Medianeras Horizon-artsubs (2011) Subtitles

At 00:00:31,376, Character said: Buenos Aires is growing
uncontrollably and imperfectly.

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At 00:00:35,113, Character said: An overpopulated city
in a deserted country.

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At 00:00:38,250, Character said: A city in which thousands
of buildings rise into the sky.

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At 00:00:42,654, Character said: Arbitrarily.

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At 00:00:58,703, Character said: Next to a tall one, a small one.

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At 00:01:01,640, Character said: Next to a rational one,
an irrational one.

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At 00:01:05,644, Character said: Next to a French one,
one with no style at all.

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At 00:01:10,315, Character said: These irregularities
probably reflect us perfectly.

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At 00:01:14,753, Character said: A esthetic and ethical
irregularities.

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At 00:01:29,134, Character said: These buildings,
which adhere to no logic,

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At 00:01:32,237, Character said: represent bad planning.

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At 00:01:37,742, Character said: Just like our lives:

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At 00:01:41,246, Character said: We have no idea how
we want them to be.

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At 00:01:48,820, Character said: We live as if Buenos Aires
were a stopover.

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At 00:01:52,757, Character said: We've created
a "culture of tenants".

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At 00:02:20,385, Character said: The buildings are becoming smaller
to make space for even smaller ones.

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At 00:02:30,528, Character said: Apartments are measured
by their number of rooms

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At 00:02:33,431, Character said: and range from five rooms
with balconies,

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At 00:02:37,102, Character said: playrooms, servants' quarters
and storerooms

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At 00:02:41,039, Character said: to one-room apartments
also known as "shoeboxes".

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At 00:02:55,353, Character said: Just like almost
all man-made objects,

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At 00:02:58,556, Character said: buildings are made
to differentiate between us.

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At 00:03:04,829, Character said: There's a front and a back side.
High and low apartments.

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At 00:03:10,502, Character said: Privileged people have the letter A
or sometimes B.

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At 00:03:15,173, Character said: The farther back in the alphabet,
the worse the apartment.

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At 00:03:20,045, Character said: The promised view and brightness
rarely coincide with reality.

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At 00:03:27,886, Character said: What can be expected of a city
that turns its back on its river?

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At 00:03:33,158, Character said: I'm convinced that separations,
divorces

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At 00:03:36,528, Character said: domestic violence,
the excess of cable TV stations,

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At 00:03:40,632, Character said: the lack of communication,
listlessness,

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At 00:03:44,135, Character said: apathy, depression, suicide,

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At 00:03:48,440, Character said: neuroses, panic attacks,

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At 00:03:51,242, Character said: obesity, tenseness,

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At 00:03:54,145, Character said: insecurity, hypochondria,

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At 00:03:56,715, Character said: stress and a sedentary lifestyle

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At 00:03:59,651, Character said: are attributable to architects
and builders.

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At 00:04:04,189, Character said: I suffer from all of these illnesses
except suicide.

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At 00:04:27,078, Character said: This is my one-room apartment.
400 square feet

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At 00:04:30,682, Character said: and one miserable window
for one breathless lung.

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At 00:04:34,786, Character said: Santa F�, 1105.

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At 00:04:37,956, Character said: Fourth floor. H.

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At 00:04:47,665, Character said: I sat down at my computer
ten years ago

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At 00:04:50,001, Character said: and feel like
I've never g***t up again.

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At 00:04:53,438, Character said: I don't know if the Internet is
the future, but it was mine:

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At 00:04:56,875, Character said: I design websites
and this is my cyberspace.

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At 00:05:00,512, Character said: I don't know if I'm good
or just g***t into it early,

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At 00:05:02,847, Character said: but I'm very busy.

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At 00:05:04,349, Character said: I began with my psychiatrist's
website for phobics:

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At 00:05:07,919, Character said: His speciality and the reason
why I visit him twice a week.

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At 00:05:20,098, Character said: This game is a hit.

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At 00:05:22,167, Character said: It's for insomniacs
fighting pill addiction.

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At 00:05:30,809, Character said: My psychiatrist calls me
a phobic on my way to recovery.

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At 00:05:34,512, Character said: Due to repeated, violent panic attacks,
I locked myself in my apartment

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At 00:05:38,450, Character said: for years.

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At 00:05:40,685, Character said: I won 17 championships
at expert level.

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At 00:05:44,189, Character said: Four times undefeated,
nine times top scorer.

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At 00:05:46,891, Character said: I beat Federer four times
at Wimbledon.

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At 00:05:50,495, Character said: I became Godfather
of the Corleone family.

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At 00:05:53,865, Character said: I was totally isolated. Scared.

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At 00:05:56,835, Character said: My psychiatrist developed
a strategy to help me overcome

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At 00:06:01,072, Character said: my fear of the city:
Photography.

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At 00:06:04,542, Character said: A way to rediscover
the city and people.

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At 00:06:08,847, Character said: A search for beauty where
it's not apparent.

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At 00:06:12,150, Character said: Observing is being and not being.

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At 00:06:14,819, Character said: Or being in another way.

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At 00:06:18,456, Character said: I distracted myself.

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At 00:06:21,659, Character said: I don't take the bus or taxis.
Much less the subway,

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At 00:06:26,197, Character said: and I'd never take a plane.
I only go by foot

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At 00:06:30,301, Character said: and always have
my survival backpack.

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At 00:06:34,472, Character said: Contents: A Leica D-Lux 3
with 10 megapixels.

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At 00:06:38,576, Character said: Rivotril drops, 2.5 mg.
Amoxicillin 500.

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At 00:06:42,547, Character said: Ibuprofen. Sunglasses.
A plastic rain coat.

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At 00:06:46,718, Character said: A Victorinox with 21 tools.

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At 00:06:49,387, Character said: Flashlight with batteries.
Condoms, three units.

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At 00:06:53,958, Character said: 400 pesos cash in small bills.
An iPod with 60 GB

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At 00:06:58,796, Character said: and more than 8,000 songs.

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At 00:07:01,299, Character said: Three Tati films. A notebook.
And a plastic card

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At 00:07:04,969, Character said: about how to proceed
in case of an accident

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At 00:07:08,406, Character said: or panic attack.

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At 00:07:17,215, Character said: The backpack weighs 5.8 kg.
7% of my body weight.

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At 00:07:33,498, Character said: I've been an architect for two years,
but still haven't built anything.

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At 00:07:37,702, Character said: Neither a building, nor a house,
nor a bathroom. Nothing.

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At 00:07:42,440, Character said: Only models that are uninhabitable,
and not only because of their scale...

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At 00:07:48,313, Character said: I didn't fare well
with other constructions either:

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At 00:07:51,416, Character said: My four-year relationship collapsed

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At 00:07:53,618, Character said: despite my efforts to shore it up.

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At 00:07:56,554, Character said: If my life were a game of life,

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At 00:07:59,891, Character said: I'd have to move back five spaces.

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At 00:08:04,729, Character said: That's why I'm here:

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At 00:08:06,631, Character said: With my disorderly life in 27 boxes,

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At 00:08:09,934, Character said: I sit on twelve metres
of bubble wrap, popping bubbles

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At 00:08:14,105, Character said: so that I myself don't pop.

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At 00:08:29,520, Character said: This is my new old shoebox

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At 00:08:32,223, Character said: that these ridiculous five steps
make into a "duplex".

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At 00:08:37,762, Character said: And this is the freakish thing,
half window, half balcony,

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At 00:08:41,666, Character said: that the sun shuns all year long.

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At 00:08:47,171, Character said: Avenida Santa Fe, 1183.
Eighth floor. G

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At 00:08:52,110, Character said: as in gastritis.

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At 00:08:56,281, Character said: This is my favourite building
in Buenos Aires.

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At 00:09:00,218, Character said: It's the best location
and the most fun.

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At 00:09:03,755, Character said: It's built with
my favourite materials:

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At 00:09:06,491, Character said: Concrete, steel and glass.

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At 00:09:09,861, Character said: One of the world's few buildings

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At 00:09:13,698, Character said: with an equilateral
triangular base,

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At 00:09:16,301, Character said: it was inspired
by Saturn and its rings.

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At 00:09:19,771, Character said: Even if most people
see a flying saucer.

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At 00:09:23,808, Character said: I enter it expecting
to take off and leave this world.

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At 00:09:34,752, Character said: But in reality,
the planetarium puts me in my place,

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At 00:09:38,990, Character said: reminding me that
the world doesn't revolve around me.

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At 00:09:42,427, Character said: I'm a very small
part of a planet

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At 00:09:45,830, Character said: that's part of a system
that's part of a galaxy

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At 00:09:50,702, Character said: that, like hundreds of thousands
of galaxies, forms part of the universe.

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At 00:09:56,541, Character said: It reminds me that I'm part of
an infinite and eternal whole.

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At 00:10:03,548, Character said: A SHORT AUTUMN

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At 00:11:09,046, Character said: The dog committed suicide.

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At 00:11:11,949, Character said: Apparently it was a 40-year-old
prostitute's only companion

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At 00:11:17,822, Character said: and was locked out on the balcony
so it wouldn't bother her customers.

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At 00:11:25,430, Character said: The dog went mad when
they touched her.

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At 00:11:32,069, Character said: No wonder it jumped.

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At 00:11:34,906, Character said: Alone,
on such a small balcony.

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At 00:11:40,077, Character said: STRANGE ACCIDENT
IN BUENOS AIRES:

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At 00:11:42,113, Character said: A DEAD DOG
AND TWO INJURED PEOPLE

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At 00:12:15,847, Character said: Signature.

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At 00:12:20,651, Character said: Thanks.

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