Talk about "Fanny and Alexander" before "2666"

Rylee 2022-04-20 09:01:49

I read this 5-hour movie in 4 nights before bed, and I know it for a long time. Given the lack of courage and perseverance, it is not the best movie of Bergman. But it is the warmest movie. Maybe the old man also wanted to make this "last movie" less obscure and esoteric, and leave the world with beauty and hope.
The film is divided into 5 chapters, and each chapter is distinguished by a rich crimson. From the growth of Fanny and Alexander, to the separation, to the return, the time span is not long. It is too much to call it an epic masterpiece. Inappropriate, seeing someone compare it to the European version of Dream of Red Mansions, it is even more groundless. So, what's so good about it? I thought it was the integrity of a story and the fit between reality and fantasy. As for the performance of photography and the use of colors, needless to say, I believe that after watching the previous "Still in the Mirror" and "Autumn Sonata" clear. A few scenes with deep impressions: First, Uncle Isaac uses magic to make the children "separate"; second, Fanny and Alexander are sitting in a closed room and praying in unison for the death of the bishop; third, Alexander sees the bishop for the last time When he came to the soul of the dead father and asked: Why don't you let God take the bishop to hell, the father said: child, you have to be tolerant to others.
I suddenly remembered that in the documentary "Island of Bergman", the 85-year-old listed his own demons (or the demons that exist in each person) one by one and wrote them down on a piece of paper to carry with him (this detail). Impressed me): like fear, like anger, like resentment, like nothingness. On the island of Faroe, Bergman finished his glorious and mysterious life, and his life was a fantasy film, a kind of uncertainty, just like the script lines read by grandma at the end of the film: Anything is possible To happen, nothing is impossible. Time and space do not exist, and in trivial reality, the imagination weaves new worlds and patterns, this world is: memory, experience, free fantasy, and a mixture of various contradictions.

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Fanny and Alexander quotes

  • Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl: The world is a den of thieves and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog.

  • Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl: Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.