Wild Strawberries (1957)

Ingrid Thulin: Marianne Borg

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• Dr. Evald Borg : It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we were.

  Marianne Borg : That's just an excuse.

  Dr. Evald Borg : Call it what you want. I was an unwanted child in a hellish marriage.

• Marianne Borg : I know that this is wrong.

  Dr. Evald Borg : There's neither right nor wrong. We act according to our needs.

• Marianne Borg : I saw you with your mother, and I was panic-stricken.

  Professor Isak Borg : I don't understand.

  Marianne Borg : I thought: That's his mother. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. And this is her son, and there are light years between them. He himself says he's a living corpse. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold and dead. And I thought of the baby inside me. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. It must end somewhere.

• Marianne Borg : Sleep well?

  Professor Isak Borg : Yes, but recently I've had the weirdest dreams, as if I must tell myself something I won't listen to when I'm awake.

  Marianne Borg : What's that?

  Professor Isak Borg : That I'm dead. Although I'm alive.

• Marianne Borg : You're a coward.

  Dr. Evald Borg : Yes. This life sickens me. I will not be forced to take on a responsibility that will make me live for one day longer than I want to. And you know that I mean what I say.

• Marianne Borg : All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness

• Professor Isak Borg : I like you, Marianne.

  Marianne Borg : I like you too, uncle Isak.

• Professor Isak Borg : Give me a cigar, anytime. That's stimulating and relaxing. That's a vice for men.

  Marianne Borg : And what vices may a woman have?

  Professor Isak Borg : Weeping, giving birth and speaking ill of her neighbors.

• Professor Isak Borg : I have liked having you about the house.

  Marianne Borg : Like a cat.

  Professor Isak Borg : A cat, or a human being.