1. There are many clues buried in the first scene, not only the fuse of the plot, but also the foreshadowing of the character's heart and personality.
These clues are hidden in the expressions and actions of various characters.
The fisherman's disdain-he always keeps his eyes down and refuses to communicate with anyone or God.
The pure piety of the fisherman's husband and wife-looking directly at Jesus and Thomas with meek eyes.
Marta’s indifference to religion and Thomas’ concern — one set of shots was edited like this: (when singing a carol for the first time) close-up, Marta raised her eyes to look forward; close-up, the sacrament in Thomas’ hands, Jesus In the distant view, Thomas standing on the stage is holding the sacrament; in the close view, Marta looks forward and hangs his head again. The focus of this editing is on the second shot, a close-up of the sacrament, where it both hints and isolates the relationship between Marta and Thomas. What a good actor Ingrid Turin is. You can clearly see Marta’s mercy from the eyes. She is the best performer in this scene. In several places, she only relies on her eyes to show rich emotions. .
2. When the fisherman and his wife came to Thomas, Bergman also had a treatment that I liked most. I found that he compressed space and time in a peculiar way at the same time, and it became very compact, which is really very powerful. I need Record it with screenshots.
3. I want to follow my thoughts through the whole story first, it is very necessary.
Thomas led the crowd to worship. Returning to the lounge, the fisherman Jonas and his wife came to him. Jonas's wife hoped that Thomas could rescue her husband. Thomas asked Jonas to send his wife home and come back. Thomas wanted to read Marta's letter and gave up, walking into the church from the lounge. When Marta came to see him, there was an unsuccessful and successful exchange. After Marta left, he felt flustered again and took out a photo of his deceased wife to comfort himself. Then I started to read Marta's letter. This is where Marta talked to the camera for eight or nine minutes. What’s interesting is that at first Thomas gave up reading Marta’s letter, but after Marta came to him and left, he was willing to come to read this letter. It was her willingness to come and be forced to leave that made him feel that he was right. Her needs. Fisherman Jonas came to Thomas. At this time, it was Thomas who was supposed to save the fisherman's soul, but it turned out that Thomas regarded him as a life-saving straw to confide in. In this way, Bergman used three steps from the beginning of the movie to here, and the weakness of Thomas' soul was revealed step by step. Jonas left, Thomas stood sideways in front of the window, the light came on, shining behind him, a stroke of God. Marta returned to the church, Thomas walked to the altar of the church, bent over and squatted down, Marta hugged him and kissed him, and he wept. When news of Jonas’s suicide came, Thomas rushed to the scene, by a river, and later when he was left alone guarding the corpse, “he clearly examined the unforgettable failures in his life.” Bergman was This is explained, but I feel that the scene in the movie is not expressive enough for this sentence. Thomas drove Marta home, and the two had a tragic exchange in the classroom. Thomas and Marta went to the fisherman's house and told the wife of the fisherman's death. As he drove to the railroad, Thomas said a very important thought to the passing train. The two went to the church, and Algot discussed his thoughts on the crucifixion with Thomas. Thomas began to worship, and was accompanied by Marta.
4. Let's take a look at the several times of getting along and communicating with Thomas and Marta, which can also be said to be a confrontation.
At the beginning when they were worshiping in the church, the relationship between the two people here was mainly that of Marta and Thomas, and Bergman still used a rather concealed way. I said before.
Next was in the lounge, Thomas began to talk, Marta gently tried to pull him from God to her side, but was rejected. Thomas came out to find her, she has left. In this period, Bergman told those hidden relationships. Here, Marta is active, Thomas is passive, Thomas's passive victory, but he has leaked his weakness in front of her.
In Marta's statement to Thomas in the letter, Bergman asked Ingrid Turin to face the camera in such a frank way to deal with this frank plot. This paragraph is very important, it fully reveals the conflicts and entanglements between Thomas and Marta. The content of Marta's confession made Thomas feel angry and ashamed, so when Jonas came next, he actually asked Jonas for help.
Marta came back to see Thomas, hugged and kissed under the altar, giving him warm support. This is a short buffer.
The two people in the classroom communicated. I said it was tragic because of its thoroughness. Thomas, who was full of coldness in his face and words, was shrinking, "You will hate yourself to death," Marta said. Making him angry also made him understand that he needed her, so he finally asked her to leave with him.
Amid the roar of the train, Thomas told Marta that it was his parents' wish to be a pastor, and then they went to the church. I have been imagining the attitude of Bergman at the end. Because of his affirmation of life in the film and his resistance to God, I was puzzled. What puzzled me was why I had to arrange a service at the end to receive the Holy Spirit. Meal, the explanation I can make now is that the conversation between Algot and Thomas who was inserted has played a role here. Religion is the religion of the world. God is the God of the world. Life is the life of the world, and all I can believe is The true feelings of being in this world need not be assumed. That's why Bergman said, "Everything seems very clear, and he finally faces the first chance of a new life."
When Algort explained his thoughts to Thomas, Bergman put the two in the same frame, and then the camera was shaken from Algort to Thomas and then to Algort and then back to Thomas, allowing the two to share the Algort statement. That soul is full of doubtful pain. And then Marta knelt and prayed, “As long as we feel safe and dare to show each other’s weaknesses, as long as we have a certain belief, as long as we believe”, when the last sentence was said, the camera cut to Thomas in the lounge, similar sceneries. With actions, the same heartfelt voice, faith is in real life.
5. In this religious movie, Bergman relegated religion to the second place. People's inner feelings and life in the world are the core of the story.
I don’t like Christianity very much. It is very different from the culture I adhere to. Bergman was immersed in that environment, but he is eluting step by step, from his movies. When it comes to "Fanny and Alexandria", it is almost washed away, and the attitude is very close to the Confucian culture, affirming the life in this world, whether it is joy or sorrow.
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