The Final Cut (2004)
Robin Williams: Alan Hakman
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Quotes
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Alan : [in the library] Is Suicide under Self-Help?
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Alan Hakman : [dying words] Will you look at that?
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Alan Hakman : The dead mean nothing to me, Mrs. Bannister. I took this job because I respect the living.
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Alan Hakman : I need to speak to you alone.
Thelma : Michael, why don't you go down to the store and buy some cigarettes?
Michael : We got eight packs already.
Thelma : Well, bring them back then. We don't need so many.
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Alan : They say that friends help you move, but good friends help you move bodies, don't they?
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Alan : If I try it myself, I'll die. And I will try it myself.
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Alan : There will be nothing I won't know soon.
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Alan Hakman : I forgive people long after they can be punished for their sins.
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Alan Hakman : My job is to let people remember what they want to remember, Fletcher. It fulfilled a human need. I didn't invent the technology.
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Delila : What is it?
Alan Hakman : Some implants have defect. They can't see the difference between what the eye sees and what the mind sees.
Delila : Everytime I think I've had it with you, you show me something amazing.
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Alan : Then you know what it's like to be haunted. One memory... one single incident has made me who I am. It won't leave me be. The guilt tears me apart.
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Alan : You wanna take a shot too? Everybody else has.
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Fletcher : It's a strange profession you have, isn't it, Alan? You take people's lives, make lies out of them.
Alan Hakman : It's been a long time, Fletcher.
Fletcher : Eight years.
Alan Hakman : Well, I don't have time to catch up right now.
Fletcher : How can you handle it, Alan? People sleeping and shitting... people stealing from each other... manipulating each other.. the obscenity.
Alan Hakman : I can't talk, I'm working.
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Delila : You fell in love with an image of me. Not the real me.
Alan Hakman : At first. Now I want you the way you really are.
Delila : I can't believe you after what you did.
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Legz, the Tattoo Artist : Now first we do the audio tattoo... and we wait a week. If you don't get a migraine and your system takes it... then we'll do the video tattoo.
Alan : Do I have to cover my whole face?
Legz, the Tattoo Artist : No. Those guys
[referring to the men in the lobby with large face tattoos]
Legz, the Tattoo Artist : ... they're just young and angry. You want it discrete.
Alan : Very.
Legz, the Tattoo Artist : Yeah.
Alan : Will this hurt?
Legz, the Tattoo Artist : Oh, yeah.
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Delila : Why are you here? You know it doesn't work between us.
Alan Hakman : I can change.
Delila : You can't change. You're a man of marble.
Alan Hakman : I still have some of your things. You want me to drop them off?
Delila : Keep them as souvenirs.
Alan Hakman : You wanna come by and pick them up?
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Isabel Bannister : Alan? Are you gonna fix what my daddy can remember?
Alan : In a way, yes.
Isabel Bannister : Can you make him forget that I drew on his contract with crayon.
Alan : I will.
Isabel Bannister : And that I pulled Dottie's hard so hard that she cried. Will he forget that?
Alan : He'll forget.
Alan : But make sure you don't.
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Mrs. Monroe : Why are they tattooed like that?
Alan Hakman : I'm not sure.
Mrs. Monroe : It's so grotesque.
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Delila : Your phonecall got me all worried. I saw the mirror, what happened?
Alan Hakman : I saw something.
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Delila : What do you have in this dump?
Alan Hakman : Not much.