1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,240 "There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,800 And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears”. Sylvia Plath 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,080 "Boyfriends no! Friends". Mom. 4 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,360 What do Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Lisa Simpson, Lizzie McGuire 5 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,800 and Miki from the Marmalade Boy have in common? 6 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,240 They all wrote in a diary. 7 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,960 I've been back for a visit. 8 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,640 I grew up here until I was 15 years old and my mother and brother still live here. 9 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,720 Coming back is always opening a trunk of memories 10 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,640 (although many of them were thrown away by my mother). 11 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:11,080 This was what I read: 12 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,520 Since there's a girls' school near her school... 13 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,400 Will he have found another more beautiful girlfriend? 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,640 With this teddy I masturbated for the first time. 15 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,080 This was what I listened. 16 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:21,160 And this was what I wrote. 17 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,000 This is Raquel's NOT SO secret diary 18 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,840 “March 12, 2004. 19 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,920 I didn't know there were so many girls in love with Pablo, haha. 20 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,640 I only knew that Tamara and Ainhoa were in love with him, 21 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,160 but one day I discovered that Patri were in love with him. 22 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,840 And today, at school, I discovered that Adriana and Marta were also in love with him. 23 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,880 I mean, there are 5 girls in love with Pablo! 24 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,840 It's very heavy. 25 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Pablo seems handsome to me but not for me to like him 26 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,520 and of course I don't like him. 27 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,280 See you soon, diary. 28 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:14,000 Me and Isi, my lovely brother. 29 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,360 "June 9, 2004 30 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,520 Hello Raquel! How are you? 31 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,840 I hope you don't mind I write in the diary". 32 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,520 Wait, wait... 33 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,760 Wait a minute. 34 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,800 Isi: You will have to pay me. Raquel: Stupid. 35 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,480 Isi: You will have to pay me 100 € for the participation. 36 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,520 "Hello Raquel! How are you? 37 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,360 I hope you don't mind I write in your diary. 38 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,840 I wanted to take mine but I was wrong and took this one! 39 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,040 Well, I see that you say that you don't like your Arturo or Samuel, right? 40 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,200 Tomorrow, when I take the computer to the store, 41 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,160 I will see if I can buy the Minami (a magazine). 42 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,800 The second volume of 'Tokyo Juliet' has already come out, 43 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,640 but I don't think I'm going to buy it. 44 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,600 Well, I stop writing now. 45 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,160 You will tell me what grades you got in the exams. 46 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,600 Ciao!" 47 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,680 "Isi, that you know that I kill you". 48 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,800 My brother had a lot of influence on my childhood. 49 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,400 I grew up with his tastes: 50 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,720 manga, anime, Britney Spears, Buffy the Vampire Slayer... 51 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,680 We even had the same diary. 52 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,360 Although that does not justify that he had permission to invade mine. 53 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,360 My parents met working in a hotel. 54 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:40,960 She's Hortensia. 55 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,440 She is from La Mancha. 56 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:43,280 He is Isicio. 57 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:44,160 Andalusian. 58 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,400 Both left their families behind as teenagers 59 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,600 to find work in the Benidorm hospitality industry. 60 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,560 They met and formed my family. 61 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,480 I am the youngest of two brothers. 62 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,200 My mother always told me that I was not wanted, 63 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,960 that my brother was enough. 64 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:02,800 Also that she decided to name me with the same name of a perfum. 65 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,720 Maybe I invented this memory. 66 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,560 "September 26, 2004 67 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,760 In the afternoon I went with my mom and grandparents 68 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,320 for a walk along the beach to Las Gaviotas restaurant. 69 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,840 Before the restaurant my mother has gone to church. 70 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:23,800 The grandparents and I do not. 71 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,040 Mom has started to get a wound because of the new shoes. 72 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,360 When we came back Isi was there, 73 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,920 he came from being with dad in 74 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,760 Playas de Orihuela working at the hotel. 75 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,360 He returned the 95 € he owed me 76 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,880 'He stoled it from my first communion money'. 77 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,200 I'm glad he came. 78 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,120 See you tomorrow, dear diary”. 79 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,080 Ceremony date: December 10, 1983 80 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,360 “September 26, 2004. 81 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,440 Hello again, diary. 82 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,360 NEWS: Pili, who goes to la Zenia on weekends, 83 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,440 she is dad's girlfriend. 84 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,120 They are lying to me and I don't like that". 85 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:15,760 “October 2, 2004. 86 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:16,840 Hello, diary. 87 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,360 Actually today would be day three, 88 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,320 but I am writing as if it were yesterday to tell what happened to me. 89 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,720 I saw cartoons on TV and in the afternoon we went to Zara. 90 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,880 Mom bought a jacket for her and tights for me. 91 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,200 I got angry because I couldn't buy anything. 92 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,240 We went to the cheap store 93 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,240 and I bought some earrings in the shape of stars with glitter. 94 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,160 I saw my best friend Raquel, 95 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,600 who went to see the Moors and Christians, but we went home. 96 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,720 I put on my pajamas and Isi asked mom 97 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,120 why she was bitter and she said it was because I insulted her. 98 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,680 Oh, I felt very bad and I wanted to apologize to her, 99 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,360 but she told me to shut up”. 100 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,120 The house is even quieter without her. 101 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,160 Although even when she was there she already was, 102 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,240 because she kept her words to herself. 103 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,240 If she didn't speak for a long time, 104 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,600 the silence was broken, usually with insane ideas. 105 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:19,360 My mother's mind has been gradually getting worse since she separated from my father. 106 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,160 “FOR ARTHUR 107 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,360 You are like a sunbeam fallen from the universe to Earth. 108 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,800 You are like an arrow of love stuck in my heart. 109 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,920 You are like a perfumed rose approaching me. 110 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,920 You are like my life, that I can never separate from you”. 111 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,880 "November 30, 2016 112 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,360 And I get excited, and I'm dying to meet him and fuck, 113 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,680 because the last time we saw each other 114 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,880 he turned me on a lot and I still remember that day and I get horny". 115 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,400 "December 23, 2016. 116 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,360 I smell rotten again. 117 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,560 I have a wound on the inside of my right lip. 118 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,200 Last night it bled suddenly and I freaked out. 119 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,240 It is the mark that Rubén left me, 120 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,200 on the third date, 121 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:09,320 at his house. 122 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,160 I like him even though he didn't cum, 123 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:12,640 despite being hurt. 124 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,080 But when I saw it last night I felt mutilated by him. 125 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,000 When I suddenly stop thinking about something 126 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,840 I remember my wound on my inner lip and I get chills, 127 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:26,120 as if I had a deformation typical of a Cronenberg movie”. 128 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,160 “December 29, 2004. 129 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,840 "Hello, diary. 130 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,040 On the afternoon of the 27th I went to the movies with Dad 131 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,920 to see 'Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events'. 132 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,120 Now I have the whim that I like Liam Aiken. 133 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,640 I like Liam Aiken but later 134 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,760 I will cross out this sentence because I will not like him". 135 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,640 “January 23, 2005 136 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,560 I've had a crush on Liam Aiken for almost a month. 137 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:56,920 He is very very handsome, 138 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,240 I sent him a letter. 139 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,120 I'm sure he won't answer me because 140 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,520 he has many more letters coming to him". 141 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,160 This letter is from a year later. 142 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,320 When I saw 'The Chronicles of Narnia' I fell in love with another actor, 143 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,560 Skandar Keyes, 144 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,360 and then I did receive an answer. 145 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,880 With much love for the person I love most in my life, ISICIO. Signed, Hortensia 146 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,280 My mother sent these photos to my father while he was in the military. 147 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:40,960 I see myself reflected in it when 148 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,320 I find photos that I took of myself, 149 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,880 although in this case, the recipient was myself. 150 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:48,080 I also feel reflected in her when 151 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,080 I find love letters that I used to receive. 152 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,200 These belong to my second romantic relationship, 153 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,920 a painful relationship of dependency and manipulation. 154 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,080 It is strange but revealing to see 155 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,320 that sudden surrender to someone in just a few months, 156 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,240 clearly reflected in the headers and goodbyes of his letters. 157 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,080 After my father's infidelity, 158 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,280 mom took on the role of a suffering mother. 159 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:44,960 She was closing in on herself and I, 160 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,440 in full preadolescence, 161 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,600 I felt very distanced from her. 162 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,920 She ended up carrying the weight of someone else's sin 163 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,640 and sacrificed her happiness as if it were a religious prophecy. 164 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,920 Somehow I learned this behavior and reflected it in my relationships. 165 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,680 "June 4, 2017. 166 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,760 Is every thing I'm wrong about putting the relationship at risk? 167 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,560 Starting a while ago I collapse at every mistake. 168 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:22,600 He calls me dramatic, 169 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:23,800 but he is too. 170 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,120 Not only the error in the bus schedule, 171 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,880 now I have done wrong in not telling him 172 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,320 that he has to come back next week to sign his payroll. 173 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,040 Is that why I'm responsible for everything? 174 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,720 Am I to blame for everything? 175 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,200 He exaggerates too much, 176 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:36,840 I feel like he makes me guilty of everything. 177 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:37,840 That's not fair. 178 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,800 That's how a fucking job he got thanks to me works. 179 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,480 I don't feel like doing anything, 180 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,400 it's hard for me to hope for anything. 181 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,440 Even he does not tell me, 182 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,960 I feel like he thinks I'm worthless". 183 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:55,000 Yes, 184 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,520 this boy is the same as the one of the letters. 185 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,320 Everything bad was my responsibility 186 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,440 and everything good was his merit. 187 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,200 He made me doubt about myself, 188 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,120 among many other things. 189 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,120 It took me a while to realize that he abused me psychologically. 190 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,880 To top it off, he wrote invasive notes in my books. 191 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,960 Around the time I started my next relationship, 192 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,960 I realized that there were very similar patterns between couples. 193 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,600 "Thursday, April 2, 2020 194 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,840 I think that it was very clear for my part, 195 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:43,000 from the beginning 196 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,440 how unfunny it was for me that he constantly criticized 197 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,080 every movie or series I put on TV, 198 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,040 without even knowing what it was about. 199 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,560 It tires me that he underestimates my tastes in this way, 200 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,320 it tires me that he underestimates the things that characterize me, 201 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,400 it tires me that he underestimates my fragility, 202 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,080 whose contempt makes my fragility increase. 203 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,280 I feel less myself 204 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,360 and more another person who is gradually 205 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,520 submitting to the tastes and comforts of another person". 206 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,480 I'm in Benidorm, 207 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,240 it is March 2022, 208 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,720 my mother has recently been admitted to the hospital, 209 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,480 they say it is schizophrenia, 210 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,840 it makes sense, 211 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,240 my brother has suffered from it since he was 16. 212 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,920 Today Isi and I have gone down to the promenade 213 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,800 and we have taken this photo for her. 214 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,880 I'd like to print it out and take it to the hospital. 215 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,360 “June 2, 2005 216 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:56,560 I have a secret, 217 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,600 but I'm afraid to write it here and then my brother will read it, 218 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:00,560 so I'm not going to write it, 219 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:01,840 although I'll try. 220 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaking of boys, 221 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,280 since now, I have fallen in love with many boys. 222 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,640 Less than twenty, but more than ten. 223 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,760 You know that I am 11 to 12 years old". 224 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,400 “June 4, 2005. 225 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,880 I am writing now while my brother sleeps 226 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,040 so he doesn't know what I am writing. 227 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,200 The secret is that… 228 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,480 I like Luis Alberto and I don't want to admit it”. 229 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,320 “Monday, September 17, 2018. 230 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,280 I read this diary laughing, 231 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,640 feeling ashamed, 232 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,000 it's as if it were a teenage diary and, in the end, 233 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,840 actually end up writing about sentimental conflicts. 234 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:39,880 Men. 235 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,120 Buuuuuuuuu” 236 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:49,920 I AM WHAT MATTER, NONE OF THESE STUPID MEN QUOTED HERE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MYSELF 237 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,880 But one is bigger than the other, right? 238 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:58,920 This is bigger. 239 00:14:58,920 --> 00:14:59,920 Yes, the same. 240 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,280 I have a larger one on this foot. 241 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:03,960 Look. 242 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:09,040 Just like grandpa. 243 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,800 the grandfather had. 244 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:12,640 Grandma didn't. 245 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,720 Yes, this is the one I have the largest. 246 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:17,720 The same as you. 247 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,000 Grandpa had too. 248 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,240 Did he also have? 249 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:21,240 On this foot? 250 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:22,840 In both. 251 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,480 My mother inherited her father's bunions 252 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,400 and her mother's shy nipples. 253 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,960 I have inherited both things from her. 254 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,200 Do you go for a walk? 255 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,200 It's today. Not yesterday. 256 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,640 Today it's time and tomorrow at home. 257 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:41,920 Every other day. 258 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:42,920 To the sea. 259 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,000 But the pill must be taken every night, 260 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,040 not every other day. 261 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,360 Do you know, mom? 262 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:50,560 Well... 263 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,040 April 2022. 264 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,440 My mother left the hospital after two weeks, 265 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,160 I didn't have time to give her our photo, 266 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,560 but I was able to give it to my brother. 267 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,520 He had a relapse, 268 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,320 but soon returned home. 269 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,280 My mother's return home came with a lot of pressure and a lot of stress, 270 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,800 since we were afraid that she was not fully aware 271 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,160 that she had to take medication for life. 272 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,560 I guess, as you get older, 273 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,800 it's even harder to stop making the same mistakes. 274 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:22,200 Meanwhile, 275 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,640 Little by little I am learning not to repeat them. 276 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,000 Juny 2022. 277 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,280 My brother tells me that mom has been taking her medication for several nights. 278 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,680 It is a very great joy, 279 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,600 so much so that it makes me feel some hope. 280 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,240 We have gone down to the beach, 281 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,000 I have tried to take a photo of them, 282 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,560 this has come out. 283 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,000 By the way, 284 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,160 in the end I took literally my mother's phrase, 285 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,520 “not boyfriends, friends”, 286 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,840 and I fell in love with my best friend. 287 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:01,520 This is Raquel's secret diary. 288 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,840 It's over now, so... 289 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,600 You don't have anything else to read! 290 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,200 This is Raquel's notso secret diary