Life's a Pretty Sweet Fruit

Hamish Linklater as Father Paul 

Midnight Mass (2021) dir. Mike Flanagan

Sparrows. In the Bible it says, “The sparrow will not fall to the ground, not even a sparrow, without God knowing.” He feels every death. I was in South America, in my youth, on a mission, and I stood beneath this… great waterfall. The scale of it. The weight of it… The roar of it, it drowned out every noise in the jungle. Every bird and every voice. And then when I was older, I thought about death, how many deaths occur every second… There’s people, animals, sparrows. If every drop of water in that waterfall were a death, I thought, “Oh. That must be what it’s like for God.” Every moment of every hour of every day, a deluge of death, so loud, how could he hear my whispered prayers over that thundering roar of deaths?

“My jeans split from the crotch to the knee. It was just a reminder of the times we live in. You can do all of your best shots, but it’s one foot in front of the other with a lot of wind blowing where you probably wish it wasn’t.”

— Hamish Linklater on his first day of filming “Midnight Mass”

But if I’m honest, and there’s no point in being anything else anymore, it was you. It was you and Sarah. That’s why I did it. That’s why I put that thing in that trunk. That’s why I bribed and lied and smuggled it back here. That was the reason. I didn’t want you to die.

@RahulKohli13: Bet they never thought this would be seen