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what was celia's speech ...


...when she comes to see paul just after she discovered the photo and that her mum explains who her real father was. I can't understand any of it, mostly because of her accent and her crying too. It's the speech which ends with " how do you live with yourself ?". Seeing it's pretty important to understand the rest of the story, i would really like to know. Thanks

-obvious again though potentially problematic -GOF

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Celia has just found out from her mum that Paul is not her father, but half brother. Basically, Celia confronts Paul and is angry because he didn't tell her. She is upset because she thinks Paul abandoned her (although he didn't know of her existance)just as he left the little girl in the picture he took in war torn Grozny. The audience, at this point, still does not know that she and Paul are brother and sister. I believe this dialog is purposely kept ambiguous so the ending has a twist.

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