Fantastical dialogue
Love scene from the fantastical movie ”Sucker Punch” from 2011:
High Roller: –You see, I am what you might call a man who has everything. And yet, I lack the one thing money can't buy.
Baby Doll: -Love?
High Roller: -Close. Truth is more accurate. I seek a true moment, a moment of truth. In this world of lies. It just so happens that… that moment, that fragile, delicate thing like a glass egg or a sand castle, well, that moment can only be given by a non-faker. A non-actor. That's you.
Baby Doll: –I don't understand.
High Roller: –Well, I have spent a small fortune getting you in this room. This golden cage. You're supposed to give yourself to me. It's completely physical. I might have your body but the real you, that intangible, and indefinable spark that is you. Well, that you I will never know. And, yet, that is precisely what I want.
Baby Doll: –I’m sorry. You seem really nice. You want me to lie to you?
High Roller: –No, I don't. All I require from you is a sliver of a moment. To have you not by force but simply as a man and a woman. To see in your eyes that simple truth that you give yourself to me freely. Not because you have to but because you want to. Now, of course, for such a gem, I will give as well. I'm willing to give you freedom. Pure and total freedom. Freedom from the drudgery of every day life, freedom… that abstract ideal. Freedom from pain, freedom from responsibility, freedom from guilt, from regret, freedom from sadness, freedom from loss, the freedom to be happy. Don't close your eyes. I need you to look at me. The freedom to love.
High Roller: –You see, I am what you might call a man who has everything. And yet, I lack the one thing money can't buy.
Baby Doll: -Love?
High Roller: -Close. Truth is more accurate. I seek a true moment, a moment of truth. In this world of lies. It just so happens that… that moment, that fragile, delicate thing like a glass egg or a sand castle, well, that moment can only be given by a non-faker. A non-actor. That's you.
Baby Doll: –I don't understand.
High Roller: –Well, I have spent a small fortune getting you in this room. This golden cage. You're supposed to give yourself to me. It's completely physical. I might have your body but the real you, that intangible, and indefinable spark that is you. Well, that you I will never know. And, yet, that is precisely what I want.
Baby Doll: –I’m sorry. You seem really nice. You want me to lie to you?
High Roller: –No, I don't. All I require from you is a sliver of a moment. To have you not by force but simply as a man and a woman. To see in your eyes that simple truth that you give yourself to me freely. Not because you have to but because you want to. Now, of course, for such a gem, I will give as well. I'm willing to give you freedom. Pure and total freedom. Freedom from the drudgery of every day life, freedom… that abstract ideal. Freedom from pain, freedom from responsibility, freedom from guilt, from regret, freedom from sadness, freedom from loss, the freedom to be happy. Don't close your eyes. I need you to look at me. The freedom to love.
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