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To Me, Ennis Stands For The Conservative Side Of America. He's The Biggest Homophobe In The Whole Movie - Culturally And Psychologically - But By The Time He Admits His Feelings, It's Too Late.

I Guess In Hollywood You Chart Your Life By Oscars. You Say To Each Other, "remember When That Movie Won That Year? It Was 2006. Remember That?"

I Try To Be A Partygoer. But At Some Point I Don't Know Why I'm Doing It And Fall Back. I've Been Using Repression, The Struggle Between Behaving As A Social Animal. You're Seeking To Be Honest With Your Free Will, Less Conflict. I Think That's An Important Subject With Me. That's Who I Am, How I Was Brought Up. I Think I Use That A Lot. I Mistrust Everything I Think. Things You Think You Can Trust, Believe In, Or Hang On To, Changes. That's The Essence Of Life.

The Most Mysterious Feminine Factor, The Existence That We Men, We Don't Know. It's Woman. It's Feminine. That's What The Sword Is About. That's The Symbolic Meaning Of The Sword.

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