S01E01
Let me explain something to you, that you, in your long life, have not yet had the occasion to understand. Friendly relationships are dangerous. They lend themselves to ambiguities, misunderstandings, and conflicts, and they always end badly. Formal relationships, on the other hand, are as clear as spring water. Their rules are carved in stone. There's no risk of being misunderstood, and they last forever. Now, you need to know, I do not appreciate friendly relationships. But I'm a great admirer of formal ones. Where there are formal relationships there are rites, and where there are rites the earth order reigns.
Let me explain to you something that you haven't had a chance to understand during the long years of your life. Friendly relations are dangerous. They put themselves into a situation of ambiguity, misunderstanding and conflict, so they always have to end well. On the other hand, ordinary relationships are as clear as spring water. Their formal rules are firmly established. There is no risk of misunderstanding, so it can always last forever. Now, you need to know that I don't appreciate friendly relations. But I admire normal relationships very much. Etiquette exists where the usual relationship is. Where etiquette exists, rules and order can control everything
Staring today you have to lead the church, one billion people. One fifth of the world's population. Do you understand what I'm saying? One billion people will depend on what you say and do. They'll make important decisions, happy or sad, of life or death, in order to obey you, in the name of God. All of this creates a new perspective. An immense perspective. Now, your personal aches, your enormous sufferings, your terrible memories... it's a harsh thing to say, but I have to say it, they must take a back seat. They are things of this earth. I know all your sorrows, I've lived with them together with you, I've went over them with you, but now the tie has come for you to let your sorrows to fade, go become irrelevant, distant memories, insignificant, vanquished, destroyed and overpowered by the terrible responsibility that God has given you.From now on, you are no longer Lenny Belardo, the fatherless, motherless boy. From now on, you are Pope Pius XIII, ...
Starting today, you have led one-fifth of the world’s population of one billion people in the church. Do you know how great this responsibility is? Billions of people are watching your words and deeds. They will ignore personal sorrows and joys or even life and death just to follow your instructions in the name of God. All of these give birth to a new perspective and a vast and boundless perspective. From now on, even if your personal pain is a huge torment of your forgetful character... This is cruel to say, but I still have to say that these things will take a back seat. They are as light as feathers before God. I understand your sorrows and pains, I endured them with you, and I used to shed tears with you, but now it’s time to let your sorrows and pains fade away and turn them into insignificant distant memories, so that they can be bestowed by God You have a great responsibility to conquer and destroy the captives with contempt. From now on, you will no longer be xxx, that little boy without father and mother. From now on, you are the Pope Pius XIII,...
Let's not utter heresies. It's death to settle for things in life.
I hope that we have no differences, and a life that is always reluctant to lead to death.
You're simplifying the future to an unhealthy degree.
I think you are simplifying the future to a dangerous level
You're too tied to the past. The past is an enormous place, with all sorts of things inside. Not so with the present. The present is merely a narrow opening, with room for only one pair of eyes. Mine.
You are too obsessed with the past. The past is a behemoth that encompasses everything. It belongs to everyone. But, nowadays, this is not the case. Today, it is just a narrow alley leading to the future. So narrow that only one person can see the future, and that is me.
which is my predecessors, who favored sobriety over tradition, imprudently let go.
It’s the one that was accidentally left behind by my predecessor who advocated not to be immersed in the past and traditions.
It's very difficult to keep anything secret here in the Vatican. Rumors fly so quickly that sometimes they arrive even before the event has taken place.
There are few secrets in the Vatican. Messages are always spread like wildfire, and some of them are completely fictional.
It's quite a useful piece of information for my future.
I seem to have seen my future.
Which is exactly what it was intended to be.
That is exactly what you will face in the future.
Ever since I was little, I've learned to confound people's ideas on what's going on in my head. Not only that, I'm also intransigent, irritable, vindictive...and I have a prodigious memory.
From when I was very young, I learned to use things in my head to confuse people. Not only that, but I never compromise, I am impatient and have a strong heart for revenge... and I have an amazing memory.
S01E02
I would like to get back to my good works. Or bad ones, that remains to be seen.
This place smells like incense and death. I prefer the smell of shit and life.
This place is full of fragrance but full of death. I like the smelly breath of life better than this.
A most edifying anecdote
I don't want to waste your time, so let me come right to the point of my visit
Open the skylight to speak bright words
Try to keep up with me, if you can. Try to keep up with me, if you can.
pope: cardinal, bishop
Cardinal
Author: x Philip Roth; Salinger
Film director: x Spielberg; Kubrick
Contemporary artist: x Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic; Banksy
Electronic music group: daft punk
Italian female vocalist: Mina
Now do you know what it is, what the invisible red thread is that connects them all, all these most important figures in their respective fields? None of them let themselves be seen. None of them let themselves be photographed.
Now you understand the reason. It is the invisible red line that connects them together. These are the most important people in their respective fields? Never let people see oneself
Of a city state so small that it has no outlet to the sea, and in order to survive, it's leader has to make himself as unreachable as a rock star. The Vatican survives thanks to hyperbole. So we, we shall generate hyperbole, but this time in reverse
This city-state is so small that even its leader has not had to portray itself as an unattainable image of a rock star in order to survive. Thank you for this exaggerated technique, Vatican survived, so we should exaggerate moderately but this time we should think the other way around
S01E03
The famous total stalemate
They all went white when they heard the name I'd chosen, and I reveled in their fear
I heard that I was chosen and their faces turned pale, and I was proud of their panic
I don't understand, what are you getting out of all of this?
I don't understand, what are you doing this for?
It's a genuine miracle that this assembly generated an idea. A first-rate idea.
It’s a miracle that the few of us can reach a consensus. It’s a coup.
Typical plebeian reaction: to hate when you do not understand
The typical foolish behavior begins to hate if you don't understand it
Will you allow me, given my venerable age, a vaguely critical observation?
Given my advanced age, can I allow me to express my slightly biased views?
absence is presence. These are the fundamentals of mystery.
Absence is also present. These are the basic elements of keeping mystery
Tell me right now, or what you've seen so far will be nothing but a foretaste of the macabre banquet that will bring on the ruin of the Church. Explain it all, right here, right now, because even a second later will be too late.
You tell the truth now, otherwise everything you see now will be the last lunch and the church will be badly injured. Now explain to me clearly that one second later will not work
I so wish that I could have been ... as you were, TIME, PLACE. Instead, I became a priest for lack of a better alternative.
I wish so much that I could have encountered it... just like you. On the contrary, I have no better choice but to be a priest
It requires a great overarching vision, I imagine.
S01E04
What about the fact that such a sizable group of men have eyes only got a handsome man, and pay no attention to such stunning feminine beauty? Body, and completely ignored such a beautiful woman?
I know exactly how to answer that question. With the silence.
I know exactly how to answer your question with silence
Now, I ask you, please satisfy my morbid curiosity:
Now I want to ask you please satisfy my sick curiosity
In time you will
It's a substitute for the real thing. What I want, always, is the whole truth.
This is just a substitute for the real thing, what I want is always the real thing
From a broader point of view, the individual case is always an indicator of a larger issue. Let's widen the circle.
From a broader perspective, independent cases are always a precursor to major events. Let us expand the scope.
S01E05
You couldn't get to sleep
The evening doesn't console me
Like when we were kids
I'm glad that you find a moment to say hello to me
How could you doubt that I'd come?
I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me. God, the absence of God, always reassuring and definitive. I am a priest. I have renounced my fellow man, my fellow women, because I don't want to suffer, because I'm incapable of withstanding the heartbreak of love, because I'm unhappy, like all priests. It would be wonderful to love you the way you want to be loved, but it's not possible. Because I am not a man, I am a coward. Like all priests.
I love the Lord because it is so painful to love mortals. I love the Lord, whether he does not leave me or abandon me. Regardless of the Lord and the absence of the Lord, it always makes me feel at ease and firm. I am a priest and I have abandoned my male believer. Female believer because I don’t want to suffer, because I don’t have the ability to bear the pain of love, because I’m unhappy, just like all priests. If I can love you the way you want, it would be wonderful, but it’s impossible because I’m not. A man i'm a coward like all priests
It's pointless for you to go on pretending nothing happened. Something extraordinary happened there.
Pretending to be nonchalant makes no sense to you something very unusual happened there
I don't feel like talking about it.
Her hair was parted in the middle long and on the sides
She has a half-length haircut and her long hair hangs on both sides
I know everything a powerful man needs to know about the people he works with. And I am the most powerful man of all.
I know everything that a powerful person should know about his colleagues and I am the most powerful person here
We need to go back to being prohibited. Inaccessible and mysterious. That's the only way we will once again become desirable. That's the only way great love stories are born. And I don't want any more part-time believers. I want great love stories. I want fanatics for God. Because fanaticism is love. Everything else is strictly a surrogate, and it stays outside the church. With the attitudes of the last Papacy, the church won for itself great expressions of fondness from the masses. It became popular. Isn't that wonderful, you might be thinking! We received plenty of esteem and lots of friendship. I have no idea what to do with the friendship of the whole wide world. What I want is absolute love and total devotion to God. Could that mean a Church only for the few? That's a hypothesis, and a hypothesis isn't the same as reality.But even this hypothesis isn't so scandalous. I say better to have a few that are reliable than to have a great many that are distractible and indifferent. The public squares have been jam-packed, but the hearts have been emptied of God. You can't measure love with numbers, you can only measure it in terms of intensity. In terms of the blind loyalty to the imperative. Fix that word firmly in your souls: imperative. From this day forth, that's what the Pope wants, that's what the Church wants, that's what God wants. I know you will obey, because you've already figured out that this pipe isn't afraid to lose the faithful if they're been even slightly unfaithful, and that means this Pope does not negotiate. On anything or with anyone. And this Pope cannot be blackmailed. From this day forth, the word “compromise”,has been banished from the vocabulary. Ive just deleted it.
We have to retreat again. It is inaccessible and mysterious. This is the only way we can have value again and the only way the story of great love is born. I don’t need any temporary believers. I want the story of great love. I want to be God. Look for fanatics because fanaticism is love. Everything else is a substitute and must stay outside the church. Under the activeness of the last pope, the church won the love of many people and became popular. Isn’t that good? You might think that. We have gained so much respect and kindness. I don’t know how to deal with it. What I want for the friendliness of the whole world is absolute love and complete loyalty to God. Does that mean that the church is only for a few people? This is an assumption that the assumption is not the same as reality, but even if this assumption is not so hard to say, it is better to have a large group of inattentive and indifferent people or to have few but reliable people. The public square is already crowded, but there is no God in their hearts. You Love cannot be measured by quantity. Love can only be measured by intensity. Measured according to the principle of absolute obedience. Use your soul to keep this word firmly in mind: command from today on this is what the pope wants this is what the church wants this is God wants me to know that you will comply because you already understand that this pope is not afraid of losing believers even if they are only slightly disloyal and that means that the pope will not make any concessions and will not be threatened to compromise from today. This word has been removed from the vocabulary I just deleted
S01E06
It's a natural cycle
I loved you for the way you were... not for the way you ought to be.
I love the way you are, not the way you should be
It had slipped my mind
There's another element worthy of your consideration
I'm glad we're finally beginning to talk sense.
the whole world is dying of curiosity. We all want to see that which is hidden, we all want to stare the forbidden in the face. Look directly at the things that are forbidden
S01E07
Unlike us, he's finally going to find out the way things stand.
If you gave up now, now that you're faced with the burden of responsibility and your own guilty conscience, when will you ever grow up?
If you give up now, you have to face the burden of responsibility and condemnation of conscience
S01E08
Remind him, of all our endless late-night conversations, in that big one-room dormitory, under the blankets, how we whispered in secret about our one and only, inexhaustible topic. If discussion: our future. We were children then, and that's what children do: they paint the future in colors that reality can never know. Remind him not to grieve over all our shattered dreams. We wanted to live the lives of the great baseball player, the elderly gas station attendant on the country road, the heroic soldier, the lowlife new your musician, the fireman, the blue-water sailor. Remind him not to weep when he remembers that instead we lived only the simple, drab life of the priest, such a strange life, a life of hope and prayer that you,
Please let him remember our endless heart-to-heart conversations in the spacious single-room dormitory late at night, sitting on the blanket and whispering to discuss the everlasting and never boring topic: our future. At that time, we were children and our children would portray the unpredictable future in such a passionate way. Please tell him not to mourn for all our dying dreams. We thought about becoming great baseball players and cheering for years on the small roads in the township. The staff of the station became the heroic fighters, the low-level musicians in New York, or the firefighters and seamen. Please let him remember not to be sad. When he thinks that it is contrary to his dream, we are just doing simple and boring priest work to live a cold life. We are hoping and praying every day.
Weigh your words carefully
We've failed to follow the eternal, unchanging principle of the carrot and the stick.
I am the pope, and I'm going to remain pope until the day I die. Because I'm curious to se how it all turns out.
You no longer need to deal with the enthusiastic of youth, now you must grapple with disenchantment and the limitations of the rational
You don't believe in God but that shouldn't upset you. Even though you're pope. There's still another path that'll allow you to find the people and things you are looking for, even if you can't see it now. Because all you can see before you now are your own doubts and the darkness. If I show to you (another path), then the adventure is over. Your life, your papacy, is an unforgettable adventure? But there is no need to worry about this. There is still another way for you to find the people and things you are looking for. It's just that you can't see it now. All you can see now is confusion and darkness. If I tell you, then everything is over for you. I remember that the Pope’s position was an unforgettable adventure
The morbid curiosity prompted by absence.
This pathological curiosity is caused by the absence
The question here is, what exactly does it mean to be a good person? A good person is somebody who puts himself last, who renounces his own temptations and needs, working only for the interests of others. Now, think carefully and answer sincerely, because I won't put up with even the tiniest lie from you: are you a good person? What is a so-called good person? Work for others
There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding concerning the meaning of my visit here to you. You think I'm here to go out you. In fact, I'm here to ascertain your temptations. In fact, I'm here to find out what your temptation is
You don't know how wonderful peace is. You have no idea how disconcerting peace can be.
S01E09
We all deserve the right to start over
the world is always ready for love
What is more beautiful, my love? Love lost or love found? Don't laugh at me, my love. I know it, I'm awkward and naive, when it comes to love, and I ask questions straight out of a pop song. This doubt overwhelms me and undermines me, my love. To find or to lose? All around me, people don't stop yearning. Did they lose or did they find? I can't say. An orphan had no way of knowing. An orphan lacks a first love. The love for his mama and papa. That's the source of his awkwardness, his naïveté. You said to me, on that deserted beach in California, “you can touch my legs.” But I didn 't do it. There, my love, is love lost. That's why I've never stopped wondering, since that day: where have you been and where you are now. And you, shining gleam of my misspent youth, did you lose or did you find? I don't know, and I will never know.I can't even remember your name, my love. And I don't have the answer. But this is how I like to imagine it, the answer. In the end, my love, we have no choice. We have to find .
That one is better. My lover loses love or finds love. Don’t laugh at me, my lover. I know I’m clumsy and naive. In terms of love, the questions I ask come directly from pop songs. This suspicion crushes me and destroys me. My love is looking for or lost. People are always yearning for whether they are lost or found. I don’t know an orphan has no way of knowing that an orphan lacks his first love. The love for his parents is why he is clumsy. Would be naive, my love, this is the loss of love. This is why I have been wondering where you have been since then? Where are you now? And you, the shimmer in my wasteful youth, are you lost or found? I don’t know I’ll never know I can’t even remember your name, my love, I don’t have the answer, but the answer I’m willing to imagine is in In the end, my love, we have no choice but to find
S01E10
You have no idea how many objectives can be obtained by humiliating ones fellow man. But there's a secret to it. The person humiliated can't be realize they'd been humiliated.
You can’t imagine how many goals can be achieved by humiliating one of your compatriots, but there is a secret that the humiliated person cannot realize that he is humiliated.
Diabolical Demon
All I remember of my childhood it is one day it wasn't there any more.
I intend to shake things up a little
When she was 15 she went to see the children at the hospital and always brought tangerines with her. And she didn't care whether they ate them or not. But she wanted them to peel them and to play at squeezing the peels, and spray each other with the bright and unforgettable scent of that fruit. Then she told the children: I will go away from you and you will go away from me, but it doesn't matter, because all that we left on this earth is the scent of goodness. Because what we leave to this world is the fragrance of goodness, unless it's combined with imagination, runs the risk of being mere exhibitionism.
You need to learn to settle for what you get I don't want to settle
Infinite is your compassion, infinite is your capacity for forgiveness
but in the words of the Nobel laureate Brodsky: beauty at low temperatures is beauty.
Nobel laureate Brodsky said that beauty at low temperatures is true beauty
Where you've always wanted to be, with children. You're an orphan. Orphans want to stay with children forever.
I've always known. It's difficult for a Saint, to answer all the questions of humanity
In the end, we all have to go back to where we began.
And you, when will you go back to where you began? You began with two hippie parents. I've stopped searching for my parents. I've stopped searching for God. Never say that again. The truth is you've never searched . You've been hiding yourself.
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