Quotes About Pieta

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

She came down the steps slowly, madonna bereaved, so grief-stunned and wooden pieta of perpetual dawn, the birds were hushed in the presence of this gravity and the derelict that she had taken for the son of light himself was consumed in shame like a torch. She touched him as a blind person might. Deep in the floor of her welling eyes dead leaves scudding. Please go away, she said.

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.

Non si poteva dire, tuttavia, che la natura del nostro eroe fosse tanto severa e inflessibile e che i suoi sentimenti fossero ottusi a tal punto che egli non conoscesse né pietà né compassione; sentiva questa e quella, e avrebbe anche voluto aiutare, solo, questo non doveva tradursi in una somma significativa, per non toccare quei denari che era stato deciso non sarebbero stati toccati...