Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie) (Je vous salue, Marie)

AT THAT TIME

VIRGIN MARY

Out of my mouth is shit.

Stop talking.

Stop eating.

AT THAT TIME

With you, silence can be unbearable.

We can get married, if you like.

I'm not afraid.

Maybe that could help us.

I wonder...

What?

All women want something unique.

Can't you see I'm not listening?

You know,

men think they enter a woman.

AT THAT TIME

How are you doing with Mary?

That's my business.

Listen, Mary, when there's a break-out, move fast.

"I wondered if some event would happen in my life."

"I've had only the shadow of love, yes,"

"in fact, the shadow of a shadow,"

"like the reflection of a water lily in a pond,"

"not quiet, but shaken by ripples in the water,"

"so that even the reflection is deformed and not yours..."

So the sun, visible at last,

began to shine on the primeval oceans,

and then, it's said, life appeared

entirely by chance.

There was hydrogen, nitrogen...

AT THAT TIME

What if it wasn't chance?

100 times that of the universe?

What does that mean?

That there was never time,

chance had no time.

Since life hadn't time to appear...

On earth!

...then it came from elsewhere,

from space.

We wonder what an extra-terrestrial looks like.

Go to a mirror and look at yourself.

It's just a hypothesis, but...

Look at this dip.

It can only be explained...

by something in this cloud intercepting light...

at a specific wavelength.

There is a bacteria, of a very common sort,

that absorbs light on 3.4 microns.

That's its signature.

Any body, inert or alive,

leaves its special mark on the electronic field.

In my opinion,

this establishes

a very strong presumption

that life exists in space.

We're from there.

We are extra-terrestrials.

We weren't born in an amino-acid soup,

suddenly, by chance.

No deal.

The figures say "no".

What if it wasn't chance?

Exactly.

The astonishing truth is

that life was willed,

desired,

anticipated,

organized,

programmed by a determined intelligence.

Eve, stand behind Pascal.

My name's Eva.

Yes, stand behind Pascal and cover his eyes.

They say it would take 1.35 trillion years...

to find the solution blindfolded, but...

if there's someone beside you who can see,

and says no to every wrong move,

and yes to every move toward a solution,

at the rate of one move per second,

how long's needed?

2 minutes.

From 1.35 trillion years to 2 minutes.

That's what happened.

Memory!

Yes... Yes...

No!

Were you exiled for these ideas?

These... and others.

See you Monday.

Is the law of falling bodies because life fell from the sky?

Yes. Good-bye.

- Well! - Coming?

Like a drink at my place one evening?

That's another story.

Your shoe!

"The question is if this creature called man ever existed."

"Legendary man is a figment of the popular imagination..."

While there are Bourbons in Spain there'll be no peace.

That's not your line, Uncle Gabriel!

Right!

- Straight ahead. - Where's that?

Here's $500.

It's closed.

How about there?

No, there should be a house alongside.

What are you looking for?

Here!

Stop at this station.

Here's $500, for God's sake.

We'll be back!

You've a daughter, Mary?

What's it about?

Mary...

She's here!

For God's sake!

Mary, help!

What's going on?

Why're you here? We said Saturday.

Don't, Dad, it's Joseph.

They brought me here.

I'm sick of your tricks.

Forget it!

OK, what is it?

It's you...

It's you, Mary.

What do you want?

What do you want?

And you, my lady?

Your fiancée?

What's it to you?

We couldn't care less.

But you're going to have a child.

By whom?

- You'll have a baby. - I sleep with no one.

Mary, shit, who are these people?

Drive on! Here's $500.

By whom?

It won't be his. Never!

By whom?

Don't play innocent!

By whom?

Mary,

be pure, be rough. Follow Thy way.

My way! But the voice or the word?

Don't be silly!

I know where you're going and soon you will too.

Don't forget!

Don't forget, what goes in, goes out.

And what goes out, goes in!

I'm tired. Shall we stop?

"We each go on,"

"and each of us attains what he can reach."

Hölderlin... his last work.

Those ants are strictly the invisible man.

I swear it was here!

You never find ants near water.

Wrong. Some ants seek gold.

I read "Scientific American" too.

- What about these ants? - Olivier found an anthill.

He rigged wiring to warm the ants in winter.

He wanted to keep them awake in winter,

hoping they'd use that leisure time, to invent things.

- What? - Music, maybe.

There's no escape.

What is this? Miracles don't exist.

Kiss me.

What is all this?

There's no escape, for us.

AT THAT TIME

Let's go on with our story.

Imagine...

our descendants in 8 million years, 100 million.

Their wisdom and knowledge are unimaginable today.

They suddenly notice

that the supposedly fixed balance of the universe

is subtly changing.

Won't our descendants

try to preserve life?

Kiss me.

- I kiss you, I do. - Just once, Mary.

You should trust me.

A prior intelligence programmed life.

It struggled to exist

in a pitiless universe.

It preserved life.

AT THAT TIME

How'd you think of it?

Because of computers.

When I consider it...

that computer intelligence stuns me.

If our distant descendants

tried to encode

life as they know it

in a message of magnesium,

or Bohr,

or God knows what...

GOD

wouldn't they try to transmit the secret of Creation?

Maybe the message has always been clear.