What happens to a family when a mother goes to prison? How is day-to-day…
Cordelias
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Ten imprisoned women convicted of different crimes organize a theater play that might serve both as therapy to their own frustrations and as a way of reintegrating in society. Thanks to the play, they will be able to get out of prison and tour villages throughout Spain.
Directed by Gracia Querejeta, one of the most brilliant and profound filmmakers in Spanish cinema, Cordelias was nominated to the Goya Awards for Best fiction short film.
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Main credits
Querejeta, Gracia (film director)
Querejeta, Gracia (screenwriter)
Mercero, Santos (screenwriter)
Abuín, Jazmín (actor)
Duque, Aránzazu (actor)
Horcajo, Paqui (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Juan Carlos Gómez; editing, Leire Alonso.
Distributor subjects
Women; Dance + Performing Arts; Body Image; Iberian Studies; Short Films; Criminal Justice; Classic Films; Mental Health; SociologyKeywords
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Advantages of making
a theatre play with women in prison:
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First,
rehearsals serve as therapy,
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as entertainment.
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Second, theatre life
opens a window in these dulled minds
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after being holed up
for so many years.
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And if prison aims
to rehabilitate, not to punish,
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that window is the key to air
our frustrations and we need it so much.
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Third,
we all have a terrible past
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but we can
make use of that experience
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to interpret complex
and heartbreaking characters.
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And fourth, if the result is positive…
what happens, Marcela?
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We're going to tour villages in summer!
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That's right, Marcela.
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We go on a tour; we get out of here,
not being stuck indoors all day.
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Are you all right, Marcela?
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Look, one thing is clear,
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theatre
will help you to ease tension,
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to use your memory positively,
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to relax, to have fun.
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What's Moni doing here?
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Wasn't she held in high-security?
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You're so annoying.
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Can't you see it? She's out.
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Well, she scares the shit out of me.
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She's calm.
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Tell her you're calm, Moni.
-I'm calm.
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End of story.
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End of story my arse.
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I won't act with her.
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All of us must act in the play.
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Why all of us?
Because you say so?
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If anyone doesn't,
there's no play, there's no tour.
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I've already told you.
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Why are you the boss?
You are an idiot.
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I'm the only one
with a bit of experience.
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Yeah, no one believes that.
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Let's vote.
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Let's see.
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Who the fuck
wants this idiot to be our boss?
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Anytime I did theatre
there were problems keeping authority.
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I had trouble
when I did a play at college
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and when I did another one
with my cousins.
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There's always someone
that questions authority.
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And in those cases,
it must be maintained by all means.
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Who the hell do you think you are?
The Pope?
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More like the Virgin Mary.
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We can't understand
why the fuck you are the boss.
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You don't get it
because you're dumb.
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You bitch!
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One more argument
and the play's over. Is that clear?
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We had a little authority problem.
All cleared now.
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It's very difficult
to work with nine actresses.
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I mean, it's a challenge.
Not many dare do so.
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It's an unbearable mix of egos.
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But there we go.
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I have decided
to split them in three groups.
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THE FARM WORKERS
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You're the Farm Workers.
Very important characters.
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Used to witness everything
and to keep silence.
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So we don't say a word?
Well, that's great.
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You're tired of being humiliated.
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An inner thorn flourishes inside you.
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There is silent violence in your eyes.
A desire for revenge.
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Are you listening to me, Moni?
-Yes, I am.
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Why Farm Workers?
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Because someone
has to play the role.
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I'd rather be a doctor,
a lawyer or an architect.
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Something…
More sophisticated.
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Do I look like a villager?
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Don't start complaining
about the casting.
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Well, I'm not going to be a Farm Worker,
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fuck you, you cheeky shit!
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You aren't going to be one, are you?
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Such a smart girl you are, eh?
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You do look like a villager.
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Fuck you.
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You farm worker!
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What the hell
are you laughing at, Encarnita?
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I have a degree in Teaching
and four years of Psychology studies.
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I've taught primary students.
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In 2003, the paper El País
published my letter to the editor.
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But none of this counts.
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As a Farm Worker.
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But what the hell!
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Since I killed my boyfriend
and a dog with a hoe,
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they think I'm a villager.
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Honestly,
I didn't use the hoe because I liked it.
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We were at home in my village
and this was what I had at hand.
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I think having made use
of a farm tool has led to typecast me.
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Look how lovely
the names of our characters are:
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Farm Worker 1,
Farm Worker 2 and Farm Worker 3.
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Hard work, wasn't it?
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I'm going for No. 1,
she has more lines.
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Why is that?
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Because I fucking feel like it, OK?
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Girls, please.
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The director chooses the characters,
and you're only an actress.
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The Hoe Murderer has spoken.
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And you're The Fucking Pyromaniac.
-Let's see, that's enough.
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Nina, Farm Worker No. 1,
Encarna No. 2 and Moni, you're No. 3.
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I think that's perfect.
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Number 3 doesn't say a word,
there's no way we get any from her.
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It's more of a body language role.
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Using body language to show emotions.
Do you think you can do it, Moni?
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I doubt it.
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Body language. Perfect.
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Are you sure
this woman is rehabilitated?
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Because I don't think so, eh?
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I'm calm.
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I'm with Nina.
Ha!
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How should we rehearse with this brick?
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Will you remind her of her trauma?
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Spring. Seaside. Mountains. Fresh air.
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You killed your father.
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Repeat with me: "I killed my father."
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Nina, don't be cruel.
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She must let it go
and forget about springs.
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You killed him, Moni.
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I'm calm.
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Nina, stop.
Can't you see she's suffering?
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She killed her own dad, damn it.
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How is she going to act?
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At least
she didn't kill an innocent.
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You mean me?
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No, my granny, you asshole.
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I'll smash your face in.
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I'll pull out your hair.
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Girls, please… Let's rehearse.
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I set fire to the factory, yes.
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Because the owner
used to touch me.
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It was a shit factory anyway;
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totally black and it had
a horrible smell because of the rubber.
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And the boss, he was
the most stupid creep I've ever met.
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I'm not sad he's dead, fuck him.
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His own filthy factory smoke choked him.
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I only wanted to frighten him,
nothing else.
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I planned it, you know, on a Sunday,
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when there was no one
in there except for him.
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He was even working
on bloody Sundays,
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such a poor devil and a fucking rat.
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How was I to know
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there were three beggars
sleeping in the corner?
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Switch that off, now.
Damn it!
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Moni…
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-Body language.
-Stop, Moni.
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She's not a Farm Worker,
she's a spinning top…
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-Moni!
-What's up?
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Well, Farm Workers don't dance.
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They do, around the countryside…
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I suppose they do. Remember
Seven Brooms for Seven Brides…
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They weren't Farm Workers.
And it's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
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If you aren't taking part,
keep your mouth shut.
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I saw the movie and it was rubbish.
They were woodcutters.
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I like that movie.
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-It was shit.
-It wasn't shit.
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OK, it wasn't,
but it was full of dancing.
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OK, they danced.
But you don't have to, Moni.
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-Body language.
-Perfect. But no dancing.
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You have to move slowly,
as if you didn't trust anyone.
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You've been deeply hurt.
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Definitely.
Think about your dad, Moni.
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Do not start, Nina.
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I'm helping her
to understand her character!
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Moni, your dad!
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Spring, seaside, mountains, fresh air.
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Your stabbed dad. He didn’t love you.
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I'm calm.
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-Not even your mother did.
-I'm calm.
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I'm calm, I'm calm,
I'm calm, I'm calm.
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I'm calm, I'm calm,
I'm calm, I'm calm.
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-Stop the rehearsal, code 9!
-I'm calm, I'm calm!
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It is true. I killed my father.
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Why should I deny it now?
Yeah, 15 years reduced penalty.
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But he hit my mother,
every single day he hit her.
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People say
those who hit are almost always drunk.
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My father was not.
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He didn't drink,
didn't gamble, did not fuck around.
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He was a dangerous sadist.
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I'm not going to tell you how it was,
it's not necessary.
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And my mother…
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you all already know.
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She defended my dad in the trial
and she accused me.
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It seems to be
that she loved him too much.
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What a wonderful thing, love.
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Just wonderful.
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THE THIEVES
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Now, you are The Thieves.
Bad girls in the play.
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And you'll get tired of acting.
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So, you think, between these people,
we're the worst of the worst?
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Scum?
-No one said that.
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Maybe you're little angels,
but you are Baddies in the performance.
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Or can't you tell?
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The problem is,
I was charged with corruption,
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and I get a role as a bad girl.
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This is the problem.
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Facts shit on you.
-What?
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Baddie, me? Must be kidding!
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In politics men have always robbed.
Just a fact of life.
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Those charged with influence peddling,
bribery, malfeasance…
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Always men.
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Nothing to do
with the female quota. No.
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I think this is bullshit.
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But just once the thief is a woman...
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I think they should have taken this
into consideration in my case.
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But not even the feminists did!
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I think corruption
has a very bad press in this country.
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No killings, no kidnaps, no rapes,
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but you bought expensive shoes
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and you've gone to the Caribbean
with public funds and...
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Oh, what a horrible crime!
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How disgusting our society is becoming!
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I have two degrees,
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a master's degree,
I speak four foreign languages
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and here I am…
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with these animals!
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Let's see…
I think you don't realize
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how important Baddies in general are.
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There's no story,
movie or whatever without Baddies.
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Think about it.
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Darth Vader.
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He is the best character in Star Wars.
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So is the Joker,
in Batman, no doubt.
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-You see?
-And the Hannibal the cannibal...
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I can see myself acting if it's
an elegant and cultivated madwoman,
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the same way he is.
-What about Bardem?
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Got an Oscar as a baddie.
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Al Capone.
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Well, the Mafia in general.
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There weren’t as many prims then.
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I was born in the wrong era.
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And Cinderella's stepmother.
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And Scar in The Lion King.
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And Gargamel
and how he hated The Smurfs.
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What's wrong with you?
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You only know wicked characters
from children movies?
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I used to watch them with my daughter.
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She loved them.
She was really afraid of Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid's Octopus.
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And Toni Soprano.
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He even turns me on.
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I like Scrooge.
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Dickens' miserable bastard.
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And Cinderella's stepmother…
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And Pinocchio's Stromboli.
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And Lotso.
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The day the police caught me I was
watching Toy Story 3 with my daughter.
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She was really afraid of Lotso.
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"I like hugs.
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I like hugs. Give me a hug, my friend.
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You all, hug me!"
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He was a bear, oh really!
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My husband was a property developer.
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I liked him a lot,
even if he was a bit fat.
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Well, he had lots of money
and I thought he was thin.
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Love is blind because
the truth is he was as fat as fuck.
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That was until the housing crisis,
then he got thinner and thinner.
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Of course,
everything landed in the shit.
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But before he ran off,
what a mess he left!
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Well, both of us.
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The deposits on the houses
were already put down.
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All the families complained.
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It's normal.
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How is it possible
that I let him convince me?
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True love. I swear.
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All for my little daughter,
so she could lead a comfortable life.
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Now she's with my mother-in-law.
00:11:19.208 --> 00:11:21.792
She's a bitch, wicked bitch.
00:11:23.583 --> 00:11:27.042
But of course, her father
is held in El Dueso and I'm here.
00:11:29.500 --> 00:11:32.500
On Thursday,
they will bring her to pay me a visit.
00:11:35.833 --> 00:11:37.083
Cut the filming.
00:11:38.333 --> 00:11:39.458
Okay, then.
00:11:39.750 --> 00:11:41.917
But I want to be
the meanest of us all, eh!
00:11:42.042 --> 00:11:43.458
Captain of the Meanies.
00:11:43.542 --> 00:11:46.042
A minute ago you wanted nothing,
and now you want everything.
00:11:46.208 --> 00:11:49.375
I've stolen 22 million euro
from the public purse. What about you?
00:11:49.542 --> 00:11:52.000
You sold worthless shares.
That's really fucking stupid!
00:11:52.167 --> 00:11:55.583
I ripped 50 families off,
they paid a deposit on a flat. Not bad.
00:11:55.667 --> 00:11:57.083
So, I must be the worst.
00:11:57.167 --> 00:11:58.250
How much money is that?
00:11:58.333 --> 00:11:59.292
It's not only money.
00:11:59.375 --> 00:12:00.917
It's the consequences
for many people's lives.
00:12:01.042 --> 00:12:02.250
So, it is.
00:12:02.333 --> 00:12:04.917
Paula, you stole money from public
funds but there's no clear victim.
00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.333
-All of us Spaniards.
-It's too big a group.
00:12:07.458 --> 00:12:10.333
The impact can’t be appreciated.
It's too spread out.
00:12:11.167 --> 00:12:12.750
But yours is a big deal.
00:12:13.042 --> 00:12:15.458
Fifty families, Lola, darling!
-One committed suicide.
00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.500
Did any of yours do that?
00:12:17.667 --> 00:12:19.750
No, they didn't,
because yours is bullshit.
00:12:19.875 --> 00:12:21.542
You got caught,
appeared in the papers,
00:12:21.708 --> 00:12:23.750
you're now considered a moron.
You should know.
00:12:23.875 --> 00:12:25.750
And that's not much to you, is it?
00:12:26.042 --> 00:12:28.250
You want to be the meanest?
Be the meanest, then!
00:12:29.292 --> 00:12:31.375
I've conned many people.
My behaviour is the worst.
00:12:31.500 --> 00:12:32.042
It counts.
00:12:32.125 --> 00:12:34.417
Oh, yeah! No one doubts you're a bitch.
00:12:34.500 --> 00:12:35.292
So, off you go.
00:12:35.375 --> 00:12:38.625
Fight for the role of the bad girl,
see who is the bitchiest.
00:12:38.833 --> 00:12:39.875
I'm out.
00:12:43.208 --> 00:12:45.792
Chair back to its place now
or rehearsals are cancelled.
00:12:45.917 --> 00:12:49.000
It's group therapy.
They are vomiting their own rubbish.
00:12:49.250 --> 00:12:51.000
Everything is going well.
00:12:51.375 --> 00:12:52.750
Repent?
00:12:53.375 --> 00:12:54.792
Well, a bit maybe.
00:12:55.083 --> 00:12:56.333
It was my job.
00:12:56.708 --> 00:12:58.833
Working in a bank can be so stressful.
00:12:58.917 --> 00:13:00.667
They make you sell
a number of shares a month,
00:13:00.750 --> 00:13:02.667
and if you don't, you're fired.
00:13:03.417 --> 00:13:06.000
And yeah, the elderly,
it's a bit of a shame.
00:13:07.458 --> 00:13:09.458
Goddamn it…
every time I remember it…
00:13:10.792 --> 00:13:14.250
I had to help one of them to sign,
he couldn't even remember his name.
00:13:14.458 --> 00:13:15.750
Those things make me sad.
00:13:15.833 --> 00:13:17.833
Of course, they do. I'm not insensitive.
00:13:18.417 --> 00:13:21.042
But what really makes me sad
is losing my job, so young…
00:13:21.167 --> 00:13:23.208
and that my father
is unemployed at 53
00:13:23.292 --> 00:13:25.792
and that he's
not going to get a job ever again.
00:13:26.042 --> 00:13:27.542
53 years old,
00:13:28.250 --> 00:13:30.625
shit, half his life left
and nothing to do,
00:13:31.042 --> 00:13:33.125
not a fucking cent to his name.
00:13:36.458 --> 00:13:39.292
He hasn't got out of bed for a month.
00:13:39.917 --> 00:13:42.292
I'm not going to let the same
happen to me.
00:13:42.875 --> 00:13:44.708
THE TRADERS
00:13:44.917 --> 00:13:47.458
Okay, you are going to be The Traders.
00:13:47.667 --> 00:13:48.875
Great idea…
00:13:48.958 --> 00:13:50.833
As we're here for drug trafficking.
00:13:50.958 --> 00:13:52.667
You said it, because of traffic;
00:13:52.917 --> 00:13:54.875
you know the difference
between trafficking and consuming?
00:13:54.958 --> 00:13:55.833
Of course, I do.
00:13:55.958 --> 00:13:57.375
No, you don't.
You've never known.
00:13:57.750 --> 00:14:00.042
The object
was trafficking but not consuming.
00:14:00.125 --> 00:14:01.583
But you are so slap-dash
in everything you do.
00:14:01.750 --> 00:14:02.500
Hey!
00:14:02.625 --> 00:14:04.208
Not everyone is like you! You know?
00:14:04.292 --> 00:14:05.625
Miss Perfect.
00:14:05.750 --> 00:14:08.083
Dad's favourite child,
the apple of mum's eye,
00:14:08.292 --> 00:14:10.250
the one
that fucked around more than anyone.
00:14:10.417 --> 00:14:12.333
And I was the dopey one, the idiot…
00:14:12.458 --> 00:14:13.375
the junky.
00:14:13.500 --> 00:14:15.458
Don't be annoying, Marcela!
It was your problem.
00:14:15.542 --> 00:14:16.792
So don't blame me now!
00:14:16.875 --> 00:14:19.250
Let's see,
traders don't do any trafficking here.
00:14:19.333 --> 00:14:21.042
-But they speak, don't they?
-They do…
00:14:21.125 --> 00:14:24.833
And, how do you think we can act
with her if she doesn't say a word?
00:14:34.292 --> 00:14:38.292
"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place
whose name I do not care to remember,
00:14:38.417 --> 00:14:42.333
she does not cut the sea, but fly,
a swiftly sailing brigantine."
00:14:44.375 --> 00:14:46.750
And I don't remember what's coming next.
00:14:48.083 --> 00:14:50.333
My problem is that I can't say no.
00:14:51.292 --> 00:14:54.208
When I was a child, a girl
used to ask me for my lunch in the break
00:14:54.333 --> 00:14:56.042
and I would give it to her.
00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.875
And as an adult,
I have the same problem.
00:15:01.208 --> 00:15:02.875
My friend Lucy tells me:
00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.167
"Let's go to Cartagena de Indias"
with a friend of hers, Rufo.
00:15:06.708 --> 00:15:08.083
And I accept.
00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:10.792
Even if I can't stand him.
00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.917
Once there, Rufo asks me
00:15:15.500 --> 00:15:18.542
to take some tinned pineapples
in my luggage.
00:15:20.125 --> 00:15:21.417
And I accept.
00:15:24.417 --> 00:15:26.958
I'm not silly, you know, well...
00:15:27.708 --> 00:15:30.917
when he said it to me, I thought:
"Tinned pineapples?
00:15:32.667 --> 00:15:35.042
We have a lot
of tinned pineapples in Spain."
00:15:37.667 --> 00:15:39.667
The problem is that I can't say no.
00:15:39.958 --> 00:15:41.750
It's something I have to learn to do.
00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.042
I know I'm stupid.
00:15:48.833 --> 00:15:50.250
But hey,
00:15:50.708 --> 00:15:52.750
the world is full of all sorts.
00:15:53.458 --> 00:15:55.167
Incredible. Alba, incredible.
00:15:55.292 --> 00:15:56.875
What a beautiful poem.
00:15:57.042 --> 00:15:59.083
Confusing but incredible.
00:15:59.250 --> 00:16:00.958
Repeat it.
We didn't hear you.
00:16:01.083 --> 00:16:02.125
"Incredible."
00:16:02.958 --> 00:16:04.625
Well, it means nothing to me.
00:16:04.708 --> 00:16:07.792
It's normal, such a scatterbrain
after having been riddled with drugs.
00:16:07.875 --> 00:16:08.750
Don't argue.
00:16:08.833 --> 00:16:10.625
Leave my sister alone!
You asshole!
00:16:10.750 --> 00:16:11.542
Come on, girls!
00:16:11.625 --> 00:16:12.708
Yeah, act innocent
00:16:12.792 --> 00:16:16.083
but she says "incredible"
to make us seethe with envy and anger.
00:16:16.167 --> 00:16:18.083
You're such a sadist.
-I'm getting nervous…
00:16:18.167 --> 00:16:19.750
Marcela, don't start, eh!
00:16:19.917 --> 00:16:21.500
If you wish, go and take your dose,
00:16:21.625 --> 00:16:23.458
but don't start
with your damn battling nerves
00:16:23.583 --> 00:16:25.792
because I won't give in
by any means… OK?
00:16:28.333 --> 00:16:30.083
To me, it was pretty clear.
00:16:30.250 --> 00:16:32.708
I was not going to work
in a crappy job forever
00:16:32.792 --> 00:16:34.500
to earn a few pennies.
00:16:34.708 --> 00:16:37.708
So, I started quite young,
when I was 16.
00:16:37.875 --> 00:16:39.542
At the beginning,
only hash and grass.
00:16:39.625 --> 00:16:41.417
After that, stronger drugs.
00:16:42.458 --> 00:16:43.750
I've tried everything.
00:16:43.833 --> 00:16:46.542
But it never came to my mind
to go beyond joints
00:16:46.625 --> 00:16:48.000
because that's stupid.
00:16:53.625 --> 00:16:55.125
Poor Marcela.
00:16:55.250 --> 00:16:56.792
She's got no remedy.
00:16:56.917 --> 00:16:58.125
Not at all.
00:16:58.250 --> 00:17:00.333
She goes this way, plummeting.
00:17:01.792 --> 00:17:03.625
Even worse,
she's also a pain in the neck.
00:17:03.750 --> 00:17:05.833
But she's my sister and I love her…
00:17:06.458 --> 00:17:07.458
Who's written this?
00:17:07.583 --> 00:17:08.375
What do you think?
00:17:08.542 --> 00:17:10.083
A piece of shit, that's what I think.
00:17:10.250 --> 00:17:11.792
Professor Yoli spoke.
00:17:11.917 --> 00:17:13.083
It's badly written.
00:17:13.208 --> 00:17:15.958
I mean, a trader would never say:
"Albricias, nice to see you",
00:17:16.500 --> 00:17:19.958
unless Albricias is someone,
a guy, for instance.
00:17:20.208 --> 00:17:21.375
Maybe it is a guy.
00:17:21.667 --> 00:17:22.458
Did you smoke anything?
00:17:22.667 --> 00:17:24.250
I wish I did, I'm dying for some.
00:17:24.417 --> 00:17:26.042
I'm only saying,
the lines here are awful.
00:17:26.208 --> 00:17:27.042
I like them.
00:17:27.375 --> 00:17:29.167
How should you know,
you never understand.
00:17:30.625 --> 00:17:31.875
Why are they together?
00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.292
They love being together.
00:17:33.542 --> 00:17:36.042
True, but they're always
arguing with each other.
00:17:36.167 --> 00:17:38.750
Why don't you separate them?
Each in different groups.
00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:41.417
Did you hear that?
We love being together.
00:17:41.542 --> 00:17:42.292
Should I say it in Chinese?
00:17:42.375 --> 00:17:44.083
Have you ever seen them apart?
00:17:44.333 --> 00:17:46.333
They can't, they need each other.
00:17:46.500 --> 00:17:48.458
I don't need her, but she needs me.
00:17:48.667 --> 00:17:49.667
I do need you.
00:17:50.125 --> 00:17:52.083
Well,
she's constantly looking for trouble.
00:17:52.167 --> 00:17:53.375
I don't know how you stand her.
00:17:53.542 --> 00:17:55.292
My sister loves to stir.
Don't worry.
00:17:55.417 --> 00:17:57.958
Yes, go ahead. Like you always do.
00:17:58.125 --> 00:18:00.833
You never had any trauma,
that's why you're so cocky.
00:18:00.917 --> 00:18:02.583
What traumas, Marcela?
00:18:02.667 --> 00:18:04.125
You sniffed glue at the age of 7.
00:18:04.208 --> 00:18:05.958
Because of the traumas, you know.
00:18:06.542 --> 00:18:08.750
Fuck you, Yoli,
you've got no heart, really…
00:18:09.167 --> 00:18:11.083
Hey! Leave my sister alone.
00:18:11.167 --> 00:18:13.125
I can defend myself, if you don't mind…
00:18:13.583 --> 00:18:16.208
You're not only a drug addict
but stupid too.
00:18:16.333 --> 00:18:18.125
Can't you see
your sister brings you down?
00:18:18.208 --> 00:18:20.375
How can you know?
You've just started to talk.
00:18:20.458 --> 00:18:22.042
You're already saying too much.
00:18:22.167 --> 00:18:22.958
Loudmouth!
00:18:25.083 --> 00:18:28.208
Carry on this way and there's no play,
no touring, nothing.
00:18:28.458 --> 00:18:31.000
Of course I do have traumas.
All of them.
00:18:31.167 --> 00:18:34.375
When I was a child my mum
used to give me the greasiest steak
00:18:34.542 --> 00:18:37.542
and Yoli got kisses from her
when she said goodnight to her,
00:18:37.625 --> 00:18:39.333
always kissing her lots.
00:18:40.042 --> 00:18:41.792
She said to her, she said to her:
00:18:41.875 --> 00:18:45.292
"Little angel,
my darling, sleep tight, treasure."
00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.542
And to me, she said:
"Come on, go to sleep."
00:18:48.833 --> 00:18:53.208
And she made a sound
like a shepherd whistling to his flock.
00:18:53.292 --> 00:18:54.042
She made...
00:18:55.917 --> 00:18:57.292
It's hard... Huh?
00:18:57.958 --> 00:19:02.250
At the age of 10 I ran away from home
for 18 hours to get some attention.
00:19:02.917 --> 00:19:05.708
What a bloody bashing
my father gave me!
00:19:06.375 --> 00:19:08.000
At the age of 13, well,
00:19:08.458 --> 00:19:11.500
I had boyfriends for the first time
but they soon left me
00:19:11.583 --> 00:19:14.792
because they said I had bad breath.
00:19:17.917 --> 00:19:21.417
To me, having no drugs,
makes my life an uphill struggle.
00:19:24.583 --> 00:19:27.125
Come on, girls. Let's rehearse.
00:19:28.042 --> 00:19:29.917
What's the matter with you?
00:19:30.833 --> 00:19:33.792
Theatre is art, therapy, escape.
00:19:34.250 --> 00:19:36.625
Doesn't it ring a bell? Escape.
00:19:37.417 --> 00:19:40.500
Yeah, but,
why don't you tell us about your trauma?
00:19:40.875 --> 00:19:41.667
Me?
00:19:41.833 --> 00:19:44.958
Yes, well, we all have told ours,
haven't we?
00:19:45.167 --> 00:19:46.750
But I don't act. I'm the director.
00:19:46.875 --> 00:19:48.958
If you don't talk, we won't continue.
00:19:49.042 --> 00:19:51.458
But what sort of nonsense is this?
My traumas are mine.
00:19:51.542 --> 00:19:53.250
They can't help us rehearse.
00:19:53.667 --> 00:19:55.917
Well, then, we quit.
Right, Marcela?
00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.500
-Right.
-What's this, Marcela…
00:19:57.625 --> 00:19:58.875
I do what my sister does.
00:19:58.958 --> 00:20:00.083
We think it's not fair.
00:20:00.167 --> 00:20:02.292
You cause us heartache,
you laugh at us.
00:20:02.458 --> 00:20:03.958
I don't.
I'm not laughing at you.
00:20:04.042 --> 00:20:05.667
I'm doing my best for you.
00:20:05.833 --> 00:20:07.375
We're sorry. There's no play.
00:20:08.750 --> 00:20:10.875
If there's no rehearsal,
back to your cells.
00:20:10.958 --> 00:20:12.125
Let's rehearse.
00:20:12.625 --> 00:20:14.917
Okay, let's see,
who had the idea of the play?
00:20:15.125 --> 00:20:15.792
I did.
00:20:15.875 --> 00:20:17.958
Who convinced the prison director?
00:20:18.083 --> 00:20:18.625
I did.
00:20:18.708 --> 00:20:19.917
Who wrote the play?
00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:20.625
I did.
00:20:20.708 --> 00:20:21.958
It can be better or worse,
00:20:22.042 --> 00:20:25.583
but I'm the only one
that get to writing something, whatever.
00:20:26.250 --> 00:20:27.583
And why am I doing it?
00:20:27.708 --> 00:20:28.917
Why are you doing it?
00:20:29.250 --> 00:20:30.750
Well, I am doing it for you.
00:20:30.833 --> 00:20:33.000
Because it's not my aim
to get a prize with this.
00:20:33.083 --> 00:20:34.625
Just to do something.
00:20:34.708 --> 00:20:37.500
And I assure you these rehearsals
serve as therapy.
00:20:37.583 --> 00:20:40.042
Why should I be interested
in delving into your lives?
00:20:40.125 --> 00:20:43.667
Eh, well, if you want to dig, dig.
00:20:44.417 --> 00:20:47.792
But I think
a way of gaining our respect,
00:20:47.958 --> 00:20:49.667
would be that you tell us yours.
00:20:50.167 --> 00:20:53.500
And so that it does not seem
you stand above us,
00:20:54.250 --> 00:20:55.167
don't you think so?
00:20:55.292 --> 00:20:57.458
I can't understand
why you are the director.
00:20:57.542 --> 00:21:00.208
But do you think
it's nice working with you?
00:21:01.083 --> 00:21:02.583
Look at you, my goodness,
00:21:02.708 --> 00:21:06.250
and tell me if there are any actresses
in the world more pitiful than you lot.
00:21:20.792 --> 00:21:21.708
I was raped.
00:21:26.292 --> 00:21:28.333
When I was 20, I was raped.
00:21:29.917 --> 00:21:31.042
So why are you here?
00:21:31.500 --> 00:21:32.708
Quite easy.
00:21:33.167 --> 00:21:35.750
they let him go.
I took law into my own hand.
00:21:35.833 --> 00:21:37.125
You killed him, girl?
00:21:37.875 --> 00:21:39.375
I did not stop until I found him.
00:21:39.875 --> 00:21:41.458
And I killed him with a steel bar.
00:21:41.583 --> 00:21:43.500
He deserved it.
Don't make your blood boil.
00:21:43.625 --> 00:21:46.583
That's what I said to myself.
That's why I killed him.
00:21:47.333 --> 00:21:48.250
Happy, now?
00:21:50.583 --> 00:21:51.833
I don't know.
00:21:52.250 --> 00:21:54.583
Not that I'm insensitive,
but it's not enough to me.
00:21:54.750 --> 00:21:56.042
Nina, darling…
00:21:56.292 --> 00:21:57.625
No, really.
00:21:58.167 --> 00:22:00.167
We have dead fathers,
00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:03.000
boyfriends killed with hoes,
00:22:03.208 --> 00:22:05.417
cons leading to suicide…
00:22:05.583 --> 00:22:08.583
I think, killing a rapist
is the least one can do.
00:22:15.167 --> 00:22:16.625
It was not him.
00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:18.792
I got confused.
00:22:19.833 --> 00:22:22.333
I killed a poor man
that had two children.
00:22:23.750 --> 00:22:25.083
I got confused.
00:22:26.375 --> 00:22:29.375
He raped me in an alley
right after getting out of the theatre.
00:22:30.792 --> 00:22:32.625
I couldn't make him out properly.
00:22:32.750 --> 00:22:35.458
I kept my eyes shut,
really shut, really tight.
00:22:38.208 --> 00:22:39.667
I had just finished rehearsing.
00:22:41.125 --> 00:22:45.333
I got a role in King Lear,
my first important role.
00:22:47.458 --> 00:22:48.958
I was happy.
00:22:49.083 --> 00:22:53.000
I performed Cordelia.
The daughter banished by her father.
00:22:53.417 --> 00:22:54.875
On that evening
00:22:55.292 --> 00:22:57.750
I rehearsed the final scene,
and it did not go well.
00:22:59.583 --> 00:23:01.542
But I could not repeat it again.
00:23:02.667 --> 00:23:05.083
My career as an actress finished.
00:23:06.833 --> 00:23:08.625
Theatre finished.
00:23:09.375 --> 00:23:10.792
All finished.
00:23:14.625 --> 00:23:18.000
Spring, seaside, mountains...
00:23:19.250 --> 00:23:20.750
Fresh air…
00:23:23.583 --> 00:23:26.708
Spring, seaside, mountains...
00:23:28.167 --> 00:23:29.792
Fresh air…
00:23:30.667 --> 00:23:34.208
Spring, seaside, mountains...
00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.625
Fresh air…
00:23:37.667 --> 00:23:41.208
Spring, seaside, mountains...
00:23:41.625 --> 00:23:43.000
Fresh air…
00:24:31.625 --> 00:24:32.708
I won't go with Nina.
00:24:32.833 --> 00:24:34.750
She always spoils my best scene.
00:24:34.833 --> 00:24:37.417
And on purpose.
-You spoil it yourself, darling.
00:24:37.625 --> 00:24:38.583
Let's see, Nina.
00:24:38.667 --> 00:24:40.375
If I tell you,
we're going to kill the foreman,
00:24:40.458 --> 00:24:41.833
you must react somehow.
00:24:41.917 --> 00:24:42.875
You can't act like nothing happened.
00:24:42.958 --> 00:24:46.208
The Diva is right…
A scarecrow is more natural.
00:24:46.333 --> 00:24:48.583
Shall I smash your face in,
just like that?
00:24:48.667 --> 00:24:52.000
-Yoli… I'm getting sick.
-Don't start, Marcela.
00:24:52.083 --> 00:24:53.500
Then, tell her she should stop.
00:24:53.583 --> 00:24:55.375
When I think
I used to travel first class…
00:24:55.458 --> 00:24:56.917
Yoli, I'm getting sick.
00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:58.792
Oh, my goodness!
What a pain in the arse!
00:24:58.875 --> 00:25:01.250
Well, Yoli, you're as evil as Dr Death.
00:25:01.333 --> 00:25:02.875
Leave my sister alone!
00:25:02.958 --> 00:25:04.625
...how many times I must tell you…
00:25:04.750 --> 00:25:07.333
Alright, girls. We'll stop for a while
to stretch our legs.
00:25:07.458 --> 00:25:09.792
Of course. Because you say so.
Let's call for a vote.
00:25:09.875 --> 00:25:11.667
No voting.
We stop and that's it.
00:25:11.750 --> 00:25:14.750
I can't understand why the hell
you have to be the director.
00:25:14.833 --> 00:25:18.542
-Jesus, you're so stubborn, aren't you?
-This is what we call a silly ass.
00:25:18.625 --> 00:25:20.167
I'll pull out your pony tail.
00:25:20.250 --> 00:25:22.667
Ah, Yoli…
I'm starting to get terrible nerves… eh?
00:25:22.750 --> 00:25:25.750
Spring, seaside, mountains, fresh air…
00:25:32.625 --> 00:25:36.417
Translation: Laura Hernán
Subtitles: BBO Subtitulado
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 25 minutes
Date: 2014
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish
Grade: Middle School, High School, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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