Everyone has a demon inside

The Chinese translation with the attributive "Anna's", for some reason, may be based on the English translation. The film tells the story of four characters, and Anna is only one of them, and the other three are side by side with her, regardless of priority. The theme of the film is to explore something in the human heart that is difficult to define. Although this kind of thing always resides in the human heart, it does not appear from time to time. It is a hidden power that dominates people's spiritual life. Bergman has clearly identified them with great detail, equipping each of the four protagonists with one. But in reality, these four things can coexist in one mind at the same time. Let's start with the story of the movie. The story is very bland, it is the emotional entanglement of four characters, a divorced man Andreas, a widowed woman Anna, and a couple Ellis and Eva who are separated from each other. Anna's dead husband was also called Andreas. Although he did not appear in the picture, he was also an interesting existence. The beginning of the story mainly describes Andreas' single life. One day, a strange woman, Anna, came to his house to borrow a phone. Before leaving, she forgot her bag. There was a letter in the bag, which was written by her husband before his death. A breakup letter to her. Andreas read the letter and delivered the bag to her friends Ellis and Eva's house overnight. That's how they got to know each other. One day, Andreas saw a small car parked on the wasteland in the wild. He looked in the window and saw Eva sleeping. He woke her up by touching her forehead with his hand, and she thanked him, explaining that she was insomniac and often sleepy, so she needed a nap at any time. Then she drove away. But after a few days, she came to him again, confided to him, and for a time entered into a very intimate emotional relationship. But they ended the relationship eventually, Eva left, and it was like it never happened. When Eva appeared again, Andreas was already with Anna, and she reminded Andreas to be careful with Anna. The second half of the story is mainly about Andreas and Anna's life picture description. They talk to each other and torture each other, neither can integrate into each other and can't leave. Each suffers from the pain of living with others because of their inner demons... The framework of the story is basically this, and it also inserts the death of a neighbor who was framed and isolated because of a series of destructions on the island and eventually fell into the soul. abyss. What happened to this neighbor was a testament to the destructive power of the demon inside Andreas. The demon in Andreas is not well defined, but for the sake of illustration, I will give it a label, and that is "escape". He is afraid of setbacks and is accustomed to escape. He said he was afraid of humiliation, and every humiliation seeped into his blood. he said since I have claustrophobia. These are what he said. In the movie, he suddenly went out of his mind and shouted outside. This scene may be to show the pain of people like him. People who are accustomed to escape always fall into loneliness, and loneliness is the black hole of a claustrophobic soul, where there is real terror. There is a very powerful psychological observation in his monologue at the end of the film, which is particularly worthy of the audience's attention. He said: "The worse a person is, the less he complains, and in the end he is completely silent. Although he still lives in reality, he can hear and see, but the gradually invading cold, darkness, temperature, and smell all return to silence in the end. By then it will be too late." This observation should be said to be a very accurate description of the mental predicament of the melancholic. Eva's inner demon is "lost". She defines herself as an empty shell. She has insomnia, can't find herself, is groggy all day, has huge internal friction, has no goals and always lives for others, but other people's efforts are meaningless to her, because she can't find herself. How on earth did she get so lost? She asks: "What is it that corrupts our soul and makes it an empty shell?" The film doesn't give a clear answer, so we can only find out what she is in the film and what we are in reality. The experience in the syntheses can be speculated. In my personal judgment, it is "pampering", she is a lovely woman who is pampered by her husband and a rich life, but she can't find the purpose of her life, her husband is very concerned about her and does not let her Do this and not let her do that... Of course, her husband Ellis is not a model husband, he is a very cold and hypocritical person, although not cynical, but he is really indifferent to the situation of others. Ellis has relatively few roles, and his inner demon can be said to be "indifference", just like the indifference of the old man in "Wild Strawberry". What is the source of this indifference? It's cynicism. Cynics deny almost all values, have a cynical attitude towards Tottenham in everything in reality, and don't let go of themselves. But for the sake of life, they put away their edge, put on a kind face, don't care what others think, and make up their mind not to take other people's troubles as pain. In order to still live in reality, hypocrisy becomes a condition of their existence. So his hypocritical concern may also be one of the reasons why Eva is lost. His inner demon hurts those around him. Finally, Anna said that the devil in Anna's heart was "self-deception". She always demanded the honesty of those she lived with, and demanded that reality be presented in full truth. As soon as he finds that his demands are not met, he immediately overthrows the whole world, thinking that Zhou The surrounding world is full of lies and illusions, which leads to a mental breakdown. She cannot accept a gray world and has to rely on self-deception to maintain the integrity of the spiritual world. Therefore, the people who lived with her had to live in the illusion she created, a false "100% real". But how is this possible, no one can be absolutely honest, self-deception is a very huge mental drain, no one can stand it... The film mainly tells the psychological stories of these four people, I always feel that Bergman shapes people The method is the most advanced, and in the world of fiction I have not found an author who shaped the characters like him. The oldest method is to use a certain talent of people. Later, some people developed and used people's beliefs, then desires, and then ideas. Bergman used people's inner demons, or flaws. I think he's done a fantastic job, and I haven't found anyone else like him. Dostoevsky also took advantage of the negative things in people's hearts, but he is not so conscious, this is just my opinion - shallowness is inevitable.

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