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I've been living alone

for a year now,

and I take care...

of the girls. They're...

They're very dependant on me, so...

they're not used

to being without daddy yet.

That's the way things are.

I used to have a very different life.

I was drowning.

I was bursting.

Ayear and one month ago,

I had surgery.

- What surgery?

- I had a gastric bypass.

I used to weigh 117 kilos.

- Right...

- I swear!

I swear it's true!

I was huge.

No...

I decided to change,

I had the surgery,

and now I'm trying to operate

on myself, but on the inside.

- Sorry.

- Amazing, isn't it?

Sorry...

Okay.

We're going to stop...

There we go.

Vertigo?

Vertigo!

This is the hopper,

it's where the paintball

goes in, okay?

This is the trigger.

It has a safety. Here.

You take off the safety.

It's an automatic.

- More this way.

- This way?

Yes, this way.

No, that's a tree.

The black figure.

- You can see it, right?

- Yes, I see it.

I'm going a bit blind too,

but you hit the target!

You hit the bull's eye!

Good!

I love your park.

You know...

Men like to play war.

Yes.

Or the paths I haven't walked,

Or the paths I haven't walked,

or anything, or anyone...

I love you.

I miss you,

I dream of you, I wait for you,

I can't live without your kisses.

My life is no life

if you're not inside me.

I love you,

I miss you,

I dream of you, I wait for you,

I'm dying just to see you.

How could I not love you, my love,

my love, I don't want to lose you.

Virginia Acosta,

from Vina del Mar,

has requested Jeanette's

"Why Are You Leaving?"

When you had your surgery,

did they use a general anesthetic

or an epidural?

Epidural...

I think it's general too.

The other kind is local, isn't it?

The one they used with me

is the kind that goes in the IV...

...and gradually, they start

adding more anesthetic.

Not like when I was a boy,

and I had surgery,

and they used chloroform.

I'm a little...

What's the word...?

- Claustrophobic.

- Oh, right.

- The nurse put the mask on my face...

- That's how they did it.

I put up a fight,

and she called other two nurses,

so three nurses

were pinning me down...

- How horrible.

- I started to drift off.

They called me

"chicken, chicken, chicken... "

"Anesthesia" means that

all your senses are blocked.

- Right...

- Yes.

My daughter Ana

explained it to me.

But "Ana" doesn't mean that...

- No?

- No.

What does it mean?

"Ana" means...

"To sit gracefully".

- Is that right?

- Yes.

Do I look like

I'm "seated gracefully" now?

Look...

You look great.

Thanks.

...and to have more love

for this country,

to recover our love for this country,

and not stay in our houses...

That's hard.

It's hard to love it.

But why, my dear?

Because

so many things have happened that...

what Chile used to be

now seems like a ghost,

as if that Chile were dead,

and what was built afterwards

is a kind of replica of something

that's being devised

in some other part of the world,

where the driving force

is just greed.

There aren't any leaders anymore.

- No.

- There aren't any leaders.

What are you going to do?

If it's about politicians

who are up there,

and they're the ones governing,

the ones that were chosen.

- We have to look to young people.

- Yes, I was thinking the other day

that they're not being

considered at all!

- The people are being...

- They've been robbed, they're outraged.

People consider that all of this...

has been an abuse.

And if you go to the doctor,

you have to pay a fortune,

if you have an accident,

you have to pay a fortune,

excuse me for being

self-referential but...

- No, it's the truth!

- It's the truth! You understand?

As a sociologist,

you must see it every day.

And you, in your store, you see

that people have had enough!

Although we don't use

Twitter or Facebook

the very fact that these things exist

represents a virtual multitude

that needed to get together.

And that same multitude,

that used to go out and

start revolutions,

is now leading a revolution

that's probably more spiritual.

...all things transform, right?

One day,

you're the way you were before,

or the way I was before,

and the next, we're here...

That's not what I read

in the paper, what I read was

that all things transform,

and that astonished me.

Have you heard about

those black holes up there?

Yes, I've heard something.

Where matter is suddenly absorbed.

And the stars go...

"I'd like to be a nest

if you were a little bird.

I'd like to be a scarf

if you were a neck and were cold.

If you were music, I'd be an ear.

If you were water, I'd be a glass.

If you were light, I'd be an eye.

If you were a foot, I'd be a sock.

If you were the sea, I'd be a beach.

And if you were still the sea,

I'd be a fish,

and I'd swim in you.

And if you were the sea,

I'd be salt.

And if I were salt,

you'd be lettuce,

an avocado or at least a fried egg.

And if you were a fried egg,

I'd be a piece of bread.

And if I were a piece of bread,

you'd be butter orjam.

If you werejam,

I'd be the peach in the jam.

If I were a peach,

you'd be a tree.

And if you were a tree,

I'd be your sap...

and I'd course through

your arms like blood.

And if I were blood,

I'd live in your heart. "

Hello?

Hello, Dad?

Elena!

Hello.

How are you?

Good. How about you?

That's nice.

Yes. I've already had lunch.

Well, she should take her pills.

What can I do about it?

I'm here at home.

I haven't been feeling well.

That's why I haven't been out.

What's that?

No, I'm not going out today.

I'm staying here. Okay.

Okay.

I don't think so.

We'll talk later, okay? Bye.

Did you like it?

I don't understand, really.

I mean...

Where are you?

Why are you here?

Because I'm with you.

Why can't you tell them

you're with me?

Why drag them into

a situation that they're

incapable of understanding?

They'd say, "You have a girlfriend!

You silly old man!

How could you even think of

dating at your age?"

They'd make fun of me,

and why give them that chance?

I don't want to

involve them in our thing.

No way. No way.

I understand that we...

that I'm a part of your life, or not?

You're the most important part

of my life right now.

Then I want to feel that,

because I'm not,

if you're lying to your daughters.

- They're grown up, aren't they?

- They're not that grown up.

Physically they are,

but not inside.

When I had my surgery,

I felt lonelier than ever before.

Not one call...

Did they even call the hospital

and ask how I was doing?

Did they care about my health,

the operation, or anything?

Nothing! Ever.

I've always been the one

who worries about them

and they do nothing in return,

do you understand?

Nothing at all,

it's a terribly lonely feeling.

And I don't want you to have to

share that, to experience that.

And I thank you for understanding me.

Who's there?

Who is it?

What do you want?

- What is it?

- Open, you f***ing door.

Gloria...

Morning, Mario.

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