Scream of the Ants, Dialogue list
This list includes English as and when spoken on the picture, an English translation for parts spoken in Indian and Persian together with the original French
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SCREAM OF THE ANTS
MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF
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- Hey boy, come on.
Do you think the train is coming?
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- It is wind blowing, people think its train.
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- What time the train passes by here.
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- Train not coming.
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- No train.
What are we supposed to do then?
007
- After sandy area there is the track
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- My feet are blistered
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- It’s ok it’ll heal.
- It’s ok?! It will heal?!
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- Do I have to always fight with you?
011
- Just like yourself. From the start of
our trip you went one way and I another
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- You know why? Do you want to know?
013
In order for me to live I need to
Caress your hair,
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Kiss your lips, put my head on
your chest to hear your heartbeat
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Look at your feet. So dry
like a dried tree in the desert
016
-Leave me alone
I’m not in the mood for you.
017
- Excuse me where are you from?
Excuse me where are you from?
018
- I don't know. Her English is better.
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- Where are you from lady?
- Originally we are from Iran.
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- Nice meeting you.
- Same to you.
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- You are a tourist as well?
- No, I'm a journalist from south of India.
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- You come to see Sayehbaba, I think?
- No, not Sayehbaba.
023
- It must be Dalailama. Dalailama?
- Dalai who?
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- You know Dalailama?
He is spiritual leader who lives in Himalaya.
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- No, I don't know him.
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- So, what is bringing you in India?
- What is your interest?
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- We're looking for some special man.
028
- Special man?
We're all special in India.
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What kind of special man are you looking for?
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- This man is called "Complete man" or
perfect man.
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- I'm a complete man.
Don't you think so?
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- Of course I believe.
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- What does he do?
Who is this special man?
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- He does some kind of miracle
with people’s life.
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- You know most foreigners
who come to India are stupid.
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- You mean we're stupid?
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- Yeah, don't mind my saying this.
Because you come chasing all the wrong things.
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- What's the miracle according to you?
- What's the miracle according to you?
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- I don't believe in miracles,
I believe in reality.
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Everything like that is miracle.
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This heat is miracle. Life is a miracle.
What's the miracle according to you?
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- What's miracle according to you?
- I can give you a long list. You're a miracle.
043
- Sorry I can't hear you!
- You're a miracle for example.
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- That kind of miracle!
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- You are a miracle, your smile is miracle.
May I?
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Your husband fighting with you
in none violence country is a miracle.
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Tourists coming to India are a miracle.
We've all kind. Life's a miracle.
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What do you think?
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- Yes, but this guy does some thing
special with people’s life .
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We came specially to meet him.
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Our meditations teacher advised us
to meet him.
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We came to India for that.
My husband and I.
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- You know it's a coincident.
I'm here to shoot a miracle for my newspaper.
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- But you said you don't believe in miracles.
- Yeah, but I've come to find out if it's true.
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- But as a journalist you must be
very busy in India.
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- Yeah, the rated which miracles happened
and foreigners come to see it, I'm very busy.
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Apparently, an old man can stop
a train with his eyes.
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- With his eyes? Eyes?
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- That’s what people says,
I've come to find out the true.
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I've appointment at the engine room.
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I'm going to see it from close.
You can join me if you want.
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- We can come with you?
063
Look, are you still upset?
064
He said there was a guy who stopped
the train with his eyes.
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Do you want to go see him?
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Yeah, why not?
Ok we come with you.
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- For how long have you been here?
068
- I have no concept of time
It must be seven or eight years.
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- Why did you come here?
- I came here because I was sad
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I went around and came here and my soul said:
What is the point of living?
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I was sad so I lied down here,
I thought the train will come and wipe me out.
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Sitting here I lost consciousness because
of hunger and heat.
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Then my soul said:
There is no even a train.
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What is the point of dying?
Kept lying here.
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When the train came, driver stopped the train.
The travelers got down and they said:
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Baba how did you stop
the train with your eyes?!
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I said see brother, I didn’t stop
the train, the driver did.
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- He says how can anybody stop the train?!
The driver stops the train by himself.
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It seems you give advice
to every one who comes here.
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- No great advice.
I don’t want stop the train with my eyes.
081
The beggars came here and
beg for food from the travelers in the train.
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They don’t let me go from here.
This is why I am stuck here.
083
Somebody take me from here.
I am very sad.
084
And his magic does not exit.
That is why I am here. Somebody save me.
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- Take me from here. I miss my children.
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- He says save me, take me from here.
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People are not letting me to go.
Take me back to my family.
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- You know it's a good idea,
but it's a little dangerous
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- Bring the chair.
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Leave him alone.
Leave him alone.
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- How pretty!
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- You have a tourist’s eye.
Give me your camera.
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So I can show you more deeply.
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My mind is all screwed up.
Love, death and all kinds of shit.
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I don’t know
what you see so beautiful here?
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Is it really beautiful but I fail to see or
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Have I lost the difference between
beauty and ugliness?
098
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They say Gandhi loved the poor.
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But his lack of violence
has benefited the rich.
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See this one is laughing.
What is he laughing about?
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See they have lined up here since
this morning for a piece of bread.
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They keep saying no violence but the lack
of violence has turned into violence.
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They are sleep.
As if all are in collective ecstasy.
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How can there not be a revolution
in a country with 90% poor?!
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- Long live the revolution.
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- India is not a beginning for me.
It is the final point.
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What is God’s answer to
all this misery and poverty?
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- Certainly God’s answer to
you is not some divine socialism.
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God’s answer to the poor is
the little joys.
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When you’re hungry
a piece of bread is a joy.
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When you are thirsty
a drop of water is a delight.
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When you are sleepy you take a nap and
become the happiest in the world.
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In order to become happy you have to
lose some things not gain them.
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Happiness is not a line.
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It’s a bunch of moments
like the moment you laugh.
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When these moments increase in number and
get close to each other then they form a line.
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I think the poor are much more happier
than people like us
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Who think they have reached the end.
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People wonder why God likes the rich but
I believe he likes the poor better.
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God created them poor so he can
make them happy with small things.
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- So the question still remains valid.
Why doesn’t he like the rich?
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Who created them except God himself?
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So either there is no God or
if there is he is not just.
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Of course you’ll excuse me dear.
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-I love you.
We hadn’t said that to each other in so long.
126
You look so beautiful tonight.
In this Indian Sari.
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I want to start my life anew tonight.
I want to see the world through your eyes.
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I want everything to look beautiful.
129
I want to be filled and emptied by you tonight.
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I want to kiss your feet tonight.
Kiss your hands.
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I want to put my head on your chest
tonight and fall asleep by your heartbeat.
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India is so beautiful tonight.
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- Have you heard of Gandhi’s story?
- No
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- The night Gandhi’s father died
he made love to his wife all night
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Then he hated himself.
He thought how can one be so abject
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To give in to minor pleasures
in order to forget bigger sorrows?
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Since then he decided not to ever make love
unless for having children.
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Do you want us too for once?
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- Do what?!
- Only once to have children.
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- As a father I don’t want to invite
anyone to this stupid world.
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- But I’ll become a mother.
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- And that is the beginning of
my life’s tragedy cause as a father
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I invited a person to this foolish world.
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My love! Please think a little.
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What if that baby doesn’t want
to be born?
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What if he grows up and complains
why he was brought to this world?
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If he asks you why you gave birth
to him what will you tell him?
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Perhaps we’ll say: “Excuse us you are
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The product of a random union of your father’s
sperm and your mother’s ovule in India.”
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You know no human being is
created out of love.
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All are products of a couple’s distraction
in moment of lovemaking.
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A moment of negligence where a man and
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A woman hesitate to stop lovemaking
in the peak of their orgasm.
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I am fearful of the child
who’s born a murderer or a victim.
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You know becoming a father
is like announcing to the world that
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I was born,
tasted life and found it so delightful
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And I find it my duty to reproduce.
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- I came to India after Gandhi…
after Mother Teresa.
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- And I was a fool to come after your love.
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Now we have turned into two delusional people.
A philosophical trip.
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I rather spend the night with stray dogs and
leave you alone with your Mother Teresa.
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So much for our wedding night!
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- Where are you going?
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- Hello sir.
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Do you want a woman for a night?
It's only 60 dollars.
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Do you want a girl? Hello, hello.
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Hey Mr. It’s almost midnight,
at least my last price for you would be 10 dollars.
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Please look back.
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Fuck you. If you feel sex is important for you,
for me money is important.
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- Human wouldn't sell himself.
Only things are for sells.
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- So why a table?
- I’ve a chair I need a table to complete it.
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- It would cost you more,
if I want be your table.
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- What are these things around your room?
- These are gods.
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- How many gods do you have in India?
- We have 3000000 gods.
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- What's this one?
- It's a god of dance.
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Don't smoke. It’s irritating me.
Please don't smoke.
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- And that one?
- That's a god of power.
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- I prefer the god of power ,
I hate useless gods.
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Don’t look at me like that, I get shy.
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I die for your loneliness before the big bang.
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What was wrong with you to bring us
into existence from nothing?
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Where is the power in you?
What is this world you created?
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I am in void.
I really want to be captivated by you.
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Enough of freedom.
I can’t any more.
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You are a cow with four legs on the ground.
God is in the skies.
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He is the one
who created women and wine.
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They say he did that, understand?
You are nobody.
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But indeed…but something is true
about two things you created.
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Women and wine.
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Thank you for women and wine.
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Have you come to see
what’s happening to your servants?
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Have you come to see me?
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You are so pretty!
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You are human like us.
Good that you are a woman.
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If I knew you were I would have
always had faith in you.
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It was your fault to put
intellect in my head instead of wine.
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When you are absent
cows also claim to be God.
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- Hello
- Hello.
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- We want to visit the complete man.
- The Complete man? By car?
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No one goes to visit the complete man
by car Madame.
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they goes by foot. It’s better that way.
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- He says let’s walk.
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Yeah, but we may get lost.
We don't know the way.
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How long does it take if we walk?
- By foot 2 days, by car one hour.
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- It’s one hour by car.
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- It’s more convenient by car.
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- No, would you please take us there?
- As you pleased madam.
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- Thank you...
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- But friend, I tell you one thing.
210
if you go by car to visit the complete man
you can have a good view.
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But if you go by foot you have a vision.
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- What kind of person is this complete man?
Please.
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- Complete man? Oh my god.
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You should listen to people,
what they say about him.
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He’s very divined man.
You should look at.
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They says his face look like a flower,
his voice is like music.
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Don’t open the glass. Please madam.
The fly will go away.
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We have to go drape him back
in the same place, we came from.
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The taxi stand, do you remember? Yeah.
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- Roll down the window.
The wind will blow it away.
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- Oh!
- What if he returns us again?
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- It voice is like my grandfathers voice.
It's nice. He was a great singer.
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- He is crazy.
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- What’s with him?
- He’s crazy.
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Lunatic, let’s get out.
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- He is going back again.
- What do we do with him?
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- It reminds me of the sound of my grandfather.
He was a great singer.
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- Look at him.
He is remembering his grandfather.
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- He wants to go back?
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- Are you making a new turn?
Are you going back there?
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- I need to go back because
I need to drop him also back.
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- We won’t get there in another 6 days.
It was easier to walk.
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Tell him to stop.
Why are you laughing?
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Tell him we want to walk.
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- Walk? Promise?
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- Stop laughing.
Tell him we want to walk.
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- Stop, stop please. Stop please.
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(French) Hey, hey monsieur, on va descendre.
on va descendre la. arretez-vous. arretez-vous.
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- He doesn’t understand French.
Are you speaking in French to him?
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Stop the car please, we want get out.
Stop the car. I told you stop the car.
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- Tell him if he had faith in God
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He wouldn’t leave us in the desert
to give a ride to an insect.
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With every step we kill at least one Ant.
244
You have to choose.
If you want to see your Perfect Man
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You have to be an Ant murderer.
If you stop you became victim.
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Move your Ants out of my way God.
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I have to walk.
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One Ant died.
I heard his cry.
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Oh God did you hear your Ants outcry?
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One Ant died.
Two Ants.
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Three Ants.
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Four.
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Five.
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Oh God do you hear?
Can you hear their outcry?
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Don’t you get sad by your Ants’ death?
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- Hello
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- Hello, can you speak English.
- A little bit.
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- Excuse me. What’s your name?
- People call me as a cow man.
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- We are looking for the complete man's address.
Do you know where he lives?
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- Yes just follow me.
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- Have you seen him?
- I have seen him few times.
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- Did you see any miracles from him?
- No.
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- Why people come a long way to visit him?
- You should ask them that.
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- He is an interesting guy.
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- Do you believe in god?
- Everyone is his own god.
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- Who do you ask for help,
when you are alone or suffering?
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- Birth is suffering,
death is suffering,
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failure is suffering,
victim is suffering,
269
all we have or we don’t,
all is suffering too.
270
It’s suffering. Desire is suffering too.
271
- Yes, but what do you think?
Do you think god exist or not?
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- God exist or does not?
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If you say god is there, then he is.
If you say it doesn’t exist, then it doesn’t.
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This is his house.
Call, and wait for him.
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if it takes long for him to answer.
Keep calling.
276
Mr. Perfect man. Perfect man.
277
Est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un derrière
cette universe.
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Est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un derrière
cette universe.
279
- Sorry,
I went to put the cows in the shadow.
280
- You also live here?
- Yes. Who do you want to see?
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- You know,
we are looking for perfect man.
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- People call me so.
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- Your name was cow keeper man.
- Every one calls me differently.
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- But you said you only saw perfect man
a few times.
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- We have no mirror in our house.
Mirror brings egotism.
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I've only seen myself in the water a few times.
Now, what can I do for you?
287
- My friend and I...
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- At least say my love.
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- My husband and I came a long way
from Iran to visit you.
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I'm so excited.
I don't know what to say.
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I couldn't imagine you.
Excuse my expression.
292
But you are so simple,
such an ordinary man.
293
You know my husband use to be
a communist.
294
I used to be a religious,
and now I only believe in god.
295
Could you… I'm sorry… I'm confused.
296
Can you give me a piece of advice
and your faith?
297
Maybe a new god to believe him…
298
- If you have a paper or a notebook,
I’ll write in it for you.
299
Don’t you need any advice?
300
- I have no talent for faith.
301
Tell him if he wants he can give me
his email address
302
I can chat with him about God sometimes.
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- I only have this phonebook.
304
These are the numbers that connect me
to the past.
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Would you write something
that would connect me to the future?
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- For everyone I use their own pen to write.
307
- I only have this.
308
Shame on me,
but could you write with this? I'm sorry
309
Why have you turned your back on him?
That’s disrespectful.
310
- Leave me alone.
311
- After 3 days, hold this paper
on the fire in the holly city.
312
It will help you with the meaning of
your future.
313
- See this guy was retarded.
You told me he was the perfect man.
314
You are so naive to be fascinated by
such people.
315
- I forgot to sit on the chair so
he could remarry us.
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- Do God’s representatives have to
confirm a kiss?
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- I promised our meditation teacher that
I would have Perfect Man sit on it to make
318
It holy so I could bring him as souvenir.
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- Nobody’s ass could sanctify this chair.
320
- What are you trying to prove?
321
I gave up everything for you.
I even caught my self from my parents
322
But you are so selfish that you couldn’t
even face that man.
323
What are you trying to prove?
324
- I am not trying to prove anything.
325
I am only searching
so I can put away my doubts
326
and get rid of my prejudgments, get it?
327
I followed you because
I thought you were after truth.
328
I despise one who has found the truth.
329
He, who has found the truth
turns a fascist.
330
I don’t want to talk about God any more.
331
- I am a murderer because I walk.
Oh God, forgive me.
332
Move your Ants out of my way.
I have to walk.
333
One Ant died.
I heard it's cry.
334
Oh God did you
hear your Ants scream?
335
One Ant died,
336
Two Ants…
337
three Ants…
338
four…
339
five…
340
- Oh God, whom I love so much.
I want to be under your roof
341
Without you my boat will sink
in the ocean of ignorance.
342
Bring my boat to shore.
Please come and let me embrace you.
343
I was born several times.
I remember a few.
344
Once I was a cow.
Once a yogi and once a maharajah.
345
I don’t know about the mistakes
I made in my previous life
346
That God brought me to this world
as a sick and poor.
347
I want to rid myself of this world.
348
I want to die in Banares
not to be born again.
349
I am waiting to be called by God.
Please help me.
350
I want to go to Banares.
Please help me.
351
I can’t walk.
I want to die in Banares not to be born again.
352
It is so hard to become a perfect man on earth.
I am so tired.
353
- What’s this old lady telling to you?
354
- You know this people believe that all human
beings have to be reborn.
355
This is a very tiring cycle of life.
356
And they are very tired to be in that cycle
to that compulsory suffering.
357
And they believe that,
358
if they die in a holly place, and holly city,
they don’t have to be reborn again and again.
359
It will stop all that reborn and reborn,
360
suffering will be stop but they have to give
their ashes to the Ganga,
361
then all the suffering will end.
362
- You speak a very good English,
where are you from?
363
You mustn't be from India.
364
- In this life I was born in Germany.
It wasn't a very convince life.
365
And when I was 40 I decided to go to India.
366
Now since 13 years
I’m leading people call it religious life.
367
I would say trying to cross to highest truth.
368
- Have you ever live in jungle?
369
- All the last 4 years, I was in Burma.
Rainy Forest,
370
Only once a day goes to catch your
food and then you go back to your cottage.
371
Nobody to blame,
the only idiot is hanging around is yourself
372
So you become very careful in blaming,
because if you blame that self you suffering.
373
Lots of animal, learn how to respect animals.
374
- Why did you leave Germany?
- The negative reason for leaving,
375
that's all convention of life.
I was not very successful.
376
But the positive reason was,
377
I was looking at that conventional business,
I said: that's all?! Come on,
378
there should be
some thing more to the game.
379
- Why did you leave western countries?
380
- Actually, the real thing to do
is to find the heart and to let the heart do
381
what the heart is supposed to do.
If we put too much lowed on the heart
382
without it is thought,
and all that thinking, it become very heavy.
383
And learn, not to burden,
the heart without that thinking garbage.
384
There are some people who can train you,
who can tell you,
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focus on that, and don’t focus on that.
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- And did you finally find the reality?
387
- No, finally we find…
The life has not guaranty.
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I'm not having any guaranty
to have final realize,
389
from this compulsory birth and rebirth.
Death cycle
390
But at least I’m very clearly convinced
that I’m doing a right job.
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And doing what is the only job work doing.
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All other jobs satisfying some
sense pleasure.
393
going for money, or fame, or something
like that would be just running around.
394
like a crazy mouse and like a hamster.
395
- You mean you help people to die?
396
- Not helping them to make suicide.
I'm helping them to focus on something
397
bigger than just the 5 sense pleasure,
or running after some crazy idea.
398
But to focus and to work on something which is
bigger and greater in the meaning,
399
in the quality.
400
It appears the heart mind is much small and
very fragile, almost like a child mind.
401
- Any regret?
- Regret? No.
402
the first thing he has to learn is
you should not be afraid of death.
403
Second things, he has to learn is
to have no regret,
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and third thing he has to learn,
to be joyful at the time of death.
405
- You know my husband gave
all the money we had to a prostitute.
406
Now we don’t have money to go to a hotel.
407
Would you mind
if we stay here to spend a night.
408
I hope I become mother tonight.
409
- With the boat we can do that.
We have enough space.
410
- Thank you.
411
- This is the river of the holly mother Ganga.
People gave that death to this river.
412
They give the ashes of the death body
to the Ganga.
413
They pee in to it. And the same time
they drink from this water.
414
Here death and life are same together.
415
Have you seen that woman’s death body
floating on the river?
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If there is a God he must certainly be
regretful of creating humans.
417
That’s why he gives birth one by one
418
But destroys by thousands in
floods, storms and earthquakes.
419
- Mother don't worry.
We will find the fire wood.
420
We will have enough fire wood.
You should not worry about that.
421
This fire burning these bodies away
constantly, going on,
422
there is no, no escape to that.
423
Usually in reach countries
you don’t see that,
424
but you can see it here
detail by detail by detail.
425
Because of that the people get really tired.
And quiet hurry fight.
426
Because so graphic so horrible,
no escape, Just burning.
427
If it would be the final thing,
it would be very good,
428
because then all the suffering
would be finished,
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but after that burning there is reborn.
Because here in this place,
430
people are very convinced
that you are dying reborn, dying reborn,
431
and dying reborn. Very compulsory,
very horrible suffering,
432
see that one. That was a reach man,
because of a lot of fire wood.
433
The other one very small, poor man.
434
Now he has even difficult
to burn away his body.
435
Family is in trouble, because
hardly they can burn away that body.
436
The reach man is burning very nice.
437
Even after death reach man's family
has pleasure to see him burn away quick.
438
Even after death, reach and poor still visible.
If it would be the final burning, ok.
439
Every body could some how live
with it and say ok that was it.
440
But in this culture people are really believe in
after death, direct coming back.
441
Rebirth, then all the life suffering,
burning away rebirth, dying, rebirth, dying,
442
and that compulsory rolling on.
It’s really horrible for his people.
443
They are so suffering.
They are not very aggressive.
444
They just take it as aaaaa... why, why...
they want to come out of that,
445
- This universe is full of sheet.
446
- It’s not only ... the packet
is not constantly stable full of sheet.
447
No, the sheet is constantly raining on you.
448
It is a process,
sheet is happening, continuously.
449
Sheet is happening.
Something is sheeting over you.
450
It is not only sheet is there.
No, no. it is really moving.
451
It’s rolling raining over you.
452
And then in the different culture,
they have found different answers to that.
453
For example the Catholics are saying;
you deserve it.
454
Protestants are saying;
let it happened to others.
455
The Muslim is saying;
it is the veal of Allah.
456
And the Jesus; they always says;
why it always happening to us?
457
Buddhist they are saying;
actually it is not really sheet.
458
In Japan the Zen Buddhist;
listen to the sound of sheet happening.
459
But you know these are only theoretical.
460
These are only word out solution
by some people who try to consult the people
461
to try to help the people survive with all
that constant sheet business.
462
Come on.
463
We are having something interesting
and important to do. Come. Come on.
464
- Close your eyes.
465
Shut your ears and just smell.
466
Shut your ears and just smell.
467
This was your lesson today.
468
- Excuse me, do you want to buy flower?
10 Rupees,
469
Take put in Ganga. Do you want?
470
Do you want to buy flower? Why?
471
- Why should I buy flower from you?
472
- You buy put in Ganga
with your family name.
473
Good luck for your family name.
- I don't have any family.
474
- Your baby name
- No baby. Is it good for having baby?
475
Do you have matches?
- Yeah I have.
476
- I need fire for reading something.
477
Look, I can't read this.
Can you help me to read this please?
478
- Ok. This is Hendy. I tell English.
479
I have cross seven sees
480
Gone up all the seven heels
481
Down all the valise
482
Crossed my deepness
483
True all the season
484
Travel all around the world
485
And when I came back home
486
I was ashamed to see
487
All this world in a tiny due drop
488
In the leaf of the planet in my garden .
Scream Of The Ants Dialogue List (English)
