The original film is more than five hours long, and I can only find a version of more than two hours. The film is divided into 6 chapters. The first scene is innocent and frightening: the model couple is interviewed by reporters, and they talk about the secrets of deep love and the daily life of love. The Bible says, "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not boast; love is not arrogant, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not reckon the wrongs of others, I don’t like injustice, I only like the truth; bear all things, hope all things, endure all things; love never ends.” And this model couple, who have been loving for ten years, faced their naive understanding of their own life, and faced the breakup of the relationship between good friends and husband and wife The horror of the film seems to be in danger from the beginning.
The second act cleans the dust from the blanket: The couple tolerate and understand each other in their daily interactions, lowering their expectations for each other, believing that life is bound to be like this, full of regrets. However, the problems of life are still accumulating constantly. It seems that the wind and the waves are calm.
The third act Paula: The husband cheated, and resolutely gave up everything, abandoned his wife and children, and tried to be a rogue to the end. In the face of such a blow, the wife's tolerance, difficulty, pain, hate, love, trust, every movement and every expression make you so familiar, as if you have seen such a woman, as if you are such a woman. This scene really made me have to lament the greatness of Bergman and marvel at the greatness of Liv Uman. The portrayal and performance, which is so real and delicate to the point of trembling, instantly makes people deeply immersed in it and feel the same way.
The fourth act is tearful: the husband returns to his wife for comfort and sex, and the wife, still with a glimmer of hope for recovery, is powerless and confused. Until this scene, I can still see the possibility of love, the possibility of good, but the possibility does not happen.
Act 5 Blindness: Long negotiations, fierce battles, the two sides have no purpose in such emotional tearing, do you want to leave? Want to stay away? Just so lost. The husband and wife also went into a split situation.
The sixth act in the middle of the night, the time in the dark room is unknown: the former couple, the current extramarital lover, is there really love between them? This is also the answer that the couple in the movie have been looking for. After a nightmare of a wife at the end of the film, they tell each other the way they love each other, and they tell each other the answer that we love each other.
Bergman used "Marriage Life" to describe extremely delicately, those acerbic lines, those words that I am very familiar with, those are the moments that are happening everywhere in life. Why can couples of ten years fall apart overnight? Some people may question whether there is really love between their husbands and wives, and some people may think that marriage is the graveyard of love, but I learned from Bergman's "Married Life" sees a possible picture of love. In married life, the husband and wife are kidnapped even tighter when they deliberately ignore each other's emotional kidnapping. That is the bondage they have imposed on themselves but they have always considered to be forced, and even need such a fierce conflict to get rid of. End the kidnapping of each other. And when they terminated their relationship as husband and wife, they couldn't terminate their love, because the relationship between them that was mistaken for "emotional kidnapping" by both parties became the purest "emotional dependence", that is love. "Marriage Life" does not tell us that there is no love in marriage, but warns us not to be covered by the coat of marriage relationship to cover up the essence of love. Even if we are always so good at making excuses and reasons, we should not blame marriage. It is not marriage that makes love between each other an emotional kidnapping, but I love you, and I will become your captive and accept your kidnapping because I love you.
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