Closet Land
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Closet Land is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Radha Bharadwaj. It stars Madeleine Stowe as a young author of children's books and Alan Rickman as a ruthless interrogator.
[edit] Quotes
- Victim: Your aim is to humiliate and debase the human being. There is no justification for cruelty.
- Interrogator: Our aim is to rid society of negative influences. This end justifies certain unorthodox means.
- Victim: Your aim is to debase and humiliate a human being, there is *no* justification for cruelty.
- Interrogator: Our aim is to rid society of negative influences. The end justifies the use of certain unorthodox means.
- Victim: [repeats] Your aim is to debase and humiliate a being, there is no justification for cruelty.
- Interrogator: Our aim is to rid society of negative influences.
[both continue to repeat their lines simultaneously]
- Victim: ...There is *no* justification for cruelty, there is no justification for cruelty.
[shouts]
- Victim: There is no justification!
- Interrogator: Our aim is to rid society of negative influences... There is no justification for cruelty of any kind.
[stops, aghast, looks up]
- Interrogator: You would do well to depersonalize what follows.
- Recording: 99.10% of women who wear black underwear are closet whores.
- Interrogator: We'll look into it.
- Recording: Sign the confession, or suck my dick! Which ever you please, you tease!
- Victim: You can break my body, but you can not break my mind!
- Victim: [as Victim tries to stay awake] Pain will only strengthen my will. You can break my body, but you can't break my mind. Torture is the policy of tryants. Resistance is my only weapon.
- Interrogator: Your best hope would be to de-personalize what follows and not to look upon me as a foe or yourself as a victim. Remember, we are both seekers of truth, and in this quest, I am your friend, philosopher, and guide.
