00:10Oh, my God.
00:34I don't know.
01:02Wakey. Wakey.
01:06Pest. Help.
01:08Pest.
01:11What does it want?
01:13Maybe it's hungry.
01:15Don't hurt it.
01:16It's only a bird.
01:20Shh. It's watching us.
01:22It can hear us.
01:23Maybe it wants to eat us.
01:25They only eat dead people.
01:27I'm dirty people.
01:30Would you rather?
01:33Pits.
01:34Its beak or its feet.
01:37I know a much better game.
01:40It's at my house.
01:42Come and play.
01:43What kind of game?
01:45The bird game.
01:46You'll get to see magic and animals and all kinds of special treats.
01:52What do we win?
01:53The prize.
01:56Yes, the prize is pretty delicious.
01:59What is it?
02:00You will never need to sleep again.
02:03Let's play.
02:08The only important thing is that you're all hungry to play.
02:12Are you very, very hungry?
02:16Yes!
02:17Magnificent.
02:18Follow me.
02:21What?
02:28I see.
02:30I see.
02:31Sometimes death whispers in my ear and makes me do his work.
02:39What would you do if you never had to sleep?
02:41I would watch all the movies in the world.
02:44I would make gold wings and fly to the moon.
02:47I would howl all night long with the wolves.
02:49Woooo!
02:52Woooo!
02:53Woooo!
02:56Woooo!
02:57Woooo!
02:59Woooo!
02:59Woooo!
03:00Woooo!
03:01Woooo!
03:01Woooo.
03:02Woooo!
03:06Woooo!29
03:08wild Right now, Don't
03:08be scared. Look at
03:10all the beautiful birds. Like Jews.
03:14Each one of
03:15us is special.
03:17It's one of us sings and screams in our own way.
03:27We listen and we want, even when we shut up in a cage.
03:46We infect your dreams, we read your brain down to the darkest, deepest parts.
04:09Welcome to my nest.
04:13It's full of treats and secrets.
04:23Hush, my little beasts.
04:26I want you so still I can hear the hairs prickling on the back of your necks.
04:32Ready?
04:34Then let's begin.
04:37Once there was a girl, a beautiful princess, who lived in a grand enchanted house.
04:46Everyone loved her.
04:49Except for the cold-hearted witch.
04:54Jealous of the girl's beauty, the witch hexed her.
04:59So she slept and would not wake for years.
05:05Her parents went mad with grief.
05:08She dreamt all the time.
05:13Only a kiss could wake her.
05:17True love's kiss.
05:21Endless suitors tried their luck.
05:25Her face grew blistered.
05:31A prince, a greedy beast, decided to hurt her.
05:37She woke.
05:39The wicked prince grew sick at once.
05:42Sick beyond nightmares.
05:45Look.
05:46Blood.
05:48Delicious blood.
05:57Playing is a very dangerous thing, my little beasts.
06:06That's why it's so much fun.
06:09But then it was strange.
06:10Now she couldn't sleep.
06:12Not for a moment and not a flicker of a dream.
06:15She sang all night.
06:18The birds fetched her roses.
06:22Her servants locked her up so she would be theirs.
06:25All theirs.
06:26Their own magical creature.
06:29And she never, ever slept again.
06:32You were magnificent beauty.
06:35Come on, Philip.
06:37Stop playing.
06:39Philip.
06:41Wake up.
06:44Philip.
06:46You killed my friends.
06:48You wicked birds.
06:49I said hush, my worm.
06:57Such a ghastly noise.
07:01Now let's fly up a level.
07:15Choose a partner.
07:18This is called a sleepwalker dance.
07:20Get close to your true love.
07:23So close it's as if your flesh is stitched together.
07:27Then rip yourselves apart.
07:30Twist.
07:31Pretend.
07:32She loves me.
07:34She loves me not.
07:36Nestle into their wing and dance!
07:54No mistakes!
07:57Perfect every time!
07:58Perfect!
08:14Excellent beauty!
08:20Tire! Tire for me!
08:28As soon as I saw her, I was on fire.
08:31We all have our origin.
08:33Don't be such joyless gargoyles.
08:36She is beautiful.
08:37Look!
08:38Look!
08:40Look!
08:45I said no mistake!
08:53Let's get out of here!
08:54Let's get out of here.
08:54But she'll kill us.
08:55Quick!
08:56Before she sees us.
08:58Trying to escape?
09:01Oh, what a pity.
09:03You will have to be punished.
09:05No!
09:06Flesh!
09:07Flesh!
09:08Flesh!
09:09Flesh!
09:11Flesh!
09:12Flesh!
09:14Flesh!
09:15Flesh!
09:16Faster!
09:17Until you feel sick!
09:19Flesh.
09:20Flesh!
09:23Flesh!
09:25Flesh!
09:27Flesh!
09:29Between you.
09:29Flesh!
09:33Flesh!
09:58What is a crow, anyway?
09:59Crows are people that did bad things.
10:02Once I was at the fun fair, and they had a crow's heart on a stick, like a big thing
10:07of candy floss.
10:08But it was cold and shrunk and black.
10:11The blackest thing I ever saw.
10:13How black?
10:15Like someone had dunked it in the midnight sky.
10:17I can't get much blacker than that.
10:22Now, pups, into the bath.
10:25Get some hot water on those nasty wounds.
10:30They'll go all lovely and numb.
10:34I know it hurts.
10:38Is it nice?
10:43One little sip.
10:46And the pain will just float away.
10:56Ah.
10:58Is it better?
11:10Soon, you won't feel a thing.
11:22Look who's here.
11:25One little beast, back from the dead.
11:30The spoiled boy is lazing by the riverbank.
11:33He sees a beautiful girl bathing in the water, and a prank hatches in his stupid head.
11:39I'll startle her and chase her like a rabid dog.
11:42When she turns and discovers it's just me, she'll crack up laughing and then kiss me and kiss me until
11:47I'm sick.
11:47So he does just that.
11:49He startles and chases her like a rabid dog.
11:52But as the poor girl dashes through the grass, she surprises a snake, a toxic little creature.
11:58Shh.
11:58It bites and injects her with its poison.
12:03What a surprise.
12:05The poor girl is dead.
12:10And panting, tired from the chase.
12:14Good boy.
12:16He discovers her luscious corpse in the long grass.
12:21He sobs.
12:23He decides the only thing to do is kill himself.
12:27He runs to where the river is deep and dark and wild, and he jumps.
12:32But then magic strikes in mid-air.
12:34The boy is transformed into a bird, and he never dies.
12:38So he's doomed to wait by the river forever.
12:47Head back.
12:52That's it.
12:53Just relax now.
12:56Well done.
13:02At this point, the child will indulge in the useless and manic threshing.
13:07There is no hope of resuscitation.
13:15The pain is like setting the inside of the body on fire.
13:28To drown is perhaps the loneliest kind of death.
13:41That's it.
13:43Almost over.
13:44Well done.
13:46Well done.
13:57Hush, now.
14:01Dream about the sunshine and the trees like honey.
14:06And all the birds in the sky.
14:09In the morning, you'll wake up and rise.
14:18Spread your wings and fly up to the sky.
14:26Hush, little child, now don't you cry.
14:32Hush, or the wolf will pass this way.
14:39Hush, or the wolf will pass this way.
14:40So softly he will creep.
14:43He'll crawl into bed and into your head and ravish you in your sleep.
14:54And once he's done, he'll cut out your tongue.
15:01And no one will hear your song.
15:06But soon you will wake up.
15:12Shall we do something special?
15:16Spread your eyes.
15:17Show it to me.
15:18Spread your eyes.
15:24Good boy.
15:30That's it.
15:33Play with it. Yes. Play with it for me. Until you're all jelly.
15:49Good. Now gasp. Good gasp for me.
16:11Oh, don't worry. It's all right. It's all right to feel strange afterwards. Give me a kiss.
16:47Now get some rest, beauty. Tomorrow will be an even more magical day.
16:53Oh, my crow. My magical bird. I want to be with you forever.
17:01And we will be together, sweetheart. Forever and ever. I adore you.
17:22So, do I get my prize now?
17:25Yes, my love. In just a moment.
17:29You know, I was a girl once, too. A pretty little limp, just like you. And then something strange happened.
17:41I would have been only 12 or 13.
17:46There was a boy chasing me in the woods. And I remember thinking, he's hungry for something. And being just
17:54an innocent little child, of course, I didn't realize he was hungry for me.
17:59I ran and ran, screaming like I was a flame. Nobody listened, except, I suppose, for one kind-hearted witch.
18:10Suddenly, my hands, my hands turned into magnificent spiky wings.
18:26And when I was running, I couldn't feel the grass under my feet.
18:45I was soaring.
18:53I was soaring.
18:54I was in the air.
19:02I was transformed.
19:28I was perop.
19:28Not beyond that sky.
19:32See you all, code?
19:44I closed the entrance.
19:44I was pregnant at 24.
19:45Xuannerly.
19:45You have not been on your ground.
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