In the film “The Sacrifice,” World War III has already taken place, and the protagonist—played by Swedish actor Erland Josephson—prays to God for everything to return to the way it was, promising to sacrifice everything he has ever loved in this life in exchange. And when orderlies take him away to a psychiatric hospital, where the bliss and misery of madness await him, his son—who had been unable to speak—begins to say: ‘In the beginning was the Word’…“