the limits of control

Dee 2022-03-26 08:01:01

Suspicion.

Hitchcock.

Are you interested in films, by any chance?

I like really old films

You can really see what the world looked like...

... thirty, fifty, a hundred years ago

You know the clothes, the telephones, the trains...

... the way people smoked cigarettes...

... the little details of life

The best films are like dreams

You're never sure you've really had

I have this image in my head

of a room full of sand

And a bird flies towards me, and dips its wing into the sand

And I honestly have no idea...

... whether this image came from a dream, or a film

Sometimes I like it in films when people just sit there,

Not saying anything

Have you seen “the lady from Shanghai,”

Orson Welles?

That one makes no sense

Rita Hayworth as a blonde

I think it's the only film she's ever a blonde in

It's like a game, deception, glamour...

...a shootout with shattered mirrors

She dies in the end

Do you like Schubert, by any chance?

I love him

He died when he was thirty one years old

Something like that

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The Limits of Control quotes

  • [last lines]

    American: What is your fucking agenda here?

    [pause]

    American: You people don't understand a fucking thing about how the world really works.

    Lone Man: I understand. But I understand subjectively.

    American: That's fucking nonsense. Your sick minds have been polluted with crap. Your music, movies, science. Fucking bohemians on hallucinogenic drugs. All that shit has poisoned you. And it has nothing to do with the real world. And I suppose you believe that by eliminating me, you will eliminate control over some fucking artificial reality.

    Lone Man: Reality is arbitrary.

    American: Fuck you.

  • [first lines]

    Creole: [character speaks in Spanish/French creole, English subtitles] You don't speak Spanish, right?

    French: [character translates for Creole] You don't speak Spanish, right?

    Creole: You are ready? Everything's cool?

    French: You are ready? Everything's cool?

    Lone Man: Yes!

    Creole: Good.

    French: Good.