Dr. Doomstoevsky

The Handmaiden (2016) has such breathtaking cinematography. It's truly a visual masterpiece.

'But perhaps one day, when we are ready to die of ignorance and exhaustion, I shall be able to renounce our shrieking tombs, to go and lie down in the valley, under the unchanging light, and learn for one last time what I know.'

'Nature is still there, nevertheless. Her calm skies and her reason oppose the folly of men. Until the atom bursts into flame, and history ends in the triumph of reason and the death agony of the species.'

'All I know is that this sky will last longer than I shall.'

'He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory'.

'She wanted the sea and felt the sheets on her bed.'

'This would be a good day not to get clobbered by anything.'

'Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!'

'It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.'

'God should be your comfort, but you have made comfort your god.'

'It is ugliness itself that becomes, in the end, the goal of his lechery; beauty has long since grown too weak a stimulant.'

'Was it the most crude truth that all the endless talks which had seemed to her, before they were married, the very medium of love itself, had never been to him more than a preliminary?'

I had uttered prayers, fetish prayers, had prayed as heathens mutter charms when I was in extremity; but now I prayed indeed, pleasing steadfastly and sanely, face to face with the darkness of God.

Reality is actually one thing and language something else.

I don't want you to be grateful, he says. I just want you to be happy.

He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence.