BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014)

A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.

Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

The Lunchbox (2013)

The film, set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox.

Directed by Ritesh Batra

The fabric of the universe is coming unraveled.

Hushpuppy:
One day, the storm’s gonna blow,
the ground’s gonna sink, and the water’s gonna rise up so high,
there ain’t gonna be no Bathtub,
just a whole bunch of water.

But me and my Daddy, we stay, right
here. We who the earth is for.

Miss Bathsheba:
Every animal is made out of meat.
I am meat, ya’ll asses meat.
Everything is part of the buffet of the  universe.

This here, is an Aurochs.
A fierce, mean creature that roamed
the earth back when we all lived in caves.
They would gobble the cave-babies
down right in front of their cave-parents.
And the cavemen couldn’t do nothing about it,
because they were too poor, too
stupid, too small. Who here thinks
the Cavemen were sitting around crying like a buncha pussies?

Y’all better think about that.
Cause any day now, the fabric of the universe is coming unraveled.
The ice caps gonna melt, the water’s gonna rise, and everything
south of the levee’s going under.
Ain’t gonna be no Bathtub, just a whole bunch of water. Y’all better
learn to survive.

Hushpuppy:
Way back in the day, the Aurochs
was king of the world.
If it wasn’t for giant snowballs,
and the iced age. I wouldn’t even
be Hushpuppy, I would just be breakfast.

Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (2012)

They got none of what we got.

The Bathtub’s got more holidays
than the whole rest of the world.
Daddy always saying, that up in the
dry world, they got none of what we got.
They only got holidays once a year.

They got fish stuck in plastic

wrappers, they got their babies
stuck in carriages, and chickens on
sticks and all that kind of stuff.

Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (2012)

They're afraid of the water...

Daddy says, up above the levee, on

the dry side, they’re afraid of the
water like a bunch of babies.
They built the wall that cuts us off.

They think we all gonna drown down
here. But we ain’t goin’ nowhere.

Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (2012)

In ways I can't understand.

All the time, everywhere, everything’s organs
be beatin’ and squirtin’ and talkin’ to each other
in ways I can’t understand.
Mosta the time they probably just sayin
 “I’m hungry,” or “I gotta poop,”
 but sometimes they talkin’ in codes.

Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (2012)

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

2014 directed by Wes Anderson

You can't even trust yourself.

Leslie: Sometimes your rhythm's off, you read the person right but still do the wrong thing.

Elizabeth: Because you trust them?

Leslie: Because you can't even trust yourself.

My Blueberry Nights by Kar Wai Wong (2007)

We depend on other people as a mirror.

The last few days I’ve been learning

not to trust people and I’m glad I’ve failed.

Sometimes we depend on other people as a mirror

to define us and tell us who we are and

each reflection makes me like myself a little more.

My Blueberry Nights by Kar Wai Wong (2007)

A door slammed and the dream was over...

A few years ago, I had a dream.

It began in the summer and was over by the following spring.

In between, there were as many unhappy nights 
as there were happy days.

Most of them took place in this café.

And then one night, a door slammed and the dream was over. 

My Blueberry Nights by Kar Wai Wong (2007)

Oldboy (2003) by Park Chan-wook

Oldboy (Hangul: 올드보이; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldŭboi) is a 2003 South Korean mystery thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and followed by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

The film follows the story of one Oh Dae-su, who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef.

I can forgive.

Tiffany: Hey!

Pat: What the fuck? I'm married!

Tiffany: So am I!

Pat: What the fuck are you doing? Your husband's dead!

Tiffany: Where's your wife?

Pat: You're crazy!

Tiffany: I'm not the one who just got out of that hospital in Baltimore.

Pat: And I'm not the big slut!... I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry.

Tiffany: I was a big slut, but I'm not any more. There's always going to be a part of me that's sloppy and dirty, but I like that. With all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same about yourself fucker? Can you forgive? Are you any good at that?

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) by David O. Russell

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy.

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) by David O. Russell

The gory bits of me.

I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it,
but I didn't, not really.

Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered,
all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it.

I didn't realize it would sometimes be more than whole,
that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea.

Because it's the halves that halve you in half.
I didn't know, don't know, about the in-between bits;
the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me.

Like Crazy (2011) by Drake  Doremus.

No matter what. Ever,

Ex-girlfriend: Whatever happens in the end,

I don't wanna lose you as my friend.
Jack: I promise, I will never be your friend. 

No matter what. Ever.

Hotel Chevalier (2007) by Wes Anderson

Goverments should be afraid.

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

V for Vendetta (2005) by James McTeigue

Un sentimiento suspendido en el tiempo.

- ¿Qué es un fantasma? 

- Un evento terrible condenado a repetirse una y otra vez, un instante de dolor, quizá algo muerto que parece por momentos vivo aún. Un sentimiento, suspendido en el tiempo, como una fotografía borrosa, como un insecto atrapado en ámbar

Un fantasma, eso soy yo.

El Espinazo del Diablo (2001) by Guillermo del Toro.

The Slut and the Falcon

Charlie: I really wanna be a writer but I don't know what I'd write about. 

Sam: You can write about us. 

Patrick: Call it 'The slut and the falcon' make us solve crimes.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) by Stephen Chbosky.

And in this moment I swear, we are infinite.

I don't know if I will have the time to write anymore letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school and you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about or know someone who has gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don't happen. And there are people who forget what it's like to be 16 when they turn 17. I know these will all be stories someday. And our pictures will become old photographs. We'll all become somebody's mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening, I am here and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you're listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear, we are infinite. 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) by Stephen Chbosky.