The faith trilogy revolves around the loss and degradation of the ability to love, and the idea of love as God is pointed out by the father at the end of the film. So the Faith Trilogy can be said to be a denial of God. What irony and despair it is when the father of Shen Teng's literary creation uses his daughter's illness to add inspiration to his writing and says that love is God. When the daughter and son were performing the stage play, the father's state of sitting under the stage looked awkward and boring. The gifts the father gave were gloves that could not be worn and books that he had read. He doesn't put his mind on his relatives, just like the mother in "Autumn Sonata", he devotes himself to artistic creation, and the roles of the two brothers and sisters seem to be similar to the two sisters in "Autumn" . My father would sneak into the room and cry. I think he was blaming himself for his inability to love and his indifference to family affection. As my son said, my father never communicated with me. The role of father is a destroyer of family affection in many of Bergman's films, and it seems that Bergman's shadow is not small. My daughter's illness is more like a resistance to reality. Mental illness has given her some kind of divine-like ability, a detached existence. The dialogue between her daughter and God when she is ill seems to be a crazy fantasy, but it seems that Bergman is also using the character to question God, where is love in such a life and such a world? As a result, God turned into a spider, causing her daughter to scream in fear.
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