Rooney Mara: Faye | Song to Song | Terrence Malick
Ryan Gosling (BV)
Do you lie to me?
Rooney Mara (Faye)
I know you always want to know the truth, but... but I don't. Sometimes the truth isn't the right thing to say. You can hurt someone more... ' Saying it.
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Michael Fassbender: Cook | Rooney Mara: Faye | Song to Song | Terrence Malick
Rooney Mara (Faye) (off)
“I love pain. It feels like life. Sometimes I admire what a hypocrite I am. Strange when you get used to it.”
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Rooney Mara: Faye | Song to Song | Terrence Malick
"Faye is, in my opinion, one of the most complex and human characters of Malick’s production. She is not anymore an archetype of one feature of the human being: she contains them all."
Elisa Zocchi (2018): "Terrence Malick Beyond Nature and Grace: Song to Song and the Experience of Forgiveness," Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 22 : Iss. 2, Article 3. Available here.
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Ryan Gosling: BV | Rooney Mara: Faye | Song to Song | Terrence Malick
"when Cook speaks of Faye and BV: “they have a beauty in their life... that makes me ugly.” The beauty of the relation between Faye and BV is the inverse of Cook’s life. The absence of domination between BV and Faye somehow makes Cook ugly, and less desirable".
Elisa Zocchi.
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Ryan Gosling: BV | Rooney Mara: Faye | Song to Song | Terrence Malick
"a soul that wanted to live and that, after moving from song to song, finally finds herself in one song. A song played by an Other that invites her to follow, to which she simply needs to say her ‘yes'."
Elisa Zocchi.
