[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.36,0:00:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Late Mattia Pascal Chapter 1 – A Wrong Life Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.44,0:00:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Mattia Pascal. Or at least… that’s what I called myself. Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.72,0:00:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived for years in a small town in Liguria, Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.96,0:00:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a house that didn’t feel like my own, with a wife I never really loved Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.56,0:00:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a mother-in-law who seemed born to make my life impossible. Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.24,0:00:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After my father died, our fortune quickly disappeared. Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.52,0:00:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two dishonest men managed our money, Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.72,0:00:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could only watch them vanish. Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.84,0:00:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make a living, I took a boring job in a municipal library. Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.36,0:00:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one respected me, neither at home nor outside. My wife Romilda became increasingly bitter, Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.24,0:00:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mother-in-law crueler. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.16,0:00:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day I returned home with the weight of the world on my shoulders. Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.96,0:01:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one listened to me, no one understood me. Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.52,0:01:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I, slowly, began to disappear inside myself. Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.28,0:01:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, in a moment like many others, I decided to run away. Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.52,0:01:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without saying anything to anyone, I got on a train, Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.80,0:01:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,headed randomly. I had no plan, Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.28,0:01:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no hope. I just wanted to change my life. Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.40,0:01:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forever. Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.24,0:01:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn’t imagine that a few days later Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.48,0:01:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would succeed. Too well, even. Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.64,0:01:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 2 – Escape and Fortune I arrived in Monte Carlo almost by chance. Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.64,0:01:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still had some money in my pocket and a great desire to forget everything. Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.96,0:01:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took a room in a modest hotel Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.28,0:01:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and went into the casino, more out of curiosity than anything else. Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.48,0:01:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had never been lucky in my life, but that evening everything changed. Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.36,0:02:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bet a few francs… and I won. I played again… and I won again. Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.72,0:02:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My hands were shaking, but I didn’t stop. I kept winning, Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.64,0:02:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if fate wanted to compensate me for everything it had taken from me. Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.16,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end I left with an enormous sum. Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had more money in my pocket than I had ever seen. Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.24,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time I felt light. Free. Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat on a bench, Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.68,0:02:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking at the sea. I thought: Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.88,0:02:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“What if I never went back? What if I started from scratch? Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.52,0:02:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With a new identity, a new life?” Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.68,0:02:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I was thinking these thoughts, I bought a newspaper. Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.20,0:02:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, on one of the pages, I read a news item: Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.92,0:02:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a body had been found in my town. And everyone thought it was me. Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.80,0:02:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that moment I understood: fate was offering me Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.52,0:03:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chance. Only one. Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.88,0:03:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 3 – The Wrong Dead Man I read that article three times. Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.04,0:03:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It said that a man had thrown himself into the canal, Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.56,0:03:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,near my house, and that the body was unrecognizable. Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.52,0:03:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had clothes and objects that looked like mine. People, the police, Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.96,0:03:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even my wife… everyone was sure: that dead man was me. Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.40,0:03:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first I shivered. Then, slowly, Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.40,0:03:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an idea began to grow inside me. Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.56,0:03:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one was looking for me. No one knew I was alive. Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.12,0:03:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had remained silent, I could really disappear. Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.08,0:03:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent the night walking. I thought about my wife, my mother-in-law, Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.88,0:03:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my gray life. There, among the lights of Monte Carlo, Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.84,0:03:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything seemed so far away. Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.72,0:03:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I decided: Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.88,0:03:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would never return. Mattia Pascal was dead. Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.88,0:03:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the winnings I began to travel: Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.84,0:04:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first Nice, then Marseille, finally Italy. Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.16,0:04:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cut my mustache, changed my hairstyle, Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.88,0:04:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bought new clothes. I burned my old wallet. Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.84,0:04:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I chose a new name: Adriano Meis. Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.40,0:04:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt reborn. Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.52,0:04:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lighter than ever. But underneath that freedom Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.20,0:04:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was also a strange restlessness. Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.24,0:04:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I no longer had a past. And without a past… Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.24,0:04:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building a future might not be so easy. But I would only understand this later. Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.04,0:04:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 4 – Adriano Meis Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.52,0:04:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the name of Adriano Meis I crossed Italy Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.44,0:04:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a ghost. With a full wallet, Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.32,0:04:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one knew me, no one asked me questions. Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.48,0:04:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a strange, almost sweet feeling. Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.80,0:04:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could be anyone, say anything. Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.28,0:04:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Venice I was a tourist. In Florence I spent days in museums. Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.80,0:05:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Rome I rented a quiet room, near the Tiber. Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.60,0:05:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said I came from Switzerland, that I was there for health reasons. Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.00,0:05:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone believed me, no one suspected. Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.24,0:05:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I soon understood one thing: Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.44,0:05:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was free, yes… but also invisible. Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.20,0:05:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without real documents I couldn’t sign contracts, Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.48,0:05:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open an account, get married. Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.92,0:05:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once I tried to stop a thief and the police asked me for my documents. Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.64,0:05:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to run away. Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.32,0:05:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then Adriana, the daughter of the landlord, arrived. Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.08,0:05:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sweet, intelligent, with two eyes full of melancholy. Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.12,0:05:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started talking every day, then walking together. Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.88,0:05:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She looked at me with trust. And I… I was nobody. Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.72,0:05:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn’t tell her the truth, but I couldn’t keep lying either. Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.72,0:05:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was living a fake life, and I was starting to want it to be real. Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.96,0:05:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time, Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.52,0:06:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to stay. And that… was a problem. Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.16,0:06:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 5 – Meeting the truth Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.68,0:06:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really liked Adriana. I spoke sincerely with her, Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.24,0:06:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if I didn’t say everything. Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.96,0:06:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day I waited for the moment to see her, Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.32,0:06:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hear her voice. At home they began to trust me. Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.56,0:06:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even her father, a difficult man, seemed to appreciate me. Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.64,0:06:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I dreamed of staying there forever. Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.96,0:06:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of marrying her. Of building a normal life. Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.72,0:06:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But every time I really thought about it, something inside me broke. Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.00,0:06:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who was I to ask for the hand of an honest girl? Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.48,0:06:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no identity, no documents, Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.88,0:06:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no history. Only lies. Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.76,0:06:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day I heard Adriana Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.72,0:06:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking to a friend of hers. She said that maybe she loved me. Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.96,0:06:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt happy and guilty at the same time. Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.88,0:06:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That night I didn't sleep. The next day, in front of the mirror, Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.92,0:07:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at my face. Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.00,0:07:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I no longer saw Adriano Meis or Mattia Pascal. Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.64,0:07:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only a man who didn't know who he was. Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.88,0:07:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had created an elegant cage, Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.52,0:07:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of silences and illusions. I couldn't go on like this. Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.92,0:07:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I decided: Adriano Meis had to disappear too. Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.60,0:07:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would erase my identity once again. Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.04,0:07:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 6 – The Impossible Return Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.16,0:07:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make Adriano Meis disappear I chose a simple gesture: Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.08,0:07:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left my clothes on a bridge and a farewell letter. Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.52,0:07:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything seemed to indicate that I would never return. Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.64,0:07:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So everyone would believe that Adriano had disappeared forever. Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.12,0:07:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I got on a train. Destination: home. Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.60,0:07:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to go back to being Mattia Pascal. Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.08,0:08:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that, once there, everything would be fine. Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.04,0:08:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was wrong. Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.32,0:08:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I arrived in town, no one recognized me right away. Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.08,0:08:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I finally spoke to my mother, she almost fainted. She Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.76,0:08:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couldn’t believe I was alive. But the news that hit me the most Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.68,0:08:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was another: my wife had remarried. Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.96,0:08:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had held a funeral. They had cried for me. Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.20,0:08:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then… life had moved on. Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.40,0:08:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romilda had a new husband, Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.28,0:08:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new home, a new peace. Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.88,0:08:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I… was a dead man who had returned too late. Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.12,0:08:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one could accept my return. Not even the law. Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.92,0:08:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the world, Mattia Pascal was dead. Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.12,0:08:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn’t go back to my old life. I couldn’t go back. Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.76,0:08:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had lost everything. Even the right to exist. Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.88,0:09:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 7 – The Late Mattia Pascal Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.48,0:09:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried to explain the truth, but the truth was no longer useful. Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.80,0:09:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My wife looked at me like a ghost. Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.76,0:09:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her husband was someone else, and I was just a walking memory. Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.44,0:09:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I turned to a lawyer, Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.40,0:09:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he also confirmed what I feared: for the State, I was legally dead. Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.48,0:09:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn’t take back my name, or get my rights back. Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.08,0:09:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn’t even ask for justice, because I would have had to report myself Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.44,0:09:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for false identity. Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.20,0:09:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked myself: who am I now? Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.32,0:09:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adriano Meis died in the river. Mattia Pascal died years ago, Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.24,0:09:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least for everyone else. Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.84,0:09:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I, in the middle… what am I? Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.40,0:09:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A shadow. An idea. Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.76,0:09:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A person who doesn’t exist. Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.84,0:09:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I no longer had a home, nor a future, Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.28,0:09:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor a past that I could take back. Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.88,0:10:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a body that walked in the world without purpose. Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.36,0:10:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I did the only thing possible: I left, Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.76,0:10:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in silence, without looking for anything anymore. Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.72,0:10:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had nothing left to lose. And in the emptiness that surrounded me, Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.96,0:10:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to understand something. Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.36,0:10:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the real prison Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.12,0:10:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn’t my old life. It was absolute freedom. Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.92,0:10:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 8 – Alive, but not too much Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.64,0:10:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I live in a modest little room Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.28,0:10:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spend my days between books and silence. Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.20,0:10:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve returned to the library where I used to work, Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.52,0:10:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but no one knows who I really am. Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.36,0:10:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They call me “the strange one” and that’s okay. Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.16,0:10:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every now and then I bump into someone from the past. Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.12,0:10:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They look at me with a mixture of doubt and indifference. Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.20,0:10:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one has the courage to ask. Maybe they’re afraid of the truth. Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.00,0:10:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven’t tried to see my wife again. Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.60,0:11:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know she’s happy. Or at least calm. Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.08,0:11:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t want to disturb her. I don’t want to be a shadow that ruins everything. Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.40,0:11:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m writing this to fix my thoughts, Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.84,0:11:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if it would serve any purpose. But I’m doing it anyway. Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.32,0:11:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve lived two lives and in the end Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.84,0:11:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn’t save even one. Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.44,0:11:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Mattia Pascal. Or rather, Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.00,0:11:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the late Mattia Pascal. Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.88,0:11:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because even if I breathe, Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.84,0:11:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat and walk… I don’t really exist anymore. Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.88,0:11:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m a man Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.60,0:11:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has lost the right to be someone. Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.20,0:11:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe, after all, Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.52,0:11:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is precisely my freedom. Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.36,0:11:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An empty freedom. Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.00,0:11:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silent. But mine.