Bergman has always been a director with a philosophical temperament, and his works often carry religious thinking and introspective feelings. From 1961 to 1963, Bergman filmed the three films "Through the Dark Glass", "Winter Light", and "The Silence", which were full of moral anxiety and doubts about God. They were collectively called "The God of God". "The Silent Trilogy", these three films can be described as a masterpiece that fully demonstrates Bergman's philosophical thinking.
Unlike "Wild Strawberry", which easily resonates with people, "God's Silence Trilogy" involves religious and moral criticism, which makes the film more powerful, and because of cultural differences, it increases the "threshold of the audience". ". In "Through the Dark Glass" ("Still in the Mirror"), the story has a beautiful beginning. The two brothers and sisters seem to be intimate, the heroine Karin also looks very happy, and his Although the father and husband mentioned her condition, they did not see any special signs, and a small family stage play brought the happy atmosphere to a climax. But in the story that followed, the atmosphere gradually became tense. Karin's indifference to her husband, occasional hysterics, and sometimes absent-minded monologues, but there was a god in her heart. In one scene, she communicated with God alone in the room, and even achieved sexual and spiritual pleasure. This stage-filled scene seemed quite moral. Karin was no longer able to communicate her inner feelings with the three men around. In their hearts, she is just a schizophrenic patient. Her father only recorded her illness, like a reporter who advertised his career as a reason to "record life", but he increasingly lacked the humanistic care he should have for his daughter's father. Her husband seemed quite pitiful because of his wife’s indifference, and he was also in the dual role of Karin’s husband and doctor. He gradually moved closer to the role of a doctor, and asked Karin to treat his wife’s illness more rationally. Appears more lonely. Her younger brother was accompanied by adolescence's sexual agitation. He had a subtle affection for his sister, and he treated his sister roughly on a rainy night. However, Bergman did not take a harsh critical angle in the film, but described the behavior of the three men with a skeptical sunshine, and these three men have always had complicated performances, fathers and daughters. The kind of affection, the husband's distress when his wife was hysterical, and the brother's deep self-blame after "making mistakes" all made their images seem contradictory and lonely. In fact, the story happened on an isolated island. They were all alone. Karin seemed even more lonely because she could only talk to herself with God. The three men around her were also lonely. They were in moral anxiety. There is no way to dispatch, but Karin is sent away in despair. Accompanied by the famous Bach's music in this film, the character's destiny turn appears powerful and shocking.
The religious meaning of "Winter Light" is even stronger. At the beginning of the story, it was a sermon in a small church. Everyone sang carols together, which suddenly set off a sacred atmosphere. In terms of storytelling, there is almost no plot to speak of in this film. It is more like a sketch. The priest talks with people of different identities after a day of sermons. The expression of the sense of rhythm makes it not tired of watching, but also sinks into it. This film is the most straightforward one in the "God's Silence Trilogy", and the priest even directly said the "God's Silence" monologue. Although the film involves major themes of the relationship between humans and gods, the presentation is calm and plain. The characters do not have too many emotional outbursts or out of control. They just talk indifferently, telling the audience to bring the emotions into that kind of emotion and experience their thoughts. And confused.
From a story point of view, "The Silence" may be the most "popular" of these trilogy. A pair of sisters, after getting off a train at a station, they lack communication with each other, but they hurt each other intentionally or unintentionally. They lack communication and are silent with each other. They only speak when they are in conflict. At this time, they all say things that hurt each other. In "Through the Dark Glass" and "Winter Light", we have seen the barriers to communication between man and god. In this film, even the communication between a pair of sisters is almost impossible. In the "trilogy", there will be more contradictory and complicated characters. In this film, my sister is such a character. On the one hand, she is weak. She is sick and coughing in bed all day, looking weak and helpless. , She can't even enjoy normal love, but can only moan in masturbation. On the other hand, she appears to be strong and domineering, or she is trying to be strong. To her sister, she is intertwined with complex feelings of love and hate, jealousy and envy. In each other's hurt, the sisters suffer pain but faintly gain Pleasure. Just like, my sister had sex with a man in front of her sister. She was triumphant in her sister's pain, but cried bitterly after her sister left. What's interesting is that the overall environment of the film is relative to the sisters' foreign countries. They can't even hear other people's language in an unfamiliar environment, and the communication barriers are further magnified. The soldiers and tanks outside the window also add to the tension of the situation. The atmosphere of an approaching war makes the theme heavier. Whether the war is about to come is also the result of people’s silence and communication difficulties in a larger context. God may only be silent when witnessing all this. When God is silent, the world seems to be silent with it. From the battle between two sisters to the battle between all human beings expressed in the form of war, this silence is heralded. The price.
Compared with Bergman's "Seventh Seal", which was widely circulated on the Internet but confused most people, "God's Silence Trilogy" is undoubtedly more everyday life. A kind of moral consideration, there is no such a tragic background as the Black Death. On an isolated island, in a church, in a small town, we can still see a living figure looking for faith in their hearts, but they all seem to be silent. Lonely and hesitated in front of the God of God. Bergman shows us his philosophical thinking with his strong introspection, which is full of impact, but it appears moderate and not desperate. Welcome to pay attention to the official account: two or three things about movies, ID: aboutfilms
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