This is where wild strawberries grow

Coby 2022-10-18 05:33:02

"This is the place where wild strawberries grow." When Isaac said these words, there was a faint smile on his face. This detail shows his longing for childhood.
In all the pictures returning to the old house, high color temperature light is used, the light source is scattered light, and the light is diffusely reflected through the air to make the pictures more three-dimensional and authentic. Nostalgia. But the high light gave the audience a sense of illusion, as if it showed that childhood is over and only exists in Isaac's memories. Then there is an emotional editing. The empty shots of the house where Isaac grew up in childhood are repeated, and the light has changed several times from the darkness to the light commensurate with reality. Here is the change in Isaac’s heart, slowly changing from darkness. Turning brighter, slowly turning from indifference to life full of love, adding color to the expression of the theme of the film. This also paved the way for Isaac to accept three young men below, making the storyline less obtrusive.
Bergman once wrote in his diary: “One of the phenomena when people get old is that childhood memories will emerge more and more clearly, while the major events of the prime of life will be blurred and disappear.” This is also the case. Director Bergman used Isaac to express his nostalgia for childhood.

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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.