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Joana 2022-09-02 13:53:58
Gerard Depardieu as a priest!
Many people will say this movie is boring. Indeed, a story of a priest and Satan's soul struggle would not be appealing. Religious themes are very unfamiliar to the Chinese. The film is very simple. It is believed that the ascetic priest met Satan and thus gained the ability to see evil. At the...
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Rubye 2022-10-16 18:30:13
All lines from the movie (subtitles made by a Clockwork Orange)
A conversation between Donisan and the
Dean Father Donisan: When I'm with you everything is fine, but when I'm alone it's nothing. I'm like the number zero, which is only valuable when combined with other numbers. The priest was not unhappy. What is their life like? As long as you can look up to...
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
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Donissan: God is mocking me.
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[first lines]
Donissan: With you, everything looks easy. Alone, I'm useless. I'm like the zero, only useful next to other numbers. Priests are so miserable. They waste their lives seeing God being ignored. People make jokes on us. We're like those walls where people write obscenities.
Menou-Segrais: You're tired.
Donissan: Tired? I'm not tired. Tired is a bad thought.
Menou-Segrais: Suspend your visits.
Donissan: Those visits do more harm than good. In the beginning, I didn't know evil. I learned it from the mouths of the sinners.
Menou-Segrais: No one knows better than a priest about the terrible monotony of sin.
Donissan: I can't speak to them. I can't only make absolutions and feel sorry.
Menou-Segrais: If one absolution in thirty was worthy, the world would be brief.
