Rick Smolan: A girl, a photograph, a homecoming

Prevoditelj: Irma Komljenović Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

Neki od vas već su čuli ovu priču,

no postoji netko u publici

tko nije čuo priču -- pred publikom --

Some of you have heard the story before,

pa sam malo nervozniji nego inače kada pričam ovu priču.

but, in fact, there's somebody in the audience

who's never heard this story in front of an audience before,

Godinama sam bio fotograf.

so I'm a little more nervous than I normally am telling this story.

Godine 1978. radio sam za časopis Time

I used to be a photographer for many years.

i dobio sam trodnevni zadatak

In 1978, I was working for "TIME Magazine"

da fotografiram amerazijsku djecu,

and I was given a three-day assignment to photograph Amerasian children,

djecu koju su začeli američki vojnici

diljem jugoistočne Azije i napustili --

children who had been fathered by American GIs all over Southeast Asia,

40.000 djece diljem Azije.

Nikad prije nisam čuo riječ "amerazijski".

and then abandoned -- 40,000 children all over Asia.

Nekoliko sam dana fotografirao djecu u različitim zemljama

I had never heard the word Amerasian before.

i kao mnogi fotografi i novinari

I spent a few days photographing children in different countries,

nadam se da će objaviti moje fotografije,

and like a lot of photographers and a lot of journalists,

da će one zapravo utjecati na situaciju,

a ne samo dokumentirati je.

I always hoped that when my pictures are published,

Jako me je pogodilo što sam vidio

they might actually have an effect on a situation,

instead of just documenting it.

So, I was so disturbed by what I saw

i bio sam jako nezadovoljan objavljenim člankom

pa sam uzeo šest mjeseci slobodno.

and I was so unhappy with the article that ran afterwards,

Imao sam 28 godina.

Odlučio sam pronaći šestero djece u različitim zemljama

that I decided I would take six months off.

I was 28 years old.

i provesti neko vrijeme s tom djecom

I decided I would find six children in different countries,

te pokušati ispričati njihovu priču bolje

nego što sam to učinio za časopis Time.

and actually go spend some time with the kids,

Dok sam radio na priči,

and try to tell their story a little bit better

than I thought I had done for Time magazine.

tražio sam djecu koja ranije nisu bila fotografirana

In the course of doing the story,

I was looking for children who hadn't been photographed before,

i u zakladi Pearl Buck Foundation rekli su mi

da su surađivali s puno Amerikanaca

and the Pearl Buck Foundation told me that they worked with a lot of Americans

koji su donirali novac za tu djecu.

Čovjek koji je vodio zakladu u Koreji ispričao mi je

who were donating money to help some of these kids.

o jedanaestogodišnjoj djevojčici koju je odgajala baka.

And a man told me,

who ran the Pearl Buck Foundation in Korea,

Baka nikad nije dopustila zapadnjacima da je vide.

that there was a young girl, who was 11 years old,

Kadgod bi zapadnjaci došli u selo, skrila bi djevojčicu.

being raised by her grandmother.

And the grandmother had never let any Westerners see her.

Naravno, to me odmah zaintrigiralo.

Every time any Westerners came to the village, she hid the girl.

Vidio sam njezine fotografije i htio sam otići onamo.

Of course, I was immediately intrigued.

Tip mi je samo rekao: "Nema šanse. Ova baka nikad neće --

I saw photographs of her and I thought I wanted to go.

dopustiti da upoznaš djevojčicu.

And the guy just told me,

Poveo sam prevoditelja i otišao u to selo,

"This grandmother -- there's no way she's ever going to let you

pronašao baku, porazgovarao s njom.

meet this girl that's she's raising."

Na moje iznenađenje, dopustila mi je

I took a translator with me and went to this village,

da fotografiram njezinu unuku.

found the grandmother, sat down with her.

Sam sam to financirao pa sam zamolio prevoditelja

And to my astonishment, she agreed to let me photograph her granddaughter.

da provjeri mogu li ostati jedan tjedan.

And I was paying for this myself, so I asked the translator

Imao sam vreću za spavanje.

Obitelj je uz kuću imala malu daščaru

if it would be OK if I stayed for the week.

I had a sleeping bag.

pa sam pitao "Mogu li spavati noću u svojoj vreći za spavanje?"

The family had a small shed on the side of the house,

Djevojčici koja se zvala Hyun-Sook Lee rekao sam

so I said, "Could I sleep in my sleeping bag in the evenings?"

And I just told the little girl, whose name was Eun-Sook Lee,

ako joj ikada bude neugodno zbog mene --

unatoč izgledu nije znala engleski --

neka samo podigne ruku i kaže: "Stop"

that if I ever did anything to embarrass her --

i ja neću više fotografirati.

she didn't speak a word of English, although she looked very American --

Prevoditelj je otišao.

Nisam znao ni riječi korejskog,

she could put up her hand and say, "Stop," and I would stop taking pictures.

te sam noći upoznao Hyun-Sook.

Njezina je majka još bila živa.

Then my translator left. I couldn't speak a word of Korean.

Odgajala ju je baka, ne majka.

This is the first night I met Eun-Sook.

Odmah sam primijetio

Her mother was still alive.

She was not raising her, her grandmother was raising her.

koliko jedna drugu vole.

And what struck me immediately

Baka je bila jako nježna, istinski zaljubljena u djevojčicu.

was how in love the two of these people were.

Noću su spavale na podu.

The grandmother was incredibly fond, deeply in love with this little girl.

U Koreji griju kuće postavljanjem cigli ispod poda,

pa toplina isijava odozdo.

They slept on the floor at night.

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors,

Hyun-Sook imala je 11 godina.

Fotografirao sam puno takve djece, rekoh.

so the heat radiates from underneath the floor.

Hyun-Sook zapravo je bila peto dijete koje sam fotografirao.

Eun-Sook was 11 years old.

I had photographed, as I said, a lot of these kids.

I gotovo sva su djeca

Eun-Sook was the fifth child that I found to photograph.

imala psihičkih problema

And almost universally, amongst all the kids,

jer su ih ismijavali, rugali im se i odbacili ih.

they were really psychologically damaged

Mislim da je Koreja od svih zemalja

by having been made fun of, ridiculed, picked on and been rejected.

bila najgore mjesto za tu djecu.

Kod Hyun-Sook odmah sam primijetio

And Korea was probably the place I found to be the worst for these kids.

kako je samouvjereno izgledala,

And what struck me immediately in meeting Eun-Sook

kako se sretnom doimala u svojoj koži.

Zapamtite tu sliku

was how confident she appeared to be,

jer ću vam kasnije pokazati drugu sliku,

how happy she seemed to be in her own skin.

no možete vidjeti koliko je nalik baki

And remember this picture,

iako ima takav zapadnjački izgled.

because I'm going to show you another picture later.

Pratio sam je u školu.

Ovo je snimljeno prvog jutra kod njih.

She looks much like her grandmother, although she looks so Western.

Ovdje smo na putu u školu.

I decided to follow her to school.

Ovo je jutarnje okupljanje pred školom.

This is the first morning I stayed with her.

This is on the way to school.

This is the morning assembly outside her school.

Primijetio sam da se ludirala.

Kada su učitelji postavljali pitanja,

And I noticed that she was clowning around.

prva bi podigla ruku.

Nije bila sramežljiva ili povučena

When the teachers would ask questions,

niti nalik drugoj djeci koju sam fotografirao.

she'd be the first person to raise her hand.

Again, not at all shy or withdrawn,

Prva je išla pred ploču.

or anything like the other children that I'd photographed.

Došaptavala se s najboljom prijateljicom

za vrijeme nastave.

The first one to go to the blackboard to answer questions.

Još sam joj preko prevoditelja rekao i --

Getting in trouble for whispering into her best friend's ears.

opet o govorenju stop -- da ne obraća pažnju na mene.

And one of the other things I said to her through the translator --

again, this thing about saying stop -- was to not pay attention to me.

I zapravo me uglavnom ignorirala.

Tijekom odmora, primijetio sam,

So she really just completely ignored me most of the time.

ona je birala koje će cure biti u njenom timu.

I noticed that at recess,

Bilo je očito, od samog početka, da je vođa.

she was the girl who picked the other girls to be on her team.

Ovo je na putu kući.

Ono gore na brdu je Sjeverna Koreja.

It was very obvious, from the beginning, that she was a leader.

Ovo je duž demilitarizirane zone.

Navečer su pokrivali prozore kako se ne bi vidjelo svjetlo

This is on the way home. And that's North Korea up along the hill.

jer je vlada Južne Koreje godinama prijetila

This is up along the DMZ.

They would actually cover the windows every night,

da će Sjevernokorejci kadtad napasti

so that light couldn't be seen,

Što si bliže Sj. Koreji, to je veći strah.

because the South Korean government has said for years

that the North Koreans may invade at any time.

Često sam fotografirao u školi,

So the closer you were to North Korea, the more terrifying it was.

a ona bi šaptala prijateljici u uho,

Very often at school, I'd be taking pictures,

pogledala me i rekla, "Stop."

and she would whisper into her girlfriends' ears,

I stao bih, a one su umirale od smijeha.

Bila je to mala šala.

and then look at me and say, "Stop."

And I would stand at attention, and all the girls would crack up,

(Smijeh)

Na kraju tjedna, vratila se prevoditeljica

jer sam je zamolio

and it was sort of a little joke.

(Laughter)

kako bih mogao zahvaliti baki i Hyun-Sook.

The end of the week came and my translator came back,

because I'd asked her to come back,

I dok je baka razgovarala s prevoditeljicom,

so I could formally thank the grandmother and Eun-Sook.

počela je plakati.

Pitao sam prevoditeljicu: "Zašto plače?"

And in the course of the grandmother talking to the translator,

Kratko je govorila s bakom

the grandmother started crying.

te su i njoj navrle suze na oči.

And I said to my translator, "What's going on, why is she crying?"

Pitao sam: "Što sam učinio? Što se događa?

And she spoke to the grandmother for a moment,

Zašto svi plaču?"

and then she started getting tears in her eyes.

Prevoditeljica je rekla:

And I said, "What did I do? Why is everyone crying?"

"Baka misli da umire i pita

biste li poveli Hyun-Sook u Ameriku."

And the translator said,

"The grandmother says that she thinks she's dying,

Rekao sam: "Imam 28 godina, živim u hotelima

and she wants to know if you would take Eun-Sook to America with you."

And I said, "I'm 28 years old and I live in hotels,

i nisam oženjen."

Zaljubio sam se u tu djevojčicu,

no emocionalno, imao sam 12 godina.

and I'm not married."

I mean, I had fallen in love with this girl,

Vic kaže da su fotografi

but you know, emotionally I was about 12 years old.

najistančajniji oblik kasne adolescencije ikad izmišljen.

If you know of photographers,

"Moram na zadatak, vratit ću se."

the joke is it's the finest form of delayed adolescence ever invented.

I nikad se ne vratiš.

Pitao sam prevoditeljicu zašto ona misli da umire.

"Sorry, I have to go on an assignment, I'll be back" --

and then you never come back.

So I asked the translator why she thought she was dying.

Da je odvedem u bolnicu? Platim liječnika?

Odbila je bilo kakvu pomoć

Kada smo izašli,

Can I get her to a hospital? Could I pay to get her a doctor?

dao sam prevoditeljici nešto novca i rekao:

And she refused any help at all.

"Molim te provjeri možeš li što učiniti."

So when I got outside, I gave the translator some money and said,

Baki sam dao svoju posjetnicu.

Rekao sam: "Ako je zaista tako, pokušat ću joj pronaći obitelj."

"Go back and see if you can do something."

And I gave the grandmother my business card.

Odmah sam pisao svojim prijateljima

And I said, "If you're serious, I will try to find a family for her."

u Atlanti, Georgiji, koji imaju 11-godišnjeg sina.

Moj je najbolji prijatelj jednom rekao

And I immediately wrote a letter to my best friends in Atlanta, Georgia,

da bi želio još jedno dijete.

who had an 11-year-old son.

And my best friend had mistakenly one day said something

I tako sam prijatelje Gene i Gail, kojima se nisam javio oko godinu,

about wishing he had another child.

iznenada nazvao i rekao: "Ja sam u Koreji,

So my friends Gene and Gayle had not heard from me in about a year,

upoznao sam posebnu djevojčicu."

I rekao sam: "Baka misli da je bolesna,

and suddenly I was calling,

saying "I'm in Korea and I've met this extraordinary girl."

no ja mislim da ćemo morati povesti i baku."

And I said, "The grandmother thinks she's sick,

I rekao sam: "Platit ću..." Imao sam određenu predodžbu.

but I think maybe we would have to bring the grandmother over also."

I tako, otišao sam.

And I said, "I'll pay for the ... " I mean, I had this whole sort of picture.

I moji su prijatelji bili jako zainteresirani za posvajanje.

So anyway, I left.

And my friends actually said they were very interested in adopting her.

I rekao sam: "Prestrašit ću baku nasmrt

napišem li da želite posvojiti djevojčicu,

vratit ću se i razgovarati s njom."

And I said, "Look, I think I'll scare the grandmother to death,

No bio sam na zadatku.

if I tell her that you're willing to adopt her.

Htio sam se vratiti za nekoliko tjedana i razgovarati s bakom.

I want to go back and talk to her." But I was off on assignment.

Na Božić

sam bio u Bangkoku s drugim fotografima

I figured I'd come back in a couple of weeks

i dobio telegram, tada su se dobivali telegrami,

and talk to the grandmother.

And on Christmas Day, I was in Bangkok with a group of photographers

od časopisa Time, da je netko u Koreji preminuo

and got a telegram -- back in those days, you got telegrams --

i oporukom mi ostavio dijete.

from Time magazine saying someone in Korea had died

Znam li išta o tome?

Nisam im rekao što radim,

and left their child in a will to me.

jer sam bio uzrujan zbog objavljene priče.

Did I know anything about this?

Otišao sam u Koreju, u Hyun-Sookino selo,

Because I hadn't told them what I was doing,

because I was so upset with the story they'd run.

no nje nije bilo.

So, I went back to Korea, and I went back to Eun-Sook's village,

Kuća u kojoj sam boravio bila je prazna.

Bilo je strahovito hladno.

and she was gone.

Nisu mi htjeli reći gdje je Hyun-Sook,

And the house that I had spent time in was empty.

jer ju je baka uvijek skrivala od zapadnjaka.

It was incredibly cold.

No one in the village would tell me where Eun-Sook was,

Nisu znali što je tražila od mene.

because the grandmother had always hidden her from Westerners.

Konačno sam pronašao Myung Sung,

And they had no idea about this request that she'd made of me.

njenu najbolju prijateljicu, s kojom se igrala nakon škole.

Myung Sung, pod pritiskom zbog mene i prevoditelja,

So I finally found Myung Sung,

her best friend that she used to play with after school every day.

dala nam je adresu u periferiji Seoula.

And Myung Sung, under some pressure from me and the translator,

Otišao sam tamo i pokucao na vrata,

gave us an address on the outside of Seoul.

i otvorio ih je čovjek.

And I went to that address and knocked on the door,

Nije bio lijep dio Seoula,

ulice su bile blatnjave.

and a man answered the door.

It was not a very nice area of Seoul, there were mud streets outside of it.

Pokucao sam na vrata a Hyun-Sook ih je otvorila,

oči su joj bile crvene i izgledala je šokirano.

And I knocked on the door and Eun-Sook answered the door,

Nije me prepoznala -- nimalo.

and her eyes were bloodshot, and she seemed to be in shock.

Taj je čovjek prišao vratima i viknuo nešto na korejskom.

She didn't recognize me -- there was no recognition whatsoever.

Rekao sam prevoditeljici: "Što je rekao?"

And this man came to the door and kind of barked something in Korean.

Ona reče: "Želi znati tko si ti."

Rekoh: "Pa, reci mu da sam fotograf."

And I said to the translator, "What did he say?"

Prekinuo me kad sam počeo objašnjavati tko sam.

And she said, "He wants to know who you are."

Ona reče: "Kaže da zna tko si, što želiš?"

And I said, "Tell him that I am a photographer."

I started explaining who I was, and he interrupted.

Rekoh: "Pa, reci mu da me pitala

And she said, "He says he knows who you are, what do you want?"

njena baka da joj pronađem obitelj."

I said, "Well, tell him that I was asked by this little girl's grandmother

I on reče: "Ujak sam joj, dobro je, možeš ići."

to find a family for her."

And he said, "I'm her uncle, she's fine, you can leave now."

Znate, zatvarali su mi vrata u lice

užasno je hladno, a ja si mislim:

So I was --

"Što bi junak u filmu napravio,

The door was being slammed in my face,

da ja pišem scenarij?"

it's incredibly cold, and I'm trying to think,

Pa rekoh: "Slušaj, jako je hladno, dugo sam putovao,

"What would the hero do in a movie, if I was writing this as a movie script?"

mogu li ući na kratko? Smrzavam se."

Nevoljko nas je pustio, i sjedili smo na podu.

So I said, "It's really cold, I've come a very long way,

Kad smo počeli pričati, viknuo je nešto,

do you mind if I come in for a minute? I'm freezing."

So the guy reluctantly let us in and we sat down on the floor.

i Hyun-Sook uđe noseći hranu.

And as we started talking, I saw him yell something,

Imao sam tu predodžbu, poput Pepeljuge,

and Eun-Sook came and brought us some food.

zamislio sam to divno,

And I had this whole mental picture of -- sort of like Cinderella.

bistro, sretno malo dijete, sada jako povučeno,

I sort of had this picture of this incredibly wonderful,

bright, happy little child,

naizgled rob ovoj obitelji.

who now appeared to be very withdrawn, being enslaved by this family.

Bio sam zaprepašten, nisam znao što da napravim.

Što sam više pričao s njim, manje se prijateljski ponašao.

And I was really appalled, and I couldn't figure out what to do.

Odlučio sam, pa rekoh: "Gle," --

And the more I tried talking to him, the less friendly he was getting.

i sve to preko prevoditelja,

jer nisam znao ni riječ korejskog --

So finally I said "Look," -- this is all through the translator,

i rekao: "Gle, drago mi je da Hyun-Sook ima obitelj.

because, you know, I don't speak a word of Korean --

Zabrinuo sam se za nju.

and I said, "Look, I'm really glad that Eun-Sook has a family to live with.

Obećao sam njenoj baki, tvojoj majci, da ću joj naći obitelj,

a sad sam sretan da ćeš brinuti o njoj."

I was very worried about her.

I made a promise to her grandmother, your mother, that I would find a family,

Rekoh: "Znaš, kupio sam avionsku kartu,

ovdje sam cijeli tjedan."

Rekao sam: "Boravim u hotelu u centru grada.

and I'm so happy that you're going to take care of her.

Želiš li navratiti i ručati sutra?

But I bought an airline ticket and I'm stuck here for a week.

Možeš vježbati svoj engleski." Rekao mi je --

I'm staying in a hotel downtown.

namjeravao sam da priča o sebi.

Would you like to come and have lunch tomorrow?

Otišao sam u hotel i našao dva starija Amerazijata.

And you can practice your English."

Because he told me -- I was trying to ask him questions about himself.

And so I went to the hotel, and I found two older Amerasians.

Curu čija je majka bila prostitutka,

A girl whose mother had been a prostitute,

i ona je prostitutka,

i dečka koji je više puta bio u zatvoru.

Rekao sam im: "Gle, ta curica

and she was a prostitute,

ima malenu šansu da se makne odavde i ode u Ameriku.

and a boy who'd been in and out of jail.

And I said to them, "Look, there's a little girl

Ne znam je li to ispravna odluka,

who has a tiny chance of getting out of here

no dođite sutra na ručak

and going to America.

I don't know if it's the right decision or not,

i recite ujaku kako je hodati ulicom,

što vam ljudi kažu, što radite.

but I would like you to come to lunch tomorrow

and tell the uncle what it's like to walk down the street,

Samo -- želim da razumije što će se dogoditi ostane li tu.

what people say to you, what you do for a living.

Možda sam u krivu, ne znam, ali želim da sutra dođete."

I want him to understand what happens if she stays here.

Oboje su došli,

And I could be wrong, I don't know, but I wish you would come tomorrow."

i izbačeni smo iz restorana.

Vikali su na njega, postalo je jako ružno.

So, these two came to lunch and we got thrown out of the restaurant.

Bio je jako ljut kad smo izašli.

They were yelling at him, it got to be really ugly.

Znao sam da sam uništio svoju priliku.

I evo me opet, tražim rješenje.

We went outside, and he was just furious.

Vikao je na mene, pa rekoh prevoditeljici:

And I knew I had totally blown this thing.

"OK, reci mu da se smiri, što govori?"

Here I was again, trying to figure out what to do.

Ona je rekla: "Pa, kaže,

And he started yelling at me, and I said to the translator,

'Tko si k vragu ti, kad ulaziš u moju kuću,

"Tell him to calm down, what is he saying?"

bogati Amerikanac s kamerom oko vrata,

And she said, "He's saying, 'Who the hell are you to walk into my house,

i optužuješ me da zarobljavam svoju nećakinju?

some rich American with your cameras around your neck,

Moja je nećakinja, volim ju, kćer je moje sestre.

accusing me of enslaving my niece?

Tko si, dovraga, ti

This is my niece, I love her, she's my sister's daughter.

optužujući me ovako'"

Who the hell are you to accuse me of something like this?'"

Rekoh, znate: "Gledaj, u pravu si.

Ne pravim se da znam što se tu događa.

And I said, you know, "Look, you're absolutely right.

Ono što znam, fotografirao sam tu djecu."

Rekoh: "Zaljubio sam se u vašu nećakinju,

I don't pretend to understand what's going on here.

All I know is, I've been photographing a lot of these children.

ona je iznimno posebno dijete.

I'm in love with your niece,

Moji će prijatelji doletjeti ovdje iz SAD-a

I think she's an incredibly special child."

ako ih želiš upoznati, vidi odobravaš li ih.

And I said, "Look, I will fly my friends over here from the United States

Mislim -- ovo malo što znam o situaciji,

if you want to meet them, to see if you approve of them.

da ovdje ima malenu šansu imati život

I just think that -- what little I know about the situation,

kakav bi joj želio."

she has very little chance here of having the kind of life

Svi su mi kasnije rekli da je pozivanje mogućih roditelja bila

that you probably would like her to have."

najgluplja stvar koju sam mogao napraviti,

So, everyone told me afterwards that inviting the prospective parents over

jer nitko nije dovoljno dobar za tvog rođaka.

was, again, the stupidest thing I could have possibly done,

Pozvao me na ceremoniju

because who's ever good enough for your relative?

koji su taj dan imali za njenu baku.

But he invited me to come to a ceremony they were having that day

Uzmu stvari i fotografije,

i spale ih kao dio rituala.

for her grandmother.

And they actually take items of clothing and photographs,

Vidite kako drukčije izgleda u tri mjeseca.

and they burn them as part of the ritual.

Tada je bila veljača, rana veljača,

And you can see how different she looks just in three months.

a prijašnje slike su iz rujna.

This was now, I think, early February.

Upoznao sam svećenika am. mornarice

And the pictures before were taken in September.

dok sam pisao priču,

u čijoj je kući živjelo 75 djece.

Well, there was an American Maryknoll priest

Tri žene pomagale su o brizi te djece.

that I had met in the course of doing the story,

Predložio sam ujaku

who had 75 children living in his house.

da upoznamo oca Keenea,

He had three women helping him take care of these kids.

i saznamo o procesu posvajanja.

And so I suggested to the uncle that we go down and meet Father Keane

Htio sam da vidi

kako je sve iskreno i legalno.

to find out how the adoption process worked.

Ovo je na putu do sirotišta.

Because I wanted him to feel

like this was all being done very much above board.

Ovo je otac Keen, divan čovjek.

So, this is on the way down to the orphanage.

This is Father Keane. He's just a wonderful guy.

Tu su živjela djeca iz cijele Koreje,

a on bi im nalazio obitelji.

He had kids from all over Korea living there,

Ovo je socijalna radnica, intervjuira Hyun-Sook.

and he would find families for these kids.

Mislio sam da ju ovo ništa ne dira,

This is a social worker interviewing Eun-Sook.

jer joj je baka izgledala

kao seoska mudra žena --

Now, I had always thought she was completely untouched by all of this,

because the grandmother, to me,

primijetih da su cijeli dan ljudi dolazili posjetiti njenu baku.

appeared to be sort of the village wise woman --

Uvijek sam smatrao da su,

throughout the day, I noticed people kept coming to visit her grandmother.

iako su bili među siromašnijim obiteljima,

And I always had this mental picture

bili jedna od najviše poštovanih obitelji.

that even though they may have been one of the poorer families in the village,

Vjerovao sam da je baka zahtijevala, inzistirala,

they were one of the most respected.

da seljani Hyun-Sook poštuju kao i nju.

And I always felt that the grandmother had kind of demanded, and insisted,

that the villagers treat Eun-Sook with the same respect they treated her.

Hyun-Sook ostala je kod oca Keenea,

ujak je dopustio da ostane do posvajanja.

Eun-Sook stayed at Father Keane's,

Stvarno je pristao na posvajanje.

and her uncle agreed to let her stay there until the adoption went through.

Otišao sam na zadatak, i vratio se za tjedan dana

i otac Keene reče: "Moramo pričati o njoj."

He actually agreed to the adoption.

I rekoh: "O Bože, što sad?"

And I went off on assignment and came back a week later,

Odvede me u sobu i zatvori vrata,

and Father Keane said, "I've got to talk to you about Eun-Sook."

kaže: "Imam 75 djece u sirotištu, to je luda kuća."

I said, "Oh God, now what?"

Ima odjeće, ima djece i, znaš,

And he takes me into this room, closes the door and says,

"I have 75 children here in the orphanage, and it's total bedlam."

troje odraslih i 75 djece -- možeš zamisliti.

I reče: "Svojeg drugog dana tu, smislila je listu imena

There's clothes, there's kids.

Three adults and 75 kids -- you can imagine.

sve starije i mlađe djece.

And he said, "The second day she was here she made up a list

Svakom je starijem dodijelila mlađe dijete.

of all of the names of the older kids and the younger kids.

Napravila je detaljnu listu poslova

And she assigned one of the older kids to each of the younger kids.

i odlučila tko će kada čistiti sirotište."

Reče: "Kaže mi da sam neuredan, da moram pospremiti svoju sobu.

And then she set up a work detail list of who cleaned the orphanage on what day."

"Ne znam tko ju je odgojio,

And he said, "She's telling me that I'm messy

ali," reče, "upravlja sirotištem

a tu je tek tri dana."

and I have to clean up my room."

And he said, "I don't know who raised her, but she's running the orphanage,

(Smijeh)

Ovo je filmski dan - organizirala ona -- kada su sva djeca išla u kino.

and she's been here three days."

(Laughter)

Puno je posvojene djece

This was movie day that she organized where all the kids went to the movies.

pisalo drugoj djeci, govoreći im

o životu s novim obiteljima.

A lot of the kids who had been adopted wrote back to the other kids,

Pa je bila velika stvar kad bi pisma dolazila.

telling them what their life was like with their new families.

Ovo je žena koja sad radi u sirotištu,

čiji je sin posvojen.

So it was a really big deal when the letters showed up.

This is a woman who is now working at the orphanage,

whose son had been adopted.

Gene i Gail počeli su učiti korejski

čim su dobili moje prvo pismo.

Željeli su lijepo primiti Hyun-Sook u svoju obitelj.

Gene and Gayle started studying Korean

the moment they had gotten my first letter.

They really wanted to be able to welcome Eun-Sook into their family.

Otac Keene mi je rekao, kad sam se vratio

s jednog od tih putovanja -- Hyun-Sook je odabrala ime Natasha,

And one of the things Father Keane told me

shvatio sam i zbog čega,

when I came back from one of these trips --

gledala je crtić "Rocky i Bullwinkle" na "American Air Force" stanici.

Eun-Sook had chosen the name Natasha,

which I understood was from her watching a "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon

To je možda razbijač mita koji ćemo morati razjasniti za par minuta.

on the American Air Force station.

Moj prijatelj Gene doletio je sa svojim sinom, Timom.

This may be one of those myth-buster things

Gail nije mogla doći.

that we'll have to clear up here, in a minute.

Proveli su puno vremena proučavajući rječnik.

So, my friend Gene flew over with his son, Tim.

Ovdje Gene pokazuje ujaku gdje je Atlanta, gdje on živi.

Gayle couldn't come.

And they spent a lot of time huddled over a dictionary.

And this was Gene showing the uncle

Ovdje ujak potpisuje papire za posvajanje.

where Atlanta was on the map, where he lived.

Otišli smo na večeru te noći da proslavimo.

This is the uncle signing the adoption papers.

Ujak se vratio svojoj obitelji,

a Natasha, Tim, Gene i ja otišli smo na večeru.

Now, we went out to dinner that night to celebrate.

The uncle went back to his family

Gene je pokazivao Natashi kako koristiti nož i vilicu,

and Natasha and Tim and Gene and I went out to dinner.

a ona je uzvratila lekciju o priboru.

And Gene was showing Natasha how to use a knife and fork,

Vratili smo se u hotelsku sobu,

and then Natasha was returning the utensil lessons.

Gene je Natashi pokazivao gdje je Atlanta.

To nam je bila treća noć u Koreji.

We went back to our hotel room,

Prve smo noći djeci našli sobu odmah pokraj naše.

and Gene was showing Natasha also where Atlanta was.

This is the third night we were in Korea.

U toj sam sobi bio već tri mjeseca --

The first night we'd gotten a room for the kids right next to us.

mali korejski hotel s 15 katova.

I'd been staying in this room for about three months --

Druge noći nismo zadržali sobu za djecu

it was a little 15-story Korean hotel.

jer smo spavali na podu sirotišta s ostalom djecom.

The second night, we didn't keep the kids' room,

Treće smo se noći vratili poslije večere,

vidjeli ste slike, i stigli na recepciju.

because we slept on the floor with all the kids at the orphanage.

Recepcionar je rekao:

And the third night, we came back --

"Nema slobodne sobe na vašem katu,

we'd just gone out to dinner, where you saw the pictures --

ali djeca mogu biti u sobi pet katova ispod vas."

and we got to the front desk, and the guy said,

Gene i ja smo se pogledali i rekli:

"There's no other free rooms on your floor tonight,

"Ne želimo dvoje 11-godišnjaka pet katova niže."

you can put the kids five floors below you."

Njegov sin reče: "Imam vreću za spavanje, spavat ću na podu."

And Gene and I looked at each other and said,

"We don't want two 11-year-olds five floors away."

Rekoh: "I ja imam svoju"

Pa smo Tim i ja spavali na podu,

So his son said, "I have a sleeping bag, I'll sleep on the floor."

Natasha na jednom krevetu, Gene na drugom -- djeca spavaju,

And I said, "I have one too." So Tim and I slept on the floor,

bila su to tri zanimljiva dana.

Gene i ja ležimo u krevetu i pričamo kako smo cool.

Natasha got one bed, Gene got the other -- kids pass out,

it's been very exciting for three days.

Rekli smo: "Bilo je divno, spasili smo život toj curi."

We're lying in bed, and Gene and I are talking about how cool we are.

Bili smo, znate, puni sebe.

We said, "That was so great, we saved this little girl's life."

Zaspemo -- u ovoj sobi sam, znate,

We were just like, you know, just full of ourselves.

već nekoliko mjeseci.

Uvijek jako pregriju hotele u Koreji,

And we fall asleep --

and I've been in this room for a couple of months now.

pa je prozor tijekom dana otvoren.

And they always overheat the hotels in Korea terribly,

Noću, oko ponoći, isključe grijanje u hotelu.

so during the day I always left the window open.

U 1 ujutro u sobi je užasno hladno, pa bih ustajao.

And then about midnight, they turn the heat off in the hotel.

Radio sam to svake noći.

So at 1am, the whole room would be like 20 below zero, and I'd get up.

U 1 ujutro u sobi je zaista jako hladno,

I'd been doing this every night I'd been there.

odem zatvoriti prozor i čujem ljude vani kako viču.

So, sure enough, it's one o'clock, room's freezing,

Pomislih: "Vjerojatno su se barovi zatvorili."

I go to close the window and I hear people shouting outside,

Ne znam korejski, ali čujem te glasove,

and I thought, "Oh, the bars must have just gotten out."

ne čujem ljutnju, nego strah.

I don't speak Korean, but I'm hearing these voices,

Otvorim prozor i pogledam van,

and I'm not hearing anger, I'm hearing terror.

a plamenovi se uzdižu na našoj strani hotela.

Hotel gori.

So I open the window and I look out,

Dotrčim do Genea i probudim ga,

and there's flames coming up the side of our hotel,

kažem: "Gene, nemoj paničariti, mislim da hotel gori."

and the hotel's on fire.

So I run over to Gene and I wake him up,

Dim i plamenovi prolaze kraj naših prozora -- na jedanaestom smo katu.

and I say, "Don't freak out, I think the hotel's on fire."

"O moj Bože, o moj Bože", govorili smo.

And now there's smoke and flames coming by our windows --

Budili smo Natashu, a ne možemo pričati s njom.

we're on the 11th floor.

So the two of us were just like, "Oh my God, oh my God."

I znate kakva su djeca nakon sata sna,

So we're trying to get Natasha up, and we can't talk to her.

kao da su uzeli pet Valiuma -- zbunjeni i razbarušeni.

You know what kids are like when they've been asleep for like an hour,

I ne možemo pričati s njom.

Njegov sin, sjećam se, imao je L.L. Bean vezice,

it's like they took five Valiums -- they're all over the place.

i pokušavali smo ih vezati.

Pokušavamo doći do vrata, i dotrčimo do njih,

And we can't talk to her.

His son had the L.L.Bean bootlaces, and we're trying to do up his laces.

a kad ih otvorimo, kao da ulazimo u visoku peć.

So we try to get to the door, we run to the door, we open the door,

Ljudi vrište, zvuk slomljena stakla,

i neki čudni udarci.

and it's like walking into a blast furnace.

Cijela se soba ispuni dimom za dvije sekunde.

There's people screaming, the sound of glass breaking, weird thumps.

Gene kaže: "Nećemo uspjeti."

And the whole room filled with smoke in about two seconds.

Zatvori vrata, a cijela je soba sad ispunjena dimom.

And Gene turns around and says, "We're not going to make it."

Gušimo se, a dim prolazi kroz ventile, ispod vrata.

And he closes the door, and the whole room is now filled with smoke.

Ljudi vrište.

Sjećam se tog nevjerojatnog, apsolutnog kaosa.

We're all choking, and there's smoke

pouring through the vents, under the doors.

Sjedio sam kraj kreveta --

There's people screaming.

I just remember this unbelievable -- just utter chaos.

osjećao sam samo dvije stvari.

Prvo je bio apsolutni užas -- govorio sam: "Bože, želim se probuditi.

I remember sitting near the bed, and I had two overwhelming feelings.

Ovo mora biti košmar, ne događa se stvarno.

One was absolute terror. "Oh, please God, I just want to wake up.

Želim se probuditi, mora biti noćna mora."

Drugo je nevjerojatna krivnja.

This has got to be a nightmare, this can't be happening.

Glumio sam Boga igrajući se sa životima svojih prijatelja, s Natashinim životom,

Please, I just want to wake up."

And the other is unbelievable guilt.

Here I've been playing God with my friends' lives,

ovo dobiješ kad se igraš Boga, povrijediš ljude.

my friends' son, with Natasha's life,

Bio sam prestravljen.

and this what you get when you try playing God, is you hurt people.

Gene, koji leži na podu, kaže:

"Moramo namočiti ručnike." Rekoh: "Što?"

I remember just being so frightened and terrified.

On reče: "Moramo ih namočiti. Umrijet ćemo od dima."

And Gene, who's lying on the floor, says,

Otrčali smo u kupaonu i uzeli ručnike,

"We've got to soak towels." I said, "What?"

stavili ih preko svojih lica, lica djece.

"We've got to soak towels. We're going to die from the smoke."

On reče: "Imaš li zaštitne trake?"

So got towels and put them over our faces and the kids' faces.

Rekoh "Što?" On reče: "Imaš li zaštitne trake?"

Rekoh: "Da, u svojoj torbi."

Then he said, "Do you have gaffer's tape?"

Reče: "Moramo zaustaviti dim.

"What?" "Do you have gaffer's tape?"

Samo to i možemo, moramo zaustaviti dim."

I said, "Somewhere in my Halliburton."

Gene -- hvala Bogu na Geneu.

He says, "We've got to stop the smoke. That's all we can do."

Stavili smo jelovnike preko ventila,

I mean, Gene -- thank God for Gene.

So we put the room service menus over the vents in the wall,

deke ispod vrata,

djecu smo smjestili kraj prozora da pokušaju doći do zraka.

we put blankets at the bottom of the door,

Nasuprot našem hotelu

we put the kids on the windowsill to try to get some air.

gradila se nova zgrada.

And there was a new building, going up,

Tamo su bili fotografi

čekali da ljudi skoče.

that was being built right across the street from our hotel.

Jedanaestero ljudi umrlo je u vatri.

And there, in the building, were photographers,

Petero ljudi skočilo je i umrlo, druge je ljude ubio dim.

waiting for people to jump.

Eleven people ended up dying in the fire.

Five people jumped and died, other people were killed by the smoke.

Nakon 45 minuta, čuli smo kucanje na vratima,

And there's this loud thumping on the door after about 45 minutes in all this,

ljudi su vikali na korejskom.

Sjećam se, Natasha nije htjela da otvorimo vrata --

and people were shouting in Korean.

And I remember --

pardon, ja nisam htio da otvaramo vrata,

jer smo dugo stvarali svoje barikade.

Natasha didn't want us opening the door --

Nisam znao tko je, što žele,

sorry, I was trying not to open the door,

ali Natasha je shvatila da su vatrogasci i da nam žele pomoći.

because we'd spent so much time barricading the room.

I didn't know who it was, I didn't know what they wanted,

Sjećam se gužve oko vrata, pokušavajući ih otvoriti.

and Natasha could tell they were firemen trying to get us out.

Bilo kako bilo, 12 sati kasnije -- bili smo u predvorju.

I remember a sort of a tussle at the door, trying to get the door open.

In any case, 12 hours later -- I mean, they put us in the lobby.

Gene je omotao svoj kaput oko šake kako bi razbio staklo na ormariću za piće.

Gene ended up using his coat, and his fist in the coat,

Ljudi su ležali na podu.

Bila je to jedna od najstrašnijih noći.

to break open a liquor cabinet.

Onda, 12 sati kasnije, unajmili smo auto, kao što smo namjeravali,

People were lying on the floor.

It was one of just the most horrifying nights.

i odvezli se do Natashina sela.

And then 12 hours later, we rented a car, as we had planned to,

Stalno smo ponavljali: "Shvaćaš li da smo

umirali u požaru prije osam sati?"

and drove back to Natasha's village.

Čudno je kako život ide dalje.

And we kept saying, "Do you realize we were dying in a hotel fire,

Natasha je htjela oca i brata upoznati sa seljanima,

like eight hours ago?"

It's so weird how life just goes on.

a tog je dana bio rođendan 60-godišnjem čovjeku.

Natasha wanted to introduce her brother and father to all the villagers,

Ima 60 godina.

and the day we showed up turned out to be a 60-year-old man's birthday.

Postalo je dvostruko slavlje, jer je Natasha bila

prva osoba iz ovog sela koja ide u SAD.

This guy's 60 years old.

So it turned into a dual celebration,

Ovo su staklenički šatori.

because Natasha was the first person from this village

Starješine uče Genea svoje plesove.

ever to go to the United States.

Pili smo puno rižina vina. Bili smo tako pijani,

So, these are the greenhouse tents.

This is the elders teaching Gene their dances.

nisam mogao vjerovati.

We drank a lot of rice wine.

We were both so drunk, I couldn't believe it.

Ovo je zadnja slika prije odlaska Genea i Tima.

Rekli su nam da će za posvajanje trebati godinu dana.

This is the last picture before Gene and Tim headed back.

The adoption people told us

Što da radiš godinu dana?

it was going to take a year for the adoption to go through.

Pa sam našao ime svakog američkog i korejskog službenika,

Like, what could you do for a year?

fotografirao ih i rekao im

So I found out the name of every official on both the Korean and American side,

koliko će slavni biti kada ova knjiga bude gotova.

and I photographed them,

Četiri mjeseca kasnije, stigli su papiri za posvajanje.

and told them how famous they were going to be when this book was done.

Ovdje se pozdravlja sa svima u sirotištu.

And four months later, the adoption papers came through.

Otac Keene i Natasha na autobusnoj stanici.

This is saying goodbye to everybody at the orphanage.

Njena prateta na aerodromu.

This is Father Keane with Natasha at the bus stop.

Imao sam dogovor s Cathay Pacific aviokompanijom već godinama,

Her great aunt at the airport.

davali su mi besplatne karte za fotografije.

I had a wonderful deal with Cathay Pacific airlines for many years,

Bilo je iznimno korisno.

where they gave me free passes on all their airlines

Pilot, kojeg sam znao -- dali su mi da sjedim

in return for photography.

It was like the ultimate perk.

u pomoćnom sjedištu, sada znate kad je to bilo.

And the pilot, I actually knew --

Bio je Tri-Star avion, pa su Natashi dali da sjedi u pomoćnom sjedištu.

because they used to let me sit in the jump seat,

to tell you how long ago this was.

Pilot, Jeff Cowley, vratio se

This is a TriStar, and so they let Natasha actually sit in the jump seat.

i posvojio dijete iz sirotišta kad je upoznao Natashu.

And the pilot, Jeff Cowley, actually went back

and adopted one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting Natasha.

28 sati kasnije u Atlanti. Bio je to dug let.

Da bi stvari bile luđe,

This is 28 hours later in Atlanta.

Gail, Natashina nova mama,

It's a very long flight.

za tri će dana roditi svoju kćer.

Just to make things even crazier, Gayle, Natasha's new mom,

Znate, da pišete ovo rekli biste:

was three days away from giving birth to her own daughter.

"Ne, scenarij moramo napisati drukčije."

You know, if you were writing this, you'd say,

Prve noći Natasha upoznaje svoje nove bratiće, ujake i tete.

"No, we've got to write the script differently."

Gene i Gail znaju sve u Atlanti --

This is the first night showing Natasha her new cousins and uncles and aunts.

najdruštveniji su mogući par.

Natasha nije znala engleski,

Gene and Gayle know everyone in Atlanta -- they're the most social couple imaginable.

osim par riječi koje ju je otac Keene naučio.

So, at this point, Natasha doesn't speak a word of English,

Ovo je Kylie, njena sestra, koja je sada doktorica, na desno.

other than what little Father Keane taught her.

This is Kylie, her sister, who's now a doctor, on the right.

Dogovorio sam se s Natashom, da kada dođemo u Atlantu

smije obrijati moju bradu.

This is a deal I had with Natasha, which is that when we got to Atlanta

Nikad joj se nije sviđala.

she could cut off my beard.

Naučila je engleski u tri mjeseca.

She never liked it very much.

Sedmi je razred započela na svojoj dobnoj razini.

She learned English in three months.

Prvi put polaže Zakletvu zastavi.

She entered seventh grade at her own age level.

Njena učiteljica kuhanja.

Djeca su mislila da je umišljena

Pledge of Allegiance for the first time.

jer su mislili da ne želi pričati s njima,

This is her cooking teacher.

Natasha told me a lot of the kids thought she was stuck up,

a nisu znali da na početku nije razumjela engleski.

because they would talk to her and she wouldn't answer,

Primijetio sam, kao promatrač,

da opet bira tko će biti u njenoj ekipi,

and they didn't realize she didn't speak English very well.

But what I noticed, again as an observer,

vrlo je brzo postala jako popularna.

was she was choosing who was going to be on her team,

Sjećate li se slike

and seemed to be very popular very, very quickly.

na kojoj liči svojoj baki, na početku?

Natashi su ljudi govorili da liči na svoju majku, Gail.

Now, remember the picture,

how much she looked like her grandmother, at the beginning?

People were always telling Natasha how much she looks like her mother, Gayle.

Napet trenutak na prvoj nogometnoj utakmici, mislim.

(Laughter)

This is a tense moment in the first football game, I think.

Kylie -- Kylie kao da je bila njeno dijete.

And Kylie -- I mean, it was almost like Kylie was her own child.

Ovdje je krštena.

Puno roditelja, kada posvoje dijete

žele izbrisati njegovu povijest.

She's being baptized.

Gail i Gene učinili su upravo suprotno.

Now, a lot of parents, when they adopt,

Učili su korejski, kupili korejsku odjeću.

actually want to erase their children's history.

Gene je čak sredio pločice u kuhinji

And Gayle and Gene did the complete opposite.

They were studying Korean; they bought Korean clothes.

na kojima kaže: "Jednom davno, predivna djevojčica

Gene even did a little tile work in the kitchen,

iz brda Koreje došla je i zauvijek sretno živjela u Atlanti."

which was that, "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl

Mrzi ovu sliku -- njen prvi posao.

that came from the hills of Korea to live happily ever after in Atlanta."

Kupila je žarko crveni Karmann Ghia

She hates this picture -- it was her first job.

novcem koji je zaradila radeći u Burger Kingu.

She bought a bright red Karmann Ghia

Kapetanica navijačica.

with the money she made working at Burger King.

Natjecanje ljepote.

The captain of the cheerleaders.

Svake godine sam fotografirao njihove božićne čestitke.

Beauty pageant.

Gene je godinama restaurirao ovaj auto

Used to do their Christmas card every year.

Gene's been restoring this car for a million years.

Kodak je zaposlio Natashu kao prevoditelja na OIimpijskim igrama u Koreji.

Jeff, njen budući muž, radio je za Canon kamere

Kodak hired Natasha to be a translator for them at the Olympics in Korea.

i upoznao Natashu u Olimpijskom selu.

Her future husband, Jeff, was working for Canon cameras,

Ovdje se prvi put vratila u Koreju, to je njen ujak.

and met Natasha at the Olympic Village.

Ovo je njena polusestra.

This is her first trip back to Korea. So there's her uncle.

Vratila se u selo. To je majka njene najbolje prijateljice.

This is her half sister.

She went back to the village.

That's her best friend's mother.

Ovdje se obukla kao Annie Hall.

And I always thought that was a very Annie Hall kind of outfit.

Znate, bilo je tako zanimljivo, gledati --

(Laughter)

ovo je njena majka u pozadini.

It's just, you know, it was just so interesting, just to watch --

this is her mother in the background there.

Dan Natashina vjenčanja.

This is Natasha's wedding day.

Gene izgleda malo starije.

Gene is looking a little older.

Ovo je Sydney. Navršiti će tri godine za par dana.

This is Sydney, who's going to be three years old in a couple of days.

Ovo je Evan.

Natasha, bi li došla gore, samo na tren,

da pozdraviš sve?

And there's Evan.

(Pljesak)

And Natasha, would you just come up, for a second,

just maybe to say hello to everybody?

(Applause)

Natasha me nikad nije čula kako pričam priču.

Mislim -- znate, gledali smo slike zajedno

Natasha's actually never heard me tell the story.

Natasha: Vidjela sam slike bezbroj puta,

no danas sam ga prvi put vidjela kako prezentira.

You know, we've looked at the pictures together.

Natasha: I've seen pictures millions of times,

Zaplakala sam.

but today was the first time I'm actually seeing him give the whole presentation.

Rick: Siguran sam da postoji oko 40 stvari za koje će mi reći:

"Nije se tako dogodilo, nisi to rekao."

I started crying.

Natasha: Kasnije, to ću kasnije napraviti.

Rick Smolan: There's about 40 things she's going to tell me,

(Smijeh)

RS: Hvala vam, Mike i Richard,

"That wasn't what happened." Natasha: I'll tell you that later.

što ste nam dopustili da ispričamo svoju priču.

Hvala vam svima.

RS: Anyway, thank you, Mike and Richard, so much for letting us tell the story.

(Pljesak)

Thank you, all of you.

(Applause)