Mr. Nobody (2009)

Jared Leto: Nemo Adult, Old Nemo

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• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Before he was unable to make a choice because he didn't know what would happen. Now that he knows what will happen, he is unable to make a choice.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : At my age the candles cost more than the cake. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough. It should be written on every school room blackboard: Life is a playground - or nothing.

• Nemo age 9 : In chess, it's called Zugzwang... when the only viable move...

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : ...is not to move.

• [first lines] 

  Nemo Nobody adult : Like most living creatures, the pigeon quickly associates the pressing of the level with the reward. But when a timer releases a seed automatically every 20 seconds, the pigeon wonders, what did I do to deserve this? If it was flapping its wings at the time, it will continue to flap, convinced that its actions have the decisive influence on what happens. We call this "pigeon superstition".

  Nemo Nobody adult : [cut to Nemo on a gurney]  What did I do to deserve this?

• Young journalist : You can't be dead and still here. You can't not exist. Is there life after death?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : [hearty laugh]  "After death." How can you be so sure you even exist?

  [waves him closer] 

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : You don't exist. Neither do I. We only live in the imagination of a 9 year old child. We are imagined by 9 year old child, faced with an impossible choice.

• Young journalist : Everything you say is contradictory. You can't have been in one place and another at the same time. Of all those lives, which one is the right one?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : I've got nothing to say to you. I'm Mr. Nobody, a man who doesn't exist.

  Young journalist : Do you remember what the world was like before telemerization? Quasi-immortality? What was it like when humans were mortals?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : There were cars that polluted. We smoked cigarettes. We ate meat. We did everything we can't do in this dump and it was wonderful! Most of the time nothing happened... like a French movie.

  Young journalist : And, um, sexually? Before sex became obsolete.

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Ha, ha! We screwed! Everybody was always screwing. We fell in love... we fell in love.

• Nemo Nobody adult : What was there before the big bang? Well, you see, there was no before because before the big bang, time did not exist. Time is a result of the expansion of the universe itself. But what will happen when the universe has finished expanding?

• Jean : Nemo, do I matter to you? I'd just like to ask you one question. Did you do it on purpose? I found this on the bedside table.

  [reads note] 

  Jean : There comes a time in life where everything seems narrow. Choices have been made. I can only continue on. I know myself like the back of my hand. I can predict my every reaction. My life has been cast in cement with airbags and seatbelts. I've done everything to reach this point and now that I'm here, I'm fucking bored. The hardest thing is knowing whether I'm still alive.

  Nemo Nobody adult : [looks at note]  It is my handwriting. I don't remember.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : It should be written on every schoolroom blackboard: life is a playground or nothing.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Urgh, you're still here? Did I fall asleep? Sometimes I don't sleep so I think... I think about how it was... and all I have left. What do you see when you look at me? A grumpy old man who never answers questions? Who mixes everything up? Who's kept busy by getting his meals? That's not me. Me... I wear shorts. I'm nine years old. I can run faster than the train. I can't feel my aching back anymore. I'm fifteen. I'm fifteen and I'm in love.

• Nemo Nobody adult : There's no life without you.

  Anna : Go slowly. I have to get used to it. I talked to you so much when you weren't there, it's strange for me to talk to you for real.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Sometimes people call me Mr. Craft. C-R-A-F-T. Can't Remember A Fucking Thing.

• Nemo Nobody adult : [to/about Elise]  I often have this dream. In prehistoric times, I can hear you screaming. I chase the bear and you're not afraid anymore, but when I wake up, there's no bear... but you're still afraid. And I'm not a bear hunter. I'm an executive at a plant that manifactures photocopying machines that just quit his job. I don't dare to move, I don't live, whatever I do is a disaster. I would love to set out to chase the bear away and for you to not be afraid anymore.

• Nemo Nobody adult : [narrating while in his car underwater]  I always liked fish. I never thought that one day they would like me too.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Everything works out in the end, even badly.

• Nemo Nobody adult : [on telephone]  I'm gonna be a little late.

  Anna : It's okay, don't worry.

  Nemo Nobody adult : I love you.

  Anna : I love you more.

  Nemo Nobody adult : Me more.

  Anna : Me more.

  Nemo Nobody adult : Okay.

  Anna : Cheater!

• Nemo Nobody adult : [meets by chance at the trainstation]  Anna!

  Anna : Nemo... how have you been?

  Nemo Nobody adult : I'm fine, how are you?

  Anna : Yeah, good.

  Nemo Nobody adult : Are they your kids?

  Anna : Yeah...

  [awkward silence] 

  Anna : Well, see you around.

  Nemo Nobody adult : Yeah, uh... See you around.

  Nemo age 16 : [narrating]  What on earth made me say I don't go swimming with idiots?

• Elise : What are you doing today?

  Nemo Nobody adult : I was thinking about taking the opportunity to wash the car.

  Elise : What's the deal with that car?

  Nemo Nobody adult : What do you mean?

  Elise : Why do you take such good care of that car while you leave me here all alone? What's the problem with the car?

  Nemo Nobody adult : [goes outside to set the car on fire, then goes back to Elise]  There's no more problem with the car.

• Nemo Nobody adult : What's wrong?

  Elise : I was dreaming about Stefano. He doesn't give a damn about me. I love him. There can't be any other explaination for being in this state. I don't know what it could be. I'm not happy. I'm going crazy. Every morning when I wake up, I rub my eyes and I see your face and I start crying. I realise that my life is passing me by. How can you stay so calm? How can you be like that? You're not human! I don't know what to do! It's not my fault, right? You're not gonna leave me, are you?

  Nemo Nobody adult : No no no, I love you!

  Elise : I hurt everybody! I hurt you, the children... this can't go on.

  Nemo Nobody adult : Together we can do it.

  Elise : Then you're all gonna end up drowning with me.

  Nemo Nobody adult : We'll learn to swim. I love you.

  Elise : I love you.

  Nemo Nobody adult : I love you...

• [last lines] 

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : This is the most beautify day of my life. Anna. Anna!

• Elise : [crying]  I'm so horrible!

  Nemo Nobody adult : No you're not. You're not horrible.

  Elise : I can't stand this life anymore!

  Nemo Nobody adult : What's the matter? You've got the most incredible kids...

  Elise : Don't try to make me feel better, it only makes me feel guiltier! What's wrong with me?

• Nemo Nobody adult : Are we unwitting participants in a war between 2 modes of reproduction?

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Daniel Jones...

  Young journalist : Is that your name? Daniel Jones?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Of course not!

• Man : [answers telephone]  Hello, who is this?

  Nemo Nobody adult : Hello, who is this?

  Man : Who is THIS?

  Nemo Nobody adult : I was told to call this number. My name is Nemo Nobody.

  Man : Is this some kind of a joke?

• Nemo Nobody adult : So... who has a joke? Anybody? I do! What's green, small and goes up and down?

  Daughter : A pea in a elevator. It's not funny. Old people humour...