When human beings lose the fig leaf of civilization, what will they do?

Leo 2022-11-24 22:24:26

At the beginning, Eva and Yang had a distinct personality contrast. Eva is very practical, she is not immersed in the pain of lack of identity, she is working hard to live, and even hopes to "parent" to gain a new meaning in life. On the other hand, he couldn't bear his life that was plummeting, breaking down from time to time, and his thoughts drifted back to the world of music. But at the same time, he is also kind and warm. When Eva was in a hurry to buy wine, he was willing to listen to the lonely talk of his old friend in front of the station, and he couldn't even kill a chicken.

Eva felt that as long as she worked hard to live, she could resist the world. So when the unbiased boulder of fate hit her on the head, her first reaction was disbelief and absurdity.

"It's not my dream, it's more like someone else's dream, will that person feel ashamed?"

Yang was deeply afraid of war from the very beginning. Being arrested, the humiliation of his wife by his former friend was just the right opportunity to slowly break his psychological defense. It is said that the worst is when good people become bad. For Yang, the external environment could not give him the expectation of life. After realizing this clearly, the brilliance of his humanity seemed to disappear. Your own survival has become the most important thing.

This one still surprised me. I thought that with Bergman's narrative habits, he would use a more detailed approach when describing the oppression of war on others. Instead of shooting bombings and deaths, he shot close-ups of the faces of the characters, mental trance, etc., reflecting the oppression of a quiet time and the trauma of war. But this kind of narrative density and strong impact picture is not bad, I feel that the cost should be high and the anti-war sense is quite strong.

I really want to know which camera Bergman used to shoot, it's so textured.

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Shame quotes

  • Eva Rosenberg: Sometimes everything seems just like a dream. It's not my dream, it's somebody else's. But I have to participate in it. How do you think someone who dreams about us would feel when he wakes up. Feeling ashamed?

  • Eva Rosenberg: I had a dream. I was walking down a very beautiful street... and on one side there were white houses, with high arches and pillars. On the other side, there was a shady park. Under the trees which were growing near the street. there was a stream of dark green water. And then I came to a high wall, and it was overgrown with roses. And then came an airplane and set the roses on fire. But it wasn't too awful since it was so beautiful. I watched the reflections in the water, and saw how the roses burned. And I had a little child in my arms. It was our daughter. She clung to me... and I felt her lips touching my cheek. And the whole time I knew that I should remember something... something someone had said... but I had forgotten what it was.