Strings (2004)

James McAvoy: Hal

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• Hal : [Hal discovers Zita is Zaro the masked Zerith leader]  You! You're Zaro!

  Zita : So tell me your name? Now that you know mine.

  Hal : Gladly! I am Hal Tara of Hebalom. Son of the Kahro, whom you murdered and I have come for my revenge.

• Zita : [Hal and Zita are at the Zerith's camp watching female Zeriths dancing]  Aren't they beautiful?

  Hal : Yes.

  Zita : They are dancing the story of our people. Those are the Siads from Abagos.

  Hal : Abagos?

  Zita : Yes. Our lost city. Abagos. Once we all lived as one people in the city of Abagos. The Hebalonians came and drove us out. They destroyed everything. Murdered and raped. Since then, we have had to live as fugitives.

  Hal : Is that true?

  Zita : Yes. Didn't you know? Hebalom is built upon the ruins of Abagons. We have never given up hope of one day reclaiming our city.

• Hal : [In the aftermath of the battle]  It's over. We won, Zita.

  Zita : Won? Our home is totally destroyed, for the second time.

  Hal : No, Zita. I have found your home. Your real home. Abagos.

  Zita : [Zita embraces Hal]  Oh, Hal!.

• Zita : [Jhinna's funeral raft sails away into the sunset]  She is free now, Hal. Truly free.

  Hal : Yes.

  Jhinna : [Ola sits beside Jhinna's body on the funeral raft. Jhinna's voice is heard]  Come on, Ola, you can do it. Set us free!

  Jhinna : [Ola's strings falls from the sky]  Fly.

  [Ola flies away] 

• Hal : [Learning the terrible truth about his own people]  So the whole thing is a lie. Everything. Our whole life. It is we who are the enemy. We are our own worst enemy.

  [Ola appears above the prison pit] 

  Hal : Something has happened to Jhinna.

  [Hal sees the Zerith's mark on the wall on the floor of the prison pit] 

  Hal : Abagos. Zita was right. Hebalom belongs to the Zeriths.

• Hal : [Erito attacks Hal with a sword]  Erito, what are you doing? Stop! Erito.

  Erito : I have to do this. Forgive me. You don't understand.

  Hal : Stop! What do I understand? Answer me! What don't I understand?

  Erito : Spare my life, Hal. Spare me. For the sake of my children. For my boy.

  Hal : I've always trusted you, Erito. I have never betrayed you and now you turn on me.

  Erito : Hal!

  Hal : Traitor! Traitor! - TRAITOR!

• Erito : [Hal and Erito are practicing armed combat, spectated by Nezo. Erito wears Zaro's mask]  Hal Tara, this is ridiculous!

  Hal : Keep the mask on! You're Zaro!

  Erito : Come on! This mask doesn't make me Zaro and it doesn't make you a mighty warrior.

  Erito : [Hal and Erito fight with two Hebalonian pikes. Hal attacks Erito recklessly in rage as if he's the real Zaro]  Hal, stop! What are you doing?

  Erito : [Erito wounds Hal by cutting his right hand string. Erito removes the mask]  What are you doing? If I had really been Zaro, you wouldn't had just lost your hand. You'd have lost your head string.

  Hal : I almost had you.

  Erito : This is serious business, Hal. You're the Kahro's son, not a warrior. I'm the General. Let me take care of the Zeriths. Stay here, Hal. You are going to be the Kahro.

  Nezo : Dream on, Erito. You wooden head.

• Lhosa : [Hal is hanging upside down in a ice cave. Hal is blindfolded]  Anything to say in your defence before you die?

  Hal : What have I done?

  Lhosa : Come now, we know you're spying for Hebalom.

  Hal : No.

  Lhosa : Then explain why you are carrying a Hebalonian sword?

  Hal : I found it by the Lake.

  Lhosa : He's lying!

  Hal : Look at me. I'm just a poor nomad. My father is dead and I'm travelling west to escape the war.

  Lhosa : What war?

  Hal : They say that Hebalom is planning for war, to avenge my... The murder of the Kahro.

  Lhosa : Shall we bring him along, or should we finish him here?

  Hal : No!

  [Lhosa cuts the rope and Hal falls down to the ground. Zita appears] 

  Zita : Well. Still some kind of freedom fighter? Were they rough on you?

  Hal : Just a little.

  Zita : Does your life hang by a thread? I don't care who you are, you deserve better treatment than this. You've saved my little scamp of a brother's life and for that I'll always be grateful.

  Zita : [Zita unties Hal]  My name is Zita.

  Hal : Where are you taking me?

  Zita : Where ever we decide to take you. We need to know whose side you are on. So tell me, stranger with no name. Whose side are you on?

  Hal : My own.

• Zita : [Hal and Zita are on a hill. Zita begins teaching Hal the secret of how the Zeriths leap]  Now, look up. Can you see where you end?

  Hal : [Hal looks up at the night sky]  No. Can you?

  Zita : I end where you begin. And where you end, I begin. In that way, we are all connected.

  Hal : Connected?

  Zita : Look.

  [Hal lifts up his left arm. Hal's arm is being controlled by Zita. Hal's arm hits him the face and knocks him over. Hal and Zita laugh] 

  Zita : We're guiding each other. When you learn to be guided by love, then you can use it's strength, which dwells in all life. Not just your own. Then you can do what we do. Move like the wind. Now, you try.

  [Hal and Zita falls and rolls down the hill. They laugh. Zita is on top of Hal. They stare deeply into each others eyes. Zita touches Hal's face. Zita underdoes her ponytail and her dreadlocks falls down onto her shoulders. Hal and Zita kisses and they have sex] 

• Nezo : [Hal confronts Nezo]  It's too late, Hal. Thanks to you, the army has long since been sent against the Zeriths. It was so nice of you to locate them for us. Don't delude yourself, you are a son of Hebalom. You are like me, like your father. You can't runaway from that. So come on then, you miserable coward. Kill me!

  Hal : [Hal refuses and throws aside the pollaxe]  No! I am like my father. And in the last few seconds of his life. I am beginning where he ends and I shall have the strength to do what he did not.

  [Hal looks at his new hand] 

  Hal : In fact, I promised a friend to use this hand for something good.