Gunnar Björnstrand credited as playing...
David • father
- Fredrik: Father, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality was revealed. Do you know what I mean?
- David: I do.
- Fredrik: Reality was revealed, and I collapsed. It's like a dream. Anything can happen. Anything.
- David: I know.
- Fredrik: I can't live in this new world.
- David: Yes, you can. But you must have a support.
- Fredrik: What kind of support? You mean a God? Give me a proof of his existance. You can't.
- David: I can. But you gotta pay attention to what I say.
- Fredrik: Yes. I need to listen.
- David: I can only tell you a thought of my own hopes. It is to know that love exists for real in the human world.
- Fredrik: A sort of special love, I suppose?
- David: All kinds of it. The bigger and the smaller, the most absurd one and the most sublime one. All kinds of love.
- Fredrik: What about the desire for love?
- David: Desire and denying. Trust and distrust.
- Fredrik: Then love is the proof?
- David: I don't know if love is the proof of God's existance or if it's God itself.
- Fredrik: To you, love and God are the same thing.
- David: That thought makes me feel less empty; Makes my desperation less worse.
- Fredrik: Go on, dad.
- David: All of a sudden, emptiness turns into abundance, and desperation turns into life. It's like a temporary death's sentence strike.
- Fredrik: Dad... if it's like how you say it is, then God is all over Karin. We love her so much.
- David: Yes.
- Fredrik: Can't that help her?
- David: I think so.
- Martin: ln your novels you're always courting some god. But let me tell you, your faith and your doubt are very unconvincing. All that's apparent is your ingenuity.
- David: Don't you think l know that?
- Martin: Then why go on? Why not do something respectable instead?
- David: Such as?
- Martin: Have you written one word of truth in your life as an author?
- David: l don't know.
- Martin: See? Your half-lies are so refined that they look like truth.
- David: l do my best.
- Martin: Maybe you do. But you fall short.