Romance (2005)

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Romance
David Mamet
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Genres: Fiction
PROSECUTOR: In every time, this one or that, has introduced a New Thing. Never Before Seen Upon The Earth. And called it Bohemia. Radicalism. Freedom, this doctrine, of license, this notion that we are above the law. Based upon what? This brave announcement? The individual's sentiment of being Chosen. Laws, my friend, and laws, my neighbors, however, came into being as we learned, at long, hard cost, and both to our chagrin and to our education, that we cannot trust our senses. {Pause) See us, then calling crime “freedom.” And by any other name than that set down in Law. But the Law will find you. That which first was a reminder comes again as a demand—a correction. For I, for you, no less than that man tempted, fallen, and now brought before you answers to the Law. And you who judge him must be still, and ask of yourselves honest and hard dedication. To that ideal, which alone can guide us— and it is a tree of life. To those who hold fast to it. {Pause) What do you think? {Pause) Tel...l me truly.MoreLess
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