In J. J. Kandel’s short film, the lunch-break banter of a flirtatious pair of co-workers, played by Cecily Strong and KeiLyn Durrel Jones, gives way to uncomfortable revelations.
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00:00 (soft music)
00:02 (gavel banging)
00:06 (bell dinging)
00:08 - All right, it's your turn.
00:16 - Okay.
00:17 - No, not that one.
00:19 No, I'm just kidding.
00:20 - No, no, no, now you have to.
00:21 (paper rustling)
00:24 I was just saying this.
00:29 Talent is a flame, genius is a fire.
00:32 - That's not a fortune.
00:33 - No, it's not.
00:33 (laughing)
00:36 - It takes courage to lead a life.
00:39 - You get all the courage ones.
00:41 - Yeah, no, I need it.
00:42 - What time you have to be back?
00:47 10 after?
00:48 - No, a little later.
00:50 - You sure?
00:51 - Yeah, 'cause I'm the boss.
00:53 - Oh, that's so sexy, the boss.
00:56 - I am though.
00:57 - I know, I'm agreeing with you.
00:58 And it's Friday, so yeah, we can take a little extra time.
01:01 - Great.
01:02 - It's been pretty quiet this week,
01:03 so I don't feel like another 20 minutes at lunch
01:05 is gonna do any harm.
01:06 - Agreed, yeah.
01:08 - Okay, good.
01:09 - I'm glad to do it.
01:10 I mean, if you're gonna take the blame for it, even better.
01:13 - I got us covered.
01:14 - Perfect.
01:15 - Okay.
01:17 Five more minutes before we pack it up and head on back.
01:20 - Back to work.
01:22 - And the weekend.
01:23 - Home.
01:24 - Yep.
01:25 - And it's a holiday weekend.
01:28 - Three days before we have lunch together again.
01:30 - It's an eternity.
01:31 - I'm serious.
01:32 - I'm being serious.
01:33 - Got any plans?
01:37 - For Columbus Day?
01:38 - Maybe.
01:39 - No, I think it's gonna be a quiet one.
01:42 - Got it.
01:43 Yeah, with the weather.
01:44 - You?
01:45 - Just relatives visiting, that sort of thing.
01:48 - Hers or yours?
01:50 - Hers.
01:51 - Oh.
01:51 - Always hers.
01:53 - Understood.
01:54 - Yep.
01:55 And my brother might come up.
01:57 - Wow, you guys really go all out for Columbus Day, huh?
02:01 - Well, I mean, it's also my birthday weekend.
02:04 - I know.
02:09, I know.
02:10, I know.
02:11 (chuckles)
02:13 (chuckles)
02:15 (chuckles)
02:22 (chuckles)
02:31 - Thank you.
02:40 - I'm gonna go see a movie.
02:43 - Fuck.
02:44 - What?
02:44 - Are you trying to kill me?
02:46 - Oh, maybe.
02:47 - Well, you're doing an expert job of it.
02:49 - Thank you very much.
02:50 - You're welcome very much.
02:52 God, I can't remember the last time
02:54 I got to sneak away to a movie.
02:56 - Bummer.
02:57 - What are you gonna see?
03:00 - Oh, I'm not sure.
03:03 Maybe the new German one or the new French one.
03:06 - The Ozen one?
03:07 - Yeah, over at Landmark?
03:08 - With the Nove in it?
03:08 - Yeah.
03:09 - Oh, I wanna see that.
03:10 - So come.
03:11 - Yeah, I can't just--
03:12 - Go, you should go see it.
03:13 - You know, I--
03:14 - I know, I know.
03:15 - Love Ozen.
03:18 Remember Five by Two?
03:19 - Yeah, of course, so good.
03:21 - That structure.
03:22 - Stunning.
03:23 - And that song.
03:24 - Oh, the one where she dances?
03:25 - Yes, with the two guys, such a good song.
03:27 - I love that song.
03:29 - That's just amazing, with their husband sitting there
03:31 watching the three of them, so sexy.
03:33 - What is it called?
03:34 - Seriously, you don't know?
03:36 Or are you just letting me tell you
03:37 so I feel good about myself?
03:38 - Oh, probably that.
03:39 - Oh, damn.
03:40 - No, I'm kidding, I don't remember.
03:42 - It's Fine Partner.
03:43 - That's it?
03:44 - Mm-hmm, Paolo Conte.
03:46 - Right, yeah, it's a great song.
03:48 I never would have come up with that.
03:52 - Liar.
03:53 - Oh.
03:54 (upbeat music)
03:56 - Whoa.
04:03 - Damn, damn.
04:04 - You can help me.
04:18 (laughs)
04:31 (singing in foreign language)
04:35 - Oh, thank you.
04:40 - Oh, ay-ay-ay.
04:44 (singing in foreign language)
04:47 (singing in foreign language)
04:51 - Anyway.
05:15 - Yeah, anyway.
05:16 - Yeah, such a good movie.
05:19 - Oh, that ending.
05:20 God, I love her, that actress.
05:21 - Yeah, I mean, yeah, after everything
05:23 we already know about them, what happens to them.
05:26 - Valerie something, amazing.
05:29 - And going backwards like that.
05:30 - I know.
05:31 - Right?
05:32 - Yes.
05:33 - Yeah, yeah.
05:33 Well.
05:34 Yes, so yeah, I'm thinking The Ozzen.
05:40 - Fun.
05:41 - Maybe.
05:42 - Sounds good.
05:43 - It's a holiday weekend, but it probably won't be too bad.
05:45 It's probably not the first film
05:47 most people are gonna see.
05:48 - No, you should be fine.
05:49 - It's quiet up there.
05:52 - Right?
05:53 - Especially on the weekends, you know.
05:54 Especially Sunday, landmark, 1230, right?
05:59 - Agreed.
06:01 - Mostly just old people, like me.
06:04 - Please, old, hardly.
06:08 I haven't been up there in so long.
06:15 Bummer.
06:15 - Life.
06:17 - Which rhymes with wife.
06:20 (laughing)
06:22 - Good one.
06:23 - Oh, how kind of you.
06:24 - I am a gentleman, if nothing else.
06:26 - And nothing else, isn't that what you mean?
06:30 - Pretty much.
06:30 - And nothing else?
06:32 - My dark soul.
06:33 - If only.
06:35 - What's that mean?
06:38 - Nothing.
06:39 - No, come on, what?
06:40 - I just said if only, that's all.
06:42 - I don't follow.
06:44 - Yes, you do.
06:45 - No, seriously, what?
06:46 - Oh, come on.
06:47 - What?
06:48 - Nothing.
06:49 - Come on, what?
06:50 What does that mean, if only what?
06:52 - I said if only, if only you weren't such a gentleman.
06:56 If only you did have a dark soul.
06:58 There, how's that, is it clear enough?
07:00 - Got it.
07:03 - Yeah.
07:03 - I see.
07:05 - Yeah, of course, you see now,
07:06 now that you made me spell it out.
07:08 - I really didn't understand.
07:09 Sorry.
07:13 - Okay.
07:14 - We're fine for another couple of minutes.
07:20 - You sure?
07:21 - Yeah, I told you, I'm the boss.
07:24 - Who also has a boss.
07:26 - Oh no, you're right.
07:27 Such a good laugh.
07:32 - Oh, thank you, sir.
07:34 - I'm serious.
07:35 - I believe you.
07:36 - Good.
07:37 - Used to drive my ex crazy, but I believe you.
07:40 - Really?
07:40 - Oh yeah.
07:41 - Huh.
07:42 - Was on the list at least.
07:44 - I'm sorry, the list?
07:46 - Yeah, shit I did that pissed him off.
07:48 - I see.
07:49 - Yeah, yeah, he made a list once
07:51 so I could see it all in one place.
07:54 - Damn.
07:55 - Yeah, it was actually pretty extensive, that list,
07:57 included breathing by the time we broke up, so.
07:59 - Wow, that's a tough one
08:02 when you're sick of someone's breathing.
08:04 - Yeah, that's about the time to let it go.
08:08 - And so you did.
08:09 - And so I did.
08:13 - Oh, heavens, look at the time.
08:15 - No, no, come on, five more minutes.
08:17 - Whatever you say, boss.
08:19 - Oh, see, you're just saying that to make me feel guilty.
08:21 I know you.
08:22 - It's possible.
08:23 - God, you suck so much.
08:25 - You wish.
08:26 - Shut up.
08:27 - You do.
08:27 - Shut up.
08:28 - I'm just saying.
08:29 - No, no, no, we do not go there.
08:31 - No, we do not.
08:32 - Nope.
08:33 - Hardly ever.
08:34 - Never.
08:35 - Hardly ever.
08:37 - Fine, hardly ever.
08:38 - True.
08:41 - All right, all right, next subject.
08:43 - Yeah, you sure?
08:44 - Absolutely.
08:45 - You sure, sure?
08:46 - Anything, go for it.
08:48 - Okay.
08:48 Okay, so I have this friend.
08:54 - A friend?
08:57 - Yeah, a friend.
08:58 - Wait, wait, wait, what are we doing?
08:58 I thought we were just having lunch.
08:59 - We are, just listen.
09:01 So I have this friend, a good friend,
09:04 and she recently posed a question
09:06 and I wanna give her good advice back.
09:09 So tell me what you think.
09:12 - Okay, okay.
09:13 - So she likes this one person.
09:16 I'm not saying man or woman,
09:18 it just doesn't matter this story, so I'm not saying.
09:21 And they like her too, this person.
09:23 It's obvious that they do.
09:26 And they've had this going on for some time
09:30 between them at work.
09:31 - So it's a work thing?
09:33 - Yeah.
09:34 And no, it's not a thing
09:36 'cause they've never let it be a thing.
09:38 It's just, it's there between them
09:41 and they both know it and they want it.
09:45 They both do.
09:47 - She said that, your friend.
09:48 - What?
09:49 - That they both want it.
09:50 He or she has intimated that for sure,
09:52 that they also want it.
09:53 - Yeah, you're ruining the story.
09:54 - I'm sorry, I thought it was a question.
09:55 - It's a question story.
09:56 - Oh, oh yes, I'm sorry, the question story.
09:59 - Yeah, exactly.
10:00 So they haven't, they've never done anything
10:03 to be ashamed of or that anyone could call
10:08 inappropriate or whatever.
10:10 Not really.
10:11 It's just this thing they have, this--
10:16 - Friendship?
10:18 - Is it though?
10:20 - I mean, kind of sounds like it.
10:22 - Yeah, maybe.
10:24 I mean, maybe that's what it first started as, but.
10:29 - I'm just asking.
10:31 - I didn't hear a question mark.
10:32 - Okay, right, sorry.
10:34 Is it merely a friendship?
10:36 Between them?
10:37 - No, feels like more than that.
10:43 Feels like a great deal more than a friendship
10:48 at this point, not just a friendship.
10:51 But she really cares about this person,
10:56 so that's where they've left it for years.
11:01 The two people in question, my friend and this other--
11:05 - Person.
11:06 - Yeah, exactly.
11:08 This person that she is, for whatever reason,
11:13 attracted to and taken with and enamored of.
11:18 - Got it.
11:24 - But this person has a companion already.
11:30 - Of course.
11:31 - Like people are apt to do.
11:35 - Sorry, I'm not trying to complicate this.
11:39 - Yeah, yeah, no, no, I get it.
11:41 But we should probably get off this subject.
11:44 - Yeah, fine.
11:45 I will tell my friend that I was not,
11:48 actually, there is one thing she wonders,
11:54 and it's really the only part that really,
11:57 really matters to her, is this.
12:01 Will the person she cares about ever leave its companion?
12:06 Is there any chance?
12:10 Will this person ever have the guts to call it quits
12:15 on something he fairly often and openly calls a failure?
12:20 That is what she honestly wonders, my friend.
12:29 - I don't know is probably the right answer.
12:34 Not the best answer, but the right one.
12:40 Because who knows?
12:43 Life is stupid and weird, and people are,
12:48 well, you know, people can be, they're funny.
12:51 - Funny?
12:52 - They do funny things.
12:54 And on occasion, they even surprise you
12:59 and so, yes, one day this person might just
13:03 wake up and do that.
13:05 - Do what?
13:07 - Get out there and reclaim its life
13:09 before it's too late.
13:10 Run to your friend and--
13:11 - Really?
13:13 Really?
13:14 - Yes, possibly.
13:16 It is possible.
13:18 - Good, I will tell her that.
13:23 - Good, please do.
13:26 (dog barking)
13:28 - But--
13:36 - Fuck, oh, I was so hoping there wasn't gonna be a but
13:39 in any of this.
13:40 - There's always a but.
13:41 - Yeah, there always is.
13:42 All right, go on, tell me the but part.
13:45 - But this person might also go on just being a coward.
13:53 Being a coward and living this other life vicariously
13:57 through his friend at work and never have the balls,
14:02 if he ever had any balls to begin with,
14:04 which is unclear, to end the relationship he already has
14:09 or his wife could be pregnant or all kinds of things.
14:14 So it might just be that.
14:17 Sad story, you've heard before over and over.
14:22 - I see.
14:23 - Yeah.
14:24 - So the time that my friend enjoys each day
14:32 with the person she cares for might, in fact,
14:37 be just enough to actually keep said person
14:42 from ever changing his own life situation?
14:44 Is that what's happening here?
14:47 - Maybe.
14:47 - No, no, no, no, no, not maybe.
14:49 I mean in reality, in real life.
14:51 I mean in reality, in reality,
14:54 she, instead of helping, might be feeding the dragon
14:59 and enabling the situation,
15:03 ruining her own chances at happiness
15:07 without even a second thought.
15:08 Is that what you're saying to me?
15:11 Is it?
15:13 - That is one possibility.
15:17 - Okay.
15:18 Wow.
15:21 Okay.
15:22 Noted.
15:24 Thank you.
15:26 - However, it sounds like your friend is, you know,
15:31 smart and beautiful and clever.
15:37 And so she probably, in some ways,
15:41 probably already knows all this.
15:43 - No, you know what?
15:49 I think she was completely in the dark about that fact.
15:52 Or it's just fully understanding it all now.
15:59 I mean, right now.
16:00 - Or she just didn't want to see it.
16:04 - That's possible.
16:07 It's quite possible.
16:08 ♪ On the wings of love ♪
16:17 ♪ Only the two of us together fly ♪
16:21 - Is she?
16:23 - What?
16:24 - Pregnant?
16:25 - No.
16:26 - Are you sure?
16:27 - Yes.
16:28 - You sure, sure? - Yes, I'm sure.
16:29 - Wait, really?
16:30 - Yes.
16:31 - We should go back.
16:38 - No, not like this.
16:41 Can we not go back feeling like,
16:43 let's just sit for five more minutes, okay?
16:45 - Whatever you say, boss.
16:47 - Don't say that.
16:49 Please, can we just...
16:50 - I should answer that.
16:53 - But why are you acting like this?
16:54 - Just take it, okay? - I just don't, why?
16:56 Hello?
16:59 Hi, hey there, sweetie, hi, how are you?
17:02 Is everything okay?
17:05 Good.
17:07 Okay.
17:09 No, just finished lunch.
17:13 Yeah.
17:15 No, heading back in now.
17:17 Yeah, yes.
17:19 No.
17:22 By myself.
17:24 Of course I'm by myself.
17:28 Why wouldn't I be by myself?
17:32 I'm always by myself.
17:33 I just, I know I don't always...
17:39 No, it was nice out, so I just...
17:45 Yes, I could have called you and had you come meet me,
17:48 but I was busy until right before, so I just...
17:50 No, yeah, of course, that would have been nice.
17:55 No, I just, I just said that would have been nice.
17:58 (gentle music)
18:00 No.
18:02 I just said of course, I just said of course
18:07 that would have been nice to have you come meet me.
18:13 (gentle music)
18:15 Did you...
18:16 No, somebody's just, I'm in the park
18:21 and someone's playing their music, you know,
18:23 people can be, so I just...
18:25 (man speaking in foreign language)
18:28 Right.
18:29 Is it better if I just...
18:32 One second.
18:35 Here, is this better?
18:38 Is this better, sweetie, can you hear me?
18:43 Is it better if I stand over here?
18:45 Sweetheart, can you hear me now?
18:47 Can you not hear me or you just not saying anything?
18:51 Sweetie, are you still...
18:54 Oh, sweetheart.
18:55 (man singing in foreign language)
19:01 (gentle music)
19:03 (man singing in foreign language)
19:07 (gentle music)
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19:18 (gentle music)
19:20 (gentle music)
19:23 (gentle music)
19:26 (gentle music)
19:28 (gentle music)
19:31 (gentle music)
19:33 [Music]
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