Elisa Movie Quotes

Watching movies (Titanic, Flirting with Disaster, Mannequin, Thelma and Louise, Rushmore, The Goonies, She’s Having a Baby, it mattered very little) was a kind of prayer: She knew the characters as well as she knew herself, as well as she knew anything there was to know, and she could chart and rechart their movements and secrets and misunderstandings endlessly, reflecting in any number of new permutations on all of it, each time. Again and again. They were acquaintances—people she’d known her whole life and understood well, people incapable of letting her down by changing or disappearing or offering up the unexpected. The League of Their Own tears were purely for catharsis. When she was done she would reemerge, reborn. She would make new mistakes. Or maybe none at all. Okay,

I sometimes think Point Break is my favorite movie. It depends what one means by “favorite.” Is it the same as your desert island movie? Do I think it’s the best movie? It depends what you mean when you say something’s good. There’s a sense in which it’s not a good movie at all—I mean, of course, the 1991 Point Break, starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, which is in some ways a ridiculous, even stupid movie—yet I am basically always up for watching it, and right when it’s over, I always sort of want to watch it again.