Wittgenstein
1993 · 75 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 3,037 VOTES · DIR. Derek Jarman
Overview
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
Dialogue Timeline — 827 lines
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00:00:23 If people did not sometimes...
00:05:05 (Babble of muttering)
00:08:07 went south to Cambridge to study philosophy with Bertrand Russell.
00:11:20 There was no oxygen there.
00:14:13 But how do I know that you are Ludwig Wittgenstein?
00:17:29 Is it the world?
00:20:27 If you hadn't been so daft and given all your money to us
00:23:10 I've done my homework.
00:25:10 But good.
00:27:42 Ah, Maynard.
00:31:02 Yes, yes, we...we could get an interpreter.
00:33:36 linguistic
00:36:35 I'm done for.
00:39:06 Just the way we do things in everyday life and things like that.
00:41:17 I'm the woman. You are the philosopher.
00:43:37 Made me feel like a vegetable.
00:46:55 I thought you'd be pleased.
00:49:12 Next one.
00:51:38 You have a terrible power over them, can't you see that?
00:54:52 I mustn't infect too many young men.
00:58:11 Yes.
01:00:21 we learn to use words, because we belong to a culture.
01:02:33 At last.
01:05:16 he came to understand that roughness and ambiguity aren't imperfections
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed827
Dialogue density11.0 lines / min
First line00:00:23
Final line01:05:16
Production Record
DirectorDerek Jarman
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,037