Aquarius Page #4

You're the ones getting stressed out.

Well, you tell us what's going on,

and we get worried, that's all.

What about those stickers

on the doors?

Stickers? What stickers?

On the doors.

What doors?

Construction company stickers.

On the apartment doors.

The company logo's

on every door, Mom.

Except yours.

We thought you had seen them.

No the stickers are there,

but i hadn't seen them.

Something new every day,

one day one thing, the next it's stickers

They must have gone up today.

Did you come up this way?

The front door.

Are there stickers on that end?

Yep.

Front doors and the back doors.

Well

I'll repeat myself and say

something nobody wants to say to you.

I think you need to sell this place.

You'll be saving yourself problems.

What problems?

Mother, it's just that

The three of us worry about you,

alone in a ghost building.

A what building?

A ''ghost building''?

You have no limits, do you?

Your, shall we say, sensibilities

Mother.

Your world vision.

Mom, i'm saying i worry about you.

You're living in a building that's

uncomfortable, old, unsafe, and empty.

So when you like it, it's ''vintage''; when

you don't like it, it's old. ls that right?

You know what? Let's move to the living room.

And i should say something:

Before you leave, you'll do the dishes.

Ladjane's not here today.

-Let's go.

-Let's go.

Changing rooms

is not going to solve the problem.

He who cooked

doesn't wash, OK?

Well, since i'm playing the witch today

anyway, let me just ask you something?

Have you at least considered

their offer?

Because what they're offering

is not the standard market price.

The standard is to offer

new apartment space.

They're offering cash.

That's like

an offer you can't refuse.

And how do you know all this?

Did they get to you guys?

Not me, no.

I don't even live here, Mom.

Yes, yes, i even told the boys,

they came to talk to me.

Did they come talk to you,

or did you go look for them?

Yes, Mom, i went. I have every right

to try to understand what's going on.

I went to try By the way, the young

man seemed to be extremely nice.

So, Aninha, what is their offer?

They're offering almost

two million reais.

For this apartment.

-Ana Paula...

-I think it's low.

The issue isn't the money,

is it, Martin?

What do you mean by ''this'',

a pause, ''apartment.''

Ah, Mom, i meant

it's that much money,

for this apartment.

That's all i meant.

Well, then, this apartment,

the apartment where you all grew up.

This apartment

is on Boa Viagem beach.

Can't you see that by going

to talk to them, you go over my head,

you disrespect me, yes, you set me up

as the ''crazy lady from the Aquarius''.

But that's what happens; you talk to these

people, it sets me up as a nutjob, you know?

You guys don't know what it's like

to feel crazy without being crazy,

you feel like you're going crazy.

You know what that's like, son.

You know what that's like,

knowing you're not going crazy,

and that the madness

is out there, don't you?

You all remember.

Another thing that's

really crazy around here

is that we're talking about money.

I can help you guys

any time you want.

We don't need help, Mom.

Well, listen, maybe Ana does.

I've already said

Is it you that needs money, Ana Paula?

Look, Mom, you're probably the person

in this room that knows best

how tough it's been for

me since my separation,

now what i'm telling you is that

this is not just about money.

I can help any of you at any time;

I've got my pension,

I have five apartments,

and there's a legacy that was built

by me and your father, that's yours.

Oh, please, Mom, it wasn't

built by your writing career.

Don't say that, for God's sake.

What does Dad have

to do with this, Ana Paula?

Dad's not around anymore

Why are we talking about Dad anyway?

Paulinho da Viola.

''There are people

with nerves of steel,

with no blood in their veins,

and with no heart

But sometimes, going through

what i go through,

Lupiscinio

Are you singing for me?

Ana, daughter,

Your dad's widow here is me,

not you, you hear?

lt's hard, isn't it?

So hard

But, that's life! And you'll

just have to get used to it.

Now, what you said about my work,

that's something you're going

to have to learn to deal with.

That's up to you;

it's got nothing to do with me.

You know? i am who i am.

And that's how i raised you.

Me and your father, together.

Now, everything you're saying,

and the way you're saying it,

Makes you sound like...

like an idiot.

Hey, Mom No need for that.

Yeah, an imbecile, crazy,

because nobody remembers

when you spent two years away

and Dad raised us by himself.

But you'd send us those cute

postcards, didn't you, Mom?

Aninha, you have no right

to say that, OK?

You're talking too much.

She just called me an imbecile

and you didn't say a thing, did you?

Cause sometimes you

do get kinda silly.

ALL THE SONGS WE CAN'T SEE

An essay on Heitor Villa-Lobos

''To Martin, Ana Paula and Rodrigo. For the

hours of leisure that were taken from you.''

I'm sorry, Mother.

I'm sorry, Mother.

Come over here.

You're so stubborn.

You're like an old lady and a child.

That's because i am

an old lady and a child.

All together.

Hello?

Paulo?

Yeah, it's me.

You don't know me,

My name is Clara.

I'm a friend of Leticia's,

she gave me your number.

How are you, Clara?

Yeah, she told me about you.

So, are you available, Paulo?

Right now?

Yeah, right now.

Quite a party upstairs.

Yes, it is.

Nice place.

Thank you.

LP collection

You want to drink? I'm trying

to finish off that bottle of wine

No thanks, I'm driving.

Please, sit down.

Leticia told me about you.

You really are beautiful.

I want you to leave.

What's that?

You want me to leave?

I want you to f*** me.

No need.

Not here...

-This one?

-Here.

Hey. Come on.

Get out, get out, get out!

Up here!

She's getting out.

She is?

Roberval, i wanted

to ask you something

I don't even know if you can, but

do you have a number l could call,

in case of an emergency?

Sure.

OK, but, do you need any help?

Any kind of trouble?

No, no, no,

just in case, really.

OK.

But, like, what?

A bodyguard? A life guard?

No, Roberval, it's...

it's nothing like that.

Roberval, don't listen

to anything l say today.

You know what it is?

l've got one of those hangovers,

That hurts right here, you know?

It's because there was this

party at my building yesterday

Yeah, hangovers suck, all right.

They sure do.

Party Was the party good?

It was good.

Clara, don't take this

the wrong way, but,

are you hitting on me?

Roberval, i think you're

a handsome man.

But, you know, there's so much

going on in my head this week

but no, no, i'm not hitting on you

Ah, OK.

It's all good, Clara.

It's just it's good to ask, right?

Where do you live in Rio?

I live in Humait, Largo dos Lees.

-I know it, love Largo dos Leoes!

-Yeah? lt is nice.

I know it quite well,

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes