Vanity Fair

"The history of cinema is men photographing women."

- Jean Luc Godard

From the film Cold Mountain (2003):



The scene takes place in front of a Confederate military hospital in Charleston where Jude Law is recovering from a wound he received in battle.

JUDE LAW
Where'd you take your wound?

BLIND MAN
Before I was born. Never saw a thing in this world, not a tree a gun or a woman. Though I put my hand on all three. Couple of things I felt back there I'd sure liked to have had a long look at.

JUDE LAW
What would you give for that? To have your eyeballs back for ten minutes?

BLIND MAN
Ten minutes? Wouldn't give an Indian head cent. I fear it might turn me hateful.

JUDE LAW
That's sure what seeing's done to me.

BLIND MAN
That ain't the way I meant it. You said ten minutes. It's having a thing and then the loss I'm talking about.

Larry