Original subtitles

"Good News"

The lights...

Fedora the lights are fading

Fedora

I knew it...

... they're out

Fedora...a blackout!

Fedora where are you?

You know I'm afraid of the dark

Damn, they're hiking crude oil...

...to justify the atomic energy plants

Why give us television, if there's...

...no electricity?

It's a conspiracy

They are turning us into cavemen again

Feels like a tomb!

A sepulcher

I'm growing cold...Fedora!

The picture window...

...unbreakable!

Thieves! The thieving State

They're punishing us. We are naughty.

They're raising...

the cost of electricity

Where are you?

Stop hiding, please. I beg you

Who is it?

OK, it's you...

You're afraid?

As if you didn't know

Fedora...

...I feel if I were a ghost

I am one...

My ghost will hunt this house. Yours, too

...after death. Kiss me.

Quick recovery!

Let's make love.Like two ghosts

Blackouts are beautiful! I'm for blackouts!

"Still another ruthless political assassination"

"comitted last night during the blackout!

"in a crowded street of the Capital"

"The noted political figure and builder F. Proietti"

"was approached by two men dressed as policemen"

"They fired 11 shots, point-blank, without silencers"

"at his head and neck"

"killing him instantly"

325 here, I'm in conference

Funeral in Catania

Coaxial cable!

Rating 11

Repeat on tonight's news. Tomorrow's too

Maybe the day after

Not prime time, in between

I'm in conference

"Funeral was held today in Rome"

"For Judge Gbia, brutally murdered"

"3 days ago by masked killers"

"No political group has yet vindicated the crime"

"Police suspects he's the victim"

"of finacial groups"

"implicated in illicit dealings"

"And now, some of the grave incidents"

"that have rocked our italian cities..."

"during the long and tiring blackout"

"Bombs and grenades were thrown"

"In Rome against offices of eminent gynecologysts"

"In Turin and Padua"

"terrorists zeroed in on Finance-Police Headquarters"

"In Genua they destroyed"

" a transient hotel near the train station!

"Terrorist action also in Pisa..."

"Savona and Milan"

An anonymous call. A bomb. We're clearing out

Great!

Will you keep quiet!

Here they come

The "Cavalry"

Want to take a look?

No, let's make love

You've a mean looking face

...you're mean inside

You woke with a mean looking face

... and you're dying to take it out...

...on somebody

Cut the shit

Have you chosen somebody to clobber?

I don't know- why the fuck we're still together

We don't want kids because they'd be unhappy

Our sex life is...squalied

...and occasional

We own three-way property

Dividing it is a problem

Freezer TV Stereo

My trailer?

The coffee's in the kitchen, so get it yourself

Will you tell me, why the fuck we're together?

Why renounce freedom?

...why cling to a mistake?

I knew ii! You chose somebody

Somebody?

Somebody to clobber

You chose me

Why you cose me?

You're handy

Had there been another, I'd have chosen her

I've no alternative

No, that's not it

Meaning?

That you always hurt the one that loves you

Idiot! What's so funny?

How rhetorical!

...holy shit

"The Saint ? Hospital, reported

"another three deaths today"

"caused by an unknown respiratory disorder"

Is that you,Tignetti? I need you

Well?

Dont be abrupt. It's a very delicate matter

Come in...

You know that death is inevitable?

Yes or no?

Yes, I know

Sit...

So?

Everything considered...

...a man asks a little of life before dying

Continue...

Before dying, I ask...

Why is it I don't appeal women?

What are your feelings?

Let me think

Do, by all means

The truth is I need something more to go on

Naturally...

When I'm near one of you...

...I'm not well, I feel uneasy

...it's maddening, unbearable, you know why?

Excuse me...

Because I'm eyed as if...

...was something strange, different

from outer space.Understand?

Alien

inferior

Whereas you women for me are everything

What's wrong with me?

Let's see

Get ready...There

Too short? Too long?

Lacks character? Too aggressive?

What nonsense! That's not it

I don't say it isn't important, but it's not everything

The what's wrong with me... my teeth?

...color of my eyes?...my hair?

I smell...huh?

Tell me

Without pity

Get dressed

Your wife?

We never talk about such things

She refuses the role of the wife. She's infantile

She's unhappy. That's true...

...like me

Yet she married you. There must have been...

...some attraction

She's a pathological case. Instead of measles, she caught me

Besides, must we attract wives only?

There are others.Many others!

Do you realize how many there are?

How many...right here?

There's Maino...There's Padovani...

And Cicerchia, and Spazzapan...

How 'bout Vendetti? Bignardi...

Yes, there's Guerra! And Siciliano

Neroni

Ah, beautiful Neroni

There's Pecoretti

Do you like yourself?

Very much...no, not at all.

Then why should women?

But you.Tignetti...tell the truth

...seeing as we've found a way to be sincere...

You like me?

yes

Then let's make love before dying

Go f... yourself

Think about it

You haven't a chance in hell

"The clashes..."

"between police and demonstrators in Milan"

"continued late into the night"

"Despite the many arrests"

"groups of students in the outlying areas"

"engaged the police"

"in sudden, violent attacks"

Yes, speaking

Gualtiero? Gualtiero who?

Milano?

Oh, Gualtiero Milano

What a surprise! How are you, Gualtiero?

...been so long!

You mean now? Immediately?

Is it really so urgent?

Well, today...

...is Sunday

I usually devote the day to my wife, poor thing

We're so seldom together

Very well, all right

...at the Cavour Bridge, along the Tiber

Fedora...

I'm going down for a paper

I'll be going down to get a paper

I'll be back...

...in an hour. Maybe more

I no longer love you. I love another woman

I'll be back tonight

...be back tomorrow

Never coming back

Gualtiero!

...Oh finally...

Some pastry?

No, don't sit

let's go away from here

Bachelor?

No, I'm married

My wife's name is...Ada

What was so urgent?

Keep it for me

...or I'll end up killing somebody

...I keep seeing shadows...

Who's that?

Take it back...put it away

Go on...

A jeweler?

You're a bank teller? A judge?

No. I'm a high school teacher

Just like my wife

Then why the fuck carry a gun?

You teach advanced students?

No, my pupils like me very much

Well then?

Watever might happen to me remember this:

You've always been my best friend

Don't forget it

What the fuck are you saying?

What best friend? 15 years we haven't seen each other

Anyway. What's wrong?

Somebody wants to kill me

I "feel" that someone wants to kill me

Any proof?

You don't believe me. And yet, you must

You don't believe me...

...only because I am not dead

Otherwise, you'd believe me. Even my wife would

When it happens, then what?

what'll you say?

I "feel" it. I know they'll do it

Who? Who will do it?

I don't know

You see that?

...even a dog!

You want one?

All of a sudden, I'm hungry

Gualtiero, do you, in this very moment, feel...

that they're out to kill you?

More than ever

Very well. In that case...

Let's look at it from another angle

You're still a Communist?

No...

You're not right-wing?!

No...

You're still a Jew?

Naturally. But I don't dislike Arabs

They're lazy, like me

Jealous husband?

I wouldn't say...

I don't enjoy betraying my wife

You're rich?

Almost poor. My wife is rich...her father

...a millionaire

Well then why the fuck do they want to kill you?

All right...

But I "feel" that somebody...

...will kill me

One night I went for a walk

...the streets were bare. Suddenly a car came rushing

straight at me, it missed by a hair

...and trashed into a pharmacy. A Mercedes

Yet you weren't killed

But once in a seafood place, the fish...

...was rotten. Stomach pump. It's a miracle I'm alive

It's a miracle all of us are alive!

Oh, that was nothing...

I was almost torn to pieces by a dog

What dog?

By Arturo

Did he attck others?

Many others, but I ended up in a hospital

For chrissake...

...these things happen to just about everybody

Don't be morbid...Look!

What is it?

...drug addicts

Don't look. I feel death breathing on me

I'm not morbid

Your wife says you are?

She loves you?

We've a liberal relationship. That is, she has

She comes and goes. She loves me like a pet

We're friends. Ada's a nymphomaniac

And you?

I masturbate

Well, everyone has to solve his own propblems

Look there...

You know how I spent my time? Waltz

I do well.

They'll kill him

Gualtiero...Gualtiero...you're not a queer, are you?

Absolutely not

Are you sure?

I'd tell you

Then why should they kill you?

Should I tell you?

I "wish" it

Why?

I won't tell you. Good-bye

"The cows put to death..."

"number 1500"

"They were burned in a tract of land declared"

"uncultivalable for a period of 10 years"

"A recleaning program in the polluted area is under way"

Look. Doesn't she resemble Bernedetta?

Yes, very much

We never invite Bernedetta

Why should we invite Bernedetta?

You're friends

Yes, she plays the lady, and...

and I stay back in the kitchen

You know... I feel sorry for Bernedetta

A son...seperated

Two attempts at suicide

... and besides

besides...she's beautiful

Very beautiful

Why don't you say it?

Yes, she's very beautiful

"And now, the latest events"

"in Naples, at the funeral of Assistant Prosecutor..."

It's years I haven't watch the sun set

What was that you said?

...come again

It's been years I haven't seen a sunset

How come so romantic?

Fuck off!

Bingo! Here we go again

You, talking about sunsets...

...you, normally so trivial

You "are" trivial

I'd say...

...trivial like a fascist

What the fuck does that mean?

Why a fucking fascist?

My paper

Only fascists talk like you do

with "fuck" always on the tip of the tongue

It's true, I'm trivial

I know it...fucking well!

But shit, what the fuck can I do?

That's how I talk

Yes, I'm perfectly aware...

...that I should talk differently

But the trivialities come out by themselves

If I keep them in...fuck!

It's like obeying an inner police force

...it's censorship

I mean, fuck that's not right

...shit...fuck...cock...ass

You see?

As they come to mind, they come to mouth

They're like a comma

...like a semicolon

...a paranthesis

A period, paragraph, I'm lying

Not a fuckin' word is true!

For instance, if I say "cock"

...I don't mean "comma"

If I say "cock", I mean just that, "COCK"

You fucked or cocked 7 times

Fedora, let me try something

If I close my eyes...and say cock

Let's see what comes to mind

COCK!

That was no comma, I actually saw a cock

Let's try another image

UP YOURS!

I definetly saw anal inter...

I need these trivialities

To defend myself

...against, I don't know

Perhaps, against...

...spirituality

Bernedetta!

It's ready! Come, set the table!

If I say "up yours" I envision...

...having anal coitus, don't you?

No, forget it

If I say "cock" I actually see...

a penis. I tested myself in bed once

I need to be trivial

...as a defense against spirutuality

You see, dear...

...between 13 and 20 years of age

....I resorted to these shocking words

They symbolized real things: smells, fetid odors

...excrement...shit, piss...

...so that people wouldn't see the real me

...my true self. My heart was soft, gentle

I was afraid...

...they'd crush it. Besides

...I loved the shock

People were actually shocked?

For instance...

"Hey"...down there

What's "her" name?

Vagina

I say "cunt"

Cunt is very derogatory

You know why you think "cock"?

Why?

Probably because you like cock

Bernedetta

Bernedetta

You hear me?

Hear what?

Let's play...

...hide and seek

I'll count to see who's "it"

She was "it"

It doesn't matter, but it's just not fair

Go on, hide! I always get the short end

...it's a conspiracy

Count, Fedora! Don't cheat, Fedora

Through here...

What are you doing?

..a kiss!

..a kiss!

Not here, behind her back

Where then?

...now's the time!

No, I'm her friend

Am I not your friend?

It's between us. What if I said...

...that I loved you?

I'd kiss you for less. I'm weak

Don't...

Not behind her back!

Bernedetta!...it's between us!

Bernedetta, one-two-three

"Another tragic death was reported earlier today"

"shortly after 9 A.M."

"in a Post Office iin Modena"

"A woman approached a clerk"

"and consigned"

"a package"

"measuring about eight inches"

Who is it?

"As the woman was leaving the building"

"the clerk became suspicious of a ticking noise"

"and decided to notify..."

It's for you,sir

Hold it! It wouldn't be a bomb?

So what?

It might. But a woman brought it

What woman?...

She was beautiful

What's beauty got to do with it?

Good luck

"I'm Ada, Gualtiero's wife"

"I must see you"

When?

"Immediately. It's urgent"

"If I can't turn to his closest friend"

"where can I turn?"

Naturally. Where are you?

"in the garden below you"

"I have a mauve coat and I'm with a German shepherd"

Mauve? The color, yes. Be right there

Ma'am? You're Ada?

Don't worry, he's trained

You can take this back

Down, Dako, he's a friend. Sitz!

Signora Ada...

...take it back

I said he's a friend. Sitz!

...Sitz!

The box was Gualtiero's way...

...of asking for help

Perhaps. But listen, Madame, I'm not...

Call me Ada

Ohh...don't shout. Dako musn't...

...be aware of hostility Do you understand?

All right, Madame, but...

...there's a misunderstanding...

Stop running! You're upsetting him more.

Good Dako, come. The gentleman...

...is the Master's best friend, and so...

...he's your friend too

Sitz, Dako!

Signora Ada...

I knew a boy in school called Gualtiero

Undoubtedly, the man I met last Sunday...

...is the Gualtiero of many years back

But now he's gone mad. He's not the same

Sitz!

Sitz! You follow me?

I can't say I know him

I'm missing several chapters of his life

The whole second act. You follow me, Signora?

I am not Gualtiero's best friend

I'm not! How else I can tell you?

Don't insist!

Is that clear?

It's brutal

No, Ada. Signora...

...don't do that...the dog

Don't be so formal

...stop it now...

You're so young. I imagined you older

...I'm desperate

Gualtiero came back with a hole in his coat

He must have shot himself

He sent the maid away. Accused her of spying

I sympathize, but...

How do I fit in?

What have I to do with...

...your personal affairs? I`m a stranger

Who are these people?

It's a bit crowded here

You fit in, dear! Even if you don't realze it

All these years he only spoke of you

...of how kind you were. Good...

...and affectionate

We were...young

You went to whorehouses together

...is that true?

It's true

He also said...

...you both loved

...the same whore. Is that true?

Is that true?

What's this with the whorehouse?

I must know

It's like he said

Gualtiero has sunken into a sort of mirage

He lives with this morbid fixation

It's like refusing to grow old

His little mania

Is it true he masturbates?

Certainly, but he doesn't do it in public

Ah, I wasn't sure

It's another of his infantile games

You fetch!

In conclusion...

...he's crazy. And the story he tells...

...isn't very credible

Do you think it's credible?

Sounds incredible to us, not to him

He's like a hunted man in a gangster film

Like that film by Siodmak...

to make his story more believable

Gualtiero might even do himself harm!

Kill himself...I'm afraid

I'm afraid

Well? We'd better go

There's only one way to avoid his killing himself

The nut-house?

A psychiatric hospital, an asylum...

...whatever. Even electroshock

If he's crazy, he's crazy!

There are plenty of hospitals and doctors

...we'll do what we can

...even... electroshock

Good. Tomorrow you'll come over and convince him

Right? I'll see you tomorrow

No, you won't!

Don't shout!

I'll shout all I like! Hold the dog

I can't take the responsibility

Taking him to the nut-house is your job

Why the fuck should I? Besides,psychos...

are creepy. They give me goose pimples

But he won't listen to me, only you. You're his friend

Only you can convince him to go

Come on, what's behind all this?

You doing it for money? A setup?

You want a loan? You need cash?

I'm very wealthy. And you?

I want to know you better, and be your friend also

Come tomorrow. But don't follow me now

Stay there! Enough now!

Why?...

Ada...Ad...

Who is it?

It's me, open up. But tie the dog

All right. Wait

The dog?

The dog's not here

What about Ada?

She's out with the dog

She coming back?

Who knows? She comes and goes

She's busy with a doctor

This...

This is yours

...one never knows...

You and Ada agree. I know because she told me

She wants to hospitalize me. Fine

Your opinions too are worthy of respect

Only I am not mad

However, I'll go along

I'm almost through packing though packing horrifies me

You went ahead and packed?

Why not? You want me in a hospital!

Very well. I'll gladly go with you

I trust you

I'm in your hands

I'll do whatever you want. But will you...

visit me?

Me?

You won't abandon me?

Certainely

However, be it known, that the hospital may turn out to be...

...my death cell

That's nonsense

Today's hospitals...

...are luxury hotels

Like in the film Grand Hotel: "People..."

"come, people go." And "they" murder me!

They'll come in!

No one'll enter...

...except Ada

And you?

...and myself

They should approach somebody employed there

...and corrupt them

I'll be afraid of every injection

...of every nurse

Electroshock! I'll be given shock treatment?

Don't faze me

But "they" could tamper with it...

All switches and plugs like Christ's thorns...what a death!

Gualtiero, "they" who?

Who else?!...them

...my enemies

Put these panties in too

I know, it sounds incredible

I'm perfectly aware. But if you two don't believe me

Especially you, who are my only friend

...it means my story is improbable. improbable...

...but true

And the shoe, here

...you can close the suitcase

What if I weren't your friend at all?

Well, do you want to be or not?

Actually, I don't know

Perhaps not. I'm sorry

It doesn't matter if you're not my friend

You were once

...I'm "your" friend

Isn't that enough? Get the suitcase

MASTURBATION

FASCISM

Ada forced me to come

You like Ada, huh?

Yes

Don't be shy, tell her

I will

You want some books? Take them

Poetry...

Philosophy...

Ornithology...whatever you want!

But now let's go

Hurry up. They're waiting

What hospital we going to?

"Salus Tua"

Ada and her doctor friend chose it

Gualtiero, shouldn't we wait for Ada?

Why? We've got the nut, and the nut-house too

"This is the telephone answering service of Gualtiero Milano"

"If you wish, you may leave a message after this waltz"

"Professor Milano, dig your grave, your time is up"

Always the same, for years

It's a persecution

It's a joke

No, it's them

It's "them"

Gualtiero, I'm not going to the hospital

Shall we wait for Ada?

Yes

...as you like

Can you dance the waltz?

No

Do you know what "waltz" means?

No

It means...

"sliding dance"

...in german

very interesting

That's true. We don't dance when we dance

...we "slide" like this

Let me teach you...

...how to waltz

It's nice to dance among men. It's like dancing...

...with oneself

The rhythm is one-two-three

You can divide time as you like

Why should a year have many days...

...and not only one long day?

One-two-three. Lightly, lightly

One-two-three. You begin over and over

When you think it'll change or stop...

...it starts over again.

Sorry

Come, glide. Let yourself go...

...lightly...

Isn't Ada coming?

Ada waltzes very well

We won many cups together

Gualtiero, I beg you...

...I'm fainting. How can I ever dance the waltz?

...I`ll only slide and crawl...

there's no hope, let me go...

Who cares? The waltz isn`t everything in life

Don't fall now

It's not over

How the fuck have you lived all these years?

I've lived...

...through terrifying spiritualistic sittings

Where everything flew. Chairs, tables, rugs

I spoke to Offenbach

... to Lehar, Strauss. Once, even to...

...Stalin

The sunset...let me see it at last

What sunset? Get up

You see?

...Ada didn't show up

Want some advice? Don't go looking for her

...she'll call you

Ada is very busy with the doctors

With a doctor, to be exact

Let's go...

I'm dying to have an electroshock

Ada sends her thanks

A certain Ada phoned this evening

...and very sensually said: "Thank your husband"

"I'll certainly show him my gratitude"

Who is Ada?

Ada is Gualtiero`s wife

How was your sunset?

What do you mean?

Your postcard sunset. How was it today?

I knew it, we've exchanged roles

Now I'm romantic, and you're cynical

What the fuck are you saying?

...and trivial besides

Very well...

What are you doing?

Take over the right

Haven't the roles changed?

On the right...

Why? I'm fine here

Didn't you always...accuse me...

... of being so conventional

We'll remedy that, starting with the bed

There, in my place, like a man

Big bully!

On our honeymoon you chose to stay on the right

It's always the same anyway

My things!

Yes, master

Strange, but from here...

...the view is decidedly better

I already feel womanly. How about you?

How silly. we're always the same

Nothing's changed. If only it were that simple

Be patient...

The experiment begins now

Shall we assume sexual roles?

...let's see

Let's see...

...want to play the male?

Get on top of me

...on top...

Go on, mount me

Mount me, turn around

Being the man isn't easy

You want to see a man?

Yeah, try...

Men do that

You wanted "male". What did you expect?

What are you trying to prove? That you've got one, and I don't

Besides, you'd have to turn over

With your ass in the air

Turn over!

...play the woman, the woman!

Afraid, huh?

You haven't got one

If you want to try with a man, go right ahead

...that's your business

...you haven't got one

That's true, but you'll scrub the kitchen anyway

...so don't break bails

"No boom for Italy, reported ISAP statistics"

"but a rise..."

"in unemployed and inflation"

Hello Hello

As you know, there's some unrest among the employees

Do you know why?

Because of the automatic seniority boosts

Exactly. We two union representatives have been...

...doing a public opinion survey

...regarding the seniority boosts

What's your opinion?

Please

What if I didn't have one?

What?

Find one

...pretty please

You're not oblieged, Chief

Think about it

I swear that I have no opinion

Besides, it's not easy to form an opinion

The seniority problem

...is very sad

Why discuss it? We're better forgetting it

What can we do about it?

Growing old is an incurable disease

as is death

For everybody

Right, everybody grows old. Everybody

In fact, workers and technicians age and die...

...before office employees department heads. And you know it

Many workers don't do a fucking thing all day

You see, you have an opinion!

I'm relating a fact

We workers tend to distort...

today's reality, which is bitter and harsh

These are troublesome times and the fault is also ours

We're making waves

You think so, Chief?

Everything must remain as is

The status quo

Better yet, the status quo

...of yesterday

You mean: factory workers 3 boosts, technicians 6

...office 9, Dept. Heads 10?

No, 12

You mean a Dept. Head....

...ages 4 times faster than a factory worker?

Exactly

He's overburdened wit responsibilities that often crush him

They destroy him. Cut him to...to

...to worker-size. Understand?

Yes

No

Look, I'll sustain any strike

Very kind...

...in favor of Dept. Heads

I knew it

Isn't our common goal, Comrades...

...that of saving the company?

You rotten fascist bastard!

Can't you see his a fascist? Shame!

Fascist!

You free?

Now, I'm in a conference. Why?

I've a question to ask

Let's hear

You wouldn't know, but sex for us men...

...is a constant sensation

I mean the thing itself the "genitals" in other words

Could you clarify?

Well, we feel it there

It's always, like a weight

...a knob

A protuerbance. A promontory

A pouch, a pack

A tumor

That too, Tignetti. Yet at times...

...tiger, hawk, shark

The question?

The question: Do women...

...also feel this physical presence relating...

...let's say...to their sex?

Owing... the structural differences of their...

...nature?

That's another thing you'll never know before dying

Not from me at least

Telegram

"Wondering why you don't keep"

"the promise you made"

"to come, visit me. Stop"

"six 'Salus Tua' Hospital"

"Via Guttani 85. Stop"

"Ada and I anxiously await you.Stop"

"Your only friend, Gualtiero"

I brought the cream puffs

How is he?

Was it... really necessary?

Three times. It's frightening

He talks with a lisp. He's like a little child

I scared you, didn't I?

I'm not dead yet

You kept your promise. A kiss

I have always had faith in you

...from earliest childhood. Remember?

I want to tell you something. Come close, both of you

I don't hold you...

responsible for my...eventual

...murder

The only fault you have is that...

...you judge too easily...by

...appearances

And so doing, you become...

...like all others

That is, banal

Anyway, listen to me...

have no remorse...when they find my...

...cadaver

Because they will find it

...big, fat, and warm

...and dead

Come, Gualtiero! Don't start that again

I managed to spot...two

...of "them"...among the doctors

One's fat, the other stupid

...when they come, they'll...

...be biting...biting more

...more than?...

...they can chew!

Ah, I'll show them...I'll show them...

They're mad, not me

I'm not a Jew who lets himself be killed

Give it to me

The pistol...gimme

You are in cahoots!

Calm down or I'll call the doctor

Tell us who they are. Do you know?

No. And I never will

You'll never know

...another mysery...

Out! Get out!

Let's leave him alone

Later maybe?

No. You'll hear of me soon enough

The pastries...

Come, let's go

Where?

"I" sent you that telegram

You came for me, not him. Right?

Yes...

Come...

Come, let's talk

I sleep here, not him. Just in case, he needs me

Less light?

As you like...

...that's too dark

That's just right. Whatever happens remember...

...I love Gualtiero. He's my only treasure

I'm even jealous of you

I've often wondered why...

...he loves you so much

I've wondered why too

You must have something...

...now we'll see

What about...Gualtiero?

Be still!

Still...

Don't think about it

Gualtiero is happy

No need for remorse

He's happy?

He knows

...he imagines...

Don't worry

...we're alone now

He's not here

Just us

I'll do it

No...

Be still!

You're like a stubborn little boy

Is that why he likes you?...

...two little kids...

I like your t-shirt

Please, keep it on

I feel ridiculous with it on

I told you I liked it!

Beautiful underwear

Are they made of linen?

Beautiful shoes too

That's it...

Aren't you undressing?

No, wait...

...what did you do?

Why are you afraid?

You did something here, near the groin

A strange sensation

Totally new

I'll do it again...

What's wrong?

Let yourself go

It's not easy

I love you

...I could never hurt you

That's not possible

What's not?

That you love me

Why isn't it?

Because you barely know me

...you've no reason

What is this then?

...what I am doing?

...this is love...

I'm in love in this moment

But you have no faith. I wonder why?

Come to bed now, come

Sorry, but I'm taking it off

I have to

Now that you took it off...

...what'll you think of?

...of me?

I do think of you

You're thinking again

...of what?

Don't stare like that

...keep your eyes closed

What now?

You're staring!

I'm looking

darling...you're checking on me

You needn't worry

I won't eat it

What's to check?

Don't like to be looked at...in that way

In that way?

You are always thinking, thinking, thinking!

You're obsessed worse than Gualtiero is

You're thinking: "What's this slut doing?"

"How far will this whore go?"

"Nothing will stop her, the cunt"

...go on, admit it! And get out of my bed!

Ada, kindly stop shouting

There are 3 of us here. Me, you and a moralist

...who stares

...and passes judgement

We're four: you mind is thinking too

I think because I feel you thinking. But I don't have...

...your gift of thinking

I've a gift for loving

You think too! Goddammit!

You think: "Look at all the tartar on his teeth"

"The hairs in his nose, and what wrinkled skin!"

Yeah, that's...

what you think

Besides, in this room, there are 5 of us!

Us four plus Gualtiero

...5 of us!

You're ashamed of making love

Me, ashamed? Hey, I'm renowed for being unhibited

I pity your wife. She must be...

...very unhappy

I don't want to talk anymore. Go away

I admit it...

I thought all the things you said

"slut" was the kindest

...I'm being sincere

Doctor, listen! Come over here

Here, near me!

Come, Doctor, I've something to tell you

Get me out!

Doctor...don't go away...

"You're Ferdinando? I'm your TV Healer"

"What have you got, arthritis?"

"It's four years you've been in a wheelchair?"

"I'm concentrating. Keep your eye on my hand"

"Keep looking. Look at this one too"

Look into my eyes. Without blinking"

"Get up..."

"You gotta get up. I know it ain't easy"

"...get up!"

"There's movement. I can feel it"

"come closer"

"Towards me! Towards me!"

"Come! Don't fall on me"

"Touch the TV"

"You feel the heat? You've been healed!"

"You've been healed. Shout it! Shout it!"

All right, what's the sighing all about?

It helps me

How?

Fedora...

Dying scares me shitless

The two of us are seated here

...at the table, peacefully, tranquilly

...and you're afraid of dying. It's hardly the moment

When the fuck is?

I'm afraid in the toilet, at the movies, the office

...without warning

That's tough

To think I confided in you...

...because you say I always keep my thoughts to myself

They're not thoughts

They're imaginings

You "imagine" yourself dying, you don't think it

Besides, it's not you who has to die...here

...now

It's someone else

...who knows where or when?...

Call it imagination, but I'm scared shitless

Anyway, woman don't give a damn...

...about death. we don't have...

...your imagination

Fedora...listen

If I followed my instincts

...each time I imagined my death

I'd do this. Look

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die!

Nurses, doctors, scientists, save me!

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die!

You stink of tobacco...

If you're afraid of dying

then quit smoking

Please, stop smoking

You won't die, will you?

You won't leave me?

It's hardly the moment...

What the fuck's that?

I'm ashamed...

What is it?

I'm pregnant

I don't believe you

And yet...it's...true

Who survives us will know

Who survives us...has to be born

And who will be born...will die

Blackout time?

Abortion?

Noo!...

Maybe politically speaking, abortion is the right answer

...but I want the child

which means that abortion is politically wrong

I agree

The child's mine?

Stupid...

"A silent..."

"...crowd"

"gathered, and fell in step with the funeral procession"

"owing to a break in negatiations"

"regarding the question of"

"automatic seniority boosts for workers and technicians"

"all TV personel"

"decided to go to strike, as of now"

"Good night"

?? striking

What`s up?

They're??

Why?

The company says "no strike-indemnity"

It's a big mess

I want death-imdemnity. Better yet...

...birth-indemnity

And asshole-indemnity

When one's a born asshole, he should be protected

There's the invalid, the aged

...and the asshole

I had a terrible fight. I'm still shaking

I even hit him

Union man?

He went white. Poor thing!

A midget union man?

No, my son

Which one?

The four year old. Damn it all!

...now I am sorry

an just ??, in nursery school, all alone...

Goddammit!

Maybe he's even crying by himself

My husband's an asshole

It's his fault, the shithead

?? pick the kid up. There's a strike anyway

Want to get stoned?

Fedora, look...

...incredible

You believe it?

I don't. It's not possible

No, I do believe it. Everything's possible

Everybody...

...kills except us. Everybody steals, except us

Everybody screws

...except us

Everybody gets stoned

...except us

...How come?

Because we're abnormal

"Shortly after 9 P.M. this evening"

"another ruthless murder"

"Police have already begun an internal investigation"

"at the scene of the crime in one of Rome's private hospitals"

"That's the main entrance to the 'Salus Tua' Hospital"

"We've traced the killer's movements, though it's not certain..."

"he was alone. The killer walked through the garden"

"up to the car belonging to the victim's wife"

"Inside there was a ferocious police dog: Dako"

"The killer..."

"slit the poor dog's throat"

"and then entered the hospital, taking advantage of the fact"

"that the personel was busy serving supper to the sick"

"The killer headed straight for the victim's room, no.6"

Number 6...

...Gualtiero!

They got him!

"12 shots, fired point-blank with a caliber 7.65"

"The victim had no chance of offering resistance"

"also because he was wearing a modern straight-jacket"

"called the mercy shot"

Gualtiero...

Ada...Ada! Ada!

No, Fedora!

Why must you shout?

What happened? What is it?

Fedora! They murdered Gualtiero

Gualtiero...who?

Gualtiero...Milano

Gualtiero...my best friend

No...not Gualtiero Milano

...it can't be your friend

Quiet! Let me hear!...Let me hear!

Shuttup! I can't hear with you talking

"Masturbation"

That's Ada! Let me go

"He was an honourable man"

What do you want?

Wait

You stay here. Quiet. Besides, you're pregnant

Good evening, Commisioner...

I'm...Gualtiero Milano's best friend

...can I be any help?

Do you know who killed him?

I'm asking you that

I don't know

You see? You're of no help at all

...that's life

Just one thing!

I'd like to speak to the widow

Not possible

...she's upstairs sleeping

Where were you at the time of the killing?

I don't know, they didn't give the time on TV

Who was watching with you?

My wife, Fedora

It was neither you, nor your wife

So go home. Good night

May I?

Gualtiero!...

We killed him...It's our fault

Ada and I... he brought you to this damned place

They'd have killed him anyway

Yes, but we...

...didn't believe him

How could one believe all your stories, dear Gualtiero?

Who was supposed to kill him? Why?

He had no vices, no secrets

A spotless life

...an open book

And yet, even then one dies...

...a natural death

he leaves behind many queries which...

...go unanswered

Take my dog...

he died a year and three months ago of old age

Well, I'm still asking myself!

...did he really love me?

...was he a friend?

My friend...my friend!

...or was it only because I fed him

...three times a day?

That...is the question

To a dog all Masters are equal

Calm down, or they'll give you an electroshock

I don't care what they do anymore

Sounds like a love affair among queers

How's that?

I can spot it, believes. An affair among queers

You're the one that's queer

Why're you laughing?

Yeah, I'm laughing, I'm laughing

...maybe it was all a mistake

A government VIP is a patient downstairs

Upstairs there's one from the opposition

Your friend was in the middle

What about Gualtiiero's dog, huh?

Dako? Why did they kill him?

Good-bye

Why did they kill Dako?

Why the fuck did you come here?

The police take note of who's present

...and studies everyone's reaction

Besides, why all the hysteria? He was "my" friend

You didn't know him

Quiet!

Where the fuck is all the grief coming from anyway?

The Commissioner...come,dear

Come on, stop it

Look. Your crying is making me cry

Imagine if you knew him? You'd have slashed your wrists!

I did know him!

...and in every sense

It's his child I'm expecting

You mean Gualtiero Milano?

Yes, Gualtiero!

It's not true! It's not true!

I don't believe it

?? it's Gualtiero's child I'm carrying

?? or I'll go mad

I demand an explanation. No, not now

How could you do it?

How could you?

An accident! The pill didn't work

The pill?

How come it always works with me?

An accident, I told you

We made love...only two times

...three, maybe!

...two or three?

I've everything written here

You even list your dirty escapades?

No, how manytimes I was Substitute Teacher in his high school

...February25, March 7, April 6

Maybe four times, say

and you made love right away, whore!

Don't be offensive, or I won't tell you anything

Well? Aren't you a whore?

I hoped we could be civil about this

What's so civil about...

...laying my best friend?

You hadn't seen him...

in over fifteen years

You shouldn't have done it with him

With anybody else but him

He's a Jew!

Did I say?...I said?...

A Jew I said?

I said a Jew?

Yes, you said: "He's a Jew"

A Jew, a Jew

You make me say these things

Look what you've done to me

Is it my fault if you're a rascist?

I didn't mean "Jew", I meant "friend"

With anybody but a friend

They knew later that you were friends. Later!

What I meant wasn`t "Jew", but "nut"

Fedora, I'm not going home

My face is a mess

There's some cologne water there

How did it get there?

I met him a year ago...

in connection with substitute teaching

Then one day, by accident, we find out...

you were once friends

and fond of each other. And hearing...

...about your youth...was wonderful, really

He'd tell me...that is

He'd tell me... about your dreams and everything

That is your dissapointments

It was like being...

...with another you, understand?

It was a "transference"

Transference my ass, you just...

...got laid

No, please, my love

The thing was a lot more complicated

That is I never stopped loving you

That's not true

Gualtiero made me understand certain things

...about you, that I never would have understood otherwise. Never!

Fantastic!

Besides, the truth is that he saw in me...

What he'd see?

Saw who?

He saw...if I tell you you'll get mad

Go on...tell me

At this point...what's the difference?

...what's there to hide?

He saw you

What?

He saw you

He saw who?

He saw you

This is like some cheap novel

A crock of shit!

...it was only a...

...simple matter of: cock and cunt

What if it was?

And so?

And so what?

Thank God he only masturbated!

But why did that son a bitch...

...come to me? What did he want? Did you send him?

I hadn't seen him since March

...I swear

He knew you were pregnant?

Yes. Who gave you the cologne water?

How could he know if you hadn't seen him since March?

I told him when he called up for you

...the beginning of April

He started crying. He was seized with remorse

He sobbed

You have no remorse?

For me only the child counts

Ada...

Maybe Ada sent him to balance things

She gave me the pistol to see...

...if I would use it on him

Someone did kill him, that's for sure

Where's the pistol

...the one in the shoe box

I threw it in the river

Why?

I was afraid of the police

in fact, let's be careful, we're the first they'll suspect

My love...

Who cares about the police? We have nothing to fear

Oh, I'm so filled with remorse, my love

...overflowing

...to the brim

you've got to believe me, love

What'll we do now?

We'll call him Gualtiero

...or Ada

The sunset

...Dammit all

...it went down

"From Gualtiero Milano"

"Do not open"

Why not?

Money!...

A bomb. Everybody clear the building

...you can stay if you like

You son of a bitch. Why shouldn't I open it?

Because you say so?

Why should I...spend

my life putting together a puzzle?

Do not open

Do not open

What shouldn't I open?

What shouldn't I open?