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Then the Lord God said,

“It is not good for the man to be alone;

I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

So the Lord God caused

a deep sleep

to fall upon the man, and he slept.

Then He took one of his ribs

and closed up the flesh at that place.

The Lord God fashioned into a woman

the rib which He had taken from the man,

and brought her to the man.

The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones,

and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man.”

For this reason,

a man shall leave his father and his mother,

and be joined to his wife.

And they shall become one flesh.

And both of them,

the man and his wife,

were naked,

and they were not ashamed.

RIO BELONGS TO US

What a beautiful girl.

Oh, honey.

Can you wait outside?

Careful!

Go get your sister.

My two little princesses.

Dad, mom!

Mom, open the door, please!

Dad!

Mom!

Mom, open the door!

Nothing is human except love, freedom and poetry.

If it wasn't for Nietzsche,

the great poet Hölderlin

could have been totally forgotten by humanity.

In 1805, Tubingen doctors

diagnosed him as incurably insane.

He was only 35 years old.

But despite his sickness and financial deprivation,

imposed by a society that insists in “suiciding” the artist,

a humanist remained above it all.

Like he once said,

"My love is for human race.

I love the generations of the coming centuries.

This is my most blissful hope,

the belief which keeps me strong and active,

that our grandchildren will be better than us.

Freedom must come someday.

And virtue will thrive better in freedom.

In a light that is warmer than that of despotism."

It's in his more intimate writings

that we can see more clearly his convictions

in his poetic vocation and the conscience

that his choices were in conflict with society's expectations.

For instance, in this letter he wrote to his mother.

"When we aspire something and fight for it,

we follow a sacred impulse that is born in our deepest self.

Then everything belongs to us.

I am deeply aware that my cause is noble and good for men,

while oriented towards a correct orientation and expression.

And I live peacefully with this objective and intuition.

When people remind me that I would be better accepted

if I had a respectable job in bourgeois life,

I understand them and stand it with ease.

I feel rewarded by the joy found in beauty and truth,

to which I silently dedicate myself since my youth,

and to which I now come back more stern

after the experiences and teachings of life.

Marina?

Marina.

Mauro.

It's been ten years.

I never forgot you.

I always dreamt about this moment.

Many times it was a nightmare.

I'm sorry, Mauro.

I had to run away.

I hate this city.

I hate it.

Marina, after you disappeared I became completely...

Completely lost.

I didn't know who I was anymore.

I became...

I was afraid of everything.

I was afraid of leaving my house, my room.

I didn't leave my bed.

I had to go to a doctor.

I started to take pills.

Then it was alright.

I thought of ending it all.

But time went by and I found love once more.

Love never ends.

What?

Love never ends.

I'm married and I have a daughter.

Marina?

What happened to you?

I fell off the stairs.

You know I've always been clumsy.

I still can't believe what you are doing here.

I can't believe you're here.

Where did you hide all this time?

If you knew how much I looked for you.

I had to run away.

You had to?

Why didn't you talk to me?

Why didn't you tell me you were ok?

I was totally shaken when you disappeared.

You were my only family.

It was very hard.

You shouldn't have done that.

I came back.

I'm here.

Why?

Why did you come back after all these years?

I had already forgotten you.

You disappeared, Marina. You disappeared!

Right after mom and dad...

Say it.

Right after mom and dad died!

What did you come to do here?

You have no idea what I went through.

I'm not interested.

You never asked yourself...

You never stopped to think.

Why did I run away? Why did I disappear?

I did.

I thought a lot.

And I figured it out.

She's dead!

I'm sorry.

Marina.

Wait.

Were you happy?

I wouldn't be happy here.

I was happy. I am happy.

-Oh, you're happy? -Very happy.

You're blind, that's what you are.

I'm very thankful. Look at all I got.

You know what happened, don't you?

You know what happened.

They didn't die in an accident.

They killed themselves.

What are you saying, you're crazy.

-Mom and dad committed suicide! -Get out of here!

-They committed suicide! -Get out!

RIO BELONGS TO US

Marina?

Marina?

Is everything ok?

Marina?

Mauro.

I'm glad you came, Mauro.

Can you stay here with me today? I'm feeling very lonely.

Of course. Come here, come here.

Come here.

What's happening Marina?

A nightmare.

What is it? Tell me.

I don't know.

I'm being stalked.

-By who? -I don't know.

I don't know.

I thought I would figure out by coming back here.

I thought I would understand.

I'm getting lost.

Go away.

-Go away. -Calm down Marina.

I'm not going away.

You're not closing the door on me again.

What door?

It's over.

It's all over.

It's all in the end. Can't you see?

Everything is rotten.

Everything is mean.

Have you ever wanted to die?

Have you ever felt the will to die?

Marina, calm down.

We can emerge from a rotting world.

It's over, Mauro.

It's over.

What's that?

RIO BELONGS TO US

One day before my parents died,

my father received a card like this one.

It was the worst day of my life.

They were locked in their room discussing.

My dad said he would kill himself.

He said it was the only solution.

I received this card a few days ago.

How awful, Marina.

So that's why you came back?

Do you know these people?

-No. -Where did this come from?

I don't know.

I have no idea what this is.

Let's get away from here. Let's go.

Let's get away from this town. Let's go somewhere else.

-Where will we go? -Anywhere. I'll go with you.

We'll go together this time.

They already found me once.

There's no point.

Let's get away, Marina.

You're coming with me. We're going together.

What about your wife and daughter?

What are you going to do?

Marina...

forgive me, but I don't know how to help you.

Today you asked me if I ever thought about killing myself.

The truth is I've already killed myself,

and I wasn't able to be born again.

Without realizing it, I left aside my strongest instincts.

For many years I feel like a being in half,

incomplete and also torn apart.

Everything I feel is in half.

My love is in half, my hate is in half,

my sleep is in half, my daughter is in half.

I once had hopes that one day all that would change.

That the sun would rise complete for me.

But this waiting made me lose my strength even more.

If I ever saw beauty in this laceration,

today all I see is a black tunnel.

If someday alone in my room,

I looked at myself and saw the human struggle for life...

today all I see is darkness.

I leave you here with the only belief I have left;

that we'll reach the end of the end.

Marina.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I hope you are not mad at me.

Please forgive me.

All I want is the best for you.

We hadn't seen each other for so long

and when we did we began to fight.

-Forgive me. -It's alright.

We don't have to be like this.

I'm very worried.

Strange things have been happening.

What do you know?

Say it!

One week ago, Antonio came home completely shaken.

He said that an outrageous number of people

had killed themselves.

And with no apparent reason.

We went to sleep, woke up the next morning,

ate our breakfast and he went to work as usual.

And he disappeared. He disappeared.

I call him on his mobile, I looked for him on his work

and in every place I could think of.

I can't find him anywhere, he disappeared ever since.

He disappeared.

-He killed himself. -Don't say that.

Don't say that.

Don't say that.

I need to get out of here.

I need to get out of here. I need to!

I need to get out of here. I need to get out!

Let me get out of here.

-I love you. -Let me get out of here.

I love you.

I love you too.

I love you too.

I love you too.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

You say...

"I'll go away to another land, I'll go away to another sea.

Where there are other cities better than this one.

Every effort of mine is condemned by fate.

And my heart is buried like a corpse.

How long will my mind remain in this wasteland?

Wherever I may look wherever I turn my eyes,

I see the black ruins of my life here,

which I spent so many years, ruining and extinguishing."

New lands you will not find, nor will you find another sea.

The city will follow you.

You will roam the same streets.

You will age in the same neighborhoods.

The same houses where your hair will grow gray.

You will always arrive in this city.

Your wishes are useless.

There is no ship for you, there is no road.

The life you ruined here, in this tiny corner of the world,

you have ruined in the whole world.