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Margaretta 2023-09-30 17:19:47
God and art. Not so Bergman but very Bergman, Jesus....
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Lila 2023-09-28 03:12:14
A hodgepodge of mysticism, true and false, with faces of all the people closest to God. It's just that the plot is too scattered, and it seems that a group of people gathered here, in fact, no one suffers from each other, jumping around, both comedy and horror. In fact, it is nothing more than conveying Bergman's eternal themes, God and communication, hypocrisy and indifference....
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Aryanna 2023-09-27 08:07:53
3.5 It took me a few days to finish reading it. I only remember the part of "Resurrection of the Dead". The use of mirrors is evident in "Night of the...
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Jeffry 2023-09-18 21:14:50
What a riveting movie! The first half of the nineteenth century costume drama is melodramatically engaging. Everyone lives under the cover of masks/makeup, moral masks, erotic masks, ethical masks, language masks, religious/mystical masks...the magic scene at the kitchen table and in the parlour is like a carnival. Every change of light and shadow in the film seems to tell the humbleness/nothingness of life and the mystery/nobleness that death may...
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Alexys 2023-08-29 07:47:53
No one has ever expressed the entanglement of mutual love and hatred between artist and audience more properly... Knowing the other is not just out of the need for...
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Jayne 2023-08-19 12:55:24
Change the style of the past, but the master is the...
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Malachi 2023-08-09 22:31:22
The sleep of reason produces monsters. It is generally a comedy, and sometimes even has a farce color brought about by travel, foreign land, encounters, and strangeness, but the persistence and mutual torture of rational spokespersons and illusion makers are serious. The moment Gunar Björnstrand's glasses that symbolize rationality are smashed, I just want to contribute to...
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Theresa 2023-08-07 03:44:44
feel charming. 1. The film tells the story of the troupe led by the hypnotist Vogler, who was detained by local law enforcement officers in a small town on the way to Stockholm to verify whether the magic was real. Bergman continues the theme of the sad state of wandering artists after "The Night of the Clown", showing the irreconcilability between different classes with a deeper and broader excavation, and through symbolic characterization to allegorize the impact of art on creators and modern...
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Rylan 2023-08-03 19:19:50
Scientists eagerly dismantled the magician's deceptive tricks, and in fact achieved their goal, but the magician and his party are not scientific in themselves, they cannot understand each other, and they are walking on completely different...
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Frank 2023-08-03 14:06:47
A piece of paper changes a destiny. This is irony and the biggest magic trick. Power is actually a...
The Magician Comments
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Johan Spegel: [Vogler has come across a sick man lying in the forest near the road] Good day, sir. My name is Johan Spegel. I am very ill, as you can see. Would you alleviate my suffering with a little brandy? For brandy is my infirmity, but its remedy too.
Johan Spegel: [Vogler gives the man some brandy, which seems to revive him] I am an actor. In fact, a member of the famous Stenbourg troupe. But my illness has put an end to my career.
Johan Spegel: [Vogler helps the man to his feet, whereupon Spegel takes a closer look at Vogler] Are you an actor too?
Johan Spegel: [Vogler mutely shakes his head "no"] Then why the disguise? Your beard is fake, and your eyebrows and hair are dyed. Are you a swindler who must conceal his true face?
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Tubal: [the magician Vogler and his entourage have been detained at Consul Egerman's residence for an informal questioning before they will be allowed to perform their act in the town] All of you keep quiet. I'll do the talking.
Tubal: [goes and sits down by Granny Vogler] I must especially ask Granny to keep her trap shut. And another thing: Granny can make things jump around. Granny knows what I mean. Tables go flying, chairs fall over, lights go out. We all know Granny's tricks, but be good and behave... for all our sakes.
Granny Vogler: Yes, I understand... perhaps.
Tubal: God, this woman makes me nervous. Remember what you did in Ostend?
Granny Vogler: No, I don't believe I do.
Tubal: Granny's tricks are out of date. They're not amusing, and they can't be explained. Granny ought to be dead.
Granny Vogler: [chuckling] Ah, those were merry times in Ostend.
Tubal: I was thrown in the clink, Vogler was fined, and Granny was flogged in the town square. Yes, those were merry times in Ostend!
