The Strange Case of Doctor Faust

The Strange Case of Dr. Faust

You blind animals who forgot your origin,

we're going to tell you a story.

Let's say...

that beings from an unidentified place in the universe

are watching you.

Because...

there's one among you all

who's about to uncover

a great mystery.

His name is...

Faust.

Faust? The doctor?

Nobody lives as innocently and freely as he does.

Who lets themselves live like that on a miserable, war-torn planet?

He investigates the world like a disciplined schoolboy.

What? Does he think that, in his limited human brain,

there's room for a real explanation of what's going on?

The clothes moth wants to understand the tailor who made the jacket.

Can a hair understand the hat?

Can the producers of consciousness consume their own light?

They mustn't! They mustn't! They mustn't!

They mustn't!

Can an animal bite its own tail without becoming a zero?

It mustn't! It mustn't!

Mustn't the mule turning the waterwheel keep from losing its blinders,

so that the universe won't be deprived of its bees' honey?

Isn't love enough?

Faust had some neighbors named Philemon and Baucis,

whose noisy revelry at any hour of the day, and at night,

was showy and provocative.

Not even the thunderous revelry of Philemon and Baucis

could succeed in pulling Faust out of his meditations.

Faust dreamed that, one afternoon,

while he was playing with a wise little man and a kite,

a woman appeared at the edge of the sea.

The woman was in danger.

Faust sent the wise little man to help the unknown woman.

The woman was "The Sphinx", and in her gratitude to Faust,

she told him a story, instead of posing him a riddle.

But the story was the riddle.

I want you to know that I've seen better times.

In those days, I possessed a secret.

I want you to understand that only you know this story.

I'm very tired now.

This story concerns whoever hears it.

The secret was a drawing like those that children make.

Why do children always draw things in that way?

Only a child could steal the secret from me.

I want you to understand that this concerns you.

But don't try to understand more. To feel you understand is to destroy me.

And I want you to know that no man can live without me,

just as I can't survive without them.

That's everything that's happened. Now I have nothing more to tell you.

I'm cold.

Don't overcomplicate things. Don't try to understand.

It doesn't suit you. Dreams are just dreams.

Boom, boom, forget, forget, forget.

Forget the dream, forget it. The dream, forget it.

Leave that woman to her sad fate.

Don't interfere, Faust.

You can't do anything.

Exiled to a squalid place,

forgotten by men,

the Sphinx surrenders to an inexorable process of destruction.

It's useless for you to drink, Sphinx! Don't drink, no! Don't drink, no!

It's impossible to recover lost grandeur.

It's impossible to forget forgotten truths.

It's impossible to pursue purity.

It's impossible... impossible to live. It's impossible.

- Men have dethroned you. - They don't take a hint.

The riddle you've bound to Faust will be destroyed.

Cataclysm, turmoil!

Let's put an end to Faust! Let's put an end to him!

Dr. Faust must be prevented

from getting further in his investigations.

The nameless beings from an unidentified place in the universe

decided to intervene to prevent Dr. Faust

from getting further in his...

investigations.

In order to make first contact with Dr. Faust,

a pheremone was created and sent to Earth.

Its mission was to carry a message

and throw it into the sea.

We are not!

Faust had a premonitory dream

in which it was announced to him that a catastrophe

was just about to occur.

The next day,

he received the message.

On that paper, they had drawn a house and a sun.

Also, there was a man visible at the window.

Faust understood that the drawing revealed a terrible fate.

But...

he didn't let fear take him.

He knew... there was a suitable response for that sign which came from the sea.

And only he could find it.

It was then that he understood...

that the neck of a giraffe

grows from the inside.

That disconcerted the beings from an undetermined place in the universe.

Unable to scare Faust into abandoning the investigations,

which were leading him to the discovery of an essential truth,

they decided to seduce him instead.

And to find out Dr. Faust's ideal of beauty,