Almost Happy (Casi Feliz) (2020) s01e08 Episode Script

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He doesn't want to see
his niece and nephew?
- Apparently.
- And you say nothing?
- What should I say?
- For example,
"Gato, don't you want
to see your niece and nephew?"
- That's a good option.
- I did ask him.
You didn't ask.
Let's stop talking about it
if you won't believe me.
- You did ask him?
- Yes.
- What did he say?
- I don't know.
- You don't know? What did he say?
- You know him.
No, I don't!
I've only seen him a few times.
That's why I'm asking
why he doesn't want to see our kids.
- I don't get it.
- I didn't ask.
- I knew it.
- Why do you care?
You should care.
That's the way he is.
He doesn't even want to see my parents.
I don't get it. I'd at least like to know
why my kids can't see their uncle
and why he doesn't want to see them.
Why didn't you ask?
What do you talk about when you meet?
I barely saw him.
He arrived, dropped his suitcase,
went somewhere and ended up in a clinic.
They called me from the clinic,
I picked up his results.
- Why do you have them?
- Because he doesn't care about them.
He doesn't care what's wrong,
That's my brother.
- An idiot.
- That's my brother.
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ALMOST HAPPY
8. "REMEMBER, BROTHER?"
But please, I can't believe it! See?
Stop it, look. Those dance moves,
I practiced them all week at home.
I remember.
Is that Gabriel?
- Gabriel!
- The condom guy?
- Yes!
- No way, stop!
What are you talking about?
I don't remember.
The condom guy that invited me
to his place
- and waited for me there.
- The one from afternoon class.
- He had a snipped penis?
- No! He didn't.
This guy invited her there,
to his place, and
She went upstairs
I heard
I go upstairs, and he was already naked
in bed with the condom on.
And?
He said
"I'm going to make love to you."
"I'm going to make love to you."
He didn't know how to do it!
- What do you think?
- That you're right.
- That's it?
- That's it.
I can think about more stuff,
but I can't tell you,
it's hard for me to talk.
- Okay.
- Anyway.
How are you doing?
Good, asking about others!
Those gestures turn you
into a more civilized human being.
What would be even better
is you caring about the answer.
Come on, let's try.
Tell me and we'll see if I care.
Tell me.
- You want my answer?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Go ahead.
I'm quite well. I saw Rocha today.
I really like the literature workshop,
it makes me kind of
happy, active, I feel it opens up my mind.
It makes me want to read.
I've been writing.
- I'm good.
- Really?
I didn't know about the workshop.
I thought
you only went to a conference.
Is Rocha doing the workshop?
Yes, I told you.
- No, you didn't.
- I told you.
- Didn't I?
- No, you didn't. No.
- I'm sure I did.
- I'm sure you didn't.
- It's okay.
- I must have forgotten to.
If you like it, great.
- I do like it.
- Is the workshop fun?
- Yes, it's fun.
- Lots of people?
It's one-on-one.
- One-on-one, how?
- Individual.
I don't understand.
You go there alone?
Yes, an individual workshop.
That's not a workshop.
It's a private lesson.
Well, I don't know. For us,
it's labeled as an individual workshop.
For you and for him, but workshops
usually involve lots of people.
- I didn't
- They're private lessons,
and we know how that ends.
No, of course not.
- You're so basic.
- It's not basic.
It's the story of the literature professor
with his bright and kind female student.
We know how it ends.
You're jealous.
No, of course not. Why would I be jealous?
That's a good sign. You ask me how I am,
you're interested about the answer,
you get jealous.
That speaks highly of you.
I mean, you do have feelings.
- You're evolving as a human.
- See?
Great.
All that's missing is you knowing
why your brother won't see
your kids or your parents,
but it's just a small detail.
- One step at the time
- One at the time.
Well, time for you to go,
the kids start early tomorrow.
- And so do I.
- Of course.
- Pili.
- Bye.
I'm also learning how to hug.
- There's so few of you.
- Unbelievable.
This reunion is a failure.
Yeah, a total failure.
But we're laughing a lot.
Plus, we were the real friends.
How nice to keep friendships.
I don't keep any from school.
It's been too many years,
they died one by one.
- That's awful!
- Death is what's awful.
What came up in your results?
It's so nice of you, so cute,
to connect my results with death.
It reminded me.
Did you tell them how charming I am,
how I seduced you?
The ambulance scene
Yes, she told us everything.
- Everything?
- Everything.
- The bus, the arrival
- We tell each other everything.
So, what came up in the tests?
- I didn't get them.
- Why?
Why would I? I'm going to Spain tomorrow.
You're a genius.
I am. What if they're bad
and I have to stay?
- I want to go.
- And if something happens to you in Spain?
She's the radio host.
Yes, she is!
- Nothing bad will happen to me.
- How do you know?
Because I feel nothing bad
will happen to me.
And it's true. Just as I got on that bus
and felt I was going to meet
someone special,
I feel nothing bad will happen.
Besides, my brother picked them up.
- The famous one?
- Caro!
Bravo!
When you said you were a musician,
I didn't believe you.
Do you always doubt others?
Well, it is a bit of a cliché, isn't it?
- Cliché how?
- The misunderstood guy,
that goes to Villa Gesell, a musician
That passes out in motels.
Whose high school friends are all dead.
Why don't you make a living from music?
I'd rather play music
than make it my livelihood.
When I lived here, music was my job.
I did jingles. At first, I had fun.
I got tired of all the advertising guys
and all the parasites.
So I saved up some cash and left.
I still do jingles
every now and then, though.
- And I collect royalties.
- Have you done any known jingles?
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Yes!
This is a miracle, it's great.
You got paid
to write a song for candy.
Yes, kind of, I was just starting
and was such a newbie.
And they didn't pay me with money.
You'll never guess with what.
- Candy?
- Yes.
- Why did you agree?
- Because
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I brought your suitcase.
You'll laugh, but honestly,
I would've liked for us
to have spent more time together,
for you to see Dad, Mom,
spend time with my kids.
You caring about your health and knowing
what the fuck is going on with you.
Soften it up.
It sounds stiff, as if you memorized it.
The first time you did better,
it was more fluid right?
Your brother is a piece of shit.
Don't say that.
He may be a piece of shit,
- but he's his brother.
- Yeah.
Yes, but he won't see his father,
he won't see his niece and nephew.
No offense, but there's a chance
he doesn't give a fuck about you.
Don't be so harsh.
Say it more
No, I think he has
sort of a shield, you know?
Like a wall.
I want to break down that wall
so that he starts connecting
with things and
I think Oh.
No, it seems like my brother
I'm Uki, I see him naked over there
with the condom on.
- "I'm going to make love to you."
- Right!
Please, do one with that.
I'll wait here for you, my love
With a boner down below
And I put this nightcap on
Just in case it gets cold
Everybody now!
I'll wait here for you, my love
With a boner down below
Go home.
No, it'll be too late when I arrive.
- Go home.
- I'll clean everything up.
I'll clean everything up until it shines.
We'll finish and leave.
All right, but go.
- Yes, do you have condoms?
- What?
Condoms.
Here, I have two.
- One for each of us.
- No, I don't want one.
- Take one, just in case.
- I don't need it.
You should always carry one.
Even a child knows this.
It jinxes it for me.
When I have one, nothing happens.
When I don't, it happens.
- It happens, but you don't have one?
- That's the problem.
Halfway through,
I have to stop and go get condoms.
- Are you an idiot?
- Yes.
Come on, break the jinx.
- Well, then.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- I love you so much.
- What?
- Nothing, I'm kidding.
- Bye.
- Bye.
Guys, I'm going home,
I have to get up early tomorrow.
No! Don't be a party pooper.
Stay a while, come on.
Hey, my famous brother is coming.
His famous brother!
Well, better off.
To preserve the magic of radio.
Uki, we're staying.
Yes, right? The three of us are staying.
Wait.
My brother, he's outside.
Tell him to come in.
Uki, go and let him in.
- I have to go?
- Yes.
- Uki, we trust you.
- Open up for him.
Okay, I'll go.
Bye.
- Come on, Uki, we trust you.
- I'll make it.
- Let's go, Uki.
- Yes. I'm okay.
Come on, Uki!
- Hello.
- Hi.
- How's it going?
- Good.
I'm Sebastián, Gastón's brother.
Gastón's here, right?
- Yes, I know.
- How are you? Oh, hi.
- All good?
- Good.
I'll leave my brother's suitcase here,
he needs it.
- Come on in.
- No, thanks.
I mean it, come in.
No, it's fine.
I've got lots of things to do.
Come in, I promised
I'd make you come in, so
No, it's fine.
I have to wake up early tomorrow.
Come on. What do you have to do tomorrow?
Your show's at night.
I mean it, I'm not coming in.
You don't look much alike, do you?
No, they don't look alike at all.
We almost ran into each other
at the clinic.
They told me.
You had already left.
I went to get this guy's results.
Did you open them?
I don't want to know!
He's so mature, isn't he?
It doesn't look like it, but I'm older.
- It does look like it.
- No, it doesn't.
- It doesn't.
- I was 14, he was 12,
and he says,
"Everybody is asking if I came."
He's been a dumbass since childhood.
At that age,
everyone asks, "Did you come?"
- Yes, it's true.
- So invasive.
It's like, "Did you get your period?"
for women.
Yes, my brother kept teasing me
about that all the time.
My older brother. He's 35.
And it still hasn't happened to him.
The weirdest thing about you guys
is the group masturbation.
- Never.
- Ever.
- No?
- Once.
- Once.
- To be honest. Once.
It's absolute gay repression.
- Not at all.
- It's nothing like that.
What happens is, if you say no,
guys go, "Why not? Are you gay?"
Yes, it is like a socialist thing.
We all jerk off, we're all equals.
Of course, like a kibbutz.
- Similar. Yes.
- Sure.
The weirdest thing
was having to blow another.
No, but that's not homo,
that's friendship.
I liked Fridays better,
because on Fridays, my mom
gave me money
for a salami and cheese samwich.
That samwich was really something,
it was this big.
- You only got money on Fridays?
- Yes, on Fridays.
It was a big deal for the middle class.
Please, I beg you
to stop saying "samwich,"
It's "sandwich"!
- Samwich.
- Sandwich!
Fitipaldi, a fifth grade classmate,
comes up and steals it directly from me.
You have the samwich
Look, he went like this.
And ate the samwich.
Fitipaldi was six-and-a-half-feet tall.
He was a bear.
All hairy.
I don't know why he was so hairy.
"Give my brother back his sandwich!"
"Or else what?" he asked.
"Or else, I'll buy him another one,
so you can steal it!"
Look what I found.
- Come on, Uki, great!
- Come on!
That's great, Uki,
you have a lot on your plate.
Your family dinners must have been fun.
- You've no idea.
- You'd laugh so hard, you'd cry!
Dad complaining
because he didn't sell much.
Mom yelled at us
for being terrible students.
Sundays at the cemetery.
Sundays were great,
we'd spend them outdoors.
All families are a mess.
- Yes, my family, a complete disaster.
- Really?
My folks separated.
Then my dad kind of disappeared,
then he died and we found out he had money
- and another family.
- It was a total soap opera.
Every family is a mess. Do you know
what it's like having an identical twin?
I didn't know you had a twin.
I don't, that's why I asked.
Do you know what it's like having a twin?
Yes! She has a twin sister,
but they're nothing alike.
Still, we're very close.
Well, you two also seem very close.
Yes. You have no idea.
He moved 300 miles away.
We're so close, one day,
out of the blue, he said, "I'm leaving."
He left everything behind.
His girlfriend, family, work, college,
and went to live by the beach
300 miles away.
He comes to visit for a day and won't see
his niece and nephew, my children,
and refuses to see his parents,
which are my parents, too.
- We are so close.
- You just couldn't help yourself.
That big head of yours can't grasp it.
And it is quite a big head.
I leave tomorrow morning.
- When I come back, family reunion.
- Okay.
"Family reunion,"
as if it was a company event or a job.
Isn't it weird he won't see
my kids or his parents?
All right, don't fight now, please.
I wanted to say
it's been a while
since this happened to me.
- This is very rare for me.
- And?
Nothing.
It's been a while and I'm
It's fine.
I just fought with my ex-wife.
Great.
And I have twins.
- A boy and a girl.
- Oh, really? Wow.
I'll show you a picture,
you'll see how cute they are.
- No. Show me later.
- They're very cute.
Okay.
Do you have a boyfriend? Are you single?
Right now? Sort of.
- Sort of what?
- Sort of single.
Seba.
Seba!
Seba.
Seba!
What is it? I'm busy.
Come.
- I'll be right back.
- All right.
- What is it?
- I don't have a condom. Do you?
I've got one.
- Just one?
- Yes. How many should I have?
I'm okay with one.
What now? Half and half?
- No, ask her for one.
- She doesn't have any.
- How do you know?
- I already asked.
- Well, give it to me, give me yours.
- No, I'm using it.
I'll use it and then you go and buy some.
- I'm not going to the store this late.
- Why not? Go on.
It's three in the morning and I'm famous.
You're not that famous, come on.
I'm in my underwear.
You can go buy.
She doesn't have any. Give it.
I won't.
- I didn't bring any, come on.
- I don't know.
Okay. Rock-paper-scissors.
We're too old for that.
We have to decide somehow.
No, let's do a contest.
Well, okay, a contest.
- Like when we were young.
- Okay.
Dictator ping pong.
- Perfect, let's go. Who's first?
- I go first.
Go on.
- No, you go.
- Mussolini.
- Videla.
- Hitler.
Stroessner.
- Galtieri.
- Pinochet.
- Dad.
- Mom.
Idi Amin.
- Fidel Castro.
- No, Fidel Castro is not a dictator.
- He's not?
- He doesn't qualify as one.
- Was he elected?
- It has nothing to do with it.
- Was he elected?
- That doesn't matter!
A dictator does harm to the people.
- Was there freedom of the press?
- I want to fuck!
Rock, paper, scissors.
Rock, paper, scissors!
Fine, you ass.
Rock, paper, scissors!
You cheated.
Lots of traffic, huh?
Buenos Aires.
You'll get there on time.
Yes.
I talked to the doctor and she said
you have three months left.
Do you know which months?
February, October,
and December.
But that's it,
no matter if you make a fuss.
- No
- No, you're not getting back December.
It's okay. It's fine.
It's still December, you know?
- Holiday season, very messy.
- But you deserve to live it.
Yeah, well. There's no beating them.
It's the laboratory mafia.
I'd rather choose the battle,
cause I'm trying to figure out what to do
with you between March and September.
That's what I'm thinking.
- Oh, because I'd have to be dead.
- Of course.
Okay then.
I want to thank you for these two days.
You're welcome.
It was good to spend time together.
Enjoy Madrid and we'll do it again
when you come back.
My flight is boarding.
Don't go.
No, I'd rather go.
Okay then, go.
If the plane crashes,
this is my last message.
As the last message, it's not very poetic.
Send me another one.
I love you very much.
I love you too, very much.
Go board your flight.
Listen, the tests say
you have an elevated diaphragm.
It's nothing serious, though now and then,
you may be short of breath.
What should I do when it happens?
A handstand.
Wait! Do they know why I have this?
You've had it from birth,
it just came now.
- It came!
- It came!
I'll wait here for you, my love
With a boner down below
And I put this nightcap on
Just in case it gets cold
If it gets cold
It wrinkles up
If it gets cold
Everybody now!
I'll wait here for you, my love
With a boner down below
And I put this nightcap on
Just in case
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