Scene 42 - the Church

This scene opens to an establishing sequence, a floating, wandering camera. We see mountains in the distance, trees, the hotel where Carol, Bruce, and the girls are staying. The camera enters Carol's room, through the window(Carol sleeping); the girls' room with Mary's empty unmade bed; Bruce's empty room. Billowing curtains separate the camera's travel from one room to the next. The camera then travels back outside. A dissolve takes us from the front of the hotel to the front of the church first shown in scene 31. A church bell is ringing.

The rest of this scene is accompanied by a Native American chant.

Bruce and Mary are sitting in front of confessionals in a pew. From behind, Bruce is on the right, Mary the left. There is a woman sitting to their left, praying the rosary. Another woman is behind them waiting to take confession.

Elements of Visual Progression (Church)

• Establishing shot of church interior

• Establishing shot of Mary and Bruce sitting in pew

• Woman praying the rosary (Characteristic elements of the woman's motions, manners, close ups of hands, face, mouth) Rosary is the same one Mary used in the dream sequence.
• Shot connecting the position of Bruce, Mary, and the rosary woman

• Woman waiting to enter confessional. She looks over to Mary, smiles.

• Bruce glancing over at Mary, smiling

• Passing man in black, looks over briefly

• Close up of Mary's motions, mannerisms. She is very active, yet sedate, in her looking around, fidgeting. She looks ahead, off to the side, off to the other side, smiles at both women, glances at passing man in black, over to Bruce (smiles), looks down at her hands.

• Mary and Bruce holding hands

• Mary looking up and behind at stained glass window

• Stained glass window of Saint Peter

• Mary's and Bruce's hands

Sound and picture fade