London, September 3rd, 1939. The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don C S Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia). On this day, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century intimately engage in a monumental session over the belief in the future of mankind and the existence of God.
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00:00 (gentle music)
00:01 - Professor Lewis.
00:02 - Dr. Freud.
00:03 - I've given you up for lost.
00:05 Yoffie is my personal assistant.
00:07 - Really?
00:08 - Well, if a patient is calm,
00:09 Yoffie always stretches out at my feet.
00:12 But if a patient is agitated,
00:14 Yoffie stands at my side.
00:16 - What should I make of his running away at the sight of me?
00:18 - Ah, well, he's also a fanatic about punctuality.
00:21 - Well, you have a wonderful home.
00:25 - My daughter, Anna,
00:26 tried her best to replicate our home in Vienna.
00:29 - Forgive me, but why would you come here to see me
00:31 if you disagree so passionately with my views?
00:34 - To make you realize that you're wrong.
00:36 (laughing)
00:37 - Well done.
00:38 Good.
00:40 - You've insisted all your life
00:41 that the very concept of God is ludicrous.
00:43 - Yes.
00:44 Why someone of your supreme intellect
00:46 would suddenly abandon truth
00:48 and then embrace a ludicrous dream, an insidious lie?
00:52 - Well, I wholeheartedly disagree.
00:54 - Well, of course you disagree.
00:55 You have to disagree.
00:56 Otherwise the entire structure of your childish faith
00:58 would collapse into a rubble.
01:00 - Why does religion make room for science?
01:02 Because science refuses to make room for religion.
01:04 - Oh, please, you're breaking my heart.
01:06 Because they hide behind their ignorance.
01:08 You hide behind your ignorance.
01:10 - I think that you're afraid to feel emotions at all.
01:12 - Is that your final diagnosis?
01:14 Fascinating.
01:15 - I don't know.
01:16 - You don't know?
01:17 Well, finally, finally, finally, we're making progress.
01:21 - You lie to yourself,
01:24 thinking that you can control death
01:27 the way you control your world
01:28 and your daughter.
01:29 - Anna's dedicated to the science.
01:32 - Is she seeing someone?
01:34 - She has no time for relationships.
01:36 - I'm worried about my father.
01:37 He has no one.
01:38 - There must be someone.
01:39 - Me.
01:40 - That's my girl.
01:41 - Truth is, you're terrified.
01:44 - We're all terrified.
01:45 See, you bury your doubts.
01:47 You bury your memories of the war.
01:50 At the core of your being.
01:52 We're all cowards before death.
01:55 (dramatic music)
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