First, there are two obvious scenes worth exploring when Jewish antique dealer Isaac goes to rescue Finney and Alexander.
One: A beam of white light flashed from the sky, reflecting on Isaac's screaming face.
Two: There are two corpses in the upstairs prisoner's room, obviously Finney and Alexander;
let's not explain it, then move on to the next shot.
Towards the end, Alexander was knocked down by Bishop Edward's soul, and Edward then said in a dark voice: You will never get rid of me. The tight shot is that Alexander's mother Emily walked past Alexander who was knocked to the ground (the implication was that she did not help her son up). Then Alexander got up and lay down beside his gracious grandmother on the sofa, and the whole film ended.
What do the above two points show? Before this, we saw that my grandmother often talked to her deceased son Oscar; and we can notice that Zafenni and Alexander have never had a direct relationship with their family after they were "rescued". Verbal communication (except for lying down next to grandma at the end, maybe in this complicated world, only grandma, an amiable and understanding old man, is the incarnation of God in the real world).
Based on the above, it is obvious that Finney and Alexander are already dead, and the surviving souls on the screen are indeed the finishing touch of Bergman's use of this surrealist approach to explore the true meaning of various human nature and life. pen.
The "rescued" Finney and Alexander were at Isaac's home, and Bergman raised all kinds of human questions through Alexander's mouth. "Why does someone like Edward still live? Does God really exist? Does he Can't you see all this?";
Alexander even had a dialogue with the God of "how can mortals face it";
at Edward's house, Edward also had a "reasonable" explanation for his crime: "I always thought I was It's fair, it's right, and I thought no one would disagree with what I did, but...but."
The details of the reason are not to be discussed. For this movie, due to my own selfish love for the movie, it is difficult for me to accept the kitsch point of view that Finney and Alexander did not die, but lived happily. It is even more unbearable that someone uses the word "superpower" to explain the death of the bishop's family and all kinds of difficult to explain plots.
The ethereal existence of the world, our life is like a shrinking world, there is an incomprehensible essence in the development and change of tens of thousands of years. It is absolutely impossible to analyze its essence with a secular perspective, and it should be enlarged infinitely so that it can feel the infinite connotation that has been precipitated for a long time.
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