Godspeed Benjamin | movie | 2021 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy. | dG1fMlZxYm1xZHAzemM

Transcript

00:30How many years did I spend waiting to have been born a different man?

00:52I look around, all I've ever known are someone else's memories.

00:59All these years seeing the world through someone else's eyes,

01:03looking at photographs, pretending I'm the photographer.

01:09I've lived my life through the eyes of men, and I'll never even know.

01:33Waiting, like in a dream.

01:54It's starting to drive me crazy.

02:02The time I've wasted protecting my fragile immune system,

02:06preserving what little of my time I still have left to waste.

02:20Every day since I was born I'm growing weaker,

02:25and every day I've scowled at my condition,

02:29cursing it as though it's been my captor.

02:37I see it now, the scowl is my captor.

02:54Dear sister, in spite of my disease, I promise to make these memories through my own eyes.

03:04To watch a city come to life at night, to embrace friends,

03:10to see the powerful play go on, to contribute my own verse.

03:17I want to feel wet sand of an empty beach between my toes.

03:23I will not live my life through the eyes of men, I'll never know.

03:28Godspeed, Benjamin.