‘’I learnt that from CSI Miami’’ Changez

‘’Am I part of the new militant academia?’’ Changez

‘’Looks can be deceiving, I am a lover of America’’ Changez

‘’the blood of princes ran through my veins’’ Changez

‘’these new money scoundrels are ruining the place’’- Changez’s father

‘’he doesn’t want to sing those songs anymore…he’s an American now’’ Changez’s mother

‘’the accents great, makes you sound like royalty’’ Jim

‘’for future reference Jim its Changez’’ Changez- Jim had been pronouncing his name as ‘’Changes’’

‘’I was a soldier in your economic army’’ Changez

Another co-worker mispronounces his name

‘’the navy seals of financing’’ Changez on Underwood Sampson

‘’you clean up very nicely’’ Changez to Erica

‘’who was that man jumping in your painting’’ ‘’my boyfriend Chris’’- doesn’t refer to him in past tense until Changez asks after him

‘’all these pictures of me, you’ve got to have a little crush on me’’ Changez

‘’You have a very healthy self-esteem’’ Erica

Changez initiates kissing her but she pulls away

‘’I don’t recognise my own voice anymore, it sounds tinny and fake. Like someone who doesn’t come from anywhere’’ Changez

Sex scene

Erica ‘’I feel like I'm cheating’’

‘’I want to but I can’t’’

‘’pretend I'm him’’ Changez

Manila PHILLIPINES: Jim arrives in a lighter suit- representative of his position in American corporacy

‘’Boy that’s brutal’’ Changez’s co-worker

‘’you’re a long way from Lahore kid’’ Jim 

‘’the ruthlessness of the act was surpassed only by its genius. David had struck Goliath’’ Changez on his reaction to 9/11

Bats fly into the American’s (Bobby’s) face, this follows the revelation that he and his associates ransacked Changez’s office

‘’you picked a side after 9/11, I didn’t have to. It was picked for me’’ Changez

AIRPORT SCENE. Changez is stripped and probed.

9/11 footage reflected onto Changez’s face after he is stripped in the airport

‘’it’s in their book, whatever it’s called’’- a co-worker on the motivation for extremism, in reference to the Quran 

‘’I might have been suited and booted, but I felt just as vulnerable as they did’’ Changez

‘’there was only one place I felt safe. With her’’ Changez

Scene: Erica and Changez in bed, he is teaching her Urdu

‘’for me the only things certain were love and profit’’ 2002 Changez

Music becomes a lot more distorted, framing is darker

‘’a tiny slice of violence had wormed its way into my life, and I didn’t know how to remove it’’ Changez

Changez is on the phone to his mum- stressed, Erica continues taking photos of him

‘’you have a sense to fulfil your duty’’ Erica to Changez, who talks about grandchildren 

‘’you ARE another man’’ Erica

‘’Chris didn’t have any family, not like you, I was his family…and I'm forgetting him’’- in the film, Chris died in a drink driving accident. Erica was driving.

‘’I wish I could take a break from being myself’’ Erica 

‘’Me too’’ Changez

‘’Pakistan was born into violence 50 years ago’’ Changez

Jim revealed to be gay in the film; partner is Asian.

‘’I do believe appearances are important. Some adjustments are to be made in that department’’ Jim’s subtle comment on Changez

ERICAS EXHIBITION- explores the surreal relationship between Erica and Changez, their detachment due to culture. Changez verbally attacks Erica as he views it as an affront to his identity.

(in tears) ‘’please stop attacking me’’ Erica

 ‘’I didn’t know you were capable of such cruelty’’ Erica

‘’I imagine those janissary boys’’ ‘’they must feel so divided’’ Changez

‘I have to leave the country within two weeks, wanna come?’’ Changez

‘’yes (urdu) but my mourning isn’t over yet’’ Erica

‘’I was living my dream; the American dream...is there a Pakistani dream. One that doesn’t involve emigrating’’ Changez to his class