The wild Diamond dialogues

by Mikis Mazarakis

soundtracked from youtube with
fela kuti - water no get enemy

PART 1

HUMAN BEING 1
She is perfect.

HUMAN BEING 2
Yes. She is perfect.

HUMAN BEING 1
Young. First time in big town. Money last thing on mind.

HUMAN BEING 2
Exactly. Can you see it?

HUMAN BEING 1
Yeah, I see it. In her left pocket.

HUMAN BEING 2
No. Not that.

HUMAN BEING 1
What? Wait. Who are you?

HUMAN BEING 2
I am not.

HUMAN BEING 1
Why are you talking to me? I don’t know you.

HUMAN BEING 2
I know, you lost me long time ago.

HUMAN BEING 1
Whatever.

silence

HUMAN BEING 2
I’m going to jump from the top of this building in five minutes.

HUMAN BEING 1
Are you commiting suicide?

HUMAN BEING 2
I suppose that’s what you would call it.

HUMAN BEING 1
Have fun.

HUMAN BEING 2
Will you save my life?

HUMAN BEING 1
No one is going to save your life.

HUMAN BEING 2
You want a bet?

HUMAN BEING 1
How‘s that??

HUMAN BEING 2
In five minutes
I will jump from the top of this building.
I bet you my life will be saved.

silence

HUMAN BEING 1
How much?

HUMAN BEING 2
You decide.

silence

HUMAN BEING 1
It’s high.

HUMAN BEING 2
Very high.

silence

HUMAN BEING 1
How about fifty?

HUMAN BEING 2
Let’s make it one hundred.

PART 2

HUMAN BEING 1
How could you be saved?

HUMAN BEING 2
That‘s not the question.

HUMAN BEING 1
You know that no one is going to save you, right?

HUMAN BEING 2
Why not?

HUMAN BEING 1
They don’t see.
They don’t bother to. Trust me, I know.

HUMAN BEING 2
I trust you.

PART 3

HUMAN BEING 1
So how does it feel?

HUMAN BEING 2
What?

HUMAN BEING 1
Knowing that in a few minutes, you will die.

HUMAN BEING 2
Oh. Nothing special.
I’ve done this before.

HUMAN BEING 1
Really?
Does it hurt?

HUMAN BEING 2
Not at all. It’s amazing.

HUMAN BEING 1
You know, I’m not going to help you.

HUMAN BEING 2
I’m not going to help you.

PART 4

HUMAN BEING 4
What are you doing?

HUMAN BEING 3
Searching.

HUMAN BEING 4
I’m already here.

silence

HUMAN BEING 4
Are you thinking of home?

HUMAN BEING 4
Are you thinking of mom?

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
I’m thinking of me.

PART 5

HUMAN BEING 5
Oh no! Oh no! Did you see? Did you see?
I saw! I saw! Oh no! Aah!
That hurts, that hurts! Aah!
Do you know how much that hurts?
Do you know?
I know! I know! Aah! Oh no! Look at him,
look at him!
Look how much it hurts! How much! Oh no!
He wants to scream but can’t scream!
Oh no! I know!
He wants to cry but can’t!
Oh no! He just wants to die! Yes I know,
all he wants is to die!
So much pain! Oh no!
Scream stranger in pain, scream!
Thank God I am not you,
dear stranger in pain!
Oh thank you God for letting me not be
this stranger in pain!
Oh, how much it hurts, I know I know!
Aah! Oh no!
Oh thank you stranger in pain!
Thank you for being you and not being me! Thank you, thank you!
Aah! Oh no! Thank you!

 

 

PART 6

HUMAN BEING 6
Where is your sister?

HUMAN BEING 4
Not here.

HUMAN BEING 6
Far away?

HUMAN BEING 4
Far away.

silence

HUMAN BEING 6
How is she doing?

HUMAN BEING 4
She’s doing fine. Don‘t worry.

silence

HUMAN BEING 6
Don’t worry! What have you done with my daughter?

HUMAN BEING 4
What have you done with your daughter?

HUMAN BEING 6
I could call the police.

HUMAN BEING 4
Me too.

silence

HUMAN BEING 6
Your father is sorry.

HUMAN BEING 4
Me too.

silence

HUMAN BEING 6
What do you want?

HUMAN BEING 4
Money

PART 7

HUMAN BEING 3
Hallo.

HUMAN BEING 1
Hi.

HUMAN BEING 3
What are you doing?

HUMAN BEING 1
Eating.

HUMAN BEING 3
And when you’re not eating?

HUMAN BEING 1
I think.

HUMAN BEING 3
Why?

HUMAN BEING 1
To escape it.

HUMAN BEING 3
What?

HUMAN BEING 1
Thinking.

PART 8

HUMAN BEING 1
Are you there?

HUMAN BEING 1
Are you there?

silence

HUMAN BEING 1
What are you doing?

HUMAN BEING 3
No, not like that, you’re still out of rhythm.

HUMAN BEING 1
What?

HUMAN BEING 3
You’re out of rhythm.

HUMAN BEING 1
You’re the one that’s out of rhythm.

PART 9

HUMAN BEING 3
It’s small in there, isn‘t it?

HUMAN BEING 1
Yeah.

HUMAN BEING 3
It’s dark, isn‘t it?

HUMAN BEING 1
Yeah.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
What am I going to do now?

HUMAN BEING 1
I don’t know.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
Where will you start?

HUMAN BEING 1

Start what?

HUMAN BEING 3
Searching.

HUMAN BEING 1
Myself.

HUMAN BEING 3
How?

silence

HUMAN BEING 1
What do you want from me?

HUMAN BEING 3
Your words.

PART 10

HUMAN BEING 3
How are you doing?

HUMAN BEING 1
I’m fine.

HUMAN BEING 3
Any progress?

HUMAN BEING 1
Yes.

HUMAN BEING 3
Can you show me?

HUMAN BEING 1
No.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
I’m doing fine as well.

silence

HUMAN BEING 1
Okey.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
Bye.

PART 11

HUMAN BEING 1
The first lie? The day I was born.

HUMAN BEING 3
And where are you now?

HUMAN BEING 1
At the 12th of december, sixteen years ago.

HUMAN BEING 3
You don’t search very fast.

HUMAN BEING 1
Seventeen years ago was hard.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
What’s the first thing you’ll do, when you get out?

HUMAN BEING 1
I don’t know.

HUMAN BEING 3
Don’t you miss anything?

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
Why not?

HUMAN BEING 1
There‘s nothing to miss when being yesterday.

HUMAN BEING 3
And tomorrow?

HUMAN BEING 1
I don‘t know. Not there yet.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
I don’t miss you.

HUMAN BEING 1
Okey.

PART 12

HUMAN BEING 3
Where are your parents?

HUMAN BEING 7
I have no parents.

silence

HUMAN BEING 7
Mother abandoned me.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
Have you found her?

HUMAN BEING 7
No.

HUMAN BEING 3
How do you know?

silence

HUMAN BEING 7
I have found her in my dreams.

silence

HUMAN BEING 3
Was she sorry?

HUMAN BEING 7
I hope.

HUMAN BEING 3
I have hope.

 

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