Text screenshots are from Bergman's autobiography "The Magic Lamp" in his later years
key word: drama
Bergman spent decades as a theater owner before making movies again, and his theatrical career is closely related to his life
Keyword 2: Humor
Bergman claims in his autobiography that he has no sense of humour and that being alone is a bizarre sense of humour
Key words two: performance and reality
Emily's character is, in a way, Bergman's splintered self—one who doesn't feel real, a little cold, intimacy-stricken but imbued with the artist's sentimentality.
Keyword 3: Childhood and Self
Keyword 4: Intimacy
Bergman says no illusions about intimacy
Keyword 5: God
'I have dealt with my unpleasant relationship with God all my life'
Keyword 6: Reality
Keyword 7: Emotion
In Bergman's text, in the lines, you can see the most emotional and feeling words for people. The deeper the understanding of people, the deeper the presentation.
It would be an understatement to say he was a psychologist
Keyword 8: Family and Ritual
Keyword eight: old age is coming
Key words nine: world and existence
Although Bergman "has dealt with an unpleasant relationship with God all his life," he is indeed a Buddhist-style religious man.
Fascinated by the existence of time and space, he explained the "expansion of the universe" in the words of the bishop.
Keyword ten: I am Bergman
Watch this 5 hour 21 minute feature film
Bergman used the film as a summary of his film career and life
I can't help crying at the end
For Bergman, I can't "stop looking at the mountains and see the scenery"
So familiar with infatuation and inseparability
like my left hand signs my right hand
In the end, I can only stare at each other and say nothing.
Beloved Bergman
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