I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds. He looked at me kinda...
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Paul Kemp:
[Kemp and Sala are wandering down a pier late at night, high on hallucinogens]
I thought I was losing grip in there. What did we take? Sala:
I don't know. Paul Kemp:
We need to get some more. [Kemp stops to stare at a tank full of lobsters] Paul Kemp:
[quietly]
That explains it... doesn't it? Sala:
Explains what? Paul Kemp:
The world... and us. [he stares deep into the eyes of one particular lobster] Paul Kemp:
[voiceover]
I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds. He looked at me kinda sideways and said, "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth who claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you?" And when he said it, I was taken aback. Not because of who was doing the talking. Because I finally understood the connection between children scavenging for food, and shiny brass plates on the front doors of banks
[Kemp and Sala are wandering down a pier late at night, high on hallucinogens]
I thought I was losing grip in there. What did we take? Sala:
I don't know. Paul Kemp:
We need to get some more. [Kemp stops to stare at a tank full of lobsters] Paul Kemp:
[quietly]
That explains it... doesn't it? Sala:
Explains what? Paul Kemp:
The world... and us. [he stares deep into the eyes of one particular lobster] Paul Kemp:
[voiceover]
I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds. He looked at me kinda sideways and said, "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth who claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you?" And when he said it, I was taken aback. Not because of who was doing the talking. Because I finally understood the connection between children scavenging for food, and shiny brass plates on the front doors of banks
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that claim a God
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And the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one
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Does the world belong to no one but you
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And when he said it I was taken aback
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Not because of who was doing the talking
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because I finally understood the connection
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between children scavenging for food
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and shiny brass plates on the front doors of banks
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Movie Summary
American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.
