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What am I gonna do? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand!
— Bodhi • Point Break
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker is exasperated at being boxed in: cliffs rise on both sides and there is no realistic way out. Paddling all the way to New Zealand is dismissed as absurd. The line mixes real predicament with a comic, overstated refusal of the only remaining option.
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