THE GORILLA

JODOROWSKY, DUPEYRON, LANUZA

GORILA: Honorable Academicians! Friends,

Honorable board of directors, doctors, teachers,
students, general public, hello to all, you do me
an honor to invite me to present myself to this
Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts, to be part of
this group of intellectuals, of wise men, of
artists, of teachers, Hello, I was asked, now
that I am going to be part of this group, as
usual, I was asked for a report, I was also asked
to talk about my former life as a monkey.

Unfortunately, as far as my former life as

a monkey is concerned, I cannot please you,
because five years have already passed since I
left that life as a hominid, a short time perhaps
if you measure it by the calendar, but for me it
has been interminably long, accompanied by facts
or important people, by advice, by applause, by
orchestrated music, but in reality alone, because
all this accompaniment that had been given to me,
the only thing that caused me to forget my former
life as a monkey was that I had forgotten about
it.I have been accompanied by facts or important
people, by advice, by applause, by orchestrated
music, but in reality alone, because all this
accompaniment that had been given to me; the only
thing that caused me to forget my past and the
memories of my youth.

In order to be part of this academy, the first

thing I had to learn was to forget about climbing
trees, grooming other apes, ah, and mating
dances. Little by little I withdrew. I have felt
better in the world of men, of my monkey life I
have moved so far away, to have enough strength
and will to return, to go back... I could not. I
feel I would die in the attempt, however, I will
be able to submit the report I have been asked to
submit. Which I otherwise do with great pleasure.
huh?

The following Research Report deals with the

exile of wild nature towards the humanization of
animals in captivity. The aim of this study is to
demonstrate that animal nature has been
eradicated to the last crack, an example of this
is that I no longer remember that life....
huh?.... banana, mating dance, grooming other
hominids, let me, no, no, no, no, I am no longer
an animal, memories, nothing else there, the
results prove it: wild nature has been eradicated
by 95% with a 5% error in international
standards, ah, the memories, before I had always
been free and for the first time I was trapped,
if I had been tied, or tied up, or chained, or
whatever, I would not have diminished my desire
for freedom.I had no way out, but I had to find a
way out, without it I would not have survived, I
always lived behind bars, always stuck in... I
would have inevitably burst.

But as in the world of men, monkeys get the

cages, I stopped being a monkey, I made an effort
to walk upright, to walk with all four legs on
the ground, never again, now I had to walk like
men, I climbed like men, I broke my back like
sapiens, I no longer climbed trees, now I walked
only with my hind legs, of course, I exercised my
hands by detaching my toes like men, and I walked
straight.I no longer climbed trees, now I walked
only with my hind legs, the legs, of course, I
exercised my hands by detaching my fingers like
men, and I walked straight, straight, straight,
like sapiens, what was that? What happened to me,
intelligence, was it intelligence? I don't know
what it was, maybe it was an association of
clear, beautiful ideas that must have occurred to
me in my belly, right? If you... Where did I come
up with this? Intelligence. In the belly?
Surely. Because as some apocryphal journalists
say: "monkeys think with their bellies", so said
the reporter who always comes, follows me and
publishes what? the journalists shit on me. Why
did you invite the press? Didn't we say that they
were just the academics and that they were just
some guests? There is a journalist taking
pictures and there is another one taking....
Please! I said I'd come as long as I know, I
know.... I said I'd come as long as I know, I
know... Well, yes, but it gave me, I'm... Excuse
me, excuse me, I apologize, I apologize to you
too, forgive me, I get animalistic from time to
time, huh?... sure, yes thank you, I count on
you: one, two, three, now, I'm fine, four now,
now, now, five, now! monkeys with five we have,
ten! (Breathe in and out) Now!

I am afraid that I have not explained myself

correctly, what I mean by exit, exit, exit, I use
the word in its fullest and most common sense, I
intentionally did not say freedom, I am not
talking about that great sensation of freedom in
all areas, when I have lived and I have seen men
who long for it, who spend their lives trying to
be free, and nothing else for freedom.I did not
intentionally say freedom, I am not talking about
that great feeling of freedom in all areas, when
I have possibly lived it and I have seen men who
yearn for it, they spend their lives trying to be
free, and nothing else for the sake of freedom. I
say this in passing: one is deceived too much
among men, for if freedom is one of the most
sublime feelings, so too sublime are the
corresponding deceptions.

I have traveled among the Sapiens, as you

know, from country to country, in the circus, in
scientific experiments, on vacation. I have seen
multitudes of men hungry and sick and compelled
to work from dawn to dusk. All day long, working
under the sun, chopping stones or behind a desk,
I've seen them being chased at the slightest
protest.... Stand up, stop there or I'll shoot,
I've seen them run, run away, run here come the
narcos, run here come the soldiers, run here come
the taxmen, grab stones and run, here come the
ignorant, the idiocy sticks, I've seen them
beaten, riddled with bullets, headless,
brainless, dehumanized: i told you to stop son of
your... shut up, ca... shut up son of your
pinch... shut up, you shut up or i'll give you..
I have seen them drain their human blood.

And all this pile of rags forms the

base of a pyramid of power, where layer by layer
men are crushed one upon another, below the poor,
the ignorant, above these, the employees, above
the bureaucrats, the rich crush them and above
the rich the powerful, and above these, others.
And so they are crushed one on top of the other,
until they reach the top of the pyramid, where
only one man dominates mankind, yes tell me, you,
you, please tell me, do you believe that the man
who is at the top of the pyramid, do you believe
that he is free? You, tell me, do you believe
that the one at the top, the one in charge, is
free? Don't do it that way, that's the custom of
monkeys.

Tell me, you, please tell me, please tell me

if you believe that the man who dominates, what
he earns, what he saves, do you believe that he
is free? What does it say? Please! I didn't want
freedom, I didn't want money or power, I just
wanted a way out, to get out of the box in which
men had put me and I learned, I learned about
life, about pain, I advanced and I found myself
in another cage, a human jungle.I learned about
life, about pain, I advanced and I found myself
in another cage, a human jungle, but soon I
learned to open the door, the lock and I
advanced, I found myself in another cage and
another one, but now they were in groups, nuclei,
nuclei, and I learned to open the door, the lock,
and I advanced. with another cage and another and
another but now they were in groups, nuclei,
spheres, colors, money, power but they are still
cages, more cages without bars and the more one
advances, the cage becomes more difficult to
cross, and I learned to cross cages, one and
another and another and another and I advanced
and they are still cages that one advances in the
life of man.

I was an important man, powerful, I could

shout, boss around, spit on whoever I wanted, I
was treated as a special person, my leperadas now
became funny, but I am always surrounded by
people, now, now, now, now, at this moment I have
my office, I always have people waiting for me to
attend to them and I receive them all: come in,
come in, I'm just finishing reviewing those
documents and we are going to have breakfast, my
treat, don't leave, I'm just finishing, I have to
finish, I have to finish reviewing, Quickly go
and collect this, and you know, if you don't sue.
Wait for me, wait for me, quickly go collect
this, you know then I'll tell you who you vote
for. Wait for me, I want you to meet my new
secretary, she's hot. I am speaking to you, allow
me, Miss Patrisha. Can you please come? I'm going
to dictate, here she comes, tell me how you see
her, Come in Miss Patrisha, come in please sit
down, No not there, sit down here, bring me the
peanuts. Don't get angry, sir... don't get angry,
you got angry. We talk to another one, there are
many.

This is how I live academics and artists, in

the most atrocious consumerist Neoliberalism
spitting, smoking, drinking, humiliating, hiring,
firing whoever I want, now as an important man I
can, I can....

Lately I have been thinking, was it really

worth it to have slipped through the men to reach
this point of power, was it really worth it to
have left my jungle, was it really worth it, I do
not know, I do not know, I do not know, I do not
know, I do not know, I do not know. How many
years it's been since I've traveled from one tree
to another, how many years it's been since I've
fought for revenge against these two..... To
every human being that is put in front of me,
what have I achieved? Escape? But if I am more
than ever in a labyrinth with no way out, because
before I did not have problems, the fact is that
today I have them moment by moment stuck in my
brain, problems, and more problems, problems,
problems, problems, problems.... and all of them
without solution, I have decided as most of the
men decide after fighting, after fighting half of
their life I have decided the same, the same as
you men do, I retire, I retire, I go to my house
of social interest, a little egg, that's all,
that's all, that's all, that's all?

A story that is lived by any human being is

the same as mine, but I am not lamenting, I am
not satisfied either, with my hands in my trouser
pockets, with the bottle of cognac on the table,
now I drink, smoke, eat, and leave, I go to my
residence late at night reeking of alcohol,
reeking of tobacco, reeking of man.

I have a semi trained monkey, I rescued her

from a sick circus, I arrive at night and I get
ready to enter the cage of that monkey, I get
ready, I have to undress and enter, she gets
scared and screams and I have to leave, she
doesn't let me come closer, she feels my man
smell, and I have to leave again, from day to day
I can't see her, because she has in her eyes that
madness of the animal disturbed by training, that
only I notice, I can't stand it, I can't stand
it, I see her eyes and... I can't stand it, I
can't stand it, I can't stand it.I can't see her,
because her eyes have that madness of an animal
disturbed by training, only I notice that, I
can't stand it, I can't stand it, I can't stand
it, I see her eyes and... I can't stand it, I
can't stand it, I can't...

In conclusion, gentlemen of the Academy of

Sciences and Arts, I have reached where very few
men reach, but I, being already a man, ask: Why
did you take me out of my jungle? Who told you
that belonging to your group means you have
succeeded? Who has told you that money makes men
free, who has told you that for a prize, for a
piece of paper, for a title, I have the right to
shout, and to push around? Who told you, ladies
and gentlemen, that an award, an award... is
success? Can I see the piece that will be
unveiled? Can I see it, why not? I want to see
the piece they are going to give me, I want to
see if I look like me, I want to see if, if...
see me, I am already a real man, I am already a
man, all men are born free and end up being
copies of slaves, copies of others, copies of
others, copies, copies, copies, copies.

Instead of feeling proud, you should rather

despise them, because only one thing I have
learned, gentlemen, life like this, it has no
sense, it has no sense, eating was nothing more
than eating, drinking water was nothing more than
drinking water, nothing more than drinking water,
and sleeping was only gathering some leaves and
sleeping, I was nobody, I did not believe myself
to beI was nothing, without title or prize, I was
nothing, more than one more piece of sky, one
more piece of earth, while today I have become an
island, beating myself against the other islands,
anguished all the time, I live anguished in this
atrocious loneliness, only two words drill second
by second my head, my heart and that which they
call soul.

I would like to go back, I would like to go

back, I would like to go back, I would like to go
back, I would like to go back, to go back to my
jungle, to forget their faces as simian as mine,
to forget their days filled with hollow words, to
forget their bodies fattened by leisure and to
forget, forget, forget that savage monster they
call civilization, what is so civilized about
them? By slipping away among you, I did not get
out of the cage, but on the contrary, I became
more and more enclosed on my own, although
unfortunately I have lost myself forever among
men.

Banana, I would like to come back! Acicalar

others I would like to! mating dances go back!

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