silencio / silence

  • Dates
    2013 - 2013
  • Author
  • Topics Portrait, Daily Life, Documentary

Don Alberto has 60 and some years. He is deaf.

(esp)

Don Alberto tiene 60 y pico. Es sordo. Vive en un departamento muy antiguo que heredo de una tía con la cual vivió mucho tiempo de joven. Tiene un carácter muy especial. Le obsesiona la limpieza, dice que todos deberíamos tomar tres baños al día y lavar la ropa después de usarla, tal como el lo hace. También gusta del orden pero se rehúsa a botar los objetos que dejo su tía por que le recuerdan a ella. Es de las personas que te dice las cosas de frente y sin vergüenza, por eso no se lleva bien con la gente, para el los demás son los que no escuchan, así que prefiere pasar el día solo en casa, leyendo y reparando las viejas instalaciones domesticas. "Afuera solo hay barullo y gente sucia y hedionda. Acá tengo lo que necesito, puedo comer, leer y dormir, tranquilo, en silencio"

(eng)

Don Alberto has 60 and some years. He is deaf. He lives in a very old apartment inherited from an aunt with whom he lived a long time as a young man. He has a very special mood. He is obsessed with cleaning, he says that we should all take three baths a day and wash everything just after using it, as he does it. He also likes order although he refuses to discard the objects left by his aunt cause they remind him of her. He is the kind of person that talks you straight in the face and without shame, that is why he doesn't get along well with people, for him they are the ones who can't listen, that is why he prefers to spend the day home alone, reading and repairing the old domestic installations. "Outside is noisy and full of dirty and smelly people. Here I have all I need, I can eat, read and sleep, calmly, in silence"

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