WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:14.320 Are you burned up at the high price of turkeys, 2 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:19.280 can't get eggs for your pumpkin pie? Want to get 3 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:19.960 away from it all? 4 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:23.239 We offer you escape. 5 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:37.000 You're trapped in a remote valley of the Andes, walled 6 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:42.799 in by sheer rock precipices, and surrounding you. Closing in 7 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.320 on you is a band of blind men who want 8 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:47.880 your eyes. 9 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.200 Escape, Produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully 10 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.439 plotted to free you from the four walls of today 11 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.560 for a half hour of high adventure. 12 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.280 To night, we escape to the high mountains of Ecuador 13 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:13.799 and to a remarkable world where sight is unknown, as H. G. 14 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:18.480 Wells imagine it in his curious story The Country of 15 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:19.079 the Blind. 16 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:39.519 My name is Ibara. I am a mining engineer in Quito, Ecuador, 17 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:43.439 high in the towering Andes, and up until a year ago, 18 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:45.680 my chief sport. 19 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:46.200 Was mountain climbing. 20 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.680 My last climb was an attempt to scale the remote 21 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.760 and forbidding peak of Periscota Pedal, the twenty thousand foot 22 00:01:53.840 --> 00:02:02.239 crag unconquered by man. It is unconquered, still three thousand 23 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.560 feet from the icy summit. Our party turned back and 24 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.000 fled for their lives. All of us escaped except one, 25 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.719 a guide named Nunes, who slipped and fell over the precipice, 26 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:18.080 disappearing under the vast chasm that yawned ten thousand feet 27 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:26.879 beneath us. The horror of that man's fall has haunted 28 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:31.560 my dreams for a year. Because of it, I have 29 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.520 forsaken mountain climbing for the rest of my life, and 30 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:42.319 that decision still stands even though today I have seen Nunes. 31 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.439 He was sitting on the steps of my shack when 32 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:49.879 I arrived at the mine this morning. At first I 33 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.800 didn't recognize him. He was so much changed. I thought 34 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.599 he was a ragged beggar, asking. 35 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:55.479 Alms, is. 36 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:58.680 It you Signori Bara? 37 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.159 My name is Ibar. Yes, what do you want? 38 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:03.840 You do not know me, Senor? 39 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:09.039 I know I you look like a man I knew once. 40 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:10.599 But he is. 41 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:16.599 Dead, dead on the slopes of Periscota Petl Nunes. 42 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:18.360 No, it couldn't be. 43 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:24.120 You, Nunas. That is my name, Senor, at least that 44 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:25.639 is the name I remember. 45 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.879 But you fell. I saw you, for it's impossible that 46 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:29.560 you could have lived. 47 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.199 Perhaps the gods of the mountin had some reason to spare. 48 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.000 Me, known as if we'd had any idea that you 49 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.400 were alive, but you went down down thousands of feet. 50 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.800 We couldn't even attempt to find your body. I know 51 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.560 I do not blame you. You could not have reached me, 52 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.439 and if you had, I I should not have welcomed 53 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:58.479 you at first, but then later. What do you mean, Nuness, Senor? 54 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.599 You will not believe what I have to tell. I 55 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.199 can hardly believe that I'm seeing you talking to you. 56 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:10.240 But what has happened to you? You remember that night, 57 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.080 the night I fell. Yes, we had been toiling all day, 58 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.439 inching our way up a steep ice wall. In this 59 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:25.040 darkness came we found a narrow ledge, fairly three feet wide. 60 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:29.920 It's not very wide, but we can get our shoulder 61 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:31.839 wall up, cut off some of this wind hell. 62 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.600 That'll be welcome, yes, but first we'll rest a moment. 63 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.720 Look at that icy devil up there, glistening in the moonlight. 64 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.040 There's another three thousand feet of sheer ice wall to 65 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.160 the top, and I can see why no one's ever 66 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:44.560 made it. 67 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:46.360 I think we should go on. 68 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.879 I don't know, Nus. 69 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.040 I think it is not my place to say, Senor, 70 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.199 I was hired to guide you to the top. I agreed, 71 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.680 What do you really think if I believed in the 72 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.639 God of the mountain as the Indians do, I should 73 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:04.480 be frightened? Now? 74 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:04.920 Why? 75 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.600 Because we have invaded the forbidden circle. This part of 76 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:15.800 the Andes is unmapptain unknown, senor, and therefore shrouded in superstition. Eh, 77 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.600 it is an easy thing to believe strange things in 78 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:19.680 this white loneliness. 79 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.680 Some of the legends are really fascinating. I've heard of 80 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.639 once something about a hidden valley called the Country of 81 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:27.120 the Blind. 82 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:31.519 Yes, it is supposed to be somewhere down there below us, 83 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.040 a fertile valley which was settled many centuries ago and 84 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:38.240 then cut off by the great landslide of Rocca. 85 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.720 But why are the Country of the blind? 86 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.959 Well, even before it was isolated, the people developed a 87 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:49.879 strange illness. All of them slowly went blind. After that 88 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.560 their children were born blind. And the legend is that 89 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.639 the valley was the home of the mountain gods. It 90 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.519 was too beautiful for human eyes. 91 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.160 But it's all nonsense. 92 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.000 Yes, of course, would be pleasant to find it, though, 93 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.399 you know the old proverb. In the country of the blind, 94 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:12.959 the one eyed man is king. 95 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.839 I doubt that we could ever find it. I even 96 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:18.639 doubt if it exists, of course not. 97 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:20.240 I was only joking. 98 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.199 Yes, But now, if you're arrested, we'll make the shelter 99 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:25.079 wall right. 100 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:26.920 I'll give you a hand in a minute. 101 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:28.800 Believe me, Abara. 102 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.720 For two pays ofs I give up this climb. I 103 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:33.519 never realized that on Earth I'm slipping. 104 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:43.160 Hang on, no ned, no ne. In one horrible instant, 105 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.279 my foot had slipped on the treacherous ledge and I'd 106 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.920 gone over, falling far out into the icy black night, 107 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:55.040 falling down down, I fell perhaps a thousand feet. Then 108 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.399 I felt a heavy, stinging impact of snow. I'd fallen 109 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:01.879 on an almost perpendiculous snow slope, and I was sliding down, down, 110 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:07.439 tumbling over and over. And then suddenly I realized that 111 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.240 my own motion had almost stopped, and it was the 112 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:13.560 snow that was moving. I was riding an avalanche. At 113 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.920 almost the same moment, I went over the second precipice. 114 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.600 It was higher in the first, much higher, perhaps four 115 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.639 thousand feet. I fell with the snow for what seemed minutes, 116 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.879 every second, expecting the terrible final impact. But the impact 117 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.480 never came. Miracle of miracles, that sheerwald blended almost imperceptibly 118 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:32.680 into another steep snow slope, and again I was sliding gradually. 119 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.399 As the ark of the slope curved away, I felt 120 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:38.920 myself slow down, and finally I rolled to a stop 121 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:45.639 and lay still. When I awoke, it was morning, and 122 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.759 I was covered with snow. I shook off the cold 123 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:53.639 white blanket on my chest and rested a moment, and 124 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.560 then I rolled over on my back and looked up. 125 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.360 My heart almost stopped as I saw from where I'd fallen, 126 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.199 why the mountain towered ten thousand feet above me. Then 127 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.199 carefully I felt it myself. My clothes were torn. I 128 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.199 I was bruised and bleeding. I I ached in every muscle, 129 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.639 but I had not a single broken bone. I lay 130 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.639 there and offered up a prayer to the gods of 131 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:31.639 the mountain. Far below me lay a lush valley sparkling 132 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.519 in the morning sunlight. I could see the stately trees 133 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.799 and the green meadows fresh with dew. I started down 134 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.240 the mountain, but it was still an arduous descent. The 135 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.879 farther down I got, the more I realized the beauty 136 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:49.960 of the scene. Why this was a hidden paradise I'd 137 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.879 fallen into and I was the first man ever to 138 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:58.919 see it, so I thought, But I was wrong. I 139 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.639 realized that first when I saw the cultivation in the meadows, 140 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.159 and then the walks, well kept stone walks laid in 141 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.639 a symmetrical pattern all over the valley. And then I 142 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:14.279 saw them. There were men and women lying under the 143 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:19.519 trees and resting in the fields. Near By, a collection 144 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:23.360 of windowless huts marked a village, and the plastering of 145 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.720 the houses was done in a wild variety of colors. 146 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:31.480 I thought to myself, But plaster who did that must 147 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.120 have been blind as a bat. Then I saw two 148 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:37.960 of the men quite close to me. They were standing 149 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.039 on a bridge over the little stream. They were dressed 150 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.159 in odd, loose clothing, and there was a strange look 151 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.840 about their faces. They failed to notice me as I approached, 152 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:51.519 until I shouted. Suddenly. They looked up attentively in my direction. 153 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.080 I waved wildly at them, but they took no notice. 154 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:03.279 Where the fools must be blind? Blind? Could it be 155 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:08.000 that I have fallen into the country of the blind? Hum? 156 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.000 In the country of the blind, a one eyed man 157 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:18.559 can be king, ah, hello there, you needn't be afraid 158 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.240 I won't hurt you. I come in peace. 159 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:26.360 It is a man or a spirit come down from 160 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:26.960 the rocks. 161 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.600 Oh, I'm a man all right, just like you. But 162 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.200 I've had a miraculous escape, and now I find myself 163 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:33.559 here in. 164 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:39.840 Your valley, valley, valley, come hither, let me fail of you. 165 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:46.399 Yes, certainly, hear my arm is my face? You see? 166 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.279 I am a man, I like yourself. 167 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:49.200 Here. 168 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:54.720 Feel my lips they move with speech. Oh, careful, they gently. 169 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:59.919 Those are my eyes, eyes, eyes, that is strange. 170 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:03.759 Feel this career, Yes. 171 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.679 I feel careful. Feel the eyelids flutter. 172 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:13.639 He is but imperfectly formed. Some strange bulge there unseemly. 173 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:17.519 No, No, you see your eyes are shrunken in but 174 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:18.600 minor whole. 175 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:24.799 I can see see Pedro. He is a strange wild one. 176 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:26.320 Where does he come from? 177 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:28.600 He must have come down out of the rock. 178 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.480 No, from over the mountains, out of the country beyond 179 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.000 there where men can see, from Bogota, where there a 180 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.519 hundred thousand people in a city, stretches out of sight sight? 181 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.840 What strange words he uses without meaning? And feel the 182 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.480 costness of his hair, Like allamas our fathers have told us, 183 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.799 men may be made by forces of nature. It is 184 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:56.240 the warmth of things and moisture and rottenness. Let us 185 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:57.519 lead him to the elders. 186 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:01.960 But no one need lead me. I can see see, Oh, yes, 187 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:06.759 of course I can hit it. I I didn't see 188 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:07.519 your water bucket. 189 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.679 His senses are still imperfect. He stumbles and talks on 190 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:15.120 meaning words. Lead him by the hand, pedro. 191 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:23.919 But look, I huh, oh, well all right. These people 192 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:27.480 had been blind for centuries, they had forgotten even the 193 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:32.039 words associated with seeing. And they thought I was an idiot, 194 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.840 only half formed, especially when they let me into the 195 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.639 pitch blackness of one of their windowless huts and I 196 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:39.919 stumbled for someone. 197 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:44.159 Hey, thousand pardons, madamea si Rotta. He's a clumsy one. 198 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.080 I'm sorry I fell down. I I couldn't see in 199 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:47.639 the darkness. 200 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.559 Who is this and what is he saying? 201 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.080 He is but newly formed, good father. He has come 202 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.679 down from the rocks. He stumbles as he walks, and 203 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.519 mingles words that mean nothing with his speech. 204 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:03.559 He is a wild man out of the rocks. 205 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.879 No, I come from Bogota over the mountains. 206 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:11.559 You hear Bogota. He uses wild words. His mind is 207 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.039 hardly formed. He has only the beginnings of speech. 208 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.960 Yes, I come from the great world where men have 209 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:20.960 eyes and see. 210 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:23.840 That must be his name, Bogota. 211 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.480 He stumbled twice as we came through them. 212 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:28.240 He must be tad. 213 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:32.559 No, you don't understand. I can see, but not in 214 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.440 the dark. To you, darkness or light is all the same. 215 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.240 But to me, to us who can see, to us 216 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.519 outside in the world, beyond the mountains. 217 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:44.000 Mountains, what are mountains? 218 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:46.039 Very well, then beyond the rocks. 219 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.919 There is nothing beyond the rocks. That is the end 220 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:52.559 of the world. 221 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.639 But surely you must realize that the sky above covers 222 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:57.840 more than just this valley. 223 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:03.240 Sky above there is nothing above but the roof of rock. 224 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:07.960 He is very raw, my children, he shall have to 225 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:13.799 be taught from the beginnings, and I'll take him away, 226 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:14.960 feed him. 227 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:16.919 It shall be done, grand father. 228 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.759 But guide him, see that he does not stumble over 229 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:23.200 My daughter, Againe. 230 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:28.480 Do not fear father. I shall guide him myself and 231 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:34.120 feed him very well. Come take my hand. 232 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.519 Thank you it. It will be a pleasure to get 233 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.720 outside again, out of this darkness. 234 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:41.360 Come this way. 235 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:48.279 Yes, what is your name? Maydme sair Rothe mine is 236 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:54.639 one one noons, Oh, oh, sunlight, Oh, this is better. 237 00:14:55.080 --> 00:15:00.720 And now I may look at you. Why you're beautiful? 238 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.200 I cannot tell you what a wonderful thing you are 239 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:04.600 to see. 240 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.000 Please, you must be careful. Why if you do not 241 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:12.320 learn quickly and see speaking such strange words, they may 242 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.360 not be so kind to you. They might be angry. 243 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.519 They might even destroy you. 244 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.559 This thought had not occurred to me, and suddenly I 245 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.879 had a twinge of fear. Still, the proverb kept running 246 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:33.759 through my mind. In the country of the blind, a 247 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.879 one eyed man is king. But try as I would, 248 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.639 I cannot make them understand my wonderful gift of sight. 249 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:44.240 They thought me stupid and untaught, almost an idiot. Day 250 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.639 by day I learned their peaceful ways, but they could 251 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.600 not learn mine. I was beginning to get on my nerves. 252 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.879 There's two perhaps Bogota, Bogota, Come hither, Bogota, you move 253 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:58.360 not no, and I won't. 254 00:15:58.360 --> 00:15:59.399 You'll be I'll show you. 255 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.679 I'll leave them trample not on the grass. 256 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:05.120 It is not allowed. How did you know I stepped 257 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:07.639 on the grass? I heard, of course, heard, but I 258 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:08.440 didn't make a sound. 259 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:10.799 Why do you not come when I called you? 260 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.879 And you not hear? The path as you walk, I 261 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:14.480 can see it. 262 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.919 There is no such word as sea. Seise this folly 263 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:20.720 and follow the sound of my feet. 264 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.200 Oh, my time will come. 265 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.639 You will learn. There is much to learn in the world. 266 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.919 Has no one ever told you? In the country the blind, 267 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:29.879 the one eyed man is king blind? 268 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:31.600 What is blind? 269 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:32.639 Oh? 270 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:37.399 Never mind, Bogota, I must warn you. Just keep quiet 271 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.879 and learn, and stop this nonsense about seeing. 272 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.559 Nonsense, is it. I'm sure you have taken enough of 273 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.480 your insults. Informed mind, got no sense yet I'll be 274 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:48.960 king here. I can see and I'll be king Bogota. 275 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:51.360 Stop it. No, I'm through with your orders. I'll show 276 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.840 you what an advantage site can be. I can hit 277 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:55.639 you and hurt you, and you can't see me to 278 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:56.759 strike back, Bogota. 279 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:58.480 Put down that spade, you devil. 280 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.039 Your ears a sharp, aren't. 281 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:00.639 They, Bogota. 282 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:02.559 There must be no file, so I haven't. I'll hit 283 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:03.399 you if you come any closer. 284 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.000 I swear I will put down that spade and come 285 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:06.839 off the grass. 286 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.359 You don't understand. You are blind and I can see. 287 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.680 I can see, Bogata. I'll hurt you. 288 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:12.799 I swear, I will. 289 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.000 Put down that spade. 290 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:14.880 Leave me alone. 291 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.039 I hit him with a spade and ran over the 292 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.039 wall outside the valley, back to the rocks, back to 293 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.279 the cliff I'd come from. When I reached that sheer 294 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:27.880 rock wall, I knew there was no place to go. 295 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.480 For two days and nights I stayed outside the valley. 296 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.599 I grew hungry and cold, and I realized the hopelessness 297 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:39.160 of my position. I was trapped. I must spend the 298 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.680 rest of my life here. There was no way out. 299 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:51.519 So I went back. I confess, so, chief of the elders, 300 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:55.440 I was mad. I admit I was only newly made. 301 00:17:55.799 --> 00:18:01.559 That is better. And do you still think you can see? 302 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:02.119 No? 303 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.119 No, no, that was folly. The words mean nothing, less 304 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:05.599 than nothing. 305 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.279 And what is over here rock? 306 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:12.039 There's a roof above the world, a roof of rock, 307 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.079 and very smooth, very well. And please, before you ask 308 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:18.920 me any more, give me food or I shall die. 309 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:21.240 Very well. Give him food. 310 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.119 Me, dinosaurtes. 311 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.920 And after that we must put him to the most 312 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:35.160 menial tasks in the village, guard him well. Perhaps perhaps 313 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:36.279 he shall learn yet. 314 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:49.640 Thank you, thank you, Oh, that is better. You are kind, 315 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.240 Madna s Rotte, very kind. 316 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:55.000 I am glad you came back. 317 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.359 You are if they were all like you. I should 318 00:18:58.359 --> 00:18:59.079 never have run away. 319 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.640 What was that word you said? 320 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:08.599 I was beautiful? You are, or even your eyes they're 321 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.480 not shrunken depressions like the others. 322 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.079 It means something nice, beautiful. 323 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:19.839 Something very nice. Me, Dina Sorotti, tell me, why is 324 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:20.839 it you have no husband? 325 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:28.599 I I have a disfigure man. These long hairs, oh. 326 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:31.799 Your eyelashes, Oh, but they're beautiful. 327 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.680 They are considered a disfigurement. 328 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.400 You're the most lovely girl in the valley. But they 329 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.440 wouldn't know, would they. 330 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:39.000 You? 331 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:46.880 You have no lover, No, Dinocerotti, what do you think 332 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.200 of me? Do you think of me as an idiot 333 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:49.559 like all. 334 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:49.920 The rest of you? 335 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:50.200 No? 336 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:54.039 No, you have much to learn, but you will learn it, 337 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:58.960 I'm sure. And you are kind and gentle, and your 338 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:03.880 voice is so You speak words that are soft and warm. 339 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.599 No one has ever spoken such words to me. 340 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.359 Then I shall speak them often, Mednoceroti, you are the 341 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.640 only one in this valley, in this whole world I 342 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:29.440 care for. And so it began, I, the village idiot, 343 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.960 the slave boy who dreamed to be king. I, with 344 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:38.079 my eyes still whole, fell in love with Medinocerote, the 345 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:42.039 daughter of the elder of the village. Only to her 346 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.640 could I open my heart without fear? Only to her 347 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:50.799 could I speak of the beauty I could see around me. Oh, 348 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:55.799 it is a beautiful valley, me, Dinocerote, green with grass, 349 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:02.880 and yellow with sunlight, and flowers, bright flowers dotting the hills, 350 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.440 and in the cool of the night, the stars gleam 351 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:07.920 like diamonds in the sky. 352 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.960 The words sound lovely, But what are stars? 353 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:17.200 Stars? Why the. 354 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:22.200 No? You wouldn't understand, and what do you mean in 355 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.279 the cool of the night you still get that confused one. 356 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:29.519 The night is warm, the day is cool. 357 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.400 Oh, no, it is you here who have them backwards, 358 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.880 because the darkness means nothing to you. You work in 359 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.079 the cool of the night and sleep in the heat 360 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:38.559 of the day. 361 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:40.000 But you are teasing me. 362 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:49.079 No, Oh, what does it matter. All that matters is you, You, 363 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:55.680 you here beside me, my Dinosarote. I love you. 364 00:21:56.599 --> 00:21:57.079 I love you. 365 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.799 I I know they still think me an idiot. But 366 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.319 you listen to what I say, and you don't think 367 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:06.920 me an idiot? 368 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:07.960 Do you No? 369 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:10.519 I like to hear you speak. 370 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.440 Then will you would you marry me? 371 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:21.240 Yes? Yes, one, I will marry you. 372 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:36.519 Now, I will not have it. 373 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:40.480 But father, he is an idiot, he has delusions, he 374 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:42.240 cannot do anything right. 375 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:45.319 But he is getting better. He's better than he was. 376 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.960 And he is strong and kind, stronger and kinder than 377 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.000 any one in the world. And he loves me and 378 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:52.720 I love him. 379 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:54.880 Now I will not have it. 380 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.039 It's great, sire, if you please, What is it? Good doctor, 381 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:02.720 I have it, exam and bogotta, and the case is 382 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:07.119 clear to me. I think very probably he might be cured. 383 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:10.319 And how might that be done? 384 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:12.559 His brain is affected. 385 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:15.759 By something, I believe I know what it is, those 386 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.559 queer things he calls eyes where we have but an 387 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:24.079 agreeable depression. He has great lumps with flaps over them 388 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:28.480 that move in long hairs. Consequently, his brain is in 389 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:32.559 a constant state of irritation. But what can be done 390 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:37.519 to cure him? A very simple surgical operation remove the 391 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.279 cause of the irritation. We will merely cut out his eyes. 392 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:50.720 But one They say, it will make you well, it 393 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:52.000 will make you look like us. 394 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.319 But you don't understand my dinoceroty. My world is sight. 395 00:23:57.519 --> 00:23:59.960 You would not want me to lose my most precious possession. 396 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:04.559 I don't know there are so many beautiful things to see, 397 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:09.759 the flowers, the far sky with its drifting clouds, the sunsets, 398 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:15.279 the stars, and you, if only just to see you. 399 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.400 It is good to have sight, and I would never 400 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:19.119 see you again. 401 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.160