I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019) - full transcript

Hey! Excuse me!

Excuse me!

Kid! Seriously!

I'll go up and say something.

Yeah, ask if we can come.

No, don't. We have exams, boys.

So do they. But that doesn't
stop them from fucking.

I'll say to turn down the music.

They'll turn it up even higher,
like last time.

Yay, party!

Sorry, girls, the party is upstairs.



No, there's a party here too.
Yeah, yeah.

Look, that's liquid ecstasy.

Hey, please! Look, boys.

We have three months to finals,
let's focus a little.

If these girls want, they can stay
and we'll organize a group study session.

Oh, yeah, great plan.

Eligio, philology.

Pedro, chemistry.

Arturo, economics.

Are you letters or sciences?

No... hey! Hey!

Tell them to turn down the music!

One of them was dressed like
a tyrolean.

She only needed the milk jugs.



I'm going to the bathroom
while the image is still fresh.

Wait.

All of this effort will be worth it,
right?

Friends, romans, countrymen...

I guarantee it.

Come on.

Why does he think he can win?

Because he boasts of having put Spain
in the top eight countries in the world.

The Spanish economy has entered
the champions league of the global economy.

Ten years later

statistics say that 23% of teachers

make less than 500 Euros a month...

Investment in universities has dropped

by 5 billion Euros, affecting mostly...

We don't want any marketing.

It's your tutor.

We don't want tutors.

Open up, dummy.

Oh, sorry.

I can quit whenever I want

therefore we can confirm that the presence
of alkyl polyglycosidic surfactants

does not interfere when measuring
narrow-range ethoxylates

and alkyl polyglycosides.
Any questions?

Then more tomorrow.

We're finished.

So you have a driver's license?

Of course I do. Cars, motorcycles,

trucks,

bicycles, scooters...

Anything that burns rubber
is awesome. Totally.

Experience in the courier business?

I worked two years
for a courier company.

It went under after a terrible
legal diatribe.

Very sad.

- What did you say?
- Very sad.

No, before.

The thing about the tribe.

No, diatribe.

No.

No university graduates here.

And the function of this derivative is...?

Hey, you!

Tonight... party.

It's Tuesday. So?

Put down your phone.
You owe me three classes.

Talk to my mom.
She's never here.

- She works a lot.
- You could try it too, you know.

I'm your only student.
What would you live on?

Keep your pants on,
I know where she keeps the money.

You do?

Are you leaving?

Yeah, she left. The little bitch.

Pedro, how are you?
How are your new students?

Great, very appreciative, but I think
they don't understand a single word.

Yeah, none of them passed
the language test.

Then why are they here?

A program with
the university of Shanghai.

We need their money
and they need our prestige.

What prestige?

Besides, my project has been
on hold for months.

The vitamin complex,
it needs funding.

Oh, right.

Look, do me a favor and correct
these exams for me.

And cheer up, Spanish universities
are among the best in the world.

My project is this close
to getting green lighted.

- Really?
- Really.

Sure.

Practically.

Not even close.

- I hate him.
- No, you don't.

You hate yourself.

Gloria, please, don't start.

Years repressing yourself,

keeping it all inside,
emptied you out.

Then I must be full.

- Excuse me?
- Following your logic,

if I kept it all inside,
then I'm full.

- You're empty.
- I think I'm very full.

So empty. Full.

- Hi!
- Hi!

you've given your life to science.
What has it given you? Think about it.

When you're scared at night,

- what do you cling to?
- To you,

until you left me.

It was a toxic relationship.

Arsenic is toxic, polychlorides are toxic.

- Relationships have ups and downs.
- Pedro, open up to the world.

You see this?
This is your comfort zone,

but out here is where
the magic happens.

Did you read that on a coffee mug?

Maybe it was you're f...

You're right.

You're right, I think we should...

Yeah?

Stop seeing each other.

Sign the divorce papers finally.

That's not easy, my lawyer
has to see them.

- You don't have a lawyer.
- That's why it's not easy.

Daddy,

are you sure this is euro Disney?

Sure, this is their
barrio del Pilar branch.

It was uncle Walt's dying wish.

Mom, did you tell him
what he has to do?

- Yes, leave my comfort zone.
- No, show some balls!

- Claudia...
- You said it last night on the phone.

And that you were going to buy
Ben wa balls.

It's so late! We're leaving.

Okay, I'll see you next week.
I love you, be good.

Let's go.

You must have heard wrong,
I never said that.

It was almudena, almudena said it.

You! You promised me funding.

I've spent years on my project

making squat when I would make
triple in the private sector.

Why? Because I'm not a good scientist.

I mean, I am, the thing is,
I'm very good.

The best, and I have balls.

Two, my daughter told me.

I'm sorry, I don't know
what came over me.

No, it's okay, you're right.
You're a great scientist.

- Thank you.
- Yeah, the best.

Thank you.

Good luck in the private sector.

Excuse me? You're fired.

No, you got me wrong,
I want to keep my job.

Oh! I'm sorry, I just hired someone.

- When?
- Right now, linkedln.

Linkedln?

It actually works, you know.

What were you thinking?

Under every rock there are five
willing to do your job. Get out.

Get out!

- What a bastard.
- It's my own fault.

Yeah, for listening to your ex-wife.

Wife. We haven't signed the papers yet.

Sic transit Gloria mundi.

"Thus passes the glory of the world."

How did we end up like this?

- This is your project?
- Yeah.

It's a vitamin supplement.
It strengthens concentration for studying.

- Like a drug?
- No.

A medicine that strengthens perception?
Sounds like a drug.

Look, all medicines are drugs.

- Like this one?
- Yes.

What are you doing? Are you crazy?
It's not approved, not even for rats.

Want some?

- It expired months ago.
- It gets you higher that way.

I'm against stimulants.

Two majors, three masters and not a
single cup of coffee during exams.

And not one fucking party.
For what?

To end up like you, divorced
and unemployed, or like you,

living with your parents, or like me,
I studied economics to be a millionaire

and I'm a bum.
I'll tell you one thing.

We wasted our twenties without partying.
Let's not waste our thirties.

You're right, give me one.

What are you doing?

You said they were being tested.

Yeah. Yeah.

And now it's your turn,
open your mouth.

- Not in a million years.
- Come on, open wide.

- Hey!
- Not in a million lifetimes!

Eat it, motherfucker!

- Do you feel anything?
- It tastes bitter.

It takes a little while to hit you,
right?

Great.

I'm leaving.

- Where to?
- To get my things.

Okay.

Dalton's atomic model

allowed us to clarify...

Sorry. I'll come back later.

No, gather your things
and get the fuck out.

His model allowed us to clarify
for the first time

why chemical substances reacted
in stoichiometric proportions...

You're leaving?

I got fired.

We'll never forget you, professor.

Thank you for everything.

Oh, captain, my captain!

Oh, captain, my captain!

Oh, captain, my captain!

Hey, what's going on here?

Thanks, kids.

I won't forget you either.

Carpe diem.

Forget your books. You think they help?

Let's find the chapter about
how to keep your job

and make your wife happy.

Where is it? Where is it?
It's not here

because it doesn't exist!

Be

Free thinkers!

Embrace

veganism!
No, there are no rules!

Throw away your notes!

Life knows nothing about notes!

Who was that?

No idea,
it's the first time I've come this year.

Don't just watch! Take part!

Teach!

Teach! Teach!

This is your math tutor? Yup.

Hey, hi, hi! Hi.

Hi.

J said you wanted to talk to me.

Smells like cinnamon. Dude.

- Wait inside, honey.
- But mom...

- I said wait.
- Yes, ma'am.

- What's up?
- What's up?

I thought she was in good hands.

Hands? What hands? Oh, these?

Look at that long lifeline!

- It's a pen Mark.
- What do you think it means?

Let me see...

"Prick."

You're wonderful.

Want me to bring you
some more leaves?

Arturo!

Call me!

- How was your interview, son?
- Short and superficial.

No psychotechnical test, no swot analysis,
not even the 19th century Russian novel.

What Russian novel?

That's it. Tomorrow I'm calling my brother
to hire him at the gas station.

The gas station?
Eligio is a professor.

If he were, he'd be working as one.

Don't worry, son. As long as
your parents can support you...

It's not that we can't, I just won't.

Excuse me.

Yes?

- What's wrong with you two?
- They didn't affect you?

- What?
- The pills, they're awesome!

Well...

I don't feel any symptoms, it must be
the placebo effect. Goodbye.

At home he'll have more time
to finish his thesis.

It's been ten years.

What matters is he's a good boy

and he's never given us
any trouble.

Suddenly I'm singing,
it must be because I love you.

I feel the wind
blowing through your hands.

Everything is different
when I'm looking at you.

Thirty years without lifting a finger!
Thirty!

I don't understand myself,
it must be because I love you.

I sing to your beat
in the middle of January.

It's springtime,
it must be because I love you.

When we're together,
I don't even know where we are.

What do we care,
it must be because I love you.

- Fly, fly and you'll see...
- That it's easy to fly.

- Fly, fly and I'll see...
- That the world is insane.

If I sing, I sing for you.

Give me your grandfather's blunderbuss,
you'll kill someone!

I don't know what's growing
inside and outside of me.

- Fly, fly and you'll see...
- That it's easy to fly.

- Fly, fly and I'll see...
- That the world is insane.

If I sing, I sing for you.

For a love that's showing,
I don't know what's growing

inside and outside of me.

Look at him.

See how fucking stupid he is?

Tomorrow the gas station!

How do you guys feel?

It's the best untested vitamin
supplement in the world!

- Rapid heartbeat?
- No.

I feel 20 again!

Not me, I'm happy. Let's party!

Let's go! I'm broke.

Me too, but these pills are the shit.
Are there any more?

- In the lab, but we can't take any more.
- I don't mean take them.

You want to sell them?
Now we know who's higher.

No, we'd be like Walter white.

Breaking bad! A teacher turns dealer
and makes a fortune.

- Does it end well?
- Great! He retires in mallorca.

- Not a bad idea.
- No, people go to jail for that.

Only criminals who are really stupid.

We're respectable people,

smart, we're professors.

I start tomorrow at my uncle's gas station.
My future stinks of defeat and diesel.

You could take your daughters
to euro Disney, the real one.

Maybe your wife will tag along.

Let's go.

Pedro! Pills.

- Okay.
- Here, put this on.

Here I come, catch me!

Let's go.

- To the hip night spots!
- To the hip night spots.

To the hip night spots.

Anybody know one?

What was that one called...?

Where people used to go?

The plastics.

Ah! People got wasted there.

- Let's go!
- Let's go.

Looks like we didn't miss much.

It's turned into a salsa disco.

How can they dance on this floor?

Who cares, let's sell.
Sell what?

They're all divorced and broke, look.

They're even sharing beers.

Is that Gloria?

Shit, hide!

Pedro?

Can she see me?

Gloria! What are you doing here?

Just came out for a bit.

Don't worry, the girls are with my mother.

And you?

Well...
- Celebrating!

Celebrating what?

- What?
- The project!

You got the funds.
It was a matter of time.

I'm so happy for you!

Come and party with us
if you want.

I can't. Actually I came with...

Gloria, your drink.

- Do you remember borja?
- No.

At the pharmacy. Well, the owner.

He happens to be Spain's
salsa champion.

Bachata.

Bachata champion. The only winner
who's a loser.

Since when do you like

- salsa?
- Bachata.

Well, that's the thing, I don't.
But remember this thing?

Asshole!

The comfort zone.

That's right, I'm leaving mine.

That means they're fucking.

Arturo, please!

- Are you?
- Um, Pedro.

You want drugs? What?

- Drugs.
- Shut up, you idiot.

Good luck in the contest.

Thank you.

One second, I'll be right over.

Pedro!

Are you okay?

You're right, we should stop
seeing each other.

Bachata champion, what a clown!
Pay no attention.

Let's deal drugs.

- What?
- But big time, nothing petty.

Making a little cash is one thing,
getting in trouble is another.

Being good isn't enough.
You have to believe it.

Why hasn't eligio come out yet?

Okay, then. My first day...

Is over. See you later.

You still have three hours left.

The bathroom is filthy,
someone should clean it.

Yeah, you. I see you coming.

Excuse me?

I don't care that your uncle got you
the job, I won't let you exploit me.

Look... Anabel, right?
You see me as a threat.

But together we can
optimize resources.

You take the bathrooms,
pumps and car wash

and I'll take the library.

Lots of essays, little narrative,
but soon we'll add references.

- Bye!
- Look, know-it-all, I studied too.

Job training is worthy
as any other kind.

I studied law and can tell you
in three languages to eat my...

Thank you, good night.

To eat my twat. In French,
"mange my chatte." In english...

How could a man of my lineage
fall so low.

I suspect that gesture means
you're telling me to...

- What?
- I don't like those guys.

Why not? Look at them.

- Sports attire, they're athletes.
- Shut the fuck up.

You have a gun? I wish.

- Points card?
- No.

No? Take a walk.

You two, go push your shit
somewhere else!

They caught us already?
That was fast.

We're not doing anything!

Not you, them!

We'll pick it up tomorrow.

Hey, you left your...

Schmuck.

Guys, let's follow them!

- Those guys?
- Yeah.

- Let's go.
- Let's go.

- No.
- Let's go.

Your lunch box, dumbshit!

This is wrong.

You're an economist,
they're potential customers.

And seasoned criminals!

But they dress cool.

Eligio, please.

No, they don't.

Please, shut up, focus
and let's follow them.

They'll give us a Colombian tie.

Or a Pinocchio.
You know what that is?

- Do you?
- When we get out,

let me do the talking
and be quiet.

They cut off your dick and balls,
then put your balls over your eyes

and your dick on your nose.

- They call it the deadly Pinocchio.
- Shut up.

Look, they're turning.

It's dark down there.

I'm turning. Turn, turn.

Where did they go?

They gave us the slip.

What do you mean, the slip?
There's no way out, where are they?

They were here and they're gone.

Motherfuckers are like Batman.

I told you! Drive.

Calm down!

I'll talk, it'll be fine.

Come on, get out.

- Good evening.
- Why are you following us?

We weren't, we come to this alley
every night.

- You're cops.
- No.

- Homos.
- No, no, no.

Good one!

Then what do you want?

We only want to do business.

They're really good.

I'm a chemist. Scientist.

Rollin' with the homies, huh?
Try just a little,

fuck your shit up righteous.

Can we do bizness?

Silver or lead?

- You're nuts.
- No, he's a Latin king.

Latin? Perfect, let me.

Juga caepa moveri silvarum,
visaeque canes ululare per umbram.

The aeneid.

Eligio, stop.
You're our first customers.

We can give you a good price.
Ten Euros a pill.

Five?

Two?

Five, five is good.
How many do you want?

All of them.

Perfect.

We're going to get rich.

This is the family size.

You can keep the jar.

Okay, let's do the...

- Hey!
- Maybe they went to the atm.

They shot at us!

They robbed us, damn it!

No!

No, no, no...

Officer! Officer!

What are you doing?

Officer! Officer! Stop!
Come back!

Officer! Officer!

Thank you, just as well...

We've been robbed.

Who? Some bastards

who call themselves
the Latin kings,

but I quoted Virgil and they didn't care.
Let me summarize.

We were making a commercial
transaction with merchandise

which is irrelevant and they took off.

They took off and they kept it

and my partners over here
witnessed...

Are those bullet holes?

Yes! Yes.

- Yes.
- Uh-huh, right.

I won't say a word
until my lawyer gets here.

Good morning. This is my client.
Here's my card

and the diesel plus card,
good at any of our stations.

We also make baguettes
until midnight.

Please, give us a moment alone.
Thank you.

- Thanks for coming.
- I brought you this.

Wow! "Extreme."

Aside from the unnecessary use
of an english word,

what does "extreme" mean?