"When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour" (Revelation 8:1).
July 30, 2007, a dark day in the history of cinema.
The most abstract film master is fate, and the films it directs are the life that unfolds every day. Maybe everyone has their own assumptions about the plot of life, but fate scoffs at it, crumples our beautiful ideals into a ball, and throws them out the window. This maverick geek uses the magic of movie elements to turn laughter in life into tears, separation into death, and eternity in an instant.
"Coincidence" is just one of the means of filming. Behind the coincidence, it is accompanied by the amazement of all audiences. That's the beauty of Destiny's Life, and you never know what dark humor it will bring to you after switching to the next shot.
As a result, under the arrangement of fate, Sweden's Ingmar Bergman and Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni, the two famous leaders of European art films, actually agreed in advance. On the day of July 30th, he passed away at the same time.
After the 89-year-old Bergman died on the Swedish island of Faroe, the Associated Press reported: "This is a huge loss for the world." The president of the Bergman Foundation said, "I feel the world's cinematic The spine is broken."
However, just hours later on the same day, bad news came again from Rome - the
sudden death of Michelangelo Antonioni. 94 years old all the year round.
The script directed by fate is so strange and mysterious. Bergman and Antonioni have spent their entire lives writing scripts, arranging shots, thinking and tearing, and striving for drama. They splashed their talents on the screen freely, and let the audience be like a puppet under their lead, happy or sad, sad or angry. However, when the film of their personal life ended, the two old men suddenly discovered that it was themselves who were really mastered and manipulated.
So, such a dramatic ending appeared, the North and South giants fell on the same day, and they came together on the road to heaven. Perhaps for the two old people who have longed for a confidant all their lives, the regrets they left behind in a hurry during their lifetimes, and now they are side by side on the road to heaven, can be said to be another kind of joy.
If the death of Ingmar Bergman has broken the backbone of the world film industry; then Antonioni's farewell has taken away the soul of the old-fashioned cameras, silent films and black and white films of the world film world.
What kind of artistic peak did these two old people who quietly passed away from the studio and the fans who were familiar with them have reached? So that later generations are so embarrassed? So sorry?
Ingmar Bergman The veteran of the
American film industry, Woody Allen, commented on Bergman. He said, "
Probably the greatest film artist since the invention of the motion picture camera." Hitler, a melancholic who lost his faith in his later years and chose to live in seclusion on an island, Bergman's film style is mostly grim, full of dealings with pain and madness. When watching Bergman dig into and explore the inner struggles of his characters, you can only describe your feelings as bleak and obscure.
Even Bergman himself said, "I don't watch my own movies very often." "I get jittery and cry almost at any time...it's painful.
" will take away your rational mind. Like all great artists to be cursed, like Van Gogh who went mad, Hemingway who committed suicide, in the eyes of ordinary people, Bergman is a freak, a maverick visionary, or an escapist madman. However, it is such a freak, dreamer, and lunatic. Behind his obscure and gloomy films, the director's own understanding of life and human nature is nurtured. In the ruins, you can still find the seeds of hope sprouting.
This is the common denominator of nearly 60 films that Bergman has directed, all of which are the director's own experiments, and his experimental goal is to explore the inevitable and profound problem of "Human Condition".
Life is generous to Bergman. There are trophies that cannot fit in his personal honor cabinet, whether it is the Academy Awards, the Caesars Film Awards, or the Golden Globe Awards and other large-scale honor record books. his name. Life is also indulgent to Bergman. He vented his excess energy in the relationship between men and women. He had five marriages in his life, and the first four ended in failure.
For Bergman, life is like the devil in Goethe's Faust, who will satisfy all of Bergman's wishes and eventually capture Bergman's soul.
But the devil's wishful thinking came to nothing, Bergman did not sell his soul, but incorporated it into his own film and shared it with all audiences in the world's film industry, just like Heinrich Faust himself , through the convenience provided by the devil, serving the dreams of the public.
Among all Bergman's film and television works, the very famous "Seventh Seal" illustrates all of the above. The decadent knight in the film walked among the broken walls and broken walls due to the ravages of the Black Death in the Middle Ages, exaggerating the loneliness and pain of the character in the wilderness filled with death and despair. However, the knight was not defeated, he chose to play against the god of death, and every move on the chessboard showed his desire to control his own destiny.
"Apocalypse," Bergman said to himself after directing The Seventh Seal. The Greek word Apokalypsis comes from the biblical book of Revelation. Its meaning is to reveal. The old man was like a prophet, he revealed too much for future generations, but also left infinite myths.
In the blue Baltic Sea, on the small island called Faro, Bergman set up a camera and used the sea, stones and sheep to shoot his own movies. Since 1960, his heart has stayed on this island for forty years. In 2003, he announced his permanent seclusion here, enjoying the solitude in the ebb and flow of time, just like the dying old man in his work "Wild Strawberry".
"That house was lonely by the sea, and I never met."
-Bergman wrote shortly before his death
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