Dressed now, Joel returns to the table and reaches for the whiskey. "Save The Last what now?"
Is that a film? Must be, if Tess is mentioning it in context with Nicholas Cage. What would Joel know about dance films. Aside from, say, Flashdance, way back when he was a teenager, which he definitely didn't watch for the plot. In any case, Save The Last... whatever it was Tess just said, sounds bad.
A wildly trivial and stupid issue next to their almost-fight earlier, but oscillating from stewing tension erupting between them to casually threatening each other with bad films and acting like nothing happened, is how he and Tess are. It's how it's been for years. Doing awful shit in order to get by and then carrying on like it's all just business as usual, is how they've always worked. They fuck people over, they take what's theirs without mercy, they kill, and then they come home and make dinner, talk shit and fuck. And sometimes make love, too. Sometimes.
And then the next shitty day rolls around and they do it all again without questioning themselves, because survival is cruel, ruthless and unsparing, and so are he and Tess. That's just how it has to be. He and Tess carry each other through it all and that's all that matters.
Bottle uncapped, Joel sloshes a helping into his glass, then Tess'. He returns the bottle to the table and gathers both glasses in his hands. He sidles towards Tess.
"I'm already bored to tears just hearin' the name," he retorts. Then he goes on to argue, stopping alongside Tess at their cramped kitchen counter to set her drink down in front of her, "Con Air is a masterpiece, I'll have you know. But I guess you wouldn't get it, bein' a woman and all."
Is Joel being a deliberately goading dick or actually casually sexist? Again, like his little kiss to Tess' cheek earlier that didn't clearly define his true intentions, it's impossible to say. Perhaps it's a little of both.
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Is that a film? Must be, if Tess is mentioning it in context with Nicholas Cage. What would Joel know about dance films. Aside from, say, Flashdance, way back when he was a teenager, which he definitely didn't watch for the plot. In any case, Save The Last... whatever it was Tess just said, sounds bad.
A wildly trivial and stupid issue next to their almost-fight earlier, but oscillating from stewing tension erupting between them to casually threatening each other with bad films and acting like nothing happened, is how he and Tess are. It's how it's been for years. Doing awful shit in order to get by and then carrying on like it's all just business as usual, is how they've always worked. They fuck people over, they take what's theirs without mercy, they kill, and then they come home and make dinner, talk shit and fuck. And sometimes make love, too. Sometimes.
And then the next shitty day rolls around and they do it all again without questioning themselves, because survival is cruel, ruthless and unsparing, and so are he and Tess. That's just how it has to be. He and Tess carry each other through it all and that's all that matters.
Bottle uncapped, Joel sloshes a helping into his glass, then Tess'. He returns the bottle to the table and gathers both glasses in his hands. He sidles towards Tess.
"I'm already bored to tears just hearin' the name," he retorts. Then he goes on to argue, stopping alongside Tess at their cramped kitchen counter to set her drink down in front of her, "Con Air is a masterpiece, I'll have you know. But I guess you wouldn't get it, bein' a woman and all."
Is Joel being a deliberately goading dick or actually casually sexist? Again, like his little kiss to Tess' cheek earlier that didn't clearly define his true intentions, it's impossible to say. Perhaps it's a little of both.