El mil usos (1983)

Roberto Cañedo: District Attorney at the Prison

Quotes 

• Districk Attorney at Prison : What do you go by?

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : What?

  Districk Attorney at Prison : [irritated]  My goodness, what is your name?

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : Transito!

  Districk Attorney at Prison : Transito what?

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : That's to many questions. Don't you think.

  Districk Attorney at Prison : Please be respectful and answer accordingly.

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : Just leave it at Transito. And also put that they call me 'Milusos'.

  Districk Attorney at Prison : I will put that down as an alias. How long have you been incarcerated?

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : Oh boy, if I didn't keep track of time on the outside, no way I kept it in here. Maybe months, a year? I don't know. More than a year I think.

  Districk Attorney at Prison : Why were you arrested? What crime did you commit?

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : Crime? What crime chief? I was just minding my own business dancing in the street. That's all.

  Districk Attorney at Prison : No, no, no. Here I have your file and it says you committed a serious felony!

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : A felony? What's that?

  Districk Attorney at Prison : A serious crime that you committed.

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : What crime chief? I was just dancing that's all! Look chief, let me tell you. I just got here to the city. I had no work and no food no nothing. I'm a working man. A very hard working man. I came here and I was sad. Very sad. Very mad.

  [starts crying] 

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : I was just walking one night down the street and I saw the strangest thing. A lady was pouring wine out a window! So I just opened my mouth and started drinking it. And got very drunk and well I started dancing in the street and then the police showed up and took me so what crime did I do?

  Districk Attorney at Prison : Well you free to go now. You have served your sentence.

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : Go where?

  Districk Attorney at Prison : Back to the civilized world. You are free and can go wherever you want! Just turn in your prison suit and your out.

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : I can't do that. I don't have any other clothes. So it's best I stay here no?

  Districk Attorney at Prison : My good man, why do people like you come to the big city? and especially to the main capital of the republic? I'm not saying that you are living well in your land, but coming here is way worse! You people are farmers and in the asphalt and streets you cannot sow your crops! You are free now, but for how long? How long will it take before you are arrested and brought right back here? Think about it. Here, we are filled to capacity! Go back to your little town where you came from! Over there , you are somebody. Here, you are a nobody! The city can only mean hunger and pain and jail! You have now lived it and experienced it. You know I'm telling you the truth. Anyways, please think about it. really think about it. Go back to where you are from. To where you belong. With your people.You can keep the prison suit if you don't have any clothes.

  Tránsito Pérez 'El milusos' : I don't want to go. I don't want to leave!