& Malkina: I don’t think I miss things. I think to miss something is to hope that it will come back, but it’s not coming back. I’ve always known that, since I was a girl.
Reiner: You don’t think that’s a bit cold?
Malkina: I think truth has no temperature.
& Diamond Dealer: There is no perfect diamond. En este mundo, nada es perfecto. As my father would say.
Counselor: You’re Sephardic.
Diamond Dealer: Yes.
Counselor: Do you know Spain?
Diamond Dealer: I do. And Spain me. At one time I thought she would return from the grave, but that is not to be. Every country that has driven out the Jews has suffered the same fate.
Counselor: Which is?
Diamond Dealer: You don’t want to hear.
& Diamond Dealer: Well... how to say? There’s no culture save for the Semitic culture there. The last known culture before that was the Greek, and there will be no culture after. Nothing... The heart of any culture is to be found in the nature of the hero. Who is that man who is revered? In the classical world, it is the warrior, but in the Western world it is the man of God. From Moses to Christ. The prophet, the penitent. Such a figure is unknown to the Greeks. Unheard of, unimaginable... because there is only a man of God, not a man of gods, and this god is the god of the Jewish people. There is no other god. We see him... what is the word? Uh... purloined. Purloined in the West. How do you steal a god? The Jew beholds his tormentor dressed in the vestments of his own ancient culture. Everything bears a strange familiarity. But the fit is always poor and the hands are always dripping blood. That coat... didn’t that belong to Uncle Chaim? What about the shoes?..
& Diamond Dealer: I suppose every diamond is cautionary.
Counselor: A cautionary diamond?
Diamond Dealer: Of course, why not? That’s not a small thing to wish for. However unattainable, to aspire to the stone’s endless destiny, isn’t that the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. We announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives. That we... will not thereby be made less. You will see.
& Reiner: I don’t know what she knows. I don’t want to know.
Counselor: You don’t trust her?
Reiner: Jesus, Counselor, she’s a woman. Yeah, well, I don’t mean to sound that cold. I just mean that, where men are concerned, they’ve got their own agenda.
& Reiner: I always liked smart women. But it’s been an expensive hobby, you know?
& Reiner: Men are attracted to flawed women, of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. Women don’t want to fix anything. They only want to be entertained. The truth about women is you can do anything to them except bore them.
& Counselor: I intend to love you until I die.
Laura: Me first.
Counselor: Not on your life.
& Counselor: Well, cheers.
Westray: A plague of pustulant boils upon all their scurvid asses.
Counselor: Is that your normal toast?
Westray: Increasingly.
& Westray: How well do you know Malkina?
Counselor: Not very well. Why?
Westray: Because you don’t know someone until you know what they want is why.
& Counselor: Life is being in bed with you. Everything else is just waiting.
& Westray: The point, Counselor, is that you may think there are things that these people are simply incapable of... There are not.
Ω That’s THE point.
& Westray: If you think, Counselor, you can live in this world and be no part of it, all I can say is you’re wrong. It’s not that you’re going down, Counselor... it’s what you’re taking down with you.
Ω Theme development.
& Counselor: What do you think I should do?
Westray: I don’t know, Counselor. I don’t know. They know that you’re stupid. They just don’t know how stupid.
& Westray: Listen... if your definition of a friend is someone who will die for you... then you don’t have any friends.
& Jefe: Actions create consequences which produce new worlds... and they’re all different. Where the bodies are buried in the desert, that is a certain world. Where the bodies are simply left to be found, that is another. And all these worlds, heretofore unknown to us... they must have always been there, must they not?
& Counselor: Will you help me?
Jefe: I would urge you to see the truth of the situation you’re in, Counselor. That is my advice. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made... Is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There’s only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago.
& Jefe: I don’t mean to offend you... but reflective men often find themselves... at a place removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place... where we can accommodate all the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice.
& Jefe: ...Machado would have traded every word, every poem, every verse he ever wrote... for one more hour with his beloved. And that is because when it comes to grief... the normal rules of exchange do not apply, because grief transcends value. A man would give entire nations to lift grief off his heart... and yet, you cannot buy anything with grief. Because grief is worthless.
& Counselor: You said I was that man... at that crossing.
Jefe: Yes. At the understanding... that life is not going to take you back. You are the world you have created, and when you cease to exist... this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they’re living the last days of the world... death acquires a different meaning.
The extinction of all reality... is a concept no resignation can encompass. And yet, in that despair, which is transcendent, you will find the ancient understanding that the philosopher’s stone will always be found despised and buried in the mud.
This may seem a small thing in the face of annihilation until annihilation occurs. And then, all the grand designs and all the grand plans... will be finally exposed and revealed for what they are.
& Counselor: I fell asleep, I’m sorry.
Cafe Man: There is no harm. No harm.
Counselor: That’s a lovely thought A magical thought.
& Malkina: You know what I like about Americans?
Blonde: No, what?
Malkina: You can depend on them.
& Michael: Cash?
Malkina: The easiest way to move cash is in diamonds. You can hold $20 million in the palm of your hand.
Michael: Well, I suppose there’s no problem selling diamonds in China.
Malkina: You can sell diamonds on Mars.
& Malkina: I never tired of that. To see quarry, killed with elegance... it’s just... moving to me.
Michael: Is it sexual?
Malkina: Yes, of course. A thing like that is always sexual. The hunter has grace, beauty... and purity of heart to be found nowhere else. You can make no distinction between what they are and what they do. And what they do is kill. We, of course, are another matter. It is our faintness of heart that has driven us to the edge of ruin. Perhaps you won’t agree... but nothing is crueler than a coward. And the slaughter to come... is probably beyond our imagining.
Michael: I think you’ve told me more than I wish to know.
& Malkina: Shall we think about ordering? I’m famished.
--
+ quotes on the IMDb
Σ Not a waste at all. Someone just need to give a second thought to this movie, it’s scenes and dialogues. Or to be prepared on the first place before watching. ’Cause it’s not a usual ordinary movie that everyone is waiting for. So it goes it greatly underestimated.
Reiner: You don’t think that’s a bit cold?
Malkina: I think truth has no temperature.
& Diamond Dealer: There is no perfect diamond. En este mundo, nada es perfecto. As my father would say.
Counselor: You’re Sephardic.
Diamond Dealer: Yes.
Counselor: Do you know Spain?
Diamond Dealer: I do. And Spain me. At one time I thought she would return from the grave, but that is not to be. Every country that has driven out the Jews has suffered the same fate.
Counselor: Which is?
Diamond Dealer: You don’t want to hear.
& Diamond Dealer: Well... how to say? There’s no culture save for the Semitic culture there. The last known culture before that was the Greek, and there will be no culture after. Nothing... The heart of any culture is to be found in the nature of the hero. Who is that man who is revered? In the classical world, it is the warrior, but in the Western world it is the man of God. From Moses to Christ. The prophet, the penitent. Such a figure is unknown to the Greeks. Unheard of, unimaginable... because there is only a man of God, not a man of gods, and this god is the god of the Jewish people. There is no other god. We see him... what is the word? Uh... purloined. Purloined in the West. How do you steal a god? The Jew beholds his tormentor dressed in the vestments of his own ancient culture. Everything bears a strange familiarity. But the fit is always poor and the hands are always dripping blood. That coat... didn’t that belong to Uncle Chaim? What about the shoes?..
& Diamond Dealer: I suppose every diamond is cautionary.
Counselor: A cautionary diamond?
Diamond Dealer: Of course, why not? That’s not a small thing to wish for. However unattainable, to aspire to the stone’s endless destiny, isn’t that the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. We announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives. That we... will not thereby be made less. You will see.
& Reiner: I don’t know what she knows. I don’t want to know.
Counselor: You don’t trust her?
Reiner: Jesus, Counselor, she’s a woman. Yeah, well, I don’t mean to sound that cold. I just mean that, where men are concerned, they’ve got their own agenda.
& Reiner: I always liked smart women. But it’s been an expensive hobby, you know?
& Reiner: Men are attracted to flawed women, of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. Women don’t want to fix anything. They only want to be entertained. The truth about women is you can do anything to them except bore them.
& Counselor: I intend to love you until I die.
Laura: Me first.
Counselor: Not on your life.
& Counselor: Well, cheers.
Westray: A plague of pustulant boils upon all their scurvid asses.
Counselor: Is that your normal toast?
Westray: Increasingly.
& Westray: How well do you know Malkina?
Counselor: Not very well. Why?
Westray: Because you don’t know someone until you know what they want is why.
& Counselor: Life is being in bed with you. Everything else is just waiting.
& Westray: The point, Counselor, is that you may think there are things that these people are simply incapable of... There are not.
Ω That’s THE point.
& Westray: If you think, Counselor, you can live in this world and be no part of it, all I can say is you’re wrong. It’s not that you’re going down, Counselor... it’s what you’re taking down with you.
Ω Theme development.
& Counselor: What do you think I should do?
Westray: I don’t know, Counselor. I don’t know. They know that you’re stupid. They just don’t know how stupid.
& Westray: Listen... if your definition of a friend is someone who will die for you... then you don’t have any friends.
& Jefe: Actions create consequences which produce new worlds... and they’re all different. Where the bodies are buried in the desert, that is a certain world. Where the bodies are simply left to be found, that is another. And all these worlds, heretofore unknown to us... they must have always been there, must they not?
& Counselor: Will you help me?
Jefe: I would urge you to see the truth of the situation you’re in, Counselor. That is my advice. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made... Is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There’s only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago.
& Jefe: I don’t mean to offend you... but reflective men often find themselves... at a place removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place... where we can accommodate all the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice.
& Jefe: ...Machado would have traded every word, every poem, every verse he ever wrote... for one more hour with his beloved. And that is because when it comes to grief... the normal rules of exchange do not apply, because grief transcends value. A man would give entire nations to lift grief off his heart... and yet, you cannot buy anything with grief. Because grief is worthless.
& Counselor: You said I was that man... at that crossing.
Jefe: Yes. At the understanding... that life is not going to take you back. You are the world you have created, and when you cease to exist... this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they’re living the last days of the world... death acquires a different meaning.
The extinction of all reality... is a concept no resignation can encompass. And yet, in that despair, which is transcendent, you will find the ancient understanding that the philosopher’s stone will always be found despised and buried in the mud.
This may seem a small thing in the face of annihilation until annihilation occurs. And then, all the grand designs and all the grand plans... will be finally exposed and revealed for what they are.
& Counselor: I fell asleep, I’m sorry.
Cafe Man: There is no harm. No harm.
Counselor: That’s a lovely thought A magical thought.
& Malkina: You know what I like about Americans?
Blonde: No, what?
Malkina: You can depend on them.
& Michael: Cash?
Malkina: The easiest way to move cash is in diamonds. You can hold $20 million in the palm of your hand.
Michael: Well, I suppose there’s no problem selling diamonds in China.
Malkina: You can sell diamonds on Mars.
& Malkina: I never tired of that. To see quarry, killed with elegance... it’s just... moving to me.
Michael: Is it sexual?
Malkina: Yes, of course. A thing like that is always sexual. The hunter has grace, beauty... and purity of heart to be found nowhere else. You can make no distinction between what they are and what they do. And what they do is kill. We, of course, are another matter. It is our faintness of heart that has driven us to the edge of ruin. Perhaps you won’t agree... but nothing is crueler than a coward. And the slaughter to come... is probably beyond our imagining.
Michael: I think you’ve told me more than I wish to know.
& Malkina: Shall we think about ordering? I’m famished.
--
+ quotes on the IMDb
Σ Not a waste at all. Someone just need to give a second thought to this movie, it’s scenes and dialogues. Or to be prepared on the first place before watching. ’Cause it’s not a usual ordinary movie that everyone is waiting for. So it goes it greatly underestimated.
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