All language subtitles for Close To Me

[Luca] Netflix has 200 million subscribers.

Prime Video 150 million.

Adding the two platforms together makes 350 million viewers,

plus family members, multiple subscriptions…

That's a lot of people.

It follows that these are the streaming services today in 2020

to outline the collective imagination, the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times.

But then there's Pornhub.

The porn streamer has 42 billion visitors a year,

three and a half billion a month, 115 million a day.

Netflix, Prime Video and other platforms are the public discourse.

Pornhub is the unconscious, the repressed.

That's what society doesn't show.

What we really are.

This story began like this, like you begin a painting.

With a sketch.

[plays "Muori delay" by Verdena]

[plays "Muori delay" by Verdena]

♪ Die delay ♪

♪ You don't dive into her ♪

♪ Hominid ♪

♪ It's my attitude ♪

♪ Who cares ♪

♪ Chaki, Chaki ♪

♪ Die delay ♪

♪ You find refuge in her ♪

♪ It's true that ♪

♪ Black is pitch black ♪

[seagulls' call]

[regular heartbeat]

[lock click]

HI.

Everything OK?

For you, yes, definitely, five minutes in the blood collection room!

She took a month of hormones and had surgery.

[knocking at the door]

[Roberta] Doctor.

Sorry, Robi, we took our time.

We need the bed, you should go to sleep.

No, just a little longer, come on…

Good anesthetic, huh? Quite the bomb.

Some days, look… Eh, Robi?

I'm not telling you anything.

Listen, remind me a little bit what we have to do.

that I have cream on the brain.

You do nothing, we do everything.

We fertilize all your eggs instead of Mr. Urinary Tract Infection here.

[Antonello] Love, come on.

[Luca] My name is Luca Messico, son of Giovanni Messico,

a pensioner died saving two children from a fire.

I've always envied his courage.

He saw a house on fire and jumped into it.

I'm someone who doesn't give up.

A procrastinator.

One who would have had a brilliant academic career,

if only he had finished his doctoral thesis.

A textbook case of self-sabotage.

This is not the story of how I finally finished my thesis

on Peter Sloterdijk and the domestication of the human being.

As in John Lennon's famous phrase,

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy with other projects."

[Sara] Darling, are you coming?

Yes.

[indistinct voices from the TV]

- Oh my God, still the pictures of Milan? - [Sara] Eh.

[Luca] What a timing to want to have a child now…

What are we doing, staying indoors?

Speak for yourself, I heard the headmaster.

I won't be home often.

What the fuck am I doing locked in here all the time?

You're writing your thesis, right? You said you wanted to finish it.

You have all the free time you want.

Use it.

[Luca] All Italians, starting from March 10, 2020,

they had to question their lives,

but this is not the story of how the Coronavirus pandemic

it derailed our lives.

[doorbell]

Sorry, weren't we supposed to limit contact?

Come on, this might be the last supper for a while.

- Do we have to do it with him? - He didn't charge us anything.

You can accept a little sarcasm.

Why is it always about money for you?

Why is it never like that for you?

Hello! Welcome.

- Are you punctual anymore? - Hello, little girl.

Better late than never.

Speaking of "better late than never," Valerio…

Permit.

- Hi, dude! - Do you remember your sister?

- Hi, Daria. - Hi, Sara.

As long as we can still see each other in person, eh?

We'll try. You're welcome.

Five minutes in the freezer to be safe.

- At your command. - FFP2 masks.

- Parsimony, which is like white truffles. - Okay.

- Hi. - Hi, Luca.

Oh my God, how cute! Look at him sleeping!

Thank you.

- Wow, what a beautiful house! - [Sara] Thanks.

I'd also like to see, I bought it for him.

Antonello…

[Sara] On the Appian Way where? How high up?

Are you familiar with the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella?

- [Sara] Yes. - Right after on the right.

But it's huge! How much did you pay for it?

If I had bought the mausoleum directly, I would have spent less.

I'm old, let me do whatever the fuck I want.

Honey, you're not dying, hold on.

But this hole? Is it the swimming pool?

[Antonello] Twenty by six, overflow, salt water.

These idiots have made it too deep,

as if I had to do Olympic diving.

I'm having it filled with earth, so I can pour another layer of concrete on it,

as long as the construction sites don't close.

Covid is a real pain in the ass, huh.

There is a risk of being left with the villa half-finished for who knows how long.

It doesn't seem like the most serious thing to me, given the circumstances, with all due respect.

[sirens]

I understand you were upset first, right?

But it's clear that this isn't the home of an internist and a teacher, right?

- Daria would have figured it out on her own, too. - Oh.

- Eh… - But…

More jabs? Now he's back to the clinic.

When you graduated from medical school, I was the happiest man in the world.

I prefer the hospital, I feel more useful.

- [Antonello] "Useful"? - Yes.

How come you come to the clinic when you need help?

Aren't you ever ashamed?

If you wanted to give up a profitable business,

you could marry a man with a position.

With all due respect, eh.

I think you have a tumor mass pressing on your frontal lobe.

This would explain the lack of inhibitory brakes.

He absorbs the professor well.

That's a doctor's joke, a good one by the way. Bravo.

I like that my husband is not ambitious.

[doorbell]

- Who is there at this hour? - I don't know, I'll go and see.

The Grim Reaper, like in that Monty Python movie.

Do you want to stop with these jokes about death?

You should touch wood.

- That's chipboard, I bought it. - Sorry.

[Luca] This is Amanda's story and how she ruined my life.

Yes?

I'm staying at the B&B across the street and I need the code to get in,

only my phone is out of battery and the code is in the phone.

So much information. I don't understand, what should you do?

Can I charge my phone for two minutes?

Yes, of course, you're welcome.

The socket is there, it should work.

- [Sara] Who is it? - It's the neighbor, love.

But what neighbor?

The girl is staying here at the B&B.

He had to charge his phone, otherwise he can't get in.

[Sara] Oh, okay.

- Sorry to bother you. - No, no problem.

So someone lives here.

No neighbors, no bothersome people, remember that.

[Antonello] Having offices around is the real luxury.

Sorry, Conte's announcement is here. Here it is.

[Conte, TV] This is why I am about to sign a provision

which we can summarize with the expression "I'm staying at home".

[Count] There will no longer be a red zone.

There will no longer be zone one and zone two of the peninsula.

There will be Italy, a protected Italy.

They should therefore be avoided throughout the peninsula.

the movements,

unless they are motivated by three specific circumstances:

proven work reasons,

cases of necessity or health reasons.

We add to this provision

also a ban on outdoor gatherings.

Oh well.

We'd better go.

- If he wakes up, it's the end. - For goodness' sake.

I thought I was done with all this forever, but instead…

Fertility is your field.

It's incredible, for me yes and for him no.

- He's not the problem, stop it. - Oh, no?

Did you know that the water in Rome is full of estrogen?

A squeeze of female hormones.

- Come on, come on… - [Sara] Here you go.

- Sara, I'll help you clear the table. - [Sara] Don't worry.

[Daria] Of course.

Um… How long have you been staying at the B&B? I thought it was empty.

A few days.

Ah.

I think you're staying. I don't know if you heard, they're closing us down starting tomorrow.

Indeed.

What the fuck am I doing walled in there? If I can even get in.

Anyway, I'm Luca, nice to meet you.

- Amanda. - Ah.

Like the protagonist of Bright Lights, Big York.

Alright…

Well, it's a novel...

Why is it taking so long?

- [Luca] Are you leaving? - Home.

Forever, apparently.

- Come on. - Come on.

- Hi, Luca, thanks a lot. - Hi, about what?

- Good evening. - Good evening.

- Do we know each other? - No.

Dad, "we know each other", come on.

HI.

- What did I say? - Go. Bye, Daria.

Hi, Sarah.

[Sara] Hi, dude. He's asleep.

- A little more affection, perhaps. - Are you talking about affection?

Go, go.

- Bye bye.

Hello, goodnight.

- I'm Sara. - Hi, Sara.

You are?

- Amanda. - Amanda.

Sorry for the intrusion, I really didn't know what to do.

Calm.

I'm going to finish clearing the table.

[beep]

- It's lit up! - Thank goodness.

Here it is: 014217.

Zero…

Do you have it?

I think so.

- Thanks. - You're welcome.

[Amanda] Zero…

- It's 014217. - [Amanda] Right.

- [lock clicks] - There!

- Thanks again. - Bye, goodnight.

[Sara] No, not rude, poor thing! She was embarrassed.

Well, I would be too, if I had married an old man.

No, I'm not going to be friends with her, mom.

The problem here is Dad, not Daria.

Yes, I have to go now, okay?

Yes, I'm careful, bye.

Crazy day and can't go out.

I mean, I can't go out.

I'm going to the hospital, I'm not going out.

- [Luca] Did you leave me some coffee? - [Sara] Sure, you untrustworthy guy.

Listen, I was thinking about something.

Shall we postpone?

- The system, you mean? - Yes.

I don't know, love, whatever you want.

Not "whatever you want," don't let me take all the responsibility.

- Tell me what you think. - I just woke up.

- Yes… - Oh, calm down.

Every time we talk about the baby, you make me feel alone.

You are not alone.

What should we do?

There's a pandemic, damn it! It doesn't seem wise to do surgery.

- No? - Let's postpone it, come on.

Well.

- Okay. - I agree.

Ok.

All right.

- Come sto?
- Miss Afghanistan.

- What are you doing? - I have a Zoom call with the faculty.

- Then nothing. - Write your thesis, right?

- When are you coming back? - Who knows?

- Bye bye.

- Have a good day. - See you.

However, I am ambitious.

I knew you'd be upset!

- Bye bye.

[principal, PC] So, we told the kids Monday.

Time to collect everyone's telematics accounts.

[Ivan, PC] "telematic users"? E-mail!

Casaro, you're not acting like a show-off.

[principal] Have you ever done distance learning? Exactly.

This is an unprecedented situation.

There are parents who don't even have a computer

to have children study from home.

Okay? So let's navigate by sight.

I understand, but let's try to avoid using these police-style periphrases.

Sorry, I don't understand when distance learning is supposed to start.

So, let's give the families a few days to sort things out.

At the latest, we hope for Monday.

In the meantime, they do the homework you gave them.

- Monday the 16th? - Eh, did you want the next one?

No, I was asking! There's no need to be tense when someone asks.

We'll keep you updated, I'll let you know.

All right, bye everyone and please, cheer up.

- [principal] Cheer up. - All right.

- Bye, see you soon everyone. - Bye, thanks.

- Hello everyone. - [woman] Hi, thanks.

- Hi. - [man] Hi.

[speaks German]

[Interpreter] Against the backdrop of the history of ideas.

[cell phone rings]

[Interpreter] I consider…

[Amanda] Will you stop? Leave me alone.

No, I'm not telling you.

You have to show yourself because you're crazy!

You're out of your mind, do you understand?

[cell phone vibration]

[Amanda] Leave me alone!

- Oh.
- Oh.

What the fuck am I doing until Monday? For the first time, I preferred working.

Listen, do you know anyone who can deliver some weed to your door?

Rather than being locked up 24 hours a day with Betta

I prefer to teach trigonometry to pubescent bonobos.

He bosses me around, damn it.

[Luca] Is there a way to get weed delivered to your house?

Do pushers have families or not?

How long has the human race existed? 250,000 years?

[Ivan] For 249,990 years we have been in charge.

Women have been in charge for ten years and, lo and behold, the human race is becoming extinct.

The evolutionary design is clear!

[Ivan] They won, but we fucked up their planet.

There will be nothing left to rule over, only deserts and cockroaches, damn it.

[Luca] Well, that seems like a pessimistic analysis of the issue, doesn't it?

- [Ivan] Not too much! - [Luca] Mmh.

- [loud music] - [Ivan] What is this mess?

- My neighbor's dancing. - Turn the phone around a bit.

[plays "Nont for Sale" by Sudan Archives]

[John] Ah.

- That's not fair. - What?

[Ivan] I'm locked up in my house in 80 square meters with my wife

and you alone in a penthouse with Dua Lipa's hot sister in front of you.

Oh God, he fucking saw us.

What the fuck do I have to do with this? He saw you, not me.

- I'll call you back, come on, bye. - Yes.

- Cow. - Cow.

Were you filming me?

No, I was talking on the phone to a friend of mine.

We were on a video call.

He heard the music, said, "Where is it coming from?"

- I showed him… - Sorry, the gyms are closed.

- We make do at home. - Of course not, I understand.

However, there is always the shared terrace.

Can I see it?

Yes, I'll take the keys.

- Voila! Nice, huh? - Doesn't anyone use it?

No, except us.

[Luca] I told you, they're just offices.

If you want, I'll leave the door open, so whenever you want…

Perfect.

So I'll teach here and I won't bother you anymore.

Do you teach classes too? I teach history and philosophy, what about you?

Tabata hip-hop.

Stuff people do in the gym to lose weight, basically.

Ah!

I don't understand those who go to the gym.

And to say that it would do you good.

- What time do you usually have class? - Four o'clock.

- Are you interested? - No, I was asking so as not to disturb you.

Okay, I'm going.

- Are you coming down or are you staying here? - I'm staying here.

Thanks, eh.

- Bye bye.

[Luca] So, according to Heidegger and his anti-biological theory,

the essence of man is closer to that of the divine

rather than that of the animal world.

I wonder what he would say about the fact that we are all locked up.

like animals in a cage.

Okay, we're done for today.

You can go back to sleep, especially those who weren't already doing so.

[Luke] Hi.

Fabbri, you stay instead.

- Goodbye. - Hello everyone.

- Goodbye. - [Luca] Bye.

- Is everything okay? - Excuse me, professor.

What happens?

- No, nothing. - What's the problem? A boy?

A girl.

We had just started seeing each other, but he doesn't call me back anymore.

You call her.

I'm afraid of being intrusive.

If I could go back to your age, I would save myself a lot of unnecessary fears.

Anyway, enough school for today, I'll justify you.

Do something nice, like listen to some music.

- Do you play? - Yes, the guitar a little.

Maybe one day you'll make me feel something?

Come on.

Cow.

Don't be afraid. If you want to call her, call her.

Remember that the things you didn't do can't be given back to you.

- Thank you. - And what about?

[Journalist, TV] That's 475 in just one day.

The cover.

[Cenci] Infections in Italy continue to grow steadily.

It does not slow down the epidemic curve.

- [Luca] Love. - Mmh.

You look like a raccoon.

We wear the visor all day.

[Sara] We look like the ones who were hunting ET.

- [cell phone vibrates] - Here it is…

Hi, Dad.

What is this story you want to postpone?

Please, I'm exhausted. Not now.

[Antonello] Do you know what my patients have in common?

That at some point they all say: "Let's wait a little longer."

It is the delay that has made my fortune.

You don't have to wait to have children.

Said the man who became a father at 65.

You carry yourself majestically! But then again, I'm a man.

[Antonello] No matter how many sperm we lose, only one is always enough.

How nice it is to talk about sperm with my dad.

It's thanks to me that you'll have a child.

You're right to remind me, it's very healthy.

[Sara] I have to go to dinner now, I'll call you back later, okay? Come on, bye.

In sports, there is no comparison.

We have more muscle mass.

You'll say to me: "Okay, okay, what about chess?"

Do you know what position the top woman in the chess rankings is in?

Fifty-second.

- What did you say? - Are you crazy?

I've been talking for half an hour and you're thinking about something else.

What do you think about then?

[plays "Krack" by Soulwax]

[beep]

Nail.

[plays "Krack" by Soulwax]

[music stops]

HI.

That's how you break your back, huh.

You have to come down with your shoulders

and use your abs.

- Here. - You mean these ones, the classic ones.

- Exactly. - Okay.

- Get in. - Like this?

- Okay. - Here.

- Don't you have abs? - I left them at home.

- You can see it. - Oh, I'm shaking, though, eh?

Yes, you must tremble.

Ok, ok, I'll help you a little.

- Yes, mind you. - Like this?

- Yes. - Like that.

So, better.

[CCCP's "I'm Fine" plays]

♪ It's a matter of quality ♪

♪ It's a matter of quality ♪

♪ It's a matter of quality ♪

♪ Or a formality ♪

♪ I don't remember well anymore ♪

♪ [together] A formality ♪

♪ It's a matter of quality ♪

♪ It's a matter of quality ♪

♪ It's a matter of quality ♪

♪ Or a formality ♪

♪ I don't remember well anymore ♪

♪ A formality ♪

[doorbell]

♪ How to decide to shave your head ♪

♪ To eliminate coffee and cigarettes ♪

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

- Hi, handsome. - Hi.

♪ A formality ♪

♪ A formality ♪

♪ A formality ♪

♪ Or a question of quality? ♪

♪ I'm fine ♪

♪ I'm sick ♪

♪ I don't know where to stay ♪

♪ I'm fine ♪

♪ I'm sick ♪

- ♪ But it's a formality ♪ - ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪

- ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪ - ♪ A formality ♪

- ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪ - ♪ A formality ♪

- ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪ - ♪ A formality ♪

- ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪ - ♪ A formality ♪

- ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪ - ♪ A formality ♪

- ♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪ - ♪ A formality ♪

♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪

♪ I'm fine, I'm sick ♪

[groans]

Can I get you some wine?

Oh my God, I didn't hear you.

- Sure, I only have one glass, though. - It's okay.

[Amanda] Is it a secret?

No, no, no.

I was trying to finish my doctoral thesis, which I've been working on for years.

- But don't you already teach? - Yes, but in high school.

I had other ambitions before.

I was hoping for a teaching position at Sapienza, but then my father died.

Between one thing and another, I wasted a lot of time.

I'm sorry about your father.

Mine is a piece of shit, if that's any consolation.

I discovered it recently.

My mother used to clean for him

and when she got pregnant, the asshole gave her money to have an abortion.

Then he fired her.

But! A gentleman.

With that money, she returned to Cuba and obviously didn't have an abortion.

- Did you come back to Italy for your father? - Also.

Who knows what I was hoping to find.

What was your father like?

Taciturn, unaffectionate, at least with me.

But a kind of hero.

He died saving children from a fire.

I'm completely different. If I see a drop of blood, I faint.

I take after my mother.

She died two years later.

She couldn't do it without him.

Brothers?

No, you?

I recently found out I have two stepbrothers and I don't even know them.

And to think that I've always wanted a large family.

You have to be careful what you wish for.

[doorbell]

[lock click]

- [Cosimo] What the fuck do you think you're doing? - [Amanda] Nothing.

"Nothing"? Did you think I wouldn't find you?

[Cosimo] You made me look for this shitty place.

- I needed some time. - "Some time."

- Who are you fucking? - Nobody.

Sorry, there's a lockdown, who do you want me to see?

- What the fuck are you laughing at? What the fuck are you laughing at! - [Amanda] Let go of me.

[Cosimo] Don't talk bullshit to me, do you understand?

[Amanda] You're hurting me! Let go of me!

[Cosimo] Do I have to leave you now? Before, you needed me, right?

[Amanda] Let go of me!

What do you want to do?

Write me the door code, hurry up.

[Cosimo] I come in and out here as the fuck I want.

If this is wrong, I will knock out all four teeth in your mouth.

- [Amanda] Why do you have to do this? - [Cosimo] Me? Why do I have to do this?

Do you think you can play with me like this? That I'm your plaything?

You know who I am.

[Cosimo] Why do you have to make me play the bad guy?

Do you want me to be bad?

[Cosimo] Do you want this?

[Amanda] What do you want to do now? Are you going to kill me?

Or.

Oh!

You don't give a shit.

- Do you want me to kill myself? - [Amanda] No, love, I don't want that.

- [dial tone] - [Amanda] Lower the gun.

[Cosimo] Love…

[officer] Police?

Yes, hello? Excuse me, I'd like to report an emergency.

There is a man attacking a woman in the apartment across the street from my house.

- [Officer] Give me the address. - What do you say, excuse me?

[agent] The address?

- Hello, can you hear me? - No, look, I made a mistake, I'm sorry.

- Hey, who was that crazy guy? - If he saw you, I don't know what would have happened.

Who cares!

- You have to go to the police. - I didn't think he'd come looking for me here.

Listen, I filmed everything, you have the proof.

You can have him arrested, he's dangerous.

- But it's just for show. - What show? He had a gun.

Promise me you'll report him.

He's not bad, he's had a shitty life.

- His father used to beat him up. - Do you justify that?

If I really feel in danger, I will do it, I promise.

- What else is going to happen? - [cell phone vibrates]

Everything OK?

Yes, it's my wife who says he's not coming back tonight.

He goes to the hospital.

Listen, give me your number.

I'll send you the video.

Memorize it.

[cell phone rings]

Call me if you need help.

Really.

[they play "Bella Ciao" on the saxophone]

We didn't fuck, though.

I know you want to know.

I like that you care about me.

No.

Not here.

[applause]

[man] Well done!

Wait! Wait, wait…

- What are you doing? - No, socks, you know…

Come on, the first time with socks sucks.

No!

[plays "Let me follow" by Son Lux]

[groans]

[groans]

[plays "Let me follow" by Son Lux]

[lock click]

- [Luca] Cow. - Cow.

Are you already at home?

Yes, but only for three hours, then I have to go back to the hospital.

- [Sara] I'm starving. - Come on, I'll cook you something.

[Sara] Thank you.

Today I peed myself.

Yes, I didn't want to take off my suit, I wanted to wait until the end of my shift.

While I was going to the bathroom…

[sirens]

He dumped my bladder.

Cow.

Just tiredness.

Listen, why don't you take a few days off?

So you rest, stay with me.

No, what can I do? There's a pandemic, I can't.

At one point I got scared…

For a second, I don't know why…

That I had had an abortion.

Then I remembered I wasn't pregnant.

When this story is over, we'll do everything.

- Have you seen the coffins in Bergamo? - Hmm.

No, I don't watch the news, it makes me feel helpless.

But you men, why do you always have to talk about your dick in one way or another?

No, it's just…

It's just that I'm in here doing nothing all day.

I admire what you do.

You're out saving lives.

The truth is, I envy you a little.

Oh.

Say you envy me again and I'll ask for a divorce.

- I envy you. - Lawyer!

[applause]

[plays "Kandy" by Fever Ray]

Hmm…

Nietzsche no longer believes in the values of his time,

in particular to Christian morality, but he does not passively resign himself.

In fact, it tries to rewrite its own history through other values…

[plays "Kandy" by Fever Ray]

[plays "Kandy" by Fever Ray]

[voice inaudible]

I watch porn on Ecosia, the environmentalist browser.

So every time I masturbate I'm planting a tree.

[doorbell]

- Hey, I was on my way to you. - I'm impatient, sorry.

My goodness, what a house! I envy you.

You could see it from the window, but being inside…

- You make money with philosophy. - But what money? No.

Sara's father gave it to her.

- Really? - Yes.

Lucky her.

- It's clear her father loves her. - Hmm, too bad he's an asshole.

Every time he sees me he reminds me that I can't afford this house.

Let's say I use philosophy to keep him from going to hell.

So deep down you're a poor guy too.

Well, my father was a tiler.

Sara was out of my league.

It is not true.

Because you are beautiful.

Who's playing?

Nobody.

She gave it to me.

[Luca] I told her I wanted to try it, but I never touched it.

[key sounds]

Hmm.

How long have you been together?

Seven years.

We met by chance in the emergency room.

Don't tell me he saved your life too.

No, not exactly.

I thought I was having a heart attack, but… it was just gastritis.

Maybe it was karma.

But are you Buddhist?

Why?

- Well… - Oh, for the statuette you mean?

But it's not mine! It probably belongs to the owner of the house, who knows.

It weighs a ton, by the way.

I like Buddhists, though.

They have as their symbol a laughing fat man,

while we have one tortured to death.

I believe you that we are troubled.

Are you upset, Luca?

The kitchen is beautiful too.

Look here!

Shall we cook something together?

Let's go to you, come on.

You told me he was coming back tomorrow morning, right?

- Yes. - It was like that, for a change once and for all.

- It's just that here it's a bit… - Oh well, it doesn't matter, you're weirded out.

- Come on, okay, let's eat here, come on. - No, don't worry.

Anyway… see you tomorrow.

- I'm not even really hungry. - Hey, let's go out.

- Outside? - Yes.

- With the curfew? - Hmm.

I could take Sara's recipe book to make a fake certificate.

And what do you write to us?

Um… are you pregnant? Are we going for a visit?

You have a wicked mind.

I didn't believe it.

When will we ever see an empty Rome again?

- I'm going to get my jacket. - Go.

[Amanda] You know that in Australia

Have the fish in an aquarium closed due to Covid stopped eating?

They had to send a diver to swim with them to help them overcome their depression.

- Everyone needs attention. - It's bad to be alone.

Is that why you got involved with that asshole?

But Cosimo is a street dog.

- He only bites out of fear. - But you're wrong to give him any credence.

I'm also wrong when I go out with you.

I specialize in screwing up.

- So I'm a bullshit. - You do it.

I would like a family and you already have one.

This story won't end well, you know that too.

I get it, I'll be a little better than this Cosimo.

Then I didn't understand why you didn't report him.

Because it's none of your business.

Promise me you won't call the police.

- Why? - Because life is mine.

I don't want the police snooping around.

Swear to me.

All right.

You must have secrets too, right?

We are trying to have a child through IVF.

It's just that I feel like I'm acting like a child with my father-in-law.

Meaning what?

He is the owner of the clinic.

He's helping us.

I don't know, it makes me feel like I'm defective,

when in reality the problem is hers.

- What's wrong? - She has polycystic ovary syndrome.

I have it too.

Really? Sorry, I didn't know that.

- Well, how did you know that? - Indeed.

However, as a contraceptive it's a bomb.

[agent] It's a cold after all.

- Oh, your father? - Come on.

I'm sorry… Unfortunately it's a mess when they get old.

[agent] Hey!

Hmm.

Hmm.

Wait, I'll call you back.

Oh! Fermi!

Let's go over there.

Go! Go! Go!

Here it is, here it is.

But didn't you have permission?

Yes, but I was afraid they'd catch me anyway.

You're afraid of everything.

[Amanda] Your wife is lucky.

Not me, I warn you.

I'm a mess.

I don't care.

[Amanda] Let's make love here.

Now.

[cell phone vibration]

Wait.

Wait.

- Damn… - What's going on?

She's my wife.

He's coming home.

They quarantined her.

Cow!

- Oh, are you there? - [Luca] I'm in the bathroom!

[Sara] Okay, you can go out.

How are you? Are you worried?

No, I'm pissed off.

With me?

No, like with you? What do you have to do with it?

With that Chinese idiot who ate the bat.

We had to replace the entire department,

tell nurses how to be doctors.

I am sorry.

I think you're right.

Why do we have a child? The world is ending.

The world is always ending for each of us.

What is this, some twisted way of telling me you still want to be a father?

- Are you there? - Yes, I'm here.

- I miss you. - You too.

Open the door, come on.

I'll go in, I'll quarantine with you, I'll catch Covid.

No.

Are you crazy? That's the stupidest thing I could say.

Even the most romantic.

[plays "So Many Things" by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp]

[plays "So Many Things" by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp]

[plays "So Many Things" by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp]

Love!

I'm back.

- Did you get the water? - Yes!

Leave me a bottle out here, I'm dying of thirst.

- [Luca] Hey. - Hey, what are you doing?

Scribacchio.

Look, it pains me to admit it, but that risotto was amazing.

That's butter.

Nobody ever wants butter, though…

- [bell] - How's your thesis going?

Well.

Did you know that Sloterdijk was already talking about the Great Catastrophe 40 years ago?

like the goddess of the century?

Ah…

But isn't this Sloterdijk a bad luck guy?

[Cosimo] A gift to make me forgive you.

- Love, are you there? - Open it.

- Yes. - No, I think you froze.

I'm rereading Camus's The Plague.

[Sara] In high school I didn't realize what a masterpiece it was.

- There are some wonderful characters. - Put it on.

There is the doctor, the suicide victim, the journalist.

But really?

- [Sara] They're going through the same tragedy. - Do you remember how we met?

- This makes them more human. - This story makes no sense.

Maybe the same thing will happen to us too.

It doesn't make sense.

- This is the perfect opportunity to change everything. - Take the necklace.

Am I talking bullshit?

Yes, I think the quarantine is, I don't know, making me more sensitive.

I'm getting sentimental.

[Cosimo] Sorry.

- [Luca] No, we do… - "Son of a bitch."

- [Sara] What's happening? - I don't know, I hear strange noises.

I think they're stealing from the offices downstairs.

- What the fuck are you talking about? - Wait a minute, let me see.

Oh!

- [Sara] What's happening? - Sh, wait.

[Amanda] I never want to see you again!

Sorry, look what I did to you…

Excuse me.

- Why don't you love me? - You know why.

- [Cosimo] Do you want him to disappear? - [Amanda] Yes.

One last kiss and I disappear forever.

- The last kiss. - Yes.

- True. - Swear it.

I swear.

[Amanda] Enough…

It just is!

- Enough! - Wait.

- Enough! - Wait!

- Enough! - Ouch! What the fuck…

[Amanda] You disgust me!

- Listen, I'm calling the police, I'll hang up. - Are you sure? Okay.

Are you a dog?

[responder] Covid-19 emergency.

Due to heavy traffic, the lines are temporarily busy.

- Please hold on. - [Cosimo] You said you liked it.

- What the fuck are you talking about? - Honey, I'm going to the police.

- [Sara] Be careful. - Yes.

- [Officer] Good evening. - Yes, good evening.

It's an emergency.

You need to intervene in an apartment.

[officer] You must call 911 for emergencies.

Excuse me, there's a person with a gun in front of my house.

[lock click]

[officer] Are you sure you saw correctly?

Yes, of course I'm sure.

- Was he pointing the gun at the girl? - What do you mean, excuse me? I can't hear you.

He's right.

- Was he pointing the gun at the girl? - Not this time, but last time, yes.

I filmed it too.

- Why, how many times has this happened? - Two.

Look, I just want to file a complaint.

No, she is not the victim,

but you can report it and I'll send a patrol car to check it out.

Give me the address.

It's back here, I can accompany you, if you want.

Look, that's not the case.

Can you find the video for me? So I'll call the police.

[Officer 2] Deputy Commissioner! Look who I caught out here.

Who recognizes him with these fucking masks? Who are you?

And who the fuck are you?

- Good girl! - Where do I send it?

[Bravetta] Oh, easy!

- He sent it to me… - [Deputy Commissioner] What are you doing here?

- Weren't you at Casilino? - Here.

[Bravetta] I'm always there.

"It's just that I was following a case nearby." He got in the car without saying goodbye.

- He tells me it's too heavy. - [Agent 2] Understand?

- Let me see it. - [Deputy Commissioner] By the way, Mina…

Let me introduce you to a nice guy, a colleague.

- Nice to meet you, Cosimo Bravetta. - [Officer] Nice to meet you.

Want to have a coffee with us? You're still single, right?

- Ah… - Leave the colleague alone!

These are beasts, excuse them.

- [Cosimo] Make me some coffee. - [Deputy Commissioner] Let's go.

- [Officer] I'll finish here and be right there. - Okay.

- [Deputy Commissioner] How are things with you? - [Cosimo] Everything's fine.

- The video? - I don't know what…

- Sorry, the phone's broken. - [Officer] No, nothing.

What do you mean, "it broke"?

No, I accidentally deleted it, it's incredible.

- [Officer] Does anyone else have this video? - No, unfortunately not.

[Officer] If you're afraid of anyone, you have to tell us, we're the Police.

No no.

Sorry, I was wrong.

- Goodbye. - Where are you going?

[officer] Excuse me, where are you going?

[doorbell]

[lock click]

[Luca] Why didn't you tell me he was a policeman?

- How do you know? - I went to the police station and saw it.

He was there with the other policemen, he was being a friend.

Did you go to the police?

Why didn't you tell me?

- Go inside, let's talk there. - Answer.

He's blackmailing me.

Accused false.

- But… - But you're not reporting him?

The accusations are not entirely false.

Sorry, but what are we talking about?

Do you know what a sugar baby is?

A woman who has sex for money.

I did this for a while last year.

At first he appeared as a customer.

I offered him some coke and he told me he was a cop.

He confiscated it, but he didn't report me.

Then he started coming back more and more often.

He had never been so violent.

I am sorry.

I told you I was a mess.

[journalist, TV] It is confirmed for the sixth consecutive day

the decline in coronavirus cases in Italy.

Today 680 fewer than yesterday.

Hospitalizations, intensive care, and deaths are also decreasing.

There are 420 in the last 48 hours.

- Doctor! - [Sara] I'm here.

[cell phone vibration]

[Sara] Uh-uh!

[lock click]

Negative!

- Go! - What are you eating in the dark?

- No, I was… - What a sad dinner.

- A little aperitif. - Mmh…

I'll prepare something.

Excuse me, but don't you go grocery shopping every day?

What are you buying, the fucking snacks? The juices?

No, it's just that every time I go to the supermarket

then I forget what to buy.

Okay, I'll take care of it.

I'll make a list.

Tomorrow we're preparing a nice dinner to celebrate the end of quarantine.

and we spend some time together.

- Oh, aren't you going back to work tomorrow? - The day after tomorrow.

The boss gave me an extra day, the tension in the department eased.

That's okay.

Listen, I'm caught up in my tragedies

I didn't realize you put yourself in lockdown.

It can't have been easy.

- I don't dislike it.

Let's fix it right away.

Oh, what's wrong?

Nothing.

Look, I know you.

I told you a load of bullshit.

Meaning what?

I haven't written a single line, I'm completely stuck.

You're right, I'm not ambitious.

Oh my God, I was just wondering what you were going to say to me, you pissed me off!

But who cares about the thesis!

I thought you might be interested.

Then we know what university is like in Italy.

[Ivan] Then they are all politically correct, Me Too feminists.

All right things, of course,

but then in reality they take photos of themselves as pornstars,

they fill their lips and ass with silicone.

- They're confused. - Will you stop?

To do what?

Of speaking badly about women just because your wife earns more than you.

Get a molecular swab, eh.

Maybe in addition to smell and taste, some people also lose their sense of humor.

It's true, you speak badly of Betta because it makes you feel inferior.

He's a lawyer! Anyone can make money by selling their soul.

Then you talk? You've always been jealous because Sara is richer than you, and now you're talking?

What the fuck are you saying?

Sara could have married a plastic surgeon and she married a professor without a penny.

He could work in his father's clinic and he works in the hospital.

She's much better than me, much braver, more enterprising.

- Women are better off not, come on. - Well said, well done.

- Thank you, ma'am. - What the fuck are you talking about?

We are shit.

[Luca] Go, go.

Nail.

[beep]

[lock click]

[Luca] You didn't understand what I had to do to get the puntarelle.

- [Sara] Mmh. - I almost killed an old lady.

[Sara] I, on the other hand, did something very illegal.

I invited people to my house.

- Oh, hello. - Hi.

Do you remember Amanda from the B&B across the street?

Yes, Amanda from the B&B.

- How are you? - [Amanda] Good, you?

- Good. - I needed some coffee.

Yes, I know, contact is strictly prohibited, but I was rear-ended…

- Actually, I gave, so… - Yes.

I'm going now. Thanks, Sara.

Don't worry, I'll come with you.

Alone.

[Amanda] Goodbye.

- [Sara] Hi. - [Amanda] Thanks.

- How sweet! - What's this confidence like?

No, what intimacy? He asked me for coffee.

He didn't have it, so I gave it to him.

Did you see how beautiful she is? What a body? She's Cuban.

What the fuck does she mean she's Cuban, excuse me?

It's not that all Cuban women have amazing bodies.

- It's a bit racist. - Why are you so pissed off?

I'm not getting pissed off, but you don't say "the Cubans"...

There's nothing more to say, okay.

[Luca] Hello, love!

[doorbell]

[doorbell]

What did you think you were doing?

I've been trying to talk to you for days and you don't give a damn.

- We said no cell phones, right? - Should I have sent you smoke signals?

- Still better than playing at home. - I didn't know she was there.

I thought you were avoiding me.

When I saw her, I improvised and asked her for coffee.

You were acting all in love.

Now you're looking down on me.

Maybe because I discovered certain things about you, right?

So it's true that you judge me.

However, there is something else you don't know.

What?

I'm pregnant.

- What? - You heard right.

That's why I was looking for you.

- And whose? - Fuck you!

You told me you had PCOS.

What do you want me to tell you?

There was a one in a thousand chance.

What do I do now?

Sara has to have her implant done in a week.

We're having a baby.

I can't do this to her, you understand? She doesn't deserve it.

[gynecologist] So, one is to terminate the pregnancy

and the other is to expel the fetus.

Well.

Listen.

If you don't feel like it, don't do it.

With ovaries like hers, it's not easy to get pregnant.

Everything OK?

Are you afraid I didn't take the pill?

[guitar music]

[Fabbri, PC] ♪ I won't succeed ♪

♪ If you pull me down… ♪

[Luca] We can try to identify it a posteriori

the moment a love began.

[Fabbri, PC] ♪ I won't succeed ♪

♪ You can't breathe anymore ♪

[Luca] But it's much easier to pinpoint the exact moment it ends.

[Fabbri, PC] ♪ I won't succeed ♪

♪ I won't succeed ♪

♪ How can you live ♪

♪ Upside down? ♪

♪ How can you live ♪

♪ Upside down? ♪

♪ How can you live ♪

♪ Upside down? ♪

♪ Uh ♪

Wow, a bomb!

Very good, four yeses.

- That's not true, but thanks. - No, no.

Did you sing it to her?

- "To her" who? - Come on…

Did you go there?

Once, but it was worth it.

A whole afternoon.

Hmm. Come on, we'll be going out again soon.

I don't know what I would have done without her. She's a good person, Professor.

That's not true, but thanks.

[cell phone rings]

[mobile notification]

What the fuck are you laughing at?

[journalist, TV] From today, large factories and construction sites can reopen.

[cell phone vibration]

[journalist] Restaurants and bars will reopen from May 4th,

but only in the delivery mode of food to be consumed at home.

Always from Monday…

[Sara] Honey, I'm working all night. See you tomorrow morning.

[Journalist] Travel between regions without a valid reason is prohibited.

Okay, love, see you tomorrow.

Good work.

[journalist] No.

Transport Minister De Micheli spoke this afternoon.

[indistinct voices]

[Journalist] He clarified the details on the use of public transport in the city.

Only those who wear… will be able to use it.

[turns off the TV]

[hits]

[Cosimo] Come here! Do you want to talk?

Shall we talk? What do we need to talk about?

I'll kill you, no one's asking where the fuck you are!

[screams]

[screams]

What the fuck do you think you're doing?

- What the fuck do you want to do? - Let go of me!

What the fuck do you want to do?

[Luca] No feeling, not even love, is as strong as fear.

It's time to decide.

Living up to my father

or be the coward I always feared I was.

[children screaming]

[plays "Muori delay" by Verdena]

What the fuck was it…

Fourteen… 014217.

[lock click]

[rapid heartbeat]

[muffled screams]

[muffled voices]

I'll kill you! I'll kill you! You piece of shit!

[Cosimo] Nobody's coming to look for you here!

Tell me who the fuck made the video! Who made the video of you?

Tell me! Who was it, your sister?

[Luca] The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk says:

"What is man, if not the animal from which too much is demanded?"

Eh?

[Cosimo] And who the fuck are you?

- Leave that thing alone! - [Luca] Yes, yes.

- [Cosimo] Put it down! - Yes.

- Who the fuck are you? - Leave him.

Shut up! How did you get in? Why does this idiot know the code?

Are you fucking him?

- I'm the neighbor, I heard the screams. - Are you the neighbor?

- [Luca] Yes. - Did you make the video?

- No, what video? - Oh, don't bullshit me.

I know you, you are Sara Bernini's husband.

- Cosimo, please. - Oh! Shut up!

What are you doing, fucking your sister's husband?

- What? - What? What, you didn't know?

Do you know why? Because besides being a slut, she's mentally ill.

You killed him.

[Luca] When everything had already happened, I was hit by a revelation.

Not only was I not the hero, I was not even the protagonist of this story.

[Antonello] She suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome.

Have you ever been diagnosed with it?

No.

Why did you choose to come to us?

I wanted to meet her.

The interview in "Report", right?

You don't know how many women have come to ask me to get them pregnant.

after that apparition.

Doctor…

She hasn't told me whether she wants to pursue assisted reproduction.

I wanted to understand certain things first.

About me.

His condition is not worrying, it is quite widespread.

My daughter has the same problem too.

- Your daughter? - My only unrequited love.

How old is he?

He's about her age.

- What's her name? - Sara.

- Why? - Goodbye.

Until we meet again.

[Luca] All the time

I thought I was the one spying on Amanda from my window.

Instead, it was she who was spying on us.

A bit like those fish in the aquarium in Australia.

The tourists thought the fish were the show,

but from the fish's point of view the show was the humans.

So they were depressed without visitors.

Life is ultimately all a matter of perspective.

[voice inaudible]

[Amanda] He helped me find Sara's address.

Then he realized I had come to stay here.

You told me a lot of bullshit.

What happened between us was not planned.

I just wanted to take a look into Sara's life.

[Amanda] Understanding why she had everything and I had nothing.

Then the lockdown happened.

I stayed locked up here.

You started looking at me.

Now it's my fault? How the fuck did I know you were my wife's sister?

I didn't mean to fall in love with you.

- What a situation… - He was about to shoot you, what was I supposed to do?

- Sorry I saved your life. - Thank you so much.

Now they're taking me to jail and throwing away the key.

- [Amanda] What was I supposed to do? - Stay out of this shit!

Did I force you to do something? Look, we both wanted it!

Nobody saw him get on.

He couldn't tell his colleagues he was coming here.

This building is full of closed offices.

Nobody heard us.

So what?

Amanda…

- Is that really your name? - Are you stupid?

Let's make a deal.

I take care of Cosimo.

In exchange, you leave me and Sara alone forever.

- Hmm. - Are you in or not?

How do you make it go away?

Antonello's villa on the Appian Way.

Work is at a standstill, but it will restart tomorrow.

Do you have any black bags?

- Who else knew about you two? - No one.

I go.

[Luca] I don't know who said that life is a tragedy seen from a close-up,

but a comedy seen in wide shot.

[Officer] Talk to my colleague.

[Luca] The truth is that all irrational movements

they are guided by an underlying rationality.

There is always a logic, however absurd,

in things that cannot be explained in hindsight.

My Xanadu.

- But you're not finished yet! - With Covid they closed down my construction site.

We have everything we need.

[laughter]

Come on, let's celebrate the end of this fucking quarantine, Robi!

[muffled voices]

[Amanda] And…

And I don't remember anymore, it all happened so quickly.

[Roberta] Aren't you coming?

What are you thinking about?

At the end of the world I thought.

Do you believe it?

But you're the end of the world! Look at you!

[Antonello] What the hell are you, huh?

- [cell phone rings] - [voice assistant] Capital A.

What's up?

[Amanda] I want to change our pact.

What the fuck are you talking about? I just did my part.

I'm not my mother, I don't disappear.

- Are you trying to trick me? - No, I'll make you a hero.

You were at the window, you saw a man with a gun attacking the neighbor.

Do you want this?

You ran to help her because you are a brave man.

[Amanda] You found the door open, then you approached from behind

and you hit him with what you found, the Buddha statue,

where in fact your footprints are.

- What the fuck are you saying? - [Amanda] It was an instinctive gesture.

A legitimate defense.

You saved my life.

Since I was scared because he was a policeman and he was blackmailing me…

- Cosimo Bravetta. - [Amanda] You made him disappear.

You did it for me.

Who are you with? Who are you telling this bullshit to?

You're the one who has to tell it, Luca.

I told the police where you buried the body.

What?

Your brilliant plan was bullshit.

How long would it have taken them to trace Cosimo's movements and reach me?

You're crazy! He was right, you're crazy!

You can become the hero you wanted to be or you can tell the truth,

that you were a coward, that you dropped the statuette

and then you made me do the hard part.

[Amanda] You offered to hide the body if I disappeared from your life.

You'll still end up in prison as an accomplice.

In that case I'll tell the truth too.

To your wife, first of all.

But if you are as innocent as you say,

why didn't you tell me she was your sister?

Why? I'll tell you why.

Because you had everything organized, that's why.

[tires screeching]

[Luca] You just wanted to hurt her!

If I wanted to hurt Sara, I would have told her everything, right?

[sirens]

Instead she won't know anything.

Who are you? You're a freaking monster! You're a monster!

Decide, Luca.

[sirens]

The truth.

[officer] Turn off the car.

Or the best ending for each of us.

[officer] Very good, now your hands are clearly visible on the steering wheel.

[Luca] This is not the story of how I got arrested for murder.

[in a muffled voice] No, officer, wait! This is my house! That's my husband!

[Luca] The investigators cannot explain themselves

why he hid the body in my father-in-law's house,

but only because they don't know my father-in-law.

[in a muffled voice] Officer, I live here! I have to come by!

[Luca] The villa's construction site has been sealed off as a crime scene

who knows for how long.

[voices inaudible]

[Luca] Small consolation.

Ultimately, this whole story is Antonello's fault.

[voices inaudible]

[Luca] And so, now that the lockdown was over

and people finally started coming out again,

I was about to be locked up again, in prison this time.

Oh well, I'm glad Betta is your lawyer anyway.

You're in good hands, well done.

He's a hyena, huh.

Yes, you know that I respect her much more than you, right?

Well, I can't blame you.

Tell me the truth, did you try to kill that shit?

- A sense of necessity. - What a man!

- You made me go crazy. - You're an idiot.

[Officer] Hey!

You know what I thought?

Your son will have a hero father too, only you survived.

I mean, you are the evolution of the species, you know?

- [Ivan] Hello, my friend. - [Luca] Hello.

[Luca] I was actually a bit of a hero.

After all, I had lifted that Buddha first.

I wasn't making this all up.

[indistinct voices]

[Luca] And even if I was a liar, compared to her I was an amateur.

[Sara] Can you explain to me what the fuck this means? What the hell is this letter?

Is it all true?

First of all, thank you for coming.

Couldn't you have explained it to me right away instead of making all this fuss?

I didn't have the courage.

- So you and I are… - Yes.

What a mess…

Look, I have a frozen embryo waiting to figure out what my intentions are.

I need to know if you slept with him.

Sara, please don't get these ideas.

Luca only filmed me from the window.

Then he wanted to convince me to report it, but I didn't want anyone to know.

It was all my fault.

Just courage then?

It's not like him.

Look, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here.

- Why didn't he tell me anything? - Maybe he didn't want to involve you.

I don't know what the fuck to do, do you understand that or not?

Of course I understand you.

I even went to have an abortion.

[Amanda] Then I spat out the pill.

Are you pregnant?

And whose?

About Cosimo, about the policeman.

If I can do it, you can do it too.

Maybe we can be one big family.

This thing…

- It feels weird. - Sara, please.

- Sorry, no. - Please, Sara!

[baby crying]

[judge] In the name of the Italian people,

having regard to Articles 533 and 535 of the Code of Criminal Procedure

and Articles 81 and 584 of the Criminal Code,

This court finds Luca Messico guilty

of the crime of unintentional homicide.

This is how the crime of voluntary homicide is downgraded

contested under the indictment.

- Buffoons! - Shame on you!

- That's a ridiculous sentence! - Silence.

[judge] Also guilty of the aggravated crime of concealment of a corpse

ex article 61 number 2 of the Criminal Code

sentences him to a prison sentence of four years and six months

and upon payment…

- Four years? - But two years and you're out.

- Four and a half years! He killed him! - [Judge] The hearing is adjourned.

He says two years and I'm out.

[Sara] Dad, please.

[Luca] This isn't even the story of how I became a father.

Twice.

From two different mothers.

Two sisters.

Amanda! Wait for me!

Sara, can I talk to you for a minute? Just a minute.

Sara! I'm your father, Sara!

[Luca] This is Amanda's story and how she ruined my life.

I did very bad things for her.

[Officer] Fresh air! Everyone out!

[Luca] I'm not the good citizen the newspapers talk about, it's true,

but I'm paying for a crime I didn't commit.

When you never take responsibility,

life chooses some for you.

I have no idea how long Amanda's castle of lies will hold.

nor what my son, or rather, my children, will think of what happened.

If nothing else, I got down to writing my doctoral thesis.

I have all the time I need to finish it.

I'm not doing this to get my college career back.

It's too late for that.

I do it for myself.

Looking back, this is the story of how for the first time

I finished something I started.

[Diaframma's "L'odore delle rose" plays]