She’s So Lovely was directed by Nick Cassavetes in 1997. The screenplay was written by the independent film pioneer John Cassavetes, and is the only work of his to be posthumously released. His insightful focus on unconventional characters and his unique exploration of emotion are naturally ever-present. The film includes stunning performances by Sean Penn and Robin Wright as Eddie and Maureen Murphy Quinn, a couple deeply and madly in love. Half way through the film, Eddie gets arrested; he will be held in a psychiatric hospital for ten years, and Maureen will remarry. They will subsequently meet again, and claim each other; however, this is their last and particularly moving scene together while Eddie is in detention:
EDDIE: I think we ought to start our life old. And we have all the pain, and we’re feeble, and we look at our friends, and they’re feeble, they’re a hundred. But every day we get younger, and we have something to look forward to.
MAUREEN: You start out old, and then you get young?
EDDIE: You can’t take care of yourself but... there’s hope. And then, when you reach twenty, nineteen, twelve, ten, every day is really a new day, and it’s really a miracle.
MAUREEN: Eddie, you gotta get outta here.
EDDIE: And then you’re a baby, and you don’t know your life is ending, you just suck on your mother’s tit, and then you die.
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