From the remake of the controversial classic ‘Straw Dogs’:
Charlie: Hey Mr Sumners, can I ask you a question?
David: Sure.
Charlie: Why you making a movie about a bunch of Russians?
David: I don’t really see it like that. I see I more as a universal tale of survival. Fighting back, the human spirit. You know, that battle changed the course of human history. 90% of Stalingrad was occupied by Nazis, and the Russians still beat them. They beat them with innovation and they best them with fortitude they didn’t know they had.
Charlie: You don’t think that God had anything to do with helping the Ruskies?
David: God?
Charlie: Yeah.
David: Uh… (chuckles)
Charlie: Why’s that funny?
David: That God would help a nation of atheists?
Charlie: He works in mysterious ways.
David: Most dangerous line ever uttered.
In an outtake in the special features’ section, from the same scene:
David: You think God picked a side when he let the Jews die in the Holocaust?
Dangerous indeed, to attribute injustices as the justified work of someone unseen and silent. Dangerous indeed, to attribute self-righteous wrongs to be blessed by someone unseen and silent. In the story, Charlie turned out to be a leader of a gang who subtly rationalise their godless ways in the name of God. They turn upon David in an unnerving bloody yet believable siege at his house. David fights back for survival and wins.