SCREAM OF THE ANTS
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Hey, boy!
Going?
Do you think the train coming?
Do not train?
What time is the train passes?
The train is not coming.
Is a way for a vacant lot.
I rubbed her feet.
Nothing heals.
Nothing? Heal?
Why is it always have to argue?
Look at yourself! From the beginning,
our trip you want one, I another.
Do you know why?
Want to know why?
In order to live, I must
stroking your hair, kiss your lips,
put your head on your chest,
to hear your heartbeat.
Look at your feet!
Dry as a shrub in the desert!
Stop it. I'm not in the mood.
I'm sorry, are you from?
I'm sorry, are you from?
I do not know.
It is better said in English.
Where are you, lady?
We are from Iran.
- Nice to meet you.
- Me too. Are you a tourist?
No, I am a journalist from the south of India.
I believe
you want to meet with Seyi Baba?
No, not with Seyi Baba.
Then, perhaps, with the Dalai Lama.
Dalai - who?
You know the Dalai Lama?
Spiritual leader, who lives in the Himalayas.
No, I do not know.
Then what brings you to India?
We are looking for a special person.
Special person?
We are all special in India.
What is that special person?
This person is called
Ideal or perfect man.
I'm the perfect man.
Do not you think?
No, I believe you.
What does he do?
This perfect man?
He performs miracles in people's lives.
You know, most of the foreigners,
coming to India, stupid.
We are stupid?
Yes. No offense to my words.
Because you do not chase after those things.
What is a miracle?
What is, in your opinion, a miracle?
I do not believe in miracles. I believe in reality.
All the world's a miracle.
This heat - a miracle. Life - a miracle.
What is a miracle, do you think?
What is a miracle, do you think?
I can
a long list. You wonder.
Sorry. I did not hear.
For example, you wonder. You are very beautiful.
Such a miracle.
You wonder.
Your smile - a miracle. So beautiful.
Can I?
Your husband, quarreling with you
Non-violence in the country - a miracle.
Tourists coming to India - a miracle.
We have a lot of miracles. Life - a miracle.
What can you say?
Yes, but this man
doing something special with people's lives.
We came to see him.
For this
we came to India. My husband and me.
What a coincidence. I'm here to
take a picture of a miracle for his newspaper.
But you do not believe in miracles.
I came to find out if this is true.
As a journalist,
You must be very busy in India.
The wonders of high demand,
foreigners come after them.
I always have a lot of work.
Presumably, the old man can
stop the train look.
Look? Svom look?
So people say.
I came to find out if this is true.
I agreed with the engineer.
I am going to look at it up close.
If you want to come with me.
We can go with you?
Hey, are you still angry?
He says he is a man,
which stops the train look.
Want to see it?
- Why not?
- But it was not allowed to fight.
Okay, we'll go with you.
How long are you here?
I can not imagine
how much. Probably 7 or 8 years.
Why did you come here?
I came to this place,
Because I am a lot of grief.
I have traveled and came here.
And my soul asked: what is the meaning of life?
I was in mourning.
I sat there, thinking,
that will train and move me.
But then
I fainted from hunger and cold.
Then my soul said:
"Even the train is not coming. What is the point to die?"
I did not move.
I sat here.
Finally, the train came.
The engineer stopped the train.
The passengers got off the train and said:
"Baba, how did you
stop the train look? "
I said, "Brethren, I do not stop
train. This driver stopped the train. "
He said - he can stop
train? This driver stops the train.
They say that you are giving advice
everyone who comes here.
I do not give serious advice. I do not want
stop the train with his eyes.
Here come the poor,
They beg for food from the passenger trains.
They will not let me out of here. I am here
trapped. If only someone had taken
me out. I am filled with sadness.
It has no magical powers.
That's why I'm here. Somebody
save me. Get me out of here.
I miss my children.
He says, "Save me.
Take me away from here.
People will not let me go.
Bring me back to my family. "
You know,
it is a good idea. But these people are dangerous.
Take a chair!
Let him go! Let him go!
How beautiful!
Your eyes are a tourist.
Give me the camera, I'll show you the truth.
My mind is in turmoil.
Love ...
Death ...
All this nonsense.
I do not understand
what a great beauty you see here.
It's really beautiful,
I just do not see it?
Am I
longer distinguish between beauty and ugliness?
They are all so friendly.
They say
Gandhi loved the poor,
but his rejection of violence
was convenient for the rich.
Check it out! This boy is laughing.
Why is he laughing?
I came to vanity
in theory, then in practice.
First, poverty ...
poverty ...
impotence or indifference.
They stand for hours
in line for a piece of bread.
They go on about non-violence,
but nonviolence turned violent.
They seemed to sleep,
being in a collective stupor.
Why is there no revolution in the country,
where 99% of the population lives in poverty?
India for me
not a starting point. It is the final point.
What is God's answer to poverty and misery?
His reply to you
definitely not divine socialism.
On poverty
God's answer - the small joys.
When you are hungry, a crust of bread - joy.
When you are thirsty,
a drop of water - bliss.
When you are tired,
sleep gives you the highest joy.
To find real happiness,
you must first lose everything.
Because happiness is not infinite.
This is some
certain moments, such as minutes of laughter.
When many of these moments,
they gather and form a line.
I think the poor man happier
what people like us,
who believe they have reached the end.
People wonder why God is pleased
to the rich, but prefers the poor.
God made them poor, so He
can bestow them with something very small.
Whatever it was, it remains
question of why he does not like the rich?
Who created them, if not God himself?
Or there is no God,
or is terribly unfair.
I'm sorry.
I love you.
Recently, we did not say it to each other.
You're such a
This beautiful Indian saris.
Today I want to start my life anew.
I want to see the world through your eyes.
I want everything to be beautiful.
I want tonight
be filled and drained you.
Today, I want to kiss
your legs and kiss your hands,
put your head on your chest and go to sleep,
lulling beat of your heart.
India is beautiful tonight.
You know the story of Gandhi?
No.
On a day when Gandhi's father died,
all night he made love to his wife.
After that, he despised himself.
He asked himself
how could he be so nasty,
that succumbed to petty pleasure
to forget the heartbreak?
He has since decided to make love
for conceiving children.
Want me to do it too, just once?
What?
Only once, to conceive a child?
As a father, I would have no one
not invited to this stupid world.
I have become a mother.
This will be the beginning
my tragedy as a father,
if I invite
someone in this miserable world.
My love!
Please think a little bit.
Is the child does not want to be born?
What if he grows up and asks,
what gave birth to him at the light?
If he asks why you helped
he is born, what did you say?
Do we say:
"Forgive us, you're the product of a random union
In India sperm your father
egg and your mother? "
You know, no creature
was not created by an act of love.
We are all a product of neglect pair
at the time of sexual intercourse.
At the moment of negligence,
when a man and woman do not interrupt
act of love
at the top of his orgasm.
I'm afraid of the child who
born or a murderer, or a victim.
As half charge
for his birth, I could not answer him.
Can not you hear the baby crying?
He in his own protests against birth
in this world, clearly unable to take it
and feed in the world, which
do not even pretend to justice.
And look at his stupid mother.
She thinks that he is hungry
and puts it in his mouth parched chest.
You know, to be a father - it's like
that tell the world: "I was born,
I tried life
and she seems fine.
I feel
it is my duty - to have a baby. "
No, I'm afraid
become a father, because I feel
that it will be
my first son's betrayal.
We have come to India in the wake of
Gandhi, in the footsteps of Mother Teresa.
But I was stupid,
time came to catch up with our love.
Two frustrated man
make a philosophical journey.
I'd rather spend the night with the dogs in the street
and leave you alone with Mother Teresa.
Where are you going?
Look, sir.
You do not need a woman for the night?
Only 60 dollars.
Do you want a woman?
Listen to me!
Do not want a hot woman for the night?
If sex is important to you,
for me the importance of money.
Man would not
sell themselves. Only things are sold.
Then why do so?
I have a chair and desk chair needed.
It is worth the higher price,
if I'll be your desk.
What are these things in your room?
The gods.
How many gods you have in India?
We are 3 million.
What is this God?
It is the god of dance.
Do not smoke,
I will not breathe. Please.
Do not smoke.
And this?
It is the god of power.
I prefer the power of God.
I do not like useless gods.
Do not look at me like that. I was
embarrassing. I really want to understand
How do you get lonely
before the big bang.
What is it with you,
If you decided to create us out of nothing?
Where is your power?
What is this world that you've created?
I'm in space.
I long to be obsessed with you.
Enough freedom!
I can not bear it!
You cow standing
four legs on the ground. God - in heaven.
It is He who has created women and wine.
They say he had made it, you know?
You're nobody. But ... There is something right
the two things that you have created.
Women and wine.
Thank you for the women.
Thank you for the wine.
And I forgot to thank
you for what you have created a cigarette.
You heard me!
You came down to the ground?
Is that you? What are you doing here?
You came to see what happened to yours
servants? You came to see me?
You are so beautiful. The same person,
as we are. It is good that you are a woman.
If
I knew that I would be a believer.
It's your fault
are you filled
my head wisely, not wine.
We want to see a perfect man.
The perfect man? The car?
At a meeting with the perfect man
no one goes to the car, ma'am.
All go on foot. That's better.
He said that we'd better walk.
But we can get lost. We do not know
road. How much time do we have to go?
Foot - two days.
By car - hour.
By car in just an hour.
It would be better if we go.
You can not take us there?
- Please.
- Thank you.
But you know, my friend, I'll tell you one thing.
If you go to a perfect man,
you can see the good things. But if the
you go on foot, you will have a vision.
What kind of person
This perfect man? Say it.
The perfect man? Oh, God!
You've heard what they say about him.
He is a divine person.
You have to see it. Say
His face lights up like a flower.
Lower the window. The wind will carry it.
No, please do not open!
Please do not open the window!
A fly can fly.
We have to bring it back to the same place.
He takes us back?
He's crazy!
What's with him?
He's crazy. Let's go out.
He is coming back.
What can we do?
It reminded me
grandfather. He was a great singer.
Look.
He remembers his grandfather.
You turn around? Are you going back?
I shall return.
It is unlikely that it will take
Tell him to stop.
Why are you laughing?
Foot? Are you sure?
Do not laugh.
Tell him that we walk.
Wait. Stop, please.
We want to get out.
We want to go here.
Stop! Stop!
Why do you speak French?
Stop the car.
We want to get out. Stop the car!
I ask you to stop!
Tell him
that if he was a believer,
he would not
We disembark from the insect.
Every step we kill at least
one ant. We have to choose.
If you want to see
a perfect man,
you have to become a killer ants.
If you stop,
you will become a victim.
I am a killer.
I'm a murderer, because I go.
Forgive me, God.
God, get the ants out of my way.
I gotta go.
Dead ant.
I heard him scream.
God, can you hear the cries of your ants?
One ant died.
Two ants.
Three ant.
Four. Five.
God, are you listening? You hear them moan?
You saddened by the death of your ants?
Hello
Hello
- Do you speak in English?
- A little bit.
Sorry, what's your name?
People call me a shepherd.
We are looking for
Perfect man. Do you know where he is?
Yes, I know. Follow me.
You saw it?
I've seen it several times.
- Did you see how he's doing wonders?
- No.
Why do people doing a
a long way to see it?
Ask them.
He is an interesting man.
Do you believe in God?
Every man is his own God.
Who do you ask for help,
When you are lonely or you suffer?
Birth - suffering.
Death - suffering. Defeat - suffering.
Victory - suffering. All that we have,
all that we have, they are also suffering.
Is suffering. Desire is also suffering.
Yes, but what do you think?
Do you think God exists?
God exists or not.
If you say that God is,
what it is. If you say,
that He does not exist, then He is not.
This is his home.
Call him and wait.
If it will not be long to answer you,
do not despair. Continue to call.
Monsieur perfect man!
Monsieur perfect man!
The perfect man! Are you here?
Is there anyone over the world?
Sorry.
I had to take the cows in the shade.
Do you also live here?
Yes. Who would you like to see?
You know.
We are looking for the perfect man.
I was the name of the people.
Your name Shepherd.
Everybody calls me differently.
But you said that you saw
Perfect person a few times.
In our house there is no mirror.
Mirror creates selfishness. I saw myself
only a few times, as reflected in the water.
So what can I do for you?
My friend and ...
Tell me at least "my favorite."
My husband and I had a long
way from Iran to see you.
I'm so excited.
I do not know what to say.
I can not imagine you ...
Sorry for my words,
but you are such a simple,
an ordinary man.
My husband was once a communist.
I used to be religious,
and now only believe in God.
You could not ...
Sorry ... I'm confused.
Could you give me some advice?
New faith? Maybe
New God in whom we must believe?
If you have a piece of paper
or notebook, I write to you.
You do not need advice?
I believe devoid of talent.
Tell him to give me your email
address, I will be with him sometimes in the chat.
I only have a phone book.
These numbers connect me with my past.
You do not write to me
anything that would put me in the future?
I am writing to each of its handle.
I have only this.
I was very uncomfortable,
you can write it?
Sorry.
Why are you turning
back to him? It's not polite!
Three days later, hold the sheet
paper over a fire in the Holy City.
This will help you understand your future.
You see. He's an idiot. And you said
that he is a perfect man.
You're in my naivete
admire such people.
I forgot to sit on a chair,
that he could have re-married.
Can God officials
bless love?
I promised the teacher that Perfect
people sit on it and made it holy.
Such a sacred souvenir for him.
None ass can not consecrate this chair.
What are you trying to prove?
I left everything for you.
Even parents. But you are so selfish that
unable to face the man.
What are you trying to prove?
It's nothing. I'm just looking for the way
how do I get rid of doubts
and their prejudices. Do you understand?
I went with you, because I thought
that you seek the truth. I despise all those who
found the truth.
Anyone who finds the truth
becoming fascist.
I do not want to talk about God.
I'm a murderer, because I'm going.
God, forgive me!
Get rid of the ants out of my way.
I gotta go.
One ant died.
I heard him moaning.
One ant died.
Two ants ...
Three ant ...
Four ...
Five ...
O God, whom I love so much!
I'm looking for shelter under your roof.
Without You
my boat will sink in the ocean of ignorance.
Nailed my boat to shore.
Please
Come, let me hold you.
O God, whom I love so much!
I'm looking for shelter under your roof.
Without You
my boat will sink in the ocean of ignorance.
Nailed my boat to shore.
I revived many times.
I remember their past lives.
Once I was a cow.
One yogi once Maharajas.
Do not know what I did
did in past lives
God made me
now sick and poor.
I want to get rid of this world.
I want to die in Benares
and never to be born.
I'm waiting for God will
me. Help me, please.
What says the old woman?
These people believe that all creatures
that all human beings are not born once.
This is a very tedious cycle of life.
They are very tired
of involuntary suffering.
And they believe that if they die
in the holy place, the holy city,
they no longer have to be born
again and again. It stops.
All that is born again and again
causes of suffering - stop
but they need to give their ashes
River Ganges. Then all the suffering will end.
You speak very well in English.
Where are you from? Not from India.
In this life, I was born in Germany.
Led not very happy life. When
I turned 40, I decided to go to India.
For January 3 years I was there.
People call it the religious life.
I would call it
attempt to find the ultimate truth.
You have never lived in the jungle?
The last 4 years I lived in Burme.
Into storm forest. Once a day you go
for food, then came back to his house.
No one to blame. Only an idiot
that there is reeling - is you.
So you're starting to be very careful
relate to conviction. If
you will judge yourself, then you will suffer.
There are a lot of animals.
You learn to respect animals.
Why did you leave Germany?
Negative cause separation
with this old conventional life was that
I have not been particularly successful.
A positive reason was
I looked at his work and said:
"Is that all?" There must be something else.
Why did you leave the Western countries?
By and large, the most real,
you need to do - is to get the soul
and let it do what it is supposed
do soul. You can not burden our soul
endless reflections
then the soul becomes like a stone.
We must learn not to burden the soul all
the thinking that debris and help people
who know how to do it.
Concentrate on that,
Do not concentrate on that.
In the end, you have found the reality?
No. Finally, we find
that life does not give any guarantees.
I do not guarantee that I will get
the final release of
force loop
birth, death and rebirth.
But, in any case,
I am convinced that doing real business.
This case is just worth it.
Other cases only meet
some sense of satisfaction.
Chasing money, or
for glory, or even for something like this,
would run around in circles,
as demented mouse, like a hamster.
You want to say,
that help people to die?
I do not help them to commit suicide.
But I help them to focus on something
higher than 5 of pleasure
or the pursuit of some crazy idea.
Concentrate and work
on something bigger and grander
on value and quality. It turns out
the mind of the soul quite small and very fragile,
almost like a child's mind.
You will not regret?
I'm sorry? No.
The first thing he should
learn - is not afraid of death.
The second, which it must
learn - it is not to have regrets.
The third thing he has to learn -
be cheerful, when death comes.
My husband gave all our money
prostitute. Now we have no money,
to go to the hotel. You will not be
mind if we stay here for the night?
I hope this night become a mother.
This boat is
possible. We have enough space.
Thank you.
This is the mother river of holy Ganges.
People give the river the dead.
They give the Ganges ashes of the dead.
They pee in it and drink its water.
Here you can see life and death.
You saw a woman's body floating in the river?
Tell him that if God exists,
He created this world as a game, and he
expects nothing from his servants, except
mockery of his insane creation.
If God exists, He
certainly regrets that he had made man.
It therefore allows a person
have children, but destroys them by the thousands,
in floods, storms and earthquakes.
Mom, do not worry, we will find firewood.
In excess. Do not worry about it.
This pyre is lit
always. Of it will not go away.
In rich countries, will not see this.
But here you really
can see this in detail.
Because of this, people really get tired,
even scared, because it's so obvious,
so badly.
No escape. Only burning.
If this was the end, it would
relief, because the suffering is over.
But after burning - again birth.
After all, at this point people are convinced
we die, we are reborn, die
reborn, die, reborn.
After all, it is mandatory
terrible suffering.
Do you see that? He was
rich man. Lots of wood.
And the fire is very small. Poor
He was a man. And his body is hard to burn.
Family worried,
they are unlikely to burn his body.
Rich off well.
Even after the death of a wealthy family
is glad that his body
quickly consumed. Even after death
You can distinguish the rich from the poor.
If this was the last burning ...
Somehow have survived, and said,
"Well, now that it happened."
But in this culture
people really believe
that after death they will be back again.
The new birth and a lifetime of suffering,
burning, rebirth, death,
rebirth, death, and it is compulsory
rotation scares these
people. They suffer so much.
They are not very aggressive.
They simply ask: "Why, why?"
They want to go ... They want to
get out of this vicious circle.
In this world of so much crap!
The world is not stable, the world is full of shit.
You're all in the shit. Shit flowing streams.
Shit coming down on you.
And this shit is not just here.
Shit follows you.
Shit rotates poured on you.
And in different cultures
people in different ways to explain it.
For example,
Catholics say, "You've earned it."
Protestant:
"Now this is happening to others."
Muslims say:
"This is the will of Allah."
The Jews always say, "Why
it always happen to us? "
Buddhists say
"In fact, it is not shit."
In Japan, Zen Buddhists say:
"Listen to the sound of falling shit."
But, you know, it's just a theory.
This is just some solutions
invented by people,
trying to comfort others.
Help people get out of the shit.
Come on. We need to make
something interesting and important.
Give. Come on.
Close your eyes.
Your ears and just breathe.
Your ears and just breathe.
That was your lesson today.
Sorry.
Want to buy a flower? 1 0 Rs.
Throw in the Ganges. Do you? Want to buy a flower?
Why?
Why should I buy you a flower?
Throw it into the Ganges with your name.
It will bring good luck to your family.
I have no family.
Write the name of your child.
I do not have a child.
This will help it gain?
- Do you have a match?
- I have.
I need a fire
something to read.
Take a look. I can not read.
You do not help me to read it?
This is in Hindi.
I will speak in English.
I crossed the seven seas.
Climbed the seven hills.
Passed all of the valley.
Across the vast plains.
At all times of the year.
I traveled all over the world.
And when I got home,
I was amazed to see the whole world
in a tiny droplet on a piece in my garden.
Protagonist: Mamoud Chokrollahi
Main character: Manur Shadzi
Joint production
Wild Bunch and Makhmalbaf Film House
Director, writer, editor
Mohsen Makhmalbaf