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"the criminal philosophy

of the lombrosianis in Hollywood.

I wonder, those

who write such things,

at night, before sleeping,

aren't they a little ashamed?

But when did it all start?

I don't know, I don't know.

Perhaps

when you wrote:

..."That Korean film

was a melodrama in dress,

"where clothes,

and above all hats, were delirious.

"Super feminist, flaming

and demoniac"?

"Shot like a trip

by a Spielberg-like director

"who got into futurist

spaces and rhythms.

And then there's

Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch",

"Pure high budgeted

underground pus...

- Enough! Enough!

- "A true cult movie!

"Women are not better

for Jonathan Demme,

..."at least they are like Lin Piao's

proletarians or sub proletarians

"of the three circling worlds,

"but certainly, his women

succeed in bearing the war

"at the imaginary department

for surgical operations.

"And in fact, before Lula and Sailor

hold each other in the happy end,

..."whispering "love me tender",

Sailor will spend a few years in prison,

"shattered heads will fly,

"stray dogs will catch

chopped off hands,

"and smoke hundreds of Kools,

Merits and Marlboros, showing off.

I don't know why,

but I had never been

where Pasolini was killed, before.

CHAPTER II:

Islands.

We're almost in Lipari.

I'm going to see a friend

who retired there eleven years ago.

He has only studied

Joyce's 'Ulysses" since then.

I have to start writing my film

and I have the notes

I need for the job with me.

I've had them for years.

I am sure that

I'll do something good in Lipari.

- Good morning.

- Morning...

Please,

can I have some orange juice

and a mozzarella sandwich?

Of course!

They've got the money!

If everybody walked, as I do,

less misfortunes would happen.

A mozzarella

and tomato sandwich. Thanks.

What were you watching?

When?

When you were inside. On TV.

That wasn't "TV".

It was a strange film.

Silvana Mangano was first a nun

and then she danced...

- Well, I guess it also happens to you...

- Never.

- You never watch television.

- Never.

Haven't watched it

for thirty years.

Wow.

Do you know what

Hans Magnus Enzensberger says?

Huh?

I agree with him.

Gerardo:
Hi, good evening.

You won't believe it,

but there hasn't been

a mess like that for many years.

- You don't believe it?

- Yes, yes I believe it.

Are those notes

a piece of curious, amusing news?

Curious?

I only collect stupid news..

Stupid deeds,

unpleasant characters.

Maybe I'm attracted

to these types of things.

Too much noise,

too much confusion in Lipari.

So we go to Salina,

a calm and friendly island.

Some friends of Gerardo's

live there with their children.

Actually, with their only children,

because it seems that in Salina

everybody has just a child.

We'll be calmer there

and will succeed in doing something good.

Can I come in?

Only if it's necessary.

You aren't polite!

I have brought your wedding gift.

How nice!

- Look who's here!

- Oh!

You won't

have the casino close.

Why so much resentment?

Because I hate the people

like you, who delude the others.

And when you have gotten

what you want, you throw them in the mud.

Why don't you calm down?

This cathedral of yours

won't see the daylight.

- You're back at last!

- Why?

There's something I want to tell you.

I hope it's good news,

I've already had enough for today.

I am not sure she's reliable,

but I have seen Geena today,

and she has told me that Keat

wants to take revenge on you.

I knew it.

Some time ago

he told me that too.

Look!

I cannot think

that for Pietro..

the first few years of his life

won't mean anything.

Because he'll ever know.

He won't remember this period

of intimacy, of proximity,

when he's needing me so much.

Something new happened this week:

he has taken off his own diaper.

We thought, we'll take

two weeks off...

and teach him to pee.

- But he took it off...

- ...by himself.

And didn't do anything wrong.

He has started behaving

like an adult.

And his first day

at the nursery school?

We woke up at night,

we were worried, shaken.

It's typical, of course...

Pietro slept, instead.

He didn't know anything.

How could he imagine

that his life would change...

Is he sleeping?

Pietro is going through an important,

although transitory, phase now.

He has passed from a regime

where he saw only us..

to a regime

where he goes to the kindergarten...

No! He's sleeping,

It's the right volume.

...where he sees many children,

many people.

Daniele? Daniele!

- What's wrong?

- Nothing...

Daniele!

Last night I watched

a nice programme.

Yes, "Who has seen them?".

Good.

Only, I couldn't

hear anything, because...

...in that family

they usually...

- You got scared.

- Yes, a little.

They are exaggerated with Pietro.

We have a different

relationship with Daniele.

In fact we would like

to have another child,

but we're afraid

that he wouldn't like it

and so we often ask him.

Every two or three years we ask him

if he would like a little brother,

or a little sister.

But he gets angry.

I'm scared.

We are scared.

How are you?

Sara, this is Lorenzo, Daniele's dad.

Can you put your daddy through?

The kitten? What's the cry of the kitten?

Meow meow.

And of the cricket?

Chirp chirp,

but you knew it, didn't you?

Can you put daddy through?

And the sheep?

The sheep? Baaaah...

A rooster?

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

What's the cry of...

Sara, I beg you, call your dad.

A donkey? Eeeeh-oooh!

You knew, it didn't you?

I don't know all of them!

Salina has been

dominated by only children for years.

Every family...

Cheep-cheep,

the chick goes "cheep-cheep".

Every family

had an only child,

who now

controls everything.

It was impossible

to phone anyone.

because phones

were intercepted by kids, who...

Hi I am Rosanna, can you put

your mom or daddy through?

Okay. Bye.

Paolo?

Giovanni?

Leandro, do you recognize me?

What's my name?

Hello? This is Paolo.

What's your name? How old are you?

Do you recognize me? What's my name?

I am Franco.

The piglet?

And the hippo?

The giraffe, I wouldnt know.

This is the piglet.

The giraffe and the swallow,

I wouldn't know.

Listen, who's in the house,

mom or dad?

Mom and dad are in the house,

but I'll tell you a fable.

So...

Do you und-er-stand

what I'm say-ing?

The piglet.

- No! No!

- Wake up! Wake up!

The light!

Gerardo, wake up!

Daniele is awake

and waiting for us.

In 15 minutes the worse

moment of the day will come.

- But why?

- It'll be three o'clock,

the hour of the wolf.

It's the worse hour,

the hour when you feel lonely.

For twelve years, we've waken up

Daniele at three o'clock

and brought him in bed with us.

Come on in as well.

- May I?

- Please, come in.

- So, Daniele, how's tonight going?

- Well.

- Are you scared?

- No.

Can you see how many of us

are here to keep you company?

Under the cover, come on!

Are you sure

you aren't afraid?

Yes! Yes!

Did you know that Daniele

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