Pulse (2001)
Koyuki: Harue Karasawa
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Quotes
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Ryosuke Kawashima : What's this?
Harue Karasawa : That? Something we programmed here. If two dots get too close, they die, but if they get too far apart, they're drawn closer.
Ryosuke Kawashima : Huh... what's it for?
Harue Karasawa : A miniature model of our world... but only the grad student who designed it understands it.
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Harue Karasawa : I've always wondered what it was like to die, from when I was really little. I was always alone.
Ryosuke Kawashima : Any parents or family?
Harue Karasawa : Sure, but they're irrelevant.
Ryosuke Kawashima : Right.
Harue Karasawa : That after death, you live happily with everyone over there.
Ryosuke Kawashima : Can we stop talking about this?
Harue Karasawa : But it may be true.
Ryosuke Kawashima : Sure, but...
Harue Karasawa : Then in high school it dawned on me, you might be all alone after death, too.
Ryosuke Kawashima : There's no way to know, how could you know?
Harue Karasawa : The idea was so terrifying, I couldn't even bear it, that nothing changes with death, just right now, forever. Is that what becoming a ghost is about?
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Harue Karasawa : Ghosts won't kill people... because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.
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Ryosuke Kawashima : What have ghosts to do with us? Besides, we're alive.
Harue Karasawa : Then who are they?
[turns on the monitors]
Harue Karasawa : Are they really alive? How are they different from ghosts?
[pause]
Harue Karasawa : In fact, ghosts and people are the same, whether they're dead or alive.
Ryosuke Kawashima : It's not right, it's wrong. They're all crazy! Nobody knows what happens when you die, all this about ghosts, but I won't believe in them, even if I see one.
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Harue Karasawa : What got you started on the Internet?
Ryosuke Kawashima : Nothing in particular.
Harue Karasawa : You don't like computers.
Ryosuke Kawashima : Not really.
Harue Karasawa : Wanted to connect with other people?
Ryosuke Kawashima : Maybe, I don't know. Everybody else is into it.
Harue Karasawa : People don't really connect, you know?
Ryosuke Kawashima : What?
Harue Karasawa : Like those dots simulating humans. We all live totally separately. That's how it seems to me.