I actually caught it the first time I watched it. And for the record, I'm terrible at hearing things. Which isn't a very good attribute, considering the fact that I'm a medical transcriptionist.
The phrase itself, though, doesn't seem to make sense to me, and I'm tremendously interested in deciphering poetically cryptic speech.
"Ambition is the ice on the lake of emotion." Sounds good (as a pithy aphorism, but not as a badly delivered line in a movie). Means nothing.
Ambition and emotion are actually quite synonymous terms, so the fact that the phrase posits the idea that they're somehow worlds apart is dumb.
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15 years ago
Since she was talking to Fielding who had ambitions in politics, could she mean that there's no room for emotions when you're trying to get ahead in politics, that you must keep a cool exterior and your emotions bottled up when you're a public figure?
Just like Fielding must act like he's fine when we see him later in the film doing his public appearances while inside he's going nuts?
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