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Excuses, justification

My worst defect is laziness


Persona (1966)

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Excuses, justification Get well soon, health Pain

Oh, I’m sorry. Did my back hurt your knife?


Friends (1995)

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Excuses, justification Love Sex Threat, orders

Love can turn a man into a beast


La Belle et la Bête (1946)

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Excuses, justification Reproach, rudeness

And you can go to hell before I apologize


Kubrick, Douglas
Paths of Glory (1957)

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Excuses, justification Refusal Sex

I kissed you because I loved you, for a minute

 

Sternberg, Dietrich
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

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Excuses, justification Love

That was the only part of you I could look at without being seen

Cf. Les Deux Anglaises et le continent

 

Truffaut, Moreau
Jules et Jim (1962)

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Excuses, justification Shame, guilt

I’m really sorry. I feel like crawling into a hole

Ozu, Sugimura
Bonjour (1959)

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Excuses, justification

We hate to admit we are wrong. That’s why we are so feminine


Lubitsch
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

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Excuses, justification Friendship

Because I like you

 

Eustache, Léaud
La Maman et la Putain (1973)

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Excuses, justification Shame, guilt

I am ashamed of myself

 

Cukor, Bennett
Little Women (1933)

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Excuses, justification Feelings

It’s important to feel guilty

Allen
Manhattan (1979)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification Love

I made this flight because of her, for her

 

Renoir
La Règle du jeu (1939)

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Excuses, justification

The dress is from New Orleans, and I can tell you what isn’t true…

 

Lang, Dietrich
Rancho Notorious (1952)

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Excuses, justification

I didn’t know what I was doing

 

The Thin Man (1934)

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Excuses, justification

I should be sincerely sorry to see my neighbors’ children devoured by wolves

 

Preminger, Webb, Andrews
Laura (1944)

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Excuses, justification

There’s only one person in the world to decide what I’ll do. And that’s me

 

Welles
Citizen Kane (1941)

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Excuses, justification

Sometimes I’d tell them the truth and they still wouldn’t believe me

Antoine Doinel : Ben, j’mens, j’mens de temps en temps quoi… des fois je leur dirais des choses qui seraient la vérité ils me croiraient pas, alors je préfère dire des mensonges.

 

Truffaut, Léaud
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)

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Excuses, justification

I’ve been stupid, very stupid

 

Van Dyke, Loy
The Thin Man (1934)