Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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Don't do it anymore.
Oh, stop.

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Okay, a smooth zoom out.
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- Not yet?
- Not yet.

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Sheree, I want a lot of time in here.
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- Not yet?
- Not yet.

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and a little up... and bind.
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- How's it look?
- Looks good.

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I'll punch you in the stomach now.
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Wait, stop, stop.
You can't just keep doing that.

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Who the hell do you think you are?
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- Amazing.
- Shut that off.

:33:39
- What off?
- You got plenty for your thing.

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That's it. I said stop, stop.
You just hit the nipple.

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You hit it four times in a row
when you say you're not gonna do it.

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Ready for a cupcake?
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In the video scaffold
we shot hours of footage

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of each part of Bob's body,
and assembled the footage

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into continuous loops that played over
the seven hanging monitors.

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Bob added various audio clips from film,
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television and commercial video
gathered over the years.

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"...this long disease, my life,
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well, it's coming to an end."
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"You make me puke."
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"I'm going to be sick."
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"That's true actually.
She does throw up a lot."

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"What's the matter with you?
Aren't you feeling well? "

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"No, I feel fine.
Well, I mean, for me I feel fine."

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"That's not what
you'd really call feeling fine."

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"There's not
a single thing wrong with me."

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"I'll tell you something.
I'm well. Absolutely well.

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I'm young and strong
and nothing can touch me."

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He always felt that if he had a choice
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between a mistress and an art career
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he would have given up the art career
for the mistress

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if she would've wanted that.
But he said he felt lucky

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that he found someone
who was interested in his art career.

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But he said if I wasn't,
if I didn't want him to,

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he would've been glad
to spend the whole life


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