For the depiction of details, every scene appears concise and concise. The plot is also very simple, the older sister Agnes is dying, the two younger sisters Karin and Maria come to see her, plus the maid Anna, and four women.
Agnes was thought to have died at the beginning, and was neatly dressed and put in order. The two younger sisters were emotionally fierce outside her bedroom because of their disagreeable personalities for many years. Only Anna noticed Ruoyoruowu's crying, and found that Agnes hadn't died yet and woke up again. Everyone's family affection could not help her tossing like this, Karin slammed the door impatiently and left. Maria resisted boredom and fear, trying to maintain the last bit of politeness and affection on the surface. But when Agnes hugged her, the younger sister was afraid that the woman who had been halfway into the grave, screamed and forcibly pulled her sister's hand on her neck, and fled.
In the end, Agnes died in the maid's arms, his head pressed against the maid's breast. The half-naked Anna doesn't have the usual bloated figure, only half-covered and half-covered by white fabric, plump like the image of the Virgin-hugging the person in need of her love.
In his later memories, the director repeatedly revealed his desire for the love of his parents and the resentment of not getting this kind of love in his childhood. Reconciliation. Possibly, in "Calls and Whispers", it expresses the importance of maternal love, which is also the only sustenance at the end of life. Even the kinship of the blood sisters seemed indifferent in the face of death, but they still sought the comfort of maternal love.
After Agnes died, the sisters discussed with their husbands how to send Anna. Maria offered to give Anna a small amount of money. In fact, Karin had planned it this way-even though she seemed very cold. But Karin's husband did not agree to give the money, and said that it was enough to give Anna something that Agnes had used. He said that Anna was still young and could find someone to do something on her own. Call Anna and let her pick something. She understood the other party's intentions and said she didn't want anything. The selfish and indifferent words of all smart people and insightful intellectuals can be compared to the icy shots. "She chose to be a kind person." Karin's husband said. To put it so lightly is enough to dispel all excitement and moving. Selfishness is extremely arrogant, and I don’t believe that there are warm things in the world. Therefore, Karin’s character would rather self-mutilate than sleep with him. Although it is also because of Karin’s character, it is also because the man’s cold strength has come. A realm that can be contagious. His arrogance and insight strengthened his chilling skills, perhaps making countless attempts to melt away in vain.
Most of the film shows death and pain. The most wonderful thing is that the director's pen is turned — it’s true to say that the pen is turned, because the original script is the director himself, the writer’s film — and finally, Anna opened the diary of Agnes. In March, two younger sisters came to see her and went out on the grass with Anna. The three sisters Shengxue in white are really beautiful, smiling. Agnes, who has been in a dying state since the beginning of the film, smiled happily and contentedly on the swing in the sun. An old woman with messy hair, haggard look and distorted expression screaming all night, at the end of the film, let you see that she once had such a beautiful smile, which is thrilling.
So the Swedish director is called "the film mentor of the soul". And this film won the best foreign language film of 1972.
(This article used to refer to the film reviews of Green Demon and others)
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