It's so obvious.

- Is their name at the,
that we can contact

at the, at the mall.

We can find out. I talk to what happened.

- We've veted a shadow zone.

You and I, I'm sorry I had

to drag you along into
it, but I need your help.

If we don't strike immediately.
We're sitting ducks.

They have powers supernatural

the power to see in the dark, the power

to exert their will on weaker minds.

The power to penetrate salt
matter pass through any window,

any door cracks in the wall mirrors.

They're not tired and
cheated like their old man.

How do we find them? How do we fight them?

I can't deal with this now.
Lucy's sick. Lucy can wait.

We've got a crisis here. Don't you get in.

What do I have to do
to get through to you?

Lucy, Lucy.

I'm, I'm sorry. I I'll get him

- To leave.

I have to go to work now.
But you're not. Well,

- Look at you. You're a wreck.

- I'm fine now. No, don't
think I'll get you some sick.

You should worry about yourself, Jim.

- Some women understand extremes.

They understand how to push
things to extremes. Life and

- Death.

- The moon, the tide, the eternal flow.

Women understand that kind of
stuff. It's in their blood.

Once a month, their bodies
let them know that nature's a

one continuous disaster.

Her, your mother was like that.

She would go beautifully

and completely haywire.

- My mother. Yeah.

- I was, I was in love with her. You know,

- Over the years, I sort of,
- No, no, no.

Crazy in love with her.

I mean, I, I never
really, I, I I, I really,

I never really got over it.

- No, I never knew that.
- Oh, it was a mess.

Your father never forgave me or her.

I meant to tell you
about it after she died,

but somehow the moment
just never popped up.

My father never really
forgave you. For what? Jim?

Your father.

Your your father wasn't
really your father.

Oh. Oh, Jim. Jim. Oh my God.

You see that? They're onto
me. Forces are at work.

I mean, how many times do you see a

tarantula roaming around your apartment?

Jim? Oh man, it's Lucy's.

It was Lucy's. It's harmless.

Are you serious? A pet tarantula? f*ck.

This is the deadly Romanian nolio.

His mouth is like a
tiny poison guillotine.

- How are you? I'm
sorry. The door was open.

I didn't mean to scare you.

- The door was, you

- Know, it wasn't, what
do you think I got in?

Who are you? I'm Naja Edgar's sister.

Who are you?

- I'm Edgar's nurse.

- You're sister. We're twins. Edgar and I.

This is Rain Field. This is
Cassandra. Edgar's nurse.

Rain Field lives with me. He's my sl*ve.

- It's nice to meet you.
- Thank you.

You're from England.

Ireland land of music.

- No snakes.
- What's that?

- There's no snakes to
her. Never have been.

- You do look like Edgar. You really do.

He never mentioned you. I mean, he said

that everyone in his family was dead

- For a father.

That is definitely the
case. These are his ashes.

- Oh
- Yes. Can I put them down?

You are upset.

- Well, I just said, sure. Put 'em down.

- What is it? Hmm?

Have you ever seen that
woman before? Never.

What were these pictures taken?

I, I dunno.

See what's freaky about this, Jim,

is it wouldn't be the first
thing to pop into mind,

but look at the mirror, the reflection.

Now I'm here. Right. Okay.

And now Lucy would have to be,

oh, okay.

Lucy would have to be right
over there in order to get

this angle and,

and there's no reflection.

- How did you meet you and Edgar?

He was in South Dakota doing research.

You know, they have a lot
of dinosaur bones there

and he had an attack and
landed in the hospital

and I was working there and
nobody thought he would make it

through, but he did.

And when he moved here, I came with him.

Our father never visited,
did he? No, I never met him.

He sent checks though. He was
a very cruel and distant man.

He never had time for us for years.

He pretended we didn't
exist. Sounds like my father.

Edgar hated him even more than me.

He escaped as soon as he could.

What did your father do that was so bad?

Well, to you, this will sound weird,

but it's what I remember
when I was a little

girl, maybe five years old,

he made me thick slices of bread with lots

of butter on them to be strong.

I went to the bathroom with the bread

and scraped off the
butter with a hairbrush.

Then I had to wash the brush.
I was little. I was scared.

It took a long time.

And to this day, I can't
stand to it better.

You have to learn to forgive.

Is this really what you like,

what you want to do with your life?

Hang out with sick people.

I think that living
with someone like this,

you either start to hate them
or you fall in love with them.

You shouldn't smoke
here. It's bad for him.

Does he know what, how you feel about him?

Edgar?

No. Here. No. Get out.

No, no. Still. No.

It's okay. It's alright. It's okay. Okay.

It's okay. He gets like this sometimes.

You are very strong. I guess maybe

you should come back another day.

No. We must move him
into father's apartment.

He's dying. You know he's dying.

We can look after him
together. We can save him.

You don't know. I do know. I do know.

I understand this disease because
I have it too. Understand.

Because I have it too.
But I've had treatments.

But I've had treatments. I'm
not in bed. I'm not in bed.

I'm bleeding all over myself.
Bleeding all over myself.

I'm healthy. I'm healthy. It's crazy.

No, he doesn't have to be sick.

Our father made provisions,
special medicine,

plasma supplements.

We have a big supply in our
freezer. We can save him

this.

We're gonna talk about
this in private. Okay.

I mean now

it's huge.

Yes. For New York and so dark.

My father was a night bird. I'm the same.

I find comfort in shadows.
I'm no good in the day.

We have an allergy to
sunlight. My whole family,

- We can't be totally honest.

There's no point in anything. Right.

And lately I've been feeling so

disconnected from everything.

I take long walks. I go to the park,

sunsets help somehow calendar art.

Corning or the bitter. Once

or twice a day, I see
a woman on the subway.

I think I could fall in love
with no reason except I,

I like her, her face, her hands, her neck.

And then I come home and you're there.

And I realize I should
be completely happy.

I mean, today, seeing you
so sick, I got so worried.

I felt so helpless. All I know

is I wanna be with you forever.

- Life is full of pain,
but I'm not afraid.

The pain, I feel is the
pain of fleeting joy.

- I'm not sure I know what that is.

- It must be hard to be a nurse.

It's hard to read a medical
book without feeling

discussed with a whole human race.

Our bodies are so complicated

and ugly compared to what?

Plants. Look at a leaf.

Look at a fern. How perfect that is.

A plant gives back everything.
It takes and needs.

Water, air, soil, light.

It's all balanced. It
has a balanced existence.

There's no aggression to it.

What's so special about
this plasma? It's very good.

I take supplements every day.

Okay, but what is it exactly?
The blood of shark embryos.

Shark embryos, baby sharks from Mexico.

Edgar,

we had a rough night last night.

See where you are? Your sister

said you'll get much better here.

More. What'd you say?

He says he wants a cigarette.
You know you can't smoke.

- They're all What? The money?

- You know, I don't understand.
He says he's feeling better.

I told him about our father. He's upset.

- I set.
- Come on, just relax. Yeah.

Need some water?

- Yeah. Stay on Monster Punch.

- He says he needs time alone with me.

He wants you to leave.
Sorry, just for a moment.

- No. Dear Cassandra.

- It's okay. Come down. Be
patient. Just wait the study.

Dad's dead. Don't you feel it?

I have his ashes.

He's finally completely dead.

You know what that means? I,

we can start over.

It's too late for that.
No, you're so wrong.

I feel so different.

I'm in love with
Cassandra. She's wonderful.

But I have no right.

The best I can do now is
to stay away from her.

I don't.

By the curse of this f*cked up family.

As you get older, you begin

to realize that family is
all that really matters.

What else is there? What
else can you count on?

- Do you mind if I sit in
that chair? Just a chair?

All of a sitting?

- Yes. I do mind having
a nervous breakdown.

- I don't think you've
been taking your medicine.

- I don't take medicine. I'm
the nurse. Edgar's a sick one.

- Well, maybe you should start taking it

because you don't look very well out

and you're still sitting in my chair.

- Go ahead, take your chair.

- Thank you.

- You are in a delicate spot here.

You know the things

that go on in this house
would make you sad.

My best advice for you is
to just leave right now.

Just go out the door.
Take a little nature walk.

I have to go check on
Edgar. Now this is for you.

What is it? How do you feel about her?

It's okay.

She can't see us. She
doesn't know you anymore.

Wait, wait. Either you do what I say

or you get off of the next floor

when you see, I mean in the glasses.

In the glasses. What do you see,

Lucy?

Good god. Yes. Okay.

This means, this means
she's still with us.

She's an apprentice in the
realm of shadows. There's hope.

She wasn't flinched
from what we have to do.

Jim. Jim, he's one of them.

He is. Can't you feel it?

Look at the glasses, Jim. The
glasses. What? You don't, no.

Wait. Now you can't.

Shapeshifters

Lucy.

Who lives here?

Cassandra. Uncle Van Cassandra.

What are you doing here?

- It's a long story.
What are you doing here?

- Weren't you out west? Yeah,
- I was. But

- Why didn't you call?

I'm Jim. Jim,

this is your sister, your abci.

This heaviness in the air.

This, this web of negative
energy. You feel it?

This sound, this is bad.

This is very bad. But I can't see.

You are wearing sunglasses. I thought

- You were in North Dakota.

South Dakota. But lately
I've been in Brooklyn.

- This is not just Sandra.
These ques are shapeshifters.

They take on the form of people you love.

You relax and they tear you to shreds.

She's in the glasses. It's her.
No, no, she's there. No, no.

It's, then they, they invade
your thoughts then your heart.

We should go now. It's
okay. It's time to go.

No, no, no, no. Wait.
We have, we have a job

to finish, Lucy.

It's okay. We're going to go home now.

- Lift yourself.

I spent all day thinking about you.

What have you done to me?
I'm sorry. I get lonely.

I don't understand.
Relax that it happened.

Get lonely. Is that all you can say?

It's no good to get upset. To resist.

You have to accept
things. It's not so bad.

Rain field here. Rain field is the last

one I decided to keep.

But love is voluntary.

- Love's like rabies.

Jim, quickly, leg in my bag,

Lucy.

It's okay. It's time to go home

- This way.

He was something. Listen.
Some kind of drug in my drink.

Cassandra, I must, you've got to get away.

Uncle showed up at my brother. Nightmare.

She wants you to get at me.

The

- Allow me to introduce myself.

I'm Edgar Demitri. Nikolai Esco. Dula.

You must forgive my sister Nadia.

She's not Well, your sister.

You are the son. Who's the other guy?

Glenfield. He just works
for us. For my sister.

The family curse is selective.

My sister Nadia, she's not
responsible for her actions.

Really? She's an adult, isn't she?

She's not human, but her emotions

are like big storms.

Where's your father?

- My father right here.

These are his ashes.

Jim. Jim, did you get her?
Yeah. She's right here.

No, no, no. The creature.
Naja. Where is she?

Ra something throw mentality.

- She's not here.
- This is no good.

She got away. Where is Cassandra?

Would you like something
to drink? Yeah. Thanks.

Yes, thank you Jim.

And from your perspective, how,

how do you, how you're perceiving things?

She says she loves me.

She says she can't
imagine living without me,

but she's been spending
too much time alone lately.

She keeps getting that late
Sunday afternoon depression.

Every day she walks

around the apartment
in that coat like this,

looking for cigarettes.

Oh,

she can't sort out her feelings.

She can't tell the
difference between caring

and wanting emptiness

and hunger, loneliness. And

- Monday I have a bagel,

hot tea and a can of coke.

Tuesday I ate two diet Cokes

and a piece of pizza.

Today I had a bag of m and m's,

but I didn't eat the yellow ones.

- Face you. She's a zombie.

But the simple solution
is to find the creature

that casts this pill on her
and flick it back times.

She talks to me, my sister in my head.

You understand? It's like
receiving psychic facts

When she, when she's hungry

or in pain, I see things,

images, flashes.

I've tried to block it,
but it's very strong.

I, I mentioned this

because I'm about to
receive one right now.

You still need to tell. Look,

- What'd she say?

- He says she's injured.

Her powers are fading. There's
only so much he can do here.

And now she's lost a lot of blood.

Replenishing. It means
going back to native soil.

Her native soil is soaked with blood.

She's on her way back.
Now she's in an airplane

dying for a cigarette.

Casandra Cassandra's with her.

All your best pay. Cassandra.

We have to go now. I am
in love with Cassandra.

- I guess I was homesick
without knowing it.

America was getting somehow too confusing.

Didn't you feel that I did.

Too many choices, too many

possibilities here.

You have to narrow yourself.

You have to decide
what's really important.

- I'm feeling a lot better myself.

- I sent Edgar psychic facts.

I'm so tired. I'm getting
too old for this. Sad.

Anyway, it's coming now.

- Right now,
- Soon.

Wake up.

- Not sure about the vote. The castle.

Since the revolution,
the roads are very bad.

Dylan wants to go up there. Anyhow,

- The problem is we've
lost our spirituality.

We've lost contact with ourselves

and what our purpose for existence is.

We've lost contact with God.

And I don't mean God
is a man with a beard,

a father, a punisher.

But God is a source, a spirit,

a stream of energy and
light that links all things.

We feel empty. We have a
huge hole in ourselves.

I don't know anyone

who doesn't have a huge
emptiness in their lives.

We look away. Otherwise,
you start asking yourself,

why does one day emerge with another day?

Why does a black knight
gather in the mouth?

Why all these people dead

- Blood.

What smells like blood out
here? The castle's just ahead.

- This place reminds me of my brother.

I'm scared. We all are.

What are we doing here?

- We need to fix things.

- We're married. Right?

There are some things in my
life I'd like to take back,

but I can't take them back.

I'd still be me. I'd still be here.

I'd still be here with you. That's right,

- Jim, Jim, Tim, come on.

We gotta be moving here.

- We're going to die.

- Edgar,
- Get back down here.

- You okay, Jim? Fine

this way.

Party

Cassandra's soul is immortal.

Danger. You know that, don't you?

She'll drink or dry blood is like

chewing gum to these creatures.

- Where are we? The basement.

I used to play here as a boy,

but now it seems so much smaller.

- She's growing on me strangely.

But everything ends.

You know that. It doesn't

- Have to end this way.

- This is how I want it.

I wanna be over this. I wanna move on.

I wanna stop smoking,
learn a new language.

Go swimming.

- Something's gotta change.
- Maybe we should have chosen

- Put the g*n away.

Children.

- Would you like that?

- The g*n is not necessary.
Let me just talk to her.

I can almost picture
it. Talking won't work.

We already know that.
Just keep walking, please.

I don't want her harm.

- She's a monster.
- Do you hair?

- I hate her.
- The only way we can save

Cassandra and Lucy is by destroying Naja.

You're underestimating
her. This is her house.

She's leading us into a
trap. She can hear us.

She can hear through stone and steel.

She can the

- Here,

here.

And hold it steady.

Oh, sorry. Don't look away.

- Thirsty.

They cut off my head burned my body.

No one knew. No one suspected

that I was now alive in her.

We were married at city hall.

At first I felt

shattered, lost.

But every day is better.

I have walked behind the sky.

We are all animals,

but there is a better way to live.

Sometimes times at night,

I hear a voice in my

head, who is it?

Is it you? Naja?

Is it true that the
beyond, that everything

beyond is here in this life?

I can't hear you. Who's there?

Is it only me? Is it myself?

In the end, we shall achieve in time

the thing they call the divine.

All the stars. The smile

forever.

When I cry, for me, I cry for you.

Tears, joy for all the
days are still to come.

Did I ever say I never fly to all the.