Daily Dialogue — January 25, 2019

“I was a big slut, but I’m not anymore. There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same for yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you capable of that?”

— Silver Linings Playbook (2012), screenplay by David O. Russell, novel by Matthew Quick

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Exercise.

Trivia: It took five years and twenty-five re-writes before David O. Russell could direct it, as Sydney Pollack told him it was tricky to have emotional, troubling, funny, and romantic content mixed together.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes exercise in movies can be a metaphor for exorcising one’s personal ‘demons,’ as here in Silver Linings Playbook.