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Scenario
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud calls professor C.S. Lewis to discuss the existence of God, Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' an unusual relationship with his best friend’s mother. Lewis in the film Zemlja sjena (1993) 30 years before this film. Lewis is shown studying the gospel when a woman who appears to be his wife calls him to bed. This film is set in 1939, but Lewis did not marry Joy Davidman Gresham until 1956.
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The woman was actually Janie Moore, with whom Lewis lived until 1949. [last lines] Sigmund Freud: From error to error the whole truth is discovered. .. Featured on The 7PM Project: Episode 19 April 2024 (2024). 36, ‘Enigma’ Variation 9: Nimrod Composer Edward Elgar Performed by Symfonický Orchestra Slovenského rozhlasu (as Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra) & Adrian Leaper (conductor) License: Naxos Music UK Ltd.
(Anthony Hopkins) and his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries)
It’s a contrast-intellectual-views-on-God drama set on September 3, 1939 in London, England, at the home of 83-year-old Sigmund Freud. The Freuds had fled Vienna, Austria, in 1938 after Anna had been briefly detained. Freud was seriously suffering from mouth cancer and took a lot of morphine that day. Freud did not believe in God, although he was early educated in both Catholicism and Judaism. Freud’s final intellectual visitor in this fictional narrative is C.S.
believe in the early 1930s
Lewis (Matthew Goode), a 45-year-old Oxford don and rediscovered Christian apologist. The film follows the conversation between Freud and Lewis with various flashbacks, including Freud’s youth and Lewis’ experiences in the First World War. The film also touches on Anna’s situation. relationship with her father and Dorothy Burlingham (Jodi Balfour), a former patient of Sigmund’s and Anna’s close friend. The film also chronicles Lewis’ conversion and his unusual relationship with Janie Moore (Orla Brady), the mother of Lewis’ wartime comrade Paddy Moore (George Andrew-Clarke).
Anna’s flashbacks and attachments provide pauses
Freud’s Last Session" Freud and Lewis poked holes in their opponents’ views of God, and neither managed to get a knockout. Hopkins and Goode are excellent, although burdened by a rather flat script. It was a kind of game art without much control.