those tangled...

Jaylen 2022-04-19 09:02:55

There is a saying that has been said badly on the street. That is, the family of origin really matters. The mother and daughter in the film are emotion cripples. Bergman portrays the tangled relationship between mother and daughter very realistically. It's hard to forget the image of Eva, who was drunk, pressing her mother's accusation step by step. As a mother, Charlotte was incapable of loving, could not love. As a pianist, she can handle the emotions in Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, Bartok, and Brahms very well. I'm confused, doesn't artistic talent really need empathy? So why does the dual identities of mother and artist have such a dramatic conflict in movies or some literary works? In conventional thinking, mothers should be unreserved and selfless dedication. But if some mothers have genius-like sensibility and creativity, and she also has self-realization needs other than husbands and children, where should she go? If you return to your family, you will hide your true self, and it will be difficult to be truly happy. If you pursue self-realization, you will be stigmatized by society in various ways. To put it bluntly, it is still the same sentence. No one is born to be a mother. A mother should be herself first and foremost!

Autumn Sonata (1978)
9.0
1978 / Sweden France West Germany UK / Drama Family / Ingmar Bergman / Ingrid Bergman Liv Uhmann

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Autumn Sonata quotes

  • Eva: But one thing I did understand: not a shred of the real me could be loved or accepted. I didn't dare to be myself even when I was alone because I hated what was my own.

  • Eva: I will never let you vanish out of my life again. I'm going to persist. I won't give up, even if it is too late. I don't think it is too late. It must not be too late.