Yabloko na ladoni Page #2

Year:
1981
78 min
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She said, "If I were a priest,

I would have grown my hair.

"It would be long and wavy and

as beautiful as the priests' hair."

My little son, in childhood

I also wanted to become a priest,

to be allowed to have long hair,

as long as a girl's hair.

Chapter II

LIFE ON THE SWAMP

I don't want us to leave this place.

If you decide to go around

the woman on the floor,

you will see a door,

a door in the ground.

A young man lives there.

He escaped from a mad house,

and came to live here,

with these people.

In the hospital they called him

a Pithecanthropus,

a prehistoric man.

Until one day

he gnawed through his veins.

And when blood was flowing

from his body

and he was already asleep,

a naked boy appeared to him and said,

"Get up, calm down,

go and live with these people.

"You will get up with them

every morning and see how they live.

"You should watch.

Let it be of no concern to you

"that you can't speak or work.

"You don't need to do either.

"You will start to speak later

"when people have exhausted

all combinations of words,

"and eaten up their own language.

"That will be the time

for you to speak.

"And while you are on this earth,

just watch.

"Watch and don't be afraid.

"Don't be afraid

that you can't change anything

"as you don't know your silence

and what it is like.

"And you can't see the body

of your silence.

"You are looking at a girl.

You like her.

"But even her body is not comparable

"with the body of your silence.

"Your silence has a body

"and everyone needs it.

"You will start to speak later

"when people have lost

the gift of speech

"because of shame and fear.

"Meanwhile, looking at people

"will submerge them in your silence.

"The time will come

"when people will extract

new words from your silence.

Completely new."

Old people bring him food right here

because he comes out of the cellar

only on Sundays.

He is afraid that on weekdays

he could be caught,

and taken back to hospital.

The other day

the ragman lost one leg.

Half of what he told his apprentice

has come true.

Soon he'll lose his second leg.

Life on the swamp starts

from the moment a child wakes up,

gets up from bed

and steps on the water.

I won't tell you why I brought you

to this place, or give you a reason.

Because you don't have

to have any reasons.

You can simply understand me better

when next to these children.

And I will probably feel

like being closer to you.

There are two doors in the cellar

where the runaway lives.

One door faces the south side

where the children live.

And the other faces the north side

where the old people live.

Apart from old people

and children,

there should be

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