Requiem (1998) 60% 1★

„We sleep our life, eternal kids of Destiny”

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

– Time was Fernando Pessoa appeared in the banknotes. Do you like Pessoa?
– Yes, I love him. I could even tell you a funny story about him. But it's just my own stuff. Not interesting for you.

– Right now, I'd like to read a bit. I've started an article about a French philosopher, on the soul. The soul is fashionable now. I'm not Catholic but I believe in soul, in the same way as several philosophers do. Do you believe in soul?
– It's one of those strange things I do believe in, though at the moment it's been my soul or my unconscious what brought me to this bench.
– The unconscious? The unconscious belongs to the Viennese Bourgeoisie from the beginning of the century. We're in Portugal, and we belong to the Greco-Roman civilization. We have nothing to do with the Mitteleuropa. We do have the soul.
– It's true, I've got soul, but unconscious too. You know? this catches, the unconscious, like a virus, and I caught it.

– Are you going to stay longer in Lisbon?
– No, I'm not even sure that I am here.

– Everything causes cancer. Now, being happy cause cancer. I had a friend who died from cancer because of being unhappy.
– In the U.S.A. they have refused the last cigarette to a condemned man. Do you realize? The famous „last cigarette”

– You know, no medicine is effective if you don't believe in it. It's just a matter of conviction.

– Did you dislike my company so much?
– On the contrary. It's been very important. But it's caused me troubles. It disturbed my calm.
– Don't you think that's precisely what literature must do? to cause a certain restlessness?

Pessoa: I'd like to drink to the „saudosismo” the poetic movement about nostalgia. I feel nostalgia from „saudosismo”. Nobody is „saudosista” anymore, everyone is becoming European.