More lines from the movie/the book

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2002)

She picks up a cushion and places it on her lap as a shield against him. "If you make love to me I won't lie about it. If I make love to you I won't lie about it". She moves the cushion against her heart, as if she would suffocate that part of herself which has broken free. "What do you hate most?" he asks. "A lie. And you?" "Ownership" he says. "When you leave me, forget me." Her fist swings towards him and hits hard into the bone just below his eye. She dresses and leaves..........
How did you hate me? She whispers in the Cave of Swimmers, talking about her pain of injuries. A broken wrist. Shattered ribs. You were terrible to me. That's when my husband suspected you. I still hate that about you-dissappearing into deserts or bars. You left me in the Groppi Park. Because you didn't want me as anything else. Because you said your husband was going mad. Well, we went mad. Not for a long time. I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me, will you. Stop defending yourself. Kiss me and call me by my name. Their bodies met in perfumes, sweat, frantic to get under that thin film with a tongue or tooth, as if they each could grip character there and during love pull it right off the body of the other. Now there is no talcum on her arm, no rose water on her thigh. You think you are an iconoclast, but you are not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you. How many women did you have? I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, so wordless sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.......