Footsteps

The Thin Red is not necessarily one of my favorite movies but somehow the character of Witt (Jim Caviezel) stayed in mind after I saw this movie. It is more than a year since I have seen this movie but parts of the movie in which he is the main focus keep coming to my mind. Why do these scenes keep coming to my mind?

"What's this war in the heart of nature?
Why does nature vie with itself?
The land contend with the sea?
ls there an avenging power in nature?
Not one power, but two?
l remember my mother when she was dying.
Looked all shrunk up and gray.
l asked her if she was afraid.
She just shook her head.
l was afraid to touch the death l seen in her.
I heard people talk about immortality,
but I ain't seen it.
l wondered how it'd be when l died.
What it'd be like to know that this breath now
was the last one you was ever gonna draw.
l just hope l can meet it the same way she did.
With the same... calm.
Cos that's where it's hidden -
the immortality l hadn't seen."

"Kids around here never fight."
      
"Sometimes."

"Sometimes when you see them playing
they always fight!"
         
"Is she afraid of me?"

"Little bit."

"Are you afraid of me?"

"Yes."
 
"Why?"

"Cos you Iook...
You Iook as an army!"

"I Iook army?"

"Yes."
 
"WeII, that don't matter.             
It doesn't matter."

"Baby's tired."

"Yes."
 
"If she swims, she wants, she will sleep."