1 00:00:04,159 --> 00:00:06,964 Simply ReleaseS Toppers Simply The Best 2 00:00:07,068 --> 00:00:09,624 Proudly Presents THE MILL AND THE CROSS 3 00:00:09,728 --> 00:00:14,316 Translated by Simply ReleaseS Toppers Tackler and Suurtje 4 00:00:14,942 --> 00:00:20,572 Control Suurtje 5 00:01:06,141 --> 00:01:12,351 This could be a group of Saints who comes back from the past... 6 00:01:12,826 --> 00:01:16,210 to mourn over fate that has affected Flanders. 7 00:01:16,723 --> 00:01:18,830 Yes. 8 00:01:19,625 --> 00:01:22,046 And when the painting is done... 9 00:01:23,450 --> 00:01:26,681 you can have it if you want. 10 00:03:45,611 --> 00:03:50,992 THE MILL and THE CROSS 11 00:17:40,379 --> 00:17:42,222 Why did you do that? 12 00:21:30,309 --> 00:21:32,783 Don't talk... - No. 13 00:28:00,878 --> 00:28:03,190 In a line. 14 00:28:23,037 --> 00:28:27,161 I can do those methods cannot be tolerated from above. 15 00:28:28,615 --> 00:28:31,506 Sometimes I can hardly contain myself. 16 00:28:32,304 --> 00:28:36,910 Those foreign mercenaries in their red tunics... 17 00:28:37,565 --> 00:28:43,485 who follow the orders of their Spanish masters succeed those who rule over us. 18 00:28:44,777 --> 00:28:50,599 Every day their behavior is like a stench that remains in your nose. 19 00:28:51,046 --> 00:28:55,688 And an insult to pride, for Christian humility... 20 00:28:55,792 --> 00:28:58,459 and for common sense. 21 00:29:00,657 --> 00:29:06,468 I am a citizen of Antwerp. A banker with reputation. 22 00:29:07,066 --> 00:29:09,353 A collector of paintings. 23 00:29:10,601 --> 00:29:14,180 I am also a member of the 'Schola Caritatis'. 24 00:29:14,284 --> 00:29:18,260 A brotherhood with members of all faiths... 25 00:29:18,291 --> 00:29:21,277 without asking for an abduction. 26 00:29:21,812 --> 00:29:24,895 Me and many others in this great city believe that too... 27 00:29:24,926 --> 00:29:28,527 that good people of all faiths together can come... 28 00:29:28,558 --> 00:29:34,299 in peace and good harmony. And that is not the opinion of the King of Spain... 29 00:29:34,330 --> 00:29:38,226 who unfortunately is also our king. 30 00:29:39,295 --> 00:29:44,549 It is his wish now that all heretics be killed 31 00:29:45,185 --> 00:29:49,142 The men by beheading and women... 32 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:52,145 women... 33 00:29:55,149 --> 00:30:00,680 I've seen it all before. 34 00:32:06,670 --> 00:32:10,694 My painting will tell many stories have to tell. 35 00:32:12,314 --> 00:32:16,054 It must be big enough to tell everything 36 00:32:18,405 --> 00:32:24,421 Everything, all people. There must be a hundred. 37 00:32:26,228 --> 00:32:32,336 I will work like the spider which I saw this morning, weaving its web. 38 00:32:33,402 --> 00:32:38,987 First, he looks for an anchor point. 39 00:32:43,909 --> 00:32:48,869 Here, the heart of my web. 40 00:32:50,216 --> 00:32:53,448 Under the grinding stone of events... 41 00:32:54,016 --> 00:33:00,257 our Savior is ground like grain, without mercy. 42 00:33:02,528 --> 00:33:08,075 I show our Savior, who is led to Golgotha... 43 00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:12,170 by the red tunics of the Spanish militia. 44 00:33:14,199 --> 00:33:18,164 Even though he is central to my painting... 45 00:33:18,472 --> 00:33:21,378 I must hide it from view. 46 00:33:24,505 --> 00:33:29,583 Why would you want to hide it? - Because he's the most important. 47 00:33:29,615 --> 00:33:31,924 But you may have missed that. 48 00:33:32,370 --> 00:33:35,843 If you look here now... 49 00:33:36,075 --> 00:33:42,038 you see that Simon is taken away from Esther to help carry the cross. 50 00:33:42,670 --> 00:33:47,170 And they all look at Simon, not to the Savior. 51 00:34:00,420 --> 00:34:05,267 Then there is the mill, built on a rock. 52 00:34:06,726 --> 00:34:12,677 That is the central point where all people turning around between life and death. 53 00:34:13,439 --> 00:34:18,044 The miller just stands there looking down on all that. 54 00:34:18,682 --> 00:34:24,409 Why did you put it so high? - In most paintings... 55 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,916 Do you see God breaking open the heavens... 56 00:34:28,895 --> 00:34:35,138 and looks down on the world with displeasure. - In my painting... 57 00:34:35,249 --> 00:34:37,992 the miller takes his place. 58 00:34:39,375 --> 00:34:42,951 He is the great miller of heaven... 59 00:34:42,983 --> 00:34:47,577 who grinds grain for bread, of life and fate. 60 00:34:52,125 --> 00:34:58,185 The bread becomes then delivered by the merchant. 61 00:34:58,425 --> 00:35:00,767 The one sitting here. 62 00:35:40,537 --> 00:35:43,046 Hurray. 63 00:42:49,071 --> 00:42:51,611 Here is the city. 64 00:42:52,296 --> 00:42:57,981 It forms a circle within its walls. The circle of life. 65 00:42:58,957 --> 00:43:04,403 And next to it is the tree of life with... 66 00:43:04,507 --> 00:43:06,923 new leaves. 67 00:43:07,767 --> 00:43:12,286 On the other side a black circle. 68 00:43:12,528 --> 00:43:14,936 The circle of death. 69 00:43:15,548 --> 00:43:21,325 He is formed by the crowd who comes to the execution like flies. 70 00:43:22,749 --> 00:43:27,959 Down here you see the tree of death. 71 00:43:30,049 --> 00:43:33,005 Next to it is the skull of a horse. 72 00:43:34,041 --> 00:43:39,355 And those two men are you and me. 73 00:48:03,885 --> 00:48:06,685 Nothing will happen. 74 00:48:07,681 --> 00:48:10,489 When I think about that Easter... 75 00:48:11,861 --> 00:48:16,984 when he walked into the city, the square from the cathedral on... 76 00:48:17,016 --> 00:48:23,172 and spoke his thoughts. How they listened 77 00:48:23,891 --> 00:48:26,521 How they cheered. 78 00:48:27,938 --> 00:48:33,824 How excited they all were. Even the soldiers. 79 00:48:35,386 --> 00:48:40,549 And now that we are walking through the streets in a trance... 80 00:48:42,652 --> 00:48:50,466 The same soldiers who came to him yesterday came cheered, arrested him last night 81 00:48:53,260 --> 00:48:57,008 The same crowd that listened excitedly... 82 00:48:57,112 --> 00:49:01,861 screamed for his head all morning. 83 00:49:11,748 --> 00:49:15,070 Nothing will happen. 84 00:49:27,919 --> 00:49:33,417 Look at the mother of the accused and his friends. 85 00:49:36,534 --> 00:49:40,494 Do you remember, the 'worship of the Meiji'? 86 00:49:41,251 --> 00:49:43,476 I made that earlier this year. 87 00:49:43,507 --> 00:49:48,014 My wife was a model for the mother of God. 88 00:49:48,701 --> 00:49:51,425 I'm sure you recognized her. 89 00:49:51,847 --> 00:49:56,111 It was just after little Peter was born. 90 00:49:56,143 --> 00:49:59,298 She was such an exciting girl, so... 91 00:49:59,402 --> 00:50:05,408 vrouwelijk, en moederlijk. Here she is again... 92 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:11,669 thirty years later. Same attitude and the same face. 93 00:50:11,683 --> 00:50:15,916 But now it is a child that gave her fulfillment and joy... 94 00:50:15,947 --> 00:50:19,162 taken from her. 95 00:50:21,569 --> 00:50:24,276 She is completely devastated. 96 00:52:42,293 --> 00:52:45,127 I don't understand. 97 00:52:51,813 --> 00:52:54,615 When he grew up, told neighbors always tell me... 98 00:52:54,616 --> 00:52:59,155 that the decision of faith was spelled by fiery letters in the sky. 99 00:53:01,827 --> 00:53:04,276 That they alone controlled the seasons. 100 00:53:05,265 --> 00:53:10,170 Of course they said that. 101 00:53:10,818 --> 00:53:13,975 I think they really do. 102 00:53:14,809 --> 00:53:19,884 And they also matter, who lives or dies. 103 00:53:21,113 --> 00:53:27,226 But he, my child. 104 00:53:27,227 --> 00:53:30,259 My boy. 105 00:53:31,188 --> 00:53:36,059 When he grows up, he will amaze everyone. 106 00:53:38,541 --> 00:53:44,184 It was as if he could walk unhindered. 107 00:53:44,185 --> 00:53:47,160 Straight ahead to the stone Heavenly Gate. 108 00:53:48,077 --> 00:53:53,274 Extinguished all the candles that crossed the road illuminated towards it. 109 00:53:54,660 --> 00:53:59,778 Night and day burning the fires of faith... 110 00:54:00,774 --> 00:54:05,253 and hurled them laughing to the earth. 111 00:54:09,535 --> 00:54:13,226 I have come for fire to throw down on the earth. 112 00:54:13,227 --> 00:54:17,141 He told those who came to listen to him. 113 00:54:18,572 --> 00:54:22,901 It is in our power to control the fire of faith... 114 00:54:22,902 --> 00:54:26,495 with our own hands. 115 00:54:26,496 --> 00:54:29,573 That's what he said. 116 00:54:29,937 --> 00:54:35,940 And then his laughter. He was so... 117 00:54:39,068 --> 00:54:43,455 He was so... 118 00:54:48,764 --> 00:54:51,634 Water. 119 01:00:23,150 --> 01:00:25,658 I know the man. 120 01:00:25,659 --> 01:00:29,897 I was there myself when he did some things said that are now being used against him. 121 01:00:29,898 --> 01:00:33,788 That he tore down the Cathedral and built a new one in three days. 122 01:00:34,957 --> 01:00:37,112 None of us had there problems with it. 123 01:00:37,854 --> 01:00:41,153 We understood that he was talking about it reforming spoke. 124 01:04:30,422 --> 01:04:33,056 Now look at that. 125 01:04:33,791 --> 01:04:37,500 They desecrate and humiliate our bodies and souls. 126 01:04:38,262 --> 01:04:41,243 Desecrate and humiliate charity and virtue. 127 01:04:41,713 --> 01:04:46,686 Now we have become a country that has fallen into poverty. 128 01:04:49,855 --> 01:04:55,508 If only time could be stopped. If only it could be stopped. 129 01:04:55,900 --> 01:04:59,924 We could have a useless moment but take it down... 130 01:04:59,925 --> 01:05:04,078 clearly his name in his face speak out, and break his power. 131 01:05:17,556 --> 01:05:22,536 Do you think you can portray this? 132 01:05:23,381 --> 01:05:26,337 Yes. 133 01:05:26,338 --> 01:05:29,197 How? 134 01:07:27,839 --> 01:07:31,769 If you look here now. 135 01:07:31,874 --> 01:07:36,545 Simon is taken away from Esther. To help carry the cross. 136 01:07:37,319 --> 01:07:41,979 And they all look at Simon. Not to the Savior. 137 01:07:45,773 --> 01:07:47,928 At the birth of Jesus... 138 01:07:47,929 --> 01:07:50,615 and the fall of Icarus... 139 01:07:50,616 --> 01:07:54,288 Saul committing suicide with his own sword. 140 01:07:54,289 --> 01:07:57,025 All that world-changing events... 141 01:07:57,026 --> 01:08:00,114 are not noticed by the crowd. 142 01:08:05,900 --> 01:08:10,980 Just like this spider, I weave my web. 143 01:08:10,981 --> 01:08:13,795 Hoping that I catch the viewer's eye. 144 01:08:17,221 --> 01:08:20,831 Now the stage is set. 145 01:15:33,271 --> 01:15:36,330 How can I just be standing here? 146 01:15:36,331 --> 01:15:41,287 What can I do? I can't think straight. 147 01:15:45,730 --> 01:15:49,854 No, I don't understand. 148 01:15:56,281 --> 01:15:59,375 He was born for a reason, of course. 149 01:16:02,486 --> 01:16:06,782 I knew that from the day that he moved inside me. 150 01:16:07,924 --> 01:16:11,819 And when he grew up... 151 01:16:12,740 --> 01:16:15,767 he brought light into the world. 152 01:16:16,735 --> 01:16:21,284 And in this light threatened the lion of easy... 153 01:16:21,285 --> 01:16:25,040 outdated customs and habits. 154 01:16:27,658 --> 01:16:31,137 So he was a threat for every dangerous idiot. 155 01:16:31,138 --> 01:16:34,588 Who is not concerned with God or man... 156 01:16:34,589 --> 01:16:38,662 but with its own poor certainties and power. 157 01:16:42,064 --> 01:16:44,911 And now it is dark. 158 01:16:44,912 --> 01:16:48,166 Habits and customs have been overcome. 159 01:16:49,606 --> 01:16:53,105 And I no longer understand it. 160 01:29:50,689 --> 01:29:55,174 Translated by Simply Releases Toppers Tackler and Suurtje 161 01:29:55,903 --> 01:30:01,430 Control Suurtje