"LA MALA HORA" "BASED ON THE NOVEL" "LA MARA HORA BY GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ" "I'm old, a certain age that the body doesn't need to sleep too much... and with the insomnia... the reality gets aspects of awkwardness..." "October 4th, Saturday." "Saint Francisco Day." "The time is meaningless." "If God was made of time, forgive me the blasphemy... even He would have no meaning, full stop." "The rats are spreading out through the Church." "The waters inundated the low lands... and the people from the shore of the river became homeless." "A cow came down the river and spread through the village... her stinky smell." "In the middle of this chaos... the mechanism of the village still works precisely." "After five strokes of the Church's bell... the precise arrival of Trinidade, Nestor's clarinet... and the leaving of César Monteiro to the mountains, full stop." "With this rainy winter and all the things that I've just mentioned... bad moments are expected." "Once again, the village was invaded by lampoons." " I got one myself." " What did it mention?" "The truth." "That I wanna become a whore." "It's too soon to say those "stupidities", Trinidade." "I've heard that a circus that is coming to town." "As if those freaks around here weren't enough." "Nowadays, you don't need a compass to get in the middle of nowhere." "All you need is to follow that cow's stinky smell." "REBECA IS A BITCH ROBERTO ASSIS IS A CUCKOLD" "Rebeca is a bitch." "Roberto Assis is a cuckold." "Please, Roberto." "Let me sleep." " Roberto, I'm naked!" " So what?" "Everybody has seen you naked." "Everybody knows that you are a slut." "You got another lampoon, didn't you?" "It's a lie." "But if you rather believe in those anonymous letters." "Mr. Roberto?" "Your mother wants to see you in her room." "What's going on at the other side of the river, Mr. Carmichael?" "They are trying to take a dead cow off the river." "So, that was about..." "I could feel that smell in my dreams." "It never rains but it pours." "When stop raining, things will get better." "The rain will never stop, neither the lampoons." "You can't care about everything that the lampoons say." " I got one too." " You?" "They attached one to my door, a big one, very detailed." "Last Saturday." "Looked like a cinema advertisement." "That's an infamy!" "There's nothing to say about a family like yours." "Since my wife is white, we had multi-ethnical children." "From the 11 boys, only the negros were mine, according to the lampoon." "A list of the other fathers was shown, even Dom José Assis... was mentioned, rest in peace." " My husband?" " Yours and other four husbands." "I've had enough, Mr. Carmichael." "Enough of those lampoons, of standing all these years... the threatening silence of César Monteiro." "For my embarrassment and punishment..." "Looks more like the father than with myself." "Enough of that never ending chase." "I should pack my things, leave here forever." "And leave everything in the hands of Alcaide?" "I don't want gold pots in order to spit blood on them." "It seems that my destiny is spy on my husband's crimes." "You shouldn't think like that, Mrs. Assis." "The deal you made with Nestor will solve the problem." "You have been quite a loyal friend of the family, Mr. Carmichael." "I appreciate that." "Good morning!" "What a filthy rain!" "But it doesn't matter." "Like God said to Aristotle, "There's nothing like... a cold beer," isn't it?" "Let me introduce myself." "I'm Aristóteles Messina, landlord... and Circus Intercontinental's master of ceremony." "And I am Dom Roque, and this is Doctor Giraldo, our doctor." "Cheers." "Should we be honored by your presence... around here, Dom Aristóteles?" "The mud, the destiny." "And we went to the town, after a long season abroad." "End up in the middle of nowhere, after an international tour..." " makes sense." " It's been days that we face... a torrential rain, and not one single soul." "And we got here and I thought, "what could be better than make a... presentation to entertain, to cheer people up, right?"" "What the village doesn't need now is a Circus." "You look a little tired, Doctor." " How are you?" " About to die." "About to die, as usual." " By any chance I offended the doctor?" " No... it's just that everybody has been very nervous." "You ended up right in the middle of a struggle." " May I know?" " Between the Assis and the Alcaide." " You better keep the distance." " Assis?" "This name..." " I've heard something about it." " Yes, wealthy people." "Dangerous, full of contradictions around here." "But, they lost the power gradually." "First of all, patriarch was killed." "Then, with the Alcaide's arrival and the murder of his two older sons... things got complicated." "Now, there's only the widow and the youngest son." "Which is a cuckold." "He's gentle like a lady." "What about the Alcaide?" "He came around with six guys covering his back." " And a deadly hate for the Assis." " Is Alcaide..." "No?" "That's the thing, it's hard to understand." "It's honest." "And he's broke." "In this country, there's never been an honest alcaide." "Ever, and I'm sure neither in any nation." " How does he look like?" " Looking at him at 32 feet away... makes you wanna laugh, but if you get closer, makes you wanna cry." "Speaking of the devil." "This one?" "Looks more like a chicken than a man." "Open this pharmacy!" " Come on!" " Take it easy, I'm coming!" "I want the strongest medicine that you have for toothache, okay?" " Take it!" "Take!" "Take!" "Take!" " What the hell is that?" ""Astrucia"." "Chew slowly and swallow little by little." " Open your mouth." " I want something foreign." "This is better than any foreign medicine." "The guarantee of three thousand years of popular wisdom." "Why don't you take this tooth off?" "Take me out of here, you fuckers!" "Half an hour in this hell, you son of a bitch!" " Who is screaming?" " A woman that attached the lampoons." " We caught her in the morning." " Shit!" "This woman is illiterate!" "And the village woke up with papers around." "She goes out and you go in." "You heard?" "Bring me a clean uniform." " Let me get out of here!" " Yes, sir." "I wanna get out of here!" "What the fuck!" "God doesn't exist!" "If He existed, I would kill Him!" "The Lieutenant's uniform." " Good morning, Dom Roberto." " To you." " Don't tell anyone about the letter." " Of course, don't worry." "And tell to your mother that if she needs a carrier pigeon..." "I should leave very early in the morning." "Just the time to pay a whore and an oil change!" "Regards to Mrs. Rebeca." "Don't put my wife in the middle of a whore chat." "You are overreacting, Roberto." "Misunderstood." "Everybody is afraid to be the next to receive one, Dom Sabas." "Regrets, Dr. Giraldo." "Lucky me that doesn't have consciousness." "A couple of days ago, they mentioned my name on that lampoon... the same bullshit." "The story of the donkeys." " I don't know about this one." " I sold a donkey... then, two days later showed up dead, no signs of violence." "Later, they made up that I invaded the farms in the night... and shot right inside the donkeys' asses." " But that story seems real." " Were snakes." "Lampoons are like that, Dom Sabas." "Says what everybody already knows." "Most of the time, they say the truth." "The truth, Dr. Giraldo, is that there's no fortune in the country... that doesn't have its origin in a dead donkey." "I always believed, my dear Dom Sabas... that your best quality was the lack of shame." "That!" "And my sexual potency." "I miss my youth!" "At that time, a dark mulatta with 16 years old... used to cost less than a heifer." "The good times are gone, Dom Sabas." "Now, the life is no longer worthy." "And you know about this very well." "Know so well that supported us." "The opposite of Assis." "Please, Doctor Giraldo, the walls have ears." "Don't worry, only few people know about this." " A few are too much." " You, Dom Sabas... and the Assis' widow should get together to face the Alcaide." "It happens, Dr. Giraldo, that when a sneak grows too much... she swallows the other one." "Assis' widow has its teeth shining." "There's a rumor that says she bought Nestor' lands." "Then Alcaide loses, which for us, is not bad at all." "We, who?" "So, did you forget that I'm just a sick old man... who earned a few cents shooting the donkeys' asses?" "Let me see!" "Let me see!" ""Guerrillas disrespected the violent beating to the government troops."" "Excellent!" "When you stop to take rotten teeth off... you can run for the Literature Nobel's prize, my friend." "Watch out, the man is coming." "I talk to you later." "If they were both armed, we would have quite a duel." "Beard, only on the right side." "And light hand." "Go, donkey!" "Go!" "Go, go, donkey!" "Go!" "Go, donkey!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go, donkey!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go, donkey!" "Go!" "Go!" "Your Honor?" "We have to talk about something." "Sit!" "I need you to write a warrant of arrestment..." " in the name of Dom Sabas." " Of course." "The charge is?" "Could be anything." "Burglary, subversión, moral outrage." "What a stink!" "In sum, whatever you want." "I also need you to write a transference... of the Nestor's lands and leave the beneficiary line in blank." " What?" " You heard." "Those lands are in the name of Assis' widow." " I didn't tell you to stand up." " The existence of the Assis... depends on this business, I can't go back." " Of course you can." " Nestor already gave his word." "Let me worry about Nestor." " The Assis' widow will kill me." " There's no difference in who kills." "In the end, it's the same." "A speech and a grave." "Alcaide, be reasonable." "You can't ask me such a thing." "I'm not asking, I'm commanding." " I know a lot about you." " Do you?" "Enough to send you to jail for the rest of your life... which, by the way, would be a few, very few." "I need this paper work at my hotel at the end of the afternoon." "And if I could give you an advice..." "I wouldn't talk too much." "Do you know why?" "'Cause silence is the eternal life's elixir." "As said..." "I don't know!" "Aristotle, Plato..." "One of these Romans." " Shit!" " lf you don't take this tooth off..." " the swelling won't disappear." " What about that swelling?" "When Dom Sabas sold me, I was already pregnant." "Well, I hope the Honor shall not sell you, right?" "'Cause the cow with young is more valuable." " Tears and dreams." " What?" "It's the new name Nestor's song." "Seems that it's dedicated to Rosário Monteiro, then occurred me... if you talked about love or lampoons in your sermon..." " you could include..." " I'll only talk about God." "People already talk too much in that village." " Trinidade!" " What?" "Did you ever think if someone bottle sacred water to give to the sick?" " What's the matter?" " What if a sick person... a believer died poisoned by sacred water with arsenic?" " Not arsenic, it's plaster of Paris." " Plaster of Paris?" "I spread plaster of Paris in every single part of the Church." "The rat ate the plaster of Paris, got wildly thirst... drank water from sink, solidified the Plaster of Paris in his stomach." "Died." "My tactic worked." "Better buy arsenic." "I don't wanna know about rats in the sacred water." " Good morning, Father Ángel." " Mrs. Assis." " Father." " Mrs. Rebeca." " Good morning, Father Ángel." " Welcome to the house of the Lord." "Good morning." "Is Alcaide going to Nestor's house?" "Charge it to me." "So, Nestor?" "How does it sound to you?" "You are offering me a hard decisión, Alcaid." "But it's for your own sake and everybody else's." " Except for the Assis' widow." " But your business... managed by her, would be a disaster." " Everything is already set." " Yeah, but you didn't sign anything." "no firm, no agreement." "And then... then when she finds out, you will be very far." "I don't know." "I don't know." "And what about the price, what you say about the price?" "That Dom Sabas." "That Dom Sabas is offering." "Everybody knows that I don't have a cent." "Come on, the price is more than reasonable, isn't it?" "Yeah, yeah." "Look, I'll come here tomorrow... bring a nominal check, all documents... to close the deal before the ship leaves." "And you, sir, please, don't tell anyone about this... 'cause I wouldn't appreciate if something happened... precisely before the day you are about to leave, right?" "I wasn't born for music." "You'll have success in the city." "The world needs love songs." "Lt?" "There's a fat guy with a clown costume, he wanna talk to you." "He's at the restaurant." " What do you want?" " Hello, I'm Aristóteles Messina." "I have a Circus set around here, all tickets are sold..." "I have a group of 17 people which I have to support." "More two starving beasts." "Starving." "Starving." "I need the authorization to open the Circus." " And thus recover the expenses." " Bad time." "I've been hearing things around here." "And what have you been hearing?" "Nothing important." "That torrential rain has kept people away... and people are scared." "So, nothing better than Circus!" "By any chance, is there a dentist in your Circus?" " A dentist?" "No." " I knew it." "They told me about you." "They told me that you don't keep what isn't yours." "What a pity!" "A little money always helps man' life." " What do you think?" " It seems that you... are trying to bribe me, and it may cost you an arrest." "I want you out of here in 24 hours." "And I don't wanna see your people walking around here." " Shave and hair?" " Shave." "The rain is making everyone run out of the streets." "No, is not the rain, Your Honor." "Is not the rain." "It's the fear." "Long time ago, in a Saturday morning like this one..." "I would've attended five clients already before noon." "Now, do you know what is to wake up every day... with the certainty that you will be killed?" "10 years passed and you don't die?" " No, I don't know." "I hope you don't ever get through this pain." "You wouldn't dare to say that in front of Alcaide... neither do I, that talk directly to him, would imagine..." " where he gets so much hate." " Some things... will happens in this village, in this country." "Read and pass ahead." "For me, you are brave." "By any chance, if I had been mistaken about somebody..." "I would be already died by bullets, all over my body." "But remember, I don't have anything to do with this paper." "My brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate... the sacred mysteries, let us call to mind our sins." "I confess to Almighty God and to you, that I have sinned through... my own fault in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done..." " and in what I have failed to do." " Mother." "Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault." "And I ask the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin." "After the mass, tell Father Ángel to come talk to me." "Extreme law, is extreme injustice." "Alcaide keeps visiting Rosário." "And it's always when César Monteiro is absent." "Rosário?" "Rosário?" ""This dream will take me to your boat"." "Nestor's song." " Never stop raining." " You can't imagine..." "You around here?" "What a miracle!" "We should proceed with the work." "This is a división to manage the justice... and not to pluck chickens, Mr. Secretary." "Since you decided to show up, there's a lot..." " to be done, anyway." " First thing, clean this place." "You should plug your nose will make you feel bad." " It won't fall?" " No... after they killed Judge Vilela, blast the springs... but they already fixed." "The Alcaide in person who demanded." "Yes, exactly the same way you are now... the Judge Vilela also was there when they shot him." "I was there." "The three cops were like this... one there, another one here, and the third one here." "When the Judge Vilela saw them, he raised his arms... saying quickly, "No, don't shoot me"." "But suddenly, the chair pumped to one side and he to the other." "Look, all that because after of a spree, the Judge Vilela said... he'd take the inquiry about the death of 2 widow's son till the end." " Are you feeling bad?" " No..." "A little." "Tell me something, you know him better than I do..." " what kind of man is Alcaide?" " The cop?" "No, I mean his temperament." "Is he rancorous, revengeful?" "Precautious." "He doesn't like his enemies alive." "Write a transference of Nestor's lands, beneficiary in blank." "And issue a warrant of arrestment in the name of Dom Sabas." "According to the law, and don't come here with slippers." "Aren't you gonna ask anything?" "Didn't you get curious?" "The curiosity killed the gat." "If this is gonna keep this way, we're gonna have to borrow people... from the other villages." "Many families already left their houses." "They'll come back, they won't forget they left a live person buried here." "These masks are really interesting." "People's creativity is really impressive." "Maybe these masks criticize the social hypocrisy." "Or venerate a leader, or a God." "The popular art always has a vast society function." "These ones were supposed to leave the guests defecate in peace." "'Cause in this hotel, long time ago, there was no bathroom." "Then, Dom, asked to but those masks to keep those anonymous... the "pissers, farters and poopers", that used to stay here." "The social function is not that vast." "But I didn't ask you to come here to talk neither about art or shit." "Did you bring what I asked?" "According to the law?" "Alcaide?" "One question." "What mistake did I made?" "What did I do?" "You pooped a lot, no mask." "A man like you shouldn't sleep with open doors." "To you, sir, my doors will be always open." " What time is it?" " Almost five." "Can we talk?" "I'm afraid I cannot do anything else." "Tell me something, Dom Sabas." "How many oxen from the Assis' widow you screwed with your mark?" " I have no idea." " You know that this has a name, huh?" " Immoral." " Yes." "Let's suppose you... have taken from her about three oxen per day." "God!" "But I'm not good at Mathematics." "I know, I'm not good as well." "But you know very well... the municipal taxes, don't you?" "Fifty for each one." " Forty." " Fifty!" "Increased!" "And the worse is that things are not that simple anymore." "'Cause now all the Assis' herd it's under municipal protection." "You, protecting the widow?" "It's kind of funny." " The law is the same for everyone." " It was to charge this trifle... that you came visit me?" "No, I came to forgive this debt and offer you an unrefusable business." "You are gonna buy all the possessions of Nestor..." "And that will transform Assis' Widow into a mortal enemy." " My life will worth just a little." " Your life doesn't worth a shit... if I put you in jail." "A check from you and I ask to annul this warrant of arrestment." "And also, nobody will know that you... a long time ago, accused the chiefs of the guerrilla war." "I know that nobody should trust in me... but I didn't know that I was so bad." "This boat will take me To your dream" "Rovira?" "Get rid of this people 'cause now it's not time to sing." "It's over!" "Let's go!" "Everybody, let's go!" "Let's go, everybody go home, the serenade is over!" "That bastard Nestor knows how to compose a song." "I should ask him a Requiem for the Assis' widow." "The bastard died without knowing why." " Have you seen my spurs, Rosário?" " They're hanged behind the wardrobe." "I feel like a sponge, César Monteiro, I hope this rain stops." "It won't stop until December." "They repeated this song over and over." "It's very beautiful." "Tonight, I'll come back late." "ROSÁRIO LOVES NESTOR" "My love took Your dream" "This boat will take me to your dream." ""Rosário loves Nestor"." "Scoundrel!" "Nestor was with the others that made the serenade?" "No, it was a guitar serenade." "The music is good, but the lyric, stupid." "You can switch the words from the right to the left... and the result will always be the same." "This dream will take me to your boat." "This boat will take me to your dream." "Stink as much as the cow." "Nestor?" "César Monteiro killed Nestor!" "Shit!" "Now that I finally got some sleep." "Did a man with a hood pass by here riding a she-mule?" " No." " A cuckold killed a "cuckolder"." "How long do you intend to stay here?" "Until we solve the situation, like that stinky cow." " Who is she?" " Cassandra." "She predicts the future." "You are twelve years late." "And there isn't any bus here that leaves at 18h07." "You were the last person that I expected to find around here." "The missed ways of the destiny." " You haven't changed a thing." " Yes, I have." "I've changed my job." "My name now is Cassandra." "I reveal the mysteries hidden in the time." "If you are interested, the first consultation is free." " I'm looking for a murderer." " Sometimes all you need is a mirror." "A dwarf!" "That's the last straw!" "And what you can see over there, in your crystal ball?" "The answer is not in the murderer, it's in the dead." "I already know what I needed about the dead." "That the bastard died and didn't sign the papers that I needed." "I see more deaths and a woman in black crying." "I see another two women laughing." "A story of love and hate whereas the pass and the future are confused." "Your life is in danger." "My life is in danger since the day I was born." " How tall are you?" " I haven't stopped growing yet." "Whenever you be able to see what's in the crystal ball, you call me." "I think he didn't believe in you." "The time is a ferocious archer, his arrow flies in every direction." "The first arrow of the time was shot." "Nowadays, you don't need a compass to get in the middle of nowhere." "All you need is to follow that cow's stinky smell." "Wake up my son, tell him that I wanna talk to him in my room." "Many of your brothers died in this bed, still young." "And you father." "Exactly with the same position that you are." "Now, they are managing to kill the Assis." "This must end." "Or we eliminate the Alcaide... or we have to do like the Montiel and give up of everything." "What's wrong?" " Do you believe in what people say?" " At my age you believe in everything." " What are they saying?" " That Isabel is not my daughter." "She has the Assis' nose." "Who is saying that?" " The lampoons." " Not everything they say is true." "Yeah, but they say only what people already talk." "A bad thing about Assis's jealousy." "A bad thing about this place is... the women have to stay alone at home while their husbands climb..." " the mountain." " But if the lampoon said the true..." " all that I can..." " I wish I could." "It's been a long time since women's given birth to illegitimate children." "But I didn't call you to hear the complaining." "The boat is nearby the coast." "Talk to the Commander and get the letter that he's bringing for me." "If I haven't returned, look for me in the mass." "If they were both armed, we would have quite a duel." "Shave, only in the right side." " And light hand." " Yes, sir." "Every village has its maniac." "We, as we are not male chauvinists, we have a woman." "My Goodness!" "If I put the hand at this side... this place would become a torture' room." "What that stupid dentist came here for?" "Just a quick little chat." "Do you know that be a friend of the opposition's chief is not that good?" "But in a small village like this, we gotta get along... with everybody, otherwise who is gonna take our rotten teeth off?" " By the way, did you..." " Who allowed that?" "FORBIDDEN TO TALK ABOUT POLITICS The experience." "We are in a democracy, and only the government can forbid." " Did Judge Arcádio come here today?" " Not yet." "My Holy Mary!" "To result this, only a cuckold' cross with a whore!" " Watch out." " Father Ángel." "Yes?" "Our families are concerned about the lampoons." "I understand your concern." "But, should we... care so much about the scandal's voice?" "The scandal's voice is silencing another voices." " Father Ángel!" " Father Ángel!" "Trinidade, keep this in my room with my stuff." "Looks like a real rat, doesn't it?" "This lampoons' fever will pass." "I pray for this every day." " What else can I do?" " Let us pray." " And demand actions from Alcaide." " Mrs. Rebeca." "Father Ángel, my mother-in-law wanna talk to you immediately." "But before this, I would like to confess." "People are saying that I've been cheating Roberto." "But it doesn't make any sense, Mrs. Rebeca." "You don't know the Assis." "They bring the hell in their imagination." "Everybody has a headache today, right?" "More four beers." " Four?" " To go." "Haven't you heard that the Alcaide came to the Circus... in the village?" "Haven't you heard anything about it?" " Have you ever been blackmailed?" " No doctor, why?" "Nothing." "You tell to that gentleman over there... that we write press with "ss", and not with one "s"." "It's a very delicate situation, Mrs. Assis." "That's why we need to do something very quickly." "It's against the canonical principles of the Church to interfere in politics." " In case..." " This decisión belongs to Your Eminency, the Bishop." "What we expect from you, Father Ángel... it's just the report about what's going on around here." "And the Alcaide's inability to find a solution." "Just that!" "What are you gonna do?" "Reflect on the situation." "And pray that God... helps me to find a fair solution." "So pray!" "Pray, Father Ángel." "But pray fast." "When the ship leaves tomorrow, you must take a letter... reporting the facts exactly how they really are." "That the Alcaide is chasing the good citizens." "And frightening the population with his cops." "These immoral lampoons are not more than the evidence of the chaos... that we are living, or do you have any doubt... that the Alcaide is the responsible for all this?" "And that his replacement can re-establish the order in that town?" "Sundays are weird." "As if they were chopped and hanged." "They smell like animal." "You've slept badly." "One of these Sundays you'll wake up old." "Do me a favor, be quiet." "Today is Saturday." " But smells like Sunday." " It's the cow." " It's the liver." " Nothing justifies the rudeness." "I must be intoxicated." "I always get worse when it rains." "You always say this and never do anything." "If you don't open your eyes, you'll end up sick." "In December, we will stay 15 days in the sea." "Alcaide keeps visiting Rosário." "And it's always when César Monteiro is absent." "We bought everything we needed, right Matilde?" " The door was only ajar and I..." " Matilde, put all... these things in the kitchen and then you can go, okay?" "It was on the floor." "People are saying that Nestor composed a song for you." " Many things are said." " It's true." "They say that Roberto Assis is gonna replace me as an alcalde." " Your husband knows about this?" " lf he does, he didn't mention." "I'm going to the inundated places to see my daughter." "You can go, Matilde." "If you need any help." "I really need to talk with César Monteiro." "It's urgent." "He went to Cruzeiro's farm." "He will be back at night." "Matches a lot with your skin." "If you take too long, there will be gossip." "No!" "I have to talk with César Monteiro." "Tell him as soon as possible." " Is it insulin?" " What did you dream?" " I don't dream." " That's the price you pay... by stealing and cheating people." "What do you want?" "In life, you can't have it all." " Good afternoon." " I'm gonna blow up my head." "You are intoxicating yourself with all these analgesics." "Take two more pills." "You're not gonna die with two more pills." " Where are the analgesics?" " They don't work anymore, Father." "My ears keep buzzing and seems that my head is about to explode." "You need to take it off." "If you allow me, I can talk with the dentist." " He's a very comprehensive man." " I don't deal with the opposition!" "You know what he said to me, Father?" "That he wanna take off my tooth... in order to see me dying of hemorrhage at his house." "You should talk to Dr. Giraldo." "He also takes teeth off." "But he said that he doesn't have the apparatus." " This is a conspiracy!" " Take it." "I already said to leave me alone!" "Shit!" "Mr. Alcaide, you should know about a very important fact." "I thought a lot and I don't want you to say that I told you." "Is it the replacement of Roberto Assis to my position?" "I have friends in the town." "All nominations must have the Episcopal Council's approbation." "And if you want my support, you must do something against lampoons." "I must know immediately the measures that you gonna take." "Because tomorrow, I'm gonna send a report to the Bishop." "Dom Sabas didn't wanna see me." "I hope the worse." "He's not the type that runs away from business." "Dr. Giraldo thinks that Alcaide is gonna take a drastic attitude." "I feel as if I was a hundred years old." "You look like a flower." "It's getting late." "People are saying that you are my lover." "You could have been." "There's still time to be." "Rovira!" "Send the negro Carmichael." "Today, I made a fantasy come true." "A man seeing me all naked." "Dom Assis never saw." "I had sex with him dressed." "In the dark." "Underneath the sheets." "Only you and a monkey saw me naked." " A monkey?" " Yeah, a monkey." "On my weeding day, I was changing... and I heard a noise at the roof, I looked up and I saw a monkey." "Hanged in the beam, looking at me." "Masturbating." "I covered myself and shouted." "Dom Assis came to see what it was." "And killed the monkey with two shots of shotgun." "My nudity is mortal." "I swore to myself... that I wasn't gonna die belonging to just one man." "Mother-in-law?" "Mother-in-law?" "Mother-in-law?" "Mother-in-law?" " Mother-in-law?" " I'm here!" " I'm in here!" " Mother..." "Mother-in-law?" "Now we have a secret." "César Monteiro!" "Come, César Monteiro!" "César Monteiro!" "Since you are a man of few words..." "I'm gonna save you some time." "Tonight, at the curfew, I need you and your... men to help me to vanquish the Assis." "Why would I do that?" "Because you are the only one who can replace the alcaide." " I would like to trust you." " We are brothers." " Brothers?" " Looking at us... nobody could say, right?" "But you and I together become a legitimate son of José Assis." " And you, what'd you get with this?" " Do I have to explain?" "To you?" "I'm gonna gather my men." "But watch out with the legitimate Assis' blood." "What connect us, can tear us apart." "I decide to decree the martial law and the curfew!" "All the citizens are officially convoked to join... the Armed Forces." "Should present in the quarters... where they will be armed likewise." "Naked and stuck in mud." "A sad end for a good man." "Peralta?" "Give him a shower and take him to my office." " Yes, Lieutenant." " And make sure he's covered." " Peralta?" " Sir." "Tell to Carmichael's wife bring a pair of shoes." "I only have this one." "Everybody knows that you are an honored man." "But you've been faithful to big mouth's widow." "That five years ago, bought from Dom Sabas, in secret the... chiefs of the guerrilla's war names." "And accused them, one by one..." " in order to remain in the village." " The other one as well." "The dentist." "And he didn't accuse anybody." "The time will tell." "Sorry to interrupt the fornication." "But I had to know." "How much is worth to the widow, the life of his little son, Roberto?" "Has no price." "Of course it does." "And his life is in your hands." "Just confess that you attached the anonymous letters... in the name of the widow and you are a free man." "With a new pair of shoes." " Special offer of the house!" " I have another offer, Alcaide." "Say it." "Shoot me." "Assis widow?" "Assis widow?" " I don't allow guns in my house." " Don't worry about that." " Rovira?" "Wait for me outside." " Yes, sir." "Is sir Carmichael all right?" "He just signed a confessión, accusing you to be..." " the responsible for the lampoons." " Nobody is gonna believe this." "In politics, people believe in what is convenient for them." "Why all this chasing?" "You don't take any personal benefit from all of this." "Until the end of your days, each day, each hour... you gonna regrind by willing to answer this question." "It's part of your punishment and my pleasure." "Did you come here to say that, Alcaide?" "No!" "I came to tell your dear son Roberto Assis... to command one of the brigades tonight." "You send the message." "Don't try to protect him from danger." "A nice man, but he has no moral at all." "Behind this arrogance, a weak, a coward." "I wish I had met him alive, just to see him crawling." "Seems that you he same ability to hate as the Assis." "You probably don't have one thing." "That we, Assis women, have." "An infinite ability to wait." "I promise that your wait won't last." "This boat will take me To your dream" "Rovira?" "Get the people out of here 'cause now it's no time for singing." "It's over!" "Let's go!" "Everybody, let's go!" "Let's go, everybody go home, the serenade is over!" "Let's go home everybody!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Let's go!" "The bastard died without knowing why." " Have you seen my spurs, Rosário?" " They're hanged behind the wardrobe." "I feel like a sponge, César Monteiro, I hope this rain stops." "My love took Your dream" "This boat will take me to your dream." ""I will be in your dream until the death."" ""Rosário loves Nestor"." "Scoundrel!" "Stink as much as the cow." "You know, Father, I was willing to attach an anonymous letter." "A lampoon?" "And saying about what, Dear Lord?" "That you, Father, sometimes looks at me as if you wasn't a priest." "That's absurd!" "Pray 50 Hail Mary... 20 Lord's Prayer, 10 Creeds." "And get out of my way before..." "I regret myself of my benevolence." "Sinner!" "It's all that I needed!" "At this age." " Nestor." " César Monteiro." "Nestor killed César Monteiro!" "Shit!" "Now that I finally got some sleep." "Sometimes all you need is a mirror." "What a weird thing!" "Like in a dream... as if this fucking little dwarf was taller." "I've already said." "I haven't stopped growing yet." "I don't like him." "It feels like I had been here before." "That's because the time's arrow flies in more than one direction." "Arrow?" "What is this?" "An Indian' story?" "Stills is a love story, like the one of Tristan and Isolde." " Tristan and Isolde?" " It's a beautiful story!" "They..." "Shut up, idiot!" "Do you think I am ignorant?" "What do you wanna know?" "First, Nestor died murdered by César Monteiro... and don't sign the papers." "Now, it's César Monteiro who dies... and don't bring his men." "Who killed who?" "Why?" "The answer is in the love of the two Isoldes for Tristan." "Bullshit!" "If I'm sleeping, why I can't wake up?" "When the time throws its third arrow, you'll wake for the answer." "I hope not meeting you anymore neither your charlatanisms." "He still doesn't believe in you." "You must be careful with the time's arrows." "They fly all over the way." "The second time's arrow has been thrown." "Nowadays, you don't need a compass to get in the middle of nowhere." "All you need is to follow that cow's stinky smell." "Keeps raining." "And the ghosts'hunting will start." "Yeah, the ghosts that the Alcaide wanna get... we all know who they are." " A double." " Fetid mass." " This one?" " This smell of dead cow... is from fetid mass." "What do you think about this curfew, Dom Roberto?" "I don't know what is that curfew." "Putting all these men on the street." "Once I was ashamed of loving a man." "The same man that makes you suffer." "Who are you?" "My real name is Rosário, like yours." " What do you want?" " Get rid of the past." "And set you free from the future." "It's been like a rape with consent that soon became an obsessión." "An irrepressible desire, an insatiable hunger." "I denied and I ran away, but the repugnant magnetized me." "Like an addiction without medicine, like a chasm." "More I ran, more I surrendered myself." "Waiting for the end of anguish in each meeting." "Always, always refreshed." "I swore, promised to all... angels and devils to give my blood to refuse his body." "But in each new meeting, I felt more pleasure... slave, the repugnancy that I had." "And have for him... for myself, for what I feel." "I said, no!" "As usual, then, you change your mind." "Come!" "Damn!" "Pleasure and sickness." "Sickness and pleasure." "Only death can heal this disease." "It's exactly about death that I came to talk to you." "Shoot me." "Insolent Creole!" "You and the widow are just a matter of time." "Nino?" "Peralta?" "Tell Ruivo to do something... about this bunch of crap until he gets smooth." " What about the César Monteiro'men?" " Nobody arrived yet, sir." "Son of a bitch!" "He didn't accomplish." "Come on." " Knock down!" " Come on." "Let's start the search." "Lampoons, guns, subversive material." "I give the order to shoot if your wife doesn't return to her room." " You heard, woman." " You better say quickly... we came prepared to blast everything until we find." "It doesn't matter to me." "If it makes you feel good... keep blasting the whole house." "Gonzáles, keep an eye at the door!" "Rovira, keep an eye at the window!" " Abdias, call the dentist." " Come on, come with me." " Take it off." " Tell this murderer... to not disturb me." " Anesthesia." " You kill without anesthesia." " Suppose there's no anesthetic." " But we must have." "Don't be idiot!" "With a thing like that... none anesthetic would work." "I should destroy this house." "To me, you still proceed and think as a conspirator." "Do mouthwash with fenugreek' water." "Lieutenant, something unexpected happened." " I told you so, Lieutenant..." " Shut up!" " Who did it?" " Everybody." " He tried to escape." " Who are you trying to deceive?" "Gun." "Take it all." " Bring me sailcloth, string, wire." " Gonzáles?" "Let's get it." "Bury the body in the courtyard." "And remember one thing for the rest of your life." "Carmichael ran away." "The bastard died without knowing why." "Shit!" "You don't do this again." "Because I hear better when I'm sleeping." "The door was open." " What time is it?" " It's around nine." " I'm falling asleep." " Is it true that..." " Carmichael was arrested?" " lf you weren't... hanging out with whores, you wouldn't have missed the show." "You should release him, his arrest was inadequate." "Everybody likes him." "The old Carmichael always worked as an Assis' bookkeeper." "A poor devil that never got into politics." "He knew that the widow is involved with these lampoons' story." "He knew?" "Carmichael died?" "You come with me to the quarters." "Here is what tonight's operation is about." "Let's get over with this lampoon... thing and subversive lampoons." "You're gonna be divided in groups and must shoot in anyone." "Man and woman that disobey three superior orders." "My men are in command of the operation." "Let's punish, once for all, the responsible for this situation... that has been disturbed everyone's life." " Out!" " Let's go!" "If you wanna stay alive, you pay attention." "That ammunition is for you." "That ammunition over there is for the sons of bitches down there." "Did you get it, bunch of morons?" " Yes, sir." " This is for you..." " that is for them." "Go!" " Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "You, Your Honor..." "You... please, stay at home, all right?" "Whatever happens, you stay there." "And you can, you can... make wild sex with your wife... that despite of her pregnancy, she's still useful, right?" "And tomorrow, as a reward for providing your services... you can return to the town, how you wish." "Thank you." "And tonight?" "What's gonna happen?" "Tonight I accomplish my missión." "We wanna see the Alcaide." "Nobody can go upstairs." "Lieutenant's orders." "Get the hell out of the way." "Let us through." " I won't allow anybody go upstairs." " We need to see the Alcaide!" " Get out of my way, bastard!" " What's this?" "Wait!" "Come back!" "I'm disappointed, Alcaide." "I hoped you'd call me to do the autopsy." "There's no autopsy, Doctor." "Just because there's no dead body." " So we wanna see Carmichael." " I wanted as well." "But there's nothing that I can do." "He ran away." " Shut up, Tiradentes!" " Alcaide, you haven't learned yet." "You can't keep secrets in that village." "Everybody knows what happened to Carmichael, what Dom Sabas..." " used to do with the donkeys." " Freeze!" " I have to do this autopsy." " lf you move... and I shoot." "The same for you." "Listen, you should thank me, 'cause Carmichael's the one who attached... the lampoons, the game is over." "We are in a war." "When I say "three"..." "I'm gonna start shooting." "I'll start to count." "Now you are talking, General." "We are starting to get along." " No masks." " One..." " Two..." " You forgot something, Alcaide." "Now we are armed." "And the best part..." " is that the guns are yours." " And the ammunition as well." "Rovira, they're both over there, get them!" "Go, Rovira!" "Go!" "Nobody in here, sir!" "Rovira, get out!" "I'll take care of them later!" "Let's go!" "Father Ángel!" "Father Ángel!" " I wanna talk to you." " You're vanquishing the village." "Maybe that would be my missión in Earth." "To govern chasms." "This place was very nice before you come." "I don't know if you're naive or stupid, Father." "Everything that is written in the lampoons is true." "I want you to point me out one decent person in this town." "Maybe the only was Carmichael and me that always showed who I really am." " And you, what are you?" " Did you never suspect?" "I'm the devil, the evil thing, the beast, the demon in person." "No, Father." "I'm not the devil." "That would make things too simple." " I'm just a son of a bitch." " Don't blaspheme!" "I want you to hear my confessión." "Sit down!" "I'm hearing." "Let's imagine a story, a simple melodrama." "A girl is raped, let's say... by José Assis, she gets pregnant." "You know what the good man does?" "Pursued by his wife, the decent Mrs. Assis." "This bastard without desires, throw the poor woman out." "She will be a whore in the town." "Whore, Father." "One of these whores that fucks 10, 12 per night." "In the same year that the boy is born... she dies of cancer, syphilis, gonorrhea." "The boy meets a priestjust like you." "Studies, goes to the army." "One day, he becomes alcaide... at the same little fucking town that his mother was ousted." "Are you enjoying my story, Father?" "Now, do you know who took her to town?" "Carmichael." "This poor man with a slave' soul, a jack of all trades." "But relax, Father." "'Cause now Carmichael is in the Lord's peace." "Do you really wanna know who I am?" "I'm the terminator ángel." "I came to vanquish my father's village." " And vanquish the Assis!" " I can denounce you, Alcaide." "And betray the confessión's secret?" "Is there anything that I could say or do for you to give up of this?" "Turn back the time." " Do you have powers for that?" " No." "So face the facts and watch the show." "The show will begin." "Rovira?" "Rovira?" "Rovira?" "Rovira?" "Shoot to kill." "Start with the leaders, if some bastard hides... inside his house, you go in there and shoot everything that moves." "Lieutenant, we are only five, sir." "And they got the rifles that you gave them." "But they got weapons with blank cartridge, idiot!" "They're all gonna die!" "Start the fireworks, go!" " The bullets are false!" "Attack!" " Go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" " Let's destroy everything!" " Attack!" " I had a dream." " About what?" " I dreamed that you were killing me." " How long will you stay there?" "Until the dream come true." "Roberto, I'm gonna place the battery." "It's all over." "Mother-in-law!" "I dreamed about Tristan and Isolde." "And in my dream, you were Tristan." "And in your dream also had two jealous Isoldes like in the legend?" "Yes, but you don't believe in dreams, nor crystal balls." "Even if I did, what was supposed to happen, already happened." "Who knows?" "Not everything happens according to the time and reason." "Look." "In my dreams, the white candle that announces the Isolde'arrival... to save Tristan, wasn't white nor black, it was red." "Rosário?" "In my dream, is Isolde who runs towards death." "Rosário!" "In my dreams, is Tristan who runs in order to save the woman he loves." "The last time's arrow..." "They killed the Alcaide!" "And that God, in His infinite mercy... give me the forgiveness for finding in the violence... the voice and a fair justice." "Father?" "So many people died." "Everybody was shooting against everybody... the ones who escaped are going to the mountains..." " to join the guerrillas." " It's the end of the village." "Just those damn rats that keep coming and going." "Father, may I ask you something?" "What about the lampoons?" "Who attached them?" "Everybody and nobody." ""Father Ángel."" " Are you listening, Cassandra?" " It's your imagination." "But that story really happened?" "The truth is what you believe." "And if I believe a little bit more?" "Am I gonna know what happened to the Alcaide?" "His body was thrown in the river, as they say." "And disappeared." "With his stink, like the cow."