Sorry. And?
No, no. Just “sorry”. 6 months I don’t hear about her
and she wrote just “sorry”. Unbelievable!
Ettore, can you discover where the message was sent from?
Strange, it seems that the message was originated from your computer,
as if a person, a program, you see, a virus
accessed to your PC and sent this e-mail.
How is it possible somebody did that,
using my computer, and I didn’t notice anything?
Gabry, you’re conscious that Grazia can do it.
She was able to enter any system,
even by means of a small digital assistant.
Hers nickname, Pandora, is feared
in the hacker world and you know that.
Well, this is for sure. She did.
Evidently she intended to keep you aware of something.
The question, indeed, is: what’s the sense of this stupid word?
This is like the classic women’s guilt complex.
Women first do giant mistakes
and then they feel as much guilty to apologize to you
making things harder
since they force you to think about them
and it gets harder to forget.
Thanks, Mario. You are important for me.
Let’s ask for the bill, will you? Tommorrow I’ve an hard day.
Guys, 5 euros and 20.
Seven beers... Eighty cents...
Seven times eight... – Gabriele...
...the ring?
– And then? – And then I asked her to go on a date with me.
She sent me an e-mail with hers picture.
She’s identical to Monica Bellucci.
Now there’s the risk you make... Vincent Cassel jelous
> Good evening, Professor.
– Mario, at last! – Hi
Well, how was the apartment?
Ehm, nice, but of course too expensive.
Guys, I’ve already had dinner, I see you’ve already had beers,
what about a walk?
– Ok – Ok
Ettore, haven’t you drunk too much, tonight?
Me?! It seems to me we drank
the same number of beers, tonight!
I’ve always been a better drinker!
[they laugh]
Alright. Forget it.
Have you found the wedding ring?
By no means.
I didn’t.
In this period everything goes bad.
I’m feeling really empty inside.
I lost the last thin link that still got me close to Grazia.
What a frustrating sensation.
And the most frustrating thing
is that I’m conscious I’m not affording a real problem.
What is a ring if not a symbol?
Right, but symbols are important
Yeah, symbols are important,
memories, feelings, smells.
Anything, anything makes me recall Grazia
is at a time hated and beloved.
Odi et amo.
Yeah, odi et amo.
And this is what forces me in the seek for that ring
with all my ultimate strength.
But, should you not found it?
Look at those ants.
They fight against something huger than themselves.
That one doesn’t really realize that that breadcrumb
is too large to be transported inside the anthill.
They struggle and don’t give in as if they don’t know
that a cataclysm would soon destroy all their effort.
They struggle, push, pull
because that’s their life and they cannot live another one.
But you can, Gabriele. Your life can’t be limited to
an endless search for a symbol.
You are not an ant.
You choose your way, you walk it,
turn back, change your mind,
redo from start, possibly making mistakes,
Streets aren’t as narrow as they seem.
Sometimes it’s worth change the course, enter a narrow street on the side,
and, why not?
lie down and think. – Mario, wait!
Eight groups Seven ants
Seven, fourteen... fiftysix
So seven times eight is 56
Nature says I’m right
Thousands of Galaxies! Yet another
crashed Experimentation Universe
› What’s the matter, Tahl Aaràn? – Damn it, there’s a bug.
This time due to an incongruency in the basic arithmetic cross-connexion.
Unbelievable, the incongruency hasn’t exploited
for more than 15 billion revolution-lapses.
It’s needed to find the incongruency and a complete restart from the big bang.
It’s also needed to check other simulations.
What an irony, P’an Deireen,
the emotional unit GIT 47,
the one with whom you spent the on-field data collection phase,
solicited the incongruency and caused the halt of simulation.
I admit. I enjoyed playing the role of Gabriele’s wife.
It was an instructive experience.
Anyway, seen from this distance, humans really look like
small ants.
Copyright © 2005 by A. Veneroso, F. Varone Translation and subtitles by Francesco Varone