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A Philosopher in the Arena
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After his retirement, French philosopher and bullfighting enthusiast Francis Wolff decides to embark on a journey to France, Spain, and Mexico joined by two Mexican filmmakers who hardly know anything about bullfighting, a culture whose days seem to be numbered.
Probing the philosophical dilemmas surrounding this controversial practice, Wolff explores humanity’s relationship with animals, nature, mortality, and the essence of life itself. Rooted in his work 'Philosophie de la corrida' ('Philosophy of Bullfighting'), the film offers a deep dive into the cultural and existential questions of a tradition whose days seem numbered.
“An exercise in political incorrectness through film.” – Héctor González, Aristegui Noticias
“An intimate look at how Wolff finds deep connections between his philosophical discipline and the world of bullfighting.” – La Vanguardia
“They wanted to understand my passion for bullfighting and in turn I wanted to understand why that passion seemed to be condemned by modernity. We decided to make that double quest through a journey through three countries: France, Mexico and Spain.” – Francis Wolff, interview with Pilar Guardiola, El Imparcial
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Don't you prefer sparkling water?
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No, this is fine.
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So...
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I would like to know, are
you going to make the film?
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Well...
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I haven't decided yet,
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I invited them to come
to the university the day
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of the ceremony.
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Are they coming? What will they do?
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They want to film me
in my surroundings,
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and film the ceremony
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in honor of my work;
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and then I will see
how it goes,
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what they tell me,
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and I'll see if
I do it or not.
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Maybe I already kind of
committed to it...
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Since you have already
invited them to come... to film...
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Plus...
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that makes me the main
character, which is something
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that doesn't really excite me.
Well...
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- So...
- Well... and so?
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Well, I'll talk
with them on that day.
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- Perhaps it's better to wait...
-Well...
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Hello?
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How's it going?
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How are you Chucho?
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Good, just here, working.
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The philosopher agreed
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to us filming his retirement
ceremony, how about that?
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Great! Very good.
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And when is it going to be?
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In two weeks, in Paris.
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As Aristotle said, "if you
don't want to philosophize,
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you have to philosophize
in order to demonstrate
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why not to philosophize".
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Even the skeptic has to argue
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and give reasons
for the argument.
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Even the unbeliever
that refuses reason,
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has to give reasons.
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More and more, I think that
one has to philosophize
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about what is closest to oneself
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in part, by questioning
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which is naturally
human, but also,
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what I would call experience
in a broad sense.
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It could be the experience
of some of our passions;
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it could also be as
cientific experience;
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it could be everything
that is given to us
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and that isn't philosophical.
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I think that the proper
nature of philosophy
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is to philosophize about
things that are not philosophical.
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Currently,
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what I'm trying to do is,
by means of the particular,
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to search for
anthropological universals.
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I've allowed myself the luxury
of trying to philosophize
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about two of my passions.
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An honorable one,
and a shameful one.
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With music,
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I finally decided to grab
the bull by the horns
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after 60 years the subject
had pursued me.
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About the other passion,
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I've always tried satisfying it
without making much about it.
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So I beg you, don’t shoot the pianist,
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and at last allow me to sing
without embarrassment:
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You haven't understood me Carmen!
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It’s retirement.
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There is Francis the philosopher,
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there is Francis the music lover,
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there is Francis the Brazilian
carnival lover,
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and there is Francis who is...
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a perfect friend.
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He is a world-renowned
specialist in Greek philosophy,
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especially in Aristotle.
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His books are on the cutting edge
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of Aristotelian philosophy
discussion worldwide.
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I would say that he is
the only one of my friends
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who I sincerely admire.
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He has a very superior
philosophical transcendence,
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not only compared to the mean,
but also to mine or all of us.
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Today's guest is a philosopher
called Francis Wolff.
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He has just written a book titled
"There is no perfect love".
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You have revolutionized
the way of teaching philosophy,
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especially at
the École Normale Supérieure.
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You've created a new art
of conceptualizing
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the art of dialog, by
regaining platonic dialog,
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because what interests you
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is making philosophy accessible
to everyone.
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Do I have to react
to the video?
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The video of the slaughterhouse.
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Not specially, but if you
want to say something...
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In all your trajectory
as a philosopher,
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what has interested you
has been pleasure,
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pleasure of philosophy,
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pleasure of experimenting
with music
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and understanding its reasons.
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And there are other
pleasures that for some,
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more and more nowadays,
are forbidden.
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You published a few years
ago an essential book
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that has just been reedited
with a new foreword
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titled
"The philosophy of bullfighting".
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Philosophers like me,
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were surprised to see
a book about bullfighting.
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At the same time,
one must say how,
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in his own way, as always,
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his book has a place in
contemporary philosophy,
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where emotions
are the main focus.
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It is an extraordinary
masterpiece,
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and it has truly convinced
me of one thing:
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the cultural value
of bullfighting.
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In favor of the controversy
about bullfighting,
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in it appear all the universal
subjects of Francis.
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I think that now,
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and since the beginning of
the twenty-first century,
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we're experiencing
the birth of new utopias.
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The animal liberation
movement;
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the movement in favor
of the vegan lifestyle;
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the anti-species movement.
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They are not all the same,
but they're part of a collective
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whose purpose is the following:
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There is talk about
animal liberation,
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as we've talked about liberation
of the peoples or social classes.
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They talk about animal
exploitation as we have
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debated exploitation of man by man.
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For those who fight
for this cause,
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it's as if animals
are the new proletarians
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of productive capitalism;
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the last martyrs;
the absolute victims
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because they accumulate
all the subjugation.
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Let me return to what
was just said
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a few moments ago,
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about the media impact
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caused by slaughterhouses
videos that were put online
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and that provoked
healthy disapproval
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and an unanimous indignation.
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Personally, I would have
liked to have seen
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the same unanimity when,
in plain view,
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through the media,
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humans are being
treated like animals,
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like in the case of
the refugees.
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So I ask myself,
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why does that unanimous
reproach come so easily
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when animals are
reduced to objects
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but is so hard to come by
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when human beings
are reduced to animals.
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So, these Mexican guys
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don't have any idea about bullfighting?
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It's a problem because
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we're going to waste
a lot of time,
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explaining to them what
it's about and all that...
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that is a problem.
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But at the same time
it's a solution,
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because they don't have
the typical vices
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and manias of a bullfighting fan.
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They will annoy me sometimes,
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when they ask stupid
or silly questions,
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But...
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I'll discover
another point of view with them.
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Did you like it?
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What's the idea?
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Well, let's start.
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I'm not going to say
what you want,
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I'll say what I think.
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Exactly!
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Double clap for the cameras.
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What is this about?
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We're intrigued that
as a philosopher,
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you have written
a book about bullfighting
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from a philosophical
point of view.
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We know that you have written
about a lot of different subjects,
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but that one in particular
is what interests us,
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because it seems rather
contradictory or paradoxical.
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- I'm going to talk in French.
- Alright.
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I don't trust
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any of the attempts on making
a film about bullfighting.
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Because all of them go
into the pros and cons,
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but the arguments are
useless and pointless.
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And if it isn't done
in that way,
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one is accused of making
a propaganda film...
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On that we agree, right?
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- Did you sort of understand?
- Yes.
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We must state here that
we're not into bullfighting;
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- Yes...
- I think that's important...
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We're not into bullfighting and
we know very little about it.
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Conveying a passion is
practically impossible,
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but I'll try to share with you,
a point of view,
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a way of seeing...
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not only bullfighting...
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but also the bullfighter,
the bull, the animal in general,
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man in general,
we can try that.
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What worries me most...
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is that I think that...
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this world is dying.
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First day traveling
with the filmmakers.
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They want to understand
this unique passion.
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And me... what am I searching for?
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Maybe to understand
why bullfighting is inevitably
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destined to die.
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Is the sea there?
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It is Vacares Lagoon
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LA BÉLUGUE
NATURE RESERVE
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It's a bull that is born
and raised for fighting
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and that fights a lot
throughout its life,
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and little by little,
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by the first year its horns
start to come out.
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We see how it itches
and it starts to play with them,
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and then little by little
their way of playing
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seems more and more
like fighting.
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Once they become adults
we suffer a lot of losses
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among the ones that we
breed because bulls fight
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until the death...
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- Among themselves?
- Yes, among themselves.
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The love that a breeder
has towards a fighting bull
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can’t be understood by someone
unfamiliar to this environment.
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The life of a fighting
bull is a planned life,
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a life in which the father and
the mother is previously established,
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everything is written in a book,
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a stronger love than that,
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by taking care of it that way,
does not exist.
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Bullfighting enables for 10%
of the bullfighting herd
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to be fought and killed
in a bullfight;
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the other 90% exists to enable
the raising of that 10%.
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So, it’s a miracle
that this type of animal
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is still being raised
in such grasslands.
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If bullfighting stopped,
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bullfighting livestock would
most likely disappear.
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For me taking it to the bullring
is a great honor,
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because when the bull
goes into the arena,
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it's the star of the afternoon.
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The people go to see it,
to see what it’s got.
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That's why we raise it
during four years.
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However, the ones that we take
to the slaughterhouse,
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it's harder for me to go there.
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I raise my animals
so that they can fight in the arena.
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I like gazing at animals
in their environment.
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Not household pets,
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but those animals that live
in the fields, forest or bush.
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What I like about
them is not their humanity,
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but rather their animality.
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I like what they are,
what they do.
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One must be an overprotected
twenty-first century city slicker
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to imagine that nature is beautiful
and kind to those who live in it.
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It is in fact the kingdom of fear
and fight to the death.
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Life is nourished
relentlessly by life.
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We have shared
thousands of stories
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with them for
thousands of years.
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The hunter, its dog and their
combined talent for hunting;
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the careful breeder
and the love for its creatures;
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the rider united with its mount.
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Thousands of stories also
about the fight against pests
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that ruin crops and herds:
wolves, locusts and boars.
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Thousands of stories of domestication,
of friendship, coexistence
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of respect and admiration
or of combat.
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All of these stories have left us
with a legacy of different obligations.
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With pets,
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we give them our love, and in
exchange they give us theirs.
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For this reason, it is immoral
to betray that moral agreement
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and get rid of our dog
on the middle of a highway.
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The domestic animals that we have
been raising for eleven thousand years
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give us their meat, their milk,
their honey or their hides.
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In exchange, we should give
them our protection,
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food and living conditions
suited for their species,
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that is the domestication contract.
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But it is not immoral
to kill them,
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since they exist
for that purpose.
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With wild animals, we don't have
that kind of individual relationship.
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But we have a sort of ecological
contract with these species.
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We must respect
the equilibrium of ecosystems
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and biodiversity.
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What is the presence
of animals in urban contexts?
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Animal's presence in the city
has been reduced, curiously,
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to pets or small pets,
some very strange.
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There are pigs that are treated
like if they were dogs
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and they walk them
around the streets.
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So these phenomena are
related to this almost
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unipersonal dwelling,
what does this mean?
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That one person
occupies one space,
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and so who is this person's
natural companion?
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The pet.
Nowadays, one of the main activities
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is taking pets out for walks.
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I was born in the city,
but when we were children,
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we would visit
our grandparent's house
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and we would see how our
aunt, how our grandmother
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would grab a chicken
and the chicken that we would eat,
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we would see how
she would kill it calmly,
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and it seemed
absolutely natural.
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So, this pampered society
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has been raised in such a way,
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in particular with
respect to animals,
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that has led it, one could say,
into a pathologic stage.
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Even though it is
senseless to want
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to release animals from men,
we must make the effort
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to improve the breeding
conditions of those
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that live under our care.
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To fight for animal welfare,
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means also to fight against
the commodification of living beings.
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It has to be said with force:
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technical and economic modernization
have often brought along with it
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an undeniable degradation
of breeding conditions
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of certain animals destined
for human consumption,
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reducing them to mere goods,
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or to horrid production machines
of meat and dejections.
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But, who is at fault?
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The workers at slaughterhouses,
who are victims
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of the seasonal rhythm
that is imposed on them by the market?
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The farmers who have recently
protested about their survival conditions?
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The major retail chains
that dictate the lowest prices
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to sell meat packaged in cellophane?
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The consumers?
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But which ones?
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The privileged ones
that buy fine meat
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at a higher price
at traditional butcheries?
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Or the majority that buy
sausages at supermarkets
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in order to have a goodtime with friends?
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Street philosophers, Madrid,
take two.
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It's basically a bloodbath.
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It's torture.
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And I think it's grotesque
that today, in 2016,
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we still think it is culture.
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Street philosophers,
Paris, sixteen.
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I don't like the idea
of fooling anyone,
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not a person or animal
with a type of cloth
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and then taking it out
at the last minute.
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I think it is perverse.
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Street philosophers,
Coyoacan, take two.
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In all truth, I'm not at all in favor,
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since they mistreat an animal
as a means of entertainment.
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FOR A BLOODLESS FIESTA
ABOLITION OF BULLFIGHTING
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Animal assassin, animal abuse!
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They should kill you,
that would be the best thing!
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The world should have gored you!
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Assassins... Assassins!
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Fuck you assholes!
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You consider yourself educated?
This is not culture.
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Uneducated! Uneducated!
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Bullfighting has always had
its adversaries; it's a tradition
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that has occurred parallel
to that of bullfighting aficionados.
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It's true that these days
it's more...
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...public,
let's say that it's more visible,
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much more emboldened,
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because there is a culture nowadays
that encourages it.
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But I think that we need
to defend bullfighting
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and that we have reasons that are
ethical as well as esthetic,
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that are in favor of it.
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I ask myself,
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this anti-bullfighting jihad,
this criticism against bullfighting
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that is more evident every day
in some countries
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where does it come from?
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What is behind this?
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And we need to be clear
that in many occasions...
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people criticize without knowing
anything about the topic.
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I think that one needs to see it
with people that understand it,
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in order to have an opinion
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That is not our case.
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We don't know if we like it or not.
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it would be worth
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to watch it with someone who
knows about the subject.
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so we could decide
if we like it or not.
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What do you think about
how bullfighting
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is looked down upon in Spain.
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Is it something new?
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I always say that
there never has been unanimity.
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It is something that has
always had detractors.
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People ask themselves "What is
this? Why is it interesting?
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It's cruel..."
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The prohibition by
the church for example...
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The church's prohibition
is more complicated,
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this happened because bullfighting
was likened to a duel,
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and duels were also prohibited.
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A man didn't have the right to put
his life in danger for something
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so trivial as the amusement
of the crowd in a spectacle.
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In the history of prohibitions,
the apprehensions, criticisms,
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even from intellectuals
like Unamuno and others,
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the argument was the people
were wasting their time
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talking about bulls.
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But the idea of animal suffering
is very recent.
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It is. As time goes on,
the argument for the suffering
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of the animal is brought up.
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This was the new stance
of those against bullfighting.
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I feel very close
to the anti-bullfighting crowd
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who don't understand and
have never seen a bullfight,
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and I must confess that if
I hadn't seen a bullfight
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I would be outside the arenas
protesting against
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this cruel event where
they kill an animal
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that as they say,
"has never done anything to hurt us".
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I understand their sensitivity.
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They see the bull as a victim,
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but when we see a
bull we see it as a warrior,
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it's totally different.
For me the victim
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is the living being, the animal,
that has been transformed
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into a machine to produce.
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- What seats do we have?
- Entrance five.
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Entrance five, lower bullpen,
row seventeen.
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What is bullfighting?
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What is its essence?
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As the platonic
philosophers said.
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In what category of
human practice
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do we place it,
in order to follow logic?
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It is without doubt a show.
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There are actors in costume;
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there is a setting, there is music.
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However, no one
plays a role,
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and the play is not
written beforehand.
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The bull is not a cardboard prop
and it really dies.
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And real things happen
to the bullfighter,
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wounds or glory.
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Is it then a sacrificial ritual?
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But, who has seen a sacrifice
where the priest risks his life?
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It is an art, without doubt
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but it's not a real art,
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because it shows raw reality
instead of just representing it.
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So, it's a sport?
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Like in sports there is a staging of the body,
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and the sense of a physical feat.
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But there aren't any records
or scoreboards.
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A combat?
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It's not a true combat,
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since the one
who should always vanquish is man.
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Bullfighting is indefinable.
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Unless it is a sort of monster,
the same as a platypus,
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with a duck's beak
and the tail of a beaver.
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An unclassifiable animal
that defies all zoological categories.
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Bullfighting is like the platypus
of our practices.
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An unclassifiable species,
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and endangered.
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Bullfighting...
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...can be the most powerful...
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...and beautiful thing that happens
in less than a quarter of an hour...
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...between a man and a bull.
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Bullfighting for me
is the artfulness of man
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avoiding death, and the ferocity
of a bull trying to provoke it.
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For me bullfighting, beyond
being an art and a spectacle,
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is something absolutely wonderful,
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in a rather mundane world.
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I wrote in Le Monde, that we claim
to be the human rights birthplace,
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and we are forgetting our
human obligations.
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Basic duties such as
hospitality and universal rights
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that are common
to all civilizations.
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You and I have this
humanist position,
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but how can we accept
bullfighting as a spectacle
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and enjoy it?
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I simply think that
for the people,
00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:00.200
to see the bull, nobly
confronting man;
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is a combat custom that has lived
in Mediterranean mentality
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:06.080
since Crete, since centuries.
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The identity of a republican
and a leftwing person
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is about cultural freedom and to
live according to one's own culture.
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Here, we have a
bullfighting culture.
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Even though nowadays there
is controversy about
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our culture, we don't ask
others to adopt it
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but that they respect our freedom.
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We are Mediterranean,
we like the ephemeral,
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we like... yes,
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to create and we like
the evanescence of seeing
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how that creation fades.
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Behind bullfighting,
there is a very clear culture.
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I think that Kabuki,
or Noh theatre for example,
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surely a foreigner
can come to understand it,
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but most than likely a person
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:05.520
who is part of the culture
that created it
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will understand it
and sense it much better.
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What is it that I like most
about the bullfighting culture?
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Its particularities
or its universality?
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From fair to fair
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I feel the same fervor,
the same enthusiasm,
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the same frenzy
towards bullfighting.
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But in every city, in every province
and in every country,
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I discover a new way to feel,
to sing, to dance, to feast,
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.680
to celebrate bullfighting
and take part in the festivity.
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:43.000
Sometimes it's an unbridled
and Dionysian celebration...
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...and sometimes it's an Apollonian
ceremony or a serious ritual.
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And sometimes it is a game
of near miss maneuvering.
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Sometimes it's a visual art.
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There is something
that I don't understand about
00:33:59.800 --> 00:34:02.400
the supposedly progressive
critics of bullfights.
00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:05.720
They seem to be an echo
00:34:05.840 --> 00:34:09.600
of the general globalization
movement and its cultural uniformity.
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.600
It’s clear to me that the local minority
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.319
cultural identities where
bullfighting takes place,
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.319
in a modest but decisive way,
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.159
they are resisting
the powerful civilization of uniformity.
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:30.959
So I ask myself,
00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:34.439
isn't it necessary,
today more than ever
00:34:34.520 --> 00:34:36.800
to protect
the bullfighting cultures?
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:04.920
Street philosophers
in Madrid, take three.
00:35:05.520 --> 00:35:07.720
It seems terrible
and despicable to me,
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.240
because you have a bull
that doesn't want to be there,
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:16.200
it's being killed but not
under equal opportunities,
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:17.720
the bull is defenseless.
00:35:18.040 --> 00:35:22.280
Personally,
I'm in favor of bullfighting,
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:27.200
I think it's an amazing show
that could almost be surreal.
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.040
It's something that,
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:33.520
although it seems
horrible to David,
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:40.120
I think it's curious,
there are few places where
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:43.480
a person will be risking
their life with an animal.
00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:45.840
It's something completely
archaic, it's true.
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.200
Street philosophers,
take one.
00:35:50.680 --> 00:35:53.240
I don't deny it
can be brutal,
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.080
I'm used to seeing it
since I was a child.
00:35:56.520 --> 00:35:59.360
So perhaps I allow it,
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:02.720
but I am aware
that if we were to eliminate
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:05.680
all those human activities
that are violent,
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:07.920
we would have to get rid
of a lot of things.
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:11.400
Now it's become a fad,
to be against bullfighting.
00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:12.880
Would you take your child?
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.880
- No, not yet.
- Not yet.
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.040
There are a lot of things
that children don't need to see...
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In eight years.
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No... like three or four.
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.840
Thank you very much
for the interview.
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That part of the film
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- doesn't convince me at all.
- What part?
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.680
The part
of the street philosophers.
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.520
The interviews don't convince you?
00:36:38.600 --> 00:36:41.960
No, street philosopher
doesn't mean anything.
00:36:42.200 --> 00:36:45.680
The only street philosopher
that has ever existed was Socrates,
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:50.080
but it wasn’t to record opinions,
but rather to critique them.
00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:52.320
We're not making
a fiction film.
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:56.440
What people think
must be founded,
00:36:56.520 --> 00:37:01.320
it must be argued, it must
have some sort of sense.
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:03.480
That’s what you do
as a philosopher,
00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:05.800
but not the people
on the street.
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.040
We should call it
something else then,
00:37:08.040 --> 00:37:10.600
not street philosophers,
just people of the street.
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Ok, but then it's another movie.
00:37:12.720 --> 00:37:14.840
- Why don't you direct?
- Let's go have a coffee...
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No, so you make philosophy now?
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.120
No, I'm not professing
to be a philosopher.
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:21.680
I am.
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:25.080
Let's go drink a coffee
and we'll talk about it later.
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:51.920
Good afternoon.
00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:54.560
Hello, good afternoon.
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In my opinion, they are the last
of free men,
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:39.000
living a different life from ours,
00:38:39.080 --> 00:38:42.600
accustomed since very young
to approach their craft
00:38:42.720 --> 00:38:45.920
with a degree of seriousness,
unlike any other occupation.
00:38:46.040 --> 00:38:48.040
They are used to suffering
00:38:48.160 --> 00:38:51.160
and to get over it
when they suffer.
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:53.400
When one is in a
bullfighting arena,
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:56.720
one has a perspective
about what goes on.
00:38:57.600 --> 00:39:00.080
I invite people to go
further down closer
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:05.840
and see how that perspective,
that contact with reality,
00:39:06.120 --> 00:39:08.240
greatly changes you.
00:39:08.520 --> 00:39:10.400
The perception is
totally different,
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:14.920
your heart rate changes in a
completely different way,
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.160
until you reach a point where
00:39:17.640 --> 00:39:19.160
you're unable to take
even one more step.
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:21.840
That's when you realize
that these people
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:23.200
are from another galaxy.
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:28.040
You stand where your feet
catch fire, for real.
00:39:28.120 --> 00:39:32.520
Many times your instinct tells you
not to, but your mind does.
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:44.280
What we do each afternoon
is a real challenge,
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:48.480
because of that bullfighters
admire each other.
00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:51.320
We know what goes on,
and we know that
00:39:51.520 --> 00:39:53.520
bullfighting is for super men.
00:39:55.080 --> 00:39:57.760
They reach maturity
at an absurdly young age.
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:01.920
By 18, or 19 years of age,
they're already full-blown adults.
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.800
I think that it's a craft,
it's a way of thinking life...
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:11.880
Víctor Gómez Pin uses
a great Proust's quote that says:
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.960
"Being a bullfighter is the most
sober school of life that exists".
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.040
Let's go, get upset.
00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:19.480
Come on!
00:40:20.200 --> 00:40:21.280
That’s it...
00:40:23.600 --> 00:40:24.800
...all of it, completely.
00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:30.160
Slowly, slow...
00:40:30.520 --> 00:40:31.600
...slower.
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.240
Being a bullfighter
is feeling it in your soul,
00:40:43.600 --> 00:40:46.720
since birth... to feel it,
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:51.000
feeling the chills in your veins,
believing in it.
00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:53.000
I tell you from experience
since I was a child.
00:40:53.080 --> 00:40:55.640
I would bullfight
with other children,
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:57.560
and I was a God.
00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:00.440
It must hurt your soul.
00:41:00.560 --> 00:41:04.440
It must hurt really,
you have to feel it.
00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:07.720
I always say that to be a
bullfighter, when bullfighting,
00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:12.080
don't just let it go with your arm,
00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:13.640
filter it through your heart,
00:41:13.720 --> 00:41:16.240
and take it to the hand
that is bullfighting.
00:41:16.680 --> 00:41:20.520
It has an amazing effect, because there's
a surge of pleasure that's so immense,
00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:22.200
as strong as an orgasm, kind of...
00:41:22.600 --> 00:41:24.200
...or stronger even.
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:26.280
At that moment you're God.
00:41:32.080 --> 00:41:34.480
If the bullfighter awakens some sort
of sexual emotion,
00:41:34.560 --> 00:41:37.200
it's as strong in men as it is in women.
00:41:37.720 --> 00:41:42.320
The bullfighter embodies a feminine
and masculine form alternately.
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:44.960
When he dances,
when he seduces the bull,
00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:49.600
his gestures, it's a choreography,
that's the seductive part of the woman.
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.800
But when he introduces
the sword and kills it,
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:54.240
it's extremely phallic.
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:59.680
Other intellectuals like Cocteau
have expressed this much better than I.
00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:21.560
It's a visual act.
Starting from the artistic forms,
00:42:21.640 --> 00:42:27.120
up until how the bullfighter
is able to create aesthetic forms
00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:29.680
with his own body
with his movements,
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:34.280
in front of an animal
whose only instinct is to attack him.
00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:41.880
For me to be able to read
the bull's intentions,
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:45.480
I have to descend to the most
basic parts of myself.
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.560
This descent to the most basic parts
of a human being is liberating.
00:43:00.520 --> 00:43:05.000
You feel like you're within
your anthropologic foundation.
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:08.720
In the end,
you descend to the origin...
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:14.040
...you become into pure feeling.
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:34.720
A bullfighter doesn't play a role
like an actor.
00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:37.400
He plays himself.
00:43:39.040 --> 00:43:42.000
We see the most profound
part of that being.
00:43:42.720 --> 00:43:44.440
He isn't doing a comedy,
00:43:44.520 --> 00:43:47.080
he has a technique obviously,
00:43:47.200 --> 00:43:52.880
because if he didn’t have one
the bull would destroy him in a flash.
00:43:53.080 --> 00:43:55.480
But in the moment
of the direct action,
00:43:56.200 --> 00:43:59.480
there isn’t any acting,
he is himself
00:43:59.680 --> 00:44:04.000
and the more
his personality surfaces,
00:44:04.080 --> 00:44:06.280
the better the bullfight will be.
00:44:14.640 --> 00:44:18.280
For me a bullfighter
is what a real actor should be.
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.840
That is, someone who has...
00:44:22.560 --> 00:44:24.360
the courage of the tragedy,
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.080
and at the same time
irreverence and lightness,
00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:28.520
a carefree mentality.
00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:35.400
He risks his life for nothing,
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.920
just for the gesture,
for the beauty of the gesture,
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.440
for the elegance.
What strikes me the most,
00:44:42.640 --> 00:44:46.560
is their carefree and faint
relationship with death.
00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:59.160
For a long time, I have
tried to bring closer
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:01.600
the figure of the actor
to that of a bullfighter,
00:45:01.720 --> 00:45:05.520
and then I have tried to
distance them, to unlink them,
00:45:05.640 --> 00:45:08.600
because it’s not the same,
a bullfighter is something different.
00:45:08.720 --> 00:45:12.600
Even though the bullfighters
that I have spoken to
00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:16.840
tell me that we have
the same job, that they are similar.
00:45:17.200 --> 00:45:20.720
But I tell them they're not,
that the bull is for real.
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:24.560
It's real, yes.
They stand on two scenes, if I may say
00:45:24.640 --> 00:45:27.280
they expose themselves
to the audience
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:29.040
and to the horns.
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:41.600
I admire bullfighters.
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.360
I value what they do.
00:45:46.720 --> 00:45:48.520
I like what they are.
00:45:51.680 --> 00:45:55.440
When a bull charges me, I run.
That's normal, I'm a man.
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.320
When a bull charges a bullfighter,
00:45:58.520 --> 00:46:02.000
he stays where he is.
Normal, he's a bullfighter.
00:46:03.520 --> 00:46:05.960
That is the first act
of a bullfighter.
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:11.600
His ethics: to remain himself,
to be ‘bullfighter’.
00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:17.160
To not yield territory
to his adversary, to his fear,
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:20.040
despite risking his own death.
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:24.160
One is ‘bullfighter’ while facing a bull.
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:27.000
But one is also ‘bullfighter’
without a bullfight.
00:46:28.720 --> 00:46:31.400
It is also a way of
forgetting his own body.
00:46:33.200 --> 00:46:35.800
Such ethic is aristocratic,
00:46:36.520 --> 00:46:38.440
but it is directed to everyone.
00:46:39.720 --> 00:46:41.600
It's the combat of the brave,
00:46:41.680 --> 00:46:44.800
of children who dream
as they pretend to be musketeers.
00:46:45.200 --> 00:46:46.920
Not the life of an adult
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.680
who wakes up with
the morning newspaper.
00:46:49.680 --> 00:46:51.480
I admire that moral,
00:46:51.600 --> 00:46:55.840
inherited from old wisdom
and medieval heroism,
00:46:56.120 --> 00:46:58.480
that sometimes allows me to escape
00:46:58.680 --> 00:47:00.600
the mediocrity of the day-to-day.
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:43.360
- Please, hold this for a moment?
- Okay.
00:47:56.280 --> 00:48:00.880
Do you think that one day bullfighting
will definitively be banned?
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.920
There are two possible types of death
for bullfighting,
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.080
a natural death
or a violent death.
00:48:10.200 --> 00:48:16.800
I think that, like any human thing,
bullfighting will disappear one day,
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:19.760
when there isn't a fan base,
00:48:20.080 --> 00:48:26.200
and when there isn't a reason to breed
that type of fierce bull for bullfighting.
00:48:27.680 --> 00:48:31.040
But we should avoid a violent death,
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:34.120
in other words an assassination.
00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.600
Even though I'm not a fan
of bullfighting,
00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:10.720
I find absolutely revolting
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:15.640
the way people protest bullfighting
00:50:16.040 --> 00:50:19.080
with such aggression
and violence.
00:50:19.160 --> 00:50:24.000
It is our philosophy in Art Press
to oppose any type of censure,
00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:27.600
in literature, in cinema, in art,
00:50:27.680 --> 00:50:30.200
and of course also in regards
to bullfighting.
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:35.960
This was another one of the reasons
that led us to publish this edition.
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.160
One of the problems
of the artistic vanguard,
00:50:40.240 --> 00:50:42.600
is that it's often not related to truth.
00:50:42.680 --> 00:50:46.400
The moment we approach
artistic creation from a purely
00:50:47.040 --> 00:50:50.840
subjective perspective,
there is no art, only artists.
00:50:51.040 --> 00:50:53.800
That's a problem that has not occurred
with bullfighting as an art form,
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:55.800
because truth is
always present.
00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:57.840
The truth that is
present is the bull,
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:00.880
you can't bullfight
without a bull,
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:03.520
the further you shy away
from risk,
00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:06.680
from the axis of that sublime art,
which is risk,
00:51:07.600 --> 00:51:11.760
the less your artistic
work will be valued.
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:26.920
This similarity with "performance" art
is interesting,
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.720
because it's true that part of art,
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.560
and the idea of art in
the twentieth century,
00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:39.640
tried to suppress
the idea of representation.
00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:43.840
This was Rauschenberg’s discourse,
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.400
to eliminate the barrier
between art and life;
00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:49.520
thus, suppressing or slimming
00:51:49.600 --> 00:51:53.360
the limit between life and death.
00:51:53.520 --> 00:52:00.280
I would say that bullfights
deepen this search.
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:06.080
I think that bullfighting needs
an intermediary,
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:09.000
these days it’s television
or cinema,
00:52:09.120 --> 00:52:12.920
but since it's an ephemeral art
that disappears,
00:52:13.040 --> 00:52:16.920
and that does not leave a trace,
at the beginning...
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:21.920
...it needed to be perpetuated
by culture in works of art,
00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:25.960
and in literature as well,
it exists thanks to these arts.
00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:28.800
That’s why from the beginning
there has been
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:33.640
such a close relationship
between bullfighters
00:52:33.720 --> 00:52:35.800
and intellectuals and artists.
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:38.080
There are very well-known duos,
00:52:38.120 --> 00:52:40.200
like Montherlant, French writer,
and Belmonte,
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:43.600
like... Barceló...
00:52:43.680 --> 00:52:45.480
and Francis Wolff, etc.
00:52:55.040 --> 00:52:56.040
Hello.
00:52:57.840 --> 00:52:58.840
Thank you.
00:52:59.080 --> 00:53:00.840
I love this color.
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:08.200
Hello, how are you?
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.680
- Hi.
- This is the team, Jesús.
00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:14.920
Aarón, and David.
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:17.720
Can you give us a tour of the workshop?
That would be great.
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.680
I'm going to show you
a few things...
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:24.400
...but not a tour of the workshop,
I don’t like to show it.
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:31.040
I started to paint bulls because
I liked them as a subject,
00:53:31.120 --> 00:53:34.040
and afterwards I began liking them
because I was painting them.
00:53:34.240 --> 00:53:36.640
At first, I started painting
oysters because
00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:39.680
I liked how Matisse
and Manet painted them,
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:42.560
and then I discovered they tasted good,
and now I like them a lot
00:53:42.640 --> 00:53:44.880
and I keep on painting them.
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:47.800
When I was little I would go
to bullfights, and I liked them,
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:50.520
afterwards I started hating them
around the time of Cordobés
00:53:50.600 --> 00:53:54.520
because all my school teachers,
horrible fascists,
00:53:54.600 --> 00:53:56.800
they were fans
of Real Madrid and Cordobés,
00:53:56.880 --> 00:54:00.640
so I stopped being interested,
I didn't watch it on TV at all.
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:03.720
Then I started liking bullfighting again
in the eighties,
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:05.920
because I became friends with Esplá,
00:54:06.040 --> 00:54:07.720
Romero and some other
bullfighters.
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.920
- Where's the Bergamín piece?
- Let me see if I can find it,
00:54:11.040 --> 00:54:16.240
let me see if I can find
it over here, let's see.
00:54:17.680 --> 00:54:19.320
It's red...
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:24.480
Red like a...
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.520
There's been a lot of animals in my work,
they are always present,
00:54:36.600 --> 00:54:38.640
I like animals
more than people.
00:54:39.080 --> 00:54:41.240
And then talking about
the Chauvet caves,
00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:44.960
and how they only
represented animals,
00:54:45.040 --> 00:54:47.200
they hardly painted any
humans. Then I thought,
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:49.560
"maybe we're going back to
this type of humanism,
00:54:49.640 --> 00:54:53.400
of recognizing the animal..."
I would rather say
00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:56.360
- it's a discredit to what being human is.
- Exactly.
00:54:56.440 --> 00:54:59.120
Cause humans no
longer get any credit.
00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:19.560
The arena, the bullring,
00:55:19.680 --> 00:55:23.160
is like a beach in the morning,
00:55:23.240 --> 00:55:27.280
all clean and smooth
without any memory,
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:28.840
and after a few hours
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:31.400
it has all the reminiscence
of what went on there.
00:55:31.520 --> 00:55:34.360
So, you can see on it
all the drawings,
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:38.320
you can see the memory
of the bullfight,
00:55:38.560 --> 00:55:39.600
and...
00:55:39.680 --> 00:55:42.840
with those divisions and...
00:55:43.560 --> 00:55:48.720
And stains of blood,
and with the fallen banderillas,
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:54.440
the remains, for example of a cushion
or carnation that someone may have thrown.
00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:01.360
When García Lorca differentiates
the art of the 'duende',
00:56:01.520 --> 00:56:06.560
from the art of the muse
and of transcendent religion,
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:10.200
he does an absolutely fantastic job.
00:56:10.600 --> 00:56:13.760
Because it frees us
from asking ourselves...
00:56:14.560 --> 00:56:18.400
...if bullfighting is an art
in the classic sense.
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.000
It is an art, but in a
totally different way,
00:56:21.080 --> 00:56:23.440
it's an art in the sense
of the "duende".
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:30.240
The question "is bullfighting an art?"
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:32.280
Has always seemed futile to me.
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:39.040
The origin of art
is mankind's eagerness
00:56:39.120 --> 00:56:41.600
to turn an alien world
into a familiar world.
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.640
With that in mind,
they mold a natural object
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:47.080
so they can leave their own
stamp on the world.
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:52.800
Art is the inscription
of a human form on raw material.
00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:03.600
The work is born
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:07.600
by how the bullfighter
forms, informs, transforms,
00:57:07.680 --> 00:57:10.240
chisels that vital force,
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:13.480
depriving it of any
unforeseen savagery.
00:57:15.520 --> 00:57:17.240
Defusing that nature
00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:19.880
and making it
according to one's will,
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:22.080
to the compass
and rhythm of man,
00:57:22.160 --> 00:57:26.240
but also twisting it against
it's own nature,
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:28.640
in order to domesticate
and humanize it.
00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:39.960
The bullfighter transforms the natural
rectitude into a perfect curve.
00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:43.680
It's that the curve is poetry,
00:57:43.880 --> 00:57:47.280
while the straight line is nothing
but the prose of the shortest path.
00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:52.640
The bull's charge has become vain,
scrubbed of any animal violence.
00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:55.600
It has been humanized
little by little,
00:57:55.720 --> 00:57:58.920
curve, slow and faint.
00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:23.480
The idea...
00:58:24.600 --> 00:58:27.520
...of death does not exist
in the bullfighter's mind.
00:58:27.600 --> 00:58:31.880
He is afraid of dying artistically
in front of the bull,
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:38.200
of a bull revealing
his own ignorance or clumsiness.
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:44.960
What they are really afraid of
is the bull killing them as artists.
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:47.920
They're not afraid of death.
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.600
What is it that drives a bullfighter
00:58:50.680 --> 00:58:54.400
to keep on bullfighting
after being rammed by a bull?
00:58:54.480 --> 00:59:01.760
Why does one keep repeating
a behavior when this action leads you,
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:05.680
or not, to a situation
where you may die,
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.400
or at least, close to death?
00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:12.880
So, the whole death drive
process is there.
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:50.840
A bullfighter has never asked
me, "Am I going to die?".
00:59:51.080 --> 00:59:56.560
Death for them is living a bad life.
00:59:57.400 --> 00:59:59.920
For example,
a bullfighter that cannot walk,
01:00:00.040 --> 01:00:03.120
that cannot bullfight, a bullfighter
that has become paralyzed,
01:00:03.200 --> 01:00:05.600
and some of them well,
they leave this world
01:00:05.720 --> 01:00:07.200
because they want to.
01:00:09.240 --> 01:00:12.520
They're not afraid of death,
they carry death with them,
01:00:12.720 --> 01:00:14.800
it's their travel companion.
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.480
They are perfectly aware
that it just takes one centimeter
01:00:19.560 --> 01:00:22.360
for the horn to move either way
for them to die.
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:24.400
They know that
and they accept it.
01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:28.280
They accept it as a travel companion,
which is something that we don't do.
01:00:28.520 --> 01:00:32.840
That’s why their philosophy
is completely different from ours.
01:00:42.520 --> 01:00:45.040
One of the catchphrases
against bullfighting is
01:00:45.160 --> 01:00:46.960
"Death is not a spectacle",
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:49.200
and the protesters are right,
01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:52.160
we should never make a spectacle
out of a human death.
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:54.160
It offends his dignity.
01:00:56.840 --> 01:00:59.840
But these outraged people
could not put it any better,
01:01:00.080 --> 01:01:03.160
the angriness that
they feel is a confession
01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:04.920
of a reality of our time.
01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:10.320
That death should be invisible.
It has become dishonorable.
01:01:12.720 --> 01:01:14.800
Is it not that our era
wishes to hide death
01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:16.720
as if it was a shameful disease?
01:01:18.680 --> 01:01:22.320
Our lives have banished all rituals,
01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:26.040
especially those that had
some type of connection with death.
01:01:28.600 --> 01:01:30.880
We no longer see funeral
processions in the cities,
01:01:31.040 --> 01:01:33.720
or signs of mourning
on house doors,
01:01:33.880 --> 01:01:36.520
or visible signs of affliction.
01:01:37.680 --> 01:01:41.600
Human death has migrated
to aseptic clinics,
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.880
or to anonymous nursing homes.
01:01:45.680 --> 01:01:49.360
Our secularized epoch praises
existence without risks,
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:52.440
an eternal youth, life without death,
01:01:52.560 --> 01:01:54.920
everyone young and
good-looking, then immortal.
01:01:57.200 --> 01:01:58.960
In regards to animal death,
01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.200
that of the chicken or the pig,
01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:03.640
it used to be part of domestic life,
01:02:03.720 --> 01:02:07.360
a family communion that marked
the passage of days.
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:11.120
It is humane to accompany the death of an animal
01:02:11.200 --> 01:02:15.080
respecting it with a ritual or expiatory ceremony.
01:02:16.200 --> 01:02:19.240
Our productivist societies
are an exception,
01:02:19.520 --> 01:02:23.240
they prefer killing in
an industrial slaughterhouse.
01:02:23.560 --> 01:02:27.360
A cold hidden and silent death,
01:02:27.640 --> 01:02:30.880
that doesn't offend anyone,
because no one sees it.
01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:25.560
Hats! Hats!
Get your hats!
01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:31.640
Get your cushion!
Buy it!
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:04.600
- Do you want a bag of Frida Kahlo?
- No.
01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:08.320
- The idea is to hold it...
- Yes.
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:11.440
but you must hold it
firmly with your hand
01:04:11.520 --> 01:04:14.160
- and eat it little by little.
- In pieces.
01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:18.000
One... two... three.
01:04:21.640 --> 01:04:24.520
As you see, eating a 'tostada'
requires its own philosophy, Francis.
01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:37.920
When someone is not part of this
culture, and they don't know
01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.680
the values, the norms, the traditions...
01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:43.640
the type of affinity
it involves with the animal,
01:04:43.720 --> 01:04:47.480
the normal view is to say
how can you mistreat an animal
01:04:47.560 --> 01:04:49.840
killing it in public, it’s horrible.
01:04:50.040 --> 01:04:52.800
But it's a very recent position
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:55.520
in the evolution of our
sensibility.
01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.280
If you see the recent reactions
01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.680
when a bullfighter died
in the arena...
01:05:04.560 --> 01:05:10.040
...instead of a compassionate reaction
or one of mourning,
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:12.240
people said "one scoundrel less",
01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:15.360
or "a sadist has been eliminated".
01:06:04.160 --> 01:06:06.880
I’m proud of being the fifth generation,
01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:09.080
it's been a little more than
one hundred and fifty years
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:12.720
that we have been breeding
bullfighting bulls here in Rancho Seco.
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:14.960
-You too Juan?
-Yes sir.
01:06:15.040 --> 01:06:17.160
Five generations also?
01:06:17.240 --> 01:06:19.160
Five generations also here
in Rancho Seco.
01:06:19.520 --> 01:06:22.960
And you know all the cows,
all the bulls?
01:06:23.080 --> 01:06:25.800
- Yes, sir.
- Their names, their numbers.
01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:27.360
I live with them everyday.
01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:30.000
- And you like this?
- Yes, I love it.
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:35.600
And Juan, when you see
your bulls going to fight,
01:06:35.680 --> 01:06:39.640
to face combat in the ring,
how do you feel?
01:06:39.960 --> 01:06:41.120
Well...
01:06:41.520 --> 01:06:45.000
Nothing.
They're animals that go to fight,
01:06:45.240 --> 01:06:46.960
some of them have their life spared
01:06:47.040 --> 01:06:49.760
and they come back here
to where they were born.
01:06:50.040 --> 01:06:54.400
You were telling me
about the environment,
01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:58.560
regarding what is
ecologically preserved here.
01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:01.880
We have seen eagles for example,
falcons,
01:07:02.520 --> 01:07:05.640
it's thanks to the breeding
of these bulls
01:07:05.720 --> 01:07:08.320
that those birds roam here.
01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:09.880
That's right, Francis.
The truth is that
01:07:09.960 --> 01:07:12.560
the bullfighting bulls
protect the ecology,
01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:16.160
if we didn’t have bullfighting bulls
we wouldn't have eagles, rabbits,
01:07:16.240 --> 01:07:19.720
or the wildlife that we have
here in Tlaxcala.
01:07:19.840 --> 01:07:22.720
Thanks to the bulls
we can see all those animals
01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:24.800
that other places don't have.
01:08:44.120 --> 01:08:48.040
The altar is a custom that us
people from Tlaxcala have
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:51.039
to honor those
who have died.
01:08:51.160 --> 01:08:53.880
It’s very moving for us...
01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:58.880
...to see how the deceased
are alive.
01:08:59.319 --> 01:09:02.519
Yes, for us yes, it's a way...
01:09:04.040 --> 01:09:06.840
...to know that they arrive,
you know?
01:09:06.920 --> 01:09:10.080
- That we have them here.
- That they live in our hearts,
01:09:10.160 --> 01:09:13.680
in our soul and in our memory.
01:09:17.080 --> 01:09:22.280
Every time a bull comes out,
we feel fear.
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:25.279
You're facing the unknown,
01:09:25.359 --> 01:09:29.359
no bull is alike, you don’t know
what you’re going to face,
01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:31.119
we're risking our life.
01:09:31.200 --> 01:09:35.040
Often you say goodbye
to your family,
01:09:35.120 --> 01:09:37.560
thinking you might not return.
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:43.640
In the end, I think we're
all afraid of death.
01:09:47.040 --> 01:09:52.240
I believe that the existence of risk,
the notion of risk...
01:09:53.040 --> 01:09:54.880
...is very important...
01:09:56.400 --> 01:09:58.160
...in a bullfight.
01:09:59.200 --> 01:10:00.840
But also in the love
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:05.040
and passion that
I can feel for bullfights.
01:10:05.160 --> 01:10:08.680
A bullfight without risk
doesn't make sense.
01:10:09.320 --> 01:10:12.320
One feels that at any time...
01:10:13.080 --> 01:10:14.960
...the bullfighter might get...
01:10:16.560 --> 01:10:20.280
- impaled.
- But that imminent feeling
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:23.640
always should be present.
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:26.840
Yes. It's the price to pay
in order to justify bullfighting.
01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:28.160
That's right.
01:10:32.680 --> 01:10:36.600
I think that element of fear,
01:10:36.680 --> 01:10:39.080
of expectation, or indeed of fear...
01:10:40.200 --> 01:10:44.360
is a part of the ritual,
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:47.040
and when that element is there,
01:10:47.160 --> 01:10:50.520
it makes the bullfight
more thrilling, of course.
01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:53.160
Danger is what sometimes
01:10:53.240 --> 01:10:57.560
connects the bullfighter
with the public
01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:00.720
in the most sublime way.
01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:15.880
Fear is a knot in the stomach...
01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:18.440
it's nausea...
01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:20.320
sweat...
01:11:21.120 --> 01:11:23.000
defecation...
01:11:23.400 --> 01:11:24.840
vomit...
01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:26.560
it's something terrible...
01:11:27.040 --> 01:11:30.400
it's something
that devours a person.
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:34.360
It is very difficult to resist fear...
01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:38.400
it is there,
and one has to deal with it.
01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:44.760
It's probably the most
destructive thing.
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:48.080
I think we die out of fear;
01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:54.080
"dying of fear"
is not just an expression.
01:11:55.080 --> 01:11:58.360
Surely, at the moment one dies,
01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:00.480
what kills you is fear itself.
01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:12.800
Dangerous animals,
a drunk, a cocaine addict,
01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:14.840
a drug addict comes at you
with a gun...
01:12:15.240 --> 01:12:16.440
all that is very scary.
01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:19.120
But the bull provokes terror;
it incites an ancestral fear
01:12:19.200 --> 01:12:24.920
that comes from a part of the brain
connected to...
01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:28.560
very ancient worlds.
01:12:28.640 --> 01:12:33.120
It's a similar fear
to a child's fear to darkness.
01:12:33.200 --> 01:12:35.720
When you are eight, ten,
eleven years old,
01:12:35.840 --> 01:12:40.160
usually your parents
or your family,
01:12:40.320 --> 01:12:44.920
try for you to get rid of your fears,
the fear of darkness.
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:46.960
But with child bullfighters,
01:12:47.080 --> 01:12:50.360
what they do instead
is get them used to fear,
01:12:50.480 --> 01:12:55.880
which is the complete opposite
of what happens in a normal life.
01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:33.520
Arm extended, Tadeo.
01:13:34.440 --> 01:13:36.640
Like that, good!
01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:43.400
Good, like that.
01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:58.200
Bullfighting shows death for real
the necessary death of the bull,
01:13:58.280 --> 01:14:00.480
and the always possible
death of the bullfighter.
01:14:01.440 --> 01:14:04.640
Without death, bullfighting
would not have any symbolic value,
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:07.160
because it is the story
of the heroic fight
01:14:07.280 --> 01:14:09.040
and the demise of every animal,
01:14:09.320 --> 01:14:13.120
"it lived, fought, and died".
01:14:14.240 --> 01:14:17.880
Without death, bullfights
would not have any ethical value,
01:14:18.200 --> 01:14:21.760
because the moral of bullfighting
is that no one has the right
01:14:21.840 --> 01:14:26.360
to kill the respected animal,
if one's life is not put on the line.
01:14:27.640 --> 01:14:29.120
That is what I see,
01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:31.240
that is what I feel,
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.720
despite being so horrified
by blood and violence.
01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:37.360
And you,
01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:40.360
whom identifies so much
with the bull...
01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:43.680
Would you prefer to live life
as a slave
01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:45.440
and die in the slaughterhouse?
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:48.560
Or live free and die fighting?
01:15:00.760 --> 01:15:06.560
Something difficult to admit
in today's society,
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:10.120
is that one can love,
to such a degree,
01:15:10.880 --> 01:15:13.440
an animal that wants to kill you.
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:15.960
Because that animal
wants to see you dead.
01:15:16.040 --> 01:15:17.520
You're in its territory,
01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:21.400
it wants to oust you
and kill you...
01:15:22.040 --> 01:15:25.880
And love to such a degree an animal
that you're going to kill,
01:15:26.080 --> 01:15:30.120
and for the audience to love
that animal so much as well.
01:15:30.200 --> 01:15:34.120
What’s scandalous is how
that love mingles with death.
01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:36.640
Every time I go to the bullfights,
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:39.800
the death of the bull
implies my own death.
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:46.360
I don't disassociate myself
from the process of life and death
01:15:46.760 --> 01:15:49.400
from the bull that
comes out and dies,
01:15:49.480 --> 01:15:52.520
when it dies,
a part of me is dying.
01:15:55.560 --> 01:15:58.960
The execution of the bull
is the definitive demonstration
01:15:59.080 --> 01:16:01.000
of laying your life, for the last time,
01:16:01.040 --> 01:16:05.760
on the horns of the bull,
which could mean your own death,
01:16:06.040 --> 01:16:08.240
so you can give sacrifice to it,
01:16:08.480 --> 01:16:12.240
and it's one of most
truthful moments.
01:16:12.400 --> 01:16:15.920
And precisely because of its status
as a fierce animal, it deserves to die
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:19.840
in public and not hidden
in a slaughterhouse.
01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:41.280
One can go to an arena in Seville
and eat a Caldereta
01:17:41.400 --> 01:17:43.840
made from the tail of a bull
that has been fought.
01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:46.200
One can eat bull's testicles
at Mexico's Bullring,
01:17:46.320 --> 01:17:48.520
after each bull is slain,
one can witness
01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:50.960
the butchering of the animal
in the slaughterhouse
01:17:51.080 --> 01:17:53.920
of Mexico's Bullring and eat
the bull that has just been killed.
01:17:56.840 --> 01:18:00.040
The anti-bullfighting crowd
are people that think that
01:18:00.120 --> 01:18:04.120
you can eliminate death,
which is an utopia.
01:18:04.200 --> 01:18:07.520
- Or evil.
- Yes, or evil, exactly.
01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:11.560
This is an utopia, and there is
nothing more dangerous than utopists.
01:18:12.080 --> 01:18:14.640
We can say that now
that we are in the twenty-first century,
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:18.640
and we’ve seen the effect of achieved
utopias in the twentieth century,
01:18:18.720 --> 01:18:21.720
we know that they are very dangerous.
01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:23.920
If bullfighting were to
disappear one day,
01:18:24.000 --> 01:18:26.920
what would also disappear
with it would not only be
01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:30.560
that model of beauty,
that for moments is sublime,
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:31.960
and in other moments is mediocre.
01:18:32.040 --> 01:18:34.640
- Yes, that also happens with painting.
- Exactly.
01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:38.480
What would disappear
would be the idea of transgression.
01:19:14.320 --> 01:19:18.600
In Spain, they're starting
to stop liking bullfights.
01:19:19.400 --> 01:19:20.480
Curious.
01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:22.240
I have the feeling...
01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:28.520
...that it has betrayed us,
and that it betrays itself;
01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:31.640
that Spain denies its past,
01:19:31.720 --> 01:19:34.800
its identity, its history
through bullfighting.
01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:36.520
Yes, and it's very sad.
01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:40.120
I think this is due
to various reasons, it's a fad.
01:19:40.440 --> 01:19:44.400
It's also politically correct...
01:19:45.440 --> 01:19:46.800
...and finally...
01:19:48.320 --> 01:19:49.640
...there is...
01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:54.240
...this general falling out of love
with the past.
01:19:55.200 --> 01:19:59.880
As if the future
could be more beautiful...
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:03.960
more possible,
more magnificent, without the past.
01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:09.120
Now I think we are
in French Catalonia,
01:20:09.200 --> 01:20:14.880
because Catalonia is not only
Spanish, it's also French,
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:18.000
and an interesting thing,
01:20:18.120 --> 01:20:23.720
is that there are a lot
of towns and villages here
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:25.680
that are very into bullfighting.
01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:29.920
But didn't they ban
bullfighting in Catalonia?
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:33.640
Yes, but in Spanish Catalonia.
It's an interesting thing;
01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:38.920
nationalism in Catalonia could be
in favor of bullfighting like in France,
01:20:39.000 --> 01:20:41.400
or against bullfighting like in Spain.
01:20:52.920 --> 01:20:57.400
We firmly agree with a banner
in the plaza that says
01:20:57.480 --> 01:20:59.920
that we are Catalans
and bullfighting fans.
01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:04.000
In other words,
there is no incompatibility
01:21:04.080 --> 01:21:08.440
with being Catalan
and being a bullfighting fan.
01:21:09.400 --> 01:21:12.880
And they can think whatever
they want on the other side.
01:21:17.440 --> 01:21:20.640
CATALANS ARE HERE!
01:21:33.240 --> 01:21:36.760
We're thirty minutes from the border.
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:39.640
Perfect,
we'll arrive just in time for
01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:42.520
- the sequence with Víctor.
- Good morning.
01:21:43.240 --> 01:21:44.840
Slept well?
01:21:45.160 --> 01:21:46.680
How are you?
01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:49.120
Well, more or less...
It's just that...
01:21:49.400 --> 01:21:52.560
I'm not going with you guys
to Barcelona.
01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:55.920
I'm not going because after
the bullfighting prohibition in Barcelona
01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:58.840
I have written this book
"WE WON'T GO TO BARCELONA ANYMORE".
01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:00.600
What do you mean
you're not coming?
01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:03.080
I’ve have decided I’m not going.
01:22:03.200 --> 01:22:06.760
- But we're just about to leave.
- You guys go, not me.
01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:09.120
But why didn't you tell us
last night?
01:22:09.240 --> 01:22:11.600
Because I've considered
during the night,
01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:14.560
that a philosopher needs
to be consistent.
01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:18.800
- So I'm not going.
- But wait a minute...
01:22:18.880 --> 01:22:21.280
Consistency
is the minimum requirement
01:22:21.360 --> 01:22:25.640
for a writer that has the ambition
to be a philosopher.
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:27.520
And what should we
say to Víctor?
01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:28.920
I'll explain this to Víctor, ok?
01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:32.880
Víctor will easily understand this.
He’s a philosopher too.
01:22:35.200 --> 01:22:36.400
What do we do now?
01:22:37.320 --> 01:22:39.520
Well, we can't go to Barcelona
without him.
01:22:39.760 --> 01:22:40.840
Why not?
01:22:50.760 --> 01:22:52.080
What does the book say?
01:22:52.800 --> 01:22:56.600
It’s a compilation of essays
by several authors.
01:22:57.520 --> 01:22:59.840
Let’s see... it begins like this:
01:23:00.440 --> 01:23:02.280
“We will no longer go to Barcelona.
01:23:03.360 --> 01:23:10.120
"On July 28th 2010, Catalonia’s parliament
voted to ban bullfights.
01:23:10.320 --> 01:23:13.160
"The immediate reasons
are already known:
01:23:13.640 --> 01:23:16.800
"Nationalist fever,
the anti-Spain sentiment,
01:23:17.080 --> 01:23:19.720
"political circumstances, etc.
01:23:20.600 --> 01:23:23.240
"To imagine a future without Spain,
01:23:23.680 --> 01:23:28.000
"Barcelona must reinvent its past
without bullfights.”
01:24:12.520 --> 01:24:14.960
CLOSED
01:24:19.600 --> 01:24:23.000
It's a place that fortunately,
I've been to many times
01:24:23.080 --> 01:24:27.600
attending great events
that I would describe as spiritual.
01:24:29.200 --> 01:24:31.480
A lot of things have fallen
in human history,
01:24:31.560 --> 01:24:35.520
why wouldn't a big tragic festivity
like bullfighting tumble?
01:24:35.600 --> 01:24:38.920
Now, for a tragic festivity to exist,
01:24:39.160 --> 01:24:41.760
one needs to agree that tragedy
is part of the human condition.
01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:45.720
Why did it stop? Well obviously,
there is a political reason
01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:47.800
that I can't question,
01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:51.080
the Catalonian parliament voted
democratically to ban it,
01:24:51.200 --> 01:24:53.720
and there's nothing one can say,
I come to terms with it.
01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:57.320
The bull suffers.
01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:01.680
I think it's beyond
any reasonable doubt
01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:03.600
that bulls suffer.
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:06.840
These bulls don't constitute
any type of species,
01:25:06.920 --> 01:25:10.600
one could say that Bos Taurus
bulls are the cows' spouses,
01:25:10.680 --> 01:25:13.000
bullfighting bulls
are like normal cows,
01:25:13.080 --> 01:25:19.000
they're simply not excessively
selected to give milk.
01:25:19.960 --> 01:25:21.640
The bullfighter
01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:25.000
is in a position of superiority
towards the bull,
01:25:25.120 --> 01:25:29.680
because the bull is in a trap,
in a place where it can't leave.
01:25:30.200 --> 01:25:33.120
Therefore, the fact there is
an inequality of conditions
01:25:33.200 --> 01:25:35.040
makes the competition unfair.
01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:37.200
The voting begins.
01:25:38.320 --> 01:25:41.600
Legislative Decree 2/2008,
01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:44.720
has been approved
by sixty-eight votes in favor,
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:48.160
fifty-five votes against
and nine abstentions.
01:26:20.760 --> 01:26:23.000
This is the old ‘Las Arenas’ bullring,
01:26:23.080 --> 01:26:26.720
which was very important
for many years.
01:26:26.800 --> 01:26:31.080
I remember seeing bullfighters
such as Aparicio for the first time.
01:26:31.960 --> 01:26:36.560
This space is the repudiation
of all spirituality.
01:26:39.720 --> 01:26:43.160
It's true that bullfighting
was slowly dying,
01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:45.120
the bullfighting arenas,
01:26:45.200 --> 01:26:48.440
not this one because it wasn't here
anymore, but the Monumental Arena,
01:26:49.120 --> 01:26:53.800
it was only vibrant and full
01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:55.720
right at the end when José Tomás
used to bullfight.
01:26:55.800 --> 01:27:00.640
If the legal ban hadn't occurred,
01:27:01.040 --> 01:27:03.880
it would have probably
died by inertia.
01:27:04.520 --> 01:27:07.080
Death by inanition.
01:27:11.800 --> 01:27:14.160
I was a big fan of bullfighting,
01:27:14.320 --> 01:27:20.200
but one day I saw a bullfighter
that was very, very bad.
01:27:20.520 --> 01:27:24.040
He tried to kill the bull
like ten times,
01:27:24.200 --> 01:27:27.200
then he stabbed it in
the back of the neck
01:27:27.280 --> 01:27:29.600
and tried like eight
or ten more times,
01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:32.800
he was very, very bad,
01:27:33.040 --> 01:27:36.880
and for the first time I became
aware of the suffering of the animal.
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:40.000
That day, I left the arena
and I felt so bad,
01:27:40.080 --> 01:27:42.160
that I stopped being a fan,
01:27:42.520 --> 01:27:44.800
but I'm not against bullfighting.
01:27:44.880 --> 01:27:48.200
I respect it,
I still respect those who like it.
01:27:48.200 --> 01:27:50.680
But I don't go to
bullfights anymore.
01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:57.880
Bullfighting in Spain, as it has been shown
with the ban in Catalonia
01:27:58.040 --> 01:28:02.920
closely resembles
a minoritarian artistic movement,
01:28:03.040 --> 01:28:08.320
it’s an irreverent exponent of artistic
freedom in the face of morality
01:28:08.400 --> 01:28:10.640
and when irreverence
has ensued against morality,
01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:13.440
it has always been at risk
of being prohibited
01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:15.760
and that’s the case, it’s not impossible
for it to be prohibited.
01:28:17.120 --> 01:28:20.320
It's torture, not culture!
01:28:20.400 --> 01:28:25.240
Abolition, abolition...!
01:28:33.440 --> 01:28:35.560
"WHEN IT INVOLVES
THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS"
01:28:55.240 --> 01:28:56.760
They're going to win for sure.
01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:00.840
Tomorrow,
01:29:01.320 --> 01:29:02.600
in five years,
01:29:03.200 --> 01:29:05.600
in twenty, bullfighting will die.
01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:09.640
Or it will survive,
in an archaic way.
01:29:10.160 --> 01:29:12.640
In half a dozen strongholds
that will give shelter
01:29:12.720 --> 01:29:14.760
to a handful of nostalgic old-timers.
01:29:18.080 --> 01:29:19.440
Yes, they will win...
01:29:19.680 --> 01:29:20.920
IS TORTURE LEGAL?
01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:24.600
...and I may be showing off
but I know it’s a lost cause.
01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:28.320
My fight for the survival
of bullfighting is in vain.
01:29:28.440 --> 01:29:30.440
I just hope that I die
before it does.
01:29:33.480 --> 01:29:35.040
You will win;
01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:37.920
don't think I don't understand you.
01:29:39.040 --> 01:29:41.000
I understand you much better
01:29:41.080 --> 01:29:43.560
than you understand me
and my fellow men.
01:29:44.080 --> 01:29:47.560
You think I'm evil;
I know that you are good.
01:29:49.160 --> 01:29:52.080
I know all too well the fire
cast by your eyes,
01:29:52.160 --> 01:29:54.400
I know exactly what you feel.
01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:56.200
Compassion?
01:29:56.400 --> 01:29:59.360
I feel it every day in the face
of the suffering of people,
01:29:59.480 --> 01:30:02.160
and even before that of
the animals that are massacred
01:30:02.240 --> 01:30:05.480
and objectified by productivism.
01:30:08.560 --> 01:30:10.800
Yes, tomorrow bullfighting will die.
01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:14.160
We'll all be vegetarians,
who knows,
01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:17.760
and animals may be whole
and complete persons.
01:30:18.080 --> 01:30:19.840
They will have individual rights
01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:23.520
and personal interests,
as authentic free citizens
01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:24.840
of our moral Republic.
01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:30.120
You will win, for sure.
01:30:31.160 --> 01:30:34.440
But will the animals
end up winning?
01:30:38.120 --> 01:30:40.840
It's true that bulls will no
longer die in the arena,
01:30:41.400 --> 01:30:44.720
they will have died
in the slaughterhouse,
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:46.440
useless.
01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.880
And humanity is the one
that will end up losing.
01:30:54.040 --> 01:30:57.120
Today bullfighting,
tomorrow hunting,
01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:01.320
fishing, and thousands of stories
of men and animals.
01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:06.880
What animality will we have left
to populate our millennial dreams?
01:31:09.200 --> 01:31:13.200
I don't want to live
in that world of aseptic violence.
01:31:14.840 --> 01:31:16.960
Maybe it will be
a "Brave New World",
01:31:17.480 --> 01:31:19.080
but think about it well,
01:31:20.040 --> 01:31:22.320
will it truly be a better world?
01:31:48.840 --> 01:31:51.040
All the couples that we have met,
01:31:51.160 --> 01:31:54.840
that don't share
this passion have split.
01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:02.800
On July 14, 1973 in Pamplona,
a historic bullfight took place.
01:32:02.920 --> 01:32:06.160
There was a unique ambient,
with thunder and lighting,
01:32:06.280 --> 01:32:07.840
the maestro was phenomenal,
01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:11.880
he was bullfighting with water
up to his ankles. It was crazy;
01:32:12.000 --> 01:32:15.080
we stayed there,
three quarters of an hour or an hour...
01:32:16.200 --> 01:32:19.200
...completely stunned
by what we had seen.
01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:21.240
And after that,
01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:23.160
we decided to get married.
01:32:26.560 --> 01:32:29.960
Life is short,
but life as a couple is long.
01:32:30.080 --> 01:32:31.080
Is long.
01:32:39.440 --> 01:32:45.400
Yes, with almost fifty years
behind me as a philosopher
01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:47.720
I believe I deserve to rest.
01:32:48.240 --> 01:32:52.000
An active philosopher
strives for wisdom;
01:32:52.120 --> 01:32:55.280
an emeritus philosopher
has already achieved it.
01:32:58.360 --> 01:33:00.960
Now I'll speak slowly...
01:33:02.200 --> 01:33:06.280
...sighing between syllables
with a tired breath.
01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:10.040
To hell with concepts,
I'll only speak using metaphors.
01:33:10.640 --> 01:33:12.960
I shall foretell that
there will be no science,
01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:17.800
or man, or subject, or essence,
or reason, only sense.
01:33:17.920 --> 01:33:20.400
That is, ultimately, nonsense.
01:33:22.160 --> 01:33:24.120
That is what I would do
starting tomorrow...
01:33:24.760 --> 01:33:26.080
if by being emeritus...
01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:29.920
the demon of philosophy...
01:33:30.280 --> 01:33:32.640
abandons me.
01:33:33.480 --> 01:33:37.600
So, what I wish is not to reach
the age of wisdom...
01:33:38.080 --> 01:33:42.000
but to always have
as many friends...
01:33:42.640 --> 01:33:44.560
as there are here today.
01:33:45.040 --> 01:33:46.960
I hope that you,
01:33:47.120 --> 01:33:50.240
my kin, all my friends
and for myself,
01:33:50.560 --> 01:33:52.640
that we will never be wise,
01:33:53.120 --> 01:33:55.640
that we leave this world
as late as possible,
01:33:55.720 --> 01:33:57.600
and that we leave serenely,
01:33:57.680 --> 01:34:01.600
that is, with the feeling
of having finished living.
01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:04.480
This is applicable
to any fresh start.
01:34:04.560 --> 01:34:07.480
So, I say to you,
I leave quietly. I have finished.
01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:27.200
The career of Francis Wolff
01:34:27.360 --> 01:34:31.000
is not superficial at all.
01:34:31.320 --> 01:34:34.840
Instead of playing golf
01:34:34.920 --> 01:34:38.720
he prefers bullfighting.
01:34:38.920 --> 01:34:42.520
Confronting the horned beasts
01:34:42.600 --> 01:34:46.240
that challenged him,
01:34:46.440 --> 01:34:49.840
Francis surpassed the limits
01:34:49.920 --> 01:34:53.920
in the arena of philosophy.
01:34:55.480 --> 01:34:57.400
Your Socrates,
01:34:57.480 --> 01:35:01.320
there never was a nicer disciple.
01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:05.160
My Socrates,
01:35:05.320 --> 01:35:08.480
it seems like
01:35:08.640 --> 01:35:11.600
Francis is leaving us.
01:35:22.120 --> 01:35:26.360
We are part of a very
peculiar community,
01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:31.600
and it is because of that
collective memory.
01:35:32.160 --> 01:35:35.280
Which has increasingly become
a besieged fortress.
01:35:36.480 --> 01:35:39.560
- But we are... frowned upon.
- We are frowned upon.
01:35:40.640 --> 01:35:42.720
- And this doesn't bother you.
- Not at all.
01:35:42.840 --> 01:35:45.200
- Me neither.
- Very good.
01:35:46.080 --> 01:35:47.240
Cut!
01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:06.720
He's going to pace around the ring.
01:36:09.240 --> 01:36:12.440
It's very difficult to see
those details on TV.
01:36:15.120 --> 01:36:22.680
Today's bullfight has
not been terrific.
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:24.560
Cut!
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 100 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish; French
Grade: High School, College, Adult
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