1 00:02:44,957 --> 00:02:46,750 No, there's no water, Dad. 2 00:02:47,292 --> 00:02:51,129 It's all gone, since this morning. 3 00:02:51,296 --> 00:02:53,465 I wanted to rinse my hands too... 4 00:02:54,758 --> 00:02:57,094 ...all gone. 5 00:03:00,722 --> 00:03:01,557 Is it still warm? 6 00:03:07,688 --> 00:03:10,148 I've got a bad cold this morning... 7 00:03:12,192 --> 00:03:16,113 It must have been the dampness on the boat. 8 00:03:17,281 --> 00:03:20,409 I only have to set foot on that boat-- 9 00:03:21,285 --> 00:03:24,329 Perhaps I'm allergic. 10 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:28,667 Even if the boat's not moving, the dampness gets to me. 11 00:03:29,459 --> 00:03:33,130 I don't know how you can stay on it all night... 12 00:03:34,756 --> 00:03:36,091 and not catch a thing. 13 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:40,929 The minute I get on-- 14 00:03:44,725 --> 00:03:47,728 I've received a postcard from America, Dad... 15 00:03:47,936 --> 00:03:51,064 from Gaetano and Alfredo. 16 00:03:52,691 --> 00:03:55,652 This is America around the outside... 17 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:57,571 and this is an American car. 18 00:03:58,906 --> 00:04:00,657 They say they're going to buy one, too. 19 00:04:00,991 --> 00:04:03,660 It's written here: ''We're buying one.'' 20 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:05,746 But I think they're joking... 21 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,790 because they cost a load of money. 22 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:12,961 But they say it's a rich country... 23 00:04:12,961 --> 00:04:16,507 where there's work, a country-- 24 00:04:16,715 --> 00:04:18,091 and we're still here... 25 00:04:18,509 --> 00:04:20,844 without water... 26 00:04:21,386 --> 00:04:23,055 while they're-- 27 00:04:25,641 --> 00:04:26,683 Forget it, never mind. 28 00:04:28,310 --> 00:04:31,813 Listen, Mario, you've never liked fishing. 29 00:04:32,564 --> 00:04:33,982 I've caught a chill. 30 00:04:34,733 --> 00:04:36,902 Go to America or Japan if you want to... 31 00:04:38,070 --> 00:04:39,488 but get yourself a job. 32 00:04:40,489 --> 00:04:41,949 You're not a kid anymore. 33 00:05:26,034 --> 00:05:28,453 ''The poet, Pablo Neruda, in Rome.'' 34 00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:30,706 Central Station. 35 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:35,836 A group of rowdy people has inconvenienced the travellers... 36 00:05:35,836 --> 00:05:38,881 who crowd the station platforms every day. 37 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:40,632 These protesters... 38 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:42,759 are not drunkards... 39 00:05:43,969 --> 00:05:47,890 nor the usual hotheads who protest just for the fun of it. 40 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:51,810 They are a group of intellectuals, writers and journalists. 41 00:05:52,311 --> 00:05:54,146 Why have they joined together, shouting... 42 00:05:54,271 --> 00:05:56,773 disturbing the police and Carabinieri? 43 00:05:57,107 --> 00:05:59,151 The mystery is revealed when the train arrives. 44 00:06:00,027 --> 00:06:02,112 Pablo Neruda gets out at Rome station... 45 00:06:02,779 --> 00:06:05,991 the Chilean poet known throughout the world for his poetry... 46 00:06:06,158 --> 00:06:10,454 and his communist ideas which have often got him into trouble... 47 00:06:10,829 --> 00:06:12,623 and for which he has now been exiled. 48 00:06:13,248 --> 00:06:15,501 The poet appears to be well-loved in Italy... 49 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:19,963 and, judging by the enthusiastic embrace of this pretty woman... 50 00:06:20,464 --> 00:06:22,633 not only for his moral gifts. 51 00:06:23,258 --> 00:06:25,636 Women go crazy for his poetry... 52 00:06:26,178 --> 00:06:29,389 maybe because Neruda writes love poems... 53 00:06:29,556 --> 00:06:34,102 a topic which appeals to the female sensibility. 54 00:06:34,686 --> 00:06:36,605 But let's go back to our noisy crowd. 55 00:06:37,189 --> 00:06:40,817 The Home Office has accepted their protest... 56 00:06:40,817 --> 00:06:43,278 by suspending the measures against Neruda... 57 00:06:43,278 --> 00:06:45,030 requested by the Chilean government. 58 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:47,533 The poet will remain in Italy... 59 00:06:47,533 --> 00:06:51,453 on a wonderful island. 60 00:06:51,495 --> 00:06:55,624 He will not be able to leave without police authority... 61 00:06:55,624 --> 00:06:58,585 but the island's beauty will make exile easier. 62 00:06:58,585 --> 00:07:01,547 Hey! That's me! That's me! 63 00:07:02,965 --> 00:07:06,802 The poet will have happy memories of Italy and its government... 64 00:07:07,010 --> 00:07:11,431 which is hosting him in a place which will remind him of home. 65 00:07:11,890 --> 00:07:14,685 This cozy house surrounded by nature... 66 00:07:14,685 --> 00:07:17,855 will certainly make him feel at home. 67 00:07:38,375 --> 00:07:41,378 ''Wanted: Temporary Postman with Bicycle'' 68 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,517 My deepest sympathy, Donna Rosa 69 00:08:36,517 --> 00:08:40,103 Thank you, thank you Mr. Di Cosimo 70 00:08:41,563 --> 00:08:43,857 We needed such a man in this village. 71 00:08:46,026 --> 00:08:46,777 He will be missed 72 00:08:48,654 --> 00:08:50,280 And now they even send communists here... 73 00:08:51,532 --> 00:08:54,117 Such is life, Mr. Di Cosimo... 74 00:09:12,219 --> 00:09:15,305 ...You, Anita Scotto, are the sender. 75 00:09:15,305 --> 00:09:17,683 And this is your son's name, okay? 76 00:09:20,269 --> 00:09:21,728 I've come about the job. 77 00:09:21,979 --> 00:09:25,107 Right, wait. ...And this is the city. 78 00:09:25,607 --> 00:09:26,316 That's all. 79 00:09:26,650 --> 00:09:27,860 Are you sending him capers? 80 00:09:28,986 --> 00:09:30,195 He'll be pleased. 81 00:09:37,327 --> 00:09:38,287 Are you illiterate? 82 00:09:39,204 --> 00:09:41,999 No, I can read and write. 83 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:45,544 Not very fast, but-- 84 00:09:47,421 --> 00:09:48,172 Sit down. 85 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,640 I need someone to deliver mail to Cala di Sotto. 86 00:09:59,683 --> 00:10:02,019 That's great. I live there. 87 00:10:03,187 --> 00:10:04,479 There's only one addressee. 88 00:10:05,272 --> 00:10:06,732 Only one? 89 00:10:07,441 --> 00:10:10,319 Everyone else there is illiterate. 90 00:10:11,695 --> 00:10:14,323 I'm not illiterate, but still-- 91 00:10:14,489 --> 00:10:16,200 Well, then. 92 00:10:18,118 --> 00:10:21,663 It's all mail for signor Pablo Neruda. 93 00:10:22,497 --> 00:10:25,501 Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda, the poet loved by women? 94 00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:28,295 Pablo Neruda the poet loved by the people! 95 00:10:29,171 --> 00:10:33,842 By the people, but also by women. I heard it on the newsreel. 96 00:10:34,927 --> 00:10:37,971 All right, but most of all by the people. He's a communist. 97 00:10:38,347 --> 00:10:38,931 Right? 98 00:10:41,350 --> 00:10:46,146 Okay. The poet has received a mountain of mail these last two days. 99 00:10:47,064 --> 00:10:50,692 Pedalling with the bag is like carrying an elephant on your back. 100 00:10:51,527 --> 00:10:52,528 I'll wait here. 101 00:10:53,028 --> 00:10:54,112 I'll be right with you. 102 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:55,656 Listen, 103 00:10:56,949 --> 00:10:58,575 The wage is a pittance, you know. 104 00:10:59,618 --> 00:11:02,371 Postmen make do with their tips. 105 00:11:02,371 --> 00:11:03,539 But with only one house... 106 00:11:04,122 --> 00:11:07,000 at most it'll pay for your cinema once a week. 107 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:09,670 - That's fine. - It suits you anyway. 108 00:11:10,754 --> 00:11:12,840 Well then. My name's Giorgio. 109 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:17,427 I'm your superior, and you should call me sir. 110 00:11:18,136 --> 00:11:21,306 But I won't hold you to it, because I'm a communist, too. 111 00:11:22,850 --> 00:11:24,226 And remember... 112 00:11:24,935 --> 00:11:25,894 the poet... 113 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:29,314 is a great and kind person. 114 00:11:30,983 --> 00:11:32,234 He deserves respect. 115 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:35,779 You say hello, you thank him. 116 00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:38,532 If he tips you, you thank him again. 117 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:40,492 - Right? - Yes, right. 118 00:11:40,784 --> 00:11:42,911 This is your hat. 119 00:11:43,996 --> 00:11:45,038 This is your bag. 120 00:11:45,664 --> 00:11:48,667 Today's the 15th. Your first payday's the 27th. 121 00:11:49,251 --> 00:11:51,044 Oh, another thing... 122 00:11:51,044 --> 00:11:52,504 These are the keys. 123 00:11:52,963 --> 00:11:55,215 You open in the morning and close in the evening. 124 00:11:56,341 --> 00:11:57,384 - Okay? - Okay. 125 00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:02,264 When do you start? 126 00:12:04,016 --> 00:12:09,313 Monday morning. 6:45, I open the shutters. 127 00:12:09,646 --> 00:12:12,524 Then the public comes later. 128 00:12:15,694 --> 00:12:16,737 Are you in uniform already? 129 00:12:19,239 --> 00:12:21,950 No, I'm just wearing the hat. 130 00:12:22,576 --> 00:12:26,705 That way it'll take its shape better... 131 00:12:26,705 --> 00:12:30,000 or I'll get a headache wearing it all day. 132 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,253 The boss told me it's a postman's trick. 133 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:34,463 A llttle trick of ours. 134 00:13:26,557 --> 00:13:28,141 Good morning. 135 00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:31,478 Good morning. Your mail... 136 00:13:57,045 --> 00:13:59,047 - Amor? - Yes? 137 00:14:00,632 --> 00:14:01,925 - Is there anything for me? 138 00:14:02,217 --> 00:14:04,803 - No, there's nothing for you 139 00:14:29,286 --> 00:14:31,371 - Thank you. - Thank you. 140 00:14:41,381 --> 00:14:43,383 Another one from a female. 141 00:14:44,843 --> 00:14:45,594 Female. 142 00:14:47,888 --> 00:14:49,515 Maria Conchita, female. 143 00:14:51,808 --> 00:14:53,185 Angela, female. 144 00:14:55,312 --> 00:15:00,984 Jean Marie... Jean Marie, is that male or female? 145 00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:02,736 Female. 146 00:15:03,070 --> 00:15:04,321 Female, I knew it! 147 00:15:05,614 --> 00:15:06,573 This one, too. 148 00:15:08,325 --> 00:15:10,869 Even the women are interested in politics in Chile! 149 00:15:12,996 --> 00:15:18,335 I know, but all females... how come? ...Female. 150 00:15:20,254 --> 00:15:21,171 Listen... 151 00:15:22,381 --> 00:15:23,966 but what's Don Pablo... 152 00:15:25,133 --> 00:15:25,676 like? 153 00:15:26,927 --> 00:15:27,719 Is he normal? 154 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:30,097 As a person, as-- 155 00:15:31,306 --> 00:15:35,310 Normal. Of course, he talks differently. 156 00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:39,273 You can tell immediately from-- 157 00:15:39,815 --> 00:15:43,902 Know what he calls his wife? ''Amor''! 158 00:15:44,736 --> 00:15:47,364 Even if he's standing far away... 159 00:15:47,489 --> 00:15:49,741 they call each other ''amor.'' 160 00:15:49,908 --> 00:15:51,535 - Really? - He's a poet. 161 00:15:51,535 --> 00:15:53,912 That's how you can tell. 162 00:15:55,789 --> 00:15:56,915 Female. 163 00:16:27,905 --> 00:16:28,739 Good morning. 164 00:16:31,491 --> 00:16:32,201 Thank you. 165 00:16:32,201 --> 00:16:35,329 Thank you. Excuse me... 166 00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:38,415 if you happen to need anything... 167 00:16:38,999 --> 00:16:41,710 milk, bread, I can-- 168 00:16:41,877 --> 00:16:42,961 No, thank you. 169 00:16:43,879 --> 00:16:45,714 Matilde goes shopping every day. 170 00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:53,180 If ever she doesn't want to go out, you can ask me. I come and go. 171 00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:55,140 We don't need anything. Thanks anyway. 172 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:56,225 In fact i said: "If it happens..." 173 00:16:57,893 --> 00:16:58,602 Have a good day. 174 00:17:07,736 --> 00:17:11,698 ...Well, i understand that, because-- 175 00:17:12,074 --> 00:17:16,954 When you are in front of him, you feel a little uneasy. 176 00:17:18,247 --> 00:17:19,665 Then you become his friend. 177 00:17:21,667 --> 00:17:24,670 Are we friends? No... 178 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:30,676 But I can say he is normal, he makes jokes, has fun... 179 00:17:31,176 --> 00:17:34,304 He doesn't spend all his time writing poetry. 180 00:17:35,389 --> 00:17:37,641 The book came from Naples. 181 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:41,645 And remember, Mario... 182 00:17:41,645 --> 00:17:44,523 you mustn't bother him with a lot of questions. 183 00:17:45,524 --> 00:17:50,153 It's forbidden to annoy customers with strange requests. 184 00:17:50,612 --> 00:17:53,532 I know, I know I won't annoy him. 185 00:17:53,532 --> 00:17:58,328 I'll only ask him to sign this book, that's all. 186 00:17:58,412 --> 00:18:01,498 So when I get paid, I'll go to Naples... 187 00:18:01,748 --> 00:18:04,126 and show all the girls... 188 00:18:04,126 --> 00:18:09,673 that I'm a friend of Neruda, the poet of love! 189 00:18:09,673 --> 00:18:11,258 The poet of the people! 190 00:18:11,258 --> 00:18:12,009 ...of the people... 191 00:18:12,217 --> 00:18:15,429 All right, but you have to find the right moment, be polite, 192 00:18:15,429 --> 00:18:18,223 Because if he is thinking of a poem... a political one maybe, 193 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,310 And you bother him, 194 00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:23,854 He forgets the poem and it's a worldwide disaster. 195 00:18:24,354 --> 00:18:28,525 No, no, no... I am not stupid, I can tell when he is thinking... 196 00:18:29,484 --> 00:18:33,363 And I won't go there and just ask for him to sign it.. 197 00:18:33,488 --> 00:18:36,825 I am having a look at the poems too, 198 00:18:37,201 --> 00:18:41,914 So if he makes questions or asks me about them, 199 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,166 Maybe I can even reply, who knows... 200 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:45,918 ...so to speak. 201 00:18:57,221 --> 00:18:59,973 Excuse me, could you sign it? 202 00:19:05,395 --> 00:19:07,814 Please, could you sign it? 203 00:19:18,116 --> 00:19:19,618 Would you make it unique, maestro? 204 00:19:23,622 --> 00:19:25,249 Would you make it unique, maestro? 205 00:19:40,138 --> 00:19:43,642 My name's Mario Ruoppolo. 206 00:19:45,561 --> 00:19:46,103 Thank you. 207 00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:47,688 - And my mail? 208 00:19:47,938 --> 00:19:49,523 - There isn't any. 209 00:20:01,285 --> 00:20:04,329 Come on, Mario, you should be happy. 210 00:20:04,913 --> 00:20:07,457 Happy? 211 00:20:07,749 --> 00:20:11,879 Giorgio, I told him quite clearly, Mario Ruoppolo. 212 00:20:14,506 --> 00:20:16,133 ''Regards, Pablo Neruda.'' 213 00:20:17,217 --> 00:20:18,802 It means nothing. 214 00:20:21,847 --> 00:20:26,185 You don't think he can cross it out and write it better... 215 00:20:26,185 --> 00:20:28,562 so you can see it's for me, that we're friends? 216 00:20:31,356 --> 00:20:35,360 Do you think he'd cross it out because you don't like it... 217 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:36,862 and write you another? 218 00:20:39,531 --> 00:20:43,994 Perhaps he did it on purpose because you bothered him. 219 00:20:45,370 --> 00:20:48,123 No, I asked him. He was staring at the mountain. 220 00:20:48,874 --> 00:20:52,544 - Exactly, you see? - No, I know the mountain... 221 00:20:52,836 --> 00:20:54,046 but he was holding an onion. 222 00:20:54,505 --> 00:20:58,634 So you think a poet can't think when he's holding an onion, eh? 223 00:21:00,302 --> 00:21:03,222 When am I supposed to ask him then... 224 00:21:03,263 --> 00:21:07,726 if I can't ask him when he's peeling an onion? 225 00:21:08,227 --> 00:21:12,564 Mario, but he's a busy man. He can't be running after people to make them happy. 226 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:16,193 Yes, but he's a communist. 227 00:21:17,486 --> 00:21:19,112 So what? 228 00:21:19,863 --> 00:21:24,451 Didn't you say that communists love the people? 229 00:21:25,244 --> 00:21:27,579 Mario, don't make me annoyed! 230 00:21:29,081 --> 00:21:29,706 So... 231 00:21:31,083 --> 00:21:34,002 I bought a copy of the book. 232 00:21:35,379 --> 00:21:37,631 When you have the chance... 233 00:21:37,631 --> 00:21:39,591 with extreme tact... 234 00:21:40,092 --> 00:21:42,636 ask him if he would sign it for me. 235 00:21:44,054 --> 00:21:44,888 Sign it? 236 00:21:45,722 --> 00:21:49,226 Take this one then. ''Regards, Pablo Neruda.'' 237 00:21:49,226 --> 00:21:51,687 No, this is yours. He signed it for you. 238 00:21:52,104 --> 00:21:53,814 - I'm happy to let you have it. - No! 239 00:21:54,648 --> 00:21:56,275 I want you to tell him this: 240 00:21:57,693 --> 00:22:01,655 "Chief Telegraphist Comrade Giorgio Serafini 241 00:22:02,322 --> 00:22:05,033 Kindly asks if you can, 242 00:22:05,409 --> 00:22:07,828 kindly, sign it". 243 00:22:08,829 --> 00:22:12,875 But i have to wait for the right moment, when he isn't thinking, 244 00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:14,084 when he isn't peeling an onion... 245 00:22:14,626 --> 00:22:16,962 I can wait, but it may take months... 246 00:22:18,088 --> 00:22:21,133 I don't know when it will be possible. 247 00:22:21,133 --> 00:22:23,635 - Would you like mine? - I said i don't! 248 00:22:23,886 --> 00:22:25,179 Then wait... 249 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:24,404 Mr. Di Cosimo, shall I empty all the water? 250 00:23:24,988 --> 00:23:26,406 - All of it, all of it. - All right. 251 00:23:33,789 --> 00:23:34,498 'Morning. 252 00:23:34,498 --> 00:23:35,374 Good morning. 253 00:23:37,709 --> 00:23:38,710 Mr. Di Cosimo... 254 00:23:39,127 --> 00:23:43,257 what can I do to thank you? Your wreath was the nicest. 255 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:46,593 Nothing, Donna Rosa. Just vote and get others to vote. 256 00:23:47,344 --> 00:23:50,639 Remember to use that little pencil of yours 257 00:23:50,639 --> 00:23:53,934 And hopefully some of your customers will, too. 258 00:24:01,441 --> 00:24:04,862 ...happens that I go into the tailors' shops and the movies... 259 00:24:04,862 --> 00:24:06,822 ...all shriveled up... 260 00:24:07,698 --> 00:24:10,284 impenetrable, like a felt swan... 261 00:24:10,909 --> 00:24:14,246 navigating on a water of origin and ash. 262 00:24:16,123 --> 00:24:19,710 The smell of barber shops makes me sob out loud... 263 00:24:22,337 --> 00:24:24,840 I am tired of being a man...'' 264 00:24:44,651 --> 00:24:46,236 Mail. 265 00:24:54,786 --> 00:24:55,329 Thank you. 266 00:25:09,551 --> 00:25:10,802 What's the matter? 267 00:25:13,597 --> 00:25:14,681 Don Pablo? 268 00:25:15,766 --> 00:25:18,352 You're standing as stiff as a post! 269 00:25:20,312 --> 00:25:22,231 Nailed like a spear? 270 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,443 No, immobile like the castle on a chess board. 271 00:25:27,402 --> 00:25:29,863 Stiller than a porcelain cat. 272 00:25:31,198 --> 00:25:33,700 Elementary Odes isn't the only book I've written. 273 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:35,077 I've written much better. 274 00:25:36,203 --> 00:25:39,790 It's unfair of you to shower me with similes and metaphors. 275 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:42,376 Don Pablo? 276 00:25:43,210 --> 00:25:44,670 Metaphors. 277 00:25:46,213 --> 00:25:48,882 What are those? 278 00:25:49,967 --> 00:25:51,301 Metaphors? 279 00:25:54,388 --> 00:25:56,890 Metaphors are-- How can I explain? 280 00:25:56,890 --> 00:25:59,893 When you talk of something, comparing it to another. 281 00:26:00,853 --> 00:26:02,396 Is it something... 282 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:04,815 you use in poetry? 283 00:26:05,691 --> 00:26:07,776 Yes, that too. 284 00:26:10,028 --> 00:26:11,029 For example? 285 00:26:12,364 --> 00:26:13,532 For example... 286 00:26:14,283 --> 00:26:17,160 when you say, ''the sky weeps,'' what do you mean? 287 00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:21,164 That it's raining. 288 00:26:21,957 --> 00:26:23,250 Yes, very good. 289 00:26:23,584 --> 00:26:28,005 - That's a metaphor. - It's easy then! 290 00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:31,300 Why has it got such a complicated name? 291 00:26:32,009 --> 00:26:36,680 Man has no business with the simplicity or complexity of things. 292 00:26:41,894 --> 00:26:46,106 Excuse me, Don Pablo, then I'll go. 293 00:26:46,106 --> 00:26:48,442 I was reading something yesterday: 294 00:26:51,278 --> 00:26:55,699 ''The smell of barber shops makes me sob out loud.'' 295 00:26:56,158 --> 00:26:59,328 Is that a metaphor, too? 296 00:26:59,328 --> 00:27:00,412 No... 297 00:27:00,621 --> 00:27:02,164 not exactly. 298 00:27:04,082 --> 00:27:06,835 I liked it, too, when... 299 00:27:06,835 --> 00:27:08,587 when you wrote: 300 00:27:09,546 --> 00:27:11,798 ''I am tired of being a man.'' 301 00:27:12,299 --> 00:27:15,886 That's happened to me, too... 302 00:27:15,886 --> 00:27:18,055 but I never knew how to say it. 303 00:27:18,472 --> 00:27:21,350 I really liked it when I read it. 304 00:27:22,518 --> 00:27:27,523 Why ''the smell of barber shops makes me sob''? 305 00:27:30,025 --> 00:27:31,401 You see, Mario... 306 00:27:32,778 --> 00:27:36,198 I can't tell you... in words different from those I've used. 307 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,285 When you explain it, poetry becomes banal. 308 00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:43,497 Better than any explanation... 309 00:27:43,956 --> 00:27:47,501 is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal... 310 00:27:48,085 --> 00:27:51,004 to a nature open enough to understand it. 311 00:28:43,473 --> 00:28:45,559 Will you open this, please? 312 00:28:47,394 --> 00:28:49,229 - Who, me? - Yes. 313 00:28:52,024 --> 00:28:54,109 - Shall I open it? - Yes! 314 00:28:54,401 --> 00:28:56,111 My hands are dirty. 315 00:29:06,330 --> 00:29:10,501 It's written in... ...It's foreign. 316 00:29:12,127 --> 00:29:14,546 Is it more important than the others? 317 00:29:15,172 --> 00:29:17,007 Yes, it's from Sweden. 318 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,677 What's so special about Sweden? 319 00:29:20,677 --> 00:29:22,554 The Nobel Prize for Literature. 320 00:29:24,848 --> 00:29:25,849 A prize then? 321 00:29:26,308 --> 00:29:28,227 If they give it to me, I won't refuse. 322 00:29:30,354 --> 00:29:31,313 Why? 323 00:29:32,814 --> 00:29:34,566 How much money is it? 324 00:29:35,275 --> 00:29:39,238 171,135 Swedish krona. 325 00:29:40,155 --> 00:29:42,574 I've no idea, is that a lot? 326 00:29:44,826 --> 00:29:46,495 Lots and lots! 327 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,914 Then you'll get it. 328 00:29:49,414 --> 00:29:53,293 There are candidates with a better chance than me this year. 329 00:29:53,961 --> 00:29:55,003 Why? 330 00:29:56,505 --> 00:30:00,509 Because they've written important works. 331 00:30:01,093 --> 00:30:04,471 No... you'll get it, I'm sure. 332 00:30:04,972 --> 00:30:05,722 Thank you. 333 00:30:06,056 --> 00:30:08,600 Shall I open the other letters? 334 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,228 No, I'll read them later. 335 00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:14,022 Are they love letters? 336 00:30:14,314 --> 00:30:18,193 What a question! Don't let Matilde hear you. 337 00:30:18,193 --> 00:30:21,572 I'm sorry, Don Pablo. I only meant-- 338 00:30:26,451 --> 00:30:29,246 I'd like to be a poet, too. 339 00:30:32,708 --> 00:30:35,836 No, it's more original being a postman. 340 00:30:36,378 --> 00:30:38,922 You get to walk a lot and don't get fat. 341 00:30:39,298 --> 00:30:41,800 We poets are all fat. 342 00:30:43,343 --> 00:30:44,011 Yes, but... 343 00:30:44,303 --> 00:30:46,096 with poetry... 344 00:30:46,847 --> 00:30:48,932 I could make women fall for me. 345 00:30:50,684 --> 00:30:51,560 How-- 346 00:30:53,896 --> 00:30:55,439 How do you become a poet? 347 00:31:00,027 --> 00:31:04,198 Try and walk slowly along the shore as far as the bay... 348 00:31:05,616 --> 00:31:07,618 and look around you. 349 00:31:08,243 --> 00:31:10,579 And will they come to me, these metaphors? 350 00:31:12,122 --> 00:31:13,624 Certainly. 351 00:31:14,791 --> 00:31:19,004 Oh, I'd love that, it would be nice... 352 00:31:20,130 --> 00:31:22,299 I could say anything i want... 353 00:31:22,299 --> 00:31:25,219 But even if you aren't a poet you can say anything you want... 354 00:31:26,678 --> 00:31:28,722 Yes, but not as well as-- 355 00:31:29,014 --> 00:31:31,975 It's much better for you to say something you are convinced of, in a bad way 356 00:31:31,975 --> 00:31:35,729 than be a poet and say well what others want you to say. 357 00:31:39,233 --> 00:31:40,442 Don Pablo? 358 00:31:42,236 --> 00:31:44,196 We'll discuss this another time. 359 00:31:49,409 --> 00:31:51,161 Another time... 360 00:31:51,787 --> 00:31:53,789 Oh, I didn't mean now... 361 00:31:54,331 --> 00:31:56,124 See you Don Pablo. 362 00:33:05,402 --> 00:33:06,486 Don Pablo? 363 00:33:16,830 --> 00:33:21,710 Mario, can you send someone to see about this problem of water? 364 00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:23,795 Have you got water? 365 00:33:24,505 --> 00:33:27,216 No, that's exactly the problem. 366 00:33:29,176 --> 00:33:30,719 That's no problem at all! 367 00:33:31,053 --> 00:33:33,263 Why? Is it normal? 368 00:33:33,263 --> 00:33:34,139 It's normal. 369 00:33:34,723 --> 00:33:36,850 You've run out of water... 370 00:33:36,850 --> 00:33:38,769 up at the cistern. 371 00:33:40,103 --> 00:33:41,730 Do you use a lot of water? 372 00:33:42,231 --> 00:33:45,651 No, just what I need. 373 00:33:46,735 --> 00:33:48,820 Then that's too much. 374 00:33:49,196 --> 00:33:51,865 Because... 375 00:33:52,366 --> 00:33:56,620 it runs out all of a sudden because the water-supply ship... 376 00:33:56,620 --> 00:34:01,959 comes only once a month, so the water gets used up. 377 00:34:01,959 --> 00:34:05,838 We've got-- They've been saying we'll get running water... 378 00:34:06,588 --> 00:34:08,882 for ages. 379 00:34:08,882 --> 00:34:10,717 ''You'll have running water.'' But-- 380 00:34:11,009 --> 00:34:12,553 And you don't protest? 381 00:34:13,345 --> 00:34:16,014 What do we say? 382 00:34:16,515 --> 00:34:20,561 My father swears every so often... 383 00:34:21,436 --> 00:34:22,563 but... only to himself. 384 00:34:22,896 --> 00:34:27,192 Mario, There are people who, with a strong will, manage to change things. 385 00:34:27,484 --> 00:34:28,443 It's a pity. 386 00:34:29,862 --> 00:34:31,530 This place is so beautiful! 387 00:34:35,075 --> 00:34:35,993 Think so? 388 00:34:38,453 --> 00:34:40,831 Yes. Sit down. 389 00:34:45,002 --> 00:34:47,838 Here on the island, the sea... 390 00:34:48,130 --> 00:34:49,590 so much sea. 391 00:34:50,048 --> 00:34:51,466 It spills over from time to time. 392 00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:54,469 It says yes, then no... 393 00:34:55,179 --> 00:34:56,180 then no. 394 00:34:56,430 --> 00:34:59,016 In blue, in foam, in a gallop... 395 00:34:59,016 --> 00:35:00,726 it says no, then no. 396 00:35:01,852 --> 00:35:05,022 It cannot be still. My name is sea, it repeats... 397 00:35:05,022 --> 00:35:08,775 striking a stone but not convincing it. 398 00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:12,529 Then with the seven green tongues of seven green tigers... 399 00:35:12,613 --> 00:35:15,073 of seven green dogs of seven green seas... 400 00:35:15,324 --> 00:35:18,160 it caresses it, kisses it, wets it... 401 00:35:18,202 --> 00:35:21,705 and pounds on its chest, repeating its own name. 402 00:35:23,707 --> 00:35:25,125 Well? 403 00:35:25,417 --> 00:35:26,793 What do you think? 404 00:35:28,837 --> 00:35:29,713 It's weird. 405 00:35:30,839 --> 00:35:32,007 What do you mean, weird? 406 00:35:32,966 --> 00:35:36,929 - You're a severe critic. - No, not your poem. 407 00:35:37,221 --> 00:35:38,388 Weird... 408 00:35:39,473 --> 00:35:40,682 Weird... 409 00:35:42,476 --> 00:35:45,062 how I felt while you were saying it. 410 00:35:45,938 --> 00:35:47,231 How was that? 411 00:35:48,815 --> 00:35:49,525 I don't know. 412 00:35:51,944 --> 00:35:54,279 The words went back and forth. 413 00:35:54,863 --> 00:35:57,658 - Like the sea then? - Exactly. 414 00:35:57,658 --> 00:36:00,994 - Like the sea. - There, that's the rhythm. 415 00:36:01,411 --> 00:36:04,790 - I feIt seasick, in fact. - Seasick... 416 00:36:05,791 --> 00:36:07,000 Because... 417 00:36:08,043 --> 00:36:10,379 I can't explain it. I felt like... 418 00:36:11,046 --> 00:36:15,217 like a boat tossing around on those words. 419 00:36:17,177 --> 00:36:20,430 Like a boat tossing around on my words? 420 00:36:23,308 --> 00:36:25,477 Do you know what you've done, Mario? 421 00:36:26,562 --> 00:36:30,566 - No, what? - You've invented a metaphor. 422 00:36:31,984 --> 00:36:37,155 - Yes, you have! - Really? 423 00:36:41,118 --> 00:36:44,872 But it doesn't count because I didn't mean to. 424 00:36:44,872 --> 00:36:46,456 Meaning to is not important. 425 00:36:46,456 --> 00:36:49,376 Images arise spontaneously. 426 00:36:52,546 --> 00:36:55,340 You mean then that... 427 00:36:56,383 --> 00:36:58,844 for example, I don't know if you follow me... 428 00:36:59,094 --> 00:37:00,304 that the whole worId... 429 00:37:01,471 --> 00:37:05,392 the whole world, with the sea, the sky... 430 00:37:06,101 --> 00:37:07,978 with the rain, the clouds-- 431 00:37:07,978 --> 00:37:10,355 Now you can say etc. etc. 432 00:37:10,355 --> 00:37:12,399 Etc. etc. 433 00:37:13,150 --> 00:37:16,653 The whole world is the metaphor for something else? 434 00:37:18,530 --> 00:37:20,908 - I'm talking crap. - No, not at all. 435 00:37:20,908 --> 00:37:22,910 Not at all. 436 00:37:23,285 --> 00:37:24,912 You pulled a strange face. 437 00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:27,956 Mario, let's make a pact. 438 00:37:29,082 --> 00:37:30,375 I'll have a nice swim... 439 00:37:31,543 --> 00:37:33,879 and ponder your question. 440 00:37:33,921 --> 00:37:36,798 Then I'll give you an answer tomorrow. 441 00:37:37,090 --> 00:37:40,677 - Really? - Yes, really. 442 00:40:02,903 --> 00:40:04,154 Don Pablo, good morning. 443 00:40:05,030 --> 00:40:07,074 I've got to talk to you. 444 00:40:07,157 --> 00:40:10,244 It must be very important. You're snorting like a horse. 445 00:40:11,036 --> 00:40:13,413 It's very important. 446 00:40:14,623 --> 00:40:18,418 - I've fallen in love. - Nothing serious. There's a remedy. 447 00:40:18,418 --> 00:40:24,716 No, no remedy! I don't want a remedy. I want to stay sick. 448 00:40:24,716 --> 00:40:28,178 I'm in love, really, really in love. 449 00:40:28,178 --> 00:40:30,681 Who are you in love with? 450 00:40:30,681 --> 00:40:33,350 Her name's Beatrice. 451 00:40:34,393 --> 00:40:36,937 Oh, Dante. 452 00:40:38,897 --> 00:40:40,357 Don Pablo? 453 00:40:40,774 --> 00:40:42,234 Dante Alighieri. 454 00:40:42,734 --> 00:40:45,112 He fell for a certain Beatrice. 455 00:40:45,779 --> 00:40:49,616 Beatrices have inspired boundless love, Mario 456 00:40:55,247 --> 00:40:56,456 What are you doing? 457 00:40:56,456 --> 00:40:59,793 Writing down the name Dante. 458 00:41:00,002 --> 00:41:02,087 Dante I know, but Alighieri-- 459 00:41:02,546 --> 00:41:06,300 - Has it got an ''h'' in it? - Wait, I'll write it for you. 460 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,551 Thank you. 461 00:41:18,645 --> 00:41:20,647 I'm madly in love. 462 00:41:20,647 --> 00:41:24,359 You've already told me that, but what can I do about it? 463 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,614 I don't know, if you can help-- 464 00:41:28,697 --> 00:41:30,157 But I'm an old man. 465 00:41:31,742 --> 00:41:33,493 I don't know, because... 466 00:41:33,493 --> 00:41:37,623 I suddenly saw her in front of me. 467 00:41:37,831 --> 00:41:40,459 I stared at her, but I couldn't utter a word. 468 00:41:40,709 --> 00:41:42,711 What, you didn't say anything to her? 469 00:41:44,713 --> 00:41:47,174 Not much. 470 00:41:47,174 --> 00:41:51,553 - I watched her and fell in love. - Just like that? In a flash? 471 00:41:52,179 --> 00:41:56,934 No, I stared at her for ten minutes first. 472 00:41:57,726 --> 00:41:58,310 And she? 473 00:41:58,393 --> 00:42:01,104 And she said... 474 00:42:04,858 --> 00:42:06,151 What's up, never seen a woman before? 475 00:42:18,330 --> 00:42:19,957 What's your name? 476 00:42:23,794 --> 00:42:25,462 Beatrice Russo. 477 00:42:33,095 --> 00:42:34,096 And you? 478 00:42:35,848 --> 00:42:37,558 I couldn't think of anything to say. 479 00:42:38,851 --> 00:42:41,270 Nothing at all? 480 00:42:41,270 --> 00:42:45,732 - You didn't say a word? - Not exactly nothing. 481 00:42:45,983 --> 00:42:47,609 I said five words to her. 482 00:42:48,277 --> 00:42:48,902 Which were? 483 00:42:49,820 --> 00:42:51,488 I said, ''What's your name?'' 484 00:42:53,949 --> 00:42:56,451 - And she? - And she: ''Beatrice Russo.'' 485 00:42:59,162 --> 00:43:02,666 ''What's your name?'' are three words. And the other two? 486 00:43:03,542 --> 00:43:06,170 Then I repeated Beatrice Russo. 487 00:43:08,755 --> 00:43:10,174 Don PabIo, if-- 488 00:43:12,134 --> 00:43:15,429 I don't want to bother you, but... 489 00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:18,098 can you write me a poem for Beatrice? 490 00:43:38,869 --> 00:43:40,662 I don't even know her! 491 00:43:42,706 --> 00:43:46,502 A poet needs to know the object of his inspiration! 492 00:43:49,421 --> 00:43:52,216 I can't invent something out of nothing. 493 00:43:52,633 --> 00:43:54,384 I've got this little ball... 494 00:43:54,384 --> 00:43:58,222 which Beatrice put in her mouth. She's touched it. 495 00:43:58,597 --> 00:43:59,431 So what? 496 00:43:59,932 --> 00:44:03,018 It might help you. 497 00:44:06,063 --> 00:44:07,523 Look, Poet... 498 00:44:07,523 --> 00:44:10,984 if you make all this fuss over one poem... 499 00:44:10,984 --> 00:44:13,529 you're never going to win that Nobel Prize! 500 00:44:15,113 --> 00:44:18,534 Mario, pinch me and wake me from this nightmare! 501 00:44:21,203 --> 00:44:23,705 What am I supposed to do? 502 00:44:23,705 --> 00:44:27,459 No one else can help me. They're all fishermen here! 503 00:44:27,626 --> 00:44:28,877 What am I supposed to do? 504 00:44:28,877 --> 00:44:32,923 Fishermen fall in love, too! 505 00:44:33,715 --> 00:44:36,635 They are able to talk to the girls they love... 506 00:44:37,469 --> 00:44:39,471 to make them fall in love, too, and marry them. 507 00:44:41,765 --> 00:44:44,351 - What does your father do? - He's a fisherman. 508 00:44:44,351 --> 00:44:45,519 Naturally! 509 00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:50,148 He must have spoken to your mother to get her to marry him. 510 00:44:51,275 --> 00:44:55,112 I don't think so. He doesn't talk much. 511 00:45:00,242 --> 00:45:01,869 Come on, give me my mail. 512 00:45:10,919 --> 00:45:12,546 Thank you, but I don't want it. 513 00:46:15,359 --> 00:46:18,612 - Do you want something else? - No, thanks. 514 00:46:23,075 --> 00:46:26,828 Beatrice, your smile spreads like a butterfly. 515 00:46:30,082 --> 00:46:32,793 Fallen out of bed this morning? 516 00:46:33,710 --> 00:46:36,463 I came earlier because... 517 00:46:38,173 --> 00:46:40,425 I saw this. It looks important. 518 00:46:41,593 --> 00:46:44,429 You're right, it is important. 519 00:46:47,432 --> 00:46:48,392 And then... 520 00:46:49,852 --> 00:46:51,770 there's something else... 521 00:46:52,521 --> 00:46:56,400 I've been meaning to give you but kept forgetting. 522 00:46:58,902 --> 00:47:02,447 - I'll put it here. Good-bye. - Wait a minute. 523 00:47:04,658 --> 00:47:06,410 I've got something for you, too. 524 00:47:09,955 --> 00:47:10,914 Here. 525 00:47:19,381 --> 00:47:21,884 It might be useful for your metaphors. 526 00:47:37,858 --> 00:47:38,567 Is it a radio? 527 00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:44,698 No, but it's a kind of radio. 528 00:47:45,282 --> 00:47:47,534 You speak into here... 529 00:47:48,035 --> 00:47:49,912 and this repeats what you say. 530 00:47:51,079 --> 00:47:55,626 You speak into it and it repeats what you say? 531 00:47:55,876 --> 00:47:56,585 Yes. 532 00:47:57,169 --> 00:47:59,713 - How many times? - As many times as you want. 533 00:48:00,297 --> 00:48:02,007 But you mustn't exaggerate. 534 00:48:02,549 --> 00:48:07,596 Even the most sublime idea seems foolish if heard too often. 535 00:48:11,850 --> 00:48:13,560 Listen. 536 00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,750 Good news? 537 00:49:25,674 --> 00:49:28,051 When I was Senator of the Republic... 538 00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,096 I went to visit Pampa... 539 00:49:31,471 --> 00:49:35,017 a region where it only rains once every 50 years... 540 00:49:35,350 --> 00:49:39,104 where life is unimaginably hard. 541 00:49:41,190 --> 00:49:44,026 I wanted to meet the people who had voted for me. 542 00:49:45,652 --> 00:49:46,737 One day... 543 00:49:48,447 --> 00:49:52,743 at Lota, there was a man who had come up from a coal mine. 544 00:49:53,035 --> 00:49:55,746 He was a mask of coal dust and sweat... 545 00:49:58,540 --> 00:49:59,499 his face... 546 00:50:01,084 --> 00:50:03,921 contorted by terrible hardship... 547 00:50:04,254 --> 00:50:06,840 his eyes red from the dust. 548 00:50:09,635 --> 00:50:12,387 He stretched out his calloused hand and said: 549 00:50:14,139 --> 00:50:15,599 ''Wherever you go... 550 00:50:16,725 --> 00:50:18,560 speak of this torment. 551 00:50:21,563 --> 00:50:26,068 Speak of your brother who lives underground... 552 00:50:26,610 --> 00:50:27,903 in hell.'' 553 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:36,161 I felt I had to write something to help man in his struggle... 554 00:50:37,621 --> 00:50:40,958 to write the poetry of the mistreated. 555 00:50:42,209 --> 00:50:44,461 That's how ''Canto General'' came about. 556 00:50:46,129 --> 00:50:47,589 Now my comrades... 557 00:50:48,841 --> 00:50:52,761 tell me they have managed to get it published secretly in Chile... 558 00:50:52,845 --> 00:50:54,263 and it's selling like hot cakes. 559 00:50:56,056 --> 00:50:57,307 That makes me very happy. 560 00:51:27,963 --> 00:51:31,258 I told them I'm here with a friend who wishes to say hello. 561 00:51:31,466 --> 00:51:35,554 And tell them something nice about this beautiful country which is hosting me. 562 00:51:36,805 --> 00:51:37,639 Yes. 563 00:51:39,474 --> 00:51:41,768 - Good morning. - No, in there. 564 00:51:43,228 --> 00:51:44,229 Good morning... 565 00:51:46,815 --> 00:51:48,942 Something nice about the island? 566 00:51:49,026 --> 00:51:51,820 Yes, one of the wonders of your island. 567 00:51:53,488 --> 00:51:56,533 Beatrice Russo. 568 00:51:58,243 --> 00:52:00,329 - Yes, very well - Well. 569 00:52:03,165 --> 00:52:05,417 Now let's go to the inn... 570 00:52:06,627 --> 00:52:09,630 and meet this famous Beatrice Russo. 571 00:52:10,714 --> 00:52:12,216 Are you joking? 572 00:52:12,216 --> 00:52:14,259 No, I'm serious. 573 00:52:15,052 --> 00:52:17,262 Let's have a look at this girlfriend. 574 00:52:18,013 --> 00:52:19,515 Oh boy! 575 00:52:19,515 --> 00:52:23,852 Pablo Neruda and Mario Ruoppolo at the inn. She'll faint! 576 00:52:27,564 --> 00:52:30,567 Well? What is it now? 577 00:52:32,778 --> 00:52:37,449 Don Pablo, when I get married to Beatrice Russo... 578 00:52:37,449 --> 00:52:39,243 will you be my best man? 579 00:52:42,079 --> 00:52:43,080 Listen... 580 00:52:43,247 --> 00:52:47,167 first let's have a drink, then we'll decide. 581 00:53:00,722 --> 00:53:02,808 Gennarino, wait! I'm coming, too! 582 00:53:11,066 --> 00:53:15,487 Domenico, come here or I'll thrash you! 583 00:53:18,323 --> 00:53:20,659 Look who's here. Neruda! 584 00:53:22,786 --> 00:53:24,663 - Good morning. - Good morning. 585 00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:39,720 What will it be? 586 00:53:42,014 --> 00:53:43,849 A glass of red wine, please. 587 00:53:44,141 --> 00:53:46,268 And the pinball king? 588 00:53:48,812 --> 00:53:51,690 - Do you want red wine, too? - Red wine, yes. 589 00:53:51,690 --> 00:53:54,985 Two glasses of red wine and a pen to write with. 590 00:53:57,279 --> 00:53:59,072 He's here for your niece. 591 00:54:05,829 --> 00:54:06,914 Give me the notebook. 592 00:54:07,414 --> 00:54:09,416 Notebook? Why? 593 00:54:13,921 --> 00:54:14,463 Thank you 594 00:54:21,220 --> 00:54:21,803 Thank you 595 00:54:25,349 --> 00:54:26,183 Just a moment. 596 00:54:45,035 --> 00:54:50,374 ''To Mario, my intimate friend and comrade - Pablo Neruda'' 597 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:53,877 There you are. 598 00:54:57,005 --> 00:54:58,924 You already have your poetry. 599 00:55:00,384 --> 00:55:04,847 If you want to write it down, here's your notebook. 600 00:55:06,932 --> 00:55:07,766 Thank you. 601 00:55:34,042 --> 00:55:35,085 Beatrice? 602 00:55:36,253 --> 00:55:37,004 What is it? 603 00:55:52,311 --> 00:55:54,104 Go home. It's closing time! 604 00:55:55,230 --> 00:56:00,068 I won't make you pay for the bottle, but go home. We're closing. 605 00:56:02,487 --> 00:56:06,575 - Hey, what are you doing? - I'm thinking. 606 00:56:07,159 --> 00:56:08,160 With the window open? 607 00:56:09,494 --> 00:56:10,871 Yes, with the window open. 608 00:56:11,997 --> 00:56:14,958 Be honest with me. What did he tell you? 609 00:56:17,461 --> 00:56:18,712 Metaphors. 610 00:56:19,421 --> 00:56:20,547 Metaphors? 611 00:56:20,547 --> 00:56:23,675 Never heard such big words from you before. 612 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:26,470 What metaphors did he do to you? 613 00:56:27,930 --> 00:56:30,140 Did? He said them! 614 00:56:31,141 --> 00:56:36,271 He said my smile spreads across my face like a butterfly. 615 00:56:36,897 --> 00:56:40,526 - And then? - I laughed when he said that. 616 00:56:43,362 --> 00:56:46,031 Your laugh is a rose... 617 00:56:46,532 --> 00:56:49,243 a spear unearthed, crashing water. 618 00:56:50,202 --> 00:56:53,372 Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave. 619 00:56:54,581 --> 00:56:56,583 Then what did you do? 620 00:56:58,001 --> 00:56:59,586 I kept quiet. 621 00:57:01,213 --> 00:57:01,797 And he? 622 00:57:03,215 --> 00:57:07,135 - What else did he say? - No, what did he do? 623 00:57:07,135 --> 00:57:11,431 Your postman, as well as a mouth, has two hands! 624 00:57:11,431 --> 00:57:12,808 He never touched me. 625 00:57:13,392 --> 00:57:17,229 He said he was happy to be next to a pure young woman. 626 00:57:18,981 --> 00:57:21,567 Like being on the shores of the white ocean. 627 00:57:22,693 --> 00:57:23,485 I like it-- 628 00:57:24,903 --> 00:57:26,113 I like it when you're silent... 629 00:57:27,698 --> 00:57:29,241 because it's as though you're absent. 630 00:57:32,035 --> 00:57:33,161 And you? 631 00:57:34,746 --> 00:57:35,789 And he? 632 00:57:37,207 --> 00:57:41,295 He looked at me, too, then he stopped looking at my eyes... 633 00:57:42,004 --> 00:57:44,214 and began to look at my hair... 634 00:57:44,673 --> 00:57:47,885 without a word, as though he were thinking. 635 00:57:48,093 --> 00:57:49,970 Enough, my child! 636 00:57:49,970 --> 00:57:53,056 When a man starts to touch you with words... 637 00:57:53,056 --> 00:57:55,142 he's not far off with his hands. 638 00:57:57,436 --> 00:57:59,438 There's nothing wrong with words. 639 00:58:00,314 --> 00:58:04,401 Words are the worst things ever. 640 00:58:04,401 --> 00:58:09,406 I'd prefer a drunkard at the bar touching your bum... 641 00:58:09,406 --> 00:58:13,827 to someone who says, ''Your smile flies like a butterfly''! 642 00:58:13,827 --> 00:58:15,996 It ''spreads'' like a butterfly! 643 00:58:16,496 --> 00:58:19,583 Flies, spreads, it's the same thing! 644 00:58:20,209 --> 00:58:22,461 Just look at you! 645 00:58:22,836 --> 00:58:26,298 One stroke of his finger, and you're on your back. 646 00:58:27,049 --> 00:58:29,051 You're wrong. He's a decent person. 647 00:58:29,927 --> 00:58:32,596 When it comes to bed, there's no difference... 648 00:58:32,596 --> 00:58:37,142 between a poet, a priest or even a communist! 649 00:58:39,228 --> 00:58:39,937 ''Naked... 650 00:58:41,188 --> 00:58:43,273 you are as simple as one of your hands... 651 00:58:44,274 --> 00:58:46,360 smooth, terrestrial, tiny... 652 00:58:47,069 --> 00:58:48,570 round, transparent. 653 00:58:49,196 --> 00:58:52,157 You have moon-lines, apple paths. 654 00:58:53,283 --> 00:58:56,036 Naked, you are as thin as bare wheat. 655 00:58:57,579 --> 00:58:59,831 Naked, you are blue like a Cuban night. 656 00:59:00,332 --> 00:59:02,751 There are vines and stars in your hair. 657 00:59:04,294 --> 00:59:08,465 Naked, you are enormous and yellow... like summer in a gilded church.'' 658 00:59:24,481 --> 00:59:25,941 Good morning, Father. 659 00:59:27,401 --> 00:59:30,112 I found this in her brassiere. 660 00:59:30,612 --> 00:59:33,657 I want you to read it to me. 661 00:59:34,408 --> 00:59:34,992 Come on! 662 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:39,162 I'm not letting her out of the house for now. 663 00:59:42,416 --> 00:59:43,458 Well? 664 00:59:45,252 --> 00:59:46,461 It's a poem. 665 00:59:49,756 --> 00:59:51,258 Read it to me! 666 00:59:52,968 --> 00:59:54,219 ''Naked... 667 00:59:54,970 --> 00:59:56,138 Madonna! 668 01:00:12,696 --> 01:00:16,283 What are the nets like? Mario, I need an adjective. 669 01:00:18,368 --> 01:00:21,330 Nets-- Which nets? Fishing nets? 670 01:00:21,538 --> 01:00:22,206 Yes. 671 01:00:23,457 --> 01:00:24,166 Sad. 672 01:00:26,043 --> 01:00:27,044 Sad. 673 01:00:35,677 --> 01:00:36,553 All right? 674 01:02:16,528 --> 01:02:17,487 There is a lady, 675 01:02:17,487 --> 01:02:20,282 I think she is the owner of the inn, Donna Rosa. 676 01:02:23,785 --> 01:02:25,704 - Good morning, signora. - Good morning. 677 01:02:26,330 --> 01:02:27,623 - Would you like-- - Yes. 678 01:02:31,752 --> 01:02:34,129 Please, sit down. 679 01:02:34,129 --> 01:02:39,218 No. What I want to say is too serious to say sitting down. 680 01:02:40,177 --> 01:02:41,178 What is it about? 681 01:02:41,678 --> 01:02:44,014 For over a month... 682 01:02:44,014 --> 01:02:47,935 Mario Ruoppolo has been hanging around my inn... 683 01:02:47,935 --> 01:02:51,522 and he has seduced my niece. 684 01:02:54,691 --> 01:02:57,319 - What did he tell her? - Metaphors. 685 01:02:59,613 --> 01:03:00,697 Well? 686 01:03:01,448 --> 01:03:06,495 Well?...He's heated her up like an oven with his metaphors! 687 01:03:06,912 --> 01:03:12,709 A man whose only capital is the fungus between his toes! 688 01:03:13,460 --> 01:03:18,924 But if his feet are full of germs, his mouth is full of spells. 689 01:03:20,843 --> 01:03:26,139 It started off innocently enough: ''Her smile was like a butterfly.'' 690 01:03:26,139 --> 01:03:31,186 But now he's saying her breast is like a fire with two flames. 691 01:03:33,981 --> 01:03:36,358 But do you think... 692 01:03:36,900 --> 01:03:40,863 that these images are only his imagination or that-- 693 01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:45,284 Yes, I think he's had his hands on her. 694 01:03:45,909 --> 01:03:49,496 Read this. It was in her brassiere. 695 01:04:00,674 --> 01:04:01,842 ''Naked-- 696 01:04:03,218 --> 01:04:04,303 As beautiful as-- 697 01:04:05,095 --> 01:04:10,184 Naked, you're as delicate as nights on the island... 698 01:04:12,477 --> 01:04:15,689 and stars in your hair--'' 699 01:04:17,941 --> 01:04:18,775 It's beautiful! 700 01:04:19,151 --> 01:04:22,487 So he's seen my niece naked! 701 01:04:22,779 --> 01:04:24,531 No, signora Rosa! 702 01:04:24,656 --> 01:04:28,368 Nothing in this poem leads us to think that. 703 01:04:28,911 --> 01:04:31,747 The poem's telling the truth. 704 01:04:32,164 --> 01:04:36,168 My niece naked is just as the poem describes her. 705 01:04:36,627 --> 01:04:41,006 So do me a favor and tell Mario Ruoppolo... 706 01:04:41,006 --> 01:04:43,300 who's learnt a lot from you... 707 01:04:43,300 --> 01:04:48,680 that he must never see my niece again for the rest of his life. 708 01:04:50,474 --> 01:04:56,438 And tell him that if he does, I'll shoot him. 709 01:04:56,438 --> 01:04:58,148 - Is that clear? - Yes. 710 01:04:58,524 --> 01:04:59,107 Good day. 711 01:05:17,876 --> 01:05:19,670 You're as white as a sack of flour. 712 01:05:20,838 --> 01:05:25,050 I might be white outside, but inside I'm red. 713 01:05:30,055 --> 01:05:33,767 You won't save yourself from the widow's fury with adjectives. 714 01:05:35,727 --> 01:05:38,230 If she harms me, she'll go to jail. 715 01:05:40,232 --> 01:05:41,817 She'll be out in a couple of hours. 716 01:05:43,735 --> 01:05:46,488 She'll say she acted out of self-defense. 717 01:05:47,823 --> 01:05:51,743 She'll say you threatened the virginity of her damsel: 718 01:05:53,078 --> 01:05:56,164 with a metaphor hissing like a dagger... 719 01:05:56,164 --> 01:05:59,543 as sharp as a canine, as lacerating as a hymen. 720 01:06:00,043 --> 01:06:05,465 The poetry will have left the mark of its seditious saliva on the virgin's nipples. 721 01:06:06,091 --> 01:06:09,011 The poet Francois Villon was hung from a tree for much less... 722 01:06:09,678 --> 01:06:12,973 and his blood gushed from his neck like roses. 723 01:06:13,098 --> 01:06:16,852 I don't care. She can do what she wants. I'm ready. 724 01:06:18,061 --> 01:06:22,232 Good lad! It's a real shame we haven't got... 725 01:06:22,858 --> 01:06:26,612 a trio of guitarists to go... cuccuruccuccu... 726 01:06:28,572 --> 01:06:30,949 My dear poet and comrade... 727 01:06:30,949 --> 01:06:34,953 you got me into this mess, you've got to get me out of it. 728 01:06:35,704 --> 01:06:37,289 You gave me books to read... 729 01:06:37,289 --> 01:06:41,793 you taught me to use my tongue for more than licking stamps. 730 01:06:41,793 --> 01:06:44,630 It's your fault if I'm in love. 731 01:06:44,796 --> 01:06:47,424 No, this has nothing to do with me. 732 01:06:47,674 --> 01:06:49,259 I gave you my books... 733 01:06:50,052 --> 01:06:52,262 but I didn't authorize you to steal my poems. 734 01:06:53,722 --> 01:06:57,351 If I think you gave Beatrice the poem I wrote for Matlide-- 735 01:06:58,977 --> 01:07:04,149 Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but those who need it. 736 01:07:05,025 --> 01:07:09,404 I appreciate that highly democratic sentiment. 737 01:07:14,618 --> 01:07:16,995 Now go home and get some sleep. 738 01:07:18,205 --> 01:07:22,709 You've bags under your eyes as large and deep as soup bowls. 739 01:07:26,922 --> 01:07:27,673 Mario... 740 01:07:28,507 --> 01:07:32,386 as your superior I must order you to deliver the undelivered mail. 741 01:07:32,594 --> 01:07:33,679 Yes, yes, yes. 742 01:07:36,265 --> 01:07:39,226 But you're still moping after that girl. 743 01:07:40,394 --> 01:07:42,229 Beatrice is pretty now... 744 01:07:42,229 --> 01:07:44,523 but in 50 years she'll be as ugly as the rest. 745 01:07:44,523 --> 01:07:47,526 No, Beatrice will never be ugly. 746 01:07:47,860 --> 01:07:52,114 Heh... Secretly, within me 747 01:07:52,114 --> 01:07:56,368 I held the splendor of your eyes... 748 01:07:56,743 --> 01:07:58,287 blissful Beatrice. 749 01:08:00,414 --> 01:08:02,082 What's Beatrice got to do with it? 750 01:08:02,541 --> 01:08:03,709 It's a poem. 751 01:08:04,459 --> 01:08:06,378 Oh, Dante Alighieri-- 752 01:08:06,503 --> 01:08:09,423 No, Gabriele D'Annunzio, my poet. 753 01:08:11,425 --> 01:08:14,386 Your poet wrote something for Beatrice? 754 01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,098 I don't like it. 755 01:08:18,307 --> 01:08:19,099 Here you are. 756 01:08:19,975 --> 01:08:24,229 Strange, I thought you'd appreciate a hymn to Beatrice. 757 01:08:26,148 --> 01:08:27,399 Thank you. Good-bye. 758 01:08:48,170 --> 01:08:51,298 - Hey, Sleeping Beauty... - Good evening. 759 01:08:51,465 --> 01:08:55,802 Good evening. Give the Marshal his usual, and pour one for me, too. 760 01:09:03,310 --> 01:09:04,061 Thank you. 761 01:09:06,188 --> 01:09:08,899 Your niece gets more and more beautiful. 762 01:09:09,149 --> 01:09:13,987 If you only knew how difficult it is to keep a hold on her. 763 01:09:14,363 --> 01:09:17,491 Young people today aren't what they used to be, Donna Rosa 764 01:09:17,699 --> 01:09:19,618 They have everything and want the moon. 765 01:09:19,910 --> 01:09:24,039 I remember my poor departed mother. I'd tremble whenever she spoke. 766 01:09:24,122 --> 01:09:24,915 - True... - Yes 767 01:09:27,751 --> 01:09:29,711 Good night, Aunt. Good night, Marshal. 768 01:09:30,128 --> 01:09:31,880 Good night, beauty, goodnight. 769 01:09:35,050 --> 01:09:36,802 She is really sweet. 770 01:11:50,018 --> 01:11:53,772 Find yourselves a decent person who isn't a communist. 771 01:11:54,481 --> 01:11:57,901 If Neruda doesn't believe in God, why should God believe in Neruda? 772 01:11:58,151 --> 01:11:59,653 What sort of witness would he be? 773 01:12:03,615 --> 01:12:08,078 God never said a communist can't be a witness at a wedding. 774 01:12:11,039 --> 01:12:13,333 I'm not getting married then. 775 01:12:13,750 --> 01:12:17,880 You're more interested in Neruda as a witness than me as your wife. 776 01:12:18,380 --> 01:12:20,215 My darling... 777 01:12:20,215 --> 01:12:23,010 Neruda's a Catholic. 778 01:12:23,343 --> 01:12:25,679 I know he's a Catholic. 779 01:12:27,347 --> 01:12:32,436 In Russia, communists eat babies. How can he be Catholic? 780 01:12:33,061 --> 01:12:35,022 He doesn't look the type. 781 01:12:35,022 --> 01:12:38,317 Yes, but Neruda has a pretty wife. 782 01:12:38,317 --> 01:12:42,571 He's getting old and he has no children. How do you explain that? 783 01:12:46,158 --> 01:12:50,829 So according to you, Don Pablo ate his kids? 784 01:12:51,079 --> 01:12:51,914 Who knows? 785 01:12:52,456 --> 01:12:55,000 - Come on... - Anyway, my answer is no, 786 01:12:55,792 --> 01:12:57,002 for your sake, too. 787 01:12:57,544 --> 01:13:01,798 He inspired your bridegroom to write that filthy stuff... 788 01:13:02,341 --> 01:13:02,966 ...Naked-- 789 01:13:04,009 --> 01:13:05,511 That was only a poem. 790 01:13:06,637 --> 01:13:08,430 Not to mention the rest. 791 01:13:09,014 --> 01:13:12,184 He's not worthy of being witness to your happiness. 792 01:13:53,725 --> 01:13:55,102 She'd say: 793 01:13:55,727 --> 01:14:00,524 ''I ask Jesus to let me live to see my son with a job... 794 01:14:00,941 --> 01:14:03,735 a wife and chlidren in his arms.'' 795 01:14:04,027 --> 01:14:05,779 Unfortunately, she didn't make it... 796 01:14:06,530 --> 01:14:08,615 because when the Lord called her to Him... 797 01:14:09,449 --> 01:14:11,076 he didn't even have a job. 798 01:14:11,910 --> 01:14:16,999 Today, from heaven my poor wife will see that he's made her happy... 799 01:14:16,999 --> 01:14:21,837 because at least he's got a wife and a little job. 800 01:14:22,004 --> 01:14:25,883 Even if it's not the job she'd have wanted for him-- 801 01:14:25,883 --> 01:14:28,594 All the best! Well done, Dad! 802 01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:30,512 Cheers! 803 01:14:40,772 --> 01:14:42,149 What are you doing, drinking wine? 804 01:14:46,445 --> 01:14:50,449 I'm sorry, Comrade, I forgot. This came for you. 805 01:14:52,075 --> 01:14:53,160 Thank you. 806 01:14:59,499 --> 01:15:00,459 Can we leave? 807 01:15:01,919 --> 01:15:05,005 Yes we only need a week for the authorization. 808 01:15:05,297 --> 01:15:08,634 Oh, I am so happy I can't believe it... 809 01:15:09,968 --> 01:15:12,804 - Good news? - To the newly weds! 810 01:15:25,943 --> 01:15:27,361 With a chaste heart... 811 01:15:28,570 --> 01:15:29,488 with pure eyes... 812 01:15:30,614 --> 01:15:32,407 I celebrate your beauty... 813 01:15:33,325 --> 01:15:37,037 holding the leash of blood so that it might leap out and trace the line, 814 01:15:37,788 --> 01:15:38,997 Your outline 815 01:15:39,915 --> 01:15:44,545 so you can lie down in my ode as in a land of forests, or in a surf: 816 01:15:45,379 --> 01:15:49,299 in aromatic loam or in sea music. 817 01:15:53,971 --> 01:15:55,013 Now... 818 01:15:56,265 --> 01:15:59,726 I'd like to toast my friend... 819 01:15:59,810 --> 01:16:00,769 Mario... 820 01:16:02,104 --> 01:16:07,025 and say what a pleasure it was for me to participate, in a small way... 821 01:16:07,025 --> 01:16:08,360 to his happiness. 822 01:16:09,152 --> 01:16:09,945 Cheers! 823 01:16:13,657 --> 01:16:18,328 And lastly, I'd like to say that on this very special day... 824 01:16:19,496 --> 01:16:22,833 I have received some wonderful news. 825 01:16:24,168 --> 01:16:26,461 The warrant for our arrest... 826 01:16:27,045 --> 01:16:28,088 has been revoked... 827 01:16:29,298 --> 01:16:32,759 and therefore Matilde and I can now... 828 01:16:35,888 --> 01:16:38,348 return to the country we love so much: 829 01:16:40,142 --> 01:16:40,893 Chile. 830 01:18:26,665 --> 01:18:28,375 No, Don Pablo. 831 01:18:30,210 --> 01:18:32,629 But you'll be unemployed tomorrow. 832 01:18:32,629 --> 01:18:35,841 No, I don't want anything. 833 01:18:42,097 --> 01:18:43,348 I'll miss you, Mario. 834 01:18:45,350 --> 01:18:46,894 I'll miss you. 835 01:18:49,313 --> 01:18:50,981 But you will write to me? 836 01:18:53,525 --> 01:18:54,234 Of course. 837 01:18:58,989 --> 01:19:02,326 Things change all the time in my country. 838 01:19:04,328 --> 01:19:06,205 Today they'll let me go back. 839 01:19:07,956 --> 01:19:12,044 Tomorrow something else will happen and I'll have to flee again. 840 01:19:15,756 --> 01:19:17,799 I'll leave some things here anyway... 841 01:19:19,134 --> 01:19:22,596 if you could keep an eye on them for me. 842 01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:25,641 I'll let you know where to send them. 843 01:19:26,183 --> 01:19:29,228 Perhaps I'll bring them to Chile myself. 844 01:19:34,441 --> 01:19:35,984 That'd be wonderful. 845 01:19:40,113 --> 01:19:42,282 Do you need to take this with you? 846 01:19:43,408 --> 01:19:44,243 Yes. 847 01:19:46,954 --> 01:19:47,538 Thank you. 848 01:19:48,163 --> 01:19:52,709 I've discovered another poet who wrote about Beatrice... 849 01:19:53,335 --> 01:19:54,461 called D'Annunzio. 850 01:19:55,295 --> 01:19:57,297 - Did you know that? - Yes. 851 01:19:58,173 --> 01:20:01,009 So you could have written one, too. 852 01:20:10,561 --> 01:20:12,729 - Good-bye, Mario. - Good-bye. 853 01:21:37,523 --> 01:21:40,317 ..What Mr. Di Cosimo started on this island 854 01:21:40,567 --> 01:21:43,237 is a sign of civility and modernity 855 01:21:43,529 --> 01:21:47,324 Enough with the water-supply ships which come and go 856 01:21:47,449 --> 01:21:49,117 from the dry land to the island 857 01:21:49,326 --> 01:21:50,911 Our candidate, 858 01:21:50,911 --> 01:21:54,748 will lead all of us on a new path. 859 01:21:55,123 --> 01:21:56,333 Vote for Di Cosimo... 860 01:22:06,009 --> 01:22:07,761 This is for you. Vote for Di Cosimo. 861 01:22:08,178 --> 01:22:13,267 They promised us running water on the island two years ago, too. 862 01:22:13,517 --> 01:22:17,145 Two years ago, it wasn't Di Cosimo who promised you. 863 01:22:17,145 --> 01:22:20,941 What's written on that paper is a pledge, not a promise. 864 01:22:20,941 --> 01:22:23,652 An oath, and God is my witness. 865 01:22:28,407 --> 01:22:29,116 Hey, Mario! 866 01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:32,661 Aren't you interested in what I'm saying? 867 01:22:34,246 --> 01:22:36,748 I'm voting communist. 868 01:22:37,332 --> 01:22:37,916 What? 869 01:22:40,502 --> 01:22:42,004 I'm voting communist. 870 01:22:44,006 --> 01:22:46,884 I hear you've gone crazy about poetry. 871 01:22:47,885 --> 01:22:50,637 I hear you're competing with Pablo Neruda. 872 01:22:51,889 --> 01:22:56,894 But remember, poets can do a lot of damage to people. 873 01:23:00,272 --> 01:23:03,901 - How much do these clams cost? - 300 lire to you. 874 01:23:03,984 --> 01:23:08,155 For that price you'll have to guarantee me a pearl in each one. 875 01:23:08,197 --> 01:23:11,700 - Give me a good price. - Ok then I'll give you a discount, all right? 876 01:23:11,825 --> 01:23:13,285 - All right then thank you. - Good. 877 01:23:13,577 --> 01:23:16,830 Fishermen are exploited enough as it is. 878 01:23:17,164 --> 01:23:20,542 He said 300 lire. Why should he give you a discount? 879 01:23:21,877 --> 01:23:24,463 I don't mean to exploit anyone. Good-bye. 880 01:23:24,755 --> 01:23:26,298 Why don't you mind your own business? 881 01:23:29,343 --> 01:23:32,596 I was trying to help. 882 01:23:49,154 --> 01:23:51,532 - What is it? - Look at this. 883 01:23:52,115 --> 01:23:53,909 He's in Russia, giving an award. 884 01:23:56,995 --> 01:24:01,124 In Russia? If he's over here, he might pay a visit. 885 01:24:01,124 --> 01:24:04,628 He's a very busy man, Mario! 886 01:24:05,128 --> 01:24:08,423 He must meet the people he didn't see when he was in exile. 887 01:24:09,049 --> 01:24:10,217 And he's also well-loved in Chile. 888 01:24:10,968 --> 01:24:12,678 He won't have time to come here. 889 01:24:13,846 --> 01:24:15,430 It's a good picture. 890 01:24:16,431 --> 01:24:20,644 - The young poet, Milovan-- - Perkovic. 891 01:24:21,061 --> 01:24:23,188 Awarded a poetry prize by the maestro. 892 01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:26,733 - Can I keep it? - No, you can't. 893 01:24:27,192 --> 01:24:28,986 I'll put it in here with all the rest. 894 01:24:30,654 --> 01:24:32,948 ...but you can look at it whenever you llke. 895 01:24:33,782 --> 01:24:34,867 Vote for Di Cosimo. 896 01:24:35,158 --> 01:24:40,414 The candidate promises to lead us on a new path! 897 01:24:40,747 --> 01:24:43,375 Vote for Di Cosimo! For a new way of life! 898 01:24:43,375 --> 01:24:45,335 For the sake of our island! 899 01:24:52,467 --> 01:24:54,178 Did that fellow come here? 900 01:24:54,678 --> 01:24:56,972 - Who? - Di Cosimo. 901 01:24:56,972 --> 01:24:58,056 Yes. 902 01:24:59,099 --> 01:25:01,101 Did he? Why are you smiling? 903 01:25:01,894 --> 01:25:06,023 Di Cosimo has served us a fortune on a silver platter. 904 01:25:07,065 --> 01:25:08,150 Really? 905 01:25:08,775 --> 01:25:14,323 20 families will be coming here to work on the new water mains. 906 01:25:14,323 --> 01:25:20,078 Di Cosimo asked us if we can provide them with two meals a day. 907 01:25:20,078 --> 01:25:22,164 And we can't. 908 01:25:22,497 --> 01:25:25,709 We told them we could. They'll be here for two years. 909 01:25:26,418 --> 01:25:30,672 - Without asking me? - Just add it all up. 910 01:25:32,591 --> 01:25:33,258 Money. 911 01:25:34,259 --> 01:25:36,553 All you can think about is money. 912 01:25:36,553 --> 01:25:38,805 Where will we put 20 families? 913 01:25:38,805 --> 01:25:41,600 We'll do two or three servings if necessary! 914 01:25:42,476 --> 01:25:44,770 Please yourselves. 915 01:25:44,937 --> 01:25:48,065 No, we'll do as we please. 916 01:25:48,065 --> 01:25:52,110 Would you be prepared to work in the kitchen, ''signor'' husband? 917 01:25:54,279 --> 01:25:55,864 - In the kitchen? - Yes. 918 01:25:57,491 --> 01:25:58,283 Yes. 919 01:26:16,260 --> 01:26:17,094 Tomatoes, 920 01:26:18,178 --> 01:26:19,721 red entrails, 921 01:26:20,639 --> 01:26:22,099 fresh suns. 922 01:26:24,977 --> 01:26:26,061 Artichokes, 923 01:26:26,270 --> 01:26:27,938 dressed as warriors, 924 01:26:28,647 --> 01:26:30,941 and burnished like pomegranate. 925 01:26:32,776 --> 01:26:33,652 Garlic, 926 01:26:34,778 --> 01:26:36,864 precious ivory. 927 01:26:44,162 --> 01:26:48,041 A toast to Beatrice, the prettiest girl in town! 928 01:27:06,351 --> 01:27:09,354 Alas, we have to kill it... 929 01:27:10,189 --> 01:27:14,234 ...stab a knife into its living pulp. 930 01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:30,626 Look! 931 01:27:33,921 --> 01:27:36,798 - What does it say? - He's in Paris. 932 01:27:39,301 --> 01:27:41,553 ''Whereas I really loved Italy... 933 01:27:42,137 --> 01:27:47,309 where I led a happy life in complete solitude... 934 01:27:48,101 --> 01:27:50,729 and among the most simple people in the world.'' 935 01:27:54,316 --> 01:27:57,152 ''What things are you most nostalgic about?'' 936 01:27:57,402 --> 01:28:02,032 ''Nostalgia is an emotion I can feel only for my own country... 937 01:28:02,950 --> 01:28:06,161 but I will never forget... 938 01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:11,834 my strolls along the beach and among the rocks... 939 01:28:12,459 --> 01:28:15,379 where tiny plants and flowers grow... 940 01:28:15,963 --> 01:28:21,343 exactly the same way as in a large garden composition.'' 941 01:28:23,762 --> 01:28:25,222 Go on. 942 01:28:27,015 --> 01:28:27,850 That's it. 943 01:28:28,058 --> 01:28:31,311 - Oh, that's it. - He doesn't even mention us. 944 01:28:32,729 --> 01:28:36,066 Why should he mention us in an interview? 945 01:28:36,066 --> 01:28:39,403 He's a poet. Poets talk about nature... 946 01:28:39,403 --> 01:28:41,905 not about the people they meet. 947 01:28:42,447 --> 01:28:44,867 The bird that has eaten flies away! 948 01:28:45,325 --> 01:28:49,288 I bet he doesn't even remember what we look like. 949 01:28:49,496 --> 01:28:51,123 You dont know what you're saying... 950 01:28:57,963 --> 01:29:01,091 The day before the elections 951 01:29:02,050 --> 01:29:04,136 ...Upon the polls of June 7th 952 01:29:04,136 --> 01:29:06,221 depends the future of our land. 953 01:29:06,221 --> 01:29:08,182 For this reason, go to vote tomorrow. 954 01:29:09,099 --> 01:29:13,604 Italian towns where trade and industry, professions and jobs flourish, 955 01:29:14,271 --> 01:29:17,774 were democratically given free meetings during the electoral campaign 956 01:29:17,774 --> 01:29:19,026 to point out everyone's opinions. 957 01:29:20,777 --> 01:29:23,113 If you have doubts solve them with your vote. 958 01:29:24,114 --> 01:29:26,533 If you have beliefs, affirm them on your ballot-card. 959 01:29:27,492 --> 01:29:29,453 There's only one appointment: July 7th. 960 01:29:29,661 --> 01:29:34,166 The Christian Democrats have been victorious in every region. 961 01:29:35,334 --> 01:29:38,587 The party chairman has expressed his satisfaction. 962 01:29:38,587 --> 01:29:40,172 Satisfaction! 963 01:29:41,256 --> 01:29:42,132 They haven't managed it. 964 01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:46,970 What? They've taken every region in Italy. 965 01:29:47,304 --> 01:29:49,765 They can't do anything with a handful of votes! 966 01:29:50,224 --> 01:29:52,434 They cannot have the "swindle-Act" pass! 967 01:29:53,310 --> 01:29:54,895 They've won a battle, but not the war. 968 01:29:55,437 --> 01:29:56,897 So we'll win the war? 969 01:29:57,981 --> 01:29:58,732 Who else? 970 01:30:00,025 --> 01:30:03,070 But we have to fight, and we will fight! 971 01:30:03,779 --> 01:30:06,406 It's the only way to break our chains 972 01:30:06,406 --> 01:30:07,658 and set ourselves free! 973 01:30:10,536 --> 01:30:12,037 Yes, but here... 974 01:30:12,788 --> 01:30:14,998 when we've broken our chains... 975 01:30:16,041 --> 01:30:17,417 what do we do then? 976 01:30:19,503 --> 01:30:22,506 If Don Pablo could hear you, he wouldn't approve. 977 01:30:22,506 --> 01:30:26,552 Don Pablo. Don Pablo can't hear me. 978 01:30:26,802 --> 01:30:30,681 Who knows where he is, what he's doing? 979 01:30:34,059 --> 01:30:35,811 What's with these long faces? 980 01:30:36,478 --> 01:30:40,232 Mr. Di Cosimo, this is a tragedy for us. 981 01:30:40,232 --> 01:30:43,402 We were counting on those two years of work. 982 01:30:43,777 --> 01:30:48,115 We'd made plans, run up debts even. 983 01:30:48,448 --> 01:30:50,492 I know, Donna Rosa.. 984 01:30:50,492 --> 01:30:52,911 it's a shame to leave the work half-completed... 985 01:30:53,620 --> 01:30:55,998 but we hope to start again soon. 986 01:30:56,290 --> 01:30:57,541 Soon? When? 987 01:30:58,834 --> 01:30:59,585 I don't know. 988 01:31:01,170 --> 01:31:02,504 It depends. 989 01:31:04,339 --> 01:31:06,383 But I assure you it won't be long. 990 01:31:07,301 --> 01:31:10,554 Anyway, I can't wait to try out your cooking. 991 01:31:13,307 --> 01:31:14,933 What does it depend on? 992 01:31:16,268 --> 01:31:18,604 Company problems are very complicated. 993 01:31:18,604 --> 01:31:21,773 I don't know much about company problems... 994 01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:25,110 but I'm not daft. 995 01:31:27,446 --> 01:31:30,949 We all knew that as soon as you got elected... 996 01:31:30,949 --> 01:31:32,993 the work would come to a halt. 997 01:31:34,203 --> 01:31:34,745 That's true. 998 01:31:38,165 --> 01:31:40,375 The husband's hot-blooded. 999 01:31:43,879 --> 01:31:46,298 If Don Pablo had been here... 1000 01:31:47,090 --> 01:31:48,884 maybe the elections would have gone better. 1001 01:31:52,638 --> 01:31:54,389 Mario, I have something to tell you. 1002 01:31:55,766 --> 01:31:56,892 I'm pregnant. 1003 01:31:58,519 --> 01:32:00,687 - Really? - Yes. 1004 01:32:01,271 --> 01:32:03,607 - You're really pregnant? - Yes. 1005 01:32:06,276 --> 01:32:07,778 We have to leave here. 1006 01:32:09,112 --> 01:32:14,785 No one understands us here. They're all too ignorant. 1007 01:32:14,910 --> 01:32:19,039 We'll go to Chile, so Pablito will grow up there, breathe poetry. 1008 01:32:19,998 --> 01:32:21,083 Pablito? 1009 01:32:21,375 --> 01:32:23,252 Yes, Pablito. 1010 01:32:23,877 --> 01:32:25,546 Don't you like it? 1011 01:32:26,213 --> 01:32:28,674 After Neruda. It'll be a good omen for our son. 1012 01:32:52,614 --> 01:32:54,408 - Mario? - No. He's in front. 1013 01:32:54,408 --> 01:32:56,201 Oh, he's in front... 1014 01:32:59,288 --> 01:33:02,374 Mario, is that you? There's a letter from Chile. 1015 01:33:02,374 --> 01:33:04,751 Put it in my pocket, please. 1016 01:34:03,143 --> 01:34:07,147 - Open it! - Wait..- "Mario Ruoppolo". 1017 01:34:08,148 --> 01:34:10,067 It's the first letter I've ever received. 1018 01:34:32,965 --> 01:34:36,718 ''Santiago, 15th October, 1953. 1019 01:34:39,513 --> 01:34:40,848 Dear Sir... 1020 01:34:42,808 --> 01:34:45,227 I ask you to send me... 1021 01:34:46,061 --> 01:34:49,356 some objects belonging to... 1022 01:34:50,649 --> 01:34:52,818 signor Pablo Neruda... 1023 01:34:54,027 --> 01:34:58,156 which are to be found in the house where he lived... 1024 01:34:58,156 --> 01:34:59,908 during his... 1025 01:35:00,826 --> 01:35:03,704 stay in Italy. 1026 01:35:05,414 --> 01:35:06,790 Address enclosed... 1027 01:35:07,708 --> 01:35:09,251 and a list of... 1028 01:35:10,794 --> 01:35:12,921 the above-mentioned objects. 1029 01:35:14,464 --> 01:35:19,261 The secretary... the secretary... of Pablo Neruda.'' 1030 01:35:32,858 --> 01:35:33,775 And for you? 1031 01:35:34,526 --> 01:35:40,157 Not a word, not a greeting, and he left over a year ago. 1032 01:35:40,741 --> 01:35:44,036 I told you, the bird that has eaten flies away! 1033 01:35:44,036 --> 01:35:48,248 People are kind only when you're useful to them. 1034 01:35:49,208 --> 01:35:51,919 Not again with that ''bird that has eaten.'' 1035 01:35:51,919 --> 01:35:58,175 And useful for what? What did I do for this person? 1036 01:35:58,175 --> 01:36:00,135 In fact, it was always me... 1037 01:36:01,512 --> 01:36:05,390 who would ask, ''Don Pablo, will you check this metaphor?'' 1038 01:36:05,390 --> 01:36:07,851 ''Don Pablo, will you read me a poem?'' 1039 01:36:07,851 --> 01:36:13,023 I'm the one who bothered him. And you say I was useful. 1040 01:36:13,023 --> 01:36:17,611 What did I do? 1041 01:36:18,654 --> 01:36:23,575 And yet he knew I was no good as a poet. 1042 01:36:23,951 --> 01:36:26,328 He knew, you know? 1043 01:36:26,328 --> 01:36:28,580 But instead he treated me like a friend... 1044 01:36:28,997 --> 01:36:32,751 ...all the time. He treated me like a brother. 1045 01:36:34,127 --> 01:36:36,255 It's not true that you're no good. 1046 01:36:38,006 --> 01:36:40,801 And I'm not calling him Pablito. 1047 01:36:41,885 --> 01:36:44,388 What has the baby got to do with it? 1048 01:36:45,681 --> 01:36:47,975 Why, do you think I'm a poet? 1049 01:36:49,226 --> 01:36:53,021 Am I a poet? Have I ever written anything, any poems? 1050 01:36:53,021 --> 01:36:54,648 No, Mario, but-- 1051 01:36:54,648 --> 01:37:00,529 Then ''No, Mario'' nothing, admit it. 1052 01:37:04,324 --> 01:37:07,202 Why should he remember me? 1053 01:37:07,786 --> 01:37:12,499 As a poet, I'm not much good. 1054 01:37:13,333 --> 01:37:16,295 As a postman-- He would hardly remember... 1055 01:37:16,378 --> 01:37:21,341 a postman who took him his mail when he lived in Italy. 1056 01:37:21,341 --> 01:37:22,426 As a communist? 1057 01:37:23,302 --> 01:37:25,637 Not even that. I wasn't very-- 1058 01:37:29,433 --> 01:37:31,518 I think it's... 1059 01:37:32,728 --> 01:37:35,230 quite normal that he-- 1060 01:37:40,569 --> 01:37:42,279 Well, all right. 1061 01:37:42,487 --> 01:37:46,783 Tomorrow, we'll go there and send his things off. 1062 01:40:51,593 --> 01:40:54,388 I told them I'm here with a friend who wishes to say hello... 1063 01:40:54,763 --> 01:40:59,184 and tell them something nice about this beautiful country which is hosting me. 1064 01:40:59,977 --> 01:41:01,979 - No. - Yes. 1065 01:41:02,729 --> 01:41:03,605 Good morning. 1066 01:41:04,565 --> 01:41:05,440 No, there. 1067 01:41:06,650 --> 01:41:07,568 Good morning. 1068 01:41:10,112 --> 01:41:12,322 Something nice about the island? 1069 01:41:12,698 --> 01:41:15,242 Yes, one of the wonders of your island. 1070 01:41:16,535 --> 01:41:18,954 Beatrice Russo 1071 01:41:19,997 --> 01:41:23,709 - Yes, very well. - Well. 1072 01:41:49,276 --> 01:41:51,528 Are you sure it works outdoors, too? 1073 01:41:51,695 --> 01:41:54,865 If it works inside, it'll work outside. 1074 01:41:57,993 --> 01:41:59,286 - It works here. - Yes. 1075 01:42:03,749 --> 01:42:06,710 One, two, three. Is the red light on? 1076 01:42:07,211 --> 01:42:08,212 Yes, it's lit. 1077 01:42:26,522 --> 01:42:31,109 One. Number one. 1078 01:42:31,902 --> 01:42:34,947 Waves at the Cala di Sotto. 1079 01:42:35,614 --> 01:42:36,949 Small ones. 1080 01:42:37,658 --> 01:42:38,700 Go on! 1081 01:42:52,297 --> 01:42:54,216 Number two. 1082 01:42:55,968 --> 01:42:57,886 Waves. Big ones. 1083 01:43:00,097 --> 01:43:01,139 Go on! 1084 01:43:06,728 --> 01:43:09,189 Number three. 1085 01:43:10,566 --> 01:43:12,734 Wind on the cliffs. 1086 01:43:16,446 --> 01:43:18,323 Number four. 1087 01:43:19,324 --> 01:43:22,619 Wind through the bushes. 1088 01:43:34,214 --> 01:43:36,758 Number five. 1089 01:43:38,969 --> 01:43:41,889 Sad nets belonging to my father. 1090 01:43:48,312 --> 01:43:50,647 Number six. 1091 01:43:54,109 --> 01:43:58,906 - Is that enough? - Church bell of Our Lady of Sorrows... 1092 01:43:59,990 --> 01:44:01,575 with priest. 1093 01:44:04,953 --> 01:44:07,039 It's beautiful. 1094 01:44:07,748 --> 01:44:10,000 I never realized it was so beautiful. 1095 01:44:11,919 --> 01:44:13,587 Number seven. 1096 01:44:16,048 --> 01:44:19,176 Starry sky over the island. 1097 01:44:22,137 --> 01:44:25,307 Number eight. 1098 01:44:26,558 --> 01:44:28,477 Pablito's heartbeat. 1099 01:44:35,484 --> 01:44:39,404 - He will hear everything! - Really? 1100 01:44:43,408 --> 01:44:44,618 You can hear it! 1101 01:44:44,910 --> 01:44:47,788 You can hear Pablito's heart! 1102 01:44:54,795 --> 01:44:56,171 I'm not calling him Pablito. 1103 01:45:03,303 --> 01:45:07,224 Five years later... 1104 01:45:40,591 --> 01:45:43,719 Aw... but i am not in the picture... 1105 01:45:53,478 --> 01:45:56,565 And who are you? 1106 01:46:04,198 --> 01:46:05,324 Come here, Pablito! 1107 01:46:09,369 --> 01:46:11,121 Pablito, come here! 1108 01:46:25,177 --> 01:46:27,179 Pablito never saw him. 1109 01:46:28,055 --> 01:46:30,224 He was born a few days later. 1110 01:46:35,854 --> 01:46:37,940 At first, it was hard without him, 1111 01:46:38,273 --> 01:46:39,942 but now it's better. 1112 01:46:40,859 --> 01:46:43,654 By the way, this is something he did for you. 1113 01:46:44,613 --> 01:46:45,989 I was supposed to send it, 1114 01:46:46,657 --> 01:46:48,367 but I kept it instead. 1115 01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:51,620 I listen to it all the time. 1116 01:47:01,797 --> 01:47:03,549 Dearest Don Pablo... 1117 01:47:05,342 --> 01:47:06,134 this is Mario. 1118 01:47:07,678 --> 01:47:09,680 I hope you haven't forgotten me. 1119 01:47:11,181 --> 01:47:13,433 Anyway... 1120 01:47:15,394 --> 01:47:19,273 do you remember that you once asked me... 1121 01:47:19,857 --> 01:47:23,569 to say something nice about my island to your friends... 1122 01:47:23,777 --> 01:47:25,571 and I couldn't think of anything? 1123 01:47:26,530 --> 01:47:27,739 Now... 1124 01:47:28,824 --> 01:47:29,908 ...now I know. 1125 01:47:31,368 --> 01:47:34,162 So I want to send you this tape... 1126 01:47:34,788 --> 01:47:37,749 which, if you want to, you can play to your friends. 1127 01:47:37,749 --> 01:47:40,502 If not, you can listen to it. 1128 01:47:43,088 --> 01:47:45,215 Then you'll remember me... 1129 01:47:46,717 --> 01:47:48,218 and Italy. 1130 01:47:53,932 --> 01:47:55,559 When you left here... 1131 01:47:56,810 --> 01:48:00,814 I thought you'd taken all the beautiful things away with you. 1132 01:48:02,065 --> 01:48:03,692 But now... 1133 01:48:05,402 --> 01:48:06,820 now I realize... 1134 01:48:07,196 --> 01:48:10,991 that you left something behind for me. 1135 01:48:22,586 --> 01:48:25,422 I aIso want to tell you that I've written a poem... 1136 01:48:25,672 --> 01:48:27,966 but you can't hear it because I'm embarrassed. 1137 01:48:28,550 --> 01:48:31,929 It's called ''Song for Pablo Neruda.'' 1138 01:48:32,179 --> 01:48:33,805 Even if it's about the sea... 1139 01:48:35,015 --> 01:48:36,183 it's dedicated to you. 1140 01:48:38,393 --> 01:48:41,688 If you hadn't come into my life I never would have written it. 1141 01:48:43,815 --> 01:48:46,276 I've been invited to read it in public. 1142 01:48:47,694 --> 01:48:52,241 And even though I know my voice will shake, I'll be happy. 1143 01:48:52,991 --> 01:48:56,537 And you will hear the people applaud when they hear your name. 1144 01:49:15,973 --> 01:49:17,015 Comrades! 1145 01:49:17,933 --> 01:49:19,226 Comrades! 1146 01:49:25,357 --> 01:49:29,403 Here is our comrade Mario Ruoppolo, 1147 01:49:30,112 --> 01:49:32,030 who will read you a poem 1148 01:49:33,407 --> 01:49:35,450 which he dedicated... 1149 01:49:35,993 --> 01:49:39,663 to the great poet who is known to us all... 1150 01:49:40,205 --> 01:49:42,332 Pablo Neruda. 1151 01:49:47,462 --> 01:49:49,214 Comrades! Comrades! 1152 01:49:50,299 --> 01:49:54,720 We invite Mario Ruoppolo onto the platform... 1153 01:49:55,929 --> 01:49:56,638 Hear that? 1154 01:49:57,222 --> 01:49:58,640 Hurrah! 1155 01:50:04,396 --> 01:50:07,733 He's Mario Ruoppolo, let him through. Let us through. 1156 01:50:08,192 --> 01:50:09,401 Excuse me! 1157 01:50:11,028 --> 01:50:12,321 We have to reach the platform. 1158 01:50:12,362 --> 01:50:13,989 He's Mario Ruoppolo! 1159 01:50:14,698 --> 01:50:15,240 Mario? 1160 01:50:16,366 --> 01:50:20,787 - Mario? - Comrades! - Mario, where are you? 1161 01:50:20,829 --> 01:50:23,749 Mario? Mario Ruoppolo! 1162 01:50:23,790 --> 01:50:30,506 Comrades, keep calm! 1163 01:51:43,620 --> 01:51:48,709 For our friend Massimo