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(dog crying)

- [Voiceover] For God's sake, what's that?

- [Voiceover] Now, can you explain to me

why you put a dead dog on the front cover?

- [Voiceover] This is a black box.

- [Voiceover] I'm your psychiatrist,

mechanic.

- [Voiceover] Pardon?

- [Voiceover] You're the protagonist

of a broken down road movie.

Therefore, you need a psychiatrist, mechanic.

- [Voiceover] This is a psycho-drama.

This is your black box.

(speaking in French)

It belongs to the Periscope Magazine Corporation,

an imaginary company.

- [Voiceover] You are a paparazzi

looking for Ms. World 1976

in Kingston, Jamaica.

- [Voiceover] This black box

contains all the memory

of your last expedition.

It digitally recorded every move, every thought,

every breath, everything.

You've been traumatized by a special experience.

In the front, four buttons.

Let's push play.

(sucking)

- Yeah, that good.

Yeah, man.

Boys, that's right.

- [Voiceover] Well, we must rewind the tape.

- Yeah, man, good thing for everybody, you know.

- [Voiceover] Um, I one day I hope

psychiatrically I can be helped to stop smoking.

- [Voiceover] Okay, now, why do you want to stop smoking?

- [Voiceover] Because I--

- [Voiceover] There it is.

The opening of the psycho-drama.

Just at the beginning of the end.

- [Voiceover] Right, now, some people argue

that the circumference of a cigarette

is the same as the circumference of a female nipple,

and that what you're doing is satisfying your desire

to be breast-fed.

- [Voiceover] Boy, I wish I could do that

as much as I smoke.

- [Voiceover] No sleeping allowed since three days,

you're lost.

You must find your hotel, your septic universe.

Did you find Ms. World 1976?

- [Voiceover] This is not your world.

You don't want to get into contact with it.

You must not get into contact with it.

That's all you have in mind.

That's what everybody told you to think.

- [Voiceover] No choice.

Stop the movement.

The doors are locked.

Nothing can happen to you.

(bird calling)

- [Voiceover] Hallucinations due to active paranoia.

Dreams, watch out.

You're ready to wake up in three seconds.

One, two, three.

Contact.

(grating)

(pounding)

- Hey, man.

What's up, man.

- [Voiceover] Do you feel panic?

- [Voiceover] Interesting.

(grating)

- [Voiceover] Pardon me?

- [Voiceover] This man,

you should follow this man.

- What do you mean, what's the problem?

- [Voiceover] No problem.

Everything is okay.

- Stay calm man, we're cool.

- [Voiceover] The car seems dead.

While you were dreaming about a potential pelican,

someone had stolen a piece of your engine.

The man said to you,

"Get out of your car,

"follow me, man."

- [Voiceover] Mike also said,

"I know a man who can help you."

And you got out of your submarine,

and you followed him.

Very interesting.

How do you feel about this?

- [Voiceover] You're calm, nervous at the same time.

The universe around you looks like a bombed town.

It's like a hurricane just passed by a few minutes ago.

Your car didn't stop in a normal place.

You must be very careful.

You're walking on the border of the eye of your storm.

You're in the middle of Trench Town.

Talk to me about the storm.

(hissing)

- Yeah, man, that's Stewart.

This is the mechanic, he can handle everything.

- Hey, now.

Good afternoon, sir.

I'm Hector Stewart, pleased to meet you.

- [Voiceover] He'll take a look at your car

tomorrow afternoon.

Please focus, remember.

- [Voiceover] Don't miss it, I'm at the market.

- [Voiceover] Not so loud, you might wake yourself up.

You're in the headquarters of the Periscope Magazine

Corporation, a few days before your departure.

What are you doing there?

- [Voiceover] Why?

- Now you have to be very careful.

This country's only 30 years old.

A teenager.

By the way, half the island is under 18.

A third of the population is under the step

of extreme poverty,

the scale of violence is comparable

to the worst parts of Los Angeles.

These people have no respect for life.

- [Voiceover] Now we can come back to your car

with more perspective.

- [Voiceover] And he answered, Trench Town.

- [Voiceover] Right in the middle of it.

Why are you so afraid?

- Now, in that country, you never open your doors,

you always keep your doors locked.

You never roll down your windows,

and always wear a seat belt, in case you need to take

evasive action.

If you're followed, you must never go home.

If you're seriously concerned for your personal safety,

do not hesitate to drive on sidewalks,

against opposing lanes of traffic or even

through traffic lights.

You never get out of your vehicle,

and always bring a few spare parts for your vehicle.

In some areas, spare parts aren't very hard to obtain.

You must not drive in areas of known danger,

and if you have an accident in those areas,

do not stop.

You must never drive alone,

and if you are accosted,

do not resist.

- [Voiceover] Hmm, you're more traumatized than I thought.

- [Voiceover] Concentrate, now.

You must associate the image of your car

with the dog.

Bring the dog and the car to life.

Good.

Alma Mockyen will begin to speak in three seconds.

- [Voiceover] The voice.

- Now, the problem seems to be

to keep things in balance.

We want to hold on to some of the

spirituality of the life we knew

when we were largely rural-oriented folk.

We didn't necessarily live in the country,

but our lives were the simple lives

of rural people.

And we want not to lose that.

We want not to lose the friendliness

that you find in families even today,

which is why,

when an overseas researcher comes here,

he can see that

we have something to offer

at family level,

where it's just people relating to people

in a close association.

- [Voiceover] The room.

- [Voiceover] Mike says to you,

"You can stay the night."

He says that the mechanic will take a look

at your car tomorrow.

He says that you're their guest,

and then invites you to go with them,

talk with his friends.

- [Voiceover] Why?

- [Voiceover] You want to kill time like a dog on a road.

(radio chatter)

- [Voiceover] Asking confirmation for landing, over.

- [Voiceover] Ground control to November 29,

we give you the okay for landing.

The day is over, I repeat,

the day is over.

You can begin your landing procedures, over.

- [Voiceover] November 29, ground control well received

for landing in 45 seconds, over and out.

- [Voiceover] You see?

You're creating your own psycho-drama.

You're the director.

Remember the dog and the car.

Shut up.

You direct your own reality.

Reality is not celluloid.

Open the light and go inside.

Exit the frame.

- [Voiceover] November 29 is over.

Over and out.

- [Voiceover] Stop your cinema.

Wake up.

(rooster calling)

(rooster calling)

- [Voiceover] And from 2000 radios, you're hearing the voice

on air.

- [Voiceover] How do we say to ourselves,

as well as to people coming in,

understand the person behind the broad nose

or the straight nose or the slanted eyes

or the straight hair follicle

or the kinky hair follicle,

or whatever.

The harder it is for you to identify with the person

you are seeing, the more you tend to

put distance between yourself and them.

And that, too,

is influx.

That too is changing,

and again, my thesis is

how do we keep this thing in balance?

- [Voiceover] Do you trust him?

- [Voiceover] Why did you start to teach?

- [Voiceover] Now, we're ready to go much further.

It has been nine days since you're there

and you're still alive.

Your car's not fixed yet.

The mechanic, Mr. Stewart,

is too busy building his own car.

He says to you, "Soon, come."

The rhythm slowly begins to appeal to you.

During those days,

your attention has been attracted by a very strange man.

He's always in the background.

Always somewhere, hidden on the set.

So you decide to watch him with your

250mm lens.

(chattering)

* Ah yeah

* Alright now

* Live right

* So right

* Life will be brighter

* Yeah

* Peace

* For many on the outside looking in

* We in on the inside looking out

* Every action

* Every action

* There's a reaction

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* My name is the Carrion

* And take the call

* Don't chose come on

* It been grateful

* And they on top

* And they on bottom

* Ja Ja in the middle

* Darkness my riddle

* Say

* Do right, do right, do right, do right

* Oh yeah

* Alright now

* Say it

* Live right

* Live right, live right, live right, live right

* So right

* Life will be much brighter

* I say

* Every little action

* There's a reaction

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

* Bounce back

Charlie, why offer you (mumbling)

give the (mumbling).

(speaking in foreign language)

- [Voiceover] Without warning, you find yourself

right in the middle of one of their famous

philosophical discussions.

- [Voiceover] Your car begins to fit in the scenery.

- [Voiceover] Keep your mental car in movement.

Remember.

- The notion of efficiency doesn't even exist there.

Do you understand?

Now, you have to work on the occidental speed

in African laziness.

I know what I'm talkin' about, boy,

I spent nine years of my life in Africa.

Oh, it's a fascinating land.

My childhood dreams.

Africa is where mankind was born.

Africa belongs to the early beginning of life.

The African landscape grabs your soul, boy.

Like wings in the air.

This human hell is a paradise for photography.

- [Voiceover] You decide to do what you're supposed to do.

Shoot pictures.

- [Voiceover] Photography gives you the opportunity

to get closer and closer.

This man may be the key to your problem.

You decide to follow him.

- [Voiceover] He can help you.

Trust me.

(creaking)

He's an engineer.

A car engineer.

- Most of these books

I found in the (mumbling).

And I see that it was good enough to read,

so I tried to put them together.

A lot of it has been destroyed.

And I see if I can, you know.

Put all of.

That was not properly

registered in the book.

But, on paper for myself.

I've been studying engineering, right,

but at a different level.

I've been studyin' transmissions,

like differentials and things like that.

- [Voiceover] But how can you repair

a manual of instruction?

- Well,

the only thing you can do is

like take what's on this

and put on that.

Like some of these, now.

This one, right.

You don't exactly know the word here,

but you could surmise it,

if you can think hard enough.

Why should that be there?

- [Voiceover] This man just gave you

the key.

- [Voiceover] One of the many African retentions

which have stayed with us

in the Caribbean, in the diaspora, I would say,

is the concept of the extended family.

Family doesn't necessarily have to be somebody

related to you by blood ties.

It's a people who live in the same yard with you,

it's people who share maybe

property with you.

And that extended family concept

has held our societies together for a long time.

Now what is happening,

is that the extended family,

for a variety of reasons,

is perhaps suffering a sea change.

Take a pivotal person in the extended family,

the grandmother.

The matriarchal figure.

We often speak of a mother

who fathered me.

Well this grandmother is now becoming a younger person.

The year-on system,

about which a lot has been written in our society,

that is where people live in a specific areas,

and when the parents of one group are not there,

they look after all the children and so on,

and they pass on values to their children.

Not necessarily your children.

Your extended family.

Well, this grandmother as I see is becoming

much younger.

She's in the labor force much longer,

she's not there anymore

to help teach the children

in this big yard household

the values that are necessary for social cohesion.

Yes, we are, very much a society

in change, in flux.

Now, the Jamaican woman still has

or may in fact be the mother of many children

by different fathers.

She is the strong, central figure.

She has to be, she has to scratch and scrape

to keep that family alive.

* This is myself and it's attractive

* 'Cause this is myself

* And he so active

* Oh so wonderful

* Oh so beautiful

* Oh so wonderful

* Said oh so beautiful

* So carumba

* So carumba

* Said aruba de Babylon

* Macopana irie liquor daughter

* It was a sexy liquor daughter

* Lord and when she start to rock with him

* The only thing it put the (mumbling)

* Is what

* You never knew love like this before

* Said he want some more

* Come on don't you give him some more

* Because he never

* Knew love like this before

* Said he want some more

* Come on don't you give him some more *

Sing, hear this.

* So, carumba

* Said aruba de Babylon

* Aruba de Babylon

(speaking in foreign language)

* So carumba

Higher, higher!

* So carumba

Higher!

* So carumba

Listen to me, now.

* Carumba de Babylon

* Arumba de Babylon

* Bacapana irie liquor daughter

* Bacapana irie liquor daughter *

- [Voiceover] The engineer is taking a look at your car.

- [Voiceover] What do you expect to find in Africa?

- [Voiceover] What do you see in those eyes?

Answer me.

- [Voiceover] The winds of the storm are coming back.

We're beginning to get out of her eye.

You hear the kerosene angels leaving the ground.

Your dogs return.

Your fear of dogs is coming back.

Everything is coming back.

How do you feel?

- [Voiceover] What do you see in those eyes?

(chattering)

- [Voiceover] A month later and you're out of there.

- [Voiceover] Keep the dog in the car alive.

Concentrate.

- [Voiceover] Don't lose your concentration.

(roaring)

* Forever

* I would say

* That Jaja is not

* The king of kings

* I would say

* That Jaja

* Is not my rightful ruler

* They must be mad, they must be mad

* Woah woah

* They must be mad, they must be mad *

- [Voiceover] The tape's finished.

Let's do it again.

Let's push play.

* I would say

* That Jaja ah

* Is not the king of king

* I would say

* That my master

* Is not the rightful ruler

* They must be mad

* They must be mad, they must be mad

* They must be mad

* Want you to do ah

* They must be mad

* They must be mad, they must be mad

* They'll take your daughter

* They must be mad

* They must be mad, they must be mad

* (mumbling) Mother

* They must be mad

* They must be mad, they must be mad

* Jah rastafari