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Ted Cole: [discussing Eddie's first story] Oh, its very heartfelt. Very personal. Well, its just a collection of personal anecdotes that don't really add up to much.
Eddie O'Hare: I was just trying to see if could write something that seemed true.
Ted Cole: Oh, it seems true. It just isn't very interesting. It sort of an emotional outburst, but it really isn't a story.
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Ted Cole: Everything in fiction is a tool: pain, betrayal, even death. These are, you know, these are like, uh, different colors on a painter's palette. You need to use them.
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Ruth Cole: Your penis looks funny.
Ted Cole: My penis *is* funny.
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Ted Cole: And so the little boy was born, and he was happy. And his mommy was happy, too. Although she told the boy, at least once every day, "Don't ever, not ever, never, never, never, open the door in the floor." But of course, he was only a little boy. If you were that little boy, wouldn't you want to open that door in the floor?
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Eddie O'Hare: [matter-of-factly] Wrong cubes!
Ted Cole: [looks at his glass and realizes he did not used ice cubes for his whisky]
Ted Cole: [gets rid of the glass contents]
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Ted Cole: I hired you, Eddie because you look like Thomas.
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Ted Cole: About the shoe, it was a basketball shoe. Air Jordan I think you called it.
[pause]
Ted Cole: Specific details, Eddie. Specific details.
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Ted Cole: The sound of it, it was a rear entry position, not that I have a personal problem with that or any other position, but for a child, I imagine, doing it doggishly must seem especially animalistic.
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Marion Cole: Am I going to die? No, you're not going to die.
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Eddie O'Hare: I want to know more about you.
Marion Cole: You know too much already.
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Ted Cole: Everyone has mice. Mice are everywhere.
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Eddie O'Hare: [startles awake] Marion?
Ted Cole: Jesus, aren't you the optimist.
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Marion Cole: [speaking about her daughter] I won't be a bad mother to her. I'd rather be no mother than to be a bad mother to her.
Eddie O'Hare: That doesn't make any sense.
Marion Cole: I don't want her to be like me.
The Door in the Floor Quotes
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Lew 2022-03-23 09:03:06
If the adaptation of the novel is to be faithful to the original, it will face the limitation of space. The vision can indeed handle more details, but the psychological strength of the text takes time to accumulate. The organization of the plot in this film is not ingenious. The different music when Ted paints nudes , the parallel editing of signatures and writing, including the composition of several frames in the scene, all promote the narrative rhythm, and the characters' personalities can emerge in each other's interactions, but they also completely abandon the content of the last 2/3 of the novel and give up The reappearance of fingerprints, squash, and feelings, giving up the reconnection of life after years. The film focuses on the metaphor of the floor door. PTSD represents memory, which is entangled with imagination. Through words and words, we reach the hole of longing and fear. PS Compared with graduates, desire is like a tragedy, the pattern is the same, only people are different.
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Milton 2022-03-23 09:03:06
It is mainly the content of the first part of the original work. If you haven't read the novel, you may feel that you don't know what to say, and there is no coherence. In addition, I don't know why the title of the film is translated like this. "A Year of Widow" is for the heroine Ruth in the original book who lost her first husband. The title of the film should be literally translated as the door on the floor.
