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SECOND SKIN — Transcript

by Paul Chadeisson · 288 words · 58 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:04[music]
  2. 0:10>> It was about time, wasn't it?
  3. 0:13It's been what, 20 years I've been
  4. 0:15waiting?
  5. 0:16That we've all been waiting.
  6. 0:19My grandparents knew they'd never set
  7. 0:21foot on the second skin.
  8. 0:23My parents knew it, too.
  9. 0:25To think that I'll soon be living there
  10. 0:27with my children. [music]
  11. 0:29It's unbelievable.
  12. 0:34>> [music]
  13. 0:35>> Am I happy to finally set foot on the
  14. 0:37surface? Yes, of course. It's been so
  15. 0:40long since they [music] first promised
  16. 0:42it to us.
  17. 0:43You know, I've spent my whole life
  18. 0:45beneath the second skin.
  19. 0:47At my age, [music] I'm not sure I even
  20. 0:50want to move anymore.
  21. 0:53>> [music]
  22. 0:59[music]
  23. 1:04[music]
  24. 1:10[music]
  25. 1:10>> Skyda has lured us from our earliest age
  26. 1:12with this great and beautiful idea of
  27. 1:14paradise. Not just for a handful of
  28. 1:16privileged people, but for [music]
  29. 1:18everyone. And now,
  30. 1:20I really have the feeling that we're
  31. 1:22there.
  32. 1:23I can already imagine the incessant
  33. 1:24[music]
  34. 1:25ballet of construction machines. I will
  35. 1:28film everything I see.
  36. 1:30I will have things to show down below,
  37. 1:32that's for sure.
  38. 1:34>> [music]
  39. 1:36>> There is a reason we are called moles.
  40. 1:39The sun, we have never seen [music] it.
  41. 1:4267 years spent in the half-light that
  42. 1:45forges a character, doesn't it?
  43. 1:49It's true that we've suffered [music]
  44. 1:50quite a lot.
  45. 1:51But on a personal level, I am rather
  46. 1:53satisfied with my existence on the edge
  47. 1:55of the light well.
  48. 1:58>> [music]
  49. 2:02>> If I'm here, it's to [music] get a sense
  50. 2:04of what's going on up there.
  51. 2:06Which I've heard about from a few
  52. 2:07activists who make it to the surface.
  53. 2:10Brave among the brave.
  54. 2:12How [music] many of them paid with their
  55. 2:13lives just to keep us informed?
  56. 2:18>> [music]
  57. 2:27[music]
  58. 2:32[music]

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