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The Tattooist (2007)

Quotes

The Tattooist

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  • Jake Sawyer: [to Lemi] We know you didn't run... the shame is lifted
  • Mr. Va'a: The shame... HASN'T ENDED
  • Jake Sawyer: He was infected... you infected him... you SHOULD'VE TAKEN HIM TO A HOSPITAL!
  • Mr. Va'a: They WOULDN'T HAVE UNDERSTOOD... If they had knew that i had done this i WOULD'VE BEEN SHAMED FOREVER
  • Jake Sawyer: So your lies... BROUGHT SHAME ON HIS FAMILY INSTEAD
  • Alipati: When you handed down your tools... what else did you pass onto me? outsider cut himself with this tool
  • Mr. Va'a: [dismissive] Outsider is an idiot
  • Alipati: He thinks a spirit took form and is moving through him... a wandering bitter Samoan trying to end his shame
  • Mr. Va'a: You believe in such stories?
  • Alipati: You taught them too me! He told me he dreamed of a young man with a necklace of whale bones locked in a shed... your shed
  • Mr. Va'a: Let her go boy its a mercy
  • Alipati: No father
  • Mr. Perenese: [On Mr. Va'a] He should pay for what he has done
  • Alipati: Then let him live... with the shame
  • Mr. Perenese: [throws a machete down in front of Va'a] You no longer have the right to wear that mark
  • [forces Va'a to cut the tatu from his skin]
  • Jake Sawyer: [to the congergation] An angry spirit is using me too kill! If i can learn who he is... i might be able to stop him
  • [to Sina]
  • Jake Sawyer: We need to show them the tatu... the tatu is still growing isn't it?
  • [makes her show off her tatu too the church goers]
  • Jake Sawyer: Does anyone reconize this design? The spirit who did this will continue until she is dead or until his shame is ended
  • Jake Sawyer: [on seeing Lima] Can't you see him?
  • Jake Sawyer: [on his father burning him] He was deeply religious defiling my skin was the ultimate sin... he didn't believe in tattoos
  • Dr. Lima: You have to come with me
  • Jake Sawyer: There's no fucking time
  • Dr. Lima: For what?
  • Jake Sawyer: You know anything about tatuing?
  • Dr. Lima: It took my brother six weeks for his to get better... nearly killed him!
  • Jake Sawyer: There's a spirit doing this... I start the tattoo... he finishes it. There is another girl... you have to let me go... i'll deal with it you and i know this is something doctors can't cure
  • Jake's Father: I know you're down here Jacob
  • [on seeing his sons tattoo]
  • Jake's Father: Oh boy what have you done?
  • Young Jake Sawyer: It's a pentegram
  • Jake's Father: I know what it is... it's the devil's mark... you shame me
  • [last lines]
  • Luke: I need you... I want you to get rid of it
  • Jake Sawyer: That doesn't work that way
  • Sina: You should pay your respects
  • Jake Sawyer: I might when he puts down the knife
  • The Tattooist: The shame that drives my fury
  • Lazlo McFadden: A tattoo it was just a tattoo thing is there's more of it! I said there was always room, maybe i was wrong... can't you hear it? He's coming again
  • [last lines]
  • Osone: Where are you going?
  • [last lines]
  • Jake Sawyer: I'm going home

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