Sentimental Value - Family Connections and Misunderstandings
Gustav Borg:
You two are the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Nora Borg:
The best that's ever happened to you? Then why weren't you there?
Gustav Borg: [chuckles]
Everyone's mad at dad, huh? You two turned out fine, didn't you?
Nora Borg:
How can you tell? You don't even know us.
Agnes Borg Pettersen:
Stop exaggerating.
Nora Borg:
Exaggerating?
Agnes Borg Pettersen:
Yeah.
Gustav Borg:
I know it's been hard for you. I recognize myself in you. But you're so goddamn angry. It's hard to love someone who's so full of rage. Right? You don't want to be alone forever.
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Sentimental Value - Footstool with a Troubling Family History
Gustav Borg: [about Rachel preparing for the role in his comeback movie]
This'll be great, she's motivated. I told her that footstool was the one my mom used to hang herself.
Agnes Borg Pettersen:
The one from IKEA?
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Sentimental Value - Contrasting Outcomes of Childhood Experiences
Nora Borg:
How did it happen? You turned out fine and I became fucked up.
Agnes Borg Pettersen:
That's not true.
Nora Borg:
Why didn't our childhood ruin you?
Agnes Borg Pettersen:
It hasn't always been easy for me.
Nora Borg:
But you've managed to make a family. A home.
Agnes Borg Pettersen:
Yeah. There's one major difference in the way we grew up: I had you. I know you think you're incapable of caring, but you were there for me. When mom was down, you washed my hair, combed it, got me to school, I felt safe.
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