Daily Dialogue — January 18, 2018

“As soon as you realize that the random events in your life are God… you will live a much better life. You spend your life believing that you have all the control over what happens. Bullshit. The plane you’re flying goes down? Out of your control. God gives you cancer. I have no control over that. Did God give me cancer? You bet your ass God gave me cancer. You think if I begged for cancer God would have given it to me? No… because I assure you I have begged for God to take it away — and guess what? I have no control over that.”

— Flight (2012), written by John Gatins

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Monologue. Today’s suggestion by Louis Ralph.

Trivia: Viewers theorize that the man with cancer, in the beginning of the film, was actually God speaking to Whip and Nicole. He makes several references to believing in God and encourages Whip to befriend Nicole (without her, Whip’s downward spiral would not have happened). Before leaving, he tells Nicole that she will be okay, which turns out to be true.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The prospect of death does have a way of putting life in perspective. Here, the cancer patient facilitates the eventual connection between Whip and Nicole, both of whose characters have confronted death — Whip through the airplane crash, Nicole through her heroin addiction.