Wednesday, June 14, 2006
a friendless fate?
excerpt from "speaking in tongues" - (andrew bovell 1996) (s.i.t. is the play the movie 'lantana' was based on.)
ACT 3 - pg 54
leon is a cop, interveiwing john after the dissapearence of john's wife
leon: is there somebody you'd like to call? somebody that could come over here, maybe.
john: no.
leon: a relative.
john: no.
leon: a friend.
john: [hesitating] i'm embarrassed to say it, but i don't have any.
leon: why are you embarrassed?
john: because i feel i should
leon: not everybody needs them
john: i think you reach an age and a position in life when you no longer have friends. you just have colleagues. i think that's what's happened to me.
is this where we are headed? is this where i am headed? am i driving my friends away through my desire to suceed? i've got friends, but the only one i see a lot of is gareth, andwe dont talk that much, we just sotra hang out.
i loved speaking in tongues, just raised some questions for me. human nature is a strange thing.
posted by mitch @ 3:25 pm
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2 Comments:
Hey Mitch, found your blog. Sounds like you have some great thoughts! Lantana was an incredible movie! I havent' seen speaking in tongues. Sounds interesting though. I tend to think that isolating ourselves is an awful fate. What is the point of sucess if you have no one around you at the end? Aren't relationships the point of life? I'd rather have great friends than great sucess and no friends at the end of it all.
i studyed Lantana and at times i was in love with it, and at other times i despised it.
It was so truthfull, that it scared me.
I dont want to think about the failure, lonelyness and betrayl that we have to endure in our life.
I dont want to linger on relationship breakdowns and miscommunications
and most of all... i want to believe that Love is everything.
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