FILM * Quinto Potere: 'Sono incazzato nero e tutto questo non lo accetterò più!' (Cit. 1)
" - HOWARD BEALE: Non serve dirvi che le cose vanno male, tutti quanti sanno che vanno male. Abbiamo una crisi. Molti non hanno un lavoro, e chi ce l'ha vive con la paura di perderlo. Il potere d'acquisto del dollaro è zero. Le banche stanno fallendo, i negozianti hanno il fucile nascosto sotto il banco, i teppisti scorrazzano per le strade e non c'è nessuno che sappia cosa fare e non se ne vede la fine. Sappiamo che l'aria ormai è irrespirabile e che il nostro cibo è immangiabile. Stiamo seduti a guardare la TV mentre il nostro telecronista locale ci dice che oggi ci sono stati 15 omicidi e 63 reati di violenza come se tutto questo fosse normale, sappiamo che le cose vanno male, più che male. È la follia, è come se tutto dovunque fosse impazzito così che noi non usciamo più. Ce ne stiamo in casa e lentamente il mondo in cui viviamo diventa più piccolo e diciamo soltanto: "Almeno lasciateci tranquilli nei nostri salotti per piacere! Lasciatemi il mio tostapane, la mia TV, la mia vecchia bicicletta e io non dirò niente ma... ma lasciatemi tranquillo!" Beh, io non vi lascerò tranquilli. Io voglio che voi vi incazziate. Non voglio che protestiate, non voglio che vi ribelliate, non voglio che scriviate al vostro senatore, perché non saprei cosa dirvi di scrivere: io non so cosa fare per combattere la crisi e l'inflazione e i russi e la violenza per le strade. Io so soltanto che prima dovete incazzarvi. Dovete dire: "Sono un essere umano, porca puttana! La mia vita ha un valore!". Quindi io voglio che ora voi vi alziate. Voglio che tutti voi vi alziate dalle vostre sedie. Voglio che vi alziate proprio adesso, che andiate alla finestra e l'apriate e vi affacciate tutti ed urliate: "Sono incazzato nero e tutto questo non lo accetterò più!". Voglio che vi alziate in questo istante. Alzatevi, andate alla finestra, apritela, mettete fuori la testa e urlate: "Sono incazzato nero e tutto questo non lo accetterò più!". Le cose devono cambiare, ma prima vi dovete incazzare. Dovete dire: "Sono incazzato nero e tutto questo non lo accetterò più!" Allora penseremo a cosa fare per combattere la crisi, l'inflazione e la crisi energetica, ma Cristo alzatevi dalle vostre sedie, andate alla finestra, mettete fuori la testa e ditelo, gridatelo: "Sono incazzato nero e tutto questo non lo accetterò più!" "
[ I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!". ]
[ I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!". ]
(Monologo tratto dal film "Quinto Potere" | Network | 1976, di Sidney Lumet)
Immagine tratta da 'Quinto Potere': Howard Beale, interpretato da Peter Finch, in una scena del film
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