"I wanted so much to impress you." "Our one night was sudden and brief." "Like a storm." "I didn't even have time to begin... or to tell you my sole specialty." "I'm a collector." "I collect the roughest and toughest thing in the world." "Moments." "When I have the sudden urge to fly... and there's nowhere to fly..." "I hide myself in my collection... full of coffee, boxers, dancers... accidental touches, insults... sensitive criminals, underground passes, cries... silence, separations, words, words, words." "Anyway, things will happen as they will." "Life knows." "And I trust it." "I'm one of those guys who always smoked cheap cigarettes." "BAD MOVIES Presents" "Will you please calm down?" "10:04 p.m." "I told you, my battery died." "Come and pick me up, because I can't find a taxi." "I told you, the battery died." "What do you mean I don't want to know where you are?" "Please stop being hysterical." "Good evening." "Are you ready?" "I was born ready." "A film by Renos Haralambidis" "C H E A P S M O K E S" "ONE WEEK AFTER SOPHIA" "Every morning, I give myself 10 seconds... to understand where I am and why." "Then another 5 seconds to accept... my total inability to do any kind of work." "The realization of my tragic economic situation is instant." "This helps me buy time... to devote to my fish." "Sometimes I want to tell them all about my life." "However, even if they weren't deaf... their memory span only lasts 3 seconds... as long as a swim in the bowl." "Maybe that's why I see my entire life in their eyes." "A repeated twirling, a happy nothing." "These are the first moments of the day... when inspiration comes to save me." "The world is based on chaos... and I don't look for a logical sequence." "This is my life." "Get it?" "No, no, it isn't a profession, this serves a purpose." "You drink alcohol to forget and coffee to remember." "And those sissy barmen steal all your glory." "A bar is a psychological toilet." "You get dizzy and throw up your existentialist problems." "Coffee is your mirror every morning." "A settling of accounts." "A "good morning."" "10:19 p.m." "CARD NOT ACCEPTED" "Yes?" "Yes, hi." "2030." "You have children, a husband, money... and you pass this phone booth by chance." "It occurs to you that the man you refused... was probably the man of your life." "Let me prove that I'm not the man of your life." "Don't hang up." "I've got to go." "Excuse me..." "I noticed you want to make an important call..." "and your card has a problem." "Yes." "This isn't blackmail... but I can give you mine... if you walk with me to the next payphone." "Won't this one do?" "Yes, it'll do..." "But you seemed upset before and I thought - right..." "Is it far?" "What?" "Just to the next payphone." "Okay?" "Yes, of course." "I think there's a payphone over there." "But we'd better go this way." "Okay, no problem." "We'll go this way." "I love coffee shops like some people love travel." "A huge industry of lost time, a complete mystery." "The art of allowing time to go by without leaving its mark." "A noble gesture to oneself and, yes, to mankind." "So Cindy Crawford offers herself, you'd still say no." "Sperm shouldn't be wasted." "All of mankind wants to ejaculate on her!" "The man might not want to have intercourse." "Everyone wants to fuck." "What're you, the smart guy?" "And I'm the idiot?" "I repeat, sperm shouldn't be wasted." "To put an end to this, whether Cindy comes or not..." "I've decided to donate my sperm to philosophy." "I read 3 sports papers a day!" "Is that a problem?" "Even vanity has it's purpose." "Oh, get a job!" "I'm no bum." "I am..." "what I am." "What does philosophy say about that?" "This discussion has gotten out of hand." "His next drink is on me!" "Servant!" "Plato called me last night." "The philosopher?" "Who else?" "What did he say?" "You don't want to know!" "Well, fuck off then!" "Fuck off!" "Fuck off!" "10:31 p.m." "You know, I think..." "it's a good thing that you... agreed to..." "Anyway, I'm glad you..." "Is it far?" "No." "We either go this way..." "or that way..." "Decide!" "OK, that way." "Good." "There are many ways to begin a love story... but only one way to end it." "The clash." "He had an entire porno collection." "I felt sorry for him, but I got what I deserved." "A tall body-builder, whose body was a lesson in anatomy." "I never imagined we had so many muscles." "How could I?" "With Thanasis?" "The man with one muscle?" "He makes me feel erotic, tender." "He calls me..." ""Big Pussy"." "The other one never even had the guts to say..." ""Yeah, I like women with silicone breasts."" "Tolis!" "It's unbelievable." "Tolis!" "She's going out with someone named Tolis." "Add an "s" and it becomes Tsolis (slut)." "Imagine them at the gym:" ""Push, Tsolis!"" "Thanasis!" "A Greek, Orthodox, masculine name." "Manly!" "You know, those body-builders can't get it up." "She's fallen so low." "But I won't stoop to her level." "I've had enough!" "I don't want to fuck anymore." "They want muscle-men." "What about soul-men?" "Chicks!" "They're one big conspiracy." "Not because I'm a handsome guy?" "10:36 p.m." "Anyone who smiles is handsome." "Oh, so if you're a hunchback... have long ears and a face like shit..." "Just smile, pal, and you can start a modeling career." "With your nerve, yes." "It's not nerve." "I just feel obligated to disrupt another's loneliness." "First of all, I don't feel lonely." "And secondly, they used to call this hitting on someone." "Let's not lower the level here..." "A payphone." "So you saw it?" "Can I make that call now?" "My card's run out." "I thought so." "And now?" "And now?" "Now let's go have a coffee." "I'd rather not introduce you to Manolis." "He always appears and disappears suddenly." "He was the weirdest kid in the neighborhood... and nothing he does surprises me." "Not even his insistence on calling me... only at the payphone across from the Acropolis." "He says he has a job for me." "Good money, fast and clean." "I don't know if I'm driven by my tragic financial situation, or because Manolis puts me in a film noir-type atmosphere." "What a face!" "I missed that bright face." "Don't speak!" "Don't speak!" "I want to cover you with kisses." "Not you, asswipe!" "I'll cover you with bullets." "There's a bright face here, waiting for you, you turd." "Ask for forgiveness, shithead!" "Forgive me." "I love you." "You know where the road to excess leads?" "To the palace of wisdom." "We'll collaborate." "My poet!" "Manolis' charm is in his hatred of details." "He owes a lot of money and needs time to find it." "I'll buy him this time with my persuasive and innocent face... as a guarantee of his good intentions." "I agreed, lured by my inclination towards film noir, knowing I would soon regret it." "Look, cafes are..." "a trap." "The trap of poetry." "The twig covering a helmet, disguised as a bush." "Camouflage." "The moment it sits on the twig... it's ours!" "What if it doesn't sit on our twig?" "Why are you doing this?" "You're one of us." "I know you." "Your brain's boiling and you don't know it." "Is it good?" "It's poetry." "11:30 p.m." "What do you do?" "I'm a bank robber." "You don't look tough enough." "What do you think I do?" "Nothing." "You're sharp." "You must do something." "I'm a..." "general expert." "An artist." "I don't believe it." "You know who..." "He's..." "Laertes Varkados." "Who?" "The writer." "Sorry to disappoint you, but I've never heard of him." "The 4th edition of his latest book is out now." "Congratulations." "We thank you." "And you?" "I'm writing the titles of books I'm going to write some day." "Do you make money like that?" "I survive by coincidence." "That's not bad." "No profession, no name." "Just for you tonight..." "The Great Easterner." "Mr.Great Easterner, my name's Sophia." "Let's be optimistic about my profession." "The only one that really suits me... is being God." "Need an assistant?" "A WEEK AND A DAY AFTER SOPHIA" "Every day is the first day of the rest of my life." "It's another day that I try not to do anything." "It's the only thing I know how to do well." "This makes me a scientific researcher of lost time." "It may not be logical, but at least it's optimistic." "11:19 p.m." "And how do you survive?" "I'm a stylist." "A stylist?" "Fashion." "Don't you know what that is?" "I've heard about it." "Magazines, lots of travel..." "Do you travel?" "No." "Your loss." "Maybe." "I just went to Monemvassia." "Have you been there?" "Never." "Have you been abroad?" "What kind of life do you have if you don't travel?" "Listen, what do you think I am?" "An asshole?" "I don't mean that." "I don't care." "Maybe your job is making others feel stupid." "Stylist, right?" "I disappointed you." "Why would you?" "Right." "You didn't disappoint me." "I don't think I have any professional ability." "I haven't studied anything." "I read by chance." "I read one thing and understand something else." "But I could say that I produce a work of art." "I wander around town." "I should be subsidized by the Ministry of Culture." "Why should they pay someone to make a statue... and not pay me to wander around town?" "Like a moving statue." "Damn country!" "It doesn't appreciate artists." "Have a coffee." "I had enough at the hospital." "Those automatic machines..." "How's your cousin?" "He's fine, but not his mother." "Those damn doctors have choked her with drugs." "And the bastards joke about it, too." "Your cousin must be really fit." "Yes, he works out at the gym." "And those doctors- fat slobs- tease him." "They're jealous because they can't do it." "How did they get him to the hospital?" "When your neck breaks, you can't move." "They didn't know who to take first, him or his mother." "Mothers!" "Always coming in and interrupting." "That's how it happened." "He saw his mother burst in... he was shocked and made a sudden movement." "His neck broke and his balls were left stuck in his eyes." "What can I say?" "I admire him." "All that exercise to learn how to give yourself a blow-job?" "It requires concentration." "It's difficult." "It hurts to bend your spine so much." "It's a strain on the lower back." "Very difficult." "Yeah, I work out." "Is there a problem?" "Oh, it's a problem." "Well, go fuck yourselves!" "You're fucked!" "Fuck yourselves!" "12:04 a.m." "What about a girlfriend?" "What kind of question is that?" "A logical one." "I don't know." "Perhaps... you don't like girls?" "I don't know." "Oh, come on, tell me." "Truth is, I don't spend much energy on sex." "Where do you spend it?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "You seem very boring." "Perhaps." "And you?" "Me?" "What about..." "I don't know." "You see?" "Why should I?" "We need beautiful, rich models." "And travel." "You fly from one to the other." "That'll be my next move." "They're full of promises." "Their walk makes every ugly thing beautiful." "They're bored with those sexy hunks and rich guys." "Any model who respects herself is looking for a guy like me." "God wants harmony." "Small tits, big tits, different asses." "God's fair." "He doesn't screw around." "He handed out tits and asses wisely." "You buy the crap in magazines... but those chicks don't exist." "It's trick photography." "Or silicone, or airbrushing." "God gave breasts for suckling, not to stick up." "If it's not functional, it's abnormal." "Those freaks make us normal women freak out." "Men are the only suckers and they better wise up soon... otherwise the human race is in danger." "I have the impression that you never relax." "12:34 a.m." "If I did, I'd lose my style." "But you could become more charming." "Where will charm get me?" "Women would fall in love with you?" "I prefer to fall in love with them." "Such superiority!" "No, no." "The "I love you" bothers me." "It's underhanded." "It hides the question:" ""Do you love me?"" "Someone tells you they love you... to get something in return... so you can tell them you love them, too." "It's underhanded." "You don't need to analyze it so much." "Excuse me, can I..." "Sorry." "It's not analyzing, I just say what's on my mind." "You say it well." "Thanks." "Not always." "What a shame." "That I don't always say it well?" "Didn't I say it well?" "Yes." "Do I talk too much?" "It's alright." "And it's only half of what I think." "Imagine if you said it all." "I thought you'd say that I always say it well." "You always say it well." "How's it going?" "Baby!" "Hail, laurel-wreathed poet." "Hail, adventure lover." "Tell me what I have to do." "When and where?" "Are you ready?" "I was born ready." "What a voice!" "I love that voice." "Thanks to Manolis, I found out payphones accept calls." "And I stopped worrying about my unpaid bills." "My friends know, if they want to find me... they just make an appointment at my favorite phone booth." "I went rather unprepared." "I'd tell them that Manolis had some problems... but would definitely return the money." "But what if they asked me why he didn't come... or who am I to get involved?" "I wonder why Manolis picks me for these jobs." "He knows I'm incapable of setting up a plan." "Is that him?" "It's not him." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." "What'll we do now?" "Concentrate!" "And you?" "Shouldn't you concentrate too?" "We'll both concentrate." "And him?" "Relax!" "Would you?" "You have to learn to relax." "Or else you'll get nowhere." "Now he's gonna speak." "Speak!" "Speak!" "Speak!" "Why don't you speak?" "And say what?" "He said something." "What?" "I don't know." "He'll talk now." "Manolis sent me." "There's a problem and he asks if you'd..." "That's it." "Something stinks." "Bash his head in!" "He said to tell you..." "We need to talk." "The money you gave me for karate..." "I enrolled in ballet." "What, Makis?" "We'll be ruined!" "We are in danger!" "You're playing an ugly game, Mister!" "Let's go." "It was easier than I expected." "Manolis will be happy." "His investment in my innocent face... was a complete success." "Organized crime yielded to the power of my persuasion." "And to Makis' passion for ballet." "I don't like karate!" "Tell me something poetic." "Poetry, only poetry." "Talk to me, talk to me about poetry." "When I die, I want to leave something behind." "So I've decided to make poetry an important part of my life." "We must make money." "Listen..." "listen to the snow, listen to the wind." "Listen...to the snow falling softly." "The snow that falls softly." "But it's summer." "But time passes quickly, doesn't it?" "Merry Christmas!" "In Santa Claus' arms, the wind blows far." "The snow falls softly." "Poetry, only poetry, and a scream." "Just before time flows fast and finally." "If you asked me to describe Manolis... he would be a Christmas story in the heart of summer." "A WEEK AND 2 DAYS AFTER SOPHIA" "I don't mind that I see you each night, and another embraces you." "I don't mind that I return alone, and my heart aches." "I don't mind." "It's not worth grieving over you, don't think that I still love you," "but since you once cried for me, out of pity I must tell you:" "I pity you, I'm not jealous." "I pity you and wherever I am," "I'll shout it out loud." "I pity you for what you've become, for your finery, bijoux and diamonds," "selling your body and kissing anyone." "I pity you, don't laugh." "In empty trolleys, I hear the silence of the crowd, a silence full of the urge to fly, with nowhere to fly to." "I think that 70 years from now... someone may stand in a similar empty trolley... and listen to the silence of the crowd." "But it won't be the same silence." "It will be the silence of another crowd." "It won't be us." "One day." "Tomorrow." "Tomorrow and one day." "That day is the key to happiness." "The day after tomorrow." "In no way must you call her immediately." "Since she gave you her number, you lay down the rules." "I'll call her in 3 days." "Why not 2 weeks?" "Say you found her number- by chance- among your papers." "Ask her where you met... because you don't really remember her." "And if she calls you, make her tell you what she looks like." "And if it all goes well..." "I'll make her remember if I've fucked her." "You're the master of the game." "Me?" "You're the master of the game!" "I'm the master!" "I'll crush her!" "Hear!" "Hear!" "01:01 a.m." "I'm not sure, but I remember... when I was young, I was full of certainty." "And now, as time goes by..." "I begin to doubt everything." "Normally, the opposite should happen." "Sometimes I think that... my experiences are stories lived by someone else." "Like I dreamt them or something." "Dangerous." "You've invested a lot in your dreams." "What dreams do you have?" "I don't have any." "I'm bored and I forget them." "You're cynical." "No." "Were you always like this?" "I guess I was once a sweet boy." "And what did that sweet boy dream?" "I really don't remember." "I don't remember what I dreamt as a kid." "Impossible." "Everyone says that." "What did you want to be when you grew up?" "For one moment, I think I thought of not becoming a man." "You're not serious." "If we're going to kid around, I'll stop talking, alright?" "Don't get angry." "I will." "Well, what did you want to become then?" "Something new, something I would discover myself." "Did you succeed?" "So I start talking to him at the bar." "I told him how great the name Tolis is." "He pokes fun at how common mine is." "Anyway..." "He asked me what I do, but I didn't want to embarass him." "Then he asked if I was fucking any good pussy." "He said a little slut was bugging him..." "But now he has a date with an incredible pussy." "And in walks" " Lord - what a crushing defeat!" "A model..." "the hope for a better world... for a better tomorrow." "The hope of the human race with some..." "Tolis, who gave me a discreet look to leave...and I did." "He comes into the bar where I was with Tolis... and sits across from us." "They greet each other!" ""How do you know him?" I asked Tolis." ""He doesn't look it, but he's a writer who lived in England."" "I was stunned." "Then came the final blow." ""He was in Sarajevo for 3 years," he said." "Then I felt a wild joy." ""Dear Tolis!" I said." ""This fine man has finished a journalism course... has worked as a pizza boy and an insurance salesman." "Oh, yes, he deflowered me and was my boyfriend for 11 years."" "Revenge is sweet." "Tolis turned red... but calmly went over and said something to him." "You should've seen them together." "Oh, the sins of nature!" "Then Tolis came back and said:" ""I hate assholes who think they can make a fool of me."" "By the way, I've started going to the gym." "01:44 a.m." "I want to tell you something." "But don't be offended." "I can't promise you that." "Well, I'll say it anyway." "I can't tell when you're serious and when you're joking." "Neither can I." "Yes, but..." "It's..." "my personal tragedy." "Please, it's a mystery." "Can you solve another mystery for me?" "Your foot is touching mine." "Are you coming on to me?" "It was nice meeting you." "Goodnight." "I'm sorry." "On my radio dial... all the cities I dreamed of wait for me." "Baghdad, Rabat, New Orleans." "They send their sounds... on medium waves and clouds of static." "It's one of those old radios... from a time when all trips out of the city... were very long, even impossible." "Then, with a turn of the dial... you found yourself from Athens to Baghdad... and with a gentler turn... from Baghdad to Tangiers." "Maybe in some part of the world... on another radio dial... someone is listening to Athens through the static, a city as distant to him... as it is to me." "I told you, screw 'em." "We can handle them." "I saw little Vasso yesterday." "She was so freakin' fat." "Looked like shit." "Little Vasso, who drove the whole school crazy." "Do you know what it's like to be young and crazy in love?" "How would you know?" "You don't." "I feel like attacking her with a pneumatic drill." "To free her from her fat and misery." "To elope with her, marry her." "Do you know what it's like to be young and crazy in love?" "How would you know?" "Manolis has no talent in persuasion." "But he knows how to hypnotize." "Will he come?" "Definitely." "What makes you so sure?" "Look in here!" "What do you see?" "I'll tell you." "I've got all my teeth." "I haven't lost one since the day I was born." "You know why?" "I got where I am because I've got iron discipline." "All my life I've said:" ""Courage, my friend." "Honor your parents and, above all, tradition."" "Did you think I was self-made?" "Let's go." "That jerk doesn't understand a thing." "Bravo, Makis!" "Let's go." "I wonder what they must think about me." "You're playing an ugly game!" "Don't risk it!" "We all like to feel something's going on, even when it isn't." "Cool guys, they had a sort of dance in their step." "I'm a collector." "Not like those who collect old cars or juke boxes..." "I collect the most wild and amazing thing in the world... moments!" "How do you do that?" "It's a strange and special procedure." "If I record your footstep now... and you hear it 40 years later... when it's older and different from a young step... it will have tremendous value." "And I'll have preserved it." "I collect phone messages, notes written on napkins." "What's the point?" "I smoked this one myself... when I had an important decision to make." "I never found hers." "Can I keep it?" "Why?" "Because you're going to make an important decision." "And what will be the point?" "You'll see after a few years." "It's yours." "I don't know what decision he meant... but the point is that he really meant it." "Vasso!" "My little Vasso!" "Vasso!" "My little Vasso!" "02:17 a.m." "And your dream?" "Tonight, it's you." "I see." "You look embarrassed..." "That's probably what that little boy was like." "Probably." "Okay, I won't pressure you." "I don't want to become your nightmare." "Nightmares are good, they wake me up." "A WEEK AND 3 DAYS AFTER SOPHIA" "So, Telis, my dear, you should know that this decade... is the decade of the answering machine." "E.g., the right message, the right call... can take you to heaven, but one mistake, to absolute hell." "She can play your message to her friends and they may laugh." "I say I call her from my mobile." "It's glamourous." "No, Telis, my boy!" "Forget the mobile." "I want you simple, plain, Doric!" "Everything depends on the voice." "And make it clear that you don't need her to reply." "You're a hobbyist!" "Your deep, sensual voice should penetrate her entire body." "And no details of who you are." "She remembers you!" "She has to!" "So, call her now!" "Grant her this experience." "And no details." "She has to remember you!" "This is Litsa." "Leave a message." "Yes, hi..." "I'm..." "Oh, I can't!" "Just hearing her voice on the machine... gives me an inferiority complex." "Think of her anguish, hearing your half-message." "Give her another chance." "Call her again... so she can hear that wonderful voice." "This is Litsa." "Leave a message." "Yes, this is Telis..." "I can't!" "She remembers you!" "Don't allow yourself to think otherwise." "Plus you said your name." "Big mistake!" "Play with your victim!" "Carnivorous beast!" "Tiger!" "Hobbyist!" "This is Litsa." "Leave a message." "This is Telis, whom you know." "Call me on 0944-956724." "Call me!" "Direct, simple, Doric, plain..." "...a hobbyist." "It wasn't so hard." "You persuaded her, my boy, with your voice and simplicity." "This is Litsa." "Leave a message." "Litsa, as you can tell, this is Telis." "Since there's a full moon tonight... and the candles burn just for us... why don't we meet on a deserted beach?" "Telis?" "Litsa!" "Don't even think of calling me again." "Did you captivate her, beat her mercilessly?" "I'm never to call her again." "At least now you have no doubts." "03:00 a.m." "When you said you knew people of the night, you meant this?" "What did you think..." "sissy barmen?" "I know the key people." "And you mean literally!" "I rarely speak literally but I'll make an exception for you." "He has the keys to all the stores in the area." "The Key Master." "Pardon?" "Will he give us the keys?" "Our aim is clearly artistic." "I imagine he'll be moved." "He's original, with his little bike..." "I told you I'd impress you." "Then keep your promise..." "not to speak." "Oh, yes..." "But I have to be in the right environment." "In the kingdom of silence." "A security guard on a bike... is going to give us the key to the kingdom of silence." "I'm impressed." "I told him I needed a better warm-up." "He became a different man and started screaming:" ""How would you know?" "You've never moved your ass!" "I'll tell you what to do and if you don't like it... then, Goodbye." That's what he said." "He took me to the hospital and then he disappeared." "He didn't even stay for the x-rays." "There was no other way." "I had to attack him." "There were only 2 punches." "And I copped both of them." "I turned 30 yesterday and went to see her." "He was there." "Calm, cool, cute." "I attacked him." "Those days in bed I wondered how I got here." "When I was 18, I thought of how I'd be at 30." "I saw myself as great, fantastic." "The way I am now never entered my mind." "But the years passed quickly to 30... and they'll pass to 40." "Some Tolis will come along and punch me twice." "Maybe it's the only way for the seasons to change." "What can one say?" "I don't know." "04:02 a.m." "Tell me a story." "What kind of story?" "A love story." "All love stories are the same." "Part I:" "'You're everything to me."" "Part II:" ""Be everything to me."" "Part III:" ""It's you again?"" "It's a very short love story." "Like this rain." "Let's go." "You're a very polite man." "I dreamt about you last night." "Birds fluttered through you hair... and then a quiet rain." "Shut up!" "Birds fluttered through your hair." "And then a quiet rain." "You're a very polite man... but we're beginning to lose our cool!" "Tell him that now he can expect us." "It seemed that my mission was over." "Manolis will have to resort to other methods." "I don't know if I pulled it off." "What does it matter?" "Only that I'll never see them again." "Will Makis devote his life to ballet?" "And will his ruthless boss dream of me again?" "Birds, fluttering through my hair." "05:30 a.m." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Can we have coffee?" "Of course." "A Greek one for me." "French coffee for me." "The sun is rising." "Is it good?" "Yes." "It's a shame you only come here alone." "I have to." "Why?" "Because I come here when I feel the need... to see the city from up high." "And I know that when I feel this need..." "I'll have to make an important decision soon." "And as you know... important decisions must be taken alone." "Hey, pal, find something else on the radio..." "Can you stop talking?" "It's not that easy." "Listen..." "close my eyes." "Close my eyes." "Come on." "And listen." "There are times when, without reason," "An unknown voice inside me trembles," "It reminds me of moments from my other lives," "And a warm wind full of jasmin blows mistilly," "My white jasmin," "Don't let the night come." "Last night I dreamt that you held me in your arms," "I awoke and next to me," "there was nothing." "Tears running down my pillow, help me go to sleep." "Help me dream again, that he is lying next to me." "06:47 a.m." "It would've been better if dawn hadn't caught up with us." "Better to have only one night." "But without even a kiss?" "There's no time." "It could be now." "I just remembered what I wanted to become as a child." "I wanted to do something useful for mankind..." "To bring a rock from the moon." "A specific rock?" "Of course!" "It's next to an astronaut's foot in a photo." "And I felt that it should come to earth." "How will we part?" "Like we met." "And as for the rock..." "Now I know why I'm bringing it." "To give to you." "It's been a week and 4 days since I've seen you." "A week and 4 days shared with coffees, boxers, dancers... underground passes with shady characters..." "Manolis' insanity... the loneliness of waking up in the morning." "To celebrate the happy end of our collaboration..." "Manolis invested his last money in 2 hookers." "Of course, what can 2 hookers have in common... with Manolis' melodramatics?" "What does it matter?" "The episode I remember the most is the one where... some monsters enter the spaceship... and have assumed the shape of the crew." "They wanted to steal the Enterprise's fuel." "Didn't those monsters have tentacles, like ropes... with a huge eye on top of their heads... and only the Captain could see them?" "Yes, that's it." "It's weird." "Everyone remembers that episode from Star Trek." "It's strange what the mind chooses to retain." "I like the beaming up." "From planet to planet." "Me, too!" "I like Spock." "Remember when we all used to gather at the 'Stadium'... you know, the pool joint... because it had a color TV, to watch Star Trek." "Mrs. Zoula used to go there, too." "She was always so worried about Spock and his ears." "How would the poor kid find work in another series..." "And the owner would comfort her, saying:" ""Don't worry, he's from another planet."" "And wise Mrs. Zoula would say:" ""All planets are the same."" "Could we be aliens, too?" "Very strange!" "How does Star Trek end?" "It ended?" "Like all beautiful trips." "They vanished into space." "Great ending." "A grand finale!" "How come the stars don't show?" "They're hidden by the lights of the city." "Why don't they turn the lights out?" "People are afraid." "They prefer a bright city." "Vasso!" "My little Vasso!" "Are you gonna fuck us already, so we can go?" "I could've been a great actress." "Don't laugh or I'll cut it, alright?" "In my first year I played a Medea... that made your hair stand on end from grief." "Everyone cried." "My second year, a guy asked me to go to Epidaurus theater... and play the woman who mourns her brother or something..." "I realized that he wanted something else from me." "That's when I decided to become a hooker." "I thought, why get fucked at Epidaurus and not get paid?" "No, honey." "I respect archaeological sites." "We've gotto go." "It's late." "It's always late, baby." "Goodnight." "Guys, can I give you some advice?" "Women like charming men who don't talk much." "Talk less and fuck more." "It'll do you good." "Goodnight." "Why didn't we eat anything?" "Vasso!" "My little Vasso!" "This is the latest butt in my collection." "I'm very proud of it." "It's the only woman's one." "This one's a woman's, too." "But without lipstick and very sad." "A woman gave it to me today after she smoked it... and told me about a night she'd spent with a man." "Of course, nothing's free." "It's my fee for a favor she wanted." "Believe me, she was a very generous woman." "Someone requested this for you." "Are you ready?" ""Oh, ocean liner, you sing and float," "The lutes of our unbounded joy sound... with the messages of the wind, fore, aft, with the birds on the wires of the mast... with the echo of memories like a telescope... that I hold and I see the islands and seas approaching" "the dolphins and the quails leaving." "We're hunters of the enchantment of dreams, of the destination that goes and goes, but does not last." "Just as the dawns don't last, just as the chills don't last," "Just as the waves don't last, just as the spray of the ships doesn't last, neither do our songs for the women we love."" "I don't want to fuck!" "I want peace!" "I don't want to fuck!" "I want peace!" "Manolis disappeared just as he had appeared... suddenly, like a storm." "Maybe things got too rough for him." "The guys in the underground made it quite clear." ""Tell him that now he can expect us."" "Yes, but he was only expecting his little Vasso." "And I close my eyes... and through the crowd comes a sea." "Through the sea, comes the fluttering of birds." "Through the fluttering, you will come." "Let me impress you."