Paradise Road (1997)

Glenn Close: Adrienne Pargiter

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• Adrienne Pargiter : You don't hate them do you?

  Margaret Drummond : No.

  Adrienne Pargiter : Why not?

  Margaret Drummond : I've tried, but I can't bring myself to hate people. The worse they behave, the sorrier I feel for them.

• Margaret Drummond : I was in China when the Japanese invaded and I think that the people they despised the most were Europeans and prisoners then women.

  Adrienne Pargiter : Well that's us. All three.

• Adrienne Pargiter : I happen to think it is worth risking.

• Captain Tanaka : What can I say, except that attacking the enemy is a characteristic of war.

  Adrienne Pargiter : The Prince Albert was full of women and children, not soldiers.

  Captain Tanaka : A matter of regret.

  Adrienne Pargiter : More than that. There's a Geneva Convention laying down the rules of war.

  Captain Tanaka : Japan has signed no Geneva Convention. If war has began, it can only mean the time for rules has ended. The aim is to win.