Pain for no reason, just pain. And because of people's empathy, pain is destined to lead from oneself to others, and the scars of each individual's psychology will recur again. Do you expect human relationships? There seems to be no way out except for self-rescue, unspeakable, and no one knows. No matter how much she longs for the comfort of the relationship, only Anna, who resembles the image of the Virgin, can give her the only embrace when she is in conflict, but the priest cannot let God really be present to answer her firm confusion.
This kind of meaning makes the end of the anti-climax a step further, leading the mood to another kind of "happiness is the end of pain", a hope that returns to the light, and the opening bell rings again, which seems to be another impermanent reincarnation.
The narrative efficiency of the film is extremely high. The characters themselves gradually unfold the narrative of the three sisters similar to a single-act drama, which is enough to outline the background and relationships of the characters clearly, and to show the psychological portraits of the characters in depth. Amplify the externalization of ambient sound until the release of energy at the emotional explosion point of each character, revealing everything with a highly contagious performance. When they look at every moment of the camera and examine their own soul, they penetrate the frame and meet the gaze of the audience. The core of our viewing is not only the cohesion of empathy, but also the way of empathy to reflect on the soul of ourselves. The endless alternation of "seeing" and "reflecting" is exactly the concept of the self to the other.
The culmination of Bergman-esque features, this film may be a representative. Constituted by faces, the camera freezes, freezes, advances, circles, moves... The picture becomes the rhythm of resonating breathing between the face and the body. Interspersed with it is the depression of the sanctuary-like interior of the solid color setting and silence. The scheduling carried out in such an environment, the control of the interior space is fully demonstrated, and the focus of the character's state is always highlighted by the atmosphere of the space.
Each individual life exists in isolation, no matter how close it is, it cannot reach the universe in everyone's heart. Alienation, indifference, abandonment, reason and emotion cannot redeem us. What if God is also absent? After all this collapse, can the spiritual essence of individual modernity be reconstructed? Maybe when we look at ourselves in the mirror, we can get the answers to all our questions.
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