Headache

Adela 2022-04-19 09:01:55

Every time I watch a Bergman movie, I feel very uncomfortable. For example, watching "Masquerade" this time, a movie less than 80 minutes, gives me the feeling of watching a thriller for 3 hours-sensory The excitement is no less than a horror movie, and the mental depression and tension are far worse, so that after watching it, I asked Orly and Louis de Finès's "Darkness" to adjust my nerves, and I ended up watching After 40 minutes, I didn't laugh. I don't know if it was the movie's problem or my problem.

I saw that famous still before watching the movie. Two women are one after the other. The two faces can be said to be pale or soft. They feel calm, but after watching the movie, I feel more and more like the poster. It's a deception. Although this scene appears twice in the film, especially at the end, it seems to be a bit of a problem, but first of all, the light is much darker than the photo, and the faces of the two are obscure and have been slightly There is anxiety, and more importantly, when this scene appeared for the first time in the film, according to my understanding, it was just an imaginary picture of one of the women, and it never really existed at all. Most of the time, this scene This feeling of intimacy and understanding does not exist, and the director is constantly abusing himself and others.

This kind of sadism is revealed from the very beginning of the film. Before the title of the film appeared, the whole five minutes were clips of various scenes that seemed a little confusing, similar to the famous "Life at War", but the logic was very incomprehensible. , I know there must be some kind of meaning, but if I record and interpret them one by one in detail, I will definitely be stunned by this old villain's sweating medicine. The first two swipes of light in the dark were the bright spots of the electric welding, which reminded me of the gorgeous title shot by DePalma for MI, but it was followed by a piece of broken film, which seems to have a bit of a meta-movie flavor here. In the flash of the lens, I also saw a picture of a ms phallus. After that, it was a complete mess... I shot a boy lying down. He wanted to cover his feet but couldn't cover his head. He wanted to cover his head but couldn't cover his feet. The phone rang and the boy got up but didn't go. Answering the phone...thank goodness this intro is finally over. For more than five minutes, I tried countless times to check whether the film was misplaced. "Masquerade" is obviously a drama, not an MTV-style weird documentary...

I don’t want to repeat the plot, and I don’t want to say more about the theme, because although I feel like I can understand the meaning after watching it, I have never been able to find a suitable sentence to express it. This is something I have to experience for myself. I can only talk casually about the topics I am interested in and a few scenes and shots that I am deeply impressed by in the film.

Bergman's composition is as neat as ever, but, because it's black and white, the light is more impressive than the composition that appears to have been struck with a hammer. For example, when the actress is lying on the bed, the light gradually dims, the close-up of the face, the two points of light in the eyes become more and more obvious in the gradually darkening environment, but as the light dims, the original tranquility is gradually replaced by a kind of inner replaced by a sense of fear. In a scene before this, both the nurse and the actress are backlit, but the light on the standing nurse is obviously stronger than that of the actress, but it is still hard to see the whole story. It seems to tell the actress's condition that everyone will have , only the degree of difference.

Two women, one chattering, one silent, just like the last two half-faces made up of a complete face, just like two separate faces of a person. But when I saw the last shot of the face, I was going crazy. Thriller than any thriller.

Looking depressed, looking at a headache.

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  • Sister Alma: You know what I thought after I saw a film of yours one night? When I got home and looked in the mirror, I thought, "We look alike." Don't get me wrong. You're much more beautiful. But we're alike somehow. I think I could turn into you if I really tried.

  • Sister Alma: You can't know how I feel. I always thought great artists felt this great compassion for other people, that they created art out of great compassion and a need to help. That was silly of me.