This is an old movie that I have been wanting to watch for a long time in my youth when I was an old-fashioned literary youth, but there is no source for it.
The impression of Bergman originated from the teaching film "The Seventh Seal" of that year. At that time, the shadowy and strange existence of death, the metaphor of "playing chess with death", became Bergman's most classic and enduring. one of the movies. Afterwards, Wild Strawberries took me back to Ivashkiewicz's fresh dawn and beautiful hymn, a country love story that took us back to the idyll of the idyllic way of life in the war-torn 20th century. in mind. "Bad Girl Monica" made Bergman synonymous with "holiness" among film masters. Holy at the same time means boring. However, this "Masque" is like taking off Bergman's mask, showing us a director with a fashion sense and avant-garde temperament tirelessly exploring and experimenting in the professional field.
It is said that this title is an incomprehensible title, which can be combined into a poem, the camera lights up, pulls away, animal entrails, the head of a dead horse, and the thumbtack is tapped into the palm little by little. Is this dream-like beginning a sign of the actress's dream? Is it the brutal tone that sets the film? At this point we don't know. It fits seamlessly into the credits, making us unmistakably aware that this is a movie, not a true story.
My colleague was angry and hated, and blamed me for taking her to watch such a heavy-flavoured but incomprehensible film. It would be better to spend 60 yuan for a meal of Hey Tea. There was a commotion between the two of us, which caused some complaints, and a lady turned her head and shouted, "Don't talk!" Looking back at the people around us, they all had serious expressions on their faces, and they all sat upright, which made me immediately think that we must be the most soy-sauce spectators in the entire venue.
At the beginning, the actress who was lying on the bed with her brows furrowed and her silver painful and stiff, we guessed that she must be ill. Where did her heart disease come from? According to doctors, her symptoms were not attributed to any kind of mental illness, and she had no physical lesions. Was her prolonged silence a fake? Is it hypochondria? Why does she torture herself like this?
The first guess is acting. Persona, in Jungian psychological theory, refers to a persona, a concept corresponding to "soul", which represents the part of a person's personality that is shown to others as a mask personality. Acting in daily life gave her a sense of empathy and substitution for the character, so she unknowingly became another person, a stranger, in the process of assimilating with the character. This is another individual who is completely different from what she usually sees, so she has a split in her heart. She attempts to resist external pressure through silence, and uses silence to keep her inner self from being violated by this contradiction. This is not a fantasy, Leslie Cheung also suffered from depression because of "too deep into the play" (the nurse in the play guessed her cause). The mother in the play is full of motherhood, gentle and loving. The actress outside the play does not like children at heart, and is a little self-centered, but cannot withstand the pressure of public opinion from the outside world. She tries to show her motherhood and conceives a child. In the end, she was unable to support her and completely split. The pressure comes from public opinion and the public, as well as the setting of the self-image in the eyes of others. In a word, it can be said that it is a kind of social phobia. I once met a girl who became more and more silent and closed her heart because of the tense relationships in the company and the long-term unhappiness with others. She said that she has social phobia. This is a real phenomenon. It can only be said that in this increasingly hostile society, there are more and more people who use masks to cover up their true self and silence instead of communication. It is common, even in Sweden, the high welfare country where Bergman lives, not to mention that in China, many company workers who carry the burden of supporting their families, why not seek life imperfectly with a little psychological scars?
Looking back at the actress, you can see the title, where the Nazis are occupying and slaughtering innocent people, passers-by are burned alive, she is scared to hide in the corner, any too cruel picture will stimulate her mentally. The extreme words in the book made her too late to calm down.
I remember a book called "Self-Performance in Daily Life". Each of us is an actor on the social stage, playing our own social role and switching roles at any time, entering a new state of drama. Most of us have been acting for a long time. The mask can't be taken off either. Or, like an actress, tired of acting, tired of acting, so she chose permanent silence. From this perspective, actresses are not necessarily a metaphor for everyone in daily life.
The second guess is that if it is only the pressure of public opinion, the pressure of acting and the hypocrisy of people that hurt her, then the arrival and company of the female nurse, the meticulous care of the female nurse, and the kind of benign intimacy will be difficult for the socially phobic person. It is a good medicine. It may resolve her symptoms to a certain extent and heal her wounds. According to the normal plot, it seems like this. It seems that shrink, Ocean Paradise and other movies are like this. However, the movie is not that simple. . As the plot progresses, as the actress plays with and hurts the female nurse who has a crush on her, it seems that the actress has no will to try to get better. We gradually see the nurse who is outgoing, lively, sympathetic, gentle and affectionate. Being engulfed by the ego of the cold, self-centered and hostile actress. In daily life, people seldom show their souls, and they seldom show their hearts and lungs with others regardless of the occasion. Only in intimate relationships will people show their souls under the mask. Like a chemical reaction, the soul of an individual. It will also be changed, and the souls of the two are easy to converge, so we will say that two people who have been together for a long time have a "husband and wife". And just as people's psychological susceptibility is different, sentimental souls are usually easier to be pushed and changed. So nurses will slowly become actresses. At this time, looking back at the beginning of the film, the female nurse was reluctant to accept the job, saying that she had strong willpower that kept her from getting better, and I realized how correct her prediction was. Comparing our hearts to our hearts, we admit that when light and darkness in human nature confront each other, it is difficult for light to overcome darkness, and it is difficult for the ego in personality to overcome "shadow". This also reminds us that people are easily driven by cruelty and self-interest in human nature, and the cruelty of human heart is actually everywhere. The film cuts through every facet of human nature like a scalpel. This is a failed psychotherapy. The failure lies in the fact that the medical staff is just a cheerful ordinary person, and cannot treat the patient scientifically. Instead, it drags her into the abyss of disease.
Narratively, we find the story less and less real, more and more like a dream. Since the nurse opened the letter. We see the nurse and actress face-to-face discussing her cause, and the scene is repeated once, from nurse to actress, reflecting the subtle consistency of their expressions. What happened after that I thought was an imagination, a nightmare that I couldn't wake up from. It feels more and more absurd. The actress's husband came to her, and she shared her husband and son with palma, and let her play her part, and gradually "she" and "she" also became one. In this absurd scientific experiment of human nature, what is overwhelming is the trauma of the actress. The nurse took her trauma away from the beach for recuperation, and left the experimental field. The staff of countless filming "ran into" the scene, Going back to the scene at the beginning of the film with the actress, a loop-like echo structure is formed before and after the film.
Back in the cold, closed ward, through the window smeared open by handprints, we see the groaning soul of another invulnerable individual.
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