1. Surface: About the story
(1) She loves her
Emma likes Elizabeth, and her silence makes their closeness possible. Emma said: Never before has anyone listened to me like this. She kept talking, and Elizabeth responded to her with a smile and gentle touch. Finally, one day, Emma talked about the secret of her sin, a period of absurd promiscuity when she was ignorant and ignorant. She felt ashamed and regretted for this, and the tears after talking seemed to be able to wash away these unexplained guilt, Elizabeth’s Silence is so solid and safe. They are so close, Emma said, watching Elizabeth's movies before, and even fantasizing that they are the same person. When the night was dark, Emma vaguely heard Elizabeth remind her not to fall asleep on the table. This is the first time Elizabeth has spoken to Emma, but she thought it was just an illusion. On the beach the next day, Emma's request to Elizabeth was denied for granted. But in the shadow of the white gauze late at night, who came gently? They stroked each other's hair in front of the mirror, are you you? Am i me? You are me and I am you. This feels so good.
(2) She hates her and
they live happily on the island. I don’t know the heat and cold in the world. One day, she will go to the city and bring her letter to the doctor. The letter has just been taken off the typewriter and hasn’t even had time to seal it. . Emma probably never felt that Elizabeth's silence was a problem, but she was not unintentional. She wanted to know what was behind the silence, especially when she had the opportunity. So, in the sound of the ticking rain, she read the "truth". It turns out that those gentle smiles are cold observations. It turns out that Elizabeth has always regarded studying her as "an interesting thing", as Emma imagined Those warmth, understanding, and tolerance are just my own wishful thinking.
A small balanced world collapsed, and the two people slowly changed the taste. Emma seemed to have left a piece of glass at the door unintentionally, waiting for Elizabeth to step on it. She began to ask Elizabeth to speak. When she still had to face silence, the silence turned into coldness and rejection, and even her smile was just a mockery. The tender touch turned into a fierce scuffle. When Emma was about to pour boiling water on Elizabeth, she finally said the second sentence: No!
After the injury, the isolation and indifference caused Emma to lay down her dignity and ask for Elizabeth's forgiveness. Without reconciliation and tolerance, Emma faced the void of the night sea alone.
(3) She was her.
She couldn't bear isolation and rejection. Just like Elizabeth did at the time, Emma came to the sleeping Elizabeth's bed. She could observe her in such a safe and quiet manner, and approach her, just as Elizabeth observed her." I can see the fine wrinkles on your forehead, the covered scars on your neck. "I know you so much, so we don't know each other anymore.
Emma heard someone call her Elizabeth, it was Elizabeth’s husband, she couldn’t help but touched him, talked to a strange man like the real Elizabeth, and even went to bed. However, she was still awake. She was Emma. She is not Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth's silence has expired. Emma has seen what comes after the silence. She hates her child and hopes that he will die. In Elizabeth's story told by Emma, their faces finally merged into one.
You are not you, I am not me, you are me, I am you. It feels really scary.
Finally, they reconciled, and in the ward, Emma said, tell me, it’s nothing. Elizabeth said, nothing. This is her third sentence.
nothing. Everything disappeared, nothing, those warmth, those hurt, but a dream, but a movie.
2. Metaphor: About the movie
Bergman originally named the film "cinematography", which contains a lot of hints about the film, the two-frame animation at the opening, horror film clips, and the scenes of the director and photographer sitting on the elevator suddenly appear at the end of the film. They are all telling us that this is a work that thinks about the essence of film. Between the two characters, there seems to be a metaphor for the relationship between the audience and the movie. Emma, who has been telling the story, is the movie itself, while the silent Elizabeth is the audience sitting in the dark. She can only "watch". This action does not mean that she does not have any judgment. Emma imagines herself as Elizabeth, and she has new vitality. The vitality provided by the possibilities of that countless story. Elizabeth’s silence made a sound through Emma’s story. She finally discovered that Emma knew the most cryptic secret in her heart. Emma revealed the truth about her life and asked her to face the self she didn’t dare to face. She was in Emma’s In the face, I saw my own face.
Movies are dreams of life, so the protagonists in the movie always think from dreams. Dreams are not only a tool for storytelling, but also a tortuous response to reality's desires. Dreams do not need to be reasonable, there are endless possibilities in dreams. A person can become the one he longs to know, live in her place, and confess in her place.
3. Theme: Silence and masks, fear and darkness
Silence is a kind of rejection and resistance, as the doctor said: You can be silent and sit still, so at least you don’t have to lie, you can close yourself and shut the world out, This way you don’t need to play any role, make any hypocritical expressions and gestures. You think so, but the reality is cruel, and your hiding place is not airtight. Everywhere is full of life’s scams, you must not Do not respond. No one cares whether you tell the truth or lie, that is something that only becomes important in the theater, or not even there.
Silence can also become a mask, a mask of a container. When Elizabeth rejects the hell of others with silence, her silence has become Emma's trap and hell. Someone must have communication, and if there is communication, there must be judgment, misunderstanding, and harm, whether it is filled with the clamor of words or persisting in silence. People live in the human world, and there is no escape from suffering, and the paradise is just imagination.
Five-minute credits, animations, horror film clips, the old man in the morgue, the slaughtered sheep, the nailed hands, the black spider, I tend to believe that it is Elizabeth’s impression of horror, so in the film, when Emma tries When using glass shards to hurt her, those fragments flashed back quickly. Many of the scenes that Bergman piled up at the beginning of the film come from personal experience. From this perspective, it seems that Elizabeth in the film is a transfiguration and epitome of the director. Although the line is Emma in the film, Elizabeth is also talking about her. The way of telling is nonverbal, and the language she uses is the language of the movie.
When the subtitles were released, those beaches and rocks were the things in the environment where Elizabeth lived in the film. The director’s experience and the protagonist’s experience overlapped, which also verified that Bergman was actually making Elizabeth the real narrative of the film. people.
"Mask" has left us with a huge space for interpretation, and every path of interpretation is beautiful, but maybe Bergman does not need to explain. He shows us his feelings. He opens a world and liberates I also liberated the viewer.
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