La Cecilia Page #5

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Set it like that

with slight movements.

If my love must

contradict his,

I'd prefer to just let things be.

And didn't the comrades react?

Too late! A lot of our people

got busted!

What? Even Fortunato?

- Anniversary, does it have one "n"?

- two.

And Matteo, remember him ?

We sure used to get wasted with him !

are we doing this embroidery or what?

- The kids?

- quite well, thanks.

lleana, come here!

I told you not to talk to him !

But we've always been such

good friends.

I've forbidden you to speak

to that traitor.

But he doesn't have

anything against you.

I don't want you talking to him,

is that clear?

when you gave yourself to me...

you were wholly in agreement, yes.

Our behavior towards him...

does it seem correct to you?

Have you ever thought to love me...

Without him knowing?

-No.

And now, do you love him

a little bit more?

do you love me a little more?

If there is an instinct

of property in him,

has it been wounded?

He's never been my owner.

He says that to think that would

be an insult to me.

What did he feel?

surprise?

humiliation ?

fear of ridicule ?

a bit.

Resentment towards me ?

no resentment.

just sympathy for you.

Because i was living without love?

you know it well.

and if it had been

a different comrade ?

i don't know.

A proletarian that wasn't

one of us ?

no difference.

and if it were a bourgeois ?

he would have complained about it.

he would have suffered.

but he wouldn't have left me for that.

it's a nice day out today!

that's good enough!

We kill ourselves busting rocks,

and they eat!

what the hell have we become here?

slaves?

- he's right !

- calm down !

our comrades are also dying

of so much working the earth!

I've had it up to here with

being exploited by farmers!

they're full of the

instinct of property!

and have you seen the women?

Yeah, they work!

all damned day!

but to accumulate for themselves!

not for the community!

To each according to his labor!

Ha! you can tell you're not married!

to each according to his needs!

you pose a good problem, there!

What do you think, Giovanni ?

Go f*** yourself!

In January

farmer families arrived,

and they clashed with the

first pioneers,

because of inequalities

in work,

and because the latter wanted

to make their ideas prevail.

resources were quite

insufficient,

for such a great population.

we started having food shortages.

the struggle for existence

became fierce,

when needs went too far beyond

the means we had to satisfy them.

That's what happened to those colonists

who were neither patient brothers,

nor hunger-strike heroes,

but just men like any other.

family egotism

was unleashed,

certain families ate,

others didn't.

they were fatigued

by their privations,

but had no bosses or cops,

and they worked,

as much as they could;

they made demands, but they didn't

commit any acts of violence.

Their stomachs often empty,

they were young,

but with three years of free life

under their belts,

free of all law,

free of all authority.

that's the proof, if you ask me,

that communism and anarchy

are practicable in bourgeois society.

but it isn't over yet!

i can tell you though that for

me it is over,

that there's no more reason

to carry on the experiment.

after making his first observations,

Galileo didn't go back to his

great Dome in Pisa every day

to watch the light spinning.

having proved the uniform

periodicity of the oscillations,

the light no longer interested him,

and doubtless went back

to being immobile.

but the principle behind the

pendulum clock had been proven!

what a shitty life!

Luigi ! what's the

matter with you?

What, you haven't had enough?

Well, I sure have!

La Cecilia is f***ed !

I'm out of here!

He smokes his pipe.

He wants to eat.

he isn't content.

he takes off his coat.

and what's mommy do?

when he shows up, he gets up,

she helps him take off his coat,

She puts the cover on.

She's angry.

Yeah, mom's always mad,

that's for sure!

what's the matter?

Something really serious!

What?

The mothers have taken the kids from me!

Wait! don't go.

I also have something

important to tell you.

I've thought a lot about

what happened between us:

our relationship's become

too complicated,

and too personal, too,

to be understood by the others.

Did you hear what I said?

The mothers have taken the kids from me!

Yes, I understand.

It's just their first reaction,

but an indicative one.

That's why the others,

the families,

Must be made to understand our

experiment...

And why we'll have to give them

the necessary elements so they can.

That's why we have to...

analyze our feelings,

and compare our different perspectives.

I've put together a few questions

for you and for him.

that way we'll be clearer on it all.

I'll do a psychological evaluation.

I'd like if you answered in

all honesty.

There, it's all there.

Hey, get up! Get up!

Are you nuts?

Cowards! Thieves!

- Who's a thief?

- You!

We? Thieves?

the sweat of our labor?

We're taking back what's ours!

- What? You're leaving?!

- Yeah, I'm out of here!

Ask yourself whose fault it is!

Don't fight!

We have common interests.

- We need each other!

- Speak for yourself!

Let them go! Let's be free

of this reactionary rabble!

- some socialism you've got!

- Yeah, and some freedom you've got!

The freedom to seduce little girls?

Where are you going?

Get out! Go, then!

Take what you think is yours!

no one here,

no one is going to fight

over a couple bags of grain

and a few tools!

but they're taking everything!

they can't leave!

Happy trails!

I'm begging you, let's go!

Please.

Go on, then, leave if you want.

Go if you want to.

I'm staying!

Now let's burn it all!

What are you doing?

They can still be of use!

- For who?

- For us!

Comrades, let's put out the fires!

Giovanni, there's no point!

the farm !

this is all your fault !

with your "organization"!

Fine. I'm leaving.

No ! It's all our fault!

All you do is talk about fault!

We built something here didn't we?

I can explain...

I tried to save la Cecilia

before it died.

And this is the result!

We're all alone again!

Comrades! Let's begin again!

Yes, we'll begin again.

That's it, we'll start again...

We woke you up early this morning.

No regrets!

We'll start from scratch!

Not from scratch; We've learned

a lot, haven't we?

We didn't even try to

understand

what they wanted to do, or

what they could have done.

It's easy to draw conclusions in

hindsight...

but i don't think it was

entirely them that was wrong!

before you criticized them,

and now you miss them ?

But they changed, with us

and we changed with them, naturally.

and you, Giovanni,

did you expect this ?

I think we all felt that

something grave

was going to happen.

but no one wanted this.

However I think we can certainly

explain this whole episode.

But right now, honestly,

I doubt you understand everything

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