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Sandrine 2022-04-19 09:01:55

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When I watched this one, maybe it was because of the reduction of religious overtones. Although the topic was still profound, it would be much easier.

I originally wanted to write a long novel, but I casually flipped through other film reviews and felt that I should not be ashamed of my own opinion.

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Answered some scenes that I didn't quite understand

light and shadow

Although I can feel Bergman's masterful demeanor, this one really slowly started to study his grasp of light and shadow and the use of lens switching.

The combination of the two actresses' bones and the use of light and shadow is really beautiful. It's a movie that makes you feel like it has to be black and white, every scene is just so right, the scars on the characters' faces, the contours of the noses look so pleasing to the eye. Especially when it was in her thirties, Emma was lying on the bed in the shadows, with doors leading to the light on both sides of her back. Elizabeth entered quietly from the door on the right, blended into the darkness, and exited to the door on the left. The door, the gray-white arms, and the white nightgown seem to be integrated with the background, softly without a shadow, and without making people feel dazzling. Then Emma got up, and Elizabeth went back to the shadows, free, harmonious, and confusing. Where was the light source? Is this a dream or reality?

The whole film is lit from the side of the face many times, creating a semi-darkness feeling for the characters, like a faint persona, surrounded by the skin, there is no escape, so I have to accept it.

mask

Putting aside the Persona dispute between Emma and Elizabeth, the three female characters represent three distinct stages of thinking in terms of character authenticity alone.

Emma is still in the exploratory stage of "consciousness". She realizes the contradiction and conflict between self-seeking and social life, and she begins to think about why people lie? Why not be free? But it only stayed in this state, so she was engaged to her boyfriend who she did not love, but only liked, and made a first compromise with reality.

Elizabeth has entered a state of "falling into", unable to abandon, unable to love the pain of her own flesh and blood, and the emptiness she always pretends as an actress makes her overwhelmed by the torment of her hidden nature. In order not to be defeated, she chooses to remain silent. Not speaking, as if this will stop the pretense and maintain the essence of the self.

And the former female physician is the best example of "getting out of the woods", we live in a world where we are forced to respond and pervasively erode our personal turf. What she said to Elizabeth was, as I understand it, advising her to drop herself. What is letting go of oneself? When you take your real self as a disguise, and interpret your own words and deeds, until the real and the fictional are confused, then everything will be balanced, and disputes will no longer exist. Because the subject has disappeared.

This is probably the way most people live.

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Persona quotes

  • Sister Alma: Elisabet? Can I read you something from my book? Or am I disturbing you? It says here:"All the anxiety we bear with us, all our thwarted dreams, the incomprehensible cruelty, our fear of extinction, the painful insight into our earthly condition, have slowly eroded our hope of an other-wordly salvation. The howl of our faith and doubt against the darkness and silence, is one of the most awful proofs of our abandonment and our terrified, unuttered knowledge." Do you think it's like that?

  • Sister Alma: Karl-Henrik and I rented a cottage by the sea once. It was June, and we were all alone. One day, when Karl-Henrik had gone into town, I went to the beach on my own. It was a warm and lovely day. There was another girl there. She'd paddled over from another island because our beach was sunnier and more secluded. We lay there, sunbathing beside one another, complete naked, dozing now and then, putting suntan lotion on. We had those cheap straw hats on, you know? I had a blue ribbon around mine. I lay there peeping out from under my hat at the landscape and the sea and the sun. It was kind of funny. Suddenly I saw two figures leaping about on the rock above us. They would hide and then peek out. "There's a couple of boys looking at us," I told the girl. Her name was Katarina. "Let them look," she said, and turned over on her back. It was a strange feeling. I wanted to jump up and put my robe on but I just lay there on my stomach with my bottom in the air, not at all embarrassed, completely calm. Katarina lay there next to me the whole time, with her breasts and thick thighs. She just lay there sort of giggling to herself. I noticed that the boys had come closer. They just stood there looking at us. I noticed they were terribly young. Then one of them - the more daring of the two - came up and squatted down next to Katarina. He pretended to be busy picking at his toes. I felt so strange. Suddenly I heard Katarina say, "Hey, why don't you come over here?" She took him by the hand and helped him off with his jeans and shirt. Then suddenly he was on top of her. She guided him in with her hands on his behind. The other boy just sat on the slope and watched. I heard Katarina whisper in the boy's ear and laugh. His face was right next to mine. It was red and swollen. Suddenly I turned over and said, "Aren't you coming over to me too?" And Katarina said, "Go to her now." He pulled out of her and fell on top of me, completely hard. He grabbed my breast. It hurt so bad. I was ready somehow and came almost at once. Can you believe it? I was about to say, "Careful you don't get me pregnant" when he suddenly came. I felt it like never before in my life, the way he sprayed his seed into me. He gripped my shoulders and arched backward. I came over and over. Katarina lay on her side and watched and held him from behind. After he came, she took him in her arms and used his hand to make herself come. When she came, she screamed like a banshee. Then all three of us started laughing. We called to the other boy, who was sitting on the slope. His name was Peter. He came down, looking all confused and shivering despite the sunshine. Katarina unbuttoned his pants and started to play with him. And when he came, she took him in her mouth. He bent down and kissed her back. She turned around, took his head in both hands, and gave him her breast. The other boy got so excited that he and I started all over again. It was just as good as before. Then we went for a swim and parted ways. When I got home, Karl-Henrik was already back from town. We ate dinner and drank some red wine he'd brought. Then we had sex. It's never been as good, before or since. Can you understand that?