Jacques Prévert: Odd, to ask people who they really are

Don’t you find that it’s an odd question, to ask people who they are? … They go for the easy answer: their last names, their first names, their positions, but who are they really? They keep it to themselves deep down inside, they carefully hide it.

The poetic criminal Lacenaire (based on a real person) in Les Enfants de paradis (1945). The script was written by Jacques Prévert

Vous ne trouvez pas que c’est une question saugrenue que de demander aux gens qui ils sont ?… Ils vont au plus facile : nom, prénoms, qualités, mais ce qu’ils sont réellement ? Au fond d’eux-mêmes, ils le taisent, ils le cachent soigneusement.

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