Name: In Bruges
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: 2008-02-29
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Thekla Reuten

In Bruges

Debate on Deadly Skills and Misconceptions

Ken Well, technically, your bare hands can kill somebody too, they can be deadly weapons too. I mean, what if he knew karate, say?

Ray You said he was a ]!

[[w:Crossing guard|lollipop man]

Ken He was a lollipop man.

Ray What's a lollipop man doing knowing fucking karate?

Ken I'm just saying.

Ray How old was he?

Ken About fifty.

Ray What's a fifty-year old lollipop man doing knowing fucking karate! What was he, a Chinese lollipop man? Jesus, Ken. I'm trying to talk about...

Ken I know what you're trying to talk about.

Ray I killed a little boy. You keep bringing up a fucking lollipop man.

Ken You didn't mean to kill a little boy.

Ray I know I didn't mean to... but because of the choices I made, and the course that I put into action, that little boy isn't here anymore, and he'll never be here again. I mean here in the world, not here in Belgium. Well he'll never be here in Belgium either, will he? I mean, he might've wanted to come here when he got older. Don't know why. And that's all because of me. He's dead because of me. And I'm trying to... trying to get me head around it, but I can't. I will have always have killed that little boy. That ain't ever going away. Ever. Unless... maybe I go away.

[''Pause'']

Ken Don't even think like that.

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In Bruges

Unexpected Encounters in Bruges

Ken Your girlfriend's very pretty.

Jimmy She ain't my girlfriend. She's a prostitute I just picked up.

Ken I wasn't aware there were any prostitutes in Bruges.

Jimmy You just have to look in the right places... brothels are good.

Ken Well, you've picked up a very pretty prostitute.

Jimmy Thank you.

Ken You from the States?

Jimmy Yeah. But don't hold it against me.

Ken I'll try not to... just try not to say anything too loud or crass.

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In Bruges

Choosing the Right Weapon in Bruges

Harry Aye-aye!

[''To Eirik, with his eyepatch'']

Yuri Take your pick, Mr. Waters.

[''Referring to selection of firearms laid out on table'']

Harry An UZI? Ha, I'm not from South Central Los fucking Angeles. I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten-year olds in a fucking drive-by. I want a normal gun for a normal person.

Yuri I knew he wouldn't kill the guy. I could see it in his eyes when I was telling him about the alcoves.

Harry ...about the what?

Yuri The alcoves - the alcoves in the Koningin Astridpark. Oh, I also have some ]. You use this word, "dumdums"? The bullets that make the head explode?

[[w:Expanding bullet|dumdums]

Harry Dumdums", yeah.

Yuri Would you like some of these dumdums?

Harry Well, I know I shouldn't, err... But I will.

Eirik Motherfucker.

Harry Is he talking to me?

Yuri No, Eirik's on your side, Mr. Waters. Your young friend blinded him last night.

Harry Ray did?

Eirik I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say.

Harry Well, to be honest, it sounds like it was all your fault.

Eirik What!

Harry I mean, basically, if you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks, and you allow your gun to be taken off you, and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you then, yeah, really, it's all your fault for being such a poof. So why don't you stop whinging and cheer the fuck up.

Yuri Eirik! I really wouldn't respond.

Eirik I thought you wanted the guy dead?

Harry I do want the guy dead, I want him fucking crucified. But it don't change the fact that he stitched you up like a blind little gay boy, does it? Thanks for the gun, Yuri.

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In Bruges

Discussion on Perspective and Views

Ken Coming up?

[''Preparing to climb the the belfry'']

Ray What's up there?

Ken The view.

Ray The view of what? The view of down here? I can see that from down here.

Ken Ray, you are about the worst tourist in the whole world.

Ray Ken, I grew up in ]. I love Dublin. If I'd've grown up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't, so it doesn't.

[[w:Dublin|Dublin]

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In Bruges

Changing perceptions of identity and violence

Ray Exactly at what point was it that all skinheads suddenly became poofs? It used to be, you were a skinhead, you just went round beating up Pakistani twelve-year olds. Now it seems a prerequisite to be a fucking bumboy!

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In Bruges

Conflict Escalates in Tense Standoff

Marie Why don't you both put your guns down, go home?

Harry Don't be stupid; this is the shootout.

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In Bruges

A Trip to Bruges Explained

Harry Now, you lot be good for your mummy and Imamoto, okay? Cause Daddy's got to go away for a few days.

[''To his two daughters and son'']

Natalie Where are you going?

Harry I've got to go to Bruges.

Natalie Bruges? Where's that?

Harry It's in Belgium.

Natalie Why would anybody have to go to Belgium?

Harry Cause I've got to sort something out.

Natalie Is it something to do with the phone?

Harry It's something to do with Ken. It's a matter of honour.

Natalie Well, it ain't gonna be dangerous, is it?

Harry Well, of course it's gonna be dangerous if it's a matter of fucking honour!

Natalie You are bringing the fellas with you? Tell me you're bringing the fellas with you. Harry.

[''Harry shakes his head'']

Harry I'm sorry for calling you an inanimate object. I was upset.

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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

A Request for Personal Space

Ray Back off, shorty!

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In Bruges

Discussion of Alcoves and Murder Potential

Yuri There are a lot of alcoves in the Koningin Astridpark. You use this word, alcoves?

Ken Alcoves? Yes. Sometimes.

Yuri There are not many people around in these alcoves in Christmas time. If I were to murder a man, I would murder him here. (beat) Are you sure this is the right word, alcoves?

Ken Alcoves, yes! It's kind of like, nooks and crannies.

Yuri Nooks and crannies, yes! Perhaps this would be more accurate. Nooks and crannies rather than alcoves. Yeah! You are going to do it, aren't you? Mr. Waters would be very disappointed.

Ken Of course I'm going to fucking do it. It's what I do.

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In Bruges

A Night of Chaos and Contradictions

Ken How did your date go?

Ray My date involved two instances of extreme violence, one instance of her hand on my cock and my finger up her thing, which lasted all too briefly - isn't that always the way? - one instance of me stealing 5 grams of a very high quality ] and one instance of me blinding a poofy little ], so, all in all, my evening pretty well balanced out. Fine.

[[w:cocaine|cocaine; [w:skinhead|skinhead]

Ken You've got five grams of coke?

Ray I got four grams on me and one gram in me which is why me heart is going like the fucking clappers as if I'm about to have a heart attack, so if I collapse any minute now please remember to tell the doctors it might have something to do with the coke.

[''Shakes head'']

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In Bruges

Judgment Day and Its Consequences

Ken ] painting] ], you know?

[''Looking at a surreal [[w:Hieronymus Bosch|Bosch; [w:The Last Judgment (Bosch, Bruges)|It's Judgment Day]

Ray Oh, yeah. What's that then?

Ken Well, it's, you know, the final day on Earth, when mankind will be judged for all the crimes they've committed and that.

Ray Oh. And see who gets into Heaven and who gets into Hell and all that.

Ken Yeah.

Ray What's the other place?

Ken Purgatory.

Ray Purgatory... Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like ]. Do you believe in all that stuff, Ken?

[[w:Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham; ''Pause'']

Ken In Tottenham?

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In Bruges

Confronting Suicidal Thoughts and Desperation

Harry Well?

Ken The boy's suicidal Harry. He's a walking dead man. Keeps going on about Hell and Purgatory -

Harry When I phoned you yesterday, did I ask you Ken, would you do me a favor and become Ray's psychiatrist please? No. What I think what I asked you was "would you go blow his fucking head off for me?" "He's suicidal"? I'm suicidal, you're suicidal, everybody's fucking suicidal. We don't all keep going on about it. Has he killed himself yet? So he's not fucking suicidal, is he?

Ken He put a loaded gun to his head this morning, I stopped him.

Harry He... What? This gets fucking worse!

Ken We were down the park...

Harry Lemme get this right..."You were down the park"? What's that got to do with fucking anything? Let me get this right. Not only have you refused to kill the boy, you even stopped the boy from killing himself, which would've solved my problem, which would've solved your problem, which sounds like would've solved the boy's problem.

Ken It wouldn't have solved his problem.

Harry Ken, if I had killed a little kid, accidentally or otherwise, I wouldn't have thought twice. I'd killed myself on the fucking spot. On the fucking spot. I would've stuck the gun in me mouth on the fucking spot!

Ken That's you, Harry. The boy has the capacity to change. The boy has the capacity to do something decent with his life.

Harry Excuse me, Ken, I have the capacity to change.

Ken Yeah, you do. You've the capacity to get fucking worse!

Harry Ah yeah, now we're getting down to it!

Ken Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny, I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt. And, the only thing that's gonna change is you're gonna become an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.

Harry Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!

Ken I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.

Harry Insulting my fucking kids?! That's going overboard, mate!

Ken I retracted it, didn't I! Still leaves you being a cunt...

[quietly]

Harry Yeah, I fucking got that.

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In Bruges

Disappointment in Tourist Attractions

Overweight Man Been to the top of the tower?

Ray Yeah. Yeah, it's rubbish.

Overweight Man It is? Guide book says it's a must see.

Ray Well you lot ain't goin up there.

Overweight Man Pardon me? Why?

Ray I mean it's all windy stairs. I'm not being funny.

Overweight Man What exactly are you trying to say?

Ray What exactly am I trying to say? You's are a bunch of fuckin elephants!

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In Bruges

Bruges: A Fairytale Amidst Tension

Ken Harry? It's Ken. Listen to this noise. Do you know what that is? Yeah, I know you know it's a train. Do you know what train? Well, it's a train that Ray just got on, and he's alive and he's well, and he doesn't know where he's going and neither do I. So if you need to do your worst, do your worst. You've got the address of the hotel. I'll be here waiting. Because I've got to quite like Bruges now. It's like a fucking fairytale or something.

[''Makes call''; ''Ken hangs up'']

Natalie Harry. Harry!

[''Appears in doorway'']

Harry What!

[''Stops'']

Natalie It's an inanimate fucking object!

Harry You're an inanimate fucking!

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In Bruges

Questioning the Choice of Bruges for Memories

Ray What a wanker!

Ken He said this whole trip... this whole being in Bruges thing, was just to give you one last, joyful memory before you died.

Ray In Bruges? The Bahamas, maybe? Why fucking Bruges?

[''Laughs'']

Ken I suppose it's cheaper.

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In Bruges

Dispute Over a Gun in Bruges

Ray Mine's a bloody girl's gun.

Ken I'm keeping it.

Ray Pardon me? Gimme me gun back.

Ken You're not getting it back. You're a suicide case.

Ray And you were trying to shoot me in the fucking head.

Ken You're not getting that gun back.

Ray Oh, great day this has turned out to be. I'm suicidal, me mate tries to kill me, me gun gets nicked and we're still in fucking Bruges.

Ken Listen, I'm gonna give you some money and put you on a train somewhere.

Ray Back to England?

Ken You can't go back to England, Ray. You'd be a dead man!

Ray Ken, I wanna be a dead man. Have you been missing somethin'?

[''Sobs'']

Ken You don't wanna a dead man, Ray.

Ray I killed a little boy!

[''Sobs'']

Ken Then save the next little boy. Just go away somewhere, get out of this business and try to do something good. You're not gonna help anybody dead. You're not gonna bring that boy back, but you might save the next one.

Ray What am I gonna be, a doctor? You need exams.

Ray Do anything, Ray. Do anything!

In Bruges

Finding Purpose in Uncertainty

Ray The rest of the ] and the ]. Can I have me gun back, please? What am I gonna do, Ken? What am I gonna do?

[[w:LSD|acid; [w:MDMA|ecstasy]

Ken Just keep moving. Keep on moving. Try not to think about it. Learn a new language, maybe?

Ray Sure, I can hardly do English. That's one thing I like about Europe, though. You don't have to learn any of their languages.

Ken Just forget about home for a while. See how the land lies in six years, seven years. Seven years is not that long.

Ray It's longer than that boy got. My first fucking job. Great hitman I turned out to be.

Ken Some people just aren't cut out for it, Ray.

Ray Are you? When are you going back to England?

Ken I'll head back in a couple of hours or something.

Ray Harry's not gonna be mad at you, is he? For letting me go?

Ken I'll sort out Harry.

Ray Just tell him I'll have probably killed myself in a fortnight, anyway.

Ken You won't, will you, Ray?

In Bruges

Sticking to Principles in Difficult Situations

Harry You've got to stick to your principles.

[''After mistaking shooting Jimmy the midget for a prepubescent boy, to Ray''; ''Shoots himself in head'']

In Bruges

A Descent into Chaos and Confusion

Ray After I killed them, I dropped the gun in the Thames, washed the residue off my hands in the bathroom of a Burger King, and walked home to await instructions. Shortly thereafter, the instructions came through. "Get the fuck out of ], yous dumb fucks. Get to ]." I didn't even know where Bruges fucking was. It's in ].

[''Voiceover''; [w:London|London; [w:Bruges|Bruges; ''Pause''; [w:Belgium|Belgium]

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 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?

[[w:Belgian chocolate|Chocolates; [w:Belgitude|child abuse; ''Sees Chloë's shocked expression'']

Chloë One of the girls they murdered was a friend of mine.

Ray I'm sorry, Chloë.

[''After a long pause, feeling bad'']

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.

In Bruges

Harry's Demands and Frustrations Unfold

Harry Number one, why aren't you in when I fucking told you to be in? Number two, why doesn't this hotel have phones with fucking voicemail and not I have to leave messages with the fucking receptionist? Number three, you better fucking be in tomorrow night when I fucking call again otherwise there'll be fucking hell to pay. I'm fucking telling you. - Harry.

[''Ken is handed a typewritten message from the hotel receptionist'']

In Bruges

Balancing Culture and Fun in Bruges

Ken We are doing what I want to do, got it?

Ray Of course, which I presume will involve culture.

Ken Oh, we shall strike a balance between culture and fun.

Ray Somehow I believe, Ken, that the balance shall tip in the favour of culture, like a big fat fucking retarded fucking black girl on a see-saw opposite... a dwarf.

In Bruges

Unexpected Confrontation in Bruges

Ken Ray, don't!

[''Walks up behind Ray sitting on a park bench who holds up gun to head'']

Ray Fuckin hell! Where the fuck did you come from?

Ken I've behind a thing. What the fuck you doing, Ray?

Ray What the fuck are you doing?

Ken Nothin'.

Ray Oh, my God... you were gonna kill me.

Ken No, I wa - You were gonna kill yourself!

Ray Well... I'm allowed.

Ken No, you're not!

Ray What? I'm not allowed, and you are? How's that fair?

In Bruges

Decision to Leave Bruges for London

Ray This is my vote of what we should do. We give it another day, two days max, then we check the papers again and if there's still nothing in em, we phone him and say, "Harry, thank you for the trip to Bruges, it's been very nice, all the old buildings and that, but we're coming back to London now," and hide out in a proper country where it isn't all just fucking chocolates.

In Bruges

Fear of Eternity in Bruges

Ray There's a ] somewhere in London with a bunch of presents underneath it that'll never be opened. And I thought, if I survive all this, I'll go to that house, apologize to the mother there, and accept whatever punishment she chose for me. Prison... death... didn't matter. Because at least in prison and at least in death, you know, I wouldn't be in fuckin Bruges. But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, fuck man, maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in fuckin Bruges. And I really, really hoped I wouldn't die. I really, really hoped I wouldn't die.

[''Voiceover''; [w:Christmas tree|Christmas tree]

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