Viktor Bringt's (2024) s01e06 Episode Script

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-Buddy?
-I can't breathe.
-Are you okay? Do you need a doctor?
-Everything hurts.
-Yes.
-He doesn't need a doctor.
-He's exercising.
-Exercising?
That doesn't look healthy.
This is not about health, it's about sexy.
And whoever wants to be sexy
has to suffer!
-He's definitely suffering here.
-Are we done yet?
-I think he's done for now.
-He's overcoming his performance limit.
Hartmut, I'm very proud of you.
Push your arms through.
The pelvis does not touch the ground!
We're at three. Still at three.
-He's in pain.
-He wants it that way!
And his wife wants it, too.
Gravity is for losers!
Are you a loser, Hartmut?
Is it normal for him to sweat like that?
He isn't sweating, he's crying.
-Have you ever tried laughter yoga?
-Very funny.
I just mean,
if you keep going, then he will
Now listen, you weirdo.
This man pays a shitload
of money for me to optimize his body.
That doesn't work with footbaths.
So it would be very nice
of you to let me do my job!
-Yes?
-Understood.
Just one question,
so he pays to suffer like that?
Yes, yes. Crazy.
-Maniacs.
-Back to the push-ups!
VIKTOR
DELIVERS
Hi. Thanks for being
available at short notice.
How do you look?
What are you wearing?
-I'm supposed to fix a washing machine.
-Yes, Dad, but not professionally.
The washing machine
doesn't care. Now drive.
-Whoa, then at least take off your vest.
-Why?
-What? Do you like it?
-Yes. It's practical. What's that now?
Are you suddenly embarrassed about
our work clothes? That's our identity!
Here! I designed that myself.
What's there to laugh about?
Well, if that's the case,
if you're ashamed in front of
your girlfriend, then let me out.
I got better things to do!
-And this is where she lives?
-Yes. She lives and works here.
-Interesting.
-Yes.
Yes. So, quickly in and out.
Don't break anything, okay?
Do you think
she needs an extended warranty?
Absolutely not.
-And that's your decision now, or what?
-Yes.
I thought you're in favor of equality.
No extended warranty.
-She must be an oppressed little mouse.
-Don't say little mouse!
Hello, relax. Women like me,
especially young women.
Never mind.
Maybe we should just forget about it.
You know your dad.
I can be charming, too.
Mika! Ruby is in the sauna.
-Okay. Take it easy, don't touch anything.
-Definitely not.
-And no stupid comments, okay?
-Sure.
Hello.
Hi.
-Hi.
-Hello.
Yes. I brought someone along.
It's just a little faster with two people.
Okay. Hello.
I'm happy to meet you.
My son told me so much about you.
You're the father? You didn't say.
-You didn't
-Yes.
-What was I supposed to say?
-That's
That's your dad? Then you
must have a very pretty mom.
I think we look very much alike. Right?
-No.
-Yes.
-No.
-Yes.
No, right?
Well, I have my mom's fingers.
-Yes?
-Yes, pianist fingers.
-Says my mother.
-More like contrabass fingers.
-No, pianist fingers.
-Tuba?
Piano.
If it were a piano
it would need quite wide keys.
-Leave it!
-So they would
Does the washing machine
have a bigger issue?
No, nonsense. No way, it's
Holy shit.
-What?
-Well, Micha, what did you do?
I expertly opened it and here
-Watched a YouTube tutorial. Okay.
-Hey, I watched two.
I'm sorry, but this thing is junk.
It's ready to be thrown out.
Really?
There's nothing you can do about it?
Well, I don't know,
but maybe with a lot of skill and
good luck you could maybe
That would be amazing.
You could name
the 7th wonder after me, no?
Maybe the 8th.
I will leave you two to it, okay?
Sure. And no worries, I will get this
cutie running again. The pro is here now!
Please never say "cutie."
She is a cutie. And she smells good.
-Are you serious?
-I think so.
It's strange if you say that my girlfriend
smells good. Right
Why? She does. She smells like roses.
-The machine and then get out of here.
-Or lilies. That's it.
Is everything okay?
-Yes.
-Now I know
Patchouli, is that possible?
The scent? Patchouli, right?
It's quite warm in here.
Heat stimulates my creativity.
Heat expands everything.
That's why I'm not fat, but hot.
Sure.
With blood, sweat and tears
you create the exceptional.
That's passion.
Cut yourself a slice of that.
I have a question.
Well, you design fashion, right?
No, I study art.
But the collection is part of my thesis.
It's about
the ever changing beauty ideals.
Stay like this.
-That's beautiful.
-Quite the opposite.
We created with
morbid obsession a prison of concepts,
causing physical and psychological damage.
-I see.
-Only 2% of all women in Germany
feel beautiful. 2%.
That's incredibly sad, right?
-No.
-Yes.
They should try
to put their beer goggles on,
just like men. That could help.
-Sorry.
-Question.
You're doing that for women.
But he's a man.
For the change of perspective.
Unnatural beauty ideals
for women affect all of us, including men.
And that's why you put
him in that thing there?
Yes, exactly.
Please turn around.
Good.
Men are also affected by
this perverse beauty mania.
I've already been running this morning.
Yes, after the ice cream truck, huh?
True, but for men the ideals
change much slower than for women.
Michelangelo's David
is the ideal man to this day.
Five hundred years, one trend.
Michelangelo has always been
my favorite Ninja-Turtle.
The orange one. Right?
What many consider beautiful,
can be wiped off easily, right.
You mean like with bras?
-No.
-Yes.
Yes. Because bras
are like bags of chips, no?
If you buy a bag of chips
it's filled to the brim.
Then at home,
you open it and half is missing.
Right?
Well, women with large breasts are often
more successful
than men with large breasts.
That's right. That's true.
I've never looked at it that way.
My therapist won't believe any of this.
Is 39 degrees a fever?
And chills?
Okay.
It's warm here.
Maybe you can sweat the virus out.
What has a heater
got to do with a drain pump?
They're friends.
No.
No, I won't find
a replacement that quickly.
Deadline is on Monday.
It's not your fault. Okay.
Get well soon.
Is everything okay?
-My second model just cancelled.
-No!
What now? I have to take the photos today.
-Deadline is on Monday.
-Can I help?
You're sweet. But I need a real guy.
-You see?
-No.
A man with a physical presence
-I don't have a physical presence?
-Yes.
-But
-You have nice ears.
You have other qualities, Michael.
You are neat.
-Neat?
-It's important.
Mika, for my work I need
a man who's scarred by life.
With a certain tragedy
and sadness in his eyes
and beyond any vanity
What?
Why are you looking at me?
What? No! No!
As much as I'd like to, I'm no
I have to fix the washing machine.
You should always
deliver the appliances like that.
-There'd be a lot of tips.
-I would tip you a lot.
I used to get great tips.
-Yes?
-Yes.
-Back then
-Turn the arm around.
-Everything was more beautiful!
-So were you.
That's quite a lot of knots, no?
Yes.
The knots symbolize the paradoxical
problem solving of our society.
Okay.
That's a Ruby knot.
The faster you move, the more it tightens.
Like a noose.
If we don't see that
we can't win this battle
against these
beauty ideals with re-invented
concepts of beauty Watch out
We will slowly and painfully
suffocate at our own inability to let go.
Slowly and painfully.
Let go. Look relaxed into the camera.
Beautiful.
-Viktor. A little less tortured.
-Thumbs top. Top.
Viktor? Maybe
No thumbs. Please. No thumbs.
Now peel yourselves like an onion.
Evolve yourselves, evolve your own self.
Yes.
And with this self-knowledge
you let your heart shine.
Let it shine! Yes. Who are you?
Who are you really? You realize
there is this tender green seedling
that wants to see the light.
-That's me!
-Let's go.
Dad, like in the stadium.
-What?
-In the stadium! Ranks!
Olé! Olé
Very good, Viktor.
Yes, the knots take your breath away.
They strangle you. Yes, I love it.
Keep it up! Stay right there!
Don't do that with your thumbs.
-Let's take a break, please.
-Wow. Viktor, amazing! I love it.
There. Careful, washcloth.
Well done, Dad.
Thanks.
That was quite extreme.
Yeah, but not as extreme
as our ideals of beauty.
I just say BBL.
Do you also watch the basketball league?
No, BBL stands for Brazilian Butt Lift,
it's a dangerous surgery on your butt.
-To make it smaller?
-To make it bigger.
-A bigger butt?
-It's the trend right now.
For women.
Just a second. A fat ass is hip?
-No, not fat.
-Curvy.
If the flower has a kink,
the butterfly was too big.
My mom always calls me "butterfly."
Because I love being outdoors.
-Hold tight.
-Yes.
Maybe you want to go
shopping for a bra together.
For her.
-What?
-Sure.
Sure. What are you into? Black? Red?
I like bright colors, you know?
What does she wear?
-That's none of your business.
-Red. Definitely. Red.
-Yeah?
-Sure, with the hair and everything.
Could we please change the subject?
-I used to buy lingerie for your mom, too.
-Seriously?
Thanks for sharing.
Really cool, great, but
Once I got one by La Perla,
I believe it was a nice set.
A little see-through
-and it had at the front such a
-Stop now.
Is everything okay?
-Yep, everything's great.
-Great.
-Just great.
-Okay, cool.
Well, that works.
What?
I won't go shopping for lingerie
for my girlfriend with you. Are you crazy?
Why not?
-Because you're my dad.
-Exactly.
Do you know
she reminds me a lot of your mom?
Boy, I'll shoot myself.
Could you please stop it now?
-Yes.
-No, Mom looks totally different.
-I mean her nature and all.
-Not at all.
She does.
Your mom also got so excited about things,
built castles in the air,
wanted to change the world.
-Just like her.
-Ruby isn't crazy.
Nah, she turns knots into clothes.
With the sun, the female energy
Your mom wanted to
give lectures all over the world.
You know? And now?
A little therapist shack in Munich.
I tell you, unrealistic dreams
can really get you down, my son.
Dad?
-Mom has over six million clicks.
-What?
Her TED Talk?
Don't tell me you don't know her lecture
"There's life before death"?
-That
-It went completely viral.
Your mother went viral?
Mom already made her dream come true.
Just a little differently.
How? Your mother has what?
Six million viewers?
Female viewers.
-Female viewers?
-Yes.
They are all women?
-Want to take a look?
-What?
That's amazing.
Yes.
That Now, I am at the
I don't know.
You took thousands of photos.
I'd say that's not fully symmetrical.
That's what's so great about it.
Well, but symmetry is important.
-Says who?
-If
No, nature.
Well, symmetry is a sign of health.
Everything that is healthy
is seen as biologically beautiful.
We find symmetrical faces so beautiful.
Or would you eat a shriveled apple?
Exactly, I look like a shriveled apple.
-I think I'm hot.
-Yes, you look good.
I like the shriveled apples
from my grandma's garden.
I always use a filter
to make my nose look smaller.
The nose smaller?
See?
This digitally engineered symmetry madness
means that no one likes themselves.
-Yes.
-Yes.
Yes. But isn't it
the asymmetrical, the imperfect,
the supposed mistakes,
that make us so unique,
make us memorable.
Exactly. That is like
Cindy Crawford's mole.
Yes. Or like the
droopy eye of Forest Whitaker.
I'd love to have
Cara Delevingne's eyebrows.
I don't know her.
But the mouth of Julia Roberts
-That's too big.
-Yes.
Why does Roger Whittaker
have a droopy eye now?
Roger, who?
Roger Whittaker,
he normally wears glasses,
-I've never seen him with a droopy eye.
-Forest Whitaker.
That's a different person. Never mind.
And? Is it working again?
This old lady should be running again.
Let's start laundry right away, Carlos.
See? Fixing things, that is sexy.
I ordered the spare parts.
Mika?
Hey!
Are you okay?
There must have been power on it.
Crazy.
-What happened?
-I don't know. There must
I hadn't checked
the cables on the machine yet.
Are you okay?
Nothing happened.
It's okay.
-All good?
-Yes.
And you?
I'm okay.
-Some real shit could have happened.
-Nothing happened.
That was shitty of me. Sorry. It was
It was my fault.
I didn't check the damn cables.
You always have to check the cables.
Sometimes I feel like everything I do
doesn't make sense anymore.
What do you mean?
Everything.
Deliver, install, fix
If there even is anything to fix.
I thought you liked your job.
Maybe your mom was right.
Mom?
Why Mom?
Your mom always said to me,
"Viktor,
"go back to school, get your high school
diploma, study mechanical engineering."
That's what I wanted to do then.
But I just wanted to make money.
Fast.
I thought your mother, she
She's a dreamer.
Your mother
She has six million viewers online
and went viral.
Female viewers.
Yes, right.
Well, and I sometimes wonder
Maybe she was right. Not me.
Do you remember my red sled?
With a steering wheel?
I think I was four or something.
I really wanted it,
but it was damn expensive.
That was the Ferrari among the sleds.
Yes, but I got it anyway.
-For Christmas.
-Yes.
But there was no snow all winter, right?
Yes, true, but
What did you do?
What did I do?
You built a ramp for me out of wood.
Mounted some rollers under the sled so
So I could speed down it all the time.
-True, that's what I did, right?
-Yes.
I did that.
You always have ideas.
I don't know much about art
I just wanted to say
I think it's great what you're doing.
I mean it.
Good luck with the final exam, okay?
-Thank you. You really saved me.
-My pleasure.
Have you ever thought
about an extended warranty?
What?
-No.
-No?
-No?
-No.
No, she doesn't need
an extended warranty, Michael.
She
has you.
And me.
Excuse me.
May I borrow your vest?
Let's get some beers, okay?
Let's put the beer goggles on.
-You did really well.
-Yes?
Yes, I used to
I used to be a model, too.
-Really?
-I did a photo love story for a magazine.
"The new guy in class Ten B."
I might still have it at home.
I was the new guy.
MEANWHILE IN
BERLIN-KRUMME LANKE
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
as in heaven, so on earth
and in my garden.
So please send me
quickly the robot lawnmower X9000.
With electric cutting
height adjustment, LED headlights
and multi-zone management,
so that the weed chaos
finally comes to an end
and so that I don't waste
my earthly time mowing the lawn.
But praise your name.
Amen.
TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED
Translation by Melanie Martin