Eleven... twelve...
Thirteen... fourteen...
I couldn't go on
Dad?
Could you think of something, Dad?
Kermit running away. From Miss Piggy...
riding a sledge at sixty-two kilometers per hour
Piggy chasing him, skiing at eighty-seven kilometers per hour
How much later has she left?
Three minutes
Fix the numerical value
It'll catch up 626seconds later
I made it, Dad
She'll catch up with him in ten minutes and twenty-six seconds!
Hi
Come on in
Cold, isn't it?
Say, somebody dies abroad
Would his obituary be published, too?
Possibly...
You see, there are paid ads You pay, they publish
Why do people die?
It depends... Heart failure cancer...
Accidents, or just old age...
I mean, what is death?
Death?
The heart ceases to pump blood...
Blood fails to reach the brain...
Everything stops... stops dead...
...and that's it
What remains?
Everything you did
The memory of what you did, of you as a person
Memory's quite important, I guess
You remember there was somebody who walked
with a funny leap, or who was a kind man
You remember his face, his smile... the gap in his front teeth...
Come on, Pawel, not yet
What do you want? It's too early
Turned sour, eh?
Yeah...
It says here, a requiem mass... may her soul rest in peace...
You never said anything about the soul
It's just a way to bid farewell...
There isn't any soul...
Aunt Irena says there is...
Some people just find life easier if they believe in it...
What about you?
Me?
I really don't know
What are you thinking about?
It's nothing... it's just...
I was so glad in the morning when I managed to get that calculation right
And then the pigeon came for the bread crumbs
But I went shopping and saw a dead dog
I knelt over him, and I said to myself, what good is it?
Who needs the information how long it will take
Miss Piggy to catch up with Kermit
It doesn't make any sense
Which dog was it?
The one with the yellow eyes
You could always find him at the dust-bins
Yes?
Maybe he's better off where he is now. How do you think
We have visited School No 218 to talk to the head-master
I see you distribute milk to the children
Yes, We've made an arrangement with the dairy
The children get a glass of milk each during the long break
But this milk tastes foul The children pour it down the toilet!
Not in our school, during the long break
What is it that you've got?
A guinea pig
What for?
I brought it to biology classes But the teacher is scared of it
Look, it's got sharp teeth, hasn't it?
Pawel!
Just one more time!
Pawel!
What's for dinner?
Soup and something to follow, right?
Sure it is, I'm hungry
Some TV people came to our school today
Why?
I don't know, something about milk They told us to run about
Did you?
Of course I did
Want to take your bag home?
Yes, I've got a great thing to show to you
See?
Stop at the door
Which door?
The front one
O.K. I'm ready
Now watch it, it's going to lock it...
Has it?
Yes
Now it's going to unlock it
So it has
Go to the bathroom
But don't touch anything
Watch the tap
Water
Look what I programmed
I got a letter from Mum, saying what
she does during the day, hour after hour
Well, I fed that into its memory,
and I added the time difference, too
It's now...
thirty-three minutes past three...?
Mama 15.33
She's asleep
Ask it what she's dreaming about
what does she dreaming about?
I do not know
It doesn't know
Do you know what you Mum's dreaming about?
No, I guess I don't
Why that's simple, you...
Me?
Of course
She's dreaming about you
Not about Dad?
Who knows...
Know what he's doing?
More or less...
Christ!
What is it?
I'm hungry
Let's go
I wish Dad let me try his one
It would surely know what Mum's dreaming about
Care for a race?
O.K.
Do you want odds?
Not today, well
Go!
That was good
Want me to wash the dishes?
No, thanks I'll do it
I want to show you something
Hey, Pawel
Come here!
That was when you brought that pink pen-case for me?
Right, I had them developed
Know who it is?
Yes
Is he... kind?
Yes...
And wise?
How do you think... Does he know what people live for?
I guess He does
Dad says we all live to make life easier...
...for those who come after us
But sometimes we fail
Yes, that's right Sometimes we fail
You know...
What matters in life is that you can do some thing for others
help them...
Whenever you do somebody a favor, no matter how small
You feel they need you
And then, life's easier
There are big and small things you can do
Say today, you liked the ravioli and that made me happy
Life is...
...a present
a gift, you know
I say
Dad's you brother, right?
Don't you know?
Ah, you mean,
Why we're different?
Your father and I... We grew up in a Catholic family
But you Dad noticed very early...
...that a lot of things could be counted and measured...
And then he started to believe that everything could...
He still thinks so today
I guess he has doubts sometimes... but he won't admit it
A life like your Dad lives may seem more reasonable
But it doesn't mean there's no God
...for your Father, too... Know what I mean?
I'm not sure
There is God
It's very simple... if you believe
Do you?
Do you believe in God?
Yes
Who is He?
What do you feel?
I love you
Exactly... And this is what God is...
Checkmate!
That's would be too simple
She's already won six games
Checkmate
Seven
But look, she'll use the queen as a shield,
and then we've got her where he want her
Check
I told you... She plays routine games
Well, what happens now?
The bishop - and checkmate
Checkmate
Congratulations
Thank you
Is that you, Pawel?
Yes
Have you talked to your father?
Hey, Dad... It's Aunt Irena
Well?
She wants to know if it's all right with you
Irena?
I enrolled him for religious instruction. Has he told you?
Well, if that's what he wants
Of course, if that's what he needs
I talked...
to the priest
Oh, you did?
They're building a new church not far from your house
The priest is a young man I think Pawel's going to like him
How about tomorrow?
No, thanks, I can manage... Well, bye
Pawel...
Did you switch it on?
No, I never touched it
Hey, mate
what do you want?
I am ready
Switch yourself off, will you?
What if - if it really wanted something?
Like what?
I don't know, but you asked him Hey, mate, what do you want?
Just trying to be funny
It's half past nine, time to bed
Are you going out?
Yeah... But I'll leave the lights on for you
Have you checked the thermometer?
Yes, it's fourteen degrees below zero
Think Mum's going to phone before Christmas?
I guess so
Group one: Juda, judasz, judzic
Group two: Podbechtywac, podskakiwac, podkopywac...
Group three: Dranstwo, zaprzanstwo, swinstwo, koltunstwo, panstwo
These are associative fields
Now...
Take a word which does not exist in the Polish language
But which we find rather easy to understand
The problem only arises when we try to translate it into another language
In exceptional cases only, a foreign language
become one's own intimate language
We may have a very good rational knowledge
...of that language
We may be able to use it to discuss most intricate problems
Have an immense vocabulary
But - that's it how could we get...?
To what's hidden deep behind the separate words
syllable and letters?
How could we discover that language's cultural heritage?
How could we formulate its connections with history, politics
...culture and everyday life
How to know and understand...?
...all that creates the spirit of a language,
its metasemantics...
or perhaps even its metaphpysics?
According to Elliot, poetry is...
...untranslatable
But was Elliot necessarily right?
Imagine a translator who...
...is able to accumulate the entire knowledge
there is about words or about a language
A translator who has an unlimited memory...
that can be drawn from any time
Used in an unconventional way,
a computer may be something - somebody - liomebody - like that
Consider that instrument
it seems to discern just two figures, zero and one
But actually it not only has something that might be called intelligence
but also a kind of consciousness it select which means it makes a choice
Or perhaps it might be called conation?
As I see it,
an appropriately...
programmed computer may have...
it's own taste
Aesthetical preferences...
Individuality...
Ah, yes...!
For our next class...
Please choose a line of any text...
and do what i did
with that word I conceive myself
I hope it's not too much for homework
Is it? That's good
Look, I left it here for one hour only
Would tea freeze, too?
Yes
Just touch it
Hey, be careful... it's glass
Great, isn't it?
Leave it in the tub...
No, let's leave it here and check what happens
Nothing, it's going to melt as soon as a thaw sets in, what else?
Or maybe during the day, in the sun...
Let's calculate it
You promised?
Oh, all right
It would be wrong to assume that the temperature never goes up
Say, it's below zero during the night only About ten hours
But we need precise data
O.K.
All right, call the Meteorological Institute and ask them...
about the temperature near the ground today
yesterday, and the day before yesterday
Hello... Is this the Meteorological Institute?
I need information about the temperature
near the ground, please... today...
Yesterday...
And the day before yesterday
Yes, in Warsaw Thank you, good-bye
What's the pressure formula?
P equals F divided by S
Fine... Now, the temperature?
Eleven today, fourteen yesterday
and twelve and a half the day before yesterday
There's been frost for eight days now
Well?
As you see: Maximum load is 257kg/m2<
It means a fellow three times your weight
...can skate safely
Really?
Can I have them?
Have what?
What I was to get for Christmas, From Mum and you
Can I have them?
I found those skating boots...
Where?
In the counch...
Can I have them?
Lake depth: 3.5m
Maximum load: 257kg/m2<
How's the size?
They're perfect
Well, then... Put off your clothes and go to bed
I'm going for a walk by the time I'm back
You asleep?
No, I've been watching them shine
I checked the ice
That's why I couldn't sleep I guessed where you went
It's all right
But promise never to come close to where the river falls into the lake
Keep a distance of fifteen meter, right? The river never freezes
O.K., fifteen meters it is
It's a shallow river but I don't want you to take a bath in it
Where's your elephant?
Asleep
Is Pawel home?
No, why?
I don't know Mum wanted to know
Pawel? Where are you, Pawel? Over
This is your father calling... Pawel? Over
Mummy!
Mummy...
Jacek darling! Where have you been, sonny?
We've been playing in that old car
Come on, dear, we're going home
Excuse me, sir Pawel was...
to phone me in the afternoon
Do you remember me, sir?
That boy might know something
Which boy?
The small one, Jacek
Please wait a moment
He didn't play with us
He skated on the lake!
On the lake!
I am ready...