Midnight in Paris

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Professor Paul tells his friends in an earlier time there might have been "..., no suicide bombing..." (0:10)

Writer Zelda Fitzgerald tells Gil he looks "lobotomized." (0:21)

Gil and his model friend Adriana stop Zelda from jumping into the Seine to kill herself.
Gil offers Zelda a pill. She asks him, "What is this?"
Gil: "It's a Valium. It'll make you feel better."
"Since I've been engaged to Inez I've been having panic attacks."
Zelda: "I never heard of Valium. What is this?"
Gil: "The pill of the future." (0:52)

Gil tells writer T. S. Elliot, "Listen, where I come from people measure out their lives with coke spoons." (1:01)

Adriana and Gil join painter Henri at a table on which rests a glass of absinthe. (1:19)

Gil tells Adriana, "I'm having an insight now... It explains the anxiety in my dream that I had." (1:22)

Gil tells writer Gertrude, "That's called denial." (1:24)

Gil tells his fiance Inez, "It's cognitive dissonance." (1:25)

Inez asks Gil if he will live "with your crazy hallucinatory friends?" (1:26)

absinthe | denial | diazepam | insight | lobotomy | panic attack | suicide

Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard 2011