no reason, no reason

Polly 2022-04-22 07:01:26

"There is no animal more feminine than the rhino." I think Bergman should be the biggest fan of this assertion.

We are always asking about the meaning or clarifying the context, but the master said that understanding is not important, you just need to feel. When we see a book or a movie, we will instinctively analyze and over-explain it. Although the masters have their own solid theoretical framework, they also have the vicious and evil deeds unique to human beings. such as boredom. So the masters are not gods, and we don't need to understand the themes or details that they themselves confuse or avoid.

Boredom is the theme of life, but the reason is not the disappearance of novelty, but precisely because of the endless emergence of novelty. Just like learning, no matter how hard we try to move forward, we will cross the boundless sea of ​​learning with a limited person. So the master is the same, when he slept all the heroines, and even fell in love with his heroine, the feeling of emptiness can be imagined. Day after day he perched on the cold island of Faroe, and in his powerless old age he became the god of many male disciples who repeated his path. What kind of sarcasm and whiplash, of course he chose not to see them.

Of course he loves women, he doesn't even love stupid beautiful women. He gets his heroine to say what Sontag and Beauvoir can say, and then from behind the camera he's madly in love with the muse of his own creation. Sexual tension and repression are not the themes in his films, which makes people who are all psychoanalytic libidos panicked, what else?

His controlling priesthood father and his detached, detached mother have become the objects of his life. Repeated torture again and again to feel the violence that can't be easily inflicted in adulthood, never forgetting and not forgiving, but the only person to be tortured is himself. His subject is thus only one, complex human nature. But he enjoyed it all, especially the pain.

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Extended Reading
  • Sarah 2022-03-21 09:01:54

    Detachment and authentic debate, is it more honest to refuse to tell a lie, or is it more honest to lie along with the lie when it happens? It takes place between a series of dramas from ambiguous to sex to fertility to hurt; the passion and strangeness of soul possession between two women, of course, must be matched with Electra's mother-killing complex

  • Hope 2021-12-07 08:01:40

    Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece is also a turning point in his career. The film tore time and space, ambiguous and vague, Pangbo duo righteous. First and last psychedelic montage-projector, nailed palms, internal organs, the boy stroking the huge and fuzzy female face in front of him; silence and eloquence; wonderful 4P monologue (recalling Godard [weekend]); boiling water threat and glass slag prank; seamless Overlapping faces; repeated words; contradictions; pain; emptiness of words. (9.5/10)

Persona quotes

  • Sister Alma: No! I'm not like you. I don't feel like you. I'm Sister Alma, I'm just here to help you. I'm not Elisabet Vogler. You are Elisabet Vogler.

  • Sister Alma: Anaesthetise me... throw me away! No, I can't, I can't take any more! Leave me alone! It's shame, it's all shame! Leave me alone! I'm cold and rotten and indifferent! It's all just lies and imitation, all of it!