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Valerie's Story - in sound and vision
Please note: instead of cutting Valerie's story into a thousand pieces, I decided to post the grabs and just write underneath each grab which part of Valerie's story they're related to.
The entire audio clip for this scene can be heard by clicking this link: "Valerie's Story - uncut"
*Evey lies on the floor*
*hears a faint scratching sound*
*crawls towards the rathole*
*looks inside it*
*reaches for the roll of paper*
*begins to read the letter*
"I know there is no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care. I am me. My name is Valerie. I don't think I'll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography that I will ever write, and - God - ..."
"... I'm writing it on toilet paper ..."
"... I was born in Nottingham in 1985. I don't remember much about those early years, but I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tottlebrook, and she used to tell me that God was in the rain ..."
"... I passed my eleven plus and went to a girls' grammar. It was at school that I met ..."
"... my first girlfriend. Her name was ..."
"... Sarah. It was her ..."
"... wrists; they were beautiful ..."
"... I thought we would love each other forever ..."
"... I remember our teacher telling us it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew ..."
"... Sarah did ..."
"... I didn't ..."
"... In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina ..."
"... that year, I came out to my parents ..."
"... I couldn't have done it without Chris holding my hand. My father wouldn't look at me. He told me to ..."
"... go and never come back ..."
"... my mother said nothing ..."
"... but I'd only told them the truth; was that so selfish?"
"... Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have ..."
"... it is the very last inch of us ..."
"... but within that inch, we are free ..."
"... I'd always known what I wanted to do with my ..."
"... life, and in 2015, I ..."
"... starred in my first film, The Salt Flats ..."
"... it was the most important role of my life. Not because of my career ..."
"... but because that was how I met Ruth ..."
"... The first time we kissed ..."
"... I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again ..."
"... We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew Scarlet Carsons for me in our windowbox ..."
"... and our place always smelled of roses ..."
"... those were the best years of my life ..."
"... but America's war grew worse and worse, and eventually ..."
"... came to London"
"The bill proposed by the under secretary for defence, Adam Sutler, to close the remaining tube stations passed ..."
"After that, there were no roses anymore, not for anyone ..."
"... I remember how the meaning of words began to change ..."
"... how unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening ..."
"... while things like "Norsefire" and "the Articles of Allegiance"..."
"... became powerful ..."
"...I remember how "different" became "dangerous" ..."
"... I still don't understand it; why they hate us so much ..."
"... They took Ruth while she was out buying food ..."
"... I've never cried so hard in my life ..."
"... it wasn't long 'til they came for me ..."
"... It seems strange that my life should end in ..."
"... such a terrible place ..."
"... but for three years I had ..."
"... roses and apologized to ..."
"... no one ..."
"... I shall die here. Every inch of me shall ..."
"... perish ..."
"... every inch ..."
"... but one ..."
"... an inch. It is small, and it is fragile ..."
"... and it is the only thing in the world worth having ..."
"... we must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us ..."
"... I hope that, whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you, that even though I do not know you ..."
"... and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you ..."
"... I love you. With all my heart ... I love you ..."
"... Valerie ..."
*end of scene*
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7/5/2006, 10:48 am
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Re: Valerie's Story - in sound and vision
Thanks LadyV 
Valerie's story got to me the very first time I saw it in the theater - but it wasn't until now I got the idea of making af CN out of it.
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7/5/2006, 11:57 pm
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Re: Valerie's Story - in sound and vision
everything in the movie is good and important,
however, this sequence is intended to give us a
feeling of lost rigths along with an happy life.
It is a very condensed warning of human rigths,
the lost of them, the worst that can happen in
a totalitary regime, and specialy, it is a tragedy,
in the pure sense of the word.
a tragedy with a litlle tiny bit of hoppe...
you captured it wonderfully, FS, this is indeed a
sequence that fits in the context of a CN, isn´t it?
I´m always giving 10 out of 10, but I´m gonna
give a 12 out of 10. Theres something special in
the way this CN was captured and "processed".
very good. 
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Re: Valerie's Story - in sound and vision
Valerie was a nice person. She didn't deserve to be put in that nightmare of a place. Yes, I know why she was put in there. I'm glad that V had a memorial for her. Valerie remembered.
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made me weepy. I didn't feel that weepy when I saw it in the theater, but felt a great impact when you posted it.
