The Enemy Within
2013 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 805 VOTES · DIR. Giorgos Tsemperopoulos
Overview
Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
Dialogue Timeline — 639 lines
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00:00:19 The Enemy Within
00:05:33 lt's your last year in school. Sort yourself out.
00:08:32 - l want it back without a scratch. - l swear! Not a finger mark, either!
00:14:22 l'm afraid l have bad news...
00:19:26 Louisa...
00:23:48 l know.
00:27:15 That's how they do it; they just use them to carry the loot.
00:29:16 We were talking out of our asses. Theories...
00:32:50 That one, l think l know him.
00:34:19 Why are you shouting?
00:40:38 - Just tell me if it was him. - ''Him'' who? He was wearing a hood!
00:42:24 Sailor Boy, what happened to us nobody can understand.
00:45:12 Everyone knows he's crazy. Both he and his wife.
00:49:08 So you don't care about my opinion?
00:51:21 Bye Louisa!
00:53:34 l'm going in.
01:03:27 - What do you need it for? - Do l have to answer that?
01:08:14 You just met my boyfriend and almost beat him up!
01:16:09 Dad, l killed that guy!
01:20:51 - l need a mediator to make a deal with them.
01:23:52 What did he say?
01:28:16 lt's not necessary.
01:32:13 Does he look familiar?
01:34:34 Mr Stassinos, his wife is waiting outside.