October 28, 2008

  • Penelope

    Wanda:
    Wait! He's still a blue-blood! He can break the curse.

    Penelope:
    Max, I know this face repulses you... And I wouldn't, I wouldn't dream of asking you to accept it.

    Max:
    No... No... No...

    Penelope:
    But this isn't me, the real me is inside here somewhere just waiting to
    get out and you can make that happen and once the curse is broken I'll
    be just like anybody else.

    Max:
    What if the curse doesn't get broken? What if the curse can never be broken?

    Penelope:
    Then I'll kill myself. I promise, I promise I will.

    Penelope:
    Marry me, Max. Marry me.

    Max:
    I can't.

    Penelope:
    Get out.

    Max:
    I'm...

    Wanda:
    Get out. Get out.

    How can something so right be said in such a wrong manner?  It takes the end of the movie before she realizes why he said what he did.  He didn't say he can't marry her because she looks like a pig.  He said he can't marry her because he loves her, but he can't break the curse because he's not really blue-blooded.  It sounds so right now on retrospective and finishing the movie, but it sounded so wrong when he said it at that point.  So many times we've gone through saying the right things in the wrong way.