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(Machinery clanging)

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(Man recites a Zoroastrian prayer)

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{Female voice-over)
"The vultures swoop earthwards

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'to perform their funereal duties.

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'Solemn high priests of Ahura Mazda,

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'engendering the purification
of the world.

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'No one knows where they come from,

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'nor where they go to nest.

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'In the Towers of Silence,

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the vultures gnaw your soul.

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Your little dog with four eyes

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was made to sniff the face
of your mother

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'and the evil spirit was exorcised.

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(Prayer continues)

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(Prayer ends)

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(Crows cawing)

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(Cawing)

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(Baby crying)

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I'm sorry.

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I want you to treat this child
as if he were my own.

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It's forbidden to enter.
It's an abandoned Tower of Silence.

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Sacred burial ground
of the Zoroastrians.

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Is this where corpses are left
to be devoured by vultures?

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It's grotesque.

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You speak in ignorance.

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The vultures are divine ministers
that strip the soul of its flesh.

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The skeleton is dried by the sun
and thrown into a well

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where it gradually crumbles to dust,

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Rich and poor meet
on a level of equality after death.

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My mother was laid to rest here.

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(Echoing shrieks)

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Tell me about your childhood.

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I was born here.

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My father was in the army.

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He was a Muslim.

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My mother was
from a Zoroastrian family.

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They fell in love.
It was quite a scandal.

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Zoroastrians don't tolerate marriage
outside their own community.

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A few years after I was born,

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they divorced
and she went back to her parents.

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She died when I was five.

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After that, I went to live
with my father for a while.

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One day...

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...he disappeared.

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This is where I saw my father
for the last time.

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In the beginning,
there existed twin spirits

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who represented good and evil

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Both possessed creative power.

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Ahura Mazda is light and life,

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and Ahriman, darkness and death.

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Although nature is divided and rent
asunder by two conflicting principles,

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man is free to choose

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and will bring about
the ultimate triumph of good

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for the overthrow
and annihilation of evil.

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You're under arrest.

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(Father urinates)

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(Crowd sounds)

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(Dog barks)

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(Howling)

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(Recitation from the Koran)

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You grieve for a rabid dog.

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The Prophet has said
the saliva of the dog is unclean.

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Allah sends dogs to hell

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(Chant praising God)

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(Woman) 'I see a distant land.

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'Something is written,

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'something unresolved,

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"The levels of time are confused.'

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A tapestry of dreams,

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reality woven into fiction.

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I see successive revolutions
perpetuating a corrupt system.

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There is and dark man struggling
against the forces of oppression

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I see for him a violent death.

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You bore his child.

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I see him returning to his birthplace.

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I hear the rush of wings.

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(Beeps horn)

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Wait for me.

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There are some instructions
I have to give the workers.

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You're under arrest.