One character in this film realizes that something in childhood has gone wrong, but that he can't spend the rest of his life attributing it to the "search for a moral language.
One character in this film realizes that something in childhood has gone wrong, but that he can't spend the rest of his life attributing it to the "search for a moral language." That character is called his own best friend by Sonia, whose life with him consists of establishing minimal friction; they tell each other "we would make love if we had the desire, and we would blow each other's brains out if we had a gun." The protagonist is given the gifts of Hemingway's knife and the book The Scales of Time for his birthday. He later sees a man worrying about what is infinitely small and infinitely large and asking the barrister "Did you create hell all these years just to have something to write about?" Kevin Woodford is tried for murder, and later has an affair with Sonia, while Claude Langham, played by Dirk Bogarde, goes for his old flame, the slowly dying Helen. The alcoholic protagonist continues to refuse to die until he finishes who has been writing his treacherous family into his latest novel. An exploration of discontinuous perspective akin to the discontinuous time in the director's previous work, Last Year at Marienbad, for 10 points, name this film starring Sir John Gielgud as a dying writer, a work by Alain Resnais.
One character in this film realizes that something in childhood has gone wrong, but that he can't spend the rest of his life attributing it to the "search for a moral language.
Providence