Closet Land (1991)
Madeleine Stowe: Victim
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Quotes
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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.
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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]
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Victim : You can break my body, but you can not break my mind!
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Victim : What made you this way? Is it what they did to you? Or is it some hidden sickness, an inner decay?