Long videos · Monologue shadowing
Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,969 real monologues from 153 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
276 monologues · 68 filmsPage 12 of 12
- C19 lines
'You fucked a guy on a sofa in work.'
The self-blame stackNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The charges tighten from the sofa to pity, the lawyer and consent, all aimed at herself. - C13 lines
It was all part of his plan.
Strauss calls the guilt a crownOppenheimer · 2023The voice-over treats the public stand as a planned show, and the crown nails the pose. - C18 lines
He won't admit what he did, but I know he knows.
The one on trialNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Denial, friendly letters, and the role reversal stack until she is the one the court will test. - C15 lines
'Is that good?' me mum asks.
No comfort in the womenNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She answers her mother's hope with a harder question about women not believing women. - C15 lines
Bar table, bench. Panic. All the barristers are men!
The room is all menNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The list of roles narrows until the room itself is the accusation, and the heartbeat lands it. - C15 lines
'Are you sure you want to go through with this?'
Why she is still hereNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The question opens a list of costs, and the list answers by refusing to leave. - C14 lines
My voice is screaming, but only inside my head.
The scream inside her headNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The speech shrinks from a scream to a question to a bare accusation. - C111 lines
And it occurs to me in this moment, in court, as I am answering this question,
Private cross-examinationNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She proves he could remember, then uses that proof to show why they will trust her less. - C111 lines
But then all these questions about Julian's arms, his hands.
The hand-count trapNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She counts the hands aloud until the only one left in their story is hers. - C19 lines
'Mr Julian Brookes' QC here will at some stage tell you the jury
What she has lostNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022The repeated I have lost turns the cross-examination into a ledger, and the last item is the system itself. - C136 lines
'Your Honour, I am here in a unique position.
A barrister indicts herselfNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She steps from counsel to complainant, and each before this knocks the self-blame into a rhythm. - C112 lines
'There was a time, not so long ago,
What we cannot unseeNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022Old rulings give way to a fact the room cannot unknow, and then the law becomes something people made.