Richard Feynman talks through his own life in a 1981 interview filmed for the BBC, and the physicist turns out to be as good at explaining himself as he was at explaining quantum electrodynamics. He describes his father teaching him early on that knowing a bird's name in every language tells you nothing about the bird, and that lesson becomes the throughline: understanding over memorization. He recounts an argument with an artist friend who accused him of draining the beauty out of a flower by studying it, and lays out why he thinks science adds beauty rather than removing it. He talks plainly about Los Alamos and the atomic bomb, and about the flat, disoriented feeling that followed watching the Trinity test succeed. The Nobel Prize comes up mostly so he can dismiss the ceremony around it as beside the point. No reenactments, no narrator, just Feynman on camera, laughing often, working out loud how he thinks.