What text was read from the book Nicole Kidman's character gave
Zubanie (sp?) when she held the gun to his head? Did she really
overhear something?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 09 May 2005 09:24 PDT

Please let me know whether or not this is the quote you seek:

"The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is
different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury
everything else. Even when is not shouting. Even if it's just a
whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard - over armies - when
it's telling the truth."

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Clarification of Question by mathom-ga on 09 May 2005 13:28 PDT

pinkfreud-ga
That is it.  It was difficult to hear the reading when I saw the
movie.  Do you know the citation the quote is from?  The title of the
book had "Liberator" in it. I will pay more money if I can figure out
how.  Thanks!!!

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 09 May 2005 13:49 PDT

The quote is not from a real book. In the context of the script, the
quote comes from the autobiography of Edmond Zuwanie, who is a
fictional character.

"Its great potential is almost realized at the climax, when a
desperate assassin forces Zuwanie to read from his dogmatic
autobiography at gunpoint. "It's hard to hear among the gunfire...But
even the softest whisper can be heard when it tells the truth," he
reads. It draws on a flimsy motif, but this line--after so many
garbled voices and so much gunfire--is as close as the movie gets to
saying something beyond the realm of an average thriller."

http://www.uwmleader.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/27/426e9391e2042

If this information is fully satisfactory, I'll be glad to repost it as your answer.

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Clarification of Question by mathom-ga on 10 May 2005 05:33 PDT

Thank you so much PinkFreud.  As always you found the answer.

Hello again, Mathom (great username, by the way)!

Thank you for accepting the information I found. I have reposted the quote below.

"The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is
different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury
everything else. Even when is not shouting. Even if it's just a
whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard - over armies - when
it's telling the truth."

Someone had transcribed the quote on the IMDb Message Board for "The
Interpreter." That's where I obtained it. If you are interested in
this film, you'll find quite a bit of information and discussion here
(scroll downward to see the Message Board):

Internet Movie Database: "The Interpreter"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0373926/

I'm glad to have been able to help you with this. What a haunting,
memorable quote! I would not be surprised if the quote becomes a
classic in its own right.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

mathom-ga
That is it.  It was difficult to hear the reading when I saw the
movie.  Do you know the citation the quote is from?  The title of the
book had "Liberator" in it. I will pay more money if I can figure out
how.  Thanks!!!

Ok... if you didn't understand that Edmond Zuwanie was a fictional
character, you didn't pay attention in the movie.  The author of the
book Edmond Zuwanie was the old guy that nicole kidmond was pointing
the gun to at the end of the movie.  Zuwanie was the dude that
liberated the country from which Nicole was from in Africa back in the
ghetto days - and Zuwanie became corrput when he became old.  Thats
why Nicole was giving him the book (which Zuwanie wrote himeself back
in his young uncorrput days) to remind him of what he use to be.

You might want to watch that movie again at the cheap movie theaters -
it seems you didn't quite get the plot.