“Everyone was very angry and upset and hurt and every other emotion… But it’s a lot of water under the bridge. Those things aren’t interesting to us any more”
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“Peter was more of a poet, so he helped to teach me to use the language in a more colourful way… Down the line we kind of grew together.”
“It wasn’t so much about being in a band, it was about being in a gang… Living and breathing the romance that I’ve always had, and the dream that was in my head, and the shared dream that we cultivated together.”
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His story with Carl was not finished of course.
Pete: Ah, it is not…but it will never end. Everyone has someone in their life whom they love, but in some way or another, the relationship was abandoned by one of them, or by both of them. You become strangers and you realize that the person you love most in the world, you do not know them anymore.
Carl: We never separated…we separated, then we flirted a bit, and in 2010 we got back together, but we did not realize it. We were very uncertain about each other’s feelings. We only communicated through the press, granting interviews knowing that the other person would read them. I knew that I had to go see Peter, the friend that I love and that I missed, to know if this friend, and this friendship, still existed. It was terrifying, but I have been able to see things as they were, in all their beauty. My dear old friend, and my brother, with whom I grew up with in such an intense way.
Pete: I feel even closer to him than I did before…there is no one else who I connect with at this level. (With) Carl, I know that there are things that no one else can give. It’s strange, but he really knows me. I forgot that there was someone else on this planet who could understand me in this way, it is mysterious, but it is comforting and beautiful, and I’d never really realized it before.
Peter gives us a book to give Carl, writing a dedication on the page. It is “The Last Englishman”, the autobiography of AD Wintle.
Carl: On my part, there is nothing to forgive I think. I love him so much, he is like a brother, these are unconditional feelings.
Carl takes his mug into the adjacent album store, where with a stroke of luck, he immediately lands on an ideal gift to give back to Peter. It is the soundtrack to “Is Paris Burning?”, which Carl duly dedicates. “Perfect!” he says.
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CITY OF GOD (2002)
Directed by Fernando Meirelles
Cinematography by César Charlone