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THE TRAFFlC JAM

- Lawyer.. - Yes.

Hello, Ferreri!

Thank you Commander. By dear.

How was Africa, lawyer?

Africa is a sewer.

Except the little good that the British did, of which soon there'll be no trace.

You picked the wrong time to land in Rome.

Three hours from Dakar to here, and as many to get to your country estate.

And this makes you laugh? - No sir.

Get a move on! - lt takes patience.

ls it all ready for the hunting trip? Who's coming?

The Honourable Abbadei, the chairman of Onix, the Marquise Dedali-Contini, ..

professor Gallucci, and under-secretary Marenco.

You see these, Ferreri?

They don't know why they're in the car.

They got into the car this morning to get on my nerves!

l should make you abort by dint of slaps!

But times have changed!

Parents must be friendly and sympathetic,

with this crap of children.

And l'll provide you with obstetrician and midwife.

But one thing is certain: the son of dishonor does not enter my house

At your home? l won' o ack to your home

- Thi piece of...! - Hands off

Y u, listen t da he speaks for your ood. - My good?

My only good is the child l bear.

And my sn and i a creature of God like the son of Brigida.

Oh no! Make no confuin ine is a legitimate child.

A child brn of parents reularly married, and not conceied with the first comer.

Yeah the irst! - Will you shut u

Where are we?

e're in Rome!

''Where are we''...

l came here on my honeymoon.

Will it take lon yet?

A bit of champane, lawyer?

- lt's col. - Yes.

Hold the glass.

But couldn't we o a little slower?

Slow down. He's in bad shape!

What are you saying? At four there's the game on TV.

ear, the button to the right. - l know. - This, look.

Asshole!

Fagot

What do you think, lrene?

You think we'll get to celebrate the olden wedding?

Meanwhile let's celebrate the silver ones.

ure with the cost f gol today better the silver ones.

l wonder if in Sorrent they'll gie us the same room.

Yes, they will, because l've asked for it.

hat a nice thought!

Yes, the room will be the same one. l'm no loner the same though.

hat a fool!

What's that kissing? You're old!

Yeah, o on kissin...

lf Mara were here, l'd show you what we two can do in the car.

Oh, no! Enough

l must no longer think of Mara.

She'll be already waiting now

Shll we move on?

What the fuck do you want?

Honk, honk!

eady? - eady. - o!

hat's up? Why you lauhing?

Riccardo told us a joke!

On what suect?

l'm not gonna tell yu. You don't know how to laugh.

And the others have heard it already.

Tell me, and l promise to laugh. - No!

What bastards you are!

''Do not tuch my ick... l get irritated!''

Let's change road... if we make it.

Call clonel Loffred of the traffic police

and ask which route is best.

See? You can't go the wrong side!

et out there, sto the traffic.

l must complete the maneuver, o.

They won't stop!

Get in the middle! top them!

There!

You can do the maneuver!

Ferreri

As son as the ueue mves again, create a oid!

Hey, listen, you!

Tell the ashole down there, that the cuckold is he.

hall l tell him mysel? - Yes, tell him.

What said that mron? - He said ''Tell... ''

Shall l really tell him? - Tell him.

He said: ''Tell that asshole that the cuckold... is you. ''

Tell him l'm sinle.

He said he's sinle.

Tell him his father too was sinle.

What did he say?

He said...

that also yur ather was single. But without malice only for oking.

Tell him that when l get off l'll ream his ass like this.

What did he say?

He said. . that. . when he ets o,

he'll ream. . your ass like this.

Cretin! Moron!

Let's stay calm and aoid accidents.

We're all neus wrecks ust a scratch and they may shoot you.

Because a traffic jam can make you be late, but

with an accident you may never arrive, and Mara is awaiting me.

They say that the wait

increases the desire.

Beware

Beware of not smoking too much!

l read somewhere that tobacco lessens virility.

ln these caes, the only thin to do is to stay quiet.

Why? ho said that?

The gun on't oke around, pull out my gun!

Where is it? - Come n, pull out his willy. - Willy? Where is it?

Hey l can't find it! - hat're you doin?

Come on tell me where you put the gun. - Eyes left!

What are they? artians?

These are the ltalians: all on the road's wrong side

Discipline is not our forte.

Tht's the trouble.

- Ever been t Moscow? - Not yet.

Well, all rads have one lane always free,

or firemen, minister and senior officials.

Here, the public transport lane are clogged by private cars.

Here but nt there. lf anyone dares Ferreri, if he dares...

- hat? - They shoot him.

They end him to Siberia - Once, Siberia. Now they shoot him.

No! - Yes. - No. - Yes. - No! - Yes! Enouh!

Take my word for, Ferreri. - Yes lawyer.

A child withut a father is like a plant without light, he'll never be happy.

So try to please dad, let's discard this one.

When yu find a nice husband we'll make another in God's grace.

Yes, make Dad happy.

Hey! ell? Are you nuts? on't you know that urine corrodes the aint?

lt's infant urine, it's iss of angel!

Yes of angel!

He als di it n my car you can't see anything.

And you call that a car?

Hey, what's the displacement? How much?

What?

The Ja, how much it costs?

And once you know

Well, ust to know...

Turn off the engines.

Save fuel.

Turn off the engines.

Save fuel.

Turn off the engines.

Save...

But what's oin on

Ferreri, turn off everything, includin the air conditioning.

Givanni? Tell him t wait before cooking the pasta. - Okay.

Giovanni? Get also sme mineral water. - Alright.

Yu have a phne tken? - Yeah. - Okay.

Ferreri? What're you lking at? - Me? Nothin.

Then don't moe.

Does he screw them oth?

Photoraphers are all fags.

Why don't yu unload me?

What's up there's no room in the hospital?

Granddad stay calm, we're not at the hospital yet.

How much will l et?

Of ail?

No, money.

l was run over by a bus. The public transport pays.

On the croswalk. l was run oer on the crosswalk.

l was lucky.

What can l lose? A le?

But l ache all over

You who are experienced do the account.

Suppose that l remain infirm,

how much do l get?

l don't knw it depends on your income when alive.

But l'm not dead.

Give him a shot o morphine, so he shuts up.

What are yu loking for, darling? - Nothing.

Nothing?

Then why did you empty your ba?

l'm looking fr house keys. l can't find them.

You wouldn't happen to hae them?

Who closed the door?

Me.

Then you should have the keys.

But l can't find them.

Seek well, dear, seek well.

Of coure, how stupi l in't know! One can seek well or seek bad!

And of course, l seek bad.

When you cloed the door, where did you put the keys, darling

l thought in my bag. - lf you did, they'll be there.

They should be there, but are not.

lf they're not there it means you didn't ut them.

lnstead l've put them and they're not there!

Wh closed the door? - l did!

Then i you don't have them it means that you left them in the lock.

ight, since l'm an idiot - l didn't say that.

You didn't, but you think o. - No, l think of else.

l think of what thieves will say. They're able to oen even armored doors!

lmaine

hen the thieves will fin the key in the lock how they'll be happy

l'm sure they'll ay: ''Thanks, ents, thanks a lot! You're really ery kind!''

No one answers.

How is it possible? Try another number.

See, l am a scialist, and as socialits say, to each according to his needs.

Now, l need the car, and thee don't. Not them

Well? - No way. lt eems that even your domestics went out by car. - By God

l'll fire them all

You know what l'm losing today? - A hunting trip.

And l oranize huntin trips for fun

Through his Eminence l bind the Vatican. They'll close my factory for pollution.

Now i the Vatican arees, the actory won't close and the workers are safe.

You see that l'm a socialist?

Where are you going?

To ee.

Come on, don't do so! Stick to the phone

Call the airport if there's a helicopter.

Or call General Pace.

The only way out of this complete mes is by helicopter.

hat about the car? - You stay riht?

Call.

Excuse me can l make a call please?

lt's a radio-telephone.

My excuses.

Hello!

Hello.

Will you drink something with us?

No, thank you.

Are you a feminist?

Yes.

Asshole.

Miss?

Miss...

You play fr a living, or you play ust for... - What?

N, nothing. l just wanted to know if you lay for a livin or for fun.

Speak louder, louder.

l just wanted t know i you play for a livin or for work.

l dn't grasp the meaning o the question. - l got confused.

l just wanted t know i... Never mind.

Hopefully we restart soon.

- What a type! What did you want to know?

l ust wanted to know if...

Cars are mae or going and instead they're stationary.

They make new roads and they also make new cars, you know

There they are

The road are yet t be inished and the new cars already come.

For sure we're a people full of imagination!

We gt the car t go? lnstead we're stationary

There's a law that allows abrtion? And this piece of wretch... - Hands o

Don't wash your dirty linen in public! - l'll kill her

He wants to kill my child!

e're in Naples

Granny! Germana's got a child in her belly! And has no father

We're goin

We start.

o, go, go!

You saw those assholes? ive me a phone token.

Ain't ot any l'm out of.

Now that they're all gone?

Open the phone, come on, get them from the phone

l ain't got the key, l'm closing. Boy, close

Lawyer! ir, the helicpter! - The helicopter!

Here.

Where is it going? Where is it going? here are you sending it?

Come come, come...

Hello, hell? Helicopter?

Call in Enlish!

By od, Ferreri!

lt's coming back?

o lon!

You must call in English

But l alo said it in French they didn't resond.

Sir, would you give me some mineral water

for a chil of a few month who's crying desperately?

No.

Thank you. Very kind.

Sir, you ot a flat tire.

Sir, for 3,000 l'll change it. here's the sare?

One thousand lire i fine. - Alright.

- lt's carbonated? - No.

Thank goodness, or it swells my stomach! Do you give a sip to the granma Thanks.

Did you like aunt's water?

Y u shouldn't even let her et near the kids got it?

Ferreri.

Ferreri, offer them 1,000 lire, no, whatever they ask, for that bottle.

l'm thirty. l can't keep on drinkin champagne!

Listen...

Would you sell me that bottle? 5000 lire.

- Yeah, 5000 lire

10,000, if you want it.

Let go. Let go!

Sir, we are poor but hnorable. The bottle, we don't sell it.

But we'll offer yu a drink with pleasure.

- Thank you, very kind.

Thank you very much.

They gave it for nothing poor folks.

Too bad it's warm.

ood and fresh.

Why haven't yu paid? l like to pay thins.

They didn't want anything. They're ood people.

You don't know shit if you say ood, poor.

Either they're gd or poor. The poor are never ood!

And what can they do us?

Everything! They hate us

Asshole! Get off

Hey!

h id yu call asshole? - Him, your son So what?

ascal! et o that car, you're spoiling it!

But, damn... et o, come on

Ersilio, where you going

No, huh! No hey! own down. Go away!

Get off! You want to break my car? - You can't call that a car!

Carloni!

What sir

What's oing on? hy aren't we moving

Nothing, sir a traic am a gridlock.

What is it a level crossing closed?

No it's a real gridlock. Like that natural.

All right.

There is Montefoschi! - Wh, the actor? - Yes.

- Marco Montefoschi?

Wh cares abut Mntefschi? - Who? - Right him - Marco Montefoschi?

Are you sure it' him? - Let me see. ho is? ho is?

Montefoschi, can l have an autoraph?

Carloni...

Has he aed l don't even reconize him.

ell, years o by ust for me?

l send them away? - No, let them.

Look how my dauhter dances.

Will yu et out of the way? Let him watch, will ya?

How handsome you are

Ma'am, let him see

Thank you, thank you...

But why don't you go fuck off?

Thank you, bravo.

They'll even wreck the car, these wretches!

Hey!

Carloni

Carloni where are you?

Dctor l have oun this man. - ood day.

o? - He has a house just off the road. hy don't you go rest a bit?

aybe a nack. - lf you do me the honor, you may freshen up and eat something.

Well, but if we restart... here is your house?

A few steps away. - Right there, beside the road.

Carloni come! Protect me, come Come on this other side!

Don't et out, l'll come there.

Back, stand back! on't push!

tand back

Sir?

l'm here. lt's me. Take him by the hnd.

Lok it's over there. - Come, sir, l'll protect you.

tand back

You'll hurt him!

- G away! - Montefoschi!

Let him through!

Mntefschi! Do you pay the taxes?

Enough with this water!

Teresa! Pull up the hose! Otherwise it'll be us to remain without water.

What now? No more water

See what they've done here? A bit more and they'd cut my house

But l won't move from here!

They mut give me a new home or kick me out at gunpoint

l ay well? - ell... - l'll lead the way.

Anyway, come get me son. - Let him be until restart!

Sir, you like fettuccine with sausage?

Teresa?

Look who's here.

- Good morning. - ood mornin.

But how can you not recognize him?

She can't recognixe me. Lately l've done above all theater, and then, now

with this beard for my next job...

No, my wife is truly silly.

ontefoschi. Montefoschi Marco.

Oh, l'm so sorry, sir!

But, l always watch you on TV! Excuse the gloe.

Then, in person you're so different.

ifferent how? - More... more handsome.

They were driving him craxy down there, with the autographs. Boors!

Go et a towel, he needs one.

Brin it clean, huh? The bathroom is here. Come, sir.

- Thank you. - Sure.

Thank you.

hat are you thinking?

A lot of things.

l should have gotten married but we couldn't find a house.

Then you do have a irlfriend.

Sure

N. That is, not in the sense you think though.

How? And what is the sense l think?

One who...

when you want to make love is game right away.

Yours doesn't let you

No she lets me make it.

So then?

But you see, it's always a strule.

Because she's afraid of ettin pregnant.

Doesn't she take the ill

The doctor has said she can't take it.

lt may be...

No, look, the doctor said it to me too.

There are other systems The spiral...

Yes, but how do l tell her that?

Then we never know where to go when we want to make loe.

ln a hotel she won't come.

You can d it here. Look.

Like that.

T tell the truth l thught o that, but it's not nice.

For whom? For her or for the owner?

For both.

You're all o be redone.

Will you escort me to pee?

Where?

l don't know, we'll see.

Hey, you there, what do you do? What do you look at?

Go away, impotent oyeurs!

Aren't you ashamed

Go go. cram!

o away!

Sometimes l think the world is going crazy

Neer mind them. What do you care?

lt is useless for you to look or. You won't find them.

l'm sorry but l found them. Here!

Oh yeah?

These are the key to mm's cellar that you lost two years ago.

They're not neeed anymore. We changed the lock.

Look at him!

Look how happy he is!

At heart you'd hate if l found those keys.

You are crazy.

l know you.

You're likely to wish that they burglarize the house,

so to vent your hate against me!

lrene, l lst just one big chance in my life 25 years ao.

That of remaining single!

l feel l'm clairvoyant.

l can see the key: they're there in the keyhole.

They speak they call:

''Sirs thieves cme over, run! Here's a olden oportunity''

''A cretin has facilitated your work. ''

''Apartment to loot. Keys in the keyhole and tenants stuck in the traic am. ''

lf you want back your freedom, you can.

lrene, don't provoke me.

Listen Carlo l never wished anybody's death,

but l swear: the widwhd must be something wonderful

Because a woman can speak well of her husband only as a widow.

''Oh the good soul o my husband!'' So they say riht?

All the little escapades that you had.

l kept quiet, but l was aware.

l kept uiet because it uited me, but .. eye for eye,

tooth for a tooth - l pity you.

l pity you you make me laugh.

Madame has had many lovers Were it not for me, you'd still be a sinster!

Now that l think about it...

l think l gave those damn keys ust to you.

lf you had given me the keys, l wuld have put them here in my pocket.

lnstead,

you didn't ive me anything, and l hae nothing.

Forget it.

When you least expect it you find them.

lt always happens so.

Not even at gunpoint they'll pen. - Why?

- Cme, lawyer. - They're afraid.

A uiet place hidden. - Curse uatters - eems made on purose!

here - Come, come.

Do nt run Ferreri, l can't... - Easy, easy.

Fin me a place. - ure!

Don't think about it. - Well it never hapened that, suddenly..

Here, l think here.

Ferreri! You see that...

Where are you going? - l dn't know. - Wait. Do it here behind. Look.

- Ferreri! - Oh, hae patience!

Lawyer! There it is, a nice little place!

Here it's quiet! Huh?

Hurry up. - Now l'll spread out the lanket...

Here, like this...

Thus, no one can see you.

How, no one? And you? Ferreri turn around!

Listen ..

Couldn't you stop that thing?

Which thing?

The taximeter.

hy?

Since we don't move.

We are still an the taximeter runs. lt's life.

l. . l must go to Nepal

To me, you said to take you to the highway junction.

You thught that l was oing to Nepal by taxi?

l'm oing by hitchhikin.

l'm meeting my friends at the hihway entrance.

For me...

You've never been to lndia

l haven't been there nor l wanna go.

Be kind, stop that thing.

ee l have just ver 20000 and we are already at 18.

l fear it's not enough.

Give it here.

That's it. You can get off. - What?

You'e paid me...

et off.

But l hae not arrived

lf the money i ver s i the rie. et o, et off.

But look what manners!

Where will l o now?

They're waiting for me at the hihway.

Hey wait don't go away My suitcase

May l come with you up to the highway unction

Huh

l'm nt going to Naples, no. To lndia.

Up to the junction. May l

Thank you.

Yuck, that sucks

See Ferreri?

You can always recognixe humanity by the stink.

Take note Ferreri.

Write: Viaduct construction...

with interchange junctin. .. Company... Have you written?

Thank you. - So then? Ferreri?

The land are all owned by Roma ud Real Estate,

that ha planned a semi-intensive urbanization, with permits etc..

Then the Public Wrk Ministry, with resolution etc.,

has iued a variant on the regional roads pln,

moving the expressway this one there, further south,

in a way that it came to bisect the land of the Roma Sud real estate.

Now everything stpped, since the pylns are made but the road is not

becaue the develper has appealed to the tate Council.

And so there are neither houses nor roads.

As to say that Roma Sud was riped off.

ell! et in the moe. Call Scamozzetti.

l want to uy the control of this firm.

But how, lawyer? Y u want to buy a con? - Yes.

A con can become a good deal.

See, Ferreri if the firm passes into my hands,

it wins the Council appeal,

the exressway moves north again,

we throw away these pylons,

with a igger we get rid f this shack, and l'll make an intensive district

cnnected to the city by this splendid and flowing expressway.

Excuse me.

lt's your uitar?

- Can yu sing? - Yes.

Will you sin?

All right. Bring me the guitar.

And the ciarettes.

There's a country where the children have to themselves many toy trains.

eal trains to let them roam, is not enough even this room.

Lng trains frm here to there runnin throuh the city.

The stationmaster i a small boy barely larger than his whistle,

the chie conductor is a little girl, cheerful as her little trumpet,

they're children the cntroller, the enine driver and the rakeman.

All seats on the little wagns are close to the windows,

and the ticket inspector, on his window, has posted this sign:

''Messrs. parents who are willin to travel,

who are willing t travel, must be accompanied. ''

You like it?

Can you play another

Serena what are you doin there? Come!

Alessandro What are you doing there? Come on u.

Maybe we restart.

Yes, we start.

Do you like children?

- hat? - Do you like children?

Those of the others.

So, shall we make the account?

e gotta see how many year you can live yet!

Twenty... Ten... Permanent disability.

Then it's a lot. Then if you were on the crosswalk.

Y u see? You see that in the misfortune l came out well

Let's speak softly, if not we'll disturb.

Oh God iuseppe!

- ho is? - My cat.

lt remained closed at home.

l live alone. Listen l make you a gift.

Go to my huse. Give fod and drink to my cat. - Yes, yes...

Quiet.

To Giusepe.

ure that if l was intereted in sports, it was much better.

At least now l wouldn't think of Mara.

Fortunately l have my cigarette to keep me company.

Provied that they'll last, or that this am ends before my half-cigarettes.

They say that cigarettes are bad and yet what's etter than a cigarette

Especially after a ood lay.

l must think of something sad.

Of a painful event.

Behold, that's it: now l think of the death of my aunt Luisa.

Last time l aw her she was already very serious.

Mara was with me.

l remember we made lve standing in the hallway.

Mara... l hate you.

ara, g away. Mara, enough. No, no, l don't hte you! l beg you, do not go!

Cme, come! The ltalian team fla! Come this way for the fla!

The flags at 1000 lire! Buy the flags ltaly has won!

Love, darling, come, we won

Are you happy

Proessor l'm sorry fr you you lost the bet: we won 1-0.

... the sccer game, the stadium was deserted...

... were trapped in the chain traffic jams...

... that are beginning to...

Also this newscast, like all other programs,

will be bradcast in a reduced version because of the lack of personnel.

The helicpters f the Army and of the Fire Brigade

for emergency transprts are insufficient.

And even the fuel risks shrtage, since the tankers are stuck in the traffic.

From Fiumicino airport is reported that

several airplanes g rund by now at the fuel limit,

pending arrival f air traffic contrllers who

should replace the ones who,

exhausted after 1 2 uninterrupted hurs of

service, have abandoned their posts.

rink.

rink.

When l see her drinking with such pasion, l love her even more!

l was explaining to your husband that in the current state of things,

the car the motoehicle no longer responds to a consumerist need,

but is reduced to a tatu ymbol, hence,

whether it circulates or not, it doesn't matter at all.

How right! You agree, Franco?

What? Yes, yes

l mean l don't know.

O coure l woul alo circulate with this car.

Profesor this goes to 160 without noticing.

You see,

he still cnceives the conumerist fact as a liberatin act.

You are out of the way!

Kee yourself updated. Let's keep updated.

And if we ha a little snack? - Great!

My wife, when we travel thinks of everything.

- Well, yes.

l need security.

The lady also foresaw emergency cases.

What are you doing?

lt may come in handy, right? - Sure.

Come on, out your paws!

What?

Your hands.

Me too me too.

What is it

Cleaning lui with flowers of the Caribbean.

Power of mass media.

Franco the water! - Oh, what horror!

Oh, l'm sorry, it has spilled!

lt doesn't matter, l'll go get it. l'll make a run.

Sir why don't you sit on the armchair?

You'll be more comfortable.

No l'm fine here, thanks.

You can eat safely here.

All homemade stuff.

The broadcast will resume asap

lt's cheek lard, not belly lard!

lt felt from how it tingles.

We nee n belly sir. e already have one.

- l it the irst son? - The first.

Or. . or the first daughter.

At the table.

- Sit down, sir. - Thanks

Try this wine.

Here.

ood.

Cheese.

Come on...

Pecorino?

Pecorino.

Go ahead, eat

Bon appetit. - Thank you, likewise.

ill you stop with those headlihts? Will you let us sleep?

So, you know what l id? l went to the Party and l said:

Oh, you marginalixe the minorities? Fine.

Then l distance myself l open to the left,

l pick the very reuests that come from the lower income layers

l create a disengagement zne, l raise the flag of the emergency,

and l break the conrontation. ls that clear?

- o then? - Then it's very clear!

The Hnorable Bini beats off, l wait that Mariani dies, and they make me enator.

Franco, you imagine? A friend Senator!

l'm truly, truly glad!

Can l give you a kiss?

l Franco allows... - But of course!

l'll take it back frm your future wife. Not bad at all!

hy you don't know that our bachelor will marry

Althugh ugly as he is, who knows what women find in him

lt would take champane to celebrate. - We ot no champane l'll et some water.

- l'll go myself. - No l'll o.

But no, l'll go. - l said l'll go! - Come on! - l'll go myself! - Please!

When they say cases of life You can't imagine how l knew.

No, l'd better. . - No. -. . follow her. Y'know, at night, with all these cars.

You'll tell me later. - Yes, right.

Angela let me explain the dynamics of the facts.

What fucking dynamics

Angela, don't do that!

Angela, listen

Angela, please! Angela?

Do not touch me

Feel mine, how light it is.

lndeed it' lighter. But it's not the weight that counts, it's the volume.

How do you carry it in Summer? - Better under

the armpit. Like the G-men.

You have to wear a jacket. You wear a acket in Summer? - ure

You can't carry it in your handbag.

Excuse me, natcher may l take the gun out of the handbag, so l shoot you?

Harlt! Whore!

Harlot!

Whre! - May l know with whom you have it

- You talking to me? - Yes.

l hae it with the car.

But can't you do a bit mre uietly? At least at night!

Slut!

Harlot!

Whore!

The broadcast will resume asap

Mr. Monteoschi. hy don't you stay and sleep here toniht?

My nephew's room is always empty.

Yes...

l don't know...

We are a simple family.

We cannot offer you much, but...

Y u've given me the most beautiful thing, an evening with the family.

l can imagine the liveliness in the city, huh?

Boredom you mean.

Wanna swap?

What?

Our lives.

Yours for mine.

What is your job

ine?

l'm a poor wretch, sir.

l drive a bulldoxer. And not even mine.

l earn a pittance.

All day on that sort of armored tank, for what? For 3000 lire per hour.

You know what is my true assion, sir?

The cinema.

Yes.

l don't know what l' give to.. to et a driver post in Cinecitta.

Just for being next t the fabled world of cinema.

You'd earn less.

But my nerves would be saner.

You know all day n that tank l tremble like a leaf

back home l need 2 sleeping pills.

He ances all ay on the digger and then in bed he still dances for half-hour.

You know what it takes now? A whiskey.

l got no whiskey. l hae wine if you like.

l hae it, ut it's in in the car.

Shall l fetch it?

l wish

Thank you.

hat are you doin? Are you crazy

Maybe...

it's because l never had a child.

Oh, God!

So they sing get it? They sing But l'll shoot them!

l'll show them! Leave me!

- Get off me! - The police

l care hit about the police! l ot a permit

At night yu sleep and during the day you work!

But they have it with us?

They sing! And they don't wanna work!

At night you sleep, in the day you wrk! - So, go to sleep!

lmagine, my father or his last 7 years, never spoke again.

Nt even on his deathbed. - He didn't seak to anyone

At home with anyone. Outie how would he do? He couldn't not speak.

He went to town fairs selling things a bit of everything, don't know.

One day we followed him at wrk, my brother iacomo and l and so

we aw how he spoke and how much he spoke.

And why not with you?

One day, my mother flew into a rae she seemed crazy.

l'd never seen her scream like that.

lt had neer happened before.

She yelle, she insulted him, she waved her hands in front of his face.

''Y u were not even able to buy a washin machine!''

She had a fixation for laundry.

l always saw my mother washing with her hands ruined by water.

Since that time, my father..

did not speak eer aain.

ln the house how did he do?

Everythin with getures. He would enter take o his hat go out..

But as for speaking he was mute.

o he remained mute until his death.

But, your father was terrible . - Dad was not terrible!

He was the kindest man l ever met.

He never slapped me.

He died when l was in the military.

This t say that, smetimes, life is like a novel.

What's your name? - Martina.

- Oh, lk, my name is Mari! - So?

They both begin with M!

Yeah.

That's true!

Yeah. lt was better if l'd taken the train.

By now l would have arrived,

and l'd be leeping, in bed, with Mara.

Mara?

Who is Mara

Mar does not exist.

Let us smoke a half-cigarette.

Enouh now!

Now, you sleep!

And if l dream of her?

- Ferreri? - Yes, lawyer.

- Are you awake? - Yes, lawyer.

For goodness sake, dn't all asleep. - No, lawyer.

Kee your eyes open, be on uard.

Here anything can hapen, huh

Rest assured, lawyer.

We are surrounded by uly varmints.

Vile people.

- Sure lawyer. - Watch out.

What is that noise Ferreri!

l'm eating... crackers, lawyer.

She sins, she sings...

Rather than bein ashamed.

Can l know at least what you're singin?

# All the cars stuck in the road... # - ermana!

ermana

Yes!

You know that dad loves you. - Yeah, l know! - He always loved you.

So then, listen to me.

We must have an abortion.

That is,

you must have an abortion. Abortion is legalized now

You remember the referendum?

lt was right yu who coninced me to vote for it.

hat's that got to d, dad? That one was for the divorce!

So what? lt' the ame thing You're youn, modern open-minded...

You won't tell me you're against abortion?

No, l'm not against, but l won't hae an abortion. - Why?

Like mm when pregnant f Vittrio and you weren't married yet.

What the fuck are you saying? Later l married her l ave a name to that child!

ls it true or nt? Your name is Vittorio Gargiulo

Are you Vittorio Gargiulo? - e leave? - Gargiulo is an honorable name!

A name you should be proud to bear! You understand?

And you know how he cares?

Silence!

l can't take it no more, l got tired.

Hey, stop the car l want to et off!

Granny it is from 12 hurs that we're stationary here.

Oh yeah?

lt's fine then

# Traffic jam... paralysis of life.

we are all bumper to bumper, traic am, a fuckin bummer... #

Germana...

Yes, dad.

Dn't ue the wrd ''fucking'' or the TV won't broadcast it.

Thanks dad.

Angela! Don't do that, l be you, Angela.

Look, nothin has changed between us.

Everythin stays as before.

Don't do like that.

You know what you are to me. You know well. l eg you.

- Wh is? - Huh?

Who is?

Oh, yes...

An insignificant woman, unimportant.

Even uly.

But for what reason you think l did it?

For my mom.

You know, she...

She's old.

l had prmised. Before clsing her eyes she wanted to see me married.

That woman doesn't interest me at all. Nothing!

He sleeps

Angela...

And you wouldn't tell me? - But what could l say?

Put yoursel in my shes! lt was a tragedy for me, believe me.

Angela l love yu. Come here, Angela.

Angela, come here, kiss me.

At least a kiss l beg yu! ive me a kiss.

- Don't you sleep? - Yes.

Yes, l sleep. l mean, l tried to sleep.

At first l slept, then l woke up sudden...

Well, l get off or a moment, l'll go for a walk.

He won't hae heard?

l throw myself under a car.

l throw myself under a car!

l throw myself under a car!

l throw myself under a car!

l throw myself under a car!

l throw myself under a car!

l throw myself under a car!

l throw myself under a car! Understood?

l throw myel under a car. l throw myself under a car!

l am a cuckold!

l want to die. - Bravo!

Before dyin, have a drink.

l was thirsty.

Thirsty for me

Beautiful..

beautiful..

Beautiful!

Beautiul! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful... - Oh, yes

Beautiful!

Hey take it easy you want to make me aort? - No...

Wait, l'll put myself above, huh?

Yes.

Yes, do it all yourself, yes.

Excue me but, l was not prepared for this meetin.

Franco

Franco, get a move on. We start, come on.

But what happened to you? lt is half an hour you're out!

What hapened?

Nothing.

lnstead of a quickie,

you took a nap.

Well, but now we leave, your husband wakes up.

Oh, no, he doesn't wake u.

Sir! e're leavin.

Sir?

ls he sleepin? We're leaving wake him up.

ir, ince we start, l took the liberty.. - Yeah, l'll be right.

Well but, you go like this?

Yeah, and when will you leave? Let's go back to bed.

You want to tay too? You can sleep on an armchair.

Well... No, l must watch the car. Riht?

Okay good niht.

- Turn it on. - We start

Turn on the headlights

They did him in!

- Who? - The guy of the truck.

Sonuvabitch! They're having a ball with her!

- What' up? - Look!

But l'll shoot them

- Are you crazy? You wanna get in troule?

And now what? - What you wanna do? Nothin. Come on, light up!

he's screwed by all 3! - Sure! Don't you read the papers?

Think that once a young girl o 15 years was screwed by 1 7 guys

Turn off! - hy?

lt usets me.

Dn't you know that abroad they pay to watch two that screw Light up

Were it your daughter you wouldn't be watchin, you would act.

Don't even mention my daughter, ot it?

Cme on, stay calm. You wanna quarrel over a hyothesis?

My daughter i at home. he doesn't walk alone at niht as a hooker.

Turn off.

No, turn on.

Fire a sht into the air. - Yes, yes.

Calm! Our firearm licene i for defendin ourselves and our families.

And who knows her

aybe she enjoys it.

Turn off! Turn o!

You who have seen it all, you must hel me.

But, what do you want?

From the car you've seen it all right? l need witnesses.

Witnesses of what? You gotta be fool!

They rape a girl! You've seen, didn't you?

What time can it be? - lt's late.

Bitch! idn't you give him morphine? - Yes, l did.

But he doesn't leep - e, sleeping drugs keep me awake.

lmagine! orhine!

l feel all drugged. All cheerful!

hat a bore! We lack only a cheerful dyin man!

He didn't notice anything, y'know

Come on...

A little kiss.

# Traffic jam...

# paralysis of life...

# the run has come to a stop...

# on this road in the oonies...

# Traffic jam...

# moment for thinking...

# that man runs too much...

# but knows not where to go...

# ust as my love, who knows not...

# where it should land...

# that touches lihtly, then leaves...

# without stopping by...

# Traffic jam... paralysis of life... #

Hey, cyclit! Where are yu rom? - From Frosinone.

here starts the bttleneck? - on't know, l come from Frosinone.

So is congested also Civita? - l don't know.

This morning l poke with my father in Caserta. Traffic there, slow but moving.

o you knw the situation at Latina? - The road's interrupted at 78th Km.

ls it recent? - l think so.

And the Cassia is congested too

Hey cyclist, you go to Rome?

Call my house an tell them l'm stuck. 462929.

''ln memory of a lovely evening with your family!''

Teresa, the gentleman leaves you a souenir.

ell, thank you. - What are you doin, are you joking?

You have nothin nicer that this trifle?

lf yu remember, l mentined a driver post at Cinecitta.

You remember, riht? - No. . l don't get it.

But how, sir? l thought l had been clear, no?

l've... told you about my needs as a man who wants to make a career.

Now, you must help me.

Yes, but...

l'll see what l can do but...

Well, a driver post, is not easy. - lt's not true, it's easy for you.

A man like you. You're a star

Listen ..

we're mart men, an we n't et to understand each other? Huh

l'll see... Not that l can do much, that's it.

ls not true.

l don't beliee it.

l'll come see you at Cinecitta, sir.

l'll find you, yes l'll find you.

- Slept well sir? - Very badly!

You didn't expect a niht like this, huh? - Carloni, humanity sucks!

Hello l'm Ferreri l'm still in the traic am.

No, the suth jam. Where?

The congressman is in the jam at Palombara? Put him on!

Oh, the radio link is down.

But there is no way to contact him? Maybe by satellite.

Do you want?

hat is it?

- The food of the future, sir! Homoenates of meat and fish.

Just 1000 lire! Meat or fish?

Two, one o meat and one of fish. - eat and fish. Done.

The teaspoons are free, sir.

Two thousand Ferreri.

- Here is. - Thanks.

- Get the fish. - Thanks.

Bimbo!

To what are we reduced! We returned children!

Why do you laugh? lt's the food of the future. lt's ood. - Yes, sir.

The fish is for you for the phosphorus.

You have a cigarette?

l don't smoke.

Fuck you.

Fd f meat and fish! 1,000 lire each.

T yu to, ma'am. Tw for the gentleman. And you too.

Hey! Where did you get this stuff? Have you one mad

You took it from my van. - Who are you? - You're thieves, l'll reort you!

Get the hell out! - Hurry they're killing each other

lt's not your stuff!

hat d yu want? - You must not touch this stu, okay?

But people are hungry - lf they're hunry, let them eat!

They want to eat? Okay, we feed them, but for free.

Calm, calm! There's enough fr all. One ar apiece, don't make a mess!

Come away

Rita! Cme on, Rita! l've already got a lot!

Rita!

# Traffic am...

# moment to understand...

# that man runs too much...

Ferreri...

l, once, ..

l was before the TV, l was watching a siner.

An any siner.

l culd not hear what she ang, because the audio was o, yet, l..

l was mesmerized staring, motionless.

That mute mouth, that moved so sinuously...

it aroused me!

lt turns me on!

The Neapolitan girl?

What do l do?

l don't know. o there, oer her some money.

A contract, a disc recording...

ln hort, tell her smething. She turns me on! Go!

You fol What the fuck you doin?

Hey get off!

C'mon guys!

Hey! He's crazy, he's crazy!

You drive l'm tired.

Yes willingly.

''For sale''

Excue me but weren't you mad with despair

Yes! So what?

You're so cheerful.

l'm done

- Brigida? - What?

Come here, l must show you something.

Look.

O Jesus

And that's ust an advance.

Then l'll make an LP, and maybe l o to America.

And who gave it t yu? - The guy with the Jaguar.

Listen! You know what l tell you? l'm very glad.

Maybe it's better that way, o you kee your child in spite of everyone.

Uh, l don't know what l'll do.

l must think about.

Maybe l'll make Dad happy. - Yeah maybe it's etter tha way.

We thank Thee, Lord, for calling this man back in your bosom,

removing him from the disasters of he world.

ave us Lord.

Save us from the plastic, save us from the radioactie slag.

ave us from the politic of power save us from the multinationals.

ave us from the Reason of tate.

Save us from the parades the uniforms and the military marches.

ave us from contempt for the weak.

Save us rom the myth of efficiency and roductivity.

Save u from the false moralism save us from the lies of propaganda.

espect nature. Love life.

Copulate carnally with respect for others.

Fornicating is nt a sin if done with love.

Amen.

ay l reverend? l've heard your words: beautiful!

l control a publishing huse would you collaborate

No, thanks.

hy?

lt is rom six years that he leeps. He was born ust that way!

Perfect in all, only that he sleeps.

He's been seen by so many doctors! They een wrote about us in the papers.

They can't figure it out.

For a couple o years they kept him in the hosital.

Then, they sent him back home,

and they told me: ''ear lady, we can't figure out anythin. ''

''For what we can do, you can do it too. ''

l say: ''The injection to keep him alive who will make them'' They say: ''You. ''

l say: ''Better my husband since l get uset. ''

He learned, and he makes them.

Then l went to the bisho

and asked him: '' What do you think, if we ring him to Lourdes?''

He said: ''Madam,

sure, take him t Lourdes. lt seems a ood idea. ''

The ways of od are endless.

o l took him to Lourdes.

Since nothing happene, l return to the

bishop and tell him that he still sleeps.

He says: ''One can see that it is not in od's will. ''

''Let him leep, that maybe he dreams of the anels. ''

Now l rea in the paper that in Naples there is a wizard who can do eerything.

But when do we get to Naples?

Maybe he's even happy, if he sleeps.

But l too am hppy, if l hear his voice.

l wish he'd wake up, to hear his voice.

Attention! Attention!

The traffic jam is about to end.

Start your engines!

Get ready to depart!

Start your engines!

Get ready to depart!

English subs by edam17@Kg October 2013