Pity (2018)
Yannis Drakopoulos: Lawyer
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Lawyer : The expression that people adopt when they feel pity for someone is an expression that is hard for them to replicate, if you ask them to. They usually flutter their eyelids, lower their head, and say: I don't know what to say, courage, patience or something like that.
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Lawyer : I say pain is pain and everyone needs a hug.
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Lawyer : I forgot how good it felt. You know, they say it is dangerous when someone cannot cry. Your eyes could explode. You could go blind. Or the arteries in your head could burst.
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Lawyer : And you know, crying is the most difficult thing for someone to fake.
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Lawyer : I am very familiar with the route that my tears follow from my stomach up to my eyes. They go through my lungs, then my oesophagus, the carotid artery, ending up in my eyeballs.
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Lawyer : No, it's not people's fault they have stopped pitying me. It's not their fault that they got tired, or that something even more tragic has distracted them. It's my fault.
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Lawyer : And then people stop pitying you. They get tired. Or something else, something even more tragic, distracts them. Just like that.
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Lawyer : As you draw your last breath and alone, alone you die, a thousand animals we shall slaughter, a thousand candles, a thousand candles...
