The Discovery (I) (2017)

Rooney Mara: Isla

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• Isla : Sometimes I feel like I'm taking someone else's spot and then I feel sad. How do you mean? Like, being here alive is a waste because... I don't enjoy it, I'm not happy or grateful... and I'm taking a spot away from someone who maybe would've gotten something more out of it.

  Will : Yeah. I guess I don't think it works that way.

• Thomas : Do you accept the fact that time is a nonlinear illusion created by man?

  Isla : Pass. I don't know what that means.

  Thomas : There are no right or wrong answers to this questionnaire.

  Isla : Then why do you bother giving it?

  Thomas : That's a good response.

• Thomas : And what aspect of regaining normalcy after losing someone... was the most difficult.

  Isla : Inanimate objects, maybe? Like...

  Isla : My coffee table. I've had it for years and I've probably looked at it a million time, but after he...

  Isla : Familiar objects just became distorted and unfamiliar. I started to hate my ceiling fan, me cereal bowl, me tea kettle.

• Isla : I don't really like talking about myself like this.

  Thomas : You don't have to like it. We think about ourselves every day. Everything is from own perspective. So, as much as you may not want to indulge yourself in looking at your most inner thoughts, they're there. Make no mistake. They are there.