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Laura Baxter: One of your children has posed a curious question: if the world is round, why is a frozen lake flat?
John Baxter: That's a good question.
Laura Baxter: [flipping through book] Ah, here it says that Lake Ontario curves more than 3 degrees from its Eastern end to its Western end. So frozen water really isn't flat.
John Baxter: Nothing is what it seems.
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Inspector Longhi: The skill of police artists is to make the living appear dead.
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Heather: Fetch him back! Let him not go!
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Laura Baxter: This one who's blind. She's the one that can see.
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John Baxter: Christine is dead. She is dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!
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Bishop Barbarrigo: [while passing by a dilapidated church] The churches belong to God, but he doesn't seem to care about them.
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Heather: One of the things I love about Venice, is that it's so safe for me to walk.
John Baxter: Steps.
Heather: Thank you... The sound changes, you see, as you come to a canal. And the echoes from the walls are so clear... My sister hates it.
John Baxter: That's too bad.
Heather: She says it's like a city in aspic, wrapped over from a dinner party, where all the guests are dead or gone.
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Laura Baxter: Your bishop makes me feel strange.
John Baxter: I imagine he makes God feel less than immaculate.
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Inspector Longhi: Age makes women grow to look more like each other. Don't you find that? Old men decay and each becomes quite distinct. Women seem to converge, eh?
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Hilma 2021-12-21 08:01:16
In addition to the wonderful ending, the editing is really unforgettable, and Venice, which has always been gloomy, has indeed achieved the atmosphere.
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Darby 2022-03-21 09:02:11
The editing, shots and space are so good, like De Palma and Lynch all in one. Transcendental intuition is disintegrated by reason, and reason instead becomes another obsession that is too much. It is completely understandable to be voted No.1 in British film history by Time Out.