Bergman's film notes "Winter Light": the echo of the other

Timmy 2022-01-12 08:01:36

This poem by Emily Dickinson suddenly reminded me of the incomparably great "Winter Light". There are many similarities between the two. Although each adopts a different art form, there is a hidden similarity.
Yu Guangzhong's translation is slightly better.
Compared with the movie, the information and state of this poem is obviously inferior. Of course, this inferiority lies more in its insufficient detailed description of the content. After all, it is limited to the genre form, which is demanding. The inferiority of the state is that the explanation of the psychological atmosphere in the poem is somewhat lacking.

Both translations of this poem are now copied below.

1. (Yu Guangzhong translation)

winter afternoon often have a

ramp down to glow

oppressed us, that as the weight of

the Cathedral of the piano sound



it gives us divine the trauma

we can not find the mark

only a change of heart due

to their Meaning is preserved.



No one can make it feel that

it is the brand of despair.

An incomparably beautiful pain is

passed on to us by the atmosphere.



When it comes, all the four fields are listening to the

shadow and holding your breath.

When it goes, it is as far away as we

look forward to death. Distance

2. (The translator does not know)

There is a kind of oblique light

in the winter afternoon-

repressed, like

the weight of the cathedral music-



the harm of heaven, it comes to

us but we can't find the scar

but the inner difference

implies There is



something no one can teach sincerely --any--

this is a trace of despair--

It seems that a solemn distress

comes from the sky-



when it comes, the mountains and rivers are listening-the

shadows-and holding their breath-

when it leaves, it is like the face of death in the distance

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

    The most moving religious movie I've seen so far. Compared with "The Virgin Spring", the emotional expression here is more real and rich. Worldly love and religious love, a woman who cannot love, a priest who cannot read God. Large sections are monologues, trivial chatter, sun, snow, and death. The bell rang, and Marta, the least devout believer, turned out to be the only one in the audience.

  • Esmeralda 2022-03-20 09:02:24

    God’s language is silence. I think in fact, people are not talking to God, but to themselves; everyone is talking to you, either by God’s will, or simply by their own imagination; and these conversations all happen in Faro. island.

Winter Light quotes

  • Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: Picture my prayers to an echo-god, who gave benign answers and reassuring blessings. Every time I confronted God with the realities I witnessed, he turned into something ugly and revolting. A spider God, a monster. So, I sought to shield Him from life, clutching my image of Him to myself in the dark.

  • Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: If there is no God, would it really make any difference? Life would become understandable. And this death would be a snuffing out of life. The dissolution of body and soul. Cruelty, loneliness and fear - all these things would be straightforward and transparent. Suffering is incomprehensible, so it needs no explanation.