Thread by @startupdaemon

The Knight of Cups is what you get when you're so beyond hero that you're not even an antihero.

'For optimal sound reproduction, the producers of this film recommend that you play it loud.'

How every movie should begin.

Sound and music are the overlooked bit of magic in every great cinematic experience.

The Pilgrim's progress from this world

to that which is to come,

delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting-out, his dangerous journey and safe arrival at the desired country.

You see the palm trees

They tell you anything's possible

You could be anything,

Do anything

Start over

You don't

What do you want to talk about?

- You have nice eyes

I was born lucky

- Where do you live?

Why do you wanna know?

- I'm gonna write you a letter

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA SAY IN YOUR LETTER?

Maybe you better not say it...

Let's live like nobody's done it before

Wicked

Brave

Can I come over?

- We just left each other

Are you alone?

- Of course

I just

Wanna

Sit next to you

What are you wearing?

- A dress

What's it made of?

- How should I know?

- Cotton, I guess

I see how you look at me

You think I could make you crazy

Crack you out of your shell

Make you suffer

I

Think

You're

Weak

You don't want love.

You want a love experience.

Desire so deep I'll throw my life away

- Don't go back to being dead

What do you want?

- We're not leading the lives that we're meant for

- We're meant for something else

I dreamed that we were caught in a huge tidal wave that engulfed the city

Any moment it seemed like we might be swept under

There was a door that I was afraid to go through

I touched the knob

I loved my brother then

I hated him too

For destroying everything I'd been trying to do

They said he took his life

But they don't know

Like a snake

Swallowed him

Life

A goddess

I can't believe I'm saying this, but this movie made me realize that when you're hyperdisconnected kitsch can seem so grounding

Treat this world as it deserves

There are no principles

Just circumstances

Nobody's home

This.

Insanity.

Get up

Find it

Dear friend

I wonder where I was in all that time

A sleepwalker

In love with the world, in love with love

You changed

World absorbed you

More and more

You always wanted to get away

I wanted a mate

I couldn't have You

Just didn't wanna be alone

Are you sorry that you brought me here?

- Are you sorry you came?

Do you remember how happy we were?

Different these days

What's going on with you?

You used to sing in the morning coming down the stairs

I meant to make you happy, I wanted nothing else

But then you began to be angry with me

Just for little things

I don't wanna accuse you, but you turned more unkind toward me

Almost cruel

Stay

I want you

Hold you

Have you

Mine

Cate Blanchett's crazy secksy in this even though she's crying the entire time.

A woman can be dignified and feminine even if she's crying; tantrums and hissy fits are for girls and manlets.

This would have been my life if I had got married when I was 20.

Dodged a bullet, both of us.

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Experiencing this movie is an anti-nirvana nirvana:

- nirvana is salvation in this here world from this here world

- the movie is escape in this here world from this here world

If you follow the story, you miss most of the movie.

So lifelike.

My hope

You gave me peace

You gave me what the world can't give

Mercy

Love

Joy

All else is cloud

Mist

Be with me

Always

I was afraid when I was young

Afraid of life

Why don't we take yes for an answer

I gave my life up for you kids

It wasn't a noble sacrifice

It was what we were supposed to do

It was the way I was raised

This movie absorbs every psychological archetype like a thirsty sponge, even the Joker (Heath Ledger).

You think when you reach a certain age things will start making sense

Then you find out you're just as lost as you were before

I suppose that's what damnation is

The pieces of your life never to come together

Just splashed out there

So many fathers are modern-day anti-Oedipus - as miserable as Oedipus himself.

Look into the camera

Fucking make it hard

You're a dirty fucking bitch

Work those muscles

You're a 1975 housewife who takes steroids and fucks girls

I travel

A wanderer

A stranger

Like you

Remember

The pearl

Whispering

Beckoning

Each man

Each woman

A guide

A god

You live in exile

Stranger in a strange land

A pilgrim

A knight

Find your way

From darkness

To light

HOW COME YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING IN THIS HOUSE, MAN?

What's you name?

- What's Your name?

Whatever you want it to be

The High Priestess in this is a stripper.

TFW the reallest person in the world is a stripper.

You have a darkness on you

A little Shadow

You live in a little fantasy world, don't you?

- Don't You?

Yes

Because it's so much more fun

- Do you enjoy yours?

Uh-huh

Changes every day

I can be whatever I want to be

Don't forget that

You can be whoever you want to be

You can be an asshole

You can be a saint

You can be a

You can be a god

Free

Wake up

Love danger

Real life's so hard to find

Where is it?

How do you get there?

Get out of the big cloud of dust
everybody's kicking up

The only way out is in

Breathe

Your mind's a theatre

Why do you hold back?

I thought you were dead

What a fool am I

Just to lie in a stinking dungeon

When I may as well walk at liberty

I only teach one thing

I only teach this moment

Pay attention to this moment

Everything is there

Perfect

Find the light you know in the east

As a child

The moon

The stars

They serve you

They guide you on your way

The light in the eyes of others

The pearl

Wake up

Turn

Look

Come out

My son

Remember

Begin