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Good News

ls it alright here?

Or you'd prefer it here?

Problem solved.

What am I to do?

The lights...

Fedora the lights are fading

Fedora!

There... there... there...

...they're out

Fedora... a blackout!

Fedora! Fedora... mmere are you? Don't hide.

You know I'm afraid of the dark

Fedora...

Damn, they're hiking crude oil...

...to justify the atomic energy plants

Why give us television, if there's...

...no electricity? Fedora!

It's a conspiracy

They are turning us into cavemen again

Feels like a tomb!

A sepulcher

I'm growing cold already... Fedora!

The picture window...

0h, such pain! Damn them, such pain... Oh...

Thieves! The thieving State

They're punishing us. We are naughty.

They're raising the cost of electricity!

Fedora... Where are you?

Stop hiding, please. I beg you

Where... Who is it?

It's you...

Why aren't you answering? Where're you?

Are you afraid?

As if you didn't know...

Fedora...

...I feel as ifl were a ghost

I am sure... my ghost will hunt this house. Yours, too

...after death. Kiss me.

You're already back to life!

Fedora, let's make love. With the ghosts

Here, in the dark, on the ground, outside!

Now? No! I have to work.

I must correct the homeworks for tomorrow

Please! I'm a substitute tomorrow!

- If we don't take advantage of the dark, when will we do it? - Tomorrow!

Blackout is beautiful! - No! It's ugly! Let go of me!

Long live the blackout!

Still another nithless political assassination

comitted last night during the blackout!

In a crowded street of the Capital

The noted political figure and builder F. Proietti

was approached by two men dressed as policemen

They fired 11 shots, point-blank, without silencers

at his head and neck

killing him instantly

325 here, I'm in conference

Funeral in Catania

Coaxial cable!

Rating 11

Repeat tonight. Tomorrow too

Maybe the day after tomorrow

Not prime time, in between

I'm in conference

The detectives have shed doubt on the authenticity of the sign...

...totally unknown in the dense world of terrorism.

Haday in Rome was held the funeral of Judge Demetrio Ghia,

bmtally murdered 3 days ago by masked killers on the steps of the tribunal

No terrorist group has yet claimed the terrorist attack

Police suspects he's the victim of financial groups

he had previously investigated.

And now let's move on to the serious series of terrorist attacks

that have rocked last night several Italian cities...

...during the long and agonizing blackout

Bombs and Molotov cocktails were thrown in Rome

on seceral gynecologysts' consulting rooms

In Turin and Padua the terrorists targeted

two IRS garages

while in Genoa they almost totally destroyed

...a public bath near the train station

Terrorist attacks also in the provinces of Pisa...

Who is it? - It's me.

In Cologno Monzese a powerful explosion has devastated the Carabinierils canteen.

An anonymous call. Bomb. Leave building

The long series of violences began in Rome...

...where shortly after 21:30 a bomb exploded in front of an elementary school

With pleasure...

...in the densely populated Trionfale neighbourhood

Eggs must be cooked in butter! - No, dear, in oil.

Do you go with the American school that uses the pillow?

Hey!

Hey!

Will you keep quiet!

I'm gonna bust your ass!

Here they come!

Ours are coming!

- What do you think? - I think...

Should we go have a look? - No, let's stay here

You have a mean looking face

Yes, _ you really have a mean looklng face.

You woke with a black heart... and it shows.

Like if you wanted to hurt someone

What the fuck are you saying?!...

Have you chosen somebody to olobber?

I don't know- why the fuck we're still together

What are you blabbering?

We don't want kids because they'd be unhappy

Our sex life is.. squalid ...and occaslonal

The only problem is dividing our possessions 'cause they are in odd number

Freezer, Tv, and record player

And the trailer? - That is mine

Your oofiee's in the kitchen, so get it yourself

Will you tell me, why the fuck we're still together?

Don't you understand the value of freedom? Why blindly persist in a mistake?

See? You've finally chosen the person. - What person?

The person you were going to olobber. You've chosen me.

And d'you know why you've chosen me?

Because you are here. Had someone else been here, I'd have chosen her.

You are here. I have to make do with what I have. - No.

That's not that the cause. - Then what is?

You always hurt the ones that love you most

Idiot! What's so funny?

RhetoricalL.

Shit, how rhetorical!

Haday too in the Santa Rosa hospital in Camero...

...has been registered the death of another three victims...

...of the mysterious respiratory disorder ..

...active since a couple of days among the residents of that neighbourhood

ls that you,Tignetti? I must talk to you

Right away. It's urgent.

Well? What's this about? - Don't be impatient.

It's a very delicate subject. Please.

Tignetti...

You know that death is inevitable?

Are you sick? - Yes or no?

Yes, I know

Exactly, me too. Please, sit...

So? - Everything considered...

...there only are not so many things a man wants to know before dying.

At least, that's what I think. - Alright, go on.

Before dying...

...I only want to know why women don't like me.

What's your opinion?

Let me think...

Do, by all means. It's a very important subject.

But, you see, I'd need more information.

0f course... Right away, Tignetti.

Yes, Tignetti, I am sure...

When I'm near one of you...

...I'm not well, I feel uneasy..

...it's maddening, unbearable, you know why? - No.

Excuse me...

Because you look at me as ifl were a stranger, a pana, a non-human. Understand?

A paria, a non-human. Understand?

An alien

One from an inferior race

While you women are for me the most important thing in life

What's wrong with me?

Let's see it

Get ready... Here it is!

Too short? Too long?

Lacks character? Too aggressive?

What nonsense! It's not about that.

I don't say it isn't important, but it's not everything. - Then?!

What's wrong with me? My teeth?

The colour of my eyes? My hair?

I smel, maybe?l... Huh?

Tell me! Everything you think! Without fear, nor pity!

Get dressed at least...

And what does your wife say? - No... we don't talk about such things.

She refuses the role of m/ife. She's a child

She's unhappy. That's true...

But not more than me

Yet she married you. She must have liked you, at least a little.

She's a pathological case. Instead of measles, she caught me

Besides, must we attract wives only?

There are othersMany others!

Do you realize how many there are?

How many... right here?

There's Maino... There's Padovani...

Cioerchia. - Cioerchia!

Spazzapan, Vendetti... Bignardi!

Guerra! - Guerra!

Siciliano. - Neronl.

Neroni...

Peooretti...

And you, yourself, Tignetti...

But, do you like yourself? - A lot! In fact, no.

Then why should women?

But you,Tignetti... tell the truth

Now that we've found a way to be sincere...

D'you like me?

Yes

Then let's make love, only once, before dying

Go fuck yourself

Think about it

I won't give it to you, even if you die

Yesterday aftemoonls clashes between police and demonstrators in Milan

continued until late into the night

Despite the many arrests,

groups of youths moved away from downtown to suburban neighborhoods...

...have engaged the police in short, but violent attacks

Hello?... Yes, speaking

Gualtiero? Gualtiero who?

Milano?!

0h, Gualtiero Milano

What a surprise! How are you, Gualtiero?

...been so long!

You mean now? Immediately?

Is it really so urgent?

Well, today...

...is Sunday

I usually devote the day to my m/ife, poor thing

We're so seldom together...

Very well, all right

...at the Cavour Bridge, along the Tiber

Fedora!

I'm going down for the paper

I said I'm going out to buy the paper

l'll be back in half an hour, an hour... maybe later.

I no longer love you. I love another woman

I'll be back tonight

I'll be back tomorrow

I'm never coming back

Gualtiero! - Finally!

Some pastry?

No, no. Let's go away from here. Let's go away from here

Where?

Let's sit here.

Bachelor? - No, I'm married

My wife's name is... Ada

What was so urgent?

What're you doing?! - You must keep this for me...

...or l'll end up killing somebody

I keep seeing shadows... Who's that?

Take it back... Put it away!

Come on!

A jeweler? - No

You're a bank teller?... A judge?

No. I'm a high school teacher

Just like my wife

Then why the fuck carry a gun?

You teach in a pilot school? - No.

My pupils respect me very much. - Then?!

Watever might happen to me remember this:

You've always been and still are my best friend

Don't ever forget it

What the fuck are you saying?

What best friend?!

We haven't seen each other in at least fifteen yearsL.

Anyway... What's wrong?

Somebody wants to kill me

I feel that someone wants to kill me

Any proof? - I knew it!

You don't believe me. And yet, you must!

Know why you don't believe me?

Because I am not yet dead

Otherwise, you'd believe me. Even my wife would

But, when it happens...

...mmafll you say?

I feel it. I know they'll do it

Gualtiero... Who will do it? - I don't know

Hold it! Hold it!

Calm down!

Be patient! Can't you distinguish...

Calm down. See?

A dog!

You want one?

All of a sudden, I'm hungry

Gualtiero, do you, in this very moment,

feel that they're out to kill you?

More than ever

Very well. In that case...

Let's look at it from another angle - Yes.

Well... Are you still a Communist?

No...

You're not right-wring?!

No...

Are you still a JevW

Naturally. But l like Arabs very much

They're lazy, like me

Jealous husband? - I wouldn't say...

I don't enjoy betraying my wife

You're rich?

Almost poor. My wife is rich... her father

...a millionaire

Well, then why the fuck do they want to kill you?

All right...

But I feel that somebody...

...will kill me

One night I was on Via Nazionale, alone on the sidewalk, sole passer-by,

Suddenly a car came at 100 kmlh, sets course on me and rushes into me.

Did it get you? - No. It ended up into an pharmacy.

Missed by 20 centimeters. A Mercedes. - But it didn't kill you. - No

Once, at the seaside, I went to a restaurant, Ciccio Ibstricaro,

I was alone. I eat fish. Gastric lavage: a mlraole I'm allve

It's a miracle all of us are alive! - 0h, that was nothing

I was almost torn to pieces by a dog

What? - A dog

A dog?! What kind of dog? - A doberman. Arturo

Did he attck others? - Many, but I ended up in a hospital

Fuck, Gualtiero, I think this kind of things happens to all of us.

Well... You shouldn't become obssessed!

Look! - What is it?

Drug addicts. Shooting heroin. - Don't look!

I feel death breathing on me. I don't have an obssession.

What does Ada say? - That I have an obssession?

Does she love you?

She's innocent, if that's what you are implying

Ours is a liberal relation. Hers is, at least. She goes away when she wants

She loves me as she'd love a pet. We're friends. She's a nymphomaniac

And you? - I masturbate

Well, one does what one can... Let's watch!

You know howl spend my time? I waltz

Yes, it's the only thing I'm good at.

Give my money back. you son of a bitch! - They'll kill each other!

They'll kill each other! For the drugs! - Gualtiero!

Hit him! - Gualtiero! - That's it, hit him!

Gualtiero... you're not a queer, are you? - Absolutely not

Are you sure? - I'd tell you

Then why should they kill you? - Want to know? - Yes!

I wish they'd kill me. - But, why?

I won't tell you. Bye

Now we'll take a nice walk to our house

There we'll take a nice little bath and then we'll eat something good.

And we'll have a nap until four

Then we'll go out, visit auntie Grazziela who will give us some nice biscuits

In the last 24 hours 1500 cows have been slaughtered.

The tract of land where they were burned...

...was declared by the health authorities uncultivalable for a period of 10 years

A recleaning program in the polluted area is under way

Look how this girl resembles Benedetta...

Yes, very much

Why don't we ever invite Benedetta?

Why should we invite Benedetta?

Aren't you two friends?

Yes, but she plays the lady, and it's only me in the kitchen

You know... I feel sorry for Benedetta

Having a son at 16... seperated... two suicide attempts...

...and then...

And then she's beautiful... Very beautiful

Why don't you say it? - Yes!

She's very beautiful

Let's go now to the othernews

Haday. ln Naples, was hold the funeral of the Assistant Prosecutor ..

It's been years since I haven't watched the sun set

What was that you said?

Say it again

I said: "lt's been years since I haven't watched a sunset"

What now, playing the romantic?

What the fuck are you saying?! - Bingo! Here we go again

You, talking about sunsets?...

You, who are so trivial?

Because you are trivial

I'd say...

...trivial like a fascist

What the fuck does that mean? What the fuck have the fascists to do with it?

Fucking tell me!

My Paper

Only fascists would talk like you do...

...always with "fuck"on the tip of their tongue...

It's true, I'm trivial

I know it... fucking well!

But shit, what the fuck can I do?

That's howl talk

Yes, I know, I feell could express myself differently...

But the trivialities come out by themselves

lfl don't say them, fuck...

It's like obeying an inner police force

...it's censorship

I mean, fuck, that's not right

Shit! Fuck! Cock! Ass!

You see?

As they come to mind, they come to mouth

They're like a comma

...like a semicolon

...a parenthesis

A period, paragraph, I'm lying

Not a fuckin' word is true!

For instance, ifl say "cock", I don't mean "comma"

No need to delude myself: ifl say "cock", I mean just that, "cock"

You've "fucked" seven times

Fedora, let me try something. I close my eyes...

I think and say cock

Let's see what comes to mind mmile I say it

Cock!

That was no comma, I actually saw a cock

Let's try another word

UP yours!

No, no. For a split second I definetly saw anal inter...

I need these trivialities

To defend myself

From whatt, I don't know...

Well, maybe from...

...spirituality

Benedetta!

It's ready! Come, set the table!

Ifl say "up yours" I envision...

...having anal coitus, don't you?

No, I don't say that

lfl say "cock"...

I actually see a penis. Believe me! I tested myself in bed once

lneed to be...

...as a defense against spirutuality

You see, dear, when I was between 13 and 20 years of age...

...I resorted to these shocking, strong words

...that recalled real things: smells, fetid odors

...exprements... shlt, plss...

...so that people wouldn't see the real me,

My heart was soft, gentle... I was afraid that...

...they'd crush it.

Besides, I loved to shock people

People were actually shocked?

For instance...

You... how do you call that one?

Almost always, vagina

I call it "cunt". What's the difference?

Cunt is very derogatory

Think so?

D'you know why, maybe, you always say "cock"?

Let's here it. Why? - Probably because you like cock

I 've always mainted more agents were necessary

Had you listened to me, we wouldn't be here now.

Just a moment! Attenion! Silence! We'll proceed orderly

Benedetta

Benedetta. You hear me?

Benedetta... - What is it? What d'you want to tell her?

Let's play... - What?

Hide and seek. - Alright, let's count

Alright, l'll count.

Me?! It fell on her.

Let's doit again. - I'm no moron!

It's not that, what do I care?!

Go on, hide! I always get the short end

I always get fooled!

Count, Fedora! Don't cheat, Fedora! - But only to 30, not longer!

To 30! - To 100.

No, dear, I'll count to 30. - Count, Fedora!

Don't look, Fedora!

We've paid the sheriff and his men good money...

...and the first time we have a problem he tells us to solve lt ourselves!

Why did we pay then?

Benedetta!

This way!

What are you doing? - Kiss me!

I want, I want... - Not now!

I want a kiss!

Not here, behind her back! - Exactly!

We are alone. She can't see us. This is the time!

No, I'm her friend!

Am I not your friend?

It's between us. What ifl said...

...that I loved you?

I'd kiss you for less. I can't say no to anyone.

I'll kiss you, but not now. - Benedetta! Come out!

I 'm not playing anymore! - Benedetta!

Not behind her back! It's too trivial! - But... Where're you going?

BenedettaL. Benedetta!

Shut up! - I got Benedetta!

Minutes ago has reached us the news of a serious terorist attack...

...prepretated this moming shortly after 9am in the Modena station Post Office

A woman consigned a package to Libero RovattL a 31 years employee,

A 8 inch long package...

Who is it?

It's me. - What is it?

...the employee, made suspicious by the strange sound coming from the box,

It's for you,sir

Hold it! It wouldn't be a bomb?

It looks like one...

A woman brought it

What can that mean? In these times...

She was beautiful... - What's beauty got to do with it?

The firemen who intervened to keep the fire under control...

Good luck

...managed to extinguish the fire only after a couple of hours.

Following testimonies gathered on site...

...the police is looking for a woman around 25 years.

We are now moving on. Numerous violent episodes...

A tn/ckdriver has fired multiple gun shots...

Who is it? - I am Ada, Gualtierols wife.

Glad to meet you. - I must see you

Me too. When? - Right away It's urgent, please.

Ifl don't talk to you, Gualtierols best friend, who else is there?

Naturally. Where are you?

In the garden in front of the building you are working in.

I wear a mauve coat and I'm with a German shepherd

Mauve? - Yes, mauve! - Yes, mauve. I'll be right there

Come here! Run! Run! Catch it! Catch it! Catch it!

Ma'am? Ma'am! - Yes.

You are Ada... - Yes.

No, dog! Sitzt! Dago, sitzt!

Listen... - Don't worry, he's trained

Let me, first, return you this...

Down, Dako, he's a friend. Sitzt!

Signora Ada... - Please, take this back

Don't do this! I said he's a friend. Sitzt!

Sitzt !

Sitzt ! - Sitzt!

The box was a message from Gualtiero. His way of asking for help.

Perhaps. But listen, Madame, you should know I'm not...

Let's not be formal. - Yes, but the dog doesn't want it! See?

No need to raise your voice. Dago mustn't sense ostility.

All right, Madame, but we should, at least, make one thing clear...

Stop it! What're you doing?! Don't run!

You're making things worse, can't you see?!

Dago, come here! Good boy... The gentleman is your master's best friend

So, he's our friend too... - Listen, ma'am...

Sitzt, Dago! Sitzt!

Signora Ada... I knew a boy in school called Gualtiero...

Undoubtedly, the man I met last Sunday is the man I was seeing many years ago...

But now he's gone totally mad, he's someone else, d'you understand?

He's someone else! - Sltzt...

Sitzt... You see...

I don't know a lot of things about him, sol can't say I know him

The whole second act. You follow me, signora?

In fact, I am not Gualtierds best friend

I'm not! How else I can tell you?

Don't insist! - Sitzt!

Understood? Understood, Ada? - No!

It's brutal! - Ssst!

- That's how it is... - Sitzt...

No... No, Ada. Signora... don't do this... the dog...

Please, don't do this... - Don't be so formal!

It must be time...

Stop it, Ada

You look so young. I imagined you older

I'm desperate. Yesterday evening he came back with a hole in his coat

I'm sure he shot himself. But I might be wrong

Yesterday he fired the maid, accusing her of spying, d'you understand?

I understand everything, Ada. - Sitzt, Dago!

But what has it got to do with me? What...

...have I got to do with your life?

I'm a stranger... - Who are those ones?

It's a bit crowded, let us go. - You are part of our life anyway!

You're part of it, dear, you are! Even if you don't know, nor want it!

Because all of these years he wouldn't stop talking about you!

Abut how kind, good you were.

And affectionate...

We were...young

He told me you went to wtwrehouses together. ls that true?

It's true

He also said...

...you both in love with the same more... ls that true?

Is that true?

What's this with the mmorehouse?

I only wanted to know if he told the truth

Yes, he did

You sge... Gualtiero has sunken lnto a sort of mlrage

He lives with this morbid obssession...

...like refusing to grow old

A bening obssession

ls it true he still masturbates? ls that true?

Certainly, but he doesn't do it in public

Ah, I wasn't sure

It's another one of his infantile games

Dirty thing... - Play!

In conclusion...

He's really crazy.

And then, story he tells isn't very credible

Do you think it's credible?

Sounds incredible to us, not to him

He's like a hunted man in a gangster film

Like that film by Siodmak...

In order to make his story more believable, Gualtiero...

...might even do himself harm! Kill himself, even.

That's why I'm afraid. I'm afraid...

Well? We'd better go

l think he's capable of killing himself so his story is believed

lt devastates me, but l think it's the only way to prevent him killing himself

You mean the nut-house?

A psychiatric hospital, a nut-house...

...v\matever. Even eleotroshocks

If he's crazy, he's crazy!

There are plenty of hospitals and doctors. A decision has to be taken!

We'll do what we can! ...Even... electroshocks!

Great. Then, tomorrow you'll come over and oonvmoe hlm

Right? I'll see you tomorrow

Alright... No!

Don't shout! - Hold the dog! I want to shout!

Got it? Hold the dog!

I can't take the responsibility. I am confused

Take him to the nut-house. It's your job. What the fuck has it got to do with me?

Psychos make me sick! They give me goose pimples

But he won't listen to me, only to you. You're his best friend

Only you can convince him to go

Come on, mmafs behind all of this?

You doing it for money? A setup?

You want a loan? Money?

I'm very wealthy. And you?

No. - Sitzt, Dago! - Sitzt!

I want to know you better, and be your friend too

Come tomorrow But don't follow me now

Bye

Come, Dago. Let's go.

Ada! Ada! - Stay there! That's enough!

Why "enough"?...

Let's go

Ada! A...

Who is it? - It's me. Open up! But tie the dog!

Are you alone? - Yes.

All right. Wait

The dog? - The dog's not here

What about Ada? Where is she? - She went out with the dog

And... Isn't she coming back? - Who knows?!

She comes and goes...

She's busy with a doctor, Ada is. - Listen...

This...

This is yours

One never knows...

You and Ada agree. I know because she told me

She wants to hospitalize me. Fine

Your opinions too are worthy of respect

But I am not mad

However, _ _ I want to prove my good lntenslons

I'm almost through packing though packing horrifies me

You went ahead and packed?

Why not? You want me in a hospital!

Very well. l'll gladly go with you

I trust you

I'm in your hands

I'll do m/hatever you want. But, then...

...will you visit me?

What? - You won't leave me alone. - 0f course! 0f course

However, I'm warning you: the hospital may prove my end, my deat cell...

That's nonsense, Gualtiero

Today's hospitals are like...

...luxury hotels

Exactly! Like in the film Grand Hotei:

People come, people go.

They can kill me whenever they want

I'll be at the mercy of the first one that comes.

We'll tell them nmot allow anyone in, except Ada.

And you?!

Won't you come?! - Me too. - Yes.

They could approach somebody employed there

They might buy someone

Every injection will seem poisoned,

QVQFY HUFSQ an assassin...

Eleotroshooks! I'll be given electroshocks?

I am not arguing, but they could tamper with it.

All those switches and plugs like Christ's Crown!

What a nice death...

ls that what they want? - Gualtiero, "they" who?

Who else?! My enemies!

Put these panties in too

I know, it sounds incredible. D'you think I don't understand you?

If you two don't believe me, especially you, who are my only friend

Shall l close it? - lt means my story is really improbable.

Improbable, but true

Shall we close it? - The shoe.

Here. Put it in and close the suitcase

Listen, Gualtiero... - Tell me, my dear. - What ifl wasn't at all your friend?

But you... do you want to be my friend or not?

Actually, I don't know

Perhaps not. I'm sorry

It doesn't matter if you're not my friend

You once were

And then... I am your friend. Isn't that enough?

Take the suitcase

On the other hand, aren't you here, with me? That's proof of our friendship.

Gualtiero, I am here only because Ada forced me!

Do you like Ada?

Yes. - Don't be shy, tell her!

I will, of course

Want some books? Take them! Take them!

Poetry, philosophy, sociology, geography! All yours!

Gualtiero!

Let's go now

Hurry up. They're waiting. There's no more time

D'you what hospital we are going to? - The Salus Tue clinic

Ada and her doctor friend chose it. - Gualtiero!

Shouldn't we wait for Ada?

Why? We've got the nut, and the nut-house too

The phone...

This is the telephone answering service of Gualtiero Milano

If you wish, you may leave a message after this waltz

Professor Milano, dig your grave, your time is up!

Always the same, for three years!

It's a persecution!

It's a joke. - No, it's them!

It's them!

Gualtiero...

...I am...

...not going to the clinic

Shall we wait for Ada? - Yes

Alright, my dear.

Can you waltz?

N0

Do you know what "waltz" means?

N0

It means...

"sliding dance"

...in German

Very interesting. - Yes

We think we dance, m/hen, infant, we are crawiing like worms

I am happy to be the one who teaches you to waltz.

It's nice to dance with a man.

It's like dancing with oneself

Here!

One-two-three... This is the rhythm!

You can divide the time as you like

Why should a year have many days...

...and not with only one long day?

One-two-three. Lightly, lightly

One-two-three. You begin over and over again

When you think it'll change or stop, it starts over again

Careful, or we'll end up on the ground. - Sorry

Easy, try letting yourself go, feel how time runs by.

Ouch! - Sorry! - Ouch! - Sorry

Llightly... More lightly! - And Ada?

Why in't Ada coming? - Ada Waltzes very well

We won many cups together

Gualtiero, l beg you, let go of me. l'm fainting. - Courage. - l'll never waltz

I'll only orawi, not waltz. I'm hopeless. Let go of me!

Who cares? The waltz isn't everything in life

Don't fall now! It's not over!

How the fuck have you lived all these years?

I've lived throygh terrifying spiritual sA©ances.

Where everything flew. Chairs, tables, rugs - Hold me

I spoke one, two, three, to Offenbach, Lehar, Strauss,

the entire family. Once, even to Stalin!

The sunset... let me see it a last Let me see it!

What sunset? Get up!

See?

Ada didn't come

Want some advice? Don't go looking for her

She'll call you

Ada is very busy with the doctors

With a doctor, to be precise...

Let's go...

I'm dying to have an electroshock

Ada sends her thanks

What did you say?

I said: "Ada sends her thanks"

A certain Ada phoned this evening,

and, very sensually, said: "Thank your husband"

"l'll certainly show him my gratitude"

Who is Ada? - Ada is Gualtierds wife

Did you see your sunset today? - What have you said?

Your postcard sunset. How was it today?

See? We've swapped roles

Now I'm romantic, and you're cymcal

What the fuck are you saying?

And trivial besides...

Very well...

What are you doing?

Take over the right side

No! Why the right side?

Haven't the roles changed? Let's formalize it

Go over to the right...

Why? I'm fine here

Didn't you always... accuse me...

of being so conventional

We'll remedy that, starting with the bed

Bully!

There, in my place, like a man

Big bully!

On our honeymoon you chose to stay on the right

It's always the same thing

Give me my things! - Yes, boss

Here. - Thanks.

It might an impression, but from your place you can see more things

It's true. I already feel womanly. How about you?

Howsilly. We're the same as usually. Nothing's changed

If only it were that simple

But the experiment has by no means ended

On the contrary, it starts now...

Shall we assume sexual roles?

Let's see...

Let's see...

Want to play the male?

Want to be the male? Get on top of me

Get on top...

Go on, get on top of me... Get on top of me... turn around

Being the man isn't easy

D'you want me to be the man?

Yeah, try...

Men do that...

What've you done?! - Don't you, men, do it? What were you expecting?

Well?...

What are you trying to prove? Imbecile!

That you have it, and I don't?

Besides, you shouldn't be in this position

You should turn, with your ass in the air

With your ass in the air! Turn over!

Play the woman, play the woman!

Afraid, huh?

Ain't got one! - If you want to try with a man, go ahead. - Ain't got one!

That's your business. - You ain't got one!

You ain't got one!

You ain't got one... - I don't, but from tomorrow you'll cook

So don't break my bails. - Still don't have it...

No economic boom for Italy say the statistics...

but a rise in inflation, unemployment, consumption prices.

Hello - Hello

As you know, there's some unrest among the employees

Yes, I know

Do you know why? - Yes

Because of the automatic seniority boosts

Exactly. We two union representatives...

...hav_e_been doing an oplnlon survey...

...to see what everyone thinks.

I mean, about seniority boosts... - I got it

Would you tell us your opinion? - Please

What ifl didn't have one? - What?!

Think about it, and find one

Once again... please

You mustn't feel obliged, Dotto'

If you think about it, you'll see you have an opinion

I swear that I have no opinion

Besides, it's not easy to form an opinion

The seniority problem...

...is a very sad one

Why discuss it? We're better off forgetting it

What can we do about it?

Growing old is an incurable disease

As is death...

We all grow old

Right, everybody grows old. Everybody

In fact, workers and techmmans age earller and...

and die sooner than offioe employees and department heads. And you know it

Read the statistics!

I know many workers and technicians who don't do a fucking thing in this company.

What d'you mean we do shit? - You see, you have an opinion!

I'm calling it as I see it

It'd seem that we, workers, have lost the sense of reality, that is bitter, harsh

These are troublesome times and the fault is also ours

The time is not yet ripe. - Think so, Dotto'?

No, I think everything must remain unchanged: status quo

Better yet, the status quo... ante - Ante?!

You mean: factory workers 3 boosts... - Yes

...technicians 6... - Yes

...office 9... - Yes

And Department Heads 10? - No, 12

Ah, 12... - So...

You mean a Department Head ages 4times faster than a factory worker?

Exactly

He's overburdened with huge responsibilities,

that often crush, destroy him. Cut him to... to...

...to worker-size. Understand?

Yes. - No

Look, I'll sustain the strike. - Thank you

But on the side of the office employees and Department Heads - I knew it!

After all, comrades...

...do we want or not to save this company?

You son of a fascist bitch! - Take him away! - Let's go!

Calm down! - Can't you see he's a fascist?

Shame on you! Fascist!

Fascist! - Come here!

Yes? - Tignetti, are you available?

I can't, I'm in a conference. Why?

I want to ask you something

Let's hear it. - You don't know it, but...

...we, men, feel the sex all the time

I mean the thing itself, the "genitals" in other words

Could you describe this feeling?

Well... we feel it there

It's always there, like a weight...

...a protrusion!

A protuberance, a promontory!

A pouch, a pack, a tumor!

A tumor... - That too, Tignetti.

But, also, in certain moments, tiger, hawk, shark!

Keep it short, please - The question

Do women also feel, in their way, this physical presence...

...of their sex, or don't they?

Taking into consideration. the structural differences of their...

...nature?

That's another thing you'll never know, not before, and not after you're dead

Not from me at least. - Tignetti!

Telegram

"Wondering why you don't keep the solemn promise you made me...

...and you don't visit me. Stop.

Room 6, Salus Tue Clinic, via Guattani, 85. Stop.

Ada and I anxiously await you. Stop.

Your only friend, Gualtiero."

Ada!

I brought cream puffs

How is he?

Was it... really necessary?

Three times. It's frightening

He talks with a lisp.

He's like a little child

"The Masturbation"

Scared... You were soared.

How d'you feel?

I'm not dead yet

You kept your promise. Kiss

No...

I've always had faith in you,

from earliest childhood. Remember?

I want to tell you someling. Come close, both of you

I don't hold you...

...refonsible for my coming assalination. No

The only fault you have is that of...

...being too trustful in appearances

And so doing, you become...

...like all others

That is, banal

Anyway, fisten to me, guys...

...have no bemorse... when they find my...

...corpse

Because they will find it:

big, fat, warm and dead

Come, Gualtiero! Don't start that again

Come...

I managed to sfot... two...

...of them... among the doctors

0ne's fat, the other stupid

...when they'll come, they'll find... bread

Bread... for their... bread?!

Bread... - Teeth. - Teeth

Ah, I'll show them...l'll show them... - Gualtiero, don't do it...

They're mad, not me

l'm not a Jew who lets himself be killed! - Again?!

Give it to me! And I who trusted you! - Gun! Gun!

No! I won't give it to you! - Give! Give! - No! - You are in cahoots! with them

Gualtiero... - Calm down or I'll call the doctor - The gun!

Gualtiero... Tell us... Tell us who "they" are.

You know, don't you? - I don't snow!

L'll never know it. You'll never know it. One more mystery...

Out! Get out!

Go away! - Let's leave hlm alone

Don't you want me to come back? - No, go! You'll hear from me soon

Let's go, let's go. - Bye

The pastries...

Come, let's go. - Where?

I sent you that telegram

You came for me, not him. Right?

Yes...

Come...

Come, let's talk

I sleep here; I took a room to be close by, ln case, he needs me

Less light? - As you like...

No, that's too dark like this

That's just right.

Whatever happens remember I love Gualtiero. He's my only treasure

I love him so much, I'm even jealous on you two!

I've often wondered what he sees in you.

Why does he love you so much?

I've wondered why too... ofien

You must have something... Now we'll see...

What about... Gualtiero?

Be still! Be still!

Don't think about it

Gualtiero is happy

No need for remorse

Why is he happy? - He knows

He imagines...

Don't worry. We're alone now

He's not here

Just us

I'll do it

No...

Why? - Be still!

You're like a stubborn little boy

ls that why he likes you?...

Two little kids...

I like your T-shirt

Please, keep it on

I feel ridiculous with it on

I told you it suits you!

Beautiful undenlvear

Muslin? - I don't know

Beautiful shoes too

Well... herel am...

Aren't you undressing?

One moment

What did you do to me?

Why are you afraid?

You did something here, near the groin

A strange sensation

Totally new

I'll do it again...

What's the matter?

Let yourself go a little!

It's not easy. - Trust mme

Because I love you. I could never hurt you

That's not possible

What isn't?

That you love me

Why isn't it?

Because... you barely know me

There's no reason to love me

What is this then?

What am I doing?

This is love...

I'm in love in this moment

But you have no faith. I wonder why?

Come to bed now, come

Sorry, but I'm taking it off

I have to

Now that you took it off...

What are you thinking of?

Why don't you think a little of me? - I do

You've thought about something. - No

Tell me what you've thought of. - Why do you want to know it? - Don't stare!

Keep your eyes closed

Here we go again?! - What did I do? - You keep looking at me!

And ifl like looking at you?!

No, dayling... you're spylng on me

You needn't worry

I won't eat it

What's there to spy on?

Don't like to be looked at... in that way

But why? How am I looking?

You are always thinking, thinking, thinking!

You're obsessed. Worse than Gualtiero is

No! It's you mmds obssessed!

You're thinking: "What's this slut doing?"

That's what you are thinking!

"How far will this whore go?"

"Nothing will stop her, the cunt"

That's what you are thinking! At least, admit it m/ithout being ashame!

Get out of my bed! Out!

Ada, kindly stop shouting

There are 3 of us here. Me, you and a moralist

Who stares, imagines dirty things and passes judgement!

There's four of us then. Because you too think!

No! I think because I feel you thinking. I am not one who thinks

I don't have the gift of thinking when making love. I have the gift of loving

You think too! And a lot! Fuck!

You think: "Look at all the tartar on his teeth"

"The hairs in his nose, and what m/rinkled skin!"

"Why did I get into this thing?"

That's what you think!

D'you want to know how many of us are here, do you?

There are 5 of us!

Us four plus Gualtiero

That's how many we are! Five!

You're ashamed of making love. Like a thief

Me, ashamed?! I'm renowed for being unhibited!

I pity your m/ife. She must be unhappy

I don't want to talk anymore. Go away

Alright. Everything3 true...

I thought all the things you said

"Slut" was the kindest

I'm being sincere

Doctor!

Doctor, listen! Come over here! - Doctor!

Come here, near me! - Doctor! - Ada

I've something to tell you

A very important thing!

Come, doctor! I must reveal you something!

Doctor! - Doctor! - Doctor, come here

Listen... I want to get out! Doctor!

Doctor, don't leave! Doctor, don't leave!

Won't you tell me the year'? 61 years? What's your problem, arthritis?

It's four years you've been in a wheelchair'?

Alright, repeat after me

I 'm concentrating. Keep your eyes on my hand

Keep looking. Look at this one too. Look at this one too

Look into my eyes. The eyes! Straight into my eyes!

Get up! Get up! You must get up!

I know it ain't easy but you must get up

There's movement. I can feel it. There's movement. I can feel it!

Come closer, closer, closen.

Closer . . What're you doing, falling?!

Now, put yourhand on the TV

Feel the heat! Feel the heat!

You've been healed! You've been healed! Shout it! Shout it!

All right, mmafs this new thing, the sighing, all about?

It helps me

With mmat? - Fedora...

Dying scares me shitless

The two of us are seated here...

...at the table, peacefully, tranquilly

...and you're afraid of dying. It's hardly the moment

When the fuck is?

I'm afraid in the toilet, at the movies, the office

It comes m/ithout m/ithout warning

Keep it to yourself

To think...

...I confided in you because you say I always keep my thoughts to myself

These are not thoughts. - What are they then?

They're phantasies

You imagine yourself dying, you don't think it

Besides, it's not you who has to die... here... now

It's someone else...

...who knows mmere... who knows mmen...

Call it imagination, but I'm still soared shitless

Anyway, if you want to know, women don't give a fuck about death

We don't have your imagination

Fedora...

...listen...

If I'd have to follow my instincts...

...each time I imagine my death...

...d'you know what I'd do? Look, I'd do this!

I don't want to die! I don't want to die!

Nurses, doctors, scientists, save me!

I don't want to die! I don't want to die!

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die! I don't want to die!

Here, I did it

You stink of tobacco...

If you're afraid of dying...

...why not quit smoking?

Please, stop smoking

You won't die, will you?

You won't leave me?

D'you think it's the right moment?

What the fuck's that?

I'm ashamed...

I'm ashamed! - What d'you want to tell me?

I'm pregnant

I don't believe you

And yet... it's... true

We'll see... Time will tell

Who will live... will be born

Who will be born... will die

Blackout time?

Yes...

Abortion?

“Ow...

No... No, look...

Maybe politically speaking, abortion is the right answer,

...but I want the child

Which means that abortion is politically wrong

I agree

Are you sure it's mine? - Stupid!

From early in the moming, a silent and moved crowd...

gathered, and fell in step with the funeral procession.

Come on! There it is! A one minute delay.

Owing to a break down in negatiations...

...regarding the question of equal automatic seniority boosts

for workers and technicians and those for executive positions

the TV employees have gone on strike today starting now.

Have a good day

We'll see if the company pays or not

Hello, Tignetti.

I am on strike. - What's happening outside?

They're arguing. - Why?

Things are getting complicated. The company pays no strike-indemnity. A big mess

I want death-indemnity. Better yet...

...birth-indemnity

And asshole-indemnity

When one's a born asshole, he should be protected

There's the invalid, the aged

...but, also, the asshole...

...poorsoul...

l had a terrible fight. l'm still shaking

I even hit him

Union fight?

He's so small...

He was mmite... poor thing... - A midget union man?

No, my son!

Which one?

The four year old. Damn it all!

Nowl am sorry

See, l can imagine him now, in kindergarten, all alone... Goddammit!

Maybe he's even crying by himself

My husband's an asshole!

It's his fault, the shithead!

I'll go pick the kid up. There's a strike anyway

Tignetti... Want to get stoned?

Fedora, look...

...incredible...

Can you believe it, Fedora?

I don't. It's not possible

No, I do believe it. Everything's possible

...was found this moming...

Fedora!

Everybody kills! We don't. Everyone steals! We don't

Everybody screws...

...we don't

Everybody gets stoned...

...we don't

Why don't we, Fedora? - Because we're abnormal

Shortly after9 PM. this evening a n/thless murder.

...about which's motives the Police is pursuing ample investigations...

was perpetrated in an elegant clinic in Rome's Nomentano.

This is the entrance to the Salus Tue Clinic in via Guattani.

We've traced the killer's movements, though it's not certain he was alone.

The killer, probably walked through the garden...

...up to the car belonging to the victim's wife.

The car was guarded by a ferocious police dog called Dago.

The killer sit the poor dog's throat without anyone noticing it.

He then entered the clinic,

where, taking advantage of the fact...

...that the personel was busy serving supper to the sick,

he got undisturbed to room no. 6,

where the victim was recovering... - Room no. 6!...

Gualtiero!

After covering his face with a pillow, the murderer fired into the pillow...

They did it! ...11 bullets caliber 7-65.

The victim, dead on the spot, ad no chance of resisting,

also because he was wearing a modem straight-jacket called Umanitaria.

Gualtiero...

Ada...Ada! Ada!

No, Fedora!

Why must you shout? - It's my fault!

It's my fault!

They did it! I knew it! - What happened? What is it?

Fedora!

Who's dead? - Gualtiero. - Who's Gualtiero?

The TV says they've murdered Gualtiero! - Who's Gualtiero? - Milano!

The TV says they've murdered Gualtiero!

No! - My best friend! - No, it's not possible... Gualtiero...

Gualtiero Milano... - My friend... - It's not possible!

He was a friend of yours? Poor soul! - Shut up!

Let me listen! - Who killed him? - Let me listen!

How have they killed him? - Shut up! - Was it for political reasoons?

You talk or she talks! - Why did it happen? - It's him! - Where did it happen?

He was forced into a straight-jacket. Back to the clinic...

That's Ada! Let me go! - Stay here!

We are all to blame.

He was an honest man, educated... A poet.

A poet who loved the others more than himself.

It's unfain. It's unfair

What do you want?

Wait

I'm coming with you. - No! You stay here!

That's final. Besides, you're pregnant

Please

Good evening, Commisary...

I'm... Gualtiero Milano's best friend. Can I be of any help?

Do you know who killed him?

Do you know? - You tell me if you do

I don't know. - See?

You can be of no help at all. Accept it

Just one thing! - What else do you want? - Nothing

I'd like to speak to the widow

No? - Not possible

She's upstairs, sleeping

Where were you at the time of the killing?

I don't know, they didn't give the time on TV

Who was watching TV with you? - My m/ife, Fedora

So, it was neither you, nor your wife. You can leave. Goodnight. - Thank you

Gualtiero...

May l?

Can l? - Go ahead

We killed him...lt's our fault

Ada and I... We brought you to this damned place!

They'd have killed him anyway. - Yes, but we didn't believe him!

We killed him! How could one believe all your stories, dear Gualtiero?

Who was supposed to kill him? Why?

He had no vices, no secrets

A spotless life

An open book you were! A book...

You see, when one dies, be it of natural death,

he leaves behind many queries which will go unanswered

Take my dog...

What dog?

I had a dog that died a year and three months ago of old age. - Yes...

Well, l'm still asking myselfl... - What?

Did he really love me? - Eh! - Was he really a friend?

My friend... my friend!

Wasn't it staying only for the three meals a day? - No... yes...

That is the question

To a dog all masters are equal

Calm down, or they'll give you an electroshock

I don't care what they do anymore

Sounds like a love affair among queers

Queers?! What are you talking about?

I can spot it, believe me. It's an afialr among queers

You're the one that's queer

Why're you laughing?

Yeah, I'm laughing, I'm laughing... - Yes, but why?

Maybe it was all a mistake. - Yes?

A government VIP is a patient downstairs

Upstairs, there's one from the opposition. - I see...

Maybe they shot the teacher by mistake

What about Gualtiierds dog, huh?

Dago... Why did they kill it?

Good evening

Why did they kill Dago?

Why the fuck did you come here?

The police take note of those present...

...and study everyone's reaction!

Besides, why all the hysteria? He was my friend

You didn't even know him!

Quiet! Quiet!

Where the fuck is all the grief coming from anyway?

The Commissisary... come, dear, let's go home

Come on, stop it

Look. Your crying is making me cry

Had you known him, you'd have slashed your wrists!

I did know him!

I knew him in every sense... - What?!

What have you said? - It's his child I'm expecting!

Whose? - His. - You mean Gualtiero Milands? - His!

Gualtiero Milands?! - Yes, Gualtierds

It's not true! It's not true!

I don't believe it

You're wrong not to believe it, 'cause it's true. - I'm pregnant with him, not you

And I have to tell youthis, or I'll go mad!

Quiet! _ You owe me an explananon.

No, no, not now!

How could you do it?

An accident! The pill didn't work

The pill didn't work? How come it always works with me?

Well?

An accident, I told you

We only made love... two times

Three, maybe!

Two or three?

I've everything written here

You even list your dirty escapades?

No, how manytimes I was Substitute Teacher in his high school

I went two times this year to his high school.

On February25, March 7, April 6...

Maybe four times...

And you made love right away, whore!

Don't be offensive, or I won't tell you anything

Well? Aren't you a whore?

I hoped we could be civil about this

What's so civil about...

...laying my best friend?

You hadn't seen him in over fifteen years! What the fuck are you saying!

You shouldn't have done it with him!

With anybody else but not with him!

Why not with him?! Explain! - He's a Jew!

What did I say? - "Jewi

You said "Jewi - I said "Jew?!

You said "Jewi - I said "Jew?!

You said "JevW! - I said... I said...

Yes... you said "Jewi - I said "Jew?

I said "Jew"

"Jew/K "Jew/K.

You see? You see what you make me say?!

D'you see what you've brought me to?

Is it my fault if you're a rasist?

I didn't mean "Jew/Z I meant "friend"

With anybody but, not with a friend!

I found out only later that you were friends. Later!

What I meant wasn't "Jew/Z but "nut"!

Fedora, I'm not going home

My face is a mess. It's disgusting

There's some cologne water there

Who out it there? - You did. Don't you remember?!

I met him a year ago...

Related to substitute teaching

Then, one day,

...I don't know how... it came out you had been great buddies

He said you had cared a lot for each other,

and I liked very much hearing about your youth.

But very much!

I mean, I don't know, he said... I mean...

He'd tell me about your dreams, and everything

About your dissapointments...

It was, in a way, like being with another you... You understand?

N0!

It was a transference! - Yeah, sure...

Transfefence my_ ass, you just got lald!

No, please, my love...

The thing was a lot more complicated than that

That is I never stopped loving you. I love you

That's not true! - It is!

Gualtiero made me understand certain things about you...

...that I never would have understood othenrvise. Never!

Fantastic! - Never!

Besides... - Besides? - He saw in me...

He saw in me... - What did he see?

He saw... I mean... I mean... - What did he see?

He saw...

lfl tell you you'll get mad. - Well, in the end...

Go on...tell me... Anyway...

At the point we are... mmafs there to hide?!

He saw you

What? Who? - You!

He saw you. - He saw me?!

He saw who? - He saw you! - Come on!

This is like some cheap novel

Come on, this is bullshit!

Everything to justify a simple matter: cock and cunt.

Go, go, all ofyou... - What if it was?

What if it was so? - Eh?

What if it was so?

Oh yeah...

Thank God he only masturbated!

But why did that son a bitch...

...come to me that damned Sunday? What did he want? Did you send him?

No! I hadn't seen him since March 7th. I swear!

But... did he know you were pregnant?

Yes. Who gave you the cologne water?

How could he have known if you hadn't seen him since March?

I told him when he phoned you at home.

It was the beginning of April. - What did he say?

He started crying. He was seized with remorse

He sobbed... - And you?

Don't you feel any remorse? - No.

For me, now, only the child counts

Ada...

Maybe Ada sent him to balance things

She gave me the pistol to see...

...ifl would use it on him

She was right, wasn't she? Someone did kill him, that's for sure

Where's the pistol?

What pistol?! - The one hidden in the shoe box

I threw it in the river

Why?! - I was afraid of the police

In fact, let's be careful, we're the first they'll suspect

My love...

Who cares about the police? Nothing is true!

0h, l'm so filled with remorse, my love! Filled! Filled!

I can't take it any more! You've got to believe me, my love!

Whatll we do novlf? - Well... We'll...

We'll call him Gualtiero

...orAda

The sunset! - Dammit!

It went down!

"From Gualtiero Milano"

"Do not open"

Why not?

M°ney!...

Who is it? - Anonymous phone call. "Bomb. Everybody out" - You can stay, if you want

Shall we go take a look? - Let's stay here

Help! HelP! Help! HelP!

It's mine! - I didn't know...

You son of a bitch. Why shouldn't I open it?

Because you say so?

Why should I... spend...

my life... putting together... another... puzzle?

"Do not open"

"Do not open"

"Do not open"? Why? Why? Why "do not open"?

What? What shouldn't I open?

Help! Help! Help!

Help! Help! Help!

Help! Help! Help!

Help! Help! Help!