La Cecilia Page #4

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you'll see.

Tosti, come here !

I'd like to introduce you to my wife,

my daughter,

and my other daughter.

She sure has grown!

the lusty demon of the ship's hold!

She's just dying to see you again.

We did a little schoolwork on the ship.

At last we're all together again!

We've got problems here,

but we don't have any bosses!

...we'll have to seek to organize...

Two newspapers

recently started up...

...we'll talk about it later.

Now we've got to work.

I'm back, and I'm not alone!

No, not alone!

- They seem happy.

- no doubt.

There's going to be a lot to do.

Why are you hiding that?

Keep it, it's yours.

When you take bread,

You shouldn't hide yourself.

You know what that's called?

That's a credenza.

You know what credenza means?

Credenza means trust.

Everything in there belongs

to everybody.

Because we trust each other.

Get going!

CHILDREN ARE NO ONE'S PROPERTY

THEY BELONG TO THEIR OWN

FUTURE FREEDOM:

If you ask me, these three are fine.

you pick.

This one looks good to me.

Leave that horse alone!

Go play somewhere else!

...if men continue to see women

as something that can be possessed,

women will have to fight back

themselves to free themselves!

Bravo !

Who wrote that?

Who had that fine idea?

What, no answer?

Who's that lesson supposed to be for?

Who's it intended for?

Are these threats?

What, lost your voice?

Threats?

Not for us, though, right?

What do you say?

Why remind us?

We know it well.

We anarchists have always fought

for women's emancipation,

and you know it!

sure, in words they have.

A lot's been written about it.

a lot's been said about it...

But what've we gotten in practice?

First of all, women must

be economically emancipated.

After that morals will change,

everything will change!

Oh yeah?

I know some anarchists,

really perfect men,

Who've got the most advanced of ideas...

but when it comes to their wives,

they act like sultans.

Bless this bread, Lord!

How many today?

About fifty meters.

It's going to rain.

We won't run any risks!

We'll all work with you!

All? Who's that?

Us! Your family!

- All the others'll just do the same!

- What if they don't?

Alert, comrades!

Strong hearts

Are not troubled

By pain or death!

We'll form a great union!

Long live the revolution!

Would you like to have a child?

Yes.

Even if you didn't know the father?

Yes.

What we call "free love,"

does it seem natural to you?

useful?

above all

socially useful.

Hurry up!

What? are you in a rush?

- Are people waiting for you?

- On the contrary.

Take care of your business!

Going back home bugs me.

Why don't you hang around then?

What do you know about the family?

Wife, kids,

always the same old deal.

You didn't have to get them over here!

I was hoping things would change.

Well, you hoped, and?

and then, in eight days,

she proved that she didn't

understand a single thing!

the problems with the kids, food,

gossip, bullshit, you know!

If you ask me, it's your fault too!

my fault?

What've you done to get her

to understand?

-are you really asking?

-yeah, why?

one fine day,

your mind opens up, or what?

Yeah, and you end up understanding!

and then I lost it.

We're not going to wait for Angela,

OK?

Want to put on a play?

Ok, we need a husband and wife...

that's the husband.

See how good looking he is.

and the wife?

Who do you want for a wife?

you like her?

She's too little.

But no, no! she's so pretty though!

when you talked to him

about our project,

did he suffer much?

you know he did.

your companion's suffering...

did you think it was reasonable?

it's the result of the prejudices

that weigh so heavily upon us.

are they doomed to disappear ?

a bit of silence, please! we're playing!

I wanted to ask how we're doing,

on our debts over in Palmeira?

we've let that problem fall to the

side; we've got more pressing ones.

But it's been so long

that we haven't seen each other.

I'd like to speak with you a bit.

I have doubts about the way

la Cecilia is being run.

it's up to the assembly.

Sure, I'll stay

but I'm going to leave for a minute.

I can't think around here.

I've left my stuff behind.

We'll see each other after the

meeting, tomorrow or some other day.

But I'm following things, you know.

- the problems to deal with tonight...

- go deal with them somewhere else!

let me write in peace!

- that's enough, now!

- what's enough?

this house,

this house was built for everyone!

OK Rocco, let's let them

have their assembly.

Comrade, I'm happy

that you're staying.

The majority will do the right

thing, you'll see.

You know I haven't changed my ideas.

But who's got ideas

about a different system, then?

Alas, not I!

Are you sure this is a good idea?

If you don't trust it...

To me this division of the lands

does not appear very fair.

What do you mean, not fair?

Everyone will have the same number

of acres, everyone the same!

And everyone will work the land

the same way?

Whoever wants to do more work

will have that much more.

and the do-nothings will get

what they work for too!

But not everyone's used to working

the land like we are!

- Have you eaten?

- No, I have to work.

- You're going to waste away.

- We've got to talk about it.

- Come to the assembly tonight.

- I've got stuff to do tonight!

Come, take my place.

He says that it's proven,

But if bourgeois ideas win out,

what's really been proven then?

it won't be enough to practice

free love,

for us to be understood

and imitated!

You? Certainly not!

I KILL MYSELF EVERY

TIME I OBEY...

A MAN OR A LAW:

THAT OPPRESSES ME;

I don't like this soup!

Shut up and eat it!

Make yourself respected, or else...

Is this little girl your daughter?

I left her when she was little,

and now she's a woman.

Too bad! You won't be able

to humiliate her anymore!

don't worry about me,

I can defend myself.

even from your own father?

Yeah, well around here it won't be

him you'll have to defend yourself from.

Who told you I wanted to defend myself?

Finally someone really alive!

Look at those funeral pallor faces!

You see what's happening!

It's the triumph of

the established order!

- It's the family...

- And us too.

We've already got a parliament,

a division of labor,

sh*t, soon enough we'll have cops!

and hierarchy!

You'll have to intervene!

People listen to you...

me, they all think I'm nuts.

If you ask me, I agree, kid;

you are nuts.

Why should I intervene?

There aren't any leaders here.

Hey, I'm not asking you to play leader,

just to take proper responsibility,

and you know it!

I've always taken care of my

responsibilities.

Everyone has to take care

of their own, it's true!

Want to see something you've

never seen before?

- did you talk to him ?

- yes.

What's he say?

he says it's hard for him,

he says he's scared,

that he loves me,

that he's suffering.

do you think he's

suffering out of egoism?

That's what he has to understand...

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