Text: "The Grand Inquisitor" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Film: "The Seventh Seal" directed by Ingmar Bergman, "Tree of Life" directed by Terrence Malick

Description: Within this episode, we explore the ideas of existentialism covered in the works listed above. The most prominent connection between them is finding the meaning of life.

In the Tree of Life, you follow a family from Texas in the 1950s through their experience grieving the loss of one of the sons. They struggle to find the meaning of life as they wrestle with their faith and relationships with each other.

In the Seventh Seal, a knight returns from the Crusades to find out that a plague has taken over his homeland. As personified Death comes to take him, he ...