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Joseph K. (Anthony Perkins) I'm sorry.
Miss Burstner (Jeanne Moreau) You're sorry, you're sorry, you're
sorry. You always keep saying that. Who gives a damn?
Joseph K. I know. I'm s--
Joseph K. catches himself and then laughs.
Miss Burstner What's the big joke?
Joseph K. I almost said it again. You're right, of
course. You're perfectly right.
Miss Burstner Yeah?
Joseph K. Nobody gives a damn. I know you don't. |
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Uncle Max (Max Haufler) upon seeing a computer All these fancy electronics, they're all right
in their place, but not for anything practical. |
Bloch (Akim Tamiroff) You're supposed to be able to tell from a man's
face and from the line of his lips, especially, how his case is going to
turn out.
Joseph K. So?
Bloch So the people are saying that from the
expression on your lips, they could tell that you'll be found guilty,
yes, in the very near future. |
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Advocate (Orson Welles) It's true, you know. Accused men are
attractive. Not that being accused makes any immediate change in a man's
personal appearance. But if you've got the right eye for these things,
you can pick out an accused man in the largest crowd. It's just
something about them, something attractive. |
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Advocate To be in chains is sometimes safer than to be
free. |
Titorelli (William Chappell) You see, in definite acquittal, all the
documents are annulled. But with ostensible acquittal, your whole
dossier continues to circulate. Up to the higher courts, down to the
lower ones, up again, down. These oscillations and peregrinations, you
just can't figure 'em.
Joseph K. No use in trying either, I suppose.
Titorelli Not a hope. Why, I've known cases of an
acquitted man coming home from the court and finding the cops waiting
there to arrest him all over again. But then, of course, theoretically
it's always possible to get another ostensible acquittal.
Joseph K. The second acquittal wouldn't be final
either.
Titorelli It's automatically followed by the third
arrest. The third acquittal, by the fourth arrest. The fourth-- |
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Joseph K. I think what surprises me most is how
ignorant I am about everything concerning this court of yours. For an
accused man, that's a mistake. He should never let himself be caught
napping, never for a minute let his eye stray to the left, when for all
he knows, a judge or somebody like that can be lurking somewhere to the
right. |
Joseph K. I don't pretend to be a martyr, no.
Advocate Not even a victim of society?
Joseph K. I am a member of society. |
Advocate Do you think you can persuade the court that
you're not responsible by reason of lunacy?
Joseph K. I think that's what the court wants me to
believe. Yes, that's the conspiracy: to persuade us all that the whole
world is crazy, formless, meaningless, absurd. That's the dirty game. So
I've lost my case. What of it? You, you're losing too. It's all lost,
lost. So what? Does that sentence the entire universe to lunacy?
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