Déjà Vu: Carroll Oerstadt
Monologue of Carroll Oerstadt from Déjà Vu (2006) Written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio
MONOLOGUE
6/13/20241 min read
They thought I was overcommitted and psychologically unstable... You got a smoke? A man could always use more alcohol, tobacco and firearms.
This wasn't about revenge, it was about destiny. You can ask me about my motives, my methods, they're all connected, everything's connected. I needed a car, something that couldn't be traced back to me, I had one already 'til that cop showed up...He...I was about to burn him and he was waking up, you know? I mean, I'm not cruel.
I needed her to look like a ferry victim, and a bullet would have given it away., I went to her house on the pretense of buying her car, I took her from behind, taped her mouth and threw a hood over her head, I bound her wrists and her ankles, and I drove her back to my place, I loaded the device into her car and I soaked her with gasoline
Sometimes a little human collateral is the cost of freedom, to me those people were war casualties.
You think you know what's coming, you don't have a clue, I've seen what's coming.
I have a destiny, a purpose.
Satan reasons like man but God thinks of eternity, well, I prostrate myself before a world that's going to hell in a handbag.
In all eternity, I am here and I will be remembered, that's destiny; a bomb has a destiny, a predetermined fate set by the hand of its creator, and anyone who tries to alter that destiny will be destroyed, anyone who tries to stop it from happening will cause it to happen; and that's what you don't understand, we're not here to coexist; I'm here to win, so you'd better have some divine intervention buddy, you're gonna need it.
Watch my interpretation of this monologue on Youtube! It is translated into Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPW3OUsDHYk