Ewan McGregor - The Pillow Book #2: "Go on. Use my body like the pages of a book. Of your book." ~Jerome

CityGal · 09-02-2016, 11:03 AM

Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Year: 1996

Description:

A Japanese born model in Hong Kong, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) seeks a lover who can match her desire for carnal pleasure with her admiration for poetry and calligraphy. The roots of this obsession lie in her youth, when her father (Ken Ogata) would write characters of good fortune on her face. In an Englishman, Jerome (Ewan McGregor), she finds the partner with whom she can share her physical and her poetic passion, using each other's bodies as tablets for their art.

Some quotes:

Nagiko: If writings did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer.

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Nagiko: I need writing. Don't ask why. Just take out your pen and write on my arm.

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Nagiko: I like the smell of paper - all kinds. It reminds me of the scent of skin.

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Nagiko: When God made the first clay model of a human being, He painted in the eyes... the lips... and the sex. And then He painted in each person's name lest the person should ever forget it. If God approved of His creation, He brought the painted clay model into life by signing. His own name.

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Nagiko: Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated. Why should a person be obligated to stand such sweet pain and such bitter pleasure?

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Nagiko: You've been reading my diary?
The Husband: Isn't that why people keep diaries? To be read by someone else? Otherwise why keep them?
Nagiko: To know about themselves.

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Nagiko: His writing - in so many languages - made me a sign-post pointing east, west, north and south. I had shoes in German, stockings in French, gloves in Hebrew, a hat with a veil in Italian. He only kept me naked where I was most accustomed to wearing clothes.

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Jerome: I could learn new languages to make you understood all over the world.

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Nagiko: I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

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Nagiko: Where is a book before it is born? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents - a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? Where is the parent book of books? How old does a book have to be before it can give birth?

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Nagiko: How can I get pleasure writing on you? You have to write on me.
Jerome: Go on. Use my body like the pages of a book. Of your book.

Source: imdb.com

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