The intellectual and philosophical themes in this World War II-era story, with Tim Roth as a professor grappling with the origins of language, would almost have to make it a smaller work.

• 背景设在第二次世界大战期间的这部片子具有知性与哲学的主题，由提姆罗斯饰演努力追寻语言起源的教授，几乎非得拍成比较小品的电影才行。