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Fernando Tielve in The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Federico Luppi: Dr. Casares

The Devil's Backbone

Federico Luppi credited as playing...

Dr. Casares

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  • [first lines]
  • [voice over narration]
  • Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.
  • Casares: Stay by my side as my light grows dim /as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain / as my heart grows weak / and the wheels of my being turn slowly / Stay by my side /as my fragile body is racked by pain /which verges on truth / and manic time continues scattering dust / and furious life bursts out in flames. Stay by my side / as I fade / so you can point to the end of my struggle /and the twilight of eternal days / at the low, dark edge of life.
  • [last lines]
  • Casares: [Carlos weeping over Casares returns his rifle to his side or lap as Jamie forces Carlos to get going]
  • [voice over narration]
  • Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.
  • [last lines]
  • Casares: [Owl is carried out by Jamie followed by Galvez using his spear as a crutch to join those others left]
  • [narrating from beyond the grave]
  • Casares: A Ghost
  • [last to leave is Carlos looking back]
  • Casares: That Is What I Am
  • [Casarers now a ghost is at the doorway observing them heading out to the horizon]
  • Casares: [to Carlos] The devil's backbone. Children who should never have been born.

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