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Tyrel 2022-04-21 09:01:45
Bergman, a sadist Protestant in the north, was obsessed with death and suffering. For him, life is never peaceful. And life itself is a game of chess with death on a cold beach or in a jungle overgrown with thorns. This film is set to ask a lot of questions about life, and the god of death can answer you. Life is an exercise in death, and the world always ends. If life is a chess game against death, then death itself will surely defeat life. Bergman is afraid of death, so the characters in the film look directly into the eyes of death, full of fear. Empty pupils looked up to God and prayed for salvation. Is hard labor the way to go? the answer is negative. Murder, hanging, flogging these physical torture orders can not compete with death. Death is better than life because of original sin. If God really exists, can the virtues accumulated in the world make up for the sins committed by Adam and Eve? Man-nature-God can be harmonious, balanced without restraint and persecution. If man did not wreak havoc on nature, and God did not punish man, would nature still destroy mankind, and would there be plagues and death all over? These are Bergman's doubts about faith and religion. He doesn't believe that God can really save anything, just like the death of an innocent little girl. Nature cannot sympathize with human beings, it is like a disaster. People cannot control God and nature, just like in life, suffering is certain. The characters in it are of different shapes, but the hope given by the director, at least an immortal hope, is a happy family with true temperament. The so-called true temperament is kind and simple, pure and sincere, seeing angels instead of Satan, seeing death but living in the present world without seeing it. No betrayal, no doubt, no self-interest to go further before the end. Death will take our lives, but the attitude towards life that belongs to humans is different from animals and gods, and will not be accidentally deprived.
Extended Reading
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Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.
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Jöns: Love is the blackest of all plagues... if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don't die of it.