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Plastic Killer
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Amparo survives in an old deserted haberdashery with Carmela (Laura Gómez-Lacueva), a plastic bag which she considers her own daughter.
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Main credits
Pozo, Jose (film director)
Pozo, Jose (screenwriter)
Pozo, Jose (film producer)
Ortiz, David (film producer)
Gómez-Lacueva, Laura (actor)
Mota, José (actor)
Terri, Elisabet (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Luis Ángel Pérez; editing, Pep Carrique; music, Óscar Araujo.
Distributor subjects
Short Films; Women; Mental Health; FamilyKeywords
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I told you so, Carmela,
...I don’t like when you go out alone.
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The streets are dangerous and people
nowadays aren’t what they used to be.
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Before, you could go wherever you wanted,
everyone loved you. But now...
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...now it would be best if you rest a while,
and I’ll draw you a bath.
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Just look at you! You’re a mess.
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TWO DAYS AGO
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I see you!
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I’m your neighbor,
...from the fifth floor.
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Yes, I’ve seen you before.
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They call you the stuck-up chick.
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- What’s your name?
- Nancy.
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Of course, ...like the doll.
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I’m going to be straight with you.
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Will you also be going shopping today?
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Well, I’ll answer that with another question...
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How the hell is that your business?
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It’s my business if you are going to use
that element derived from petroleum
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that is known as polyethylene
in various states of thickness,
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...with it’s main function being to carry products
and to collect trash from your home.
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Are you going shopping with that
old disgusting plastic bag?
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Although it would still be disgusting if it were new.
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But it couldn’t be new, because they
no longer make those fucking bags.
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THEY’RE BANNED!!!
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You’ll wake up my child!
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- What bag are you talking about?
- Don’t play dumb with me.
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Your continuous infractions were the main topic
yesterday at the neighborhood meeting.
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...And,
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you can’t live here, it’s illegal, …and you know it.
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This is my house!
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Your house? We’re going to seize this dump.
You haven’t paid dues to our community.
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Also, this place is a danger for us,
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...anyone could come in from the street
because the blinds are always open.
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They’ve always been open.
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This place was inaugurated
by my great grandmother Amparo,
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and it belonged to my grandmother Amparo,
then to my mother Amparo, and now,
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...now, if you’ll excuse me...
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- I know a plastic shoe when I see one.
- Huh!
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You have 24 hours to hand over that bag or...
...we’ll go to the police.
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Shit. I don’t know how to read.
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Romualdo García, police inspector.
Are you Amparo de Dios?
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May I come in?
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What for?
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OPEN UP, YOU WHORE!!!
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Have a seat.
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Your family?
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No.
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Would you like?
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Yes, I’m always up for a cup of coffee.
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I’m sorry, this is the last of it.
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I see...
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Do you live here?
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Yes, of course.
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Well, no,
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...as a seamstress, I have to put in long hours.
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This store belonged to my saint of a mother,
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and the neighborhood folks would give us
things to patch up at all hours...
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...so I finally just transferred here.
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So you do live here...
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I just told you I don’t.
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Well, I didn’t come for that.
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I want to apologize for insulting you at the door
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...it’s something I can’t control.
I’ve had Tourette’s Syndrome since I was fifteen...
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Don’t worry. Folks have been
insulting me way before that.
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It’s something in the nervous system
that affects the brain and the nerves,
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and forces me to make sudden repeated movements
..also known as vocal tics.
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Do you live alone?
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No, …with my baby.
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- I didn’t know you had a daughter.
- I wasn’t aware we knew each other...
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- We don’t, but I’m sure you know why I’m here...
- NO.
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What a nice word. No.
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- Yes, right?
- NO.
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Look, they found her body last night
on the Arganzuela bridge.
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She had gotten a life-threatening beating.
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Do you know her?
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- Very little. Poor thing, may she rest in peace.
- I didn’t say she was dead.
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- What happened to your face?
- Don’t worry. It’s been like that since birth.
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I’m talking about that bruise...
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- Sorry.
- You seem tired.
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That’s my narcolepsy.
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My mother always told me not to take drugs.
They destroy you.
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It’s a chronic disorder that’s incurable.
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I also suffer from cataplexy, a rapid loss
of voluntary muscle tone that can hit at any time.
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It happens when I’m extremely tense
or when I laugh a lot, or...
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Well, ...it’ll pass in two minutes.
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You can open a Chinese bazaar,
...you’ve got everything.
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You haven’t told me if you’re married,
or if you have a partner...
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I’ve never been with a man.
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But you have a daughter...
BITCH! FUCKING WHORE!!!
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Carmela, ...but she’s adopted.
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And where is she now? At school?
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No, I don’t believe in the school system.
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Anyway, I adopted her twenty years ago.
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May I speak with her?
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The poor girl is wiped out.
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She tends to come back dirty when she goes out at night,
but never as bad as yesterday.
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- This bag is yours?
- What bag are you talking about?
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It’s smeared with blood...
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- I have to give her a bath and clean off all this mess.
- That’s not going to happen.
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...I’m going to have to ask you not to come close
to the bag from this moment on.
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Thanks!
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What are you going to do?
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No, no, no... my child does not like
to have her picture taken, huh?
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Don't touch her, you bastard!
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- Stand back and let me do my job.
- Don't shout, you'll wake up the child
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- I WON’T SAY IT AGAIN!
- Don't do this!
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BITCH ON WHEELS! SLUT!!!
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You fell asleep again.
Would you like a coffee?
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No, thanks.
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Do you speak german?
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Four little words my mother’s legionnaire
boyfriend taught me.
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He always wanted to teach me things.
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Have you seen her?
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She looks much better after having a bath,
but she’s gone back to sleep.
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Maybe she has the same thing you have?
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Amparo,
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...you’ve gotten yourself into a lot of trouble.
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What have you done?
You took out my SIM card?
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What card? I’ve never had one
of those gadgets in my life.
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If you’re not leaving me any other choice,
I’m going to have to arrest you for obstructing evidence.
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Because I bathed my child?
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That thing is not your daughter.
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It’s a plastic bag.
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Plastic!
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The same one you used to attack
and asphyxiate your neighbor Nancy.
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Am I wrong?
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The whole neighborhood knows
you argued yesterday...
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and it’s all because you insist on going shopping
with that bag that is not biodegradable,
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something that on it’s own is now
a misdemeanor within our penal code.
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Did you know that in Rwanda people hide plastic bags
in their bras and in their underwear,
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they even roll them up under their sleeves,
so they can cross the border.
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Rwanda?
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...I just know line 1 of the subway.
Well, I’m lying, I did catch line 2 once,
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the one that goes froom La Elipa to Cuatro Caminos,
but it was only a couple of stops.
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Things my mother used to--
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BITCH!!!
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Answer me. ANSWER ME!!
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My daughter hasn’t assaulted anyone,
…she’s the victim.
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THE DAY BEFORE
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I warned you!
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You and your trashy bag are going
to get out of this building.
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What bag are you talking about?
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If you’re thinking of going into that grungy cubicle
with the bag, it’ll be over my dead body.
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Very good idea, bitch.
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What did you say?
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You damned street person. Let go of it!
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No, no, no, no...
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Come here!
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I swear I’ll end you and that piece of trash
if it’s the last thing I do in my life.
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If you ever touch my daughter again...
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I'LL KILL YOU!!!
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Is that why you killed her, right?
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Didn’t you say she wasn’t dead?
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I can’t talk about it,
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but that young woman had a reputation
as an activist in PLASTICFRI.
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Do you know what that is?
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No... but I imagined she had a reputation for something.
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The biggest environmental organization in the world.
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Thanks to them, humanity is free of millions
of metric tons of plastic
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that was being discarded into our rivers and oceans.
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Thanks to them, the environment is protected
from the misuse of our planet by people like you.
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BITCH!!!
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I always throw the plastic right in the damn trash can.
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And the garbage men pick up my trash,
and I would assume they take it to the dump.
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I don’t think those little bits of plastic
can walk on their own to the rivers or oceans.
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So it’s not plastic’s fault,
…it’s the fault of human beings.
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Amparo, when we get through everything that happened,
you’re going to have a big reveal,
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and you’re going to suffer the consequences.
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So, the best thing you can do is confess
and start praying.
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What are you doing?
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What is this?
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Are you pulling my leg or what?
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I don’t know any other way to do it.
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Stop playing dumb.
I know with a scientific certainty what happened.
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SIT DOWN!!!
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Let me remind you of what happened yesterday...
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What are you doing here?
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Ah, you finally brought me the bag.
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It is the best thing for everyone, and for all.
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Drop it!
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Drop it! DROP IT!!!
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I told you not to touch my baby!
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No, no, no… Wait, wait!
All this has an explanation...
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I just want to protect her!
She’s the last of her kind!
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Look, …the earrings,
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My shoes, the handbag,
all of them are pure plastic...
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This whole thing about campaigns is fake.
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A pantomime to make it look like
we’re doing something that matters, but...
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...but truly, I’m pro-plastic.
Who could live without it?
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And this?
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Yep, pure plastic...
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Oh, thanks!
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But I still can’t stand you...
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BITCH!!!
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Motherfucker!
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That innocent girl threatened to report you,
and you followed her to take justice in your own hands.
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Which subway line is that?
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I don't know, …I think there is no subway.
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- And you say she’s not dead?
- I can’t talk about that.
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I don’t want to know.
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They took her to the hospital in a catatonic state.
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I wanted to question her this morning, but she oddly
disappeared. No one knows where she is.
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Where she is?
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Vanished!!!
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But she will appear...
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and when she does, have no doubt about it,
she will testify against you.
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We've been very happy together, haven't we?
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But now, you have to go away for a bit.
You won’t be safe here.
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Live at night, when they can’t see you,
...and above all, don’t be so vengeful.
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It’s not good for you to get into trouble.
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We’ll meet again!
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This will do you good.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 21 minutes
Date: 2021
Genre: Fiction
Language: Spanish / English subtitles
Grade: College, Adults
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