"You think you can just steal a man's life and expect there to be no price to pay? ... We all make difficult choices in life. The hard thing is to live with them."
~ The Old Man portrayed by Jeremy Irons in the film “The Words”.
“The Words” is such an amazing underrated film. The movie is about a wildly successful author who knows he will *never* repeat this level of success because deep down he is a liar and a fraud. He stole another man’s writing and lied and pretended like he wrote it. No matter how hard he tried and he cannot recreate the voice of the original author in more books.
The old man recognized his words and tracked down the author. No matter the story, every writer has their own distinctive voice and the old man knew those were his words so he confronted the author with wisdom. The story is so heartbreakingly beautiful.
I don’t see the author as a bad personat all. He was a poor struggling writer and the script fell right into his lap literally. He found the manuscript in an old satchel that he purchased second hand.
It not’s like he was already rich and famous and was secretly stealing someone’s else private dm’s and tweets and lying about it!!!!
