Bergman's film is 299 minutes long. The rich layers and emotional transitions of the film make me feel that I have to replay it several times to fully understand it.
what is love? The reporter of Women's Life at the beginning of the film asked the heroine. The heroine replied that no one has told me what love is, and I am not sure if you have to understand what love is. But if you want an exact description, you can go and read Paul's description of love in the Bible, the problem is that its definition dwarfs us. The age-old question of what love is, but we all look for the answer in books. In the first episode, the perfect marriage that has been in operation for ten years in the eyes of outsiders is full of the trivial details of daily life and the rigidity of the regular schedule that repeats day after day.
But those unspeakable labor pains are undercurrent, such as unpleasant sex, unpleasant discussions that always end unpleasantly, the heroine said that some topics can still be avoided, otherwise they will still sleep in this "bed of nails", It shows that it is better to open one eye and close the other in life. Then, cheating, affair, boredom, divorce, return, cheating.
The conflicting love-hate and details of daily life filled with dialogue throughout the film make me think Bergman must be a screenwriter's genius, and he deserves to be divorced four times and has accumulated rich life experience. This film makes the scene where the two cursed and conferred the gods in the popular marriage story some time ago, it pales in comparison. And the classical and heavy beauty of Swedish literary films is really a depth that American directors can't shoot. Of course, the male protagonist is indeed a representative of European intellectuals, depressed, desperate, lonely, self-pity and self-pity, ignorant of the world outside the book, parasites in the eyes of outsiders...
The most unforgettable scene in the whole film: When her husband frankly cheated, the heroine still has to help him go to the dry cleaners to pick up clothes, set the alarm clock for him, and accept all this rationally and calmly, but she still suffers when he pushes the door and leaves.
The most awesome is the episode where the divorce papers are signed in the fourth episode. The two were in the office, and they were talking about documents calmly, then they started having sex on the floor, then they started cursing and resenting each other, and finally they beat each other and tore each other. He took out his pen and signed with trembling calmness.
The warmest thing is that after the two divorced, they both had a new family, but they started dating after a chance encounter. In the vacation house, he was cleaning up, and she suddenly burst into tears when she looked at his back. The male protagonist said, "This is our first anniversary", and the female protagonist said, "No, this is our twentieth anniversary, it's our 20th anniversary, it's been a lifetime, and we've grown up. this life together."
Marriage is only a part of life, an optional form, and love and concern run through the entire relationship between two people.
Liv Ullman said at the 2018 film screening for Bergman's 100th birthday, "in all of it, you will find, human-beings finding wisdom beyond knowledge. He wanted to communicate that directly to other people, not through their minds, but write through their soul. By cinema, he said, we can reach previously unknown words. He said he did his work for everyday purposes rather than for eternity which is the pride for the good craftsman. he knew that you always need others to create togetherness which is called selfish-togetherness, about finding recognition in others. Human wholeness”
Liv Uman talks about the scene when Bergman died, when she rented a private jet from Norway to visit him at his house on the island, Bergman was a man of solitude
"I came because you called for me" This is what Liv Uman told Bergman at the last moment, and this is what the hero and heroine say to each other after 20 years of separation in "Sara Bond". #married life[movie]#
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