Daily Dialogue — June 8, 2012

Ron: I’m so fucked up. Fucked up.
Mr. Kovic: Ronnie… maybe a little trip is all you need. That place down in Mexico you were talking about.
Ron: I don’t want to go to Mexico. I don’t want to go no place. I don’t want to go no place.
Mr. Kovic: Ronnie… I think you should go. What can I do, Ronnie? What do you want?
Ron: I want to be a man again. Who’s going to love me, Dad? Who’s ever going to love me? Who’s going to love me?

— Ron (Tom Cruise), Mr. Kovic (Raymond J. Barry), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), screenplay by Oliver Stone & Ron Kovic, based on Kovic’s book

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is pity party, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Today’s suggestion by cluttery.

Trivia: Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone wrote much of the script together at a cafe in Venice, California.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This expression of pity is a major revelation, Kovic’s character going to a really deep part of his Self, sorrow and regret mixed with shame at his sense of having lost his manhood.