Winter light

Rubie 2022-01-12 08:01:36

"The Lord never speaks because he doesn't exist, it's that simple."

This is almost a church movie. From the beginning to the end, most of the scenes are in the church. The characters are the pastor and a few believers. An unbeautiful woman who loved the pastor but did not get his love or even treated her with kindness. He claimed that she only loved her deceased wife. A thin and tall man was panicked just because he read from the newspaper that China made the atomic bomb. He had listened to his wife’s persuasion and wanted to go to the pastor for some comfort, but he did not expect to see the pastor speak incoherently better than himself. Still confused, he left his wife and four sons to commit suicide in complete despair. The pastor finally felt relieved when he cried and said, "Why the Lord abandoned me". Others said that Christ was puzzled before he died, shouting "Why the Lord abandoned me?" Others suspected that when he was nailed to the cross, the pain in his heart was more than the pain in his body. It is true that the pain in his heart is the most difficult to bear.

At the end of the movie, the pastor insisted on preaching in the deserted church. The person playing the organ is a rare funny part in the film.

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Extended Reading
  • Camron 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    The sparse narrative creates a lot of breath. Watching this movie is like reading your own diary, with no origin and no whereabouts, but it seems that you are in it, and the long monologue facing the camera is very moving, I think this It is a technique that can only be used in Western literary films. It is difficult to trust such performances in China. The relaxation of language adapts to the atmosphere of a film. Unlike Chinese, which is very strong, it is necessary to rely on silence to create breathing space.

  • Bernadette 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    [80%] The second part of the trilogy continues to uphold the theme of God's Silence very well. However, this time Bergman simplified the play even more, removed the inconvenience of understanding caused by various plot and image symbolism, and echoed "Still in the Mirror" in many places, all of which made the film look like Like the first "instruction" or "after reading". The roaring creek next to the suicidal person, the restlessness of the train passing by, masking the silence, I like the wonderful sound treatment. The character setting of the pastor was revealed in the third act of the film: like Jesus two thousand years ago, although his heart was occupied by doubts and denials, he was still forced to spread the doctrine of love that he could not even believe in himself. As the title of the film, the light of winter symbolizes God, although bright, but pale and cold, and as always silent.

Winter Light quotes

  • Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: I had this fleeting hope... That everything wouldn't turn out to be illusions, dreams and lies.

  • [last lines]

    Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts. The whole earth if full of His glory.