"Things seen and heard... during the construction of a new building... in "El Chino", a popular Barcelona quarters... that is born and dies with the century." "Good morning." "Hello." "How's that man?" "I didn't finish explaining." "French, English, Italian and here I am." "Five languages." "I worked on an ocean liner." "I've been to London and traveled the world over." "Avenues with squares and arches in London, a great city." "Squares." "Here we urbanize and the streets become narrow... so we don't have a modern city." "It's old-fashioned." "People have aged prematurely." "There's no capacity, no education." "Young people never go to school or study." "That's impossible." "You have to study." "You can't be cultured out of the clear blue, right?" "How do you get cultured?" "Studying and reading." "If not, you can't be cultured." "Is that true or not?" "That's what you need." "Multimillionaire affairs with affairs with... the aid of European funds... to provide the Spanish government government... with European funds... in the sum of a bunch of millions... so as to... demolish all that there, and that square... and make all this a square." "That's easy to do." "They've got all that there to do it in." "And make this a great square." "Because in London, you've got squares,... trees, squares, trees... but here all we do is construct, construct... and end up with narrow and old-fashioned streets." "And those houses you've got right over there... will all be demolished." "They're old-fashioned." "And their inhabitants will go elsewhere." "We can see the square meters... in length, latitude and height." "Length, latitude and height." "You know how much housing there is for these people?" "The square meters there are in length, width and height?" "We need more squares and expand the city more... expand it... in length, latitude, length and height." "Juani." "Juani!" "Over here!" "Try to score!" "Once, strolling with you, someone said:" ""Look, the cripple's kid!" Remember?" "How'd he break his leg?" "Working on a scaffold?" "Your father's a bricklayer, right?" "You said your dad fell of a scaffold... but not that he broke his leg." "Either it's broken or it's not." "Well, is it or not?" " What?" " His leg." "It's in a cast." "Then he's got a leg." "He's not disabled." " He's just wearing a cast." " But he takes his leg off." "How can he take it off?" "Then he doesn't have a leg and wears an "aurtopedic" one." "Then it's not a cast, but an "aurtopedic" leg, man." "When will you go see him?" "Since you're with me, you haven't." "I want to see him... meet him." "How about your mother?" "I don't know where she lives." " You don't know where?" " She moved." "How can you not know?" "You can have many fathers, but just one mother." "You never talk about her." "And about your dad very little." " I did about my stepmother." " She's not your mother." "She didn't give birth to you." " That doesn't make her a mother." " No, even dogs give birth." "She took care of you and brought you up but..." " Bitches give birth." " And dogs." "Dogs don't give birth." "Your mother's gotten red." "She's beautiful, and what a body!" "She wears my clothes, my shoes, my bras." "My mother is beautiful." "We owe 3 months." "Mom sent us the money but we haven't paid." "So did the military guy, and we haven't... paid either." "Miguel says if we don't leave the house... he'll injunction my mother." " What a bastard!" " That makes me mad." "My mother is so good." "I can't let them injunction my mother." "We have to leave." "If they ever check the electric bill... they'll arrest my father." "Why?" "He's been living there 2 years without paying it." " Your father?" " Yeah, he's connected illegally." " He steals electricity." " No." " Yes." " That's robbing the government." "Pay no attention to people... go along with me and love me more." "If one day I could... soar to the stars..." "I would take you to... where no one could see us." "Pay no attention to people... go along with me and love me more." "Because if this is scandalous... it's more shameful to not know how to love." "Come on!" "The machine's on its way!" "Since my boyfriend's coming to work..." "I'm going to work as well." " You have to take care of people." " I can do whatever." "When I was a kid..." "I worked with a pick and a shovel." "What kind of work was that?" "Just planting things." "But with a pick and a shovel." "That weighs like hell." "Look at my muscles." "Wow, that's not bad." " Feel it." " I can see it." "Those bones have kept very well." " Do you know how old they are?" " 1.500 years." " What period, Roman?" " The dirt in its mouth... seeps through,... with the dampness, into the bones." "Well what do you think about that." " ...only those 2." " There are 3 more there." "We'll find more." "This place is packed." "Can we know if they're men or women, or not?" "No, you can't see their genitals any longer." "That's a man, judging by the fibula." "Women's fibula isn't the same." "Besides, they have one less rib than men do." "We can count them... and see how many ribs there are." "Don't men have one less?" "No, women have one rib less." "Look at the teeth, they're better than mine." "It's not missing any." "It doesn't even have a bridge." "In that period..." " They spoke something strange." " Catalan?" " I don't think so." " No?" "Latin?" " They spoke Latin." " They'd say "dominus voviscum"." "And "secula seculorum"." "The Romans were a little strange, weren't they?" "If I discover gold... we'll have to leave the site." "There's another one here... and there are more over there." "The construction work... will be suspended for quite some time." "But you'll get paid anyway, right?" "The workers are going to be on vacation." "If whoever has to construct here hasn't much money..." "That's not a house." " Sure, there's the roof." " No, the tip of the house." "No, it doesn't keep going." "They're graves, like a little house." "They demolish many old buildings and discover cities." "Are those gnomes, or what?" "They buried them naked?" "Some clothing would be left." "No, okay." "But, naked?" "Listen." "Have you ever seen a corpse..." " dressed?" " Yes." "When I go to a funeral parlor, they're dressed." "And years later, you always find some clothing left." "But here it's as if you can take them dancing." "No, the worms eat their clothing away." "No, I'm sorry, there are worms only when there's wood." "This is what they don't eat." "Three." "Four." "There must be many more." "Four." "Seven, eight, nine, ten..." " eleven." " Twelve." "An ethnic slaughter." "They've been there many years." "Bravo!" "I admire you, Bruno." "How old are they?" "The VIth century." "The VIth century?" " Before or after Christ?" " After, of course." "No, man, no." "Romanesque is older... than Gothic." "The Goths came later." "Look,... when you see a church... with a round arch... completely round,... it's Romanesque." "When it's Gothic, it's pointy." "People sure do have a lot of fun here, don't they?" "I'm going to be one of them." "I don't want to be a vet anymore." "To me it's Arabian." "That, Arabian?" "St. Pau is Romanesque." "But not Gothic." "Gothic is pointy." " There's a baby there!" " Look, another head!" "There's another head." "Look, there's a little head?" " Where?" " There!" "I don't see... the bodies." "Where?" "There are two there." "I don't see them." "See, son, those are the bones we've got inside." "That's how we look when we die." " There's more." " No, not that." "Those are stones." "And television, radio..." "Skeletons are like that during the day... but at night they get up." "Oh, sure they do!" "They've got a soul, right?" "They get up alone." "Haven't you ever seen a walking skeleton on TV?" " Sure, on TV." " You see?" "But TV is just a fantasy." " Don't you get it?" " I do." "I've never seen it." "Never, ever." "A friend of mine has a skeleton... that you can hang." " Can I be next to her?" " Of course, young lady." "What time are you going to start tomorrow?" "...it was the Roman Empire." "Oh, Romans." "So, not Spanish?" "Forget it." "Life is so strange." "A worker was going to widen this... and found the bodies." "That's historic and shouldn't be touched." "They have to analyze it." "They should show some respect." "This is a cemetery, man." "They should cover it up again." "Legally, it's a cemetery, and they shouldn't construct." "There's no need to get upset." "That's all we are." "With all our obsessions." "Look at what we are." "Look at what we are." "So much irritation in life." " We all fit in the same hole." " All of us." " Everyone, both rich and poor." " Yes, there is no distinction." " There's no difference." " Luckily, or it would be too much." "We live directly over bodies and don't even know it." "God damned dog!" "Any more bones yet?" "And entire bodies." "That must have been during the war, it's so long ago." "Sure." "Called The Worker." "They tore it down and built a factory... to make iron and things like that." "Right there." "They could find coins and very ancient things." "They say they used to bury them with all their things." " Their belongings." " Money, at least." "Look for gold!" "I hope they find gold, kid." "They'd be rich." "Instead of paying the workers with money, they'd... pay in gold." "This is from those murders and what happened in Spain." "Believe me." "This is from when the Romans came." "Sure, the Romans and their broads." "Not men, women." "But they're just bodies, man." "The crimes committed in Spain." "They buried them... so no one would see them." "On TV they said it's Roman." "But, who knows?" "They used to die on the street." "I remember, here in this area... during the war, they'd die right on the street." "They did so many things then." "Well..." "I've got to go, kids." "When I die they can burn me." "My father wants to be cremated." "Not me." "They'll turn him into ashes." "And your kids keep your ashes." " "Look, mom's ashes."" " If I have kids." " And I don't want any." " Shit, you're..." "The wall... is wide and thick." "But the beams... are very old... and the wood is very good." "Wood from way back." "There's a lot of iron in that building." "That iron beam there is the most expensive." "It's a train track." "It's steel." "A lot of empty houses... and good ones." "If they give me one, I'd fix it up myself." "I wouldn't live in a stairwell." "In a stairwell." "They said there was a Roman cemetery there." "...to buy a home is getting more and more expensive." " In April and July..." " Much more expensive." " More expensive." " More, yes sir." "With the new houses they're now constructing..." "The transformation process makes them more expensive." "The neighborhood is not the same." "It's dead." "I liked it before." "You had "Barcelona de Noche"..." " The "Bar Sardina"..." " With beautiful mulatto women." ""El Rastrillo"." "A whole bunch of bars." "French girls." "Spanish girls." "Then it was 500 pesetas plus the room, but now it's 5.000." "Back then they took care of themselves." "They did, I know." "And now they do too." "I screwed a mulatto woman... who was divine." "18 years old." "I've always avoided... prostitutes like that, you know?" " I've had various opportunities." " And the others are difficult." "So, I just don't do anything." "I just look and that's it." "Back then there were very nice women... in Buenos Aires, in Uruguay, in Brazil." "Very beautiful women at discotheques and things." "Not from "El Chino"." "Good looking." "The were saying something about a tycoon." "You've got that all wrong." "It's a typhoon, not a tycoon." "It's not the same." "It's different." "Like wind... like lightning... that devastates everything." "Some typhoons start out at sea, a determined part of the ocean." "And then they take off at the speed of air." "To consider it a typhoon... it's speed has to be over 100 kilometers... approximately 150 kilometers per hour." "A tremendous force." "It can sink a boat." "It didn't sink mine." "...crisis in Kosovo." "And while that meeting was being held... the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated... its indignation over the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia,... requesting to have the bombings stopped and... a new negotiation on the crisis." "...contrary to NATO's attitude." "And Russia differs from Washington in... the way to reach a solution the war could have crossed the Albanian border..." "You have to be in love... with your work, as if it were... your girlfriend." "If not, you don't apply yourself." "You've already got your draft notification." "You'll see your family, girlfriend and friends cry." "When he goes into the service, we'll sing him that song." "What if we go under with this war?" "That's easy the way things are getting." "You got a watch." "What time is it?" "I'm... working in construction so long... but still can't afford a watch." "It's best to live time as you go along." "If you waste time looking at your watch..." "But, truthfully, when I came here to Catalonia... one of the first things we did... was buy a wristwatch and... visit this neighborhood." "We used to come have drinks here." "It was lively, but now everything is closed." "All you see are a few old men." "We've decided to make a new district here... and we'll make it." "Well, not us." "The mayor of Barcelona wants a new neighborhood here." "Extend that blue line, dad." "And we have to get it, sooner or later." "Dad, extend that blue line." "If we raise it two cms.,... the height also increases." " Raise it 2 cms.?" " Of course." "Here it varies a bit, dad." "How much does it vary?" "About 2 cms.... regarding the next to last step." "The problem must be... the thickness of the pencil mark." " No, that's impossible." " Now we'll see." "Place the tape measure on the line, like I told you." " I go off here." " Let me see." "Mark it." "That's it." "Very good." "Whoever finishes first helps his colleague." "Talk to the foreman." "With luck,... you'll start to work soon." "If not, they'll tell you... if they need anything." "A drink?" "No." "Nothing?" "Not in the morning." "This site is nice." "It's very big." "But many neighbors... lived here all their lives." "They threw them out." "They get other houses." "They get 800.000 pesetas... and the company gets 20 million." "That's true." "It's not fair." "It would be nice to work here." "Sure, I live close by." "Moroccans work up there." "I know them." "They're from Rif." "They live around here." "They speak only Riff?" "Yes, only." "I live here." "I could walk across... a board to get here." "I could use a board to... come directly to the building." "To the fourth floor." "That's the foreman,... wearing the white helmet." "Bye." "H.." "Place them all like this." "With the good side..." " Outwards." " outwards." "This way I just pick them up." " No, those are okay." " They're okay?" " Yes." " I'll put them." "Lucky the boss didn't see you." "We're here to work,... no to understand." "We have to learn." "If you do, you're fired." "This is detailed." "Here the kitchen." "The bathroom." "We call it "restroom"." "We call it "water room"." "Dining room." "The door." "Here's the entrance." "There's no exit." "We know no exits,... just entrances." "Once inside, you can't leave." "We understand the blueprints." "We'll be experts." "If you see a pyramid blueprint... you'll see!" "So you've seen me." "So what?" "I haven't done anything." "You're worth noting." "No one would pay for you." "We'll go early." "The film starts at 10." "Want to see the new "Star Wars"?" "No, "Matrix"." "So just pay for the room." "Okay, but tomorrow, okay?" "Don't stand me up tomorrow." " See you later." " See you later." "I'm sick of this helmet." "We haven't advanced at all." "The concrete's not here." "Without it, we're lost." "A whole day to lay a 300-meter floor." "This is going very slow." "Is there another truck waiting?" " No." " We'll have to sleep here." "Look at the time it is." "A quarter to five." "What's with that mortar guy?" "Hey!" "We're gonna have a nap here!" "I leave at 6... and it's almost time." "Juan, what time is it?" " There's nothing to argue." " We must lay the floor." "When we finish this, we leave." "If you pour the pillars, I leave, I won't stay." "If you lay the floor, I'll stay." "But not the pillars." "You stay or go when you want." "Priority: the floor." "The pillars, tomorrow." "You don't know what you're talking about." "You should be ashamed." "We can't lay a 300-meter floor in one day." "Here it is." "Here is what?" "Where's the floor foreman?" "Call him and I'll tell him exactly where to get off." "It's not fair." "What are we doing here?" "Things have to be done when they have to be done." "You leave whenever you want." " Go on, Juan." " Let's lay the floor." "If you pour the pillars, I leave at 6." " You can leave now!" " I'll leave at 6." "Now... release that cupola and fasten the other one." "People plant big trees... on their roofs." "I think it's a boy, but Japanese." "Japanese or Filipino, or something like that." "Watch the little asshole." "One." "One." "What?" "Come on." "Yes." "Raise your arm." "Up!" "Up!" "Up!" "Up!" "Will you come with me?" "Up!" "Yes." "Come here." "Come here." "Let's pour the concrete." " We're moving that way." " Yes, we're advancing." "That's it." "Give me a chance, you bastard." "I'm gonna kill that black shit bag." "No, that's an Arab." "What a bastard!" "Die." "Son of a bitch." "Take that, you son of a bitch!" "Son of a God damn bitch!" "I've got chalk." "That's a cool slide." "It's a spaceship." "This here could be a little grass." " There's no grass." " The green canvas." "No, that could be the garden." "We cut it up and make a garden." "With vegetables here." "A little garden with tomatoes and vegetables..." "The dining room here, and the door here." "This would be the entrance." "We'll sleep here, and you two there." "No, you with her and me with him." "We're brother-in-laws." "Wait." "Sonia." "The invisible man." "What's up?" " You, here?" " I'm on leave." "I have a 3-day leave." " 3 days?" " Wednesday I go back." "How about a date?" " A date." " Sure." "I leave Wednesday." " You leave Wednesday." " Yeah." "This place isn't the same without you." "I'm always here, watching you." " Still got your cell phone?" " You don't ever call me." " I call your cell phone." " But now I'm moving and..." " Where to?" " Pueblo Seco." "This place won't be the same... if you're not here." "Maybe another girl'll move in and you can make her." "She can't be as nice as you." "I'd say." " Pueblo Seco?" " The rich kid section." "The rich kid section?" " You're rich." " Of course, can't you tell?" "I don't want to marry a bricklayer." "Not a bricklayer, a molder." "No difference, you're all the same." "When are you going to finish the building?" "When are you going to be finished?" "That guy's strong." "Fuck!" "With just two fingers." "My guy's more handsome." "Just in his face alone." "His pants are falling from the shit that's on them... or maybe his balls are heavy." "Shut up, what would you know." "He's thin but stocky." "He's all muscle, idiot." "You know nothing about that." "Look,... those aren't ribs, they're triceps." "Not biceps, triceps." "He's got abdomen... biceps and triceps... and everything else." "Are you envious or what?" "Don't pull my tongue." "When you get back from the service, we've got to talk... about who's better, you or him." "You're still a kid, idiot." "A big cock, but a kid." "The little Arab lives around here." "I've seen him around." "I've seen the little Arab around." "He's got a nice body." "He's a hunk." "Don't touch me." "Don't touch me!" "I'm serious." "The kid's gotten mad." "Want a joint, baby?" "Want a joint?" "You can't think?" "Then forget me." "After the service you have to think, and... if you're with me, it's to work." "Why don't you do queer tricks for me, instead of me for you?" ""Because..." " I'm not queer."" " Will you shut up?" "I should belt you." "Get work, you dog." "You saw the other guy work." "Get to work and I won't have to use makeup." " I don't like makeup." " Sure you do." "This stings like hell." "Should I do my eyes or not?" "No?" "It's hard to get it off afterwards, I know." "Do I have any hair around here?" "On my neck?" "I should look like a girl, not a grown woman." "Even if only with rouge." "Not both." "Just the bottom lip." "That's it." "Juani, please." "Work for me and I wouldn't have to... do this." "Oh, my stud, get yourself a job." "I'm leaving." "I'm going to leave." " Accompany me." " No way." "Let me go... to work." "Wait until a quarter to." "Ten minutes." "You remove my lipstick so no one else can, right?" "I don't kiss anyone, and you know that, idiot." "Ten minutes, Juani." " Come on!" " Juani." " Come on, get up." " No." "Yes." "If your jealous, get a job." "Get a job." "Didn't Pollo tell you?" "Didn't she?" ""If your jealous, work for her." "If you love her, go to work."" "And if you find a room that is pretty nice..." "How much?" "I said I'd give her 2 or 3 thousand more for the..." "TV but she says it's rather late." " She's unsociable." " She's very, very bad." "She goes way overboard." "I do her odd jobs with the electricity, water and stuff." "She's a bad woman." "She's an ogre, something evil." "A devil." "I know she's real sly." "She's like poison." "She always has to be saying something." "Yeah, always." "I'll look for another house." "Because that house is in no condition to be lived in." "...that would be impossible to carry out elsewhere." "To erect a pyramid in the middle of the desert." "A construction greater than the largest in the world." "That will be my resting place... for my other life." "This is my part of the spoils of war." "Look at this." "Touch it." "I love the tact of gold." "No other metal can equal it." "Now I need to construct a tomb for my body to rest." "A tomb no man can enter... and rest in peach with my riches in my other life." "The architects have finished and you can see the drawings." "You do your best and... then they plant a wall there... so no one can see what we've done." "It's hidden, but you know it's there." "That's it." "Like a person, their soul is within them." "A person's souls is almost a secret... and the soul of a structure... is concealed." "You see what's pretty, but not the interior." "To make a structure... is very simple, as well as the roof." "This is much more laborious." "It shows you that no matter how much quality you have here... how well you secure it... this will not be as non- perishable as that." "I've always realized one thing." "The Sacred Family Church can take as long as necessary... to be constructed." "Why?" "Because Jesus Christ is in no hurry." "An engaged couple... would want the key to their apartment... the day after the proposal so they can get married." "We have to finish soon." "40.000 couples have bought these apartments." "But now construction... work is simpler than before." "Whoever did that had to be very intelligent." "You know how much it would cost nowadays?" "No one would dare try it." "That top stone, with the two arches... made by a stonecutter with a chisel and a mallet... would take about a week." "Nothing is handmade now." "There must be some mystery we cannot understand." "The thing is that stone... natural stone doesn't age." "That's the only secret." "That has to have some sort of mystery." "That's from the past." "They had all the time in the world." "They caught criminals and stuck them in there." "How'd they get those large blocks up there?" "As always, with pulleys." "Like we used to do with one of those things." "Imagine erecting a pyramid with those tremendous blocks." "What system?" "You couldn't do that today." "The pyramids, with a... pulley and a rope, they'd lift the stone." "Someone was waiting atop, took it... leaned it and let the hook go." "But they were cut millimetrically." "They were all cut." "Like the iron bars you have cut to use on the cap." " They were all cut." " They all fit together." "Everything was already designed." "All stones to size." "There were no architects back then." "They had to be enlightened." "Look at "Land of the Pharaons"..." "We see they had architects." "That king wanted to make his own... tomb." "He wanted an architect... to build something that couldn't be looted." "And he found him." "Many renowned architects came." "But he said what they brought him was no good." "The proof is he picked that one." "And he did something that... every time I see the film..." "I'm amazed... at what that man did way back then." "It's unthinkable." "Like an hourglass or a pendulum." "When it's empty, the sand comes down constantly... until it is completely sealed." "It was made airtight... by some blocks they brought from God know where." "I remember... they were running out of time... and the king was..." "But they didn't have delivery problems with the concrete." "Sure they did." "The same problem." ""The quarry isn't delivering... stone." "The workers don't eat and... can't work." "They're weak." "We need more funds."" "It's the same system as nowadays." "Wine is too good for anyone to eat the grapes." "To eat the grapes is unforgivable." " Look, the little one." " H.." " Hello there." " How are you?" "What about school?" " There's no school today." " There isn't?" "I went at 8." "Now, when we leave, we'll have to cry a bit." "Are you going to cry, baby?" "New people will come to live here... boys her age." " That'll be much better." " She already has a boyfriend!" "I don't have a boyfriend." "What happened with the neighbors?" "The other day... a neighbor told me she was going to call the police... because, at 1 in the afternoon there were boys and girls... throwing stones at the balcony windows." "You know anything about that?" "No, at I was still in school at one." " It was Sunday." " Sunday?" "We were here on Sunday but... we didn't do anything." "When kids come to this construction site, what...?" "Can't you play better in the park, or somewhere else?" "But some kids come here, play, and do things." " Things." " Graffiti with chalk." "You can have it." "Take it." " It's not bad, is it?" " No, it's not." "Give it to me." "Give it to me." "I should have asked that client for more than just... a cup of coffee and a cigarette." "He's liable to come see whether I do it or not." "There are some guys..." "Did you see my house?" "We had a party the other day... but now it's demolished." "There's nothing left." "I saw the guys the other day knocking down the walls." " It's gone." " Completely." "It's a song that's a shame... for me to even mention." "You can barely see there." "Let me get this for you." "Will you sleep today, or have insomnia again?" "That doesn't worry me." "You've only slept 3 hours, 2 nights in a row." "No be quiet, one of the bosses is coming." "What a slice they take." "You're right, but capitalism isn't eternal." "I say capitalism... existed, exists and will keep on existing." "No it won't." "It'll disappear like slavery and feudalism." " Slavery doesn't exist now?" " It did in primitive society." "Another slavery and another feudalism." "Talk to me about laying bricks and forget politics." "It's not politics." "I'm not interested in talking about that." "It's people's struggle." "It is people's own struggle... for their rights and all." "I'm more at ease not thinking about that." "Not thinking about that nor remembering anything." "You think only of bricks?" "And something else that's pestering me." "Okay." " Like what?" " Will you please shut up!" "You don't want talk." "Okay." " What?" " I wasn't talking to you." " Talking to yourself?" " Yes." "Everybody does that." "Some do it aloud... and others whisper, but we all talk to ourselves." "The Palestinian poet I told you about the other day... has a beautiful poem entitled..." ""A Letter to God"." " Were you ever religious?" " Never." "Never?" "I've never confessed." "Never made my 1st Holy Communion." "Nothing." "I sing the Internationale every morning." "That's the religion of poor people." "At times I pray... when things don't go well." "I have a rosary, a tremendous litany... but not always." "All human being has a moment of weakness and... calls it God, or whatever." "Calls it God?" "I'd like to see him." "See where he is." " Well..." " What he looks like." "Once I asked a priest." "You know what he answered?" ""God does not get involved with earthly things."" " Okay?" " Yeah, sure." "He doesn't get involved." "Then I asked the same priest: "Can you... explain what the Holy Trinity is?"" "Yeah." ""It's a mystery."" "It is." "It's a secret, but he didn't explain it." "Maybe he didn't know either." "I didn't know you had worked in a cemetery." "Constructing niches... new niches for the city." "If I'm unemployed and have a job, and they offer job... like that one, I would not accept." " It's just a job." " Sure but, I don't know." "When constructing the niches I'd get into them... to take a midday nap." "When they force you..." " you lose..." " Your fear." "Not fear, but respect." "This is... a lot of love, you know." "Remember this?" "And this?" " The iguana." " I don't want to smoke anymore." " I'll do it then." " No, no, no." "No, no, no." "Put your tongue like this." "Turn it up." "I said no." "I can smoke backwards." "You shitass!" "Now what?" "I didn't pinch you." "Fascist!" "What do your parents do... turn the fascist music all the way up?" "Then a neighbor beats you up." "A whole week at home with a black eye." "Those things only happen to you, Ivan." "You, just house music." "Worse than the Serengeti drums." "What shit!" "My God!" "The Legion." "Why must you go to the Legion?" "You could be... well-off in the mountains." "I know it's the water." " The rain." " Sure but, what can we do?" " Santiago." " Yeah?" "The level." " It's not for hammering." " Neither is it for..." "Once it's yours, you can do whatever you want with it." "It was mine now." "Once it's your, do whatever you want with it." "God damn it!" "Finally Abdel Salam will construct a pyramid." "Abdel Salam?" "You're a professional!" "Little by little." " No one's born a bricklayer." " No one." "This isn't water, it's snow!" " Is that level?" " Of course it is." "How's the "water scale"?" "Had you ever seen snow?" "No." "Your first time?" "The first." "As a kid, in the mountains,..." "I saw everything white." "Imagine a small child... with a little jillaba." "In a child's life... snow is absolutely wonderful." "I won't this year but, you know what I used to do?" "I'd get plastered, and then sleep it off." "I'd do that absolutely on purpose." "I'd get one or two bottles of wine... and... then to bed." "I'd feel nothing." "I drink too... to forget." " Don't laugh." " To soothe." "What I told you is the truth." "It's tough." "One thing is talking about it... and another living it." "Christmas is tough." "You feel even lonelier." " It is more..." " Loneliness tortures you more." "Look at it fall." "Look." " Like cotton." " Yes, or feathers." "Look." "The snow of salvation." "You're not like my half- priest as well, are you?" "It's really snowing." "Snow like this... has made even colder... a revolution,... the Russian revolution... the workers of the world!" "Did you see the film "Strogoff" yesterday?" "Of course." "I saw it in the bar." "I was watching the soccer match... and when it finished..." "I saw "Strogoff"." "Nature is whispering to Barcelona... by means of the snow." "Don't knock my brains out, okay?" "Don't you drink, or what?" "No, we don't." "For religious reasons?" "Sure, religion is going to prevent me from drinking!" "I sure do." "Well, not right now." "But usually, in the afternoon after lunch... and on Sunday, I sit at the table... and drink a whole bottle of brandy." "When I leave here..." "I lock myself in my room." "I don't even know my next door neighbors." "Nor want to." "You should try to coexist with people." "Since you take so many blows in live... you become an introvert, and that's bad." "But in the long run, loneliness... gets you down." "And makes you bad-tempered." "Yes." "When I leave her now I'm going to Besós." "Once there... tomorrow I'll go to the market at 7 aim." "What else do I have to do tomorrow?" "I don't know,... go to the drugstore." "And then... just above the market... they have a flea market." "So I go there, walk around." "I go back home... around 12:30... and just stay home." "Until I come over here." "I don't know." "If you want to go out and have fun..." "If you do, I'll put you on the list." "The list for having fun." " The list." " What for?" "I know a lot of girls from Galicia." "I don't get it." "I've never told a woman she's pretty or ugly..." "But I got along." "In Morocco... since there are less bars than here... people... talk to women on the street... at the market, and things like that." "Striking up a conversation." "I'm too rude." "I get to the point." "Had you been born Moroccan, you wouldn't be like that." "You'd be more poetic." "Well, who knows?" " 3 o'clock." "Let's go." " Are we going to work?" "We have to clean this up." "Let's go." " Your back?" " Yes." "I dress more elegantly than millionaires." "And here I am." "Clean trousers and shirt every day." "Because I'm different." " I like to dress and eat well." " Clothes are expensive." "Adverb of quantity, a proparoxytone:" "VERY EXPENSIVE!" "Very expensive." "Much more than expensive." "Look..." " Because you dress like a lord." " Even better." "I know." "The best." "The most expensive, because I have good taste." "It's a different taste." "For that you need money." "I'm not talking about spending." "I'm talking about taste." "I'm talking about taste, like in palate." "How are you planning on spending Christmas?" "Like now, always calm and with good food." " Always the same." " Calm and good food?" "And a bottle of whiskey and Coca-Cola." " If you can afford it." " I'll try." "You should always try." "I have a bottle of whiskey every year." " I don't drink." "I just..." " Neither do I." " eat and..." " It is pleasant." "Whatever rich people have, so do I." "I spend money on myself." "I have watches and things." "Like this." "Delicate things." " I'll show you." " Do you have a girlfriend?" "And how come you don't have a girlfriend?" "I'm in love." "With the sea." "I'm in love with the sea." "I've spent my life looking at the sea." "It's beautiful." "You have to spend whole days looking at the sea... to recognize the beauty of the universe... and the immensity of the sea." "10, 14 days from Europe to America." "Extraordinary beauty." "If you don't see it, you can't know." "You lose track of time and of everything." "That's happiness." "You see the sky and the sea... night and day." "I'd sit on the stern and look at the sea." "The sea is so beautiful." "Now you're a grounded sailor." "Now you can look at the streets, to see if they're... clean or not." "There are a lot of things to see." "Look at this antique clock." "It's for sale too." "It's beautiful." "It's missing the little wheel to wind it with." "It's not call a wheel, but a key." "To wind it." "Delicious, extraordinary things." "Even I'm amazed." "How can something like this be mine?" "I have a quartz clock too." " This clock is stopped." " A quartz clock." "Look at the time." "20 to, exactly." "And this lighter isn't a simulation." "It's authentic." "The flame is balanced in gases and proteins." "It runs out?" "Everything in life runs out." "It depends on the flame." "You have to pay for conveniences." "They're not free." "I hear the music but, does it light?" " If you load it, yes." " It works on gas?" "On gas." "Whims!" "This is black here." "It goes here, over your nose... and you can go underwater diving." "For underwater diving, see?" "Whims!" "I try to have people realize who I am." "Neither explaining it nor talking do they understand me." "We like it, but not you, but we're all alike... we speak the same language." "It seems as if they don't know what they're saying." "I'm not like that, and that's all they say." " Tonight they're showing "Zorro"." " You see?" "This is a whim." "It adapts right here." "This is this color, this is black." "With a band in the back." "And it can go underwater." "I wouldn't try it, I'd drown." " Water seeps through it." " These are whims." "Some people are very capricious, yes." "They are for capricious people." "I know you get good stuff cause I've seen them... like radios, and things of the sort." "A lighter, a clock I found." "But I never find anything... worth half a million or a million pesetas." "That's much more hidden." "You have to try your luck." "Whoever looks for it, finds it." "I seem to be having a little luck." "The other day..." " I found 20.000 pesetas." " Shit!" "Where?" " In a bar." " Give me half." " I spent it all." " Shit, you're fast!" "That's the way I live." "I told you before, I spend a lot of money." "Although it seems I wouldn't harm a fly... in personal things: whiskey, Coca-Cola,... a good beer, French fries." "A special beer." "Go on!" "I can't even bend down anymore." "Yesterday I was happy, and today I'll be more." "I sing so well!" "Nowadays it's difficult to be poor." "You know the poor invest in the stock market?" "How can they if they have no money?" "They live like rich people... with rich people's mentality." "Don't give yourself air." "Whoever isn't aware of classes, man!" "That is... alienating." "I have a headache." "I have a headache." "You didn't sleep last night." "You didn't sleep last night." "You know what I was doing at 2 aim.?" "Drinking..." "I couldn't sleep." "That's not normal." "Are you in love, or what?" "Good God!" "You're killing me." "That's a low blow!" "Love doesn't let you sleep at times." "I see at the top they had to use... an angle." "They'll remove it later." "I heard your mother passed away." " Yes." " May she rest in peace." " Thank you." " I'm sorry." "We all have to take that road." "A certain saying goes:" ""The problem is not dying, but waiting for death."" "Waiting because you know it will arrive." "That's where all selfishness ends." "Everything ends." "Sure." "Let me get this out of the way..." "My dream was about tremendous rocks coming." "A large boulder to one side, and another on top." "I was suffocating, couldn't breathe." " Until I woke up." " They were going to..." " crush you." " Completely." "From the sides and above." "And this... stopped ticking until I woke up." "And when I'd wake up, I couldn't breathe." "I'd wake up trembling, and sweating at times." "The problem... that bothers you... is that the story in the dream is... almost like reality, and that terrifies you." "I dreamt about my room, my bed,... me in bed." "The window... and a ghost... you know... trying... trying to have a look in." "I can see just one eye, not its entire head." "And you see that image where you're sleeping." "The window, the ghost." "And you trying to open your eyes to defend yourself... but you can't." "I've had those, and wake up scared." "Imagine, that happened to me for almost a month." "That's terrible." "During those two months... my father was very ill... very sick... and I had those nightmares constantly." "Constantly." "The partitioner will finish this off." "Maybe it should sound like this." "In an apartment it should sound more like this." "They're all very noisy." "This is the stairway... and a fire door." "You can't see it too well... but the others go over here." " Yes, right there." " Yes, there is the outlet." "Is that okay for your decoration?" " Yes, perfect." " Okay for your decoration?" "And the light outlet goes right over here." "From here you can lead it to wherever you want." "I'll put my aquarium here." "It's a 300-litre aquarium." "And here is the kitchen." "The kitchen is very important." " It is." " For her." "I'm the one who'll have to clean it." " Where do you want it?" " Hold it right there." " Ready?" " Of course, "darling"." "You screwed it all up!" "Use the glue." "Use it on both sides." " Why?" " It's a whim." "What do you think?" "I liked the other one better." "You liked the other one better?" " With this view?" " The view's fantastic." "You get so much light here." "I don't know." " Well..." " That school is nice." "None of the other apartments have a view like this." "The church and the school are nice." "Is that west or north." "No, it's west." "When the sun is high you close your blinds... because the sun can ruin curtains and woodwork." "If you don't like them, we can change them." "Thank you." "Please give us your phone number..." " so we can call you directly." " Sure." "Besides, this apartment is historic." "Below you have... the Roman tombs, you know." "I saw a picture in the newspaper." "Is that a school?" "Is it very noisy?" "No, children are lively." "They liven things up." "There used to be a house here on the corner..." "We're standing over a factory." "A lamp factory." "We've left the connections... for the TV and telephone... so you can put the cabinet here." "The table and radiator go here... the cabinet goes here!" "That's true." "But a lot of people... eat in the kitchen." "With the little table... they eat in the kitchen." "I don't like eating there." "I respect all opinions." "But not in the kitchen." "Of course!" "Why have a dining room?" "This one's more rectangular." "Squarer." "Would you know?" "How will it be closed off?" "Everyone'll walk through." "It'll be limited by the facade." "And a grating out back." "So no one can get in." "Eventually all these will be new houses... and the view will be much prettier." "What I don't want is... clothes hanging on the balcony." "Neither you nor City Hall." "That's against the law." "Your neighbors are important too." "If he is nice, handsome..." "This one has no terrace." "No, just that little balcony." "That's more of a pain." "In a Mediterranean country,... without a sunny balcony!" "With a bit of luck, this'll be sunny here." " That's difficult." " A bit here." "Once this is covered up... you'll lose... that old view." "That's ugly, very ugly." "That's what I would do in this room." "What goes here, aluminum?" "Aluminum." " Aluminum." " Or glass bricks?" "Aluminum." "I see they've made a semicircle so..." "I guess it will be." "1, 2, 3, 4." "And a round curtain... just like an old theater." "They open like this." "There's a video-intercom." "You see your visitor." ""Who's there?" I won't open." "I do or I don't open." "Technology." "Perfect." " Well?" " I told you." "Look, real cool." " How many meters?" " 97.36 of useful surface plus... the balcony with 2.07 square meters." "Which makes a total surface of 111.47." "It's all exterior." "That's about 270 a square meter." "With that picture window and the light, it's beautiful." "It is charming." "Let's say hello to that nice man who could be our neighbor." "Hello." "Hello, sir!" "He's paying no attention." " Take her hand, Mayte." " Hello." "Louder." "Hello!" "Hello, sir, hello!" "Hello!" "He can't see you." " Louder, darling." " Hang on to her, Mayte." "Now he's waving." "He's waving hello." "From construction site to construction site." ""For immediate construction." "11 months."" "If you don't, your fuckin' father's gonna carry you!" " He can't." " Cause he's limp." "That foot of his." " He gets into fights." " Lay off him." " Lay off your father?" " He can fight with 2 feet... and with one as well." "We're almost at my place." "Tell that guy on the bike to take you." "Wait, I'm slipping." "I'll do that, asshole." "What a jerkoff!" "I'll get even with you." "Good-bye, my home." "Lift your legs." "Make an effort too." "Please!" "I'm getting tired!" "I'm very strong but..." "I can go no further." "Shit, look how far I carried you!" "Lift your legs, dog." " I can't carry you like that." " I'll carry you now." "Sure!"