Reminiscence (2021)

Hugh Jackman: Nick Bannister

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• Nick Bannister : Nothing is more addictive than the past. Who wouldn't want to be reunited with a loved one? Or relive the most meaningful moments of their life? But memories, even good ones, have a voracious appetite. If you're not careful, they consume you.

• Nick Bannister : Memory is the boat that sails against its current.

• Nick Bannister : You're going on a journey. A journey through memory. Your destination? A place and time you've been before. To reach it, all you have to do is follow my voice.

• Nick Bannister : Memories are like perfume. Better in small doses.

• Nick Bannister : Only the rich mold the world to meet their delusions.

• Nick Bannister : Dying men always want closure. Some last, happy thought to cling to before they die.

• Nick Bannister : [to Emily]  Your best moments aren't behind you. They're waiting for your arrival.

• Nick Bannister : Nostalgia never goes out of style.

• Nick Bannister : People love their secrets. They think secrets are the one thing they can take with them when they go.

• Nick Bannister : Forgotten things can always be fished up and dusted off. But the lost, those things people never really took much notice of until they were gone. They're defined by their absence.

• Nick Bannister : [Nick and Emily are sharing a medicinal drink]  I've got my leg, what's your excuse ?

  Emily 'Watts' Sanders : I work for you.

• [last lines] 

  Nick Bannister : I thought of story. It's a tragedy. But only if you stop at the end. Ever hear of Orpheus and Eurydice? They were a couple very in love. Until one day Eurydice died.

  Mae : That's a horrible story.

  Nick Bannister : I'm not in the middle yet. Orpheus descended to Hell, begged the Devil to release her, until finally the Devil agreed, with one condition. He couldn't look back until they had escaped.

  Mae : And what happened?

  Nick Bannister : Orpheus took her by the hand and led her back to life.

  Mae : And they lived happily ever after?

  Nick Bannister : What other ending could there be?

• Mae : Tell me a story.

  Nick Bannister : A story? What kind of story?

  Mae : One with a happy ending.

  Nick Bannister : No such thing as a happy ending. All endings are sad, especially if the story was happy.

  Mae : Then tell me a happy story, but end it in the middle.

• Nick Bannister : People don't just disappear.

• Emily 'Watts' Sanders : [putting a tie on him]  You're late.

  Nick Bannister : Late is a construct of linear time. We don't deal in that.

  Emily 'Watts' Sanders : And yet, we charge by the hour. Your first appointment's already in.

• Nick Bannister : [narrating]  The past can haunt a man. That's what they say. That the past is just a series of moments. Each one perfect. Complete. A bead on the necklace of time.

  Nick Bannister : The past doesn't haunt us. Wouldn't even recognize us. If there are ghosts to be found, it's us who haunt the past. We haunt it, so we can look again. See the people we miss, and the things we missed about them.

• Nick Bannister : [narrating]  Most burners are torn apart by the worlds they straddle, the real one around them, and the one playing in their mind. Only the rich mold the world to meet their delusions.

• Nick Bannister : [narrating]  The barons stay afloat by drowning everyone else. They say the only ones to survive the Titanic were the rich and the rats. The barons are both.