Torment (1944)

Alf Kjellin: Jan-Erik Widgren

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Quotes 

• Sandman - Student : Wouldn't it be great to have a bed like the one in the movie? And a nice dame too.

  Jan-Erik Widgren : You think?

  Sandman - Student : You bet. A table filled with grub and booze, that bed and a dame. I wouldn't get up for two weeks. I'd just eat and sleep and make it with the broad.

• Jan-Erik Widgren : I'm going to write and play the violin all the time, once I'm out of that hellish place.

• Sandman - Student : I suppose you want a girl who's pure and innocent.

  Jan-Erik Widgren : Yes.

  Sandman - Student : They don't exist.

  Jan-Erik Widgren : Really?

  Sandman - Student : All women are tramps. And if they're not, they want to be. Nietzsche and Strindberg both say so.

• Sandman - Student : When you turn over a stone, you find nasty creatures underneath. Caligula isn't a genuine swine. He's a nasty little venomous creep.

  Jan-Erik Widgren : I don't believe a person can be all evil.

  Sandman - Student : You're still an adolescent. Just wait. You'll see how rotten everything is.

• Jan-Erik Widgren : You must think I'm a real fool.

  Sandman - Student : Nonsense. You're the only one I can talk to. You can't help it if you're an idealist who believes in innocent women.

• Caligula : Caesar hostem aggressus devicit. Widgren?

  Jan-Erik Widgren : Caesar defeated the enemy.

  Caligula : Example of what?

  Jan-Erik Widgren : Participial construction.

  Caligula : Which one?

  Jan-Erik Widgren : Participium coniunctum. Predicative attribute.

  Caligula : Of what?

  [Widgren fails to answer] 

  Caligula : Didn't you prepare for the lesson?

• Jan-Erik Widgren : I'm so happy right now. I don't care what happens.

• Bertha Olsson : You see that star?

  Jan-Erik Widgren : It seems to hang far below the sky on an invisible string.

  Bertha Olsson : It's been a great company to me. If you only knew how lonely I've been.

  Jan-Erik Widgren : Lonely? Who hasn't been lonely.