Shout and Drizzle Summary

Alisha 2022-04-19 09:02:38

The expansion of the two sisters play in "Silence" is the three sisters and the maid. Still continuing Bergman's theme, the cry of love, the whisper of love.

The eldest daughter Karin, by virtue of her identity and her own intelligence, undertakes the important affairs of the family, and is kept away from love by various constraints (doing accounts, the tediousness of undressing, and the tension of the husband sharing meals); the second daughter, Maria, has never left her mother. love, without actively exerting it, the desire for courtship can never be satisfied, and it is transformed into an endless stream of erotic desires (tryings, "exposed" clothes); the third daughter Agnes has a strong courtship, but cannot fit in because she can't express it, Then the mother's care is lost (the aphasia of the shouting - the incompetence of expression); the maid becomes the mother of Agnes, which constitutes the meaning of the coming of the Virgin - the picture of the Virgin, skin contact, the room - a symbol of mother's love, thus forming Anna - the mother , a counterpoint to Agnes-Anna's daughter (who is also ill).

The close-up of the faces pushes each character into a desperate "single room", isolating the environment and relationships, facing the cry of the self and the whisper of the other. Only the maid Anna, who actually works daily, has a link in action, allowing the nobles who are isolated from their daily actions to form an active connection. Anna is faced with the whispers of everyone.

Recalling that scene, from the connection between Maria and Aegris, I seem to have seen Tarkovsky's expression in "Mirror". Bergman said that he made a feeling that he couldn't make. I guess that's what he said. .

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Extended Reading
  • Mavis 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    Only Anna, the only one who has ever experienced the loss of a daughter, would embrace a dead man in the pose of the Virgin like Pietà, and care for Agnes for many years who said it was not her other daughter. The moment the ward door opened and closed was like the separation between heaven and hell that opened and closed, and Anna was the gatekeeper. The scarlet color throughout the article has no "human" temperature, and the dying parents cannot awaken the consciousness of the living dead. But getting pain by cutting yourself is pathetic and ridiculous.

  • Orland 2022-01-11 08:02:34

    Bergman described in an almost naturalistic way that terminal cancer patients are step by step towards the end of their lives in debilitating and severe pain. For this reason, he must use beautiful pictures and bright colors to reconcile them, so as not to make people fall into the right. The fear of death and the despair of life.

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.