Written and directed by Woody Allen
jh: 65%
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Boris, look at this leaf. Isn't it perfect? And this one? Look. Oh, yeah. I definitely think that this is the best of all possible worlds.
It's certainly the most expensive.
Isn't nature incredible?
To me, nature is… I don't know, spiders and bugs and, big fish eating little fish. And plants eating plants
and animals eating… It's like an enormous restaurant.
Yes, but if God created it, it has to be beautiful, even if His plan's not apparent to us at the moment.
Sonja, what if there is no God?
Boris Dimitrovitch, are you joking?
What if we're just a bunch of absurd people who are running around with no rhyme or reason?
But if there is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?
Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I'd hate to blow my brains out, then see they found something.
Boris. Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody?
Murder's immoral.
Immorality is subjective.
Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
Not in a rational scheme of perception.
Perception is irrational. It implies imminence.
But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.
Yeah, I've said that many times.
Boris, we must believe in God.
If I could just see a miracle, just one miracle. If I could see a burning bush, or the seas part, or… Or my Uncle Sasha pick up a check.
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