Closet Land (1991)

Madeleine Stowe: Victim

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Quotes 

• 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 tyrants. Resistance is my only weapon.

• Victim : Your aim is to humiliate and debase a human being, there is *no* justification for cruelty.

  Interrogator : Our aim is to rid society of negative influences. That aim justifies the use of certain unorthodox means.

  Victim : [repeats]  Your aim is to humiliate and debase a human 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] 

• Victim : You can break my body, but you can not break my mind!

• Victim : What made you this way? Is it what they did to you? Or is it some hidden sickness, an inner decay?