red in silence

Dannie 2022-04-20 09:02:11

So awesome, so wonderful.

The silent scenes in the blockbuster are like palace paintings, but the background is always a large block of red. Such a solemn and indifferent castle is decorated with such a fiery, bright, and visually striking red.

Facing a person's death, when she was about to die, the moment she died, and the night she couldn't heal after her death. A catastrophe broke everyone's inner defenses. Their delicate and secret emotions can no longer bear the weight of their lives, and they are brutally and bloodily pushed out.

At their age, even if they are well maintained, there are already two or three wrinkles around the corners of their eyes, but as the doctor said, they may be more beautiful than before.

The mother who passed away twenty years ago, the mother she loves the most, the mother she often dreams of, many things are like reincarnation. They happened to be going through their mother's past. The same silence, the same tranquility, the same nothingness, the same red hot background screaming inwardly.

Forbearance, restraint, estrangement. The truth revealed in the face of great grief. After returning to the vulgar reality, I recall only: I never said those stupid words. Deny yourself, or dare not face your heart?

After leaving this red-decorated building, she was faced with a life filled with delicacy and hypocrisy. She no longer knew whether she was accustomed to worldliness and hypocrisy or whether she tightly closed the door of her heart to protect herself.

And she, under her solemn and rational exterior is an extremely fragile heart. She said she never allowed others to touch her because she had always longed for touch. She was like the stern, mean woman that other kitschy stories always like to portray. But no one ever noticed that her meanness was just a protection for her fragile ego. She seems to be the most sane of the sisters, but perhaps the most vulnerable and cowardly. In the end, she finally mustered up the courage to pursue warmth and love, but the "vulgar and empty eyes" came back, she was hurt again, and she retracted into her shell again.

What is this castle decorated with large patches of red? This is their childhood home, where they have their first memories, where they once had the most innocent, happiest and most romantic time. Wrapped in a large piece of red, it looks like the hot heart hidden by them.

"Save me, save me, save me"

She screamed "help me" because of the pain of the disease.

And they are shouting in inaudible voices because of love, desire, emptiness

"Save me, save me, save me"

"Save me" people say at the last moment of despair

More like "love me".

She is saved/loved because she has Anna, who in the whole film can be called a "divine" being. In the end, Anna hugged her thin and fragile with her upper body naked, just like the Virgin Mary saving the Son.

Why don't they just scream "help me" or "love me" in a heart-wrenching way.

Is it just because they don't feel physical pain?

Why is it only whispering, even only the lips are moving, silent hints.

Because they are also struggling, they are struggling between reality and falsehood, they are struggling between truth and hypocrisy, they have too many considerations, they are weighed down by their own lives, so heavy that they have no courage to shout.

It can be seen that the introspection and remorse that death brings are fleeting. They still left the red-filled house and continued to return to the outside world.

(Why there are so many of her, they are actually because I forgot their names)

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Extended Reading
  • Lloyd 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    This is the work of the master Bergman 40 years ago. Love is not words, words are lies, love is touching and hugging, and those who are tormented by illness yearn for this kind of love even more. Although I don't understand what kind of social environment has created such a cold group of perverts (only the maid Annie is a normal person), I can understand the desire to get rid of loneliness, love each other and understand each other.

  • Reyes 2022-03-24 09:03:02

    #BJIFF2018# The close-up of the human face has repeatedly broken the fourth wall, and fell from the first gaze. They cried out to me in pain and grieved, and when they whispered in delirium, I was full of scratching like ants, the oppression of the picture, The resonance of the sound perfectly completes the eruption of emotions, and in the red-green, indoor-outdoor contrast, the contradictions of reality-memories, pain-beauty are seen, and there is a flow in the whole process.

Cries & Whispers quotes

  • Agnes: Can't anyone help me?

    Anna: It's just a dream, Agnes.

    Agnes: No, it's not a dream. Perhaps it's a dream for you, but not for me.

  • Fredrik: The funeral was tolerable. No one wept or grew hysterical.