Shooting Dogs (2005)

John Hurt: Christopher

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• Joe Connor : Why are you doing this?

  Christopher : You asked me, Joe, where is God in everything that is happening here, in all the suffering? I know exactly where he is. He's right here. With these people. Suffering. His love is here. More intense and profound than I have ever felt. And my heart is here, Joe. My soul. And if I leave I think I may not find it again.

• Christopher : I'll see to that after Mass.

  Joe Connor : Mass?

  Christopher : I'm a priest in a Catholic country, Joe. This is what I do.

  Joe Connor : Yeah, sure. But do you think it is the best time for that?

  Christopher : In times of stress, people need to commune with God.

  Joe Connor : I think maybe they'd prefer some food, water, a spot of reassurance.

  Christopher : Well, come to Mass-get all three on the same ticket.

• Marie : Does God love everyone? Does he even love those men on the road outside?

  Christopher : God doesn't always like everything we do. That's our choice. But he loves all his children.

• Christopher : You know what, Joe. People have been coming to Mass here for God knows how long. They get up, they go to church, they sing, they eat the bread and then they leave. Do you know why? Because they are told to. They just go through the motions without the slightest understanding of what it is they are engaged in. Whether they are being told to eat a wafer or hack their own flesh and blood to death.

• Joe Connor : How much pain can a human being take? If you feel enough pain, does everything just shut down? Before you've done it.

  Christopher : I don't know, Joe.

  Joe Connor : Cause you think no one knew. You think that it'd be something... Something that you designed, you know, shed or fell. If you feel enough pain.

  Christopher : I hope so.

  Joe Connor : Yeah, God knows it. Maybe we should ask him. He's still around.

• Christopher : White men coming in big car. To make whinings.