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Analysis of "Wild Strawberry":

1. Stream of Consciousness: The first introduction of literary stream of consciousness to the screen

2. Polyphonic structure: with "travel" as the frame, the reality is from the present to the future, and the dream is from the present to the past.

3. Metaphors and Symbols

1) A clock without hands: the stagnation of time, the death of life, the blindness of life

2) The Distorted Face: The Distortion and Chaos of Isaac himself

3) Isaac in the Coffin: The Approach and Fear of Death

4) Wild strawberries: a symbol of all good things

4. Shot: Close-up of the face

5. Modernist style

*Modernist films

①Characteristics: Irrational, expressing the direct and original inner feelings of things with intuition and subconsciousness (focusing on the inner world of the characters), denying the rational plot structure, character behavior motivation, character development logic, composition, color, etc. "Old Literary" program (focusing on the behavior of the characters).

②Source: Doubt about the ability of art to imitate life. After the rise of Freud's psychoanalysis, people found that people are such a complex and changeable organism, and they doubted whether their behavior could reflect the inner world of the characters.

6. Theme: Repentance and Redemption

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Extended Reading

Wild Strawberries quotes

  • Marianne Borg: I saw you with your mother, and I was panic-stricken.

    Professor Isak Borg: I don't understand.

    Marianne Borg: I thought: That's his mother. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. And this is her son, and there are light years between them. He himself says he's a living corpse. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold and dead. And I thought of the baby inside me. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. It must end somewhere.

  • Professor Isak Borg: I have liked having you about the house.

    Marianne Borg: Like a cat.

    Professor Isak Borg: A cat, or a human being.