Rome, Open City (1945)

Maria Michi: Marina Mari

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• Marina Mari : Yes. I've had lovers. Of course. What was I supposed to do? How do you think I bought all the furniture, my clothes, everything? With my pay? It's barely enough for stockings and cigarettes. I've gotten by like every other woman. That's life.

  Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Life is what we want it to be.

  Marina Mari : Words! Life is filthy and brutal.

• Marina Mari : Lots of things are bad for us, but we do them anyway.

• Marina Mari : I know what poverty is and it scares me. Sure, I could have married a streetcar driver and be starving to death today - me, my children and him.

  Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Poor Marina. You think happiness means a fancy apartment, nice clothes, a maid, and rich lovers?

  Marina Mari : If you'd really loved me, you'd have changed me. But you're just like all the others - no, worse. At least they don't preach to me.

  Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : You're right. Forgive me.