First Reformed (2017)

Philip Ettinger: Michael Mensana

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• Michael : The bad times they will begin, and from that point everything moves very quickly. You know, this social structure can't bear the stress of multiple crises. Opportunistic diseases, anarchy, martial law, the tipping point. And this isn't in some like distant future. You will live to see this.

• Michael : You believe in martyrdom, Reverend?

  Reverend Ernst Toller : I'm not sure I know what you mean.

  Michael : The Saints of God, the early Christians who wouldn't renounce their faith? The missionaries who were attacked in the fields of the Lord. Do you believe that they died for a purpose?

  Reverend Ernst Toller : I do.

  Michael : Well, every week, activists are killed trying to protect the environment.

• Michael : Are you a drinking man, Reverend?

  Reverend Ernst Toller : It doesn't help.

• Michael : Can God forgive us? For what we've done to this world?

• Michael : What was his name? Your son?

  Reverend Ernst Toller : Joseph. The boy thrown down the well.

  Michael : I remember. The dreamer.