We are each other’s armor and each other’s weakness

Kallie 2022-01-15 08:01:59

She used to be a film actor, but then she was not.

He became a hit because of a movie, and tonight is the night of the celebration banquet.

The quarrel began. She said that you were with that woman all night, really a dog that can lick the producer. Apart from your own movies, have you thought of anything else? Do you care about my emotions?

She said, without me, there would be no movies for you.

He seemed to have been hit in the underbelly and began to fight back. Among the women I have slept with, you are not the only addict. They can all give me inspiration. One is more exaggerated than the other. You are just one of them. Your trick of sliding your wrist with a nail clipper is really ridiculous when you think about it. What's so special?

She was sitting in the bathtub naked, when she was the most vulnerable. There are no nude scenes in the movie, because I don't want to be too graphic. This is not a movie about sex and love, it's about people and people, it doesn't care about gender.

So she sat in the bathtub, her slender body hidden in the water, tears in her eyes.

No, nothing special. But I endure your incomprehensibility, I will give you good food when I am disappointed in you, do for you what you don’t like when you are in high spirits, help you move, take care of your clothes, stand By your side, you want to be the best among your girlfriends, but what about you? Have you ever thought, say thank you to me?

Later, they brushed their teeth quietly, washed and went to bed. At the end he said, thank you.

When she woke up the next morning, she was not in bed. He was a little worried, and ran to look for her outside the door, and found that she was just standing by the lake, the wind passed through her thin body, it seemed that all the years were peaceful.

But we know, they also know, the estrangement between them, the distrust, the knife in the hand, the stabbing in the heart.

They will continue to do this, waking up day after day, a little worried, but the days that looked good in the end.

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Malcolm & Marie quotes

  • [Marie walks into the room with a knife]

    Malcolm: Marie, what are you doing? Put the knife down, please. Marie?

    [she kneels down in front of him and plays with the knife]

    Marie: Do you remember those antidepressants I was on? I'm not on them anymore. I'm not doing well. I'm really, really not doing well. I've never been clean. And I don't plan on getting clean. I'm a piece of shit. I'm a liar. I cheated on you. I fucked your friends

    [she laughs]

    Marie: I fucked your friends. God, I feel like I'm crazy. I've stolen from your mother. And you know what the fucked up thing is? I don't even care. I don't mind. Because I deserve it. Tell me where the fucking pills are. Tell me where the pills are.

    [Malcolm struggles to answer, Marie puts the knife down and acts like herself again]

    Marie: And that, Malcolm, is what authenticity buys you.

    [she flips him off with both hands as she leaves the room]

    Malcolm: Well, damn! Why didn't you do that in the audition?

  • Marie: You know, life is gonna get easier, but it's also gonna get harder.

    Malcolm: What do you mean?

    Marie: Just don't believe the hype, Malcolm. And don't push away the people who ground you.