Verbo (2011) Movie Script
1
What's this one about?
Killing demons
that have taken over a city.
- Where are they?
- Hiding...
Everywhere...
They hide among us,
in the buildings...
Behind mirrors and all over.
Liriko did more last night.
I wish I could meet him.
In your dreams.
He wouldn't even notice you.
FIND YOUR MISSION
He leaves clues.
He must be trying to say something.
Anyway, see you later.
BELLAVISTA
CONSTRUCTION LEADERS
IN QUALITY LIVING
YOU'RE A JIGSAW PUZZLE
INCOMPLETE
LIRIKO
My name is Sara.
I'm 15 years old.
This is my world.
The only one I know.
YOU FEEL YOUR LIFE
DOESN'T RHYME
I wander trough these streets
like a ghost.
Searching for someone.
Is anyone there?
Searching for the only person
who seems to understand me.
The only person who says
things wich really matter to me.
Liriko.
Nobody knows who he is.
Nobody has ever seen him.
I've been decoding his messages
for a long time.
I know I'm closer than ever.
Hi!
Sara?
Hi, sweetie.
Why didn't you answer?
Are you feeling any better?
Honey, I'm sorry about last night.
We all lose our patience sometimes.
But you're not a child any more.
You have to be more realistic.
It's for your own good.
We only want the best things for you.
Call your father later
and fix things up, okay?
How was your day?
Fine.
Oh, Sara, don't start.
Our history teacher
told us something.
Speak up.
I always have to tell you...
A big mess in the Church
a long time ago.
He said...
there was this debate about...
the digestive process
and the holy wafer.
Stercorism or something like that.
One side said the wafer
stopped being holy when...
when it dissolved in the mouth
of the communicant...
I mean, the guy eating it...
But things got out of hand when
an old monk...
said the wafer
never loses its holiness.
- Okay, and...?
- Well...
that it's always holy,
even when it becomes excrement.
- When you take a dump.
- I don't believe it.
Neither did the Vatican.
They were totally pissed off.
- Sara...!
- So they told the priest
to repent
or he'd be tortured
and excommunicated.
And what did he do?
I don't know.
The teacher didn't tell us.
Yeah, great.
You think it's silly, right?
Do call your father, Sara.
RAFAEL BAEZA
PROJECT COORDINATOR
BELLAVISTA CONSTRUCTION
LEADERS IN QUALITY LIVING
Yes?
Ines... is that you?
Sara?
Sara?
Sara, that's enough, okay?
Raise your hand
if you haven't read it.
Sara?
No... I haven't read all of it.
I can't hear you.
Can you please speak up?
- I haven't finished it.
- Why not, may I ask?
- I tried... but.
- But what?
I'm very sorry
it was too boring for you, Sara.
Ever heard the expression
"When it rains, it pours"?
I'm sure you have.
Luis, would you mind telling Sara
what the first chapter is about?
Well...
The first chapter
starts with the famous sentence...
"In a place whose name
I do not care to remember..."
"Somewhere in La Mancha"
- La Mancha!
- Get a clue!
It's okay, don't bother.
Isabel, can you start reading
the first chapter, please.
Yes.
"Somewhere in La Mancha,
in a place whose
name I do not care to remember,
there lived not long since
one of those gentlemen
that keep a lance in the lance rack,
an old buckler, ..."
My life happens in places
I don't understand
Doing things I don't know
what they're worth.
That have nothing to do with me.
No one talks about it,
but there has to be something else.
In that book I found the story
to whom nobody believe.
Just like me.
And his fantasies
could be like me own.
"Awaken to understand
and unravel the meaning.
His curiosity and blunder
were so far reaching that the
strangest of thoughts came to mind.
His days from dawn to dark,
and nights from sunset to sunrise...
that he lost his wits."
Hello?!
What are you doing still up?
- Studying...
- It's about time...
Have you had dinner?
Your dad isn't here, is he?
- I'm going to bed.
- Okay.
Mom...
Why don't we ever go into town?
We go to the shopping mall
all the time.
No. I mean into town,
the old part of town.
I don't know.
Because everything we need is here.
So... tomorrow we have a school trip,
and I've never been there.
"His fancy grew full...
enchantments, battles, wounds...
that if the world
were evil and terrible...
a thought came to his mind...
to roam the world here and there.
Seeking it everywhere,
and fight with good judgment
the endless suffering
of everyday life. "
Where are you?
You made me lose.
Damn, go talk to him already.
He's screaming for it.
Look, he even found a free seat.
He's waiting for you.
Nothing?
I can't bear to watch you fail.
It's depressing.
This is where I leave you.
I'll try my luck with Remy.
Dario, what are you doing?
You left me all by myself.
You're acting really strange lately,
man.
You like that geeky girl, huh?
What do you mean?
What's wrong with you?
Liriko!
Go!
Hey, Dario!
Did you lose something or what?
Come with me down that street.
There's something I want you to see.
Come on, dude!
Shit, man.
- What's up with him?
- Not me.
You go ahead.
We'll be in deep shit
if the teacher finds out.
I'm staying.
- Jesus, what a drag.
- Come on!
That damn weirdo
has you eating out of her hand.
YOUR MISSION
IS HERE
FEEL IBEAUTY
LIRIKO
This is a wax representation
of Elena's body.
She died over 50 years ago.
She threw herself off the bell tower,
hoping to to go to heaven.
As you know, the Church
considers suicide a sin,
but the bishop ruled the girl
was driven by an act of faith,
wishing to be closer to God,
to escape a world
she did not understand.
Let's continue, please.
Sara!
- Fuck.
- Fuck?
Where have you been?
We had to go back and look for you!
Sara, what the hell is wrong with you?
Where have you been?
Well?
You could care less.
Damn, you really blow me away.
If you were mine...
We called the police, Sara.
Now we have to call them back and say,
"Sorry about that. We found her."
"She decided to take
a fucking stroll."
I'm talking to you, Sara!
Where are you?
What planet are you on?
Were you trying
to ruin the field trip?
Great! You did it!
Thanks a lot, Sara!
It maybe
time to give up.
Liriko is only an illusion
I have to lose.
Or maybe I'm not who he wants.
Here beauty is far away from me.
I don't know if I'm able to go on.
YOU'RE A PUZZLE INCOMPLETE
YOU'RE A PUZZLE INCOMPLETE
SAVE ME
BELLAVISTA CONSTRUCTION
Hello?
ACTIONS
WORDS
AWARENESS
I AM THE SOUND OF BEAUTY
COME INSIDE ME
Shit! I'm so stupid.
I MAKE PRETTY RHYMES
WITH WHAT I FIND ON THE FLOOR
So this is your hiding place.
I've found you.
I'm finally going to meet you.
FACE YOUR GHOSTS
Everythings begins to make sense.
FOR LIRIKO.
SARA.
"It no longer matters
what everyone else says.
Fortune
is guiding us better
than we could ever have hoped for.
For look there,
where thirty or more
monstrous giants present themselves,
all of whom I intend
to engage in battle and slay.
It is a service to God indeed
to rid the earth
of such an evil breed."
"What giants?", Sancho replied.
"If you are afraid,
withdraw to your prayers
as I engage them
in fierce and unequal combat."
Thank you, Lara, very good.
I shouldn't let you in.
You're half an hour late.
- I'm sorry...
- I can't hear you.
I imagine you're apologizing, but
I can't understand what you're saying.
My mother was sick
and I had to stay home.
Sure. Got a slip?
- I didn't bring it.
- What?
I'll bring it tomorrow.
I'm sorry, I can't let you in.
This is getting very serious, Sara.
By the way, your mother called.
She was worried because
you didn't sleep at home last night.
You've been caught!
You're screwed!
Where the hell
did you sleep last night?
I was worried sick all night!
And you haven't been to school either!
Great!
I'm totally late for work.
If I get in trouble, you're in for it.
Do not leave this house.
You and I are having a serious talk
about this later.
I'm sick of it.
You don't care about anything.
We work our asses off
and you don't give a damn!
You're always out of it, Sara.
SAVE ME
AWARENESS
WORD
ACTION
Luis, it's Sara.
I found Liriko.
I understood his messages.
He wants me to save
that deserted house she lives in.
It's beautiful.
My dad's company
is going to demolish it.
I have to stop it.
I'll be gone a few days.
Call me.
FORGET ALL THAT BULLSHIT.
FOCUS.
"Our acquaintances
may very possibly seem to be
those same people...
but that they are so
in reality and in fact,
believe it not on any account...
It must be that those
who have enchanted me
have taken
this shape and likeness...
FOUND YOUR MISSION
for it is easy for the enchanters
to take any form they please...
and they may also have done it
to make me uncertain in my mind...
and unable to conjecture
whence this evil comes to me.
I find myself shut up in a cage.
Moreover,
one who is enchanted as I am
cannot do as he likes
with himself."
Hi, this is Sara.
Leave a message.
I am
noise in silence.
I am the shadow in your living room.
I am the insomniac
walking around your bedroom.
I am the crack in your roof.
I turn saying into fact
and penetrate you
like the air you breathe.
I am the murmur
between street corners and avenues.
Hackers up there seek my password
but they'll never get it right.
Here words are the code,
they fly like gargoyles.
Words are a bullet
straight to the jaw,
a plague that spreads like ebola,
the arrow
in Legolas' bow.
In this world so fast
are they cripples,
invalids feeble and pale,
gray matter, scrawny.
Everyone here
knows that...
YOU are someone
The lives I witness out there
don't deserve my silence.
Appearances can be deceptive,
but streets and mirrors
show us the unscrupulous truth,
from every angle.
Foco, Prosak, Totem, Medussa,
Liriko.
Liriko?
You didn't understand a thing!
Not a thing!
You understood the message,
you realised what the mission was.
Never give up
in the face of failure.
It's here.
There's no time.
Follow me.
Wait. Use mine!
Hurry!
Where am I?
What is all this?
This is an infinite moment.
A journey through your labyrinth.
Think fast and waste no time,
the things you need to understand
and overcome will not be easy.
Stupid girl,
it's your fault we lost Foco.
Your doubts are an insult.
You've disappointed us.
- You don't deserve our help.
- But I didn't mean to...
Let's go!
But... am I dead?
No.
Yes.
- Almost.
- It's up to you.
You will find the answers
if you pass three tests.
Quickly, there's no time.
The fuse is short and narrow!
Danger looms like an arrow!
Sara!
Sara!
No! Sara, breathe!
They all do that!
Breathe... Look at me...
Breathe...
Come on, we have to keep going.
Hermes!
Brother, it's good to see you.
You too.
- How are you, my friend?
- Fine.
I don't know. It's tough...
A lot of kids.
The cities up there are tremendous.
Full of ghostly gazes.
Terrible feeling...
You have to be on the ball.
Losing hope is losing yourself.
Don't worry.
There are more like you.
We are many.
Peace, my friend.
Liriko, there is little time.
Others will take care of him.
Let's go.
Sometimes
you compare your life
to throwing dice
and getting a zero.
And another zero.
And another.
But you're pursued by a strange force.
Just keep going, it says.
Fight...
Live.
Listen up.
First test.
Awareness.
This is the first step: understanding
and getting to know your pain.
Facing the deepest part of yourself.
Finding the evil in your subconscious
and defeating it once and for all.
Only an exorcism will rescue you
from the abyss.
Totem.
Only those who have descended
into the darkness,
only those who have fought death
and loneliness,
only those who have crossed the black
waters of their shit
and their torment.
Only they...
shall be worthy of seeing
the light they carry inside.
But what do I have to do?
You have to go home
and see what still needs to be done.
Sara, you'll soon understand
that we've all been through this.
Everyone.
Calm down.
Sara!
Sara!
Baby... Baby...
You have to come back...
Come back...
Come.
No...
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Sara...
I don't want to die!
I don't want to die.
Sara!
You're not dead!
You are not dead.
You're still in your bedroom.
Facing your window.
A great battle is being fought
within your soul.
Life...
or death.
Darkness spreads inside you.
No one has prepared you
for the pain the world causes.
You're alone
before the most important fight.
Listen carefully.
We are your personal defense force.
We fought off the attack just in time.
But think, death is on the loose
and it's coming after you.
Only you can stop it now.
This is the way of awareness.
You've passed the first test.
Two remain.
Let's go.
Quick,
you need to make up your mind.
Go where you won't learn anything.
Or where you feel caged in.
But there's another option hidden
at the crossroads.
Come on!
You have no talent!
You're a waste of time!
You're useless,
you retarded little girl.
We should leave you behind.
If you hesitate like this every time,
how will you ever pass
the other tests?
I'll distract her.
FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION
MEDUSSA
I'm down here!
We've lost Prosak.
There's a hidden option.
No, you're not hallucinating.
You've entered
the world of the imagination.
Where you'll be able to find
surprising new options.
Decisions which will free your life
in different directions.
Who says reality can't be changed!
A great voice once said it outright:
"Be the change
you want to see in the world."
You're going to discover your power.
Hidden in everything,
your whole being.
Let me show you...
what no one else
has ever seen.
Wake up, leave, see,
seek place, space time,
see, want, have, be able to,
return, life,
stay alert, keep quiet, observe,
wait, walk, obey, endure, advance,
feel, hug, bite, want,
try, roar, keep streets,
noises, minutes, hours, days,
months, years, calendar,
bad people, rush hour, crashes,
damage, steps, laughing,
crying, impossible dreams,
kisses, blows,
men, ladies, life,
love, always free.
Moon, Earth, sky, clouds, wind,
rain, fire, you go up, go down,
you lose, you win, more hitches,
more plans, more goals, more fame,
and tomorrow more,
hitches, more, more,
citizens, voices, friction, races,
lights,
you do, you grow,
you live, you sleep,
you struggle, have happy moments,
sex, love, friends, enemies, deals,
partners, pacts,
duels, prices, healthy,
vices, dirty, jealousy, streets,
squares, bars, cars, nights,
shadows, names,
I just want to forget, inspire,
breathe, calculate,
watch over, you think, you feel,
you are, you speak,
decision, precision,
ambition, hope, intuition,
expression,
they're words.
If you think too much about it,
you lose.
Overcome your fear
and say what you feel.
Express your ideas, your love,
your tenderness,
your pain, your rage
Feel your words fill,
connect, resound, breathe.
Feel their load, their dart,
their mark, their magic,
their impact,
their brightness, their sensitivity.
Their perfect balance.
That penetrates and inspires,
that transforms and determines,
that cures and annihilates.
Words are your power.
Enter the zone where you
can be yourself.
We have to wait.
Rest.
What is there?
The second test.
Someone inside is trying to pass it.
VERBO
Soon you will understand.
This girl...
She doesn't deserve our pity.
Look at her.
Look at you.
Look at you.
Deep down we all know
she won't complete the mission!
What's your problem?!
You've given me nothing
but grief all along!
I've had it!
I can't take it any more!
Hey, you did it so well
none of us could stand you.
Even I wanted to kill you.
At last!
It was about time you expressed
your anger.
Put a stop
to whatever intimidates you.
Totem was only playing the tyrant
inside us all.
Well done, Totem.
You'll do just fine, sister.
Hermes.
He was so scared...
We couldn't help him!
There was nothing we could do!
I lost my whole group. All three.
I will stay here.
Liriko...
Liriko... You must continue.
Let's go.
Sara!
Live!
Second test:
words.
The great battle for your soul
between the deepest darkness
and the brightest light
inside you.
Living is expressing what you feel,
what you think.
You begin. Attack.
Make yourself known.
Be proud of yourself.
Fight...
Live...
Go...
Please...
Let me die.
I can't take it any more.
I'm exhausted.
Put an end to this pain.
This emptiness,
this deep abyss,
wandering, meandering,
faithless, hopeless.
Pointless.
Give me a reason.
Give me a single reason,
I can't find any.
YOU FEEL YOUR LIFE
DOES NOT RHYME.
The world is ugly,
sad, cruel,
unfair, miserable,
painful, ruthless,
selfish, cold,
empty, horrible,
terrible.
I'd rather die.
I have reemerged!
Now I will defend myself!
I will conquer you.
I'm here to stop you.
You're pathetic!
You'll only last a few seconds.
You always run away and give in
- to anything that scares you!
- No!
I'll defend myself!
You can't!
- You always break!
- I'll fix me!
- You fall down!
- I'll get up!
- You're in pain!
- Yes,
but I can take it!
- Everything hurts you.
- I treat my wounds.
- You're the one who keeps them open.
- In life you lose.
Yes, you lose, but you learn!
- I love.
- And you get hurt.
- I accept the risk.
- Sometimes I win.
I decide.
I am my soul.
I am my body. I speak.
I do.
I grow.
I choose.
I change.
I fight.
I feel.
I am! I... am!
Verbo!
A thought
becomes an action.
An action becomes an attitude.
An attitude becomes a destiny.
Awareness and words,
are yours.
You did great. Very good.
You've passed.
You won't have to jump any more.
You won't want to...
Now you're ready to return.
The third test awaits you.
Action. It lays in what you need
to express most
and what is hardest for you
to overcome.
Look at chapter 50.
And Medussa...
Prosak...
Totem...
We're inside of you.
We are you.
I am you.
Thank you.
- Sara...?
- Hi, Dario.
Hi.
- Are you okay...?
- Yes.
Thanks for worrying and calling.
I've had a weird few days.
I'm glad you're okay.
I'm going back to school tomorrow.
- I can't wait to see you.
- Me too.
I can't wait to see you either.
Okay, well...
- See you tomorrow, okay?
- Wait!
- What?
- Where are you?
At home. Why?
Dario?
- Nothing, forget it. See you tomorrow.
- Okay.
See you tomorrow.
Morning, Dad.
Looking for these?
What is it, Sara!
Mom,
the thing about the monk...
Remember?
It wasn't nonsense.
I get it now.
He was brave enough to defend
something that made everyone else
uncomfortable.
No matter how hard you try,
you can't hide shit.
Please, not now, okay?
I know you want only
the best things for me.
But I don't understand them.
They don't make sense to me.
I can't accept them just like that.
I can't. I shouldn't.
I have to try to be myself.
I can change things, I know that now.
- I love you very much.
- I love you, too.
YOUR LIFE IS STARTING
TO RHYM. LIRIKO
sorry
Luis...
Now what?
Truth or dare...
Right here, right now.
There's nothing harder than
LEADERS IN UGLY LIVING
to cause pain to someone
that you love.
But bigger is the pain
if we remain in silence
and don't confront
what we fear.
UNDERTAKE YOUR GREATEST WORK
THROUGH BEAUTIFUL, TINY GESTURES
But the pain
can be cured.
Everything is at stake.
INES SALGADO
ACQUISITIONS MANAGER
The moment
to be determined has come.
Good morning.
Let's continue with Chapter 8.
Who would like to read?
Nobody.
Check the tramp!
Half of you can't read
and the other half
don't even know where you are.
Let her, she's totally crazy!
That's okay, Sara.
You can sit down.
Chapter 50:
"Whoever you are,
you who at the
fearsome lake are looking,
if you have come to get
the thing
that lies beneath these
black liquids
without no more
show us your mighty chest
and throw..."
Silence...!
"Throw yourself into the black water,
get wet
again and again
until your life finds something.
If this is not the case,
be angry and go your way;
for if you don't
you will not be worthy
to see the beautiful sign
you carry inside you.
Know that you are not aware
of the great
wisdom this book contains.
Neither what the point is,
nor how it concerns us."
I say this with respect and sadness,
for your task is not an easy one,
it's not only finishing the syllabus,
I assure you.
You look to me as if I am mad,
but I am lucid,
I just do not cover my mouth.
This is just a lyric record
in this arctic landscape.
In any country, any place,
on any pavement,
don't let beauty and truth die.
What I witness
does not deserve my silence.
Tell me,
what do you put a price on?
For all these reasons
your humble servant takes her leave,
challenges my heart bids of me await.
And no sir,
I'm not dropping out,
The failure is not mine.
I'm not the one who created this void.
Come.
I want to show you something.
And now, what?
We are going to change some things,
now you'll see.
What you are now seeing,
would be considered by some
as impossible.
Perhaps they are right
and it's me who is mistaken.
But allow me to be able to live it,
ar least for a moment.
Because trapped amongst the walls
they have built
are my soul
and the souls of my friends.
On these walls we paint our dreams,
wich we do not consider lost.
Because,
now I know who I am.
I am Verbo.
GIVE BEAUTY BACK TO US
In the beginning was the word,
that energy that guides
your voice if you speak.
Just like a weapon
alive on your lips
that gets you away from
the mire and lonely suffocation.
We're unfinished puzzles,
hysterical wandering skeletons.
While our silence increase s
and hurts,
so affection dies,
sad and starving.
Seeing that nothing changes,
that rage sleeps
in the back of your throat,
always anchored in that fear
that makes you retch.
Thinking so much, saying nothing,
feeling every gaze.
Undermined by habit,
dry from scarcity,
by the thirst
of unfulfilled desires.
Open your mind
and look at the walls.
They'll say you can be yourself I
not noticing other beings,
and be the wind
between concrete deserts.
Knowing that those around you
don't mould you any more,
making everyone believe
when they see
you're fighting for what you want.
You say, you do, you grow,
you feel because you are,
Verbo.
The proof you exist
with an inner scream.
The voice that is born
and makes you cross time.
The essence that distinguishes you
and makes you shine.
The weapon that unites
goals and memories.
Verbo.
Too much heaven
for such small wings.
Too much time alone.
Too many bullets
to dodge them all.
Too much darkness
for you to move.
Too much life
to take a chance on death.
That's why it takes action
to make the impossible real.
Circumstances tie you down
but thoughts are free.
Able to eradicate
the dark side absorbing you,
that huge deformed being
living between chaos and order,
which withers you inside,
stirring in cauldrons of stealth,
where feelings are lost.
No more silence if we burn.
No more eyes to the poison ground.
No grief I black water in your veins,
blinding you every morning.
You speak, you search,
you love, you win,
because your name is...
Verbo.
Be the change
you want to see in the world.
Be that bolt that hits
and thunders in the deep.
You and your voice together
like a shining light.
You and your voice,
no one defends you
when others don't understand
you're special,
you don't fall into the facile
spiral dragging others down
like one of those faces,
you won't throw your life away.
Turn around and see
how many are suffocating,
wavering at the tops of buildings.
They see that habit and vice
left them far from Eden.
But the one with the formula
breaks free.
The quivering web of the tarantula
from which no one escapes.
So free your passion, your fury.
Take action,
keep your hardship at bay,
and remember, any emotion
dies when it's hidden.
You struggle, you try,
you know, you can.
Your name is the proof you exist
with an inner scream.
The voice that is born
and makes you cross time.
The essence that distinguishes you
and makes you shine.
The weapon that unites
goals and memories.
You have the greatest power
we've ever been given.
The word that frees
a chain reaction.
The gift of the power to be someone
far from a sickly silence
that traps you in order to
make you its servant.
Dare to change your world.
What's this one about?
Killing demons
that have taken over a city.
- Where are they?
- Hiding...
Everywhere...
They hide among us,
in the buildings...
Behind mirrors and all over.
Liriko did more last night.
I wish I could meet him.
In your dreams.
He wouldn't even notice you.
FIND YOUR MISSION
He leaves clues.
He must be trying to say something.
Anyway, see you later.
BELLAVISTA
CONSTRUCTION LEADERS
IN QUALITY LIVING
YOU'RE A JIGSAW PUZZLE
INCOMPLETE
LIRIKO
My name is Sara.
I'm 15 years old.
This is my world.
The only one I know.
YOU FEEL YOUR LIFE
DOESN'T RHYME
I wander trough these streets
like a ghost.
Searching for someone.
Is anyone there?
Searching for the only person
who seems to understand me.
The only person who says
things wich really matter to me.
Liriko.
Nobody knows who he is.
Nobody has ever seen him.
I've been decoding his messages
for a long time.
I know I'm closer than ever.
Hi!
Sara?
Hi, sweetie.
Why didn't you answer?
Are you feeling any better?
Honey, I'm sorry about last night.
We all lose our patience sometimes.
But you're not a child any more.
You have to be more realistic.
It's for your own good.
We only want the best things for you.
Call your father later
and fix things up, okay?
How was your day?
Fine.
Oh, Sara, don't start.
Our history teacher
told us something.
Speak up.
I always have to tell you...
A big mess in the Church
a long time ago.
He said...
there was this debate about...
the digestive process
and the holy wafer.
Stercorism or something like that.
One side said the wafer
stopped being holy when...
when it dissolved in the mouth
of the communicant...
I mean, the guy eating it...
But things got out of hand when
an old monk...
said the wafer
never loses its holiness.
- Okay, and...?
- Well...
that it's always holy,
even when it becomes excrement.
- When you take a dump.
- I don't believe it.
Neither did the Vatican.
They were totally pissed off.
- Sara...!
- So they told the priest
to repent
or he'd be tortured
and excommunicated.
And what did he do?
I don't know.
The teacher didn't tell us.
Yeah, great.
You think it's silly, right?
Do call your father, Sara.
RAFAEL BAEZA
PROJECT COORDINATOR
BELLAVISTA CONSTRUCTION
LEADERS IN QUALITY LIVING
Yes?
Ines... is that you?
Sara?
Sara?
Sara, that's enough, okay?
Raise your hand
if you haven't read it.
Sara?
No... I haven't read all of it.
I can't hear you.
Can you please speak up?
- I haven't finished it.
- Why not, may I ask?
- I tried... but.
- But what?
I'm very sorry
it was too boring for you, Sara.
Ever heard the expression
"When it rains, it pours"?
I'm sure you have.
Luis, would you mind telling Sara
what the first chapter is about?
Well...
The first chapter
starts with the famous sentence...
"In a place whose name
I do not care to remember..."
"Somewhere in La Mancha"
- La Mancha!
- Get a clue!
It's okay, don't bother.
Isabel, can you start reading
the first chapter, please.
Yes.
"Somewhere in La Mancha,
in a place whose
name I do not care to remember,
there lived not long since
one of those gentlemen
that keep a lance in the lance rack,
an old buckler, ..."
My life happens in places
I don't understand
Doing things I don't know
what they're worth.
That have nothing to do with me.
No one talks about it,
but there has to be something else.
In that book I found the story
to whom nobody believe.
Just like me.
And his fantasies
could be like me own.
"Awaken to understand
and unravel the meaning.
His curiosity and blunder
were so far reaching that the
strangest of thoughts came to mind.
His days from dawn to dark,
and nights from sunset to sunrise...
that he lost his wits."
Hello?!
What are you doing still up?
- Studying...
- It's about time...
Have you had dinner?
Your dad isn't here, is he?
- I'm going to bed.
- Okay.
Mom...
Why don't we ever go into town?
We go to the shopping mall
all the time.
No. I mean into town,
the old part of town.
I don't know.
Because everything we need is here.
So... tomorrow we have a school trip,
and I've never been there.
"His fancy grew full...
enchantments, battles, wounds...
that if the world
were evil and terrible...
a thought came to his mind...
to roam the world here and there.
Seeking it everywhere,
and fight with good judgment
the endless suffering
of everyday life. "
Where are you?
You made me lose.
Damn, go talk to him already.
He's screaming for it.
Look, he even found a free seat.
He's waiting for you.
Nothing?
I can't bear to watch you fail.
It's depressing.
This is where I leave you.
I'll try my luck with Remy.
Dario, what are you doing?
You left me all by myself.
You're acting really strange lately,
man.
You like that geeky girl, huh?
What do you mean?
What's wrong with you?
Liriko!
Go!
Hey, Dario!
Did you lose something or what?
Come with me down that street.
There's something I want you to see.
Come on, dude!
Shit, man.
- What's up with him?
- Not me.
You go ahead.
We'll be in deep shit
if the teacher finds out.
I'm staying.
- Jesus, what a drag.
- Come on!
That damn weirdo
has you eating out of her hand.
YOUR MISSION
IS HERE
FEEL IBEAUTY
LIRIKO
This is a wax representation
of Elena's body.
She died over 50 years ago.
She threw herself off the bell tower,
hoping to to go to heaven.
As you know, the Church
considers suicide a sin,
but the bishop ruled the girl
was driven by an act of faith,
wishing to be closer to God,
to escape a world
she did not understand.
Let's continue, please.
Sara!
- Fuck.
- Fuck?
Where have you been?
We had to go back and look for you!
Sara, what the hell is wrong with you?
Where have you been?
Well?
You could care less.
Damn, you really blow me away.
If you were mine...
We called the police, Sara.
Now we have to call them back and say,
"Sorry about that. We found her."
"She decided to take
a fucking stroll."
I'm talking to you, Sara!
Where are you?
What planet are you on?
Were you trying
to ruin the field trip?
Great! You did it!
Thanks a lot, Sara!
It maybe
time to give up.
Liriko is only an illusion
I have to lose.
Or maybe I'm not who he wants.
Here beauty is far away from me.
I don't know if I'm able to go on.
YOU'RE A PUZZLE INCOMPLETE
YOU'RE A PUZZLE INCOMPLETE
SAVE ME
BELLAVISTA CONSTRUCTION
Hello?
ACTIONS
WORDS
AWARENESS
I AM THE SOUND OF BEAUTY
COME INSIDE ME
Shit! I'm so stupid.
I MAKE PRETTY RHYMES
WITH WHAT I FIND ON THE FLOOR
So this is your hiding place.
I've found you.
I'm finally going to meet you.
FACE YOUR GHOSTS
Everythings begins to make sense.
FOR LIRIKO.
SARA.
"It no longer matters
what everyone else says.
Fortune
is guiding us better
than we could ever have hoped for.
For look there,
where thirty or more
monstrous giants present themselves,
all of whom I intend
to engage in battle and slay.
It is a service to God indeed
to rid the earth
of such an evil breed."
"What giants?", Sancho replied.
"If you are afraid,
withdraw to your prayers
as I engage them
in fierce and unequal combat."
Thank you, Lara, very good.
I shouldn't let you in.
You're half an hour late.
- I'm sorry...
- I can't hear you.
I imagine you're apologizing, but
I can't understand what you're saying.
My mother was sick
and I had to stay home.
Sure. Got a slip?
- I didn't bring it.
- What?
I'll bring it tomorrow.
I'm sorry, I can't let you in.
This is getting very serious, Sara.
By the way, your mother called.
She was worried because
you didn't sleep at home last night.
You've been caught!
You're screwed!
Where the hell
did you sleep last night?
I was worried sick all night!
And you haven't been to school either!
Great!
I'm totally late for work.
If I get in trouble, you're in for it.
Do not leave this house.
You and I are having a serious talk
about this later.
I'm sick of it.
You don't care about anything.
We work our asses off
and you don't give a damn!
You're always out of it, Sara.
SAVE ME
AWARENESS
WORD
ACTION
Luis, it's Sara.
I found Liriko.
I understood his messages.
He wants me to save
that deserted house she lives in.
It's beautiful.
My dad's company
is going to demolish it.
I have to stop it.
I'll be gone a few days.
Call me.
FORGET ALL THAT BULLSHIT.
FOCUS.
"Our acquaintances
may very possibly seem to be
those same people...
but that they are so
in reality and in fact,
believe it not on any account...
It must be that those
who have enchanted me
have taken
this shape and likeness...
FOUND YOUR MISSION
for it is easy for the enchanters
to take any form they please...
and they may also have done it
to make me uncertain in my mind...
and unable to conjecture
whence this evil comes to me.
I find myself shut up in a cage.
Moreover,
one who is enchanted as I am
cannot do as he likes
with himself."
Hi, this is Sara.
Leave a message.
I am
noise in silence.
I am the shadow in your living room.
I am the insomniac
walking around your bedroom.
I am the crack in your roof.
I turn saying into fact
and penetrate you
like the air you breathe.
I am the murmur
between street corners and avenues.
Hackers up there seek my password
but they'll never get it right.
Here words are the code,
they fly like gargoyles.
Words are a bullet
straight to the jaw,
a plague that spreads like ebola,
the arrow
in Legolas' bow.
In this world so fast
are they cripples,
invalids feeble and pale,
gray matter, scrawny.
Everyone here
knows that...
YOU are someone
The lives I witness out there
don't deserve my silence.
Appearances can be deceptive,
but streets and mirrors
show us the unscrupulous truth,
from every angle.
Foco, Prosak, Totem, Medussa,
Liriko.
Liriko?
You didn't understand a thing!
Not a thing!
You understood the message,
you realised what the mission was.
Never give up
in the face of failure.
It's here.
There's no time.
Follow me.
Wait. Use mine!
Hurry!
Where am I?
What is all this?
This is an infinite moment.
A journey through your labyrinth.
Think fast and waste no time,
the things you need to understand
and overcome will not be easy.
Stupid girl,
it's your fault we lost Foco.
Your doubts are an insult.
You've disappointed us.
- You don't deserve our help.
- But I didn't mean to...
Let's go!
But... am I dead?
No.
Yes.
- Almost.
- It's up to you.
You will find the answers
if you pass three tests.
Quickly, there's no time.
The fuse is short and narrow!
Danger looms like an arrow!
Sara!
Sara!
No! Sara, breathe!
They all do that!
Breathe... Look at me...
Breathe...
Come on, we have to keep going.
Hermes!
Brother, it's good to see you.
You too.
- How are you, my friend?
- Fine.
I don't know. It's tough...
A lot of kids.
The cities up there are tremendous.
Full of ghostly gazes.
Terrible feeling...
You have to be on the ball.
Losing hope is losing yourself.
Don't worry.
There are more like you.
We are many.
Peace, my friend.
Liriko, there is little time.
Others will take care of him.
Let's go.
Sometimes
you compare your life
to throwing dice
and getting a zero.
And another zero.
And another.
But you're pursued by a strange force.
Just keep going, it says.
Fight...
Live.
Listen up.
First test.
Awareness.
This is the first step: understanding
and getting to know your pain.
Facing the deepest part of yourself.
Finding the evil in your subconscious
and defeating it once and for all.
Only an exorcism will rescue you
from the abyss.
Totem.
Only those who have descended
into the darkness,
only those who have fought death
and loneliness,
only those who have crossed the black
waters of their shit
and their torment.
Only they...
shall be worthy of seeing
the light they carry inside.
But what do I have to do?
You have to go home
and see what still needs to be done.
Sara, you'll soon understand
that we've all been through this.
Everyone.
Calm down.
Sara!
Sara!
Baby... Baby...
You have to come back...
Come back...
Come.
No...
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Sara...
I don't want to die!
I don't want to die.
Sara!
You're not dead!
You are not dead.
You're still in your bedroom.
Facing your window.
A great battle is being fought
within your soul.
Life...
or death.
Darkness spreads inside you.
No one has prepared you
for the pain the world causes.
You're alone
before the most important fight.
Listen carefully.
We are your personal defense force.
We fought off the attack just in time.
But think, death is on the loose
and it's coming after you.
Only you can stop it now.
This is the way of awareness.
You've passed the first test.
Two remain.
Let's go.
Quick,
you need to make up your mind.
Go where you won't learn anything.
Or where you feel caged in.
But there's another option hidden
at the crossroads.
Come on!
You have no talent!
You're a waste of time!
You're useless,
you retarded little girl.
We should leave you behind.
If you hesitate like this every time,
how will you ever pass
the other tests?
I'll distract her.
FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION
MEDUSSA
I'm down here!
We've lost Prosak.
There's a hidden option.
No, you're not hallucinating.
You've entered
the world of the imagination.
Where you'll be able to find
surprising new options.
Decisions which will free your life
in different directions.
Who says reality can't be changed!
A great voice once said it outright:
"Be the change
you want to see in the world."
You're going to discover your power.
Hidden in everything,
your whole being.
Let me show you...
what no one else
has ever seen.
Wake up, leave, see,
seek place, space time,
see, want, have, be able to,
return, life,
stay alert, keep quiet, observe,
wait, walk, obey, endure, advance,
feel, hug, bite, want,
try, roar, keep streets,
noises, minutes, hours, days,
months, years, calendar,
bad people, rush hour, crashes,
damage, steps, laughing,
crying, impossible dreams,
kisses, blows,
men, ladies, life,
love, always free.
Moon, Earth, sky, clouds, wind,
rain, fire, you go up, go down,
you lose, you win, more hitches,
more plans, more goals, more fame,
and tomorrow more,
hitches, more, more,
citizens, voices, friction, races,
lights,
you do, you grow,
you live, you sleep,
you struggle, have happy moments,
sex, love, friends, enemies, deals,
partners, pacts,
duels, prices, healthy,
vices, dirty, jealousy, streets,
squares, bars, cars, nights,
shadows, names,
I just want to forget, inspire,
breathe, calculate,
watch over, you think, you feel,
you are, you speak,
decision, precision,
ambition, hope, intuition,
expression,
they're words.
If you think too much about it,
you lose.
Overcome your fear
and say what you feel.
Express your ideas, your love,
your tenderness,
your pain, your rage
Feel your words fill,
connect, resound, breathe.
Feel their load, their dart,
their mark, their magic,
their impact,
their brightness, their sensitivity.
Their perfect balance.
That penetrates and inspires,
that transforms and determines,
that cures and annihilates.
Words are your power.
Enter the zone where you
can be yourself.
We have to wait.
Rest.
What is there?
The second test.
Someone inside is trying to pass it.
VERBO
Soon you will understand.
This girl...
She doesn't deserve our pity.
Look at her.
Look at you.
Look at you.
Deep down we all know
she won't complete the mission!
What's your problem?!
You've given me nothing
but grief all along!
I've had it!
I can't take it any more!
Hey, you did it so well
none of us could stand you.
Even I wanted to kill you.
At last!
It was about time you expressed
your anger.
Put a stop
to whatever intimidates you.
Totem was only playing the tyrant
inside us all.
Well done, Totem.
You'll do just fine, sister.
Hermes.
He was so scared...
We couldn't help him!
There was nothing we could do!
I lost my whole group. All three.
I will stay here.
Liriko...
Liriko... You must continue.
Let's go.
Sara!
Live!
Second test:
words.
The great battle for your soul
between the deepest darkness
and the brightest light
inside you.
Living is expressing what you feel,
what you think.
You begin. Attack.
Make yourself known.
Be proud of yourself.
Fight...
Live...
Go...
Please...
Let me die.
I can't take it any more.
I'm exhausted.
Put an end to this pain.
This emptiness,
this deep abyss,
wandering, meandering,
faithless, hopeless.
Pointless.
Give me a reason.
Give me a single reason,
I can't find any.
YOU FEEL YOUR LIFE
DOES NOT RHYME.
The world is ugly,
sad, cruel,
unfair, miserable,
painful, ruthless,
selfish, cold,
empty, horrible,
terrible.
I'd rather die.
I have reemerged!
Now I will defend myself!
I will conquer you.
I'm here to stop you.
You're pathetic!
You'll only last a few seconds.
You always run away and give in
- to anything that scares you!
- No!
I'll defend myself!
You can't!
- You always break!
- I'll fix me!
- You fall down!
- I'll get up!
- You're in pain!
- Yes,
but I can take it!
- Everything hurts you.
- I treat my wounds.
- You're the one who keeps them open.
- In life you lose.
Yes, you lose, but you learn!
- I love.
- And you get hurt.
- I accept the risk.
- Sometimes I win.
I decide.
I am my soul.
I am my body. I speak.
I do.
I grow.
I choose.
I change.
I fight.
I feel.
I am! I... am!
Verbo!
A thought
becomes an action.
An action becomes an attitude.
An attitude becomes a destiny.
Awareness and words,
are yours.
You did great. Very good.
You've passed.
You won't have to jump any more.
You won't want to...
Now you're ready to return.
The third test awaits you.
Action. It lays in what you need
to express most
and what is hardest for you
to overcome.
Look at chapter 50.
And Medussa...
Prosak...
Totem...
We're inside of you.
We are you.
I am you.
Thank you.
- Sara...?
- Hi, Dario.
Hi.
- Are you okay...?
- Yes.
Thanks for worrying and calling.
I've had a weird few days.
I'm glad you're okay.
I'm going back to school tomorrow.
- I can't wait to see you.
- Me too.
I can't wait to see you either.
Okay, well...
- See you tomorrow, okay?
- Wait!
- What?
- Where are you?
At home. Why?
Dario?
- Nothing, forget it. See you tomorrow.
- Okay.
See you tomorrow.
Morning, Dad.
Looking for these?
What is it, Sara!
Mom,
the thing about the monk...
Remember?
It wasn't nonsense.
I get it now.
He was brave enough to defend
something that made everyone else
uncomfortable.
No matter how hard you try,
you can't hide shit.
Please, not now, okay?
I know you want only
the best things for me.
But I don't understand them.
They don't make sense to me.
I can't accept them just like that.
I can't. I shouldn't.
I have to try to be myself.
I can change things, I know that now.
- I love you very much.
- I love you, too.
YOUR LIFE IS STARTING
TO RHYM. LIRIKO
sorry
Luis...
Now what?
Truth or dare...
Right here, right now.
There's nothing harder than
LEADERS IN UGLY LIVING
to cause pain to someone
that you love.
But bigger is the pain
if we remain in silence
and don't confront
what we fear.
UNDERTAKE YOUR GREATEST WORK
THROUGH BEAUTIFUL, TINY GESTURES
But the pain
can be cured.
Everything is at stake.
INES SALGADO
ACQUISITIONS MANAGER
The moment
to be determined has come.
Good morning.
Let's continue with Chapter 8.
Who would like to read?
Nobody.
Check the tramp!
Half of you can't read
and the other half
don't even know where you are.
Let her, she's totally crazy!
That's okay, Sara.
You can sit down.
Chapter 50:
"Whoever you are,
you who at the
fearsome lake are looking,
if you have come to get
the thing
that lies beneath these
black liquids
without no more
show us your mighty chest
and throw..."
Silence...!
"Throw yourself into the black water,
get wet
again and again
until your life finds something.
If this is not the case,
be angry and go your way;
for if you don't
you will not be worthy
to see the beautiful sign
you carry inside you.
Know that you are not aware
of the great
wisdom this book contains.
Neither what the point is,
nor how it concerns us."
I say this with respect and sadness,
for your task is not an easy one,
it's not only finishing the syllabus,
I assure you.
You look to me as if I am mad,
but I am lucid,
I just do not cover my mouth.
This is just a lyric record
in this arctic landscape.
In any country, any place,
on any pavement,
don't let beauty and truth die.
What I witness
does not deserve my silence.
Tell me,
what do you put a price on?
For all these reasons
your humble servant takes her leave,
challenges my heart bids of me await.
And no sir,
I'm not dropping out,
The failure is not mine.
I'm not the one who created this void.
Come.
I want to show you something.
And now, what?
We are going to change some things,
now you'll see.
What you are now seeing,
would be considered by some
as impossible.
Perhaps they are right
and it's me who is mistaken.
But allow me to be able to live it,
ar least for a moment.
Because trapped amongst the walls
they have built
are my soul
and the souls of my friends.
On these walls we paint our dreams,
wich we do not consider lost.
Because,
now I know who I am.
I am Verbo.
GIVE BEAUTY BACK TO US
In the beginning was the word,
that energy that guides
your voice if you speak.
Just like a weapon
alive on your lips
that gets you away from
the mire and lonely suffocation.
We're unfinished puzzles,
hysterical wandering skeletons.
While our silence increase s
and hurts,
so affection dies,
sad and starving.
Seeing that nothing changes,
that rage sleeps
in the back of your throat,
always anchored in that fear
that makes you retch.
Thinking so much, saying nothing,
feeling every gaze.
Undermined by habit,
dry from scarcity,
by the thirst
of unfulfilled desires.
Open your mind
and look at the walls.
They'll say you can be yourself I
not noticing other beings,
and be the wind
between concrete deserts.
Knowing that those around you
don't mould you any more,
making everyone believe
when they see
you're fighting for what you want.
You say, you do, you grow,
you feel because you are,
Verbo.
The proof you exist
with an inner scream.
The voice that is born
and makes you cross time.
The essence that distinguishes you
and makes you shine.
The weapon that unites
goals and memories.
Verbo.
Too much heaven
for such small wings.
Too much time alone.
Too many bullets
to dodge them all.
Too much darkness
for you to move.
Too much life
to take a chance on death.
That's why it takes action
to make the impossible real.
Circumstances tie you down
but thoughts are free.
Able to eradicate
the dark side absorbing you,
that huge deformed being
living between chaos and order,
which withers you inside,
stirring in cauldrons of stealth,
where feelings are lost.
No more silence if we burn.
No more eyes to the poison ground.
No grief I black water in your veins,
blinding you every morning.
You speak, you search,
you love, you win,
because your name is...
Verbo.
Be the change
you want to see in the world.
Be that bolt that hits
and thunders in the deep.
You and your voice together
like a shining light.
You and your voice,
no one defends you
when others don't understand
you're special,
you don't fall into the facile
spiral dragging others down
like one of those faces,
you won't throw your life away.
Turn around and see
how many are suffocating,
wavering at the tops of buildings.
They see that habit and vice
left them far from Eden.
But the one with the formula
breaks free.
The quivering web of the tarantula
from which no one escapes.
So free your passion, your fury.
Take action,
keep your hardship at bay,
and remember, any emotion
dies when it's hidden.
You struggle, you try,
you know, you can.
Your name is the proof you exist
with an inner scream.
The voice that is born
and makes you cross time.
The essence that distinguishes you
and makes you shine.
The weapon that unites
goals and memories.
You have the greatest power
we've ever been given.
The word that frees
a chain reaction.
The gift of the power to be someone
far from a sickly silence
that traps you in order to
make you its servant.
Dare to change your world.