Finch: Why are you doing this? Evey Hammond: Because he was right. Finch: About what? Evey Hammond: That the world needs more than just a building right now. It needs hope.
C'est l'histoire d'un homme qui tombe d'un immeuble de 50 etages, le mec au fur et a measure de sa chute repeate sans cesse pour sa rassurer; jusqu ici tout va bien, jusqu ici tout va bien... jusqu'ici tout va bien... mais l'important cest pas la chute, cest l'atterissage.
Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.
The memory is like a dream to me, a dream that is both heard and imagined, that seems to be both itself and its echo. When I remember it I think of it as dancing, dancing as if language had surrendered to movement; dancing as if language no longer existed because words were no longer necessary.
“Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.”
“And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. “
“You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure.”
“But don’t worry.”
“You will someday”
Alan Ball
Source: "American Beauty" Film written by Alan Ball