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“I am alone…..

.. I am not lonely”

Reader at the flash-as-a-rat-with-a-gold-tooth residential development at the Zollhafen

The line comes from this scene in “Heat”, the 1995 Michael Mann film, in which 2 characters bond over their mutual isolation from society, one involuntary, one voluntarily.

“Heat” is regarded as one of the most influential films of its genre, its use of eye contact between protagonists as a entrance to the soul of the character masterful

The de Niro:Pacino scene is perhaps the most remembered, but there are countless subtle examples like this one.

Worth watching.

And rewatching

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