The Devil's Backbone Quotes

  • [first lines]

    [voice over narration]

    Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.

  • Casares: Stay by my side as my light grows dim /as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain / as my heart grows weak / and the wheels of my being turn slowly / Stay by my side /as my fragile body is racked by pain /which verges on truth / and manic time continues scattering dust / and furious life bursts out in flames. Stay by my side / as I fade / so you can point to the end of my struggle /and the twilight of eternal days / at the low, dark edge of life.

  • Casares: [to Carlos] The devil's backbone. Children who should never have been born.

  • [repeated line]

    Santi: Many of you will die.

    Santi: [to Carlos touching his face] Bring Jacinto To Me

  • [last lines]

    Casares: [Carlos weeping over Casares returns his rifle to his side or lap as Jamie forces Carlos to get going]

    [voice over narration]

    Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.

    [last lines]

    Casares: [Owl is carried out by Jamie followed by Galvez using his spear as a crutch to join those others left]

    [narrating from beyond the grave]

    Casares: A Ghost

    [last to leave is Carlos looking back]

    Casares: That Is What I Am

    [Casarers now a ghost is at the doorway observing them heading out to the horizon]

  • Carlos: [stirring the water] Are you the one who sighs?

    [last lines]

    Carlos: [sneering at a scowling Jacinto] Santi

    [shoves him back into the pool, where the gold bars weight him down, struggling to discard them Santi suddenly drags him to the bottom]

  • [last lines]

    Jacinto: [cornered by said now spear wielding surviving orphans] What A Joke

Extended Reading
  • Tara 2022-01-01 08:02:10

    ⒈As far as my love for the work is concerned, I feel that Director Toro is going to be at the bottom of the "Mexico Three", but the base bear who prefers thriller and horror movies may like him more, and the inspirational sister of the young literary girl likes Gonzal. Leis, I like Caron the most for the time being; ⒉No wonder that the villain is a bit familiar. It turned out to be the male protagonist of "Flaming Coins"; ⒊The sleepiness struck, I wanted to take a nap and watch the movie, but I woke up just past zero. . -18.3.19/20

  • Milton 2022-01-01 08:02:10

    In the chaotic era hidden in the background, endless greed and previous evils, goodness cannot stop evil, then we have one last resort. The childhood sunk by hatred and the childhood stained with blood are in this closed orphanage, and the victims of the world have avenged their lives.