Night Train to Lisbon

359 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,160 I need their beauty and grandeur 360 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,600 against the dirty colors of military uniforms. 361 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,720 I love the powerful words of the Bible. 362 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,160 I need the force of its poetry. 363 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,550 I need it against the decay of language 364 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,120 and the dictatorship of worthless slogans. 365 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,600 But there is another world I do not wish to live in. 366 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,360 A world in which independent thinking is disparaged, 367 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,000 and the finest things we can experience denounced as sin. 368 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,440 A world in which our love 369 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,600 is demanded by tyrants, oppressors and assassin. 370 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,920 And most absurdly, people are exhorted from the pulpit 371 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,000 to forgive these creatures and even to love them. 372 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,760 It is for this reason we cannot just put the Bible aside. 373 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,280 We have to throw it away completely. 374 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,890 for it speaks only of vain holier-than-thou. 375 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,840 In his omnipresent, the Lord observes us day and night. 376 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,800 He takes note of our acts and thoughts. 377 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,760 But what is a man without secrets? 378 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,440 Without thoughts and wishes that he, and he alone, knows? 379 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,680 Does the Lord our God not consider 380 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,320 He's stealing our soul with his unbridled curiosity, 381 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,920 a soul that should be immortal? 382 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,200 But who would in all seriousness want to be immortal? 383 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,000 How boring to know that what happens today, 384 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,480 this month, this year, does not matter? 385 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,720 Nothing would count. 386 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,880 No one here knows what it would be like to live eternally. 387 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,320 And it's a blessing we never will. 388 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,400 One thing I can assure you, 389 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,890 it would be hell, this endless paradise of immortality. 390 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,680 It is death and only death, 391 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,280 that gives each moment beauty and horror. 392 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,290 Only through death is time living thing. 393 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,810 Why does the Lord not noticed? 394 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,680 Why does He threaten us with a... endlessness 395 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,280 that can only be unbearably desolate? 396 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,080 I would not want to live in a world without cathedrals. 397 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,530 I need the luster of their windows, 398 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,200 their cool stillness, their imperious silence. 399 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,450 I need the holiness of words, the grandeur of great poetry. 400 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,370 But just as much I need the freedom 401 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,720 to rebel against everything that is cruel in this world. 402 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,682 For the one is nothing without the other. 403 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:08,160 And no one may force me to choose. 404 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:52,920 What do you think? 405 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:58,360 I though you would deliver a speech in Latin. 406 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,640 But then, only a very few, would understood it. 407 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,560 Are you friends with that boy? 408 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,360 We are the best of friends. 409 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,920 All of those faces, and more, 410 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,840 came to his funeral. 411 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:31,760 He died on the day of the Revolution. 412 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,960 Oh so, they all brought red carnations. 413 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,800 I dared not speak any words about God 414 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,210 after what Amadeu called "His empty promises." 415 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,880 But I did allow myself... 416 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,080 one religious word. 417 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:54,640 Amen. 418 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,560 I was very proud of him. 419 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,240 And why did you never tell him, papa? 420 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:02,960 To this day, I never found out what secret bound those two together, 421 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,170 and what that to do with Amadeu. 422 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,760 - My brother is not here. -