Take (2007)

Jeremy Renner: Saul Gregor

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• Steven : God's plan is something you'll find in your soul.

  Saul Gregor : God's plan?

  Steven : Yes. Yes, God's plan. He's got a plan for you, Saul.

  Saul Gregor : For you and for me?

  Steven : For you. For me. For every living creature on this earth.

  Saul Gregor : How does that work... exactly, Steven? How does God choose who gets which plan? See, you got the plan with, uh, a mother, wakes up every morning and makes you breakfast, sees you off to a nice safe school. The one where your father comes home from his modest nine-to-five job, takes the time out of his day to throw the ball around, help you with your homework, read you a story before bed. What happens if I get that ripe ticket in God's plan? And you sit here across from your one and only visitor, who wants to be a minister. Determined to convince you that even the worst of God's creatures can find a meaning in life. Would you feel the same way then? You do not have the right to tell me about God's plan. There is no plan. I was born alone, and today I'm gonna die alone, and everything in between was my choice. So don't tell me about God's plan.

• Steven : You're the sole controller of your own destiny. You really believe that God is unavailable in that world?

  Saul Gregor : Yes I do.

  Steven : Why, Saul? Why? What are you do determined to resist goodness in your life? You can't have it both ways. Okay, you can't be the victim, and claim to have...

  Saul Gregor : How am I the victim? I've never claimed to be a victim.

  Steven : Okay, fine, then you're not a victim. But you want peace. You claim to be powerless to achieve, and yet you want to be the sole owner of your actions. Well, for God's sake, Saul, you wanna claim all the power, fine. But do something with it. *Do* something. You truly want peace? Then allow yourself to believe for a moment that someone in this world loves you.

  Saul Gregor : Will God?

  Steven : Yes. Yes, God. God loves you. And for that alone, your life has value. You want peace. Why are you so adamant that it's not possible? If God doesn't want to bother with you, why is your heart so heavy? Where do you think this guily comes from?

• [last lines] 

  Saul Gregor : [confronted by Ana in the prison holding room]  I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I've tried to imagine... who you are, what your day was like before. I put together your entire life in a single moment.

  [remembering the moment he held the gun on her] 

  Saul Gregor : I feel like I know you. I *don't* know who you are. Or what I have taken from you. For that I am so sorry.

  Ana Nichols : I tried for so long not to give you a face. it's so much better when you don't have a face. All these details of you in my mind, in my imagination, and I think I pieced together your whole life on the drive here. Sure is hard, though. I'm sure it doesn't matter. I forgive you. I *have* to forgive you. Sorry.

  [knocks on the door to leave]