Beyond the place of anger and tears
Only the horror of the shadow looms,
But still the threat of long years
Finds and will find me fearless...
These sad but strong lines are uttered by Freud's daughter, subjecting the subjective characterization to opposition. The picture is full of meanings, classically shot, with a brilliant performance by Anthony Hopkins. The film will be of interest to a certain audience interested in philosophy and human behavior. If you don't have such aspirations, then it seems to me that even Hopkins' unsurpassed acting will not be able to hold your attention.
The story describes an alleged meeting between writer Clive Staples Lewis, author of the fantasy novel series The Chronicles of Narnia, and psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. It is not known for certain whether such a meeting actually took place, there is only a mention that shortly before the suicide of the founder of psychoanalysis, he was visited by a certain famous man from Oxford.
The film is an intellectual discourse of an agnostic and a defender of Christianity, both characters are deeply traumatized: one prefers determination, the other seeks solace; one chooses courage, the other tries to drown out memories. There is no right decision, there are actions dictated by will and consciousness. This is a sad psychoanalysis of beliefs, in which important topics are voiced, but only one is revealed - the opportunity to change your mind, a sign of adequacy.
The authors contrast the conflict of thoughts and the conflict of actions: Freud compares religion to a worldwide kindergarten and calls on humanity to grow up, and the writer accuses humanity of suffering, which it itself has generated, arguing that only free will makes good possible, calling pleasure a whisper of God, and pain a loudspeaker.
The theme of war actually permeates the plot, emphasizing the parallels between the past and the present. Freud calls fascism evil and says: "I saw the light and saw the face of a beast, a monster. There is no escape from the beast, our moral conviction is the beast, we are the plague, we are hunger and death, we are the apocalypse. Thank God I won't live to see another "Hitler"".
The film is interesting for its deep content, metaphysical reflection, dramatic characters, and eternal philosophical reflections. The film does not leave a deep impression, but it encourages discussion about good and evil, about human weaknesses, about religion, about science. This is a good, emotional, philosophical drama with a talented and unsurpassed performance by Anthony Hopkins, however, I would like a brighter conflict and a bolder provocation, which is so lacking in this psychological duel between an unbelieving psychiatrist and a church-educated writer.
If you liked this movie, then I can recommend "The Dangerous Method", a film about the method of psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud in the form of a love drama. Jung and Freud were friends, but later their friendship broke down and these real events are reflected in the film.
I remembered an interesting real event related to Gustav Jung: At the time of Jung's death, a lightning bolt hit his favorite tree in a garden near Zurich, and his friend Lawrence had a dream in which Jung waved his hand, as if going somewhere and said that "I'll see you again." A few years later, standing under the same tree, Laurence van der Post was talking to a journalist and at the moment of his story about the death of a psychiatrist, lightning struck the tree again.
An amazing coincidence shrouded in mysticism, which Jung was passionately interested in.
- a fragment of a poem by William Ernest Henley, which he wrote shortly before the amputation of his leg.
These sad but strong lines are uttered by Freud's daughter, subjecting the subjective characterization to opposition. The picture is full of meanings, classically shot, with a brilliant performance by Anthony Hopkins. The film will be of interest to a certain audience interested in philosophy and human behavior. If you don't have such aspirations, then it seems to me that even Hopkins' unsurpassed acting will not be able to hold your attention.
The story describes an alleged meeting between writer Clive Staples Lewis, author of the fantasy novel series The Chronicles of Narnia, and psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. It is not known for certain whether such a meeting actually took place, there is only a mention that shortly before the suicide of the founder of psychoanalysis, he was visited by a certain famous man from Oxford.
The film is an intellectual discourse of an agnostic and a defender of Christianity, both characters are deeply traumatized: one prefers determination, the other seeks solace; one chooses courage, the other tries to drown out memories. There is no right decision, there are actions dictated by will and consciousness. This is a sad psychoanalysis of beliefs, in which important topics are voiced, but only one is revealed - the opportunity to change your mind, a sign of adequacy.
The authors contrast the conflict of thoughts and the conflict of actions: Freud compares religion to a worldwide kindergarten and calls on humanity to grow up, and the writer accuses humanity of suffering, which it itself has generated, arguing that only free will makes good possible, calling pleasure a whisper of God, and pain a loudspeaker.
The theme of war actually permeates the plot, emphasizing the parallels between the past and the present. Freud calls fascism evil and says: "I saw the light and saw the face of a beast, a monster. There is no escape from the beast, our moral conviction is the beast, we are the plague, we are hunger and death, we are the apocalypse. Thank God I won't live to see another "Hitler"".
The film is interesting for its deep content, metaphysical reflection, dramatic characters, and eternal philosophical reflections. The film does not leave a deep impression, but it encourages discussion about good and evil, about human weaknesses, about religion, about science. This is a good, emotional, philosophical drama with a talented and unsurpassed performance by Anthony Hopkins, however, I would like a brighter conflict and a bolder provocation, which is so lacking in this psychological duel between an unbelieving psychiatrist and a church-educated writer.
If you liked this movie, then I can recommend "The Dangerous Method", a film about the method of psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud in the form of a love drama. Jung and Freud were friends, but later their friendship broke down and these real events are reflected in the film.
I remembered an interesting real event related to Gustav Jung: At the time of Jung's death, a lightning bolt hit his favorite tree in a garden near Zurich, and his friend Lawrence had a dream in which Jung waved his hand, as if going somewhere and said that "I'll see you again." A few years later, standing under the same tree, Laurence van der Post was talking to a journalist and at the moment of his story about the death of a psychiatrist, lightning struck the tree again.
An amazing coincidence shrouded in mysticism, which Jung was passionately interested in.