Subtle lines!

Chelsey 2022-01-12 08:01:06

You know that people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things...

To understand the true inner... to find the inner truth.

I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik...

Because I know exactly what I'd find.

Not a heart, but a handbag. Instead of a heart, a handbag.

Instead of a soul, a suitcase.

Not ingenuity but a lighter that can't be lit. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter which doesn't work.

That's really an appropriate analogy. That's very nicely put.

Yeah, that's a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.

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Extended Reading
  • Talon 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Xiaopan said that he wanted to watch something lighthearted in the new year, so he thought of this romantic comedy by Lubitsch. The departure of paper and life, the emergence of contradictory love quietly, and the super fast speech speed like shotguns, the love at that time was really classic.

  • Laverna 2022-03-24 09:03:00

    The handling of exposing the truth is really daunting, really daring. Possibly the most ingenious film in which Lubitsch ridiculed the dramatization, and it was done in a complete staged space. This cunning is simply exquisite.

The Shop Around the Corner quotes

  • [Alfred Kralik has just been called into his supervisor's office]

    Alfred Kralik: Yes, Mr. Matuschek

    Hugo Matuschek: Eh, close the door. Kralik, why did you put me in that situation, in front of the whole shop?

    Alfred Kralik: Well, I'm very sorry, sir... but it was not my fault.

    Hugo Matuschek: Well whose fault was it? Mine?

    Alfred Kralik: Well... yes.

  • Klara Novak (Miss Novak): [In her letter to Alfred] : Oh, my Dear Friend, my heart was trembling as I walked into the post office, and there you were, lying in Box 237. I took you out of your envelope and read you, read you right there.