Leave the World Behind (2023)

Myha'la: Ruth Scott

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• Ruth Scott : Why are you like this? What do you get out of being so angry all the time?

  Amanda Sandford : Every day, all day, my job... my whole job is to... understand people well enough so that I know how to lie to them, so I can sell them things they don't really want. And when you study people like that when you really see the way they treat each other, well... You're no dummy. You see what they do, and they do it without even thinking about it. Fuck. I did it to you and your dad, and I don't even really know why. We fuck each other over all the time, without even realizing it. We fuck every living thing on this planet over and think it'll be fine because we use paper straws and order the free-range chicken. And the sick thing is, I think deep down we know we're not fooling anyone. I think we know we're living a lie. An agreed-upon mass delusion to help us ignore and keep ignoring how awful we really are.

  Ruth Scott : I'm not down with most of the things that you do and say, but... this is the part of the Venn diagram where we overlap. I agree with everything you just said. But as awful as people might be... nothing's gonna change the fact that we are all we've got.

• Ruth Scott : It's just us now, isn't it?

  G. H. Scott : What do you mean by that?

  Ruth Scott : What I mean is, if the shit goes down, do you trust these people that are in our house? We already know the wife has no chill. That boy was sneaking pictures of me by the pool. That little girl keeps staring into the woods like Donnie Darko, and I'm pretty sure the husband wants to fuck me.

  G. H. Scott : How do you know that?

  Ruth Scott : He's not actually going to do anything, he's not "that guy." But did he want to? Abso-fucking-lutely. My point remains, I don't trust them.

  G. H. Scott : I'm not gonna let anything happen to you, if that's what you're asking.

  Ruth Scott : I'm asking for you to remember that if the world falls apart,trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially White people. Even mom would agree with me on that.

  G. H. Scott : I got it.

  Ruth Scott : Do you? Because we're sleeping in the basement of our own house for the second night in a row. Just what exactly was the point of letting them back into the house?

  G. H. Scott : It was the right thing to do.

  Ruth Scott : And that right there. That's what's going to fuck us in the end.

• Ruth Scott : But it's almost... Nostalgic for a time that never existed, you know?