"Well, I want the comrades to know" "I am ready to face whatever will be." "If it's The Farm, it's The Farm." "I want the comrades to know that when I arrived in Santiago, my mother was dying." "I spent there" "Four nights without sleeping, running around, keeping the old lady company." "And that if I decided to return it was because I felt that she was out of danger." "That which I am saying was witnessed by the personnel at the hospital in Santiago." "All the comrades know me." "They know I am a laid-back person, that I am pretty cheerful." "But he who is not a good son, comrades, cannot even be a good worker, or man, or nothing." "I know that here in the assembly, there are comrades who have conspired against me." "I know there are some comrades who have doubted my word, and who are still doubting my word." "To those comrades who have doubted, and who still doubt," "I want to repeat what I said at the beginning:" "that I am ready to accept the decision of the assembly." "Listen, this is no way to conduct the assembly..." "Yourself, yourself." "What's happening is that you're disrespecting the comrades here, and also" "I am telling you something - you are insinuating something, that I have loose lips." "Because the only one in the know, Humbertico, was me." "Are you listening?" "It was only me." "And furthermore, I'm going to blab, here in front of everyone, here, in front of the whole world, what you said about your mother is a lie!" "You have no sick mother, or anything like that." "You were with a woman!" "With a woman!" "Partying, because it's been a long time since you had a mother." "And I am ready to deal with you whenever you want to, whenever you want to!" "The Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry presents" "A CERTAIN WAY" "A feature length film of real and fictional characters" "In Havana at this moment, a large section of slums and shanty towns is being transformed." "They are destroying and remodeling the old barrio of Cayo Hueso." "But during those years, the revolution has not stopped acting against the rest of the marginal culture." "In 1961, five new subdivisions have been built to house the people who were living in the unhealthy shacks at the demolished barrio of Las Yaguas." "From the Plan of Mutual and Self-Help by which subdivisions like this were built, to the actual microbrigades of workers, all are part of the housing change, within a studied strategy of integration." "Parallely, education, every day more intimately connected with work, constitutes our principal weapon." "Well, how do I feel?" "I don't feel very good." "I am a graduate of Topes, of Minas, of Tararai, and then to arrive here and find all of this, this is a strange world." "This is a world I do not know, this is a world that I thought did not still exist." "In all the capitalist world, and especially within the subdeveloped countries, exist economic levels of well-defined characteristics." "this level was constituted with the basis of a common element: unemployment." "There are those beings who, for diverse reasons, are relegated to the level of the underemployed and the chronically unemployed." "Within the picture of violent competition that is Capitalism, they have been marginalized from production, without any other possibility but to inhabit the belts of misery and poverty that encircle today's great cities." "There, just they, who to us constitute the marginal sector of society." "After the triumph of the Revolution, no marginal sectors exist in Cuba" "But the culture that lives within the most profound depths of the conscience, habits, customs, beliefs, norms, values, can mantain a tenacious resistance to social change." "That's why, even though conditions have been radically transformed, the conditions that gave rise to the marginalization." "We can still study in some subdivisions the culture that was formed within the sector." "Displaced from the process of production, their low educational level, their dependence on oral traditions made the marginalized people the most active conservators of traditional culture." "The lack of a concrete experience of regular employment, of a political and organized labor movement, made the old marginalized sector of Cuban society embrace the labor possibilities within the revolution." "Without any development of the conscience, their vital interests and motivations were situated within the framework of their work." "In front of the social and political of the era," "Sometimes we can perceive some inertia and disinterest in the old men that comes from marginalization." "That explains the permanence of some antiquated and antisocial attitudes within the revolution." "Listen, compadre, there should be no secrets between friends " "It's been a long time since we've gotten together!" "What?" "It's been a long time since we've gotten together!" "You're being very particular." "What are you doing Sunday?" "I'll bring a big bottle." "A litre?" "Hey, don't come too early." "Yeah - around 10:30, ok?" "Yeah. 10:30, yeah." "Ok, now I'm going to visit Pepe over there." "Pepe?" "Yeah, Pepe, ha ha ha." "Listen Yolanda, the ruckus that that man made last night was tremendous." "Because he forgot that he had asked you to lunch today." "And he says to me, "old woman, tomorrow the teacher's coming to lunch", and imagine..." ""Oh well, Sonny, you better pick the beans and soak them, because I'm beat."" "Look who's up, the man of the house." "Look out, we have company." "That stew, you make special for the teacher?" "You have to try the split peas that the old woman fixes every day." "Shameless!" "Better split peas than nothing." "I worked 20 years to give them to you." "Old times that will not return, so don't fret." "Yolanda, let's go to the living room." "Old man, is my partner around?" "I didn't know my son was in business with you." "As sweet as ever, Candito..." "Humberto, Mario is here but he's taking a shower." "Lady, please do me a favor and tell him that" "I'm at Elmata's house playing dominoes." "What?" "Dominoes!" "Listen old woman, give me your miserable grub, I'm leaving." "Ay, muchacho!" "Isa, please save this meat for me." "Put it on the table, I'll put it away later." "I am 25 years old, and my family had means." "Money?" "Well, we were not rich, but my mother worked and so did my father." "Well, so?" "Because my folks killed themselves all their lives working like crazy, but had no money - or means, as you say." "Means..." "Why don't you talk to me about yourself, Mario?" "Are you interested in that?" "Yes, it interests me a lot." "Well, I was born there " "There?" "In those pines?" "No, it would've been better to have been born there, just like it is now." "The rotten water ran through the house." "The houses were made of cans and cardboard." "Here the houses were made out of anything." "They had to improvise." "Eventually they were all the same." "I made myself a man on the street." "The street.." "The house was just for sleeping." "What schooling?" "Yeah, I went to school." "I went to school, but you can imagine." "The old man wanted me to study, so that I'd make something of myself, so that I could leave here." "But what happened was that the school was far away." "And halfway there, almost always," "I'd change my mind and play hooky." "And what did you do?" "Enjoy life." "I can imagine." "And then, things 'arrived'." "Arrived?" "Arrived who?" "The Revolution." "This is as usual, they want to fix this place up and they're never going to do it." "You have to fly with the people." "The people want to finish with this here, mulato." ""Hey, let's not make this commentary here because it hurts my business."" ""Yeah, your business is selling, but we also have business here -"" "In 1960, the Cuban Revolution conducts a population census, and a campaign to promote literacy in the unhealthful neighborhoods with the purpose of effecting their total transformation." "Now, my saints never lie to me, now I know that we are getting out of here." "And after the revolution gave us the land, and all the building materials, then a lot of comrades said, why should I work there?" "Why then it costs us a hard time to get them out of there, so that the revolution would give us houses." "This is our new house, this is our new barrio." "Afterwards they locked me up" "But did you go to jail?" "They allowed me to go to the Tech School." "First I had to the Pico five times." " Oh!" "So you went five times?" " Five." "But in the Sierra there were fun times." "In the Sierra, I felt, well, it was like being in the barrio, when we played hooky and everything." "The beca, that was no fun." "No one could handle that." "I left school the second year." "And then?" "Na - the street again, the buddies again, the women again," "and the old man, Candito, having a hissy fit, he didn't even want to see my face." "And what else?" "Nothing." "They got their hooks into me again, the obligatory military service, SMO." "Lucky you, because..." "Lucky me?" "Get up at five a.m., right, left, right, turn around, well you know..." "But in the long run I can't complain." "I was lucky that all that came at that time." "because I was lost, lost." "Lost!" "I was crazy." "Military service saved me, and then there were moments when..." "Were you thinking of leaving the country?" "To go- that would be a crap shoot." "A crap shoot?" "What does that mean?" "I see people here becoming possessed - warlocks." "Warlocks?" "Warlocks - yeah, I know what you're gonna tell me, that the warlocks on St. Barbara's Day eat the children and everything." "The Abacua Society (Documentary Analysis)" "At the end of the 18th century in Cuba there is a large economic development." "we are converting into a great sugar cane plantation, and sugar cane demands lots of labor and lots of slaves." "Out of western Africa come men of different culture and different stages of development." "Ayi bam ban [chanting] En calabar arrive the spirits of cultural patriarchy based on a myth of a woman named Sican who discovers and divulges the secret of the great god Abijasid, where there is a secret society where women" "were excluded for being traitors." "[Chanting]" "On the other side, the colonial economy with a cartel of commercial interests concentrated in Cadiz and Seville makes possible that during centuries will enter into our flowering Capital" "Spaniards proceeding from those Andalusian cities." "Recruited as sailors from their marginalized levels, adventurers who arrive in Havana with all their codes of violence, machismo, the use of the knife, and the cult of the female, and they are going to find the social milieu that will propitiate" "their integration within a Creole population of a similar nature." "Then in the 19th century there appear in Havana the black Curro as an authentic national product of the Cuban folklore culture." "The secret society Abacua arises as a product of the myth of the slaves of the calabar and it propagates around the marginalized populations around the cities of Havana and Matanzas." "Where in a myth that is Cuban," "We will see the sacrifice of the goat." "Once castrated it converts itself on a nanny goat that represents the female who divulged the secret and provoked the wars." "These cultural happenings synthesize the social aspirations, forms and values of machismo in the traditional thinking of the Cuban society." "We believe that these characteristics of secret societies, traditional and exclusive are opposed to progress and are unable to accommodate themselves to the norms of modern living." "They represent in actuality a fountain of marginalization that promotes a code of parallel social relations, points of rigidity and refusal of social integration." "My life was not as full of things as yours." "My parents had been working inside the revolution and I was becada all the time." "And what about your marriage?" "Nothing" " He studied medicine and I studied history." "I was almost finished, wanted to marry, so we did." "And just like that, you married?" "You may not want to believe this, but the truth is, I was curious as to know what it was like to be married." "For one year it went well." "He always had tests or shifts, and when we saw each other we had a good time." "I spent a lot of time alone, that's why I'm used to it." "What... to be alone?" "To be independent." "You know you are a tremendous..." "What's that?" "Well, a friggin' sad bird." "and then how did it end up?" "I don't want to talk about it!" "Well, so what happened?" "Nothing - he finished and and had to do his rural service." "He wanted me to quit school and go with him," "I stayed, and then we divorced." "I started working and I'm still studying." "And now, are you still alone?" "I'm still independent." "Do you know something, Mario?" "I don't understand what it is to be Abacua." "Well, to be Abacua, all you need to be is a good son, good husband, good friend." " and that enchants you." " Well, that's not that bad." "Yes, you have to be a man first." "It doesn't fit that you betray a friend or a partner, so you take that out of your mind." "And why don't you become a shaman now?" "No, because I don't have the mentality." "The mentality?" "Are you sure, Mario?" "And what do you believe now?" "Come on, man, you can't be an Abacua." "Why not?" "Tell me" "Because of the way you think." "Hey, why do want to show off, Lazarito?" "You're not writing what's on the blackboard." "Where is your pencil and notebook?" "Why are you not writing?" "Where is your pencil, Lazarito?" "What are you going to with your life, sweetie?" "Look, the revolution is good, the revolution gives you pencil and paper, and you throw everything away." "What do you think you are, the hero of the picture?" "Stand up." "I'm not going to hit you." "Shut up!" "Where are the pencil and notebook, did you throw them away?" "Leave the classroom, and I'm telling you, you will not return without your pencil and notebook." "...that's not ok, that's what they want." "It's just that they drive me nuts, Amparito." "I've decided to leave this school for a quieter on in another barrio, because I don't feel comfortable here." "Yolanda, you need more patience, girl." "You have to realize that those kids need nurturing, understanding and love that they're not getting at home." "You know what upsets me most, Amparito?" "I grabbed Lazarito, and he thought I was going to hit him." "You don't know the Mexican woman?" "No, what Mexican woman?" "Lazaro's mother." "She has four children, and with Lazaro five, and he's the oldest." "And what does the kids' father do?" "The father-s?" "It's not just one." "Hey, teacher, do you know what happened to Lazaro?" "He's in the jail at Third and Paseo." "What happened to Lazarito, why is he in jail?" "Because he was with two other men, and they told him to snatch a purse from a lady." "And then I found it out from the police." "And because it was 2 o'clock in the morning," "I got dressed and went to see what was going on with Lazaro, and the police told me what happened." "Then you figure, I can't do no more, because when I was a child I was raised Las Yaguas, and my parents didn't send me to school." "I have been a beggar, but I have never stolen." "I would like to ask you a question, and I hope it's not too personal." "Lazaro's father - where is he?" "Well, we have quarreled since 1962, and since then I don't know where he's at." "He has never sent me a penny for them." "I have raised them through blood and fire." "Blood and fire!" "I used to work, but then I had to stop working because of them." "When I left, neighbors complained that they threw rocks, they climbed the fences and the trees." "So I decided to quit my job." "I compromised myself with another man, a man who likes to drink and behaves badly, after having two children with him we broke up." "Then we tried again, to see if we could make a life together, but I wasn't able to, so I live my life alone and he helps me when he can." "With that, I support them all, and everything else till..." "How does Lazaro behave at home?" "Here, very badly, despite him being my right arm." "You figure, my right arm!" "He goes to the clinic and makes my appointments," "He takes my irons to be fixed," "If he has to clean here, he cleans, and if he sees me ill or sick he takes me to the hospital." "And he stayed with me when I had the babies." "But he's a pain in the ass!" "And why do you hit Lazarito?" "Well, teacher, do you know why I hit Lazaro?" "Because I do not want Lazaro to associate with the bad and dirty elements who live in Miraflores." "Look" " I promise you that we'll do something for Lazarito, but I want to beg you to not hit him any more." "Well, I ask from my heart and on my knees that you get him out, and I promise I won't hit him again." "Because I need him here." "He's the one who helps me with everything here." "And you know, he's a pain in the butt, he behaves badly, but he helps me with everything." "I will not hit him again." "It's your turn." "Don't get agitated, wait a minute slow down, slow down." "You're talking nonsense." "You have to do like the brother here, who finds a sweetheart out of his circle." "and then he'll have no problems." " I've got" " Yes sir, yes sir" "And to the one that God gave him, St. Pedro bless him." "You kill me!" "I pass." "Tell me what I got here." "Control yourself, doctor, don't hurry yourself, look." "What're you doing, motherfucker?" "Don't lose yourself there." "What, the teacher?" "Throwing..." "Take care of what you got." "Thank you for the advice, I'm grateful for your intentions." "Shoot!" "They'll have to throw me in the grave." "I'm dying a natural death..." "I ain't got" "Look what I got, double nine!" "You have tiles for everything, Barbaro!" " Go, horse!" " Look out, that what you do with your good head you don't destroy with your feet." "With your good head..." "Look, kill this one with your good luck." " I'm coming, I'm coming!" " You're killing your cousin!" "It's finished, it's finished!" ""matarile, rile, rile..."" "I'm off." "Good luck everybody." " Listen, buddy, I'm gonna ask you for one..." " What?" "I've got a bombshell, a world class hot tomato, world class, world class, world class, and you have to help me." "What problem you got, a good-looking Mulato like you?" "The problem is, I'm gonna spend 5 days in bed with her in Oriente, compadre." "On your vacation?" "Naa." "Now." "What did you tell them at work?" "Oh, Humberto, that's a bunch a shit on your part." "What are you thinking?" "What makes you think she's worth it?" "Hey listen, have the merits gone to your head?" "What's with you?" "What merits, what merits, can't you see you are going to end up with your feet in the air?" "You just got out of trouble - next time there'll be a Council and they'll send you to The Farm" " The Farm!" "What's with you, don't you understand?" "Yeah, now I understand what people are saying behind your back." "What are they saying?" " That the teacher has brainwashed you." " Why are you bringing up the teacher?" "She has nothing to do with anything here." "So, now you're upset?" "No, I'm not upset, but you don't have to involve her in this." "No, if you're upset please forgive me." "Just an expression." "The problem is, I can't lose that chick, because that chick is a percentage chick." "And it's five days that I'll spend in Oriente." "And you know, you're my partner, and I always take care of my partners." "Well, Mulato, hope it works out for you." "Bon voyage." "Do what you want." "Listen, remember that the only one who knows about this is you." "And if it becomes known, it's because of you." "Wait, wait, are you threatening me?" "!" "Threatening me, or what?" "What's with the finger?" "!" "And what about if I'm a man!" "?" " You're upset..." " No, I'm not upset." "No, all I want is to make it clear." "Well, now it's clear." "Last one in is a rotten egg, Humberto." "And now what?" "I hope all goes well and you have a good time, Mulato." " Oh, well..." " Bon voyage." "[chanting]" "May you have many more years, my daughter." "Thank you." "Hey Mario, come on in!" "I thought you weren't coming , because he doesn't believe in this any more." "He's ashamed of it all." "But on a day like today I wanted to have all my family here, and since you're almost part of the family... but look, look - these are my saints." "That'll be the only thing I leave when I die." "Later you can do whatever you want with them." "Throw them away, or whatever you want to do." "I'm the one who has to adore them." "Imagine, 25 years." "Rocks and shells... [speaking in a foreign language]" "You're Lazaro's teacher, comrade?" "We're very happy that you're interested." "In these cases we need the collaboration of the organization of the Teacher's Councilors of Schools in particular." "This is a boy who is still interested in school." "We want you to know the steps that have been taken with this young man since he was detained." "After the medical examination, this young man was evaluated by a commission of psychologists, sociologists and jurists." "They offered an individual report of the results of the evaluation." "Later the commission convened and tried to synthesize, an offer a joint mission." "To all this is added the criteria of the organization in the barrio where the boy lives." "We think that with the collaboration of the schools, we can help this young man." "Proof that this young man needs affection, affectionate attention." "Interest especially from the maternal organism." "We cannot judge her badly, logically." "But it is also certain that we have an informal responsibility to this medium, and we hope for the collaboration of the teachers." "And then when he arrived I didn't receive him with great affection." "Immediately, I asked him if he had escaped from the jail at Third and Paseo." "So that you'll complicate my life some more." "You know I'm sick." "And then he said to me," ""No, no, mommy - look, look, here is my release form."" "And then I'm going to participate..." "What's going on, are you having problems with Yoro?" "This is the last time I go out with him." "He always pretends to be broke." "There's no reason why that should bother you." "No, that doesn't bother me, but then we fight all the time." "A toast, because you're my buddy." "You know?" "Sure." "Your health." "That young man will never in his life understand you, and neither will you him." "Please, Migdalia..." "Take care of that young lady, do you hear me?" "Yolanda isn't just anyone." "And why do you think I'm with her?" " And that girl you're with, how is she?" "Migdalia?" " No good, she has too much baggage." "And you know very well we're not all alike." "Well, forget that and we'll toast again." "But it's your turn." "You know perfectly well that I'm as revolutionary as you are." "But really, a man with silver teeth?" "!" "That's the last straw." "I'm not telling you that maybe in the future it won't make a difference to our children, but now..." "I toast to the Process, for everything here," "for the Process, because it allows us to be here, you and I, sitting down, shooting the bull." "I think we have to leave because these two are more than drunk." " You think?" " Yeah, look." "Because Yolanda is also my sister." "Yolanda!" "Listen, Migdalia is alone..." " Leave Migdalia." " Don't get involved in that." "Midalia!" "To arrive here and encounter these children, well I don't know, it makes me feel very bad, and it worries me also." "I worry for the future of these children." "Not so much the boys, because definitely the boys have military service, or the law against vagrancy." "But for example, those kids I give lessons to," "I give lessons to the 5th grade." "When the girls finish with the sixth grade, what do they do?" "What happens to those girls?" "I worry about them because, their destiny - what will it be?" "There is nothing that will force them to keep studying." "Then those girls will marry and have children, and those children will come to this school and those children will receive the same education as their mothers, who studied till the sixth grade and had nowhere to go." "This whole world they have not been able to escape." "I wish there was something," "I don't know - that would obligate them" " I don't know - to do something else." "When they finish sixth grade that they do something else, because - this is very sad, and it worries me a lot." "And I wish something could be done about it." "...yes, I'm conceding the point, but the problem of the girls will also be taken care of." "Because they have great fields." "There are becas in accounting, there are becas in universities." "So that we have not forgotten the girls." "I want you to tell me something about Lazaro's case - the Mexican woman's son." "Why has it still not been determined." "Well, Candito, we're working on the problem of Lazaro." "He was one of the most constructive cases that we've had in the school." "We're dealing directly, because he is one of the first who should go to that school." "Really, we have to go and make those parents understand that if those children remain in that environment without any strong orientation, they will fail." "Because if they don't understand how to guide them adequately, that the place of the children will be in this new type of school." "Look, Mercedes, we've called you here to tell you something that will not take you by surprise." "Your son Luis will not go on to the next grade." "I knew that, comrade teacher, that my son would not pass." "It's been 3 years that my son has been repeating the second grade." "I would like you to explain to me, how is it possible that if in other instances, we have explained it to you that you have to take care of these children, that they probably wouldn't advance." "How is this possible?" "How is it possible that that kid is still going to repeat the grade?" "I leave my house at 5 am, I go to work." "I have to start at 6." "The bus service is very bad." "I leave all their clothes ready." "It's 11 o'clock and I'm still washing and ironing." "I don't have just this child, I have 11 children." "Do you know the reception your son Juan gave me when I arrived at the school?" ""Are you the new teacher?" I said yes." "Then he said, "Good, because I'm really going to give you a hard time."" "Do you understand, then, the examples of the old ones are imitated by the young?" "I think that you are a good worker, but you have to take better care of your children." "You must forgive me, but I am a teacher in this school, and I have to look out for the pupils also." "I tell you that you can tell me to take care of my children." "In the few friggin' minutes I have, I try very hard to converse with them." "Very hard, I try to talk to them." "Well, something's got to give, because someone has to take care of those kids, because those kids are failing." "I don't know, something is going on, because those children are not passing grade," "They're not undisciplined children, they just don't study." "There has to be someone to force them to study." "I don't know who it will be, you or the father, or if they don't have any father, but someone has to take care of them." "It's the street, miss... it's the street." "Look, Yolanda, it's not that it's bad that you call them to attention." "What is wrong is the method, the way you're doing it." "You know that the parents of our area, it is not easy to do work with them." "Why?" "Because you know how it is here." "And then if they come to you, and you express yourself this way, they're going to feel rejected by you, and remember that our main objective is to attract them, to make them feel attraction for school." "And if you express yourself in that way, surely you won't attain your objective." "And express myself in what way, Carmen?" "What did I tell that lady?" "Look, Yolanda, it's not the first time that we've singled you out." "It's not the first time we've told the same thing, that you need better methods." "More Method, Yolanda, you can never get upset." "Never - remember, they're not on the same level as you." "What's happening is, you're reprimanding me like I was a kid, and that's the truth!" "It's not the first time you have called me to attention, but I'm not used to being called to attention so often, much less about things that I understand." "I understand!" "Of that I am perfectly convinced, that I am saying the truth, that I am comporting myself the way I should." "Look, Yolanda, we're not doing this to destroy you, we want to help you to succeed because you've been here such a short time, and that you improve, and that you really become..." "I'm going to tell the pupil, "You don't study, you're a bad student?"" "No, I'm going to call the parent." "Who is responsible for this kid not passing?" "Who is responsible?" "You have to employ a different way." "You have to employ a different way." "Convince yourself, you can do nothing else." "Look, I don't understand you." "I think if you make me do another interview" "I will do it exactly the same way." "Where were you, Chica?" "Look darling, forgive me, there was a problem at school." "Why didn't you let me know?" "Why tell me to be here at this time?" " Because I didn't know" " Come on, come on!" "I didn't know you wanted to give a show in the street." "Look, Mario, I'm not a child for you to treat me like I was a rag doll." "Well, I was waiting for you for an hour!" "And nobody, nobody makes me wait for an hour!" "An hour!" "Look Mario, don't scream at me, because if you scream at me I know how to scream too." "What do you want, to give a show here in the street?" "Look, people are looking at us." "Listen to me!" "Look Mario, what I want is not to see you again." " Yes, Mario, it's finished." "Finished." " Ok little teacher, it's finished whenever you want." "It's finished!" "Yolanda..." " Mario!" " Let's talk..." "Mario, listen compadre, where have you been?" "Hanging around." "You've haven't been by the gym, or by the house." "How are ya?" "You have nothing but excuses." "I want to see you at the recital." "This is Yolanda." "My friend, Guillermo." "Who is Guillermo?" "I am like a child who cries in his crib" "Guillermo Diaz, at present a composer, a singer and a boxing judge." "Another real personage in this film." "He is an ex amateur Golden Gloves champion, 1957, who aspired to take the weight's professional crown in 1958." "Guillermo was born in Las Yaguas in 1938." "I had a girlfriend named Luz." "We had been keeping company for one year." "But in the barrio, there was always someone after her, and I didn't pay him much attention." "I thought it was something she was making up - silly." "Then one night I was returning from boxing at Sport City, to give her the news that I was going to fight for the championship, and surprised the guy peeping into the window." "I called for my future father-in-law to see what was happening, and I guess the guy was ashamed - he pulled out a knife and he attacked me." "Then we tangled, fell to the ground." "When I got up he was dead, on the ground." "Jail was hell." "I don't want to remember that." "It was the end of my boxing career." "I am like the wind, that tumbles everything" "I was reborn in my own tomb" "I am the ashes that fall from the flame" "I am the one that realizes the love in your bed" "I am only the man who loves you, the man who loves you the man who loves you the man who loves you" "Hey, you still remember..." "Yeah, that that is learned well is not easily forgotten." "See you later, Negro." "Ok, it's ok, let's go." "What do you think of Guillermo?" "Nothing." "He didn't make an impression." "What does he do?" "Sings." "Hey, compadre, listen, that chick - membrillo, membrillo, membrillo, membrillo!" "..." "What, are you going to scold me?" "No, not if you're happy." "You know, that's what's wrong with you, I know you well, and you're pissed off." " You don't know me so well." " Bullshit, partner, that's bull." " What's happening, Humberto, what's happening?" " Piece of shit, I say, compadre." "Look - this broad was so phenomenal, even a cow, man, even a cow..." "Humberto, when did you get in?" "I arrived last night, compadre." "I've had no sleep." "They had problems with the bus." "And the old lady, how did you leave her?" "Fucked up." "Very bad." "But I had promised to return here to the factory." "And well, I had to return." "And how about you, Mario?" "I found out you had a girlfriend." "Wait, you don't know the best of it " "Look, I gotta go, I gotta be back at 7:30." " Are you trying to get rid of me, compadre?" " no, I'm tired, I want to take a little siesta." " Are you throwing me out?" "You know, you've gotten impossible to talk to." " We can't even talk!" " Don't start with me." " Start, start?" "Why not, you're kicking me out." "I pay attention to you and you're kicking me out." "Well I am going to go see Pepe, because here comes Candito and you know he can't stand me." "Goodbye." "Hi!" "Brother." "You have to move your hands the way I told you." "How are you, Negro?" "Hey" " What's up, Mayote?" "Look, go work over there and watch those men." " Any new songs?" " No, they're old." "Are you going to work out?" "Do you have any problems?" "Yeah, but they're not important." "The...?" "The she-wolf?" "I understand you." "She's into something else, with her problems and her different ideas." "That's all." "You have to do as I do, Mayote!" " Yield." " Yield to whom, to Yolanda?" "No, to life." "Yield to that world that gives you nothing, that has no flower of the morning, that lightly brushes the window" "Yield, that she never never shares those things that happened to you as you labor in the early morn" "If she shows to you the empty cup of another world, full, full of lies, and when you look at her while seeking her eyes,  she refuses you and does not look at you" "Yield again" "Yield again to her hypocrisy." "Good." "Good, good, good." "Well, look, Mayito." "You can start again." "You have already left behind all that foolishness." "I'm telling you, Mario, believe me." "The majority of those people will never leave their environment, because of cowardice." "Why cowardice?" "Yes, for cowardice, because everyone is afraid of things outside their environment." "They know how to live there." "How to act, how to behave." "Out of it they are no one." "I am telling you that you have to be braver to leave your familiar surroundings than to stay in them." "The sociological investigations that take into account the preferences of the first years are part of the works of the demolition and remodelization of certain zones where the cultural marginalization survives." "These investigations reveal data that illustrates certain aspects of the problem." "The median time of permanence at the site is close to 20 years." "In some points of the quarter it appears a typical phenomenon of the marginalized family, indicative of the instability of the marital relations within the group." "Of the totality of nucleus that forms a population of 341 persons, from 52 to 53.6 % have a woman as head of the family." "In one community with a child's population of 104, it presents a school failure of 28.3%" "The more frequent causes of these indices are:" "no attention to classes, no assimilation, mental retardation, and manifest rejection of school." "In 122 people with a median of 4.2 people per household, the monthly income per capita is 36 pesos." "The more frequent misdemeanors and problems are:" "homicides, drugs, evasion of obligatory military service, illegal businesses and gambling, acts against public morality, scandals due to alcoholism, and matrimonial or family disturbances." "Representative indices all for their frequency and generality of the certain social characteristics that condition and accompany the marginalization." "Are we going to work?" "Hey, you with the pick" "You have to grab the shovel" "So, did you hear what happened with your buddy Humberto?" "So what?" "Well, they have sent him up against the council again and he is not going to fare well." " Very bad." " Well, I don't care." "What do you mean you don't care, you do care!" "He is my buddy, but you are the president of the workers' council," "I have nothing to do with it." "Well, when we get to the council we'll see." "Would you marry me chica?" "A guy like me?" "What's happening Mario?" "What is going on?" "Nothing." "And what do you find in me?" "In me, what is it that you find?" " A man!" " Everyone is a man." "But I see the man that no one sees." "Oh!" "But I don't understand that, what is it?" "Look Mario, when you are in the barrio you act one way, and when you are with me is another way." " You do not understand?" " No, I don't understand." "Let me explain." "When you walk in the barrio you walk like this." "Look real good." "Hey mates, what's happening!" "In the street you cannot eat garbage or that." "Yes, but you are playing a role!" "And when I am with you, how am I?" "Now, when you know it all!" "Yeah." "When I am with you, how am I?" "Just like now." " Just like now." " Like now?" " How just like now?" " Just the two of us alone together." "Nothing else." "What do you find in me?" "I like you." "No, more than that" "Does that seem little to you?" "Let me tell you something." "There's lots of things that I like." "Well, tell me something that you like." "Your sincerity." "You are a person who speaks clearly, wants to be spoken clearly to, and says the truth, that I like." "Well, I think that I am a little stubborn." "No, it's the environment that we live in, people do not want us to speak the truth, they are afraid of that." "For once, tell me a truth." " That I tell you a truth?" " Yes, a truth." "A true truth." "You want me to tell you one?" "Something that I've never told anyone?" "I am scared shitless." "We are reading a telegram that the worker presented as proof to justify his absence, which he presented after his return and not before. "Come home, your mother is very ill."" "I believe that comrade Humberto should be given an opportunity, because the absence that he had now is justified, and then in a case like this, a case where he received a telegram that his mother was very ill," "a desperate case in which no one is thinking about the work or anything else." "I would like to talk directly to Humberto." "I do not work in Humberto's brigade." "What I want to remind him is that each brigade has a quota to fulfill, and that the fulfillment of that quota depends on the labor of each worker." "of each worker, and that to invent something hurts the revolution." "That's all." "If someone is present in the assembly who can provide any information about the processed Humberto Barrias?" "in favor or against?" "No?" "Then you have the floor." "Gentlemen." "I want the comrades to know, that I am ready to face whatever will be." "If it's The Farm, it's The Farm." "I want the comrades to also know that when I arrived in Santiago," "I found that my mother was dying." "I spent four nights there without sleeping running around, keeping the old lady company in the hospital." "That which I am saying was witnessed by the personnel at the hospital in Santiago." "All the comrades know me." "They know I am a laid-back person, that I am pretty cheerful." "But he who is not a good son, comrades, cannot even be a good worker, or man, or nothing." "I know that here between the comrades are some who have conspired against me." "I know there are comrades who have doubted my word, and who still doubt." "To those comrades who doubted, and who still doubt" "I am repeating what I said at the beginning:" "that I'm ready to face whatever will be." "That's all." "Comrades, I can't stand the bullshit and all the theatre that he's dishing out, you're nothing but a bare-faced liar." "You are trying to pull the wool over their eyes and not respecting your comrades, and I am telling you something, you are insinuating something, that I have loose lips." "Because the only one that was at the rehearsal, Humbertico, was me." "Are you listening?" "It was only me." "And furthermore, I'm going to blab, here in front of everyone, here, in front of the whole world, what you said about your mother is a lie!" "You have no sick mother, or anything like that." "You were in Oriente with a woman!" "That I know, and nobody told me!" "You told me!" "In Oriente with a woman!" "So that you know, you haven't had a mother for a long time." "Yes, Mulato, and I'm ready to continue this discussion whenever you want to." "To the end of the earth." "I have nothing else to say, and with permission I'm leaving this assembly." "You tightened up Mulato, tightened up." "Ratified by the assembly the predilection to vagrancy of the worker Humberto Sarria." "This council of workers functioning as the vagrancy tribunal, proposes to apply security measure #1 of article 4 of the law against vagrancy." "consisting of the worker laboring for 6 months under the vigilance of the collective workers of this council." "Accordingly we propose for the consideration of the assembly's ratification with modifications..." "Did you find out?" "Yes, Candito told me." "I think they did alright." "Why do you think it's alright?" "That they threw out on the streets that macho man who you admire." "Calm yourself Mario, you did the right thing and you have to accept that!" "This is what I understand now" "I knew I was not going to mesh with you, not mesh with you!" "But what do you want do about your little friend so that it makes you feel good?" "M-m Well I went ahead..." "Well, you did the right thing." "Don't tell me I did well, you are talking the same as Candito, Yolanda and everyone else." "What's with you?" "Humberto was my friend." "Your buddy, and he wanted to sink you and your comrades?" "Yes, and what about my morality?" "The morals of men, what's with you?" "And what morality are you talking about, Mario?" "The morals that you are talking about are long gone." "And then, what does it mean to be a man to you?" "What do you mean, be a man?" "Being a man is Me." "Me." "A man to sit in a bar, to talk, to not be a queer, man like a man!" " And to be a revolutionary?" " A revolutionary is me, chico." "This revolution was made by men like me, macho men." "Don't invent things or anything else!" " I'm fucked up, old man." " Fucked up, why?" "I'm fucked." "No you was fucked before, when you had no problems." "But now, forget it, drink the wine." "Because there are things that you have to give a spin to understand the situation of your mates." "When men talk about their mothers they have to have the concept of what is a mother." "Understand?" "But there are men who do not know the concept of what is a mother until they lose her." "Do you understand?" "I say it because I lost mine and I know the value they have, because mothers have value when you lose them." "I understand that he should not have used his mother as an excuse for his philandering." "Use his mother as his tool?" "The mother is the greatest thing there is in life." "The truth is, Humberto is nothing but a scoundrel." "Why is Humberto a scoundrel?" " Why is Humberto a scoundrel?" " Humberto is a scoundrel because even though he was my friend, he lied to me." "Do you realize what Humberto has done to us?" "It has no name." "Look, the situation here is that you have to have principles before anything else." "Humberto is a scoundrel and we have to unmask all the scoundrels that are hiding behind the mantle of all the other workers, claiming they are doing something, and doing nothing." "He is that type of guy." "This Comrade, he defends the principles of the revolution, it is what is correct, but I analyze this thing like a man." "Like a man." "The thing I analyze personally, and it's not correct." "Why?" "Because you can see, you can see that in the assembly he says, there are people who are ganging up against me and then the other one blows up." "because he thinks that he's accusing him of being an informer." "Now you can see a direct link between the two of them." "Everyone here is talking at the same time and saying the same thing." "I am a revolutionary, we are friends, but aside from that, you have to respect me as a revolutionary a friend, a man, a comrade." "As a revolutionary I cannot allow you to come to me and say:" ""Listen Barbaro, at 3 o'clock punch the clock for me so that I can leave early."" "This revolution is bigger than us and because of that we are going to die together for her." "We do not accept Humberto." "subtitles by Adis Fernandez Suarez Dombu."