'You fish better than I do, Dad'?
In the scene were Fergus has slapped his older son and he's gone upstairs, his younger, blond son Joseph says something that's very hard to hear. It's about minute 47. I've tried to turn the volume up as high as I can and still am not sure what he says.
It sounds like, "We're all brats. You and mother, you're like our brother and sister. You both say it. You're so young. If nobody wants to be old anymore, why should kids want to be old, grow up, wait, for anything? You fish better than I do, Dad. I don't mean you don't. But should you try to ski and play ball better, and things like that?"
Is that really what he says? Fergus responds by saying he'd heard somewhere in China that people who are older deserve more respect.
The way the scene comes across, it's obviously meant to look like the kind of profound "heart-to-heart" talk between parents and their children that you see in films. So it's important for me to know what the boy says there.
"Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice."