Love and Anger (Amore e rabbia)

It's Father Giulio with the holy oil.

Tell him to wait, I've had it twice already.

What am I?

- A Chinese. - And now?

- A sad Chinese. - I dreamt of someone like that...

...who brought me a telegram.

I was too scared to open it,

then I opened it but nothing was written inside.

I want to be alone.

And all those people waiting outside?

They can come in later, they can all come in later...

Feel the tension in your hair.

Relax.

He talked about this simile:

A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard.

He went to look for fruit, but didn't find any.

Force the tension into the bottom of your eyes,

force the tension into the bottom of your ears,

force the tension down into the nape of the neck,

feel the difference between a relaxed head...

and the tension you had in your eyes,

in your ears and in the nape of your neck.

So the man said to the vine-dresser who was with him:

"I've been coming here for three years

to harvest the fruit of this fig,

there's never any fruit.

See to it that it's cut down.

Why should it occupy the land?"

Let the tension leave through your scalp,

the nerves and blood under the scalp.

And he replies:

"Master, let it live this year.

I'll hoe the ground all around it,

and I'll use manure as fertilizer,

and if it then produces fruit, good.

If not, we'll cut it down."

- Have you got a light please? - Yeah, sure.

Here...

Thanks.

- What are these holes for? - To get by...

- What a nice smell! - I'm meeting my girlfriend.

Oh, that's why. Good idea... and the flowers?

My girlfriend is bringing them to me...

How come you're working when you're so old?

You want me to come to eat at your place?

Talking of which, I'm hungry granddad.

It seems like only yesterday that I was like you.

Riccetto, Riccetto listen to me...

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Listen, Riccetto, this is God talking, God, God!

Don't you understand Riccetto, God's talking to you.

Will you listen to me now?

No.

But I'm speaking simply...

Give me a sign, just one sign,

and I'll understand that you want to listen to me.

Can't you hear me? Are you deaf? Don't you have ears?

- Hey, let me get in. - Alright, be careful, get in.

- Are you working? - Yes, you have to...

I don't know... I don't know about these things.

You're right, but I've got a wife and son.

He was born three days ago, did you know?

I'll talk to you anyway, Riccetto,

even if you don't want to give me a sign.

Anyway your son drinks his mother's milk...

But you've got to work anyway...

Bloody hell, I haven't got a job, damn it!

The nice thing about work's the satisfaction.

- Yeah, sure... - At 5 past 5 there's nothing as nice...

...as finishing work. - I'm off at 8!

You're happy, aren't you?

This is what I want from you...

From you I want your fruits, your first fruits.

What are these fruits?

The fruits of your knowledge and your will...

What do you know, Riccetto? What do you want, Riccetto?

- Hello, Mr. Street-cleaner. - Hey, Riccetto...

They told me you were dying, is it true?

What are you saying, kid?

I've still got lots of sweeping to do...

I've got to sweep the whole of Via Nazionale.

You're innocent, it's true.

And those who are innocent have no knowledge.

And those who have no knowledge have no will.

But I who am your God, order you to know and to want.

I know it's a contradiction, perhaps without a solution,

because if you are an innocent, you cannot be otherwise.

And if you are innocent,

you cannot have conscience and will.

Tell me, to whom did Christ, my son,

spoke, if not to the innocents?

And why? Because he wanted them to know.

...you, like the fig tree, might say it's too early,

that it's only March,

that you can't give of your fruits,

that you'll give them in September.

Nonsense... 'March', 'September'...

For me, God, they are nothing but empty words.

If faith can move mountains, just think

how unimportant it is if it's March or September...

Listen to me, Riccetto, listen to me.

I'd be satisfied with a nod of your head

or a glance towards the sky.

Listen to me if you don't want to lose yourself.

Innocence is a fault, innocence is a fault, understand?

The innocents will be condemned

because they will no longer have the right to be innocent.

I cannot pardon those who go through injustice and wars,

through horrors and blood, with the happy air of innocents.

There are millions of innocents like you in the world

who would rather disappear from history

than lose their innocence.

And I have to make them die...

Even though I know they have no choice...

I have to damn them like the fig tree,

...and make them die, die, die. - What?

There's no time without time.

And I've been waiting a long time for you.

Time has all the time.

They loved each other, and time

didn't change their love at all.

The old time fairy tales enter his life today...

Because... there's no time without time.

I've been waiting a long time for you.

Time has all the...

MADE IN CUBA

What's that?

I don't know what it is.

You don't know what that is?

Perhaps they were the first images of a film.

The first images of a film...

Oh, yeah, maybe...

But I don't know which film.

What kind of film?

Maybe it's an Evgeniy Onegin film.

Maybe it's an Albert Norisseau film.

Or maybe, it's a J.L. Godard film.

Maybe it's a Christian Dior film.

In any case it's in Techniscope and Eastmancolor.

Yeah, it's in 'scope', and in color.

Are there any actors?

Yes, there are actors...

And who are they?

Nino Castelnuovo and Christine Guého.

And what role do they play?

He's Italian and she's French.

The French girl leaves her family for him?

Yes, and he also leaves his family for her...

And he leaves his family for her.

Yes, they love each other,

so they do the same thing for each other.

Good, they want to marry

because they love each other.

Yes, they want to get married.

And what about us?

We'll wait and see.

We'll wait for what?

Because we've got to be the witnesses at their wedding.

We are the witnesses.

What's the title of this film?

I've forgotten the title...

...it's something about "Children".

"The Children"?

"Les enfants terribles".

No... not 'terrible'.

The humiliated children.

No, not ‘humiliated' either.

It's crazy that you forgot the title.

Yes, it's a shame...

They told me, but I don't remember it anymore.

Didn't they give you a script?

There isn't any script.

So, how do you know what's going on?

To know what's going on you just have to watch.

If we're witnesses, we're observers too.

Yes, it's true...

...to be a witness is to be an observer.

We must watch.

Let's watch.

When... the world...

Will be... will be reduced...

To a black forest...

The world is reduced to a black forest.

For four astonished eyes...

Four astonished eyes.

A beach for a faithful couple.

A beach for a faithful couple.

We'll meet again.

We'll meet again.

The war that China will wage...

Yes. The war that China will wage...

...against the rest of humanity...

...against the rest of humanity...

...will be a bridge to a new age in the history of humanity.

...will be a bridge to a new age

in the history of humanity.

Listen... it's here and now...

that our voyages start and end.

It's here and now that our journeys start and end.

It's here that we'll defend our lives...