I analyze life and feelings from the perspective of a pastor, but in the end it presents a pessimistic, desperate pastor who can't find an outlet for life. Depressed men who think about the atomic bomb in China all day find the pastor for solace, but the pastor cannot explain it all through the light of God, because the pastor himself starts to shake. There are too many things in the world that run counter to beliefs, and in the end the man chooses to commit suicide. A woman who deeply loved the pastor wrote a depressing and loving letter to the pastor because she felt that many words could not be said in person, only through words. Bergman once again revealed the gaps and barriers of communication. They had been together for several years, but when the woman offered to marry, the priest refused without hesitation. The film tells the content of the letter, doubts about the faith, and deep love for the pastor through the woman's way of telling the camera. But the pastor cruelly rejected the woman's feelings in the classroom at the woman's home. He is misogynistic about the disease (Bergman has made the sick person in too many movies, sickness is pain), misogynistic life, misogynistic everything. Such indifferent words from the priest's mouth made people shudder. He refuses to love others, his heart is dead, and he refuses to pray for a woman's sickness that disgusts him. Even if he is a pastor, he needs to use faith, love, and sunshine to warm believers. But after all, he is a human being, and the selfish and despicable side of human nature reminds him every moment of what reality is. In the end, the pastor continued to worship in the church, with no one else but the woman and staff who loved him. This is in stark contrast to the crowd worship at the beginning of the film. What a cruel truth that a man who doubts his faith is doing the work of a believer.
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