Scenes from a Marriage (TV Mini Series)

Oskuld och panik (1973)

Bibi Andersson: Katarina

Quotes 

• Katarina : Excuse me for putting a damper on the evening with such trivial matters. But when Peter talks about splitting up, then I know how drunk he is and that insults are soon to follow.

  Peter : It's like I always say: Katarina is a businessman. With equal emphasis on both parts of the word. Business... man. She's also a brilliant artist. And she has an IQ of I don't know what. And she's attractive too. A real gem in a stunning package. How such a paragon could ever spread her legs for me is a mystery.

• Katarina : Sometimes I hate Peter so much. I want to torture him to death. Some nights, when I can't sleep, I dream up diabolical ways to hurt him.

  Marianne : Isn't there any way out of this?

  Katarina : I can't see one.

  Marianne : Have you ever actually talked to Peter?

  Katarina : Now, that's touching.

  Marianne : Well, what did he say?

  Katarina : He said I should do what I damn well please. He's only interested in seeing how much we can humiliate each other. He calls it our dehumanization process.

  Marianne : Maybe he should see a doctor.

  Katarina : He did go see an analyst, but he claimed the man was an idiot.

  Marianne : Maybe you should go away for a while.

  Katarina : One morning I woke up to find the bed empty. Guess where he was. Out on a ledge on the eighth floor, gazing down on the street below. He told me not to worry, that he was only trying to find out who he was. I had to plead with him. Finally, I told him to go ahead, but that brought him in. I wasn't going to get off the hook that easily. You two had it good once upon a time. I still feel a certain hopeless tenderness for him. I understand the anxiety and the feelings of emptiness, disgust and fear. He knows things about me too. Things no one else knows. He says I look like a woman but that I'm a man through and through. Maybe he's right.

• Peter : August Strindberg once said, "Could there be anything more terrifying than a husband and wife who hate each other?" What do you say? Child abuse could possibly be worse. But then again, Katarina and I are children. Deep down, Katarina is a little girl who cries because no one comforts her when she falls. And in the opposite corner, I'm a little boy who cries because Katarina can't love me. Even though I'm bad and mean to her.

  Katarina : Well, on the bright side, there can't possibly be anything worse than this.