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Ismene, listen.

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The same blood flows in both our veins,
doesn't it, my sister?

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The blood of Oedipus.

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And suffering, which was his destiny,
is our punishment too,

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the sentence passed on all his children.

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Physical pain, contempt, insults,
every kind of dishonor.

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We've seen them all and
endured them all, the two of us.

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But there's more to come.

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Now, today.

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Have you heard it?

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This new proclamation which
the king has made to the whole city?

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Have you heard how those
nearest to us are to be treated?

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With the contempt that we reserve
for traitors? People we love!

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Nobody has told me anything, Antigone.

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I've heard nothing, neither good
nor bad, about anyone we love.

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Not since the battle, I mean.

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The terrible news that
both our brothers were dead.

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One day, one battle
and fratricide twice over.

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Each brother cutting down his own flesh.

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But the army from Argos retreated
last night, I have heard that.

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Nothing else to cheer me up
or depress me further.

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I thought you hadn't.

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That's why I asked you to meet me here,

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where I can tell you everything
without any risk of being overheard.

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What is it then?

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More terrible news?

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Something black and
frightening, I can see that.

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Well, what do you think, Ismene?

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Perhaps you can guess.

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We have two brothers, both of them dead.

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And Creon has decreed that
a decent burial shall be given to one,

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but not to the other.

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Eteocles apparently has already
been buried with full military honors,

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not far short of a State funeral,

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with all the formalities due
to the dead meticulously observed,

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so that his rest in the underworld
amongst the heroes is assured.

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But Polynices...

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who died in agony just as certainly
as his brother did,

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is not to be buried at all!

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The decree makes that quite plain.

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He is to be left, lying where he fell,
with no tears or ceremonies of mourning,

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to stink in the open, till the kites
and vultures catch the scent

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and tear him to pieces
and pick him to the bone!

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Left unburied, there is no rest for him
in the underworld, no more than here.

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What a great king
our Creon is, eh, sister?

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It's against us, you realize,
and against me in particular,

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that he has published this decree.

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And he'll soon be here
himself to make it public

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to the senators and anyone
who may not have heard it.

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He isn't bluffing.
He means to act, to make it stick.

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The punishment for anyone
who disobeys the order...

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is public stoning to death.

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So that's the news.

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And you know it now.

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The time has come for you too
to stand up and be counted with me,

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to show whether you are worthy
of the honor of being Oedipus' daughter.

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Wait a minute, Antigone.

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Don't be so headstrong.

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If all this is as you say it is,
what can I do, one way or the other?

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Just say you'll help me.

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Commit yourself.
-To do what?

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Something dangerous?

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Just to give me a hand to lift the body.

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It's too heavy for me to move on my own.

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To bury him, you mean,
in spite of the decree?

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He's my brother.

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And whatever you say, he's yours too.

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I won't betray him now that he's dead.
No one will ever throw that in my face.

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You can't do it.

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Creon has publicly forbidden it.

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He cannot forbid me to love my brother.

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He has neither the right
nor the power to do that.

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Have you forgotten
what happened to our father?

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Contempt and loathing from everyone,
even from himself, that was his reward.

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And blinded too, by his own hand.

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And his mother-wife,

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as ill-matched with him as those
two words are with each other,

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she knotted a rope and hanged herself.

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And now our two brothers, both in
one day, caught in the same trap,

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claiming blood for blood
and death for death,

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each one at the expense of the other.

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We are the last ones left, sister.

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And what a death is promised for us,
more terrible than any,

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if we break the law by defying
the king and the power of the State.

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Think for a moment, Antigone, please!

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We're women, that's all.

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Physically weaker, and barred
from any political influence.

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How can we fight against

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the institutionalized
strength of the male sex?

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They are in power
and we have to obey them,

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or worse tyrannies than these
may be inflicted upon us.

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May God forgive me,
and the spirits of the dead,

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we have no choice.

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State power commands,
and we must do as we are told.

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When you are powerless,

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wild gestures and heroic
refusals are reserved for madmen.

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Don't say any more.

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I won't ask again.

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In fact, if you were to offer
help now, I would refuse it.

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Do as you please.

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I intend to bury my brother.

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And if I die in the attempt,

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I shall die in the knowledge
that I have acted justly,

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and that will be a kind of happiness.

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I shall lie peacefully beside my brother,

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whom I loved in my actions
as well as in words.

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Our lives are short.

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We have too little time to waste it on men
and the laws they make.

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The approval of the dead is everlasting.

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And I shall bask in it
as I lie among them.

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Do as you please.

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Live, by all means.

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The laws you will break
are not of man's making.

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I reverence them.

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But how can I defy the
unlimited power of the State?

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What weapons of mine
are strong enough for that?

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Fine. That's a good excuse.

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I'll go and shovel the
earth on my brother's body.

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I'm frightened, Antigone.
I'm frightened for you.

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Don't be frightened for me.
Fear for yourself!

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For God's sake, keep it quiet.

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Don't tell anyone.
I'll keep our meeting secret.

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Don't you dare!

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You must tell everyone.
Shout it in the streets.

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If you keep it quiet,
I shall begin to hate you.

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There's a fire burning in you, Antigone,
but it makes me go cold just to hear you.

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Well, I'm not doing it to please you.

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You won't do it at all.
You're bound to fail!

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I shall fail when I have
failed and not before.

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But you know it's hopeless.

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Why begin when you know
there's no way you can succeed?

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Be quiet!

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Before I begin to despise you
for talking so feebly!

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He will despise you too, and justly.

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You can go now.

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Go!

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If I'm mad, you can leave me
here with my madness,

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which will doubtless
destroy me soon enough.

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Death is the worst thing that can happen.

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And some deaths are
more honorable than others.

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If you've made your mind up...
Antigone, it's madness...

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Remember, I love you,

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whatever happens.

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The life-giving sun has
never shone more brightly

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on the seven gates of Thebes
than he shines this morning.

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Never a more glorious dawning

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than this sunrise over Dirce's river,

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when the army of the
foreign invader, at first light,

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made its panic-stricken flight,

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and all its white shields and
its bright weapons were gone.

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Like a snowy eagle from
the mountain crest it came,

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shrieking down on our city.

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The army of Argos with a spurious treaty

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to enforce Polynices' claim.

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All its horsehair plumes nodding together,

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and a grinding of brass,
and a creaking of leather.

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By our seven shuttered gates, it waited.

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Eyes glittering in dark helmets.

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Swords drawn, spears couching.

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But before the killing and burning...
-The metallic taste of blood...

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And crashing stonework and blazing wood...

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They turned and fled.

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The music of death in their ears.

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At their backs, the dragon's breath.

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Zeus had seen them.

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He who hates inflated pride,

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and the empty boast of the windbag.

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He heard their singing,

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as if the victory were
theirs for the taking.

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And he brought down his
thunder on their glittering host.

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Struck them with lightning,
and sent them flying.

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Scorched them, and burned them,
and left them dying.

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Down like a rock from
the mountain crest he came,

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thundering to earth,
the flame dashed from his hand.

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The son of Thebes, whose best hope of fame

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was to conquer his native land,
and who failed in his quest.

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For the war god gave us
his word of command.

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Like a battle chariot, his terrible name

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ran them down where they stood,

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and they died in the dust.

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Now at each of our seven gates,
a Theban defender waits,

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as seven champions bring
their fame and armor to the fight.

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And before the coming of night,

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six have put their fame to the test.

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Six have laid both fame and armor to rest

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as a tribute at great Zeus' feet.

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At the seventh gate, two brothers meet,

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sharing their blood in death as in birth.

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Each striking together.

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Each laying the other dead on the earth.

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There will be victory celebrations today

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in this city of charioteers,
and singing in the streets.

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There will be ceremonies of thanksgiving

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and grateful tears for the end of
the fighting, as the enemy retreats,

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and the time comes
for relaxation and play.

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Now as all voices are
raised and the drum beats...

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The ecstatic god himself will appear.

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Bacchus, the drunkard!

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To take power for one day
in this city he calls his own.

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Time to dance all night,
to shake the foundations.

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Till the faint light of dawn
flushes the windows,

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and the lamps fade.

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Now, Creon is king.

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He made the most of his fortune,

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and the gods' choice,
the son of Menoeceus.

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As the people rejoice,

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the new king enters to take his throne.

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The responsibility his alone.

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But why has he called us here,

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to debate, in emergency session...

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His new proclamation,
so vital to the State?

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Senators:

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Our country, like a ship at sea,
has survived the hurricane.

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The gods who sent it have navigated us

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into calmer waters now.

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I have chosen to summon this assembly
because I know I can trust you.

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Your predecessors were loyal
and reliable in King Laius' time,

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and when King Oedipus,
in his exceptional wisdom,

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restored the fortunes of this city,

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when tragedy struck him
and his rule was ended,

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your loyalty to the blood royal
was never questioned,

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and you supported his sons till they too

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were brought down in a single day,
incestuously murdered,

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each brother shedding a brother's blood.

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By that same blood right, as next of kin,

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I claim the throne as my inheritance,

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both the city and the kingdom.

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I claim it, and I hold it from today

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as mine by right.

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There is no certain
measure of a man's quality,

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the depth of his intellect
or the maturity of his judgment,

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until he is put to the supreme test

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by the exercise of
absolute power in the State.

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My own opinion is well known:

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The ruler who fears the
consequences of his actions,

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or who is afraid to act openly

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or take the good advice of his
senators, is beneath contempt.

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Equally contemptible is the man
who puts the interests

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of his friends or his relations
before his country.

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There is nothing good can be said of him.

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Let me make it plain before the gods,

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whose eyes are in every council chamber:

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When I see any threat to this nation,

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from whatever direction,
I shall make it public.

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No one who is an enemy of the State
shall ever be any friend of mine.

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The State, the Fatherland,
is everything to us.

247
00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,729
The ship we all sail in,
if she sinks, we all drown,

248
00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,704
and friendship drowns with us.

249
00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:11,900
That's my policy, a policy
of service to the Commonwealth.

250
00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,000
And in pursuance of that policy,

251
00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:21,180
I have issued an official State decree
concerning the sons of Oedipus.

252
00:16:22,820 --> 00:16:26,075
Eteocles, who died
fighting for his country,

253
00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:28,035
and with exceptional bravery,

254
00:16:28,699 --> 00:16:31,860
we shall bury him with all the honors
and funeral ceremonies customary

255
00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,700
for a man who died a hero.

256
00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,454
The other, the outcast, the exile,

257
00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:42,294
his brother, Polynices,

258
00:16:42,830 --> 00:16:46,390
who returned here at the head
of a foreign army to destroy his homeland,

259
00:16:46,420 --> 00:16:50,095
burn down this city and reduce
the people to a condition of slavery

260
00:16:50,118 --> 00:16:51,398
or kill them in the streets...

261
00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:55,740
I have ordered that he
is to have no grave at all.

262
00:16:56,724 --> 00:16:59,540
No one is to bury him or mourn for him!

263
00:16:59,740 --> 00:17:02,705
His body is to be left
in the open, uncovered,

264
00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,960
a stinking feast for the
scavengers, dogs and crows,

265
00:17:05,998 --> 00:17:07,894
a sight to inspire terror.

266
00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,185
I intend to make it quite plain

267
00:17:11,682 --> 00:17:14,740
that never, under my administration,

268
00:17:15,622 --> 00:17:17,734
will people who commit
crimes against the State

269
00:17:17,794 --> 00:17:19,900
reap any benefits from their actions.

270
00:17:20,902 --> 00:17:23,780
And at the expense
of honest, decent citizens, too.

271
00:17:25,591 --> 00:17:27,350
The people who serve the State,

272
00:17:27,628 --> 00:17:30,031
alive or dead, that makes no difference.

273
00:17:30,984 --> 00:17:34,780
I shall honor them, and reward them, too.

274
00:17:35,859 --> 00:17:38,874
Son of Menoeceus, you are king now.

275
00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:40,988
You have delivered
your verdict and sentence

276
00:17:41,025 --> 00:17:43,114
upon the man who defended the city,

277
00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,560
and the man who attacked it,
unambiguously.

278
00:17:47,581 --> 00:17:49,688
Your least word has the force of law,

279
00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,050
and it binds the dead
as well as the living.

280
00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,120
We are all at your disposal.

281
00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:57,260
Make sure, then, that
my orders are carried out.

282
00:17:58,127 --> 00:18:01,500
Younger men than us
should implement your policies.

283
00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,020
I don't mean that.

284
00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,140
Polynices' body is already under guard.

285
00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,500
What else must we do?

286
00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,140
What other responsibility
do you lay upon us?

287
00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:13,860
Not to intrigue with dissidents,
or subversive elements.

288
00:18:14,980 --> 00:18:16,582
We are not mad, sir.

289
00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:19,271
We know the law
and the penalty for breaking it.

290
00:18:19,319 --> 00:18:20,393
Which will be death.

291
00:18:21,037 --> 00:18:22,842
And be in no doubt, I shall enforce it.

292
00:18:23,660 --> 00:18:25,860
Because there are always
men who can be bought,

293
00:18:26,060 --> 00:18:30,180
who will risk anything, even death,
if the bribe is large enough.

294
00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,120
My Lord Creon!

295
00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,420
I can hardly speak for lack of breath.

296
00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:38,980
Not 'cause I ran.

297
00:18:39,060 --> 00:18:40,940
I kept on stopping, as a matter of fact,

298
00:18:40,980 --> 00:18:42,220
half a dozen times.

299
00:18:42,340 --> 00:18:44,220
And I hung about as much as I dared.

300
00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:47,276
I haven't thought about anything
so much for a long time.

301
00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:50,180
"Listen, don't hurry," I said to myself.

302
00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:53,420
"Chances are, dimwit,
you're hurrying to the firing squad."

303
00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:56,780
But then I said to myself,
you see, "hang about," I said.

304
00:18:56,820 --> 00:18:57,900
"Or rather, don't!

305
00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:01,020
"Because if Creon hears this from
somebody else, you're really in trouble."

306
00:19:01,420 --> 00:19:04,260
So I hurried here as slow as I could,
if you see what I mean.

307
00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:09,220
It's funny how long a mile can take you
when you're thinking what I was thinking.

308
00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:12,820
However, duty called in the end,

309
00:19:12,980 --> 00:19:15,580
and I reckoned it would be
safer to face it out.

310
00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:19,580
It may be unimportant,
but I've come here, so now I'll tell you.

311
00:19:20,340 --> 00:19:23,060
If I'm punished for it, the gods
will be behind it, that's for sure.

312
00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,780
So I wouldn't have escaped it anyway.
-Talk sense, man. Why are you frightened?

313
00:19:27,620 --> 00:19:31,735
Well, first of all, sir, for myself,
like, my own point of view,

314
00:19:32,334 --> 00:19:34,940
I never done it! And I didn't see
who else done it, neither,

315
00:19:34,964 --> 00:19:36,534
so I shouldn't be
punished for it, should I?

316
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,460
Is there any need for all this preamble?

317
00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:42,820
You take great care to dissociate yourself
from what you say, it must be bad news.

318
00:19:43,220 --> 00:19:45,220
It is bad news, sir, I'm afraid.

319
00:19:45,540 --> 00:19:46,818
I don't know how to put it for the best.

320
00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,380
The plainest way, and then
we can have done with you.

321
00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:51,981
Straight out with it, then.

322
00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:53,960
The...

323
00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:56,140
The body's buried!

324
00:19:56,580 --> 00:19:59,523
Someone or other, a handful
of dust, that's all, dry dust,

325
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,568
but properly sprinkled,
you know, religiously,

326
00:20:01,597 --> 00:20:03,540
and then gone, whoever it was!

327
00:20:04,220 --> 00:20:05,700
Do you know what you're saying?

328
00:20:06,980 --> 00:20:09,100
Who has dared to disobey my orders?

329
00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,420
No way of knowing, sir, we've no idea.

330
00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:15,020
There'd been no digging, no spade marks
or nothing, the ground's rock hard.

331
00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:18,716
There were no wheel tracks either
from a chariot or cart or anything.

332
00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:21,479
In fact, no clues of any kind at all.

333
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,640
Nothing, nothing to tell you
who might have done it.

334
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:26,619
Well, when the sentry
taking the early turn

335
00:20:26,646 --> 00:20:28,476
discovered what had
happened and reported back,

336
00:20:28,501 --> 00:20:30,676
we were all shattered and scared stiff.

337
00:20:31,209 --> 00:20:34,624
It was as though the body
had... disappeared...

338
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,220
Well, not buried in a
proper grave, I don't mean,

339
00:20:37,260 --> 00:20:39,180
but lightly covered with a layer of earth.

340
00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:43,898
Well, almost as though some passing
stranger, with a religious turn of mind,

341
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,097
knowing that being left unburied

342
00:20:45,134 --> 00:20:47,409
means everlasting anguish
and wandering without rest,

343
00:20:47,434 --> 00:20:49,617
had scattered a few handfuls.

344
00:20:50,364 --> 00:20:52,300
There was no track of animals either,

345
00:20:52,340 --> 00:20:54,460
not from dogs or anything
who might have gnawed at it

346
00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,897
and covered it over with their
hind legs like they do a bone.

347
00:20:58,147 --> 00:21:00,475
A real row started then, I can tell you.

348
00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:02,801
We all shouted at each other,
and it could have been a fight,

349
00:21:02,845 --> 00:21:04,519
there was no one there to stop us.

350
00:21:04,778 --> 00:21:06,429
Well, any one of us could have done it.

351
00:21:06,733 --> 00:21:09,607
We all suspected each
other, but we all denied it.

352
00:21:09,933 --> 00:21:13,540
And there was no evidence to prove
one man guilty rather than another.

353
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:19,080
So then we all dared each other
to swear to go through fire and water,

354
00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:21,068
to hold red-hot pokers in our hands

355
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,860
and call all the gods as witnesses
that we hadn't done it,

356
00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:25,018
and didn't know anyone who had

357
00:21:25,043 --> 00:21:27,380
or would even think of it,
let alone do it.

358
00:21:27,580 --> 00:21:29,916
And none of any of it got us nowhere.

359
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,960
But then one of the fellas had his say,

360
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,522
and he scared us all
shitless, I can tell you.

361
00:21:35,848 --> 00:21:37,914
He said, and we knew he was dead right,

362
00:21:37,939 --> 00:21:40,633
there was no way out of it,
we had to do it and take our chances.

363
00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:44,340
This fella said: "One of us lot
must tell the king,

364
00:21:44,404 --> 00:21:46,461
"because we can't just hide it, can we?"

365
00:21:46,587 --> 00:21:48,965
That's what he said.
And we knew he was right.

366
00:21:49,868 --> 00:21:52,133
So we decided we'd have to draw lots.

367
00:21:52,950 --> 00:21:55,900
Just my luck, I drew the short straw.

368
00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:58,120
So...

369
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:00,080
here I am.

370
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,395
And I don't like telling it, not one
little bit more than you like hearing it.

371
00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:06,980
The bloke who brings bad news
never gets a medal.

372
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,700
My Lord Creon, this policy of yours
has worried me from the start.

373
00:22:12,740 --> 00:22:16,415
My political instinct tells me this may be
some sort of warning or sign,

374
00:22:16,438 --> 00:22:19,340
and perhaps from the gods.
-How dare you?

375
00:22:20,198 --> 00:22:23,160
Shut your mouths, both of you,
before I lose my temper.

376
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,340
And you, if you are a superannuated fool,
at least don't talk like one.

377
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,660
Is it likely, remotely likely,

378
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:34,860
that the gods would think twice
over that pile of stinking meat?

379
00:22:35,781 --> 00:22:37,255
By God, it's blasphemy,

380
00:22:37,451 --> 00:22:40,254
even to suggest that they would care
a damn whether he was buried or not!

381
00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:43,180
Let alone grant him an honorable funeral

382
00:22:43,220 --> 00:22:45,700
as though he were one of their
principal supporters, what?

383
00:22:46,420 --> 00:22:48,100
The man who came
to burn down their temples,

384
00:22:48,125 --> 00:22:50,468
plunder their treasuries,
pull down their statues

385
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,240
and make a mockery of all their laws,

386
00:22:52,260 --> 00:22:54,660
do the gods love criminals these days?

387
00:22:55,463 --> 00:22:56,540
No, they do not.

388
00:22:57,734 --> 00:23:01,854
But, gentlemen, there are men
in this city, and I've noted them,

389
00:23:02,334 --> 00:23:04,855
a subversive faction,
enemies of the State,

390
00:23:04,878 --> 00:23:07,820
a cell of oppositionists,
call them what you will,

391
00:23:07,940 --> 00:23:10,819
who reject the laws and my leadership.

392
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,120
They meet in secret, and nod and whisper

393
00:23:13,140 --> 00:23:16,780
and talk of the great day,
seditious men they are.

394
00:23:17,769 --> 00:23:21,500
And they are behind this,
any fool can see that.

395
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,791
Their bribery has suborned my soldiers,

396
00:23:26,485 --> 00:23:29,620
and paid for this demonstration
against my authority.

397
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,376
Money, gentlemen, money.

398
00:23:34,980 --> 00:23:37,980
The virus that infects mankind
with every sickness we have a name for,

399
00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:39,460
no greater scourge than that.

400
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,380
Money it is that pounds
great cities into piles of rubble,

401
00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:47,780
turns people by the millions
into homeless refugees,

402
00:23:48,021 --> 00:23:51,195
takes honest citizens,
and corrupts them into doing things

403
00:23:51,220 --> 00:23:53,692
they'd be ashamed to think of
before the fee was mentioned,

404
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,543
and in the end, brings them
into the execution chamber.

405
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,402
Well, whoever they are,
these men who have sold themselves,

406
00:24:02,665 --> 00:24:05,660
they'll find the price considerably higher
than they thought it was.

407
00:24:07,620 --> 00:24:08,620
You, come here.

408
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,640
Come here!

409
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,900
By Zeus, whom I regard
as my personal patron,

410
00:24:17,220 --> 00:24:18,900
and by all the gods men worship anywhere,

411
00:24:18,925 --> 00:24:21,151
I swear to you, soldier,
that either you will find the man

412
00:24:21,181 --> 00:24:23,018
who buried Polynices' body,

413
00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,150
in defiance of my express command,

414
00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,220
and bring him here to me,

415
00:24:27,255 --> 00:24:29,661
the actual man who sprinkled the earth,

416
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,518
no other will do, standing
here in front of me, hmm?

417
00:24:33,224 --> 00:24:35,260
Or you, soldier, will die for it.

418
00:24:35,853 --> 00:24:38,499
Death, I promise you, will be
the least of your punishments.

419
00:24:39,803 --> 00:24:41,759
You will be made a public example,

420
00:24:42,055 --> 00:24:44,366
and interrogated by the security police,

421
00:24:44,988 --> 00:24:47,384
kept standing, beaten across the feet,

422
00:24:47,429 --> 00:24:51,780
the whole repertoire of special techniques
at which we excel so much...

423
00:24:52,703 --> 00:24:55,325
until you confess the full
range of this conspiracy.

424
00:24:55,843 --> 00:24:59,324
Who paid you, how much,
and for what purpose.

425
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,680
The choice is yours.

426
00:25:03,844 --> 00:25:06,660
Perhaps that indicates where
your own best interests lie.

427
00:25:08,025 --> 00:25:10,460
Crimes against the State
and its laws, you'll find,

428
00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:12,675
are very unprofitable in the end.

429
00:25:14,864 --> 00:25:17,090
Am I allowed to speak, sir?
-No! Why should you speak?

430
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,960
Every word you say is painful to me.

431
00:25:18,980 --> 00:25:20,875
Well, it can't be earache, can it, sir?

432
00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:22,166
Not what I said.

433
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,760
It must stick in your gullet,

434
00:25:23,780 --> 00:25:26,740
or further down, maybe,
a sort of pain in the conscience.

435
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,035
Do you dare to answer me back
and make jokes about my conscience?

436
00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:30,995
Me, sir? No, sir.

437
00:25:31,020 --> 00:25:32,820
I might give you earache, I can see that.

438
00:25:32,860 --> 00:25:34,820
I talk too much, always have done.

439
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:37,795
But the other pain, the
heartburn, as it were,

440
00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:39,889
it's the criminal
causing that, sir, not me!

441
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,000
Not short of a quick answer, either.

442
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,022
No, sir. But I didn't bury the body.

443
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,200
Not guilty to that, sir.

444
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,620
You may be guilty of selling
your eyes for money,

445
00:25:48,660 --> 00:25:51,399
eh, sentry, looking
the other way for cash?

446
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,340
Well, you're an intelligent man, sir,
and well-educated, and I'm not.

447
00:25:55,580 --> 00:25:59,220
But in this case, I'm thinking clearly,
and you're mistaken.

448
00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:00,860
You can think what you like.

449
00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:03,451
Whatever you think...

450
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,840
If you fail to find this enemy of the
State and bring him here to me,

451
00:26:06,860 --> 00:26:09,820
you'll find that money,
from whatever source,

452
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,400
will certainly not save your life.

453
00:26:19,414 --> 00:26:22,420
Well, let's hope they find him,
then, whoever he is!

454
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,500
But ne thing I'm sure of,
they won't find me.

455
00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:36,020
I never thought I'd get out of here alive.

456
00:26:36,380 --> 00:26:39,300
But when I do get out,
nothing will bring me back again.

457
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,740
I've had an amazing stroke of luck,

458
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,800
and I won't chance my arm a second time.

459
00:26:52,494 --> 00:26:55,660
Is there anything more wonderful on Earth,

460
00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:57,700
our marvelous planet,

461
00:26:57,860 --> 00:27:00,020
than the miracle of man?

462
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,500
With what arrogant ease
he rides the dangerous seas,

463
00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:05,820
from the waves' towering summit

464
00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:07,980
to the yawning trough beneath.

465
00:27:08,020 --> 00:27:11,260
The Earth Mother herself,
before time began,

466
00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:13,460
the oldest of the ageless gods,

467
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:15,700
learned to endure his driving plow,

468
00:27:15,740 --> 00:27:18,300
turning the Earth
and breaking the clods...

469
00:27:18,340 --> 00:27:20,860
Till, by the sweat of his brow,

470
00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:23,420
she yielded up her fruitfulness.

471
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:26,660
The quick-witted birds
are no match for him,

472
00:27:26,780 --> 00:27:29,740
neither victim nor predator
among the beasts of the plain,

473
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,620
nor the sea's seething masses.

474
00:27:32,660 --> 00:27:34,780
His cunning surpasses their instinct.

475
00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:36,420
His skill is the greater.

476
00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:39,273
His snares never fail, and his nets teem.

477
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,340
The wild bull of the savage mountain,

478
00:27:41,380 --> 00:27:45,500
and the magnificent stag who passes
like a king through upland and glen...

479
00:27:45,563 --> 00:27:48,940
The untamed horse with his
matted tresses uncut on his neck.

480
00:27:49,020 --> 00:27:51,180
All submit to man.

481
00:27:51,220 --> 00:27:56,100
And the yoke, and the bit -
and his power increases.

482
00:27:56,900 --> 00:27:59,129
He has mastered the
mysteries of language...

483
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:00,155
And thought,

484
00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:03,380
which moves faster than the wind,
he has tamed and made rational.

485
00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:07,100
Political wisdom, too, all the
knowledge of peoples and States.

486
00:28:07,140 --> 00:28:11,420
All the practical art of government
he has studied and refined.

487
00:28:11,460 --> 00:28:15,140
Built cities to shelter his head
against rain and danger and cold.

488
00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:17,820
And ordered all things in his mind.

489
00:28:17,860 --> 00:28:20,380
There is no problem he cannot resolve

490
00:28:20,420 --> 00:28:23,260
by the exercise of his
brains or his breath.

491
00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:27,660
And the only disease he cannot
salve or cure is death.

492
00:28:31,534 --> 00:28:35,180
In action, he is subtle
beyond imagination,

493
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,180
limitless in his skill.

494
00:28:37,420 --> 00:28:41,620
And these gifts are
both enemies and friends,

495
00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:44,740
as he applies them
with equal determination

496
00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:47,900
to good or to evil ends.

497
00:28:47,980 --> 00:28:53,180
All men honor, and the State
uplifts that man to the heights of glory,

498
00:28:53,340 --> 00:28:56,020
whose powers uphold the constitution,

499
00:28:56,140 --> 00:28:58,780
and the gods, and their laws.

500
00:28:59,020 --> 00:29:01,140
His city prospers.

501
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,180
But if he shifts his ground
and takes the wrong path,

502
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,340
despising morality
and blown up with pride,

503
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:13,100
indulges himself and his power...

504
00:29:13,843 --> 00:29:18,460
At my hearth may he
never ever warm himself

505
00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:21,820
or sit at my side.

506
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,195
But wait.
-I can't believe my eyes.

507
00:29:34,220 --> 00:29:37,095
Can this be true?
-This is Antigone!

508
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,555
I recognize her
as clearly as I can see you.

509
00:29:39,580 --> 00:29:43,060
Her father's destiny
was suffering and pain.

510
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:45,940
On all his progeny misfortunes rain.

511
00:29:45,980 --> 00:29:49,820
Child, did you openly disobey
the new king's order?

512
00:29:49,860 --> 00:29:51,420
And bury your brother?

513
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,676
Do you have to manhandle her this way?

514
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,340
We saw it. Actually burying the body.

515
00:29:57,380 --> 00:29:59,820
Caught him in the act,
as they say, red-handed.

516
00:29:59,860 --> 00:30:03,660
Only it's not a him, it's a her.
Where's the king?

517
00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:06,140
He has been informed.
-He's on his way.

518
00:30:10,094 --> 00:30:12,980
Is this a moment to disturb the king?
Why do you need me?

519
00:30:14,357 --> 00:30:15,220
What has happened?

520
00:30:15,271 --> 00:30:18,076
Lord Creon, I reckon it's always unwise

521
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:20,980
to swear oaths and make promises,
even to yourself.

522
00:30:21,060 --> 00:30:23,980
Second thoughts, nine times
out of ten, will have their say,

523
00:30:24,020 --> 00:30:25,940
and end up by calling you a liar.

524
00:30:25,980 --> 00:30:28,340
It's no time at all
since I promised myself

525
00:30:28,380 --> 00:30:30,060
I wouldn't be seen dead here again.

526
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:32,100
You were that angry with me the last time,

527
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,420
a right mouthful you gave me,
more than enough, thanks very much.

528
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:38,260
But you can't beat a real
turn-up for the book, can you?

529
00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:40,729
There's nothing more enjoyable
than a good win

530
00:30:40,766 --> 00:30:42,554
when you're expecting a towsing.

531
00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:45,685
So, here I am again, as the comic said,

532
00:30:45,855 --> 00:30:49,060
and my promises not worth
the air they were spoken with.

533
00:30:49,420 --> 00:30:52,700
This lady's your criminal.
We caught her doing it.

534
00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:55,180
Actually setting the grave to rights.

535
00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:59,140
I brought her here, and there was
no panic this time, I can tell you.

536
00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:02,220
No retribution or drawing lots,
she was all mine.

537
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,260
I caught her
and I claim the credit for it.

538
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,740
And now she's all yours.

539
00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:11,620
Take her and accuse her,
stone her to death, if you like.

540
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,140
I'm free to go, I hope,
and well shot of all of it.

541
00:31:16,454 --> 00:31:19,420
Where did you arrest her?
Tell me the details.

542
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:21,580
She was burying him.
What else is there to say?

543
00:31:21,609 --> 00:31:23,760
Are you out of your mind?

544
00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:26,540
Do you realise the implications
of what you're saying?

545
00:31:26,580 --> 00:31:28,860
Sir, she was burying the body.

546
00:31:28,980 --> 00:31:32,380
The body you ordered not to be buried.
I can't speak plainer than that.

547
00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:35,340
But how did you catch her?
Was she doing it openly?

548
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,380
Well, gentlemen, it was like this.

549
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,540
As soon as I got back, remembering all
those threats or promises you made me,

550
00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,220
we brushed all the earth
off the naked body,

551
00:31:45,260 --> 00:31:47,740
which was all wet
and beginning to decay by now.

552
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:51,020
And we sat up on the ridge,
well to the windward of the stink,

553
00:31:51,020 --> 00:31:52,660
and we all kept a sharp eye on each other,

554
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,780
ready to nudge anyone who dropped off
and tear him off a strip too.

555
00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:59,220
For hours we sat there, till about midday.

556
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,020
The sun was smack overhead, blazing down,

557
00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:04,340
and the heat was something
terrible, I can tell you.

558
00:32:04,620 --> 00:32:08,420
Then suddenly, it was as
though a whirlwind blew up.

559
00:32:08,620 --> 00:32:11,340
Definitely a twister it was,
but localised, like.

560
00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:14,860
And it raised up a dust storm
which swept along the valley,

561
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:16,700
tore all the leaves off of the trees,

562
00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:19,940
blotted out the whole sky
and completely blinded us.

563
00:32:20,220 --> 00:32:23,580
It seemed like some terrible
manifestation of the gods,

564
00:32:23,620 --> 00:32:25,980
and you had to shut
your eyes to endure it at all.

565
00:32:26,227 --> 00:32:28,660
And then suddenly, it stopped.

566
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,100
And when the air had cleared,
we opened our eyes

567
00:32:33,152 --> 00:32:36,900
and saw this girl standing
there, beside the grave,

568
00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:39,860
and sort of wailing
as though she were in pain,

569
00:32:39,940 --> 00:32:43,420
or maybe anger, just like a
bird that comes back to the nest

570
00:32:43,460 --> 00:32:45,620
and finds the egg smashed
or the fledglings gone.

571
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,260
That's what it sounded like.

572
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,860
She was standing there,
looking at the naked body

573
00:32:51,020 --> 00:32:54,660
and screaming and cursing the monsters
who had done such a thing.

574
00:32:54,834 --> 00:32:56,100
Us, of course.

575
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,840
Then she crouched down,

576
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,920
and picked up a few
handfuls of the dry dust

577
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:02,960
and scattered it on him.

578
00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:06,820
She carried an urn, a small
bronze ceremonial thing,

579
00:33:07,073 --> 00:33:10,585
and she poured it over
the dead man three times.

580
00:33:10,937 --> 00:33:13,340
Honey and wine and stuff it in, I suppose.

581
00:33:13,509 --> 00:33:15,740
All the proper ritual
for a funeral, anyway.

582
00:33:16,220 --> 00:33:17,575
Well, as soon as we saw that,

583
00:33:17,598 --> 00:33:20,778
we all came charging down
and arrested her on the spot.

584
00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:23,020
She wasn't frightened or anything.

585
00:33:23,220 --> 00:33:24,460
She stood her ground.

586
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,996
So then we formally
charged her with the crime,

587
00:33:28,580 --> 00:33:30,700
this and the one before,

588
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,940
and she admitted she'd done them both.

589
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,620
We were all relieved
to hear that, I can tell you.

590
00:33:36,635 --> 00:33:38,740
But sorry, too, in a way.

591
00:33:38,953 --> 00:33:41,380
It's very nice to get out
of trouble yourself.

592
00:33:41,620 --> 00:33:44,300
Not so nice when you see
someone else up to the neck in it,

593
00:33:44,380 --> 00:33:46,140
someone you've got no quarrel with.

594
00:33:47,292 --> 00:33:50,180
But still, your own life
comes first, I reckon.

595
00:33:50,220 --> 00:33:52,020
You've got to look after number one.

596
00:34:04,974 --> 00:34:08,540
And you, you with your head down...

597
00:34:09,974 --> 00:34:12,180
what do you say to this accusation, hmm?

598
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,294
Do you admit it? Are you guilty or not?

599
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,120
Yes. I'm guilty.

600
00:34:20,294 --> 00:34:21,740
I don't pretend otherwise.

601
00:34:24,054 --> 00:34:26,460
You, soldier, get out.
You're free to go back to your unit.

602
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:27,900
Count yourself lucky.

603
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,900
Now, tell me a simple yes or no.

604
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,155
Did you hear of my order
forbidding the burial?

605
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,220
Of course I heard it. How could I not?

606
00:34:43,256 --> 00:34:45,878
Yet you dared to disobey the law.
-Yes, I did.

607
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,714
Because it's your law, not the law of God.

608
00:34:51,314 --> 00:34:52,860
Natural justice,

609
00:34:53,756 --> 00:34:56,740
which is of all times and places,
numinous, not material,

610
00:34:56,780 --> 00:35:01,180
a quality of Zeus, not of kings,
recognizes no such law.

611
00:35:02,894 --> 00:35:06,820
You are merely a man, mortal, like me.

612
00:35:06,927 --> 00:35:10,100
And laws that you enact
cannot overturn ancient moralities

613
00:35:10,140 --> 00:35:11,780
or common human decency.

614
00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:13,820
They speak the language of eternity,

615
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,560
are not written down, and never change.

616
00:35:18,106 --> 00:35:21,609
They are for today,
yesterday, and all time.

617
00:35:23,269 --> 00:35:25,100
No one understands where they came from,

618
00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:27,100
but everyone recognizes their force

619
00:35:27,140 --> 00:35:30,460
and no man's arrogance or power
can make me disobey them.

620
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,664
I would rather suffer the disapproval
and punishment of men

621
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,920
than dishonor such ancient truths.

622
00:35:42,449 --> 00:35:44,860
I shall die, of course, sometime,

623
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:46,639
whether you make laws or not.

624
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,655
If my death comes sooner
rather than later, I shall welcome it.

625
00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:52,015
My life has been misery, is misery now,

626
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,147
and I shall be more
than happy to leave it.

627
00:35:54,591 --> 00:35:57,238
There will be no pain
and no despair in that.

628
00:35:59,174 --> 00:36:00,934
But to leave my mother's son...

629
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,743
out there in the open,

630
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,166
unburied!

631
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,169
That would have been unendurable.

632
00:36:12,693 --> 00:36:13,773
I could not have borne it.

633
00:36:15,858 --> 00:36:18,115
Whereas this I shall endure.

634
00:36:20,318 --> 00:36:22,375
By your judgment, of course, I'm a fool.

635
00:36:23,563 --> 00:36:26,654
But by mine, the judge
is the criminal, not the accused.

636
00:36:28,534 --> 00:36:30,500
This is her father talking.

637
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,397
Stubborn! Like him, she won't give way.

638
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,020
Not even with the whole
power of the State against her.

639
00:36:36,224 --> 00:36:37,374
Well, we shall see.

640
00:36:39,144 --> 00:36:40,694
Any man can be broken,

641
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,720
and often the most committed
and determined break soonest.

642
00:36:45,894 --> 00:36:48,167
Even iron, you know,
left lying in the fire too long

643
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,815
becomes over-tempered and will snap
as soon as a little pressure is applied.

644
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,236
You can break it in pieces.

645
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,960
And the wildest horse

646
00:36:56,694 --> 00:37:00,134
in the end submits to the
bit and halter just like the rest.

647
00:37:03,294 --> 00:37:04,814
People without power...

648
00:37:06,054 --> 00:37:07,734
ordinary citizens,

649
00:37:08,380 --> 00:37:11,454
must necessarily obey
those in authority over them.

650
00:37:11,974 --> 00:37:13,414
This woman is very proud.

651
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:15,735
That was obvious in the first
place when she broke the law,

652
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,520
and is even clearer now.

653
00:37:18,854 --> 00:37:21,214
She glories in the crime
she has committed,

654
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,095
and insults me to my face
as well as ignoring my decree.

655
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,080
If she is allowed to flout
the law in this way,

656
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,694
all authority in the State will collapse.
I will not have that.

657
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,690
There will be no exchanging of roles here,

658
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:39,040
me playing the woman
while she plays the king!

659
00:37:39,534 --> 00:37:41,494
She is my niece, my sister's child.

660
00:37:42,597 --> 00:37:44,534
But I am the law.

661
00:37:44,894 --> 00:37:47,454
And that responsibility is above kinship.

662
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:51,254
Were she even closer, the closest,
my own daughter, my duty would be plain.

663
00:37:52,134 --> 00:37:53,134
Well...

664
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,200
the law has its weapons,

665
00:37:57,454 --> 00:38:00,054
and they will strike, at her...

666
00:38:02,294 --> 00:38:05,015
and at her sister too, her
accomplice, I've no doubt,

667
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,160
in this illegal act, to the
full extent of the punishment prescribed.

668
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,729
The other one, Ismene. Bring her here.

669
00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:14,597
I saw her in the corridor talking
to herself some moments ago,

670
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,160
and I suppose in tears.

671
00:38:17,225 --> 00:38:19,974
Guilty consciences, you see,
can never be hidden completely.

672
00:38:20,362 --> 00:38:25,049
The human face reveals conspiracies
before they are enacted again and again.

673
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,120
There's nothing more disgusting

674
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,440
than the confessed criminal
who tries to justify his actions,

675
00:38:31,494 --> 00:38:33,534
as this woman has done here today.

676
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:35,760
I'm bored with your talk.

677
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,322
Kill me and have done with it.

678
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:39,640
Oh, there's no hurry.

679
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,741
The progress of the law
is majestic and inexorable,

680
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,535
and that satisfies me.

681
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:46,937
Why waste so much time?

682
00:38:47,974 --> 00:38:50,204
Nothing you say will be
of the slightest interest to me,

683
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:51,995
and my arguments you will not listen to.

684
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,367
I've done what I said I'd do.
I've buried my brother.

685
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,158
I aspire to no greater honor,

686
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,517
and if I am to be famous,

687
00:39:01,534 --> 00:39:02,574
let it be for that.

688
00:39:03,873 --> 00:39:05,855
All these, these senators of yours,

689
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,398
they all agree with me in their hearts.

690
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,033
But there's no gag like terror,
is there, gentlemen?

691
00:39:10,106 --> 00:39:13,164
And kings must have their way
both in word and action.

692
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,390
One way or the other.
-You're quite mistaken.

693
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,534
None of my subjects anywhere
in the city thinks as you do.

694
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,334
They all do, but they're
too afraid to speak!

695
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,240
Not at all, and you should be ashamed,
setting yourself up against the majority,

696
00:39:23,294 --> 00:39:24,525
disregarding the will of the people.

697
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,642
I love my brother.

698
00:39:25,666 --> 00:39:28,360
I honor him dead as I loved him
living. There's no shame in that.

699
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:29,895
The one he murdered,
wasn't he your brother?

700
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,638
My mother bore them both,
and I loved them both.

701
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,535
If you honor one, you insult the other.

702
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,001
Neither of those dead men would say that.

703
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,040
Eteocles would.

704
00:39:36,654 --> 00:39:37,887
His brother was a traitor.

705
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,655
Does he merit no
greater respect than that?

706
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,414
But he was not an animal!

707
00:39:42,337 --> 00:39:44,563
They both died together
and they were both men!

708
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,363
Yes, and the one died
defending his country

709
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,975
while the other traitorously attacked it.

710
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,080
The dead have their rights,
and we have our duties towards them,

711
00:39:50,109 --> 00:39:51,559
dictated by common decency.

712
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,135
And if good and bad are to be
honored equally, where are our values?

713
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,294
Patriotism! Civic duty!
-Death is another country.

714
00:39:58,063 --> 00:40:00,488
Such things may not be valued there,
may even be crimes.

715
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,763
An enemy is still an enemy,

716
00:40:01,787 --> 00:40:03,089
dead or alive.
-No.

717
00:40:03,984 --> 00:40:04,980
I don't think so.

718
00:40:06,014 --> 00:40:07,420
I have love enough to share.

719
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,508
No hate for anyone.

720
00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:11,372
Very well. Share your love by all means,

721
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,340
share it with the dead.
I wish them well of it.

722
00:40:15,254 --> 00:40:17,974
Women must learn to obey as well as men.

723
00:40:18,854 --> 00:40:20,300
They can have no special treatment.

724
00:40:21,374 --> 00:40:25,574
Law is law, and will
remain so while I am king.

725
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,520
And no woman will get the better of me.

726
00:40:34,934 --> 00:40:35,850
Look!
-Senator!

727
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,170
Ismene!
-Guarded!

728
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,805
Her face is raw with tears.
-Half-dragged from her quarters.

729
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,415
You can see the story in her face.

730
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,684
A lifetime of agonies.
-And fears.

731
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,461
The bitter legacy of Oedipus' daughters.

732
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,730
And you, snake!

733
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:56,015
Slithering silently about my house
to drink my blood in secret.

734
00:40:56,278 --> 00:40:57,500
Both of you the same.

735
00:40:59,063 --> 00:41:01,642
I looked the other way,
and like terrorists

736
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,334
you laid undercover plans to destroy me.

737
00:41:05,574 --> 00:41:06,574
You!

738
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,520
Do you confess your complicity in
this crime or protest your innocence?

739
00:41:11,141 --> 00:41:13,106
Yes. I confess.

740
00:41:13,817 --> 00:41:15,374
If she will allow me to say so.

741
00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:18,620
I was fully involved,
and if she is guilty, so am I.

742
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,683
No! That isn't justice!

743
00:41:22,534 --> 00:41:24,175
When I asked for help, you refused me,

744
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,829
so I told you I didn't want you.
I'd do it alone.

745
00:41:25,854 --> 00:41:29,047
But now that you're in danger, Antigone,
I'm proud to stand beside you in the dock.

746
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,000
The dead man knows who buried him.
They all know down there.

747
00:41:32,038 --> 00:41:34,094
What people say doesn't
impress me, only what they do.

748
00:41:34,134 --> 00:41:36,174
Please, my sister, don't despise me.

749
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,495
Let me share the honor and die with you.

750
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,435
You've no right to claim the honor
for doing what you were afraid to do!

751
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,135
One death will be enough.
Why should you die?

752
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,815
Because I can't live without you.
-Ask Creon to help you.

753
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,456
He's your uncle, and your king,
of course. You're a born subject.

754
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,480
Do I deserve such contempt?
Do you enjoy making fun of me?

755
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,000
Sneering in front of all these people?

756
00:42:02,315 --> 00:42:03,315
You're right.

757
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,160
It's a sad reflection on me if such
bitter pleasures are all I have left.

758
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,200
Well, let me help you,
then. It's not too late.

759
00:42:10,235 --> 00:42:11,734
Save your own life.

760
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:15,160
Do that for yourself without
any criticism from me, or envy.

761
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:20,050
For god's sake, Antigone, will you
not let me even die with my sister?

762
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,640
No, I won't. You chose to live when
I chose to die, and that's the end of it.

763
00:42:24,097 --> 00:42:26,866
But I warned you this would happen.
I knew how it would be.

764
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,494
And most, the majority,
would agree with you,

765
00:42:28,534 --> 00:42:30,753
but some would be of my opinion.
-But now we're both accused,

766
00:42:30,778 --> 00:42:31,840
both sentenced.
-No.

767
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,245
You must live.

768
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,880
I have been dead for a long time inwardly.

769
00:42:37,895 --> 00:42:40,840
I am well suited to pay honor
to the dead, and die for it.

770
00:42:40,927 --> 00:42:43,593
These women are neurotic
lunatics, both of them.

771
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:47,135
One of them going off her head before
our eyes, the other one born unbalanced.

772
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,614
Well, are you surprised?
Anyone would crack,

773
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,640
the most tough-minded person,
under such treatment.

774
00:42:51,668 --> 00:42:54,775
You lost your senses when you allowed
yourself to be influenced by her lunacy.

775
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,985
There's no life for me here,
not without her.

776
00:42:57,022 --> 00:42:59,037
She's not here, she's as good as dead.

777
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,760
Will you kill the woman
your son plans to marry?

778
00:43:01,798 --> 00:43:04,348
There are other women,
no lack of choice for a young man.

779
00:43:04,998 --> 00:43:06,756
Other fields to plow.

780
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,495
They're devoted to each other. You can't
change love as you change your clothes.

781
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,649
No son of mine can marry a criminal.

782
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,775
When Haemon hears
how his father insulted...

783
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,360
Let him hear, what does
his mistress matter to me?

784
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,805
My Lord Creon, you insult your own.

785
00:43:20,065 --> 00:43:21,740
They are formally betrothed.

786
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,292
Will you tear the woman
from your own son's arms?

787
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,774
I will not part them. Death will.

788
00:43:28,478 --> 00:43:30,271
If that's how the land lies...

789
00:43:31,081 --> 00:43:34,376
the poor child's doomed.
-Her death warrant sealed and delivered.

790
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,717
By you, gentlemen,
if you remember, as well as by me.

791
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,456
You heard the order, agreed it with me,
if only by your silence, did you not,

792
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,000
before the criminal was known?

793
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:47,892
We'll have no more shilly-shallying.

794
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,262
Take them away, lock them up,
keep them under close guard.

795
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,600
It's time they understood they are women.

796
00:43:53,295 --> 00:43:55,136
And their proper place in this society.

797
00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:59,210
There's nothing like the immediate threat
of death to soften up their rhetoric.

798
00:43:59,763 --> 00:44:01,726
Make them look reality in the face.

799
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,841
They can call themselves lucky,
the fortunate few

800
00:44:20,191 --> 00:44:24,887
who live their lives through never
drinking from the bitter cup of pain.

801
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,010
But when one unlucky family
incurs the gods' malignity

802
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,670
from generation to generation,

803
00:44:32,147 --> 00:44:37,052
they must swallow the bitter potion
again and then again.

804
00:44:37,432 --> 00:44:41,269
Just as rollers crash and sea spray whips
on an exposed beach

805
00:44:41,294 --> 00:44:43,150
and black clouds lower...

806
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,295
And the gale from the north
screams through frozen lips

807
00:44:46,712 --> 00:44:50,676
while the sea casts up from its depths
a shower of pebbles on the shore.

808
00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:55,822
And black sand from the chasms
of ocean darkens the strand.

809
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,920
On every descendant
of the ancient line of Labdacus,

810
00:44:59,928 --> 00:45:03,042
divine and merciless retribution falls.

811
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,560
In the unremembered past,

812
00:45:05,075 --> 00:45:09,314
some unforgiving Olympian cast the weight
of his vengeance on the whole race.

813
00:45:09,441 --> 00:45:12,158
So that agony, destruction, disgrace

814
00:45:12,182 --> 00:45:16,220
destroys son and daughter,
and darkens their halls with tragedy.

815
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:20,800
The cold hands of the dead reach
out for the living and no one is spared.

816
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,440
Another generation sheds its blood.

817
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:29,181
New light is snuffed out, and the young
root bared for the same bloody axe.

818
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,760
The characteristic sin
of Oedipus, arrogance,

819
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:35,773
brings its bleak harvest in.

820
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:40,640
For Zeus is all-powerful,
no man can match him.

821
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,874
He never sleeps as man must sleep.

822
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:49,306
And time, which leaves its mark
on fair complexions and dark,

823
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,120
can never engrave his face.

824
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,720
Or dim the brightness of his palace,

825
00:45:54,928 --> 00:45:57,660
where the gods keep their ageless court

826
00:45:57,783 --> 00:46:01,405
at the utmost peak of sublime Olympus.

827
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,760
Zeus is master there,

828
00:46:03,916 --> 00:46:08,380
and well did that wise man speak
who said that past and future time

829
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,680
he holds in his hand by right,

830
00:46:10,832 --> 00:46:14,620
and that those who climb,
in their greatness or wickedness,

831
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,394
beyond the permitted height,

832
00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:20,221
he brings to destruction and despair.

833
00:46:21,753 --> 00:46:25,445
But all men hope.
-And some have ambition.

834
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,320
Far-ranging birds that never tire.

835
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,430
Whose wings bear some to their own good.

836
00:46:31,495 --> 00:46:33,790
And others, in a more frivolous mood...

837
00:46:33,925 --> 00:46:37,315
To the brightly lit pathway
that leads to destruction.

838
00:46:37,359 --> 00:46:40,620
And disaster.
-And the merciless fire.

839
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,200
And no man can claim to have
understood hope or ambition

840
00:46:44,219 --> 00:46:46,620
till the flames burn under his feet.

841
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:51,104
And the one solid wood of his life
is reduced to its last condition.

842
00:46:52,008 --> 00:46:54,386
Ashes and dust.

843
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,120
A wise man said from out
of the depths of his inspiration...

844
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,440
When a man commits crimes
and is proud of the action,

845
00:47:04,922 --> 00:47:07,640
a flaming sword hangs over his head.

846
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,473
No future but the grave

847
00:47:11,940 --> 00:47:14,129
and a funeral urn.

848
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,535
Creon, here comes your
youngest son, desperate with grief.

849
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,000
That his future bride
should be so brutally denied.

850
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:29,920
And all his hopes of happiness gone.

851
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,695
For the last of your sons,

852
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,360
what relief from his consuming fears
and the bitter penance of tears?

853
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,093
Does he come to beg for mercy?
-For his beloved Antigone?

854
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,567
We shall learn that from his own lips
without any need of fortune tellers.

855
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,526
My dear son, I don't doubt you've
heard the news of our final decision.

856
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:07,080
The condemnation of your former fiancée.

857
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,527
You come here, I hope, not in any
spirit of anger against your father.

858
00:48:11,431 --> 00:48:14,238
But understanding that
we are always comrades,

859
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,660
and my love for you is unshaken.

860
00:48:20,380 --> 00:48:22,166
I know I'm your son, father.

861
00:48:23,479 --> 00:48:26,215
I understand the depth of your
experience in matters of State,

862
00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:28,760
and I try to follow and benefit
from it whenever I can.

863
00:48:29,750 --> 00:48:33,783
Any marriage would be worthless to me
that didn't have your approval and love.

864
00:48:35,897 --> 00:48:36,957
Good fellow.

865
00:48:38,090 --> 00:48:39,136
Well said.

866
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,889
A father's opinion should
always be influential with his sons.

867
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,600
And fathers with young sons,
when they pray for them,

868
00:48:52,618 --> 00:48:56,446
ask especially that they should
grow up to be loyal, reliable, obedient.

869
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,520
The first to strike at
their father's enemies,

870
00:48:58,544 --> 00:49:00,480
just as they are the first
to support his friends.

871
00:49:01,293 --> 00:49:05,560
A father whose sons yield no such profits
from the investment of his parenthood

872
00:49:06,073 --> 00:49:10,166
breeds grief and sorrow as his offspring,
and becomes himself a figure of fun...

873
00:49:11,036 --> 00:49:12,435
Especially to his enemies.

874
00:49:16,279 --> 00:49:17,440
Don't be taken in, boy.

875
00:49:18,745 --> 00:49:22,283
Don't let any woman ensnare you
by exploiting her sexuality,

876
00:49:22,308 --> 00:49:25,810
or any of the attractions that lure
infatuated men into submission.

877
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,250
God help the lovesick fool who
marries a dominating woman.

878
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,337
Passion never lasts.

879
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,310
And a cold bedroom breeds
cold hearts, anger and bitterness.

880
00:49:36,977 --> 00:49:38,330
But there's no hatred so violent

881
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,240
as the hatred of two people
who were once in love.

882
00:49:43,497 --> 00:49:44,565
Get rid of her, my boy.

883
00:49:45,550 --> 00:49:48,638
This girl's an enemy. No good to
you or your best interests. Kick her out.

884
00:49:49,537 --> 00:49:52,207
Better find herself a husband
that suits her among the dead.

885
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:54,500
Don't deceive yourself.

886
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:56,645
She has been openly apprehended

887
00:49:56,669 --> 00:49:58,442
performing a criminal act
against the State.

888
00:49:58,467 --> 00:49:59,694
She's a confessed traitor.

889
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:04,464
And if I were to spare her life,
I too would betray the State, and its law,

890
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,600
and everything I stand for.

891
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,397
I will not do it.

892
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,090
And she must die.

893
00:50:13,497 --> 00:50:15,317
Let her pray to Zeus till she drops.

894
00:50:15,910 --> 00:50:17,967
Let her assert she stands for family love

895
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,680
and ancient virtues,
and all the rest of it.

896
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,440
If I tolerate treachery in my own house,
under my very nose,

897
00:50:23,545 --> 00:50:26,158
how can I crush subversion
anywhere else in the city...

898
00:50:27,305 --> 00:50:28,858
or in the State at large?

899
00:50:29,858 --> 00:50:32,418
The man who rules wisely
within his own family

900
00:50:32,978 --> 00:50:34,885
is more likely to make sensible judgments

901
00:50:34,909 --> 00:50:37,349
in political matters
in his direction of the State.

902
00:50:38,143 --> 00:50:40,143
To pervert the law, to twist it

903
00:50:40,196 --> 00:50:43,326
to serve one's own ends
or the interests of one's relations,

904
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,920
that cannot be allowed,
neither in States nor in cities...

905
00:50:47,910 --> 00:50:50,536
and will not be allowed, by me...

906
00:50:51,670 --> 00:50:53,144
in any circumstances.

907
00:50:55,711 --> 00:51:00,380
Unquestioning obedience to whomsoever
the State appoints to be its ruler

908
00:51:00,406 --> 00:51:02,955
is the law as far as I'm concerned.

909
00:51:03,693 --> 00:51:05,825
And this applies to small
things as well as great ones.

910
00:51:05,850 --> 00:51:07,778
Just or unjust, right or wrong.

911
00:51:07,803 --> 00:51:10,369
For who is to choose
these things but the king?

912
00:51:12,309 --> 00:51:15,040
The man who is wise in
his direction of his family

913
00:51:15,432 --> 00:51:17,318
will be equally firm in power.

914
00:51:18,552 --> 00:51:22,767
His wisdom will be equally remarkable,
whether as king, or, indeed, a subject.

915
00:51:23,694 --> 00:51:27,739
In times of war and national danger,
he will be the man you can rely on.

916
00:51:27,846 --> 00:51:30,346
The man you'd feel safe with
fighting beside you in the front rank

917
00:51:30,371 --> 00:51:31,914
when the battle becomes critical.

918
00:51:32,107 --> 00:51:35,620
Indiscipline, anarchy, disobedience.

919
00:51:35,710 --> 00:51:38,037
What greater scourge
than that for humankind?

920
00:51:38,617 --> 00:51:41,980
States collapse from within,
cities are blown to rubble,

921
00:51:42,068 --> 00:51:43,492
efficient armies
are disorganized

922
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,120
and potential victory
turned to disaster and carnage,

923
00:51:46,140 --> 00:51:49,664
and all by disobedience, anarchy,
indiscipline. Whereas...

924
00:51:51,584 --> 00:51:55,660
the well-conditioned army
that asks no questions stands firm,

925
00:51:55,685 --> 00:51:59,260
knows nothing, needs
to know nothing and wins,

926
00:51:59,328 --> 00:52:02,348
thus saving the lives
of millions of honest people.

927
00:52:03,904 --> 00:52:07,444
Authority is essential in any State...

928
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,600
and will be upheld in this one by me.

929
00:52:13,736 --> 00:52:16,551
There will be no yielding
to female fantasies.

930
00:52:17,285 --> 00:52:18,958
Not by so much as an inch.

931
00:52:20,325 --> 00:52:24,440
And if we must be deposed,
let it be by a man's hand, eh, son?

932
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,981
Not by a conspiracy of women.

933
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,680
If an old man is fit
to be judge, Lord Creon,

934
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,379
you have spoken rationally, sensibly

935
00:52:45,126 --> 00:52:48,150
and with the wisdom
gathered from long experience.

936
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:50,378
Father...

937
00:52:51,205 --> 00:52:54,865
the most enviable of a man's
gifts is the ability to reason clearly.

938
00:52:55,833 --> 00:52:58,115
And it's not for me to say you're wrong,
even if I were clever enough

939
00:52:58,140 --> 00:53:00,106
or experienced enough, which I'm not.

940
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,207
But it's also true to say that some men
think differently about these things.

941
00:53:04,974 --> 00:53:07,644
And as your son, my most
useful function, it seems to me,

942
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:09,530
is to keep you in touch with
what other people are thinking,

943
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,760
what they say and do
and approve or disapprove of,

944
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,654
and sometimes what they leave unsaid.

945
00:53:15,497 --> 00:53:18,974
The prospect of your disapproval
is a great silencer of most men's tongues,

946
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,400
and some things are never said
for fear of the consequences,

947
00:53:21,426 --> 00:53:25,181
but I can sometimes hear what
people whisper behind their hands.

948
00:53:26,017 --> 00:53:31,020
And everywhere I hear sympathy
expressed for this unfortunate girl,

949
00:53:31,059 --> 00:53:35,743
condemned as she is to a horrifying death
which no woman has ever suffered before.

950
00:53:37,196 --> 00:53:39,962
And unjustly, in most people's eyes.

951
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,520
In burying her brother,
who was killed in action,

952
00:53:44,113 --> 00:53:47,660
she did something that most people
consider decent and honorable.

953
00:53:48,340 --> 00:53:51,450
Rather than leaving him naked
on the battlefield for the dogs to tear at

954
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,760
and kites and scavengers
to pick to the bone,

955
00:53:53,774 --> 00:53:56,412
she should be given a medal
for it, those same people say,

956
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,762
and her name inscribed
on the roll of honor.

957
00:53:59,535 --> 00:54:03,690
These things are whispered in secret,
father, and they've reached my ears.

958
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,746
Sir...

959
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,973
your reputation matters to me as much
as your good health and happiness does.

960
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,920
Indeed, your good name matters more.

961
00:54:14,459 --> 00:54:17,695
What could a loving son be more jealous of
than his father's reputation,

962
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:20,520
and what could please a father
more than to see his son's concern

963
00:54:20,555 --> 00:54:22,124
that people will think well of him?

964
00:54:22,704 --> 00:54:25,837
Then let me beg you
to have second thoughts,

965
00:54:26,884 --> 00:54:29,895
and not be certain that your own
opinion is the only right one,

966
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,433
and that all men share it.

967
00:54:32,766 --> 00:54:35,006
The man who thinks he has
the monopoly of wisdom, and

968
00:54:35,219 --> 00:54:37,606
only what he says and what
he thinks is of any relevance,

969
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,673
reveals his own shallowness
of mind with every word he says.

970
00:54:40,720 --> 00:54:44,373
The man of judgment knows
it's a sign of strength, not weakness,

971
00:54:44,686 --> 00:54:47,528
To value others' opinions
and to learn from them,

972
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:52,560
and when he's wrong, to admit it
openly and change his mind.

973
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,220
You see it when the river floods.

974
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,800
The trees that bend survive.

975
00:54:58,993 --> 00:55:02,359
Those whose trunks are inflexible are
snapped off short by the weight of water,

976
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,040
and a sailor in a storm who refuses
to reef his sail and run with the wind

977
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,246
is likely to end up capsized.

978
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,253
I beg you, father,

979
00:55:13,053 --> 00:55:14,566
think twice about this.

980
00:55:14,613 --> 00:55:16,352
Don't let your anger influence you.

981
00:55:17,886 --> 00:55:20,801
If a man of my age may lay
some small claim to common sense,

982
00:55:20,826 --> 00:55:23,206
let me say this.
Absolute certainty is fine,

983
00:55:23,919 --> 00:55:27,559
if a man can be certain
that his wisdom is absolute.

984
00:55:28,652 --> 00:55:32,579
But such certainty and such
wisdom is rare among men,

985
00:55:33,725 --> 00:55:37,378
and that being so, the next best
is to learn to listen...

986
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,799
and to take good advice when it's offered.

987
00:55:43,453 --> 00:55:46,513
There's a lot of sense, my Lord Creon,
in what this young man has said,

988
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,940
as indeed there was
in everything that you said too.

989
00:55:50,006 --> 00:55:51,653
The fact is you are both in the right,

990
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,080
and there's a good deal
to be said for either.

991
00:55:54,580 --> 00:55:55,720
Is there indeed?

992
00:55:57,752 --> 00:56:00,346
Am I expected to listen and take lessons

993
00:56:00,370 --> 00:56:03,455
in political tactics, at my age,
from a mere boy?

994
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:07,186
I'm a man, father, and my arguments
stand upon their merits, not my age.

995
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,935
I am for common justice,
no more than that.

996
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,480
Oh, they stand upon their merits, do they?

997
00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:15,620
Wellm what merit is there,
please tell me, in breaking the law?

998
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,615
I wouldn't defend her
if she'd broken the law.

999
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,815
But she has broken it, openly, flagrantly!

1000
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,600
Listen to the people
in the streets, Father.

1001
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,135
The ordinary Thebans,
they say she has hasn't...

1002
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,015
I have never based my political principles
on the opinions of people in the street!

1003
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,768
Now you're the one
who's speaking like a boy.

1004
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,440
I am speaking like a king!

1005
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:35,295
It is my decision! I will act
according to my own conviction.

1006
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,080
When the State becomes one man,

1007
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,554
it ceases to be a State.
-The State is the statesman who rules it.

1008
00:56:40,607 --> 00:56:42,687
It reflects his judgment,
it belongs to him!

1009
00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:43,920
Go and rule in the desert then.

1010
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,261
There's no one there to argue with you.

1011
00:56:45,286 --> 00:56:48,300
What a king you'll be there.
-This boy of mine is on the women's side.

1012
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,353
Yes, if you're a woman, I am.

1013
00:56:50,613 --> 00:56:52,899
I'm on your side, Father, you know that.

1014
00:56:52,993 --> 00:56:54,860
You damned impertinent devil!

1015
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,135
Every word you say is against me,
your own father!

1016
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,480
When I know you're wrong, I have to speak.
-How am I wrong?

1017
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,455
By maintaining my position on the
authority of the State? Is that wrong?

1018
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,360
When position and authority
ride roughshod over moral feeling...

1019
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:09,167
You're weak, and uxorious, and
contemptible, with no will of your own.

1020
00:57:09,192 --> 00:57:10,575
You're a woman's mouthpiece.

1021
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:11,680
I'm not ashamed of what I'm saying.

1022
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:14,814
Every word you've said pleads for her.
-I plead for you!

1023
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,353
And for myself, and for common humanity.

1024
00:57:20,006 --> 00:57:21,775
Respect for the dead.

1025
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,000
You will never marry that woman, never.

1026
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:25,775
Not this side of the grave.

1027
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:27,506
If she diesm she won't die alone.

1028
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,046
There'll be two deaths, not one.

1029
00:57:30,846 --> 00:57:32,466
Are you threatening me?

1030
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:33,941
How dare you threaten me?

1031
00:57:33,966 --> 00:57:36,174
No, that's not a threat.
I'm telling you your plan

1032
00:57:36,198 --> 00:57:38,611
was misbegotten from the beginning.
-Misbegotten?

1033
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,256
Dear god, if anything's
misbegotten here, it's my son.

1034
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:42,480
You'll regret this, I promise you.

1035
00:57:42,460 --> 00:57:43,448
If you weren't my father

1036
00:57:43,472 --> 00:57:45,558
I'd say you were demented.
-Don't "father" me!

1037
00:57:45,676 --> 00:57:47,653
You're a woman's plaything, a tame lapdog!

1038
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,360
Is anyone else allowed to speak?

1039
00:57:50,253 --> 00:57:52,460
Must you have the last word in everything?

1040
00:57:53,026 --> 00:57:55,306
Must all the rest of us be gagged?

1041
00:57:56,553 --> 00:57:58,771
I must, and I will!

1042
00:57:59,191 --> 00:58:02,300
And you, I promise you, will regret
what you've spoken here today.

1043
00:58:02,404 --> 00:58:05,963
I will not be sneered at
or contradicted by anyone.

1044
00:58:07,356 --> 00:58:09,003
Sons can be punished too.

1045
00:58:09,690 --> 00:58:12,060
Bring her out, the condemned
woman, the criminal.

1046
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,230
Let her die here and now, in front of him.

1047
00:58:15,670 --> 00:58:17,999
This passionate bridegroom of hers.

1048
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,859
You can watch the execution.

1049
00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:25,597
That's one sight I shall never see.

1050
00:58:27,383 --> 00:58:30,906
Nor, from this moment, Father,

1051
00:58:31,766 --> 00:58:33,440
will you ever see me again.

1052
00:58:38,270 --> 00:58:39,537
Those that wish to stay and watch

1053
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,880
this disgusting spectacle
of tyranny and injustice

1054
00:58:43,950 --> 00:58:45,330
are welcome to it.

1055
00:58:53,922 --> 00:58:54,908
My Lord Creon,

1056
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,886
your son has gone
so desperate and in such a hurry,

1057
00:58:58,193 --> 00:58:59,340
I am afraid for him.

1058
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:01,735
When young men are angry
anything is possible.

1059
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,928
Let him go. Let him do as he pleases.

1060
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:05,980
Let him rave himself senseless.

1061
00:59:06,060 --> 00:59:07,966
It's all noise and nonsense.

1062
00:59:09,453 --> 00:59:10,946
The two women are sentenced.

1063
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,806
It'll take more than that
to reprieve them, I promise you.

1064
00:59:14,272 --> 00:59:16,459
Both of them, sir?

1065
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,373
You mean to put both
of the sisters to death?

1066
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:22,260
No, you're right.

1067
00:59:22,740 --> 00:59:23,813
I can take advice.

1068
00:59:24,346 --> 00:59:25,920
The one who covered
the body, not the other.

1069
00:59:27,126 --> 00:59:29,412
And for the condemned one?

1070
00:59:30,006 --> 00:59:31,179
What manner of death?

1071
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,400
Take her to some lonely place.

1072
00:59:33,546 --> 00:59:35,145
A desert unfrequented by anyone.

1073
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,880
Find a cave and wall her up in it.

1074
00:59:36,939 --> 00:59:38,060
Bury her alive!

1075
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,560
But with just enough food so that
no guilt for her death will fall upon us,

1076
00:59:45,939 --> 00:59:47,213
neither State nor city.

1077
00:59:48,266 --> 00:59:51,180
She'll have plenty of time to honor
the gods of the dead there,

1078
00:59:51,252 --> 00:59:53,432
since they receive so many of her prayers.

1079
00:59:54,406 --> 00:59:56,232
They will release her
one way or the other,

1080
00:59:56,466 --> 01:00:00,779
and she will learn that worshiping the
dead is not the business of the living.

1081
01:00:06,311 --> 01:00:11,084
When the god of unbridled passion
makes war, he always wins.

1082
01:00:11,624 --> 01:00:16,645
No force on earth can withstand
his powerful, merciless hand.

1083
01:00:18,378 --> 01:00:21,580
When the first flowers appear
in a young girl's cheeks

1084
01:00:21,718 --> 01:00:23,820
the remorseless magic begins.

1085
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:28,600
And then, from the deepest valley
to the highest peak, his traps are set.

1086
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,560
And no man's sins or virtues
can keep him from the net.

1087
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,800
The mania is universal.

1088
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,280
The gods themselves run mad.

1089
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,240
Men lose their wits, and no one is spared.

1090
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,746
When the madness strikes, no one is safe.

1091
01:00:44,166 --> 01:00:47,500
The maturest of men will
commit follies and crimes

1092
01:00:47,525 --> 01:00:50,379
undreamed of in saner times.

1093
01:00:50,539 --> 01:00:53,772
What else could provoke this
strife between father and son?

1094
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:58,320
This family divided, and
murderous anger between kin?

1095
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:00,666
There is fire in a woman's eye.

1096
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:03,493
Incited by such consuming heat,

1097
01:01:03,913 --> 01:01:06,384
a man's mind can burn.

1098
01:01:07,086 --> 01:01:10,236
Aphrodite shares powers with Zeus,

1099
01:01:10,436 --> 01:01:12,956
her seat is at his right hand,

1100
01:01:13,356 --> 01:01:16,217
her lightning strikes to the heart,

1101
01:01:16,465 --> 01:01:19,266
and its power is frightening.

1102
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:41,715
Yet how can we talk of justice
and the needs of the State

1103
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,338
while we stand and watch
this unendurable sight?

1104
01:01:46,588 --> 01:01:49,155
My eyes will have their way and weep,

1105
01:01:49,589 --> 01:01:54,543
seeing Antigone, calm as a bride
going to her bedchamber,

1106
01:01:54,831 --> 01:01:59,158
to marry the dead and share
their everlasting sleep.

1107
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,697
In all my wanderings, gentlemen,

1108
01:02:15,868 --> 01:02:17,572
this place has been my home.

1109
01:02:19,301 --> 01:02:20,952
I was born in this city...

1110
01:02:22,910 --> 01:02:25,061
and now I begin my last journey.

1111
01:02:26,851 --> 01:02:29,562
I look up at the sun in its familiar sky

1112
01:02:30,611 --> 01:02:32,653
and feel its warmth on my face

1113
01:02:34,263 --> 01:02:35,862
only to say goodbye.

1114
01:02:37,534 --> 01:02:40,125
In the daytime of my life, in mid-breath

1115
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:42,760
this security policeman,
death, arrests me,

1116
01:02:43,345 --> 01:02:46,696
as he arrests everyone,
young and old, at home or in the street.

1117
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,307
To the cold waters of darkness we come.

1118
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,896
Never to return across that silent river.

1119
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,120
No wedding for me.

1120
01:02:57,638 --> 01:02:58,638
No music.

1121
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:01,020
No guests in the room.

1122
01:03:01,285 --> 01:03:04,333
My wedding gift
is eternity in a stone tomb.

1123
01:03:04,513 --> 01:03:06,940
My dowry, forever not-to-be.

1124
01:03:08,651 --> 01:03:11,379
Death my bridegroom.

1125
01:03:13,488 --> 01:03:15,071
But your action is famous.

1126
01:03:15,707 --> 01:03:18,255
In every street mouths whisper "Antigone".

1127
01:03:21,538 --> 01:03:25,305
You go down to the dead with the
promise of glory ringing in your head

1128
01:03:26,255 --> 01:03:28,362
and nothing to devalue your beauty.

1129
01:03:29,439 --> 01:03:31,001
No sword has scarred you.

1130
01:03:31,701 --> 01:03:33,158
Plague visited.

1131
01:03:34,475 --> 01:03:36,942
Unmarked. Untouched.

1132
01:03:37,552 --> 01:03:42,472
You pass from the dangerous light
into the safety of eternal night.

1133
01:03:43,268 --> 01:03:44,268
Alive.

1134
01:03:44,901 --> 01:03:47,203
Alone. And free.

1135
01:03:53,099 --> 01:03:55,979
Do you remember the sad story
of Tantalus' daughter?

1136
01:03:59,876 --> 01:04:01,660
She was a stranger from Phrygia.

1137
01:04:01,685 --> 01:04:04,245
Unmarried, like me, in danger like mine.

1138
01:04:05,478 --> 01:04:07,989
She was sentenced to die
on the rock of Sipylus,

1139
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:09,720
and there was no glory for her,

1140
01:04:10,411 --> 01:04:12,255
only the endless shock of the elements

1141
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,240
and the terrible place
where she was imprisoned:

1142
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:19,037
The mountain's embrace
like fingers of ivy tying her down,

1143
01:04:19,459 --> 01:04:21,066
enclosing, entombing her,

1144
01:04:21,312 --> 01:04:23,648
and she all alone while
the snows blinded her,

1145
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:25,495
and the freezing rain whipped her to rags

1146
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:27,680
and exposed her pain to the naked sky.

1147
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,800
What bitter tears she shed
as she slowly turned to stone

1148
01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:36,224
and the gray rock petrified her...

1149
01:04:36,940 --> 01:04:38,069
by inches...

1150
01:04:39,921 --> 01:04:41,041
and she died.

1151
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:44,560
Her story is mine.

1152
01:04:46,445 --> 01:04:48,673
Today I shall share her rocky bed.

1153
01:04:49,644 --> 01:04:51,022
But she was a goddess.

1154
01:04:51,587 --> 01:04:54,263
Not born for death
like the children of men...

1155
01:04:54,613 --> 01:04:57,373
Whose desperate mortality
is their only certainty.

1156
01:04:58,266 --> 01:05:00,752
Would it soothe your pain
to share her destiny?

1157
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:04,894
Or soften your distress as,
alive in the earth,

1158
01:05:04,977 --> 01:05:08,711
you draw your last breath,
like her, to be living again?

1159
01:05:09,861 --> 01:05:11,081
Are you laughing at me?

1160
01:05:14,143 --> 01:05:17,816
By everything this city of our
fathers has ever held sacred...

1161
01:05:18,813 --> 01:05:19,972
you landowners...

1162
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:22,930
you elder statesmen,
you rulers of Thebes,

1163
01:05:22,955 --> 01:05:24,596
my dying is no joke!

1164
01:05:25,524 --> 01:05:27,924
Am I a figure of fun,
to be mocked like this?

1165
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,000
And publicly humiliated
as I leave you forever?

1166
01:05:32,723 --> 01:05:37,500
Then, forests and meadows,
and our Theban river,

1167
01:05:37,585 --> 01:05:41,479
glittering pathway, ceaselessly
flowing from Dirce's death till now,

1168
01:05:41,834 --> 01:05:44,300
flat lands thundering
beneath our chariots,

1169
01:05:44,337 --> 01:05:45,804
you must be my witnesses.

1170
01:05:46,548 --> 01:05:48,558
My only friends and mourners.

1171
01:05:49,306 --> 01:05:51,658
As, victimized by an unjust law,

1172
01:05:51,683 --> 01:05:54,997
I go to my last home,
in the living tomb, to wait...

1173
01:05:56,222 --> 01:05:59,618
while the slow darkness descends...

1174
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:04,549
cold and starving on my stony bed...

1175
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,472
halfway between the living and the dead.

1176
01:06:10,610 --> 01:06:16,005
No one has ever dared to go
so far before as you have dared to go.

1177
01:06:18,197 --> 01:06:21,516
Now you have stumbled,
and stubbed your toe,

1178
01:06:21,963 --> 01:06:26,115
and will shortly shed your blood
on the marble staircase of the law.

1179
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:32,000
You carry your father's crimes
like a millstone on your back:

1180
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:36,840
Small wonder, in such times,
if the bones bend, or break.

1181
01:06:38,643 --> 01:06:40,243
Nothing more painful than that.

1182
01:06:41,887 --> 01:06:44,592
The remembrance of my father's long agony.

1183
01:06:46,060 --> 01:06:48,820
And the curse on my suffering
family from the beginning.

1184
01:06:49,122 --> 01:06:53,517
So much grief from the unlucky chance
of the son finding the mother's bed,

1185
01:06:53,687 --> 01:06:57,380
and worse than anything, the benighted
offspring of that unspeakable marriage:

1186
01:06:57,490 --> 01:07:02,563
And I, with the others,
share that terrible destiny.

1187
01:07:04,830 --> 01:07:08,509
Conceived in incest, no repentance
can soften the punishment:

1188
01:07:08,534 --> 01:07:11,223
The years pass, the agony increases.

1189
01:07:11,602 --> 01:07:13,180
And there is no pity for our tears.

1190
01:07:13,347 --> 01:07:14,884
No marriage for me, for certain.

1191
01:07:15,542 --> 01:07:19,145
I shall close that book forever, as I meet
my mother and father in the shades.

1192
01:07:19,980 --> 01:07:21,633
The weddings will cease.

1193
01:07:22,776 --> 01:07:25,898
Marriage to the woman of Argos
finished my brother and finished me too.

1194
01:07:25,923 --> 01:07:27,340
There will never be another.

1195
01:07:27,506 --> 01:07:30,589
To pay respect to the dead
is praiseworthy.

1196
01:07:30,701 --> 01:07:34,791
An act of love, and religion
must have its due.

1197
01:07:35,086 --> 01:07:38,110
But no civilized State
can eschew authority.

1198
01:07:38,658 --> 01:07:43,066
Laws must be obeyed,
whether you approve or disapprove.

1199
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:46,040
If you refuse to sanction
the power of the State,

1200
01:07:46,726 --> 01:07:48,356
you invite disaster.

1201
01:07:48,849 --> 01:07:50,831
And connive at your own fate.

1202
01:07:53,518 --> 01:07:54,839
Spare me your sympathy.

1203
01:07:57,983 --> 01:07:59,821
Weep no false tears.

1204
01:08:02,057 --> 01:08:03,868
I know the path that I must follow.

1205
01:08:05,161 --> 01:08:07,923
To the sunless country of eternal sorrow.

1206
01:08:09,508 --> 01:08:12,921
The bleak waters of eternity.

1207
01:08:14,952 --> 01:08:16,816
The unimaginable years.

1208
01:08:20,746 --> 01:08:23,276
No grief where none is felt.

1209
01:08:25,045 --> 01:08:26,202
I shall go alone...

1210
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:30,080
and in silence to my house of stone.

1211
01:08:38,304 --> 01:08:41,603
If death could be prevented
by singing arias about it,

1212
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,019
or other self-indulgent displays of grief,

1213
01:08:44,045 --> 01:08:47,142
this performance would
go on forever, I've no doubt.

1214
01:08:47,973 --> 01:08:49,216
But I've had enough of it.

1215
01:08:50,189 --> 01:08:54,446
Take her away, lock her up in her stone
vault with half a mountain for a roof,

1216
01:08:54,471 --> 01:08:56,090
and then brick up the door.

1217
01:08:56,572 --> 01:08:59,287
Let her die there, if she chooses.

1218
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:03,077
Or if she prefers to stay alive
in her grave, she can,

1219
01:09:03,140 --> 01:09:05,859
because the grave's
the only fit place for her.

1220
01:09:06,619 --> 01:09:08,939
Solitary confinement among the dead.

1221
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:11,138
Whatever she does,

1222
01:09:11,995 --> 01:09:15,635
there will be no guilt
on me or on the city.

1223
01:09:17,792 --> 01:09:19,005
Her death's her own.

1224
01:09:20,115 --> 01:09:22,123
But there's no place
for her among the living.

1225
01:09:22,164 --> 01:09:23,317
To my grave then.

1226
01:09:25,082 --> 01:09:26,305
My honeymoon bed.

1227
01:09:28,542 --> 01:09:29,522
My prison.

1228
01:09:30,911 --> 01:09:33,382
My crypt, under the mountain.

1229
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:36,984
My home for the rest of time.

1230
01:09:39,077 --> 01:09:41,157
I shall meet so many
of my relations there.

1231
01:09:42,904 --> 01:09:47,500
We shall all be guests of that sad-faced
queen of the shadows, Persephone,

1232
01:09:47,662 --> 01:09:50,718
in that bleak hotel that
is never short of a room.

1233
01:09:52,519 --> 01:09:53,569
I am the last.

1234
01:09:55,098 --> 01:09:56,861
The unhappiest, I think.

1235
01:09:58,004 --> 01:10:00,803
And the youngest, booking in too soon.

1236
01:10:02,875 --> 01:10:06,024
But my father will be there
to meet me at the door.

1237
01:10:07,244 --> 01:10:09,797
My mother will smile,
and hold me, as she often did,

1238
01:10:09,822 --> 01:10:13,942
and my brother, he will be glad
to see me more than all the rest.

1239
01:10:14,337 --> 01:10:17,455
At each fresh grave
my hands sprinkled the earth.

1240
01:10:17,480 --> 01:10:22,440
At each I poured the purifying water,
and made offerings.

1241
01:10:24,387 --> 01:10:26,392
And for my beloved Polynices...

1242
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,618
whose broken body I set to rest,

1243
01:10:30,643 --> 01:10:32,958
I am rewarded with a shameful death.

1244
01:10:35,595 --> 01:10:38,065
There are some, I know,

1245
01:10:38,090 --> 01:10:40,370
more thoughtful people,
who respect my action.

1246
01:10:41,794 --> 01:10:43,310
They must justify me.

1247
01:10:43,848 --> 01:10:47,410
Not for a husband, you understand,
not even for a son would I have done this.

1248
01:10:47,435 --> 01:10:50,399
If the law had forbidden it, I would have
bowed my head and let them rot.

1249
01:10:50,424 --> 01:10:51,424
Does that make sense?

1250
01:10:52,044 --> 01:10:53,264
I could have married again,

1251
01:10:53,289 --> 01:10:55,935
another husband, had more
children by him, if the first had died.

1252
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:56,960
Do you see?

1253
01:10:57,748 --> 01:10:59,068
Well, do you understand me?

1254
01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:02,572
My mother and father are dead.

1255
01:11:02,597 --> 01:11:04,815
There can be no more
brothers, never again.

1256
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,640
My love had to speak at
Polynices' grave, or nowhere.

1257
01:11:08,220 --> 01:11:11,386
And for that, Creon sentences me to death,

1258
01:11:11,909 --> 01:11:15,429
drags me here, and will shut me away
in a cavern under the mountain.

1259
01:11:16,705 --> 01:11:19,923
A living death, in silence
and darkness and solitude.

1260
01:11:21,518 --> 01:11:22,780
I shall die unmarried.

1261
01:11:22,932 --> 01:11:26,528
All those pleasures denied me,
and motherhood denied too.

1262
01:11:26,553 --> 01:11:29,152
No children to love me, to love.

1263
01:11:29,722 --> 01:11:32,303
And now, no friends.

1264
01:11:33,831 --> 01:11:35,988
What moral law have I broken?

1265
01:11:37,341 --> 01:11:39,573
What eternal truth have I denied?

1266
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,280
Yet now not even a god can help me.

1267
01:11:42,873 --> 01:11:45,020
And there's no man
who will, I'm sure of that.

1268
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,240
No help, and no hope.

1269
01:11:48,168 --> 01:11:51,806
How can there be, when common
decency has become a crime?

1270
01:11:55,453 --> 01:11:57,815
If the gods in heaven
have changed their minds,

1271
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,800
and this is the way they order
things now, I shall soon know it.

1272
01:12:02,636 --> 01:12:04,676
And I shall have learned
my lesson the hard way.

1273
01:12:07,221 --> 01:12:09,381
But if some others are mistaken...

1274
01:12:11,136 --> 01:12:13,546
let them be punished
as I have been punished.

1275
01:12:15,043 --> 01:12:18,537
No worse than that, and no less either!

1276
01:12:19,500 --> 01:12:21,913
She hasn't changed, even now.

1277
01:12:21,950 --> 01:12:24,955
The anger inside her
still blows like a hurricane.

1278
01:12:26,443 --> 01:12:27,763
The sooner she's got rid of,

1279
01:12:27,798 --> 01:12:30,381
shut up out of harm's way
and forgotten, the better.

1280
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,161
Tell those guards to get
a move on, or they'll regret it.

1281
01:12:35,988 --> 01:12:37,188
That word is my death.

1282
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:39,200
And now it is spoken.

1283
01:12:40,768 --> 01:12:42,473
Don't comfort yourself with hope.

1284
01:12:43,391 --> 01:12:44,391
There's none.

1285
01:12:48,199 --> 01:12:50,143
This is the land of my fathers.

1286
01:12:51,943 --> 01:12:55,255
Thebes, built by a god.

1287
01:12:59,167 --> 01:13:00,207
You see, senators...

1288
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:03,429
My time has run out.

1289
01:13:05,078 --> 01:13:06,195
There's no more left.

1290
01:13:08,180 --> 01:13:10,307
I am the last of the royal blood.

1291
01:13:11,774 --> 01:13:13,360
A daughter of kings.

1292
01:13:15,006 --> 01:13:17,430
And I die his victim.

1293
01:13:18,851 --> 01:13:21,394
Unjustly, for upholding justice,

1294
01:13:22,066 --> 01:13:24,624
and the humanity of humankind.

1295
01:13:32,067 --> 01:13:34,700
And now, no friends.

1296
01:13:36,111 --> 01:13:38,403
What moral law have I broken?

1297
01:13:39,650 --> 01:13:42,097
What eternal truth have I denied?

1298
01:13:42,550 --> 01:13:44,634
Yet now not even a god can help me.

1299
01:13:45,188 --> 01:13:47,329
And there's no man
who will, I'm sure of that.

1300
01:13:47,354 --> 01:13:49,827
No help, and no hope.

1301
01:13:50,426 --> 01:13:54,296
How can there be, when common
decency has become a crime?

1302
01:13:57,804 --> 01:14:00,144
If the gods in heaven
have changed their minds,

1303
01:14:00,168 --> 01:14:03,213
and this is the way they order
things now, I shall soon know it.

1304
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:07,069
And I shall have learned
my lesson the hard way.

1305
01:14:09,531 --> 01:14:11,701
But if some others are mistaken...

1306
01:14:13,481 --> 01:14:15,972
let them be punished
as I have been punished.

1307
01:14:17,377 --> 01:14:20,940
No worse than that, and no less either!

1308
01:14:21,857 --> 01:14:24,173
She hasn't changed, even now.

1309
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,220
The anger inside her
still blows like a hurricane.

1310
01:14:28,757 --> 01:14:32,857
The sooner she's got rid of, shut up out
of harm's way and forgotten, the better.

1311
01:14:34,773 --> 01:14:37,380
Tell those guards to get
a move on, or they'll regret it.

1312
01:14:38,397 --> 01:14:39,520
That word is my death.

1313
01:14:40,364 --> 01:14:41,530
And now it is spoken.

1314
01:14:43,063 --> 01:14:44,620
Don't comfort yourself with hope.

1315
01:14:45,713 --> 01:14:46,697
There's none.

1316
01:14:50,513 --> 01:14:52,530
This is the land of my fathers.

1317
01:14:54,239 --> 01:14:57,612
Thebes, built by a god.

1318
01:15:01,489 --> 01:15:02,736
You see, senators...

1319
01:15:04,374 --> 01:15:05,757
My time has run out.

1320
01:15:07,374 --> 01:15:08,519
There's no more left.

1321
01:15:10,480 --> 01:15:12,619
I am the last of the royal blood.

1322
01:15:14,083 --> 01:15:15,573
A daughter of kings.

1323
01:15:17,312 --> 01:15:19,618
And I die his victim.

1324
01:15:21,172 --> 01:15:23,607
Unjustly, for upholding justice,

1325
01:15:24,367 --> 01:15:26,998
and the humanity of humankind.

1326
01:16:10,540 --> 01:16:13,100
Others have suffered, my child, like you.

1327
01:16:13,259 --> 01:16:17,394
Upon Danaë too the same
dreadful sentence was passed.

1328
01:16:17,424 --> 01:16:21,699
Far from the light of day in a
tower of brass she was shut away.

1329
01:16:21,724 --> 01:16:25,568
And that one single room,
both prison and tomb...

1330
01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:28,168
Became her wedding chamber at last.

1331
01:16:28,193 --> 01:16:30,489
Like you, she was a child of kings,

1332
01:16:30,963 --> 01:16:34,977
yet in her womb the semen of Zeus,
descending in a golden shower...

1333
01:16:35,014 --> 01:16:37,900
Made a mockery of the brazen tower.

1334
01:16:38,009 --> 01:16:39,838
Fate has its own momentum:

1335
01:16:40,453 --> 01:16:43,243
When things must be, they will be.

1336
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:46,501
What use is power in the State, or wealth?

1337
01:16:46,531 --> 01:16:48,872
Massive armies, an unsinkable fleet?

1338
01:16:48,909 --> 01:16:53,346
Gods make their entrances
by strength or stealth.

1339
01:16:53,383 --> 01:16:57,180
And no tombs or towers can keep them out.

1340
01:17:14,621 --> 01:17:17,848
The arrogant King Lycurgus
discovered wisdom

1341
01:17:18,226 --> 01:17:21,269
when he angered the god
Dionysus with his railing.

1342
01:17:21,752 --> 01:17:25,705
That proud Edonian king
was punished with madness,

1343
01:17:26,053 --> 01:17:28,534
and long imprisoned in a rocky cell

1344
01:17:28,912 --> 01:17:32,657
to endure the private
and particular hell of lunacy:

1345
01:17:33,308 --> 01:17:37,819
Till the healing silence soothed
and re-ordered his brain.

1346
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:43,542
He learned there the terrible power
of the god he had challenged.

1347
01:17:44,174 --> 01:17:47,678
Ecstasy is beyond man's understanding.

1348
01:17:48,130 --> 01:17:52,725
A mystery deeper than reason
which overcomes pain

1349
01:17:52,783 --> 01:17:56,943
and seeks truth
in intoxication and terror.

1350
01:17:57,706 --> 01:18:01,313
Only a fool would attempt
to stop the Maenads in full flight

1351
01:18:01,861 --> 01:18:04,170
or silence their ecstatic singing.

1352
01:18:04,685 --> 01:18:07,924
The sleep of reason is not darkness,

1353
01:18:08,265 --> 01:18:10,657
but another kind of light.

1354
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:19,680
And where the gloomy rocks divide
the seas in Thrace, by the Bosporus...

1355
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:24,760
The savage god Ares laughed to see the
sons of Phineus blinded with a spindle.

1356
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:28,280
Nothing could placate their
vengeful stepmother's hate.

1357
01:18:28,343 --> 01:18:30,940
Her bloody needle
darkened their eyes forever.

1358
01:18:31,084 --> 01:18:32,422
Blinding the children...

1359
01:18:32,525 --> 01:18:34,940
As the gods had blinded the father.

1360
01:18:35,014 --> 01:18:38,209
On their mother's wedding day,
their destiny was settled.

1361
01:18:38,370 --> 01:18:42,708
Their wasted lives they
wept away in sightless misery.

1362
01:18:43,025 --> 01:18:45,177
Yet she was descended from the gods.

1363
01:18:45,274 --> 01:18:48,753
In the echoing caves of the
north wind she hallooed, as a child.

1364
01:18:48,938 --> 01:18:52,447
And on the open mountainside...
-Ran wild with the horses.

1365
01:18:56,531 --> 01:19:01,330
Man's fate is determined,
will not be denied.

1366
01:19:02,018 --> 01:19:06,748
The child Antigone pays
for the parents' pride.

1367
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:18,168
Senators of Thebes,
and your new king, Creon.

1368
01:19:18,834 --> 01:19:21,157
We have traveled together, my boy and I,

1369
01:19:21,297 --> 01:19:24,035
sharing one pair of eyes
between the two of us,

1370
01:19:24,201 --> 01:19:26,839
which is the way blind men
must make their journeys.

1371
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:28,202
Tiresias.

1372
01:19:29,024 --> 01:19:31,188
What news brings
an old man such a distance?

1373
01:19:31,213 --> 01:19:32,731
Important news that can't wait.

1374
01:19:32,887 --> 01:19:35,435
And advice, which
if you're wise, you'll listen to.

1375
01:19:35,464 --> 01:19:38,438
I've always listened, acted
upon it too, more than once.

1376
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:41,776
And like a sensible captain who values
his pilot, you've avoided the rocks.

1377
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,080
I admit it. We all do. We're in your debt.

1378
01:19:44,260 --> 01:19:46,756
Then for god's sake, listen to me now.

1379
01:19:47,349 --> 01:19:49,260
You're like a man balanced on a razor,

1380
01:19:49,358 --> 01:19:52,625
likely to fall, or cut himself to pieces.

1381
01:19:53,292 --> 01:19:54,475
Are you serious?

1382
01:19:55,497 --> 01:19:57,835
Any man would shudder
hearing such things from your lips

1383
01:19:57,880 --> 01:19:59,621
that have foretold so many horrors.

1384
01:20:02,052 --> 01:20:03,020
Tell me what you mean.

1385
01:20:03,119 --> 01:20:05,105
Oh yes, I intend to.

1386
01:20:06,126 --> 01:20:08,995
Everything my experience
of forecasting the future

1387
01:20:09,289 --> 01:20:13,380
and understanding symbols
revealed to me, I will make plain to you.

1388
01:20:14,387 --> 01:20:16,056
I was sitting in my usual seat.

1389
01:20:16,698 --> 01:20:20,264
A place where I can hear the singing
and the secret language of the birds

1390
01:20:20,289 --> 01:20:21,848
and understand their meaning...

1391
01:20:22,956 --> 01:20:26,780
When I heard, quite unexpectedly,
a terrible new sound,

1392
01:20:26,959 --> 01:20:29,190
like shrieking, or cries of anguish.

1393
01:20:29,916 --> 01:20:32,495
Hysterical twittering and whistling

1394
01:20:32,798 --> 01:20:36,067
like the babble of a barbaric language

1395
01:20:36,304 --> 01:20:40,459
capable of expressing only hatred or pain.

1396
01:20:40,963 --> 01:20:45,534
By that, and the wild beating of wings,
I knew the birds were at war.

1397
01:20:45,639 --> 01:20:48,145
Such sounds could mean nothing else.

1398
01:20:48,664 --> 01:20:53,182
I could well imagine their
bloodstained beaks and dripping claws,

1399
01:20:53,471 --> 01:20:56,278
and that thought disturbed me deeply.

1400
01:20:56,871 --> 01:21:01,212
At once I went to my altar, to see what
I could learn from the sacrifice by fire.

1401
01:21:01,442 --> 01:21:02,923
But nothing would burn.

1402
01:21:03,264 --> 01:21:05,998
A stinking liquid fell from the flesh

1403
01:21:06,206 --> 01:21:10,259
and dropped on the embers,
and sizzled and bubbled among the ashes.

1404
01:21:10,622 --> 01:21:15,304
Then the gallbladder burst,
spurting stinking acid across the meat,

1405
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:18,793
and all the fat melted and was

1406
01:21:18,904 --> 01:21:21,710
rendered down till the bone was left bare.

1407
01:21:22,896 --> 01:21:24,328
I saw all this.

1408
01:21:25,039 --> 01:21:26,446
Or my boy saw it.

1409
01:21:26,965 --> 01:21:30,140
He sees for me what my eyes cannot,

1410
01:21:30,300 --> 01:21:33,812
just as I see things to
which other people are blind.

1411
01:21:34,456 --> 01:21:36,142
But from that filth I read nothing.

1412
01:21:36,401 --> 01:21:39,438
The oracle was clogged with fat and decay,

1413
01:21:39,907 --> 01:21:41,634
and then it was revealed.

1414
01:21:42,263 --> 01:21:45,649
I understood that you, King Creon,

1415
01:21:45,674 --> 01:21:49,281
have decreed this filth
that chokes our altars.

1416
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:54,860
The blood and flesh which
decays and stinks there

1417
01:21:55,011 --> 01:22:00,313
is the blood and flesh vomited from
the gullets of dogs and carrion crows.

1418
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:02,931
The blood of Polynices,

1419
01:22:03,301 --> 01:22:06,928
the flesh of that unluckiest
of the sons of Oedipus,

1420
01:22:07,284 --> 01:22:13,131
still unburied, and affronting
more than our sense of smell.

1421
01:22:13,901 --> 01:22:16,220
The gods themselves are disgusted.

1422
01:22:16,437 --> 01:22:18,631
They reject our prayers and sacrifices.

1423
01:22:18,675 --> 01:22:20,218
How could they do otherwise?

1424
01:22:20,483 --> 01:22:23,020
How can the birds sing
of anything but horrors,

1425
01:22:23,198 --> 01:22:25,762
blown out with this banquet
of human blood,

1426
01:22:25,791 --> 01:22:29,242
clogged and stinking, till
their very beaks drip with it?

1427
01:22:30,101 --> 01:22:31,457
My son, listen to me.

1428
01:22:32,242 --> 01:22:35,525
Any man can make a mistake
or commit a crime.

1429
01:22:36,377 --> 01:22:38,648
The man who can recognize
what he has done,

1430
01:22:39,085 --> 01:22:43,202
see that he is mistaken,
and... or morally wrong,

1431
01:22:43,307 --> 01:22:45,101
admits it and puts it right,

1432
01:22:45,131 --> 01:22:48,860
that man proves that it is never
too late to become wise,

1433
01:22:49,008 --> 01:22:50,705
and no one will condemn him.

1434
01:22:51,001 --> 01:22:54,614
But if he compounds his
stupidity with stubbornness,

1435
01:22:54,639 --> 01:22:57,110
and an obstinate refusal
to face the facts,

1436
01:22:57,740 --> 01:22:58,914
he is nothing but a fool.

1437
01:23:00,381 --> 01:23:03,266
Is there anyone more stupid
than a stupid man

1438
01:23:03,783 --> 01:23:05,780
who cannot see his own stupidity?

1439
01:23:07,069 --> 01:23:09,145
Polynices is dead.

1440
01:23:09,819 --> 01:23:12,369
Don't revenge yourself on his remains.

1441
01:23:13,028 --> 01:23:15,721
You can kill a man once, and once only.

1442
01:23:16,728 --> 01:23:21,831
Is there any glory to be gained
by defeating a poor corpse?

1443
01:23:22,853 --> 01:23:24,616
This is good advice, my son.

1444
01:23:26,437 --> 01:23:29,301
Sincerely offered by one
who wishes you well.

1445
01:23:30,694 --> 01:23:31,694
Take it.

1446
01:23:35,631 --> 01:23:38,534
So that's your news, is it, old man?

1447
01:23:39,734 --> 01:23:43,057
I am to be the target, am I,
for everyone to shoot at?

1448
01:23:43,886 --> 01:23:48,615
Well, I am wise too.

1449
01:23:48,993 --> 01:23:50,731
Wise to the ways of fortune tellers,

1450
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:53,280
and the buying and selling
you all go in for.

1451
01:23:54,630 --> 01:23:56,838
And I'm to be the latest bargain, I see.

1452
01:23:57,504 --> 01:23:59,660
I'm to be bought and sold like silver

1453
01:23:59,660 --> 01:24:02,319
from the mines of Sardis,
or gold from India.

1454
01:24:02,356 --> 01:24:04,056
I'm to be part of the trade.

1455
01:24:04,569 --> 01:24:06,717
Well, let me tell you this, Tiresias.

1456
01:24:07,243 --> 01:24:08,832
There is not enough gold in the world

1457
01:24:08,857 --> 01:24:10,953
to buy a grave for that man!

1458
01:24:11,435 --> 01:24:13,086
If golden eagles should carry him up

1459
01:24:13,116 --> 01:24:14,940
by joints and shreds to Zeus,

1460
01:24:15,057 --> 01:24:18,219
and spew him in gobbets on
the marble floor of Olympus,

1461
01:24:18,405 --> 01:24:20,035
not even that blasphemy would be enough

1462
01:24:20,065 --> 01:24:21,420
to deflect me from my purpose,

1463
01:24:21,555 --> 01:24:24,821
because I know that no single human act,

1464
01:24:24,984 --> 01:24:26,858
however much it may degrade the earth,

1465
01:24:26,888 --> 01:24:28,940
and the men who perpetrate or suffer it,

1466
01:24:29,044 --> 01:24:32,374
can stain the purity
of the ever-living gods!

1467
01:24:34,031 --> 01:24:35,976
But let me tell you this, Tiresias.

1468
01:24:36,687 --> 01:24:38,292
A man can fall.

1469
01:24:38,537 --> 01:24:40,510
He can fall like a stone.

1470
01:24:41,006 --> 01:24:43,110
Especially when he pretends
to give good advice,

1471
01:24:43,135 --> 01:24:46,300
and wraps it up in a
profound cloak of religiosity,

1472
01:24:46,499 --> 01:24:49,260
when all the time naked self-interest,

1473
01:24:49,340 --> 01:24:50,780
and the greed for profit,

1474
01:24:50,926 --> 01:24:53,100
are the only motives that matter to him.

1475
01:24:53,225 --> 01:24:56,352
Are there any wise men left? Anywhere?
-Oh, how profound!

1476
01:24:56,382 --> 01:24:58,318
Do you have any other
thunderous platitudes

1477
01:24:58,355 --> 01:24:59,178
to follow that one?

1478
01:24:59,215 --> 01:25:00,923
Mature judgment cannot be bought.

1479
01:25:01,383 --> 01:25:03,100
No treasure is as valuable,

1480
01:25:03,306 --> 01:25:05,740
and good advice is worth
more than a fortune to any man.

1481
01:25:05,765 --> 01:25:07,820
Bad advice is worse than worthless.

1482
01:25:08,027 --> 01:25:10,189
A disease which infects the wisest of men!

1483
01:25:10,214 --> 01:25:12,209
You describe your own symptoms exactly.

1484
01:25:12,234 --> 01:25:14,578
Well then, my so-called prophet, tell me,

1485
01:25:14,603 --> 01:25:17,007
will any of these insults
be of any benefit to anyone?

1486
01:25:17,032 --> 01:25:18,032
None at all.

1487
01:25:18,534 --> 01:25:20,156
And yet you insult me.

1488
01:25:20,511 --> 01:25:23,906
You say that my predictions
are both false and dishonest.

1489
01:25:23,931 --> 01:25:27,526
That is because all fortune tellers
are money grubbers and charlatans.

1490
01:25:27,792 --> 01:25:29,904
Kings too have been
known to be acquisitive.

1491
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:31,480
Do you know the man you're speaking to?

1492
01:25:32,196 --> 01:25:34,150
I am the king.
-You are the king, yes.

1493
01:25:34,179 --> 01:25:35,970
My good advice helped to make you one.

1494
01:25:35,995 --> 01:25:37,659
Oh, you've had your
successes, I know that.

1495
01:25:37,684 --> 01:25:39,521
You've been proved right
on more than one occasion.

1496
01:25:40,195 --> 01:25:41,955
But honesty is another matter.

1497
01:25:42,303 --> 01:25:43,560
I've never trusted you.

1498
01:25:43,611 --> 01:25:45,592
Don't provoke me to tell you everything.

1499
01:25:46,056 --> 01:25:47,740
What do you mean?
-Everything I know.

1500
01:25:47,740 --> 01:25:48,723
Say what you like,

1501
01:25:48,748 --> 01:25:51,100
say anything at all, but say it honestly,

1502
01:25:51,125 --> 01:25:52,259
not for cash!

1503
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:54,620
Are you really foolish enough to believe

1504
01:25:54,812 --> 01:25:56,306
that money has ever been my motive?

1505
01:25:56,331 --> 01:25:59,117
Because my integrity is not for sale.

1506
01:25:59,687 --> 01:26:01,741
Tell your buyer that, whoever he is.

1507
01:26:02,185 --> 01:26:03,872
Listen, Creon, this is the truth.

1508
01:26:05,383 --> 01:26:07,014
Before many more days,

1509
01:26:07,770 --> 01:26:09,422
before the sun has risen...

1510
01:26:09,955 --> 01:26:12,533
well, shall we say, a few more times,

1511
01:26:13,274 --> 01:26:15,815
you will have made your
payment, corpse for corpse,

1512
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,318
with a child of your own blood.

1513
01:26:19,877 --> 01:26:22,798
You have buried the one still living,

1514
01:26:22,828 --> 01:26:25,462
the woman who moves and breathes

1515
01:26:25,487 --> 01:26:26,939
you have given to the grave,

1516
01:26:28,058 --> 01:26:31,847
and the man you have left,
unwashed, unwept,

1517
01:26:31,872 --> 01:26:35,509
and without the common courtesy
of a decent covering of earth.

1518
01:26:35,894 --> 01:26:37,795
So that both have been wronged,

1519
01:26:38,291 --> 01:26:39,726
and the gods of the underworld,

1520
01:26:39,763 --> 01:26:41,859
to whom the body justly belongs,

1521
01:26:41,978 --> 01:26:44,168
are denied it and are insulted.

1522
01:26:44,546 --> 01:26:46,677
Such matters are not for you to judge.

1523
01:26:46,973 --> 01:26:48,460
You usurp ancient rights

1524
01:26:48,460 --> 01:26:51,618
which even the gods
themselves don't dare to question.

1525
01:26:51,989 --> 01:26:55,484
Powers that are not within
the prerogative of kings.

1526
01:26:56,561 --> 01:26:59,485
Even now, this minute,

1527
01:27:00,515 --> 01:27:02,364
the avengers are on their way.

1528
01:27:03,083 --> 01:27:07,930
The Furies, who rise up from Hell
and swoop down from Heaven,

1529
01:27:08,737 --> 01:27:12,409
fix their hooks in those who
commit crimes, and will never let go.

1530
01:27:13,083 --> 01:27:16,460
The suffering that you inflicted on others
will be inflicted upon you.

1531
01:27:16,677 --> 01:27:19,151
You will suffer as they did.

1532
01:27:20,055 --> 01:27:21,864
Have I been bribed, do you think?

1533
01:27:22,234 --> 01:27:24,390
Am I speaking for money now?

1534
01:27:25,694 --> 01:27:28,613
Before very long, yes, it will be soon,

1535
01:27:28,991 --> 01:27:32,176
there will be screaming and bitter tears

1536
01:27:32,213 --> 01:27:35,214
and hysterical crying in this house.

1537
01:27:35,554 --> 01:27:37,482
Men as well as women.

1538
01:27:38,089 --> 01:27:41,340
Other cities too, other States,
will turn upon you

1539
01:27:41,514 --> 01:27:43,010
for the crime you have committed.

1540
01:27:43,351 --> 01:27:46,434
Dogs and vultures
will swarm in the streets,

1541
01:27:46,886 --> 01:27:50,113
dropping fragments of the unburied man

1542
01:27:50,417 --> 01:27:53,320
in corners, on doorsteps,
in the public squares.

1543
01:27:53,765 --> 01:27:56,060
They will smell the pollution,

1544
01:27:56,215 --> 01:27:59,232
and turn to you, its author!

1545
01:28:01,447 --> 01:28:02,714
That is all I have to say.

1546
01:28:04,914 --> 01:28:09,010
You made me angry, Creon,
with your crude accusations.

1547
01:28:09,469 --> 01:28:11,788
And so I made you my target.

1548
01:28:12,647 --> 01:28:15,122
And like a good marksman,
all my shots have hit the bull.

1549
01:28:16,039 --> 01:28:17,193
You can feel them, can't you?

1550
01:28:17,913 --> 01:28:20,159
You can feel the pain,
like an arrow, here!

1551
01:28:23,870 --> 01:28:25,698
Take me home now, boy.

1552
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:34,240
Leave him alone to entertain
some younger ears than mine

1553
01:28:34,255 --> 01:28:36,536
with his ridiculous outbursts.

1554
01:28:37,921 --> 01:28:42,263
Either that, or let him
learn maturer judgment,

1555
01:28:43,472 --> 01:28:47,872
and how a wise man controls his tongue.

1556
01:28:58,818 --> 01:28:59,818
My Lord.

1557
01:29:00,633 --> 01:29:03,334
He's gone, promising
nothing but disaster to come.

1558
01:29:04,475 --> 01:29:06,275
My hair grew gray in this city.

1559
01:29:06,978 --> 01:29:09,275
I was dark-haired here,
soon I will be white.

1560
01:29:09,489 --> 01:29:13,317
And in all that time I have never known
any of his prophecies to be proved wrong.

1561
01:29:14,066 --> 01:29:15,296
Neither have I, man!

1562
01:29:16,770 --> 01:29:18,680
I know that much as well as you...

1563
01:29:22,369 --> 01:29:26,092
My mind's torn apart like a tug of war,
one way, then the other...

1564
01:29:28,262 --> 01:29:29,938
How can I give way now?

1565
01:29:31,538 --> 01:29:33,744
Yet how can I stand here like a fool

1566
01:29:33,769 --> 01:29:36,437
and wait stubbornly
for whatever it is that's coming?

1567
01:29:36,504 --> 01:29:38,607
Lord Creon, it's time to take good advice.

1568
01:29:38,637 --> 01:29:40,244
Give it then.
Don't be afraid. I'll listen.

1569
01:29:40,274 --> 01:29:42,744
Release the woman
from her underground prison.

1570
01:29:42,781 --> 01:29:45,180
And give honorable burial to the dead man.

1571
01:29:45,278 --> 01:29:48,681
So that's your advice.
Total collapse. Complete withdrawal.

1572
01:29:49,915 --> 01:29:51,660
Do you all think that?
-We do, sir.

1573
01:29:51,780 --> 01:29:53,550
And do it quickly, for heaven's sake!

1574
01:29:53,817 --> 01:29:56,214
The gods never move faster
than when punishing men

1575
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,115
with the consequences
of their own actions.

1576
01:29:59,140 --> 01:30:00,273
How can I do it?

1577
01:30:00,984 --> 01:30:03,175
It's unendurable to deny every principle

1578
01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:05,360
and every action I've stood fast by.

1579
01:30:06,436 --> 01:30:09,085
Yet I dare not stand against
the iron laws of necessity.

1580
01:30:09,114 --> 01:30:11,500
Go on sir, do it now,
and do it personally.

1581
01:30:11,588 --> 01:30:13,726
Not by proxy, with your own hands.

1582
01:30:13,751 --> 01:30:16,618
Yes, I'll go. I'll go this instant.

1583
01:30:17,151 --> 01:30:19,140
Somebody, anybody,

1584
01:30:19,444 --> 01:30:22,312
bring spades and sledgehammers
out onto the mountain!

1585
01:30:22,616 --> 01:30:23,616
I'm coming with you!

1586
01:30:24,121 --> 01:30:25,815
If I've changed my mind,
I will act upon it

1587
01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:27,784
with exactly the same determination.

1588
01:30:28,488 --> 01:30:30,984
I sentenced her, and I'll set her free,

1589
01:30:31,347 --> 01:30:33,991
tear down bricks with
my own hands if necessary.

1590
01:30:35,791 --> 01:30:38,242
Perhaps it is wisest
to let the old laws stand.

1591
01:30:39,094 --> 01:30:40,458
My fear tells me it is.

1592
01:30:41,809 --> 01:30:45,905
And that's a voice every
prudent man must listen to.

1593
01:30:54,685 --> 01:30:57,100
Great god with many names,

1594
01:30:57,255 --> 01:30:58,796
child of the thunder,

1595
01:30:59,129 --> 01:31:02,140
whom Zeus conceived on Cadmus' daughter

1596
01:31:02,277 --> 01:31:03,766
here in Thebes:

1597
01:31:04,225 --> 01:31:06,460
Bacchus, Dionysus.

1598
01:31:06,580 --> 01:31:08,460
In Italy revered.

1599
01:31:08,460 --> 01:31:11,008
And in Demeter's mysterious Eleusis...

1600
01:31:11,045 --> 01:31:13,889
Where old Greece dreams
its most secret dream...

1601
01:31:13,926 --> 01:31:16,140
Both praised and feared.

1602
01:31:16,245 --> 01:31:18,700
This is your native city.

1603
01:31:18,839 --> 01:31:22,156
Where the quiet river of
Ismenus waters the meadows.

1604
01:31:22,181 --> 01:31:25,266
Where the fever of ecstasy
possesses your womenfolk.

1605
01:31:25,296 --> 01:31:27,197
Your own Thebes.

1606
01:31:27,222 --> 01:31:29,464
Where the dragon's teeth were sown.

1607
01:31:32,753 --> 01:31:35,114
The whole world worships you,

1608
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:37,803
wine god, intoxicator.

1609
01:31:38,070 --> 01:31:41,340
On the two-pronged mountain
where the torches glitter,

1610
01:31:41,514 --> 01:31:43,795
and the nymphs of Parnassus dance.

1611
01:31:44,054 --> 01:31:48,316
By the pool where Castalia's suicide
made the waters magical,

1612
01:31:48,783 --> 01:31:51,894
and the cool draught
inspires poets to frenzy,

1613
01:31:52,250 --> 01:31:55,066
and the true waters of darkness reside.

1614
01:31:55,192 --> 01:31:57,822
From the impenetrable slopes of Nysa,

1615
01:31:57,847 --> 01:31:59,740
where the ivy runs wild

1616
01:31:59,847 --> 01:32:02,175
and the vines hang thick in your face,

1617
01:32:02,552 --> 01:32:04,828
come home, Theban child.

1618
01:32:05,184 --> 01:32:07,615
Let the world sing its hymns in vain.

1619
01:32:08,022 --> 01:32:09,699
In the Theban streets...

1620
01:32:09,781 --> 01:32:11,580
"Hail!"
-We shout.

1621
01:32:11,699 --> 01:32:13,699
"Bacchus, hail!"

1622
01:32:14,918 --> 01:32:17,636
And the city waits.

1623
01:32:18,777 --> 01:32:20,882
Your mother Semele died here.

1624
01:32:20,912 --> 01:32:24,235
Incinerated by the fire of the Universe.

1625
01:32:24,260 --> 01:32:26,304
Zeus in his splendor.

1626
01:32:26,349 --> 01:32:30,060
Now in your city
another disaster threatens.

1627
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:32,880
Fear locks up our tongues.

1628
01:32:32,923 --> 01:32:35,197
And like a plague sore on the face,

1629
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:37,951
the State's disease is made public.

1630
01:32:38,005 --> 01:32:39,720
We have done wrong.

1631
01:32:39,728 --> 01:32:42,220
Now the first necessity is for healing.

1632
01:32:42,387 --> 01:32:44,436
From Parnassus' rocky screes.

1633
01:32:44,461 --> 01:32:47,816
Or over the sighing waters
of the endless seas.

1634
01:32:47,853 --> 01:32:50,837
Come to us, healer, and heal.

1635
01:32:50,874 --> 01:32:53,267
We have suffered too long.

1636
01:32:54,186 --> 01:32:56,648
All the stars of the galaxy,

1637
01:32:56,699 --> 01:32:58,540
whose hearts are fire,

1638
01:32:58,641 --> 01:33:00,249
throb to your music,

1639
01:33:00,780 --> 01:33:03,637
and the remote voices of measureless night

1640
01:33:04,008 --> 01:33:06,744
swing from the depths of their mystery.

1641
01:33:07,015 --> 01:33:10,035
Come, with your crazed followers,

1642
01:33:10,173 --> 01:33:11,820
your lunatic women,

1643
01:33:11,936 --> 01:33:13,740
the wild Maenads,

1644
01:33:13,740 --> 01:33:16,088
authentic son of Zeus.

1645
01:33:16,117 --> 01:33:19,740
Bring delight, and dancing till we drop,

1646
01:33:19,806 --> 01:33:21,020
bring rest,

1647
01:33:21,020 --> 01:33:22,220
bring peace,

1648
01:33:22,220 --> 01:33:24,753
bring healing and rebirth,

1649
01:33:25,153 --> 01:33:27,660
let our anguish cease,

1650
01:33:27,660 --> 01:33:29,820
ecstatic god,

1651
01:33:29,820 --> 01:33:33,197
whose many names are one!

1652
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:35,900
Senators, listen!

1653
01:33:38,123 --> 01:33:41,123
Descendants of Cadmus who founded
our city, and Amphion, who built it,

1654
01:33:41,738 --> 01:33:43,029
good people of Thebes.

1655
01:33:44,384 --> 01:33:47,066
No man's life ever moves
smoothly according to plan.

1656
01:33:48,073 --> 01:33:49,244
Who can make judgments?

1657
01:33:49,920 --> 01:33:52,040
Say this is praiseworthy
in human existence,

1658
01:33:52,065 --> 01:33:54,891
and this is to be despised,
when chance rules everything?

1659
01:33:55,654 --> 01:33:57,651
One moment a man
rides high on his fortune,

1660
01:33:57,676 --> 01:33:59,661
and the same moment
he crashes to the depths.

1661
01:34:00,350 --> 01:34:03,128
Luck, like the tide, is certain
to ebb, after the flow,

1662
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:05,646
and no man can tell
what will happen tomorrow.

1663
01:34:06,780 --> 01:34:08,795
Everyone, surely, envied Creon.

1664
01:34:09,647 --> 01:34:12,311
He had brought his country out of anarchy.
Taken power as king.

1665
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:14,760
And his position in the
State was unchallenged.

1666
01:34:14,789 --> 01:34:16,166
What's more, he ruled well,

1667
01:34:16,581 --> 01:34:20,483
if firmly, and his son was at his side,
to help and succeed him.

1668
01:34:22,249 --> 01:34:23,664
All that is over now.

1669
01:34:25,724 --> 01:34:26,871
What life can there be,

1670
01:34:27,607 --> 01:34:30,275
when the things that make
life pleasant are all destroyed?

1671
01:34:30,399 --> 01:34:31,479
A kind of death,

1672
01:34:32,162 --> 01:34:34,865
moving and breathing, but not living.

1673
01:34:36,836 --> 01:34:38,050
That's how it is for him.

1674
01:34:39,524 --> 01:34:41,417
Of course, he's rich beyond accounting,

1675
01:34:41,780 --> 01:34:45,776
he's a king still, with all the pomp
and circumstance that rank implies.

1676
01:34:45,801 --> 01:34:48,974
But what's it worth when
all the joy of life is gone?

1677
01:34:49,004 --> 01:34:51,249
A shadow, a mockery, a vulgar pageant.

1678
01:34:52,678 --> 01:34:54,606
Who can take pleasure in wealth or power

1679
01:34:55,213 --> 01:34:57,282
when all happiness is dead in his heart?

1680
01:34:57,556 --> 01:34:59,408
More tragedy for this family?

1681
01:34:59,978 --> 01:35:01,069
Tell us your news.

1682
01:35:01,336 --> 01:35:02,336
They're both dead.

1683
01:35:03,580 --> 01:35:05,260
And the living must take the blame.

1684
01:35:05,417 --> 01:35:06,958
Who's dead?
-Who killed them?

1685
01:35:07,017 --> 01:35:08,076
What happened? Tell us.

1686
01:35:08,105 --> 01:35:09,542
The king's son, Haemon.

1687
01:35:10,491 --> 01:35:12,876
The royal blood shed by a royal hand.

1688
01:35:13,483 --> 01:35:15,394
His father, you mean?
-Or his own?

1689
01:35:15,446 --> 01:35:17,002
His own held the sword.

1690
01:35:17,873 --> 01:35:19,777
But his father's actions drove it home.

1691
01:35:20,014 --> 01:35:23,865
The prophet warned us.
-And it all came true.

1692
01:35:24,139 --> 01:35:25,347
That's how things are.

1693
01:35:26,305 --> 01:35:27,705
It's in your hands now.

1694
01:35:31,883 --> 01:35:33,215
The door is opening. Look!

1695
01:35:40,162 --> 01:35:42,220
Here's Eurydice.
-Poor woman.

1696
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:43,360
The king's wife.

1697
01:35:43,466 --> 01:35:44,666
Does she know, do you think?

1698
01:35:44,784 --> 01:35:45,984
Has she come here by chance?

1699
01:35:46,021 --> 01:35:48,343
Or because she has heard her son is dead?

1700
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:55,943
Gentlemen. Good friends.

1701
01:35:57,100 --> 01:35:59,417
My ears caught something
of what you were saying.

1702
01:36:00,469 --> 01:36:02,099
A few words as I opened the door.

1703
01:36:03,669 --> 01:36:06,193
I was on my way to offer
prayers to Pallas Athene.

1704
01:36:07,141 --> 01:36:08,704
We had just drawn back the bolt

1705
01:36:09,644 --> 01:36:12,202
when I heard a few scraps
of your conversation.

1706
01:36:13,683 --> 01:36:17,438
It's enough to make me
fear what all mothers fear.

1707
01:36:17,623 --> 01:36:20,112
An accident or some disaster
to those we love.

1708
01:36:21,957 --> 01:36:23,037
I nearly fainted.

1709
01:36:24,358 --> 01:36:26,692
My ladies-in-waiting
caught me in their arms.

1710
01:36:28,936 --> 01:36:29,936
Please...

1711
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,245
speak it out plainly,
whatever it is. I can bear it.

1712
01:36:34,329 --> 01:36:36,773
We are bred to stoicism in this family.

1713
01:36:40,269 --> 01:36:43,755
Dear Queen, whom we all respect.

1714
01:36:44,466 --> 01:36:45,911
I was there. I saw it all.

1715
01:36:46,955 --> 01:36:48,683
And I'll tell you exactly what happened.

1716
01:36:49,601 --> 01:36:52,356
There's no point in trying
to soften the blow now

1717
01:36:52,381 --> 01:36:53,900
only to be proved a liar later.

1718
01:36:54,011 --> 01:36:55,218
It's best to tell the truth.

1719
01:36:57,544 --> 01:36:59,885
I went with the king, your husband,
to the edge of the battlefield,

1720
01:36:59,915 --> 01:37:01,562
where we saw the body of Polynices

1721
01:37:01,587 --> 01:37:04,060
still lying where he fell,
and in a terrible state.

1722
01:37:04,197 --> 01:37:05,457
The dogs had been at him.

1723
01:37:06,219 --> 01:37:07,243
So we prayed.

1724
01:37:07,613 --> 01:37:09,977
First to Hecate, who haunts
crossroads and tombs,

1725
01:37:10,002 --> 01:37:12,424
and the scenes of crimes
committed but not atoned for,

1726
01:37:12,721 --> 01:37:14,389
and then to Pluto, King of the Dead.

1727
01:37:14,723 --> 01:37:16,882
We asked them to have
pity on him, and on us,

1728
01:37:17,645 --> 01:37:18,919
and not to be angry.

1729
01:37:20,749 --> 01:37:22,397
Then we washed him,

1730
01:37:22,797 --> 01:37:24,477
or what was left of him, with holy water,

1731
01:37:24,502 --> 01:37:26,213
cut fresh branches to make a pyre,

1732
01:37:26,739 --> 01:37:28,148
and burned the remains.

1733
01:37:29,304 --> 01:37:32,513
Then we shoveled a mound of his
own Theban earth over the ashes.

1734
01:37:34,579 --> 01:37:36,891
And as soon as we'd done that,
we hurried off as fast as we could

1735
01:37:36,936 --> 01:37:40,047
to the prison cell under the mountain
that served as a bridal suite

1736
01:37:40,432 --> 01:37:41,895
for the girl married to death.

1737
01:37:42,562 --> 01:37:43,658
But before we arrived,

1738
01:37:44,466 --> 01:37:47,986
one of the soldiers with the unenviable
job of guarding that godforsaken place

1739
01:37:48,015 --> 01:37:50,022
came running back
to tell the king that he'd

1740
01:37:50,445 --> 01:37:54,193
heard a terrible noise, like screaming,
from inside the mountain.

1741
01:37:55,096 --> 01:37:57,543
And as Creon got nearer he heard it too,

1742
01:37:57,639 --> 01:37:59,683
faint... but audible.

1743
01:38:00,432 --> 01:38:03,938
A kind of weird screaming, or moaning...

1744
01:38:05,116 --> 01:38:09,399
Low and unearthly, as though grief
was speaking its own naked language.

1745
01:38:10,703 --> 01:38:12,616
When the King heard it he groaned aloud,

1746
01:38:13,468 --> 01:38:14,843
and we all heard him say:

1747
01:38:15,739 --> 01:38:16,739
"Oh god!

1748
01:38:17,688 --> 01:38:19,118
"This is what I was afraid of.

1749
01:38:20,022 --> 01:38:21,503
"Am I a prophet too?

1750
01:38:22,155 --> 01:38:24,835
"This path up to the tomb,
these last few steps,

1751
01:38:25,100 --> 01:38:27,695
"is the most agonizing journey
I shall ever make.

1752
01:38:27,720 --> 01:38:29,861
"I can hear my son's voice in there.

1753
01:38:30,876 --> 01:38:32,620
"You, quickly, guards,
anybody, get in there,

1754
01:38:32,820 --> 01:38:35,740
"squeeze between the rocks where somebody
has already forced an entrance,

1755
01:38:35,947 --> 01:38:37,500
"get into the main chamber of the cave

1756
01:38:37,721 --> 01:38:40,197
"and tell me if it is
my son's voice I recognized,

1757
01:38:40,397 --> 01:38:43,161
"or whether the gods are
playing some cruel trick with me."

1758
01:38:45,243 --> 01:38:46,398
So we went in and looked,

1759
01:38:47,494 --> 01:38:51,435
as the half-crazed king had told us to,
and there, in the darkest corner,

1760
01:38:52,324 --> 01:38:53,324
we saw her,

1761
01:38:54,517 --> 01:38:55,728
strung up by the neck,

1762
01:38:57,135 --> 01:39:01,495
hanging from an improvised rope of twisted
linen strips torn from her own dress.

1763
01:39:03,606 --> 01:39:04,897
Haemon was right beside her,

1764
01:39:05,437 --> 01:39:07,536
cuddling her body as it dangled there,

1765
01:39:08,713 --> 01:39:11,240
and sobbing brokenheartedly
at his wife's death,

1766
01:39:11,729 --> 01:39:14,881
and the marriage bad luck
and his father's cruelty

1767
01:39:14,913 --> 01:39:16,791
had made certain would never take place.

1768
01:39:18,298 --> 01:39:21,513
When Creon saw them,
he staggered into the cave,

1769
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:23,905
crying like a child,

1770
01:39:24,713 --> 01:39:28,836
and sobbed aloud: "My boy,
my poor boy, what are you doing here?"

1771
01:39:29,502 --> 01:39:32,500
And then: "Have you gone mad coming here?
there's nothing here for you but death,

1772
01:39:32,603 --> 01:39:34,554
"and annihilation, and despair!

1773
01:39:34,946 --> 01:39:36,655
"Come away from there,
my son, I'm begging you,

1774
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:38,840
"come away, for god's sake, come away!"

1775
01:39:41,757 --> 01:39:42,889
The boy just looked at him...

1776
01:39:44,370 --> 01:39:46,229
and his eyes were terrifying.

1777
01:39:47,220 --> 01:39:49,575
With an anger like I've never seen before.

1778
01:39:51,553 --> 01:39:54,676
Without a word he spat
in his father's face,

1779
01:39:55,765 --> 01:39:57,024
and drew his sword,

1780
01:39:57,958 --> 01:39:59,777
and lunged straight for the old man.

1781
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:03,976
But Creon was quick, and skipped
out of distance, and the poor lad...

1782
01:40:05,354 --> 01:40:06,696
hysterical with grief...

1783
01:40:07,696 --> 01:40:09,428
braced his sword against a rock

1784
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:11,397
and thrust himself upon it so fiercely

1785
01:40:11,422 --> 01:40:14,030
it pierced his belly and
came out through his back.

1786
01:40:23,179 --> 01:40:24,557
There was blood everywhere.

1787
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:30,883
His life flooded away before our eyes
as he clutched the dead girl.

1788
01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:35,026
Then his arms slowly slackened...

1789
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:39,568
and the pumping blood
soaked her body so that

1790
01:40:40,435 --> 01:40:43,706
her dead cheek flushed red again
with the bloodstains.

1791
01:40:53,789 --> 01:40:56,849
So, now they're together.

1792
01:40:58,283 --> 01:41:01,883
Two corpses, married at last...

1793
01:41:03,624 --> 01:41:06,643
whom death hath joined
no man can put asunder.

1794
01:41:07,895 --> 01:41:10,216
They look like honeymooners,
together in one bed.

1795
01:41:11,742 --> 01:41:14,460
Evidence of the havoc
man can bring upon man

1796
01:41:14,490 --> 01:41:16,555
by his own pig-headedness and arrogance.

1797
01:41:17,889 --> 01:41:20,460
Just a moment.
-The Queen has gone without a word.

1798
01:41:20,665 --> 01:41:23,395
Giving no indication of her feelings
one way or the other.

1799
01:41:23,461 --> 01:41:24,824
I'm sure she had good reasons.

1800
01:41:25,303 --> 01:41:27,373
A public demonstration of
grief would be unlike her.

1801
01:41:27,403 --> 01:41:29,740
She'll suffer, like any other
mother, for her son's death,

1802
01:41:29,973 --> 01:41:31,351
but in private with her women.

1803
01:41:32,069 --> 01:41:33,896
She'd never do anything
foolish or indiscreet.

1804
01:41:33,921 --> 01:41:35,825
I'm sure of that. She's far too sensible.

1805
01:41:35,877 --> 01:41:37,099
I hope you're right.

1806
01:41:37,151 --> 01:41:38,940
Her silence was unnerving.

1807
01:41:39,192 --> 01:41:41,260
Dangerously unlike what one would expect.

1808
01:41:41,291 --> 01:41:45,059
That kind of silence is sometimes
more frightening than screaming or tears.

1809
01:41:45,084 --> 01:41:46,164
I'll go in after her.

1810
01:41:46,995 --> 01:41:50,553
Just to make sure that grief doesn't
tempt her to anything silly or excessive.

1811
01:41:51,790 --> 01:41:54,495
You're right, the silence was unnerving.
She seemed to feel nothing.

1812
01:41:55,651 --> 01:41:57,540
And in my opinion that can be dangerous.

1813
01:42:19,147 --> 01:42:22,074
Look there. The king is coming.

1814
01:42:22,711 --> 01:42:23,847
But not alone.

1815
01:42:24,684 --> 01:42:27,517
A silent witness comes before him,

1816
01:42:28,162 --> 01:42:29,900
dead as stone.

1817
01:42:31,275 --> 01:42:34,500
Unspeaking evidence that the crime,

1818
01:42:34,863 --> 01:42:37,781
like the grief, is all his own.

1819
01:42:38,709 --> 01:42:42,383
He suffers now for his wrongdoing.

1820
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:23,205
Pain...

1821
01:43:26,201 --> 01:43:27,927
There was hatred inside me.

1822
01:43:28,186 --> 01:43:30,900
The urge to destroy
drove me like a maniac,

1823
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:33,313
an insane plunge towards death.

1824
01:43:35,250 --> 01:43:36,632
Your death, my boy.

1825
01:43:38,564 --> 01:43:40,910
See here, the victim and his killer.

1826
01:43:41,711 --> 01:43:43,815
See here, the father and his son.

1827
01:43:45,267 --> 01:43:48,074
I was responsible. My actions killed him.

1828
01:43:48,511 --> 01:43:50,815
There is no blame for him. None.

1829
01:43:51,867 --> 01:43:54,031
Blasted in the morning of your life,

1830
01:43:54,826 --> 01:43:59,548
my hope, my joy,
my hand powered the knife.

1831
01:44:00,510 --> 01:44:03,073
My arrogance determined your fate.

1832
01:44:03,110 --> 01:44:07,656
You see the truth now...
-But you see it too late.

1833
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,334
Suffering is the only schoolteacher.

1834
01:44:11,831 --> 01:44:13,606
The gods have broken my back.

1835
01:44:14,761 --> 01:44:19,293
Whipped me like a beast up this stony
track and destroyed my self-respect.

1836
01:44:20,774 --> 01:44:26,380
All pleasure, all rejoicing, they
have turned to anguish and weeping.

1837
01:44:27,802 --> 01:44:30,107
Man is a naked mortal creature.

1838
01:44:31,514 --> 01:44:33,609
Affliction is all he can expect.

1839
01:44:34,535 --> 01:44:40,858
My Lord, you have suffered enough,
but more suffering is marked to your name.

1840
01:44:42,300 --> 01:44:45,041
One agony lies here in
the open, another is waiting.

1841
01:44:45,066 --> 01:44:49,398
The same anguish redoubled,
behind the door.

1842
01:44:52,068 --> 01:44:55,840
There can be nothing worse.
My heart is broken.

1843
01:44:55,991 --> 01:44:57,480
But your wife,

1844
01:44:58,300 --> 01:45:00,072
the mother of this slaughtered son,

1845
01:45:00,694 --> 01:45:04,009
her wound is still fresh,
but the breath of life is gone.

1846
01:45:07,529 --> 01:45:10,897
Hades is deep, bottomless.

1847
01:45:11,274 --> 01:45:12,521
The abyss of the dead.

1848
01:45:13,165 --> 01:45:15,569
Will you kill me again or bring me
to my knees to suffer longer,

1849
01:45:15,594 --> 01:45:17,560
beating my head insensible with pain?

1850
01:45:18,513 --> 01:45:20,735
What can you say, messenger
of death with a sad face,

1851
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:22,080
more than you've said already?

1852
01:45:22,879 --> 01:45:26,809
My way is towards the darkness.
My case can be no worse than it is.

1853
01:45:27,498 --> 01:45:30,383
Can you kill me again? I'm dead already.

1854
01:45:32,480 --> 01:45:33,590
Will there be more blood?

1855
01:45:34,633 --> 01:45:38,502
More hacking of flesh?
More savagery? More pain?

1856
01:45:40,302 --> 01:45:44,169
First the son, then the mother?
No end to this grief?

1857
01:45:44,362 --> 01:45:47,012
Open the door and see for yourself.

1858
01:46:02,789 --> 01:46:07,111
Unending... unendurable pain.

1859
01:46:08,933 --> 01:46:11,066
This is the second time I am forced to see

1860
01:46:11,091 --> 01:46:13,827
what no man's eyes
should ever see even once.

1861
01:46:16,577 --> 01:46:20,756
Is this how it ends? Or will there
be more torture, more suffering?

1862
01:46:21,371 --> 01:46:24,077
A few moments ago my trembling
arms embraced a dead son.

1863
01:46:24,410 --> 01:46:27,427
Now grief has snatched
the mother from my hand.

1864
01:46:27,738 --> 01:46:30,041
It was there by the
household shrine she stood,

1865
01:46:30,071 --> 01:46:31,925
still holding the razor-sharp knife.

1866
01:46:31,962 --> 01:46:36,919
And as darkness drew down
its slow blinds, and her eyes closed,

1867
01:46:37,045 --> 01:46:38,574
she spoke of Megareus,

1868
01:46:39,162 --> 01:46:42,300
who died in the fullness
of his youth, her elder boy.

1869
01:46:43,354 --> 01:46:45,035
Nothing but good was ever said of him.

1870
01:46:46,150 --> 01:46:48,540
And she wept for the son
whose life ended today,

1871
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:50,680
and with her last, dying breath,

1872
01:46:50,894 --> 01:46:55,036
cursed you as his murderer,
who drove him to this death.

1873
01:46:57,095 --> 01:46:59,379
I think I shall go mad with terror.

1874
01:47:02,277 --> 01:47:04,692
There must be a sword somewhere,

1875
01:47:04,720 --> 01:47:07,436
a sharp, two-edged knife
to cut away my life.

1876
01:47:07,962 --> 01:47:10,695
Living is misery for me now, forever.

1877
01:47:11,829 --> 01:47:14,882
When I look, I see blood everywhere.

1878
01:47:14,907 --> 01:47:16,586
It's no more than the truth I've told.

1879
01:47:16,611 --> 01:47:20,117
Her last word was
to blame you for both deaths,

1880
01:47:20,142 --> 01:47:21,787
mother and son.

1881
01:47:27,302 --> 01:47:30,312
How did she die? Did she do it alone?

1882
01:47:30,337 --> 01:47:34,243
She heard them weeping
for Haemon, cried aloud,

1883
01:47:34,361 --> 01:47:37,310
and skewered herself
with her own small sword.

1884
01:47:40,615 --> 01:47:41,767
She spoke the truth.

1885
01:47:44,515 --> 01:47:46,222
All the guilt is mine.

1886
01:47:48,259 --> 01:47:50,052
I am the murderer.

1887
01:47:51,208 --> 01:47:52,380
Make that plain.

1888
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:03,200
Somebody, anybody, take me away.

1889
01:48:04,076 --> 01:48:06,653
I disgrace the decent light of day.

1890
01:48:07,596 --> 01:48:11,090
I am nothing now. I have become nothing.

1891
01:48:12,102 --> 01:48:14,536
Nothing can happen
to the man who is nothing.

1892
01:48:15,092 --> 01:48:19,380
How can we judge the best
in times like these?

1893
01:48:19,690 --> 01:48:23,905
Prompt action is safest.
What more is there to lose?

1894
01:48:24,172 --> 01:48:28,408
I look for a friend now, the shadowy
messenger who runs swifter than the wind

1895
01:48:28,448 --> 01:48:30,875
to wrap me in darkness as a friend should.

1896
01:48:32,125 --> 01:48:36,180
Why waste another day?
What good is daylight to me?

1897
01:48:36,290 --> 01:48:39,724
Why should my misery darken
the face of another dawn?

1898
01:48:40,975 --> 01:48:42,422
Pull down the blinds.

1899
01:48:42,963 --> 01:48:45,044
Tomorrow is a mystery.

1900
01:48:45,469 --> 01:48:49,300
No man can say
what time will make palin.

1901
01:48:49,792 --> 01:48:55,300
We live day by day. The future
is in greater hands than ours.

1902
01:48:55,300 --> 01:48:59,200
I am nothing. I want nothing.

1903
01:49:00,533 --> 01:49:02,980
My last, simplest prayers.

1904
01:49:03,446 --> 01:49:07,045
Prayers are a waste of time. Why pray?

1905
01:49:07,438 --> 01:49:12,530
What must come will come,
tomorrow or today.

1906
01:49:12,723 --> 01:49:13,908
I am nothing.

1907
01:49:16,641 --> 01:49:20,921
Take me then, the man who killed,
without knowing it, his wife and son.

1908
01:49:23,092 --> 01:49:28,104
Where should I go then?
Left or right? All wrong turnings now.

1909
01:49:30,630 --> 01:49:34,717
Into the night. Darkness, hide me.

1910
01:49:36,215 --> 01:49:37,952
There is blood on my hands.

1911
01:49:39,078 --> 01:49:40,745
My head is split.

1912
01:49:41,791 --> 01:49:43,354
My back is broken.

1913
01:49:45,148 --> 01:49:46,570
I should be dead.

1914
01:50:30,233 --> 01:50:32,647
The key to human happiness

1915
01:50:33,010 --> 01:50:36,536
is to nurture wisdom in your heart.

1916
01:50:37,480 --> 01:50:40,200
For man to attend to man's business

1917
01:50:40,702 --> 01:50:42,895
and let the gods play their part.

1918
01:50:43,773 --> 01:50:46,739
Above all, to stand in awe

1919
01:50:46,953 --> 01:50:49,835
of the eternal, unalterable law.

1920
01:50:50,857 --> 01:50:54,308
The proud man may pretend in his arrogance

1921
01:50:54,332 --> 01:50:57,427
to despise everything but himself.

1922
01:50:58,908 --> 01:51:03,138
In the end, the gods
will bring him to grief.

1923
01:51:04,041 --> 01:51:06,064
Today it has happened here.

1924
01:51:06,568 --> 01:51:09,657
With our own eyes we have seen an old man,

1925
01:51:10,101 --> 01:51:13,300
through suffering, become wise.