A Blast (2014) - full transcript

The Agia Triada forest
fire is still raging.

The strong winds in the area aren't
making things any easier...

The fire was started by a local...

He has already confessed...

- Is it true he was a teacher?
- Yes, retired.

The fire is already
threatening homes...

...near the elementary school.

The flames were 30 meters high.

It spread to our house
in no time.

It's dreadful. Who would
do something like that?

Sociology.



- The Human Rights...
- Oh, not again!

- Repeat after me.
- The Human Rights...

- Do you remember them?
- Yes, I do!

- Get on with it!
- Cut it out!

- My exam is in a month!
- I don't care.

Repeat after me!

One.

"All men are born equal."

"All men are born equal."

Two.

"They are gifted with reason
and conscience."

This doesn't apply in your case!

Gifted with reason and conscience.
This doesn't apply in your case!

"And it's their duty", I say!



"To act in a spirit
of brotherhood."

"To act in a spirit
of... whatever!"

"Everyone, Gogo,
my child...

"...has the right to life..."

...to freedom
and security of person."

- "Every man..."
- "Everyone!"

"To freedom..."

"...and security of person."

"Every person has the right
to move freely."

"And to choose the place
he wants to live in."

Everyone, except you.
You're going nowhere.

I wanna go everywhere.

"Everyone has
the right to happiness."

- Me, too?
- You too!

And to life!

To money!

To swimming!

To dick!

To dick and half
of mom's house!

To dick and half
of mom's house. Say it!

To dick and half
of mom's house!

It's for tonight.

The first payment has
been wired to your account.

Hold this.

Another 68.000 small businesses
have gone bankrupt since April.

Bankruptcies are reaching epidemic
proportions across the country.

It's mine!

No, it's mine!

Stupid!

Mom gave it to me,
don't you get it?

Keep it down!

65.000 Euros.

It was wired this morning.

Anything else?

Hey, dad?

It's me, Maria.

They contacted me.

It's official.

The wind is just right.

Are you insane?

- I got in!
- Congratulations!

- Got in, where?
- Athens Law School.

- Let's go, Gogo!
- I'll get the bells!

Let's go!

When do classes start?

In September,
you moron!

Will I still see you?

Why wouldn't you?

From time to time.

Who's gonna keep
the store going?

I don't know.

I can't do it.
Neither can mom.

And dad said
he wants to rest.

Let's just shut it down.

Let me go.

Give me the key!

What key?

The key!

Come on!

Move!

What the fuck?

From now on, you bring
all the mail home to me!

Got it?

Let's go.

Bitch!

Back in a minute!

Mom, dad, Gogo!
Happy New Year! I'm off!

- Happy New Year, mommy!
- Happy New Year, sweetie!

- Did you lock up the store?
- Yes.

- The fridge?
- Yes.

- Was it busy?
- Yes, we're rich!

Maria, look!

"FAREWELL".

- Awesome, right?
- It kicks major ass!

- Watch your mouth, Gogo!
- Look Gogo, up there!

- Go fuck your mother,
you piece of shit.

- I fuck yours, cunt!

- Suck my dick,
fuck-face!

Shove it
up your ass!

- Suck my dick!
- Suck mine!

- Why did you drop out
of university?

- Just because!

I'm stuck looking
after you and mom's store.

Because
you're such a retard.

- I'm not!

I have special needs
and special abilities.

I have a driver's
license, too!

- 'Cause dad bribed.
- I vote, too!

- That's why the country
is a mess!

- Off to get laid?
Found a boyfriend?

- Yes. Got a problem?
- No, I found one, too.

- No way!
You're ugly and stupid!

- So's your boyfriend.
Is he outside?

- Yes. Waiting patiently!

With nothing but
a T-shirt, in this cold!

- A fuckin' faggot, I bet!
- Even better!

- What does he do?
- He's a captain.

- A brothel-creeper then!
- That's how I like 'em.

Mom's store will
go bust, if you close it...

...every time you
wanna get laid!

- I'll burn it down
if I want to!

- I'll sue you.
Half of it belongs to me!

- Fuck off!

- And quitjoining all
those stupid groups!

No hope for
this world, anyway.

- I'll do as I please,
as long as I'm rid of you.

- Fat ass cow!
- Stupid cunt!

Just like those
wannabe-ecologist bitches...

...begging
for blowjobs.

- At least, I don't flash
my tits every chance I get.

- You blow them all! Unionists.
Factory workers. Immigrants.

Plus you've left your
poor captain waiting!

Gogo, I said,
stop swearing!

Good night!

Will you love me
forever?

I will love you forever.

More than anyone?

More than anyone.

No matter what happens?

No matter what.

No matter what I do?

No matter what you do.

Even if I don't
love you anymore?

Yes.

Swear to me.

You are going
to study all the time...

...and don't drive
aunt Gogo mad.

Costas!

Where's Gogo?

She's on her way,
she just called.

Hey, sweetie...

Don't you ever
do that again!

Oh really?
Fuck you, too!

Go fuck yourself!

Gogo!

Get in your aunt's car!

Right now!

Look here...

You'll go to the bank and
withdraw all the money.

It'll be enough.

Take Costas with you,
just to be safe.

And take
your ID with you.

Gogo...

Focus!
What did I just say?

To bring my ID.

- Do you have it?
- Yes.

Let's see it!

It's right here.

Maria, I found it!

So, what do you do?

Bring it with me.

Go.

I want us to have kids
and I want us to have money.

OK.

So, how
will you make it?

I'll be making 6.000
Euros per month...

I'll be at sea for six months
and at home for three.

Later on,
I'll make even more.

How much more?

- A lot more.
- How much?

- How much?
- A lot.

I'll take my parents'
house in Athens...

When Gogo marries, I'll pack
mom and dad off to the countryhouse.

- Gogo will do what?
- Get married.

Who's gonna marry her,
for Christ's sake?

Dad found a garbage man
who wants her.

If you touch my
children while I'm gone...

I'll fucking beat the
shit out of you, cunt!

I'm not Gogo,
you understand?

I'll be back, cut your balls off
and shove them down your throat.

Got it?

Cocksucker!

This is Delta Papa 07 with the weather
forecast for the Baltic and N. Seas...

... courtesy of the Hamburg
maritime weather service...

... for today,
13.00 local time.

Hi, Maria.

He's back!

Yannis!

He's back!

Have you fucking lost it?

He's back!

My love!

Sit down, Costas.

Hey, Costas.

Costas, have you met Yannis?

He's Maria's husband...

- How's work, Costas?
- It's good, thank God.

- He's doing great,
he's a manager.

- I have a desk job, now.
- Good for you!

He's in charge of
the whole place.

- The entire garbage dump?
- Yes.

Are you top dog, now?

No, there's a general
manager, as well.

Is it a permanent position?

Yes, he said so,
are you deaf?

It will be, soon...

It will be permanent,
everyone at work loves him.

- Including that Minister...

- What about you?

- He's a sailor.
- A captain?

- Yes, on a tankship.
- Are you away a lot?

He's never around.
He's either gone, or he's away!

So we went to see the
so-called "garbage shower."

Do you know what that is?
The "garbage-shower"?

Around 4.30am,
right Costas?

4 am.

At 4.30am all sorts of people,
gypsies and the like come round...

Immigrants, too...

And wait for garbage
trucks to arrive...

...and empty their load.

And all these people
stand underneath...

We're talking,
entire families!

They've got
these iron sticks...

Right, Costas?

Iron sticks
with hooks on one end.

They stand
behind the trucks...

and punch holes
in the garbage bags...

and they're literally
showered with that shit!

- Did you shower, as well?
- Yes, yes!

No, Costas
wouldn't let me.

Costas, why not?

I would,
if we had uniforms on.

I'm shocked
by this story.

Shocked or not,
we don't care.

What do you think,
life is easy? Like yours?

People have a hard time!
Costas sees it every day.

Pour me
some more wine!

I will marry a captain...

... a true-blue sailor!

When are you leaving?

Next week.

Will you be around
when Maria gives birth?

Yes.

- Do you know her due date?
- I do.

- Is it a boy or a girl?
- A boy. What's your problem, Gogo?

I care about you,
you idiot!

I'm the one who has to
go to the clinic with you.

Who else will, mom?

I bet you'll deliver
my baby yourself.

Stop fighting!

I planted an olive tree...

I did it when...

It's time now.
I have to go.

I told you,
just for a week...

Yannis, please don't go...

I don't know what to do
when you're away. It's all crap!

Hi, Maria.

- Can I ask you something?
- Sure.

- Is there a computer I can use?
- Fourth door on your right.

Heat and strong
northwest winds.

Wind speed. 40 knots.

- What are you laughing at?
- What on earth are you doing?

- That's how you showed me!
- You want me to show you?

- Want me to show you?
- Yeah, show me!

Gently...

Hello, Mr Constantinidis.

What?

She hasn't called you?

Shall I call you later tonight?
When I get home?

All of us...

... this government
and the Greek people...

... we have inherited
a ship ready to sink.

A country
with no credibility...

... with no respect even
from its friends and allies.

Yes.

Yes, Mr Constantinidis.

How much?

Bye.

Mom?

Gogo?

Costas, where's Gogo?

How the fuck
should I know?

Can I see
the tax records, please?

What tax records?
Your dad's?

I don't need dad's.
I mean yours, from the store!

- What for?
- I just want to take a look.

They're at my accountant's.
Give him a ring...

I just got off the phone with him.
You haven't seen him in ages!

- Maria, what's wrong with you?
- You stay out of it.

Stand up.

Stand up!

Stand up, thejoke
is over! It's over!

- Maria, have you gone mad?
- Shut up! It's over!

What are these?
What the fuck are all these?

Have you got any idea how
much money we owe?

You'll go to jail,
don't you get it?

How will you pay your debts?
With dad's pension?

Where will you get
the money? Where?

Who's gonna
give it to you?

30 trips of Yannis wouldn't
be enough to pay what you owe!

Get out!

Shame on you!

- Hello.
- Hello...

My mom has a store and
she owes money to the tax-office.

Can you please tell us
the exact amount?

I have an account
of my mother's.

It's linked to
a consumer loan.

I deal with her finances.

Are you a co-owner?

No, everything belongs
to my mom.

Then your mother has
to come in person.

- She can't.
- Why not?

She's housebound,
she's an invalid.

We have a consumer loan, it's 22
monthly installments of 680 Euros.

And my mom is already
12 months behind.

Hello.

I brought everything
you asked me to.

My mom's authorization...

The social security certificate...

...and from the Department
of Labor Inspection...

It can't be done.
I'm really sorry.

I don't want to
give you false hope.

You own a house of 120 square
metres in Agii Anargiri...

My mother does.

A mini-market,
also your mother's...

- Yes.
- A country house.

Yes.

If you don't want it all
to be mortgaged...

...I need to check if you
can pay back what you owe.

How can you tell,
if it has to be mortgaged...

...if you still don't know the exact
amount? That's what I'm asking!

- Have you been officially hired?
- Of course, years ago.

So you have a social
security number and everything?

Legally?

Of course, sir!
I don't know what you're asking!

What are you looking at?

- Who are you, sir?
- He's my father.

We don't need
to tell you our life's story!

- He's my father!
- Your father?

Can't you just do your job?

Our family story
is none of your business.

- OK.
- Don't OK me!

- Just do your job properly.
- That's what I'm doing.

Do your job. You're constantly
being ironic, sir! Ironic!

- That's right, I truly am.
- Stop it, dad!

- Can we move on?
- Have you calmed down?

- You're a bit edgy as family.
- Yes...

It's not good
for your children.

I don't need your advice
for my children.

It's milk you want, right?

But not from the store.

You want me to go
to the supermarket.

I took your money.

What do you mean?

All of it?

Great.

You did just fine.

Did you see Costas on TV?

And that toothless guy
behind him, going...

Yannis...

What am I going to do?

What are you staring at?

You have
to come home earlier.

Please.

Have you completely
lost your mind?

- What do you want?
- Hi, Gogo.

- Hi Yannis!
- Yannis, I'm hanging up.

- Tell your husband to cut the shit out.
- Go fuck yourself.

What do you want?

Why are you messing with mom's
money? Just take care for your kids!

- Shut up!
- You shut up!

- It's my money, too.
- Since when do you care?

Since now!
You'll put mom in jail.

Mom will put us all
in jail, not me!

Tell Costas not to be
a cunt. Yannis is right.

Yannis ought to be here,
looking after his kids!

If I see Costas with the fascists
again, I'll kick him out.

It's still mom's house.

- Does he beat you?
- Yes, and I like it.

- More than I do?
- Way more...

Dad is downstairs, crying.

That's all he's good for.
You deal with him. He pisses me off.

The doctor just told me
I can't have kids.

I'll have enough
for the both of us.

I'll get pregnant again
when Yannis gets back.

Rabbit-mom!

Costas says we're fascists
because we're nouveaux pauvres.

He's a retard.
Dad will make you divorce him.

I don't give a fuck
what dad says, anyway.

The situation in downtown
Athens is tense.

Right-wing extremists are
randomly attacking immigrants.

It all started
after a demonstration...

The attacks began when protesters
reached the City Hall...

- Hello.
- Hi.

I brought you the check.
It's the first installment.

Can you invoice me,
so I can get to the cashier's desk?

- Whose signature is this?
- Mine.

- Yours?
- Yes.

- But the name on the front?
- Can't you see?

- Your husband's.
- Yes.

Your husband's name is in the front
and your signature on the back.

- Where is your husband?
- He's away, at sea.

He can't sign checks
while he's away.

- But this is wrong.
- What do you mean?

I can't accept it.

Can you please take it?

Please leave!

Get out!

Shame on you!

Yannis!

Yannis, can you hear me?

Could you do me a favor?

I need the number for that
guy who spoke at "EarthAct"...

...about villages,
beaches and coastlines.

Yes.

My dad told me something about
his village, I want to check it out.

The easiest way to
declassify woodlands...

...and sell them off
for construction or farming...

...is to burn it along
with some farmland...

...classify it as a reforestation area
and then, partially declassify it.

To burn the forests, they use
both locals and professionals.

You have to resist.

In every village.

In every town.

You, for example.
Where are you from, originally?

- From Athens.
- Athens!

Your parents are from
Athens, too? Your father?

- He grew up in a village.
- A village. Which one?

- It's called Agia Triada.
- Is it by the sea?

It has a beach.

And a forest.

Hello.

This is our room today.

Who would like to go first?

Me.

Last night he came home
and started yelling.

He went on and on that I'm useless,
that I'm worth nothing.

But I don't really mind,
because it's true.

As he was yelling,
I gradually felt...

...a sense of detachment.

A break from reality.

My reality.

Without him noticing,
I started touching my breast...

...and then, one by one,
the scars from my operations.

I wanted to make sure
they were still there.

But they weren't.
As if they were simply gone.

They didn't belong to me,
anymore.

They were gone.

And everything else
was gone with them.

My childhood...

My girlfriends...

My mom...

My summers...

The smell
of wet bathing suits...

And all of a sudden,
in front of the sink...

I was no more.

And then something
strange happened.

I felt gratitude.

I felt sad...

And grateful.

Hold it, asshole.

Yannis, it's Maria.

At mom's funeral.

Yannis, I need an answer.

Will you come?

I said, are you coming?

You're not coming.
That's all I needed to know.

Hello...

We met some time ago,
at the "EarthAct" seminars...

You talked about illegal development
on the coastal zones of our hometowns.

Can you hear me?

I just wanted to ask if you're
aware of the Agia Triada case.

It's about a hotel resort.
A company, trying to built a resort.

Yes, on woodlands.

Which company?

GBM.

So, you're already in touch
with the locals? The local committee?

Great, that's all I wanted
to know. Thanks.

Who would like to go next?

Go ahead, Maria!

Would you like to stand up?

As you all know, it's the first
time Maria speaks to us.

And as you know from experience,
it's a very big step. Let's clap!

Hello...

I want to say that I am luckier...
I'm luckier than all of you.

My husband never beats me
or treats me badly.

The truth is, he loves me.

He loves me very much.

But this doesn't seem
to matter at all anymore.

Today...

I want to share with you...

...that I am
absolutely unhappy.

I've lived...

...a ridiculous life.

I don't know what
to do to change it.

I got married when I was 20
years old and I have three kids...

...that I never
want to see again.

Neither them
nor my husband.

From now on I only want
to speak with strangers. Like you.

And I...

I prefer the guilt...

I feel for that...

...to the life I had
until this day.

Growing up, no one had told me
my life would be like this.

That this is what it would be.

Today...

I pray...

...for a life,
if not less vain...

...at least, less painful.

Thanks for listening.

I swear...

... to be faithful
to my country.

To obey the Constitution...

... the laws and the
legislation of the nation.

Submission to my superiors...

... to perform their
commands promptly...

... and without contradiction.

- Something stuck in your throat, boy?
- No.

So, why are you stuttering?

I officially proclaim,
I have no excuse.

Tie your shoelaces!

- I'll do it!
- No, mom, no!

Fuck the Greek Navy!

Fuck the State!

Humiliation
and degradation!

Fucked all over!

To the last drop
of my sperm!

You are nothing
but a burden.

That's what
you've become.

It's 65.000 Euros to the bank
and another 100.000 to the tax-office.

That's what we owe.

That's mom's legacy.

And the only thing
you know how to do...

...when you do come with me,
is cause trouble...

...and destroy everything
I try to build.

Because you think
you understand.

That's what you are!

Someone who thinks he understands,
something he does not understand.

And lets everything
go on and on. With me...

With mom, with Gogo,
with everything.

Because you love us.

Because you're kind.

Because that's how you feel.

Or because you're just
plain stupid.

A stupid old man, who doesn't know
what he's doing or where he's going.

So...

We don't care
how you feel.

We don't care
what you think.

You'll go
to the country house.

You'll take your pension, your books
and go to the country house.

And you'll stay there.

I'll have my baby and I'll
take care of everything myself.

And when it's needed,
you'll simply help me.

Are you awake?

- Where to?
- Athens.

Will you love me forever?

I will love you forever.

More than anyone?

More than anyone.

No matter what?

Yes. No matter what.

- No matter what I do?
- No matter what you do.

Even if I don't
love you anymore?

You motherfucker!

Get out!

- Why did you burn us?
- I didn't do anything!

- You wanna get married?
- Yes.

Gogo?

What are you doing here?

Where's Maria?

I don't know...
she left us the kids.

She gave me money and
told me not to call you.

And she beat up Costas.

Help me...

We can keep the kids,
we've prepared everything.

What are you staring at?

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