A Year and a Day (I) (2018)
Joe Solana Simon: Arin
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Quotes
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Arin : You are but a serf. I adorn you in my mother's wardrobe. I let you indulge in my father's halls. I let you embrace me in my own chambers, yet you are soaked with these demands and grievances!
Jolee : Your love is no burden to me!
Arin : I am but gain for you, am I not? You love me not for who I am!
Jolee : I thought I knew you. How may I love whom I do not know?
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Jolee : Arin, surely you know your father was neglectful, not just towards us, but towards you.
Arin : You know not my father. He had fists of stone.
Jolee : Perhaps he did, but did those hands work for God or for himself? At times, I fear he may have confused his Lords.
Arin : You confuse my father with your lord. He was a powerful man, Jolee.
Jolee : A powerful man be the best for the devil to enlist! We suffered. We starved. We died under him.
Arin : You're still here.
Jolee : Because you let me, but we, weak, collective, we hurt together, and I know you feel that.
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Arin : What is the charge, father?
Lord Ulric : Alcohol, my godale!
Kadin : No, I swear! I didn't take it for me, please!
Lord Ulric : Give me the whole party, then! Then they'll all know this punishment.
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Lord Ulric : I could have cut their hands for trying such theft.
Arin : If I may, father, is that what one deserves for stealing?
Lord Ulric : So is the law of the Bible - a hand for a hand.
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Lord Ulric : You did shed tears, did you not?
Arin : I shed no tears, sir.
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Arin : How will I know this will not be given away? And speak truthfully, dear. God listens.
Jolee : And God joyfully hears that I intend to give my food to those you give less.
Arin : Give her nothing. Not a single grain.
Jolee : And this be punishment? Doing the Lord's bidding against your father's? And speak truthfully. God listens.
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Arin : Surely you feel as sensational as you look.
Jolee : I do not understand why anyone desires to wear a dress.
Arin : Perhaps you've not seen a mirror tonight?
Jolee : Yes, but beauty does not excuse being cumbersome.
Arin : [laughs] Cumbersome? Oh, how absorbing you are!
Jolee : You know what cumbersome means?
Arin : ...Do you?
Jolee : Aye, I can read, mind you. I follow along during sermon, raised in the church before serfdom.
Arin : Your father was ordained?
Jolee : He left for war in France ten year ago.
Arin : I regret that we've not a proper greeting until this moment. Arin, son of Lord Ulric.
[kisses her hand]
Arin : And your name?
Jolee : Jolee.
Arin : Jolee, the honor is entirely mine.
Jolee : Have you any alcohol?
Arin : ...Yes.
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Arin : For every day of this year, I left no stone unturned for her. And on this, our final day, shall I take her back.