angels in america - change

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?




Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.




Harper: And then get up. And walk around.




Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.

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[mccullen]

that's how people change.

[brianroberts79]

Man, I love this scene. Thank you for posting!

[RicknSI2000]

I have memorized this scene and many of my other favorites. This might just be my favorite. "well, it has something to do with God, so it's not very nice". BRILLIANT!

[martinlindsgaard]

This is so very true, inspiring scene!

[methosimortal]

this is my favorite part of the movie ... and I loooooove the movie so that's saying something. it never fails to make me cry because it rings so true for some reason.

[conewells]

Of all the actors Nichols couldve cast- why this one?? So wrong and so lame.

[stephy198920011]

@spookybeast lol thats the point :-p she says it later in the scene

[psychicbooty]

Right before this, she mentions that.

[Farutofreak]

according to the play, it is purposely like that.

[spookybeast]

Is it just me or does that puppet man look like her husband?

[raphael1986]

i keep coming back to watch this scene, its very powerful

[jstephenj]

So cordial. So polite. A startling contrast to her performance as Calamity Jane, that's for sure!