The Chinese (1967)

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Guillaume

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• Guillaume : A Communist must always ask himself why and think carefuly to see if everything conforms to reality. A Communist is never infallible, should never be arrogant, and never think things are OK only at home.

• Guillaume : I would like to be blind.

  Veronique : Why?

  Guillaume : To talk to each other better. We would listen seriously.

  Veronique : Ah yes. How come?

  Guillaume : By delivering language differently. Listen, language has changed its meanings in two thousand years.

  Veronique : So?

  Guillaume : So we would talk seriously. Finally, these real meanings would change words.

  Veronique : Ah yes, we would talk as if words were sounds and matter.

  Guillaume : That's... what they... are. Veronique.

  Veronique : Right. Let's start then.

  Guillaume : By the river.

  Veronique : Green and blue.

  Guillaume : Tenderness.

  Veronique : A bit of despair.

  Guillaume : The day after tomorrow.

  Veronique : Maybe.

  Guillaume : Literary theory.

  Veronique : A film by Nicholas... Ray.

  Guillaume : The... Moscow... trials.

  Veronique : Red... breast.

  Guillaume : Rock... and roll.

  Veronique : And so on.

  Guillaume : And so on?

  Veronique : And so on.

  Guillaume : I love you, you know.

• Guillaume : Yes, yes, I think, I think we must be different from our parents. My father, for example, fought very hard against the Germans during the war, and now he runs a Club Med resort. You know, those big holiday condos by the sea. And the terrible thing is that he just can't figure out that they are made with exactly, exactly the same layout as the concentration camps.