"We all have a center of gravity." "Mine is located at Eva's neck, right where years of playing the viola have left their mark." "When this center moves away, we feel its pull like a magnet." "Open up!" "Thought you'd say goodbye to me with just a note?" "I prepared you a sandwich and a First Aid kit." " Mom..." " Yeah, I know... you'll be back in two months." "What should I do meanwhile?" "See how you leave without a word?" "I'm your mother," "Samuel, I raised you all these years." "You can leave the city, but never my heart." "No, not that..." " Madam, please..." " What?" "He's my son!" "Doesn't anyone here have kids?" "I hate Madrid..." "You can't imagine how much." "And now you're going to make the same mistakes." "WELOOME HOME" "WELOOME HOME, I'LL BE BAOKAT 5" " Can I get by?" " Uh, sorry." " Hey, move over" " Yeah, sorry." "Eva!" "Your note said you'd be back at five." "What note?" "I didn't leave a note." "You didn't?" "The truth is the stairs were not the welcome I expected." "What'd you expect, fireworks?" "I don't know... something more romantic..." "The new Russian conductor wants double rehearsals now." "Imagine the chaos." "If you only had a cell phone." "The cell is a symbol for modern slavery." "It's replaced shackles." "Eva, remember what we said:" "living together doesn't mean losing the mystery." "Yeah, what was your line?" ""Living together subjects love to the third degree. "" "It's from a book." "Well, I thought... even if you're moving in, we should respect our spaces." "Come see your room." "My room?" "We each have our own niche." "We'll sleep apart." "Is this a joke?" "We've been dating for 7 years?" "Eight and 3 months, on the 17th." "Think our love'll survive living together?" "I just banged my balls." "I thought this could be your darkroom." "But if you want to respect spaces..." "I wouldn't want to lose the mystery..." "We can risk it." "You sure?" "Living together can crush love." "We'll manage." "It's like putting love through a shredder." "Or gouging an eyeball, or showering a flower with sulphuric acid." "I'll always love you." "Don't be a sap." "I'll be content if you love me 5 minutes... then another 5... and 5 minutes more." "We're one big family at the magazine." "Out there everyone's like a child to me." "So you're a photographer..." "Yeah, I take photos..." "I've brought you..." "Some have been published..." "Every year five thousand journalists graduate..." "At this rate, we'll soon be on the verge of an epidemic." "I know I'm starting late, but I've come to live..." "Your mom explains it all here." "You met her years ago..." "Maybe... you don't remember her." "Your mother isn't easy to forget." "Andres, I have something urgent." " And..." " I need..." "Vicente can't..." " Is this yours?" " Yeah..." "Samuel's on trial..." " Welcome home." " Thanks very much." "Remember: the most important news event is meaningless without a photo." "Spare the speeches..." "Ok, ok, go on..." " Goodbye." " Bye." "After you..." "Hey, get on." "You have another helmet?" "Is your head worth that much?" "in 1A, a mother put her kids to bed in 1B, a retiree watched television," "in the second-floor hostel, a couple was tortured to death." "Neighbors say the man re-lived Real Madrid matches every Monday." "He was killed at point-blank range." "His wife, apparently, was less sociable." "She was suffocated." "Both bore signs of torture, bruises and cigarette burns." "A picture of the Virgin Mary was intentionally turned away from the scene of the crime." "With these victims, the toll rises to 12 dead in 7 days." "Police say it's rivalries between Mafia gangs." "The guilty won't be caught." "You've got to win over the cops on this job and get used to the dead." "Dead bodies make me want to fuck." "I'm reminded of life's fragility and the need to make pleasure count." "Let's go." "Today we close the issue and we still have 3 pages to fill." "I guess he gave you the line about being a big family and we're his kids, right?" "The magazine's owned by a tycoon who pressures people in high places." "If he wants Ministry help, he prints a threatening cover." "Advice: don't mess with political types." "In turn, a few of us practice true joumalism." "This is Mariano." "He runs music." "That's Amadeo." "Keep your distance, he's contagious." "There's Vicente, whom you're replacing." "Shame on you." "He's a genius." "And that's" "Contra." "Contra?" "He's anti-everything." " You're the new kid?" " Yeah." "Don't work without a contract." "They'll squeeze you and give you the boot later on." "That's Felix, the movie critic." "Bye, girls." "He met a girl via Internet." "Lucas, Sports." "His last encephalogram was flat." "She's rude but cool." "Sex with me would change her life." "Yeah, I'd end it." "Go for a drink?" "Take Samuel." "I've gotta do this." "Too much editing ruins a text." "Burn the damn dictionary and just use street talk!" "Ignore them." "They can't even spell when they think." "Don't get him too drunk... he's got a girl." "I'm here..." "Eight years?" "I'm against relationships." "They're not normal." "Eight years with the same chick?" "People have been canonized for less." "When the connection's right, it can be very nice." "Well, we just started living together." "Leave your bags." "Relax." "I can't." "Maarisa's waaaiting." "This is for dinnner." "But we close today." "It's "Excuse Day"." "She doesn't buy that anymore." "Two kids." "Another martyr." "Felix is on a roll." "He's telling her he can explore a woman's soul with his hands." "But he's blind..." "Yeah, since he was twenty..." "And he's the movie critic?" "Adamn good one." "I do sports." "And until fucking is an Olympic sport, I won't practice any." "Wow... you've got a... a piercing..." "I can't believe it." "Don't like it." "All that kissing, for what?" "They've been "chatting" 2 months... he must be horny as hell." "I have to run," "I can't stick around to watch how this ends." "Anoother beer, Paa..." "Paco." "They're on the right track." "No, the chick's too good-looking." "Yeah, anyone who showers is suspicious to you." "Personal hygiene is hypocritical." "You do it to hide something." "Yeah, body odor." "Daamn it, Maarisa." "Yeah, ok..." "Maarisa." "Yeah, I was gooing there." "I'm in the carrr." "I'm closing the doorrr." "Did you hearr me?" "We clooose today." "It's not an excuuse." "Hey... aaah..." "I'm thuck..." " He's stuck." " No shit." "No, I had to extend the "Beggar Yooouth" interview." "Fuck!" "Paco!" "Some pliers, wire-cutters..." "I gotta go." "I'm driiving." " Shit!" "." " Blind dates never work out." "True love is born of familiarity." "I'm anti-kissing." "You either fuck or you don't." "Two people meet..." "they start going out, then they live together and finally a... sort of bond... is formed," "like between office workers who use the same photocopier... or share a coffee..." "Pass me the toner, I'll pass you the sugar." "Is this okay?" "Lucky she wasn't sucking him. ." "This will hurt a bit." "What are you doing?" "Looking at your foot..." "Are you drunk?" "Totally." "I was waiting for you..." "I wanted to celebrate your getting a new job." "But you've already done it." "I wanted to celebrate something else." "Don't worry." "It happens to all men the first months of a pregnancy." "You feel better?" "The magazine called twice." "Drink up or you'll lose the vitamins." "What time is it?" "Late." "I've got to go." "I'm waiting for you to ask how I am, to give me a kiss," "to say something nice." "Or, at least, tell me where I can find a good abortion clinic." "Anything." "Eva..." " You're here." " What's up?" "Thank God, this is heavy." " Hi, Don Vicente..." " Kid, would you believe this looks familiar, but I haven't a clue what it is?" "Photos... pictures..." "With a kick, there's two possibilities:" "You stop it or it's a goal." "Uh, there's another: they miss." "It can hit the crossbar too." "Or bounce back to the defender." "Really, it can be very demanding." "Ok, let's get on with it." "Go!" "A new star is born between the posts, the goalkeeper we've all been waiting for." "Oooh, my ribs..." "I've broken my ribs!" "The goalie will be out six months with an unexpected injury." "Looked serious, what did the doctor say?" "Fuck him!" "You expect me to cry for that overpaid star?" "Can you imagine interviewing these guys every week?" "I bet you the ball has more to say." "You like my car?" "." "Writing the Auto section is a gas." "They let me test-drive it and I get a ham at Christmas." "This kind of journalism I like." "Come, Don Vicente, concentrate." "The other day he went with Felix to interview Julia Roberts..." "You know what he did?" "He took foot shots!" "Hundreds." "Of Julia Roberts' feet." "Well, we've all seen her face a thousand times." "Nice and hot." "Right off the presses." "It tastes like a job well done." "Here." "Thanks." "Amadeo." "Sir... an excellent cover." "Never read what you've done." "It's like seeing yourself in a mirror." "You may like what you see, making you a borderline idiot." "Look at Amadeo." "He reads himself and thinks:" ""I'm great. "" "Your girl?" "I bet you've never cheated on her." "You afraid of comparing?" "Eva says people are like musical instruments." "If you can play them, you can draw fine melodies from them." "Most of the time, however, we're out of tune, playing from... different score sheets..." "I'm late..." "Amadeo, I've got to go." "This is taking too long." "With some luck, one of the kids'll cut himself and you can take some shots when they rush it to Emergency." "She's coming." "Don't stop shooting!" "Excuse me, after your breakup with Gonzalo..." "Is it true you're seeing other men?" "Someone?" "Any comment?" "Anything?" "Only when you need something, huh?" "Don't you know we created you?" "If it weren't for us, you'd be scrubbing floors like your mother." "At least, tell us about your collagen implants, 'cause they look like shit." " Hey, watch it!" "What... ?" " Show some respect." "You're nuts!" "Crazy bitch, we'll see you in court!" "Got it?" "Did you get it all?" "Doctor, the father's here." "Come in and see..." "Don't be nervous..." "What happened to you?" "Nothing... subway rush hour..." "Hear its heart?" " Is it beating too fast?" " It's fine." "Though it does have a big head like its father..." "Exciting, huh?" "Very well, clean yourself and now, we'll explore you." "Not you." "Her..." "Come on..." "What a uterus..." "Textbook, classic." "Nice walls." "Shaped like an inverted pear, as they used to say back in med school." "Good." "You're at 10 weeks." "It'll be here in no time." "Are you ready for it?" "Of course you are." "You look like a dad already." "I see a corpse when I look at it." "Seriously." "Life is a relay race." "You pass the baton and he begins running." "Your participation in the Olympics is over." "Ignore him." "Did yooou cry?" "When I saw my first kid's ecography," "I cried like a girl..." "I'd cry too if I was bringing an innocent creature to the world?" " Did he ask you to?" " What do you want, an order form?" " It's the same old con." "Capitalism needs a steady stream of dummies... car buyers, soldiers, television audiences." "Kids are for the mediocre who need proof of their own existence." "It's life's cycle." " Cycle?" "Life's no washing machine." " To grow, kids must step on their parents' heads." "Patricide." "Yes, a classic argument." "Kill the father and fuck the mother." "Okay, that too..." "Kids are vampires." "What are you saying?" "Kids are the fruit of love." "Oh, that Marisa thing is love?" "I thought it was sado-masochistic." " No, it's a spin-dry cycle." " Worse, legalized prostitution." "Ever cost-out each fuck with Marisa?" " Samuel, take me to the men's room." "Ignore those nuts." " Watch the stairs." " If it were up to you, the world would go to hell." "Is it headed anywhere else?" "Don't go so far, I'm not looking." "Don't listen to them." "They're chronic teenagers." "If they continue, they'll be cueing up at the nursing home." " I think it's normal." " Let's not kid ourselves." "Having kids means growing up." "Ever hear of responsibility?" "Being afraid?" "Samuel, Samuel." "Life's all downhill from now on." "Now that was a yellow shower." "His girl got killed in the wreck." "He was left blind, but she..." "He was driving drunk after a party or something..." "Damn... on his 20th birthday." "So when he talks about burying your youth... he's talking from experience." "All in one shot." " Brutal." " You said it." "If we beat off a few times, we'll feel better." "Right, let's toast the sexist exploitation of women." "Know how much porn moves a year?" "No, but I know many people who survive because of it." "Porn is the best invention since the toilet brush." "Come on, you'll feel good." "I'm leaving for a shareholders' meeting." "Go fuck yourselves." " Fuck him." " No, my head can't deal with this." "Don't leave me alone." "I can't watch naked women, not after visiting the doctor." "I only see uteruses and Fallopian tubes." "Precisely." " Let's cure that now." " No." "You want to traumatize your cock for life?" "Do you know masturbation is equal to 45 minutes of aerobics?" "Samuel?" "Samuel Loperena..." "I'm Nieves." "Nieves Sepulveda." "We made our Communion together." "Nieves?" "Don't move, ok?" "I'm Nieves!" "Samuel..." "What a surprise, seeing you again!" "My mother met yours one day, but she said you worked in a department store." " I thought she'd be pleased." "You've moved to Madrid?" "I work at a magazine." "I'm Lucas, his... boss." "My pleasure." "Gee, it's great to see you again." "You still have that face of a sweet little boy." "My parents preserve a framed picture of us kneeling, hands like this, like two tiny saints." "Though we weren't saints, especially you." "We made our Communion together." "Well, this merits a celebration!" "Come for a drink?" " Ok, I still have one more show." " No prob, we'll wait." "No, I can't." "Another day." "Samuel's very married." "He's going to be a father." "Really?" "Yeah." "You must be thrilled." "I am." "Imagine." "He takes the ecography everywhere." "Where is it?" "Come on, take it out." "These things thrill me." "Let's see." "Look, the same nose." "Uh, those are its knees." "So, I'll pick you up later?" "Uh..." "Who do I ask for?" "Nieves..." "Nieves?" "What a lovely name." "It's common up north." "It means "snow"." "And since it snows a lot..." "He has to write a review now without seeing the film?" "Yeah, he used to see a lot of films before." "Now he imagines them." "Samuel, tell me the truth:" "Is the camera moving around?" "Yeah, it is." "Shit, I knew it..." "These fucking idiots think the audience is stupid, so they put us on a ferris wheel to entertain us." "This is a cinema, not an amusement park." "He must know his shit..." "to pick up on that." "You have beautiful hands." "Do you know a person's hands reveal much about their souls?" " Really?" "Tell me, Samuel." "How is she?" " Eva?" " Yes?" "She's brunette... has cat eyes... and her mouth..." " Is full of popcorn..." "Sometimes she looks at me and wrinkles her brow and nose as if to say:" "My boyfriend's an imbecile, but he's the imbecile I've chosen in a universe of many that are available today." "Let's see..." "Pretty delicate skin..." "And the lips... none of the typical crap..." "Along neck, as it should be..." "And the breasts, a perfect fit..." "Now, they grow every day..." "Ok, that's enough." "No more free feels." "Hey, you may be blind, but I'm not dumb." "He went blind two years ago." "Ironic, huh?" "A seeing eye dog who goes blind." "What could I do?" "I couldn't kick him out." " Its name?" " "Nada"." "Nothing." "We keep each other company." "Shit..." "I have to see at least ten pieces of shit every week." "Just the thought is depressing." "Sandra used to go with me and tell me the film." "I loved her breath." " Sandra?" " She runs the Crime section." "Until I screwed up one day... and said I loved her and a few other inanities." "Guys overdo the syrupy stuff..." "You don't even know Sandra." "Love for her is infantile." "A defect." " She rejected you?" " Worse." "She gave me a rubber doll and said:" ""Treat her like you treat me." "You'll do better as a couple. "" " You were in love?" " Who knows?" "I like all women." "I crash into walls like the Duracell battery guy, change direction and keep going." "Love is a crude remedy for solitude." "Hey, get that cab." "I recognize the odors: feet, armpits cheap air freshener and double shifts." "You'll get used to this city." "It's dirty, ugly, angry and sad." "Like me..." "Merry Fucking Christmas!" "I'm not sure I like you hanging out with these people." "And you don't know all of them." "They get worse." "I'll bring the second course." "It's getting late." "Second?" "I'm full." "I thought you seemed fuller." "When you girls catch a guy, you let yourselves go." "Don't be like my married friends..." " They're all disasters." " I'm not hungry either." "The experts say seven meals a day are the ideal." "And you're still growing." "I see your Mom's well-informed." "You know Mom." "Remember when we told her about living together?" "." "How can I forget?" "I helped stop her from jumping out the window." "But this is different..." " It'll make her happy." " Happy?" "I'm sure she knows." "She's just waiting for you to tell her." "If she knows, why tell her?" "." "If you don't, I will." "Tell me what?" "The red bream looks delicious." "I'm thinking of writing a book with my recipes..." " "From Pot to Pot"" " Good idea." "Samuel has news for you." "What news?" "He's got a lot to tell me..." "You haven't told me yet about the magazine editor." " Is he treating you okay?" " Yeah, very well." "It's something else." "Tell her." "Come on." "I hate surprises." "What's up, son?" "Nothing." "It's just that Eva and I are having a kid." "This red bream is great!" "What sauce is this?" "Here." "Here, take it." "Wanna kill me?" "Take it." "Stab me." "It's faster." "Murder me." "Say I'm old, that I'm dying." "Go ahead, kill me." "You'll do me a favor." "Chill, Mom." "It's 5 months away." "You can't do this to me!" "You can't do this to me." "Mom, I'm 27 years old." "You didn't even have a father." "How can you be a dad?" "I'll try." "You're going to be the best dad in the world... my love." "And you a pretty granny." "Call me that again and you die." "But Sami... you're still a kid." "Kids can't have babies." "You were a baby just yesterday." "My baby..." "Come, Sami, go ahead." "Take it." "I'm your momma." "Shhh, momma's here." "You're momma's boy." "Pretty bird, please be sweet be so nice" "to hush your peep." "Little baby is fast asleep." "This man heads the European branch of a food industry giant." "Last year they tripled profits." "This year they've begun a gradual expansion, opening packaging plants in three southeast Asian markets." "Some countries are spoiled by success." "In our country, we could say the traditional working classes have become complacent to perverse limits." "You can't find anyone who'll give up their month of holidays." "Yes." "Their health coverage, their generous pensions." "We are fostering parasites." "With such scant productivity, large companies have to employ imagination," "take risks, invest in developing countries." "These are clear concepts to any economist." "Honestly, it's we who help create a better world." "Whenever I meet one of these sharks, I just want to crush their heads." "Contra, Contra..." "what are you doing?" "Social revolution!" "Contra, stop it!" "Why are you doing this?" "Another world is possible!" "I just feel I'm not ready yet." "Hey, you think I am?" "Nobody is." "I don't know..." "I think I need... some more time..." "Shall I call the doctor to say 9 months is too soon, that you'd prefer a pregnancy two-and-a-half years long?" "Look at that..." "If she were ours," "I'd have to go and smash that cretin's face." " You see what he's doing?" " Maybe she likes it." "I jerked you off in the hallway before your Mom met me." "That was different, romantic." "This kid is going way too far." "I can't believe it." "What're you looking at?" "She could be my daughter." " What?" " I'll kick your ass, fuck-face." "Man, you youth respect nothing." "I'm gonna rearrange your face." " What?" " Get out of here!" " What?" "Yeah, I'm going." " Samuel!" "The oar, you're gonna fall!" " Are you crazy?" " Give me..." "Pleease, don't yoou have aaa better pose?" "You're scaaring the kids." "Dad, what's a "son of a bitch"?" "Cover his ears." "I can't." "I'mmm sorry." "I didn't want to bring 'em, but Maarisa fired the babysitter." "Annd that's twelve." "She doesn't liike any of them." "She's so demaanding." "He's done Number 2." "Him?" "No, Silvio, he did Number 2..." "It's amazing... even his do-do and pee-pee smell good." "The other day he peeeed on Marisa and it smelled better than the Calvin Klein he wears." "I almost was a singer-songwriter." "Imagine the life I could've had:" "Awards, groupies, fucking different fans every night, a snazzy car, fine restaurants." "But," "I see my kids and Maarisa and I saay, this is much better..." " Right..." " Silvio, don't eat the sand... !" "Nooo, don't eat it!" "It's Ca-ca." "Kids are total joy." "They're everything." "They've held me and Maarisa together like glue." "Man... you have to adapt to changes." "It's not like before... we only make love on the last Saturday of every month, but, it's magical, even poetic." "Like a prisoner's face-to-face visits." "Sometimes it gets dodgy." "Last Saturday," "Maarisa had a swollen molar and we didn't do it, but it was nice because she said:" ""Go to the toilet and jerk off," "I'll listen to you in bed"." "Do you know how excited I got knowing she was listening?" "Pablo, don't hit your sister with the rake or" "I'll take it away from you!" "Jeeeesus!" "Kids are like those iron balls that prisoners drag around." "You know those big ones you see in cartoons shackled onto their ankles?" "Well, I have two, but I have no complaints." "I had to go to the courts late and today we closed the issue." "Did you eat?" "There was gazpacho in the fridge." "Gazpacho in January?" "It tasted expired." "How can someone with 12 years of classical viola training be watching this shit?" "That was before... now I'm a boring expectant mother, ignored by her boyfriend who's lost all interest in making love with a ball..." "I spied on you in the shower yesterday." "What?" "You were sleeping." "How could I sleep with your love for singing opera in the shower?" "It relaxes me." "You looked beautiful." "Why didn't you tell me so?" "No need..." "Did you... ?" "I'm a pig, I know..." "Why waste it?" "You're always rushing off to rehearsals." "And you always arrive late from last-minute assignments." "I'm sure there's dozens of volunteers waiting to fine-tune your instrument." "Yeah, but they're all over 50." "What... those are the worst." "They're all perverts." "Just look at how they finger their instruments." "The contrabassists with their knees, the tuba player..." "Hey, my friend Ana plays the tuba..." "A woman playing the tuba... is every man's fantasy." "When'll you introduce me?" "After I meet your friends." "I love you too much to do that." "Okay, so you've got the theory down." "Although, a little practical demonstration would raise your grade." "Yeah?" "Wait a sec..." "It's for you... some hysterical girl." "Yeah..." "Nieves..." "No, but it's 4 in the morning." "Can I say "hi" to your lover?" "." "What?" "It's someone I made my First Communion with." "Oh, that's reassuring..." "Nieves, Nieves..." "Take it easy..." "Since you introduced him, I thought..." "I could trust him." "I saw a little of you in him." "At times, I felt like I was with Mr. Right." "Lucas, Mr. Right?" "Are you blind?" "In that place you should know men better than anybody." " Why?" "Because I see them masturbate?" "Or because they look like homy satyrs when I strip?" "No..." "Samuel." "I'm looking for another love..." "I can't stand seeing men who have two cocks instead of two eyes." "I thought a friend of yours would be okay." " We're very different." "Remember?" "You were the first man I kissed." "We were eight." "When Don Aniceto spoke of sin, you said we should discover what it was." "I remember you convinced me." "No tongue, though..." "You did stick the tip in a bit." "And I ran off scared shitless to the yard." "If I hadn't, maybe we'd be having a kid today." "When I got to Madrid, I wanted to be a model or an actress." "And look at me..." "Why don't you?" "You're very pretty." "And starve to death?" "Here, at least I earn 90 euros a day." "I could take some nice pictures of you to show around." "You'd do that for me?" "Even now?" "What a pain and romantic." "Who could imagine a stripper would be so mushy?" "You know what she said?" "Let's embark on an adventure and live together?" "." ""Adventure"?" "That's what they call it now?" "What's the big deal?" "Yeah, of course, you..." " What?" " You hooked the fish." "Women enter through your eyes first, then touch your heart and, before you know it, they're chewing up your guts." "Women in love are meat-eating predators." "This woman's too much." "She must be thunder in bed." "Rumanian Katrina Cazurkova was nationalized 3 years ago." "Since then, she's won many medals for our country." "Ah, to be a medal... hanging from that neck." "POLIOE LINE DO NOT OROSS" "In this dumpster, sanitation employees found a baby's corpse." "it was two months old." "Police say the crime is linked to baby-trafficking in our country." "A business which almost no one knows anything about." "Adoption should not be a whim or remedy in people's relationships." "Offspring cannot defend themselves against parental incapacities, stupidity or evil." "No one authorized them or tested their fitness to be parents." "But with adoption, the aim is to protect the child..." "Because being a parent is not a good deed or a noble gesture." "It is a life-long responsibility." "You should be sure... of wanting to take this step and we too in our deeming you an ideal choice to do so." "Being so young, would you kindly tell us all why you're here?" " Uh, Samuel is sterile." " I'm sterile?" "Well, right, we both are." " Did you ask for me?" " Teresa?" "Someone said they talked to you." "That there was a way of expediting things." " Procedures are the same for all." " We're desperate." "It's taken so long." "We were told you..." "You were told wrong." "Are you sure you can do nothing?" "You can leave a contact number and, if there's anything..." "Of course." "Here you are." "Eva, Eva, the baby!" "Goodbye, darkroom." "I've read that kids need their own space to feel independent." "What's that?" "A cloud." "I don't know..." "I want the baby to feel happy in the world." "The world is awful regardless of how many clouds you paint." "I hate when you get negative..." "You know grey doesn't look bad on you?" "Let's see..." "That looks good." "Thanks to this great artist, who hangs up his camera today, many of us understand better the world we live in." "With this plaque, we cannot give back..." "A plaque and out to pasture." "We all reach our end and not everyone gets a plaque." "And so you realize that you've known how to earn the love and respect of this great family..." "Abused to the end." "He still had 3 months of contract." "The boss did right." "He's paying for his nursing home." "Uh, I don't know... what all this is for." "I don't even know this man." "I never had family or anything." " It's been many years..." " I want to say that life is a splendid failure." "It's like a dog." "First, it licks your shoes, then it bites your leg" "and devours you until there's nothing left of you." "In the old days," "I was like you, young... and now..." "Now I'm... an old man." "I miss a woman's body," "caressing her back," "kissing her breasts and feeling the hidden heat of her thighs." "Are you okay?" "I wanted to show you my dramatic range." "There's no need." "They say the secret is in imagining the camera is a man you want to seduce." "Am I better than 20 years ago?" "No, I can't..." "I can't." " You can't or don't want to?" " I can't." "So you want to?" "No," "I can't want to." "I'm sorry..." "How embarrassing." "How can I do this to an expectant father who's in love?" "I feel like such a shit." "I'm sorry..." "I'm really sorry." "No, Samuel, no..." "Are you sure?" "Of all my photos, Eva likes this one the most." "She says nothing's more lonely than an abandoned instrument." "Don't miss a shot." "He'll have fun explaining this to his wife." "Angle it when he gets near, like he's kissing her." "She saw us..." " She knows we're here..." " Of course, she knows." "She called us..." "He's gonna squirm over this one." "What're you doing?" " I won't do it." " What... ?" "No way, Amadeo." "Hey, bury the school-kid scruples." "This is important." "Hand me the camera, give me... !" " Hey, piss off..." " Damn it, give it to me!" "Get off, let me go!" "Kid, fucking kid..." "Amadeo is one of our great writers." "He's won it all in journalism." "He even won the Gold  Diamond Pen..." "He can stick that pen where it hurts." "I'm gonna be a Dad soon, and I feel like my kid is already watching me," "studying who I am." "I don't want to disappoint him yet." "You're gonna be a Dad?" "Why didn't anyone tell me?" "Give me a hug..." "You still don't want to know the baby's sex?" " We prefer the surprise." " Okay, fine, like in the old days." " Come in..." " Sorry..." "I think you should take childbirth classes too, Samuel." "You'll cut the umbilical cord." "Me?" "I stink at manual labor." "Really?" "Sorry, no excuses." "A baby's birth is like..." "his first birthday, a welcome home party." "Cameras... joy, visits from parents, friends, whoever." "Look, kids... it's here." "Russky Standard, for all." " Lucas pays." " My birthday, I pay." "Take note." "You'd forgotten." "Guys, the presents..." "Lucas, each of us has bought a gift to broaden your horizons." "Our expectations are not very high." "You've never read a book in your fucking life?" "Always been too busy..." " I bought you an essay on Third World exploitation." "Lots of photos..." " You'll like it." " These are adventure books in big print so you catch the reading bug a lot faster." "Mine's in Braille, in book shops everywhere." "Are you fucking crazy?" "Paco, another round." "I told you..." "Lucas, you scare us." "You're empty inside..." "you're a functional illiterate." "We're friends, we can't allow it." "You're joking, right?" "What do you want?" "For me to start reading now and trash who I am?" "She's here... !" " How're you?" " Fine." "Guys, this is" "Katrina." "Katrina, this bunch of losers are my friends." "Here..." "I suppose you all know her?" "." "Hi." "Gold medal in karate." " Silver." "The gold went to a Taiwanese bitch." " Bitch." "C'mon, take away that shit." "We have a lot to celebrate." "This is Ana and that's Irina." "Charmed." "She was gonna cook Russian today." "Remember?" "Uh-huh." "Between you and me, a woman who spends the whole day blowing a tuba is not frightened much by the sight of a naked man." "We want to form a chamber music ensemble, to do something other than the orchestra." "I don't want to stagnate my entire life there." "But I suppose you could care less." "Why do you say that?" "Cos you don't care what I do." "You don't want to talk to me or hear what I have to say." "Your mother wants to talk..." "even though it's four in the morning..." "I don't know if you realize what's happening to us." "I know because I want a baby." "For me it's a way to avenge my parents' death." "Away of feeling that life goes on and continues no matter what." "But maybe you don't feel that way." "It's probably very confusing, something out of the blue that you didn't expect." "Eva?" "I was just organizing a dinner for everybody to meet." "You're not Eva?" "Sandra?" "Nieves?" "Anyone else?" "I'm not on the list of women who matter in your life." "Mom..." "So this is the dump where you work." " Why are you here?" " With the new road, it's a snap." "You don't say." "Introduce me to your pals." "I'm Sami's mother, how are you?" "Is he a good boy?" "Does it always smell so bad in here?" "You really do sweat the news..." "Mom, please..." " Is this your boss?" " Yes..." "It was so many years ago..." "You look so old, Andres." " Time overlooks no one." " In turn, you look great." "Hogwash..." "Soon I'll be a grandma." "Can you believe it?" " I've got 5 grandkids." " Don't compare." "You were always horribly boring and conventional." "Not always, not always..." "True, you had five minutes when you thought you'd change the world." "Just before it changed you." "Sooner or later, it changes us all." "Come up, please." "Didn't want to disturb." "I only wanted to see Sami..." "You don't disturb." "It's like entering a time tunnel." "It's so clear now..." "With a mother like that..." " Your kids?" " Yes." "Boy, they're ugly." "This woman's seduced many." "We should be separated from parents at birth." "The family is the most reactionary institution on the planet." "She seems really nice." "What's your father like?" "I don't know..." "He managed to escape before I was bom." "A praying mantis..." "They devour what they love." "For his first steps." "It's pink because I was convinced that the baby would be a girl." "Poor Samuel had to dress in girl's clothes for two years." "Then the pediatrician said it could traumatize him for life." "You had to see... how darling he looked in this cute little skirt." "I can imagine..." "Are all the things I brought okay?" "Perfect, because we haven't had time to buy a thing." "Good, because now it's a make- a-dollar-off-the-babies' world." "We've lost the passion of knitting for our kids." "Do you know psychiatrists recommend macrame to combat stress?" " Really?" "Samuel, perhaps macram?" "would do you well." "No." "Samuel's problem is the same as all men when they have to face responsibility." "They only know one response:" "To run..." "Sorry I'm late, I had to pick up Gladys." "She's Don Vicente's niece." "Hello." "Hi." "Still taking pictures..." "Yeah, I shoot anything." "But I kid myself," "I think" "I can make time stop." "Everyone says hi." "How's it going?" "Bad, very bad." "The food sucks and the Masses never end..." "He had family in South America?" "Distant..." "Very distant..." "Distant..." "So you're Camilo's daughter?" "But Camilo never had kids." "A prostitute?" "Are you crazy?" " What's wrong?" " He's an old man..." "Wouldn't you like someone to do this for you?" "He's going mad thinking he's getting a blow job from the niece of someone he doesn't remember." " Hello." " Hi." " Has Vicente calmed down?" " Yeah, he's with his niece now." "I'll go in to meet her." "No, leave them." "They have a lot of personal stuff to catch up on." "Imagine..." "See you later." "Move, I can't see her face." "Here's more bread." "Want some more wine?" "Samuel, believe me, you have a talent for cooking." "His mother taught him." "Don't know why I thought you'd be the typically perfect cook." "I haven't a clue cos I'm not perfect." "Yes, she is." " You play with the Real orchestra?" " The viola." "Its resonance is so unique." "Especially out of tune." "Isn't it sad reducing something so pretty to office work?" "I saw an opera with a chick once." "Fell asleep 3 times." "No way that thing would end." "And all that yodeling." "What an ass!" "Is it true that opera singers end up nuts because of excess oxygen in the brain?" "With world hunger and the Iberian lynx in danger of extinction and four assholes wearing furs and jewels listening to warbling." " Ignore him..." "He'd fill up the Prado Museum with stickers of Ohe." "Hey, Ohe is an old icon like a revolutionary" "Mickey Mouse." "Hoows the pregnancy?" "Pregnant women turn me on." "To fuck, I mean..." "A drain pipe turns him on." "You seem very set up, Samuel." "The middle-class home..." "I suppose the SUV is on the way." "And you can hire a slave to babysit while you watch TV at night." "Not a bad idea..." "A flat, living together, a kid." "Piles of sand that you dump on each other, huh?" "Well, I feel the same or better..." "Ignore themmm." "They're like that." "They made a mess of things for me and Maarisa... when we went for our mortgage." "See, now we only have... 27 years left." "This wine's super..." "I favor suicide to procreation." "When I see a kid, I think:" ""Before you enter, let me out"." "She's so strange..." "I admit I dislike normal types." "Normal types are depressing." "And Samuel... who looked so special that first day." "Life is a hammer." "Stick out a bit and bam... you're back in again." "He's right about that." "Come on, Eva wants to meet you not discover what bastards you can be." "Hey, show some respect." "Does the truth bother you?" "It's your truth..." "What a line." "Sharp like a knife." "Let's see." "I've got to pee." "I had 6 beers too many before coming here." "I'll go, to ease the tension some." "I'll go too..." "So much" "IKEA joy makes me sick." "It was greeat, huh?" "Maarisa hates them too." "The last time they were over," "Contra decided to break a coffee set." "Too middle class, he said." "Even though we bought it in a Mayan arts and crafts shop." "They never grow up..." "Maybe they don't care to." "Do you want to, Samuel?" "Yes, Maarisa..." "Yeah, yeah..." " Let me check on them." "Finiiished... yes, yes, yes. 36. 4?" "Since when is that a fever?" "Take it easy." "He's yours." "You check with the electronic one?" "Try the titaaanium." "Yeah, yeah, don't worry." "Asshole, what are you doing?" " Peeing in the bowl." " This is the bed." " Bastards..." " You guys think you're funny." " I had nothing to do with it." " Don't get mad." "If you were us, you'd be cracking up at a jerk who invites you to his house for dinner to meet his pregnant girlfriend." "Hey, watch it." "The dinner was great." "It just riles you having to play the role of the responsible one." "Wouldn't you like to trade places?" "Believe me a loony cretin is not my goal in life." "Acting like I was 3 years old." "I prefer a boring life than spending a second with you." "Don't say that, we're buddies." "Stick your friendship, I don't want it." "Friendship is above all argument." "Understand?" "Hey, give each other a hug." "Yeah, I'll take care of this." "Maarisa, I'll call you later." "Eva," "I can't find my clothes." "There's something I'm not sure if I've told you." "It's a mental image of my parents..." "I was twelve or thirteen." "My Dad would spend a whole day fixing a car in the back." "It was an old car, his father's..." "Sometimes I'd help him" "I'd spend hours with him, listening to him whistle under the car..." "One day my mother came out like always, to say dinner was ready." "She got near and bent down by his side." "Do you want meat leftovers from lunch or croquettes?" "And my Dad replied..." "Whatever pisses you off more." "But the way my mother grabbed his thigh, the content of that meaningless exchange." "That moment for me expressed all they were as a couple." "But that caress as she got up" "was magical..." "It also was a gesture of love," "I don't know." "I've thought a lot tonight about that." "About how nice it was..." "But you had to be them to know what they were feeling." "Because it's also sad... and you don't want that." "Eva..." "You won't find your clothes." "I've packed your bags." "There's your freedom." "I want you to have it back." "But that's crazy, Eva..." "I can't fix cars and you can't make croquettes." "It won't work, you can't stand this..." "We're not a snapshot of our best moment..." "That's why I don't want to ruin things or end up hating each other." "The money is clear in this one." " How much did you pay?" " 3000 euros... 5000 more, upon delivery." " Horrible..." " Yep." "If it doesn't work out, Andres will kill me." "It all depends on one call." "I'm talking about one kid's life. 8000 euros..." "Fuck!" "Shit, I told you not to leave things in the way." " Goddamn, bloody hell!" " They're Samuel's bags." " His girl kicked him out." " Shit, I didn't know." "Sorry." "Get away..." "Inviting you to my house would be worse." "I'll be staying at Mariano's." "That should be fun." "Finish your dinner, Pablo..." "You filled up on sweets." "You know that I rest when they nap." " It's better to have kids early." "Like us." "When Silvio's 20, I'll be only 57." "In the prime of my youth to do whatever I please, my things." "My music..." "Sure you don't want to go to the movies or... ?" " Movies?" "Last time I went, Jorge Sanz was still a kid." "We can't." "The kids get up eight times a night." "Yeah, Pablito has a cough and Silvio gets up at midnight and falls asleep night walking down the hallway." " Oh..." "Come on, Silvio..." "It's okaay." "No problem." "It's alright." "He induces the vomiting to get attention." "The pediatrician said not to pay him any mind." "Don't make it a big deal." "It's not important." "Let him see we're unaffected." "See, Silvio, not affected." "Mariano, we're not affected." "We're not affected." "Saaamuel, tell him." "He won't get anyone's attention that way, will he?" "Right?" "No, no..." "I only think of you... holding hands, walking through a garden..." "There can't be anyone in this world..." "Spare us or they won't fall asleep." "I only think of you..." "What?" "Gets you jealous, huh?" "Painless delivery requires your cooperation." "If you breathe properly and stay calm, having your son will be like eating an ice cream." "Come in." "I hope you're earlier on delivery day." "No, no..." "Why are you here?" "I must be at the delivery to help." "You don't look good." "Did you go out last night?" "I went to the disco with some friends." "I felt like moving to that terrible music." "Are you nuts?" "And the baby, you want him to grow up to be a deejay?" "Samuel, concentrate." "You have all day to chat at home." "Resume position." " Eva?" " Yeah..." "And breathe." "We've got to raise hell, chaos." "Give those bastards an earful." "Protesters are coming from afar." "Are you crazy?" "You'll kill someone." "We can't let these International Monetary Fund types govern mankind's destiny with their market investments." "You're really absurd." "You're a radical disguised as a journalist." "At school, everyone wanted to go corporate or be a broker." "Not me, I wanted to change the world." " How, throwing Molotov's?" " According to you, the world improves by crying on a sofa because a girl left you." "Stop looking at yourself." "Look around you at the poverty, inequality and transgenics." "Why do you have Eva's photo?" "No wonder I couldn't find it." "Hey, don't touch my stuff..." "Geez, help me..." "I'm telling you: you're weird." "Hey, don't think," "I mean... sure I jerked off, but I did so respectfully." "I left my job." "I'm tired of starting relationships at the end." "First, they see you naked." "Then you can't show them the inner you." "They just want the outer package..." "Tell me after I meet with my boss a second, okay?" "Samuel, I need a moment to tell you something." "It's been with me for days now." "I know we're not great buddies but" "I want you to know I feel bad about what's happening." "I've envied you a long time." "You have your girl, you don't return home alone every night." "That's worth fighting for." "I'd never say this in front of the others." "But I know what darkness is." "I live it daily." "But there's something worse than jerking off all your life to embossed porn magazines or the painful memories that eat away at your soul." "The worse thing is to never feel a woman's skin and to wake up every morning completely alone." "You feel so useless not being able to help someone that you begin searching shadows for anyone to share life with." "Well, Samuel," "I continue waiting mornings for those soft, delicate whispers in my ear, describing that tree at the end of the street or a sunset" "or a raindrop running down a glass pane... or who'll go to the movies and tell me if it's a close-up or wide shot." "Who knows with today's directors?" "Fucking is important too, but... feeling someone embracing" "and protecting you." "Samuel, don't misunderstand..." "My name is Nieves." "I am..." "Don't tell me..." "How are things with Eva?" "Tonight you sleep over." "Okay, right." "One thing always works with women." "Let them see you cry." "One tear and they forgive all." "I have a way, if tears fail you:" "I squeeze a ball, like that, hard." "Pinch it... and watch the tears roll." "Uh, right." "Show them we can be sensitive." "Never fails." "Lucky stiff." "What're you looking at?" "Samuel," "Sami..." "Oh, Sami..." "Is it always like this?" " Where's the pleasure?" " I picked a bad time to tell her we should drop it for awhile... that I wasn't ready to commit." "I'll call an ambulance." "For sure, Samuel, women take love more seriously than we do." "Right?" "Watch over Samuel." "Take care of him." "I try, but he won't let me." " Take no major risks." " Save me the cover." "Sandra, you'll never win a Pulitzer here." "They'll tell you:" "you got what you deserved." "I love your sermons, but we should've been in Almeria by now." "Tell Lucas to leave you the car he's test-driving." " OK." " Almeria?" " Let's go." " Bye." "This music puts me to sleep." "Hear the viola?" "It's Eva." "Live from the Real Theater." "I feel close to her that way." "Do you have hot water?" "Uh, yeah..." "Shitty hotel." "Eva, it's me." "In Almeria." "What?" "Contra's here..." "He's staying a few days." "Says the police are looking for him." "Don't tell him, he'll overreact." "That weirdo's there?" "Couldn't he go elsewhere?" "He keeps me company... and makes great breakfasts." "Doesn't he know he's getting you involved?" "Don't exaggerate." "Why are you in Almeria?" "Nothing... photos." "Landscapes..." " Yes?" " Eva, wait a sec." "Yes, it's me." "Yeah, tell me." "Eva, gotta go." "Call you later." "A kiss." "I love you." "Bye..." "Hey, Contra, do you think Samuel... ?" "You've got to understand men." "It's not easy to live with this cock here always giving you advice." " Hungry?" " Yeah." "Sandra!" "Sandra!" "Come on!" "Get in!" "I have the photos..." "I got 'em." "The kid." "Take the kid..." "My God..." "Contra..." "Didn't wanna wake you." "Relax." "Keep still." "Guests are coming." " Guests?" " Payback for the other day." " Listen..." " Without Samuel present, they'll be gentlemen." "Listen, Contra..." "Wait!" "I just broke water..." "This is no time to faint." "No it's just that..." "these things..." "Wine from the Real Madrid Christmas basket!" "Chicken and rice." "I could smell it." "Did you come by car?" "." " Yeah, mine." " Well, bring it." "Yeah, right." "You know how long it took to park?" "And Maarisa wanted us to come by subway, but, of course, these guys would hear nothing of it." "Guys, she's broken water." "She's gonna lose the kid." "Don't be retarded." "I just need a ride to the hospital." "Come on." " We should go to the cops." " Again?" "I know a commissioner in Madrid who knows what I'm doing." "Let's bring the baby there..." " It's a girl." " That's her problem." "Ignore her." "She just acts tough." "Sing it a lullaby." "You're about to be a father, not me." "Pretty bird, please be sweet." "Be so nice and hush your peep." "Little baby... is fast asleep." " Singing was a bad idea." " Don't push now." " Relax." "It'll be fine." "Maarisa used to scream bloody hell." "She swore and insulted the shit out of me." "That music..." "It's the Muzak, Doctor." "Turn that shit off!" "I don't want my kid to hear that crap first." "The inventor of Muzak should have his balls hammered to pieces." "The worse is plane music." "My fear of flying comes from the landing music." " OK, push." "Come on." "Want me to play a song on the guitar?" " A soft tune?" " No." "Contractions are nothing next to his singing." " Can we concentrate, please?" "Doctor, is it true giving birth in water is more natural?" " Hey, don't ask him." "Doctors want you to suffer." "Relax, we're here." " Breathe easily." " Push harder." "Come on, push harder." "I feel the head!" "Breathe." "One-two, one-two, one-two, one-two." " Shut up, it sounds like marching." "Is it out yet?" "Tell me." "I wouldn't come out, given what's waiting for him." "OK, now push some more." "Come on." "You can do it..." "Yeah, you can do it." "Piece of cake." "Fuck, I'm getting dizzy, imagining all that blood." " Relax, Felix." " Let's go babe." "You're the best." "Anyone call Samuel?" "Samuel..." " Did you call him?" " I didn't." "Me neither." "Ah, so you were hungry." "Who can understand you?" "I tried reading those baby books." "Boy, were they boring!" "Like camera-operating manuals." "Until you take a thousand pics, you understand nothing." "My name is Samuel." "And you?" "Do you have a name?" "Here it is." "I got it." "It's here." "Here's your baby." "Anyone volunteer to cut the cord?" " Me, if I could." " Uh, that stuff..." "I couldn't even with my own kids." " Looks like we have a volunteer." " Well, lend a hand." "Take the scissors." "Come closer, cut." "Look at it, look at it." "Let him listen to your heart." "Hey, first impressions mark..." " Congrats, guys." " Thanks." "Eva says I flee from responsibility." "Eva's my girl." "Well, she was." "I don't know." "If you met her... she's great." "You'd like her." "Are you sleepy?" "I'd sing you another song, but you heard Sandra before." "She says I sing like a dog, who's had his balls stepped on." "I'm not that bad, am I?" "You know I think I like you." "Of course," "I must be a superhero to you or something similar." "Nah, you'll see, people are pretty normal, well, not really... but you get used to them." "Look, look, look..." "You know the worst?" "You'll be a great dad..." "No, Sandra, no..." "Take care of Eva." "I really liked her." "She's sweet." "Don't know if you deserve her." "You'll have to fight for her." "If you fuck up or don't treat her right," "I swear you'll pay for it." "I'll be watching you." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Okay, right." "Congratulations." "You just became a Dad." "I'll take care of things." "Go to her." "It calms her." "It's like a pacifier." "Give it to me and kiss Eva for me." "Sami..." " Sami, my son." " Mom!" "Congrats." "Today is so exciting." "Andres and I have important news for you." "Later, Mom, later..." "It's a boy..." " Beautiful." " It's all there." "They gave it a 9. 9 score." "I never got that." "Felix cut the umbilical cord." " Me?" " Yeah." "It was wonderful." "Eva's under anesthesia but she's fine." " What happened to you?" " It looks like me, but I didn't... do anything." "That was a kid, right?" "Hello." "I think I'm your Dad." "How's everything?" "Sorry for the delay." "She's to blame." "Who is she?" "I'm not exactly sure." "You don't understand." "I don't either." "Don't even try." "But, be prepared." "This world's a strange place." "The person who invented it, left things upside down:" "Good things... horrible things..." "We'll try to make do, huh?" "I'll take you to the park so you can eat the dirt and hit other kids with the shovel 'cause that's what kids like." "And I'll give you sweets until your teeth rot." "Your mother'll play you beautiful music 'cause that's what she does." "I'm a photographer, well, I take pictures." "They're not very good..." "Eva's the one who does things well." "Me?" "I take care of always fucking things up, and leaving things a mess." "But, you'll see," "I'll be the best worst father that you've ever seen..." "By the way, do you have a name yet?" "Tristan..." "His name is Tristan..." "Tristan?" "Sounds sad to me." "The godfathers liked it..." "What happened to you?" "It's all a mess..." "I met a girl." "Well, we bought her for 8000 euros." "Eight thousand, believe it?" "She's very nice." "We can't keep her..." "But I wanted her to meet you..." "I've told her about you." "Really?" "What did he tell you?" "Did he get syrupy?" "Are you crying?" "Not me, it's him..." "Take him." "Give me." "He's cute." "Doesn't look like mine." "Why is it crying?" "What did you do to him?" "Rock him a bit." "Maybe he wants to be breastfed?" "Hey, there's two..." "I have no idea what'll happen, if we'll even make it work." "I don't know." "I guess no one's ready for life." "Eva's right." "Aim for five minutes, then another five" "and five more." "What's the matter?" "DVD Subtitling:" "ONST, Montreal"