Griff the Invisible (2010)

Maeve Dermody: Melody

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• Melody : Mum?

  Bronwyn : Hmm?

  Melody : Do you think that this life, our existence... do you think it's an accident? Or do you think it's planned for a reason?

  Bronwyn : Oh, um. Oh, I think...

  Melody : ...and try and ignore religion.

  Bronwyn : Ignore religion. Um. Well, I think it's like gymnastics. I think that life was inevitable. I mean however it was created, whatever happened, you know? Whoever did it. I mean you look at the stars and your see infinity. You look into a microscope and you see infinity. Smack bang in the middle, between those two extremities, perched on a balance-beam, is us. Life. In the middle. Inevitable.

• Melody : Once, I ran to a protest and I protested the protest. I had a placard that said "Stop Protests Now," and I yelled "What do we want? No more protests. When do we want it? Now."

• Melody : What were you like as a kid?

  Griff : Small?

• Melody : He would not fit in with them or anyone else in the real world, because he's a freak. And so am I, and that is exactly why I love him. We see the world one way and... you see it this other way, and because you don't understand, you want to change it, but... I don't want to change it. Maybe the rest of you need to grow up instead.

• Melody : OK, so say these are the atoms that make up the wall, and these are the atoms that make up me. Look at all the space between those atoms. I mean, we don't know what it is. It could be vacuum, dead space, dark matter, but it's definitely space. In fact, the whole world is 99% space. Right, so it's just this matter of probability, if I happen to hit the wall at exactly the right moment, when all the spaces are aligned, then theoretically I should pass right through the wall.