"EROTIC GAMES OF A RESPECTABLE FAMILY" "I was meaning that divorce is that institution which distorts marriage at the same time as love and law make it active." "Hence you're a happy husband, professor." " Of course." "Because your marriage is a lucky one, but if it weren't, that is if you and your wife had serious grounds for regretting the step you took, do you think you'd lend your support so strongly to the campaign against divorce?" "Well, just a moment." "It's not that simple." "Everyone has the marriage they want and deserve, so your alternative is totally subjective." "Sorry, but that doesn't concern me." "Goodbye." "Press is another institution which should be curtailed." "And that's not the only one, of course." "As well as prostitution and trade and commerce in alcoholic beverages." "We're living in a confused and contaminated world, my dear Roberto." "What's wrong with you?" " I don't know." "The back of my neck hurts." "That's the alarm signal of a nervous breakdown." "You need to rest." "You're right, unfortunately." " Sure." "Roberto, I just don't feel like coming to the executive meeting tonight." "I really don't know but I don't feel like it." "If you want, I can try to have it postponed." " No, it's not worth." "Look, you'll chair it and apologize to the others for me, I think they will understand." "I'll go there but on one condition:" "a week of rest for you." "Agreed." "Leave me here, I want to have a little walk, I really need it." "A bit of fresh air will do me good, maybe." "Send my greetings to Elisa." "Sure." "But at this hour she must be asleep, poor thing." "I had told her I'd have been home very late tonight with the meeting." "If there's any news, I'll call you tomorrow morning." " Bye, good night." "Bye, Roberto, and thank you so much for everything." "You're welcome." "We'll see each other on the 25th for the rally." "Bye!" "Do you have a light?" "Sorry, I don't smoke." " Anything else you do?" "Not with the ones like you." " Maybe with those worse than me!" "You're a dirty guy, altar boy!" "You were expecting your master, weren't you?" "Doggy, go!" "Now you can go to sleep." "Elisa!" "Elisa!" "Quick!" "Hide!" "No!" "Get out of here!" "Elisa!" "Open the door!" "What's up, Riccardo?" "What's going on?" "That's what I want to know from you!" "I heard some voices!" "I don't know, you've just woken me up now, all of a sudden." "You were speaking a moment ago, I heard!" " Maybe in my sleep, I had a terrible nightmare." "Please, Riccardo, let me sleep, I don't feel well tonight." "Riccardo!" "Elisa?" " Yes?" "Will you open that door?" " I can't find the key." "And why did you lock it just tonight?" "You were going to be back late and I get scared when I'm alone." "Find the key or I'll kick down the door!" "C'mon, don't go dramatic on a trifle like this!" "I'm looking for it!" "You've made me get so upset that I can't remember where I put it." "No!" "Riccardo!" "What are you doing?" "Don't lose your head, I beg you!" "It isn't possible, if I hadn't seen it I wouldn't believe it..." "Whore..." "Would you believe me if I told the truth?" " Whore!" "And to think I was sure you were different, better than all the other women..." "Come here please, I must have the right to defend myself!" "Listen!" "Riccardo, I can explain everything." "Give me the time to speak, please." "What do you want to explain?" "It's all clear as day!" "Don't be so sure, since there're some unbelievable truths." "Shut up!" "Of course, you only listen to your own resentment." "For you everyone else is despicable and unworthy of understanding or pity." "You're the only right." "I've hurt your pride and expecting that you listen to my reasons is just crazy." "What are you waiting for to kill me?" "If you don't do it, it's because deep down you aren't sure I cheated you." "Yes, it's true, our happiness didn't last long and it was your fault, but how could you admit that?" "So...kill me!" "No, your miserable life isn't worth me losing 20 years of mine in jail." "Now get dressed!" "Don't think you're impressing me." "It isn't poison certainly because in your selfishness you can't love that much." "May I ask what you're going to do, at least?" "First I'd like to know all the details about this story." "For example I'd like to know your lover's name." "But you won't tell me." "Or I'd like to know why you did that." "You could tell me that, at least, just to let me understand how a supposedly respectable woman can be reduced to be like a bitch in heat." "After all, I'm only asking you a wider subject of study in exchange of what you did to me." "At this point the only solution we're left with is divorce." "Don't say such nonsense!" "Just talking to me about divorce!" "When civilization and morals got along, the fury of people would have killed you, but today..." "I'll take you to a mountain village where you'll live under a false name." "You'll be free there but you'll be worse off there than in jail." "I'll have any move of yours watched, at any time." "No man will go near you but you can commit suicide." "If you do that, I wouldn't curse your memory." "Is this your idea about the indissolubility of marriage?" "Of course." ""United until death do us part"." "And you're asking why?" "And I ought to say that I'm regretful..." "Yes, I'm, not for what I did, but for what I couldn't do." "To leave you, ruining your life and position." "I didn't hate you enough and couldn't free myself from this unbearable slavery." "This idea was obsessing and driving me crazy." "I had to prove to myself that I was the owner of my body, at least." "A marvellous body." "Let's make love, please." "Do you really want to?" "Yes." "Two hours ago you were into that bastard's arms." "How can a woman go from one man to another this way, without feeling disgusted by herself?" "Whore." "Did you put a sleeping pill into the whiskey, didn't you?" "Yes, a very strong one." "Look at the world for the last time, look at it right before falling asleep." "When you wake up ." "I don't know which world you'll see around you." "Now we will be united for all eternity." "Wasn't that what you wanted, was it?" "I'll be the faithful companion of your anguish." "Gentlemen of the jury, you mustn't let yourself be decieved by reasons of honor which lead you to attenuating circumstances in the crime committed by the accused." "Yes!" "Gentlemen of the jury, this man has killed through a cold and unbelievable premeditation and not under the psychic pressure caused by the affront he suffered, as the defense would have you believe." "Further proving this, he planned his crime meticulously, almost scientifically." "He drugged his victim at home, then went to the lakeside to wait for the sleeping pill to take effect." "Then he has been patiently waiting for the woman to sleep for the last time." "Afterwards he put her in a sack .and threw her still alive into the lake!" "When a man, though it's condemnable, of course, reacts to a mortal insult, he shoots, gentlemen of the jury, or strangles or stabs, but he does everything at once!" "One doesn't prepare and carry out an action like this." "Instead the accused, known as a very keen supporter of morals and social ethics, even thought of putting some stones into the sack, flattering himself that in that way the corpse would have stayed forever at the bottom of the lake!" "Things aren't going well today." " How much money in this month?" "I don't know what we're going to do next..." "Please, would you be so kind to give us a ride?" "I'm going to Trastevere." " I just live there in the nearby." "Couldn't you make a detour and take me to the old Tiburtino?" "There's no enough gas in my car." "So I'll go." " Yes, you go." "I'll be waiting for another one." " Bye" " Bye." "Come here but do not make my car dirty, though." "You don't look like a happy man." "No, I'm not, indeed." "But you don't look like a poor guy either." " I'm not." "So I can stay here for a while." "You don't smell like misery." " Drink, if you don't hate it." "Aren't you afraid I might be sick?" "No, whiskey's a great disinfectant." "Besides, if you're sick, either your head or your heart is sick." "What did she do to you?" " A perfect diagnosis, Doctor." "How have you got the picture?" "Our profession works because abandoned and ignored men exist." "Do you feel like it?" " To do what?" "Don't tell me you wouldn't know what to do with a girl like me." "Love can be made in many ways." "With me, for example, there's no danger of being cheated on." "That's a speciality of wives." "Right." "And you?" "What can you do?" " I'll let you forget her." "If you could do that, you'd be really a prodigy." "Try it, give me the chance to prove it to you." "And what if then you weren't able to?" "You'd be my first incurable case since I started this job." "And as for the price, I don't ask for more than any other girl." "Don't you want to try it out?" "Well, shall we go?" "Agreed." " Well said." "Where are we going?" "Well..." "let's go straight ahead." "This way." "No, that's sad, change it." "Should I put a happier one on?" " Yes." "This is going to be much more exciting." "There we go!" "Louder, louder!" "Louder?" "Very well." " I want it at its full blast!" "Now I'll dance for you." "Well, what shall we do?" "Only a dance lesson?" "The "lecture room" is upstairs." "Go there and sit on your desk, schoolmaster." "Reporting as ordered, sir." "If your lesson won't be convincing, teacher,..." "Excuse me a moment." "Riccardo..." "I'm waiting for you." "Eva!" "Please!" "What's up?" "Come here, quick!" "Come!" " What's wrong with you?" "Look there!" "It isn't possible." "Look, Eva!" " What should I take a look at?" "I don't see anything strange." "But...don't you see anything?" "But she's there!" "Who are you talking about?" "It's not possible..." "My wife..." "Come on." "Calm down." "You're still under the effects of whiskey, you drank a bit too much." "But she was here, I'm sure of it." "No." "There was no one here, it was just a nightmare, it's nothing." "Come on, don't worry." "You're just a little tired, you know, you've had a bad day." "But now I'm at your side, my dear." "Don't worry yourself over silly things." "These things happen." "Hello?" "Go to hell..." "Eva!" "Eva!" "Eva!" "Hello." "Who's there?" "Hello?" "Murderer!" "Murderer!" "Murderer!" "Hello, uncle." "Hello, Barbara." "You're like an angel sent from heaven." "I just didn't know who to eat with today." " Perfect." "I'm alone, your aunt ditched me and went on a cruise." "Agreed." " I'll be ready in a few minutes, wait for me." "I stated my opinion clearly, you know." "Leave it there, it's excellent, thanks." "And I told her I'm totally against..." "This is for you." "Coming back to us, no one would believe I'm eating with my niece." "First because you're too much attractive to be a real niece and secondly because I really don't look like an unpleased, grouchy and grumpy uncle, do I?" "Unless you don't agree and find me just like that." " No." "To be honest, I've always thought it was a pity that you were my niece, but then I consoled myself by thinking you aren't, after all." "You're actually my wife's niece, aren't you?" "So I was totally free to court you." "Though then something always told me it wasn't the time yet to ask you:" ""What are you doing tonight?"" "Tonight?" " Yes, your family doesn't know I'm alone so you can say you're going out with your aunt and uncle and then we will go to some..." "romantic place." "Agreed." "Why are you laughing?" "I'm being serious, you know." "I'm proposing a marvellous adventure, different from all the nonsense of people of your age." "You're a gorgeous woman by now, Barbara." "Let's go and throw some stones into the lake, c'mon!" "Take those." "Let's go!" "You try." "Circles on the water get wider like dreams." "Try again." "What's wrong?" "You were so joyful a while ago." "Who's that?" "Do you know him?" "Wait, I'll go see." " Barbara!" "What a strange guy." " What did he want?" "Nothing, just some information." "Come." " No, let's go away." "Why?" "He's gone away by now." " Let's go!" "I don't feel safe staying in such a place at night." "Alright." "Well, where will you take me?" "Do you need anything, man?" "What's up?" "Are you just having a walk?" "Hey, this guy never needs anything." "Who knows what he's doing here?" "He must feast his eyes on us." "Eva!" " I'm Pasqualina, 10 thousand." "I'll give you 20 another time, you're totally worth it." "Asshole!" "Go and make fun of your sister!" "I just didn't expect to find you here, I'm happy you're back." "Why?" " No wonder, my dear, you didn't pay me yesterday." "I left while you were sleeping." "Thus, come." "I'll pay an unique bill." " Alright." "Wait." "Just a moment." "Won't we go upstairs?" " On one condition, that you stay with me all this night long." "Or, better, that you stay with me night and day as long as I want." "So your wife has gone for good." "Don't worry about my wife, I take care of her." "Just swear you'll stay with me as long as I want." "What if she'd come back suddenly?" " She can't come back suddenly." "I'm sure about that." "So what?" "No, I can't." "I have many other clients." "I can't lose them." " But I'll pay you for them too!" "Here're 600 thousand Lire, and it's just an advance." "How many clients do you have to find to earn so much money?" "You'll earn it with much less effort with me, instead." "And I'll give you more whenever you want." "Tell me that you'll stay." "Agreed." "Hello?" "Riccardo..." "Excuse me, what was that?" "Ah, wait one moment, please." "She hasn't told me who's but is asking for you." "Hello?" "Murderer!" "Your sentence will be to go on living." "What's going on?" "There was no one there." "Hello?" "I'm the secretary of the league for the abolition of divorce." "I'd like to speak with professor Rossi, please." "One moment, please." "Riccardo!" "Riccardo!" "Riccardo, do you think you'll have a single moment of joy in this life without my memory destroying it?" "Eva..." "Eva!" "What's wrong?" " She was there, at the window, a while ago." "Who?" "Do you want me to close it?" "Well, do you want me to close it?" "Yes." "If you wake me up this way again, I'll have a heart attack." "It must have been the cold." "I felt like a shiver, like something brushing my skin." "If you have chamomile tea, I can make you some..." "No, thanks." " You're so nervous." "Better, I can make it by myself." "You sleep easy." "You have no way out, you know it." "This is the solution: you'll die without even realizing it." "Eva..." "Eva!" "Eva!" "Riccardo!" "Riccardo!" "Eva!" "Riccardo!" "What's up?" "Calm down, my dear." "There's someone over there in the kitchen." "In the kitchen?" "Go see." "There's someone." "No, there's no one, my dear." "Now you're really starting to worry me." "How is it possible that you have such hallucinations?" "What have you seen?" "That glass is empty." "That glass is empty!" "Right, Eva?" "Look!" " I can see it very well." "Here, it's empty." "Look." "Now it's empty." "My dear, I wanted to say goodbye to you before leaving." "What?" "Yes...no." "What are you thinking?" "Of course not." "Yes, sure." "Bye." "I want to move away from this city." "And you must come with me." "Is it not like your wife's about to return, by any chance?" "Or do we have to join her?" "If I don't leave this city, I'll go mad!" "Forget joining my wife, no way..." " What's so strange about it?" "Do you know how many clients I've had who liked the menage a trois?" "I'm not one of those." " Really?" "I'm not willing to leave." "I've already given you so much and my freedom is no a small thing, believe me." "See, I'm doing this job as a vocation." "I left my studies to do it." "I thought I'd have fun." "What have you found instead?" "That it's funny to me." " I'd like to know what's so funny to you." "You, for example." "With all your oddities and fixations, you're just like a funny affair." "But nothing else!" "But I can't really think to be involved with you for all my life." "You will think what you want to think, but, please, leave with me!" "No!" "I want to feel free!" "I'm willing to be with you only if we keep living in this city!" "You can make conditions as you know I need you." "You need me only because you miss your wife, don't you get it?" "You're unique, Eva." "Rubbish!" "Stop making fun of me." " Don't you understand I'm going crazy?" "I'm serious, Eva." "I'm losing my mind!" "Because of a woman?" "What does it matter why?" "Because of a woman." "Your wife?" "She's just like any other woman." "They're only good...for one thing." "No, Eva." "Besides, I don't want to talk about my wife." "Alright, as you like." "What's wrong with you now?" "Do you want to show me you're really crazy?" "Oh!" "..." "Please!" "I'm leaving." "Eva, who's here with us?" " Where?" "On the sofa." " Nobody!" "Who can be there?" "I'm actually on the sofa." "There's no doubt." "I'm crazy by now." "And the worst part is that I know it very well." "It's frightening." "If you won't be able to save me, there's no..." "There's someone in the garden." "No, don't go, Riccardo." "I..." "If you keep on like this, you'll impress me too." "All the doors are closed." "Please,...stay here." "No, I want to know if I'm crazy." "Someone came in without ringing the bell." "It must be one of the family." "I'll go see." "Just a moment, miss, who are you?" " I'm Barbara." "Your name doesn't tell me anything." "Nevertheless, what do you want?" "And, above all, how and why did you come in?" "Just the questions I'd like to ask you." "Who are you, instead?" "What are you doing here?" "I've never seen you before." "Turning things around is always a good tactic, isn't it?" "You're the one who hasn't answered my questions!" "Let's not play with words!" "Were you looking for the bedroom?" "Barbara, what the devil are you doing here?" "I wasn't much convinced of your sudden departure and as you can see, uncle, I wasn't totally wrong." "I've postponed my departure, but these are things that don't concern you." "Rather, I'd like to know how you've got a key to my house." "Aunt Elisa gave it to me." "She doesn't keep secrets, at least from me." "Eva's our new housekeeper, and even if she's very attractive, you've no right to think anything about it." "You know that my marriage's perfectly happy." "Hello?" "Oh, it's you, how are you?" "No, uncle isn't at home." "Of course I'll tell him." "Where are you?" "Aunt Eliza, you're so mean, why don't you want to tell me?" "I was just saying that you don't keep secrets from me." "Well, I'm here with a friend of mine, we were talking about you." "Yes, alright, of course." "Yes, I saw him yesterday." "Well, to be honest he seemed a bit strange." "Maybe he misses you but all in all is perfectly fine, don't worry." "No, I can't wait for him now." "I'll tell him, don't worry." "No, aunt, you know that if something happened I'd tell you." "I'll tell you all the details when we see each other." "Yes." "Alright." "Yes, goodbye aunt Elisa." "Bye." "Well, it's clear you don't need my help, uncle, as you already have a housekeeper." "A very affectionate little niece." "I'll walk Barbara out and be back soon." "Wait a moment!" "I perfectly know she's not your housekeeper!" "I'm not so stupid even if I'm young!" "I don't care about that, what I want to know is where she was and what she told you." "She only told me she was well, I just can't tell you anything else." "Barbara, I'm going crazy!" "Don't make it worse!" "Oh, please, uncle, you're being ridiculous, you know that?" "Couldn't I have made everything up just to embarass you in front of your friend?" "If someone would have dialed the wrong number, I wouldn't have missed the chance certainly!" "Barbara, hence you didn't talk to your aunt?" "No, I didn't say that." "It might have been even so, but that isn't true because I talked to aunt Elisa." "I'm free to tell you what I want." "You can't force me, uncle." "Enough!" "Barbara, was it your aunt Elisa or not?" "I already told you everything!" "Look." "It's the same guy as the last time." "Who is it?" "Why is he spying on us?" " Quick, come with me." "POISON" "Eva..." "Eva, call...call my niece please then..." "leave this place..." "I don't want you to stay here..." "My God, what are you saying?" " You have to go away..." "My dear!" "My dear?" "Leave." "They mustn't find you here when I die..." "You need help, Riccardo." "No, leave..." "Riccardo, what have they done to you?" "Riccardo, I beg you, speak!" "TO MY BELOVED UNCLE, BARBARA" "Oh, at last!" "There's no need for it anymore, get rid of this disguise." "Here." "Hup!" "We have got everything!" "Everything we wanted!" "Are you happy?" " Immensely." "Did you see, my love, how your Riccardo fell for it?" "Like a poor idiot." "We have made a masterpiece." "No one will be ever able to find out the truth." "But now let's take care of us." "Enough with death!" "And besides, we're rich!" "Where shall we go?" "C'mon, where shall we go?" "Say it!" "Let's go to Brazil!" " Wonderful!" "And now I'm going to catch you..." "Be careful because I'm going to catch you..." "Here!" "Don't escape me, don't even joke about it, got it?" "My love..." "I suggest you not to move, it might be dangerous!" "It was all perfect, Elisa." "A criminal plan really worthy of a genius." "Infact you nearly achieved your goal, as I was really going mad, but you weren't able to go through it." "At first everything seems easy, but then difficulties arise and so you fall into the trap." "There's nothing sadder than falling into your own trap and you fell into yours." "Infact you made a very serious mistake when you talked to your little niece on the phone, that is to Barbara." "I might even have hallucinations by now, but not her." "I had called her to check my supposed hallucinations and when she answered the phone your curiosity and fear betrayed you." "The presence of your beautiful niece in my house suprised you, so you spoke to her normally to try to understand and to know, but you didn't realize you were giving me proof that I wasn't crazy." "Since then I needed an ally too, so I told Barbara everything." "It wasn't hard to find out your game, but one doubt remained, one shadow I couldn't shed light on." "A man with no face and with a beard, a moustache and black glasses." "I had to find out who he was." "At this point Barbara had the brilliant idea to stage my suicide." "With my death that man would have definitely revealed his true face." "Infact very soon we could get that man was none other than one of you, sometimes you Eva and sometimes you Elisa, .according to the circumstances and the needs of the moment." "Excuse me, I have to make a call." "No Barbara, please don't call the police, I beg you!" "And why should I call them?" "After all, nothing has happened yet." "I wouldn't really know what to tell the police." "Hello?" "I'm..." "I'm a client, I'd like to speak to Mr Giorgetti." "Alright, I'll wait." "Have there been any problems?" "Thanks." "Everything's all right, uncle." "Your funeral has gone perfectly and no one's noticed the replacement of the corpse." "It seems you're thinking about those two much more than about me." "I don't like to see you so serious, let's make a toast." "A bit of whiskey will cheer you up again, you'll see." "Of course, this isn't the first time that a man and a woman love each other, but a love like ours..." "I've been always dreaming of having you all to myself and I could make it." "You're a wonderful man." "But I want you to promise me that, if one day you get tired of me, you'll tell me." "I promise." "The difference of age might play tricks over time." "Hence we have to be ready to everything." "I don't want to deceive you." "Only this way it'll be just good." "Of course I'll tell you." "We shall be happy until that moment, at least." "It's terrible to face suddenly the truth that destroys your whole life, all your ideals and yourself..." "It's time you start to forget the past." "My love should help you to do that." "Or is it not enough to you?" "If you keep being so serious and quiet, I'll leave you alone with your ghosts." "Don't you get off, my dear?" "I feel bad, Barbara." "I don't know what's happening to me..." "I feel..." "I feel a kind of a strange drowsiness..." "It's nothing, Riccardo." "It's just the sleeping pill I put into your whiskey." "The situation was too tempting, only an idiot would let it go." "You asked me to be honest with you." "And I'll tell you right now." "You're no good to me, so I'm getting rid of you." "At this point, without aunt Elisa, I'm also your only heiress and no one will ever suspect a good girl." "Can you hear me?" "I could never stand you as a man, you always played the peacock." "But your money doesn't have a tail of feathers." "No, my dear!" "I'll only get out!" "And now go with your beautiful ones!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "THE END" "Subtitled by Turdis Revised by quidtum October 2015"