Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story: Anthology drama directed and co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos. Kinds of Kindness (2024) is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life. A policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person. And a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
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24 Best Kinds of Kindness Quotes
The Death of R.M.F.
Raymond: [to Robert] You’ve lost more wight, I think. Skinny men are the most ridiculous thing there is.
Raymond: [to Robert] You don’t love me at all. I can feel it. This isn’t love. I don’t know what it is, but it’s clearly not love. But, no matter. I knew this day would come. It’s fine. Ten years it lasted. That’s not nothing.
Raymond: Right then, Robert, you’re free now. You can go on your way. Tonight, tomorrow, and every day from now on sleep whenever you like, f*** whenever you like. Have however many children you like. Wear whatever socks you like.
Robert: Getting f***ed by an old man like Raymond, you deserve better than that.
Vivian: Getting f***ed by an old man like Raymond is, however, exactly what you deserve. You’re pathetic. Get out of my sight.
Robert: [to Raymond] I want to say I’m sorry. I regret what I did. It was totally unacceptable, and you have every right to be angry, but please forgive me. I made a mistake.
Raymond: [to Robert] What you’re doing now is completely ridiculous. Just go. Before you humiliate yourself any more than you already have. It’s for your own good.
Raymond: [referring to Robert] Vivian, didn’t I tell you that this young man here would not disappoint me?
Vivian: You sure did, Raymond.
R.M.F. Is Flying
Daniel: That suspect was looking at me funny.
Neil: Well, everyone looks at us funny, Daniel. We’re the police.
Daniel: No, he was looking at me real funny.
Daniel: She’s not really Liz. I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t know what’s happened to Liz, but what I do know is that she’s lying. She’s not really my wife.
Liz: [to Daniel] Can you believe that the whole time I was lost in the middle of nowhere, cold and hungry, all I could think about wasn’t the hot meals I was missing, or the warm blankets back home. Or even my dad. All I could think about was your c**k.
Daniel: George, open your eyes and look clearly at what’s going on around you. We might all be in danger.
Daniel: [referring to Liz] Sharon, she asked me to f*** her in my uniform, then hit me, hard with my club. Can you believe that? She left a mark. We didn’t, obviously. F***, I mean. You know he’s in there right now. With her. And they’re laughing at us, Sharon. That’s a fact. They’re laughing at us. They’re playing us for fools.
Daniel: [to Liz] I know what’s going on. I know you’re lying to me.
Dr. Evans: [referring to Robert] In the simplest possible terms, I’d call it a mild form of persecutory delusion. I can’t say what caused it, but I think he’ll be fine. He was perfectly cooperative. It’ll take some time, but he’ll get over it in my opinion.
Liz: [to George] Don’t you dare speak about Daniel that way. He’s given me everything. He loves me like no one else, and all you do is judge him. Don’t you dare speak badly about him to me ever again. You hear me, Dad? Apologize for what you said. To me. Now.
Liz: It’s better to eat something that’s always available when you’re hungry than to depend on something that runs out early every morning. And I mean every morning.
Liz: Daniel isn’t perfect, but he’s always been there for me.
Daniel: [to Liz] I’m famished. But don’t go serving me any fingers today. Your fingers are revolting. In fact, I didn’t even eat it. I fed it to Monty instead. I need something filling. Your entire leg, let’s say. Or your liver. It’s full of iron, liver. Ultra-nutritious. That’s what they say. And that’s what I need to eat today because I’m feeling weak.
R.M.F. Eats a Sandwich
Emily: This is it. The moment of truth. Isn’t it wonderful?
Andrew: I know we’re going to find her.
Emily: [referring to Anna] I’m kind of relieved that wasn’t her. I didn’t like her face. No humility.
Andrew: [to Rebecca] I can’t quite understand what it is you want from us.
Andrew: [to Emily] I don’t know what you saw when you were asleep, but I know what I just saw wide awake, and it doesn’t deserve any more of our attention.
Aka: [to Emily] There’s no need to apologize to us. The only person you’ve hurt is yourself. You’re the one that’s contaminated.
Emily: I disappointed you. And I don’t know how it happened or why.
Aka: Emily, maybe all this happened for a reason. Maybe it’s for the best. Not everyone’s cut out for everything. Maybe you came into this world to raise a daughter and live in a house with a husband. It’s fine. It’s no bad thing.