Marina: Newborn. I open my eyes. I melt. Into the eternal night. A spark. You got me out of the darkness. You gathered me up from earth. You've brought me back to life.
Father Quintana: Flood our souls with your spirit and life so completely that our lives may only be a reflection of yours. Shine through us.
Anna: Life's a dream. In dream you can't make mistakes. In dream you can be whatever you want.
Marina: I write on water what I dare not say.
Father Quintana: We wish to live inside the safety of the laws. We fear to choose. Jesus insists on choice. The one thing he condemns utterly is avoiding the choice. To choose is to commit yourself. And to commit yourself is to run the risk, is to run the risk of failure, the risk of sin, the risk of betrayal. But Jesus can deal with all of those. Forgiveness he never denies us. The man who makes a mistake can repent. But the man who hesitates, who does nothing, who buries his talent in the earth, with him he can do nothing.
Neil: My sweet love. At last. My hope. How I loved you...
Marina: Love that loves us... thank you.
Jane: Will you pray with me?

Neil: [voice over] I had no faith. You knew. Were you afraid?
Father Quintana: You shall love, whether you like it or not.
Father Quintana: There is love that is like a stream that can go dry when rain no longer feeds it. But there is a love that is like a spring coming up from the earth. The first is human love, the second is divine love and has its source above.
Neil: What are you laughing at?

Jane: You.

Neil: Me?

Jane: You make me laugh. You make me happy.
Father Quintana: You have to struggle with yourself. You have to struggle with your own strength.
Father Quintana: [voice over] Where are you leading me? Teach us where to seek you. Christ, be with me. Christ before me. Christ behind me. Christ in me. Christ above me. Christ on my right. Christ on my left. Christ in the heart. Flood our souls with your spirit and life... so completely... that our lives may only be a reflection of yours. Shine through us. Show us how to seek you. We were made to seek you.
Marina: How had hate come to take the place of love?
Marina: Weak people never bring anything to an end themselves. They wait for others to do it.
Marina: My God, what a cruel war. I find two women inside me. One... full of love for you. The other... pulls me down towards the earth.
Marina: Where are we... when we're there? Why not always? Which is the truth? What we know up there? Or down here?

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Maeve 2022-03-27 09:01:21

A director who was born in professional philosophy, made a conceptual film that allows consciousness to be dominated by emotions. I admit that the cinematography is quite good, the transitions between the air and the various emotions, but it is still a director's stylized film where form is greater than content. Olga Kurylenko is a very attractive woman...and nothing else~
Jimmie 2022-03-27 09:01:21

It is strange that Marek appears so naive and petty in expressing love, as if he himself has only ever had love in fantasy, while the nature and the oracle in the background create a huge contrast, and this contrast is exactly the same. What makes the movie all the more interesting, it's precisely the whispers that resonate.