Emma Thompson and and Meryl Streep are amazing.
At the beginning Meryl Streep plays this billion year old Rabi, and later on Emma Thompson plays a completely insane homeless person. There are millions of actors, so many I have no respect for. But these people are incredible. I hate claiming that I know a complete stranger through their acting, 'cause that is pretty silly, but they aren't just actors it seems to me. More like artists. What I trite observation.
Al Pacino is incredible in it too...and Mary-Louise Parker.
I wonder how many thousands, maybe millions, of people have had remarkable interactions with supernatural beings, lights, premonitions, etc. but have disregarded them as hallucinations, nonsense, insanity. Maybe they aren't, maybe people are ignoring these things when they might be the secrets to real life.
And now I am going to type out the lines I was in awe of, because there are so many. I need to find a copy of the screenplay.
The bold ones are the ones I like best.
"In the new century, I think we will all be insane."
"Love is never ambivalent."
"Do you wanna be nice or you wanna be affective?! You wanna make the law or subject to it?!"
"I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts and your genitals and they're amazingly stupid; like babies or faithful dogs. They just want him...want him."
"...it's all gone too far, too much loss is what they think. We should stop, somehow, go back." "That's not how the world works...it only spins forward." "Yeah, but forward into what?"
"There is no Zion save where you are. If you can not find your heart's desire in your own back yard, you never lost it to begin with."
"You are a battered heart, bleeding life in the universe of wounds."
"You make no sense. The Republican party, the Republican party...I mean I hate the Democrats too, but the Republicans; half religious zealots wanting to control every breath every citizen takes, and half ego, anarchist, libertarian, cowboys shrilling for no government."
"Can't you be ugh, I don't know, happy?" "No one is happy." "You believe the world is perfectible. Yes you do, and so you find it unsatisfying. You have to reconcile yourself to the world's...unperfectability. Be in the world, but not of the world. That's what being a Mormon is." "No, that's what being a schizophrenic is." "Republican, Democrat, it's life. Time is conservative, it moves slow, accept that, don't be tragic. Accept as rightfully yours the happiness that comes your way."
"At first it can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, but that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you do get to a point where the disappointment doesn't hurt so much and gets...actually easier to live with. Quite easy. Which is in it's own way a disappointment. But..."
"Anything can happen...any awful thing."
"My generation we got clarity, unafraid to look deep into the miasma at the heart of the world. What a pit. What a nightmare is there. I have looked, all my life I have searched for absolute bottom. And I found it believe me. Stygian. How tragic, how brutal and short life is, how sinful people are. The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity."
"You're crying. You endanger nothing in yourself. It's like the idea of crying when you do it. Or the idea of love."
"I hate America...I hate this country. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas, and stories, and people dying... The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing he set the word free to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me."
"I live in America, I don't have to love it. You do that, everybody's gotta love something."
"Failing in love isn't the same as not loving. It doesn't let you off the hook, it doesn't mean you're free to not love."
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world there's a kind of...painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind and dreaming ahead."
Everything is so fucking interesting to me! I watch this thing, and I have a seemingly insatiable lust for philosophy. But then there's the history involved, and I want to read about that. Oh, and everything else there is to read about and ponder and pontifate upon! Harumph! I'd just like to read all day for my career, and write a little, then talk with a few very smart people about what I've read. I request for that to be my job. Where do I apply? I have prepared a resume for the Good Fucking Luck company and have filled out the redundant application, I just need to know where to drop it off.
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