The Goldfinch (2019)
Ansel Elgort: Adult Theo Decker
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Adult Theo Decker : I wear bespoke suits. I swim twice a week. I socialize with people I can't stand. I'm relaxed, personable. I don't indulge in self pity. It's true what I read, "We're so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
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[first lines]
Adult Theo Decker : [narrating] In Amsterdam I dreamt I saw my mother again. She was just as glad to see me as I was to see her. Same beautiful pale blue eyes. Everything would have turned out netter if she had lived. As it was, she died when I was a kid. And when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might've led me some place happier.
Adult Theo Decker : You see, her death was my fault. Everybody used to tell me that it wasn't. That it was a terrible accident. Which is all perfectly true. And I don't believe a word of it. It was my fault. Just like everything that's happed since.
Adult Theo Decker : The painting. The painting. All my fault. I lost something that should have been immortal. I didn't mean to do it. Because what I've done cannot be undone. It doesn't matter that I'm going to die. But for all time, for as long as history is written, that painting will be remembered and mourned.
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Adult Theo Decker : I thought maybe you went back to Russia because you never came.
Adult Boris : Well, very fucked-up time. For a while, I worked for Mr. Silver.
Adult Theo Decker : What?
Adult Boris : I was living with Xandra at the time.
Adult Theo Decker : What?
Adult Boris : My dad had moved. I had nowhere to go. We ended up getting along. Mr. Silver would come round. So for a while, I am his assistant. Do this, do that.
Adult Theo Decker : I can't believe you're here.
