My all-time favorite movie. True genius of the spiritual kind ;D

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Albert: Chris, do you know what's happened?

Chris: Yeah...I had a bad piece of fish before bed, haha.

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Chris: Is that you, doc? Why are you so blurred?

Albert: I'll get clear when you want me to, Chris. Are you confused about how you got home so fast?

Chris: Dreams don't deal in time, doc. Time doesn't count.

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Albert: You've died, Chris.

Chris: You have to be a dream, doc. If I were dead, would I need you to tell me?

Albert: I guess you do. Everyone's different.

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(a flashback)

Annie: You get angry. Death does that.

Marie: What'll happen to her?

Annie: She'll go where we all go? And how can that be bad?

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Albert: At least you're willing to see yourself. You're losing your fear.

Chris: Fear?

Albert: That you've disappeared. You didn't. You only died.

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Annie: Dear Diary, I'm writing in your bullshit pages because my shrink is crazier than I am. He thinks you're therapy.

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Chris: Christ, when does it end?

Albert: There's no rules, Chris. It ends when you want it to.

Chris: Where were you?

Albert: Someplace else. What do you think? I'm a figment of your imagination? It's real. She's real. You're real. It's all real. That's the point, if there is a point. The reality is it's over when you stop wanting to hurt her.

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Chris: Boy, I screwed up. I'm in dog heaven. But a place where we all go can't be bad, can it, girl?

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Chris: Nice place you've got here.

Albert: Oh, no no no. Nice place you've got here.

Chris: Me?

Albert: Sure. You're making all this. See, we're all pretty insecure at first, so we see ourselves somewhere safe.

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Chris: Am I really here?

Albert: What do you mean by "you" anyway? Are you your arm or your leg?

Chris: Partly.

Albert: Really? If you lost all your limbs, would you still be you?

Chris: I'd still be me.

Albert: So what's the "me?"

Chris: My brain, I suppose.

Albert: Your brain...your brain is a body part. Like your fingernail or your heart. Why is that the part that's you?

Chris: Because I am sort of a voice in my head. The part of me tha thinks, that feels. That is aware that I exist at all.

Albert: So if your'e aware you exist, you do. That's why you're still here.

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Albert: Your brain is meat. It rots and disappears. Did you really think that's all there was to you? Like, you're in your house right now. You're in your house. It doesn't mean you are your house. House falls down...you get out and walk away.

Chris: Looks like I rebuilt.

Albert: You see a body because you like seeing one.

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Albert: Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh?

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Chris: Where's God in all this?

Albert: He's up there. Shouting down that he loves us. Wondering why we can't hear him. You think?

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Albert: Fantasies aren't what you need right now, Chris.

Chris: No, you're right. I need Annie.

Albert: That'll change in time, Chris.

Chris: Oh, come on, Einstein. Time's not something on my watch anymore. Time does not exist here, and wherever it went, it's not going to make me need Annie any less.

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Chris: I wnat to see my children, Albert!

Albert: When you do, you will.

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Chris: There's work. I like that.

Leona: Albert, for example, is a sort of a missionary. Saving lost souls.

Chris: Like me.

Leona: Hardly. They're the ones who can't get here.

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Annie: A whole family lost in car accidents. 'Nuff to make a person buy a bike.

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Leona: I didn't look like this in the body, you know. We flew to Singapore once, and my daddy smiled at the flight attendent, who looked like this and wore this nametag "Leona." He said Asian women are so lovely, graceful, intelligent...

Chris: He didn't mean only.

Leona: I know, it was just something you said. And what I thought was, when I grow up, I want to be that.

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Annie: I had the husband and love I was meant to have, two spectacular children, lessons no one would dare expect from anything as arbitrary as life. And the truth is simply that it's over. Just this one loose end to ravel up. I don't get to say good-bye. You're dead, and I blew that. I don't get to say good-bye, but I'll tell you what. I'll cross whatever distance there is. I send you my love.

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Albert: We're gonna go through something very hard right now. I'll be with you. You're not alone. Chris, Annie's dead. She killed herself.

Chris: Is that kind of the occupational hazard of soulmates? One's not much without the other?

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Albert: You can hide from it, or you can understand it. What you call hell is for those who don't know they're dead. They can't realize what they've done, or what's happened to them.

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Albert: Suicides are different. Suicides don't go to hell because they're immoral or selfish. They go for a very different reason. Each of us has an instinct that there is a natural order to our journey, and Annie's violated that. She won't realize it, accept she's done. She won't face it, and she will spend eternity playing that out.

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Albert: The real hell is your life gone wrong.

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Chris: I'm her soulmate. I can find her.

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Tracker: It's the guy who doesn't give up. Anyone tell you too much persistance can get kind of stupid?

Chris: Constantly.

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Tracker: Were you proud of your own kids?

Chris: Of course.

Tracker: Oh, well, that's an easy bullshit answer. Better put some thought behind it.

Chris: I said, of course.

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Chris: What did you do when you were alive?

Tracker: You mean, the last time? Sure, we can go back and be reborn, but only if we choose to. Last trip I was in the same line of work I usually-

Chris: You were a shrink.

Tracker: Fairly perceptive.

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Tracker: You were expecting physical danger? No, in hell, there's real danger. Of losing your mind.

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Tracker: Elevator to hell. Going up.

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Chris: It looks just like our home.

Tracker: Don't even think that. It's an illusion. The whole place. Her illusion. Suicides can get pretty tortured, pretty committed to punishing themselves.

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Tracker: Do you know why we choose to look so different, me and the children?

Chris: Package doesn't count? One's as good as the other?

Tracker: Oh, no. The old baggage, the old rules of authority. Who's the teacher, who's the father, gets in the way of who we really are to each other.

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Tracker: You've got no defense against Annie. If losing yourself and your soul, being swallowed by hell itself, if that could possibly save her, I'd say go for it! I'd be there, cheering you on. You've got your children back now. They need you. Three minutes. Anymore and you could lose your mind.

Chris: How could you lose your mind?

Tracker: Once her reality becomes yours.

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Chris: What's true in our minds is true.

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Annie: She still killed herself. In the end, she gave up.

Chris: There's nothing wrong with that.

Annie: Her husband didn't think so.

Chris: He was a coward. Being strong, not giving up. That was just his place to hide. He pushed away the pain so hard, he disconnected himself from the person he loved the most. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

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Chris: When he saw his children again-

Annie: I thought you said your children were dead.

Chris: You can see the dead. In your dreams. If you want to.

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Chris: I'm giving up. Just not the way you think. Go home, Al. Tell my children I love them, and I won't leave their mother.

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Chris: Good people end up in hell because they can't forgive themselves. Well, I can't. But I can forgive you.

Annie: For killing my children? And my sweet husband?

Chris: No. For being so wonderful that a guy would choose hell over heaven, just to hang around you.

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Chris: I tried everything. Nothing worked.

Annie: Until you tried joining me.

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Chris: What some folks call impossible is the stuff they haven't seen.

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Chris: What about going back? Being reborn? See, that's the one thing we can't have here. Finding each other. All over again. Falling in love.

Annie: Make different choices. Try again.

Chris: Avoid sharp objects.

Annie: How will I find you?

Chris: I found you in hell. Don't you think I could find you in Jersey?

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