Tim Roth: Joshua Shapira

Little Odessa

Joshua Shapira

Joshua Shapira: [Joshua is about to execute Pahlevi] Hey, do you believe in God?
Pahlevi: [sobbing] Yes!
Joshua Shapira: Good. We'll wait ten seconds and see if he comes to save you.

Reuben Shapira: I haven't been to school in like, months.
Joshua Shapira: Why not?
Reuben Shapira: It's boring. Rather be smoking bud in a museum. Let's go see the snakes.
Reuben Shapira: [after a pause] I'm fucked up.

[Joshua has returned home with Reuben. He faces his father for the first time in years]
Arkady Shapira: [to Reuben] Did you let him in?
Reuben Shapira: [shrugs. Arkady slaps him, and Joshua punches his father in retaliation]
Joshua Shapira: He gets what I got, is that it?
Reuben Shapira: Josh...
Joshua Shapira: Don't you fuckin' hit him!
Arkady Shapira: Get out of my house.
Reuben Shapira: Josh, come on...
Arkady Shapira: Get out of my house, or I swear to you, you get belt.
Arkady Shapira: [brandishing his belt] Get out of my house! Get OUT of my house!
[they start to fight]
Joshua Shapira: Fuck you!
Arkady Shapira: Get out of my house!
Joshua Shapira: I'll fucking kill you! You fucking lay a hand on me!
Arkady Shapira: Get out.
[Reuben pulls Joshua away]
Arkady Shapira: Get out, I said! Get out! Murderer! Out!

Reuben Shapira: Josh. Josh, hey. It's me.
Joshua Shapira: Get outta here.
Reuben Shapira: Can't we meet later?
Joshua Shapira: It's not safe.
Reuben Shapira: Then we'll meet later somewhere else.
Joshua Shapira: Can't do that. I'm sorry. You look good, though. You're growing.
Reuben Shapira: Mom's gonna die. She got a brain tumor.
Joshua Shapira: Pop still work at the stand?
Reuben Shapira: Yeah.
Joshua Shapira: Be under the boardwalk. Near Nathan's, tomorrow at four.
Reuben Shapira: Okay.
Joshua Shapira: C'mere. How'd you know I was here? I won't do anything, just tell me.
Reuben Shapira: Sacha Ronov told me.
Joshua Shapira: Nobody can know I'm here. Not your friends, not their relatives, nobody. Don't discuss it with Sacha or anybody else. Okay? See you tomorrow.

Joshua Shapira: [preparing to kill his father] Aren't you gonna say anything? You're a big man, is that it? You're a big man?
Arkady Shapira: I don't need a gun to be a man.
[Joshua angrily points his gun against the back of Arkady's head and forces him face down on the ground; Arkady speaks slowly and painfully]
Arkady Shapira: I don't know what made you what you are. All I ask you is to leave Reuben alone. Please. Even you must know there's nowhere you can go anymore. You have destroyed us. You've destroyed our family.
[Joshua finds he does not have it in him and simply walks away and back to his car, leaving his father lying down on the ground calling his name]
Arkady Shapira: Joshua... Joshua...