Franklyn (2008)

Ryan Phillippe: Preest, David Esser

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• Preest : If a god is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. If he is able, but not willing, then he must be malevolent. If he is neither able or willing then why call him a god? Why else do bad things happen to good people?

• Preest : If you believe in something strongly enough, who's to say if it's real or not?

• Preest : When you're lost, you're willing to believe anything. In this city, every religion promised a future, whether in this world or the next. All you had to pay them with was your faith and trust and, despite the celebration, the reverence and the prayer, everybody ends up in the same human mess. Old. Sick. Unhappy. Dead.

• Preest : Anywhere can feel like a prison, when you don't have any faith.

• Preest : Somebody once said that religion was deemed by the commoners as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. The only thing I believe is that my name is Jonathan Preest. And tonight, I'm gonna kill a man.

• Preest : There are now so many faiths registered in this town, it gets kind of hard to be original.

• Preest : You see, without faith, it's difficult to be controlled.

• Preest : If you needed to find someone, the best place to start was the Faith Registration Centre - Meanwhile's melting pot of the pious. Every creed, cult, religion and doctrine pass through these doors, all looking for the same sense of belonging and hope.

• Preest : Fractured. Infected. Forgotten. Meanwhile's slum quarter.

• Preest : But don't get me wrong. This wasn't fate. For every soul of this deluded population who believed in fate's comic clockwork, they neglect to see the wear and tear beneath the surface. The teeth that grind into the cogs. The damage that fate causes so many in its selfish journey towards just one favourable consequence. The Individual had simply run out of luck, and I was here to collect.

• Preest : I'd been investigating a nasty little faith known as Duplex Ride. Their leader called himself The Individual. He was one of the most dangerous I'd come across. Egocentric and insanely deluded. The Individual had abducted a young girl into Duplex Ride. For what purpose? Somebody's G-d only knew.

• Preest : These days, you can form a congregation simply based on washing-machine instructions.

• Preest : In this world my name is David.