Rome, Open City (1945)
Marcello Pagliero: Luigi Ferraris alias Ingegnere Giorgio Manfredi
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Quotes
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Marina Mari : Yes. I've had lovers. Of course. What was I supposed to do? How do you think I bought all the furniture, my clothes, everything? With my pay? It's barely enough for stockings and cigarettes. I've gotten by like every other woman. That's life.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Life is what we want it to be.
Marina Mari : Words! Life is filthy and brutal.
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Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Does she live with you?
Pina : She's my sister.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Your sister?
Pina : Surprised, huh? I wonder what lies she's told you about where she lives. She's ashamed of us "starving workers." Says she's an artist. But I wouldn't trade places with her. Not because she's bad. She's just stupid.
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Pina : Have you known her long?
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Four months. I'd just arrived in Rome. She used to eat in a certain restaurant. One day the air raid alarm went off and everyone ran. Just she and I were left. She just laughed. Wasn't scared at all.
Pina : And you fell in love.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : It happens.
Pina : Yes, it does.
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Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : You're your own boss. I don't own you. Who am I, anyway? Just one guy who passed through your life for a moment.
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Marina Mari : I know what poverty is and it scares me. Sure, I could have married a streetcar driver and be starving to death today - me, my children and him.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Poor Marina. You think happiness means a fancy apartment, nice clothes, a maid, and rich lovers?
Marina Mari : If you'd really loved me, you'd have changed me. But you're just like all the others - no, worse. At least they don't preach to me.
Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : You're right. Forgive me.
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Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris : Don't be afraid that time will run out. It'll be a long fight. Our battle's barely begun.