Anatahan (1953) 80% 4★

– How we got ashore, no one remembered. We were dumped like garbage on a hot coast, left to rot. The change from a human being with dignity to a helpless worm takes but a second.

– The difference between a child and a grown-upis in the way the brain is in control of the emotions.

– It is taken from the Buddhist legend that there is a river marking the division of this earthly world to a future one. This river is full of illusion, passion, pain and sorrow. Only when you cross the river, having fought the currents of temptation to gain the far shore, do you reach enlightenment.

– We had thrown off the yoke of discipline. We were free, free of all restraint, which only meant that we were slaves to our bodies.

– We are driven by forces about which we know nothing.

– The moon was low. The trees silent. The air was full of mist. The sea was deep, the rocks black. Nature was indifferent to the cruel destiny of man.