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    What are the lines in films that left you speechless?


    From the film: Speak No Evil (2022) – Gæsterne (The Original Danish Version)

    Man, my heart dropped during this scene. Phew. Also happens to be one of the most harrowing films to ever exist. Just gut-wrenching and unsettling throughout.

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    1. Corsola_Fan_69 on

      in Planes Trains and Automobiles, when Steve Martin and John Candy finish their journey and are about to go their separate ways to see their families, and then John Candy says>!he doesn’t have a home and his wife has been dead for years!<. (Yes I used a spoiler even though it’s an old movie. I’m sure some of the younger people here haven’t seen it and I would hate to ruin that moment for them!)

    3. Pristine_Animal9474 on

      There was a similar line in the original The Stepford Wives. The protagonist asks the leader of the suburban compound why are they changing the wives for meek automatons. He simply responds: “Because we can.”

    7. RealbasicFriends on

      one of my favorite movies is I’m Thinking of Ending Things. In that movie towards the end after dealing with what is already a deeply uncomfortable and disorienting film. The two main characters go to an ice cream shop in the middle of a blizzard. Once there Jake says she will have to go up to get the ice cream as the 3 women working won’t serve him. Which after some previous scenes feels very eerie. We don’t really know who Jake is and these random women won’t sell to him? Anyways…the woman finally goes to get their ice cream and the woman helping, almost desperately says to her “you know you don’t have to” and the main woman responds with “to what?” and the clerk immediately responds “go forward.”

    8. zombietrashhand on

      I still have no idea why them made an American version of Speak No Evil and I refuse to watch any version other than the original. It is so good.

    9. Saturnrevitalized on

      In *Mulan*, when Mulan returns home and offers her father gifts from the Emperor, her father says “The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.” That line leaves me both speechless and in tears. The context is profound and it truly is such a beautiful ending to that movie.

    10. Kidgorgeoushere on

      Not a film but when the hot priest says ‘it’ll pass’ to fleabag’s declaration of love, that always hit me hard. It’s so tragic yet warm at the same time. It won’t always hurt like this.

    11. goonerfan10 on

      The swimming pool scene with Marwan in Denis Villnevue’s Incendies. What a terrific movie

    12. canepolice on

      Bone tomahawk, ‘say goodbye to my wife and I’ll say hello to yours’

      I don’t know why that line had my jaw dropped and then bawling my eyes out lmao

    13. annamdue on

      That whole movie left me speechless but not for the same reason as most. The man behind this movie also made a shitty, misogynistic, semi autobiographical movie about how aaaawful his evil ex was and it made me already sceptical.
      As a dane who’s read and listened to interviews with this man, Speak no Evil is definitely some racist nonsense methaphor. The way he talks about it is literally that shitty, white supremacist “suicidal empathy” thing. It is 100% about muslims in Denmark. I know this man had to hold himself back from casting a Somalian and middle eastern hijabi woman to play the antagonist couple.

    15. haubenmeise on

      Hit home for me. Still makes me choke up.

      Sincerely

      Skeletor 💜

      ![gif](giphy|Dvw2lJqlTuJmo)

    16. TwentyPieceNuggets on

      “You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?

      Ignorance is bliss.”

      -Cypher, The Matrix

    19. hellomydudes_95 on

      I think the ending of Manchester By The Sea. The decision to not confront grief. The acceptance that sometimes it just doesn’t get better. Sometimes, it’s better to move on in another way.

      Grief is a theme that really hits hard with me and that kinda shook me up.

    21. Specific-Cell-4910 on

      There’s this French thriller that came out a couple of years ago, The Night of 12th, about a girl who’s murdered by a man and the investigation by the police. There’s a quote by the detective that goes something like this
      “What drives me crazy is that all the men we interrogated could have done it. All the men whose path she crossed… Perhaps all the men she never met too. I’m convinced that even if we don’t find her murderer, it’s because all the men killed her.”

      It’s simple but it’s haunting.

      There’s another beautiful quote by a female detective that goes something like “Isn’t it weird that most crimes are committed by men and mostly men are supposed to solve them?” Again, simple, we all know it, but it was a striking quote. The movie is really an exploration on the patriarchy, how misoginy is ingrained in our society and all these issues and I think it’s a beautiful, beautiful movie. Not an easy watch tho, obviously.

    23. ItWasRamirez on

      Ben Stiller telling Gene Hackman “I’ve had a rough year, Dad” in The Royal Tenenbaums always wrecks me

    24. AhhBisto on

      The end credits of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever when Nakia brings a young boy to Shuri and reveals he is T’Challa’s son

      “My mum says you’re good at keeping secrets, is it true?”

      “Yes I’m pretty good at keeping secrets”

      “Toussaint is my Haitian name. My name is Prince T’Challa, son of King T’Challa”

      Genuinely wrecks me every time

      https://preview.redd.it/94ql6zn2ia6h1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72604a95c7b680edb342b28dd1bdc688c47a0a9b

    25. luludarlin on

      ![gif](giphy|fJMWN7XnZM0hO)
      This movie was so good and the ending left me … well, speechless

    26. Glammmy on

      ![gif](giphy|72qkGJuoTzbuU)

      The end scene monologue in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is just perfection. The words, the intent, the arch, and finally the looks of pure love between these two. I cry every time, even after 50 watches.

    28. lzw091 on

      Robin Williams’ line in The Birdcage: “Do me a favor Val? Don’t talk to me for a while.”

    29. kingsss on

      TV shows but NBC’s Hannibal: “Killing must feel good to god too. He does it all the time, and are we not created in his image? God’s terrific. He dropped a church roof on 34 of His worshippers last Wednesday night in Texas while they sang a hymn.”

      Community: “I can tell life from TV, Jeff. TV makes sense, it has structure, logic and rules…and likeable leading men. In life we have this…we have you.”

      The Amazing Digital Circus (this actually did make my jaw drop irl): “I do not care about you, or ANYONE ELSE in this circus, in the slightest! End of story! You are my playthings, and I get joy out of making you suffer! I’m the one who causes pain for fun! If I led you on, it was just to make this part hurt you more. There’s nothing more to me. So, please, just stop looking…”

    30. Misster on

      In *Jumani: Next Level*, Danny Devito’s character laments about his senility the entire movie until the end when he says, “Getting old is a gift. I forget that sometimes, but it is. What more could a guy possibly want?” Completely changed my entire perspective on aging. I wasn’t expecting to get this kind of wisdom from a jumanji remake of all places.

    31. rddrgon on

      Waymond’s be kind speech in EEAAO. And also when rock Evelyn goes after rock Joy.

    32. mai_tai87 on

      Jan: I mean, everybody thinks I’m this big dyke because… ’cause I wear baggy pants, I play softball, and… and I’m not as pretty as other girls, but that doesn’t make me gay. I mean, I like guys. I can’t help it. I just want a big fat wiener up my…

      Andre: Amen, sister.

      From *But I’m a Cheerleader*

    33. herbaliciouss on

      Not a film but from Lost. Sawyer says to Jack “See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough they’ll think they did something to deserve it.”

    34. Altruistic_Treat3509 on

      “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?” Absolutely breaks me every time

    35. theresagray17 on

      I don’t remember a film one, I’m sorry, but I remember a book one from an YA novel called Clockwork Princess, by Cassandra Clare, that just stays with me because it describes life and its tragic happenings:

      “‘You know that feeling,’ she said, ‘when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.’”

    36. B33fboy on

      From the Shape of Water:
      “Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.”

      Idk just one of the most romantic quotes I can think of.

    37. Huge_Confection4475 on

      “Tell my son…. Tell my son what time his father died. Tell him that I–”
      “No. He won’t even know your name.”

      [Captain Vidal Dies-Pan’s Labyrinth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN56mHkSJw)

      The final voiceover of the movie is more heartbreaking, but this exchange, this scene, this is the one that has stuck with me ever since I first watched the movie. He’s so fucking arrogant, so sure that these stupid rebels will give him the dignity he refused them, and Mercedes is just like “fuck you.”

    38. missdeweydell on

      “what is grief if not love persevering?” –wandavision

      I had just lost a loved one and was not expecting that emotional wallop from what seemed to be just a cute marvel show. I’ve since suffered more losses and grief that feels too big to carry. that line comes back to me every time. comforting and true but absolutely gutting all the same.

      ![gif](giphy|tgtu83sxoRJnFmvVxU|downsized)

    40. fancyprisonjumpsuit on

      Erik/Killmonger in Black Panther:

      “Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, ‘Cause they knew death was better than bondage.”

      Black Panther is one of my all-time favorite movies and that line was a gut punch at the end.

    44. Think_Wish_187 on

      Dont remember the exact line, but in Atonement. When older Briony confesses to the interviewer what really happened. It shattered my heart.

    45. HistoricalThroat1899 on

      “He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.”

      ![gif](giphy|PtIEOs9hzGnvy)