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The Oxford Murders

By Jorge Guerricaechevarria and Alex de la Iglesia - Film

FilmScreen

Roles

  • PROFESSOR SELDOM - Male

About this piece

Professor Seldom's opening speech on Wittgenstein

Summary

The opening sequence of the film is a scene from WWI. A group of soldies are running and shooting. In the chaos, a young man is scribbling in a note book.... This monologue explains the opening image. This is a speech by an Oxford professor on the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein, who wrote the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", an influential book about philosophy about the search for the truth. His conclusion: there is no truth outside of mathematics....

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