In Bruges - Defending Principles in Complex Situations
Ray:
I don't hit women. I would never hit a woman, Chloë! I'd hit a woman who was trying to hit me with a bottle! That's different, that's self defense, isn't it? Or a woman who could do karate. I'd never hit a woman generally, Chloë. Don't think that. God, you're pretty.
Chloë:
I have to make a call.
Ray:
Oh no. You've gone off me, haven't you? Just cause I hit that fucking cow.
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In Bruges - Debate Over Bruges' Worth in Film
Chloë:
This movie, I think it's going to be a very good one. There's never been a classic movie made in Bruges until now.
Ray:
Of course there hasn't. It's a shithole.
Chloë:
Bruges is my home town, Ray.
Ray:
Well, it's still a shithole.
Chloë:
It's not a shithole!
Ray:
What? Even midgets have to take drugs to stick it.
Chloë:
Okay. So, we've insulted my home town. You're doing very well, Raymond. Why don't you tell me some Belgium jokes while you're at it?
Ray: [[w:Belgian chocolate|Chocolates; [w:Belgitude|child abuse; ''Sees Chloë's shocked expression'']
Don't know any Belgium jokes, and if I did I think I'd have the good sense not to... hang on. Is Belgium where there's all those child abuse murders lately? Then I do know a Belgium joke. What's Belgium famous for? ] and ], and they only invented the chocolates to get to the kids. What?
Chloë:
One of the girls they murdered was a friend of mine.
Ray: [''After a long pause, feeling bad'']
I'm sorry, Chloë.
Chloë:
One of the girls they murdered wasn't a friend of mine. I just wanted to make you feel bad. It worked! Quite well.
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Tenet - Implications of Inverted Warfare
Barbara: [Opens a drawer of random items that have been inverted]
The bullet may not seem like much, but it's a simple machine...Lead bullet, brass casing, gunpowder. If they can invert that, I see no reason they couldn't invert pretty much anything. Even a nuclear weapon can only affect our future...An inverted weapon might be able to affect our past as well. Now that we know what to look for, we're finding more and more inverted material. Remnants of complex objects.
The Protagonist: [Holds hand over one of the items that flies into his palm]
What do you think we're seeing?
Barbara:
The detritus of a coming war.
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Tenet - Catching Bullets: A Twist on Perception
The Protagonist: [points gun at wall and fires multiple times]
Why does it feel so strange?
Barbara:
You're not shooting the bullet, you're catching it.
The Protagonist: [walks up closer to the wall]
Whoa. I've seen this type of ammunition before.
Barbara:
In the field?
The Protagonist:
I was almost hit.
Barbara:
Then you were exceedingly lucky. An inverted bullet passing through your body would be devastating. Not pretty.
The Protagonist:
These look like today's.
Barbara:
They may have been made today and inverted years from now.
The Protagonist:
Where did you get them?
Barbara:
Came with the wall. I was assigned it, like all the material I'm studying here.
The Protagonist:
Do you have an analysis on the metals?
Barbara:
Sure. Why?
The Protagonist: [[Armageddon]
The mixture of the alloys can tell me where they might have been made. Look...I'm not seeing ] here.
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Tenet - Understanding Inverted Time and Entropy
Barbara:
One of these bullets is like us, traveling forwards through time...The other one's going backwards...Can you tell which is which?
Barbara: [she holds out her hand out and bullet flies from table into her palm]
How about now? It's inverted. It's entropy runs backwards. So, to our eyes, its movement is reversed. We think it's a type of inverse radiation triggered by nuclear fission.
The Protagonist:
You didn't make it?
Barbara:
No, we don't know how yet.
The Protagonist:
So, where'd it come from?
Barbara:
Someone's manufacturing them in the future. They're streaming back at us... Try it.
Barbara:
You have to have dropped it.
The Protagonist: [places hand over the bullet as if he just dropped it; it flies up into his palm]
How can it move before I touch it?
Barbara:
From your point of view, you caught it...But from the bullet's point of view, you dropped it.
The Protagonist:
But cause comes before effect.
Barbara:
No, that's just the way we see time.
The Protagonist:
Well, what about free will?
Barbara: [plays a recording of the interaction with the bullet both forward and backward]
That bullet wouldn't have moved if you hadn't put your hand there. Either way we run the tape, you made it happen. Don't try to understand it. Feel It.
The Protagonist: [Bullet begins to move backwards on table from Barbara's fingertips to The Protagonist hands]
Instinct. Got it.
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Tenet - Check the Magazine Before Pulling the Trigger
Barbara:
Aim it and pull the trigger.
The Protagonist: [checks the magazine]
It's empty.
Barbara: [The Protagonist aims and fires]
Aim it. Check the magazine.
The Protagonist: [The Protagonist checks the magazine which is now no longer empty]
How?
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Tenet - Navigating Secrets in a High-Stakes World
Barbara:
With a high-vis vest and a clipboard, you can get almost anywhere...Almost.
The Protagonist:
An obscure Tenet.
Barbara: [Barbara leads The Protagonist into a secure room]
No small talk. Nothing that might reveal who we are or what we do.
The Protagonist:
I thought I was here to find out what we do.
Barbara:
You're not here for "What", You're here for "How"..."What" is your department and not my business.
The Protagonist:
Well, to do what I do, I need some idea of the threat we face.
Barbara:
As I understand it, we're trying to prevent World War III.
The Protagonist:
Nuclear holocaust?
Barbara:
No. Something worse.
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