Movie: Love and Death

Watched "Love and Death" (Woody Allen, 1975) 2 nights ago. A story of a typical woody-like figure in Napoleonic Period in Russia. Impressed by a number of wordplays. Here are some of them:

1.Sonja: Judgment of any system, or a priori relationship or phenomenon exists in an irrational, or metaphysical, or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.

Boris: Yes, I've said that many times.

2.Boris: Sonja, are you scared of dying?

Sonja: Scared is the wrong word. I'm frightened of it.
Boris: That's an interesting distinction.

3.Sonja: There are many different kinds of love, Boris. There's love between a man and a woman; between a mother and son...

Boris: Two women. Let's not forget my favorite.

4. Anton Inbedkov: Shall we say pistols at dawn?

Boris Grushenko: Well, we can say it. I don't know what it means, but we can say it.

5.Soldier: Oh, God is testing us.

Boris: If He's gonna test us, why doesn't He give us a written?

6.Boris: Nothingness... non-existence... black emptiness...

Sonja: What did you say?
Boris: Oh, I was just planning my future.

7.Sonja: What are you suggesting, passive resistance?

Boris: No, I'm suggesting active fleeing.

8.Boris: Of course there was Old Greggor and his son Young Greggor. Oddly enough, Young Greggor's son was older than Old Greggor. Nobody could figure out how that happened.

9. Boris: Nothingness... non-existence... black emptiness...

Sonja: What did you say?
Boris: Oh, I was just planning my future.

10. Boris: The question is have I learned anything about life. Only that human being are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns out that there IS a God, I don't think that He's evil. I think that the worst you can say about Him is that basically He's an underachiever. After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about. The key is, to not think of death as an end, but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses. Regarding love, heh, what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into. Well, that's about it for me folks. Goodbye.