Lulu the Tool (1971) - full transcript

["The working class goes to heaven"]

Yep, the cranium

We are buying Beckenbauer

400 million

And we buy Riva

And who'll give you the money?

Lumu, we're not desperate like you

Coffee?

Do you want coffee?

How are you my love?

My love... my love



All here... the brain

In the brain there is the
central headquarters it decides

Makes projects, programs and
gives the go to production

They see

And the machine(?) Starts to move

Arms, legs, mouth, tongue... everything

It starts to move and...

takes up food, which is its raw material

What you talking about?

One. Time to eat...

what a discovery!

The food... goes down here is
the machine that crunches it

And it's ready for exit

The same as in a factory so?



The same as in a factory! Yes, so what?

A shit... Making
factory!

Shit, shit, shit! Why
so early in the morning?!

No, no, listen... sorry...
think about it...

imagine if it had a price!

Everyone nice and happy with their
assured income... - Oh shut up-

Instead nothing... they
don't know where to put it!

Shut that mouth of yours...

it pollutes water

You Arturo will be forced to eat it when you bigger
with the excuse that its good for preventing cancer

Leave him alone

What is he a boy? He's a fake... a fake

A Martian lunatic...

workers! Workers!

Do it for your student comrades

It is 8 in the morning! When you
come out it will already be dark

Today for you the
sunlight will not shine

You will be doing piecework...
8 hours of piecework

And you will come out old empty

Convinced you have earned
yourselves a day-Wage

And instead you will have
been robbed! Yes, robbed!

Of 8 hours... it's not with piecework
that you have to earn more money

But with your involvement as a worker...

who sends you? Why don't you
go back to university to study?

They earn more, they the owners earn 100

Workers! You are entering prison!

Today, after 8 hours
of work, it will be dark

For you today the light
of the sun will not shine

Workers! To split
owners from union leaders

We propose a revolutionary alliance
between workers and students

Between workers and students...

more money less work!

Good morning workers! The
director wishes you good work

In your interest, treat the machine
you have been given with love

Take care of it...

security measures suggested by
the factory guarantee your safety

Your health depends on your
relationship with your machine

Respect its needs...

and don't forget that a machine in
condition equals a productive one

Good work!

Hey, come on... pass through...

Lulu, two new workers... for tomorrow
I won't them ready to work... understood?

Menne Tarcindio... of Manfredonia...

what is it? - Municipality of Chiave
what do I care what your name is?

You see... lost the rhythm...

between one ball and the
other some 30 lire less...

- I?m sorry, I didn't know silence...

this work even a monkey could do

So even you can do it

Lost the rhythm

Stand up! Like that you produce half
- I have a prostate problem

Either you sign miss work,
or I fine you or you stand up

But if I stand I have to go and piss all the time... you want me
to go and piss all the time? What the hell am I supposed to do here?

Why don't you go to the insurance?
- What insurance... I either work or piss

I told them 200 times -Come on, you should be
happy -The prostate maintains your heartbeat

You're losing 2 seconds on the return
- Why don't you do the work leech

You didn't cut your hair? Then, as
according to the security measures...

like female manual labor...
you have to wear a cap

Piss off!

Workers! The unionists
have called for an assembly

Go to it united and ask
that they open up politically

Everything and immediately!
More income, less labor!

Who pays those guys?

United against the unionists

Who pays those guys?
They know everything

They're trying a "splitting" maneuver

And organized... for
me, here there are spies

But why the union leader?

[More income, less work!]

They've taken me for a charity

Menne Tarcisio of Manfredonia
- Menne, and the other one?

Quaranta Salvatore, born in Lecce

Massa Ludovico, known as Lulu

Lombardia, nearly Switzerland

This one is staglia d'acciso (?)

Sit down both of you

If you also want my food take it
take it because anyway I?m not hungry

I've got a split in here

Excuse me Mr. Massa, a curiosity,
how do you work so fast?

It's that in the factory I
get bored I break my balls

So I work, what am I supposed to do?

Listen to this concept: Life is a winning
post, banner everyone on the racing-Track

We're all running here

I am a little champion in
here she knows it doesn't she?

It's true

And then there are the "terroni",
like this one eastern Sicily

That are all commuters they arrive in the morning
already tired and I screw them on the rhythm

I was able to make 25,000 lire
in a month of piecework, 25 cards

But pedaling eh! Pedaling
because I concentrate

Because I am concentrated, concentrated

I have the technique for
concentrating... she knows it

I fix something with my brain

I think of a bum

Her bum

There?s not much else to
do here, what d'you expect

Since we have to work, let's work

Without fussing

Understood? Work!
Without fussing -Yes yes

Yes I understood, but
you... how old are you?

I've been working for 15 years,
I worked twice with varnish...

Lulu. Lulu! We have
to redo the work times

Ready? Ready.

We have to check the piecework

Boss, I?m going to smoke a cigarette

Let me see

Allow me?

14. 35.

12. 28.

12. 30.

8. 27.

12. 27.

12. 30.

10. 32.

10. 30.

Stop!

Do you want a cigarette?

Yield more no!?

Production on this machine has to
increase from 115 to 320 an hour

It's only a question of rhythm come on
- You are a bastard

Reason. Reason!

Bloody southerners!

If he stops the car he wastes time

Come on

You hear the noise?

If he takes the pieces while they
move, he saves 3 seconds! - 3045.

Moving piece, 3 seconds...

30.
- Paura does 90. 48.

3, 3 and 3 makes 9 seconds

30. 48.

Listen Lulu. You're not going to die in
bed. You're going to die here. On the machine

What difference?

I'm going to smoke a
cigarette boss. Yes.

So this machine has to increase
production from 200 to 250 an hour, okay?

Boss!

In you opinion when do the new
times come into play? - Immediately.

Who says? - The machines
said it, and I decide it.

Well we're not happy with that

Before fixing new times you have
to tell us how much we're pocketing

First you work, then
the management decides

No no, no management. We have
to discuss this immediately.

You want to increase production.
Then increase our salaries as well

In any case all those who have
left their work posts are fined

Look here. We're not in prison you know?
You have to learn to discuss with us.

We have to discuss!

Everyone fined!

What's he doing? He's
putting his hands on me!

You will end badly.

Ass-Kisser!

I didn't invent piecework

Now I invented piecework

Sheep all of those, sheep!

They talk and talk, then at the
right moment they shit themselves

They screw you those guys

Do you have a piece of land?
- I don't have anything.

If I have strength I work. Only that. I don't
care. I concentrate. I think of that girls bum

[? Some sort of song in dialect]

Youngsters... Look and learn.
I'm already concentrating

I'm already in another world.

Think only about the piece. Even if it
there is no use. Every piece is a hole

Every hole is a piece.
Just don't fall in the hole

To not fall this this
hole, think of the girls bum

How to concentrate? It's all a matter of technique. I
concentrate with my brain... and think of the girls bum

A piece, a bum a piece, a bum

Piece, bum,

I think I?m an
ass-Kisser -Not with me.

Why d'you say this? - An ass-Kisser
is one who is a slave of his boss.

Who knows his boss?

The factory

It's not like the hairdressers

This is why I work at my
shop and not at the factory

But the boss is there

And if he feel like it
he will even kick you

In the factory... the boss is
not there. He's got his place

Switzerland, America

L-Legastan
- What?

You're ill even tonight?

It's reforming, reforming

The return of the ulcer

Tonight its ulcer, one night its
headache, another it's backache

All excuses. I'm fed up.

You have to tell me now do you.

Why not?

You're never in the mood

It's three months I?ve been taking
the pill... - Stop it, stop it

Stop it... you stop it.

No. I say stop.

Give it a cut... cut it, cut it

What d'you want to cut?

Where are you going now?
Don't go into the living room.

I'm not going to make a mess

I told you to not go into
the living room stay here

But why? Isn't there a television there also?
- If you want to watch TV you can watch it here.

[He mutters incomprehensible about making
love to her] -What you muttering about? What?

Yeah. You try and do it

Fake hair

Poor man... it's all real dear -No

You seem fake... fake hair
- Why should I have fake hair? '

Yes and fake breasts -No
it's all my own stuff dear

Fake nails... - All my own
stuff, don't look for excuses

Go and visit the doctor...
go... go to the doctor

What d'you mean I look for excuses, what excuses?
What d'you think, I have a machine between my legs?

I don't remember

You know what I say to you? That I only
get the urge in the morning -Hm, morning

In the evening nothing, in the morning... when
I go to the factory, I would even do it 3 times

But you're not there...
you're in the shop

In the shop...

in the evening nothing...

I don't know... it's probably fatigue

Damn it! Don't you want to understand that to
make 20 cards more each month I bust myself!

And they attack me,
tease me, they question me

And I?m the one that
suffers... like a dog... like a dog!

Come on... come on... - Leave it

Don't behave like this

My love

Come here my love

Workers! The three united
unions call you to fight!

Against the rhythms, against politics

To fight for health
and to earn more money

And to have more time to be
with your children and wives

When you made 1000 pieces
a day they gave you 300 lire

Now you make 3000 with the new times
and the piecework has remained the same

This means for them an
increase in profits of millions

Whilst for you only the prices increase

Everything is more expensive except
out labor which they get for free

Piecework should be paid
more! More pieces, more money!

[Another voice] less pieces,
more money, less work!

Workers! Workers! Impose on the
unions a revolutionary platform!

Piecework is non-Contractable!
It must be abolished!

The factory is a prison, and
from prison there is escape!

Lets fix our feet to the ground, our
aim is to improve the piecework contract!

Let's show the owners our strength!

This is the voice of
the three united unions

Everything! Today!...

you have to give us the 10,000
lire this week because we need them

No, no... I?m not giving
anything -What d'you mean

I live like the shit
and maintain your child

And you live with my
wife and keep my child...?

No no sir, at least you help your child, instead
of that child at home who is not even your relative

And anyway his father should do that...

but the father doesn't
give anything, he refuses to

He's a worker, you understand?

I can't take the boy and
throw him down the toilet...

Well this I?m not interested
in... sort yourself out you know...

of course I?ll sort myself out
- I won't give anything

Hey! I was actually
thinking about you...

come on...

why don't you confess to me that you
were lying about not knowing men... eh?

Come on... a cousin in the countryside?

[Something in dialect]

Hey but you always think
about the same things you eh?

Why, what d'you expect me
to think about... paradise?

And why not?

It's here paradise... here is
paradise... - Hey stop it...

Massa!

What you doing sir...

I?ll break him...

Slowly... slowly... the money you lose
we'll give you... we'll do a collection

Massa, they want you on the phone, it's the
administration... they want you to clean the toilets...

you would have to break you spine to
keep up with me! Break your spine...

you'll break your spine because
I?m not doing piecework...

They'd have to break their spines
to keep up with me... - Massa

The life of a man is the only one...

Think of old age... think of when you'll have
your broken spine... from arthritis... in hospital

With bronchitis... half blind and deaf...

And without a friend... - I'll
break you... break you...

break your head...

make your guts spill out...

break the spine... the spine...

go... go...

What did you do? - It's
nothing... nothing... what did you do?

The finger! Let me see' -What
finger? No... it's nothing...

go back to work!

Massa has injured
himself... stop working!

Stop, stop... there's been an accident!

Strike! Strike! These are the presents that
piecework gives you... let's strike together...

strike!!!

It's just a little
scratch... it's nothing...

calm, calm though... let's
not lose our minds... calm

Why you pulling back now eh? - I'm not pulling
back, I want to reflect you understand...

assembly!!! This is
the result of piecework!

You cut our times,
and we cut our fingers!

Assembly!

I can to visit my son -Come in, come in

He's over there? Yes, over there.

Hello, I came to visit Armando

Did you hear about the
bad news? - What happened?

What? He didn't tell
you that I lost a finger

Good morning! - Good evening

Even they didn't know I had lost my finger?
- We didn't know anything about it...

Armando, what you doing?
- Hi daddy, I?m drawing

'Even you didn't know that daddy
lost his finger? - Let me see!

Here you go! - Dear dear!!

So that guy didn't say anything?
- I didn't want to worry everyone

Yes, he's right -What
sort of reasoning is that?

A guy loses his finger... seems important that
at least his son should know, at least... no?

The finger of a father, for the
son, is always the finger of a father

Yes, but you should also have
other things to worry about

Even with 9 fingers a father
should have money for his son

Unless someone is interested
in twisting the truth...

I?m going out

Where you going daddy?

I'm going for a moment to the
branch... - Come back soon please

Shouldn't he have called him uncle? - It
just comes out like that... spontaneously

Spontaneous? Brainwashing...

yeah... I?m stupid... stupid...

To be called father you have
to pay... now the father is him

Grandmother... be quiet

Ginevra... can I have a
word? - Stay here my dear...

don't you start! - What... no I won't
do anything, who is the father?

Stay calm and stay put...
- What have I done? Everything!

What have I done? What have
I done? - And don't touch me

What have I done?

Don't do as you always
do... don't touch me... leave me...

leave me... leave me...

I don't want to
anymore... leave me... leave me...

go, go!

[Background music says "happiness"]

How is your finger my love? Eh?

Does it hurt today my love?

You went into the living room
yesterday... I?ve told you many times not to go

There was a mess everywhere... I even found
ash on the ground. And me there cleaning.

There were 1,000 lire missing last night
my love... - Straighten the cutlery! Aligned!

Who was it that took 1000
lire...? It's that guy that robs!

What d'you mean that guy!

You took them to give them to your
wife... and she's not missing things

Eh...?

You could have just asked me
eh... I couldn't find them...

straight the pepper! Straight!

Arturo saw you take them...

tidy up will you!! - Don't
get angry with Arturo now

It was you my love wasn't
it? Tell me the truth

Watch out that I?ll stick it in!

Christ damn-It!

Have you seen the "militina"?

Have you seen the "militina"

Have you seen the "militina"?
- No. How old are you?

Who's seen the "militina"? - Who's
seen the "militina" [repeated]

Repeats it!
- Who's seen the military?

Hi militina! I came to visit.

Did you hear that I lost my finger?

Eh?

I even brought that
book you asked me about

And also the salary bags... it says...

normal hours, 17,400 lire...
- Yeah... normal hours...

Piecework... - Wait a second
I?m writing piecework...

9,918... you see I?ve lost my finger?

Look here, chimpanzee
Joe from Stockholm...

"chimpanzee really believes its a man"

Poor beast! - Come on
them... let's check it

Holidays: 1,600-1,600

You pretending to write?
- No no... I?m writing... 17,400

Then you tell me why you need
this stuff... - Error... error

Listen! - Yes, what is it?

What's the food like? - Like
the food in the factory

Only that at night
they don't let me leave

But where do you want
to go? - To the cafe'

Coffee with the comrades... by the way,
do they still talk about me the comrades?

They do they do... you're still
a symbol -I don't believe it

I'm an asshole... - They talk about
you, they do... you're still a symbol

So they talk... they talk
badly of me, because...

there is always the "but"

What is this "but"?
- "But" means that...

they talk well but when the
discussion is over they add a "but"

And so down to destroy... they say...

Listen. Listen... you promise you
won't get pissed off like last time?

And why should I get pissed off? - I'm
just asking you something... talk, talk...

how did you... I mean... how did
you realize you were going crazy? '

It is others who decide when
one should become mad... but...

but to tell you the truth, I arrived before
them, I fooled them... I already had my suspicions

Suspicion is like a nervous fox,
sour, bitchy, villainous, reactionary

Every so often some strangeness would
come out... - What strangeness was it?

At the table... when one eats...

the cutlery...

has to be all nice and straight,
in line, you know, like soldiers

I was at the table, eating, and in that
moment dreaming of being in the factory

I knew that, I knew it...
- You would like to know...

What the hell we produce in the
factory? - This I know, I know this

Even those piece they
make in their millions?

No no! I know, I know...
I make these piece...

that are necessary for
a motor this motor...

and this motor then ends up in another
machine which isn't there, it isn't there...

ah, it's not there? - No

Imagine that one day,
I met the engineer...

I grabbed him by the collar and I said "what the hell are we
making in this factory... what the hell are these shits for?"

Look I?m going to kill, I?ll kill
you! - Look I?m going to call the nurse!

Be good, we're here to reason,
why d'you come out with this stuff?

I reason but... heh...

if they didn't take him away I
would really have strangled him

But this Lulu is not madness because a man,
a man had the right to know what he's doing

What it's for

Yes or no? Am I right?

Yes yes -You seem them? You
see all those over there?

They were all workers, peasants...

manual laborers, builders, policemen...

lawyers, drivers, mechanics of 1st, 2nd,
3rd, categories even of 6th, 8th and 16th

The real crazies are not here,
they're hidden in private clinics...

and of course, it's understandable... just imagine
if people realized that even the rich go crazy!

It would make them cry, wouldn?t it?

They're crazy those guys, leave
it alone, don't get involved

Lulu, it's the money,
it all starts there...

we're part of the same
group... owners and slaves

We become mad because we have too little,
and they because they have too much

And so, in this hell, on this planet
full of hospitals, lunatic-Asylums...

cemeteries, factories...

barracks and buses...

The brain slowly slowly... runs away

It goes on strike... on
strike... see you later

Have a nice stay -Thank you

Strike, strike, strike...

hey, where you going?

Away!

Actually it's me who has to leave...
- Oh yes, I always get it wrong.

Bye!

Lulu!

When they admit you... bring weapons

Comrades. Management has suspended 6 workers
following the agitation born from your indignation...

of the accident received by
Massa, victim of the work rhythms

But we will be clear to the
directors and owners of the factory

That if they don't remove their suspensions
we will... united, I mean united!

We will shift our
struggle to a tougher level

Workers! To the violence of owners,
we reply with the violence of workers!

[Another] to violence of owners, we
respond with the unity of unions...

[another] who pays those guys?

Union unity! Union unity!

Down with the owners!

Always with these damn things in the
ear... I have to ask for some information

Who are those who were suspended?

Me first of all... - Yeah but apart from
you - De Simoni, De Antoni, Delori...

And all these guys supposedly acted the heroes because
of my finger? - Yes for you. For you, for your finger...

not for your finger! For the class war!

Owners are more arrogant... - But why didn't
they suspend you? Because he's a "straighty"'

They know I?m good at my work.

Owners! Bourgeoisie!
Only a few months left!

Union unity! Union unity!

Good morning workers!

The director wishes you good work

In your interest, treat the machine
you have been given with love

Take care of it...

security measures suggested by
the factory guarantee your safety

Your health depends on your
relationship with your machine

Respect its needs... and don't forget that
a machine in condition equals a productive one

Good work!

Hi Piero!

Hey how?s it going?

Hey Lulu!

Finally! - I lost my finger.

From when that disgrace happened
to you production has gone down 7%

7% it went down!

Here we have to do like before... we have to
find that spirit of collaboration between you...

which had made our
factory a jewel! A jewel! '

In which the interests of the
workers and capital combined!

I say this for you, I
am a worker like you'

What d'you think I get in my pockets?

We want to destroy everything for a stupid
discussion on the timings of piecework

No no no, and no. I guarantee
we are not going back!

For four poor guys who we
suspended, we are not going back...

even if it means paying, I tell you...

you agree?

You Lulu are with us aren't you?

"Militina" says hi -Okay, and
good work! - To work! To work!

Your under the average.
Your rhythm is below 80

Sorry Mr. Stop-Watch, but I time myself
according to my speed of masturbation

You understand?

Work "terrone" if you don't want to
return to living amongst pigs -Shut up!

[Singing] love, love is beautiful!!!

[Singing in dialect]

My love my love my love...

fuck love...!

At night I sleep...

Lulu how is your finger?

[Something in dialect,
possibly:] really great...

come on! Work! Work!

What shall I do? '

Leech! Obey the boss,
you have to check me...

Lulu! What are you doing?
Your output is very low

You have to make an effort, otherwise you'll
lose the piecework (bonus). Understood?

Maybe in these few days of
holiday you became rusty?

Rusted my penis!

Look here, look at this stuff, look!

What did you think leech? It's not that
I can't... it's that I don't want to!

I have other thoughts in my head

But the times you're doing is like kids would
do. - Kids? Yeah, kids who go to school...

Its all a fake that... what you don't think
we're treated like kids who go to nursery school?

In fact, who go to
the house of correction

Look that if you continue like this, not only do you lose
the bonus but you go under the average and I have to fine you

Oh yes the fine! The fine! I
was forgetting about the fine!

Why don't you just fine
me! Come on fine me!

But then you'll have to give me back everything
you stole from me when I worked before...

you'll have to shit everything
out! Even the finger!

What is this?

A pipe

And this? - A trumpet

And this one? - A calendar, and
that?s a protractor and a flower-Pot

These pens... always in disorder...

why you laughing?

Because I?m happy you see... I?m happy

How's it going with the finger?
- The finger is no longer there

Do you feel less crazy?

What d'you think I care...
finger more or finger less...

think about this carefully...

what does this finger make you think of?
- "Luzelle"

No. The penis! - You
allude to the male organ?

Just that!

If we want to follow this through... you feel
that finger is as if you were castrated

Look that since the accident my rhythm has
increased... I do it even 3 times a night

Listen, joking apart... what d'you
think of me, what have they told you?

I have always like women... I?m
normal, like all the others...

if I separated from my wife, it's
because of questions of character

With Lydia, the hairdresser, she attracts me
just like the first time... we care for each other

And she's the sort of woman who would
split herself into 4 piece for me.

And we even have some
saved money, just imagine!

You like money? - Of course

And yet since the accident you show clear signs of
problems towards work and therefore towards money

Why? - Yes exactly, why?

[Sign: Impartial]

It's red, let yourself get searched... - But I
don't rob oh come on, the "impartial" decides not us

The search Massa! Come on!
- Take your hands off me!

Worker! Don't let yourself get searched!
Violence in labor follows you everywhere!

...your body and you mind! - What are
you saying!? What are you saying!?

They think you are the thieves,
but they are the thieves!

We have to perceive where they hide
their profits, created with your blood!

With your lives, with your work,
don't let them search your bodies!

...and your minds!

And now where are you going? To spend
your free time? And how do you spend it?

In front of the television?
Or talking about football?

About Juventus... you have to phone
Daniele and make decisions... eh?

Or maybe time passes and your wife
come home... and what do you tell her?

Or maybe you go and work another job, because
the money your boss gives you isn't enough?

Damn you! Damn you!

Why do you get angry with me? Get angry with the
directors! If you're so strong, get angry with them!

Pick on a work-Mate!

Tomorrow morning, when you go back to work,
pick on a director if you're brave enough!

Comrade, come on! Come
on! I'll break you!

You have to forget it!

Go to your dad go!

Join us instead of faking!

Lulu? What is this, life? This is life?

Stop it and go away! - Let him pass!

Slave, slave! 8 hours of work and
on Sunday the football game! Shame!

Shame on you! You only
know how to do this?

You're only capable of doing this! You're
a slave and nothing else! You understand!?

So. Here until now only the negative
aspect of piecework has been spoken about

But my dear comrades, the 20,000 lire
of piecework... I?ll throw them in the bag

I think the piecework
is important, I mean...

when we open up the bag and there?s
20,000 lire in there, what's the problem?

[General yelling] fuck off!

We're fed up of hearing good things
about piecework whilst they exploit us!

We're fed up of this, let's vote!

I'm for the piecework but negotiated down to the last
penny... I mean, to obtain the maximum possible...

listen! Listen! I repeat...

for who hasn't understood,
or has just arrived...

who is in favor of the immediate
abolishment of piecework raise your hand!

1, 2, 3, 4... 1212 votes, 12 votes!

One moment! One moment!

Slaves! Slaves! Slaves!

Who is for an reasoned fight
that leads us to negotiate

Through a representative. Piecework,
moment by moment, situation by situation

Raise your hand!

Wait! Listen!

I propose something... this:

Who is in favor of striking
to the end, raise your hand!

1, 2, 3, 4... 12

Now we vote on another proposal. Who
is in favor of a reasoned action...

that beginning on Monday, for two
hours a day, we strike... raise you hand!

This is the answer to provocations... because it's the majority
that decides, democratically, you understand back there?

We created these assemblies by
fighting and now you sabotage them!

No, no... let him talk please...

it's you, all your fault and
the piecework that I got ill!

You don't think about the conditions
over there... the humidity! Go and try!

Now I?m going up to talk! - Go Massa!

I don't know what to call you...
workmen, comrades, workers... I don't know

Stop it! Come here and talk
into the microphone, come here!

Just to talk for a moment... the student, the student outside
said that we come in when it's dark, and leave when it's dark

What sort of life is ours?

Whilst we're at it, why don't
we double the piecework? Eh?

Then we can work on Sunday too, maybe
we could work throughout the night...

actually maybe we could bring
in our children and wives

We force the children to work, whilst
our wives stuff a sandwich in our mouths

And we just go on and on without
a break, onwards! Onwards!

Onwards for these 4
damn lire, until we die!

And so from this
hell... always with no break...

we pass directly to the other hell!

Listen to me carefully Massa,
you who talk so much now...

where were you when we all with the comrades of the
unions created the union in this factory, of the B.A.N.?

Eh? Answer?

Where was I? I was a piecework laborer.

I followed the politics of the unionists, I worked
for productivity, I increased output, increased it!

Hurray! You're right!

'And now? And now what have I become?
I've become a beast, a beast...

you are a beast, not us!

The student outside says... he says

That we are like machines!
Understood? That I am a machine!

I am a nut, I am a screw, I am
a transmission belt, I am a pump!

But for me, my pump is broken, I don't have
it anymore, and there's no way of fixing it now

I propose this:

To immediately leave work, everyone!

And who doesn't immediately
leave work now, is a scoundrel!

Is a shit-Face!

Massa! Wait', listen to me...

The breaking of union unity, which
with great effort we conquered... -

Re-Enters the political game that the
owners play... we have to be all united

If we really want to win

An extremist and adventurist
politics, would dissolve itself...

therefore try to understand! Comrade Massa! Let's try
to all understand, we have to remain united! United!

Look at the tramps how they
run! They wait for the workers!

The shit-Faced workers!

Go and have fun, you who have money!

Waiting for the workers,
look how they run!

How did it go? - I said what
I had to... a few concepts

They're still going in those guys!

Come on! Let's go to the other side!

Losers! Fascists! Coward!

Ass-Kisser!!

At what time does this
shift end? - Now! Let's go!

To the gates! To the gates!

Here we are. Look at this
stuff. There's nothing here.

This was a place where I
worked. Building frames.

Empty now. The owner is in
prison. For fraudulent bankruptcy.

Here we are. We'll stop here,
put on the heating- -But I?m cold!

Listen is it really your
first time? - Well...

let's not waste time, we'll strip,
put our clothes back there... \

Come on, we're well here...

but how does one do this... I?m
scared -Scared? Come on...

but you'll hurt me...
- No, let me guide you

You're not going to hurt me? - No, I won't
do anything... come on... I won't hurt you

If I feel bad you'll help
me? - Put them behind...

wait wait... I haven't taken anything off.
I have to take everything off... trousers...

hey! I have a mini-Bar here!

I'm a teetotaler. I don't
drink... I?m scared...

scared of what? Throw
it down, throw it down!

Why are you taking your trousers
off? - I'm also taking off my underwear

No, underwear no...
- Everything, everything

Hold something -Yes,
I?ll hold the underwear

I'm taking everything
off -I want a kiss

Take this off... - No, not this...

Who knows what will happen? - No, no, you'll see
that nothing will happen. It's good for you.

Now get up while turning...
- But I?m hitting my head!

Look! - But it's complicated
no it's not complicated...

careful with the gear-Shift! You
have to only be careful with the gear.

Be very careful.

Now I just do this...
- Ouch! The steering wheel!

Ouch! The gear! Listen,
I?m scared -Come on!

What's there to be
scared of? - Yes, but...

Look, look, only this arm
here -But I?m embarrassed!

The gear!

Ouch!

Like that!

Your hurting me! - But no!

But come on... how am I hurting
you? Did I hurt you just now?

Yes! You hurt me! - No,
I didn't do anything

No no, wait, now you're hurting me

Calmly... - Where do I go? Wait, wait...

Ok. The leg no? The leg!

Come on, listen to me...

Put... - Where?

Where do I put it? - The foot? Yes.

If you put you foot...
- Don't pull! No, come on!

I have the gear! - There!
What's the problem!?

Come here. Come here!

Pass me... pass me the other foot...

lean it there...

hair... hair, hair!

How damn cold it is!

There you go, finished! Finished!

Nice. It's a year I?ve had
it, but I still look at it.

Nothing to say... nice car...

you have no idea what pleasure
you gave me, because...

that ugly pig over there
doesn't attract me anymore!

So you see, you want to bet
I finish off like militina?

I had blamed the factory... all
day there... pedaling! I mean...

how? At 31 years? - I
didn't feel anything

Haha... felt nothing!

I just feel pain, that's all... and now?

Now what?

Is this love?

Love? Love...

Love... is done. And when it's done
it's done. And one returns to oneself.

Exactly. Like animals?

Like animals.

I have hands, feet and a penis, like
animals... so... just like animals.

The nicest thing is that when
it's done... it's done, no?

Go to hell.

Take me home. I have to wash myself.

Women... the first time
they don't feel anything.

They feel it at 30.

There's no need to insult

You should pay your Lulu for this
nice maneuver he made for himself

Reality is reality... there's
nothing else.

[Sign: Every hour is
an hour of our life]

Comrades, your assembly has
decided on 2 hours of strikes

For the regularization of the piecework.

The three united unions invite
you to not attempt provocations...

workers! 2 hours of striking are not enough
to resolve the problem of piecework! - Come!

Workers! Don't let yourselves be fooled!

No, no, no! Enough
of these provocations!

Why all these police? It's a peaceful strike of only two hours! - Calm
down, calm down... we have to guarantee the freedom of the worker!

Workers, comrades! Do not accept provocations. Calm
down! Neither from the police nor from the extremists!

Workers! They have called the
police... we have to remain united!

Workers! Follow the example of
your comrades that are here with us!

Two hours of striking are useless!
Better to stay outside all day and night!

Rather than working at the factory! For
36,000 lire a month, I pay it with my life!

What are your intentions? - Today
no one goes in. Not even the directors

But the police is around. What are we
supposed to do? - The police is always around.

And if it isn't, there's always some
loser who calls them... - Of course!

The factory works when we are inside. But if we
are outside, why would the directors go inside?

Yes ok. Ok. But for us,
the moment hasn't arrived

Neither here nor anywhere
to create a confrontation!

For you there has never been a moment for a
confrontation, neither with the owners nor with the police!

Listen listen... as if I still
haven't understood you...

we will continue to strike for two hours a day
until we get what we demand, is that clear!?

In the assembly we decided on two hours,
not a revolution! Two hours of strikes!

And which side are you on?

Calm, calm... today the
directors will not enter!

Let's go.

Form the picket-Lines up here!

Comrades! The committee of worker-Students calls
you to fight for the abolition of piecework!

No one must go into the
factory, not even the directors!

Outside, outside in the cold with us. These directors
who scientifically organize your exploitation.

Comrade-Workers! Picket-Lines are
the strength of the working-Class!

The expression of class discipline!

Everyone must be in the picket-Lines

The other scoundrels must fight
against the strength of united unions!

Let them get out of their cars!

Make way, make way... let them pass!

Let us know who you are!
Let me show us their faces!

My god! These guys will get
on! I hate... hate violence!

Workers! United! Let's
not let anyone pass!

Where you going? Where you
going!? It's dangerous...

get down! Get down! I'll pull off your ear! What are you
going to do? What you going to do in there? - No, not the ears!

Give me the microphone... tell everyone what
you're going to do in there! - I'm not going!!

What d'you mean your
not going? - Inside...

You're not going inside... so you stay here... stay
here... here with us... he's not going inside

Come on... let's pull him up... tell
the others you're not going inside!

Go back! Back... back!

Calm... stay calm...

I say this for you...

good morning engineer... there's a bit of disorder here, a
workers strike, you go ahead... we'll take care of everything...

stop! Go away!

Where you going engineer!? Where
you going? Don't take me with you!

Help! Help!

Come on!

I'm an employee... I have
nothing to do with this!

Yes? - It's me.

Are you alone? - With who should I be?

Here, take these. - Come
in. Come in... come on.

You got hurt again eh?

But!

Come on...

this is my wife.

She works at a hairdressers

These are the comrades. - What are they?

Students no?

Arturo! - Leave him there,
then he'll learn something

He's a student to no? - Arturo!

Out!

House full of strangers...

I was missing something... ah...

at least we meet people
- Yes, what nice faces we see

If you were head how I talk... you
won't understand a word!

I'm missing the clip... - Which
one's that? - The one with the dog.

There it is.

They're fugitives. - You brought them
to not be alone in the house with me.

Let's not let them recognize us...
and take this stuff off your head.

Come on. Come over there.

Who is it? - It's me.

Come in! - Hey there... we're
so hungry here...

the engineer collapsed and they took him to a
doctor... all the newspapers are talking about it!

Where is the kitchen?

8 wounded among the
police... we had 20 hurt

You going to make a sandwich there?

Hey! You were photographed!

What do they say about this in the city?

The unionists are isolated... beaten!

Lydia... be good... I forgot to tell you that these
fugitives will sleep here for two or three nights...

hey let me see! - Yes, sorry,
there's the televisions

Are there any eggs?
- No, there are none left.

The theory is correct. The struggle against the whole. If we had a strong
revolutionary party, we would reach the critical point within a few months...

the workers are ready for
power... forget the piecework

The workers? The workers?
This guy is totally incapable!

I know workers... forget communism...

listen... go across the road and
borrow a few eggs... be good -No!

You go and get them yourself, there's your
communism... - What's communism go to do with it?

Of course it's got something to do. Because
after you will behave like that -The eggs!

When you go to Rome to govern,
what will you do? What will you do!?

We'll get rid of all
the bosses no? Obviously!

What would you be without
a boss? A starving wreck!

And instead look, they've given us
everything... you have security with bosses...

what are you saying? What
are you talking about?

Let her talk no?

She cuts out the pictures
of Agnelli, she does!

Why doesn't she talk?

Here's you freedom and liberty... I?ll talk,
because anyway I?ll never become a communist! Never!

Because I?m for freedom, you understand!

And I like mink, I like it, and one day I?ll have it,
because I deserve it, you understand? Because I work!

I've worked since 12 and I
deserve it because I?m good...

poor Arturo! - Arturo!

Go Arturo! Go with you mum who'll
make a fur coat for you too!

Agnelli will make you a mink coat...

to think that even she is exploited!

Poor girl!

It's just amazing... exactly the sort of
contradictions that explode in this sort of family!

The average proletarian is exploited in factory but he models
himself on the examples given to him on the television...

newspapers... cinema...
- Of course, of course...

he lives in misery but
always imitating his exploiter

Mummy, why are we leaving?

What d'you want to do?
What d'you want to do now?

No no, stay put! Put this
stuff back. Put it back!

Then you pay me back for all
the times I?ve forgiven you

Look, I?ll get the fur-Coat
for you -You jacket Arturo!

Stop it! - I didn't say a word...

tell your mother! What did I say?
What did I say? Did I say anything?

Stop it! I can't take it anymore!

Stay here with us. Even the students are here! Stay here...
- Arturo come with me! He's not your father that guy... you idiot!

No, not the kid! Not the kid!

Go with you mother... come on... with done enough
embarrassing things in here -What you crying about?

Lulu just pretends to care about you. Don't
you remember the slaps he gave you? Stop it!

She's not gone to call anyone! - I
think that girl went to call the police!

She votes for the Christian
democrats but she?s good... please...

listen... you tell him... no... come on!

Don't get offended Lulu... we'll
see you later Lulu...

it is 7:45... go back to work calmly... but remember,
watch out for provocations and don't play the owners' game

There will be a workers assembly in the canteen
with the three united unions... thank you!

Watch out for provocations! Don't
accept the unionist blackmail

The unionists are the
slaves of the owners!

They are reformists!

To the violence of the owners,
respond with revolutionary violence!

Sabotage production and refuse to work!

Workers! Don't let
yourselves be insulted!

Massa, you can't come in... - What d'you
mean can't come in? Just wait a moment...

There is a letter for you. - What
letter? Why can't I come in?

They're not letting me in!

There! You see what
happens with your extremism?

You have to get in the middle of the road!
A worker is not a daddy's boy! Enough!

I won't do anything... stay
calm... - Lulu!

You see? I've lost my job! First
they run me over, then they fire me!

They want me dead! Strike! Strike
comrade-Workers! Let's go on strike!

To the assembly! - Wait for us Massa! This one
they will pay for... let's have an assembly!

...but a worker like me? Where do I go?
Where are we going? Eh? Are we going to school?

To the theatre? To the cemetery? To our
mums? Where do we go? Where? Where!?

Where is the little one with the beard? - At the "pizacar"
school what d'you mean at the pizacar? I lost my job!

Lulu! Lulu! Who made you do it!?

Come on! Your brain turned
upside-Down! Who made you do it?

And to think you were the engineers
favorite! Have you gone mad?

Go away! Go away! Stay calm Lulu!

Go home a sleep! Go on Lulu!

Massa! Massa! Listen. The assembly is long and
tough... listen... don't get discouraged... - Tell me the truth!

At the exit. Wait for me at the
exit. Stay calm. At the exit Massa!

At the exit?

What's the result? Is it good?

Listen Lulu. The assembly has rejected
the proposal of a long-Term strike

Now we will try again? - Rejected it?! We will return and try again,
listen to the workers... maybe trying again they will be convinced...

the assembly has decided to not leave the current plan of struggle
- You understand?

I knew it, I knew it... - You know what they're like. You
see Lulu, the situation is about adjusting the piecework...

here it's not about making a
revolution... you are always doing somersaults

Look that each time we go on strike, it's not only the owner who losses
out it's also us who don't bring home any money... you understand?!

The money! Look, the 10,000 lire for
maintaining the kid, I?ll give it to you now!

And give the kid this letter... he'll
frame it... damn it! They rejected me...

You can't keep them... he needs
them. Go and give him them! - Lulu?!

Lulu. I assure you that the
unions will defend you to the end.

I don't care. - But you
be careful. Help us.

Try and understand -What do I care?

Isolation is ugly Lulu... be careful...

now I have to go inside... stay calm.

This is an occupied school! At this moment students
discuss the essential problems of their life!

They discuss politics. Parents are asked
to leave and return to their houses!

To watch television!
- Excuse me! Excuse me!

He knows me. I'm the guy from the B.A.N.
I lost my job, my finger... you remember?

Where do I go? - Over there!

Why do you let him
pass? Why can he pass?

Would you be students as well?
- We are Sicilian immigrants.

Look at him... look at him over there...

hey it's me Lulu... it's me.

You heard that I lost my
job? - I know, I know...

I know, I know... you're here sleeping. But
this morning you could have come over there...

we can't be everywhere

But at least you? - I do what I
can... there are still few of us.

Yesterday we were in the offices. Today in the
schools. And tomorrow maybe we'll be down there...

yes... Yes... In the
lunatic-Asylum with militina...

we try, with our work, to make
the contradictions explode.

To change this way of life... - But
you've changed me 'cause I lost my job.

It's because whilst you obey your boss no one
touches you... then you become aware and your fucked.

But this you already knew, didn't
you Lulu? It's not new to you.

I'm not stupid. Even I know
how things stand, even I do.

Leave now! - Why? Let's go with these
students in front of the factory no?

We are divided, and we are few. - Few?

I have to eat, eat! You understand? - You
should know that one always finds food.

I don't what charity eh...

imagine I never said anything.
Look, I?ll just pedal... indifferent

Yours is an individual case, a personal
case, and this is not what interests us.

We want a class-Based story... you
want a personal story? You want mine?

What do I care about a personal story?

Look me in the face. I'm 30
years old. Look at my condition!

Don't shout! - I've only done three
exams, I?m sick with pyorrhoea

I got factory-Intoxicated...
- And I have pyorrhoea ok?

Massa where were you? - Where have you
popped out of? We were waiting for you

What do I have to do now? - What
do I care what you have to do?

Do whatever you like. There
are a thousand ways to live.

Try to change. Try to change!
To not live as you were used to.

Stay here with us. Now you're
unemployed you can do what you like.

Anyway, something to
eat is always found.

If you feel like it, you can
even be a full-Time activist.

Listen... don't try and be
funny. Keep your hands down!

Massa you will be hired again!

I've taken decisions that... I
know what I have to do for myself...

goodbye and best wishes again!

Massa why don't you stay
here? - You are a student.

Yes it's true, I?m a student - In
the evenings... - You are a student!

Of course! I work and I pay
for my studies! Don't talk shit.

And what are you, a
student too now? - Me? Why?

Tell everyone to leave...
- Why don't you stay here?

Yeah... with the students!

The worker has to make it
alone... even for three people

Before in the factory you didn't have
anything to do... you can't go away like this!

Listen. To hire you again we will need to fight. Why are you going?
Don't isolate yourself! Stay with your friends, it's better for you...

damn it!

Arturo! - Hi Lulu!

You all look like little workers!

What you doing around here?

Nothing. I'm here. I came to see you.

I'm glad. Mother never comes
to pick me up at school.

I go home alone.

Instead I came to meet you... didn't I?

And your son Armando what's
he doing? Is he with you?

It's a while that I don't see him

One day we'll take a trip together -Have
to see if my mum let's me go with you

She has such a character that one!

What does she say about
me now, your mother?

She always says, "that
disgrace", and then she cries.

Why do you always shout?

You like to be with me? - Yes

You look like small workers!

Which way are you going?

I go that way, no? - And
I go this way... bye.

See you! - Yeah...

bye!

The storm that moved over the Atlantic,
moved slowly towards Kazakhstan...

It's been raining piss for 10 days on all of
Lombardia... 100 dead and 10 disappeared... - 20

[A nonsense rhyme]

How are you today...? - Well...

if you tighten your eyebrows,
you get a brilliant plan

But Ugo... if you want to become mad as I am...
believe me... you have to return to the factory

I became mad in the factory.

[Nonsense talked in the background]

Down with this wall... the wall...

down... down...

down with this wall!

I brought that stuff.

The wall!

Massa! We got our first victory!
They transferred the engineer!

Lulu! We know you're there! Come out!

Open up! What you doing in there alone?

Come out! Go back to the factory!
- Lulu, the comrades need you!

Massa! Now you're a symbol... you have to come
out... all the comrades are waiting for you!

You understand that 30% of the
workers went on strike with us today?

You have to come out... to the gates!

Lulu, even you have to participate in
the fight if you want to be hired again!

Come outside, come on!

I'm selling
everything... everything... emigrate... emigrate...

couple in love... 1,500

1,500... if they give them
to me... two days work.

Dark small table with foreign stamp...

30 hours work!

5,000 lire

Picture of a clown...
10 hours... 24,000 lire

Puppets... 5,000

Radio and book of "promessi sposi"...

10,000 in Switzerland, 15,000 in
Milan... they'll give it to me here.

Crystal vase... With plastic...

2,000 lire'

This one... even brings bad luck

Various animals... prizes.

All natives

If I meet that guy who had the
idea to make all this stuff...

wizard in the kitchen opens
cans... prepares mayonnaise... sharpens knives

Magic moment

[Reads English]

Get out of here!

If I meet that guy... who has
the idea to make this stuff...

it hurts my cranium!

Four alarm clocks? Who knows why?

A museum...

where did I put them... memories...

one day I?ll put myself in here...

Bitch of a cow!

Look for them! Here they are.

Nice packet... packet of stocks

One day I?ll put myself in
there... go in there... damn it.

What you doing, checking? Checking?
You're falling now?

Being a ghost? To scare me? To
scare me? What you checking?!

I'll break you! What you
checking? I'll break you!

He checks! What are you checking?

Look mum! ' The duck exploded.

Wall... the wall.

Lulu!

Wall... the wall

Who is it? - It's us! Open up!

Is your dad not here? - Yes he is.

Quickly, wake him up!
Tell him it's important!

What is it? - There's a man.

Lulu, there are people! - There's
a man who want to speak with you

He said it was important -Who is it?

Excuse me? - It's two
or three of them...

come in!

Excuse us... It's something important.

Come into the living room,
Lulu will come right away.

Lulu! We did it! You have been hired
again! You're going back to work!

We signed tonight, at 2. We got
everything! Even on the piecework!

Lulu, what you gave was decisive

Well? Aren't you happy? - I'm happy.

You want some "grappa"?

Well, I told you we would succeed.

You told me. - This is
the result of union unity

Just imagine, it's the first time in the province
that they hire a worker fired for political reasons.

Important isn't it?
- Damn! The first time?

Militina... - Who is militina?
They didn't hire him again.

Those were other times... today
we are much stronger

More aware... today we
scare them... don't we Lulu?

Lulu, you see? Are you happy?

I am.

Come forward too...
- Come forward Bassi!

You want coffee? I'll go make coffee.

Well then... your
health! "Chin-Chin"!

Is it true? - Of course.

Worker-Comrades! We have brought victory
on the two aims we had given ourselves!

The re-Hiring of Massa, and the
regulation of piecework... - Workers!

But the fight has not ended...

...still dark! Today, after 8 hours
of forced labor, you will come out

And will be dark again!
The sun, for you, today...

will not shine! You might see a little
of it if the boss gives you permission!

Workers! Rebel! What you gained
today, is not because of the unions!

But to your will to fight!
Fight with us students!

Your immediate aim is, and
will be, all and at once!

Work! Slaves!

Work! Slaves!

You behaved badly... they
put you on the assembly line!

Look at the man's destiny!

I was back there dreaming... hey!
You hear me? I'm talking to you!

What?

I was there dreaming!
- Dreaming of what?

A wall! - Massa dreamt of...

what are they saying? I don't
understand? I can't hear!

Massa dreamt of a wall! - Dream
of a wall! Massa! An ass?

I was there dreaming of a
wall... I was... I was dead no?!

Who? - I died!

Massa dreamt that he
was dead! - Who died?!

I was buried alive... and militina
left me... - Massa died? Nice dream!

Militina? - At a certain
point, militina says...

He explains... - He says he died!

Who militina? - Militina died!

He died in the lunatic asylum!
- No, militina didn't die!

Militina says... he shouts... - What
did militina say? - Militina shouted!

He says... let's break everything
an go inside!? - We're going inside!

Yeah, let's break everything
and take over paradise!

Where is that? Where?

I don't know that, inside the
wall... on the other side of paradise...

he says, let's break
everything and go inside

I don't say anything... and
anyway... I have a tremendous vision!

Just imagine! There was a guy with his head
in one place and his body 10 meters away.

I still remember it.
Down with this wall!

Down with this wall!
Down with the wall...

and the wall went down!

It went down. - Yes but what
was there!? What was there?

Inside this wall?

There was fog. - What fog?

Yes, but what was there in this fog?

At first nothing. Then I started to
look, and I saw militina come out of it

Who? - Militina! Who is militina?

A guy at the lunatic asylum

Then I saw a manual-Laborer,
an idiot with a missing finger

And I said, who is that? And I
thought... but that's me! Holy shit!

Try to fix it! One by one
you all came forward...

we were all there... in the
wall... In the dust, in the fog...

but what does it mean?
- What does it mean!?

3, 6, 42, eternal century here...

hey Napoli! 6, 7, 42!

Wow he's slow in understanding
that guy... what does it mean?

It means that if there's a wall to
knock down we knock it down, no?!

Wow, he's slow that guy! Damn...

I understood Massa! - But I haven't yet
understood you... who you are, what you want...

I want to immediately knock
down the wall, that's who I am!

Was I there? Was I there? - I don't
know, I think so... where was I!?

In the fog? In paradise?
Is there fog in paradise

Was I there? - I don't know
if even you were there!

What do I care? - Why don't
you have a nice dream then?!

At the lunatic asylum, was I there? Inside the wall?
- Look! Even I wasn't there... there was no one there!

Forget what I said!