Just Before Eve (1978)

another bright Sun another beautiful green Sky another Perfect Day in a perfect world H good morning hands hello feet what do you guys feel like doing today want pick some flowers or throw some Stones about you guys let's say we take a walk waste of time you say What's the difference we got plenty of time to waste plenty of time to waste that's a problem gang you got to think of new ways to waste it hey I got it come on fellas let's go and have a look at me hello Adam hello Adam oh my God so casual oh hi God Adam what is this where's the all I'm sorry Lord oh Adam I create the Sun the Earth the moon the stars everything on this planet including you and what do I get oh hi God oh God I'm full of reverence and awe you know that you can look right in me you can read what's in my heart if it's not reverence and all I'm full of what is it I don't know Adam I do not know I thought you knew everything well I get to know everything I know are you hungry yeah I guess oh what do you want about some cold cereal what is cereal I don't know well how about about a pair of what yeah that's funny you're getting fast at him yeah I know I really kill me yeah yeah yeah how about an orange hey thanks God sure why not you're not going to join me are you no God doesn't get hungry he's going to sit there and watch me I always watch you I know an orange that's a shaky name it's not much of a name oh it's orange it tells you exactly what it is I understand that but a banana was yellow and you didn't call it a yellow I ran out of names that day well it took a long time to think up in Orange and it deserves better and if you're not going to think of better names I'm not going to let you think of names for everything it's an oyster it's not an oyster it's a broom it's not a broom don't do that to that orange I'm sorry God Adam what's bugging you I don't know I I'm tense well if you're tense why don't you go for a walk where I've Been Everywhere did you like any where that You' been sure we'll go there again all right if you insist God Adam Adam wait wait a second give God a hand we you want to tag along yeah Adam I think you you're a little more than tense I can't quite put my finger on what the problem is with you I I don't know quite know Adam what is it well maybe I'm angry then at who well I don't have a lot of choices God at me oh God that would make me very sad it would make you sad to be angry with me no it would make me sad to think that I could be so ungrateful as to be angry with someone who tries to give me everything tries to give you everything oh I'm sorry God I'm really angry at me I I can see why do you suppose why are you angry with yourself look I'm here everything is here you're here I I should be enjoying all this I should be happy but I'm not enjoying it and I'm not happy I'm bored bored bored well have you asked yourself why yes sir I have what answer did you receive from yourself well I can't seem to come up with any answer on that topic I see what do you think God maybe you could give me a hint sorry figuring out why your Bor is part of the solution to your problem God I'm really stumped Adam I gave you a mind to think with I gave you a heart to feel with and you have got to use them that's how you grow and growing is what living is all about you stop using your mind and you start to deteriorate inside and that creates boredom and Adam I did not create you to be bored well believe me God I don't like being bored any more than you like to see me being bored but what else can I do well I don't know you know yesterday there was a beautiful yellow bird that sat in that bush over there yeah I know I know that you know I know you know I know if only there was someone who didn't know why so I could tell him you mean share the experience that's it God you got it share the EXP experience oh God knows everything I know I tell everyone everyone that there is no one else oh in my dreams I'm always telling somebody how how great you are how you make beautiful things happen just like that I'm always telling them what a terrific guy you are what they say nothing because there's no one actually there oh God if I only had an actual somebody somebody real that I could really tell I get it I get it what you're saying is you feel a need for company oh oh God you need somebody to share your lonely hours with you yes somebody to to play with you yes yes oh Adam Adam it's done hello God Josh is his name Checkers is his game checkers yes you said you were board Checkers is a board game hey thanks B yeah Adam I'm I'm Adam you're CH let me show you around you got here just in time a board game [Music] Insight stories of modern man's search for meaning Freedom love [Music] Insight you beat me again Adam you're good another no thanks Josh I don't want to play [Music] anymore hey thanks God you're welcome Adam you know roses are so beautiful it's too bad they're in such high places you should make them easier to reach if I had known you were going to like him so much I would have I would have put him on bushes I'd like that gun well I certainly try to please you don't I Adam I know you do Lord I know you try awfully hard then why aren't you pleased oh I don't want to complain come on Adam tell your old buddy God all right come here it's Josh don't look don't look I he's really a nice guy and all well certainly he's an angel he's an angel of a guy so so he's boring all he ever wants to do is play games he's no good no he's perfect so you don't win he lets me win so you win every time well in a perfect place you should win every game and this is the perfect place I don't know God I mean if you know you're going to win where's the fun so you don't like a sure thing God what I'm talking about is the predictability of things I mean think of it if you know in advance that everything you planned is going to turn out exactly the way you planned it come on it's boring a big yawn so so I told Josh I didn't want to play any more games with him and I think I heard his feelings he'll recover I've tried talking to Josh God have you ever tried talking to him he doesn't have a whole lot to say God I know I thought it was just me- I said hey Josh let's talk he says okay kid let's shoot the fat shoot the fat how can you shoot fat you can't shoot fat maybe if I knew what shoot was I could shoot it do angels shoot things if he's been shooting fed I don't know anything about God no offense but if you're going to make any more Angels maybe you could juice them up a little bit you know what I mean but Adam what do you want me to do with Josh don't you want him with you yeah all right let him stick around for a while but make it so I don't have to see him all the time you know and and I'll talk to him but make it so he doesn't have to talk back oh I get what you mean he could sort of watch out for you what you're saying is you wouldn't mind having an angel looking over your shoulder no that'd be all right it might be kind of nice sure he could be there and uh listen to me and I'd tell him my troubles and he'd be sympathetic and uh oh God please help me I'm trying at him I'm only guard you know and there are limits I thought you were unlimited well there are limits to unlimited oh God I'm bored well keep Josh I can't share anything with Josh we don't have anything in common I mean I can't work up any love for the guy love he's a sweet guy don't get me wrong and he'll give me anything he's got but the only thing he's got to give me is that silly game he doesn't need me and I need to be needed well if you need to be needed water the garden I'll cut out the do in the mist and you can oh God are you going to create a job for me come on a job that you know I can never do half as well as you could God I don't need that I really need to be needed I need to reach out and touch something that needs my touch to touch something that needs your touch yeah done what's this God it's a little puppy dog hello little puppy dog what do I do with him Reach Out And Touch it all you want in no time at all it'll need you I guarantee you what do you think I'll give it a try G thank you come on little puppy dog come on dadd now [Music] why don't you take a break Josh thanks BR hi Adam oh hi God oh so we're back to the oh hi God again oh I'm sorry God look I got to tell you the dog is definitely not the answer well doesn't the dog need you that's the trouble he's getting to need me all the time time well then you should love it if being needed was what you wanted I do love it up to a point what point well God you see the dog and me are not on the same wavelength we don't speak the same language in fact we don't speak at all he needs me he likes the things that I give him but he has nothing to give me he doesn't really have any affection for me in fact the only thing he cares about is chasing cats well try to take his mind off cats how well try to think like a dog out Bo him you get that like I do try to think like a dog god and for the life of me I can't get interested in cats and I can't understand how that's the only thing he can be interested in and if I can't understand how cats are the only thing that dog could be interested in then how can I possibly expect to ever understand the dog Adam Adam please this is boring I know God you never do get bored do you no this would be a first you lucky guy Adam it's not luck I don't have to be needed to love something I love it because I find something in it to love and because I love it I find it interesting and something that is interesting is not boring am I boring you Adam oh no God now I was just thinking how wonderful it must be to be so alive and creative that you're never bored that's the major difference between us you know maybe I should give you more creativity more GE God you gave me creativity in the first place didn't I think up names for everything well Adam thinking of names isn't really a big deal no big deal asparagus could I think of asparagus if I wasn't really creative Adam any dummy could think of asparagus is that so it's good but it's not great how about willows willows is fun frankincense frankincense I'll go along with that too myrr myr well that's not you smelled mer God not much of a smell either you know it's not the greatest thing you ever created no a Critic is the greatest thing I ever created and sometimes I wonder why I'm sorry God you're perfect thank you there's nothing more perfect in the entire world than to be able to create something from absolutely nothing names come from nothing they don't come from nothing there's something there for you to name you can't name nothing that's not true I Nam nothing what are you talking about I Nam nothing well what did you name it nothing Adam this is ridiculous no listen to me one day I wondered what you call something it wasn't anything and I came up with nothing therefore I name nothing maybe that's your problem you actually thought that something was absolutely nothing when there's no such thing as nothing God I think you're making something out of nothing okay Adam if you can only see nothing in something then you are going to be bored I gave you life Adam but inside you're dying living is seeing everything and realizing that everything you see is wonderful it's worth your time it's worth your exploration it's worth your love loing Adam you want the truth as I see it right now yes the truth is that you don't appreciate what you see and since I made everything you see you don't really appreciate me that's not true God yes it is I create the entire everything and you minimize it I don't minimize anything Adam you equate naming things with the Creations themselves well now I'm going to show you what a real creation is where is it it is in you in me well how can I see it then I can't look inside myself yes but you can that's just the point that is my latest creation I have made you the only creature capable of looking inside himself I have given you an extraordinary power one that until this moment only I possessed well uh what do I do how do I use it stop complaining stop looking around pull back into the center of yourself get in touch with what you are who you are and what it is you're feeling create a way out of your border Adam create from absolutely nothing something of your very own that's never been done before that will excite your interest amuse you something tangible try Adam try faka faka v v maraa ding ding ding ding v v ding ding what what is that it's wonderful it's the song I those words that gibberish uh French French do you know anything in English I'll work on it Three Blind Mice See How They Run See How They Run they all ran after the farmer's wife they all ran after the what the farmer's wife what's the farmer I don't know well what's a wife I don't know maybe it's French [Music] are you bored God God doesn't get bored that's good God gets uchie what's uchie well iie is the quality of having an excess of love and needing something to do with it so what does one do when one gets iie when I get iie I create something watch this wow God a blue sky what a great idea I'm glad you approved look now you can see the outlines of the trees I don't know I think I I still like the green no no no no no let it be let it be it'll grow on you give it a chance I was you going to change that I was going to say here have one what's this I just created it for you I made it you name it oh yeah well uh let me see here uh give me a chance uh mushy it's a ah a marshmallow that's mellow a marshmallow hey D see that monkey over there yes watch this did you see that I zap that monkey over there no applause why should I applaud you're supposed to eat it like the monkey doing oh hey blind Three Blind they all ran after the farmer's wife she hey I got a question for you what rhymes with wife I got a question for you Adam what do you mean she she farmer is a he and Farmer's wife's a she I see you're not only create songs you create a whole new language well you can't block creativity God when it comes it comes let me ask you another question Adam now that you're creating these songs do you still feel bored not so much bored not so much I feel sort of uchy you know what I mean yes well all of us creators feel uchy now and then Adam what do does she mean I honestly don't know gun well let's check this out you got something going here the farmer has a wife let the farmer pass for a minute we know the farmer is a he his wife is a she what in the world is a she well I'm not quite sure except I think she lives with him oh a she lives lives with him but is not like him well she's like him but uh somehow she's different how different well she's um she's company uh-huh somebody to talk to yeah somebody to touch yeah somebody to need whatever can be given yes but not a dog somebody to understand him care about him exactly somebody that belongs to him somebody who do exactly what he tells her to do not a Slave oh no no not a slave not a play thing uh-uh uh a person with a mind of her own a challenge predictable yet sometimes unpredictable not Josh not an angel well not not an angel not boring like an angel she could play games Checkers whatever you well having some of the qualities of an Angel but not an angel more like you exactly but somehow different an alternate replica it's a challenge I know you're up to it God thanks a lot oh oh God I would give anything for such a creature anything you might have to give more than you expect like what well you might have to give a part of yourself anything you name it you want an arm take an arm well we don't have to be quite as radical as that well uh how how about my nose oh no I wouldn't be able to smell the FL it doesn't matter you want a nose it's yours you look ridiculous without your nose uh what about an eyebrow I got two of them take an eyebrow no I'll take a rib a rib a rib I love ribs well how you going to do that ah detail painful detail well you said you'd give anything and you've got 14 take a rip done that's it not by a long shot well tell me what else you're going to have to share everything you find a nut you share it a grape you share it a thought a feeling you share it God I'm willing to share anything no matter how intimate I'm willing to share including your dreams I already share those yes I know you told me Adam you'll have to love her I try to love everything you make god well this may be harder than you expect then I'll try harder than you expect that would please me God maybe I'll get so busy trying to love her I won't get bored anymore yes but suppose just suppose I could create such a thing and suppose you did get bored oo then I suppose I could share the boredom maybe if you share a boredom you only get half as bored yes but then suppose I mean if it were Possible Oh god with you anything is possible let me finish suppose she got bored with you well then I suppose I'd look deep inside myself and try to discover the reasons why she's bored and then maybe I could create something a a a song that would excite her of course a love song I could sing to her when she gets bored not that feris jock oh no God please I've been so lonely I want a miracle then if you want a miracle ask for a miracle can I have a miracle no well maybe if I think it's really good for you I'll make you a mirac it's good for me I promise you God then stand on your two feet you have quite a sense of humor Adam would you please oh sorry God now repeat after me you are my friend God you are my friend God louder please you are my friend God I will try to love you and all the things that you have cre created I will try to love you and all the things that you have created and especially any such persons as you might make and especially any such persons as you might make God only you can make a miracle God only you can make a miracle Adam It won't always be this easy Adam It won't always be this easy don't repeat that oh sorry God hello Adam [Music] Oh e [Music] [Music] [Music] sh [Music] [Music] sh