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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.
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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