1 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,200 SAFSATA 2 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,600 - Hello!… Miss Amal? 3 00:01:01,024 --> 00:01:02,099 - Yes! 4 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:06,700 - Do you remember me?... Omar! 5 00:01:08,124 --> 00:01:11,524 - Omar? Yeah! Omar Naciri! - Exactly. 6 00:01:11,525 --> 00:01:13,851 Can I join you?... Won’t bother you. 7 00:01:13,852 --> 00:01:16,352 - No, please do. - Thanks. 8 00:01:16,853 --> 00:01:20,653 - Really, nice meeting you after all these years. 9 00:01:20,654 --> 00:01:22,154 - The pleasure’s mine. 10 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,700 - Tell me Omar, where have you been? 11 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,400 - In your opinion?... Tell me professor… 12 00:01:27,401 --> 00:01:29,901 - Don’t call me professor, Call me Amal. 13 00:01:30,302 --> 00:01:32,302 - Ok, Professor Amal! 14 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,900 - Have you ever gone back to our old school? 15 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:39,900 - Honestly, no. Since I came back from France, I’ve never been there. 16 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,002 I’ve been told it’s closed. Do you know why? 17 00:01:42,204 --> 00:01:45,704 - So, would you like to visit? 18 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,600 - You used to come deliver your lecture, and leave quietly… 19 00:02:00,024 --> 00:02:04,024 But me, I suffered deeply. 20 00:02:04,048 --> 00:02:08,048 My thoughts! My doubts!… 21 00:02:08,055 --> 00:02:13,055 Anxiety! Fear! 22 00:02:13,073 --> 00:02:17,073 All this, because of you. 23 00:02:17,420 --> 00:02:24,020 - Me? - Yes. You! Of course. 24 00:02:24,868 --> 00:02:29,868 Because of you, my life’s has gone away! Lost! 25 00:02:29,892 --> 00:02:31,592 - According to Nietzche, 26 00:02:31,616 --> 00:02:34,816 " The life you live,..." 27 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,840 " Well, you’ve got to live it again,..." 28 00:02:38,864 --> 00:02:44,764 " And start anew, it’s an endless process." 29 00:02:44,888 --> 00:02:48,388 - That very day, you’ve sown fear in my mind. 30 00:02:48,412 --> 00:02:51,912 Couldn’t eat or sleep anymore. 31 00:02:51,936 --> 00:02:54,636 All my thinking focused on Nietzsche. 32 00:02:54,660 --> 00:03:02,360 - Sorry! Couldn’t know you were easily influenced by Nietzsche. 33 00:03:03,384 --> 00:03:10,384 - And Pascal’s quote… You used to repeat now and then. 34 00:03:12,908 --> 00:03:20,908 « The last act is going to be sad! »... 35 00:03:21,556 --> 00:03:26,556 - « Despite the beauty of the other acts of the comedy »... 36 00:03:26,580 --> 00:03:31,580 « At the end, dust will cover the heads, » 37 00:03:31,604 --> 00:03:36,604 «And the curtain will fall down, forever! » 38 00:03:37,328 --> 00:03:42,328 - These words caused me pain and melancholy all my life. 39 00:03:42,752 --> 00:03:47,752 - What did you expect? To live for the whole eternity? Come on! 40 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,760 - It was fear that haunted me! All my life through… 41 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,700 The mere idea of death haunted me… 42 00:03:57,724 --> 00:04:00,724 It has been there, inside me, everywhere… 43 00:04:00,748 --> 00:04:03,148 When I went to France for studies, it was there! 44 00:04:03,172 --> 00:04:08,372 When back, it’s still there… Suffering, enduring all my life… 45 00:04:08,380 --> 00:04:11,380 As if I had drunk poison! - A poison? 46 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:15,420 - Yes, the poison of philosophy! 47 00:04:15,744 --> 00:04:18,144 No, it’s just that… 48 00:04:18,168 --> 00:04:23,768 What matters is the death you always talked about. 49 00:04:25,092 --> 00:04:27,692 Life is but a dream! That’s what you said, yes? 50 00:04:27,716 --> 00:04:30,516 You said. Hein! 51 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,640 - « Life is but a dream! » 52 00:04:34,664 --> 00:04:38,164 « And dreams are simply dreams » 53 00:04:38,764 --> 00:04:42,164 - Many times I thought of putting an end to all this, to my life! 54 00:04:42,188 --> 00:04:45,988 But I thought of Nietzsche and Pascal. 55 00:04:46,012 --> 00:04:48,212 It was horrible! 56 00:04:48,236 --> 00:04:53,236 I was in a tag of war, caught between Nietzsche and Pascal. 57 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:56,660 I’ve been suffering all my life... 58 00:04:56,984 --> 00:05:00,684 All this, because of you. 59 00:05:02,708 --> 00:05:04,708 - Me? 60 00:05:04,710 --> 00:05:06,810 - Yes. You! 61 00:05:08,256 --> 00:05:12,756 - Is this why you wanted me to come here? 62 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,880 - Exactly. 63 00:05:16,904 --> 00:05:19,904 - You wana settle the matter with me? 64 00:05:19,904 --> 00:05:21,404 - Exactly. 65 00:05:21,452 --> 00:05:23,752 - Call the police! 66 00:05:24,276 --> 00:05:27,376 To arrest me for having shaken a Muslim’s faith! 67 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,100 Or do justice by yourself, kill me! For having sown doubt in your mind. 68 00:05:31,524 --> 00:05:37,124 - No police! There’s truth in what you say. 69 00:05:37,848 --> 00:05:41,848 We won’t go till we settle the matter. 70 00:05:44,172 --> 00:05:47,872 - Come on, stop your comedy! Let’s go! 71 00:05:57,396 --> 00:06:01,096 - No, you’re not leaving! - Please, let me go! 72 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,920 - No way! - Let me go, please! 73 00:06:06,944 --> 00:06:09,144 - Are you afraid of death? 74 00:06:09,968 --> 00:06:14,968 Go back to your seat! Go back! 75 00:06:16,592 --> 00:06:18,892 Not there! Over there! 76 00:06:18,892 --> 00:06:20,392 Go! 77 00:06:22,764 --> 00:06:24,264 - Are you crazy? Let’s go! 78 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:28,000 - Yes, I am crazy! Completely insane.... 79 00:06:29,012 --> 00:06:32,912 But whose fault is it? Who is to blame? 80 00:06:33,036 --> 00:06:34,536 You. 81 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,860 I had been enjoying peace of mind, 82 00:06:40,584 --> 00:06:44,084 Till you came! And doubt started. 83 00:06:45,108 --> 00:06:47,508 I suffered from obsession with death. 84 00:06:49,032 --> 00:06:51,932 And now… Look at me! 85 00:06:53,056 --> 00:06:56,956 Stay there! You’re not going anywhere! 86 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,980 And now, give me back my innocence. 87 00:07:10,604 --> 00:07:15,604 Want to become carefree again, stupid… 88 00:07:17,052 --> 00:07:22,052 Like those people who don’t care about logic or philosophy. 89 00:07:22,076 --> 00:07:23,876 I just wanna sleep peacefully, 90 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:26,900 - You’re already insane! What else are you looking for? 91 00:07:27,924 --> 00:07:29,924 - You’re funny! Reason! 92 00:07:30,048 --> 00:07:33,148 This is another philosophical issue! 93 00:07:33,672 --> 00:07:38,372 Give me back my ignorance and stupidity. Go ahead! 94 00:07:38,496 --> 00:07:42,896 - Don’t shout! Basically, you don‘t understand philosophy. 95 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,920 Sure! Philosophy teaches us a lot… 96 00:07:46,044 --> 00:07:48,944 It helps us understand how to exist and how to die… But… 97 00:07:49,768 --> 00:07:52,268 - No! 98 00:07:52,792 --> 00:07:54,492 This I already know. 99 00:07:54,516 --> 00:07:58,016 I wanna become like everybody, 100 00:07:58,140 --> 00:08:03,840 Like all those people who work, sleep, get up, and eat, 101 00:08:03,864 --> 00:08:08,464 Who fast, give charity and go to Mecca. 102 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:10,988 They think they’ll go to paradise! 103 00:08:10,988 --> 00:08:14,988 - It‘s the opposite, philosophy is eye opening… 104 00:08:15,936 --> 00:08:19,736 It helps us find the sense of existence; learn how to live and how to die. 105 00:08:19,860 --> 00:08:22,360 Life and death go hand in hand. 106 00:08:22,484 --> 00:08:24,784 I already explained this to you. 107 00:08:24,908 --> 00:08:27,208 - " I can’t be afraid of death…" 108 00:08:27,232 --> 00:08:30,232 " For, as long as I live, death doesn’t exist…" 109 00:08:30,456 --> 00:08:35,256 " And when It comes, I won’t be here!" 110 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,880 " So, why afraid of death?" 111 00:08:37,904 --> 00:08:40,504 " So, what do you think of the philosopher’s saying?" 112 00:08:40,528 --> 00:08:42,628 - But I got nothing from that course, 113 00:08:42,652 --> 00:08:47,252 I just wana become again as I used to be before taking that philosophy course. 114 00:08:47,276 --> 00:08:52,776 - You can’t unlearn what you have learnt. 115 00:08:52,824 --> 00:08:57,624 - What? No way back! 116 00:08:58,048 --> 00:08:59,348 - No. 117 00:09:00,972 --> 00:09:06,872 - So, what am I going to do now? How shall I face anxiety? 118 00:09:07,096 --> 00:09:12,296 - Try to live life! Try to imagine Sisyphus happy, coexisting with his grief. 119 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,520 - Sisyphus! 120 00:09:18,944 --> 00:09:20,944 - Omar! What are you doing? Are you crazy? 121 00:09:21,068 --> 00:09:24,068 - Farewell! Bye Absurd world! 122 00:09:32,692 --> 00:09:35,192 - I don’t understand this comedy! 123 00:09:35,216 --> 00:09:37,416 - Here we are again in this room... 124 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:42,440 Where it all started... Anxiety and fear. 125 00:09:43,364 --> 00:09:46,364 Look how it has become! 126 00:09:46,488 --> 00:09:48,488 Of no use anymore… 127 00:09:48,512 --> 00:09:51,412 No philosophy, no science, nothing. 128 00:09:51,436 --> 00:09:54,936 The classroom is just like life. 129 00:09:54,936 --> 00:09:58,936 It’s useless, life is useless. 130 00:09:59,384 --> 00:10:04,084 - This is not our classroom. It’s the other one next door. 131 00:10:04,808 --> 00:10:08,008 - They’re all the same. 132 00:10:11,932 --> 00:10:16,832 Schools, Universities are all the same. 133 00:10:16,956 --> 00:10:19,256 Please, I don’t wanna speak. 134 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:22,080 Once I start speaking, I won’t stop. 135 00:10:22,104 --> 00:10:29,004 Like you, you didn’t stop speaking. We used to call you Miss "River". 136 00:10:29,004 --> 00:10:31,504 "The overflowing river". 137 00:10:31,652 --> 00:10:33,852 Miss. "River", the philosophy professor. 138 00:10:33,852 --> 00:10:37,852 - Miss. "River"! Not kind of you. 139 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,800 Miss. "River"! I had just come from France... 140 00:10:46,924 --> 00:10:50,024 Young and full of energy, eager to teach you. 141 00:10:50,048 --> 00:10:53,048 I considered you like my kids. 142 00:10:53,048 --> 00:10:56,348 You were like chicks waiting to be fed. 143 00:10:56,348 --> 00:10:58,848 And you called me Miss. "River"? 144 00:10:59,096 --> 00:11:02,096 I wonder where are they now? 145 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,520 - Finally, where do you think can they be? 146 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,820 Like me, good for nothing! 147 00:11:07,830 --> 00:11:12,330 - Why are you saying that? I just taught philosophy. 148 00:11:12,592 --> 00:11:17,792 - Ah! Philosophy! And in Classical Arabic please! 149 00:11:19,016 --> 00:11:21,916 You didn’t allow us to use Moroccan dialect in class! 150 00:11:21,940 --> 00:11:24,240 Although you studied in France. 151 00:11:25,564 --> 00:11:27,864 I still remember that day. 152 00:11:28,388 --> 00:11:32,388 - I request you to use only Classical Arabic in class, 153 00:11:32,612 --> 00:11:37,312 Because it is the language of logic, thought and reason. 154 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,520 Arabic is beautiful, at least in class, no? 155 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:46,860 - Yes, beautiful! But I was Young! 156 00:11:46,884 --> 00:11:50,584 First time I was introduced to philosophy! 157 00:11:50,808 --> 00:11:54,808 First time I knew what logic meant! First time I started thinking! 158 00:11:55,032 --> 00:12:00,032 Besides that, you imposed Classical Arabic? What‘s the use of this? 159 00:12:01,156 --> 00:12:06,156 Had you taught us in our mother tongue, we wouldn’t have understood anything. 160 00:12:06,180 --> 00:12:10,780 And now, I want to become stupid again, like all the others. 161 00:12:11,404 --> 00:12:16,404 - I think you’re still playing your comedy; I got no time for that. 162 00:12:20,928 --> 00:12:24,428 - Philosopher! O philosopher! 163 00:12:24,652 --> 00:12:29,152 Hey! Escaping? No more argumentation? 164 00:12:29,376 --> 00:12:32,376 You didn’t ask me about my job? 165 00:12:32,376 --> 00:12:34,376 - What do you do? 166 00:12:34,376 --> 00:12:41,976 - Philosophy professor, just like you!