shouting and whispering

Sigurd 2022-04-19 09:02:38

The three sisters, Agnes, Maria and Karin, each have a deep separation and estrangement in their hearts. Agnes is terminally ill and her life is about to end. The two sisters and the maid Anna are by her side, but their relationship is already tense. To further suppress and deform. Agnes has longed for her mother's love since childhood. She likes to "follow her with no purpose", and will hide and observe her mother secretly, but her mother's attention is all given to Maria. In the childhood footage, the mother strokes Agnes's face with a sad expression - that's when the two of them are closest. Maria was favored by her mother, but she was even more dissatisfied with love, more bewildered - she was hesitating and hesitating between her husband and the doctor's lover, when the lover said: "Do you know why you have wrinkles? Because of your indifference. Burnout." Her smile disguise was removed, and she saw her true self in the mirror in an uproar—empty, helpless, hypocritical. Karin's life is more oppressive, she refuses any physical touch from anyone. Agnes' passing was the beginning, and their whispers gradually intertwined into more poignant shouts.

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Extended Reading
  • Grayce 2022-03-18 09:01:05

    Bergman’s films are like this, some are particularly good, and some are particularly pretending. This is a model of pretending. Anyway, I can’t taste the nourishment of this movie. CC#101

  • Makenna 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    The closed situation where the characters are minimally explained, the whole film is clearly marked with a strong assumption of the simplified treatment of sounds, colors and scenes - the silence of the space corresponds to "cries and whispers"; red and white; a lot of close-ups. In this aesthetic orientation, even wrinkles have become a modification. The pinnacle of hypothetical is in the handling of the resurrection of the corpse at the end of the credits. When An Zhe made "Hunter" five years later, it was hard not to imagine that the film was his inspiration.

Cries & Whispers quotes

  • Maria: I have no need of pardon.

  • Karin: Anna. You hear that?

    Anna: I hear only the wind and the ticking of the clocks.

    Karin: No. It's something else.

    Anna: I don't hear anything else.

    Karin: I'm freezing. Good night.