When it comes to Bergman, many fans will stay away. In fact, Bergman's movies are very popular and not difficult to understand. As long as you are patient, you can easily enter his movie world.
Also lesser known is that Bergman's horror films are also well done, and his 1968 "Jackal Hour" regularly tops the Horror 100 list and is also known as the best "nightmare movie".
In fact, as early as 1944's "Torment" Bergman has already shown his mastery of suspense movies. The film successfully created the image of a demon teacher. This teacher looks very similar to "M". He is a sadist with a gentle appearance and an evil heart. He destroys his self-confidence by exerting lust on the weak and makes the other party completely his slave. The abuser often uses bluff to cover up his weakness because of his inferiority. One of the most handsome students in the class unfortunately became the victim of the evil teacher. Brings infinite pleasure to the evil master.
I have to say that there are one or two teachers in every school who have this kind of mentality. They dominate the class, make fun of them, and make fun of the students, but this evil teacher goes further. In addition to teasing students, he also harmed a girl in the school's small shop.
One night, the handsome guy came across a girl from a small shop who was hungover on the street, and sent her home. The reason for the girl's liberation is that she is controlled and abused by a bad guy, and she can't get rid of it, which makes her live in fear all the time. Two people who have the same disease and pity each other meet, and they create a little spark of mutual warmth. But they didn't expect that their nightmares came from the same person.
The good times didn't last long. One night, the boy went to the apartment to find the girl, and found that she was already dead on the bed. The boy rummaged in the house and found a murderer hidden in a pile of clothes. This person is the evil teacher! The young man fled, and the evil teacher beat him up, pushing the responsibility completely! The teenager was unfortunately fired, how will he prove his innocence?
After watching this film, I felt a sense of depression, this evil teacher did not get the punishment he deserved, and moral criticism is useless to him. He was always muttering to himself that he was ill, and the sicker he was, the worse he believed he would do worse things.
The teenager suffered a lot of grievances, but finally got the principal's approval. Although the reality is irreversible, comfort is better than nothing. The young man left the school with great relief. He took the kitten left by the girl into the distance, but has his psychological wound healed? Has the shadow of the evil teacher left him? The outcome is still not optimistic.
The film creates a terrifying effect through the use of shadows, and the effect is outstanding. Bergman is very good at portraying psychologically tortured villains, and the actor who played the villain has also been nominated for the Venice Film Festival.
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