Mental (2012)

Bethany Whitmore: Jane

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Quotes 

• Barry Moochmore : Oy, she's stayin' in your room.

  Jane Moochmore : Where will I sleep?

  Barry Moochmore : You share with Jane.

  Jane Moochmore : I *am* Jane.

  Barry Moochmore : I don't care about that anymore. Tell your problems to whats-her-name.

• Shaz : America, Europe, Asia, and all the way down here is Australia. Alone. Isolated. Ever wonder why? Why we're down here?

  Jane Moochmore : Well, we were a penal colony.

  Shaz : That's the cover story, yeah, but historically where have they always sent the loonies? As far away as possible. You can't get any further away than Australia. We weren't a penal colony, we was a lunatic asylum. Our ancestors were loonies and this is the result. Have a look around. There's no such thing as normal, there's just different shades of mental. Your totally mental are in the lunatic asylums. The rest of them:

  [indicates other diners in the cafe] 

  Shaz : the delusionals, the borderlines, compulsives, paranoid, schizoid make up Australia as we know it. We're nothing but a living experiment in madness under constant observation by the psychiatric community of the world.

  [indicates security camera] 

  Leanne Moochmore : But, if we're all under observation and mental, how come we're allowed to leave?

  Jane Moochmore : Kylie Minogue. She left. She's practically British.

  Shaz : In any experiment there's test mice and control mice. Control mice are marked in some way and sent off into the normal world as comparisons. Kylie Minogue's a control mouse. Cate Blanchett - control mouse. Russell Crowe - a control mouse out of control. Rupert Murdoch, Nicole Kidman, the list of control mice is endless.

• Shaz : I'll show ya the meaning of the word 'mental'. Page 354.

  Coral Moochmore : [reads]  'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.'

  Shaz : [points to neighbour scrubbing her garbage bins]  Yeah that's her.

  Coral Moochmore : 'Stubborn, stingy, possessive, uncreative and unimaginative, directed to meaningless activities that require being tidy and meticulous.' It is her.

  Shaz : Yeah, they're all in there, the 'ole neighbourhood. There's that delusional over there. He mowed the same strip of grass yesterd'y. He can't help himself.

  [runs over two garbage bins and is chased down the street by a neighbour] 

  Shaz : Look, look, look at him, look. Upset the delicate balance of their fantasy world, they go nuts.

  Coral Moochmore : But they can't all be mental.

  Jane Moochmore : What are the odds of that?

  Shaz : Weehee. You just stumbled on the meaning of life and ya don't even know it.

• Jane Moochmore : That's Michelle. She's mental. We all are.

  Shaz : I'll be the judge of that.