Quotations

Bell 2022-03-25 09:01:15

Respect should not be left behind along with any nausea.

If the women here can clamp their legs, they are doing the world a favor.

Continued exercise is the only way to curb the pain.

We all have to do things we don't want to do, and that's how growing up is.

"There's no need to give change."
"It was just right."

Going upstream requires determination.

In fact, we are all now bio-robots, and can't live without the appliances around us.

Picking a day is worse than hitting the day.

Everyone must be as indebted as we are, they just hide it better.

Dear lover and wife, may they never see each other.

Charlotte is right, you are indeed the most polite person in the building.

The real danger is a taciturn person like you.

I'm not missing any elements, but adding too many.

Lights and firelights are like neurons in the brain, elevators are like the atria of the heart, and I walk down the hallway like a cell moving along an artery.

As long as there is state capitalism, there can be no political freedom.

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  • Marques 2022-03-14 14:12:25

    The subject matter is good, the rhythm is tight, the actors are handsome, and the performance is full of tension. It is worth seeing.

  • Thaddeus 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Monosyllabic surname, dog-eating, taciturn, unsociable, dead house, highly educated, doctor, middle class, ostracized by white people, mistaken for homosexuality, despised and not trash sorting. I don't know if it's a coincidence or the director did it deliberately. If it wasn't for the white skin of Hirst, he would be a proper Chinaman.

High-Rise quotes

  • Richard Wilder: Doesn't it seem odd, Laing? That a man can fall from the thirty-ninth floor, and not one police car turn up? Where's the investigation, Laing? I mean, where's the sirens? Laing!

  • Charlotte: You know, you look much better without your clothes on. You're lucky. Not many people do.