La vida en común (2019) - full transcript

A puma doesn't kill for food.

It kills because it can.

Well, sometimes it does.

But other times it kills
just for the sake of killing.

Because it's frightened.

Or because that's just the way it is.

It sees another creature and
goes for the jugular.

Because that's what it was born to do.

Did you kill it?

Did you?

Easy, little fella, easy.



This would be "doesn't".

Ok?

This one.

Which pronoun would
it be for this one?

"I", "we", "you" and "they".

And for this one, which pronoun?

"He", "she" and "it".

This is the negative form.

Isaías, over here.

In the interrogative,
the auxiliary goes first.

-Until tomorrow, kids.
-Until tomorrow.

Peace.

Don't forget to bring your
english homework tomorrow.

Isaías used to say that when he grew up
he wanted to be a motorcycle mechanic,



or a singer.

Something in the city.

Later, he started to talk
about becoming a hunter.

Since his older brothers hunted,
he said he could do that too.

But we always hunted
birds and armadillos.

Turn it on, Uri.

That's it.

Turn it off.

I hit myself.

Fuck.

Now you hit me.

Put your hand there.

I don’t want sun on me.

No, put your hand there.

There?

No, close it.

I'm putting it there.

There!

Let me go and I'll put it there.

There, no!

Did you know the puma has cubs?

My brother told me.

How does your brother know?

Because of the footprints.

Is it very small?

The footprints made
it seem really small.

You can identify a puma's footprints
by its paws, its tracks.

The paws are like a dog's.

The same foot.

But a dog leaves marks with its nails
and a puma doesn't.

A puma leaves just the paw, no claws.

Listen.

Look, mama.

Do you remember
when we used to do the

up, down, slowly, slowly,
up, down, slowly, slowly.

Come on, mama,
let's see those moves.

That's "Long bell people".

You scared me.

You have some left.

Right there.

Hang on.

There it is.

See how it changes.

Are you going to go?

Yes.

There's a quinceañera.

Do you know whose it is?

Yes.

Whose is it?

Mili Cafarate's.

No way.

That's what they told me.

I'm gonna kick your ass.

You're always the same.

Not this time.

What do you know?

I know a lot.

You know a lot about blood.

And you know a lot
about moustaches.

And rats.

They've been fired.

Then they're useless,
throw them away.

We'll need to buy some more.

Now we had to lock the stables,

put the livestock away earlier,

not go out at night,
nor leave the dogs loose.

"Pumas attack at night".

That's what Isaías used to say.

He said that he'd seen the puma.

That he had shone a flashlight
on it and it'd stood still,

staring at him.

There, Uriel, on that mound over there,

the red light appears,
that's the bad light.

And in that tree you see over there

a crying baby appears.

Every night.

Why are you covering your ears?

At night, when we had to lock up
the stables, we would race.

The first one to arrive and close the gate
would be the guard.

The other would be the assistant.

And the guard could give orders.

So he would say:

"Walk over to that tree
with your eyes closed".

Or stuff like that.

Is this filming?

The older ones told Isaías
that he couldn't go with them.

But all the same Isaías wanted to go.

"We'll take Troy and a shotgun"
he would say to me.

But it's not that easy to hunt a puma.

Because if it doesn't come down for water,
you're not going to see it.

And if it's a female with cubs,
it's more dangerous.

Maybe it kills three sheep,

and eats only one.

It does it so the cubs
learn how to hunt.

So that they learn how to kill.

At first,

long before we arrived
from the cities,

it was all swamps,

pools, and absorbing plants.

And before that,

soft beasts, and smilodons
with sharp fangs.

Giant animals that slept entire days
on the green grass.

We used to live in Villa Mercedes.

One afternoon,

a truck appeared at my place.

They loaded all the furniture,

we loaded some things
in the car and took off.

I think

it took us two and half
or three hours to get here.

We arrived at night.

And when we arrived, all we could see
were some scattered lights.

Because we were in
the middle of nowhere.

There was no road, no asphalt, no stores.
There was nothing.

It was all open fields
and all you could see were some lights.

El Cacique escaped at night.

He left having loaded
everything on a truck.

He took a table and three TV sets,

an electric bike, two calves,

a sheep, a statue,

and 14 million pesos.

He left his house empty and damaged.

That's my mom and dad.

They met at work, I think.

I don't remember. But they met.

Some days went by,
she got pregnant.

And I was born.

That chubby kid there is me.

One day my dad went out
to buy some bread,

but he went to see a girl,
so they split up.

I don't call him because of that.

It was really tough seeing
them break up.

And it got worse when
my grandparents died.

Angel, time to eat.

Angel.

Angel was the first to be born
in the community.

La Machi named him "Toro Nahuel".

But since his dad is El Muerto,
they call him El Muertito.

I know.

It's under a Trinoceros.

They are very small dinosaurs.

Which have large families
and are fighters and dangerous.

This one's bigger than
the Carcharodontosaurus.

The Carnotaurus.

Bigger than the Carcharodontosaurus.

And the most famous is

the Tyrannosaurus.

The Tyrannosaurus is bigger than the Carnotaurus
and the Carcharodontosaurus, too.

In that one you can
download the motorbike.

-Do you know how to download it?
-No.

In the video you cannot see it.

Isaías liked Luana.

I think that's why he wanted
to hunt the puma.

Luana was the last one to arrive.

She came one night a year ago.

Her mother started
working in a factory.

And had to leave her here
with her grandmother.

We'll be in the south of San Luis celebrating
the coming of spring and students' day.

Kids and grown-ups only.
You can't miss it!

State-of-the-art sound! Quality lighting
and best stage sets.

Advanced tickets are already for sale.

For everyone in Fortín, Ranqueles,
Buena Esperanza, Nueva Galia, Arizona.

This is how the fugitive
from Ranquel leaves.

This is how this man leaves.

Here comes the truck.
It's 2 am. He's leaving at night

because he's ashamed
of loading things up in the daytime.

Pueblo Nación Ranquel.

Where is this?

At the entrance.

He stole, he robbed.
Hobo, insolent, scoundrel!

A pig ate from here too.

Sure, but a pig couldn't
have killed it.

It only ate the back, did you notice?
Because there's a lot of meat.

The chest has more fat.
Then it leaves it.

The chest has more fat.
Then it leaves it.

A puma must have killed it.

What do you think?

I dreamt I saw the puma.

That it was walking and
I found it behind a bush.

It started staring at me,
lying on the grass.

I tried to get closer to touch it,
but the grass turned black

and started to burn.

The puma cried,
like a baby cries.

I turned around and
saw lightning nearby.

But then the puma turned black,

like a panther, or a wolf.

And I felt like I didn't have
to be there anymore.

Like I had to leave.

It was like the panther
started chasing me.

To get me out of its place.

But my legs weren't working.

It was like I was running
in slow motion.

Or swimming.

And then I woke up.

Write down the date.

Women used to dress up
mostly for special occasions.

They'd wear earrings: "chawuai".

Necklaces: "traipel".

And always had brooches
to fasten their clothing

the "tapú".

Are you copying this?

Nazareno Cruz was cursed.

Because he was the seventh son,
he was doomed to become a wolf.

One day the Devil told him
that he would free him

if he stopped liking the girl he liked.

Nazareno said no
and became a wolf.

And he ate the sheep.

But it was fine,
because he was in love.

Isaías used to hunt little birds.

He had a yellow cardinal, a hooded siskin
and a golden-billed saltator.

Territorial birds.

They go blind if you put another
songbird in their territory.

That's how he hunted them.

He would record them with his phone
and then use it to call the birds.

And they would always come.

Are you coming
with us to buy ammo?

With who?

With us.

Where will you go?

To Buena Esperanza.

With who? Joaco?

You're not going.

Of course we're going.

To Batavia?

No, that old fuck in Batavia
won't sell to me anymore.

Why?

He won't sell to me.

But why?

I don't know.

Louder!

More!

Louder.

You want me to roar even louder?

If I were a puma, I'd hide in the dunes,
far away from everything.

I'd look for a high place
from where I could see far away.

A place hard to find.

A cave dogs couldn't reach.

Where humans would have to
get off their horses.

And then I'd attack them.

Number three: "Kla".

Four: "Meli".

Five: "Kechu".

Six: "Kaiu".

Seven: "Regle".

Eight: "Pura".

-See you tomorrow, kids.
-Until tomorrow.

Peace.

If I were a puma

I'd wait until nightfall
and then seek shelter.

Somewhere deserted.

And there,
I'd wait until the rain comes.

Because the rain erases the tracks.

And then I'd attack again.

Isaías insisted and insisted, 

until the older ones
said he could go with them.

He said that to kill the puma
he just needed one bullet.

And with its fang
he was going to make a necklace.

Will you use this one?

No.

I'm staying here.

They started their search
near the community.

Later, they searched
around the lagoon.

But there were no tracks.

In the woods they found
more fresh prints on the ground.

They could see
the mother's and the cub's.

They saw something moving
behind a tree.

Pichinau raised his weapon.

And almost without looking,
took a shot.

He hit it, but didn't kill it.

Then they followed the trail of blood
and the dogs led them to the desert.

And there they kept searching.

Salute these lands.

Nowadays, nowadays, nowadays.

How nice is the dance, the dance.

They came to show, choyke.

Right now, right now.

Salute the people.

Their dance is very beautiful.

If you don't know how to ride.

Get out of here, Uriel.

So in the game you have to catch fish,
and when they bite

and the water runs white,
you have to pull out the pole.

And the fish comes up.

Look. There are prints there.

They're like…

A puma's.

There are more prints there.

No, those aren't a puma's prints.

They're too close
to the community.

It doesn't matter.

They can kill us.

You guys are gonna get killed.

You too.

No. We'll be at home,
and pumas can't get inside houses.

Yes, they can.

Tell me how.

By smashing the window.

Only the little ones
can go inside.

They can attack us,
but they can't hurt us.

Yes, they can kill us.

A car's coming.

Uri, it's Isaías
with the older ones.

I don't care.

They would go hunting every day.

Sometimes they followed the trail of blood
or thought they heard moaning.

But they could never find the puma.

They had to go further away every time.

Until Troy got lost while following a trail.

Let's go!

They used to say that's
how everything had started.

That in the beginning,
there was only water.

Everything was lagoon and puddles.

And in the sky were the clouds.

Which looked down from above.

Then came the wind.

And the clouds started crashing
into each other.

And from the crashing
came the lightning bolts.

And the lightning bolts
dried the water.

The sand was full of dried fish.

And after the prayers
the storms returned.

And with the storms

the water revived them.

And then, we were all born:

dogs, humans,

horses, and pumas.

I'm bleeding and it hurts to walk.

I have to hunt
so my cub can eat, and learn.

I go down to the lagoon
and see a deer, alone.

Drinking water and resting.

When it trots
towards the trees again

I follow it.

I walk on the grass
where my blood drops.

I approach slowly.

When I see it again
it's no longer a deer.

It's an ostrich.

And it stares at me.

It tells me to hide.

But I cannot hide.

I have to hunt.

Then it tells me to come closer.

And that's when it shows me.

A group of men coming
with dogs and shotguns.

The ostrich tells me not to move.

That it will warn me.

They come from everywhere.

They talk to each other with talkies.

Whispering.

"It's there, behind the bush".

"Don't move".

My wound hurts and I move.

The ostrich digs a small hole
and tells me to put my head inside it.

I hide my head and listen:

"Where is it? I can't see it".

The ostrich tells me
the storm is coming.

And that when it arrives
no one will find me.

I hear a shot.

I take my head out.

And the ostrich
is no longer there.

Listen.

It's there. Listen.