Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Wednesday Words: Cardboard, Window


Dialogue from Away We Go. Because some things take time. Some things take even more time than we think maybe they should take.

V: Burt, are we fuck-ups?
B: No. What do you mean?
V: I mean we’re 34,
B: I’m 33.
V: And we don’t even have this basic stuff figured out.
B: Basic like how?
V: Basic. Like how to live.
B: We’re not fuck-ups.
V: We have a cardboard window.
B: We’re not fuck-ups.
V: (Whispered) I think we might be fuck-ups.
B: (Whispered) We’re not fuck-ups.

21 maids a-milking:

Mouse said...

Ha ha ha. If parts of your life aren't held together with duct tape, you aren't living at all.

Rachel said...

I love Away We Go. That movie felt so real. Except for the dream house they found. If I went to that house I'd never leave.

Celia said...

what mouse said.

i have not seen this movie yet. i will check it out.

xo

jamie said...

that is a good line, mouse.
moving this to the top of the que.



is it going to make me want to be preggers?

Anonymous said...

If parts of your life are held together with duct tape, you might be a redneck- Har!
-F Stop Fitzgerald
Camera Equipment and Gin

Thao said...

This was such a moving moment in the movie! And I agree, things often do take an impossibly long amount of time to come together.

Peonies and Polaroids said...

Oh you bugger. I was going to post this 'xact same post this week. 'XCAT same.

Just after they had this conversation in the film Nye leant over to me in the cinema and whispered 'that's us' in my ear.

Meg said...

Isn't that everyone though? I mean, everyone worth knowing at least?

I feel that way all the time.

@Jamie Yes. Maybe. It reminded me I wanted to be pregnant one day, it didn't make me feel like it needed to be today. It did make me cry a lot though.

Amanda said...

@Jamie: It didn't make me want to be. At least not, as Meg says, right now. It just made me glad. And weepy.

Biz said...

almost all of this movie spoke to me and made me feel ok about where boone (my honey) and i are right now... even if where we are is kind of nowhere.

Rachel Elizabeth said...

I really want to see this. There is an honesty about it that strikes me as something I would enjoy.

Cate Subrosa said...

Ha ha, I like that. And I love how you tagged it grown-up. I want to see it now.

Giovanna said...

i need to see this movie.
ps. thank you, mouse. i feel better about the duct tape on my sideview mirror, my couch and one of my door knobs. ghet-to.

LENORENEVERMORE said...

I never knew F-up can be so adorable!
~charming*

Seth said...

Oh. That's a nice reminder. Thanks!

me melodia said...

I loved this. I looked at the boy during this scene.
Thank you for posting it. Great reminder.
Hearts to you.
<3

Ps: anon I think you're a freaking weirdo.

sera said...

I love this movie. There were so many things about it that just rang true for both of us when we saw it. except the married part. I'm so glad we are married. sigh.

DesertChildAZ said...

I LOVE this movie. My husband didn't want to watch it, so I sat in the living room and watched it myself while he worked on the computer in the office. I was laughing so hard in parts that he kept coming into the living room to see what was so funny. The send with the stethescope on the bus probably had me laughing the loudest.

Ashley said...

What a great scene from a great movie.

Lula said...

I watched this film two days ago!
Goodness golly- we too turned to each other and said 'that's us!'

a film to remind you of why we love

jwg said...

One of the most simply delightful movies of recent memory...