After "Masquerade", Bergman suddenly turned around abruptly, abandoned the formal experiment, and began to ponder the moral situation of human beings in extreme situations with grief. In "Masquerade", after breaking up with Emma, Elizabeth was terrified of a photo. It was a photo of a concentration camp. The people in the photo were in a panic, and everyone was in a tense atmosphere. trembling. Shame brings these people to concrete stories.
Without dignity, there is no shame.
Is it a professional shame for them to go from fiddlers to farmers to avoid war? Using the lowest physical strength to seek survival conditions is no longer glamorous, decent, and elegant. At the beginning of the film, Eva and Yang are both wearing pajamas like prison uniforms. After getting up, Eva doesn't even bother to button up, so she bares her breasts like that. Walk around the room. They sat down at the dining table without folding the quilt. Yang began to tell Eva that he was worried that new wisdom teeth would grow, and that he was afraid of tooth extraction without anesthesia. Yang said it calmly but anxiously, but Eva did not seem to be very interested. Heart, her gesture of touching Yang's face was perfunctory, and when fate was unpredictable, tooth extraction without anesthesia might not be a huge pain.
Phones don't work, radios don't work, but they don't stay safe from isolation, planes roar overhead, they go sell their produce, use the rest of the money, buy a bottle of wine, the owner of the wine Said, I don't know, if I die, no one will remember me. He's going to be forced into the army, he's worried about his shop being left unattended, he's worried about his grandmother's music box, but what's the use? Or have a drink when there are wine and music boxes.
Even if there is a war, life is not without hope if it is not imminent, Eva can still buy fresh fish from fishing acquaintances by the lake to add a delicacy to their dinner, she is still planning to have a child, with Children, maybe they can solve some of the problems in her and Yang's life.
There is a pilot hanging from the tree, and Eva instinctively wants to save him, but is suspected by the soldiers who suddenly appeared and shot him. With a bright light on Eva's face and the camera pointed at him, the man asks Eva to introduce herself, to say welcome the liberators. They began to flee, and everywhere they went was the ruins, the fire, the limp body of the child lying on the grass, like a rag doll thrown away, they had nowhere to run, but to come back again, Eva told Yang , thankfully we don't have children.
Suddenly arrested for no reason, and driven from place to place in a terrified crowd, I finally understood that they were arrested because Eva had once "made propaganda for the enemy", waiting, the officer's cane decided who could Pardoned, who must pay the price for their "crimes". The officer with the staff turned out to be their friend Jacques, and they were rescued and kept safe for a while.
The price of safety is the frequent visits of rescuers. Jacques asks Eva to kiss him and touch him in front of Yang. This is a huge shame. Yang can only get himself drunk, and when he wakes up, he sees adultery in the flower room in the garden. Eva and Jacques in.
He couldn't do anything except hug and cry.
Shame? Yes, but, in order to live, there is no choice.
Jacques also paid the price for the momentary pleasure. The guerrillas caught him and he had to hand over the money he just gave to Eva. The money was hidden by Yang. Yang firmly denied seeing the money. Jacques had no money to redeem his life. If he could die, the guerrilla leader asked Yang to execute it. Although he hated it, Yang had never killed anyone. The hand he shot kept trembling. He still had no choice. He was more ashamed than wearing a cuckold. He lived for himself. , became a murderer.
They started fleeing again. Yang had no sense of shame anymore. When Eva asked him why he was hiding the money, he just slapped her twice. The pain of tooth extraction during the war was negligible, so the tenderness between husband and wife would be superfluous. . Life is the only thing that matters, and everything else is a luxury.
On the way they met a child soldier, a child who didn't shoot them, he hadn't slept for days and nights, Eva wanted him to sleep first, but Yang grabbed his gun, pressed him, threatened him , and then solved him.
He killed again, and, not to kill for his own life, but not necessary.
They finally got on a boat, and they used the seats that Yang hid and gave away Jacques's life, and they drifted on the dark sea. There was a man who quietly climbed off the side of the boat and buried himself in the sea while everyone was taking a nap. Before doing so, he even carefully observed others, knowing that no one would notice and block him before he took action.
I don't know how long it has been drifting, and I don't know how long it will continue to drift. The middle-aged man with glasses who distributed the fresh water has distributed it to everyone, and the last few drops are left for himself. There are endless floating corpses floating on the sea. Time has stopped.
Eva said that in a dream, she saw roses burning, and she thought it wasn't bad because it was beautiful. She wanted to remember something someone said, but she really couldn't.
Finally, close your eyes and it's over.
The film is called "Shame", but it actually tells about the disappearance of shame. Those who have no sense of shame will do immoral things and keep their peace of mind. In the end, Yang covers up the sense of shame and kills innocent people without remorse. , became cold and blunt, like the violin that was smashed to pieces, and it was impossible to play a beautiful and beautiful sound again.
Perhaps this is the greatest shame. The disappearance of shame is the most shocking shame.
"Shame started to become a good movie when the violence on the outside stopped and the violence on the inside started," Bergman said.
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