Only Water in the Sea

Only Water in the Sea

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<b>Let’s go</b> <b>An old man once took me fishing with him</b> <b>I was a child, around 6 or 7 years old</b> <b>He had a beard and moustache</b> <b>He never slept at night</b> <b>Instead he would take his boat out</b> <b>Suddenly he smelled something</b> <b>“It smells like salt, like bad weather”</b> <b>"How come? The sea is so flat"</b> <b>He told me to call the crew</b> <b>“We have to pull the net in, there’s a storm coming”</b> <b>Let’s go</b> <b>It was such an old boat</b> <b>He shouted “Hoist the foresail”</b> <b>He put one man on the side of the boat with one hand out</b> <b>"Tell me when you touch the water" because you can't see at night</b> <b>So he told him “Yes I can touch the water” or “No I can't"</b> <b>And then he would twist and turn the boat in the sea</b> <b>There were around 150, 200 boats on the water</b> <b>When the others saw he was leaving, they all followed</b> <b>Suddenly we heard a sound</b> <b>It was the storm coming in</b> <b>He saved them all</b> <b>That old man could smell the coming storm through his moustache</b> <b>because of all the storms he had lived through</b> <b>Unbelievable</b> <b>You must learn from people like that, </b> <b>people who lived for 90 years</b> <b>It’s experience</b> <b>We’re just about getting by, what can we do?</b> <b>Just like the dolphins, trying to survive</b> <b>Today the weather’s good, but what about tomorrow?</b> <b>You have to work hard if you don’t want to starve</b> <b>We’ve lived with the dolphins since we were kids</b> <b>But things are more complicated now</b> <b>There are fewer fish</b> <b>There are fewer fish, we catch less, we earn less. It's a cycle</b> <b>That’s how it is</b> <b>You can’t blame the fishermen or the dolphins</b> <b>It's a balance That’s it</b> <b>You buy a new net, it might be destroyed on the first night</b> <b>Nothing left, just holes</b> <b>They can’t find any fish so they eat the ones in the net</b> <b>It’s a cycle</b> <b>It's the struggle for existence for them too </b> <b>Of course, they’re hungry, they’re going to eat</b> <b>They eat part of the fish, they leave the rest</b> <b>But we care about the net</b> <b>It feels like ancient Rome</b> <b>Wait, don't move. Let me do it </b> <b>Now let it go</b> <b>Take this</b> <b>Once you catch Stromboli fever it’s incurable</b> <b>because this island is an addiction</b> <b>I used to enjoy going to the beach with my easel to paint landscapes</b> <b>One day he said, "Can you give me a canvas?"</b> <b>And I said, “What do you want it for?”</b> <b>His first painting was amazing</b> <b>and since then he’s never stopped</b> <b>I was stunned, it was so beautiful</b> <b>And I said to myself:</b> <b>"Don't think you’re an artist, you’re a joke!"</b> <b>I had artist’s block, believe me</b> <b>so I started crochet...</b> <b>Ingrid Bergman wanted to take him with her so he could study</b> <b>When they were shooting that film </b> <b>"Stromboli, Land of God"</b> <b>He was a boy</b> <b>All of us children used to hang around. She was very...</b>

<b>Surrounded by children</b> <b>Always with children</b> <b>And you were her favourite</b> <b>Not just me, she was nice to everyone</b> <b>Because I had freckles</b> <b>She used to tell me I was Nordic, not Sicilian</b> <b>Sitting between her legs</b> <b>Since the days of Ingrid Bergman, everything has changed</b> <b>Life used to be better then</b> <b>because there was more fraternity</b> <b>In the old days there were 5,000 people on Stromboli</b> <b>Then they started emigrating to Australia or America, and they abandoned their land</b> <b>Nowadays it’s all just business, people are only interested in money</b> <b>That’s the way it’s going</b> <b>I remember when I was young</b> <b>Rabbits, chickens, sheep, goats, cows</b> <b>This island had everything</b> <b>Today there’s nothing</b> <b>It’s all based on tourism</b> <b>If you have some land you clear it</b> <b>You can plant trees</b> <b>If you plant...</b> <b>I had cauliflower last winter... delicious</b> <b>In the old days there were so many fish, </b> <b>We didn’t know what to do with them</b> <b>700-800 kilos of tuna... they were huge</b> <b>Very old fish</b> <b>Sometimes the water turned green from all the foam they made on the surface</b> <b>We’d fish by the pier to catch cuttlefish</b> <b>It would take 10 minutes to 1 hour to catch 10 kilos of cuttlefish and you were done</b> <b>Then the big ships arrived with those devices</b> <b>They drop them to a depth of 500 metres</b> <b>They attract all the squid</b> <b>If there’s 400 kilos of cuttlefish out there they catch it all</b> <b>Including the big ones with eggs</b> <b>Also, those devices are battery powered</b> <b>Some respectful people collect them and bring them back</b> <b>But disrespectful people dump them in the sea</b> <b>and the battery acid does a lot of damage</b> <b>Now there’s nothing left</b> <b>You find such tiny redfish, it should be forbidden to catch them</b> <b>We need a strategy for reproduction and repopulation</b> <b>If we take everything, especially when they have eggs</b> <b>what’s left to do at sea?</b> <b>You’re just doing more damage</b> <b>If we wait any longer, all that’s left will be water</b> <b>We’re nothing compared with nature</b> <b>Nature can destroy us in a second if it wants to. Nothing left</b> <b>After many years of explosions and seaquakes,</b> <b>and I’ve seen a lot myself,</b> <b>I feel a special attachment to the volcano</b> <b>You can’t say “I’m not afraid of the sea”</b> <b>You’re afraid of the sea, of the volcano, of everything</b> <b>The first thing we do in the morning is cross ourselves</b> <b>we thank God, and then we look at the volcano</b> <b>because if he starts doing what he's capable of doing</b> <b>Let’s not even talk about it</b> <b>It’s just one shot</b> <b>In a second, either everything comes to an end or it stays as it was</b> <b>We all need to take action</b> <b>Everyone. From those in power to us</b>

<b>if we want to survive</b> <b>Otherwise there’ll be no more creation</b> <b>There will only be water in the sea</b> <b>How did you sleep? Peacefully?</b> <b>Look at this, not even...</b> <b>Fabrizio caught a mullet and five squid</b> <b>I caught two, there’s nothing there</b> <b>A big cuttlefish, half eaten</b> <b>Devoured</b> <b>There are vampires down there</b> <b>Vampires? Moray eels, that’s what it is</b> <b>The eels are the vampires</b> <b>Let’s see if the dustmen are coming...</b> <b>the seagulls are the dustmen</b> <b>– Do you know what the Americans did last night? – What did they do?</b> <b>They attacked Assad</b> <b>The Americans did?</b> <b>Yes. He has to go</b> <b>It’s going to be even more of a mess now</b> <b>He killed all those children </b> <b>– They killed children with chemical weapons – With chemical weapons</b> <b>See what I caught today? Just fishbones</b> <b>All the fish are half-eaten</b> <b>Eat up!</b> <b>Eels, a few dolphins, you name it</b> <b>Here they come, there’s another one</b> <b>It’s all for them, nothing for me</b> <b>All half-eaten</b> <b>In one bite</b> <b>Dolphins, rocks, eels</b> <b>They eat everything</b> <b>These are the chicks, the young ones</b> <b>Here, I’ve got something for you, you’re just a baby</b> <b>Something for the little one</b> <b>These ones are a year old</b> <b>In one bite! He ate it right away</b> <b>That’s hunger</b> <b>Get out of here! They even eat fish from my boat </b> <b>Not this one. This is mine!</b>

<b>This one’s still alive so I’ll throw it back</b> <b>but I have to fight with the dolphins... Not dolphins, the seagulls</b> <b>I throw stones to scare them off, otherwise they’ll eat it</b> <b>They’ll eat it otherwise</b> <b>That’s a redfish, it gets very big</b> <b>All half-eaten?</b> <b>They eat everything</b> <b>What a catch</b> <b>I was taught to respect the island and do things properly</b> <b>While other people don't respect the island, they just want to make money</b> <b>It’s not good to behave badly</b> <b>Some people aren’t from here... with all due respect, as they also help us survive </b> <b>There are good people who bring culture</b> <b>Others come and behave badly</b> <b>They misbehave at their own place, and when they come to Stromboli they do the same</b> <b>In time maybe people will start to understand where they live, to respect nature</b> <b>We’re here</b> <b>We’ve respected nature since the day we were born</b> <b>with the principles our parents taught us</b> <b>It’s not about us</b> <b>It’s nature that tells you what you are</b> <b>He’s a free-spirited dog</b> <b>Every dog is different</b> <b>– Some people leave their dog out here all night – That’s not good</b> <b>They start going through the rubbish </b> <b>You have to look after your dog</b> <b>That's why I don’t have dogs. I have chickens</b> <b>Nice</b> <b>At least I have some eggs for myself</b> <b>So they’re healthy?</b> <b>Of course. Chickens, a few rabbits</b>

<b>They also give me fertiliser for the garden</b> <b>So you have a vegetable garden too?</b> <b>A small one, just for myself</b> <b>I grow onions, potatoes, everything I need </b> <b>Lettuce</b> <b>Everything</b> <b>That way I have a healthy diet</b> <b>I catch the fish, but I have to buy the wine</b> <b>So I don't know what I’m drinking, maybe it contains preservatives</b> <b>Good morning Francesco</b> <b>Hi</b> <b>Francesco “Mister Geppetto"</b> <b>Did you finish the boat?</b> <b>He’s our maestro</b> <b>I did something wrong</b> <b>instead of fixing it</b> <b>Mister Geppetto</b> <b>The master boat builder</b> <b>Creator of Pinocchio</b> <b>He uses magic wood</b> <b>He only goes fishing thanks to Mister Geppetto</b> <b>Mister Geppetto fixes our boats</b> <b>We pay him though, he doesn't do it as a favour</b> <b>This is still a quiet place</b> <b>If you have a job you’re the happiest person in the world</b> <b>All the people working in factories</b> <b>They’re not free, they work non-stop</b> <b>Not like my job, I work for myself</b> <b>It's different</b> <b>There are other obligations in the city </b> <b>Of course they’ve got everything there, but sometimes everything is not enough</b> <b>We have our problems, they eat our nets</b> <b>But what can we do? That’s nature, there’s nothing to be done</b> <b>We have to watch out for the big ships that catch all the fish, that's for sure</b> <b>But with our way of fishing...</b> <b>We show respect... it’s small-scale fishing</b> <b>We can't run out of fish, the fish are there</b> <b>You have to believe in something when you like it</b> <b>If you don't believe in it, you don't do it</b> <b>You have to believe in it</b> <b>Otherwise life doesn’t give you many emotions</b> <b>I always think you have to believe in good, you can’t believe in evil</b> <b>Of course I go up there if I want to...</b>

<b>I’ve been up there many times, it’s not that appealing...</b> <b>... a little bit</b> <b>It's beautiful there... it's something...</b> <b>There’s a monster there, the sound of the volcano</b> <b>He’s alive</b> <b>But sometimes he blows, and he scares us </b> <b>When he first explodes it gives you a fright</b> <b>Then you see what’s going on, you have to check if he’s sending rocks your way</b> <b>He can scare us</b> <b>The Stromboli</b> <b>That's why I don't go there often, I go sometimes and that's enough</b>

2022-10-26 04:48

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