So great it deserves it's own post. In the last scene of the movie Still Alice, daughter Lydia (Kristen Stewart) is reading from Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" to her Mom, Alice (Julianne Moore):
Night flight to San Francisco. Chase the moon across America.
God! It's been years since I was on a plane.
When we hit 35,000 feet we'll have reached the tropopause...
The great belt of calm air.
As close as I'll ever get to the ozone.
I dreamed we were there.
The plane leapt the tropopause...
the safe air and attained the outer rim...
the ozone which was ragged and torn...
patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth
and that was...
frightening.
But I saw something only I could see...
because of my astonishing ability to see such things.
Souls were rising...
from the earth far below...
souls of the dead of people who'd
perished from...
famine, from war, from the plague...
and they floated up like skydivers in reverse.
limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning.
And the souls of these departed
joined hands...
clasped ankles and formed a web,
a great net of souls.
And the souls were three atom oxygen
molecules of the stuff of ozone...
and the outer rim absorbed them
and was repaired.
Nothing's lost forever.
In this world, there is a kind of
painful progress.
Longing for what we've left behind and...
dreaming ahead.
At least I think that's so
That's it.
Hey.
Did you like that?
Hmm, what I just read.
#Did you hate it?
[Alice mumbles incoherently]
[Alice continues mumbling]
What...
What was it about?
Love.
#Love.
Yeah mom.
It was about love.
The End @
STILL ALICE
