"Thomas A. Edison Laboratory" "DON'T DIE WITHOUT TELLING ME" "WHERE YOU'RE GOING" "Translation:" "Mary Staehelin" "Bye." " See you." "I'm going to the funeral." "Are you coming?" "What for?" "Isn't this funeral enough for you?" "There were ten people today." "You go, Leopoldo." "Perhaps I'll go later." "Give my regards." "Film Projectionists Guild" "Anita, you're trembling." "Anita's trembling, as always when she's scared." "The usual tone of 25 megahertz rises to a higher frequency which is impossible to mesure accurately at this time." "My condolences." "I'm sorry, deeply sorry." "Tell the dawn not to count on me." "So?" "I like it." "Next week I'll give you a facial." "How much is it?" " The usual." "Bye." "Bye." "Thanks." "Good night." "Hi." "Why do you carry that plant everywhere?" "How was the funeral?" "You'll end up electrocuting yourself!" "The taxes came." "And the movie theater?" "Will they rent it out or sell it?" "They're selling, and I'll receive compensation." "How much?" "I don't know yet." "What will we live on?" "I don't make enough." "Look, if this works out, projectionists can put their flowers up their asses!" "Guess what this is." "Must be one of your useless inventions." "What is it?" "A dream-collector." "A revolution in psychoanalysis." "It'll bring in money." "While you sleep, this instrument registers your brainwaves." "That's nothing new." "With Oscar we're trying to decode those signals and convert them into images." "Brain activity generates electricity and, once amplified, it activates the recorder." "Your dreams are recorded on video." "The next morning, you can look at them." "You can see your dreams." "You understand?" "Our pilots take off" "A military plane crashes" "One dead and one seriously injured" "Hi, Leo." " Hi, Oscar." "How's Carlitos doing?" "He's making progress." "My name is Carlos... a metal body with an Argentine heart." "Your wish is my command." "If he had arms, he'd reach out toward you." "Fantastic." " A bit stupid still." "I've ordered chips which should increase his motor and verbal capacities by 200 /% ." "I called the guys who did Gardel's voice." "I don't want a sissy who can only plan menus or buy groceries on his own." "But he's doing well." "If you mention Colombia, he starts praying, because Gardel's death is in his program." "He prays?" "He'll pray whenever he hears the word "God", or if he registers an explosion or strong vibration." "He has foreign components, but an Argentine brain." "The equivalent of his "soul", his basic memory... has been programmed with data... from our culture, our traits... a sort of "national being"." "No kidding-so the famous national being is a robot!" "You put all that in his head?" "Well, he doesn't have a real brain." "It's a matter of enough room." "And where's that?" " Under his waist." "In his ass?" "You'll only get shit from him!" "How's the dream-collector?" "I have to keep working on it, the images aren't quite clear yet." "But do you dream?" "The images get more blurred as time passes." "A hat?" "It belonged to my father." "It would have pleased him that" "I use it for an invention." "Remarkable." "Do you remember your dream?" "Not very well... but it was something very special." "Fear?" "Anguish?" "Love." "But a love such as..." "I've never felt before." "Who is this woman?" "I don't know." "She's the woman of your dreams." "Leopoldo!" "Did you turn off the lights?" " A woman is still in there." "That young usher won't last long here." "I'll go check." "Leopoldo!" "I know it's impossible... but I can see you." "Never mind if you're a hallucination... but who are you?" "William, I thought" "I'd never see you again." "William?" "I'm not William." "You are somebody else's hallucination." "Excuse me." "What's your name now?" "It's been Leopoldo for more than 40 years." "The last time it was William." "You were my husband." "We lived in New Jersey." "The last time?" "When was that?" "In your previous life." "Oscar?" "The woman is here." "The one in the dream." "She calls me William." "No, Oscar, I haven't been drinking." "I'm at the movie theater." "Yes, see you later." "Excuse me." "I've seen you in my dreams, but I didn't dream your name." "Rachel." "Raquel in your language." "In my language." "What's yours?" "We spirits have no language problems." "So you're a spirit?" "So are you." "Only you've been reincarnated." "I liked you as William, but Leopoldo isn't bad." "What happened to William?" "He "disincarnated"." "Now you're Leopoldo." "I haven't been reborn." "Let's go out." "It's not proper to talk to spirits after working hours." "See you tomorrow." "How are you?" " Fine." "My name is Carlos... a metal body with an Argentine heart." "Your wish is my command." "Oscar, let me introduce you..." "You said you came with that woman?" "Let her come in." " No." "She's not outside." "She's here." "Here?" "You mean here?" "She's sitting right on that chair." "That means..." "We've freed a ghost... that only you can see." "I'm not a ghost." "No, she's not a ghost, she's a spirit." "I loved her in another life." " In many others." "She says... in many other lives." "Does she mind...?" "What does that metal toy do?" "Carlitos?" "It's an invention of Oscar's." "He did the electronics of the dream-collector." "The dream-collector?" "William..." "Leopoldo... in our last life you invented a machine that you called... dream machine." "Thomas called it a kinetoscope, or something like that" "William?" "An inventor, like me?" "You were an inventor, just like now." "What kind of machine was it?" "It projected moving images on a white cloth." "Thomas was very excited, and you worked together on it." "Who was Thomas?" "Thomas Edison, your boss." "Apparently I worked with Edison, and I invented the movies!" "And you're earning almost nothing." "Edison must have cheated you." "On the day you'll love me, the beautiful rose will bloom..." "The program reacts to feminine contact." "What activated it?" "A woman." "A woman is with him." "How does he know?" "If Carlitos has activated the program, then he's received a signal." "This woman, her spirit, or whatever it is, must generate a magnetic field... which... functions as a transmitter." "Put it on, Leopoldo." "If I'm not mistaken, you'll receive her signal just like Carlitos." "If that's so..." "If we send the signal through the collector..." "What?" "She's beautiful!" "Now I understand you." "Close your eyes." "The images come straight from your brain." "We could make movies directly from thoughts." "No need to film them." "Edison, fuck off!" "You saved me from the nuthouse!" "Is it true, what you just said?" "That we were together in other lives?" "You don't believe me?" "It's not easy to accept believing that we had other lives," "to talk to someone that other people can't see." "Relax, I don't want anything in return." "Having found you again is enough." "Your call was enough for me." "My call?" "From your soul." "But people remember with their minds, not with their souls." "Your invention has overcome that limitation." "In my dreamm I felt something very special." "In what way spezial, William?" "Excuse me, Leopoldo." "It's love." "You love me." "We've been loving each other for centuries." "Our souls love each other, never mind the body." "Sometimes you were a woman, and I was a man." "No, that's going too far!" "Do you think it's aawul to be a woman?" "If the neighbors hear you..." "I can understand that you've forgotten it." "Have you also forgotten what love feels like?" "Why something special?" "Love should be the only possible way of living." "Do things look so bad these days?" "What can we do with this love?" "I can't even touch you." "I feel something warm here... and I know it will hurt." "You're slowly remembering..." "You're slowly remembering..." "Do you love your wife?" "We've been married for 20 years." "Love fades a bit after so many years." "I've been loving you for centuries." "Leopoldo!" "Hi." "Who's with you?" "Why?" "Weren't you talking just now?" "One of us is going mad." "The meal's been ready for two hours." "Why haven't you had children?" "She can't." "William couldn't either." "Why didn't you adopt any?" "There are millions of children starving on this planet." "Did you fix the TV?" " No." "Then I'm hearing voices, Leopoldo." "Or else you're talking to yourself." "When will you repair it, instead of stupidly wasting your time?" "I can't share this life with you." "But I'd like to help you live better." "I can't live without a body." "I'd have to be reborn." "That's the only way we can be together." "Let's enjoy it." "How?" "By learning." "I want you to live better." "You'll help me win the lottery?" "Would money improve your life?" "Let me try." "You already tried." "To live well means to love." "If you live well, then you're not afraid of death." "Even if you have only one day left." "Eat." "One of the things you have to learn." "What's worrying you?" "You worry me." "Your damn dream-collector." "We're old friends, but don't ask me to believe in reincarnation." "I think you're very smart, but I can't accept the idea that you invented the movies and that Rachel is the spirit of your previous wife." "Sorry, but I just can't." "You saw her." "On the monitor connected to your brain." "You imagine these things, and by some fantastic effect, the collector doesn't reflect dreams, it transmits the figments of your imagination." "A sensational invention, Leopoldo." "To hell with the invention." "What counts is that we've opened the door to a new dimension." "The dimension of nuthouses." "And you wanted to sell it to psychologists!" "I gave Papa a sample of the dust inside the collector." "He had it analyzed." "It's different from any known substances and has organic components." "Organic components?" "Rather like human ashes." "It also contains unknown minerals." "Papa was concerned and asked what we're working on." "But that's not all." "The dust is slightly radioactive." "Our Father who art in heaven!" "He's running out of energy." "Thy kingdom come." "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread." "William." "Where are you?" "Where are you going?" " To be born." "Are you there?" "Are you there?" "Where is she?" "Who, my little Leopoldo?" "Where is she?" "Sleep, we're not far from" "Mar del Plata." "It worked, William." "It worked." "Are you there, William?" "Are you there?" "Susana." "Is she ill?" "May I interrupt?" "Where is Mama's photo album... of me when I was little?" "In the closet." "Why?" "Don't mess everything up." "Leopoldo... maybe your invention isn't" "a dream-collector, but rather an antenna." "An antenna?" "A very powerful antenna receiving information." "The opposite of what we thought." "It doesn't receive information from your brain, but transmits to your brain." "But information from where?" "It could all be a farce... a lie." "Maybe you're not the person you're pretending to be." "Then I wouldn't be Rachel?" "I love you, and I don't care if what I say puts me in danger." "In danger?" "Maybe you're not a spirit... but an extraterrestrial agent" "from another planet." "And what I picked up could have... come from another planet." "Why would extraterrestrials do that?" "To control the beings on this planet." "God doesn't play dice." "What are you saying, Russky?" "Russky?" "Here the Jews are called Russians." "The Spaniards are called Galicians." "In a kind way." "I never heard you called Russky." "Me?" "Russian?" "William was Jewish." "I was once Catholic in Ireland." "Leopoldo... if the universe were only your neighborhood, your town, your country, your planet... life would end in a wooden crate," "if it were only what you know... then God would be so mediocre, so small!" "If this environment were cooled off, you'd see the water, the drops on the window panes, on the walls." "That you can understand." "You're ready for the next step." "And that will be?" "You have freed yourself." "From what?" "From the three dimensions which limited your vision." "Papa!" "Whose movie is that?" "Who made the movie?" "You know something." "Papa..." "I'm afraid." " Of what?" "I don't understand what's going on." "What's happening makes me happy." "But I don't understand it." "Stop thinking, Leopoldo." "The mind creates nothing but abysses which only the heart can cross over." "I'd like to hug you, Papa." "But I would only... be hugging air." "I love Rachel, and it's like... being in love with a movie star." "The movie ends, and... all that's there is the screen." "The dead leave us so lonely." "But since I'm air, it isn't like hugging the air to me." "Let me hug you." "Do you want to hear me sing?" "Answerjust with gestures." "When you were William, there was nothing you enjoyed more." "During the opera season you accompanied me everywhere." "This won't electrocute me?" " No." "You wouldn't be wanting to get rid of me?" "No, on the contrary." "Trust me." "I didn't dream that." "Perhaps you don't remember." "But I do remember." "It was night, very hot," "I was in the kitchen... and you came..." "It was an erotic dream, with you." "Of course I remember." "Rachel, I'm going mad." "I feel love for all these idiots, for all human beings." "I have sentimental diarrhea." "I love everything." "The light, everything passes through me." "It could be a dream... but the sensation is the opposite... like waking up from a dream." "Look, Leopoldo has been acting rather strange lately." "I've seen him speaking to himself." "I think the closing of the movie theater preoccupies him more than he realizes." "We sold it to one of these prophets..." "Preachers." "Yes, a preacher." "You know... people seem to prefer these stories to the movies." "Well, that can't be helped." "What about him?" "I don't know." "He's always been a bit odd." "But recently he's changed." "He's more settled." "He treats me better than he has for years." "He seems to be happy." " Ah yes?" "Happy?" "A guy about to lose the job he inherited from his father is happy?" "The poor guy is undoubtedly going mad." "Could she have been your love in a previous life?" "Not in another life, in this one!" "That's Melba." "My first love." "I haven't seen her since." "I've never felt a love like that again." "Although..." "I never kissed her." "Everything's all right." "I'm sure that I turned on the collector." "But it didn't register anything." "So the colletor isn't a receiver." "We're the receivers." "Who was with my father?" "The collector?" "Who sees and loves Rachel?" "The collector?" "Why is the secret in the collector?" "If not, then where?" " In us, Oscar." "In us." "I feel so relieved now." "Relax, I'm not going to leave you." "I'll take you wherever I go." "To the nuthouse, into space, wherever I go." "Coffee, and seltzer water for Anita." "For her, it's like champagne." "You're welcome, ducky." "We haven't been going out together lately." "Just the two of, so to speak." "What's the matter, Anita?" "Rachel's around, isn't she?" "Pablo..." "How are you, Leo?" "I said to myself:" "I'll go by the neighborhood." "It was your favorite coffee shop." "I come whenever I have the chance." "But of course... it's harder, not living in the neighborhood any more." "Ever since I moved." "Moved?" " Yes." "The military... remember?" "But I'm doing great now." "Pablo..." "I know you're dead." "But you see me." "I'll explain it later." "For a moment I thought... you were having a nightmare, you were alive?" "I wish my mother could see me." "I see her... with her white scarf." "If I could only tell her how much I love her... how proud I am of her." "Could you tell her you saw me?" "I'll give her a present." "A present?" "What?" "An invention of mine." "It's good to see you." "Du you miss anything?" "Well, I miss some things... like tits." "Those warm things under blouses." "Remember that babe?" "And entrance halls..." "Can I ask you a favor?" "It's very important for my mother." "I'll tell you where they buried my body, together with 5 others who disappeared." "I'll give you their names." "Mom should tell the other mothers." "What's going on, Rachel?" "The machine I invented was supposed to be a dream-collector." "Don't worry." "He'll feel uncomfortable." "Now he has a woman inside." "Your invention is much more complex." "What?" "A translator of souls?" "It seems so." "I told you." "I'm scared." "That's natural, but you've come this far, you'll make it." "Our Father who art in heaven..." "That's a welder, asshole!" "Sorry." "Final goal:" "Give me the things to prepare mate." "Kettle." "Mate." "Kettle." "Mate." "Very good!" "My dear macho." "You're ready to serve others." "You want to leave it here?" "He's studying the space in which he'll be moving." "He'll follow your instructions." "What a help for housewives!" "The tray." "Get me the tray that's on that table." "Get me the tray." "Idiot!" "Stop!" "No, not that!" "If I could help you..." "Carlitos, do you hear me?" "You were doing fine, but you mustn't put things down in the air." "Enough!" "Grandmother's tray!" "I'll kill you!" "Don't touch anything else, stupid machine!" "Stop it!" "To return, in order to show the passage of time..." "I'm insulting you!" "...to feel... that life is a mere sigh... that twenty years are nothing, the anxious eyes... still search for you..." "Something's wrong." "We'll repair it." "No!" "Get it out of here!" "Oscar will test it in his house." "We'll fix it." "...attached to memories..." "I weep today." "Carlitos, you shouldn't be following me." "I can't understand." "You're a toy, man-made." "How can you see me?" "You must have some faculties your inventors don't even know of." "And they want to make a butler of you!" "I love you, Margarita." "I'm not Margarita." "Betty?" "Julie?" "Margot?" "Estercita?" "Those are the only women's names I know." "Who am I?" "You?" "You're an angel." "Non, I'm a spirit." "Can you understand that?" "We're made for each other." "I lack a body... and you lack a soul." "Soul?" "Please define its function." "I want to register that information." "Carlitos, that information is input" "I can't give you." "Only the Creator can do that." "The creator?" "Oscar Rodriguez is my creator." "Please contact him." "He's not the Creator." "I'm not programmed to mistrust my creator." "Let's change the subject of conversation." "You're not programmed to go out walking alone." "Let's go back." "Sit down." "I want to talk to you." "How are you feeling?" "Your health... are you feeling well?" "Yes, very well." "Do strange things happen to you, things that frighten you?" "No, Don Mario." "Well... some strange things happen to me, but I'm fine." "Better than ever." "If I told you..." "No... it's not necessary." "You'd better tell the doctor, he'll be able to help you" "What doctor?" "You haven't see a doctor?" "Because of your depressions and so on." "What drepessions?" "Look, Leopoldo, I have to confess that I'm a bit worried about you." "I've seen you talking to yourself a number of times." "Well, we all talk... to ourselves." "But I've seen you talking to yourself as if you were not alone, as if" "someone was with you." "Yes, but the fact is... that I wasn't alone..." "The other person is a spirit." "And she's here right now." "You've always been a bit of a... dreamer." "That's your problem." "Don Mario... without dreams we're just a bunch of guts and fears." "Without dreams we're a bag of shit." "All right... if that makes you happy." "At least you're gentle." "What I'm going to say will upset you." "But I want to tell you personally." "It was many years ago, and... your father..." "The movie theater will close on Friday." "We've sold it to preachers." "Electronic video games would have been worse." "The unhappy, the needy..." "I was a sinner!" "My soul was in darkness!" "And?" "Don't drink any more, Leopoldo." "Don't dull yourself." "Pain will tell you things you should hear." "For you it's easy." "It's hard, being alive." "Why weren't you reincarnated?" "I don't want to talk about it." "I don't want to talk about it." "You can't stand the pain of being alive." "You're wise because you're a spirit." "Leopoldo, stop it, please." "That's enough for today." "You've been talking to yourself for quite a while." "I'm not alone." "What an idiot." "She's my wife of 100 years ago." "You can't see her." "That's because she's a spirit." "She's a spirit to avoid fucking!" "But she's my wife of..." "My wife!" "I left her alone with Carlitos!" "That's all I have." "Carlitos!" "What did that bitch do to you?" "She scared you to death." "It's all right, you don't need to pray." "If anyone sees us, we'll be locked up." "Let'S go." "Come on." "That's it." "No, turn." "Were you frightened on the junk heap?" "Did you think you'd die?" "I'm dying of love." "But what can I do?" "Stuck in Paris." "You weren't stuck in Paris." "You were in the garbage, not in a movie." "Do you know... don't answer yet." "Do you know what death is?" "Is it included in your program... the anguish of knowing... that some day everything you know will come to an end... all gone?" "It's included in your program." "Yes, the story of another life." "You know about that." "You were a foetus and you grew to become a child." "Then you grew up to be a man." "You'll grow into another foetus which will cease to be," "and so on endlessly." "A foetus!" "She's insulting me, Carlitos." "Were you once a foetus?" "No." "You were born an adult." "Stupid, but an adult." "And if you don't rust, you'll be immortal!" "Because of the high percentage of words whose meaning I don't understand," "I have to remind you that I'm a machine with a program." "What do you wish me to do?" " Die!" "Are we in Medellin?" "No, don't die, Carlitos." "You're not in Medellin." "This is a city without movies... and I'm without a job." "I've heard that you're an inventor." "I thought you had learned enough, Leopoldo." "Leopoldo, the projectionist, who took over his father's job, quit it, for the inventor to be born." "You can give so much..." "But your program is more limited than Carlitos'." "To live in poverty, wasting your creative talent." "You'd rather get drunk and weep for a dead guy." "You sound like a tango!" "Why fall in love with this weirdo who isn't even alive?" "Carlitos, you're useless." "Maybe you'll go to the police station to buy a bottle of whisky?" "What are we good for?" "Why are we here... falling in love with candy... with barbecues with friends, with boobs... if we end up in the garbage... or in a coffin... and if we're lucky," "we'll be remembered for a while?" "Could you be in love, Carlos?" "What would you do with a woman?" "I have lots of love songs in my memory." "Define love, so I'll know how to act." "You're singing, bitch." "Believe it or not, she sings." "You'll be surprised to see what she can do." "How do you know?" "No, it's okay." "Don't tell me now." "Just step by step." "You'll know it if you want to." "You discovered by yourself that she has feelings, that she can sing." "I apologize... for last night." "You couldn't hear your own suffering." "I was down... that's why I said what I said." "You were very scared." "But some things you said did me good." "You reminded me that I'm not a wise soul yet." "What a mess!" "You're afraid of living." "I'm afraid of dying." "When are we going to meet?" "Manufacture the dream- collector in series?" "Yes, Oscar, yes." "So people can have it at home." "That way we'll save them from TV." "That's my William." "Where will we get the money?" "Come in." " Thank you." "My name is Carlitos... a metal body with an Argentine heart." "Come, Don Mario, don't be afraid." "Is it friendly?" "Don't be afraid." "How are you?" " Fine, and you?" "You've made a lot of progress." "Something to drink?" " I don't know." "A dream-collector?" "Why don't you invent something that can be sold in supermarkets?" "For instance..." "This machine collects dreams." "Couldn't those dreams be projected on a screen... and we could sell tickets?" "Don Mario, forget the movies, this is something else." "You don't want anything?" " No thanks." "Leopoldo... all I have is... the money from selling the cinema." "Don Mario..." " No, wait." "When I've spent all the money..." "I'll probably die... because my pension..." "So I'm grateful to you young people... maybe you'll prolong my life." "This is a dream... you let me share with you." "People without dreams... die earlier." "Listen... if things go well... and we earn a lot of money... shall we buy a movie theater?" "Cheers, Don Mario!" " Cheers!" "No admittance." "Oscar, telephone!" "Who is it?" " I don't know." "She said she's a friend you haven't seen in a while." "Rachel..." "What's wrong, Leopoldo?" "Where are you going?" "I can't bear it." "I can't touch you, can't kiss you." "For you it's easy, you're a spirit." "With no time, no space... no desire." "It's not so easy, Leopoldo." "I miss..." "I miss your body." "I miss the thirst... the desire... the dreams." "And yet, I'm afraid of feeling all that again... because I'd lose it again." "I'm an imperfect soul." "I have a lot to learn." "If you don't learn it there, then where?" "In life, Leopoldo... in life..." "Come." "It's not possible." "It's not possible." "Everything is possible, Leopoldo, it's only a matter of daring." "Kiss me." "What?" "Kiss me." "Rachel, are you there?" "It's clear that our main purpose in life is learning." "There's no doubt, we are here to learn." "Do you agree?" "And why would we learn if... there were nothing afterwards... if everything ended with death?" "Either we'll return... or we'll use our knowledge somewhere else." "Oscar..." "Let me introduce Melba..." "The woman in your dream." "Odd things are happening, Leopoldo." "And the wheelchair?" "I don't need it any more." "I had a very strange dream." "I dreamt that I died several times during this same life." "Oscar the pilot died one day, and then the disabled Oscar was born." "His time will soon be up, then the Oscar that you see will be born again, different from all the preceding ones, and yet the same." "All have taught me something." "I'll never walk the way I did," "I'll walk differently... using all I learned in the wheelchair and with these crutches." "Did you use the collector?" " No." "That's Osiris," "Carlitos' brother." "We're working on him." "Are there many deaths and births in the same life?" "During our so-called only life?" "If so, we don't experience one death, but many." "Many deaths from which we are reborn with each transition in life." "Each transition is a death which makes room for a new life," "even our supposedly last transition." "And that's the error:" "There's another transition." "I've come to say goodbye." "Goodbye?" "You're everywhere." "Where are you going?" "I've learned a lot these past days." "I can't go on hiding." "If God granted me this delay, it was so that I could learn." "Now I know..." "Rachel... if I should die..." "Don't even think about it!" "We must meet in life." "It will happen." "But you have to promise me something:" "Next time... don't die without telling me where you're going." "No more being closed up in a flower pot." "You have the planet under you." "You can grow all you want." "Don't be afraid, I won't abandon you." "What?" "A miracle." "My darling..." "It's wonderful..." "I'm hungry..." "I'm cold..." "I'm alive!" "But why am I crying?" "Come in..." "Stay with her for a minute." "I'm going to the bathroom." "Why like this, Rachel?" "And now... what shall I do with you?" "What you've always done..." "Iove me."