Closet Land (1991)

Alan Rickman: Interrogator

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Quotes 

• Interrogator : Your best hope would be to de-personalize what follows and not to look upon me as a foe or yourself as a victim. Remember, we are both seekers of truth, and in this quest, I am your friend, philosopher, and guide.

• Victim : Your aim is to humiliate and debase a human being, there is *no* justification for cruelty.

  Interrogator : Our aim is to rid society of negative influences. That aim justifies the use of certain unorthodox means.

  Victim : [repeats]  Your aim is to humiliate and debase a human being, there is no justification for cruelty.

  Interrogator : Our aim is to rid society of negative influences...

  [both continue to repeat their lines simultaneously] 

  Victim : ...There is *no* justification for cruelty, there is no justification for cruelty.

  [shouts] 

  Victim : There is no justification!

  Interrogator : Our aim is to rid society of negative influences... There is no justification for cruelty of any kind.

  [stops, aghast, looks up] 

• Interrogator : I don't like all this you know. I tell myself it's just a job and then in my dreams these words float by: Because thou hast the power and ownst the grace to see through and behind this mask of me, against which the years have beat thus blenchingly with their rains, and behold my soul's true face." It seems so long ago. My soul's true face.

• Interrogator : You would do well to depersonalize what follows.

• Interrogator : We'll look into it.