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Deon 2022-03-17 08:01:01

"Because we don't know when life is near, we always think of it as a well that never runs dry. But there are many things that happen over and over again, seriously, how much do you remember? One particular afternoon in your childhood was so important in your life Some afternoons of 2019, you neglect quite a few. You may remember four or five of the people and things that are lingering in your life, maybe not so much. How many times have you carefully watched the full moon rise? Maybe twenty times Well, but people think everything can be squandered."


Narrator: Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.



If it wasn't for the move and no broadband installed, I think I would miss this movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Uriel 2022-03-23 09:03:30

    One of Bertolucci's relatively unsuccessful works, the loss in the film is only because of illness, not the confusion of heart and emotions

  • Mabelle 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    The sunset in North Africa, with its peculiar hues and breathtaking warm red, is maddeningly beautiful. The still bald John Malkovich, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. It's not the sky that covers it, it's love.

The Sheltering Sky quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

  • Kit Moresby: I hate choices.