0 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Subtitles: FrancescaR. 1 00:02:03,850 --> 00:02:16,540 God created the beast Behemoth on the fifth day. It was the largest monster on Earth. A thousand mountains fed him. 2 00:03:01,310 --> 00:03:03,310 Halfway through our life's journey 3 00:03:04,060 --> 00:03:06,290 I feel like I had a dream. 4 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:08,410 In the dream, 5 00:03:08,890 --> 00:03:12,950 I was suddenly woken up by a sound of loud explosions. 6 00:03:13,770 --> 00:03:18,080 I open my eyes to a boundless one smoky haze. 7 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,580 The smoking earth beneath my feet it makes me feel 8 00:03:24,970 --> 00:03:28,580 I'm in a dark and desolate place 9 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,250 Only by looking around me do I discover 10 00:03:33,140 --> 00:03:37,450 I have reached the edge of the pit of hell. 11 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:16,290 This is a place that has been destroyed. 12 00:04:17,220 --> 00:04:20,500 It once flowed from mountain springs 13 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,700 and was rich in vegetation. 14 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,330 Now not even a blade of grass survives. 15 00:04:27,970 --> 00:04:30,580 A land of deadly silence. 16 00:04:41,430 --> 00:04:43,430 There. 17 00:04:43,850 --> 00:04:46,040 I meet a guide. 18 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,620 Burdened with a heavy portrait of the dead, 19 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:54,200 walking tired from his dusty journey. 20 00:04:55,810 --> 00:05:00,410 The mountain from which it comes does not offer no path to heaven. 21 00:05:08,970 --> 00:05:11,450 He doesn't know how to write a poem. 22 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:15,160 Or the eloquence that his heart exudes 23 00:05:15,810 --> 00:05:18,870 it is no less powerful than the Divine Comedy. 24 00:08:01,220 --> 00:08:03,450 One ridge after another, 25 00:08:04,770 --> 00:08:08,000 going down with my guide, 26 00:08:08,810 --> 00:08:12,160 I see the monster's toys, 27 00:08:12,470 --> 00:08:15,790 carry out imaginary orders. 28 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,250 Step by step 29 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,370 I see many living beings 30 00:12:09,060 --> 00:12:11,660 endurethe agony of fatigue. 31 00:24:43,810 --> 00:24:49,620 The greatest pain in life is live with desire but without hope. 32 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,500 There is no greater sadness. 33 00:24:53,770 --> 00:24:58,330 Than to remember in misery our times of joy. 34 00:27:10,850 --> 00:27:14,250 All the time that glitters underneath the light of the moon 35 00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:17,750 he never brought the weary humanity 36 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,200 to a moment of comfort. 37 00:31:53,850 --> 00:31:58,500 The crew spends the whole night wearing black makeup. 38 00:32:00,470 --> 00:32:03,950 Whether they are covered in dust or whatever receive a slight touch-up, 39 00:32:04,390 --> 00:32:06,660 it doesn't depend on their mood, 40 00:32:07,350 --> 00:32:10,120 but how fast the wind blows. 41 00:40:21,770 --> 00:40:23,200 Once, 42 00:40:24,060 --> 00:40:28,540 we sang in the sun and sweet air. 43 00:40:29,310 --> 00:40:31,310 But now, 44 00:40:31,970 --> 00:40:35,370 I grieve on the shattered earth. 45 00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:49,910 My guide takes me to his strange place. 46 00:43:51,470 --> 00:43:54,160 It is said that the owner of the colamina had a dream. 47 00:43:54,390 --> 00:43:56,160 In his dream, 48 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,580 the mountain God blamed him of having blown up the mountain. 49 00:43:59,930 --> 00:44:03,330 He built this Buddha statue 50 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:07,250 to calm his inner panic. 51 00:47:24,180 --> 00:47:25,500 Like this 52 00:47:26,220 --> 00:47:28,220 where wealth accumulates, 53 00:47:29,060 --> 00:47:31,200 and men are uprooted, 54 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:39,040 everything is decreed by the monster, 55 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,680 that hides 56 00:47:43,850 --> 00:47:46,370 as the tempter of all desires. 57 01:16:08,180 --> 01:16:10,370 The guide showed me the way 58 01:16:11,390 --> 01:16:13,700 of his mountain, 59 01:16:14,470 --> 01:16:17,290 A purgatory of a place. 60 01:16:18,970 --> 01:16:21,450 The land is bad, 61 01:16:22,470 --> 01:16:25,120 The earth goes badly, to hasten evils a prey. 62 01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:52,620 (Sichuan migrant workers and their families, they seek help from the government.) 63 01:19:57,270 --> 01:20:00,160 In the midst of the forest of gravestones, 64 01:20:01,060 --> 01:20:05,950 maybe there are people I know, or that I have never glimpsed, 65 01:20:07,020 --> 01:20:10,950 who are suffering right now or who are already free. 66 01:20:12,220 --> 01:20:14,750 In this crazy passive 67 01:20:15,220 --> 01:20:17,450 there are also grieving souls. 68 01:20:17,970 --> 01:20:19,040 Let's hope that 69 01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:22,540 hell have no place for them. 70 01:24:11,930 --> 01:24:15,790 Could it be that I'm still dreaming? 71 01:24:16,310 --> 01:24:20,250 Could it be that I'm already in heaven? 72 01:24:21,270 --> 01:24:23,410 This new place 73 01:24:24,140 --> 01:24:27,160 It's the destination of my chaotic dreams, 74 01:24:28,810 --> 01:24:36,200 like a mirage after having endured an ocean storm. 75 01:26:19,350 --> 01:26:20,910 In heaven 76 01:26:21,430 --> 01:26:23,660 everything is clean. 77 01:26:26,430 --> 01:26:27,750 In heaven 78 01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:30,660 Work is relaxing 79 01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:33,910 even a little boring. 80 01:26:39,390 --> 01:26:40,910 In heaven 81 01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:44,120 no inhabitants are seen. 82 01:26:45,390 --> 01:26:49,330 This is what they call a ghost town. 83 01:27:57,100 --> 01:27:58,540 Yet, 84 01:27:59,270 --> 01:28:01,270 this is not a dream, 85 01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:04,620 this is who we are. 86 01:28:05,890 --> 01:28:08,660 We are those monsters, 87 01:28:09,470 --> 01:28:12,540 the monster's servants. 88 01:28:41,060 --> 01:28:52,910 According to statistics, there are hundreds of newly built "ghost cities" in China, lying idle and vacant. Developed areas are not accounted for. 89 01:28:54,310 --> 01:29:07,410 Millions of migrant workers suffer from pneumoconiosis in China. Hundreds of thousands have already died from the disease. 90 01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:19,330 Over the past 30 years, coal mining has reduced the lake areas of Inner Mongolia by about 20% and has done incalculable damage to the land.