The palace-like old European buildings, the large red background, the dignified pure black dress and the holy pure white petticoat, the contrast of the three colors shows the strong style of the film. The film is narrated from the perspectives of the four female protagonists, with red covering the faces of the characters as a transition, interpreting a quartet in a family story.
At the beginning of the story, Agnes's painful face pulls off the sad tone of the whole film. She is still longing for love in the final moments of the approaching death, but in such a decent noble family, the only love that can give her a mother And the person in his arms is a maid.
The eldest sister Karin is calm and restrained, with a fragile heart beneath her hard exterior, she can't get anyone's care and love, so she closes her heart tightly, but she is on the verge of being in this cold and alienated family atmosphere. Crashing, hysterical a few times.
The younger sister Maria is hypocritical and frivolous. She grabs love greedily, and her heart is full of desire and struggle. Feelings are like a piece of clothing that can be picked up and discarded at any time. She is good at deceit and hurt, and can save herself time and time again.
The maid is the closest thing to the Virgin in the story, so brave, righteous, and kind, the scene where she embraces the dead Agnes pays homage to Michelangelo's Pieta.
How can I describe the scene where I saw Agnes dying, almost instantly, a shudder hit me, that gritty, creepy gasp, and the tide of death. Breathing in exactly the same way, took my thoughts back to the night when my grandmother was dying, what a lonely moment, when a person was dying, her face was getting darker, her body was getting colder, all her relatives surrounded her, But she is far away, unable to connect with this world, the clock on the wall symbolizes the horror of life stopping, and the whole room is filled with a sense of decay of death.
In the story, the priest mourned the dead Agnes, he told her that the loving God was there to meet her, and all the pain would go away from her. Finally, he hoped that she would take away the pain in the world and bless the living people. These words are exactly the same as the eulogy at my grandmother's funeral. People think that the dead go to heaven and comfort the dead to bless the living, but in fact, the pain on earth will not be eliminated, and even if they are told that they will go to heaven after death, death Still like a black hole, people fear being dragged into the unknown abyss by it.
Love and death are the consistent melody in Bergman's films. His films are almost brutally profound, constantly asking the ultimate question of philosophy, and he makes us face the truth - without heaven, human beings cannot be redeemed, without love, people and people Full of separation and estrangement. How can we, the living, fight against this deep loneliness and despair?
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