Clip from Brideshead Revisited (1981, sub ENG)

Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Most of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge; a few sequences were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
The serial is an adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder—including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

In this extract, we get a sample of how religion is used by the self-righteous ruling class to validate, rationalise and preserve social inequality (along with their false consciousness). The bits that don't fit this narrative are nonchalantly dismissed as whimsical fairy tales.