The Strange Case of Dr. Faust
You blind animals who forgot your origin,
we're going to tell you a story.
Let's say...
that beings from an unidentified place in the universe
are watching you.
Because...
there's one among you all
who's about to uncover
a great mystery.
His name is...
Faust.
Faust? The doctor?
Nobody lives as innocently and freely as he does.
Who lets themselves live like that on a miserable, war-torn planet?
He investigates the world like a disciplined schoolboy.
What? Does he think that, in his limited human brain,
there's room for a real explanation of what's going on?
The clothes moth wants to understand the tailor who made the jacket.
Can a hair understand the hat?
Can the producers of consciousness consume their own light?
They mustn't! They mustn't! They mustn't!
They mustn't!
Can an animal bite its own tail without becoming a zero?
It mustn't! It mustn't!
Mustn't the mule turning the waterwheel keep from losing its blinders,
so that the universe won't be deprived of its bees' honey?
Isn't love enough?
Faust had some neighbors named Philemon and Baucis,
whose noisy revelry at any hour of the day, and at night,
was showy and provocative.
Not even the thunderous revelry of Philemon and Baucis
could succeed in pulling Faust out of his meditations.
Faust dreamed that, one afternoon,
while he was playing with a wise little man and a kite,
a woman appeared at the edge of the sea.
The woman was in danger.
Faust sent the wise little man to help the unknown woman.
The woman was "The Sphinx", and in her gratitude to Faust,
she told him a story, instead of posing him a riddle.
But the story was the riddle.
I want you to know that I've seen better times.
In those days, I possessed a secret.
I want you to understand that only you know this story.
I'm very tired now.
This story concerns whoever hears it.
The secret was a drawing like those that children make.
Why do children always draw things in that way?
Only a child could steal the secret from me.
I want you to understand that this concerns you.
But don't try to understand more. To feel you understand is to destroy me.
And I want you to know that no man can live without me,
just as I can't survive without them.
That's everything that's happened. Now I have nothing more to tell you.
I'm cold.
Don't overcomplicate things. Don't try to understand.
It doesn't suit you. Dreams are just dreams.
Boom, boom, forget, forget, forget.
Forget the dream, forget it. The dream, forget it.
Leave that woman to her sad fate.
Don't interfere, Faust.
You can't do anything.
Exiled to a squalid place,
forgotten by men,
the Sphinx surrenders to an inexorable process of destruction.
It's useless for you to drink, Sphinx! Don't drink, no! Don't drink, no!
It's impossible to recover lost grandeur.
It's impossible to forget forgotten truths.
It's impossible to pursue purity.
It's impossible... impossible to live. It's impossible.
- Men have dethroned you. - They don't take a hint.
The riddle you've bound to Faust will be destroyed.
Cataclysm, turmoil!
Let's put an end to Faust! Let's put an end to him!
Dr. Faust must be prevented
from getting further in his investigations.
The nameless beings from an unidentified place in the universe
decided to intervene to prevent Dr. Faust
from getting further in his...
investigations.
In order to make first contact with Dr. Faust,
a pheremone was created and sent to Earth.
Its mission was to carry a message
and throw it into the sea.
[Catalan:] We are not!
Faust had a premonitory dream
in which it was announced to him that a catastrophe
was just about to occur.
The next day,
he received the message.
On that paper, they had drawn a house and a sun.
Also, there was a man visible at the window.
Faust understood that the drawing revealed a terrible fate.
But...
he didn't let fear take him.
He knew... there was a suitable response for that sign which came from the sea.
And only he could find it.
It was then that he understood...
that the neck of a giraffe
grows from the inside.
That disconcerted the beings from an undetermined place in the universe.
Unable to scare Faust into abandoning the investigations,
which were leading him to the discovery of an essential truth,
they decided to seduce him instead.
And to find out Dr. Faust's ideal of beauty,
they created a Perceptron in human form, and sent it to Earth.
But the beings from an undetermined place in the universe
hadn't forseen that Dr. Faust would induce Ms. Perceptron
to consume stimulants like tea and tobacco,
which, though commonly used among men,
brought on a dangerous activation of the machine's organism.
Watch out! Watch out!
Fausto is trying to draw information out of Ms. Perceptron.
Poor doctor!
No matter how much you try, you'll never solve the riddle of the sphinx.
The clothes moth wants to understand the tailor who made the jacket.
Can a hair understand the hat?
Can the producers of consciousness consume their own light?
They mustn't! They mustn't!
Can an animal bite its own tail without becoming a zero?
It mustn't! It mustn't! It mustn't!
Through Ms. Perceptron
the beings from an undetermined place in the universe
obtained the data they were looking for.
The data were the following:
There was a woman in Dr. Faust's past
named Helen of Troy.
Helen of Troy and Faust had a son,
to whom they gave the name Euphorion.
Euphorion had only one wish: to fly.
When Euphorion died,
Helen of Troy faded into the world of memory.
Out of all women
it was necessary to find one whose cheerful personality
would awaken in Faust's heart reminisces of Helen of Troy,
just as he had imagined her.
They settled on Margarita,
a neighbor of the doctor.
Margarita often get bored.
To breathe into Margarita the spirit of Helen of Troy,
the beings from an unidentified place in the universe
created a teaching machine made flesh,
based on the rough image they had of Helen.
When the dance ended,
Margarita knew all she had to know to seduce Dr. Faust.
All that was left was...
to put the doctor in contact with his neighbor.
And to make this happen,
the beings from an unidentified place in the universe...
created an interferometer
to whom they gave...
the name...
Mephistopheles.
You will be called Mephistopheles.
You're already highly regarded among men,
and that will make your job easier.
This place you find yourself trapped in is a man's body.
Use it during your stay on Earth,
but remember that it's only a temporary living space,
an ingenious machine that you must get to know so well
that at no moment can it take you over,
but never develop more attachment to it than that which is required
for it to function properly.
As you will see,
the body will obey the orders formulated in its brain.
For example, if you say to your arm: "Rise!", the arm will rise.
If you say to your leg: "Shake!", the leg will shake.
It's important that you stay upright and breathe deeply.
No stimulants. Your head must always be clear.
Only in this way will your contact with others be undisturbed.
And once you've completed your mission, Mephistopheles, come back.
Don't linger on Earth.
Any contamination could prove fatal for you.
I know what you're thinking.
In your heart, youth's foolish hopes have been reborn.
You'd like to cavort with that little blonde girl.
You hope to live out an old dream with her.
It's okay, it's okay! I know you!
Ask and your wish will be granted. To be young again?
- Young again, young again. - Yes, young again!
- Young again and seductive.
Seductive and young again!
I know of someone who'll prepare an excellent potion.
Faust...
your world is over!
Your eagerness was your undoing, doctor.
You've fallen into your desires' trap and will have to start over,
if you hope to one day understand.
Drink, Faust! Drink up and don't respire!
Your lost youth you'll again acquire,
But if you drink to excess, do stop and assess.
You might be falling, falling down time's deep recess.
Mephistopheles...
Come back, Mephistopheles. Come back with us.
Your mission on Earth is over.
Your mission has been completed.
- Oh, don't play! - Don't play!
- Don't play! No, come back!
Who are you?
Where are you coming from?
What happened to you?
Why?
When Mephistopheles tried to understand, he was married to Margarita.
His name was Octavio Beiral and he had three kids.
He knew that somewhere something had happened,
but he couldn't remember what.
This is the first film of the project "Iron Ten"
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