Red Desert Movie Quotes
Giuliana
There's something terrible about reality and i don't know what it is. No one will tell me.
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Giuliana
I feel my eyes tearing up. What should I do with my eyes? What should I watch?
Corrado Zeller
You ask what you should watch. I ask how I should live. It's the same thing.
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Corrado Zeller
Sometimes I feel like I have no right to be where I am. Perhaps that's why I keep moving.
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Giuliana
You know what I'd like? I'd like everyone who's ever cared about me... here around me now, like a wall.
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Giuliana
Are you a leftist or a rightist?
Corrado Zeller
Why do you ask such a question? Are you interested in politics?
Giuliana
Good Lord, no. I was just wondering.
Corrado Zeller
It's like asking, "What do you believe in?" Those are big words, Giuliana, that calls for precise answers. Deep down... one doesn't really know what one believes in. One believes in humanity... in a certain sense. A little less in justice. A little more in progress. One believes in socialism... perhaps. What matters is to act as one thinks right - right for oneself and for others. In other words, with a clean conscience. Mine is at peace. Does that answer your question?
Giuliana
That's some bunch of words you strung together.
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Giuliana
It's never still. Never. Never, never. I can't look at the sea for long or I lose interest in what's happening on land.
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Giuliana's son
Why is that smoke yellow?
Giuliana
Because it's poisonous.
Giuliana's son
You mean if a little birdie flies there, it'll die?
Giuliana
The little birdies know by now. They don't fly there anymore.
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Corrado Zeller
Could you eat me too?
Giuliana
If I loved you.
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Giuliana
Everything was singing. Everything.
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Giuliana
I didn't get better. I'll never get better... Never.
Corrado Zeller
You brood on your illness. But it's just an illness like any other. We all suffer from it a bit. In one way or another, we all need to get better.
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Corrado Zeller
Where were you the day of Giuliana's accident?
Ugo
In London, why?
Corrado Zeller
Did you come back?
Ugo
No, they said there was no need, that I could - Did Giuliana complain about that?
Corrado Zeller
No, No, not at all.
Ugo
Then why do you ask?
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Giuliana
I dreamed I was in bed and the bed was moving. I looked down and it was on quicksand. It was sinking deeper and deeper.
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Mili
I hate him.
Linda
Who?
Mili
Your husband. He's like a vulture, always ready to swoop down on a factory in bankruptcy or a woman in distress. You'll see. He'll end up getting his way with me too.
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Giuliana
[voiceover: Giuliana is recounting a fable to her son, as a depiction of the fable is shown on screen]
There was a girl who lived on an island. Grownups bored her, and frightened her too. She didn't like kids her age. They all pretended to be grownup. So she was always alone, with the cormorants, seagulls, and wild rabbits.
Giuliana
[voiceover continues]
She'd discovered a small beach far from town, with crystal-clear water and pink sand. She loved that spot. The colors of nature were so beautiful, and there was no noise. She'd leave only when the sun did too.
Giuliana
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One morning, a sailing ship appeared. It wasn't like the usual boats that passed by. This was a real sailing ship, the kind that had braved stormy seas all over the world - and who knows, maybe even beyond. Seen from afar, it was a splendid sight. But up close, it took on a mysterious air. There was no one aboard. It paused for a few moments, then turned, and sailed off, as silently as it had come. She was used to people's strange ways, so she wasn't surprised.
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Giuliana
I may be wrong... but I really think... I want to make love.
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Giuliana
If I were to leave never to return, I'd take you with me too. You're part of me now. I mean, part of everything around me.
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Corrado Zeller
Your son?
Giuliana
No. No, he's fine. He doesn't need me. It's me who needs him.
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Giuliana
My hair hurts, my eyes, my throat, my mouth...
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Giuliana
I can't decide, because I'm not a single woman. Though sometimes I feel sort of... separated. No, not from my husband. No. Our bodies are all separate.
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Giuliana
If I were to go away, I'd take everything. Everything I see, all the things I use every day, even the ashtrays.
Corrado Zeller
Then you might as well just stay put. You'd just end up missing everything: the street where you live, your city.
Giuliana
You see in classified ads: "For sale. Owner must relocate." As if it were an excuse to abandon everything... or almost. Why? It shouldn't be like that. How can you predict what you'll need? And the things and people you leave behind - will they be there when you go back? And will they be the same?
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Corrado Zeller
You wonder what to look at. I wonder how to live. Same thing.
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Linda, Max's Wife
Where's Augusto?
Mili
I dumped him.
Linda, Max's Wife
Since when?
Mili
I can't go to bed with a man who earns less than me.
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Max
You two would be interested in our conversation. Didn't you tell me about that ointment...
Orlando
What ointment?
Max
The one some Africans use... to last longer. What was it again?
Orlando
Oh, that. It's nothing. Just some crocodile fat and pungent herbs that they smear on before they...
Mili
Smear on what?
Linda
Mili, don't play dumb.
Orlando
It works for hours.
Max
Hear that, Mili? It works for hours.
Mili
I don't believe it.
Corrado Zeller
It's true, it's true. You have no idea what men in other countries do. For example, in Jordan I saw men eat mutton fat and honey for breakfast.
Max
What about the Chinese? They eat ground rhinoceros horn.
Ugo
Dried shark fin is an energy booster too.
Max
I confess that I've tried royal jelly and it works. Right, LInda?
Giuliana
What's that?
Ugo
Honey from the queen bee.
Max
It's rejuvenating. Remember that in your old age, miss.
Corrado Zeller
Assuming she still wants to make love then.
Max
What do you say to that?
Iole
I'd rather do certain things than talk about them.
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