The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

Kyle Allen: Mark

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• Mark : Most of life is just junk. It's filler. And then, there's these moments when all the randomness turns into something perfect. It's like life dropping all the b---s--- just for a second to show us how amazing it could be all the time if it wanted to.

• Mark : I thought everything was perfect, but there was more to the story than that. I thought it was a love story, and I was the hero. But it wasn't about me. It wasn't my story at all. It's Margaret's.

• Mark : Hi, uh... I'm Mark. I, uh, just had a quick question.

  Margaret : OK.

  Mark : I was wondering... This is going to sound really strange, really bizarre, but are you experiencing any kind of temporal anomaly in your life?

  [pause] 

  Mark : By temporal anomaly I mean...

  Margaret : I know what a temporal anomaly is.

  Mark : OK, great. So what specifically I was wondering is...

  Margaret : ...the thing where the same day keeps happening?

  [Nods] 

  Mark : Woah!

• Mark : Wait. What if we found them all?

  Margaret : What do you mean?

  Mark : All the perfect things in this one town in this one day. We could collect them.

  Margaret : Like Pokemon?

  Mark : Kinda. I like Pokemon.

• Mark : It's great, being the only one who knows what's going to come next, but it's also... weird. Like everything that's happened has happened, like, a thousand times. Everyone is, like, sleepwalking. They think this is all there is.

  Margaret : Yeah. Like everyone else is dreaming, and you're the only one who's awake.

  Mark : Exactly.

• Mark : Do you ever think about it? We must miss so many of them. All those tiny perfect things, just

  [clicks fingers] 

  Mark : poof, gone! Lost forever. But not today.

  Margaret : That is a disturbingly inspirational idea, Mark. But, I have to go.