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W: La force du bio-travail. Subtitled dialog

1.
H: It’s a long time since we moved to this house and it’s as if we still haven’t been able to make it completely ours.
M: Only some rooms look as if we had just arrived. Besides, we spend so little time here.
H: Have you met the neighbours? I haven’t seen any yet.
M: It’s difficult to feel near someone in this place, but that’s one of the reasons which made us decide to come, isn’t it?
H: Friends are farther away, and me, at least, I need them. It’s a relief to feel a bit closer to them through e-mail.
M: It’s such a pity to have to keep the grilles. Wouldn’t it be enough with the alarm system?
H: No. This way they won't even try.

2.
M: It’s unbelievable, the better you treat your mates, the more doubts they have about you. They seem to think that a nice person can’t do their work properly. It’s as if trying to understand the problems of the people you work with makes you weaker.
H: You are too well educated for the world we have to deal with.
No-one thanks you if you worry about them, nor if you help them. You'd better start throwing a few punches downwards, that´s the only thing people understand.
M: I’m afraid that they´ll end up turning me into someone I don’t want to be.
H: The secret lies in learning to disguise it.
M: I remember when you got your job, you said you knew that the ability
to perform the role was going to be decisive.
H: In order to survive in work teams, you have to act as if there was no boss; but even if you call them a mediator or coordinator, you know perfectly well who’s in charge.
M: And it’s the same with new mates. You teach them just enough to stop them from replacing you.
H: The official rules are written on one list, and the true ones, the ones that are never admitted to, are on another. And if they are superimposed, they never match.

3.
H: What time are you going to get up tomorrow?
M: The same time I meant to wake up today, but I didn’t even hear the alarm clock.
H: You look tired.
M: I can’t distinguish the moments when I should rest any more. It seems tiredness is my only routine.
H: We have certainly brought out the bags under our eyes over the last two or three years.
M: What with work, obligations, and, I don’t know, going to the cinema from time to time, as normal people do...

4.
H: This man is a dead loss.
M: Who?
H: The one I’m in the project with. He keeps saying that his “experience” tells him this and that. He doesn’t realize things have changed and his arguments are of no use in today’s conditions.
M: It makes you think. We must be careful not to lose our perspective. It is like being able to choose the right clothes, keeping in fashion as you gain in years.

5.
M: I almost forgot to tell you. I’ve just got my period!
H: I don´t know what to say. On one hand, I’m glad, but on the other... I was almost looking forward to it.
M: It was not the right moment.
H: It never is, and we’ve always said we wanted children... but... Do you remember what your brother said about his pupils? Parents don’t see their children, and the time they do spend with them, they don’t know what permanent values they can pass on to them... Nothing is certain in the long term any more. How can you make your child feel commitment and emotion in such a world? Now, if we don’t have them, what kind of old age can we expect to have, and why make so much effort?
M: It’s been good news for me, and to tell you the truth I don’t think
now is the best moment to talk about it. I really must go, I’m late.
H: We’ll talk tonight then.
M: I’m afraid it will have to be sometime tomorrow, remember we’re
meeting my colleagues for dinner. Put on something smart.

6.
M: We have to stop and think whether this is what we want. If we are doing right or not.
H: But we don´t have time for anything!
M: We’ll have to find it then. Lets go on holiday. Both of us still have some days from last year. We could go to London. I’ve read that the Tate Modern is wonderful, we could seize the opportunity and do some shopping.
H: The project that I have to give in next month needs a lot of follow-up...
M: Well, we can take along our mobile telephones and that’s that!
H: Perhaps I can take the portable computer. Otherwise, it’s impossible.
M: Tomorrow morning I’ll go to the travel agency, and see if I can find a nice weekend offer.

7.
M: Claudia rang me up this afternoon. They are separating once and for all.
H: You can’t be thirty and be living love as if you were fourteen. One has to start by being self-sufficient to be able to have a relationship.
M: Anyone would get scared of someone so dependent. You can’t go through life any longer giving someone everything in ecstasy right from the start. It might not be what the other person is looking for.
H: I’m happy that our love has never been so naïve. And nobody could say we don’t love each other.
M: Who knows where their career might take them, and of course, not everybody is willing to sacrifice themselves to follow someone else to any part of the world.

8.
M: Sometimes I feel guilty for other people’s lives.
H: You shouldn’t. We’re not responsible for other people’s choices.
Why is it your fault if they don’t want to work or give their children an education? Anyone who doesn’t study these days is because they don’t want to.
M: I know we weren’t born rich and nobody gave us anything for free but...
H: It is always the same ones who have to take the responsibility
for those who have failed. Don’t our suffering and our efforts count?
So do me a favour...

9.
M: What’s the matter? Has something happened?
H: No, no it’s nothing, sorry. It’s only that sometimes I just can’t understand.
M: Understand what?
H: If my job is such a good one, it is so well paid, the office is so plush... Why do I feel so bad? Why do I have the feeling that under an appearance of calmness I’m continuously risking all I have and all I am? I’m not sure if I do my job well, if I stretch myself as much as I should. Sometimes
I don’t even know what I’m really working on.
M: When you changed company, all the clients followed you. Don’t you spend your whole day working? You provide certain services which are a part of big projects that you don’t need to know about. What does it matter if they’re useful or not? Don’t they let you lead the life that you want to? It’s your job, you ask all you can of yourself, you like it. In fact, we should be very happy. Not everybody is so lucky.

10.
H: I have just remembered last night’s nightmare.
She had to prostitute herself because we were in the most absolute poverty. She received the clients in a bed with a canopy in the middle of the street. She said to me: “The clients will be the ones to decide, the
possibilities are infinite”. I woke up late, slowly, crying.

11.
M: I am my enterprise. I've got my enterprise as my project - and my project as my enterprise. It is hard. I’m not sad. I see the ones I love as much as I can. I have to believe in the next step of my steps within this enterprise.

translation: Kamen Nedev