The Magician Comments

  • Halle 2022-10-20 20:08:38

    People who tell the truth are often regarded as liars, but people who tell lies are always believed. Some people are innocently deceived, some people are willing, whether it is science or thaumaturgy, it is a comedy. We live in lies all the time. In fact, power is the ultimate magic. For example, at the end, whether you see through the king's tricks or not, you must surrender in the end. He can change your destiny, and again God is not there. God is always silent, only we keep...

  • Dedric 2022-10-11 20:39:07

    Although I didn't look closely, I still liked...

  • Cordie 2022-10-11 12:18:12

    The rarely mentioned Bergman movie, the stage play atmosphere and lighting effects are excellent, the magician's revenge scene shows a very high level of control of the scene. The love potion section has a comedy effect. The magician chooses to use the Mute this way hides fear and restless self-affirmation, and Ingrid Turing's Manda acts as a powerful guide. God is silent when people talk...

  • Manuel 2022-10-04 19:34:03

    7.8; Living and...

  • Rowan 2022-09-22 12:08:09

    [June 2020 Bergman √] Bergman made a ghost movie hahahaha what the hell...The tone of the sarcasm is really well controlled. Superb indoor drama, it's actually "intruder" mode, and upstairs and downstairs mode. ·Von Sydow's appearance is too...

  • Devyn 2022-09-17 10:23:31

    Actually, Ingmar Bergman's film I've only seen two The Seventh Seal and the Wild Strawberry The Seventh Seal is about religion and death. The Wild Strawberry is about psychoanalysis, dream parsing and self-redemption. This film discusses need and rejection. It's still a lot of metaphors. And ravings run through it... I must admit that I thought I knew what the Great God was about to say but I didn't understand what the Great God said...

  • Raleigh 2022-06-28 19:22:57

    ①The silent liar is the crucified Jesus, the disguised wife is the pure saint, and the old wizard is the calm saint. ②The image of the doctor is a film critic who criticized Bergman's films badly at that time, in order to point out the gap between art and media, so as to question the possibility of communication between individuals of different classes. ③ A person who has not seen Bergman's films is best to start from this film, because this film can see most of the author symbols of his...

  • Shanie 2022-06-28 18:35:50

    In 1958, "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Ben-Hur" were both filmed, and Bergman was still telling such a metaphorical religious story, the scene design and lines full of drama, I don't know if it was a kind of backwardness. But the photography and scheduling are really...

  • Maxwell 2022-06-28 14:05:01

    The penultimate scene in the attic was so well done. Very skilled use of light and shadow, mirror reflection and sound, etc., I feel that it provides ideas for the scary routines of many horror films now. Although it was still doused with blood by the big pot of chicken soup at the end, haha. Max von Sydow is really handsome in Bergman's...

  • Wendell 2022-06-28 12:00:27

    For example, the circus in "Night of the Clown" continues in the context of the absence of God. In "Face", Freud's "id" is gradually removed from everyone's face like a mask, but it does not mean that the Gehman was negative about "mysticism" and sided with scientism, on the contrary, the former actually won. The comic "resolve" may mirror secular politics or miracles, the first Fellini-esque cartoon characters in Bergman's...

Extended Reading

The Magician quotes

  • 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?

  • 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!