Amazing! In the short six-minute opening scene, I involuntarily marveled, is this really a movie from the 1960s? Very avant-garde shooting method, and the scene of focusing on the internal organs of the animal really gave me a headache and nausea. For me, who can gulp down an appetizer while watching "Killer Ah Yi", this kind of The black and white clip shouldn't irritate me, but it didn't, and I was really intimidated by those two seconds. And that bloody hand, the hand of Jesus or our human hand? I remember creepy.
This feeling continues to the end, the film revolves around two women, nurse Emma, and actress Isabel. Two people of different identities meet because they each need to have a conversation with their own hearts. Isabelle is a patient, because she has been silent after a performance, refusing to say a word, Emma is her special care, what is a mask? Masks are the reality of us. Everyone has heard that many people live with masks on. After watching this movie, you may have a deeper understanding, and of course, there are fears.
Is it all Emma's hallucination? Bergman is very good at using hallucinations as a lead to slowly lead us into his world, allowing us to immerse ourselves in the inner world of the protagonists. Although I don't see much of Bergman's work, I have this feeling from the two films "Fanny and Alexander" and "Masquerade". Emma felt shamed, played and used from the letter Isabel wrote to the doctor, and her hysteria towards Isabel was, in the final analysis, a fear and a burying of reality.
She reproached Isabelle with her silence and tenderness for letting herself speak the secret of her heart. Mirror, Emma is definitely standing in front of a mirror. Wasn't her indulgence on the beach to the final abortion complemented by Isabel's pregnancy and her hatred of the child? Emma's guilt is actually a kind of liberation. If she gives birth to a child, then her attitude towards her own child is the same as Isabelle's attitude towards her own child.
If I can say it boldly, Emma is probably the only one in the resort. From the fragmented clips at the end of her car leaving alone and before, Isabel seems to be a shadow. When Emma left the resort, she disappeared, and The real soul also returned to Isabel's body. The two women strayed from the body in thought and met in the soul to form a line, all the way.
Self-reflection and disgust are the themes of this film. "Masquerade" is ringing in the depths of our hearts. Everyone has their own secrets. , everyone has their own "mask". At this time, the fact that can never be changed, depression, this film also reminds me of this invisible disease that the world fears. already suffer from depression. This society, this life, is no worse than Sweden in the 1960s.
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