Red Like the Sky Page #3

Now...

This is the tablet, feel it?

This is the punch.

Now... feel these spaces?

All right... this is how you write.

You make a hole for each letter.

For example, 'A' is a hole

on the upper right.

Now you try.

Not like that!

What happened?

Nothing happened.

A tablet fell on the floor.

Let's get back to work.

We'll just pick it up

and put it back where it belongs.

Anyway,

I put some things on your desks.

Pine cones and branches,

some chestnuts.

Dried fruit.

Touch them.

Feel what pine needles are like,

how strange they are...

These needles have to survive

the winter, the snow...

pass them around.

This afternoon, I want you

to write an essay on the seasons.

Describe what happens

when we pass

from one season to another.

What things change, in the country,

in the city, in human life.

So, Mirco.

Aren't you interested in doing

what your classmates are doing?

I don't need to.

I can see.

I can see, too.

It's not enough.

When you see a flower,

don't you want to smell it?

Or when it snows,

don't you want to walk in it?

To touch it, watch it melt

in your hands?

I'll tell you a secret,

something I noticed

watching musicians play.

They close their eyes.

You know why?

To feel the music

more intensely.

Because the music transforms,

the notes gets bigger, more intense.

It's as if music was

a physical sensation.

You have five senses, Mirco.

Why use only one of them?

Did you hear that?

RAI Italian Radio and Television

presents

"The Adventures of Moby Dick"

a program based on the book

by Herman Melville.

Adaptation by Armando Nicoloci.

Directed by Lorenzo Rossi.

Episode Three.

One morning, Captain Ahab

ordered the whole crew

to assemble on the bridge.

Some of you have already heard

of the white whale.

Now, take a good look at this

Spanish doubloon.

It's worth 16 dollars.

Mr. Tambar!

Give me that hammer.

Now pay close attention.

The first one of you to show me

a whale with a white head

and three holes in its tail

will have this ounce of gold.

Francesca, what are you doing?

Nothing, just looking out.

Leave them alone.

Go do your homework.

And turn that off!

- What do you want, dimwit!

- What are you doing, you dope?

- That's my business.

- Why don't you eat that cookie?

It's a sacrifice, so the sister

will give me a kernel of corn.

Here, take this!

- What is it?

- A candy.

Give that to the sister, too,

and you'll get another kernel.

- Can you really see?

- Yeah.

- How much.

- A bit.

Go to the end of the wall,

go down the stairs,

go to the rusty door

and wait for me.

Wait, I'm coming.

This way.

In here.

- What is this place?

- I think it's...

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