THE BLACK HOLES
Today my mother died.
Maybe yesterday. I don't know.
Anyway, funerals are today.
I have to go back to my town.
Liar! You haven't seen your mother for years!
Why don't you say you want to leave me?
And even if it were?
I was content with seeing you, with being near you.
I took her to please you. And now, what do you do?
Look, I didn't promise you anything.
And then, between us there never was anything.
Wait, Adamo!
Adamo!
Long live the newlyweds!
No, Lucy.
It looks bad.
If you go too slowly, you risk sunstroke.
If you go too fast, you sweat.
And if you enter the church, you get sick for the cold.
- You've come for the funeral? - Yes.
Make a nice offer to St Paschal Baylon, protector of women.
Good morning.
I came for my mother's funeral.
Good morning. She's in there.
We had to close her up because of the heat. She smelled too.
They noticed 3 days later.
The neighbor noticed the cabbage stink.
- But, I actually came to know. . - Don't justify yourself.
Before I forget.
These are the keys and all your mother's objects.
Go now.
- Who's this, the son? - Only now he reminds of his mother.
- She's dead for his fault. - How many pains he gave her.
He hasn't showed up ever since she threw him out.
He grew up alone, like an animal.
Stop it! There's that one looking at us.
Hi!
When did you get back?
I arrived today.
I heard about your mother.
Also my parents are dead. Him first, and then her.
What will you do, stay in town?
I don't know, it depends.
I'll see. If I find a job. .
And you, how are you?
Fine. I live with my sister Adelaide.
I've a small transport firm, by the square. Why don't you come see me tomorrow?
Okay. I'll come tomorrow.
I'll wait, then.
- Bye. - Bye, Adelmo.
How much you're due? - 200,000 lire.
I'll give you 150, so next time you'll be on time.
What? I worked all week.
If it doesn't suit you, you can leave.
Hello, Adamo. Came, come!
Have you seen? I'm arranging the deposit.
I collect rotten fruit from the markets. I've done it for some time.
And what did you do during these years?
A bit of everything. I went around.
- You still dye your hair, huh? - No, it's the sun.
- Do you have a girlfriend? - No. Not for now.
You still like bays, eh?
They're things we did so long ago.
I've got a girl, and I should get married.
But with Adelaide here, unless I first settle her. You remember her?
She's grown into a pretty girl. I always need new people.
Can you drive one of these?
Yeah, I always drove them.
200,000 a week to start looks good?
Yes. - So, come tomorrow morning.
Well.
Good. Raise your skin a little.
Good. Look here.
Turn around.
Raise it more.
A bit more. That's it, good.
Good girl.
A little more, come on! Good.
Naw raise your t-shirt.
Raise the bra.
Touch yourself.
That's fine.
Now I'll touch you myself.
But... But what are you doing? Let go! Let go!
No! Take that!
Son of a bitch!
This is yours.
Thanks.
Because of the purse?
What did he do?
Let me see.
But what do you keep inside?
The essentials.
Luckily I made him pay beforehand.
I'm Angela. And you?
Adamo, pleased to meet you.
I'm going to town, you want a ride?
What do you do with all these rotten bananas?
It's my job.
I have to bring to the dump.
You're from here?
No. I'm here by accident.
Then I'll see.
One place or the other.
I'm from here.
I never moved from here.
I'm on the side of the sea.
Can you stop there, in the open space?
Thank you.
And when you want, come again.
Now you'll hear Angela! Graia doesn't understand that she must quit it.
No? You'll see now!
- What's that guy doing there? - It was her who sent for him.
Yes, yes, it was Graia!
Go away!
Come here! You mustn't see that guy anymore, get it? You're old.
But he's 18 years old like me. And still loves me!
Come on, move.
What is it?
Chirone, what time is it?
Three and twelve.
Let's go home, I'm pooped.
Do you like this dress?
I bought it yesterday.
And to you, what happened?
- Who was that one? - Let's not talk about it.
If it wasn't for him you could not see me anymore.
But you knew him already?
No, he's an outsider. He came recently in town.
He's handsome, though! But he dyes his hair?
What do I know?
What's this stink?
Move over!
- I'll pay tomorrow. - Okay.
Give me a soda.
- Hi! - Hi!
Have you seen Stella?
- Who is it? - That girl, tall, dark haired. .
- The one who works with me. - No.
Mom! Mom! Daddy has become a monster!
I don't understand these films.
They don't scare me.
Me neither, I don't care much.
I like movies where they dance.
What are they?
O, God!
And the bananas?
What do you mean?
The job.
Hey! What manners!
Kiss me!
Stop! Don't move!
- Who was that? - His name is Gennaro.
- And what did he do? - He shot his girlfriend who betrayed him.
- It was on the news just now. - Come on, get in!
But, Gennaro what?
- So, good night. - Come in!
Come, come!
It's nice here.
And then the neighbors don't say anything.
Although I never bring anyone here.
Only those who are friends.
And you live alone?
Alone.
What is that?
Nothing. Here behind there's a zoo.
- No, I didn't even change. - So what?
And then I don't like kissing.
I only kiss my girlfriend.
OK!
See you.
I'm always there, eh?
What are you doing?
- I can't find my glasses. - So what?
- It's these, give them back! - Since when? - Give them back!
And don't you dare again!
What is it?
Nothing.
- Shall we? - Don't worry, I'll walk.
- Bye. - Bye.
I was passing by here and I thought I'd come and say hello.
You did well.
- I'll take you? - Thank you.
- Sure the sun really beats down. - You can't stand it!
Wait! What are you doing?
Stop!
Stop! Where are you going? Stop!
Stop! Stop!
Do you realize? He's taken everything.
First he made me undress, with the excuse of photographs...
...and then... - You get it?
It must be the same stinker who wanted to steal my purse.
It was so nice, that dress.
Too nice.
What's going on there?
Stop!
I am young and he's old. He's too old!
- Now you are too. Go! - I don't want to go. Leave me!
I said no! I don't want to go, he's old!
I don't want to go! Let go of me, I am young!
Get in.
But I'm young]
Why does she say that?
No, no, nothing.
And you, what happened to you?
Nothing.
I knew I shouldn't have put on that dress to work.
Tomorrow I'll dress like you.
She's only 18 years old.
She was raped by her father the day she became a woman.
Her cycle halted, and she began to age more and more.
But her boyfriend stayed young, and she won't to go with old men.
But it's her who's Old.
Too rotten!
So, see you tonight at the bar?
Okay. See you tonight.
Bananas!
# They told me that you like guys with tuft...
# and that you like guys like me.
# And now why do you laugh at my long hair...
# and you'll have no more of me?
How ugly is this tie!
Are you in mourning?
Yes, my mother died recently.
How old was he?
50, 60. .
And your father?
I never knew him.
My parents are still alive. But who sees them anymore!
How long you've been a hooker?
Since I was 8 years old.
I started just so. . Then it became a real job.
And you? Do you live alone?
Since I was... 7 years.
Do you have a girlfriend?
I've had some.
How many?
Hundreds.
Blonde, red, . . brunette. .
Have you ever been in love?
Actually, I never thought of that.
And then, it depends.
On what?
On many things.
Like?
On everything.
Everything what?
Everything.
It's the first time that happens to you?
I never managed.
How hot it is!
- But your ones still wet the bed? - Mine poop as well.
Lina!
- Hello, Angela! - Haw are you?
Forget it. Two weeks ago I went to the hairdresser and he put the wrong dye.
- What do you need? - Give me 6 eggs.
Dad, here's to you. But look, this is the last time.
- How are you, Achilles? - Well, well.
Think, I should have gone with them, but then, I was busy here.
- And you weren't able to go? - Eh, no!
Who with should he leave?
With extraterrestrials.
It's two weeks he says he saw one, and since then he's become like a child.
Eh, child! Do not tease me, you know!
- So, put it on my account. - Don't worry.
Achilles? If you see the alien again, you greet him for me? - You'll be sewed.
So, I'm going. Or I'll be late for work.
- See you later? - Okay.
They've become all voyeurs here.
Sorry.
- Okay. I'm going. - Bye.
''Dear Gennaro, I'm Stella...
...the girl that the other night you kissed passionately with the gun.
I heard that now you're in prison.
And that you'll stay there a long time."
No, you go!
How much?
Get in.
Girls, girls! I got the prostheses to the hands at last!
How beautiful, in plastic!
But they move also?
Oh, come on!
Stella, let me light.
How smooth! They seem real.
You think she wouldn't put up a fuss?
Leave her alone, today didn't some even her boyfriend.
I'd like to see you!
Me? But I'm not like you, who fall in love with the first comer.
You say so because you don't have a boyfriend.
Yes, the boyfriend.
One who you points the gun and won't even look at you?
Look. For that kiss, it was worth to even take a bullet in the forehead.
At that moment we've loved each other.
Loved I
I don't believe in love. Did I ever tell you?
Thousands of times.
- How much? - 5.000.
It brings luck, Favorita!
Go there, go!
Why don't you say anything? Don't you like it?
Talk, then.
Let me hear that I make you come, or I won't come.
You lost your tongue?
What are you doing?
# Pull it out, stick it inside,
# Yes, yes, yes yes yes yes!
Did you enjoy it?
Yes.
When I do it like that, I like it more.
It's as if I did it with you.
For me too.
One of these days I want to take you to the sea.
To a place that I know.
Do you believe in miracles? - No.
You do bad!
Oh, my God!
Slowly!
They're all complaining that you don't collect.
You think that working for me means doing nothing?
And then, with this heat, the stuff stinks sooner. What are you doing?
-I had an engine failure. - What engine?
Anyway, you have to pay the days I worked.
Come home tonight and you'll find the money.
- Adelmo, sorry... - Go away, you.
How hot!
You know, they say that the sun, sooner or later, will turn off.
What a nostalgia, eh?
I got nostalgia for everything.
Even for things I never had.
Me, when it's so hot,
I get the urge to go to the beach.
Wait. Wait!
Swine!
Uh, Favorita! Stop!
That pig! "What beautiful hands!" he said, "touch me. "
"Make me feel it with your hands. I'll give you more. "
And with a stroke he slipped them off my wrists!
It's him again. He's got to like it.
Girls, girls! They took my hands!
So what? You're better off without.
- Seriously? - Yes. Don't worry. It's much better this way.
So, you'll pick me up?
Yes. Tonight I want to take you to dance.
These are 150,000.
I deducted the days you didn't work.
I don't do charity works to anyone. And then, friendship is something else.
Adelmo, but that's Adelaide?
Yes.
She got married?
No. He left her on the wedding day.
- The child is his? - No. They haven't had sex, she's still a virgin.
Maybe rubbing. You know, these things happen.
- Ade! - What is it?
Will you stop staying outside? Come inside.
You can't remember him, you were too small.
- He and I were always together - He's Adamo.
Stay here and eat.
I'm sure Ade is pleased, eh?
And then, tomorrow we don't work.
Coming!
Look who's coming.
- You're beautiful. - Yeah, beautiful!
What did you do yesterday? I waited.
I had a work commitment.
Finally he paid me, it's day off.
So you take me to the beach?
To the beach?
You know, that place you said.
OK!
Well, for once. .
Bye!
Chirone!
Can you mail it for me?
- How much for a couple of hours? - 5,000.
This water tastes like tar.
How we're fine you and I together, eh?
We are right meant for each other.
Adamo?
I must tell you something.
What?
Something a bit peculiar.
You're in love with me.
And you?
We'll see.
It's true, this water tastes like tar.
What's wrong?
Are you hurt?
No, nothing. I slipped
Come on, it's late.
- Have you seen Adamo? - No. Who's he? - The blond one. - I don't know him.
When a star dies, it is formed a black hole.
If you tried to get into the black hole...
...you would return to a state of absolute purity.
From matter to energy, as at the dawn of life.
So? How much you'd give me for this?
50.
Are you crazy? I can do 100,000.
100,000 lire?
You see, my father makes these.
They split the minute, and no one ever complained.
And then, you'd better.
To be in lookout, you must be punctual. Well?
OK.
Here.
- Bye. - Bye.
Ah, how good it is here!
No! When ever?
It's the 7th letter that I write him.
But I don't give up. Sooner or later he must respond.
And Adamo?
How came he didn't show up anymore?
What do I know?
But when I see him I'll tell him I don't like that.
Sure. At least, I know where he is, mine.
You, instead. .
After all, what do I care?
I saw him last night, Adamo.
At about 9:25, 9:26.
Where?
In town.
He walked dawn the street with a girl.
Chirone, do me a favor. Go seek him, then let me know where he is.
What is it?
- Chirone, what did you find out? - I've searched all over town.
They saw him in the sulfur fields. And I was told that he's getting married.
Adamo!
Adamo, come out!
What do you want?
Why didn't you show up anymore?
So. I had things to do.
It's not true, you have another.
So why don't you tell me you want to leave me?
- And even if it were? - But why?
I've done everything you wanted just to please you.
It means you liked it.
And then, between us there never was anything.
What are you saying?
I love you.
Adamo!
Wait!
Graia!
- Go. - No! I don't want to go.
Angela!
They found a guy killed on the racks.
Police are looking for Adamo.
And you too.
They've seen you with him.
Someone killed?
But, I...
What should I do, Chirone?
Give me a lift.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
The Universe had a beginning?
If ifs so, what happened before then?
Where did it come from, the Universe?
And where is it going?
Where is it going, the Universe?
But, what's up?
Why didn't you save him?
Who are you?
Why didn't you tell it wasn't Adamo?
I didn't see anything. I was sleeping, on the rocks.
You did it on purpose! You didn't want to help him.
I've loved him.
But it was to no avail.
And now who's gonna tell my brother? Adamo was to marry me.
You're a liar.
Whore!
What's Angela doing?
No. Maybe she's still sleeping.
Angela!
Don't be afraid.
Now that you've learned to love you're not longer the same as before.
The experience of love is like e small miracle.
A miracle that transforms you.
Angela...
...you're an angel!
She's coming.
Stella! This is for you.
He wrote me! He wrote me.
“Dear Stella, I'm sorry if I have not written sooner,
but the thought of spending my whole life here in jail held me back.
Only now I understand that it's right I love you...
...however and forever. And ours will be an eternal love...
...although I'll stay closed within these four walls.
Gennaro. "
Miracle!
English subs by edam17@KG May 2014