Extended Reading
  • Modesto 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    struggling relationship

    I prefer the translation of "Screams and Whispers", which I think is more in line with the feeling brought by this film, a silent tension slowly eroding and shocking me. Why cry? Why whisper? Why can't I express myself directly? Why did the three closest sisters end up like this? Is it because they...

  • Melody 2022-04-22 07:01:45

    Each of Bergman's films is a candid expression of a tragic life

    Every time I watch a Bergman movie, I feel like I have experienced a heavy baptism, and now I don't feel like going to lunch after watching it. A tragic life is not about tragic and solemn, but about consumption and silence. Unhappiness, estrangement, jealousy, sickness and death, indifference are...

  • Reyes 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    #BJIFF2018# The close-up of the human face has repeatedly broken the fourth wall, and fell from the first gaze. They cried out to me in pain and grieved, and when they whispered in delirium, I was full of scratching like ants, the oppression of the picture, The resonance of the sound perfectly completes the eruption of emotions, and in the red-green, indoor-outdoor contrast, the contradictions of reality-memories, pain-beauty are seen, and there is a flow in the whole process.

  • Dessie 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    A red narrative that deprives characters of spatial depth. Emotions infiltrate all floating particles through color, and the warm colors of vision and the coldness of psychological independence show both sides of yin and yang in the "tap" sound of time needles.

Cries & Whispers quotes

  • David: Come here, Marie. Come. Look in the mirror. You're beautiful. Perhaps even more than when we were together. But you've changed and I want you to see how. Now your eyes cast quick, calculating, side glances. You used to look ahead straightforwardly, openly, without disguise. Your mouth has a slightly hungry, dissatisfied expression. It used to be so soft. Your complexion is pale now. You wear makeup. Your fine, wide brow has four lines above each eye now. You can't see them in this light, but you can in the bright of day. You know what caused those lines?

    Maria: No.

    David: Indifference. And this fine contour from your ear to your chin is no longer so finely drawn - the result of too much comfort and laziness. And there, by the bridge of your nose. Why do you sneer so often? You see that? You sneer too often. You see it? And look under your eyes. The sharp, scarcely noticeable wrinkles from your boredom and impatience.

    Maria: Can you really see all that there?

    David: No, but I feel it when you kiss me.

    Maria: I think you're joking with me. I know where you see it.

    David: Where?

    Maria: In yourself. Because you and I are so alike.

    David: You mean in our selfishness, coldness and indifference?

  • Maria: You've changed. Is there someone else?

    David: There always is. Besides, I thought the problem didn't interest you.

    Maria: It doesn't.