The Wolfpack Page #2

- Salud.

- Salud.

- Happy Thanksgiving.

- Happy Thanksgiving.

My father, he doesn't love

the idea of working.

He calls it being a slave to society.

This is a country gone wrong.

He's one of those people

that believe that

the government

is a sneaky organization.

That we're all controlled,

we're all like robots,

and that we need

to break free from that,

and he shows his rebellion

by not working.

But he loves the idea of music.

He was like, "if we could get

a record contract

and play music for albums,

you know, that's different."

This is our mother

when she had longer hair.

Who's that? Is that you?

That's me.

I've always wondered why

she fell in love with him

and why he fell in love with her,

like, how did that happen?

They're like from

two separate countries.

From what my mom tells me

is that she wanted

to visit South America,

so she was traveling a lot,

and she met this group of people.

They were like... hikers.

They knew the Inca trail well,

and he was one of them.

Very free style, you know.

They wore their hair long.

They knew the place, like,

they would give people tours,

especially white Americans.

Besides him being

you know, charming,

and very friendly, he was...

he had a way about him

that was, like, very unassuming.

It felt like I didn't want to just...

Be with someone or be

interested in someone

who was only concerned

about, you know,

uh, the next new coat

they were going to buy

and the next new pair of skis,

and what, you know,

I don't know, which restaurant

they were gonna eat in.

You know, because those things

to me are not that important.

Like it... and it just seemed

like, you know,

we really had

a common ground there

for how we thought about things.

And what we... what we thought

about, you know,

what this life is.

You know, and how life

should be lived, you know.

I thought, oh, this is

somebody who really sees things

in a different way

than most of the people

that I had acquaintance with.

My dad always thought that

he was better than anybody.

He always said so himself.

He said he was God.

He said he was enlightened.

He said he was the one

who knew everything.

Well, I think I can say

that the most positive thing

that came growing up

with our father

was, for me anyway is...

I always, you know,

I thought a lot.

Because we weren't so open,

you know,

like outwardly in our childhood.

I was always in my head.

I remember a lot.

It's one thing I have

that I kind of curse at.

I'll sleep on the floor.

No, I'll sleep on the floor.

We were frightened kids,

like you're a kid,

you're just seeing things.

You don't know what it means

but it frightens you.

So I was frightened.

That's one of the first

memories I have.

'Cause I would hear

dad and mom arguing.

There was always a slap, just...

he would slap her.

What she felt, we felt sometimes.

I mean, we were part of it.

If you're living in that

kind of situation,

you're gonna get it, too.

Look at me.

Look at me!

You see this is how

crazy Batman's made Gotham.

You want order in Gotham,

Batman must take his mask off

and turn himself in.

Oh, and every day he doesn't,

people will die,

Starting tonight.

I'm a man of my word.

I'm here to see

Bruce Wayne?

I'm sorry, Mr. Wayne

doesn't take unscheduled calls.

Our father is the one

that brought movies

into our lives.

He'd just fill our heads

with movies all day long.

We've got like, I don't know,

5,000 movies including

VHS's, DVD's.

And I think the fact that

we went with the idea

that there's another world out there,

because we didn't know the world,

so we kind of had no world,

and I think the movies

helped us create

our own kind of world.

But we would always know

the difference

between real life and the movies.

This outfit is made

out of cereal boxes

and yoga mats.

That's a yoga mat

and the hard parts you see

is cardboard from cereal boxes.

When we do it,

I have to get in the mind

of the character.

I have to be as strong

as I can be to play Batman,

'cause it's a responsibility,

sort of.

That sounds pathetic

to some people because...

But to us and to our world

it is very personal.

After I saw The Dark Knight

that made me believe that something

was possible to happen,

not because it was Batman,

it's because it felt like

another world.

I did everything I could

to make that world come true

to escape my world.

I was 15 years old

and I wasn't allowed

to walk out my front door.

I wasn't allowed to...

go in a specific room

I felt like going in.

I wasn't allowed

to leave a room

when I wanted to.

If he put us in a room,

we have to stay there

until he says you can go.

Our dad was the only one

that had the keys

to the front door,

no one else,

not even our mother.

Unless our mother went

to an appointment or something,

if it was an emergency.

It's scary not having...

Having to want to break out

of that, that box.

It was a Saturday on January, 2010.

I was 15 back then.

I woke up by like 9:30 or 10:00.

I got dressed up in black.

I just unlocked the door

and just said

to my youngest brother

Jagadisa, "wish me luck".

I wore the mask

so nobody would recognize me,

nobody at all,

and my father was out that day

getting food,

'cause we were low on food.

And he was going out

to get a lot of food.

So he usually is gone

three hours when he gets foods

and, uh, I just had this urge

to all of a sudden,

just go out on my own

have no one recognize me,

and if my father saw me,

he wouldn't know it was me.

Went around two blocks

just going in

whatever store.

Went into a bank,

went into a grocery store,

went into a pharmacy.

Eventually, someone called the cops

'cause someone in a mask,

that... that's not normal.

But I felt like

I was Michael at that time.

And I just thought

to myself, you know,

can I survive bullets?

Um... well,

one thing led to another.

They handcuffed me and, uh...

We went to...

we went in the elevator.

We went to where I live,

but they said I'm gonna

have to go to a hospital,

And, uh... Well, they ended

up just taking me

to the hospital, so...

There was a good side to this.

'Cause this is first time

my brother started connecting

with other people

and it was sadly the patients

of the hospital.

But some of them, not all

of them, were like crazy, crazy,

not like the "Cuckoo's Nest."

It was different.

It was more like suicidal kids,

kids who weren't happy

with their life,

kids who were depressed,

and he had a whole story there,

but he brought a lot of joy

to the hospital, kind of.

We were really happy

that he came home.

We all baked a meal for his return,

which is lasagna always.

It's always lasagna

'cause we love lasagna.

I was scared to come home.

I think my daddy was frightened

of what I just did

because no one had ever done that.

That was the day I kind of like

tore off the soldier necklace

and threw it and walked away.

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