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-'We charge you with a wasted life.' -'Guilty.'

posted 15 years ago by Binkconn
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Great dream dialogue. Makes me think every time I hear it.

[–] thedeeperwell 15 years ago

Both hallucinations freaked me out when I was a kid and first saw this movie. They really got to me, him seeing his dead friends, and then facing the judge. Such imagery. And that's why I love this movie.

[–] silverkid 15 years ago

Yeah I had no idea what I was in for when I saw this last night. I thought it was going to be another typical prison escape movie with some action and thrills. It was so much more than that. Very philosophical and thought provoking. Those dream sequences were frickin' great!

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[–] HijodelCid 15 years ago

This scene reminds me of my mother and her husband: two weak pitiful cowardly creatures defeated by life and who gave up on their dreams too soon and too easily--two lives of disillusionment and hopelessness and despair that were truly and totally wasted.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)

[–] rob2661 14 years ago

Thank you for sharing, Tennessee Williams.

[–] HijodelCid 14 years ago

That is so true: my parental units seem to have risen from a Tennessee Williams play. My mother even has the same sad lost eyes of Vivien Leigh in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)