The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Bill Heck: Billy Knapp (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")

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• Alice Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled) : Gilbert had a saying for any situation. A ready bit of wisdom. He was very certain.

  Billy Knapp (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled") : He was a doughface?

  Alice Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled) : ...He had fixed political beliefs. All of his beliefs were quite fixed. He would upbraid me for being wishy-washy. I never had his certainties. I suppose it is a defect.

  Billy Knapp (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled") : I don't think it's a defect at all. Oh no. Uncertainty. That is appropriate for matters of this world. Only regarding the next are vouchsafed certainty.

  Alice Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled) : Yes.

  Billy Knapp (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled") : I believe certainty regarding that which we can see and touch, it is seldom justified, if ever. Down the ages, from our remote past, what certainties survive? And yet we hurry to fashion new ones. Wanting their comfort. Certainty... is the easy path. Just as you said.