understand and get love

Jana 2022-04-23 07:03:41

The shadow of childhood lingers, and everything starts with "love".

Maria is the youngest girl. She was favored by her mother since she was a child, which also made the older Karin neglected. When they grew up, they went to two extremes. Karin hated everyone's touch and intimacy, while Maria tried to With the love of everyone, the marriage is in trouble.

She experienced the gap between being extremely favored and falling out of favor when she was young, and now her eldest sister Agnes, who is in a terminal stage of cancer, has brought the three of them together again. She is so eager for the sisters to be close and get the complete share she has never had. Love.

Karin and Maria also tried to put down their guard and tried to get closer, but everything backfired. Only the maid Anna, who had been waiting, gave Agnes consolation before her death.

Everything came to an abrupt end like this, and it seemed that there was a turning point in the solemn prayer of the pastor.

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Extended Reading
  • Lou 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    This picture is too beautiful, even Caravaggio in several places. Interestingly, similar structures such as "Sick-Healthy People", closed spaces, and character wrestling appeared in "Still in the Mirror" in 1961, "Silence" in 1963, and "Masquerade" in 1966. appeared again. The subject of discussion is still the loss of communication and discourse, and there are still inescapable "Bergmanian propositions"—love and alienation for mothers, hatred for brothers, and what he calls "emotional blackmail," and his Tirelessly questioning God. Even the "Agnes Resurrection" scene in the details comes from his ten-year-old experience of being locked up in a morgue. The real Bergman I like exists in these four women, "I don't trust anyone, I don't love anyone, and I don't miss anyone", harsh, indifferent, and Anna is his secret room. The open gap is absolutely gentle. Like two sides of a coin, firmly attached to each other. (I love him 555)

  • Elbert 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Bergman is that every movie has to do something new, try new breakthroughs, right? There is only one scene in each person's memory, but enough details and plots are explained. It is really powerful, and the method of trying is also very bold. It was filmed before the Autumn Sonata, but the two have some similarities in the relationship between the characters and the plot. A bit of a pity.

Cries & Whispers quotes

  • Isak: Agnes, my dear child, listen to what I tell you now. Pray for those of us left behind on this dark and miserable earth beneath a cruel and empty sky. Lay your suffering at God's feet and plead with him to pardon us. Plead with him to free us of our anxiety, our weariness, and our deepest doubts. Plead with him to give meaning to our lives.

  • Karin: It's a web of lies, all of it.