Factotum es una película basada en el libro de mismo nombre del gran Charles Bukowski, inspirada a su vez (como toda su obra) en su vida. Melancólica, con un personaje hastiado, taciturno, que vive y, en ocasiones, parece que disfrute en ambientes sórdidos. Quizá un poco difícil en su primer visionado, pero gana con cada uno de ellos.

A destacar la banda sonora, con algunos poemas de Bukowski interpretados por la noruega Kristin Asbjørnsen, del grupo Dadafon. Toda ella se compenetra perfectamente con ese halo triste del film, pero esta canción se me quedó marcada a fuego.

Cuántos días me habrán venido a la cabeza estas líneas…

El poema de Bukowski, Wind the clock.

It’s just a slow day moving into a slow night.
it doesn’t matter what you do
everything just stays the same.
the cats sleep it off, the dogs don’t bark,
it’s just a slow day moving into a slow night.
there’s nothing even dying,
it’s just more waiting through a slow day moving
into a slow night.
you don’t even hear the water running,
the walls just stand there
and the doors don’t open.
it’s just a slow day moving into a slow night.
the rain has stopped,
you can’t hear a siren anywhere,
your wristwatch has a dead battery,
the cigarette lighter is out of fluid,
it’s just a slow day moving into a slow night,
it’s just more waiting through a slow day moving
into a slow night
like tomorrow’s never going to come
and when it does
it’ll be the same damn thing.

Interpretado en Slow Day, por Kristin Asbjørnsen.

Y otro impresionante poema del señor Charles Bukowski: Roll of the dice.

if your going to try, go all the way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like that
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, it’s
the only good fight
there is.

Recitado por Matt Dillon en la película.

Interpretado en If You’re Going To Try, por Kristin Asbjørnsen.