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A Love Song for Bobby Long
Crystel 2022-10-19 13:54:56
The news of her mother’s death caused the girl Paslin (Scarlett Johansson) to return to her home in the country. She did not expect that there were two strange people living in the old house left by her mother. Lang (played by John Travolta), is an old, sloppy alcoholic man, and a student Lanson (played by Gabriel Macht) who plans to write a biography for him. The three lived together temporarily. From Bobby Long’s mouth, Paslin heard many of her mother’s past, and it also allowed her to find her mother’s past emotions—the love song of this mother who always wrote songs and died of drug overdose. Who is it for? The leisure in the countryside of New Orleans is enough to make time stand still. The old man can no longer see the future. The young Paslin gradually became unbearable to bear all this, and slowly discovered the true connection between himself and Bobby Lang...
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A Love Song for Bobby Long quotes
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Lawson Pines: That girl looks so much like Lorraine. Remember the first time you took me to see her sing was my first time in New Orleans.
[pause]
Lawson Pines: I was so taken.
Bobby Long: Well... you were kind of. You were kind of sheltered. Choked by that silver spoon.
Lawson Pines: I thought she was so beautiful.
Bobby Long: She was.
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Bobby Long: [singing] Mother, go make my bed, / Make it long and narrow. / My true love died for me yesterday, / I shall die for him tomorrow. She was buried in a church house yard, / And he was buried there beside her. And from his grave grew roses red, / From hers grew green briar. They grew and they grew so very high, / Till they could grow no higher; And at the top grew a true lovers' knot, / Twined with green briar.