Summary

When Paul Schrader ’s new moral drama The Basics of Philosophy begins, we are on a fictional college campus where John ( Jack Huston ), a professor of philosophy, gives an introductory lecture about the meaning of his course. Soon after, we see him in his office with a female student, who is begging for a grade change. She makes a clumsy attempt at seduction that he rebuffs, but the charged moment lingers in the air for several scenes afterward.

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