| The 40 Year Old Virgin | NO, he retreats to his previous personality flaw. |
| Alien | YES. “We’ll blow it the fuck out into space. We have to stick together.” |
| An Education | YES. Reacting to teacher’s place, “I’d love to live someplace like this…That’s all you need, isn’t it?” |
| The Babadook | YES. To her husband’s ghost: “You’re trespassing in my house.” |
| Blazing Saddles | YES. He must bring the workers and townspeople together. |
| Blue Velvet | NO. Not really: he remains conflicted throughout. When Detective Williams says “You’re all through with this now?” he responds “Yes sir, I sure am,” but he continues investigating. Later, he says to Sandy, while holding Dorothy, “Forgive me, I love you.” |
| The Bourne Identity | YES. “I don’t want to know who I am anymore.” He only cares about what he can become. |
| Bridesmaids | YES. “I’m not okay.” “Things are going to change but they’ll be better.” |
| Casablanca | YES. “The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world” |
| Chinatown | YES. When he asks Cross ”How much better can you eat?”, he’s also criticizing his own predatory work ethic earlier in the movie. |
| Donnie Brasco | YES. “Fuck the rules.” |
| Do the Right Thing | YES. We can sense that the mayor’s words are now echoing in his head: Always do the right thing. |
| The Farewell | NO. You would think she would say something subtly showing that she’s coming around during her wedding speech, but her speech is unmemorable. (The closest thing she gets to a corrected statement of philosophy is her final line of the movie where she comes home and shouts “Ha!” using her grandma’s exercise mantra.) |
| The Fighter | YES. I want you both in my corner |
| Frozen | YES. It’s a line from before that now gets interpreted correctly: “An act of love of love will thaw a frozen heart.” |
| The Fugitive | YES. Kimble: Sort of: “I am trying to solve a puzzle here.” (aka I can’t trust in others to find the right answers and I need to rely on myself.) Also: “To see a friend” (aka evil is all around me and I’ve been too trusting.) Gerard: “That company is a monster.” |
| Get Out | YES. After the ¾ point, he chooses to save himself. He discovers that the only way to save himself from slavery is to pick some cotton. |
| Groundhog Day | YES. Eventually: “No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now” |
| How to Train Your Dragon | YES. “It’s not the dragon I’m worried about.” “I’m not one of them” |
| In a Lonely Place | YES. “I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” |
| Iron Man | YES. “I’m going to find my weapons and destroy them. I’m not crazy, Pepper, I just finally know what I have to do, and I know in my heart that it’s right.” |
| Lady Bird | YES. “She’s my best friend” “I’m sorry, I know I can lie and not be a good person but… Please, Mom, please I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you – I appreciate everything you’ve done for me, I’m ungrateful and I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry I wanted more…” |
| Raising Arizona | YES. “You were right and I was wrong. We got a family here and I’m gonna start acting responsibly. |
| Rushmore | YES. “I’m just a barber’s son.” About his plan for the aquarium (and therefore his crush on Ms. Cross): “I gave it to a friend.” |
| Selma | Sort of. He doesn’t frame it as changing his mind, but rather tries to explain his decision as a tactical retreat. But nobody really buys that he hasn’t reversed himself. |
| The Shining | YES. Danny barely speaks, but he seems to have accepted that his dad must die. |
| Sideways | YES. Before, actually: “This has been a big deal for me.” In this case, the further hardships cause him to regress, not progress, but the progress he’s already made finally pays off much later. |
| The Silence of the Lambs | YES. Quid pro quo: you have to make yourself vulnerable in order to understand evil. |
| Star Wars | YES. Not until the end: “Use the force” |
| Sunset Boulevard | YES. in telling her, “I’d take it in a second, but it’s a little too dressy for sitting behind a copy desk in Dayton, Ohio.” |
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