Merli. Sapere Aude (2019) s01e01 Episode Script

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NETFLIX PRESENTS
[loud music plays]
AN ORIGINAL MOVISTAR+ SERIES
[shower running]
[water splashing]
[Alfonso] Pol!
What?
[Alfonso] Your phone's been ringing
for a while now!
See who it is.
[Alfonso] Bruno.
[pants]
[sniffs, clears throat]
So? Have you cleaned
the whole apartment yet?
Don't laugh, life is better
when things are in the right places.
And you should be doing the same.
Dad, don't you dare touch my stuff.
Okay, okay.
Hey How's Bruno handling
all that stuff with his father?
How do you think he's doing?
It was only been three weeks.
And you?
I'm all right, Dad.
I don't feel like studying. [grunts]
I'm gonna go hand out resumes.
A job is good,
but you have to get into the university.
- Really? Are you gonna pay my tuition?
- [laughs]
Hell, there's gotta be grants.
I'm sure you'll get one.
Why are you so optimistic these days?
Mmm.
[quirky music playing]
If you have anything.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Here you go.
- Thank you very much.
What's up pest?
Pest? You're the one
not answering my calls.
Come on, I'm fucking with you, man.
[lighter clicks]
[scoffs]
Let's hope I get a job soon
and give my brain a rest.
They said if I got my driver's license,
I could work in a parking garage.
Like parking cars, security
A real good time.
I still basically don't know
what the fuck to do with my life.
I'm taking my entrance exams
to study History.
I'll get in for sure.
Shit, Bruno, I can't believe
you're being such a doer.
Next you'll be organizing
your summer holidays.
What should I do?
Stay home and cry all day?
I'm trying to get on with my life.
My grandmother's depression is bad enough.
And if I call you, Pol Rubio,
it'd be nice if you picked up.
Okay, okay, cool it, man.
It's the same thing with Tània.
I'll have to talk to her eventually.
I think she's the one
who wants to talk to you.
She said that?
Fuck me! We're breaking up for sure.
When we had that threesome,
she saw how you and I went for each other.
Bruno, that was pretty hot,
but you are my best friend.
You've never been anything else to me.
Yeah, but there's always
been something, right?
Go on now,
before I regret coming to see you.
[both chuckle]
- Morning.
- Good morning.
Thanks.
[scoffs]
Are you fucking kidding me? [laughs]
[Alfonso laughing]
[laughter]
Hey, Dad.
- [Pol] How are you, Glòria?
- Hey. How are you, honey?
- [Pol] Fine, thanks.
- Hi.
You're so worried about my education
you're meeting up with my former teachers?
[Alfonso] Huh, very funny, kid.
We're talking as friends. Look, look.
Look, look, look what I found in a closet.
Sit, come on. I think you'll like it.
- What is it?
- [Alfonso laughing] Uh
- Give it here.
- Well, er
Wait, kid.
It-It's some written homework
you did at school
when you were eight years old.
- Let me see that.
- Hey, hands off.
The teacher asked everyone
to write an essay
about what they did over the weekend.
Look, it has a title "My Weekend".
And you wrote
"On Friday I came out of school
and a gust of wind carried me
straight into Monday."
[laughs]
Seriously? I really wrote that?
In one single sentence,
you covered the entire weekend.
[laughs]
I hope it doesn't bother you
that I read it too, huh.
No, no, no.
Why would he mind
when I brought it to show off my son?
Hey, who are you right now?
- And what have you done with my father?
- [chuckles]
Go on, get lost, get-get lost, damn it.
Okay. Can I keep the essay?
It's yours, it's yours.
Right, bye, Alfonso. [chuckles]
[Alfonso groans] What a little jerk.
Take no notice, Glòria. [chuckles]
[somber music playing]
[train rumbling]
[footsteps approaching]
You got me in trouble.
Stop moaning,
because I got the worst of it. [scoffs]
I'd never worried about the future before,
you know?
I wasn't meant to be a scholar,
I was supposed to end up doing some job,
somewhere, then you showed up.
And I made you realise
you were good at Philosophy, huh?
Because it's true,
and that's why
you want to go to university, right?
When you were here, yes.
But now that you've abandoned me
The balls on you!
But it's true, Merlí. I'm serious.
I don't know what to do,
I-I-I don't know what I should do.
I don't know what to expect.
I don't even know
who I'm supposed to love.
Mm. You just described
the feelings of all of mankind.
Are you listening to me?
I can't see myself finishing a degree
without you.
Ha! And what did you expect, you fool?
Private tutoring?
How much would you have paid me?
- You're joking?
- I'm not.
I'm just trying to make you understand
that you really don't need me.
Of course I need you, Merlí.
[voice breaks] Of course I need you.
I wanna hear you tell me
how good I am in philosophy,
and to yell at me when I'm wrong,
and throw books at me to make me think.
Pol, stop doing what everyone else does
which is bitching and moaning.
And start living your new life
without me. You can do it.
You'll go to university,
because I can't imagine
you doing anything else.
You'll meet people.
Shit, being a student is the best!
You learn things and fuck
and fall in love at the same time.
- [laughs]
- So don't tell me you can't do it,
because I'll throw Kant's
Critique of Pure Reason at your head,
and it's a pretty heavy book.
Merlí, wait.
Tell me.
Are you okay?
Me?
Fine, I'm fine, Pol Rubio.
[dramatic music playing]
And
what happens after you die?
You're capable of much more
original questions than that one, Pol.
[chuckles]
[scoffs]
Do you still have sex after you die?
[laughs, sighs]
[laughs] If I answered that question,
life would lose all its possibility.
Go to the university, Pol,
and ask yourself a million questions.
[train rumbling]
[horn blaring]
[tense music playing]
"On Friday I got out of school
and a gust of wind carried me
straight into Monday."
[light music playing]
[scribbling]
ONE DAY, I GOT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL
AND A GUST OF WIND
BLEW ME INTO UNIVERSITY.
[cheerful music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
- Oh. Sorry.
- Shit.
- Are you okay?
- Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh, do you know where lecture room 111 is?
Sure, I'm going there.
- Are you taking Philosophy?
- Yeah.
- My name is Biel.
- Pol.
I've been wandering around for a while.
Ah, it's down there.
[professor] Silence.
[indistinct chattering]
Hey, I'm with him.
Come on, quiet please.
Well, first day of class,
and everyone looks so terrified.
[laughter]
[professor] Don't worry.
Those who know their Pythagoras
will pass the course for sure.
[laughter]
No, I'm quite serious.
Pythagoras is very basic
and I've sometimes found students
who can't remember the theorem.
Do any of you need to go over it
one more time?
Well, it's not that I don't remember it.
It's that, at my school,
we used to relate Pythagoras' lessons
more to the soul and transmigration.
Ah, excellent, excellent.
Well, I think this would be a good time
to transmigrate your soul to Philosophy.
This is Mathematics.
[laughter]
Come on, dude. What the fuck?
[theme music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
Biel. Psst! Have you got a sheet?
Of paper.
- Good morning.
- Paper, come on.
If it feels crowded, don't worry.
In two weeks' time,
there'll be loads of space.
[laughter]
My name is Sílvia Montoliu.
I got my PhD ten years ago,
and have been an associate professor
ever since.
This is the Philosophical Problems course,
and I officially welcome you
to the study of Philosophy,
the degree
that famously doesn't lead anywhere.
[laughter]
But do not worry,
according to official rankings,
Barcelona University
is among the hundred best universities
in the world.
What a shame us associate professors
only make 500 euros.
- [indistinct chattering]
- Oh, God.
That's public education for you.
Before coming here, did you ever
ask yourself if philosophy was useful?
The History of Culture course
could take many years,
but it looks like the syllabus has decided
that I should tell you about 50 centuries
in one semester.
[laughter]
Therefore, I have to do an exercise
in the "McDonaldsisation" of culture.
[Sílvia] Let's not kid ourselves,
you won't get rich by studying here.
But it will give you a tool that
all the money in the world can't buy you,
which is the possibility to think,
to be wise.
Sapere Aude.
Propositional Logic is used to analyse
the structure of composite statements
formed from truth-functional expressions.
For those of you who thought
that you would never study math again,
I'm sorry.
For many students,
Logic is math with letters.
My name is Xavier Vidal
and besides being a professor of Logic,
I am also the Dean of the Faculty.
At what moment in history
was mankind free?
[professor] Nobody knows
when mankind was free?
Well I'll tell you:
in the Palaeolithic era.
And so when did we stop being free?
We painted on cave walls and we hunted.
And when did we stop being free?
[professor] A very good question.
The truth or non-truth
of composite statement
depends entirely on the truth or non-truth
of simple statements
that make up that argument.
Don't make those faces,
this is the easiest thing
you'll be doing in Logic.
Well, if you put it that way
[Sílvia] The paper you're holding
in your hands is the bibliography.
You have to consult and research and read.
When you cram for your exams,
you won't find everything in your notes.
Well, we lost our freedom
when we began to depend on salaries.
That's it. I've summed up
the entire history of culture. [chuckles]
All Greeks are philosophers.
Napoleon is Greek.
Therefore Napoleon is a philosopher.
Is that argument correct or incorrect?
[both] It's incorrect.
It's correct.
The argument is correct.
Thank you all
for entering the competition.
Not bad for today, guys.
We'll leave it at that.
[tense music playing]
[breathes]
[sighs]
You're in the wrong major, aren't you?
Why do you say that?
You looked pretty stressed in there.
Oh. Not at all.
Well, I feel the same way.
I wanted to do Audiovisual Communication,
but you had to get really good grades.
You'll only need a five for Philosophy.
Oti.
- [chuckles]
- Pol.
Hey. Are you okay?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
The classes are awesome, right?
[chuckles]
And the teachers are super cool.
Ah, I love being in Barcelona.
I'm from near the Montseny.
[chuckles]
Well, I'm off to Math Faculty
to meet someone. See you in Ethics.
- Bye.
- [chuckles]
She won't last till Christmas.
Listen About the paper.
Look, why don't you borrow some now,
and then you can buy me a packet later?
- [laughs] What?
- What?
Yeah, okay, sure.
You know what? Since we have
a half hour before Ethics,
I can be your tour guide
and show you around campus.
Yeah?
Fuck, man.
You know, the typical things:
hallways, the cloisters,
- the pond, that's cool.
- Mm.
What's your full name? Pol, what?
Rubio.
Mine's Roca.
Uh-huh. Congrats on that.
My father works here, at the university,
in Academic Administration.
That's why I already know my way around.
But not so much the numbers
of the classrooms?
And what do your parents do?
Well, my dad doesn't work,
and my mum is dead.
Oh, shit. I didn't know.
Of course you didn't know,
we just met about three hours ago.
I don't go around
telling my life story to strangers.
- Mmm.
- But it's all right, Biel.
People die all the time.
- Isn't your major Philosophy?
- Mmm.
[light music playing]
Oh, there it is. That's my ring.
I was waving my arms and it flew off.
I'm Minerva.
- Biel.
- Pol.
- What do you study?
- I'm Argentinian.
[chuckles] Philosophy.
Of course.
It's what everybody expects from us,
- to solve the problems of the world.
- We're also taking Philosophy, first year.
- Oh, that's great!
- [laughs]
Hey, I missed the first class.
- Maybe I can borrow your notes?
- Yes, of course. Sure.
I work in a bar, and my boss who's a tool,
changed my schedule just to annoy me.
Yeah, yeah,
I know how the real world works.
- [chuckles]
- We gotta go. We have Ethics now.
Okay. I guess I'll see you in class.
I'm sorting out my scholarship
- with that lady over there.
- Ah.
- Oh, sorry.
- [laughs]
[Biel sighs]
Hmm?
Come on.
[indistinct chattering]
Oh, sorry, no, no. You can't sit here.
I can't? Why not?
Uh, the student who sat here last year,
she died.
We leave it empty out of respect.
- Come on, man.
- [shushes]
Uh, that's what other students told me.
[Biel] Come on, we'll sit here.
- Hey, guys, how are you?
- [Biel] Hey.
- [chuckles]
- Thank you. Very kind of you.
[silence]
[floorboard creaks]
Don't you love it?
That's the sound of decadence.
[inhales, exhales]
Two mongoloids are walking down the street
and one asks the other,
"How much is two plus three?"
And the other one answers, "Four!"
And the first one goes, "Pick up sticks".
[laughter]
When I told that joke 15 years ago,
I had the class laughing out loud.
Twenty-five years earlier,
would be rolling on the floor
begging me to tell it again.
What's changed since then?
Our morality has totally changed.
We now have much more information
than we did back then.
In the 1980s,
our society didn't know that much
about people who are born
with Down Syndrome.
In our society, it was totally normal
to call them retarded or mongoloids.
The question is:
now that our morality has changed,
can we make jokes about these subjects?
What are the limits of humour?
Well, I suppose one needs
to take freedom of speech into account.
You suppose correctly.
What are the limits of freedom of speech?
I think we should be allowed
to joke about anything we want.
[professor] Okay.
Are there any stand-up comedians
who have children with Down Syndrome
who can tell jokes about retards?
- [man] No.
- [all] No.
Mm-hm, most of us spend our lives
wanting to be left alone
so we can just be happy.
But if we don't want anyone
tormenting us with their little jokes,
the only thing we have to do
is to be born white, male,
rich, and heterosexual.
[laughter]
[professor] Would you like to meet
my friend Abdul?
Abdul! You may come in.
Here they are:
a bunch of defeated conformists.
Comfortable hedonists
come to study Philosophy.
[indistinct chatter]
[male student] Okay, whatever.
Abdul
Tell them. When did you arrive in Spain?
I come here two years.
My country, terrible.
Me here, good work. Very good.
And here, all day with broom.
[professor] Do you feel good
about your job?
Yes. You make dirty and I clean.
- Very good. Thank you.
- You're welcome, María.
Right. As you can see, there are people
who are worse off than you are.
Abdul is living
on a white and rich continent,
but he's just a poor negro worker.
- [male student] What the hell
- [male student 2] Did she just say negro?
- What's the matter?
- [student 3] God.
[María] Ah, here we go
with the goody-goody attitude.
Of course. You're leaving? Fine, but wait.
No, no, no, wait.
Before you go, listen to this.
Taken straight out of the newspaper.
Conversations between political big shots,
"We've destroyed the Healthcare system
for the Catalans." More.
An enlightened bishop,
"I assure you
homosexuals are headed straight to hell."
Oh. And the Roman Pope,
"Abortion is like hiring a hitman
to solve a problem."
You read this, and you don't bat an eye.
While when I tell you Abdul is a negro,
you want to whip me on the block, right?
Well, what a great job
they've done with you. Bye-bye.
For those of you who stay,
I'm María Bolaño.
And I welcome to Ethics class.
Bolaño will be the best professor
of the whole year, by far.
Yeah, what she said
about freedom of speech was superlative.
- Totally.
- Ah, "superlative", I love it.
You know, you speak
just like an Argentinian, right?
[laughter]
And how long have you been here, Minerva?
Two years. I rent a room in an apartment
in the Gothic Quarter.
- Oh.
- Four hundred euros, all costs included.
- Shit, that's a good deal for around here?
- [Biel] Yeah, it is.
You can come over anytime.
The intercom doesn't work.
So you'll have to go
into the Temple of Augustus,
shout my name
and somebody will open the front door.
- You live in the Temple of Augustus?
- In a temple?
The hall window looks
out over the columns.
Wouldn't it be better
if we just message you on WhatsApp?
No, no, I prefer the Neapolitan way,
that you all shout "Minerva!"
- Minerva!
- [laughter]
[Minerva] Hey, come on, what do you want?
- Uh, cafe latte.
- [Biel] Yeah, me too.
Mmm.
[chuckles]
We're eating the gay flag.
Amazing, Àngel.
[Ángel] Ángel, in Spanish.
From Venezuela to the world.
Some people say we're the new Chinese,
but better looking.
How come you brought a cake
on the first day?
Yesterday, I said,
"For the first friends I make at college,
- a gift of a Rainbow Cake."
- [Bruno] And you've got it down.
Why are you studying History so late?
You're older, aren't you?
Are you calling me a grey-haired fatty?
[laughs] No, but you're a bit older
than we are.
- How old are you?
- How old do you think I am?
Thirty
- Ah.
- Twenty eight.
- Bingo.
- Oh, yeah.
- [mobile beeps]
- Hey, Pol.
Why don't we meet up
and tell each other about our first day?
Here, in History, all's good.
Yeah. I've met some cool people.
Let's go to the beach later.
Big kiss.
Hey, so
Who's this Pol?
[Bruno] A friend.
Okay, okay.
[Bruno] I've met some cool people.
Let's go to the beach later. Big kiss.
[Biel] What?
- No, no.
- How, how?
Next day I'll make the cat disappear.
- [laughter]
- [magician] Okay, see you.
[both] Bye.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God. Can you believe that?
[Biel] It was great. I don't understand.
I'll finish my beer and leave.
Ah, sorry, you can't sit here.
This seat is reserved out of respect
for a dead professor.
[scoffs] Shit, are you pissed off?
No, I think I don't understand
your humour,
it's too sophisticated for me.
But you look intelligent, dude.
[Minerva] Hey, hey, hey
Two Catalans fighting?
- Unbelievable.
- [laughs]
Hey, don't be pissed.
So what? Shall we get the cat a name?
Come on, yes.
[Biel, Oti] Mmm
- Sartre.
- [laughs] A little pedantic, isn't it?
Yeah, so?
- [Oti] I like it. Sartre.
- [Biel] Sartre.
[Minerva] Sartre.
[exhales] Bye.
[women] Bye.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- See you.
- Right.
Pol, Oti, Minerva, Biel.
- What-what's his name again?
- Rai.
Rai.
- Shall we form a study group?
- [blows raspberry]
- What do you think?
- [Oti] Fine by me.
- Okay.
- Cool, let's do it.
- Fuck me.
- What happened?
[grunts] That guy took my wallet.
- What are you talking about?
- Oh, shit.
[intense music playing]
[panting]
[man moaning] Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh
[woman moaning]
Oh, that's good. Oh, my.
Ooh, I like it when you get so dirty.
[moans] Oh, yeah.
- [telephone ringing]
- Oh.
- Are you expecting visitors?
- Not yet. Go and see who it is.
- Henry.
- Yeah?
I don't like interruptions
when I'm painting. Go.
[door buzzes]
[door buzzes]
- Yes?
- Hello. Does Rai live here?
Yes. Who's asking?
My name is Pol, his friend.
Come in.
Wait here.
[Henry] Rai!
[suspenseful music playing]
[woman] Henry, who is it?
Pol.
A friend of Rai's.
Don't know him.
We study together
at the school of Philosophy.
Philosophy?
What are you doing here?
- [woman] Rai, Philosophy?
- Unfortunately.
[Rai] What?
You took the wrong wallet.
[scoffs] Shit.
Come on.
- Don't touch the banister.
- [woman] Don't let him touch the banister.
- Don't be scared, okay?
- No, no, I'm not.
[laughs]
- Fuck, this is a mansion, right?
- Mmm.
I'm sure you don't even
bump with your parents.
Not my father, because he's dead.
You want to swim or what?
No. I'll pass. I didn't come to have fun.
Anyway, I work.
Okay.
Okay, bye.
See you.
[light music playing]
[water splashes]
Please come with me.
This way, Pol.
[flute playing]
[bell tolling]
[indistinct chattering]
- [whirring]
- [woman laughing]
[indistinct chatter]
Minerva!
[woman shushes] She frightened me.
[Minerva] Oti!
You made it. Just a sec.
Ha.
[clears throat]
[grunts]
Go around the building,
the entrance is at number 41.
- Hello. [chuckles]
- What a surprise!
Hi.
I really wanted to see your Roman temple.
Come in.
It's amazing, dude.
- Welcome. Do you like it?
- Yeah.
[vacuum whirring]
Sometimes I read by the window,
and I lift my eyes from time to time
just to look at the columns.
Wow, that's awesome.
That's Amy, she's American.
It's her turn to clean this week.
- Hello.
- Hi.
[kisses]
Amy O'Connor.
My name is Oti. Where are you from?
From Eugene, Oregon. Above California.
Well, there's lots of chickens, and
lesbians [laughs] It's super awesome.
[laughs] That's cool.
I'd love to go there.
- Cool. Um, nice to meet you.
- Yes.
- Okay, I'll see you.
- Right.
- [chuckles] She seems very nice.
- Yes, very,
but she voted for Donald Trump.
[playful piano music playing]
- This is great, dude.
- Look at that.
Always under America's thumb.
- [laughs]
- [bottles clink]
[laughs]
- Etienne, meet Oti.
- Oti.
- Hello.
- A pleasure.
[kisses]
- Bonjour.
- [in French] Welcome.
[laughs]
Come on, let's go.
Hey, I love your roommates.
This is so multicultural.
And this is my room.
Wow.
There used to be a Japanese guy as well,
but he left one night
because he couldn't stand Amy anymore.
I think I only know Catalan people.
I'm from a small village,
Sant Esteve de Palautordera.
Let's make a toast. To university.
Yes And to Pol?
- Do you like him?
- Yes.
[chuckles] I like that crazy guy
a lot more.
- Biel?
- No. Rai.
Ah, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's good-looking too.
It's great that we've already formed
a small group.
- Yes. Cheers.
- [chuckles] Cheers.
Mmm.
- No. They didn't come out right.
- Mmm.
- Too much butter.
- Mmm.
On the contrary, these are
the best vanilla cupcakes I've ever tried.
- Right?
- Definitely. And don't worry,
- the butter gives them a creamy taste.
- Mmm.
No, no. They're awful.
Oh, Ester, you never like anything you do.
That's true.
Leave it, they're sisters. [chuckles]
No, honestly,
I'm really grateful for your company.
Oh, yes. Since Brauli died,
she's been staying here, isn't that right?
Six months not having to worry about rent.
[woman] It was so sudden.
- [woman 2] Mmm.
- It seemed impossible, but no.
A heart attack and goodbye. What a life.
When I think the same could happen
to my husband
Wishful thinking.
- [laughs]
- Girl, it's not that bad, huh?
[woman 3] Come on, come on,
don't be so awful, hmm?
No, the truth is you've been a great help.
Why don't you come back
to the tennis club?
[Ester] We could play doubles.
- Mmm.
- [Rai] Hello.
- Oh. Hello.
- Rai! Do you want one?
I made them myself.
No, no, thanks.
Rai, you know
how the washing machine works?
[Ester] Isn't Henry here?
I'll leave it for Henry.
Do you know what Rai has done?
He dropped out
of Business Management school.
Just like that, isn't it great?
So what? Are you taking sabbatical?
- No, no
- No, much more interesting.
Don't tell me
you're off to be a missionary!
[laughter]
That's more or less it.
He's enrolled to study Philosophy.
- Oh. Oh.
- [Ester] What?
So you're losing all the years
spent at ESADE?
No, it was too uptight for me, Aunt Ester.
Rai has finally found a place
to vomit his existentialism.
All that posturing,
"I'm not like the others,
I'm going downtown to study human beings".
Right, honey?
[scoffs]
- Come on, don't be so hard, Vicky.
- Don't interfere, Susana.
Oh, as I said, too much butter.
I'm going to the bathroom. [grunts]
But it's true.
I should go back to the club.
[both] Yeah.
- Uh-hmm.
- [panting]
[tense music playing]
[both moaning]
You don't know how happy I was
when you told me
you jerked off thinking about me.
If we keep doing this,
my mother's gonna find out.
Come on, hurry up then.
[moaning continues]
[hip-hop music playing]
- Excuse me.
- Yeah?
I've got the narrowest space
in the whole parking lot.
Could you guide me in?
- Yeah, that's no problem.
- Hmm.
[Pol] Okay, watch out for the column.
Okay, okay. Straighten up towards me.
Watch it Slowly.
Right, right, right. Stop.
- [car door opens]
- Your space isn't that narrow.
I've been driving for five hours straight.
Is there anywhere quiet here
to, uh rest a little bit?
Some place quiet? Like a bar?
- [hip-hop music playing]
- [laughs]
[both moaning]
[Maria] A hot guy, a hot girl,
these people are used
by millions of companies
as strategies to sell their products.
Is it ethical to discriminate
against ugly people to make money?
No, no, it's not good to use
a person's looks to sell something.
Why not? If you sell more that way.
Okay, but what should matter is
the product you're selling, right? The
Of course not, Biel! Nobody cares.
A businessman is only interested
in how to sell stuff.
They show you a car
with a strong guy at the wheel
and they'll sell more that way.
I mean, who would dare
to advertise a shampoo using an ugly girl?
- [laughs]
- Okay, so when you set up a business,
you'll publicise it
with beautiful people, right?
If I want to earn a living, I would.
Oh. And if a day comes
when you need to have heart surgery?
Will you mind if the surgeon is ugly?
No, of course not.
So would it be ethical for a hospital
to choose its doctors and nurses
- based on their looks?
- [Pol] No.
A hospital should only care about
whether or not they're up to the job.
I mean, it's totally unfair
to hire someone
based on their looks over an ugly person.
Good, the concept of justice
has finally entered the room,
ladies and gentlemen.
Justice is treating everyone the same
no matter what.
I could be a model in a shop.
I look very good in jeans.
[laughter]
Let me ask you something.
Are you laughing with me
or laughing at me?
Uh I don't know.
- You say you believe in justice
- It just came out that way.
But you laugh at the idea
of my ass selling jeans.
No Co-come on, sorry,
- it's not that I'm laughing
- We all dream.
I, for instance, dreamed about
being a professor at this university,
and maybe you do too,
but maybe you'll end up selling jeans.
- [laughter]
- Look at that!
[María] Ugly people of the world!
There are many more of us,
why not initiate
the ugly people's revolution?
[laughter]
- Come on. Silence.
- [table thumping]
Silence.
You know who is really ugly? Socrates.
And beauty was something highly valued
in Ancient Greece.
Your assignment for next week,
is a personal reflection
on the concept of beauty titled,
hmm
"How Is It Possible For Socrates
To Be So Ugly
And Yet So Popular Among Young Men?"
- [laughter]
- [María] Eighty-seven.
- Well, I have 83.
- Mmm.
You pick up the tab then, partner.
Yes, but when I was your student,
you had more people attending, mm?
That was 15 years ago.
I was beautiful then,
and they came to see me.
- Now they just come to listen to me talk.
- Hmm.
I bet there's a handsome student
who makes you nervous.
Well, I can't stand the good-looking ones.
They come into this world
with a wristband that says "open bar".
I only get one drink ticket,
but they live in an eternal Happy Hour.
Like you.
You know, when you talk cynical
you're a lot of fun,
but you're also unbearable.
I'm only sublimating
what I lack with my success in my work.
- [chuckles]
- The students look at me and think that
Bolaño is really good.
When I would like them to be thinking
that I'm really hot.
[laughs]
[Rubik's cube rattling]
[María] Laura.
Look. I did it.
Mm-hmm. Take the other one out
of your bag. Come on.
- [groans] Fuck.
- Watch it.
Don't swear in front
of all these honourable deans in here.
Are they all dead?
Of course. Look at their faces.
Will they make a portrait of you one day?
I wish, but I'm afraid I won't be
the first female dean of this university.
Still you can walk on the red carpet.
Ah, yes. They laid it down for me.
[chuckles]
Hey, I've I've been thinking about
something over the last few days.
Y-You know how expensive flats are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[sighs] Well, we're, uh,
we're going to start thinking about
moving in with Glòria.
What's that?
Yeah, we've talked about it and
since we like being together,
why live separated? It's silly.
But you've only known each other
for four or five months.
So what? We're happy, we are good.
Uh, I mean, if anyone had told me
a year ago, I wouldn't have believed them.
I'm really glad you finally got
a girlfriend, Dad, but you're not 25.
I-I mean, when Óscar moved in with Oksana
I was okay with it, but you at this time
Am I asking for permission
to live my life from a schmuck like you?
Man, I must be a real fricking dickhead.
Did I interfere in your relationship
with Tània?
No, no.
Well, get this,
we're moving in with Glòria.
- And that's it.
- Okay, fine. But you're on your own.
[grunts] What an idiot.
[Vicky] You still haven't told me
about your little Philosophy whim.
It'll help me understand
all the fucking lying in this house.
The lying? [scoffs]
Like changing degrees
when you'd almost finished, right?
Just another one of your little tantrums.
And you only did it
because your dad would hate it.
I have no memories of that man.
Probably didn't deserve them.
Look, he could've been better, yes.
But have you considered
if you were a good son?
[laughs] The fucking nerve.
[grunts] This family is hopeless. Fuck.
But, Rai, can't you see you're unbearable?
I've spent my life
putting up with your eccentricities,
with the calls from school
complaining about all your nonsense,
You complain about the family,
but you were pleased to get
your credit card when you turned 18.
- Yeah.
- Stop criticising your father,
and look at yourself.
Let the dead rest in peace,
for fuck's sake.
I can't say one good thing about dad.
Not one.
Well, yes, only one. That he died.
[grunts, mumbles] Fuck you.
Oh. [grunts] Fuck me.
You're so fucking rude.
This is what I'm talking about.
Shout, shout, shout.
When he came into the house,
- everybody kept quiet.
- You need a psychiatrist.
You say that while threatening your son
with the pool net.
- [grunts]
- It's too much!
- [grunting, shrieks]
- Well
now you have an excuse
to go to the hairdresser's.
[grunts]
[Vicky] You spoiled brat!
[grunting]
Why don't you dive into the water, too,
Cosmo, and drown with them?
You eat better than my daughters,
you swine.
[Vicky] Come on. [grunts]
[scoffs] Fucking dog.
[sighs] Everything good, boss?
[Bruno] Well, I like Glòria.
Me too, but what if they break up?
I mean, are we gonna end up on the street?
Would you rather come and live
at my place?
My grandmother is busting my balls.
I understand she's depressed,
but she's so annoying.
How's the job going?
I had sex with a client
in the parking garage.
- [laughs]
- Seriously?
Fuck, now I know why you take so long
to answer my messages.
[laughs]
How old was she?
Thirty something
No, no, she was older. Older [laughs]
- If your boss caught you, you'd be fired.
- My boss? I don't even know him.
I just couldn't say no,
she was really hot,
you know what I mean? [sniffles]
- You want some?
- No, thanks.
- What are you doing?
- It's a ritual.
[chuckles]
We're celebrating our entry
into the university world.
Pol
that thing you do has a name,
you know that, right?
What?
Doing it with guys and girls.
Bruno
Bisexuality.
I came here as a friend.
Right.
But, if Philosophy means
asking questions
[muffled] why don't you start
by questioning yourself, hmm?
I told you before,
I don't want to label myself.
Okay.
But understand
that you and I are predestined.
- [laughs]
- You find that funny?
Uh, leave destiny alone, Bruno.
We're in university,
I'm majoring in Philosophy.
I want to learn new things,
meet new people
pass exams, get my fucking grant in order.
And be just like Merlí.
That's what I know for sure.
I want to be like the person
who's influenced our lives the most.
[waves crashing]
What are you doing?
- I'm not going in, okay?
- You get in the water with me, right now.
- [laughs] No way.
- Yes way.
[light music playing]
Come on!
God, you're hot, you bastard.
[water splashes]
I could totally eat your mouth
and fuck you.
I'm getting you, Pol Rubio.
One minute a guy, next minute a girl.
But know that, in the end [grunts]
all roads lead to Bruno Bergeron.
[indistinct chattering, laughing]
Get in here right now!
[closing theme music playing]
[dings]